The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-06-08
new ERA DAWNINC,
SENIORS TO WAKE
WORLD-DR. CRATE
Americanism Awards Made Fri
day Night to EchOe Macs
and Jack Lauterbach

ana Jack LduteTDdCn
Frankly admitting that the world
into which they are about to step
locks desolate and uninviting because
che older generation has sent it into
Bankruptcy, DR.. w. E. ]. Gratz, edit
or of the Epworth Herald of Chica-
go, told 81 high school graduates, IL
normal training graduates and a
large Lincoln school auditorium au-
dienee that "a new day is dawning-
it is time to get up and prepare for
the best era the world has ever seen"
Opening with the query, what
time is it," he answered that "it is
five o'clock in the morning by the
worlds clock-a clock which tells the
rise and fall of leading nations-and
at high noon the new era will be
born. Rulers of the world are drow-
sy because it is too early in the morn
nag by the worlds clock and if there
is not a revival of religion and
morals, there will be revolution"
To the graduates who Friday night
finished their IL years of school work,
DR.. Gratz said, "You are now at the
supreme hour of experience at which
time you must develop the power to
adjust yourself to new situations.
"You cannot go out of this build
ing tonight and step Immediately in
TO waiting position. There are IL
million men and their families who
are destitute in a land of plenty.
This country is not suffering from
-overproduction but from improper
distribution.
at is up to the school and its
teachers and to the church and its
ministers to awaken the country" he
declared, "You graduates have reach
ed commencement night and your
first goal. AS you attain new goals,
you will have new pinnacles to climb.
Sand so it is with nations today;
new goals have been attained but the
new commencement has not begun.
Other nations" he said, "are being
awakened and it is up to you. grad
mates, the coming generation, to see
that sleep is wiped from the eyes OF
America"
He stressed the Importance Of re-
tanning the prohibition law and re-
ferred to the abolition of slavery as
a similar great progressive step. "But
war is a greater evil than either" he
stated.
"War never ends war;" he declar-
ed, sit will have to be stopped by
the young men and women of Ameri-
ca declaring war on warfare"
The commencement exercises began
with selections by the high school or
chestra under the direction of S. W..
Limburg. Miss Elizabeth Adams
played the professional march for
the graduates who were escorted to
the stage by James Inglis and Lor-
raine c. iussen, officers of the junior
class.
Rev. Godfrey O'Sullivan gave the
invocation and Logan Foreman gave
the salutatory address, "The Reckon
ing" Other numbers on the program
included selections by the girls glee
club under the direction of Miss
Adams, the valedictory address
Equipped by Charles Dirlam, pre-
sentation Of the class memorial by
Eckoe Macs, awarding of honors by
j. H. Wichman, superintendent, pre-
~sentation of diplomas by George A.
Barnes, president Of the school board,
presentation of Apprehension awards
by the American Legion and the
benediction by Rev. G. E. Martin.
Jack Lauterbach and Eckoe Macs,
seniors, Won the coveted American
Legion and Auxiliary awards which
We're presented by Parker Sanders.
ers at the commencement exercises.
Marian Lauterbach and Jack Shaw
won the eighth grade awards. Schol-
arship, citizenship extra-curricular
activities and an essay on American
ism" are considered in making the
awards.
Rosellen Jackson received a gold
pin and Alice Melges and Merle Lin
deman. bronze pins, for outstanding
work in declamatory.
Members of the Legion and Auxi-
liary who selected the winners are
Dr. and Mrs. j. C. Budik, Mrs. O. G.
Austbo, Mrs. L. P. Winter, Mrs. Glenn
R Hillig, Frank Baldwin, E. H. Boil
lum and T. F, Reed.