The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-09-19


shall not be disappointed What
shall say on this occasion will allude
to the significance of the Importance
Of this days events. Under the old
French Monarchy they used to pro-
claim upon the death of a reigning
sovereign, The King is Dead, Long
Live the King This embodied re-
greet for the dead monarch, loyalty to
his successor, and a declaration that
the monarchy had perpetual exist
ence. Today We may cry, "All Hail
to the Founders of the Free School
System Long Live the Public
Schools
The building which We dedicate
today shall reign as the true king of
the public schools of this county, and
it has been so established that it
shall have perpetual existenie. The
school children of this county will
gather here year after year not to
pay homage to the king, but to re-
i've inspiration from one another
at must result in a wonderful ad-
ancement in their education.
Those who have had the manage
lent Of this Enterprise have intelle-
gently and assiduously promoted the
oest interest of the public schools of
this county in the construction of
this building. The money thus ex-
pended is the true bread cast upon
the waters which shall return after
many days, not impaired, not alone,
but increased an hundred fold.
County Superintendent, and the
school children and teachers OF this
county upon the admirable public
spirit manifested by you and the citi-
zens Of the county in this undertake
ing.
The temples of Greece and Rome
were slightly and beautiful to see.
They are so yet, ever in their ruins.
But they represented the knowledge
of the few. This building represents
something higher and nobler. 1t will
contribute to the knowledge and vir-
tue, the prosperity and happiness Of
the many. Every child in Brookings
county has a part, or may have a part
in contributing to this educational
monument which when completed
will speak better for the character Of
the people than statues to dead heroes
or costly palaces OF m~illionaries.
Il have heard Of a certain barn
yard fowl commonly called a rooster
who, upon discovering that the SUI
rose about the same time he began to
crow in the morning, took great pride
in the fact that his Growing made the
sun come up. At another time he
made the discovery that the sun went
down at the same time he was
ing and he was greatly elated over
the fact that his growing made the
sun go down. The application of this
story will justify no one in thinking
that his individual efforts have
brought about all for which this build
ing stands. It's embodiment Is the
public schools of Brookings county;
the public schools are for all the peo-
pie, and all the people are the child
rem, for the men and women are the
grown up children. We believe that
the efficiency Of schools of this coun-
ty has been made more secure and
because OF this building they rest
more than ever before upon a strong,
sound intelligent, public interest.
"All of us have heard the parable
of the W preached from many
times. l doubt not that the usual les
son drawn from this parable is that
when the W goes forth to SOW, he
should not SOW bis seed upon the
beaten path, lest the fowls of the air
devour it up, nor upon stony grounds
lest, having no depth of earth it
springs up quickly and being scorch-
ed by the sun, wither away; nor yet
upon the thorny ground lest the
thorns spring up and choke it, but
he should seek only such ground as
give a promise Of thirty or sixty, or
one hundred fold returns. That is, the
sower should apply a purely quanti-
tative measure to the results in order
to determine his future effort. 1t is
not too much for me to say that it
was never intended that We should
estimate the success of the sower
purely upon the quantity OF the re-
turns. 1t was never intended to
teach stinginess and over discrimina-
ton on the part Of the sower, but that
we must look to the results OF the
sowing upon the sower and upon the
soil as we'll as upon the amount OF
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