Show AND AIm SO T THEY EY PARS r. ON 1 THE launching of another class dl o of high school graduates into th the world brings reflective thoughts some sad some glad Glad because another group ha has successfully completed the course o of I study and Is s presumably bette better equipped for lifes life's career Glad because It indicates that th tb the girls and boys are approaching th tb the age ago of maturity and with their mental men mental mental tal training are prepared to assume assum their share In n carrying on the ac activities activities activities ac- ac of this old world Glad because the wo workings of ai an wise all-wise Providence has provide provided that the replacement of human units unite in this world shall be a Progressive one to the end that the older ma may instruct the younger and the ad advancement advancement ad- ad nt of knowledge and civilization civill civili m may y continue Sad because these graduates have havi now passed the happiest happiest period o of lives and from more or less ir fr irresponsible irresponsible ir- ir responsible creatures have now ii It in the eyes of their friends become more mare or less responsible I Sad because those these few in the grac grad class are all that survive o othe othe of the possible 70 or 80 SO who started It ll llor or il 11 years ago in tIle the primary grades They are all nil who attained the jho the utmost there thero was to be be had ou ouo out o ot at the public schools Sad Sd because this dropping by the tin ways ido was not an unavoidable tiling thing it was not a survival of tint the tin fi It teat t it was the tho survival of those thos whose parents had tho the vision am an and to keep their children in school school through at least the high school In this favored section there are few families which could not by bj small small email sacrifices sacrifices' have spared the childs child's services es till high school was finished In the last analysis the failure allure to complete high school lies with the parents In in all but a few tew cases aces I And the the fact that the boy or girl prefers to go to work instead of flu fin flushing fin I shing ahing school has little to do with it ft It t is the duty of the parent to see I hat that the child stays in school The parent arent who truly speaks when he heays says ays the bo boy would not stay in schoola school Is a e confessing his inability to control I ils his own child Too often otten the tho parent is either in- in indifferent different or wants to get rid of supporting sup sup- porting th the boy or girl He lie wants the thel Income that the partially ed ed- youngster can make Once In a long while a case oc oc- urs curs s where whore it seems impossible for a a to finish This talk does not to such Instances for they are few ew and far for between The percentage of ot mortality In n scholastic life is appalling We see BOO hugo luge Ingo classes in the tho first grade small small- er r In the second and so on up When wo no get Into high school the students stu stu tents dents drop oft off like flies files till In n the lien lor year there is 18 but a scattering handful of those who began an ed ad mention Every parent should hould seriously question himself an as to hl toward his Ills childs child's mind am and voigh well the tho seriousness of hand- hand rapping capping the child by Insufficient schooling |