Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-06-19
INFRINGEMENT EXERCISES AT
UNIVERSITY WERE UNUSUALLY
IMPRESSIVE AND INTERESTING

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the ocean with the pearl of great price,
or energies still a beggar empty hand
ed, at that moment he must contem-
plate the dangers and the effort and
when. he has the pearl must wonder
il it's acquisition is worthy of the eff
fort and the dangers he braved.
Commencement day should be a
holiday n a holy day. A time for
taking stock of our democracy. To
think of the dangers we have encoun-
tered to win it and whether the pearl
is civilization, is the great world war
worth the price that we are paying
for it? The greatest significance of this
present war is the realization hat we
are living in a world of law and that
God is God, hat the ideal and the
spiritual are bigger than the material
things,
Spiritual Greater Than Material.
THE teacher in America has made
the civilization of America possible. A
few years ago Europe thought that
the selective draft would be impossl-
BILE in America and European men
stated that there was not sufficient
cohesion among II people to hold
them together in m great effort be-
cause of the large number of foreign
born, but they forgot that the people
vote in America what they shall do.
Bigger than the representative. the
senator, the member of congress, the
chief executive himself is he who
formulates the ideals of our represent
ative. who formulates the ideals for
which u soldiers fight. These men
are our teachers who have given to
America her ideals. inspiration and
faith. We have learned that the spirit
ua is greater than the material and
in their teachings the public UNIVERSE
ties have proven their worth.
"In Scotland popular education was
first born. Perhaps this fact has mi
thing to do with the other fact that
Scotland has the largest enlistment Of
any nation in the war. Fifteen per
cent of her population are enlisted.
Had we such a percentage sixteen and
a half million men would now be with
the colors. 1t may be due to the Lords
prayer and religion hat Scotland
leads the world in this. 1t may be that
the Scotch have for long thought. Of
the fatherhood of God and the broth
erhood of man and have not idealized
a superman. Burns translated the
thought of his people in "a Mans a
Man for A That" This war has made
democracy in England and has given
suffrage to her women which was for
merly withheld because England was
q military nation and thought it's
women incapable Of enduring the rig
ors Of a. military campaign. But when
in England the women working in the
munitions factories endured the air
raids there was no terror, no panic,
no weeping. When the lights went out
the women sang quietly in the night,
despite the terror n the bombs,
Keep the Home Fires Burning" be-
cause love and duty are greater than
the terrors of war, and suffrage could
no longer be withheld from women
like these. Var has brought democra-
cy to England where the children Of
the rich n the poor were formerly
separated in church and in school.
v Democracy OF the School.
I'm the Old world, nation has been
arrayed against nation and class
against class, but in America there has
school and that is why the foreign
born are loyal. When the heart is
young it is taught the great lesson of
cosmopolitan citizenship and as long
as the public school and our UNIVERSE
ties exist and the blood of rich and
poor are together, stirred in a game
of football or shiny, there is no dan
ger that we will not be united in a
war like this. We will know that God
is worth while Inc that our princi-
pies are worth while.
I'VE are learning so many things in
this great conflict. We have mistaken
the dross for the gold and have for
gotten the things worth while. We
have lived in an automobile age. Old
commencement speakers told the
graduates that they could be presi-
dents or Wanamakers and forgot to
tell them that the Son Of Man had
nowhere to lay his head and had no
part in fame. Then the war came and
the millionaire stood shamed by the
courage of the boys in khaki and
there are men of wealth today who
would give all that they possessed to
be able to go over the top with those
boys. We have come to think that ey-
en- death does not matter. We have
thought of life as a long period of
years n have forgotten that the
Masters ministery lasted only three
years and that He died at thirty-three.
h boy in the trench and in the air
doing his duty is walking and TALKING
with God. Success is simply doing
what is worth while and the best car
90 no better. America is not only go
ing to save the world for Democracy
but she is going to save her own soul
Civilization Based on Law.
THE great rising Of America. and
of the rising Of the free peoples of the
earth because of the call of God and