Joplin High School - Joplimo Yearbook (Joplin, MO)

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anis Most Enduring Works Are ot of tone and Mortar . . tPasque Dieu! but what are these books of yours?' 'K KHere is one,' replied the Archdeacong and opening the window of his cell, he pointed to the mighty Cathedral of Notre-Dame, the black silhou- ette of its two towers, its stone sides, and its huge roof sharply outlined against the starry sky, and looking like an enormous two-headed sphinx crouching in the midst of the city. t'For some moments the Archdea-con contemplated the gigantic edifice in silence, then, sighing deeply, he pointed with his right hand to the print- cd book lying open on his table, and with his left to Notre-Dame, and cast- ing a mournful glance from the book to the church. tAlas!' he said. 'This will destroy that . . . the book will destroy the edifice!! . . . Our fair readers must forgive us if we halt a moment here and endeavour to unearth the idea hidden under the Archdeacon's enig- matical words: 'This will destroy That. The Book will destroy the Edificef To our mind, this thought has two aspects. In the first place it was a view pertaining to the priest-it was the terror of the ecclesiastic before a new force-printing. It was the servant of the dim sanctuary, scared and dazzled by the light that streamed from Gutenberg's press. It was the pul- pit and the manuscript, the spoken and the written word quailing before the printed word-something of the stupefaction of the sparrow at behold- ing the Heavenly Host spread their six million wings . . . But underlying this thought-the first, and no doubt the less complex of the twofthere was, in our opinion, a second, . . . pertaining no longer exclusively to the priest, but to the scholar and the artist likewise. It was a prclnonition that human thought, in changing its outward form, was also about to change its outward mode of expressiong that the domi- nant idea of eanch generation would, in future, be embodied in a new ma- terial, a new fashion, that the book of stone, so solid and so enduring, was to give way to the book of paper, more solid and more enduring still . . . Now which of these two arts, we ask, represents in truth the course of human thought during three centuriesg which of the two transmits, expresses, not only its fleeting literary and scholastic fashions, but its vast, profound, all-embracing tendencies? Which of the two has fitted itself like a skin, without a crease or gap, over that thousand-footed, never-resting monster, the human race? Architecture or Printing? Printing. Let no one mistake . . . Every Cathedral represents a milhon. lmagine now the sums necessary for the rewriting of tha.t archi- tectural tome, for those countless edifices to spread once more over thc land . . . A hook takes so little time in the making, costs so little, and ca.n reach so far. VVhat wonder that human thought should choose that path? Though this is not to say that architecture will not, from time to time, put forth some splended monument, some isolated master-piece. There is no reason why, under the reign of printing, we should not, some time or other, have an obelisk constructed, say, by an entire army out of melted cannon, as, under the reign of architecture, we had the Iliads, the Romants, the Mahabahratas, and the Nibelungen, built by whole nations with the welded fragments of a thousand epics. The great good fortune of possess- ing an architect of genius may befall the twentieth century, as Dante came to the thirteenth. But architecture will never again be the social, the col- lective, the dominant art. The great epic, the great monument, the great masterpiece of mankiind will never again he built, i't will be printed. -from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo. 14

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The oar ot Education The Board of Education is composed of public-spirited eitizens who have made gen- erous Contributions to the development of education in our city. ln them is vested the final poliey-deterinining power of the Joplin sehools. Problems sueh as the raising of publie sehool revenue, the planning of building pro- grruns, maintenanee of buildings and equip- ment, the purchase of supplies, and the se- leetion of at Well-trained faculty equipped to render the best possible seryiee are only 21 few of the many which the Board of Edueu- tion has solved wisely and well. lVe owe theni Z1 debt of gratitude for their uneeasing efforts for improvement, for their loyal support, and for their sueeess in main- taining an excellent sehool system of xyhieh we are justly proud. ln the above pieture of il Board meeting, reading' from left to right, are: Mr. Herbert lVheeler, Memberg Mr. Charles VVells, Mem- berg Mr. lf. A. lilliott, Superintendent of Sehoolsg Mr. S. A Harris, President of the Hozirdg Mrs. Etta IS. Garloek, Seeretaryg Miss Fern Gray, Clerkg Mr. Cliff K. Titus, Meni- ber: Mr. Clifford Casey. Kleniber. 16