Boonton High School - Echoes Yearbook (Boonton, NJ)

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COUNTING THE COST Liberty has a price. In the past, for thousands. the cost was imprisonment, exile, agonizing torture, even the sacrifice of life itself. There are many who feel and who would have us believe that the cost of liberty was paid when the War for Independence was ended and the Constitution was adopted. Be not deceived. As long as democracy enaures, so long will there be an obligation which each of us must meet if freedom is to be maintained. It is very much like the building of a factory. When the building has been erected and the machinery installed, the obligations have .just begun. Supplies must be purchased, men must be put tc work, production must be started and maintained, ana the products must be distributed. As long as the factory remains in operation, so long must men contribute something—time, energy, thought, money, cooperation, loyalty—to keep It running. Democracy. to be maintained, likewise requires support. If freedom of thought and speech are to endure, we must labor to train an intelligent, open-minded, and tolerant oitizenry. If law and order shall prevail, we must develop a society of men and women who ape masters of themselves. In industry, if honest wages for honest work shall be a part of our social order, if agitation and sabotage shall be outlawed as they deserve to be, we will need to produce generations of men who have learned tte real value of cooperative effort and who understand the true meaning of social prosperity. The toll exacted for this is self discipline, unlimited sacrifice, earnest study and strenuous toil. Wen will have to be willing to follow when they prefer to lead, to undertake publio service without remuneration to accept criticism and fatigue as rewards for wearying hours devoted to publio interest, to place devotion to duty ahead of friendship and desire. The price is high, but it is worth the oost nto secure for us and our posterity the blessings of liberty. (?. £ r-ye- PERSONALITY One hundred fifty years ago the Continental Congress asked the thirteen 'states to send representatives to a Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. How widely separated they ware in distance is shown by the fact that they were tc meet May 14, but some were not able to reaon there before May 26. How widely separated they were in opinions is shown by the faot that their meetings lasteo ail through that hot summer. Eaoh member had some pet or sectional idea; the result was fiery debate and ulti- mate compromise. That was one hundred fifty years ago. Still in those months of hot., sultry weather, those men were building winning personalities for themselves. Apply the rules H. J. Klinger gives today for building personality); see if these delegates did not pass with high marks. He says: 1. Learn to get along with people. 2. Learn to exhibit more patience than any other man you know. . 3. Learn to respect other men's ideas and opinions. 4. Learn to think problems through to the end. 6. Learn to put yourself in the other fellow's place. 6. Cultivate cheerfulness. 7. Work!