Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1926-06-03
FORTY GRADUATES FROM
NJ. & VI. RECEIVE DIPLOMAS

M. & NJ high school commence
ment. The decorations were potted
ferns, and senior high school pen
nants OF green and white. The
high school orchestra furnished mu-
sic, and the special numberg
included a flute solo By Harry
Stull and violin solo BY Deane Nor
thrup, with Marion Fisher as ac-
companist These three young art
lists. as usual, did splendidly. Rev
w. E. w. Seller made the invoca-
ton, and also pronounced the bene-
Idiction.
/ Superintendent G. E. Carr in a
spoke of what comprises high
graduation. Miss Glenna Ray as
l''Obedience to Law" She stated
that during their time in school they
had learned things not taught in
the text books, among them being
lobediehce. She spoke OF the obed-
tience to home, and obedience to
laws, even though We may class
them as bad laws. she mentioned
that it is not the poor or ignorant
who are the worst law breakers,
but rather those occupying the high
places. The perpetuity, she said,
of the nation depends upon the
obedience to certain laws. The val
edictorian was Miss Mary Elizabeth
Coulson whose subject was Con
servation." She called attention to
the great waste of our timber, and
early resources, and that unless We
conserve, future generations will be
sorely put to it for timber. Going on
she spoke of the conservation of hu-
man life. War she stated is cutting
down our human forests. Disputes
should be settled by means other
than through the taking of human
life, which life must be conserved.
Other points very ably brought out
were conservation of health through
better health laws and living con-
ditions; conservation of time and
of ideals.
County superintendent F. A. Dav-
is introduced the speaker of the ev-
ening, c. B.&Ulery, state high school
supervisor. His address was in
terspersed with good wholesome hu-
NOR, and he held the rapt attention
of his audience, and had no diff
Guilty in putting his message across
In the beginning of his address, he
stated that he had come to look up
on Morgan county as progressive
county. the credit for which he
gave to Supt. Davis. He emphasiz-
ed the fact that graduating from
high school would stand out as one
of the greatest experiences of ones
life AS time goes on. he said, the
class graduating will look upon life
very different from at present. He
divided his remarks into three
parts: What education really is:
does it pay to be educated and how
we'll are you educated. Education,
he said, is not all acquired in our
ischools. but the schoolfis dependent
upon the home and the community
the three being necessary part of
education. Think of education he
said. so that ore can render greater
service He believes some of the
older studies are not practical, Latin
for example is giving way to music
and home economics. Geometry, he
mentioned, doesn't help to make
living. Among other things brought
out was that it takes young people
one third of their lives to get ready
to live, and if it takes so long for
preparation, God must surely expect
something after they are prepared.
Speaking of the second division of
| his subject" it pay to be edu-
Gated" he said among other things
that sometimes when we think OF
the great men of the past, we
wonder if it pays education
here is used in the sense of going to
school or college.) AS this country's
seven greatest men he named Frank
lin, Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt,
Edison, Woodrow Wilson and Henry
Ford. Of the seven, but two OF
ithem-Roosevelt and Wilson, were
college men and the others had not
SO much as a high school education.
However he went on to state that
practically all of our presidents
have been college men; also the
justices of the supreme court; that
in Americas "Who Is Who" every
third one is a college graduate, and
most of them are honor graduates.
The earning power of money too is
increased by means of education.
To bring out the third part, "how
well educated you are" he asked a
number of questions. among them
being "are you prepared to measure
up to what your physical fitness
should be-" The late war he said
! showed that one-third of our boys
were unfit for military duty. The
schools must teach health through
physical education. ''Have you
| found out what you can best do?"
God never intended anyone to be
failure. Upon finishing their high
school work, pupils, the speaker be
lieves, should be able to decide what
| to do. To the girls, he said they
should be prepared to become good
home makers. He spoke of the
great number of divorces, the result
tof unhappy marriages, because the
women are not good wives, mothers
or home makers.
1t is high time, he stated, that
attention be given looking to real
home making, which is a bigger and
more important thing than learn
ing such things as Latin. Other of
his questions were ''are you prepar-
cd to become good citizens" "have
YOU learned to make good friends
and keep them" You can find just
the kiHd of associates you are look
ing for, he said, and he hoped they
would finI the right kind. Have
you learne how to properly spend
your leisure time" he naming as the
best means, through the cultivation
of music and aiding of good books.
Believe in God those who do not,
the speaker elias 5es as being dan
gerous persons. Guard your char
acter, and see tha; it is good. And