Evening journal., 1919-05-09


Foss. The sentiment it conveyed ap-
pealed TO me so strongly that pre-
served, the poem as a clever portrayal
Of how persons may be far apart
physically and yet close together spir-
imally and in the Imagination. 1t IS
as follows:
Ted and Tom were brothers, born In
the same old farmhouse,
Played in the same green meadows,
flshed In the same wild stream:
Both chased the same red woodchuck.
both shirked in the same ccrnneld.
Made love % the same schoolgirl and
dreamed the same sweet dream.
Ted wandered or at twenty, passed tho
worlds misty mountains,
And traced historic rivers through
legendary lands;
he sailed tcmpcstuous oceans, by trail
ing iropic islands.
Basked In irriguOus valleys and toilod
through desert sands.
Tom lived az home TN eighty. moved
the ancestral hayhelds.
And re1ped his annual harvesis and
watched his hens and bees.
lie toned on IN his birthplace until the
mourners bore him
TO tn hereditary graveyard beneath
the msple trees.
But Ted. he lived in dreamland and
everywhere De wandered
He saw the old green meadows. The
waving fields OF corn,
The big rock by the pine woods, the
huckleberry pasture.
The red house in the yalley-the house
where he was born.
Tom also lived in dreamland. and trod
in misty frances,
Through visionary mountains and
through legendary lands;
He sailed through odorous oceans and
passed palm fronded islands.
And heard the sounding surf wash
that broke on savage strands.
Thus Ted and Tom were br0thers, and
lived as life companions.
Though evermore divided by sunder-
ing lands and seas;
Both roamed the earth together, Doth
titled th' ancestral acres,
Until both slept together beneath n
maple trees.
"And so it is with you and your nom
resident graduates. The Imagination,
which knows no boundaries, leaps the
gaps, and holds you together in col
lege spirit and In imperishable COM
munion
Mr.. Carter then introduced Or. sum
walt. who said:
"AIy friend. Bishop Mcdowell, said in
my hearing that hc had never intended
10 live in times like these. and imagine
that most Of us that read our morning
newspapers sometimes have the query
in our hearts as TO what is coming next.
When we do look out on life today, most
of us are feeling that never-not many
times anyway-that we have read in
history was there such a challenge 10
ordinary human life that there is to-
day. The challenge that comes TO US
as young men and women looking out
on life and looking out toward the
future OF life is the knowledge that we
have some hand in the shaping Of to-
morrow and that the world expects
something OF us in that great shaping.
"There are two things the world ex-
poets of every one of us here. And
they have a perfect right. If we think
Of ourselves as graduates OF any school
itever, we must remember that the
fact that we have been 10 school gives
MS still added responsibilities, and makes
the world have added expectations OF
rs. There are two great books in the
world. / have never read either of them. |
They arc by great preachers. Those two
great books are these: one is The Gift
OF Influence by DIR. Hugh Black and
the other is The Investment of In
fuence.' by DR.. White Hills. J never
needed to read thf books after ] read
the titles.
a college Of any sort means TO us
the gift of influence; and then when we
have come out Of college into life, the
question the world asks ms is about the /
investment OF influence
"What does the world challenge US 10 /
furnish out Of our lives tonight. Two
great things; the first of them Is char
acter. George Washington wrote Gov
ernor Morris letter when he was 60 /
ING abroad asking him If he wouldn't
buy him a watch in Paris. And this is
the way he wrote him: i do not want /
the watch that is the watch Of a fop,
but the watch that a man of good
Judgment would use; the outside plain
and simple and the inside exceedingly
well cared for do not know that
there is any better description of life
than that. We do all of us know per-
fectly well that the main thing about
life is TO have the inside perfectly well
cared for.
what is character after all. try TO
keep up on athletics. / wonder ii any
body knows who the tennis champion
1f America isl IL seems TO me | have
read his name; | think his name is
if am not mistaken. | think
the Japs first came over here to play
tennis up in the north somewhere around
one of those Japs, the best
that came over, was playing this
Murray who was the champion of the
United States The referee in certain
point OF the game gave the point TO
Murray and he said, You made a mis-
AXE, sir. The ball was on the inside
md not ON the other side OF the net
The referee said. 1t looked like it was
IN the other side There was nothing
,ut Tor the referee ~ change his de-
ision and settle the disturbance by CIV
NO .he noint to tho Ian 4 yonnc