The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-05-26
JUDGE BULGE DELIVERED
FINE GRADUATION ADDRESS
Remarks Were Well Received by Stu
dents and General Public.

Judge Alfred Bulge, Justice OF the
Supreme Court of Idaho, delivered an
address before the graduating class OF
the Caldwell High School Thursday
evening of last week. Judge Bulge
delivered splendid address. His re-
marks were listened to with rapt at
tention ty the members of the class
and the audience. Judge Bulge said
in part:
sibility that ! address you this even
ing on this suspicious occasion. Never
theless, will be happy il | can bring
YOU face 10 face with a few vitallzing
principles, and be successful in graft
ing the same into your beings, with
the hope that your lives, which have
such a promising beginning, may be
filled up to overfiowing with good
deeds, healthy sacrifices and splendid
achievements. For, you may be sure
that the full life is the happy life. So
| repeat, if | can even in a small way
assist in bringing about the birth in
your hearts of single strenuous pur-
pose | will be happy; you will be for
tunate, and the world will be made
better.
cannot measure purpose.
at is comparatively an easy matter
to measure the distance from the
earth to the sun. just as easy is it to
measure the weight of the finest hair.
We have instruments now by which
the character of the weather may be
forecasted with surprising degree of
certainty. And we send messages
bounding through space without any
other medium than the air which sur
rounds us. Man, with his splendid
genius, has constructed complex and
delicate machines by which these won
ders may be accomplished. But man
with all his intelligence and his SPLEEN
did genius, has not yet constructed,
neither will he ever do so, a contriv-
ance by which he can measure the I'LL
innate horizon of any human purpose.
or forecast the future of any great
idea.
in you, my dear young friends. lie
| potent forces which will flow out into
immeasurable issues. insignificant
atom though you may seem against
the hosts of the world; made to feel
your own littleness as you view with
| wonder and amazement some gigantic
piece of architecture reared by the
everlasting and subtle forces of nature,
! you are greater than the world, for
you are its lord. To you alone. of
all Gods creation, is given the power
| to overcome, master and subdue this
world And when we survey all that
man has done with his life, and all
| that he is doing, it becomes for you,
at this moment, the most solemn and
| thrilling Of all human questions: What
am. | to do with my life?'
Never Be Passive.
your life must be dynamic--never
passive. If you are not busy develop
| ing the latent forces and the poten-
tiaities of your soul to their proper
destiny. he who went forth sowing
tares in the fields of them who slept,
will be busy with your life in devel-
oping those latent forces to improper
ends.
The only way to drive darkness
out of room is to let the light in.
The soul, like nature. abhors vac
uum. These modern devils of selfish
ness, greed, indifference, desultori-
ness, laziness RIGHTEOUSNESS and their
kindred, which tenant the souls OF
men can only be driven out and kept
out by sacrifice and service for your
fellow men.
You will have temptation, but you
must resist it. There will be obstacles
which will dispute your progress, but
you must overcome them. The ave-
nues for the expression of your ac-
tivities in holy things are open to you
just as the avenues are ever present
which lead to things that are evil
There is little truth in Voltaires as
serton that opportunity for doing
mischief is found hundred times a
day; of doing good. once year.
doubtless it is easy to fall, easy to
descend the downward and open way
that leads to ruin, and hard to re-
trace ones steps; and they who seek
occasions for gross indulgence OF
ought else that is unworthy, find
them. Life is full of beauty, it is full
of hideousness. To each one is lief,
the choice whether he shall take the
good or the evil They who prefer
darkness to light lies to truth, hatred
to love, strife to peace, pleasures to
joy. do not lack occasions. Indeed
virtue is difficult, vice easy. Disease
not health, is contagious. Folly comes
unSought, wisdom only when entreat
ed.
Influence States Future.
The future of our great state i.
largely in your keeping. Would yo,
discharge. this grave responsibility
with an eye single to its glory ano
your own salvation, you will seek ear
ly and late in season and out of sea
son, to raise the standard of her citi
zcnship nearer the ideal Your par
ents have done much to this end; bu