Show OTHERS VIEWS TAKES EXCEPTION TO ADDRESS ADDRESS ADDRESS AD AD- DRESS GIVEN TO HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES I The evening of May 13 was the I high school graduate exercises which reflected credit upon both the graduates and the school faculty faculty faculty fac fac- fac- fac and of which we all felt proud Dr Lowry Nelson gave the address to the graduates and generally the address was commendable commendable commendable com com- but he decried the general general general gen gen- eral objection to those who Tho protest protest protest pro pro- test against paying the high taxes taxes taxes tax tax- es saying that all wealth is so socially socially socially so- so created and hence there should be no objection School Schoolmen Schoolmen Schoolmen men and some others claim that all wealth is socially created which to my way of thinking is a colos- colos al error The suggestion of socially socially so created seems to Imply that the community has created its wealth collectively with about equal merit and equal ability of oi each ach individual Indi in the community and hence the public can justly make unchallenged demands in taxation and no one should make any objections whatever It doesn't seem to have dawned upon the learned doctor that the maj major majr r share of the wealth of a community has been produced by mentality of the individual much of which mentality cannot annot be measured in quantity by days day's work as claimed by Karl Marx and others The telegraph the wireless the telephone the flying machine the radio the cotton gin and hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- of other inventions produced ed great wealth and those were individual productions no no social productions to that except the use of them which was merely a stimulus to the market Then there are great productions in in individual individual individual in- in management depth of thinking comprehensive foresight and personal initiative that are rire characteristics of certain men and not of a community and yet there are people who would destroy great by taxation and would thus destroy the homes of the people to accomplish a particular particular particular par par- par par- ideal deal which like all other ideals have their faults as well as their virtues Education should have a purpose to make a happy a prosperous and contented people in the nary walks of life for that Is the thereal thereal thereal real life rather than to aim to push a lot of young people through the university with the idea that they are to get big salaries and jobs out of proportion to the wants and necessities of the general public public public pub pub- lic and if a man has great conceptions conceptions conceptions con con- ideas and that cannot be seen by the man outside outside outside out out- side of the man himself who has hasit hasit it and not even by himself until he has developed and discovered it That is individuality and per per- If you take the personality personality personality person person- out of the production of wealth this would be a dull nonI non- non progressive and uninviting world I L L. L A. A HOLLENBECK |