The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1912-06-06

Too much time is also spent In
schools, according to Mr.. Sloan. "Ac-
cording to the present schedule" he
said, 1.-The pupil is in the primary
grammar schools from six to 10
years, the high school from Is to Is,
the academy from Is to q, the col
lege from 81 to 26, the smaller uni
versity from rs to 81, and the great
university, like Oxford or Heidel-
berg, from 81 to So. Then, after two
or three years of travel to round out
his education, he is ready to begin his
lifework at about 40 years of age,
wholly unqualified to make living"
Mr.. Sloan urged specialized training
and declared that many untitled both
by birth and inclination to receive it,
ought not to waste time trying to Sc
cure higher education.
Commissioner Sloan warned his
hearers to press forward to complete
success and not to be stopped by eth
er real or imaginary obstacles. He
urged the young teachers to warn
their pupils against the formation of
vicious habits, and especially con-
demned the use of liquor, declaring it
the greatest of all modern evils!
"And when your pupils ask you why
their government, which has done so
much to prevent and extermlnate
other evils, permits this one to exist
you answer them-I cannot" he
said. He urged the graduates to join
that army, "impotent now but cour-
ageous still, that seeks to destroy the
American Scraps"
Concluding, he said: "You go out
from US today and we bid you Cod
speed You go out as woodmen with
whetted blade go forth to the telling
of great forest. We ask that you
be true and hew to the line let the
chips fall where they may. You go
out as a huntsman to the pleasure
able emotions of the chase. We adj
mr..sh you to be patient, don't get
&, "a of the hounds. You go out to-
day as stream bursts forth from
high up on the mountain and goes
leaping, dashing and surging down
the mountainside, delighted with its
new-found freedom; reaching the
plain, it retards its current, broadens
its banks, giving nourishing moisture
and making fruitful and beautiful
the land along it's shores, and rests
at last in placid bay or peaceful gulf.
We wish that you, like it, may have
delightful and happy beginning, in
the new life, that in the more expe-
rienced labors that middle life may
bring, splendid and pleasurable
achievements may fall to your lot,
and you may rest at last in that con-
tented and coveted old age that clean
life, honest toll and completed under
takings may bring
On behalf of the board of trustees
and faculty, and in the place OF
Chairman Geo. B. Cook, who was UNI
abel on account of illness to be pres
ent, Secretary B. w. Torreyson then
delivered diplomas comforting the
degree of licentiate of instruction up
on the following: Julius Gray, Mol
lie Davis, Claude Wilkerson, Lena
Gadd, Willie Thrailkill, Audrey
Goode, Perry Nelson, Allen Webb,
Jessie Wheat, Monroe Campbell,
Olive Haskew, Isaac Morris, Portia
Byrd, Matte Carleton, Pattie Bran
non, Maggie Goodwin, Floy Goodwin
and Florence Owens. The following
other members of the senior class,
who lack from one to two points of
completing the 60 points required for
degree, will complete their work
during the summer session and re-
ceive their diplomas July 10: Evelyn
Baird, Zada Lee Craig, Grace Greer,
j. w. Melton Icie Major, Willie
Mashburn, la McCarley, Gilbert Y.
Short, Burl A. Short, E. l.. Wray.