Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-06-02
TWO GRADUATES
GIVE Addresses
GOOD ATTENDANCE AT KENDALL
COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT.
DIPLOMAS BY President
Migration 10 America Most Wonder
ful on Record Declaims Robert
son In Immigration"


Yesterday the Thirteenth Annual
Commencement of Henry Kendall
College was held in the chapel OF the
college To an audience Of five hun
/ dred Paul Wilson and Albion Robert
son, the former OF Tulsa and the lat
ter OF Hubert Okla, delivered their
commencement oratioEs and were Civ
en- their diplomas by Dr. s, h. Cor
don, president Of the college.
Busides musical numbers there
were no other features TO the pro-
gram, The orations delivered by the
two graduates were masterpieces Of
oratory, and great was the apprecia-
/ ton shown 10y the audience.
Following is the Grafton Of Albion
| Robertson, who has taken up the sub
Iect Of Immigration" and has stud
led it in a y leasing manner, bringing
up many new points:
"If you go into any OF our large
cities and follow the human tides to
the great foreign quarters, you may
be amazed at the scenes you will en-
ter, openInq scenes in a slow but ir-
ro'istible process, which has for its
raw material all the old peoples Of
Europe, AMI for finished product
when at last all these shall be fused
"a new race OF men upon the earth,
/ The Tower Of Babel's drama reversed,
America, a mixing bowl for the ma
I tIons.
The thirteen colonies long ago
went through the whcle mixing busi-
ness and as result we have the
/ American people, the srandest and
n2blest people on the face of the
earth. But the same mixing bust
ness is now to be repeated on scale
| tenfold more tremendous, And more
than this the races to be mixed are
infinitely farther apart in climatic
and racial differences. And as all
things under heaven move faster now
than at any other age since the flood,
so this mixing is to be done not SLOW
! ly as before, in quiet, scattered farm
| Ing communities, but in vast human
hives called cities and factory towhto
at a speed wEich even in our life these
seems certain to produce chages dMr'
matte and deep in the city life of 'ou
nation u'"
.>o,, Il 4, Inc, hac,r,,,e 1t is
greatest Of all immigration wa .,
has come only in the past twe'""1,
years and Is ten millions Of i'm
Srants-tha Italians, Bohemans, Je ~, ~,
and Poles, and Swedes Norwegio -
and Greeks--are only beginning an.
form first blood ties with the peo ar
who have come here before them :.
How few of us are awake to thCer
opening scenes of the drama. H'oa'
many good preachers go on with thHas
work OF toda.' without thinking VII
effect on church and creed this rathc
movement is to have. How ma on
busy physicions go on with their day
and night Practice without stoppi
to wonder what the future physiq
is to be. How many lawyers go
with their law; politicians with tn
votes; employers with their factori
shops and mills, little dreaming
what may happen to laws and polN "
cal systems aud even to the econoIU |
frame OF society through the weld
Of such widely different habits g..
customs, religions and convictions of
every kind; such varied hopes, desi.es,
ambitions fox self, and social-politi-
ca, theories, dreams and ideals, for
the Qulckening work of the future.
All these to clash for survival, the
fittest at last to endure-in America
the huge mixing bowl of the nations,
And what shall that fttest be?
There was a time Is the history oi
America when immigration was desir-
able and necessary to the better de-
vclopment of the country and its peo-
pie. What a grand thing for Amer
ica It was when the Pilgrims landed
on Plymouth Rock in 1920, They
formed the nerve and sinew Of the
American people and from them has
come the lest people Of all the
world. But today the quality Of the
immigrant has SO changed that he
has become undesirable to Americas
greatest progress. So we have the
problem before us-srave and diff
cult OF solution.
We may well ask why such con-
slant stream Of foreign population Is