The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-06-12

list his interest and strength, both
mental and physical, in the advance
ment of the race itself; the evolution
of a social order which will have more
of justice and less of savagery, more
of beauty and less of horror than any
yet developed by man. Society will
have made a poor investment indeed
in you young people if your education
shall result merely in your increased
ability to exercise power over others
and has not developed your sense of
responsibility for human welfare; if
it has merely fired your ambition for
personal advancement without awak-
ening your desire to leave the world
a litter brighter and a little fairer than
you found it.
"Our ideas of social service have in
recent years undergone a somewhat
radical Transformation: instead of con-
tenting ourselves by pulling out here
and there stray victim from the
stream of poverty and crime, we are
sending investigators up stream to
search out and report the causes of
the flood itself with the determined
purpose of reducing its volume. Where
formerly social service was thought
to consist in the amelioration of condi-
tions through the agency of charity,
we are now bending our efforts to-
ward the removal of the causes of so
cial ills. Just as medicine today is
conquering disease, not SO much
through discovery and development of
new cures, as in the establishing OF
preventive and prophlactic measures,
so society is searching for the causes
of social disorder and disease.
"The 18th century emphasized the
development of the Individual; the goth
century will be characterized by it's
emphasis of the social. This effort to-
ward fairer and juster social organ
ization is not confined to America All
over the world, among men whose
skins are yellow as we'll as among
those who are white; among the rich
and poor alike, we find the struggle
for more equitable social order going
forward, and in every case we find the
men of broadest mental training lead
ing in the struggle. Were this not so,
education would be proved a failure.
(Mr. Fackler discussed the worldwide
manifestation toward better social con-
ditions as illustrated in China in the
economic reforms of DR.. Sun Yat Sen;
in England under Lloyd George, and
their application to American condi-
tions.)
Were asked to make to you young
men and women a wish, should ex-
press 1t in these words: May God grant
you the willingness to devote your
energies of body and mind toward the
service OF mankind to the end that
there may be builded in America a ma
tion whose motto is Justice and
whose characteristic is Good Will "
Diplomas Presented
After selection by the orchestra,
Mon Ange," Mr.. Alfred Mill, presi-
dent of the city board of education, in
few well chosen remarks presented
the diplomas to the members of the
class of 1914.
The following received diplomas at
the exercises on Thursday morning:
Gertrude Marie Barber, Arthur
Beck, Frank Raymond Elliott, Emma
Jane Fobes, Jay Samuel McDevitt, Op
al Fern Andrick, Edna Maud Bell, Elsie
Schipper, Selena Bessie Schafer, Her
bert Dale Huntsberger, John Mckinley
! Phyllips, Augusta Martha Brigode, Ed
ma Emma Blair, Mia Catherine Shift
flette, George Oliver Melick, zuleme
Smith, Allen Dwight Sapp, Stanley e
Johnson, Mary Taphena Beggs, Mary
Bromley Reed, Margaret Helen McIn
tire, Beulah Colville Herrick, Leota
Salena Loney, Helen Lucille Vernon
Dwight Tracy McNabb, Melvin Hill
Black, Clark Levering, l., Dale Davis
Ruth Colville, Helen Magdeline Moore
Dale S. Porter, Edith Christina Ger
venka, Florence Pearl McClelland
Gertrude f. Lorey, John Gordon Bone
Bruce Martin Lepley, Russell Edward
Crouch, Ray Emery Harrison, Beatrice
Elizabeth Singer, Alison Redmiles
Bartlett, Hazel Belle Worley, Velmar
Pugh Hilbrant, Edythe Hillbrant, Eli
zabeth Splitter Owen, Leota Irene
Gleason, Robert Russell Ewalt Arlett;
Fac Davis. Sarah Jane Mary Wyn
koop, Charles Robert Tulloss, Myrtle
Evangeline Mapes, Leo Russell Thrail
kill, Alberta G, Payne, Elsie M. Melick
Laverna Neoma Mild, Mary Marger!
Claypool, Marguerite Dowds, Doroth!
Juliet Blair, Sara Elinor Long, Thorn
as Van Voorhis, Wilfred Oren Phillips
Maurice Almon Mitchell, Oscar Wis,
/ Kramer, Gladys C. Smith, Margare
Mary Kelly, Harold Mill, Margare
Isabelle Todd, Frank G. l.. Claypool