The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-06-01
OBEDIENCE TOLAW IS
STRESSED TO CLASS
ST. MARY GRADUATES
Bishop WehrIe and Father Stag
, Give Is Students Parting
!. Advice for Good Lives
URGED As ANCHOR
Clean Living and Honoring Of
Parents and Superiors Held
Nations Big Need Today

IL Clerical and school heads Of st
.Mary's parochial high ushered Is boy
knd girl graduates into the school Of
re al the annual commencement
exercises Of this term Friday evening
n the school auditorium. Parents
-'ther family kin and friends. some
wen from as far as Grand Forks
ahmed the hall in tribute to the
browning achievements Of the stu
tents in their scholastic careers.
ii In addition, the graduating class
lad the honor Of the presence Of the
highest ecclesiast In the state, IN the
Right Reverend Bishop Vincent
fWehrle. who made the graduation
address to the young people.
a Go Out with High Ideals
1 The class made q pretty picture
under the stage lights when the cur
cain rose at 8 o'clock and the exer-
:ises were started with the Spring
,ong' by the girls chorus Of the
], ;chool. The back row was made up Of
l6 gitrD. Facing the left of the audi
ence sat the five boy members. pivot
ing on Leo Boespflug. the salutator-
ian. while five girls faced the right
of the audience, including Marie
sMihm. the va~ledictorian.
Y, Both the salutatory and the vale
idictory stressed the moral equipment
kof their education as the reliance of
he class in passing from the school
Elof books into the school of experience
and actual life. Both lauded the aid
she class had in the years of its
training from Father John Stag and
The teaching sisters and the inspira-
ton Of Bishop Wehrle.
Bishop Urges Discipline
!, The bishop elaborated the same
theme. He said the hope of the class
for SUCCESS in life was in the guidance
of goodness and discipline-the intel
lectual and moral qualities which it
had been sought to implant in them
in their school career in st. Mary's.
He stressed respect for parents as
The surest guarantee to respect for
God and righteousness. Quoting
from the Bible he commented that
life is a battle against obstacles and
forces. ending in the realization that
worldly knowledge is as nothing in
The end and the great sea of truth
lies before and beyond always, espe-
sally when the curtain falls on life.
Home Training Is Failing
Father John Stag drew on the les
SON OF the times for his remarks to
(she graduates before he handed over
their diplomas. He cited the epidemic
IF crime, especially of murders, one
of them the six-year-old Kentucky
hoy who killed another boy. as evil
dence OF lack of family training
on1ehoW and somewhere. This he
1eld to be the great lacking element
10 law-abiding decency in the Ameri-
gan life, something to be corrected
Tor the good and safety Of the nation.
Young people were not any worse
now than they were in his boyhood.
|he thought. Only the misdoings and
crimes Of youth r. out to the fore
where they make a sharper impress
eion.
/ The remedy was obedience to au-
|thoritH. he suggested-obedience to
parents. to teachers, to religious lead
|ers. to the Supreme being. Christ
must be followed as the only statutory
If individual lives are to be
kept clean and society is to MAIN
tain its balance in the sum of the
general morality and goodness.
Free Rights Are Guaranteed
The Father spoke strongly also for
obedience to and respect for secular
law. There come times, he admitted.
when these seem oppressive, but the
church had reason to know that there
was legal redress in such instances.
There is the supreme court as final
resort. That it was a real sanctuary
Of rights it had shown when it pro-
tected the parochial and private
Ecpools In its Oregon case decision.
Agsy'ather Stag read the names Of
he graduates, they stepped forward
and received their diplomas. Then
The curtain was rung down and audi
and graduates mingled in con.
g~ratulations.
The class roll was made up of Marie
valedictorian; Leo Boesnflur.
salutatorian: Frances Barrett, Ethel
Beer, Josephine Brown. Elizabeth
curran, Matilda Dietrich, Elizabeth
Dietlein, Margaret Dresser, Alice
Dunn. Harold Falconer. Magdalen
Fitzgerald, Hugh Fortune. Kathryn
aannon. Isabel Hammel. Bernice
aoule, Beryl Knott, Dorothy LANCE.
James Mcdonald, Helen McNulty.
AilsaA Page, Edmund Schreiner, Mar.
lorle 6taak. Mary Talk. Mary Tup-
per, ond Alice williams.
The class motto was "What we
IRE to be We n now becoming: it's
lower, the yellow chrysanthemum:
IND It's colorS. maroon and Oold