The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-02-01
KING TALKS TO
LOCAL SCHOOL
PUPILS TODAY
Stresses Attributes Of Good
Citizenship to Eighth
Grade Students

citizens, walter IL. KING, speaking
on the subject of Honor" today
made the first OF five addresses
scheduled by the local American
Legion Post before the pupils of
the Eighth grade in the Juneau
Public Schools These talks arr
made in connection with the Lee
gion's Public School Medal Award
to graduating students of t ha t
grade.
Other speakers who will appear
later are J. H. Newman Fl. G.
Walmsley, f. NJ Policy. and T,
A. Hellenthal One address will
be made each month for the re-
mainder of the school term.
Five Qualities Named
In part Mr.. King said:
cat the request of the Comman-
der of the American Legion Post
of Juneau, | am here this after
moon to speak to you boys and
girls about the school award which
our Post has voted to make to the
boy and girl from this class who,
at the end of your present school
year, shall receive the largest vote
from their classmates for having
developed the qualities of honor,
courage, scholarship, leadership,
and service to the highest point
during the school year.
@We make this annual award
because we are anxious to see per-
petuated not only in the winners
of our awards, but in all OF the
boys and girls to whom we have
the pleasure of talking, tho S e
fighting qualities and that love of
country, that unselfishness, that
high regard for truth and honor
shown in the American particSpt
ton in the World War.
These five qualities will be the
basis on which the American Lee
gion School Medal will be awarded
to the two members of your class,
at the end of the term. You, as
well as your teacher, will Re con-
suited by the committee of World
War Veterans who Will decide
which ones of you are to receive
the medals, and you will be asked
to vote on which members of the
class have shown these qualities
in the highest degree.
Keep these qualities in mind
during the remaindeTof the term.
Observe them in your fellow stu
dents and practice them your
selves, so that when the last day
of the term comes, you will be able
to vote fairly on your classmates
and will have strengthened your
selves in all five of these vital re-
quisites for a happy and useful
manhood and womanhood.
Opportunities Lie Ahead
Those are some of the qualities
that were developed and ihstilled
into the minds and hearts of young
men and young women in the long
struggle of our forefathers to over
come the wilderness and found a
great and free nation. You have
read of how the pioneers hewed
their homesteads from the woods,
of how the men of Washington
fought to make America the land
of the free, of how the students
and inventors worked and studied
to make America great, how the
men of Lincoln, Grant and Lee
struggled to test if the nation
might endure, and how America
has carried on until she has be-
come the envy of The world.
Still America is far from fin
ished Only a start has been
made in the great possibilities OF
the country. Opportunities for
greater achievements than any
thing which has been done in the
past lie ahead. Probably the great
est way in which we can help is by
developing and spreading h c
qualities of honor, courage, schol-
arship, leadership and service. :
Il shall now speak to you for
a few moments on the subject of
honor, that being the first of the
five qualities which called to
your attention little while ago.
Mr.. Webster defines honor as be-
ing that which rightfully attracts
esteem, respect and consideration,
as dignity, courage, fidelity, up
rightness, trustworthiness, and es-
pecially excellence Of character.
From experience we know that
honor is strength to do the right
thing when it is easier to do the
wrong. 1t is holding steadfastly
to the highest standards of conduct
which you know. 1t is doing what
your conscience tells you to do
disregarding all temptations. IT
is the telling of the truth under
all conditions, the practice of clean
speech and the devotion to duty
regardless of all distractions.
Praises Local Boy
'In conclusion / wish to call
your attention to an article that
appeared in the Juneau Empire a
! few days ago concerning Ralph
Mize. former student of this