Central High School - Girardot Yearbook (Cape Girardeau, MO)

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Wy V i QW ilu emnriam IN MEMORY OF TWO OF oun LOYAL STUDENTS AND TIGERS Winslow JBoutin ilelelen lbogt WHO PASSED AWAY FROM OUR GROUP, LEAVING AN EMPTINESS IN THE HEARTS OF THEIR FELLOW CLASSMATES AND FRIENDS THAT CAN NEVER BE FILLED. Z! Q WF

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ributee to washington Nothing can be compared to the incessant memorial which has been maintained from generation to generation in the tributes paid to George Wash- ington. Washington is the mightiest name on earth, long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty, still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name a eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in itsnaked, deathless splendor leave it shining on. - ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 4 bO It is doubtful if anyone outside of certain great religious teachers ever so thoroughly impressed himself on the heart of humanity as has George Wash- ington. No figure in America has been the subject of more memorial tributes and more unstinted praise. And yet the subject never seems to be exhausted and the public interest never seems to be decreased. The larger our experience with afairs of the World, the more familiar we become with his life and teach- ings, the more our admiration enlarges, and the greater grows our estimation of his wisdom. He represented the marvelous combination of the soldier, the patriot, and the statesman. In the character of each he stands supreme. - CALVIN COOLIDGE. 9 bO We are upon the eve of the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of George Washington. It is, therefore, appropriate that our ob- servance of Memorial Day should this year be at this place. so intimately asso- ciated with the moral grandeur of the Father of Our Country ......- Here Washington and his little band of hungry and almost naked patriots kept alive the spark of liberty in the lowest hours of the Revolution. They met the crisis with steadfast fortitude, they conserved their strength, they husbanded their resources, they seized the opportunity, which, with the turn and the tide of War, led on to victory. It was a triumph of character and idealism and high intelligence over the counsels of despair, of prudence, and material comfort. This was one of those moral victories that are the glory of the race. Without such victories the life of man would descend to a sheer materialism for where there is no vision the people perish? Lacking these high inspirat'ions, mankind could claim no distinction higher than the beasts of the field, that sing no songs, dream no dreams, inspire no hope, and grasp no faith ..... God grant that We may prove Worthy of George Washington and his men of Valley Forge. - HERBERT HOOVER.