Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-30
SEE VISIONS IS
WORD TO CLASS
Open Your Eyes is Plea Made by
DIR. E. w. 0'NeaI to Moline
High Graduates.

Urging the 80 young men and
women who received their diplomas
OF graduation from the Moline high
school last evening, who through
their four years of high school
training are fitted for deeper ap-
probation of the good things of
the world, to develop and open
their eyes to the beauties and senti-
ment about, was the theme of the
commencement address made by
DIR. Ernest Wray O'Neal, Mime
apolis pastor.
DR.. O'Neal took his text from
Caryle's the eye sees what the eye
brings means of SEEING" and from
this the speaker scorned the
gross, vulgar, earthly eye" His
subject was "Seers of Vision" and
his address was distinctly differ
ent than the usual run of formal
oratlons given to graduating
classes.
We have come to the period, t"
he said, where the measure of the
man is not what he is doing but
the measure of his imagination.
Get something on the brain Get
culture on the brain; get character
on the brain; get patriotism on the
brain-then the gala day of our
humanity will have come. People
who have been the leaders of the
world through all the ages and
those who have been the mightiest
forces of all civilization have been
marked and carried on in their
work because they, in all the world
about them, were the seers of
Visions-the dreamers of dreams.
Some people have eyes in their
are born with but
tons and painted eyes. We differ
in nothing more than in our DOW
ers of observation. There is some
thing more than mere earth on
spots where great mems deeds
were done. There is one thing we
are learning in America that the
less decent a man has the more
possibilities of ascent he may
count We glory in that our land
Is a poor boys land. Our ances-
try is the ancestry of the log cabin,
the barn-loft and our proudest
boast is that in America our aris-
tocracy is the aristocracy of work
not bloom; our royalty a royalty of
character and our sovereignty not
over the heads ind breasts of men
but in their heads and in their
hearts.
This is the meaning of education
TO these young people, more than
else, that it opens their
eyes and hearts to all that's about
them. Evidently God had some
hing else in mind other than to
satisfy mere physical needs. Mind
S not dependent upon eternal
Kings
''The state of soul determines
What men shall go after and the
Inference between good and bad is
n what a man thinks. The line of
cleavage between virtue and vice
IS in the mind. Get character on
he brain. 1 have my own defini-
ion of character and reputation.
If you want a position get reputa-
ion but if you want to keep 1t get
character. Reputation is what is
written on your tombstone when
you die; character is what the an
gels say about you at the throne"
Following the address Wilson p.
Hunt, president Of the Moline board
If education presented the diplomas
classes of the Moline high schools
declaring that the graduation
we're the greatest product of Mo
ines greatest factory-the public
schools The invocation was given
~ Rev. Charles A. Parmiter and
musical numbers were given by the
'oys' and girls glee clubs. The
auditorium was filed to overlooking
~ parents and friends of the grad
Iates. Diplomas for successful
of the course of study
we're awarded to the following:
Members of the graduating class
we're:
Arthur o. Anderson. Charles P.
Emma F. Anderson,
iladys Carolyn Anderson, Judith
Anderson, Wilma E. Anderson,
Dale Bedford Bailey, Lois c. Ben
ION, Myrtle J. Bodine, Howard V.
carlson, Mildred Margaret Cart
wright, Dorothea M. Charlberg.
Warren ]. Chelstrom, BENJAMIN +.
John, Esther Mae Cord, Clovis E.
)elene. Albert l.. Duncan, Doris |
Harriet Eckstrom, Olga Elizabeth |
'kstrand, Florence Adele Eley,
Toward T. Ellis, Marguerite Olive |
Stanley c. W. Fahlstrom, !
Evangelin Frost, Margaret !
ierhardt, Bernharding X. Ger !