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Show Able Papers At the Closing Exercises Of the City Schools I Wo aro giving horewlth threo ablo papers, all ot which wero read at tho closing exercises of, tho city schools on Friday. Tho papers Includo tho Salutatory, by Albert Holman; tho Valedictory, by Elinor Hendricks and tho Address to tho Graduates, Dy A. C. Mathcson. Tho papers follow: "" a SALUTATORY By Albert Holman Dear Parents, Frlonds, and TeachersWo Teach-ersWo extond to you this mornIng4 a most sincero welcome to the Commencement Com-mencement exercises ot this, the class pt 1914. This day and time marks that ot which wo havo worked so earnestly to gain for many years. In our hearts there Is a llttlo feeling of dignity hnd each and every ono of us Is very proud to gain this position. You may blame us some for being so proud and dignified, but this Is a placo ot honor to all of us and probably prob-ably tho first time wo havo had such an honor, so when you think ot our placo In life now, you may change your mind. Wo aro proud of our class of 1914, and feel that the aim ot each ono Is to get a good education, and grow to be strongor morally as well as mentally. men-tally. Our class Is the largest In the history of the city schools, and we be; lleve ono ot the ltvllest and best. r .This day only marks Ihe' Commencement Commence-ment ot our higher education and the hope of all the members Is to go through high school and then college as successfully as they did through tho graded schools, tor we shall be dissatisfied unless wo do. Wo feel now that wo must begin to take'llfe nnd school a little more seriously when wo reach tho higher' jH points ot learning than no havo doao In tho past years. H Each ono ot us is flllod with Joy H at tho success of our ambition, but whon wo Btop to think, wo rogret'to know that we havo to part with many, H of you who havo done, so much In ! JH helping Us to gain this standing. jH Wo aro sifro that our class will go PH on with a firmer determination to gala In this world and tho higher educa- H tlon, which' will lead to our' success H In life. Wo will profit by the mistakes H wo hnvo mado, and'wo"wlll not bo jH contented with tho easy tasks In life. H but will bend our efforts toward somo H thing that requires study. This wo IBBBH bolloVo is the sentiment of every H member ot our class. Wo iiopo ' to lil prepare ourselves so that wo may ll take our places as useful members of fll tho community, fiiH Agnln, dear parents, friends and IJIbh teachers, wo bid you a sincere wel- Pjl como to our exercises. ibibI IH - VALEDICTORY 111 f. ) - a . t in By Elinor Hendricks ,A fiH IH Long hnvo wb labored, " , bbbI Day by day; H Our reward to gain; bH Now 'tis won, H H Wo cannot' say i f-fH jBBaBa Farewell' without some pain.. H Today we do not say. .farewell to iH each other but to nine long happy ,H years that are gone never, never to 'H return. To us they have been pre- ' jBI clous years crowded with now l thoughts, bright hopes, and tender, H Joys. Thoy mean more to us than H wo fully realize because they mark H (Continued from pago four) B ABle Rapers M Closing Exercises t (Continued from page one) the foundation of our -educational career. . When wo ehtcre'd 4the grammar, school our minds were untrained but were willing and ready to receive knowIedge that would prepare us to bo two men and women. Our souls were fed; our characters made stronger strong-er by the uplifting hands of beloved parents and teachers, who let us In tho paths of truth like a good shepherd shep-herd does his flock. Occasionally ono of us would stray a little apart from tho rest but soon would And his way back again; for within nil our hearts has been carefully plant- Ied a sense of right and wrong, a love for the good, a hatred for the bad and a Joy In our hope's ideals and ambitions. ambi-tions. Theso gifts we treasure as our most precious possessions. Day by day and step by step we bnvo advanced up tho staircase of success, always guided by the beacon light, our (graduation dally led on-wnrd on-wnrd by the spirit that whispered, 'GO,' advance and gain knowledge nnd wisdom. Now our efforts are reward-el reward-el for today wo graduate. It is a day of days never to be forgotten. It divides di-vides our lives Into a" past and a future. fu-ture. In a measure we regret the passing pass-ing of these school days for with them wo leavo behind us our childhood, tho most happy caro free period of our lives; but It Is with Joy that wo 'i hall tho bright tomorrow for tho futuro fu-turo holds much In store for us, a higher education which can bo learned learn-ed nt school of learning, by thoughtful thought-ful study and bitter experience. It will strengthen our characters nnd prepnro us for the trinls of life from which up to this time wo have been shielded by tho ever protecting hands of father and mother. Wo are young, our