The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-02-07
PREPAREDNESS FOR PEACE
Speaker Urges Students to Prepare Now
for Success Supt. Mary D. Bradford
Gives Interesting History OF Glass
and Presents Diplomas.

/ Beneath the folds of cold Glory
and service flag, in whose field of
ninety stars, two represented members
OF the class, the twenty-one members
of the third mid-year graduating class
of the Kenosha High school were pre-
sented with diplomas at the commence
ment exercises at the Rhode Opera
House, Friday evening. The address
of the occasion was made by Profess
sor A. B. Hall of the Department. of
Psychology of the University of Wis
consin, who in an interesting and in
spring address on Preparedness for
| citizenship urged all who were pres
ent to prepare now for the appreciation
of that sense of individual response
bility which makes every man his
brothers. keeper and gives him his
proper place in civic betterment.
As the Kenosha High school orches-
ira played the opening march, the
thirteen 'sweet girl graduates,
dressed in charming white dresses of
beautiful simplicity, and their eight
"stalwar5 brothers, took the place
of honor beneath the flags and banners
with which the stage was decorated.
The Rev. G. E, Mccoy of the st. Mat
thews Episcopal Church, asked the in
covation after which tire Girls Glee
Club won applause with their splendid
rendition of "Sweet Genevieveo and
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I'm time of war;, said Professor
Hall in beginning his address, eve
should not forget to prepare for peace.
Preparedness for citizenship, Of which
[ wish to speak, is a life time task
| and these young people have but taken
the initial task in this great journey.
You have misread history on the facts
of the life of Lincoln, of Washington,
of Franklin, or of the life of every
man, in whose achievements the
American people glory, if you believe
that his success was not based on
preparedness. Each and every one of
us is preparing now for success or for
| failure; we can not live without pre-
pairing for the future. Every day of
negligence, every day Of incidence is
preparing for a life of disappointment
or failure but it is preparing. Unless
you build air castles on solid rock of
preparedness, the time will come when
they will fall in a cataclasm about
your head. If you want your dreams
to come true, if you want your
air castles to stand, build on the
development of those habits which
point to success.
The speaker urged especially that
young people should develop habits of
industry and habits of physical uplift.
He condemned in no uncertain terms
and with convincing logic the habits
of cigarette smoking and "booze' as
productive of failure when it came to
the last analysis. He urged pupils to
begin preparedness by eliminating from
the structure of their character all
useless gold bricks and substitute
ing for them building stones which
would stand the strain in crises
of their lives.
In conclusion Professor Hall urged
that men and women of today should
attempt to achieve that spiritual, pre-
paredness that comes with the under
standing of human life, its tragedies
and its joys, and makes the individual
a part of the seething struggling and
successful throng of humanity. The
| challenge that comes today was de-
clared to be one of civic righteous
ness-a challenge for the strong to
protect the weak against aggression.
The address which was filled through
out with interesting illustrations, eulled
from the experience of the speaker,
closed with an Appropriate reference to
the war and America s part in it.
HsToday there is the greatest strug-
gle in the history of the world y, said
the speaker. "The Imperial govern
ment of Germany has for forty years
been preparing to set themselves
against the great forces leading to in
ternational justice, to become the de-
Tenders Of the age-worn theory Of the
divine right of kings, and the enemy
of freedom and democracy. IF Ger
many wins, France, founded on the
principles of Equality, Fraternity and
Freedom must perish from the earth;
England, who has given to America
the caiiadiums of war freedom, must
pass from the seas; America must give
up her leadership of the forces of de.
mocracy and freedom will be trampled
under the heel of democracy. The
challenge comes to us today to prove
true to the boys in the field. Then
may we indeed say to the widows and
orphans that their loved ones have not
= died in vain for out of the chaos Win