Auburn High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Auburn, NE)

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SCARLET AND GREEN THEMES WRITTEN BY PUPILS OF THE A. H. S. AUTUMN. By Alma Kleckner, ’05. The leaves and grass are changing their fresh green, the flowers are all gone, and we no longer hear the songs of birds, for they have left their summer home and gone south to stay until the bright flowers and the warm sunshine shall call them back again. As one passes along the road by the woods he hears the laughing of children and on coming closer sees that they are gathering baskets of nuts. Now and then a squirrel scampers along the ground with a nut in his mouth; he too knows that summer is past and is laying by his store for winter. The fruit that once adorned ths trees is stored away in caves and cellars, and the farmer, now that the harvest time is past knows that the season for rest and merriment is at hand. C. FRIENDS. By Hattie B. Codington, ’05. Friends are one’s dearest companions; those peisons in whom one may confide all his joys and sorrows with the assurance of receiving honest, heartfelt sympathy in return. There is nothing that a true friend will not do for one, provided it be right and possible. He will not betray the confidence reposed in him. In sorrow he will grieve with you; in joy he will rejoice with you. There is an old saying: “Your mother is your best friend,” which is indeed a truth; one which many of us fail to realize. A true friend is not one who in prosperity is very, very attentive and over anixous to befriend you, but when poverty and trouble come to you will not recognize you as a friend nor offer to assist you. “A friend in need is a friend indeed.” CL Miss Lydia Barnes, a student at the Peru Normal, visited her old friends and classmates until train time, March 6th. SPRING. By Grace Holmes, ’05. “Spring has come with leaf and grass.” —Tennyson. Spring usually includes the months of March, April and May. To mo it is the most pleasant time of all the year, because the grass and trees are turning green and things are beginning to vegitate. Everybody and everything is glad that spring is here and seems to be starting in life anew. The trees show their appreciation of the warm spring days by sending their leaves out into the sunshine, and when the winds come they are so happy they keep their leaves and branches waving. The birds are returning and filling the air with their cheerful songs, and who does not feel better after listening to them? The farmers enjoy this season the best of all. They like to prepare the ground for the seed, and.like to plant the crops and to anticipate what the returns will be. It seems good to them to have the pleasure of getting tired again after the good day’s hard work and their sleep seems to do them more good. The farmers’ wives are not idle. When their housework is finished they go into the garden and plant seeds of all kinds. Some are flower seeds, but the vegetable seeds are first thought of. And last, but not least, the children are making the most of springtime. They are glad that the long, cold, winter is past and that they can once more romp and play out in the sunshine. I will say again that I think all around springs is the happiest season of the year, and the one most enjoyed by everybody and everything. CL The German pupils are undergoing regular Friday morning tests. (This explains those scared and haunted expressions you have noticed on the faces of High School pupils hurrying to school on Fridays.) The papers are always returned, marked 100 per cent or lower.

