Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-28
FRED B. SMITH TALKS
TO KAMEHAMEHA STUDENTS

If any student would acquire a good
education, and be a success in lie, he
must, above all things, be possessed
II good. clean morals" said Fred E.
Smith during an address given in
Bishop chapel this morning before the
entire student body and faculty of the
kamehameha Schools.
Mr.. Smiths address was brief as the
greater part of the hour was taken up
with singing by the National Associa-
ton Quartet and the students of the
school. The quartet sang three times
and at the request of Mr.. Smith the
students sang Hawaii Ponoi" and
Aloha De-" Following this, Mr.. Smith
spoke, in part, as follows:
mo doubt all of you young men and
women, at least the greater part of
This assembly, will forget this morn
ing. Dut l am sure that never Shall,
had the opportunity to come into per-
sonal touch with you and to know your
work. When l was in these islands
six years ago paid a visit to Kane
hameha, but at that time l had no
idea of the great work which is being
carried on here every day, and want
to compliment you on your work and
the choice which you made which put
you in the institution where you are
now.
Il have had many experiences with
the young men in all parts of the
United States, and l have found on
many occasions that the wanderlust
i'll many of them are strong. Those
in the north want to be in the south
and those in the east want to be in
the west. Now | want to impress up
On you all that the man who succeeds
is the man who stays where he is and
sticks to that thing which he has
chosen as his life work. Today there
are 800 licensed aViators in the
United States. There are about ninety
three millions of people in America
today, and out of this number three
have chosen to, fly, as it
were. A few have automobiles, but
the rest prefer to walk. Life is made
by walking and not by flying. Stay at
home; your life is in the place where
you are and not until you have made
good in the present place should you
to loolS for other fields.
Now there are some of you young
fellows who are going to make a
roaring failure of life. When ! say
this l do not mean any one person in
particular. And | will make it. plain
that any one of you Young men whose
are not clean will be failure.
do not mean the fellow who is slow
in his work, or the fellow who has a
poor personality, but the young man
who is going to fail is the one who
is letting his morals break him down.
He may be a fellow OF intelligence,
he may have good social standing,
or he may lead all others in athletics,
but if he is deficient in his morals,
the breakdown will come which will
mean his utter defeat. lf,ycur morals
are going to the dogs, then you are a
doomed man, and you will never make
q place for yourself in the world. In
the world today it is the man with
bad. morals who is being dismissed:
this is even true with regard to poll
tics and athletics. Just as there is a
place in the world for the Japanese
and the Americans which could never
be filled by any other race, so there
is a place in the world for the Ha-
waiians which can be filled only by
the Hawaiians, and it is up to you,
young men and young ladies. In the
hawaiian Islands today good men are
being sought after in political and
civil life. In this great Institution,
YOU are surrounded with every pos
sible method Of preliminary training
by which you can make good in life,
and it is up to YOU" ~