Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-14
AMERICANS IN DANGER
OF BECOMING SHYL0CKS
Representative Page So Tells
Graduates of Eastern
High School.

I've need the added earning capacity
and this aim in its proper relation is en-
tirely praiseworthy. but in placing undue
emphasis. as I think we are upon money
getting, we are in grave danger of pro-
ducing generation of Shylocks, whose
chief aim in life will be the fleeing of
their fellows
| So declared Representative Robert n
Page of North Carolina in an address at
the graduation exercises of Eastern High
| School, held at the school yesterday aft
| ernoon.
| The environment, outside the school
room. of the average American youth" he
continued, rs to foster in him this love of
gain to the exclusion of the cultivation of
! those characteristics that make for the
! best development or highest citizenship.
wish that We might at least divorce this
| loea from the educational process. Mere
| money making has come to hold too large
| place I'm the thoughts of men. The his
tory OF the past, and our observations in
| the present, teaches that when greed of
gain takes possession Of the mind higher
and better things are banished'
Love of Country Lost.
Love of country is lost in love of gold!
am not nor would l. preach a doctrine
| OF poverty. and the majority of us need
reproof for having made such poor use
| of our talents and opportunities. Never
theless, the most corrupting influences
| that have come into American public life
nave come into a wrongful use of money.
III seems to me one Of the lessons much
needed Is that we Danish the idea of
money value from education.
Whatever may have been the needs of
the past, our times demand that we get
no -
| influence to rebuke and reform the cor
ruption and sin that is making the cold
est-blooded man tremble when he dips
MS loot into some sea of politics, or sails
outside OF few well grounded creeks
and bays of our present-day social life;
an lnnuence that will destroy the now
to some extent just criticism that educa-
ton does not make for honesty or moral
| ity.
Purpose of Education.
| You may be sure that there is some
| thing radically wrong with that educa-
ton that causes man to use 1t for base
or 1gnoble purposes. And so one Of the
purposes of education in our time should
be to impress the youth of the land that
one of the objects, and not q minor one
| is moral elevation Woe to that educa-
ton that breeds vice and fraud, discord
| and violence
| MI rage later declared that the true
| aim and endeavOr of education should be
| the development of character and he de-
| clared that "Our learning must not only
be to make good scholars, but good citi-
DR.. Willard S. Small, principal of the
school, presided at the exercises and well
coined the guests. Diplomas were pre-
sented by Henry P. Blair, president of
| the board of education.
DR.. Small announced Miss Elizabeth w.
| Wilson as winner of first honors in schol-
arshlp In the class and Miss Anita T.
Orlando as winner of second honors Miss
Wilson received scholarship in Gouchel
! College. Miss May Hovencamp Boteler
was announced az winning the sixth uni
versity scholarship in George Washington
| University, and Miss Lucy E. Graves as
| winning the scholarship in Goucher Col
| lege awarded by the Washington Chapter
| of the Goucher Alumnae
Presented With Medal.
! Miss Zulime Summers was presented
with a medal by Mrs. Sanders Johnston
on behalf of the D. A. r. for having
| written the best essay presented by q
graduate from Washington high schools
on a subject relating to the American rev.
olution. Three other Eastern pupils were
announced as tying for second place,
| Miss Ruth Briggs, Miss Margaret Gill
lespie and Miss Anita Orlando.
| Rev. Alfred II. Barrows, pastor of East
ern Presbyterian Church, gave the invo-
| cation. Ernest L. Thurston, assistant SUI
perintendent in charge Of white schools,
| was guest Of honor.
Eastern graduated seventy-one pupils
yesterday, twenty-five Of whom expect to
| go to college and seventeen of whom ex-
pect to attend the Normal School
| Officers Of the class were: President
John Chester Eakle; vice president, Miss
Helen M. Mansuy; secretary, Miss Kath-
crime kalbfus, and treasurer, John James
| Hughes.