New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-06-03
HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT

What are you going to do with it?''
was the question DR.. James E. Freeman
asked Of the graduates at their COM
mencement exercises Friday evening
in his address. His topic was '''The
Test of Efficiency" and the twenty-three
young men and women who were turned
out as the finished product Of our
public schools were not flattered and
complimented by the speaker but were
told plainly and frankly by DR.. Freeman
that what they had already accomplished
would amount to nothing at all if they
did not at once see that they must make
use of their training in the service Of
their fellowmen.
DR.. Freeman is charming speaker
and his ability to understand the charac-
teristics of the predominating nation
atty Of the people Of New Ulm put him
in position to say the things that won
his audience. He has spent several
years as student in Germany and
seemed to feel quite at home here and
his audience, tho sparing with their
applause, seemed to thoroly enjoy what
he had to say. He spoke only briefly,
or so it seemed, and closed with touch
ing little bit from Ian McC laren's ''Bonny
Briar Bush to point his moral and
show that all men are "brithers" and
each should be willing to bear the burdens
OF one another. This, he deemed the
chief end and aim Of all education
worthy OF the name. To broaden ones
sysmpathies and understanding of the
needs of the world, of the community,
of ones fellow men and to apply the
knowledge thus attained in a manner
calculated to solve the problems of this
existance.
Miss Martha Kunze, as salutatorian,
greeted the assembled parents and
friends and then delivered an essay on
'Minnesota's State Prison.. Her
description pictured the new building
recently erected at Saltwater as a model
of it's kind and explained how the manage
ment has solved the problem of convict
labor successfully in this state, and uses
It to free the people Of the state from
the burden of supporting the peniten-
tiary and at the same time effects a
saving to the consumers of the chief
product of prison manufacture, Irvine
for use by farmers. She also describes
the method of treating the prisoners
according to merit system and stated
that the prison was primarily place to
learn to do better, rather than place Of
vengeance and punishment. In short,
she made the picture of the new building
and the institution SO agreeable that,
as DR.. Freeman said, the place were
something to be proud Of, 'if, indeed,
one might speak with pride of prison.
Miss Kunze's enunciation was distinct
and easily heard all over the hall and
her voice pleasing.
The valedictorian, Harry Mecklen
burg, likewise had no difficulty il
making himself understood by everyon,
and his talk on 'Our Highways" wa
timely and well worth listening to. H
showed the value OF good roads an,
gave figures showing the development
i of road making from guesswork t
accurate accomplishment. He close
his speech with a farewell address t
teachers, fellow pupils and classmates.
The graduates of the class fnishin
the Latin course are Lloyd Edwar
Alvin, Dora Hughes Edwards, Beat
Katharine Krook, Harold Charlie
Vogtel Those who took the scientiti
course: Frank Henry Niemann, Waite
. Scherer, Carl Schmidt. The Englis
!, course: Eleanor M. Emmerich, Rose
bud H. Engel, Stella L. Gag, James A
: Garrow, Alice E. Irrgang, Martha Edith
Kunze, Janet Harkin Massopust, Leon
V. Mayer, Harry A. Mecklenburg an
Jesse M. Olsen. OF these, the Misse
Emmerich, Engel, Gag, Irrgang an
: Massopust also completed the Norm;
Training Course. Six post graduate
the Misses Bertha T. Altman, Caroly
E. Backer, M. Viola Goetsch, Emil
James, Rosetta C. johnson and Elm
Ida Stolz also completed the Norm;
Training Course this year.
The other numbers on the program
were two violin selections by Mis-
t Thornton and three vocal numbers b
Z the Girls Glee Club. Miss Thornto
: has made a big place for herself here an
+ many friends and both. she and hi
violin will be greatly missed next year.
s The decorations for commencement
) were, as usual, chiefly white flowers wit
I greenery. A curtain at the back of til
stage bearing the class numerals was wor
ed out with the figures made of white flo
ers with a background of green. Swing
ing baskets of bridal wreath and snowfall
made the front Of the stage and the boxe
Il lovely and nalrns and ferns com n1ptpd th