Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-06-24
Dr.. Arthur L. Dean Talks to
Members of One of Largest
Glasses Completing Course

Unique in their simplicity. yet inter
esting and enjoyable. were the com
mencement exercises at the Mckinley
High School last night. With a brief
word of consratulation, Professor Mar
ion NJ. Scott bestowed diplomas upon
So students. members of the class OF
1915, who have completed the high
! school course. r.
The exercises opened with an iRVo
cation pronounced by Rev. Edwin Z
Brace, pastor OF the Methodist church
This was followed by the singing OF
Merry June by u senior class chorus
The assemDlage was welcomed by Miss
! Mary Georgia. Armstrong s-.". =.
Fook Yin zap delivered an interest
ing address on the subject "Civiliza'
ton: One Step Higher" after which a
sextet composed of Nellie Moore, Kuu.
aloha Akana, Lei Alana, Lily Rosa. Mo
! bal Goo and Belle Madeira sang Hap,
Ply Birds. ill.,. -
The address of the evening was de
Iivered by DR.. Arthur l.. Dean, presi-
dent of the College of Hawaii He
spoke ON Patriotism" On behalf oil
the graduates Miss Nellie Cherilla
Moore babe farewell to faculty and
sChoolmates. .-.....
The following received diplomas:
Honor Graduates-Hou Sum Pang
and Sadaichi Dodo. --. !. H.
Honorary Mention-Hung Tong
Chun, Ichiji Adachi and All Fai Tam.
Enthusiastically entrance course:
En- Fon Lee, Alfred Amana, Joseph
Yau Ting, Maude Manning. Cornelia
Mary Hoe, Hou Sum Pang, Juichi ku-
rata, Mitsuharu Hoshino, Lionel Brash
General course: William Norman Rose.
hill, Kenneth Robert Wallace, Jr., 70.
shio Yoshikawa, Ichiii Adachi, Sadai-
chi Dodo, All Kui Ching, Henry All
Fai Tam, Fook Yin zap, Nellie Cher
| lila Moore, Lillian Yum Tsin Moo, Hung
| Tong Chun, Mary Georgia. Armstrong,
Mabel Fung Yin Tyau Commercial
course: William Shut Lee, Manuel
| GCnsalyes Augustine, Jr,, Felix Rodri-
| CUES, Quon Leong Au, Elmer Thomas
! CrcZier. Albert Chong Kong, Adam
Ornellas, Josephine Lei Alana, Kua-
loha Akana. Elizabeth Mary Prender-
CAST Mabel Goo. Belle Jessie Ma
! deira, All SeOng Char, Kim Chon
| Zane, Lily Rosa :..:.
Following is DR.. Deans address, in
part: IL. -.
"PatriCtiSm has been regarded as a
virtue in all countries and at all
ages. Treason and the traitor have
aroused scorn and Indignation. loyal
nd f1 L,
called forth praise and admiration.
THE reason for such universal rec
ognition of treason and loyalty is not
far to seek. Since the time when
mankind first began to draw togeth-
er in tribes, the welfare and even
the existence of the tribe or the ma
tiCn depended upon the loyalty of
each individual. Since great injury
would come to all the members of the
group by the unfaithfulness of one,
such unfaithfulness must, in the ma
ture of things, be a wrong; since good
would come to all by the faithfulness
and devotion of each individual to the
welfare of all, such conduct must be
regarded as virtue. Thus, springing
from the necessities of community
existence. has arisen our conception
of the essential virtue of patriotism.
Definition Varies. .- 49,. r.
and yet the conception of what
loyalty and patriotism are is by no
means the SAME in various countries
and ages. Sometimes it has meant
service Of king, or pope, some
times of a city, sometimes of a great
empire; loyalty may be due to a small
tribe or a nation of millions. -.
what does patriotism mean for us
Americans? The flag is but piece
Of cloth-why should we honor it? The
nation is but a collection of men and
women like ourselves with characters
and lives compounded of good anu
evil, nobility and meanness, joy and
sorrow, work and play-why should
We be loyal to it? 1t is proper that
we should ask ourselves such ques-
lions. thai behind loyalty there should
be background of thoughtful convic-
ton rather than a mere unreaSoning
sentiment. H..
1T is not possible to enumerate all
the principles for which the United
States stands. Nevertheless few of
them should be ever before us. The
first one is that there shall be no
hereditary mobiles and princes with
hereditary honors, rights and priv
leges, but that every man is born free
and equal in the eyes of the law. To
you and me it may mean but little
that everyone stands equal before the.
law aid that the s0n of the labor.ar is
granted the same opportunity 70 rise
to the highest offices in the Lard as
the sons of the wealthiest and most
highly educated. Equality of birth,
equal participation in the government
freeuom Of opportunity, freedom OF
speech, freedom of the press-these
are automatic to us. but to men &C
customed to the naughty aristocracy.
the limited lives aud tie tErUttlod ut
terances Of some of the old world
monarchies they are revolutionary
ideas indeed ..-. - ... ".".
Freedom is the watch worf. Of nHr
couhtry. hut freedom is Q serious mat
ter there IS a vast difference he
tween freedom and doing as one hap