Show valedictory ADDRESS LISTENING W IN by berea bryson 1 Edu education catlon Is a process to which mankind la Is submitted consciously or 01 unconsciously throughout life it begins li iii tile tho cradle and death finds it 11 still uncompleted fl education is not something that is done to one formally and with the aid of books and teach era alone but it Is ruther rather tile the res result ailt of ones own reaction to outside out side lilac the educated mail or woman la Is the traveler who walks along lifes highway with observant eyes no matter which highway lie he may choose if 11 he perceives and gives thought to the that touch him oil oh every slid tie lie Is an educated in man in if lils his eyes remain cl closed ose d to t 0 th them C in he h 0 I 1 Is S an uneducated eau dated man no matter how many degrees may grace race his name to some the years ears ot of school aloia mean education but these are arc not the tha wise traveler to the traveler through life who accepts all that that long roadway offers the school Is but a formal period in the lifelong process of education the tra traveler voler who Is content to to close the hook book on commencement day alny is 14 as foolish as the one who believes that it tour of europe onda ends with the docking of his ship at havre such stich a man might say that tho the destiny of america was fulfilled Cul rul tilled filled when the declaration of independence was signed now we know that that docu was mas only the starting point the E oration from which lias has krown glown the american emmon wealth of today such it a man inight ile content with its iti present accomplishments falling failing to see sed that weare wo are still only at the of a greater deiny iny than probably even those sagacious founder foresaw such stich a man might y seek to retain the ideals ot ly by ir cile athi g trite phrases and abid by preserving seedy tra by taking it for granted that the tradition mm and institutions by which tills this nation 1 attained prosperity oil Q cpr eyen CYP aji liace bec become omed null I 1 tand shop these tire are themon to whom lit dav that odai education 1 is Oni complete I 1 turi reals hgo ago sli such 1 aph men dien had never 1101 tl alif 1 muffle wirt wwii d radio today they can listen in ili on the HIP actual words HIM keji by their president housan cn of mites miles liway away had they listened in abille wile ato apo they would have heard these sentences fundament ally america Is sound it has botti both the power and disposition to maintain itself in a healthy economic and moral condition but it cannot do alil tills 3 by making material prosperity its supreme choke choice if america wishes to rent AM in ili prosperity it must maintain its ideals those were the words worda of one who bellev Lm that education for a nation as for an individual never ends that ideals are living growing things thang and thit that the highest est of these Is till the liw of if service that we can help ourselves only its as we help others it lorn does not take a far stretch cli of imagination in these dav of wonders to to think of the possibility pos of 01 listen 1119 UK in to a statement of the ali future amerlean to its living grow in ili meals troal i there never was a time when wt WK of this nation had a better reason to walk upright and fearless rail and to fasten our attention with more mora confidence in our ability to work intelligently telli gently toward the fulfillment of its it high dest alny the foun founders dors of tins this republic ino to posed for the first time tit in history tho the development of 0 a society devoted to giving all men a full chance of ful for their more noble ac arsires sires tho the Ll listener lie in should hear a public opinion increasingly growing moro mor e vigilant und and more hospitable to whatever towards forwards that ideal lie ile should itar hear ac marring arring forward of the idea that it ft nation whose fundamental law was framed its as the ot of a truth must depend lor for the preservation of that truth on oil the integrity and the vitality of conviction of 0 its citizens ile ho must hear an evidence of the re aLLta aliza tlora tion among the people of tho commonwealth that they continue to believe in the power of 0 truth t to b tatt et them tree free if this the school haa implanted la in the minds ot of the members of the graduating class these facts it has dono done its full duty today it sends bends us into the greater school the world to carry on our education for it Is never completed worse than useless will lo be 10 that education unless it serves to emphasize such ideals unless it makes makei of us men and women front from whom the listener in of tile the future will learn that the republic if 19 keeping kee kec ping ti true 1 ue to its original all allegiance ilance a accepting ce epting a now llovy conception of its atti and functions among alnona th the q sayings saying s attributed to abraham lincoln line 0 in js chipi this A man mail Is responsible for his own face at CO Q vw who gaze upon the familiar r fe features of that savior of the american america ll 11 igals can fall fail to find there asin as aa in hi his s words evidence of two guiding principles through life service to W lila his f fel el lowman low man and reliance on on the power of br falth we cannot all bo be LIn colus but we cariall can cati all accept sincerely these prini principles pLes by willei he was nible able to h no aye our nation in its darkest hour As and falth faith come to rule in aur our domestic affairs they will rule in our foreign affairs brorn mutual understanding at home will come concord with all nations 11 president resident cool ide sald said peace ik I 1 the final determination must come jiom the heart of the people anle q U abide there we wc afo tany artificial lodar ng placa if the will of the world bo evil I 1 there ore Is s no artill artifice ceby by which wo plaice can tile the nations from evil rl results and nd that final filial establishment of peace atee till the e complete c pt maintenance of g will tt toward vard inen men will lie be found only oily in the of the tha peo pie of j lie he earth we say farewell to the board of that so ably and dahly fishily directs the school system we ethanic you for your your wisdom expert ence and general sympathy we say a perso personal el farewell tg fee the Biem tile hilliers lera of the faculty Ea culty you havo taught its well you yon ba bave vf endeavored to repress the evil and encourage the good in ili us best of 0 all you have been beell our friends our Paren tsi the sacrifices parents often malic make are passed avei lightly by thoughtless youth south today however we begin to appreciate you have done and feel that as aa a realization aliza tion of what you ion have done fo foi us its grows so will grow our virtues we say farewell to you as your children in ili school we hope that our wider vider life will give you yon joy and pride and repay just a little of the debt of love WO TIC 0 oc W 0 you and now classmates farewell to illy ilay as a class elac s we meat ile et for the lust last time As the busy world claims us let it remember the common poss pos glon of ti the principles and ideal adeil taught 1 in this school may that golden bond a and nd the dear fri friendship enship of school days anya unite us as in ili the brig bright lit days of joy and the darker hours of trial |