Berry High School - Torch Yearbook (Mount Berry, GA)

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8 SILVER AND BLUE Q about the financial side of the ques- tion. Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can. No matter how much money you make if you do not learn to save it, it is really of no value to you. Don't be a spendthrift. Don't spend a dollar foolishly. If a young person in the twenties saves 3100.00 it will amount to several hundred dollars by the time he is in the seventies. Remember when you spend a dollar foolishly you have spent the interest -on it, and perhaps the interest for a good many years. I do not want you to get the idea that I think it is wrong to spend money. I think it is a mistake not to spend money for things that are woz'thwhfe .e-efuch as good music, good books or anything else that would make one happy or enlighten- ed. The real measure of a person is not what he is but what he aspires to be. Keep your aspirations high. Have it in your heart to give to some- body else. It is a good thing to give all you can, even give when it is a sacrifice to do so. The Master said of the widow who put in her mite, She has given more than all the others. It was not the actual gift, but it was her aspiration to give. The last of the four trinitieg and the one that really deserves the most consideration is, your life. Who can imagine anything more beautiful than a youth with high ideals and perseverance to attain them? On the other hand, who can imagine any- thing more tragic than a young person with no ideals and no ambi- tion? Under this very important topic, your life, comes these three things -bread, beauty and brotherhood. These are the things that go to make up life. Bread has to do with the material side of life, it satisfies the hungering body. Beauty satisfies the hungering mind, and brotherhood satisfies the hungering soul. I ask you to remember these three things. Just as we need food for our body so we need food for our mind and our soul. Some one has said, Read some beautiful poem, hear some beau- tiful music or see some beautiful picture every day and at the end of the year you will be greatly sur- prised to see how much it has chang- ed your ideals and how much higher it has really made them. The per- son who has learned to love a beau- tiful picture, a sweet melody, a sky full of stars, of a sweet rose is better educated than if he could work all the problems in Algebra. Cultivate a love for beauty. If you have not studied Emerson's poem called Day, study it and see how beauti- ful it really is. I have often thought of the 90th Psalm, how David speaks of the beauties of the Lord our God. I think it is my fav-orite Bible passage. So many of us pray for faith, hope, purpose and so many other things but did you ever stop to think how little time we spend in praying to see the beauties of the Lord our God? We have failed, especially here in the south, to cul- tivate an eye for the beautiful things that surround us. I was so deeply impressed, while in Japan, by the way that the people there appreciated the

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SILVER AND BLUE 7 Glnmmrnrrmrnt hhrras 4'lB5OQl1lb I felt that I already knew the Berry Schools before coming here, and I have felt very much at home among the hills and the log cabins here. I am glad to have the oppor- tunity of speaking to the young men and women of the Berry Schools. The Berry Schools have the same ideals as the Progressive Farmer stands for. The teaching that Miss Berry has established here is making Georgia rich. She is training men and women to do the things that are worthwhile. A great many people have vision enough to start some- thing but few people have the real heroism to carry on a great move- ment. It is a 'purposeful school, and serves purposeful people. I am remined this morning of an address that President Wilson made to a group of young men from wealthy families. He said: Most of you, I am sorry to say, will never amount to very much in this world because you have had things made too easy for you. The young men and women that usually amount to the most in this world are those who have had the whip of necessity on their bare backs. In speaking to you this morning I should like to have you think of Life's four Trinities,-y o u r s e l f your work, your money, your life. These trinities are tremendously im- portant because they constitute the bases of life. In developing yourself you must develop your body, your mind and your spirit. It takes all three to make the real all round person. At the Berry Schools you are taught to develop all three. If a person develops the, body alone, he is a brute, if he develops the mind alone, he only has vision, if he de- velops the spirit, alone, he is a fanatic. If he develops all three he is a real person. Now the trinity that has to do with your work, is industry, business and profession. One should find a work that takes in all of these things. If he only has industry his body will develop but his mind will not. If he has something that involves busi- ness, alone, he may gain ina finan- cial way but his body and mind will not be growing. If he has a pro- fession that simply develops the mind his body will not gain anything by it, so again it takes the trinity to make the whole. Farming is the one thing that takes in industry, busi- ness and profession. Farming is look- ed upon in a very different attitude to what it, was a few years ago. People use to think farmers should stay at home all the time, work hard as they could and never have enough to eat, but that attitude has changed and the farmers are no longer iso- lated. The automobiles have done a great deal to improve this isolated condition. Now for the trinity of money. If you are to be a success in every way you must consider a little

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SILVER AND BLUE 9 beauties of nature. They love the cherry blossoms, and the chrysan- themums. They talk of them on the streets just as American people talk of a football game, and with the same interest and enthusiasm. I was so impressed when I visited one of the noted Art Galleries in Europe, be- cause I found men there, in their overalls studying the wounder-ul pictures, pausing before the great masterpieces and showing their ap- preciation of the beautiful. I wish this could be true in our country. Last of all the trinities that I wish to call your attention to is that of brotherhood. The sublimest thing in God Almighty's universe is brother- hood. People are b e g i n n i n g to realize this more. Know one another and you will love one another. When you go from this school to the rural districts do all you can to promote brotherhood. Be active in the schools, in the organization of clubs of any- thing that will bring the people to- gether are make them known and un- stand each other better. You have been trained to do that in this school. Now, before you go forth to invest that most glorious gift that God ever gave anyone-your youth- ful life-fmay I remind you to re- member the four trinities of life: 1. Yourself,faJ body, fbj mind, fcj soul, 2. Your work, faj industry, fbj business, fel profession, 3. Your money, fab make all you can, fbj save all you can, fel give all you can, 4. Your life, faj bread for the body, fbi beauty-food for the mind, fc? brotherhood-f90d for the S9141- Idle Thoughts Wherever you are and whatever you do Remember, my friend, this simple word too- Nhether your life'S to be short or long Live it each day as you go along. IF W IK Man must have money in order to fully enjoy life, but the greatest blessing that can come to a man is to be blessed with many true friends. Bind your friends to your heart with bands of steal. ik 1 lk School will not do everything for you. It is simply one og the helps by which you can win your way to noble manhood are womanhood. You are master of your fate, you are captain of your soul. If you are a good master and captain, you will reach the harbor of success regard- less of storms or rocks which may im- peril the way. lk 1' Ik The greatest loyalty man can pos- sess is loyalty to his after-self, loy- alty to the man he is to become. One who is loyal will so livein the present that the man who is to be may be all that he should. 4' 1 1 To see things as they really are is one of the crowning privileges of the educated man. Education lifts up to the pinnacle from which we can see in all directi-ons. The educated man, M