Evening star., 1951-06-03
|BarkIey and Taylor
Speak al Graduation,
or HoIton-Arms CIas!

sponsibility for resisting war Il
make them possible, the gradu
ating classes at Holton-Arm
School and Junior College wer'
told yesterday.
Vice President Barkley and Maj
Gen. Maxwell Taylor, Army assist
ant chief of staff. told the younl
graduates to take advantage O
these opportunities and t,
strengthen the home front.
Holton-Arms is celebrating it
50th anniversary, and the Vic,
President pointed out that in tn.
past half-century, the torch o.
world leadership and power ha!
come to the United States. H.
spoke at separate graduation exer.
cises for 20 Junior College stu.
dents. Fifty-eight high schoo
graduates held commencement ex.
ercises later. Gen. Taylor ad.
dressed golden anniversary ban.
quet at the Shoreham Hotel las
night.
United States Seeks Better Life.
Mr.. Barkley declared tremen.
dous developments are in tn,
making in the fields of science
agriculture. medicine and othel
endeavors. This country's prob.
lem is to make a better life fol
which people are willing to sacri.
flee now for the good of all, h.
said.
Mr.. Barkley said he was givins
the graduates a message of opti.
mism. He recalled that when h,
was graduated, the commence.
ment speaker gave a gloomy out.
look - that the best books hac
been written, the best songs sung
the inventions of which the mino
Of man was capable had been ex.
hausted. But Mr.. Barkley said hi
found that far greater things were
in store. that better books, better
music and greater inventions were
produced.
The Vice President told thu
graduates that there are more
than so million women and mer
employed. a greater number thar
ever before in this country. He
pointed out that America ha.
given IS per cent Of the inventions
to the world.
Urges Wider Education.
'There must now be a greater
degree of educated leadership and
responsibility to pass on the COM
Iplex questions, said Mr.. Barkley
People must, vote for or agains,
programs, policies advanced by
governments. But in the quiet of
suffrage. every man is a king. This
lis a situation requiring diffusion of
knowledge. For one should be
able to differentiate the good from
the bad, the false from the true" "
At the outset. Mr.. Barkley said
all his life he has been planning
to live to be an old man and has
set 100 as the goal. He told the
graduates Of the Arab fortune
teller at the Pyramids in Egypt
who foretold that he would live
Ito be los. But as he was leaving,
the fortune teller waved goodbye
and told him to be careful and not
be killed in an airplane.
At the 50th anniversary banquet
at the Shoreham Hotel, Gen.
Taylor, former military COM
mander of United States forces in
Berlin, urged the graduating
classes to work for three things
to promote 'fortitude for the long
pull at home"
Citing his experience in Berlin,
he urged the young graduates to
know what the enemy is and who
the enemy is" to pull in the same
direction at the same time in the
same way" and to be aware of the
sense of mission we need today"
Communism" he warned, lis
not just a school-room study-not
just an idle theology. We have a
long way to go. We haven't t
learned how to live shoulder to
shoulder either here at home or
with our allies. We lack a sense of
mission: we still haven't decided
why we're drilling"