Arizona republican., 1914-05-23
Senator ,WorsI.y and the Clifton Graduates

active passive. To do so would be to invite retrogression or sagnation On the other hand it is not well to look too constantly for imaginary evils To do is destructive of the spirit of optm- ism without which there be real progress.
 The other day friend, Senator Worsley. ad- dressed the graduating class of the Clifton schools Senator Worsley. most excellent gentleman, as is well known, has ceased the worship of he-god-of- things thinks they and has transferred his adoration the god of things-as he thinks they ought-to-be and is consistent and constant car rier of that gospel which We must say IS rather gloomy the gloom arising from the com parison of the happy state to which the senator would attain, with the state from which he would escape
 When the senator inveghs against present con ditions memory reverts to the lament the Dis satisfied Swede who deplored the happiness of those around him, predicting that in heaven stop would be put to all joyful frivolity and the atmosphere would comPort with his gloomy sentiments. Having het his neighbors the hope of for bidding Le;,ven he thus addressed his four footed and featlercd friends
 "Sens ye birds and lowing herds,
 Scng till your troats be dry.
 You quit yor toots, you bet your boots,
 ranch up in der sky.
 Though Senator Worsleys sentiments toward things in general those of disaproval, it seems n:sh school commencement would be good la-e hn to repress them for hour two. The young and the young who have enIpetcd stage of their servitude about to ca,er ~ivn the world with joy and trepidation mingled Aruper proportions. It seems wrong that such occasion the orator of the day should disalla.ls~ the ratio and induce shrinking from .tn the world with which must all come into contact. inevitably as we must come to the grave We should approach it with the best possible impression of it and with determination to assist in making it still better. world bad the senator describes might seem to the average grad hopeless task It is fit for nothing but de- struction annihilation and forgetfulness.
 The world and it's institutions are perfect but we are pleased observe that they better than they were ten years much better than they twenty-five years ago, still much better than century ago and infinitely better than cen tures ago The world and it's people have been getting better and better every since those good old days when hairy and horrible ancestors howled inarticulate mprecations one another the tree tops.
 And none of this steady improvement in our manners, customs. and institutions be traced directly the efforts of crusaders It come about by evolution naturally, sometimes faster and sometimes slower If at any time it has seemed to move forward with jerk, there has been ensuing period of inertia. Real progress has been almost mperceptible. We have been able to see what has been done if, always what doing
 We hope that the pail of gloom which the sen ator spread over the graduating class Clifton has been dissipated by this time, and that the : bers of the class, with eyes bright and chin up raised, have assumed the parts for which they have been fitted in the work of systematic and orderly uplift