The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-06-28
GOVERNOR TELLS
NORMAL CLASS To
Be TORCHBEARERS
Urges Graduates To Strive To
Spread American Ideals
In Their Work
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
ARE HELD AT KAWAlAHAO
Pleasing Program Given When
Diplomas Are Awarded To
FiftYthree

three graduates Of the Normal School
may render their country today, aside
troIh their entering the schools aS
teachers, is TO tell the parents Of those
who were born in foreign lands what
the Declaration of independence means,
what the great American Republic
Stanis for in the progress of the world,
why America is now in this great con
hI"t and what were the causes which
I"d up to the entry of the United States
into the war against Germany.
SO said Governor Charles j. MrCar.
thy last night in KawaiahaO Church
when hr addressed the graduates of the
Normal School, an address rrplete with
common sense advice to the young PEG
pic, hut more particularly dwelling on
the opportunity each one had to spread
the ideals Of American citizenship
among the parents Of many who came
here from Portugal, from China, from
japan and other countries, and who NAV
not have had impaired to them the
knowledge Of what a republic really
means and what it stands for az free
democracy among nations which idcaliZe
autUcracv.
Points Opportunity
The Governor felt that the pupils all
understood these features of modern
history and upon what foundations the
American republic had been buiIded,
rs thCv had learned them in the schools
Of the Territory of Hawaii, and could
easily pass the knowledge along to
those whose cnrlv lives were fraught
nGlN with harI labor and little time
and opportunity to absorb the knowl-
cIgc so readily given their children nv
the GOV ernmrnts of the United States
and Hawaii.
TIL" graduates inrluIcI not only those
who had completed with honor the
Regular normal course, hut those who
had also passed the vocational course
tests which tit them to assume the vO-
cations Of instructors in domestic
N"icur" and in manual work among the
schools
As a special honor to Governor Me
earthly who hAi been requested to make
the addrc4, fer the Occasion the interior
of ia" church was adorned with hy-
hScuS blossoms, SPRAYED over screens
of male and banked upon the pulpit
platform. "A cOlorful tribute to the love
Of Towers, and the coral hyhiscus in
particular, which tho new Governor
affects rs Il hOutonuicrr every day.
TIL" G"Vcrn"r. Professor Edgar Wood,
principal Of the Normal School, W. H.
Avery. representing superintendent of
luhlir Instruction II. W. Kinney, who
is on the Island of Maui, and Rev
John I. E,rImam were seated upon the
p'aifOr m with the 70, atiOual class grad
yates the remaining Young ladies' Of the
class occupying all the space in the
choir loft.
TIL" church was filed with students
Of the normal and heir many friend,
who demonstrated their pleasure at 80
MANY of their ,ch0UlmHtcs in receiving
diplomas by cont iuual applause a the
shrrpNkinS were handed to those who
are now rra " to enter the work Of the
uut idr worII
The 0,atiou was asked bv Rev.
Nr Erdman, following which the nor
ma chorus sauL tive Bridal Chorus -
effectively. During the evening the
Junior rIa,,~ ~Iug tive "Wind Of the
Sea-, and She Junior Bows GIcc Club
Nang " Ia, break. - concluding with the
chorus "With ShrathrI Swor,is' aud
all rD~rug rs the ,hooI sang the Star
:, nngIrI Banner
Goyrrror Mccarthy said the occasion
rrraimIrd him Of his own school DAVIS
whrn on Fridn,4 he Was often called
upon ''to speak u pierre. - and he felt
th,. same Temptation in rising to speak
last rvrriug a. he dIL decades ago.
IIr e;,rl that thr Normal school rrprr
scented the fundamental PRINCIPLES of our
system Of r,uratIon Great difficulty,
hr said. is being experienced lust now
in pro, IdInp teachers for the public
schools of the Territory, and many have