The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-05-15
Oklahoma Educator Delivers Address
to Graduating Glass of Chickasha
High School; Praises School
Progress
SHOWS FINE GROWTH
OF INSTITUTION HERE
Boosts Oklahoma College for Women
and Praises Good Work Of Heads
of School; II Members Gradu
ating Class This Year.

Hold to your lifes ideals" wa
the keynote of the commencement
address delivered at lthe Chickash
senior high school last night by Dl
Charles Evans, Oklahoma educator
author and journalist.
CharacterizinA Woodrow Wilson a
one who held to his life's ideals, DI
Evans declared the president woult
be remembered by our posterity a
one equally as great as Washington
Jefferson, Lincoln and Jackson
This statement was greeted will
vigorous applaus from the audience
that filled practically every seat" il
the high school auditorium.
The souls of men have sough
through all the ages for The Belu
tiful Life, Z" said the speaker. Goo
so made the mind of man that il
lived on the hunger for progress
The ideal was the biggest th...s II
man and womln.
"a mother sat beside the cradle O.
her child, and after grooming a sweet
lullaby, both mother and Child fell
asleep. AS they slept a vision came
of wealth, strength, fame, power, al
begging the mother to let them tous q
the babe and the child would pos
sess all they could give. The mother
was not moved
"Soon there came sweet-voiced
angel, and said, let me, mother
touch your child and, while he may
have paths of thoms to tread, one
thing he will do is to hold to his
life's ideals.
THE mothers heart leaped within
her and she cried, Oh touch my
child!'"
Praises Progress
In his address to the graduating
class, numbering seventy-seven, DR.
Evans told of his former appearance
as commencement orator here somt
five years ago when the city pointed
with pride to a graduating class OF
twemy1seven.
He congratulated the city for the
progress of its schools during the pc.
riod of five years, pointing out the
increase of 300 per cent in the grad
uat.ng class.
He commended the city for its ex
,ellent school system, emphasizing
the fact that in Chicklsha was locat
ed the best Junior high school plant
in the state. He urged further pro
gress in education.
"All this large class, this great
Junior high school, the excellent and
statewide influence of Supt. T. T
Montgomery were not things of hap
pen So, but things which the thrifty
high-minded people of the city o.
Chlckssha w.lled into being" said
DR.. Evans.
Boosts o. c. w
DR.. Evans paid high tribute tc
the spirit of Chickasbans who stayed
on in the halls of state, would moi
take no for an answer to their pc
titions for a higher institution o
learning and finally secured 'tht
most distinct, the most beneficent
and destined to be one of the great
est schools in the history of Ameri
ca-the Oklahoma College for Wo
men"
President G. w Austin of tie Ok
l1homa College for Women was com
mended for the manner in which tht
affairs of the schools are administer
ed.
Completing the program last nigh
were numbers by the high schoo
chorus, two solos by Miss Salli,
Beeler, invocation tnd benedictiol
by Rev. Mr.. Foster, and presenta
tons OF diplomas by Superintendent
Montgomery.