The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1921-05-27
UPHAM
DELIVERS ADDRESS
Baccalaureate Services Held at High
School Auditorium, Sunday Even
ing-Urges High Ideals

Sunday evening at S:15 at the
high school auditorium the Bacca-
laureate sermon for the graduating
class of the Blackfoot high school
was delivered by President Upham of
the state university of Moscow. The
program as carried out is as follows:
Onward Christian Soldiers" Audi
ence.
Invocation, .....-......- Rev. Butler
Scripture Reading, Senator L. r.
Thomas.
Anthem, Almighty God" High
School Chorus.
Announcements
"Calva" High School Male Quartette
Address ---------..-... DR.. A. H. Upham
Come, Thou Almighty King"
Audience.
Bened1ctlon ----.-----..-. Rev. Gillian
Below is printed a synopsis of
President Upham's address:
"Be strong and of good courage,
fear not, neither be dismayed."
Idaho has completed her stay in
the wilderness, the desert, and like
the Children of Isreal is stepping into
the promised land. Yet the people
who have brought it so far in de-
velopment and progress, will, like
Moses, step aside and others will,
must, carry on the work. At pres
ent there are about 1900 graduates
each year in the state. These grad
yates must become the leaders of
the coming generation. Recently,
attention has been called to the work
of acknowledged experts. In the
American army in the recent war,
examination was made and found
that 5 per cent of the soldiers rank
ed in the A and B rank of natural
intelligence. The same examination
was made of college freshmen, and
rs per centADf the intellige-~> rar.k-
ed in A and B. About 139 of every
1000 children get through high
school. One person in six has the
quality Of leadership. High schools
and colleges hold the potential lead
ership of the nation. 1t is our duty
to see that these potential leaders
get all the training possible. The
plane of intelligence is far higher
today than it used to be. ALI honor
to the self-made man; but in the
coming generations a man will need
a great deal of making.
One must consecrate ones self and
before him. Today it is not the
fashion to consecrate anything, to
reverence anything. The tendency
is to affect and sort of scorn the labor
and work, to ibelittle studying, dig
ging and plodding. The essential
point is to get "the vision" Many
often are blind to the vision of a
business" To prepare for any busi-
ness is desperately hard. The will
to do; how little it takes to keep
some busy. The necessity is to
throw ones self into the work, any
work. The leaders in the social and !
political turmoil of today, and of to-
morrow, in our nation, must put
ones self in ones work.
The ability to get along with peo-
pie is very necessary. What we need |
is the old fashioned loyalty, the rev.
erence, the willingness, to play the
game of life on highest ideals.
Probably the schools and colleges |
hold the key to this loyalty. Loyal |
to traditions, to school, to team, to |
all that cooperates and develops hui
man nature and destroys selfishness. |
A generation is to be made, a
promised land is to be won. 1t is |
up to the older generation to see !
them properly trained, equipped for
the battle of life. 1t is up to them |
to give themselves, furnish the will
lngness to do, to work, to give the
stuff the brain, the vision, the will
ngness, be loyal. We realize that
a new generation lies before us to
AIRY us into the promised land.