The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-01
COMMENCEMENT IS
CELEBRATED ON
EAST SIDE
Auditorium Crowded With
Friends and Relatives of
Young Graduates


With the commencement exercises
In the auditorium of the Central
school building last night. the 1911
1917 school year was brought to a
close. Seven high school students
were presented diplomas by Superin.
tendent II. 4: johnson at last nights
exercises. They are Margaret Ko-
lars, Anna Kaufman. Anna Ryan
Mamie Franklin. Clarence Lukkason,
Everett Capes and George Jorgenson.
The auditorium was crowded with
friends and relatives of the young
graduates. and the program was car
rled II as announced. with on or
two additions in the music line. Each
one of the graduates delivered an
grafton. aside o which an excel.
lent musical program was given.
Features of this program were a vo-
cal solo by George Ludvigson. one
of the high school students. and a
couple of cello selections by Mag
Tracy.
Flowers and ferns were Used pro-
fuSely in the decoration OF the stage,
while steamers of lavender and
white. the senior class colors. were
stretched across different sections Of
tIIo duOlloIluiIl.
The presentation address was de-
Iivercd by Superintendent II. a. John
son. He urged the parents of East
Grand Forks to take a greater inter-
est by getting acquainted with her.
The program was opened with the
singing of Merry June by the
Girls chorus. after which Margaret
kolars delivered the salutatory, fol-
lowing this with her GRAFTON on open
SaClr1n' Shn cold IN ,,,rt.
In childhood, when we read of the
wonderful cave whose jewels were
disclosed at the magic words. Open
Sesame we little dreamed that equal
ly great treasures awaited us, to be
revealed at IL w touch.
Now it is not a treasure of precious
stones, but of books. The multitude
and variety of books today cannot fail
to appeal to every taste. Do we APP
preciate the wonderful treasure house?
Literature unlike music and painting
must make its appeal not through the
senses, but through the intellect. The
problem of both school and home is to
arouse a keener appreciation of h
truest II best literature"
George ~Jorgenson. another of the
graduates, followed with an Grafton on
industrial Arbitration" in which he
said:
Iiuus'iiai dFoitTdtlon is one OF the
great. questions that face us today.
The numerous strikes of the laboring
classes are u to the injustice which
meets their appeals. The strike must
be obviated, and may be by industrial
arbitration-a phrase referring to a
peaceful mean Of settling labor diff
culties. 1t may be done by concilia-
ton and arbitration-the former term
meaning the prevention, and the Sec
IN - ~ SS~cr th~ - Asyx-
To do either. the employer must rec
ognize the conditions of the employee.
Legislation is not needed so much as
publicity. The people must UNDER
stand circumstances and must make
light conquer. whether right be on
the side of employer or employed"
"A Noble Lifc's Message.
After MIR. J~orgenson's grafton. the
oys' Glee club sang Drink to Me
Only with Thine Eyes" Mamie
Franklin was the next graduate
speaker, the subject of her Grafton be-
ing Message OF a Noble Life" Miss
Franklin said in part:
There is a heritage of noble obliga-
ton to our fellowlnen. which We ac-
cept and long to perpetuate. 1t is
right wrong.
Zone of the best means for helping
the needy is in social settlement work.
The settlement strives to correct both
social and industrial evils. The leader
of this work in America is Jane Adj
dams of Hull House in Chicago.
The first school she established
was a combined kindergarten and
day nursery. BY this means, Miss Ad-
pie of the slums. In quick succession
she founded a girls club. a coffee
house. A gymnasium, and places of
clean amusement. She corrected bad
conditions, and then organic
ed a %postoffice and savings bank at
Hull House. Child labor also came
her attention, and received a
great check. Anything that could be
lone to help the poor and erring,
successfully followed. has been to pro-
in Chicago ID center for a higher
civic and social Glife.'"
Clarence Lukkason was the next
graduate to speak and he delivered an
interesting Grafton on ''Neds of the
Hour" He said in part:
The school system of fifty years
ago displayed discrepancies: the edu-
cation was impractical. In the last
half century. equipments and libraries
have been enriched, and the intellect
ual life has been increased. Manual
training and other systems leading to
trades have beer introduced, but even
today. more civic training should be
given. Children should be given gov
ernmental eduaction."
The Home Influence.
This was followed by the singing Of
"Shoogey-Shoo' by the Girls Glee
club, after which Anna Ryan gave her
grafton. THE Influence of the Home"
She said in part:
God has not conceived an institu-
ton more divine thar the home.
Present conditions in the home are
not satisfactory. and with the dissatis-
faction comes a desire for improve
ment. But the Improvement has been
too much in the house, rather than in
the children. The home should be i'm
proved socially. educationally and re-
ligiously. With the educational and
religious progress will come the social
betterment. The parents must set the
example,, n all must he tolerant,
more honorable and more charitable"
Everett Capes followed with his ora
ton on True Democracy" in which
he said in part:
THE fr.,t scientific divisions of gov
eminent were apparently made by
Aristotle. who called them monarchy,
democracy and oligarchy. In America
the question is between Oligarchy and
democracy. and this question appears