Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1914-06-10
JUDGE FRANK o. SMITH
IN ELOQUENT ADDRESS
TELLS OF FAILURE OF
SUCCESS"
(From Fridays Daily.)

ror, vanity and woe. Do not water
he weeds OF sorrow. Root them
out OF the garden OF memory. Give
the flowers Of hope a chance to
grow. Go forward to happiness
and it will be yours. May the fail
ure Of success. as told in the story
OF the half-forgotten people, warn
you to keep ever burning on your
affairs the fires of true manhood
and womanhood, as you go for
ward to a grander day
With ;:iat message. Judge Frank
o. Smith, as Commencement Day
speaker last night sent into the
world the sixteen graduating men,
bers of the Prescott high school
upon a road which he mapped out
with the chalk OF experience, the
ability OF a finished orator and the
precision of man thoroughly ia
maliar with the ways of the world,
Not only the sixteen newcomers
into the life of the world listened
with keen attention to the splendid
address but an audience which
thronged the Elks' theatre to the
doors. heard and applauded. Judge
Smith took as his subject "The
Failure of Success" and for over a
half an hour, he expounded the
wholesome doctrine gained by the
knowledge OF present day condi-
tons. There was lacking that tone
Of preaching ofttimes predominant
ing at Commencement addresses.
Judge Smith injected into his talk
a touch of modernism, discussing
present day conditions and pres
ent day obstacles which confront
the newcomer into the worlds work
rather than the theoretical. True, he
referred to conditions of the past
but in these instances he did so
only to make more definite his
modern points.
The address featured the tenth
annual commencement exercises OF
the Prescott High School held in
the theatre last night. Active par
ticipation in the program was tax
en- by the musical talent of the
school but practically no represen-
tation of the literary faction was
present. The song-birds of the
school rendered a program par ex-
cellent, while a few other features
made the exercises the most sue
cessful ever held in the school.
The remarkable success scored by
tie class members upon the pro-
ceding night in "The Man from
Home" earned for them the ap-
plause and popularity of the large
audience and the ceremonies were
punctuated time and again by pro-
longed applause.
Judge Smiths remarks were as
follows:
Tonight your parents, neighbors
and friends have gathered to re-
joice with you in the record You
have made, and to earnestly wish
you Godspeed on your journey so
well begun. This is one of those
golden days which you may proud
ly hang in your hall of memory
among your most sacred treasures.
When you look back it will always
be there to brighten your past as
the rainbow brightens the heavens.
You have toiled long and earnest
ly and may well be proud of this
hour. I congratulate you, not care
lessly, but in all sincerity, upon
your achievement. Your teachers
see in you the reward for their
hard painstaking, self-sacrifcing
work.
"As look into your faces,
know that the Prescott high school
will always be proud OF the class
Of 1914 The empty schoolroom
will not echo to your footsteps
tomorrow. In a few months 9th
ers will take your places. but you
will not be forgotten. The eyes
Of the scholars and teachers will
be upon you and you will be an
inspiration TO them as they watch
the boys and girls OF 1914 doing
their part in the world as good
men and good women.
"When we toll slowly up the
winding trail and stand at last up
on the highest crest, we look down
upon the silvery streams gliding
through the green valleys, and the
low hills darkening under the
changing shadows, and receive full
compensation for our weary climb.
But when we are upon the crest
we don't observe the grandeur OF
the mountain. Only from the dis
tant valley LOOKING IN To the GREAT