Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-06-17
Theatre Packed With the p .oc
and Friends wise. A,st3ssS,sssi ~, t3sSs
1920 Ai'tO'
LARGE CLASS TO
FINISH COURSE
Bishop Mitchell Of Minneapolis
Delivers Splendid Address On
Thursday Evening

Last evening the annual commence
ment exercises for the Baraboo High
school were held in the Al. Ringing
theatre. All seats were taken by an
audience that very much appreciated
The program, which was as follows:
invocation, by Rev. e. c. Weed; Sc
lection by the boys and girls glee
clubs; salutatory, by Marcus Whit
man; vaIedictOry read by Edwin
Groskopf; selection by boys and
girls glee club; address, "Take Aim"
by Bishop Charles B. Mitchell OF
Minneapolis; selection by the boys
and girls glee clubs, presentation OF
the class by Supt. A. c. Kingsford;
comforting of diplomas, by. W. D..
Stanley; and lastly, the benediction
pronounced by Rev. c.. H. Skinner. AS
Miss Edna Getchell, the valedictorian
was unable to be present on account
of illness, her address was read by a
fellow graduate.
Address Of Bishop Mitchell of MINI
eapoIis
Bishop Mitchell's address was very
instructive and interesting. Among
other things the speaker said:
This life is not a lottery in which
only the lucky draw bright. There is
TO such thing as chance in a world
that is ruled by law; nothing ever
simply happens. It does not matter
under what star you were born. This
is a world that is ruled by law and the
thing in life we call success is a re-
suit with we'll defined causes, and
Just as surely as two plus two equals
four, lust as surely as multiplying
two by four-or two equals four the
thing in life we call success can be ac-
counted for by well defined causes
and it shall be my purpose for a little
while tonight to speak to the class
about one or two of the elements that
enter into the problems of that life
work.
Too Many people Without Aim in
Life
Leades, the great German philOsO-
pher, said that nothing ever happens
without sufficient reason and the rea-
son why d great many people never
get anywhere is because they start for
nowhere. So many fail in life for
lack Of aim; they lack objective. Life
is the goal one starts out to meet.
Some time ago an advertisement ap-
peared in a Western newspaper to the
effect that if one would send on a
dollar and two cent postage stamp
he would get receipt to keep his gun
from scattering and young chap
sent on dollar and his two cent
postage stamp and he got back this
answer: put in but one shot" The
trouble with most Of us is we scatter;
we lack aim; life's shOrelines are
crowded with those who have gone
out on life'S sea without chart or com
pass, without sail or rudder, and they
have been drifted by every wind that
blows and heaved by every tide that
flows. No wonder life's shOrelines
are crowded with so much of human
ldCkIuS. IOu huOWJ OOpCA AhCOANCAI
Kingsford q guess he has escaped
no here he is, you are not so wise
as I though you were), was going
to say, superintendent Kingsford,
that I would quarrel with the average
youth in the average town for this
reason, that he is content to draft
perfectly willing to let the old world
Wag as it will, very much gay and
happy. Since he speaks only the Ian
guage taught him at his mothers
knee he performs only the tasks most
suited to his will; he stops on the
spot where he first struck the planet;
he simply is played upon by the for
ces about him; he is the victim OF
his circumstances rather than the
creator of his circumstance; he lacks
will power; his life lacks aim; he il
simply content to put up with the
mean and the common place and the
low. Oh, that is fine word, and ht
was aiming at the very thing abou
which / am talking about when il
that wise word to you, written so long
ago, he said "hitch your wagon to t;
star" and that is what James Russo
Lowell said when he said there wa:
no disgrace to failure, but low ain
was a crime. You ask any Captain o