The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-12-16

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Speaker in The Series and
| He Addressed the Pupils
Last Night - Prof. Lane
Has Inaugurated the limo
vation and Will Ask Other
Business Men to Appear.
At the Pensacola High School has
| been inaugurated a series OF lectures
by the business men Of the city about
which Principal B. B. Lane hopes that
a great part Of the valuable life OF
the school may center. The lectures
are to be informal talks that are in
tended to bring the school in closer
touch with the active world OF bust-
ness, and to give the students, as far
as is possible, something Of the view
point of outside life.
! The first speaker in the serieg.'
/ said Professor Lane to a Journal rep
! resentative last night, was Frank L.
! Mayes. The students greeted his en-
trance to the hall this evening with
applause and gave rapt attention from
his first word. What he said, touch
! ing as II did so closely on their every
day work, and reading into It for
I
pleasant surprise at the beginning. and
as he went along, aroused their i'm
tense interest. Seldom has any speak
er at the high school had his audience
so completely with him. The follow
ing synopsis ca ngive only the pith OF
his remarks:
Learn English" said MIR. Mayes to
the students Learn to spell, to cap
italize. to paragraph, and to punctuate
II
TO a friend to q business man, or to
newspaper that is at least mechani-
cally correct. There is some excuse
for one who is not able to speak tho
English language fluently or at all
times correctly, put there Is no excuse
for any high school graduate who can
not write a letter that is grammat-
calIy perfect. A poorly written letter
indicates either carelessness or ignor-
ance, and the one who receives II viii
Judge the writer by the letter itself
Such a letter, applying for position,
or presenting a business proposition,
Is not calculated to help the writer iu
either case.
The whole sense OF a sentence or
the meaning Of word frequently de-
pends on punctuation. There Is a rea-
son for every punctuation mark. and
every high school student should bo
able to give that reason. In each
case, apply the question-'Why7 7'--and
until you can answer that question
your education In punctuation 70 not
complete.
you think In words. Consequently
you must have words and understand
them in order to think correctly and
to talk or write correctly. Sometimes
you say that you know a thing but
you cannot tell It, You are mistaken.
II you knew 1t, you could tell II.
The fact that you can't tell Il Is the
best proof in the world that you don't
know II.
There are three ways to learn
English. One Is by work-hard work.
Another Is by associating with people
who know more than you do. In chOOs-
ing an associate, always try TO choose
someone who is better educated than
you are 1t Is usually an easy thing to
do. A third way is to read good litera-
ture Read the Saturday Evening
Post. Read some OF Cobb'a stories on
the European war. When you get fur
ther along, read the Literary DiC-st.
Select good reading just as you select
good companions-and then try 20 re.
member what you read.
"AIl OF your studies are important,
but English is the most important
And when you finish the high school
keep right on going until you get
through college. The high school
graduate has % times the chance OF
success that the common school stu
dent has. The college graduate has
10 times the chance OF success that
the high school student has, and moro
than 200 times the advantage OF the
common school boy or girl"
Mr. Lane expressed his thanks to
NTV Aan 1Ia FfrIT
school education for every student and
his insistence on the extremely great
return that every young man and
young woman would receive from the
proper Investment OF their youthful
energy while in school. Every boy
and girl in Pensacola says Mr.. Lane,
should read these words and heed
them. They are from a successful
man who is speaking earnest
ly and yet carefully"
The plans for the series of talks has
met with many expressions OF inter-
est from the students. according to
the principal, who states that every
body Is delighted with the idea and
that the students themselves have not
only been outspoken, but especially
commen 5atory in speaking later oG
Mr.. Mayes' talk, It's extreme practical
truths making a marked impression.
After the holidays the series will be
continued by possibly an attorney Of
the city and a business man, and
thereafter about twice each month
some man prominent In the life Of
Pensacola win address the High
School