Giants Don't Use Strength

Hello Folks — T'is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. Shakespeare.

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Graduation is over. For us it was an important occasion; Lowell graduated from high school.

As we sat there in the auditorium along with more than 1,000 others parents and friends, watching the orchestra perform, seeing the graduates march in and everybody in their best attitudes I got to thinking "Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all reach the goals we set for ourselves, always be at our best, and everything be as beautiful as we would want it?"

Then I got to wondering why so few reach those goals. Perhaps none of us do. I believe it is because we don't make the things we have to do in life important enough. We lose faith in ourselves, we don't follow through in the things we know we should, and we very likely don't reach for the highest source of help we should.

I thought of the youths there and how wonderful it would be if by the concerted action of all of us they could be as wholesome and honorable as we would like them to be. I think possibly a few of them come pretty close to that goal, but certainly not enough of them. I am convinced it is the fault of all of us.

I think our teachers do a wonderfully good job of instructing them. Certainly there is a lot of room for improvement, but I believe that if we parents would do half as good a job with our children as the teachers do these young people of ours would get a lot farther in life than they do. Too often we fail to sustain the teachers and actually harm the teacher's ability to teach and the child's ability to learn.

I think the Commencement this year was the finest I have ever seen, the music played by the high school orchestra was exceedingly beautiful. The prayer was inspiring. The temperature was ideal and the speech was full of 'meat', and not too long.

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They were discussing girls "How is it, Jim, asked Joe, "that you get along so well with the girls?"

"Easy," was the reply. "Try flattery for instance. The girl I was with last night got a fly in her eye. I said, 'I can't see how it could miss such big eyes as yours', after that I had her eating out of my hand!"

A few days later they met again. "H'm said Joe, "I don't think much of your flattery stunt. I tried it but it didn't come off so good."

"What happened?"

"The girl I was with got fly in her mouth."

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The Corning glass works has developed a new family of basic materials, said to be harder than high-carbon steel, lighter than aluminum, and up to nine times stronger than plate glass. It is called Pyroceram. It is a finegrained crystalline material made from noncrystaline glass, but with a melting point near that of iron.