Auburn High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Auburn, NE)

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SCARLET AND GREEN 5 of the cadet company, President of his class, and represented the A. H. S. in the Inter-High School debate, in which contest the A. H. S. was on the winning side. Since graduating here in 1903, he has been teaching in his home town. He is now at the head of the Johnson public schools. THE FOUNDING OF SCARLET GREEN “I had a dream, That was not all a dream.” The legend of Scarlet and Green has always remained a mystery. Few know the story of the origin of this journal, and those few have now passed from the balcony of school life in which they were then standing into the large auditorium of life. To Walter H. Kiechel, ’03, there came a dream which was not all a dream—the dream of an Auburn High School paper. Having secured the consent of the faculty to establish such an enterprise, Mr. Keichel consulted with his classmate, C. Ray Gates, editor then of ‘‘High School Notes,” and between these THE QUESTION SPEECH OF T. R. Lady President, honorable judges, friends and fellow studentsBefore going to my main debate I must stop to answer a few of my opponents points. They tell you it is morally wrong to take territory. Was it wrong when we took Louisiana or any of the like territories? My opponents learned today in Civics that the United States will be the greatest colonizing nation of the world. They tell us we will have to go to China to get territory to annex. What about Canada right at our own door? They tell us that what has proven so good in the past will not prove so in the future. How else can we judge the future, except by the past? They say England has failed in India. What nation ever did a grander work than England has for India? They tell us that the people we can now annex are an inferior race. Are the Canadians of an inferior race? Then it is not how to annex Canada, but if Canada were annxed would it be for our best interests? They tell us of the extra expense to the govern- two the plans were made and the editorial staff selected. The naming of the new journal was left-to Mr. Gates, who decided that it should be called, “Scarlet and Green”—taking the name from the colors of the school: scarlet signifying fervency, and green, growth. The staff of the paper for the first year consisted of Walter Kiechel as editor-in-chief, with Ray Gates, Carl Riesenberg, Gertrude Tyler and John Hanna as associate editors and E. Fritz Slagle as business manager, who later resigned and was succeeded by Elmer Dovel, through whose efficient management the paper was made a financial success, paying all of its own expenses. The paper has now grown into a healthy youngster of nearly three volumes, having increased in size, circulation and literary merit far beyond the widest expectations of its promoters. May its future success be unbounded; may it ever continue to ride safely over the tempestuous financial sea, upon which so many similar publications are lost—is the wish of its founders. OF EXPANSION P. STOCKER, ’05. ment in having more colonies. My friends, the annexation of Canada would give the United States more revenue than the extra expense to the government could possibly be. Then the commercial advantages would over-balance any expense in the governing of these territories. They tell you Rome fell because of their immense territory. Rome’s fall was caused, not by her immense territory, but by her people degenerating morally. They tell you of the terrible expense in keeping our island colonies. Honorable judges, every island colony United States has taken has paid for the cost. Both Porto Rico and the Hawaiin islands are now self-supporting and the United States has much commerce with them both. Before the war with Spain United States’ vessels carried only ten per cent of the Porto Rican trade, but now they carry eighty per cent of it. Even the Philippines which were taken as the inevitable result of the war with Spain, although they have not as yet paid all the

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4 SCARLET AND GREEN GEORGE EDWARD JANES, ‘04. Ned Janes, as he is familiarly known, graduated in 1904. He was president of his class during the Senior year and is now Vice-President of the Alumni Association. Since graduating he has been connected with the Juilmore-Aimitrong Co., in their clothing department. MISS ANNA FURLONG, ’93. Miss Furlong graduated from the A. H. S. in 1893, and since that time has been actively connected with the public schools of Auburn, at present being one of the teachers at the Antioch ward building. Miss Furlong is an active member of the Alumni Association, boing one of the few older members who still takes an interest in school and alumni affairs. She is the secretary-treasurer of the Alumni Association. C. RAY GATES, ’03. Ray Gates graduated with the class of 1903. During his Junior and Senior years he was editor of the “High School Notes, t published in the Herald. When Scarlet and Green was started, he was an associate edi- tor and one of its backers. He is the present Alumni editor of this journal. Since graduation he has been employed as one of the clerks at the Missouri Pacific station in this city. WALTER H. KEICHEL, ’03. Walter Kiechel after his graduation from the Johnson High School in 1901 came to the A. H. S. and entered the Junior year, and quite soon became a leader in high school affairs. During his Senior year, he was captain

