Bayless High School - Oracle Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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The Board of Education MR. HANS HAACK Vice-Presflflent MR. ADOLPH WEBER Treamrer '- MR. FRED VASEL fu ' Sk'

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The Boardfof Education ' MR. HUGO GOSS President MR. OTTO GESTRING Secretary MR. LOUIS HENLEY Member SN 95

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In 5NIemoriam They Died Before They Had zz Chance to Live for What They Were Fighting F0r A regiment of soldiers was marching to the rhythmic staccato throb of a drum. All were in step, that is, all but one. He marched alone. He marched irrespective of all the others. He walked alone. Nor did it seem to upset the delicate balance of the precision necessary in any parade. His immediate officer was about to reprimand him when an intelligent and imaginative superior officer checked him. Let him alone, he said, he hears another drum. Another clrtun-to which all men of good faith, to which all men who have displayed that great love of which it has been said, Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. Mortal man neither hears nor marches to that drum. Its pitch only reaches the few-the select few. Within the past year five blue stars in the Bayless Service Flag gradualy changed hues and shades and gold stars replaced the poignant blue. This is the time-the time that all men of good Will, no matter where they are found, prayed would never come-the time when death stills one drum and lets in the sound of the other. At times like these, men ponder over the problem of what man has made of man. Men seem to become lost in the inexplicable march of events. But from this chaos,