The Washington herald., 1914-01-31
"HAVE IDEALS" SAYS
SECRETARY Wilson
Necessary to Success. He Tells Grad
uating Glasses at Business
High School.
ORGANIZATION ALSO NEEDED

THE school Of hard knocks was the
only institution that ever graduated
from" declared Secretary Of Labor Will
son, in an address to the midyear grad
uating classes Of the Business High
School last night. But one of the great
est lessons that experience has taught me
for success in life is that YOU must have
ideals. Those who have no ideals get no.
where.
Every particle Of progress that has
been made by the human race since the
dawn Of time up to the present day has
been because some one had ideals" con-
tinued Mr.. Wilson BY striving toward
these ideals il is that progress has been
made. There must he with those ideals
however. the determination TO push for
ward.
When we spc the pIOwing locomotives
that make the Plymouth Rock and the
Golden Gate near neishbors. We are prone
TO think that the things which we sec
today always have existed.
Here Mr.. Wilson paused to tell of the
development Of steam appliances since
the harncssins Of that power by James
Watt.
And SO We see in all time" resumed
Mr.. Wilson. ideals and perseverance go
ing hand in hand. II is rot necessary
only to have ideals and perseverance.
but to have organization. II YOU want
to get the best out OF your organization
YOU must be a leader Of men and not
a driver.
John b. Larner, of tine board OF edu-
cation. presided and introduced SeCre-
tary Wilson. Rev. Or. John Van SChaiCk.
jr.. pastor of the Church of Our Father.
Universalist. asked the invocation. and
Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes. of the board of
education, conferred the diplomas. n. \.
Edwards, president OF the Federation Of
Citizens Associations. and Allan Davis.
principal of the Business High School
also were on the platform. The grad
uates were:
Four-year Craduates-DorOtH Frances
Blackford. Agnes Catherine Hasse. Edith
Octavia Hainsworth. Hilda De Wolfe
MaIcom. Edith May S.mmcrman. NAV
Marcaret Walsh. Frederick Morse pickey.
Howard Noble Eickey. and Margaret Git
tings Parkhurst.
Two-year GTaduates-I.ucy MAY Beavers.
Alma Amelia Frances Bend"r. Elizabeth
Woodruff Bennit katherine Bsuchert.
Nettie Beuchert. Mary Philshena Bieher.
Alice Ellen Bruce. Laura Edith Burdette.
Margaret Alicia Burns Doris Elizabeth
Carr. Mildred Carroll. Josephine Winifred
Cleary. Grace Elise CottrelI. Martha
katherine DELANEY. Mabel Margaret
DuvalI. Lucy Kathleen Flynn. Marie
Josephine Gardner. Helen Gibson. Minnie
Esther tiorman. E.Ifricda Marie Grieh.
Katherine GrossheTC. Ethel Maureen
Hoffman. EImira Nalietta Holbruok. Mar
garetha Hoffman EuHkc!. BESSIE Laze-
row. Marie Ellen Lucas. Mary MaGdalcn
Marks Ellen Marguerite Ney"-. Theodore
Prcsncl Blanche NsI"Scs PylCs. Mamie
Lois Rector. Agnes MARY Regan. Gertrude
MAY Sauner. India Eta SiSsOn. Cecil
puliu Sniffin. Adele Thomas. Delsvan
Rodfeld Thompson. Arthur Rutherford
CowsilI. Harry Gladstone. Nathan Leon
ard Goodman. RAYMOND Francis King,
Frank Henry Marks. Charles Byron Mat
thcws Nash. Wilbur James O'Day. John
Conrad Schutrumpf. and Philip Joseph
Niehman.
Central High School also bid farewell
to a large class Of graduates last night.
Representative Simeon n. Fcss delivered
the address and Ernest l. ThurSton. SUI