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6 SCARLET AND GREEN cost to the government, yet they have been of great advantage to the United States commercially. For in 1897 the imports of the Philippines were in round figures $6,000, -000 from Spain, $1,000,000 from England, $1,000,000 from Germany, some from other nations while from the United States, $2,-000,000. In 1903 this was changed to only $700,000 from Spain, $300,000 from England, $150,000 from Germany, while the imports from the United States had increased from $2,000,000 to $12,000,000. Was not the transferring of this great amount of trade from these nations to the United States of great commercial advantage? My opponents spoke of imperialism as a result of taking more territory. Why should not the present generaiton enjoy opportunities similar to those furnished our fahters by the acquisition of Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mexico, and California? The suggestion that the acquisition of territory is imperialism is refuted by the fact that neither Jefferson, Monroe, Jackson, Polk, nor any of their associates were ever called imperialists. The imperialism they advanced made homes for liberty-loving and self-governing citizens, whose loyalty to the United States was not exceeded by even that of the thirteen original colonies. If to assist the people of the Philippines to establish self-government after Jefferson’s own plan is imperialism, then Jefferson was the pioneer imperialist. But what is imperialism? It is the soverign rule without law. It is government by personal will. Where law exists imperialism does not and cannot exist. Even the president has no power, except through law. In considering whether to annex a territory we must ascertain if it is geographically, commercially and politically so situated as to be of value to us if annexed. If our interests are vitally concerned; if weare so situated that our commercial relations are as state to state; and we find that a closer relationship will be of advantage to us as a country and a people., then most assuredly we have a right to claim the annexation of such territory. Let us consider what expansion has done for the United States and what we would have been but for expansion. At the time of our independence we were only thitreen small states. Our territory on the west extended only to the Mississippi. Spain had Florida, all west of the Mississippi, and controlled both banks of that river at its mouth. Under these conditions could the United States have become the powerful nation she is today? Would there not have been endless conflicts with Spain over the Mississippi and the adjoining territory? We could not long remain in so small a space. Soon came the great purchase of Louisina in 1803, from France for the trifling sum of $15,000,000. This is less than what one per cent of the agricultural products of that country are now worth in a single year. Out of this vast territory, which is larger than the entire original thirteen colonies at the time of their independence, has been made fourteen grand states, the majority of which stood loyally by the North in the civil wai. These states were of the greatest importance in preserving the Union. They now produce fifty per cent of all the wheat grown in the United States and they abound in live stock, wool, cotton, dairy products, mineral wealth and many other things of great value. The Grecian states performed many remarkable feats of colonization, but each colony, as soon as created became en- , tirely independent of the mother country, and in after years was just as apt to prove its enemy as its friend. Rome took the exact opposite and expanded her rule over the entire civilized world, but gave no room whatever, for local liberty or self-government. Our expansoin over Louisiana not only avoided these errors of both Greece and Rome, but gave the world a new idea. The nations of Europe up to that time had treated their colonies, not as self-governing equals, but as subjects. The United States divided its new territory into states and admitted them on equal rights with the old. Then came the successive acquisitions of Florida from Spain in 1819, Texas in 1845, the territory ceded by Mexico in 1848, in 1853 the Gadsden purchase and the Pacific west in 1846, ’48 and ’53. All indicated that the next step would be the absorption of Canada, but this was for the time delayed by the civil war. Later, in 1867, Alaska was ceded to the United States by Russia. Now Canada is one piece of territory which it would be to the best interests of the people of the United States to annex. It is so situated that the value to us geo-ographically, commercially, and politically. The commercial relations are such as that of one state with that of another. My opponents may tell you that under the Monroe