The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-05-29
The Commencement Exercises of til Glass of 1917,
Twin Falls High School, Transpire.2 2 the LaTering
Theatre Last Thursday Evening, May oath, With
EClat.
NOTABLE ADDRESS BY DR.. EDWIN
|. GOSHEN
Fifty-TyyO Young Men and Women
Graduate-The Class President, II.
\ E. HOlderman, Is Present on Fur
IOugh-Other Soldier Members Rep
resented by Mothers.

One would go far to find more at
tractive scene and setting than was
disclosed when the curtain went up at
the Lavering. last Thursday evening
The fifty members of the high school
senior class were grouped in the back
and center. Behind them the figures,
"1917", cleaned from electric globes
in blue and gold, the class colors-
while from the huge panel that held
them. streamers in same hues were
festooned above the class to stage
front President V. II. Decker, with
other members of the school board,
and rincipa1 bowman held one flank,
while superintendent Blue, the Off1c1at-
ing clergyman and the speaker of the
evening, supported the other
After music by the high school
orchestra, which had delighted the
audience before the curtain rose, Dr.
J. E. Shepherd offered a prayer as
earnest as appropriate to time and
place Mrs. c. o. Longley, with Miss
Nellie Teasdale as accompan1St, gave
much pleasure with her rendering OF
Summer Rain" by Wellebey- sup
erintendent Blue then introduced DR..
Elmer 1. Goshen, of Salt Lake City,
in whom he said we held special inter
est from the fact that the Doctor had
traversed the site of Twin Falls when
it held nothing except sage brush
DR.. Goshen began by saying he had
come a long way for the privilege now
= accorded him-following that state
ment by very handsome compliments
to the young people before him and
the splendid institution represented
by them Noting that ne PROPOSES
trying to bring to them the message
writ for them and for all the world
by the history of the past, the speak
er referred to the most terrible cat
acIysm of all history now in progress,
as something for which all must pay,
including the boys and girls OF the
Sresent-
here even a fair synopis of Dr. Gosh
ems stirring and splendid address.
He sketched the history OF the great
nations of the past from the Tune the
Savior of men-"the greatest charac-
ter that adOrns history came TO the
gates of Rome with the lamp OF Truth
on one hand and the torch OF Liberty
in the other" down to the present
showing that autOcracy had always
stood against liberty and, eventually
gone down in the struggle. 1t IS ever
bad, said the speaker, when the IeW
think for the many and the many live
and labor for the few The eVll
genius OF autocracy ruled and ruined
one nation after another from Ronhe
to Runnymade. Here the spirit o.
liberty and democracy had its trsl
great triumph-an epoch IN world
history But the pendulum swung bacf
and the struggle went On-tne mex
great step being the declaration OF IN
dependence and the successful sever
years fight in it's maintenance
The great advance of democrac,
since that time was graphically por
trayed-and still more graphically tn
fact that the present world War
brought about by PruSS1an mllltlarlSh
d, on behalf of autocracy, was a renewa
~ of the struggle. Then it was dramatl
caIlv presented to the young peopl
that they were called upon to deten'
the privileges won for them py thel
ancestors 1--WE came from those VIII
made this country free and stand
lay all upon the altar that 1t ma
such remain You must and Will pa
the price; how, 1 don't know-on Tn
farm in the kitchen, shop or Dlood
field. We must all pay HAD d Do
big enough to go, I'd have an achln
heart: but if he was big enough TO &
and not willing, I'd have crushe
heart. And this is the message OF MS
tory: Service is demanded or ali;
forth from the clOister of school, 1rol
the chaperonage of Indifference; Jo1
the boys and girls of France and Eng
land and consecrate all you are an
all vou have to the great cause OF NJ
man rights and human liberty.
Prolonged applause followed ID
Goshen to his seat, diSSipated only o
another selection by the Orchestrd,
well trained and directed by MT e
tenberger. Mr.. v II. Decker, pres
dent of the board, after a few we
chosen words of congratulat1On an
advice, then presented the CLASS WI
their diplomas-Prof. bowman Calm
the names, to which they reSpohue
with wonderful celebrity and precas1o ~.
Cheers greeted the appearance OF It
Holderman, who appeared In ms knd
uniform, having. just arrived on lu
>lough. AS to the other three menDe
of the class belonging to the SecoI
Idaho a pathetic note was Stru'
when Principal Blue stated that, b
father and mother being dead, the
was no present to receive Z
diploma of Joseph B. Smith; and
dramatic one when, in answer to ca