lives aro yet beforo us, and we hope thnt wo may always bo faithful to the trusts that aro reposed In us and thankful to God nnd our noble educators for allthat we have and aro. Dear parents, we lovo and thank you for tho many sacrifices that you havo made for us In depriving yourselves your-selves of many things to give us hn education. Wo cannot express our feelings toward you, but we know that the knowledge of n mother's lovo and kind teachings Is a guiding star, pointing to the beauty and sac-redness sac-redness of womanhood; that the no bility and Integrity of a father's character char-acter has fixed the standard of what manhood should be! To you, kind board of education and principle, we extend our heart full of thanks and gratitude." ou are the master hands that have superintend' A t . - ed our education and wo earnestly, . i't.' j i - j -i. -.. hope that your every effort In ' our behalf "may be rewarded'by the futuro knowledgo that from 'us have groVn noble men and women. Relovcd teachers, to you we owe a debt which we can never repay. Gold nor silver will never pay back the hopes and cheers you have given us. Your prudence in thought nnd speech your willingness to glvo us your best efforts, hnd your kindness of heart has endeared you to this class. No doubt wo havo caused you vexation perhaps you havo often been disappointed disap-pointed In us, but you have homo with us patiently you must not Judgo us by our outward actions but by our secret Intents. And beloved teachers teach-ers always think kindly of us. Wo wnnt you to bo our friends, In our memories wo will over hold you denr nnd revero tho noblo oxamples you havo set. Tellow students, wo Icavo ycu to defend, strengthen, and uplift tho lion-of lion-of of our dear Lowell School. Tho places wo now occupy will soon bo filled by you. Havo noble alms and work ham for beforo you realize It, tho end of these happy pchool dnys will como. Classmates, within e trs purging emotions which we cannot explain or I subduev They roprespnt a, thankful' ' ness to and aq appreciation of our beloved ones and a love for each other. For years 'wo have labored, sldo by side ever cultivating tjje true arid sacred bonds of friendship, and learning tb love our neighbors as ourselves. Though we have made a success of our childhood life,' let this not be the only reward we seek to gain. No doubt some of lis will 'be satisfied with these effqrt's but tho majority of us want more knowledge and wisdom. We are not satisfied with what little wo know and wo will' struggle nnrd to gain (mother graduation, a higher honor, which we see four years hence. In our undertakings wo must never fail to consider others and remember the Golden Rule, which says: Do unto others as yon would have others do unto you. We must keep our Ideals high, our characters strong, for though we aro young we must prepare ourselves for the temptations that will como to us, and defeat them, so that In our old age we will have no regrets for our past lives. We must be noble, courageous, kind and true to all our fellow beings and In all our undertakings. So with the hopes that our every effort may be crowned with happiness and success wo now for tho present say 'Farewell. ADDRE8S TO GRADUATES State Superintendent Matheson addressed ad-dressed tho graduates as follows: You should recognize the fact that while much credit is due to yourselves for the efforts you haveput forth to make this day so important in your lives, much credit is also due your teachers, your parents, the community com-munity and the state for providing provid-ing facilities for your progress. The state annually expends hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of dollars in the education of its youth, believing be-lieving that such is one of the best possible investments. It has faith in the value of education. educa-tion. It believes what Jefferson said long ago that "if a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects ex-pects what never was and what never will be.'-' If the state had not this strong faith, it never would expend millions, of dollars dol-lars in the work of schooling the young. The mere spending of money without the hope of profitable returns is sorrowful to contemplate. The farmer would not sow did he not believe he would reap. The mere act of sowing seed in" the ground is not pleasant in -itself, The bringing of .the , mountain streams .through canals and spreading the water out on the thirsty soil is not "of itself . a source of satisfaction. Yet the -farmer, sings as-he,.sowsthe grain and he is of light heart as he waters' his cjf6pB;1,'for1J!his faith and hope are that a hat-, vest-will1 cbrne frtrnWsJ-effort8. Harvest timet comes at last. He does not then think much of the toil and the money-, spent- He is only happy in the realization of his hopes'. He 'gave to nature's na-ture's soil, and he received