The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-05
Boys and Girls Who Have Completed
Their Course Given Diplomas
at Exercise Last
Evening.
REV. GIGLINGER SPEAKS
Pastor Of St. Mays Tells What
School Has Acc emphasized and
Some Of the Aims II
Stands For.

Commencement exercises were he'll
last evening at ST. Mary's schoo
when class of boys and girls WI
have finished the prescribed cours
OF study there were given diplomas
A fine program was given during tn
evening, and at the close Of the mum
bers, the Rev. George Giglinger, pas
tor of St Mary's spoke to the gradu
Iates.
He spoke Of number of things
which the Catholic schools are doins
land said in his address:
Il recently saw the following ad
vertisement in magazine advertising
a rubber tire industry, You can neve,
get more out of tire than the maker
put in This seems to be self evi
dent truth, and yet we try to gel
more ont OF life and things generally
than even the Supreme Maker pu'
lin, and when we don't get 1t we are
disappointed. Applying this condition
Ito practical, every day cases we find
that the capitalist wants many times
more out of his investment than he
put in; laborers are dissatisfied if
they can't find job where there is
little work, but big pay; the pupil
iexpects to pass better examination
than the time and application he put
to his studies would entitle him to
expect. We are apt to forget that
there is a close connection between
cause and effect, and that the effecr
can never be greater than the cause.
| II think 1t was Edison who remark
| ed that education is 3 percent fnspira-
tion and 81 percent perspiratIo..
There Is no education without labor.
! there Is no progress IN any field Of
human activity, physical, moral ana
intellectual without labor Sometimes
Catholic schools are blamed FOR
spending too much time on religion.
These people never go to the trouble
of finding out.
Religion in Schools.
speaking In Catholic institution
Governor VIM c. Sproul of Pennsyi-
vania, recently attacked the tendency
I'm a number of our American people
to eliminate religion from the schools
Would to God, he exclaimed, there
could be more Of it in all our schools
such as you have in yours: the
nation would be the better for II.
Referring to the spirit of obedienc-
fostered by the Catholic church he
said that 1t was one OF the things that
is saving the country from greater
unrest. Do we really give so much
time to religion in our parochial
schools? Here at St Mary's chris
tian doctrine is taught from $50 to
g o'clock before the public school gets
started at all. We grve as many
hours to other branches OF study as
the public school does, and we turn
out graduates that can hold their
own against graduates from any other
school. l am not knocking the pub
lie school, but 7 am boosting our own.
We have already too many knockers
In Keokuk and not enough boosters,
that's the reason why keokuk is
creeping along instead of running
ahead. Our Catholic Sisters keep
abreast of the times IN the matter OF
education. A year or more ago law
was passed in the state of Nebraska
requiring everv sister who taught
school to pass a state examination
Not a single sister failed which Is
more than could be said of some
other teachers. The spirit of intpIer-
ance and bigotry is not dead in this
An amendment to the Michigan state
constitution is to be voted on this
fall to do away with every Catholic
school UP to the high school grade.
public school superintendent OF
Marquette. Mich. however, points
out the folly of such step as the
public schools are already overcrowd-
ed. and there would be neither &C
commodation nor a Sufficient number
of teachers to take care of the adj
ditional thousands of children. IN
tolerance and bigotry. however. are
blind, and they would rather wreck
a whole community than use a little
common sense.
Training Of viii.
BESIDES the training of the mind
we need particularly today the train
ing of the will: we need character:
we must have discipline and obedi
ence. At a little gathering OF pubic
school teachers one of the teachers
remarked that it was most difficult,
If not impossible, to impress upon
the minds of the oh ildren the need
of discipline and obedience, and she
did not know how to account for It.
Glass of 1920, we are sorry to
have to say goodbye to you so far
as your school life at St Mary's is
but the best OF friends
must part The year has passed mid
sun shine and occasional claps OF
thunder when the atmosphere became
heavy and was pregnant with inertia.
However. you all did well, and some
Of you have done very well. and we
expect to hear good reports about
YOU. You learn not for the school
bat for life. The graduates that pre-
,eded you have made good; we con-
hdently expect the same Of yor.
Next to God, I thank especially our
devoted sisters for the succesafui |
year that closes tonight Let me, say |
In fine to you. graduates: Go forth
with the gospel of Christ firmly i'm |
planted in your hearts and the minis
hlled with useful knowledge not only |
TO uphold the integrity Of yonr coun |
try, but also to make for yourselves