The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-05-30

and propaganda with which we are deluged on every hand and substl- ute for it truth. men and women who have einancipated themselves from the tyranny of the majority and who allow their higher selves to come to the foreground despite the fact that they may be classed as different" and men and women who are masters of themselves through having learned and applied the eternal, changeless laws Of right thinking and living"
 Cost of Education
 MT. Henderson mentioned in pass ing something of the cost of edu- cation. T am impelled," he said, to call the attention of this audi ence to the fact that the education of this class represents an expen- allure of some s30,O00 of City and Territorial money.
 This sum might have been ex- pended in street improvements, in extending the sewage system or in the construction of municipal building. And yet there is no one so blind to real values as to even hint that this amount could have been expended in any m a n n ei which will yield one-tenth the pres ent or future returns to Juneau or to Alaska. As we view this class tonight we are satisfied that money expended for education is an in vestment par excellence"
 In Alaska, he added, greater per cent of the pupils enter Higf School from the grades and alss the percentage of those completing their High School courses is greater than those in the States.
 Twenty Fifth Program
 This is Juneau's twenty -fiftf commencement program" he add l ed. A member of the first gradu- ating class, Grover c. Vim, Treas urer of the School Board, was ont I of those on the platform. Others reside here or elsewhere in Alas. ka, and some of them in the States Sufficient it to say the graduate. of Juneau High School have madt good in all walks of life, and thai the members of the present clas; and student body have a tradition to uphold in that regard" he said
 He pointed out the improved school facilities that have been af forded present day students. Tt i, far cry from the six-room wood. en school building which once stooe on this site and which memberl of the Class of 1904 attended, to tht two school buildings, magnificen by comparison, which the presen school generation is privileged t, use.
 And yet this one important poin must not be overlooked. It is no the stone and mortar that make { school but the spirit which actuatel teachers, pupils and the pub1it which supports the institution. II this, as in every other matter il 1 which the human equation figure it is the spirit which maketl alive"
 Change In Conditions
 The change that has taken plac,
 nilocal school facilities, he said has been more than equalled b, the changes in living conditions il the world in the past quarter of l; century. The gas engine has beer perfected, and the automobile de lveloped until it has become a house hold necessity. Telephone, wireless airplane, the movies represent strik ing alterations in physical life
 Books, magazines and newspaper lend their aid to education School colleges and universities literal1, dot the land. And strange as i may seem in this age of mad hast, they are literally filled with stu dents. In 10 years alone the higl school enrolment of the natiol has trebled. It is not youth alon that is at school. Adult-hood striving to make up lost opportuni ties as is evident to anyone wh will scan the pages of almost an magazine"