therefrom "some thirty, some sixty, and some an hundred fold." So it is with the state. It gives freely- On graduation day and thereafter it receives., Its returns or harvest consist of ' men and women of progressive ideas, of industry, honesty, courage, cou-rage, and of integrity to that, which an enlightened citizenship citizen-ship recognizes ns right and true. It expects of its children, future men and women to govern gov-ern and conti'ol the state in a way which will give tho greatest great-est amount of life, liberty, and happiness to all. From the boys who at some future time shall act as judges in cases involving in-volving large amounts of property, pro-perty, or even life itself, it expects ex-pects that nothing but pure justice jus-tice shall be bestowed. In legislative leg-islative halls it expects its sons to frame laws tho most wholesome whole-some and far-reaching for the public good, It expects that' th,o;so who may be charged with ' public duty will fulfill sftch. .duty.wjth aJ of. the, skill and fidelity which would" bo exhjbjit-, ed iri,'tHeirown 'private-enter? prises. , w You have been receiving bounteously. f rem thestateand from your home community. You have been.acquiring. You have been taught.' But there comes a time in life when you must give. That person merits contempt who ever wants to re ceive and never wants to impart. im-part. We are social beings, and therefore our success deperids very largely, on the success of others. If the community in which we live prospers, we prosper pros-per with it. If the state or nation na-tion prospers, 'we prosper too. We cannot rather we must not attempt to live to ourselves. Trees must be planted, ,'hquses constructed, bridges built, roads made, manufactories establish, ed, diseases controlled,' laws enacted, en-acted, books written, etc. not alone for ourselves, but for those around,,us and for the benefit of future generations, as well as 'for ourjown. In a sense mankind must be our family fam-ily the world our home. It is for us to do good everywhere, every-where, that good from everywhere every-where may come to us in return. "Freely you have received, freely free-ly give." To achieve success in school you have'done your work aright. See what you did in the preparation prepara-tion of your lessons. Analyze the preparation of one lesson say the drawing of a map of Utah. You .had to get the outline out-line right in form, extent, and proportion. You were careful to' show where the rivers rise, the direction and distances they flow, the places into which they empty themselves. You did not nlnce tho. TUntnh Mnnnrninn west of the Wasatch Range. You had to learn by painstaking care and had to show by painstaking pain-staking care the positions and comparative sizes of the several counties, the location of the principal towns and cities, the direction and extent of the'rail-roads, the'rail-roads, the positions of desert tracts, etc. This was all necessary neces-sary to success in your school life. Now, in the community life, you must perform your tasks just as carefully, just as skillfully, skill-fully, and as accurately if you would succeed, and if you are to take a very successful part in life- you will see that even a bigger and broader preparation is required than what you now have. We are living in an industrial in-dustrial age of strong competition. competi-tion. Our civilization is becoming becom-ing complex. In the beginnings begin-nings of civilization, man's wants are comparatively few. He merely wants something to eat and wear. He wants plenty ... ... , , , n ,. of room to hunt and slay. But1 as; he,,proresserfthe -luxuries! JjfcUaifibWKnbt only) wants c othing but he also wan$ a certain- style-rf-dothinghe wants varieties of foods nrt pared in a variety of ways. He wants to associate" ona h'leh plane with-his.' fellow, men., ffi, growing artistic" -tasted -must be fed. He wants the best-of everything.! ev-erything.! Of necessity these conditions .give rise to a life dif f P! i,?i,vema.ny wa to the simple life of our fathers. 'It is evident' that'' whatever at educational equipment may have W. been required" in the past, it is certain that njQre.jthan a common com-mon school course of instruction is required today7'Recent statistics statis-tics show that in atcountry such as ours in which, each individual is permitted to make own way within reasonable and consistent consis-tent regulations, the chances to achieve distinction and success suc-cess are uneducated one in 150,000; with common school training, one in 40,000; with high school education, one in 1,700. Chances are still more favorable to graduates of colleges col-leges and technical schools. It is true of. course that not every college man or woman will be successful. Not every college man or woman will em-.body em-.body the highest virtues of American citizenship. But by far the largest proportion