Soldan High School - Scrip Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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., .1-,-,-:QL '-g?f ' efigf 'i ' f GJ' - QQ,-:--i f?- ':7 The New Democracy HE trumpet calls of war have stirred the world for four years. Every great advance in civilization has been the direct result of war. The gain in this war has been the downfall of autocracy. The service star in the flag of civil- ization is the New Democracy. A Autocracy had its birth among savages, where the chiefs had supreme rule. Notwithstanding the progress of the ages, autocracy has never lost its savage fangs. This war has not only bared those fangs, but has buried them under the ruins of fallen thrones. 'ljgi ,L W - ,nys , P13 I- ' 4 .6 M, - .1141 all I Q4--7 America lighted the torch, which after more than a century blazed into the ideal of the New Democracy. Why did the Pilgrims leave England? Because they were oppressed and they hungered for free- dom, their own freedom. Why does this great nation recall with pride its kinship to that little band? Because they based their government not upon might but upon justice and right. In the present war to what country was the appeal made by both friend and foe for deliverance from the monster war? It was not to an autocracy but to a great democracy. Still, with all democracy had accomplished, it failed to prevent this terrible war. But out of its horrors had been wrought the ideals, embodied in a new democracy. So great is the scope of the new democracy that to attempt its definition belittles expression. We may call it freedomg we may call it prayer, we may call it soul growthg we may call it chivalry of man to man. It is all these. It has been truly said, There is nothing quite so wonderful in human history as this spectacle of America taking the high place on the judgment seat of the nations, and taking it not by right of might but by might of right. The love of freedom implanted in every heart finds expression in a desire for a voice in government. This, democracy gives. The New Democracy gives much more. It must give equal rights and privileges to all. And let us sketch the preamble to this new bill of rights. We, the people of all the sovereign and self-determined states of the world, in order to prevent the recurrence of this world catastrophe, to establish justice, promote universal tranquillity, and to secure to ourselves and our posterity the blessings of liberty, do ordain and establish this Consti- tution for the United States of the world. The articles of this consti- tution are being drawn up at Versailles, and President Wilson has given to the body there sitting, the fourteen basic principles. One of this council's first tasks will be to satisfy the labor element. Labor, the basis of democracy, is a seething cauldron of discontent, expressed in strikes and riots. The Bolshevists, its I. W. W.'s, the 7

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4-a-f-1:r- Q - ' .f-A Q ggi Q-' - f-'--a, ,,f2w-34-F-e:,,f Qkis-:flea Program Processional-March from Athalia Mendelssohn Soldan Orchestra My Country, 'Tis of Thee Hail to the Heroes Verdi The Class The New Democracy Elizabeth Barrere Dougherty March of the Gladiators Pucin The Mandolin Club The Poet of Democracy Frances Vivian Feldkamp The Bugle Call of Freedom White The Chaminade Club A War Definition Gertrude M. Kehl Freedom for All Forever Hilliam Clyde G. Bassler A League of Nations Milton Yawitz To an Allied Soldier Strickland Adelaide Louise Kalkman The Returning Soldier Helen A. Wood America, the Beautiful Bates The Class and Audience The Man with a Vision Ellwood Dexter Adams The Bedouin Song Rogers The Glee Club The Great Adventure -A Message with a Foreword Benjamin Marx Loeb Presentation of the Class to the Board of Education Mr. john Rush Powell Principal Soldan High School Response and Presentation of Diplomas Dr. john M. Grant Member Board of Education Awarding of the Washington University Scholarship Mr. W. J. S. Bryan Assistant Superintendent of Instruction Recessional-Military March Tennanf Soldan Orchestra s

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Spartacans, are all symptoms of a diseased body politic which needs the surgeon's lance. Labor makes unreasonable demands, but it has suffered much. The New Democracy demands that labor shall partic- ipate in the vast profits of capitalg that it shall sit down to the table of tempting things the world offersg that it shall share in all the precious offerings man has from the beginning greatly desired. But it shall share and not sit at the feast alone. Our New Democracy must in a word harmonize mercantile rela- tionship. It must give to brain, to brawn, to capital what each merits. This new ideal opposes secret diplomacy, advocates freedom of the seasg it-aims to make sacred and unbreakable the international rights of nations. It aims the carrying into practice the universal br0t1'1CI'l'l00d of mang its ultimate hope is a League of Nations. The New Democracy, if lived up to, will wield a greater power than the combined autocracies of the ages. America is to develop this ideal for the world. We have more resources at our command than any other nation. Our ever increasing populationg our great wealth: our abundance of material resourcesg our wonderful energy, or our so- called Yankee spirit, these powers have been given us not for our own aggrandizement, but for the betterment of the world. We can't go back to the selfish days e'er ever the war began: Our men have died on the battlefield for the rights of their fellowman. And if some shall whisper of narrow terms or wrangle for sordid gain, New tyrants shall shatter the peace we make and the dead shall have died in vain. We have fought and won a war. We have made a New Democ- racy. Our chosen messenger has carried our slogan across the seas. All the newly awakened peoples are chanting it. We hope that it may sink deeply into their souls and set the world free. -Elizabeth Barrere Dougherty. The Poet ofDemoc1'acy OETRY endures because it is integrally woven with man's real existence. It aspires to sustain the nobler part of QQ man during crises. It mirrors the life of the world. It , -' indirectly suggests the idea of democracy and the su- 'ig-i Jf premacy of the individual. Besides, poetry itself has be- come a democrat, a producer of Democrats. Richard Wagner tells us that the artist, poet and musician of the future is to be-the People. But who is to be the real poet of the S