The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-29
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Dr. Bradley and Mrs. Bradford Give
Addresses - Touch on Need of
Keeping Children In
School.

.'In the name Of God, young people,
40 what you want to do and don't let
anyone stop you from doing it, was
the impassioned advice that DIR. Pres
ton Bradley, orator at the commence
ment exercises of the Kenosha High
School on Friday night in the Rhode
Opera House, gave to the graduates.
~ know some parents will think this
bad advise" the speaker continued.
but # there is lad among you who
wants to be lawyer, a preacher or
anything else, and his father and
mother persuades him to make autos
instead his life is ruined.
"Let these young people do the
thing in life they want to do and not
hold up to them a career that God Al
mighty didn't intend them for. The
greatest tragedy in life is the round
peg in the square hole-the misft!
There are too many doctors who should
be lawyers; lawyers who should be
farmers; farmers who should be preach
ers and preachers who should be
farmers'
The speaker hurled the force of his
oratory at the people who smoke CT
garettes. "Show me one single man
who amounts to anything who began
smoking cigarettes when he was a
boy" he challenged. He said that
cigarette smoking not only injuries the
v,byysioo1 hainn hut ~ itc offoo+ on
the moral and mental as well,
Another student that he pities and
to certain extent condemns, is the
one who leaves his school before he
has completed his High school course
at the least. He said that the money
earning value of the High school grad
Uate as compared with the one who does
not graduate is just double on the aver
age. He decried the economic and
social conditions which makes it pos
sible for the state to allow. any child
to stop his education and become a
wage Garner before he has completed
his High school course. He is optimis-
tic enough to believe that the time will
come when the state will not allow its
children to be deprived Of the educa-
tion which will make them power
to bring the civilization of the world
to higher plane.
He pities the man who has no APP
probation of art, either poetry, music,
Or pictures, and of the one that has no
appreciation of nature. He says that
not possession but appreciation consti-
tutes ownership and the stunted one
who has had no opportunity to ac-
quaint himself with art has lost his
ownership of the really great things
of the world.
''The United States has one great
need" said DR.. Bradley. cit is the
leadership. This country lacks lead
ers of the right kind. 1t is not lack
ing in genius, we have that in its high
est type. The world needs tonight a
new type of leadership--it is the leader
that can be trusted. 1t is a greater
thing TO be trusted than to have any
thing else, rank, fame or money.
"We as country have stepped our
selves in the bhghting fumes Of COM
mercialism. We have believed com
mercial success the only success.
Success doesn't consist in the amount
of money one acquires, but in the
ability of the individual to help the
world reach higher plane Of
civilization,
The speaker spoke with good reason
of the fine appearing class of seniors
that sat upon the platform. The young
women were all in white, in simply
made gowns which were fitting to the
occasion. The young men of the class
all wore white trousers and blue serge
sack coats. Those who were gradual
ed are
Graduates, classical-Esth6r c. Carl.
son, Albert w, A. Cooper, Hilda Louise
Christensen, Vera Lucille Gaines, Edel
Elizabeth Hansen, Alta Mae Hartnell,
Edmund Haubrich, Samuel Lepkowsky,
; Bernard Edward Meyers, Margaret d.
Pcnnefeather, Cornelius A. Rominger,
William Stern.
Scientifc-Irene Brugger, Terrence j.
f'ossland, William Harold Heidersdorf,
Evangel Z. Ingwersen, Alice Jeanette
Kirk, Theodore A. Ledin, Henry Allen
Sehleyer, Gertrude May Louise Senne,
NRert Anthony Threinen, Frank Tiseh
Wolfe, Carl August Quandt.
English-Rhea E. A1leman, Florence
Agnes Arneson Thomas William Ayton,
Marie Elizabeth Boyle, Ethel M. Cava-
nagh, Anna Margaret Cook, George A.
Dorsey, Doris lone Edwards, Camilla A.
English, Olive Alleen Fink, William
Edmund Fink, Paul F. Frandsen, Edith
M. Gray, Raymond E, Hammond, Ber-
nice Jane Homolya, Robert Joseph Muir
ply, Charles Francis McGivern. Pauline