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are getting education, and just now the
schools are turning them out in large
numbers and in every part of the
country. 1 have been to several com
meneements and have seen much to
cause me to feel happy and to feel like
I want to be graduate myself, but ii
is too late now.
There has been much said from time
to time about South Carolina, the
home of Senator Ben Tillman, Cover
nor Cole Blease and many others of
that type, but in the face of all this,
the state is making preparation for our
education, and every boy, and girl in
the state can get a good education if
they so desire, and a college education
at that. No trouble, but can be had by
simply taking the required time.
1 was at the>s state college commence
ment last week, located in Orangeburg,
and I could not prevent from shouting
right out during the speaking, and I
think some of them must have thought
that 1 was crazy, but 1 was not. 1t
was only the Holy Spirit coming down
on me, and tell you when it strikes
you, you must speak on, and let the
world know you are happy.
I want to give you a chance to shout
with me. At the head of this institu-
ton is one of the best trained men 1
have ever seen, Prof. Robert.Shaw Will
kinson, college man himself, and has
been in the teaching business for over
a quarter of a century, and if 1 had
not said over 1 would have said a
quarter and, then some. This man was
just born to educate people, and he is
doing it. A little man, unassuming,
modest, but we'll trained. could not
keep from looking at him and his
greatness.
They turned out sixty-fve graduates
and among them was to be found the
daughter of President and Mrs. Wilkin-
son, Miss Helen R. Wilkinson, and she
was one of the four speakers, having
won her place by hard work. With
class of sixty-fve, and the only girl to
win a place, means a whole lot, believe
me. OF course there were many other
girls in the class, but this young
woman won third place, and she held
her own. L am sorry that L did not
take time to count the girls in that
class, but there were many.
They did make Old Rome howl, so to
speak, and then there came a message
from ancient Greece, and many other
places, but after all this, they got
right down to South Carolina, and told
about the state and its needs, and it
will be gratifying to note that most of
them have already secured work in
the state, and declare that they recog-
nize that they owe something to the
state in return for what they have re-.
ceived.
The young men, recognized debt to
the state, and also to the country.
They declared that they stood ready to
DO whatever they were demanded to do
for state and country. Many of them
will 90 to making foodstuf, while
others will offer themselves to the Ma
tional government to become soldiers.
feel that they will be accepted be-
fore the war is over, but I am proud
that they are going in the food max
ing business.
Concerning the young women who
graduated from the school, they are
prepared to do anything you want
done around the house, and some of
them are to be expert dairymen, and
some took agriculture and can hold
their own in this line. We are living
in a wonderful age, an age when
woman is prepared to take her place
by the side of man, and contest her
rights on every side of the road. God
rive us more men and more women,
men and women who are thinkers.
I shall not attempt to tell you all
the people met, but I must tell you
that I heard Judge Moss make one
more speech. He is judge in the
courts there, and had been around our
people all Of his life and he knew
heir worth and their loyalty. He
spoke Of the woman who helped to
bring him up, and impart to him his re-:
igious principles, and her SON is just
! few days older than the judge. This
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