The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-06-02
STUDENTS URGED
BSPEAkER 70
H 4. A HOBBY
eonlrneIlcemen Orator Ad.
vises Young People to
Stick to One Thing.

s11D6ctdS# on some line OIL aCtlSAl5
and stick to it.
The courage OF the common
place is greater than the courage
of the crisis =
Beware OF propaganda"
These were some bits OF advice
given the members of the G. D.
Robinson. Glass of the Fairmont
High School by William Mather
Lewis member of the educational
acommittee OF the United States
Chamber OF Commerce. at the
commencement exercises held IN
the First NJ. e. Church last night.
The n church was crowded with
the graduating class and their
Intends and relatives.
Lewis got his audience
warmed $up to him at the start of
This address by couple Of witty
remarks, one OF which was that
she8 fully called his position as a
speaker as "one
who is an unhappy adjunct to per-
$ennial atrocities 3"
u You young people" said Mr..
Lewis are entering upon the
broad er life at one of the most
8perp1exing and critical times in the
5listory%of the world by reason OF
4 situation created by the World
War. There must be many places
afiIledain all walks of life for those
%who went down in Flanders fields,
and upon you rest the RESPONSE
shility of making certain that those
who died over there shall not have
died in ain:
There is a great opportunity for
49,. - Aoy n r.
cord ing to Mr. Lewis. But each
one one must pick out some line os life
work and stick to it. he said. He
warned Of drifting from place 70
place and from this line Of work
to- another declaring that while
5one hops about in unsettled fash
ion the great opportunity of ire
will be, gone. Mr.. Lewis, used the
n story from one OF the battles Of
Israel to bring out the point
There was a young man in the
sfrontsranks Of the army who was
told to watch a, captive until an
9th er man returned, with his HE
4: ransom should the man escape.
The young fellow could not resist
the Temptation to get into some
hand to hand fighting nearby, ana
4 the prisoner escaped. The young
man said and while I was busy
here and there, he was gone.
since the days when ] was
Your age" said Mr.. Lewis, there
have been many chances. Now l
not as old as some oW you may
sthink. but In the time since | was
ia hoy there have been many al
rancements. We had no automo-
&biles in my boyhood days, but per-
hans N this was not such a draw
back. for we never had to get I'M
der the buggy In the mud or DUST
when the old horse threw shoe,
nor did we have to walk back flf-
teen miles to get hay for the horse
Ne had no movies. In TACT. our
vii destg forms of excitement and
would bore you TO
Mr.. Lewis declared that the
changes that have been witnessed
since the time he was a boy ano
the present were nothing to mat
which this generation would see
Makes Predictions.
s sS5is You will see the end OF passen-
rar traffic on the seas" he said,
and all trans oceanic passenger
ficswill be through the air. You
will see the end of railroads In
large measure and the coming OF
sfreigh transportation by the auto
mobile truck You will see cancer
and tub erculosis conquered. You
will live faster. Soon you will see
more done in fifteen minutes than
sis#done in an hour now, but Whlis
you will live faster you will also
live longer and better.
SSs Nj. Lewis declared that the cour-
age@of the commonplace was great
sers than the courage of the crisis,
and he made plea for the exer-
4 else OF every day patriotism.
is easy enough to be pa
striotic when the Soldiers are march
ding away and bands are playing,
but sometimes we forget when the
crisis is past"
illustrates Point.
Mr.. Lewis declared that every
& Issue must be met squarely and
sfear1essly. He told the story of
little boy who got dime from his
mother to go to the corner drug
store toS get an ice cream soda.
When he returned he said that IN
the corner drug store there was
picture of starving Armenian
Child and that he did not have the
heart to buy an ice cream soda
with the picture staring at him.
Il wei, said the proud mother.
sssssyou gave your dime for the Ar
snentans relief"
o. replied the child, Il went
to- another drug store"
Too many people, Mr.. Lewis said,
areSa1ways trying fto so to another
drug store.
The speaker warned the young
4people to be careful to watch out
sfor propaganda and to seek the
truth. 'sYe shall know the truth
and the truth shall make you free.
The program opened with the
class marching into the church to
the music of a march played by the
Fafrnlonts High School Orchestra
The Rev. r: T: Brown of the M. e.
Church South read the invocation.
$Following this. the high school
chorus sang Send Out Thy Light"
Prof O.. G. Wilson then intro.
sduced Ethe commencement speaker,
William Mather Lewis. Following