The daily progressive-miner. [volume] (Ketchikan, Alaska) 1915-1919, 1918-05-29

mand MADE by man rnat number
of native boys 16 or Il years of age
be paid for unskilled work at wage
greater than that paid my teachers
during the past year.
We cannot raise the teaching pro-
fession to the plane of career to be
sought after until we change these
conditions. Here then. is a demand
On America for vigorous activity to
make our educational workers count
above that of unskilled boys if We
would meet the requirements of the
day FOR efficient teaching.
Political parties proclaim putative
panaceas for the ills of society, masses
cry out for legislative enactment to
correct multitudinous abuses. bat
am convinced that the only permanent
remedy for the evils that best us in
town or state or nation lies in educa-
Generalization Of the right kinda
training OF the will TO face the full
light OF truth; an education of body,
mind and conscience with the empha-
sis on conscience. And because our
public schools shall stand for this
/ kind Of education and because we put
into them the vigor OF our lives, our
public schools indeed should become
the savings leaven of society.
Young ladies, we congratulate you
tonight on having finished the work
laid out for you in the Ketchikan high
school. You have fought a good fight
thus far and have finished this epoch
Of its course Yet, we who are older
realize that you are really on life's
threshold. l trust that you realize
that the present day demands of
which | have been speaking are op-
portunities to you.
In all your further study, in all your
work in life no matter how humble, no
matter how great, be not satisfied
with less than your best which means
the highes, efficiency possible to
yourselves. You owe a duty to your
community which has made possible
your education thus far. Let your
daily life always be such that these
friends and neighbors gathered here
in your honor tonight will rejoice in
you. And as you meet the many
problems that must be solved. prove
all things hold fast that which is
good" And. Whatsoever things are
true. whatsoever things are honest,
whatsoever things are puref, whatso-
ever things are just, whatsoever things
are lovely, whatsoever things are OF
good reporr-think OF these things"
Citizens OF Ketchikan you have a
light 10 be proud OF your schools and
o. the work done by your Superinten-
dent and his corps of teachers; but
You need to lend them greater sup
port. You need to put into your
schools the same vigorous patriotic
spirit youhave put into the Liberty
Loans and the Red Cross drives that
have given you national publicity. If
you get such vigor and interest in the
welfare of your schools as you have
in these, your patriotism will manifest
itself in the lives OF your boys and
girls until they shall fully realize that
they. too, constitute vital part of
our great National State. For.
What constitutes a state?
Not high raised battlements and
labored mound,
Thick wall and moated gate.
Not cities proud with spires and
turret crowned:
Not bays and broad armed ports
Where laughing at the storm rich
navies ride.
No. Men-high-m men-men
who their duty know,
And know their rights and, know
ing. dare maintain.
These constitute a state
Where sovereign laws-the states
collected will
Sits empress, browning good re-
pressing i'll,
That constitutes a state
And when we carry this spirit OF
democracy fully into the lives OF our
children we all realize the motto oil
, the graduating class tonight, Cans
is un-American" and there will be nc
traitors to our country there will
be no slackers, for We will all with
one accord salute Old Glory and shout
$ Webster did so many years ago
Thank God, II also-am an Ameri