The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-06-12
Who Spoke On Education
And Social Service"
An Interesting Program OF
Musical Numbers

The fifty-fourth annual commence
ment of the Mt. Vernon high school
occurred Thursday morning at 10
o'clock at the high school auditorium.
The large room was crowded to Its
capacity with the relatives and friends
Of the young graduates.
There we're no decorations in the
room, with the exception large num-
ber of palms and ferns on the stage.
AS the Philharmonic orchestra rem
dered a march, "The Festival" the
members of the class marched to the
platform and took their seats. Others
seated there we're the speaker of the
| day Hon. ]. d. Fackler, tax commits
sioner of Cuyahoga county, Supt
Zemer, Principal Winans, Rev. e. D.
Barnett of the Gay street M. e. church
and the Rev. Ira j. Houston of the
Congregational church and the mem
bers of the city board of education.
The invocation was said by Rev. Mr.
Barnett.
The first number on the program
was a song by the class of 1914, with
Hearts of Hope"
The orchestra then rendered "The
Silver Wedding" and Supt. p. G
Zemer introduced the speaker of the
morning.
Mr.. FackIers Address
Hon. John ID. FackIer of Cleveland
who delivered the address to teh grad
uating class, took for his subject, "Ed
ucation and Social Service and, II
part, spoke as follows:
"There Is perhaps no more striking
illustration of the changed attitude o
men toward social problems than cal
be found in the new inclination of thu
leaders in educational work, and il
consequence, in education itself to
ward social service.
Centuries ago, your ancestors ant
mine were slaves to the men of stronl
body. The men whose brute force en-
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brothers. claimed and exercised tn
right to take from those of less physic
al strength, a part, If not all, of tn
product of their toll. Finally the littl
fellows, so to speak, became so nun
erous and restive under bondage, an,
their intelligence and sense OF human
fnufian innrnugnH n thn nnint Mh
open revolt came, which, after man
unsuccessful efforts, finally resulte
in the curbing of the power of tn
strong man physically to enslave hi
/ weaker brother. Then came the er
, Of the dominance OF the mental owe
the physical; an era when cunning an
craft and intellectual violence prevail
ed when the strong man mental
claimed and exercised the right I
dominate and rule the mentally veal
or, taking just as certainly that whic
! he did not earn as did his prototype @
the strong arm in the centuries tina
are gone. Men worshipped success
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telleotuaIly strong, just as precedin
generations exalted and worshippe
the physically powerful, But man
sense of justice, that spark of divin
ty which the Almighty has placed /
his breast was developing, and he be
gan to see that the supremacy of mer
/. tai force was only difference in tn
instrumentality used for the accom-
plishmont of its objects, one dependin
. on the strength of the arm and tn
other on the strength of the brain 70
3 its effectiveness.
$ The old idea of education wa
; merely to furnish mental training an
5 equipment to enable its possessor t
excefi in the struggle of life. The ne'
idea is this also, but added to it an
d overshadowing it, is determinatio
!. to develop standard of ethics an