Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1915-06-04
ADDRESS TO THE
GRADUATING CLASS
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selves? Will you get them if every
member of the community attends so
strictly to his own BUSINESS that he
has no time to attend to his duties as
a citizen? l am a firm believer in
minding ones own business, so far as
not meddling with your neighbours
business is concerned; but | am also
firmly convinced that you can not be
a good citizen unless you give fair
share of your thought and time and
energy to those things which pertain
to the community life.
To the Man Who Knows.
you have received scientific in
struction. If you have got anything
worth while out of your college course
you know by this time that know
ledge is power. The world is fairly
shrieking for men and women with
brains, who can and will think and
reason, who can do things bette. than
anybody else can do them. There is
so much ignorance and incompetence
that he who knows finds a ready well
come everywhere. To the man who
knows, the earth yields up her wealth.
To the man who knows, other men
give ready allegiance. Let it be your
constant aim, therefore, not to feel
that your studies are ended, but that
they have just begun. Indeed, an ed
ucation does not consist in a head
full of facts, but in training to
think and reason, to use the mind in
diligently upon all occasions, so as
to solve problems as they arise. The
greatest pleasures of life are the in
tellectual pleasures, and the educated
man can get just as keen intellectual
pleasure out of scientific farming as
he can out of reading books or writing
poetry. Whatever your walk in life
may be, you will never be so happy as
when you have Truth on your side.
Let me therefore admonish you at all
times to seek Truth, and let her be
your one and only guide and counsel
Tor. He who lays aside his own hon
est convictions to follow the dictates
of someone else is untrue to himself,
which is the greatest crime one can
commit.
Education VS.. Wisdom.
"Do not make the mistake of think
ing that education and wisdom are one
and the same thing. Many men with
the finest educations are not wise.
Many others with brilliant natural
gifts lack wisdom. On the other hand,
we have our Benjamin Franklins and
our Abraham Lincolns who, with only
meager Quotations, but with clear,
alert minds and fiery zeal for know
ledge, became so prominently wise
that we place them among the great
ones of the earth. Wisdom requires
good judgement. The man or woman
who has good judgement is the safe
one to follow, not the brilliant, erratic
one. We may often be led astray by
the specious arguments Of an eloquent
demagog unless we cultivate the habit
of studying and weighing carefully all
that we hear, and reasoning all mat
tiers out to the satisfaction Of our
own minds. Heaven defend US from
intellectual slavery. The intellect is
Gods most precious gift, and He ex-
poets US to use it and to keep it pure.
Agriculture a Scientific Occupation.
"You have been studying scientific
agriculture and domestic science, or
scientific housekeeping, if | may call
it so, and / need not persuade you of
the value and dignity of these call
ings. The fact that you have chosen
them for your life work is the best
evidence that you consider them
fields in which there are great oppor-
tunities, and in which there is ample
room for your best efforts. Men used
to think anybody could be a farmer
Now we are beginning to realize that
agriculture is perhaps the most scien-
tific of all occupations, and that no
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fact, it takes. smart man to be 9
successful farmer. Similarly, it usec
to be the idea that there was nothing
to keeping house except the regular
womans work that was supposed Il
come naturally to every woman. Nov
we are learning that housekeeping il
a scientific profession, and that thu
brainiest woman will make the bes
housekeeper. Instead of being drudg
cry, it is becoming recognized as al
inviting field, where a woman car
fully develop her powers and satisf!
the highest aspirations Of her hind
Essentials of Success.
There are few essentials of sue
cess in life which everyone should cul
5ivate. First, would put thorough
Ass, for without thoroughness N
good work is ever done. If you d.
not cultivate your land thorough.
you will not get & good crop. II yol
do not irrigate thoroughly, but do j
in haphazard, hit or miss sort o
way, you cannot expect good results
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