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Show A DARK PICTURE OF LIFE'S AFFAIRS. ; Addressing the graduates of the University of I lah Judge Thurman of the supreme court, drew a somewhat some-what gloomy picture of life, accompanied accom-panied by a warning. He said: ' "It is my duty to remind you that cles of which you never dreamed. You will meet with difficulties that ill lax your energies to the very limit of endurance You will encounter foes on every hand sometimes frank, open and ingenious; sometimes lurking in ambush ready to strike you when least expected. "Your worst enemy, if I mav be per mitted to use a figure of speech, will assume the form of a wild and furious mob in which every man is for him 6elf, uncontrolled and uncontrollable It is the mad scramble of hungry hu nianity men and women trampling upon one another in the desperate struggle for existence and for riches and honor. They are the men and women of your own race, kindred and blood, for of one blood God hath made all ations. "The picture is grim and hideous; the aspect Is revolting, and when we contemplate it in all its hideousnesr we marvel at the diabolism of man I would to God we could condemn the picture as libel upon the race and for ever obliterate it from the memory of man, but, unfortunately, there i6 ruoie truth in the picture than exaggeration. 'Man's inhumanity to man' has been the theme of the philosopher, the orator ora-tor and the poet since the beginning of time, and 1b today the gravest economical eco-nomical problem of the age. "I do not mean that there Is no vir tue, no sympathy, no honor, In human ity. If such were the case, life would be intolerable; it would not be worth living. There could be no such thing as life in a civilized state. I do desire, however, to impress upon your minds the fact that this is pre eminently a practical age an age of commercialism, commercial-ism, rivalry and competition in practically practi-cally every pursuit of life an age in which the procession is moving so rap idly that one is constantly impressed with the thought that he must keep abreast of the times at the risk of being run over, trampled upon and ground to powder." Judge Thurman must have been reflecting re-flecting his own experience. The fore-east fore-east may give the graduates a depressing depress-ing outlook. The judge should have followed his warnings with a tonic of the ever' day reward of honest achievement and a little emphasis on the finer aspects of life. Youth needs encouragement, hope, expectation, vision, vis-ion, with onh an occasional sign poM marked "Beware of the pitfalls : ' |