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X not say merely, ‘(niilty, Go!' It would not occur to anyone to think or to
say, liecause his home was l)ig or rich or his employees prosperous, that these things did not exist or did not matter. X
Xot only do we recognize the needs of our homes, hut we work untir X ingly to meet those needs. \\'e are eager, too, to look elsewhere for advice
and to make helpful comparisons, even if they are to our disadvantage.
But when we come to our larger home, our country, do we feel, do we X act in the same wav?
Why do we seem to ignore the fact that \])rogressive as we think we
are—more women, many more, are allowed to die here when their children
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are horn than die in almost any other land? That our cities are hecomino'
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needlessly unsightly and unhealthful, that 35,COO lives a year are sacrificed, and hundreds of thousands of j^eople are maimed hy our automohiles? That —ju'osperous as our country appears—parents kill their children rather than
see them sufifer for lack of food, that physicians say that the appalling in crease in insanity is due in part to men’s fear that they will lose their posi tions ? That—su\])erior as we helieve our civilization to that of the old world—it looks as if murder were hecoming a pastime here, vrhile in Euro\])e
it is still a crime? That—while we make thousands of laws annualh-—our own public servants too often make a mockery of those laws?
It is far less trouble to he ignorant or to ignore what we do not wish to see, hut is it devotion?
I heg of vou, he i:)atriotic. Love vour country. Take the trouble to recognize its needs and work to meet th.ose needs. It may even he that some day you will find, with Dr. Shotwell, that the world is also only a larger
home.
There is not time left to give vou a real goodhA’e. Come hack in the future and let me give it to you many times. I could not tell you, even if I had all the time there is, how much I value you, how much I helieve in
you, how much 1 hope from you, and how much I care for you."
I hose awarded diplomas were: Ethel Boissevain, Bheresa Brakeley, Mary Crapo, Anna Louise Davis, Althea Dobbins, Mary Dutcher, Jane Ferris, Jean Graham, Betty Hardenbergh, Susan Henrotin, Mary Hughes,
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Cragin Lippincott, Dorothy tlelene Madsen, Martha Ann Marshall,
Jane Kaltenbach, Sarah Cornelia Lawton, Constance Lesher, Dorothy
Lucy Mclntire, and \drgil Faylor. X
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