St Rose Academy - Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP Its Advantages and Obhqatlons HAVE always been tna tlcful that I am an Amertcan but I never fully real1zed all the benefrts I emoy as a crtrzen of the Unrted State unt1l I started to enumerate them When only a chtld I learned how to pledge allegrance to our flag Trme and trme agam I heard the stones of the great men of our natlon I loved Amerlca because I had been taught to love her and for no other reason As 1 grew older and learned more about our government I found new reasons for that love of my country I came 1n contact w1th people who had l1ved rn fore1gn nattons and who had renounced therr allegrance to these natlons to become Amencan cmzens These people had suffered under thelr former rulers and now fully apprecrated the wonderful country m whlch they were allowed to ltve Thelr enthuslasm brought to me an Amertcan born cltrzen the full TGCI11ZCtllOIl of all the beneftts I moy IH thts capaclty The country ln whrch I l1ve 1S a democracy the hlghesf form of pO11l1CG1 orgamzauon We ourselves are the guardrans of our own llberty and happt ness We are granted lrberty to l1ve our hzes wrthout umust or tyranmcal re stnctrons We may speak our thoughts freely worshrp as we please and hold our property free from fear of confrscatlon or 1nvas1on The lfberty we en1oy however IS a lrberty under law W'e all prlde ourselves on the part we have m the malcmg of the laws under whlch we llve Nerther our Federal nor our State laws may deprlve any person of llfe l1berty or property wrthout due process of law Under our COI'1Sl11L111OH ana the B111 of Fhghts we emoy every prtvllege possrble rn a unlfed natlon In return for all these pnvlleges we have a moral obllgatlon to our coun try It IS our duty always to uphold the honor of our own Umted States We should all be true cmzens takmg an actlve part m our gow ernment by votlng tn all the elecuons As Amencas commg generatron we the youth of thls great naflon should pledge ourselves to study her past hrstory w1th d1l1gence m order that we may Judge her present polrcres w1th understandmg and meet her future problems w1th courage Qutslde of th1s and 1n obedlence to self rmposed law our government demands our alleglance Thls 1 but a mall pn o to pay for the securlty and llberty lt offers Margaret Wall 41 I ALI 1 ' V 1 . . 1 . ll Y O1 - 1 - 1 , . - 1 - 1 , V . 1 1 1 .X . 1 . - - 1 1 1 1 - - 1 1 1 . . 1 1 . . , I 1 , 1 1 1 . . , f 1 1 1 . 1 . 1 -1 F 1 O1 . . S S C , f 1 W 1 - . , 1 1, . . 1, ,. , 1 1. M1l,N1 . - .1115

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THE DIAMOND X 5 OIVIE lives are bound up in superstition and lore which often take form in their religion and other beliefs Some of these are connected with our family traditions and even the most unbelieving of LQ humans at one time or another feel these influences I do not mean to say that the story I relate is taken from a chain of coin cidences or has been comured by my imagination There may or may not have been any connecting link with the story of the diamond and the fate of Harmony Locke Harmony and I had always been the best of friends We had grown up together in the town of Shorewood and our lives had always been interwoven Perhaps it was our nearness to each other that led me to follow her to Spain and there find the tragic end to our friendship Harmony the name didn t suit her any more than the life that had been planned for her by her parents Her father and mother had musical inclina tions and they felt that the baby daughter should be named to suit the voca tion they had planned for her Although sne had the best in the way of a musical education still she lacked the feelina for music and often I found her in tears bitterly disgusted with the hours of practice forced upon her The name did not suit her disposition e ther for although she was the dearest person l knew she seemed to be made up of a dozen different conflicting emotions due to the fact that she had forced upon her a life that was in complete con trast with her nature She wanted to be an actress but her family had resolved that she would be a musician When Harmony s parents were killed in an automobile accident I thought that at last Harmony would be freed from their influences She loved them dearly and I have very seldom seen a family so attached to each other but when the question of Harmony s career was mentioned they would not relent on this subject They honestly believed she had talent and it was their desire that Harmony be famous To my great surprise and to Harmonys life was not changed by her parents unfortunate death Her Grandmother decided to carry on and to see that Harmony fulfilled the trust that had been placed in her It was this Grandmother that had given her on her sixteenth birthday the diamond pendant The setting was antique silver and placed in the middle was the diamond I am no expert on diamonds yet everyone who saw it said that it was fascinating How it glittered and sparlfled and arrested one s at tentionl Its cool depths cast a mystic spell and the changing shadows in it glided mysteriously across its watery deepness There had been a legend about it as 1t had been in the family for years Her Grandmother could recall the superstition vaguely yet she thought it had something to do with a curse on the person who possessed it and who revolted against tradition and family PAGE TN fEN l Y LIGHI . 1 . and she seemed to be fighting a battle within herself. This may have been