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

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ALUMNI NOTES. LORA BIGGS. ’08. CLASS OF 1887. Nelda Gross (Wilson), Atwood, Illinois. Josie Atwell (Caldwell), El Centro, California. CLASS OF 1888. Nora Atwell, stenographer, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Wilhelmine Kaiser (Chapman), Spring-dale, Montana. Ida Davis Yuell), teacher, Fort Payne, Alabama. Lydia Biggs, primary teacher, Atwood, Illinois. Bertha Read Wiley , Decatur, Illinois CLASS OF 1891. Ethel White (Stevenson', Atwood, Illinois. Mary Abrams (Munson', Alva, Oklahoma. Bertie Atwell (Erhardt), Los Angeles, California. Maude Easton (Smith), Atwood, Illinois. Ray Coddington, dentist, Litchfield, Illinois. Albert Shonkwiler, carpenter, Atwood Illinois. Theodore Bercher, alderman, Urbana, Illinois. Henry Gross, U. S. weather bureau, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Walter Easton, A. B„ deceased. Gertie Helton, deceased. Herman Bercher, traveling salesman, Urbana, Illinois. Robert Bercher, salesman, Mangum, Oklahoma. Della Grove (Plough), Cranville, Illinois. Bertie Helton (Hughes), North Yakima, Washington. CLASS OF 1893. Edith Wrightsman (Read), Tuscola, Illinois. Ella Gross (Traver), Decatur, Illinois. Rosa Hansc (Messenger', teacher, Council Bluff, Iowa. Sophia Gross, telephone operator, Atwood, Illinois. Marguerite Wrightsman (Flora), South Haven, Michigan. Theodore Gross, assistant bank cashier, Atwood, Illinois. Alfred Helton, M. D., North Yakima, Washington. CLASS OF 1894. Samuel Wrightsman, deceased. Edna White, telephone operator, Atwood, Illinois. Lenona Abrams (Gross), Chattanooga, Tennessee. Albert Gross, musician, en route. Pearle Dawson (Warren), Minneapolis, Minnesota. Cora Riley (Murphy), Areola, Illinois. Thwaite Abrams, advertising manager Decatur Drug Co., Decatur, Illinois. John Meeker, bookkeeper, Wichita, Kansas. Jurdy Hughes, traveling salesman for the Diamond Match Co., Chicago, Illinois. CLASS OF 1896. Daisy Burnett (Erhardt) Atwood, Illinois. Edward Wrightsman, M. D., South Chicago, Illinois. Katherine Erhardt, stenographer, Chicago, Illinois. Alex Bercher, The Connecticut Insurance Co., Atwood, Illinois. Vollie Smith, teacher, Holtville, California. Alton Shonkwiler, farmer, Alberta, Canada. Frank Erhardt, deceased. Burton kMoss, minister, Marion, Illinois. Fred Latch, state’s attorney, Shelby county, Shelbyville, Illinois.

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to overcome, namely, the objection of the military party, inspired in many cases by the sincerest motives, that permanent peace would result in effeminacy and the gradual disintegration of our national moral fiber. Some of the most profound thinkers of our time believe that permanent peace is undesirable for the reason that without militarism we should lose the old elements of army disc pline, of heroism, self-sacrifice, hardihood, valor, courage, manliness and devotion to duty. We must admit t at there is a vast deal of truth in th i argument. In fact, this is t':e one argument for war which the pea e party seems not fully to have gras ed Certainly they have not answered it Now if we admit the soundness of their argument—and we are (on-straine 1 to do so—then it behooves us who sincerely desire the universal reign of peace, to cast a' out for some system of retaining and develo. ing tiie hardy virtues of warfare which may serve in this respect as a su’ st -tute for war. Suppose we should take the youth of our country at a certain age and organize them into bands, just a we now organize them into compane •• end regiments, which are to battle with nature. Give them a chance to make good on fishing and ife-saving vessels, in coal mines on the pubic ro ds, in the forests, in digging tunu ds, or any honorable labor. Here they m ght have the ideas of order, discinl no, courage, hardihood and manliness; in other words, the military viit”es. in corpo rated in their minds. Tlvy would come out of such service with higher ideals, with deeper sympathy for all mankind and with a hardier moral fiber. The late Prof. W iliam James has said: “If there were in- stead of a military conscription a on-scription of the whole youthful population to form for a few years a art of the army enlisted against nature, i would preserve in the midst of a pacific civilization the manly virtues which the military party is so afraid of seeing disappear in peace.” Even without such a plan it is not likely that the virtues of war will become totally extinct, for the work of the world rest • and ever will rest on courage, devotion to duty and self-sacrifice. It is the vices of militarism that will pass with the passing of war. Nevertheless, some such plan as we have proposed as a substitute for war may not be entirely without merit, an I though revolutionary, would require no greater change in public opinion than has often taken place in the past. Consider the revolution in popular thought which made possible the transition from the old handicraft stage of industry to the modern age o ' machinery, or the change from religious intolerance to religious tolerance, or the change from benevolent despotism to popular sovereignty. And. even though “the march of the human mind is slow,” we can afford to wait patiently for such a change, which when finally effected, will usher in a new day of peace on earth, good will toward men. In the meantime let u- do all in our [lower in every practical wav to bridge over this interval between the darkness and turmoil of the waring night and the glory and splendor of the peaceful day. Let us see to it that the I’nited States at least takes her place where she properly belongs, at the head of the nations in their march to universal peace. If we. as individuals •nd as a nation, do our part, then perhaps it will not be quite necessary to “Dio into the future as far as human eye can see,” to construct for us a vision of peaceful days to come, and of conditions not yet existent. Then ma the '’hion of the poet be realized in its fnl'est and final sense, “In the parliament of man, the Federation of the world.”

