Atwood Hammond High School - Post Yearbook (Atwood, IL)

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Post had thrown her and Fred B. together and that their after experience had made them think that theirs would be a combination that would be hard to beat. Now their business positions were similar to High School ones. Fred B. manager and Maude editor. “You know we are having a good time along with business. In the next issue we put in Senator Barber’s last speech in the Halls of Con- gress. Next summer we are goiug abroad.” During the dinner, as Mr. Barber was standing at the head of the table as host and toastmaster, he raised his glass to give a toast, and it slipped to the table with a crash. I awoke with a start at the click of the taxicab door. The chauffeur stood there holding it open, saying “Auditorium Miss, three dollars and fifty-eight cents, please.” THE SENIOR’S LAMENT. ) gee whiz, A written quiz, To make me sorrow greatly. 1 fear O! I'll get zero, For T haven’t studied lately. 'Tis done, I’ve won. Though I had to study ’till half past eight in the morning. JOHN LIVENGOOD. '10.

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tell you what I know of the others.'’ So the old time John climbed in and while we were on our way to John's factory on Michigan avenue, he told me about John Livengood and the rest of the old Atwood High School class of 1910. John Livengood, whom we all knew as a shark in school, according to rumor, is the wealthiest manufacturer of autos in the world. Only last year the sales of his factory ran up to fifteen millions. King Edward himself rides in one of John’s special makes. I was much delighted to know how successful all of (he class had been, but I knew (hat such a wonderful class could not be anything but successful. Why events in their High School career were even pointing to their destiny. See how fortunate Maude Blackwell and Fred B. Romine were in the High School Post, how Bernice Barber was showing his leadership as President of tin class, and how Geneva was fighting for her sex and all the rest. John was busy with a customer when we drove into the factory, but when he sighted us, money seemed of no object with him, for he dropped everything and came on the run. With one bound he was in the car and wringing our hands. Tears came into his eyes with the meeting of the old class mates and, after his enthusiastic greet ing, he told us some very pleasant news. “Don’t you know,” he said, “that Senator Barber four Bernice) the Fnited States Senator from this State just telephoned and said, That his wife, Golda----’ ‘Golda!’ we both ex- claimed, ‘not our Golda?’ Sure our Golda of A. II. S. ’10,” he resumed “Didn’t you know that Mrs. Barber the society leader of Washington of whom you read so much in the papers is our Golda? Senator Barber and his wife wanted me to come out for six o’clock dinner this evening. He said they had some friends they wanted me to meet, and in fact it was to be a kind of a surprise party. I don’t know who tiie people are to be except an Eastern Suffragette leader, and an Editor and wife of ‘some Evening Post.’ ‘Best magazine on earth.’ Now if he is planning a surprise on me why can’t 1 take one to him.” He ended by saying, “Driver, this car is at the service of Miss Bobinson and Mr. Van Vleet until it is dismissed. I will see you ai the Senator’s dinner.” That evening! I never spent one like it, and it is one I shall never forgot There on tin steps of the Barber mansion were drawn up in regular military phalanx, the Barber’s and familv, the Magazine people and in the rear the Suffragette leader. But who they werel That was the surprise. T’was a good thing John Livengood had warned us. Mr. Bernice Barber and Mrs. Golda Long Barber, Mr. Fred B. Itomine and Mrs. Maude Blackwell Routine, and Pearl Geneva Gross. The nervous Maude broke the silence of the awe-stricken crowd with. “Well, Dorothy Marie Robinson, what are you doing here? I thought you were abroad.” Geneva, however, was more pious and sedate and seemed more dignified. The hard work that she had endured and the many defeats she had undergone, had made quite a change on the once lively Geneva. She seemed as bad as David Warfield, a monomaniac on her profession, only the work of the woman suffragette movement seemed to be on her mind. Before she uttered a single word of welcome, she enthusiastically exclaimed, “If my life work is a failure. I will have the satisfaction of knowing that I have lived up to my convictions.” Then she broke out of her mood and became more like herself. She said, “Marie, do you realize that with your coming, the entire Atwood High School class of 1910 is here.” Hurrah for the reunion and such a reunion as we had. During the evening we learned all about each other. Maude told me how the High School

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THE PEACE MOVEMENT WINIFRED WILSON. '12. In order that we may understand some of the great forces which are bringing more and more before people a movement for a jiermanent world peace, it is necessary to know some of the causes which have led men to bat-lie with each other for so many countless years. War was a normal condition among tribes living upon food produced without effort upon their part; for, as a large amount of land was required for each tribe, their boundaries soon overlapped and they were forced to fight to keep from starving. When they came to find wavs of crossing the barriers of moun tins and bodies of water to new lands, war from lack of sufficient food was in the main part eliminated. Thus we see that the germ of the peace movement is of ancient origin. When the people rose higher in the scale (if civilization, they came to have new desires, and in place of wishing to lead a simple life they wanted something more elaborate. This gave them a feeling of unrest which caused them fought with other countries. Commerce. however, soon furnished an easier method obtaining what they lacked, and. besides having the advantage (if b'dng a less brutal wav, it brought a feeling of dependence into the relations of one country with another. This feeling of international dependence, instead of decreasing is increasing, until now we mav regard 't as one of tin forces that will help us to blot out war in the future. The desire to have one religion overcome all others and ouarrels arising from differences in opinion on relig-'ons ouestions hare caused innumerable. horrible and disastrous wars. Take for instance the Thirtv Years’ war V hen it was finallv ended bv the articles of the Peace of Westnhalia in civilization which had before progressed with such rapidity, had re- ceived a check from which it did not begin to recover for more than a cen tury. Not only had great fields and countless homes been laid waste, but thousands of people had been killed. All science, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture had been neglected. Many jteople had allowed their children to grow up in absolute ignorance while they were occupied with war. For centuries religious wars were carried on until people were worn out with trying to settle theological disputes by battle. In all places where we find men banded together, even among those of llie lowest stage of civilization, we see that there are leaders in everything. This is true in war. Throughout all these centuries, rulers either good or bad, have led men on to battle. In many cases they used all their influence to bring war about, either to obtain power or riches, or to avenge some personal grudge against private enemies. This has been one of the most horrible causes of war throughout all ages. Baroness Bertha von Suttner in her book, “Lay Down Your Arms,” expresses the wish that a leader could really see what lie was doing when he directed men to battle; for if a prince or king who thirsts for renown and wealth through war, could only stand and look down at the awful heap of mouldering dav which once represented such vast numbers of human beings, and could think how little his desire for power was worth in comparison to the number of lives sacrificed for it, he would swear undying hatred for all that pertains to war. Along with all of these conflicts have been those which were brought about bv some misunderstanding. The Soanish-American war is an example of this. When the Maine was destrov-ed in the harbor of Havana in ISOS, the United States sent out a special