The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-06-19

CIlOn Conege graduates OF 1917 neaTu Jne lOllOW-
ing inspiring words of the baccaaureate address
delivered by Dr. Charles Alexander Richmond,
president of the college:
we are dreaming a said the outset 1--WE
talk the new freedom of the order of the
new spirit of hope there truth in all this,
of reality But must not allow this word new 70
much The present is not cut oil IRON ne past
setting nations, establishing new boundaries
creating new Governments forming new b ba nv
single drop the blood will still be final Old
handed down from father to son from
generation generation will not soon be forgotten
Old world and human nature is as old as the
of armies and naves and the strong nations w sun conuo
n sn Te league s Ts % pG og IN this means only
that in seeking t. obtain the things that should De we must
"Nations cannot be merged a supernation. Love Of
country will still be localized There will still be friends among
there friends among men, We can only hope tha
shall all be friends in degree only differing in the close
shall be used except to smte the oppesor and to pro
the defenceless
ideaIism Dangerous Both Ways.
pBut danger in much dealism there is some
little What we looking for in the new order?
and cooperation But how these secured? Certainly none
q e onc e for ali has proved that the foundations of
national greatness laid in cold booed senteres She
efficiency based knowledge of economic laws would bring
and But in doing this she built her house
upon that house and fell and great the fall OF t. God was
architect builder they aboed in vain that built It.
rhe forces control national desnes spiritual Ma
terial prosperity does not bring mach of
brings selfneest does bring cooperation Dividing
the spoil strengthens friendship Trade does
bring confidence 1t confidence that brings trade Armies
have often destroyed nations they were set to guard
In short pemanence an attribute of the spirit and not
of the there strength in nation it because there
there truth and honor If there is safety il because
justice and good faith there cooperation is be
there is devotion to some high and chyarous IDEAL
praters and Posers Are Useless -
~Thc world the dettante ideas that prates
that luxurious drawing rooms in evening dress
to ar with oshem as darserous but ascna INA Pam me
they should be death with enemies And we have as c use
him 70 realities who has the daring OF life
good that the Ct numbers is
1T is not counsel Of wisdom but insane folly
would put the control of State and society in the hands OF
the prooarat what it 1t government
by the idle and mprovdnt and payment by industrious and p
to the ignorant and obscury to the wise rewards
the incompetent and burdens to the shoulders OF the capable
and enterprsng
Thrift is unhrif Industry and deness not the
There substitute for brains Ability TO govern is
mans birthrght thousand fools do not make enc wise
thousand naves man of honor
vapo thrown off by overfed faulty CT mind are some
mistaken visions We must beware equally of the ideal
ism spurns experience the materIalsm
the life of the soul People before have been
shaken Of their Sc compacency to find that their Utopan
dream Of Reconstruction was hdeous nightmare of dsoganz
These per are not impending in our own America they
have brought some OF the strongest nations of the world the
brink of ruin We not immune The of disorder is no
respectcr this war-ah
righteous faith that and provided all that human
power could provide and that trusted where could 1t
is the faith Of our fathers.
The America Of Our Dreams
what is the America of Is red republic
that has thrown all the rich of the where demo
has become proletaan rabb liberty has become
madness and brotherhood bloody of assasns? Such
dreams in the minds of who call themselves deasts
Or shall be an America that has its heart riches;
nation that in the exhaustion of friends well
enemies only chance seize the golden prize of commercial
supremacy
I'VE could not think meanly of ourselves We know that
II they left and weak because they have stood
the in the harvest field Of death through all the long hours
of the day and we but hour.
The America proud of America that this
golden opportunity to sacred debt nation that reoces
In its strength because by that strength impa vitality
and restore hope to four hundred millions brought
by the sacrifice they have made for well themselves
"The America lock for America that put from
its heart all pride and hypocrisy and lust of whose
have set themselves to that which God do
tce TO love mercy and to walk humby
whose trust in God alone whose laid
external truth which is the abaon his nation
faith is that right stronger than might hate
day rule the world and that good toward
hu the