Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-10


marks. IN which he advocated more
pay for the te cheers and made an
appeal for greater encouragement for
the students. teachers and Tor the
County Board OF Education on part Of
the parents and friends Of the school
as well a the general public.
He then presented Diplomas 10 the
following:
Academic Section
Girls Mildred Hallyzenia Collision
Jessie Sloan Finkbine, Elizabeth Engs
Johnson. Geneva McCubbins jenkins.
Mildred Jeanette Linsted, Mary
Elizale eth Mihm. Miriam Ackley Rice
virginia Handy Emma Jeanette
Russell. Lois Catherine Sheeler
Emma Louise Stevens Gladys lola
Taylor and Lillian Alyerda Wilkerson
BOYS Earl Stevens Caldwell. DaviC
Kerr Claude. sydney Speiden Handy
and George Turner Quaid
Commercial Section
Girls Florence Alverda Duyall
Mary Joanna Duyall, Ida Louise Dan
iels. Louise Juliet Heintz, Viola Grob
Martha Irene Johnson, Bessie kaisei
Ruth Gardiner Mary Ferguson Kid
der. Anna ]. Gomoljak. Eleanore Gar
ner Merriken, Frances Cordelia
Short. Alice Pierce Stevens Eleanora
Birckhcad Smith. Maud Uryan West
phal Dorothy Isabel Williams and
Sarah Helen Wilkinson.
BOYS Edmund Harrison Engelke
George Franklin Cadell, John )
Peach. Calvin Lee Robbins. Edgar Al
fred White and Julian Basil Stevens
Orator Of Evening
Tie or tor Of the occasion was Pro
lessor william o. Stevens. who made
a stirring address to the graduates
which he said was not meant 20 "b,
preachy." but which contained sount
wisdom and much wholesome advice
He said girls and women are citizens
as we'll as boys and men. even thougl
they have not the ballot. and he pre-
dicted that before girls in this gradu
ating class reach the age OF u the.
will II We the ballot and privilege o
casting their vote in the affairs o
city. state and nation His theme wat
'eThe Business Of Being An American
Citizen" and he stuck to his text.
Professor Stevens Address
Professor William O. stevens. of the
English department at the Naval Acad
envy. spoke. in part, as follows:
Outside of the United States an(
Canada there is scarcely a country IL
the world that gives the equivalent OF
a high school education free. Ameri-
cans believe IN higher education be
cause IL makes better citizenship. The
free gift therefore involves an obliga-
ton. and that obligation suggests the
theme OF the evenings address, name
~. the business OF being an American
citizen. And it is the educated young
men and women. from college and
high school. who will set the standard
OF citizenship which the rest will fol
low
Duty and Responsibility
after the Revolutionary War. many
citizens believed that liberty anC
rights were the only two words in AZ
Americans creed, but we have come
10 realize the importance of tho
words duty and responsibility In
deed. the plain clothes citizen SHOULD
feel himself in the nations service as
much as the members of the Army
and Navy. who call themselves tn
Services
Problems Political and Personal
"The problems of citizenship ar
both political ana personal. For the
former group a safe principle will b,
to hold loyalty to the principles IL
which the nation was conceived They
have not been settled once for all
Kings are no more. but tyranny fol
ex nipple. may exist in a far NOR,
despotic form ut the hands of organ.
ICED capital or organized labor. Lib
erty' OF speech and press is mucl
freer now in Enghnd than in the
United States and Justice is not even
handed between rich and poor. or be-
tween ourselves and those of alien
races. These questions of principle
will be settled largely by the ballot,
and the salvation OF democracy lies in
the intelligent. Independent vote.
Need Better Home Town
"M0st of Us never expect TO be
active in state or national politics but
there IS wide scope for personal
citizenship in our home towns Cities
need TO be not bigger but better An
nap0lis. for iRSanCe, needs public
library, better pay for school teachers
better support of the Emergency Hos
pital. Here is citizenship work fol
everybody 4 better America of the
future will he largely 50 on account
OF a thousand better home towns
Homo Citizenship
FINALLY. national, state and town
citizenships rest on home citizenship
And here is the great responsibility
OF the woman citizen. for she is the
home maker There were two Amer
icas revealed by the war. idealist and
profteer. 1t is primarily the kind of
home standards created by your gen
Grafton that will determine which