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8 SCARLET AND GREEN we did for a short time, but did not the Democratic president, Polk, in 1847 in New Mexico suppress an insurrection by force of arms? Did not Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, appoint over the Territory of Louisiana a territorial governor, a territorial judge, and a territorial marshal, without ever stopping to ask the consent of the governed? We have tranquility in the Philippines as Spain never had. We give the Philippino the first chance to enter the civil service. We have been and are educating the Philippino and there we have a sound system of money. We now have absolute religious freedom there. The United States ought to own some territory in that part of Central America where she places the Panama canal. As it is we do not own that but simply have certain rights there. This is and will be the cause of great trouble. For instance, only the other day United States government and the Panama authorities were having disputes as to which should collect the revenue. Should we not own the land on which we are spending and will spend so many millions of dollars? Certainly we should and there is another piece of territory we should annex. Now let us remember certain general facts in regard to expansion. We have greater America and Republicanism; little America and Democracy. It is no new story. In the history of every expanding race its advance has been opposed from within itself. In England there were and are little Englanders, who saw ruin in every forward march of the British Empire, that now circles the world civilization. In Germany there were little Germans who fought the consolidation of the German people. Where are all of them now? History has effaced their names from the chronicles of time. So shall it be in America and the children’s children of those who now declare that so-called imperialism is our death and not our life, will refuse to admit that their fathers advocated such a doctrine and they will refuse successfully, because the world will have forgotten the names of those who at the beginning of the twentieth century resisted the republic’s world advance. You cannot name the men who fought Jefferson’s purchase of Louisiana; they are forgotten. You cannot name the men who declared that the seizure of Texas and California was the republic’s doom; they are forgotten. You cannot name the men who declaimed against the folly of taking Alaska; they are forgotten. Yet when Jefferson’s works shall have grown dim, his capture for the republic of the vast territory which is now the republic’s heart, will be an immortal monument. When Wm. McKinley’s name remains but a beautiful memory, the empire of the Gulf and the Pacific will lift larger and larger his name as one of the few mountian heads of permanent and worldwide American statesmanship. The republic never retreats. Why should it? The republic is the highest form of civilization and civilization must advance. The republic could not retreat if it would, whatever its destiny, it must proceed. The sovereign tendencies of our race are organization and government. We govern so well that we govern ourselves. Organization means growth. Government means administration. When Washington pleaded with the states to form into a consolidated people, he was the advocate of perpetual growth. When Lincoln argued for the indivisibility of the republic, he became the prophet of •the Greater Republic. It is the splendid mission of our race to govern in the name of civilized liberty. It is ours to administer law and order in the name of human progress. It is ours to bear the torch of Christianity where darkest midnight has reigned for years. And now let us remember, as Simms has said: “The true law of the race is progress and development—whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest—it is overthrown by the barbarian. CL W. K. Fowler, ex-state superintendent of public instruction, gave an interesting address before the High School recently. Rev. W. N. Crozier, formerly a missionary to China showed the High School how the Chinese pupils study, a few days ago. In Porto Rico 1200 public schools are in operation and $700,000 a year is spent upon them. Again we welcome the season when we can play basket ball. A hall was rented, in which we might play, but the weather has been so pleasant that we have used the hall but a few times. We have nearly forgotten, all of the rules, but despite this fact have had a great deal of fun in playing.

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IO SCARLET AND GREEN j rarlet attft (Srmt CHAS. B. BARNHART EDWARD P. STODDARD Business Managers FRANK STOWELL. Editor in Chief. ASSOCIATE EDITORS Jessie Allen, Senior John Hanna. Junior Bonnie Huffman, Sophomore Varro Tyler, Freshman Otto Mutz, ’o6, Athletic Roy B. Coeur. ’05. Cadet Alex Stoddard, ’05, Literary C. Ray Gates, ’o), Alumni Subscription 25 Cents Per Year All general matter and contributions for the Literary Department should be addressed to the Editor-in-Chief, and all business communications, subscriptions, advertising, etc. to the Business Managers. Entered as second-class matter at Postoffice South Auburn, Nebrrska. March winds! c. A statistician has discovered that rope jumping causes more deaths than foot ball. Let’s stop this barbarous sport at once. CL It was surprising to know how many were so willing to be members of the literary society the evening of the final contest debate. CL We may envy some of our neighboring schools who are having their spring vacations now but the tables will turn next June. CL The decision of the judges at the final contest debates proves that Auburn has a curiosity it can brag of. It is a boy who can out-talk the girls. CL A letter from an alumnus published in a recent exchange says that the thorough work he did in his earlier school days has made his work in college much easier for him than for some of his classmates who were not very diligent in the High School. CL The last number of the Auburn Lecture course for this season has been given. By the large number of names that were handed to Prof. Simpson, Wednesday, evening it is evident that the people of Auburn have been greatly pleased with this year’s course, which is unanimously declared to be the best that has ever been given in this city. Prof. Simpson is to be congratulated on the success he has had in conducting the course alone. There is no doubt that the entertainments next year will be of as high order as those of this season have proven to be. CL We are sorely in need of more room for an athletic field. The little two-by-four lot on which the pupils of the High School have practiced for the past two decades has been outgrown. A whole vacant block or more would barely accommodate the present needs. Should the attendance of the High School increase in the next four years as it has in the last four or five, the school board will meet with a problem that they will have to solve by buying a vacant block. If the street on the east side of the school building would be closed it would be greatly appreciated by the pupils and faculty. This street is used but little, and is so close to the boulevard that it would not interfere with traffic at all. We would like to see the city council take interest in this matter, and know that if they would close the street it would prove a benefit to both the city and the schools.