5 k ; ? . .. .5. . .j. I , Cass Fathers Admonition fter living four years apparently through torment, I suppose you say, Wtell, Im glad its over. Next year will bring good times freedom from study, a job. Next year I can do more as I please. But, my children, before you become entirely converted to a job and I wish you would contemplate with me the good times, possibility is' of your going to college. In doing this, I am not advising you to go to college or advising you to stay away. I am only trying to show you one way in which you can enlarge your vision of life. Then it is up to you to choose. You d were placed on this world with a free agency to choose as you see fit. Your four years of high school study have only given you a tiny glimpse of the vast, immeasurable vista of life which it is possible for you to conceive. You can never, worlds without end, see all life holds. But the more you climb (study, play, experience use the term you wish.) the greater will be your view the greater will be your appreciation of life and its meaning; and, ultimately, the greater will be your joy in living. Frequently, those who make no effort to climb, who are contented with only a glimpse of the panorama of life, feel In the future as you survey vaguely that they are missing something. your place in the cosmos, I hope you wont be one to say, If I had My children, that feeling is only done that, look where Id be now! my idea of hell. 1 hope you will continue your schooling and broaden your vision of life, and I hope you will never have cause to regret a age-ol- neglected opportunity. The torment of the last four years and the happiness which, d must admit, occasionally brightened them will be increased you in four years of college. Yet let me add: the struggles you have had in high school have prepared you for the greater struggles of college life. The intellectual misery and physical unrest which one seldom escapes in college will not seem so meaningless to you who have already But no matter how become acquainted with the scholastic grind. hard it may be, the end is worth the endeavor. The world is always ready to use anyone who is capable. If you young people have the intestinal stamina (guts) to undergo a few years of mental anguish, ten-fol- mingled with fleeting moments of indescribable joy, which will bring you a college education, then you will he a main spring in the machinery of life not simply a small cog. At all events, think seriously upon your future. Do not lay aside your ambitions for a higher education until you are sure that that is not what you want. No better advice could be given you than those thoughts expressed by David Starr Jordan in his essay Your Afterself. Concerning your choice in lifes problem, he says: This is your problem in life the problem vastly more important than any or all others. How will you meet it? As a man or as a fool? It comes before you today and every day and the hour of your choice is the crisis in your destiny. Cod bless you. Your dad, D. Eldon Beck f in.isj VY V YV Y Y VYV Y ; a