The Dickinson press., 1913-05-31
ANNUAL ADDRESS TO
The GRADUATING CLASS

The annual address to the graduating
class of the Dickinson high school was
given Sunday evening. by Rev. John
Orchard in the high school auditorium.
There was a good attendance and those
seated on the platform with the speaker
were Rev. FIR. John Dignam, Rev. A.
c. Hacke and Supt. P. S. Berg.
Mrs. j. L. Hughes and Miss Eleanor
Davis sang a duet, Miss Florence Davis
presiding at the piano.
The members of the class of 1913 had
reserved seats in front. Their names
are:. Edna Smith. Myrtle Parker,
Emma Nichols, Marguerite Rudiselle,
Rose Berringer, Marion Dundas. Irving
Gerlich, Donald Hunter. Fred Masezs
Charles Mccarthy, Lyall Merry, Aionzo
Nichols, Llewellyn Roquette and Victor
Christensen.
Mr.. Orchard congratulated the class
of 1918 on their achievement in reach
ing the highest point of high school
work, and then turned to his subject
Increasing Efficiency" taking for a
text these two scriptures. "Whatsoever
thy hand fndeth to do, do it with thy
might" and They 60 from strength
to strength" There can be no doubt,
said the speaker. as to the aggressive
ness of these United States. for without
boast we can accept the verdict of all
European countries, which with one &C
cord, have acknowledged the supremacy
of u industrial. financial. education
al and religious life. Recent statistics
give great prominence to the splendid
gain in exports, saying that over four
billion dollars worth of American man
ufactured goods and produce were tx
ported to foreign countries during the
year 1912.
Some of the things that have grown
to immense proportions and that have
gone to make the nation great are today
considered as American necessities. but
which a few years ago, were among the
seeming impossible. The great tele'
phone life of the world is virtually con
trolled in it's use by eur nation.
Last year the US. had So per CEN
of the entire investments. and yet il
was less than 81 years ago that Bell
perfected the telephone. 1t is lest
than S. years ago since the first cable
message was flashed from the president
of the U. S. to the premier of Grea'
Britain, and yet today I can 60 down
to the Office and send a message around
the world. with but one man at the key
board.
The OK team was superseded by th'
prairie schooner as our early pioneerl
made their way across the continen
without n single railroad being bull
until less than IS years ago.
Twelve hundred new books are pub
lished monthly, besides a million page
of other literature, with the printing
press known less than 100 years. Sine,
the signing of the declaration of indie
pendence 40 years have nearly passet
but in a maerial sense we have gainet
more than many nations in thousand'
Of years of national life. n
These things have been recited. tina
we may get a grip of why we have beer
such IN aggressive nation. There ar.
but two things at the bottom of it all,
and these two things might be summed
up in the extensive grasp of the Ameri'
can people and the intensive effort d
the American people.
let us forget however. said thu
speaker. that this extensive grasp ant
intensive effort would 9 have been
ours were it not for leadership.
The youths OF today are apt to thini
that might is right, that money talks.