Evening star., 1915-06-19
SAYS THAT PATRIOTISM
WILL PREVAIL FOREVER
Former Secretary Bryan Addresses
Graduates of Mckinley Manual
Training School.
High Tribute to the American Peo-
ple-Award of Prizes, Scholar
ships and Diplomas.

With the remark. Il know the Ameri-
can people" William Jennings Bryan
former Secretary of State. in an ad-
dress at the commencement exercises
of the Mckinley Manual Training
School. at the First Congregational
Church last evening, declared that
patriotism would never die out in the
United States
Never before in the history Of the
world have there been so many men
! assembled on battlefelds ready to die
for their native country" he said. I'VE
know there is such a thing as pa
| triotism, and I have no fear that 1t
will ever die out in this country. If the
occasion arose the President could
| issue call and. If necessary, a mill
lion men would be in line before SUM-
down. A million men would be in line
| ready to die. but God grant that they
never will be called on so to die" The
| audience loudly applauded the last
statement.
Mr.. Bryans address dealt with the
relation of man to government; his re-
| lation to society and his relation to
God. He explained that when he spoke
of man he meant man and woman, and
| that he took up the three subjects in
inverted order to their Importance.
Mans Relation to Government.
MANS relation to government is the
least important of these three" he de-
ciared. land yet I've given most of my
| time to government. I have been SO
hedged about that I have spent most of
my time in connection with it
Man can live under the worst govern
ment and yet he happy because OF his
own ideals The government of the
United States is the kind that is good if
the people will have it good but bad If
the people will allow it to be bad. The
United States has the best form of gov
ernment the mind of man has ever con-
ceived. ! never expect to see the gov
ernment perfect under any admnistra-
ton. When the democrats are in power
can prove that the government is bad
by all the republicans, and when the re-
publicans are in power no proof is neces-
sary.'
A little further in his address he de-
clared that the people should have
what they want. I don't mean that
they don't make mistakes-fd be the
last one to say that the people don't
make mistakes. But the power should
not be in the hands of few. Some
times the few find 1t so profitable to
make mistakes that the people have
difficulty in correcting them. All the
people know more than any Of the
people, and the people correct mistakes
as soon as they learn of them. 1t is
treason to go against the will of the
people"
Answering a question put by himself
as to how much man could rightfully
collect from society, Mr. Bryan explain
ed that the sum was limitless.
Amount of Personal Earnings.
Gould man rightfully collect $780,
600 900 from society" Il think So" he
said II think that If Thomas Jeffer-
son or Abraham Lincoln had collected
that sum from society they would not
have been overpaid The same is true
of the men who learned how to use
steam and electricity and a number of
others. But in not one case did any of
them collect a sum SO large. They
were SO busy earning it that they did
not have time to collect it. We have
men who have collected a sum that
large, but they have been so busy COL
lecting 1t that they have not earned it,
Had these great men whom l have
named beer SO burdened with so much
money they would not have had time
to earn it
Henry p. Blair, president Of the
board of education. reminded the stu
dents that they owed debt to the
community. which they should pay
back in service. He spoke highly of
the schools of Washington. and de-
diplomas of the Mckinley Manual
Training School will mean more and
more.
Mrs Edith Kingman Kern. a member
of the board of education, presided.
school announced the scholarships
Rev. Lucius c. Clark pronounced the
invocation. Music was furnished by
the Mckinley Manual Training School
Orchestra, under the direction of Dore
Wolfsteiner.
Concluding Program.
Mr.. Daniel said that the graduating
class of this year is nearly as large
as the entire school was when, In 1902,
1t moved into its quarters at 7th street
and Rhode Island avenue northwest
Scholarships and prizes were an
nounced as follows: Scholarship to
Harvard University. offered by the
Washington Harvard Club. won by
Myles Francis Connors; scholarship to
George Washington University. won by
Mary Esther Petrie, a member of the
graduating class of last February;
scholarship to University of Pennsyl-
vania. won by Hunter Arundel Ham
mill: scholarship to Lafayette College
won by William Endres Lange; schol-
arship to Syracuse University. won by
Charles E Krey; scholarship to Catho-
lie University of America, won by Emil
Louis Getz: prizes offered by DR..
George NJ Kober for the best menus:
first. $40 in gold. won by Rachel Mary
Morse. second. IS in gold. won bv
Gerda Busck, and. third. IS in gold,
won by Mona L. Dorrity. The last two
named are members of the undergrad
uate classes
Winners of Diplomas.
are Misses Dorothy Adams. Janet Will
mer Armstrong, Margaret Theresa
Bishop, Margaret Bright, Alice Eugenia
Clark, Naomi Eloise Clark, Catherine
Eloise Cleveland. Bindon Frances Co
lonna. Mildred Agnes Couch, Dorothy
Elizabeth Crisp, Miriam Doyle, Doris
Louise Farrar Loretta NJ; Hannah. Ida
Adele Harry, Esther Helen Hitchcock.
Alice Olivia Hudson. Dorothy Saxman
Hullfish. Vivian Humphreys. Ruth Leah
Jones. Edna Louise kill!an. .Rebecca
Kisseleff. Mary Pollock McCallum, Car
rie Frances Meany. Rachel Mary Morse,
garet Parks, Ruth Lois Phifer. Virginia
Pearl Pitcher. Catherine Scudder, .Dor-
othy Mckinstry Seaton, Helen Ger
trude Smith. Alvalyn Sites, Margery
Stoddard. Abbie Stuart Tingley and
Grace Elizabeth Winner
Bruce Beavers. Zeno Alvin Biggs,
Thomas Franklin Bomar. Robert
Tunstall Booth. Harold Oliver CLAYTON.
Washington Irving Cleveland, sMyles
Francis Connors, John Blake Coping,
Clifford n. Cox. Jesse Orrin Creech,
Chantry Washburn Davis. Edward Will
liam Doll. Raymond Eberly. Norman
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