The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-06-16
PAVE YOUR OWN WAY.

This week the several high schools
of Garrett county graduate the larg-
est number of seniors to end their
public school career at any one time.
Each individual high school will have
or has had it's own commencement
speaker, but all the messages will be
along the same line; that this is only
the beginning; that the public expects
great things of them; that they must,
if possible, keep on and get a higher
education; that they must be true citi-
zens and uphold and better the world
in which they live.
Each address will be filled with such
admonitions and they will all be prac-
teal to great extent. There are
only few things which The Republi-
can would add or perhaps reiterate
from the addresses of the various
speakers.
If it is at all possible, continue your
education, whether it be in some bust
ness school, normal school or univer-
sity. The advanced subjects taught
there are not taught merely for the
purpose of learning details and events.
These schools in teaching details, are
at the same time training the mind to
function in many different ways.
A graduate from a high school can
go out and readily get a position, but
on the other hand college graduate
can go out and get the position more
readily than can the one who attended
only high school. 1t is not so much
the fact that he has more brains. 1t
is only because he has been trained
longer and his brain more ready to
function along the line of his work.
The second thought is that what
ever you do is up to you and will af-
feet only you in the long run. The
world will be more than willing to &C
cept all the high school graduates.
They will be accepted on the same
terms as court accepts evidence.
AS long as they are helping the
world, the people will gladly accept
them. If they care not for their future
and waste their life away, they won't
last long and the world will get along
just the same.
When the star on a football team
graduates from college, the fans and
coach say that there will never be a.
mother like him and maintain that the
team next year will be weakened by
his loss. But what happens? There
is always, somebody to take his place
who does as good if, not better than
the one graduating did himself.
And so it is with high school STU
dents. The world is willing to make
room for them but if they do not want
to take up the space, somebody else
will. In the long run no one but few
close friends will ever know that they
lived if they make their ideal the back
seat.
lie IeSpOllSiDllity VI iudhlHS SoiiS-
thing out of themselves is up to them
and them alone. Many have found
that out to their own sorrow. A prof
essor in a certain university takes
great delight in telling what is re-
quired in his course at the beginning
of the year. He says no more about
it until the end of the term. If the
work is not done, he finds it out and
will smile in your face as he tells you
that you made 55 as final grade.
There are just such professors in
life. They tell you what is expected
of you. If you do not do it, you funk
and are forgotten for your Successors.
So it is up to you to pave your own
way. There is not one that could not
do it if he tried.