Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-23
Al YOUNG PEOPLE
GIVEN DIPLOMAS
Commencement Exercises OF the Col
legiate Department Of Augustana
Are Held Today.
NEBRASkAN GIVES ADDRESS
G.. Petrus Peterson Dwells on Princi.
pies of Life That Makes for Sue
cess in Business World.

"a life of service is life we'll lived,
and service is the fundamental qual-
itv. the wool and fibre, the texture. the
very essence of a successful business
life was the admonition given by T.
Petrus Peterson of Lincoln, Neb., to
the graduates of 1916 of the CONNER
cial college of Augustana this morn
ing when Al students received awards
for the completion Of the business
courses. Attorney Peterson, the vale
dictorian of the class Of 'O6 OF Angus
! tana, proved to be one of the most in
teresting speakers who has appeared
on the college platform this year and
his address contained naught but sound
business principles of success, not
success of the dollar and cents variety,
but success in the ideal conception.
Mr.. Peterson said in part: MY re-
spect for the work of this department
has increased of recent years to very
marked degree. If it is proper to
speak of human life as battle | would
say that the business man is the SOL
der on the firing line. The minister OF
the gospel is not called upon to take
nearly so hazardous position. His
mind is occupied with the ideal. The
teacher, too, is occupying compare
lively unexposed position. He is like
the officer whose duty it is to drill re-
cruits His position does not expose
him to the severest fire of the enemy
Temptation varies not in the degree
that we are expected to live up to the
highest standards of morality, but in
versely. Let him who fears tempta-
ton withdraw behind the clerical gart
or academic robes, but he who enters
a business career in our day must bt
prepared to meet the enemy at clost
range and to sleep with his weapons
THE business of man and the mai
of business were never in more exac
position of counterpart than in ou1
day All the elements of social prob
lens and the shaping of community a
well as national destinies are primari
: ly within the sphere. of the business
mans activity. He comes into con
tact with life itself at more points AM
l with more emphasis than the men il
any of the professions.
1T is unquestiOnably true that W
have given ourselves over to the gath
= leTlHS Vi lOI tune W me tASluSiOl "
many of our more ideal sentiments
l The remedy lies in placing before tn
business mans consciousness NOR
/ of the ideal. My friends, tina
which will cause a reaction agains
: greed for gold and against mad desir
|. for dissipation is the inspiration whic
: comes from realizing the significant
d of life itself; from realizing that W
. are in touch with powers greater thai
l. the powers represented by mechanism
t and by the forces which turn tn
: wheels OF commerce. The unsee
:, world has not lost its power over tn
l. souls of man; the divine melodies O
: religious emotion are still potent TO
l good. If the ring of the dollar
D music that charms. we want musi
more charming, that's all; if the rim
of the glass in the barroom is musi
that charms, we want music NOR
charming That music more charming
must come from the heart of the sou
as it responds to the touch of the in
!, finite.