The broad ax., 1916-06-17

making world in a day or over night.
God who made the world and has all
nower in His hands did not do that,
and it is impossible for man to do it.
But it is interesting at this time of the
wear to see young people of America
holding up world in one hand, and
all the people in it bowling to them.
There are full of hope, inspiration and
aspiration and everything else that
would be high and noble.
Perhaps you want to know what I
am talking about, and if you do you
will have to wait until I can tell you,
and if you can't go right on and I will
tell those who can wait. It takes time
to get out information. This is COM
mencement times, and so many people
are graduating. They will imagine be-
cause the applause they get from the
audiences that the world has been
standing still waiting for them, and all
they will have to do is to just step
out into some big position, and no one
will question what they say. Their
heads are full of knowledge, and be-
fore them Solomon would fade into
nothingness. They stand with out
stretched hands pointing out their
glorious future. On our side all prob
lens are now solved and they are
going at once and lift up the race.
They think they are the only pebbles
on the beach and there they go.
Time goes on, and they soon dis
cover that there are other pumpkins
on the vine and they are not as much
as they thought they were. The world
was not waiting for them, and that they
were not so important as they thought.
They will meet with a few failures
and perhaps get discouraged and 60 to
the devil or some other place. They
will find that the people who clapped
hands, and told them it was the finest
speech they had ever heard, did not
mean it, and the position that had
been waiting so long vanished. Dis
appointed they sink. I want the young
people to know that when they receive
a paper from that professor and get
their education, they are just prepared
to study. I find that if you don't
know it you will be found wanting.
You can't use big words, dress up,
look wise and the people run after you
like they would after circus and
worship at your shrine. I have been
getting around, since I got the job last
fall to write for these people, and 1t
seems that I am not known, although
1 have been into all kinds of colleges
and used all kind of big words. L have
made some sound like Greek, some
sound like Hebrew, some sound like
Latin, and some sound like United
States, and all the people have looked
at me, and some as if they thought
was crazy.
Shortly after I started out last fall,
I went to Normal. It was my hrst
school, and was invited back by Presl-
dent Walter s. Buchanan, to what ne
called commencement. Why he called
it commencement I don't know, but
really it was the closing of school when
he dished out the last dish of educa-
ton, and started these young people
out. 1 heard some good speeches, some
of them were just in keeping with
what they had in mind to do, ana tne
college class of 5 all had been placed
at once. 1 saw them do their indus
trial work and tell all about it. One
young woman just made a shirt waist
right on the stage. Another told about
the schools of back yonder and the
present day school room, telling their
social problems and the like. A young
man told all about brick laying, and
another told about the milk and butter
problem, and on they went. Then they
had man to make the main speech
He was not a graduating man, but
invited for that purpose. 1t was
Charles Stewart, who is one of the men
from Chicago. I have told you about
him before, and will not say muen
about him now. He made his speech.
listened to him with others.
have told you about riding in Jim
Crow cars and James Crow, but that
man Stewart, told them that he had
never been in one, and would never
hide in one. He said that whenever he
got in q car it became first class be-