Evening journal., 1922-06-12
s7)E1f4 GOCL1E IS GREATEST ENEMY
DECLARES SENATOR LENROOI!
URGES UNFOLDING OF La VS.
sac Correspondent.

NEWARK, June 12.-Senator lr
.rino L. Lenrott, OF Wisconsin. In hi.
snddress 10 the graduating class a
Ghe commencement exercises at th'
university of Delaware this morning
said:
Never has the word Com
fmencement, as applied to the
Graduating exercises OF a college
.-heen so significant as now. Gradu
Cation involves the beginning of a
NEW life, but today we all-old and
voung, educated and uneducated-
.are beginning a new life. the
Greatest war in history has been
tfoueht and the world will never be
Abe same again. It is being reborn
fibut whether for better or worse
the future alone will reveal. Eu-
,lrope is in chaos. Its people are
torn with hate and burning with
jealousies that BODIES i'll for the
future, but whatever may happen in
Europe, it is for us to resolve that
America shall not fail-that not
,only shall the progress already
rmade be secure but we shall go on
rciimbing upward to higher levels OF
Justice and equity.
Those of us who are primarily
charged with responsibility for
government win soon pass away
'and our places will be taken by the
syoung men and women with you
.now entering from college into the
rgreat school of life. The kind of
a government we shall have twenty
years from now and the ideals and
purposes of our people then depend
upon you. I have an abiding con-
fidence that because OF colleges ike
this and the true spirit of patri-
tism which they are intoxicating we
shall have a better America then
than now.
Delaware is one Of the small
est States of the Union both in
area and population. but It has a
most honorable place in our his
tory. Two outstanding events
should fill every native OF Delaware
with pride-that of being the first
State to ratify the Federal Con-
stitution and in the Civil War. al
though a slave holding State she
adhered TO the Union and with her
meager population gave Lincoln
nearly fourteen thousand troops TO
help save the Union.
Il envy you young men and wo-
men your future. The opportuni-
ties before you for service. for true /
success in life are unlimited. We |
must determine that out of the |
great war in which we have been /
engaged shall come a new America.
The great social and economic |
problems confronting us now must /
be met and solved, not from the /
standpoint of any class or section I
but from the standpoint of the ma
ton. What is this America of ours? /
America does not consist OF mines 1
and fields and factories, IL does 1
not consist of towering buildings |
and gigantic industries. America |
consists OF living. breathing men /
and women and their throbbing |
hearts is America. What II has
been we know, what II shall be IS |
for them and their descendants 10
decide. But this I know-that IL
America is TO endure II must be
, land where law and order reign
where enlightened public opinion
shall determine the laws--where |
the aspirations OF the people shall 4
not be governed by wealth and 1
greed. but the welfare of all shall {
be the aim and purpose OF the
Individual ----.--
I'VE have our responsibility to
America now and that is to uphold
the best traditions of our past, and
do what We can to make tomorrow
better than today-not for some of
US but for all of us. We must pro-
tect the individual incentive and
ambition of men and women to
wider degree than in the past.
Every man and woman must be
given a chance to achieve the best
things in life, so that success or
failure will depend upon them
alone We must make OF America
10 an ever increasing degree, a
land where the highest ideals OF
man shall find their full Tuition. We
must by wise legislation protect ev-
FRY man in every sphere, protect
him in his individual rights and in |.
us property, and furnish incentive .
% every laudable ambition.
knowledge Is power and II used
or selfish purposes alone, It be- .
ONES an instrument of oppression :
Q ones fellows. Higher education
hould and nearly always does make y
man better morally and spiritually. Il
Z 1t does not do that 1t is a failure. &
! man may have a trained mind u
e may have great ability, but I'M n
ess he has with them character, he o
5 failure. The man who advo- II
ates a rule of conduct for others, p
ut does not practice it himself, is a II
Iypocrite. We find men in politics p
ometimes who seldom practice what al
hey preach. In this reconstruction W
'eriod and in the years before us, is
here will be disconnected elements ~
and the demagogue will be abroad .,
n the land. We must face men who -
are always looking back upon the \,
path we have come, never forward, =,
BRAIN TESTS. .