of them will be successful and will render the most efficient and the greatest number of services to the communities in which they reside and to mankind in general. History tells of men and of women too without earlv scholastic training who have been among the greatest benefactors bene-factors of the race. Without college training Lincoln Lin-coln became a master of English Eng-lish and a statesman without an coual. He belonged to the class of geniuses. His inborn gifts were greater than may be developed de-veloped by the training of the school. But it would be dangerous danger-ous to neglect the training of boys in the hope that they would develop into a Lincoln. History also tells of men and women with advanced training who have been miserable failures. fail-ures. These are exceptions. Despite De-spite helpful training they have failed in the race of life. If honesty and integrity to high ideals,- if uprightness and industry, if conscientious re- Ik gard for duty, and straightfur- t wardness of life will not in the. end bring the best rewards, then the recognized principles of justice and of right conduct are of little value. Further- (Contlnued on page eight; LOSING EXERCISES" I OF CITY SCHOOLS I (Continued from page four) nore, then the experience of Uations throughout the ages is of no special significance, and might becomes right, and disorder dis-order and chaos the conditions to be sought. In our conduct let us show that we are educated men and women. I should like to emphasize empha-size the necessity for the boys ,and girls here to go beyond .the grades. And there exists a vital necessity also for you to continue intelligently active whether you continue in school or not. Intelligent and well directed di-rected action counts most in life. Wishes and hopes and dreams and aspirations, unless carried over into action are practically valueless. You may wish to become college graduates, gradu-ates, but you know that mere wishing never yet produced such a person. You may wish to become a noted singer, but every ev-ery noted singer has climbed the ladder of fame only through the greatest mental and physical physi-cal effort. You may wish to become be-come a writer or a speaker of note, but speakers and writers will tell you that they have acquired ac-quired their arts through patient, pa-tient, unremitting, intelligent study and practice. You can never become a merchant or a banker, a stockgrower or a farmer, a teacher or a preacher an accountant or a stneograph-er, stneograph-er, a lawyer or a doctor, an architect7 or -an engineer, an artist or a;sculptor, a'poet or an orator, a 'philosopher or a statesman by trifling away your time in wishing. You must go'ih'rough the necessary processes pro-cesses of intelligent and persistent persist-ent training. You cannot leap into the realm of knowledge and power. Step by step is the process. The way is well pointed point-ed out in these lines by J. G. Holland : "Hoaven Is not reached with a single bound, But we build the ladder by which wo rlso From the lowly earth to tho valted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round. I hold this thing to be grandly true That a noble deed Is a step toward God, Lifting" the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a fairer view. Wo rlso by the things that are under un-der our feet By what wo havo mastered of good or gain, By the pride deposod and the passions pas-sions slain And the vanquished Ills that we hourly meet. We hope, we aspire, we trust, we pray, Whon the morning breaks to life and light, But our hearts grow weary and o'er the night Our feet are trailing the sordid clay. Wo hope, we aspire, we trust - I Pray, i e 1 And we think that wo mount fh 1 air on wings' UB Beyond the recall of earthly thine I But our feet still cling to "he I heavy clay. uie I Wings are for angels but feet f I men, lor We may borrow tho wings to Ami I the way, uu Wo may hope and aspire, 'and tnm I nnd pray, " But our foot 'must rlso or we fnit .aW1!.. again. " CB Only In dreams. Is the ladder tlirown t& From the weary 'earth to tho san" phlro walls ' But tho dream departs and tho ladder lad-der falls, And tho sleeper wakes on his nil low ot stone. Heaven Is not reached at a slnclo bound c But wo build the ladder by which we rise Fjom the lowly earth to tho vaulted skies, And wo mount to tho summit round by round." ' The fact that the learning process is as it is, the fact that achievement is realized as it is, I constitute the reason why it is 1 a distinct honor to arise and I succeed in life. Let us have the I courage and the determination I to pay the price of success. Let I each of us here firmly resolve I to become a useful man or worn- I an in some needed service. Such 1 a resolution adequately carried 1 out will lead us to live the big I life and bring to us the greatest 1 possible measure of joy and hap- 1 piness. 1 |
