, 1923-06-09

ana mathematics are them |
selves sufficient to increase the ulti. |
mate earning power of these grad
ates. Fathers and mothers, business
men, managers of industries and men
Of the professions all give testimony
of the increase of productive power
through college education.
THE crowning glory of American
school. the most remarkable to our
Europeon critics; the most distinctly
American; is the open road. maintain.
ed at the expense of the public from
the kindergarten through university.
Wyoming maintains in its local com
munity. the first twelve grades of
Its public schools.
ut provides for the thirteenth.
fourteenth. fifteenth and sixteenth
grades in its university. The univer-
sity is as truly a part of wyoming's
public school system as It's primary
grades or its rural schools. It has
devoted millions to the maintenance
of the open road. to provide that nil
of its children, who have n capacity
and desire may acquire the power.
which comes through schooling.
Wyoming expects that those Who
benefit by the training In elementary
and secondary schools will continue
to accept the benefits which come
from advanced education. It is an
obligation resting upon each high
school graduate, to mako all due
effort to continue his education.
through Mt least four years of uni.
versity work.
1.-THE elementary schools give an
opportunity to acquire power over
the tools of knowledge, the high
school continues this n gives
glimpses into the higher fields. Not
until university is reached does the
state attempt to give adequate
and dignihed specified training for
vocations. The foundations have
been laid in the elementary and high
school, the superstructure must be
erected. as far as direct schooling Is
concerned. in the university.
'"Wyoming's wealth is often de-
scribed in terms of her un~developed
natural We think of uu.
discovered INK untapped oil domes.
We think of untouched minerals in
her mountains. We think of her vast
areas of grazing lands of fertile
acres waiting the water. These are
not the greatest potential resources.
The greatest of all resources is found
In her people. in their indomitable
spirit of conquest. in their trained
intelligence. In their honesty and
loyalty to American institutions.
1T is mere hat wyoming's true
wealth will be found. She expects
the graduates of her schools to be
the engineers, who will build her
railroads, tunnel her mountains. make
accessible her mineral wealth, devise
new methods of mining md treating
tho minerals, which win unlock un-
touched riches. She expects them to
be tho designers of now irrigation
projects. She expects these graduates
to develop her agriculture, to dis
cover new crops and better methods
of production. These young mon
must solve the economic problems
now baffllng and expressing tho agri-
culturalist and ranoher. She expects
these graduates to become physicians,
who will heal the people. reduce pain
and suffering. She expects that they
will become tho ministers who with
clear and inspired vision will show
the people clearer concepts OF God
and religion. She looks TO these PEG.
Pile to DO tho teachers for tho next
generation. anre with enthusiasm for
knowledge, keen and faithful lovers
OF childhood, whose lives shall DO n
blessing and n benediction. Sho ex.
poets these young people to become
tho homo makers. who will establish
little hits Of heaven, whore boys and
girls will grow into happy efficient
men and women. oenterH from which
| aha1i rndiato Uood will clam iIvlnr
and true social service.
America demands from the grad.
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