Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-06-05
CREATIONS DELIVERED AT WILLMAR
HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT

to our country at this time is for any,
one to attempt g. work for which she
Is not qualified. This Is q time of
knowledge, not of experiments, and
when once woman is sure that she
has found her right place in what
ever work lies closest to her, let her
never fail in it. A hundred per cent
efficiency Is the need, but that can
come from a single talent fully given
and fully developed, as we'll as from a
multitude of talents. And the great
majority of women will find that their
places are at home. There is nothing
spectacular in this work and it brings
no outward glory, but it is vastly more
valuable to the nation than joining
a Battalion of Death" David Hous-
ton, Secretary of Agriculture stated
that the housekeepers of the nation
control eighty per cent of the food
expenditure. Thus you see the great
factor in this service. And it calls for
efficient handling. The new conditions
require all the intelligence and ingen-
ulty thata woman possesses to conduct
her home affairs with wisdom. Nine
tenths of the success or failure of the
war depends upon the manner that
every American woman meets the
situation in her own home.
Our women must support what is
called the national morale" It is
the women who send cheer to the
boys at the front and from whose let
tors the fighting spirit is derived,
for it is the heroism in the home
that inspires the heroism in the
trenches. However, above all else, the
preservation of the inner resources
of the national life is the safeguard
ing of the education and morals of the
children. The child of today becomes
the greatest factor of tomorrow in the
replacement Of Americas man power,
so the strongest bodies and the clear
est minds are needed now as at no
other time. The responsibility of the
American Father and Mother is in
creased hundred fold; for as we SOW,
so shall we reap, and never was it so
necessary and so vital that the harvest
OF American men and women be pro-
ductive of the BEST The children
must be taught that their ideals must
be made high and noble, for it is by
ideals that we live. The home is W.T.
ally the greatest factor in our nation
and it must be refined so as to give
to the boys and girls that gentleness
and love that only comes with the
beautiful character of loving mother.
Thus it has ever been that sacri-
flee has been the keynote of woman.
The heart of nation always beats
in time with justice and right. Great
ends are not accomplished without
the life, strength and blood of hero
ines, but the future woman will real
ize the finer and higher ideals in the
kingdom Of mind and soul. She will
not falter. Fail she will never con-
slider, but rather aim at perfection
in all things for the establishing of
new human values for the future gen.
erations will consider the saving of
human life and preventing Of misery
as worthy of more lasting record than
even military genius. She will be
courageous, sympathetic. All the
world will see that her work lies at the
foundation of all national greatness;
and ere the early sunbeams have kiss
ed the deWs of another century, and
mother earth smiles a welcome, then
shall come to her the most sacred
joys.