The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1928-06-08

written entitled THE Pleasure of
Hope 1t withstood the assaults
of the critics, survived the acid
tests of time and has won an
abiding place in the permanent lit
erature of today. We are told
that the young author was inspir-
ed to write this poem, at a time
when Poland was being dismem-
bered, when her cities were plum
dered, her farms laid waste, her
brave people murdered and en-
shaved and a once proud and hap
Ply nation ~parceled out to avarl-
cious and greedy neighbors.
With a keen vision he pierced the
gloom of time and pointed out for
the unhappy Polish people a flu
ture of peace, happiness and free
dom. But Thomas Campbell sang
not for the unhappy Poles alone,
but for all mankind. He sang not
for the eighteenth century alone
but for all time. The song found
a ready response in every heart,
and humanity was thrilled by it's
optimism.
This would, indeed, be a dreary
life without the pleasures of hope.
Hope is the very handspring OF
life. Who can measure the pleas
of anticipated achievements
and success? A boy or girl, man
or woman, without ideals in life
to strive for, without some object
for which to live and labor, with
out day dreams, if you please, is
doomed to failure and disappoint-
Hope is ever with us, spur
ring us on to higher and nobler
1t is with us in youth or
DID age, and when the end comes,
hope will still be with us, whisper
.ng the consolation of greater hap
and greater opportunities,
the life to come.
With thee sweet hope, resides
the heavenly light,
That pours remotest rapture on
the sight
Thine is the charm of life's Devil
dered way
That calls each slumbering pas
sion into play"
IlIiteracy a Menace
And so, on this happy occasion,
hen we are assembled to con
ratulate these boys and girls
pom finishing their high school
ork, may we not, like the poet,
in hope and optimism for
cir future? On this joyous oc-
lsion the future is all sunshine.
he pleasures of hope are yours
You plan to do great
and feel conscious of your
,wer and ability to perform
EN-. You are fortunate in your i,
'portunities to prepare for citi- :
nship and your life work and {
.ucation is not only essential to {
dividual happiness and success,
1t it is a prerequisite to good :
tizenship. The founders of our
realized, in order that
Ie nation they founded might full
IL the purposes for which it was
established, that ignorance must
> banished, and every boy and
irl should have an equal oppor-
unity to obtain at least a primary
ducation. %Illiteracy and ignor-
nee are ever a menace to good
overnment.
Does Education Pay?
The question often occurs, what
) an education worth? We expend
nnually enormous sums for the
ducation of our youth. Does it
ay9 Do we get an adequate re-
urn on our investment, 1t is OF !
curse difficult to estimate in dol
ars and cents the value we re-
Give from our school system. Yet,
ttempts have been made to do
his.
A high authority has made the
blowing deductions from the
returns of the United
1. That an uneducated child
as one chance out of 10000 to
ttain distinction as a factor in
ne progress of the age.
2. That a common school edu-
will increase his chances
our times.
g. That a high school educa-
ion and training will increase the
nance of the boy twenty-three
imes-giving him eighty-seven
the chance of the uneducat-
d.
Educators have pretty conclu-
lively demonstrated that an edu-
alton increases vastly a mans
capacity and the increase
5 in proportion to the amount OF
chooling had. But we may not
top with the material advantages
f education. There are other
Kings of even greater Importance
o be taken into consideration.
here are other returns that flow
rom a we'll developed mind. We
re living in an age when the de-
land for educated and intelligent