The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-11
Keep Thouohts Hioh.

Keep Thoughts High.
Lastly keep your thoughts and
your hands from all evil. A young
boy was leaving home for college
Temptations would come in his new
associations and his new environ
ment. 1t was time when much
moralizing might have been INDUCED
in. but his father simply said: my
boy, I have one request to make of
you. Go nowhere and do nothing
that you would be ashamed to have
your mother and myself know all
about" So I say to you today, in
high school and subsequently. do
nothing that you would be ashamed
to have your parents know all about.
There is a beautiful Alpine flower
called the edelweiss. Over in Swift
erland parents often tell their chill
dren this story: A Knight of the
Cross was tempted to do an evil
deed. But he steadily refused. Said
he, Il will not stain my honor.
bear noble name, a knight of the
Cross, and l will not sully its pur-
ity." But the tempter insisted and
they finally drew sword In the bat
tie which ensued the knight of the
Cross was wounded to the death.
Dying, he raised his right hand to-
ward heaven and said, 81 care not if
l die. have served my God, and l
have kept my honor white" On the
spot where the knight gave up his
life. the beautiful flower, the edel-
weiss, which means white nobility"
Dr. white honor" is said to have
sprung up. That is only a legend,
and yet l call upon you to enter the
lists and fight for truth and honor
and Righteousness.
My young friends in an illustrative
rather than an argumentative fash
ION / have tried to set before you,
the essentials to true success in life
You may never achieve fame nor for
tune, the plaudits of the world may
not be yours. but if you have q high
and noble ambition, If you are indus
rious. thorough and painstaking in
your tasks, and if you keep your
rinds from evil thoughts, your hands
rom evil deeds, and your feet from
'vil ways, you cannot fail in life
Whatever may be the rewards which
hall hereafter come to you. if you
observe these principles, you will /;
lave the knowledge of WORK well /,
lone. and after all there can be no |!
reater success than that.
Sums Up All Advice.
Superintendent Aldrich was then !
Introduced and spoke briefly. He :
aid: THE substance of all COM /
nencement addresses and all class /
d dresses such as on this occasion, /
nay be summed up in this: Keep I
lean hands and pure mind and |
ont shirk. Now this text may be ex-
'ressed in different words. but it is |
he sum total in plain English. RI
ant think Of anything more timely |
n Of any better advice to give to this !
lass today. I would ask one question
If you this morning. what service |
re you going to perform for human !
ty? All lives worth while do serve !
humanity in one form or another. /
The answer to this question is first. |
hat you are going to stick to school .
Until you have some equipment with !
which to do service.
The Honors for Attendance.
He then spoke of the Importance
# faithful attendance and presented |
he certificates to those in the gram |
mar school who have been neither |
,bsent nor tardy during the year, as ,
ollows: Alice Beckman. Simeon |
Cyan, Ruby Garrison, Margaret Gas
er, Hattie Hallum. Woodson Huis. |
amp, Arnold Utley. Leah Utley, AIDE. |
aide La Porte, Della Hemingway,
Aariestella Bergen, Ralph Heckler, |
Paul Better, Mildred Weyand, Harry !
Wolf, George Winkleman. Louise !
Sterne, Ruth Sitter, Lucy Simms, Le- |
Roy Schultz, Vera Rowe, r1rothy |
Norton and Junior Little.