The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-06-07

The most patriotic act you can per
form Is to stay with your school an
college education as long as you pos
sihly can. This is war in whic
science and technical knowledge vii
play the deciding part and it may re
main for those now in the secondar,
schools to deal the knockout blow t
autocracy."
These words, emphasized by Free
man Daughters. professor of education
at the State University. and later re
emphasized by Principal G. A
ketcham. sum up the special messae
given to the graduates of the count
high school at the commencement ex
ercises held last night in the Ntr"ou,'
theater. The two men directed t.o'
appeal not only to the graduat;~'
class. but to all the other pupils in ~.
secondary and public schools and t,
their parents as well.
Educational Ideals"
DR. Daughters. who gave the mair
address of the evening. spoke on "Edu
cational Ideals" He brought out tn,
necessity for high ideals in the publ,
schools by pointing to the example o.
Germany. a nation in which intellect
and efficiency We're exalted to a hiel
level. but to no good end because the
school system was perverted by the
damnable doctrines taught the chill
dren"
AS one of the worst of these doe
trines he cited the theory of the divine
MI rf LII
man people for a generation by the
speeches of the kaiser. He read an
extract from an address given by the
kaiser two years ago to clinch his
point. AS further evidence of this
'kaiser-worship," as he termed it. he
mentioned the fact that the kaiser's
birthday is celebrated as a holiday in
the German schools. as was also the
sinking of the Lusitania.
Had the German public school svs-
TEN done its duty" he declared. and
maintained a high standard of morality
and truth. of sympathy and under
standing the world would not now he
experiencing the disaster of this war"
Three Fold Ideals.
The ideals of education which DIR
Daughters placed before the graduates
were three fold. The first one was
to disseminate KNOWLEDGE: the second
to make the student efficient to give
him 'the aoilitv to do things" and the
third. to provide moral education In
speaking of the first of these he said
that it provided one with the tools Of
life and mentioned the army Of 100000
teachers engaged in selecting the hest
of the rast experience of the world to
pass down to the next generation. The
ideal of efficiency he developed by
showing the great increase in the
number of courses offered the student
In the secondary schools and the in
struction now given along vocational
lines. in contrast to the three Rs" Of
the past. The ideal of moral educa-
ton he held to be one of the greatest
problems now facing educators, but
said the schools must solve it.
Thought. Labor Life.
In the first part of his address DIR
Daughters traced the changes in edn-
the past. making special reference to
this country. He closed by increasing
upon the students the necessity above
all else of thinking clearly, laboring
diligently and living righteously.
Prizes Awarded.
Following his address. PRINCIPAL
ketcham awarded the medals and
prizes won hy students during the wear,
In the Dixon defamation contest the
gold medal went 10 Miss Dorothy
Dickey, the silver medal to Miss Carol
Mowbray. and the bronze medal to
willard Mowbrav. The prize Of $3.50
a'"arded annually by DR.. A. G. An
derson, to tho best orator of the high
school also went TO Miss Dckcv, the
second prize of s. going to Walter
Kennedy. Similar prlzcs are given
by DIR. Anderson for tho best ESSAY
written during the year First place
I'm this contest went to Miss Viola
Hamilton, with Monroe DeJarnette
second
First honors In scholarship in the
graduating class were taken by Miss
Lucille Jameson. She will receive .
scholarship at the university from the
state board of education, Miss Jessie
Virtue was second
Calvin Doty Cheered.
In awarding the Diplomas L N Nc
Haffie. president of the high school
board thanked tho people Of Missonla
for passing the bond issue for an addi-
ton to the high school and announced
that the rising cost Of nlaterials had
prevented the building of the addition