Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-05-27
COMMENCEMENT ACTIVITIES
OF Nj. & Nj. HIGH SCHOOL

| FRIDAY n1gnt OIL this week is the
M. & NJ alumni banquet which will
conclude this years commencement:
exercises. The various functions
the past week included the senior
class play Friday night; and the bac-
| calaureate services Sunday nigh!
and graduating exercises Tuesday
night of this week. All these func-
| tions were held in the high school
auditorium.
Senior Glass Play
A large crowd attended the class
play, 1.-The Sap Runs High" which
was well presented-better than the
average high school class plays. The
different characters took their roles
splendidly, and Notwithstanding the
leading characters had lengthy parts,
they had them we'll committed, and
i the play moved along without a
hitch, and every performer was per-
fectly at ease on the stage 1t was
directed by Mrs. Evelyn True But
ton.
The play which is three act
comedy by Fl. t. Porter and
Alfred III. White, revolves around
an amazing succession of hu-
man incidents and humorous COM
plications that beset typical Amer
lean family i'll the period immediate
ly following the depression The
relations of this lively family dom
mated by a Jealous business woman,
with varied assortment of gentry
including wildcat promoter, d
small town big Shot," shrewd
Jew, French beautician, and a
gallant lover, weave sparkling
drama. "The Sap Runs High" u
royalty play, was first produced at
the Bijou theatre in New York City
in 1885. The cast was as follows:
John j. Jennings, the sap, Edward
Young; Mrs. Jennings, his wife,
Betty Booth; Junior Jennings, his
son, Uric Allen; Norma Jennings,
his daughter, Jean Cook; Kenneth
Robbins, Norma's lover, Hubert Dou-
gan; Stephenson, an aged friend,
Robert Parmiter; Dixon, stock brok-
er, Dee Dunkle; Crowder, Dixon's
partner, Robert Campbell; Keeler,
real estate agent, Harold Wilson;
Bob harrison, William Lawrence;
Mile. Clarice, French woman, Mar
guerite Hardesty; Helga, the maid,
Jean Sims; Goldfarb, the Jew, Jay
Blackford.
Music was furnished by the high
school orchestra, which was directed
by Billy Danford, in the absence of
Mrs. Twyla Edwards who was ill
with tonsillitis.
Baccalaureate Services
Another large crowd assembled
at the high school auditorium Sun
day evening for the baccalaureare
services. To the strains of "Marche
Aida" by Verdi played by the high
school orchestra, the members of the
class in cap and gown, and accompa-
MED by superintendent j. M. Turner
and Principal Mrs Evelyn True But
ton, marched up the center aisle to
the front of the auditorium, where
seats were reserved for them.
The invocation was by Rev C.. L.
Bulen of the local Methodist Prot
estant church, who also read the
scripture. There was an orchestra
number "Still AS the Night" A
mixed chorus sang "Fadeth the Smil-
ing Day." and following the sermon
there was an instrumental ensemble,
i Wight DT6dulS. rev. buleQ
pronounced the benediction
Rev. Russell H. Hoy, pastor of the
local Methodist Episcopal church,
preached the sermon, taking as his
theme Fishing In Rice Fields" :"
His text was "Search the Deep
Things of Life" The speaker said
that natives fish in rice fields, in
shallow stagnant water, content
with catching small and worthless
fish, when if they would but lift up
their eyes they could see the great
deep blue ocean where they might
launch out and catch big fish. He
used the comparison of those fisher
men with people we meet in every
day life, and said many find them
selves fishing in shallow pools, when
could see the big, worth while
things. Fishing, he said, in shallow
stagnant waters of life does not pro-
duce character-and ofttimes such
persons have but a single idea, which
leads to shallow, impure and evil
thinking, and causes the doing
of evil things. Others do not think
at all, but simply drift along with
out any aim. Reading of stagnant
filthy books can never make for bet
ter morals, he said, and he decried
the vast amount of such reading.
| Our forefathers he said had but few
| books, but they were good ones
which left effects for good character
| building. Fishing in stagnant rice
fields brings shallow ideas, and he
said Where there is no vision the
people perish" There is spark OF
good-of God, in all of us, which can
| be developed if but given a chance.
Think of something to make the
world better, and think along that
! line--the joy of living comes to
those who fish for the deep things
But for those who fish deeply out in
the ocean, help is needed, and the
only help worth considering is that
which comes from God, SO why try
to live without Him; since withou,
Him there is no hope; and the young
people leaving high school anG
launching out for themselves away
from parents and teachers, need Hin
more than ever before-then it Is
that they need help greater than hui
man help.
Rev. Hoy concluded his message
by repeating part of the eight
verse of the fourth chapter of Philip
lpians-"Whatsoeve things are true
whatsoever things are honest, what
Isoever things are just, whatsoever
things are pure, whatsoever things
are lovely; whatsoever things are OF
good report: If there be any virtue
and if there be any praise, think or
these things"
1t was a splendid, timely, message
well delivered, so that every one
present could readily grasp its i'm.