The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1911-06-08

as a 1ltLmg Climax TO the excel
lent commencement exercises held
at the opera house at the close of
the school year, is considered by
the Globe worthy of reproduc-
ton, and consequently study and
digestion by the citizens and
school patrons of GrangeviIle
and the county over. 1t certain
ly contains a message that will
prove profitable if needed:
Era OF Good Feeling
1t Is joy and a pleasure to witness
SO vast an assemblage of you here this
evening to honor this occasion by your
presence, to encourage these graduates
by your plaudits, to manifest your APP
probation by your smiling faces, and
all OF this In commemoration of the
browning event OF the school year-Com-
mencement Such exercises as we are
participating In this evening are ever
fraught with rejoicing. 1t Is always an
era of friendly feeling and 1t Is well
that II should be so, for our public
schools are the most widely non-secta-
rian. the most widely cosmopolitan, and
the most widely democratic institutions
In all the world today; sheltering as
they do children of every creed of every
age. OF both sexes. and every nation
Under such circumstances the public
school should not be the place for the
PRONUNCIATION OF partisan IDEAS, secta-
rian views. and aristocratic ideals The
aim of the public school is and should
be pre-eminently to foster the doctrine
OF freedom and liberalism in politics,
In society. in government, and in re-
ligion.
My Mission In GrangevIiie.
You have your doctors, who have
seduously administered to your medical
needs; you have your attorneys, who
have cared for your legal affairs; you
have your ministers, who have ever ca
tered to your religious welfare; and you
havel your business men, who are ever
solicitous about your material interests
My interests In your community have
been wrapped up in your public schools
My efforts have been for the educa
tional betterment OF the many pupils en-
rolled there In. With the faithful CO.
operation OF the teachers much has beer
done towards Improvement. All has moi
been done that can and should be done
The oak does not spring full-grown from
the acorn In a day, q week, or a year
1t Is the work of centuries. To bull,
up public school system requires man.
important factors. chief among which i
an efficient and fearless school boar,
andrfa thoroly educated, industrious
competent, and cooperative corps o
teachers. To institute changes of an.
nature, to break away from the estab
iished order of things, to override pre-
cedent and traditional ideas, beliefs
and methods OF procedure Is not an cas-
matter. Progress In any line means tn
doing of all of these things. We elm
to old beliefs and superstitious ideas wit
fearful tenacity. We are slow to &C
cept any new idea. We are permeate
with an Unsuitable conservatism. TIL
conservatist Is the man who attends t
the brakes on the great train OF pro
gresa The great trouble Is that w
have had too much faith In the brake
and not enough In the speed of the en-
CINE.
The Heformer.
The path OF the reformer is Away
one OF rebuffs and scorn and calumn,
The teacher is always a reformer. be
cause he 10 the exponent of moder
ideals 4 History Is nothing but tn
long record OF great men who were mar
tyrs for causes that advanced civiliza
ton Art. science. and literature hav
all had their martyrs. Michel Angel
In art. Calico In science. Hugo In liter
AZURE; the former socially ostracised fo
his art the other communicated froi
his church on account of his scientific
views. the latter exiled from his coun
try for his literary efforts in humanity
cause = Religion, liberty and freedoi
have had their reformers and martyr
Luther, Washington, and Lincoln, tn
one stormy and controversial and assai
ed from all sides because he stood fc
the right of private judgment for all me
the other. the exponent of American lii
erty, suffered the keenest trials, of pei
versity. INSTRUMENTATION. jealousy. an
psrfidy OF those around him; the iatts
life, the venerable Lincoln, meeting wit
q complainant smile the rebukes, II
reprimands, and the harsh criticisms
the radicals of his day, and serenel
meeting martyrdom at the assassin
hand that America might live forev'
free from the manacles OF surfdor
Even in our own time we perceive Il
name of one of Americas create
statesmen maligned on every side, Il
most popular person of the Twentiet
Century. the renowned Roosevelt. a ms
who realizes more than anyone ell
that q people or nation that becom
satisfied with it's religion, its governms
and its education begins to ossify; tn
Just as soon as a man becomes satisfi
with himself and his present ways
doing things, just so soon does he b
gin TO degenerate. To stand still is
fall back, for the world ever advanc
onward and upward.
II Is the names of such men as the
that shall be engraven forever upon t
pages OF history In gilded characte
which shall shine out to posterity b
meath the scintillating rays of the RI
ing sun of the future. 1t is such g
amples, OF fortitude, courage, and pc
severance that has uplifted the pc
nant Of civilization TO its present pi
nacie where It floats calmly In the bre'
es Of freedom, and liberalism, and I
brotherhood Of man.
The Battle With Ignorance.