Arizona republican., 1921-06-11
Ninety-Six in Senior Class at
 Tempe Normal Get Diplomas

 they can be corrected at the ballot boxes. This is message you should and must give to those who are to receive at your hands the gift of in- formation and the training of the power to think. both so essential ta the exercise of American citizenship. The true cradle of American liberties is the school room and it is the part of the teacher to lead to higher and better things. toward construction. not destruction, toward love to fel- lowmen and not hatred and blood shed, toward respect for authority, toward reverence for law.
 Liberty is not license, not by any means. Discipline is necessary in a | schoolroom and it is necessary in the | nation. It is necessary against the | over activities of forward possibly | malicious, child, and it is necessary | against the criminal of the com munity. I am believer in firm dis 1 cipline and in very close adherence to the laws that are established for the regulation of the schoolroom as well as those that regulate citizenship l generally. It is deplorable that most of our civic expense is incurred for the suppression of the activities of possibly not more than per cent of the entire population. Mankind as a whole is good and willing to do the right thing. Therefore be ye not led astray by false prophets. represent ing the small minority, who seek by violence and revolution overturn of conditions they have not the strength to control by way of the ballot box. You all have heard of the Golden Rule. Let me add to this something Ifhat means about the same. ethat comes down to us, I believe. from old English jurisprudence It is this. "So practice your own rights as not to interfere with the rights of others ' 1t would be mighty well if everyone in this house memorize this axiom. for upon it any just code of laws must be based
 The graduating class of this year very clearly is representative of the very best there is in young American citizenship. Its members have high hopes for the future. Under our ' Declaration of Independence they are considered entitled to life, liberty and | the pursuit of happiness. Each one. very specifically. looks forward to a useful life. one of benefit to his or her fellowmen, one that will have in it a degree of honor and of respect from the community. a life that at middle age, will have secured a home and Q reasonable competency. probably a family. These are very proper things to which to look forward. They car be gained even in the course of g teachers life, for teaching nowadav, is not the ill-paid and unsatisfactor, profe4sion it once was Good edu- cators receive compensation tha compares very favorabIy with tha paid in other walks of life. All this ? however, must have back of it tn, law, with it's protection for life ant for property. The little home vol saved for must be made secure to yol and your children.
 Therefore, say I. be ye soldiers o Ft peace. Be ye uphoIders of patriotism and when childish hands shall hau !: aloft the starry emblem of our lib critics and of our rights, let you voice be upraised to tell the reaso . for the tribute and ato Incline tn minds of your youthful charge toward devotion to the country t which they owe at need even the sac fffce of their lives
 would preach to you the gospe of normal conditions. Presiden Harding has been calling for retur to normalcy. By normal conditions mean natural conditions. I mean tn conditions that are known to the me and to the women who marry in telligently and properly, who res children, who acquire a home. WI join in the affairs of his or her con munity, who give in charity, esps cially in the charity of patience ar consideration of human frailties, wi ol- seek to be friendly and who therel
 create friendship. This by some
 you may be considered humdrum, b
 it leads inevitably to the most endu ing phases of what we call happines
 There may be nothing spectacul
 about it. it may not feed vanity ov
 much, it may not lead to gre sa wealth, but in the end it is follo'
 ing of natural laws, and nature ca
 not be defied in the last consider ton.
 Christ said, T give you peace.
 that he meant peace of mind, t ,ir serenity that comes from the obser
 ance of natural and spiritual lay
 from the requirement of mental
 that seeks only justice, that looks ft
 ward at the days end to the shel
 of home and at life's end to the ev ward that has been promised
 I would urge upon you that '
 do not consider your education ;el ished. Merely you have laid a fot
 dation that is good and strong a
 that comes up from bed rock. UI
 this foundation your teachers hs helped. The superstructure is v
 own to build and not only will }
 have it's building to do, but you ' n~ have to help in building both fount tions and superstructures for oths Through teaching you will att
 more learning than ever you have
 sorbed upon these Normal sch
 grounds. I would urge upon you : cultivation of a habit of deliberat ' and not of impulsive thought ; r.. speech. I would urge that you so tune your minds that you will not
 affected by idle gossip or rumor or
 pained by malicious comm Teachers and preachers are tai
 about in rural communities whene IT. other subjects of conversation Remember that if you act with jus eiiA- toward the child, that if you SD
 with civility toward it's parents
 you do your duty with the intellige
 that lies within you, you need nt eue. fear the shafts of envy or of ma nlA. The Brahmins seek to surro
 themselves with a karma of serer
 through which evil thought may anoe penetrate and within which $ etion thoughts may not live. Let us
 that each of us may be governed com divinely for the betterment of IT as world, as we'll as for the uplif
 of self.
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