Carthage High School - Carthaginian Yearbook (Carthage, MO)

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. W, . -s. .,,. ' . ffl-f -L-Y-If f ': 4' 2: -' f ' 115' -'L , :T'1.:n-'-' Superintvnhrnt 31. 111. Qlamphell The present economic distress offers a challange regarding the program of edu- cation. The program of education must be maintained and constantly improved, ever recognizing the fundamental concept of achievement as expressed in terms of equality of opportunity for all citizens. America is conscious of the need for economy. School budgets have received drastic reductionsg schools have been compelled to carry ever increasing loadsg thousands of school children have seen their schools closed downg the salaries of teach- ers and school employees are in arrearsg school services have been eliminatedg and in every state, youth is facing interrupted or denied education. The friends of education must look to the leadership of schools and the leadership of society in combatting the hazard which looms as a green-eyed monster intent upon carnage and pillage. There is imminent danger in irrational budget-makingg there is peril in accepting the program of certain anti-social forces which would see education lagg there is risk in reducing educational support below the point where educational activities become stagnant and the educational body emaciated. The true friend of education insists that the child of today receive his educational opportunity now. To postpone the rights of childhood means an impoverished and stunted development, and in the words of a foremost educator,- We cannot put edu- cational opportunity in storage for the duration of the depression and catch up with it later on. The program of education must be maintained. W9 W

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Ihr Zliarultg W. R. RICE Principal One of the greatest messages to the young people of today is that of David Starr Jordan. I believe it is worth your careful consideration. Your first duty in life is toward your afterself. So live that the man you ought to be, may, in his time, be possible, be actual. Far away in the years he is waiting his turn. His body, brain, and soul, are in your boyish hands. What will you leave for him? Will it be a brain unspoiled by lust or dissipation, a mind trained to think and act, a nervous system true as a dial in its response to the truth about you? Will you, boy, let him come as a man among men in his time? Or will you throw away his inheritance before he has had the chance to touch it? Will you turn over to him a brain distorted, a mind diseased, a will untrained to action, a spinal cord grown through and through with 'the devil-grass, wild oats'? Will you let him come and take your place, gaining through your experience, happy in your friendships, hallowed through your joys, building on them his own? Or will you fling it all away, decreeing, wantonlike, that the man you might have been shall never be? This is your problem in life-the prob- lem which is vastly more to you than any or all others. How will you meet it, as a man or as a fool? It comes before you today and every day, and the hour of your choice is the crisis in your destiny! W. R. RICE. ..11..