The Dickinson press., 1915-06-12
fellow would have trousers up to the
arm pits. A lecture always begins

Will d SLOry AMI contains at >me
stage of it's course, big lie. An ad-
dress is more serious and profound
and the speaker hoped the one to fol-
low would be of mutual benefit.
I'm the greatest of all books we
read, Beware of false prophets which
come to you in sleeps clothing Not
everything that wears wool is sheep
nor is everything that bleats lamb.
You cannot be sure what a person is
by his garb or by the noise he makes"
"1n the same greatest book we read
of the garden fig tree which had no
fruit and was up-rooted. 1t was a
green, waving hippocrite. It is so
with human life. It has an oppor-
tunity to fulfil the laws of it's being.
If it does not, it is failure like the
barren fig tree"
$50 it is with nations. The
Hebrews were planted race.
Brought from forty years of slavery
on the banks of the Nile by a great
leader into a land flowing with milk
and honey, warned by prophets, in
spired by wonderfully gifted poets,
they became untrue, misused the gifts
that were theirs and lost their oppor-
tunity as Gods chosen people"
"Rome on the banks of the Tiber
had a marvellous opportunity but be-
cause she was frivolous, irresponsible
given over to the pleasures of the
circus rather than to duty and her
mission as mistress of the world, she
failed and her opportunity passed
on"
"God can do great things but not
much for nation that forgets the
call of duty"
"Spain had a wonderful chance.
The reign of Ferdinand and Isabella
opened almost the whole world to her
commerce and civilization. But her
people chose the bull fight rather
than the church and left a trail of
blood wherever they went and Spain
lost her prestige"
"God can do lot of things but he
cannot do much when people forget
duty, soul and God and become pros
titutes to mere pleasure. Devotees
Of pleasure become mere enervated
spectators rather than enthusiasts,
taking active part in training mind
and muscle for possible danger.
Pleasure alone loosens the moral
grip and it's followers become weak
ened, hysterical, automatons. Be
not content to suck cigarettes and
4o11 9TH fo11 -,
worthy sports"
GAS with nations, so with the indi-
vidual. Education brings broader
ideas, poise, the knowledge which turns
from the tawdry and cheap to the
meaningful. We are not educated
just for today. Thinking men frame
the policies of tomorrow. AS opposed
to the light, trivial and effervescent,
thinking men turn to the school for
the stable and real. Sometimes the
school fails. But even great men
have failed in crises of their lives
God everywhere uses prepared,
trained men and women but he is not
dependent upon them. If they be-
come frivolous and irresponsible, he
passes on. Men and women are use
full in Gods great universe only as they
are true.
'The god of pretense is a great
factor in social life. What you have
I have and All of us equal to all the
rest of u.s. cause the misery and un-
rest of our social life. To obtain
what we see others have, leads to
sham and pretense, often to law
breaking, impure lives, the jail and
the penitentiary. People mortgage
the future for car OF a buggy when
the use of their own two legs would
preserve heart, home and SOUL"
The God of pretense is not alone
found in national and social life, but
also masquerades in the name of re-
igion and in the guise of reform
many a pretense creeps in.
To the class Of 1915, as a fellow
student, I pray you to be just what
you pretend to be Intellectually and
financially-to be REAL.
God knows the loud-mouthed,
the humble Publican. God knows
the real and all life is rich not poor,
success, not failure, only as the God
Of Sham is never allowed admittance.
In closing DR.. Walters hoped all
WOu1Q, IL possible, carry Oh LHelF
school life at college and university.
Three musical selections-a piano
solo by Kathleen Hagarty and two
selections by the Girls -G]ee Club-
preceded the presentation of diplon-
as, by Superintendent Berg.
Mr.. Berg spoke of the wonderful
advance made in the method of doing
things, comparing the hand labor
which removed 20 to 80 pounds of
dirt, at time, from the Suez canal,
with the steam scoops at Panama
which lifted two tons as a plaything.
He said in part: notwithstanding
increased efficiency, there is still op-
portunity. The engine is only one
third efficient, only one two-hun-
dredth Of coal energy is utilized.
knowledge applied to agriculture will
double the crops; applied to health
will stamp out disease; applied to
-eugenics. will eliminate dependents
and detectives, in 80 years.
1T is immoral to do less than ones
best; to raise half crop is an injus-
tice. One should be a producer to thu