John A Johnson High School - Maroon Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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A Few Words From Cut Coach Perhaps all students do not know ex- actly what it means to play fair. lt certainly does not mean that you can go into a game, or a contest, with no other idea than that of wanting to beat the other team, regardless of how your end is accomplished. llowever, the pre- eminent idea that any one should have in entering a contest is to win, if possible. Then here comes the question: llow will you win? Would you care to see your team win, if they could not do so by good clean sportsmanship? Absolutely not, none of you would want to see your team gain unless they won by fair play only. Let us draw a picture of unclean sportsmanship. Suppose your team is in a football game, to decide the championship of the state. On the opponent's side, perhaps, there is a mighty good player, a fellow who is gaining all the ground for his team. Then the idea comes to one of your players that if, by some means, that good player can be forced to leave the game, you can win and be declared champions. A few minutes later this star player, by unfair tactics, is injured and forced to leave his place. This, of course, results in a victory for your team. Then, even though the score was in your favor, the victory wouldn't really be yours, if you did not play clean. Now, let us look a few years hence, after this game has become history to most of us, and some of us, perhaps, have forgotten it entirely. Little differ- ence does it make to us, today, who won the championship five or six years ago. What is gained by the fellows who laid that player out in the championship game so long ago? They gained nothing but the idea of how to play in an unsports- manlike manner. What did the players on the other team gain? They learned how to play clean, even though they were beaten. ln other words, the fellows on one team were practicing the methods of dishonesty and deceit, those on the other team were playing fairly and squarely, thus building a good moral character, which is worth more than any football game or any other other kind of game ever played. lsn't that true? Now, if you enter a game, always enter with the idea of winning, if such a thing be possible, but win fairly and play at all times in a sportsmanlike manner. Be a good sportsman, and courteous to your opponents. ln athletic games one can learn the value of co-operation, and the meaning of fair play, loyalty and honor are also developed. Learn to stand by our team in defeat, learn to congratu- late the other team. lt is a fine thing to share the honors of a victory and feel that someone else has done as much as yourself to win, yet it is a greater thing to become a good loser. There is nothing a fellow needs in life any more than courage, and may I say that it takes a great deal of courage to be fair and honest. As these are essen- tial qualities in any athletic contest, so are they in the game of life, where moral courage is such an important factor. By learning to play honestly and fairly, you have gained a victory in that alone, though your team may have lost. lt seems to me that the moral victory you have won is greater than any other kind of victory. It is in this way that you acquire the habits and moral character which enable you to meet the duties of life. The good player becomes the good citizen, so play fair.

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'1 .6 2-l-.,.,, 1' ' 1 ,, f' ff fr' ..f?.1f'ff4z a.ez5 - - , : LTRM .:- fm u tm - - All of us during our lifetime have re- ceived the benefits St. Paul has to offer. Our city has provided facilities for our education, and playgrounds for our entertainment. We have taken all, but have given nothing. Soon we shall have reached that stage in our lives where it is time that we should give our share toward the development of this city. We are the future builders and citizens of the city of St. Paul, and we must be prepared to assume our places in all civic affairs. Our city depends on us to ull the gaps left by those who have passed on. Our first duty, or privilege, rather, is that of citizenship, in this relationship there are two kinds of attitudes, that of the knocker and that of the booster. ln which class are we to be placed? Are we to be in the former, where we will be a liability, or in the latter, where we will be an asset? There is no middle course, as we must be either the one or the other. As it is with our lives, so will our city be what we make it. Let us first discuss the question of our obligations to this city. Our first con- nection along this line will be that of a voter. Only in the spring biennial elec- tions do some people, in fact most peo- ple, take any interest in politics. We, as fixture citizens, will be expected to use our franchise rights in a good, clean, hon- est, proper use of the ballot. lt seems unbelievable that many persons have to be urged to vote at the present time. We ought to make use of this privilege for which men have struggled and sacrihced much. Yet today that spirit of indiffer- ence is one of the hardest problems we have to contend with. It has hindered the progressive spirit and makes possible for the lower element of the city to carry on those things we are fighting against. Every one knows that good clean govern- ment is needed, and the present citizens look upon us as the material from which to build a bigger and better St. Paul. Not only has this spirit of indifference prevailed in our political life, but it has also crept into our industrial develop- ment. Great civic bodies have been formed for a better St. Paul, and they have struggled hard to get all the citi- zens interested in public affairs. But it seems as though that, when an institu- tion arises to accomplish a definite pur- pose, the people immediately withdraw their active support, and leave the insti- tution to go ahead alone. Time and time again we have found that that spirit of indifference has allowed some improve- ments, such as the movement for better schools, to slip past us. On the other hand, we need not go far to see what a spirit of co-operation has done to inject some energy into the body of the St. Paul Association. The members assisted by numerous smaller associations, staged on january llth, a program for the burial of this spirit of indifference and its consequent slogan, 'Let George do it. How often that re- mark has indicated our spirit of political laziness! And, since this spirit was detri- mental to our civic prosperity, we had to bury him and substitute the word co- operation. ln conclusion, l want to bring out an idea of what other people think about the city of St. Paul and its citizens. ln a recent issue of Collier's magazine we find the statement that this city could and ought to be one of the largest in the Northwest. This article went on to say that, if the people would only go ahead, and develop all the natural resources of which this city is possessed, St. Paul would spring up to the level it should have reached long ago. Any person reading this article would immediately draw the conclusion that our citizens are ruled by the spirit of indifference. Are we, the future builders and boosters of the city of St. Paul, going to let the spirit of indifference brand us as sluggards, when we could make this city the biggest and best city in the Northwest?

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