The Alaska socialist., 1914-06-30
ADDRESS BY 6. W. PENNING- TO GRADUATES Gives Them Lots
 of Good Advice
(Continued from last issue)


 the allurement of a lofty philosophy, but one and all of us echo the hungry cry, attainment teach us how to attain to all this beauty, and my reply to that desire is the same as that which wes given to the youth of Athens 24 hun dred years ago by a beloved philosopher That council was, know yourself--control and direct your thoughts and you have the mystic power of the universe within your very grasp.
 But you say how teach me how. Now perhaps because thought is in itself so intangible, and many of us have so little control of it, thelr is an impression that, direction or control of our thoughts IS difficult a nd abstruse affair, something that requires great deal of hard study a nd much book knowledge to reach desired result; but nothing is really further from the truth. It matters not how meagre your talents may le, how backward and uncultured you are, you possess the capacity within yourself 10 remake your intellectual nature, and I am sure if parents and guardians would devote the1r time and energy i'll teach ing our young people proper concept of thought control they would have to lay not the slightest stress upon the en- forcement of obedience.
 It requires but a trifing and simple lesson indeed to teach us what pure and lofty thoughts are, and any young per son taught to hold right thoughts, and expel wrong ones; taught to have fair control of their mental realm will re- quire less external authority, they will merge into maturity pure-minded and LtutA1u43 OCCduoG VI having AoIAlAS Io hide Or repress. But how ?
 Well, tonight, we can give that ques- ton a very superficial reply.
 As method of cultivation I should urge that you begin each day with some lofty insp1rational thought. I can recall nothing finer than the 'sanskrit salut- ation to the dawn'':
 Look we'll to this day For it IS life, the very life of life
 In it's brief course lie all the
 Verities and Realities of your existence
 The bliss of growth
 The Glory of action
 The splendor of beauty.
 For yes: s:erlay is but dream
 And tomorrow only vision.
 But to-day we'll lived makes every yesterday dream of happiness
 And every tomorrow vision of hope.
 Look well therefore to this day
 Such is the salutation ot the dawn.'' ! Now when urge you to cultivate a lofty concept ot frmness of will and fortitude, and set for yourself high standard of integrity, 1 do not mean that you shall pursue such a course i'll the hope, or for the sake of some trivial and delusive reward; why these things are of themselves, potent, brlmful of re- ward; they are so rich in value, that the very joy of their attainment leads you to forget all idea of reward, and when you come to think of it, and analyize it, good purpose, IroPer conduct, merely for the sake of reward is not high type of morality at all; 1t is the mere wrath, the shadow of morality.
 Let your thoughts of justice, your re- gard for the right, the joy, and the inl- provement of your fellow creatures be so fine that all who come within the radius of your influence will feel its refining touch, and do not underrate your in Auence---your thoughts while acting | most r1oxUArf,1111- mon yO1r o1s-r1 life h,