Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-06-18
Keep EyerIastingly At 1t.


mar School graduates was full of good
! suggestions and thoughts for the fu-
I ture that the boys and girls now enter
/ ing the High School and soon to be
] young gentlemen and young ladies,
may take to heart He admonished
| them to realize their responsibility
and 10 keep everlastingly at IL. Mr.
| Strahorn spoke, in part. as follows:
Il consider it splendid privilege to
! be permitted to speak a few words TO
| you on this your first graduation. 1t
is my hope that this first is but the
| forerunner of other graduation exer-
cises in thehigher branches of learn
ing, to which your diplomas of today
will admit you.
Il have always been interested in
boys and girls. | was a boy once my
self, and as | look at you here today,
memory carries me back to my own
early school days, in an Eastern Shore
county Those were happy days, and
] want to impress upon you if / can
the fact that these are your happiest
days. You have not yet reached that
age in life where you can appreciate
this fact fully, but as you grow older
you will gradually realize, as we older
ones have done, that you are in the
hey-day of life.
We older people, those of us, espec-
tally. who have bad boys of our own
to torment us with their endless ques-
tions which no human being can fully
answer, are TO be pitied; our lives are
not all sunshine. by any means, (as
yours are), and | want to try to lead
you just little way ahead, and let you
take a peep into what is before you.
Up to this time you have had no re-
sponsibility which is worth mention
ing; you have been too young to have
such, but these diplomas which you
will shortly receive carry with them
certain burdens which you must shoul
der. Promotion means responsibility,
and from this day ON YOU must take
different view of life.
THE world is forging ahead by leaps
and bounds, and the goys and girls of
today will, in few years. be the men
and women who govern in il. Fifty
years ago children of your age were
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thought and action but today the chill
dren' of our grandfather's day are be-
ginning to assume the burdens of gov
ernment, and | urge you to keep pace
with the throng.
Learn TO do things. and to do them
we'll, and honestly. Be honest, first,
because it pays, and second, because
IL banDfnacc Won
and your friends out of trouble Be
courteous to your associates and TO
your elders, as well as true to your
selves. l am by no means preacher,
Some would say that one i'll my walks
of life is far from il, yet | want to say
to you that there is no profession
where you cannot be successful, and
honest, too. II You cannot succeed by
honest methods, be a failure, and YOU
will. at least be able to sleep peace
fully. Be sober; have courage to say
no when confronted by ignoble temp
tations. Some may sneer at you for
not uniting with them in social
drink. but make up your minds to let
these ruin you. Look around you, and
find the men and women who stand
highest in your community, and see if
they have not been courageous in re-
sisting such temptation.
1T may, oftentimes. be hard not to
yield. but in the long run it pays.
Above all, work-keep everlastingly at
il. Remember that while men be
, come rich by accident, character and
education are acquired only by con-
stant effort.
THE heights by great men reached
and kept
| Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they. while their companions
slept
/ Were toiling upward in the night.
Never miss a chance TO do a good
deed. no matter how small it may be,
and never miss chance to avoid doing
an ugly act Don't put of doing good
until YOU can startle the world with
/ YOUR action. but begin right now, IN
YOUR home. with your teachers and
! with one another Try to make the
world brighter and happier because
/ Won are in it. Don't be molly-coddles,
either. Don't be afraid to do things
for fear of making mistakes. Take
home with you this thought, and let
these lines have a little place in your
mind;
True worth is in being not seeming
In doing each day that goes by
! Some little good, not in the dreaming
OF great things TO do by and by
/ No matter what men say in blindness
And spite of the faneies of youth,
/ There's nothing so kingly as KINDNESS
And nothing so royal as truth"
A piano and violin duet by Lillian
Greenberg and Thelma Bealer was
nicely executed, after which the dipio-
mas were distributed to the following
graduates, promotd to tn High School: