Agnes Scott College - Silhouette Yearbook (Decatur, GA)

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need be, for the altainment of the right sort of peace, and who face the guns with smiling faces and brave hearts; this is our ideal and your ideal. We have not for- gotten that your protecting arms have sheltered us. For you, America, we wage this good fight. 1 I Page Ten

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Wnr ( oah iFt5l)t OBELOMlD land of our fathers, let us be of service to you in your time of great need. Do not regard us as children who are playing joyously in the sunshine, while all others are toiling unceasingly under darkened skies. From your great storehouse of rich possessions, we have taken much ; to your treasury, so heavily drawn upon today, we would return much. Do you look upon us here at this college and wonder why we have escaped the severe sacrifices which the war is exacting of so many of your daughters? Do we appear to be blessed without reason? No matter how hard the cold winds blow, we have a warm shelter. INight holds for us no terrors. With a knowledge of a day well-spent, we sleep as do little tired children, forgetful of everything, even of to- morrow. As you watch our busy, happy days fly past, you remember the things which are happening to many girls — just girls like we are, who are eager and longing for the opportunities that life should hold for them. Be just to us, dear Mother-country. Remember also that it is we who in the future can help to alleviate the suffering which darkens this other picture so firmlv implanted in your memory. We are not scarred and bleeding from warfare with a cruel enemy. We are not discouraged and overwhelmed by the sight of mutilated men and women and little children. Nevertheless, we are your soldiers — your sol- diers who, for your ideals, which are our ideals, are making a good fight. In this fight of ours there is no sound of guns booming forth triumphal mes- sages. It is a silent fight. We struggle to make this small world of ours a democ- racy which would well serve as a model for other institutions. To foster in our minds the principles of justice, of liberty and of equality which underlie your mag- nificent government, to realize definitely the significance and importance of laws, and to learn to render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar ' s, and unto God, the things which are God ' s: These are three large objective points in our campaign against an enemy more powerful than the Kaiser — ignorance. Our good fight is made up of the sum total of all the little struggles which go on in each girl ' s mind and heart. Sometimes there is a deserter from the post; but the aggregate strength of all the girls is able to keep the weaker from giving up the fight. Sometimes there are periods of depression as there are in every army, and we cannot see anything ahead for us except drudgery and a monotonous routine of duties. These dismal moods soon pass away, and we feel that the ideal for which we are struggling is worth every sacrifice. To become Americans who are capable of accomplishing tasks whose consum- mation will be of great benefit to the world, who are ready to give their lives, if Page Kine

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RANKS BULLETIN NO. 1