St Peters High School - Rock Yearbook (Joplin, MO)

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JASPER COUNTY ORATORICAI. CONTEST Mary Kathryn Staed is being presented awards as winner of the Jasper county ora torical contest, which was held at St PetZr's Catholic high school December 13, 19 Vernon Sigars, commander of Robert S Thurman American Legion post, which sponsors the annual contest, is givin Mary Kathryn two checks in the amount of S each One the other for taking top honors in the county Two bronze medals also were awared to her Sister Mary Daniel, R S M her teacher and also chairman of the Jasper county oratorical contest, is shown watching the presentation Mary Kathryn, by taking county honors, be came eligible to ccnmete in the district contest Compliments of Compliments of MP a2f1dyQ2,,iIf?m Caresio JOPLIN LUMBER COMPANY 13th Wall Street MA 3 3511 ' T c EM 0 5 . P N L S . E T IT 1 S 0 OF U is for winning first place in her school and T L I . I O B N . . ., E R ' T - Y

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I SPEAK FOR DEMOCRACY My first conscious thought of democracy was in the bosom of the family, living in intimate contact in a home where peace was king We, as children were never at a loss for companionship We learned at our Mother's knee to think hard feel deeply, read wisely and long to find and appreciate the heritage of simple living in the land of the free So at an early age I learned the value of democracy I have learned to share with my fellow men I learned the valuable lesson of easing friction from my teachers as they eased the sting of a complex problem Democracy is a way of life It means a lot of things to a lot of people all sharing in the benefits that go to make a better way of life for all It means freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom of the pursuit of happiness Our democracy is steeped in tradition We have our Paul Reveres our Lexington and Concord our washington Patrick Henry, and our Thomas Edison Democracy was born fighting for freedom, and will go on fighting to pre serve our way of life There were supressions on every front of our early democracy Had George III been able to take a look over in America at the time l77h, he would have seen 'minute mann by the thousands drilling with their guns and making ready to defend their country on a minutes noti e, and above all he would have seen the creating of the First Continental Congress In short King George would have realized that there were but two courses open to him to recede from his position or to make war on the continent We have heros from every walk of life, every creed and color The Consti tution of the United States, made in 1787, created the government under which we live, and is the supreme law of the land It has been pronounced the greatest document ever struck off at one time by the mind and purpose of man thus placing it above the famous English Magna Charta The men who made i were picked men sent by the various states and an abler body could not have been found anywhere Among the fifty five in number were, Benjamin Franklin George Washington James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton The birth of our democracy and its progress are forever immortalized through the Declaration of Independence Wwe hold the e truths to be self evident that all men are created equal, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness That to secure these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their Just powers from the consent of the overned, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the rlght of the people to alter or abolish it, and to instftute a new government laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such fo m as to those shall seem most likely to ect their safety and happiness Ard so it goes, our freedom to live and be governed, to sleep the sleep of the free, to breath the blessed air of the right to live in peace, to glve to our sons and daughters a heritage to che ish for all time Democracy is a quiet ng of fear that beset the best of men It is a prayer on the lips of millions It is pride in a way of life that installed within us a zest for living, a cause to stand by, and a reason to lay down our life for We have a nation that teaches us to speac with a tongue of intelligence we have a nation that fosters a love for all nations And s I speak for democracy May it reign forever 41 KF B 40fos no 7 l - , , , . v ' j ' 1 5 1 ' Q - 9 ' 9 3 -- , , 7 . . t, ' l P , , . s - : ' that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that , V . S ' , , . - 1 r , 1 eff , - .H - I' . . l s . . I -V . : J , . . o, . , -

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'And the rains descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house: and it fell not: for it was founded This Matthew applied Yes, it upon a rock.n Biblical quotation from VII, 25, can well be to our Constitution. has held out against storms within, and storms with- out for almost one hundred and seventy yearsg and it has not yet fallen or stooped to the whims of tyrants. It has met the needs of the eighteenth cen- tury, the nineteenth century, and it is now meeting the needs of the twentieth century. Its greatness comes from the ancient principles of English law: WA man's home is his cas- t1e.n That he as an individual was created by God a free man and the spirit of liberty was endowed in every man by God If the storms and rains of govern ment were allowed to tear this temple of liberty asunder, then indeed there would be no law, no freedom, no America For America and her spirit of democracy stands as a beacon light atop this Temple of Liberty, our Constitution It is in this Constitution, that the problems and interests of our nation are weighed I is here that leaders seek to understand the minds of men Liberty is spelled on its walls, telling all the rights and duties of the American citizens Here within is explained to all men that the basic principles and purpose of the Constitution is to protect individual rights The Constitution is the ablest of written guides to a government of law that the world has yet known Its greatness lies partly in the wisdom of the structure it erected, but it lies still more largely in the spirit and purpose which infuse its practical provision EIR JL -4...-L IDG FRAECKILLS MILL INF 1201 Wall MA 3 3677 s. - Tfz, v1 ir:--1! 'X-fe , E C O v ,ulh,,', eL6'Qlcg2 5v,45ASfR1E z 'UI3' : . A I. 1 . 5 N' 44 5 1 Q A5 ' .P . C S 'ln ..nKe up Here is a codument which came out of centuries of long bitter struggle of men to find a way of combining order and libertyg authority and freedom, and above all peace among men. The first Americans went to war to win peace. They declared that they exhausted every possible means to pursuade 8 tyrannical ruler to give them peace, for liberty is the essence of peace. Yes, it was with a great bal- ance and proportion that a small group of souls, our forefathers, formed a new foundation for a strong national government And they made it chrystal clear that all men are equal in the sight of God and equal under law They made it so chrystal clear that no man could doubt that all men are endowed by their Creator by cer tain inalienable rights which means that no agency, short of death, can take these rights from them Yes, my friends, there is no power on earth strong enough to deprive men of the rights God has given him For the windows and the doors of this Temple of Liberty, our Constitution, which let in the free air of democracy are the guarantees which give to each individual of America life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi ness There is no doubt that our Constitution is the security of our liberty, the guarantor of our rights If it is to be changed, it provides the method of the change We the people, and no one person, no one group have the right to change it under due pro C058 of law For our government is a government of laws, not of men The truth of the human per son is God's truth The first Americans in looking for man, found first God then they found man And on man, on the human his rights, +hey built a Temple of Liberty, oar Constitution . t . 5 . R.,5,!Qg W person, his dignity, his value, rim- as