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CLASS OF 1898. Lena Gross, teacher, Atwood, Illinois. Della Weatherly (Shelburn), Canadian, Texas. Sadie Huff, Atwood, Illinois. Maude Merritt 'Jolly), Bloomington, Illinois. Julia Gross, Atwood, Illinois. CLASS OF 1899. Virena Mcsbarger 1 Hilgenberg), Tuscola, Illinois. Jessie Wiley, milliner, Atwood, Illinois. Jacob Kamm, deceased. CLASS OF 1900. Blanche Benner Pierson), Pierson, Illinois. Clarabelle Cook Hueckle), Vancover, Washington. Pearle Erhardt, deceased. Ethel Heath, teacher, Terre Haute, Indiana. Bertha Marshall (Merritt), Atwood, Illinois. Walter Hassig, manager St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company, Toppenish, Washington. Clarence Marshall, overseer of wholesale fruit company, Kansas City, Kansas. Alfred Gross, student of Harvard college, Ca.r. bridge, Massachusetts. CLASS OF 1901. Lillis White, clerk, Atwood, Illinois. Zeph Merritt, mail carrier, Atwood, Illinois. Olive Wrightsman (Gott), Natchitoches, Louisiana. Nora Richey (Erhardt 1, Pierson,Illinois. ( harles Sipe, mail carrier, Atwood, Illinois. CLASS OF 1902. Nelle White (Goldman), Tuscola, Illinois. Maude Murrell (Garrett), Atwood, Illinois. Walter Erhardt, bookkeeper, St. Louis, Missouri. Clara Rideout, stenographer, Freeport, Illinois. Susie Albers t Kensel), Perry Hall, Illinois. Anna Gross (Von Lanken), Arthur, Illinois. CLASS OF 1903. Elpha Smitson, music teacher, Atwood, Illinois. Joseph Hilgenberg, farmer, Pierson, Illinois. Ralph Blackwell, Sacramento, California. Bess Archer (Finefield), Urbana, Illinois. CLASS OF 1904. John Merritt, blacksmith, Atwood, Illinois. Myrtle Erhardt, Atwood, Illinois. Leah Sipe, music teacher, Atwood, Illinois. Olive Bailey ' Hopper), North Yakima, Washington, Charles Erhardt, mail carrier, Atwood, Illinois. Lee Kirby, stenographer, Decatur, Illinois. Lillian Hassig, trained nurse, St. Luke’s hospital, Chicago, Illinois. CLASS OF 1906. Meda Gross, Monticello, Illinois. Margaret Keener (Henry). St. Louis, Missouri. Ralph Randall, chef, Beach House, Tuscola, Illinois. Tena Day (Hammett), Tuscola, Illinois. Bertha Archer, stenographer, Indianapolis, Indiana. Harry Bishop, Atwood, Illinois. CLASS OF 1907. Vivian Drew (Means), Chicago, Illinois. Margaret Morgan, teacher, Atwood, Illinois. Laura Wrightsman ( Miller ), Rochester, Indiana. Hairison Fahrnkoph, student of University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. Clyde Clingan, operator, Keyes, 111.