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€bc Charles Citian, 1926 ■ - 12 Editorial NDI I DUALS of a static society do not dream. It is hard then for them to paint a mind picture of the future and realize that the plans by which they dream are the ones to build by. W hen a man is lost on the desert he sees countless mirages, beautiful oases with cool, clear water and blooming flowers. Who is it then, who is wise enough to continue his way tired and thirsty and not follow this phantom vision of a desert travel- ler ' s heaven It is he who is old in the ways of the desert. Then none but an ex- perienced dreamer can determine whether or not his dreams are worthy of being pursued. The people of Charles City are of a dynamic society. They dream, perhaps some dreams are worthless and are cast aside into the waste basket of worth- lessness. However, all dreams were not worthless and out of them have come this of which we all should be proud. Out of the vast labyrinth of dreams of many persons, some good and some bad, this one was picked as one to sit on high as a point to be gained and a goal to work for. What was it? It was the plan for a consolidated High School in Charles City County. Ever with this point in view and with a song in their hearts for the future, the Charles Citians have gone forward and have achieved their purpose. It is true it was hard work to labor in an uncertainty with only the vague outline of a dream to guide the footsteps of the laborers, but the dream was a worthy one and we are thankful that the dreamers did not falter but kept striving upward until the actual sight of the dreamers fancy has developed from mist into a certainty. We have now a consolidated High School at Charles City. Has it been worthy of the battleground on which the life blood of the past has been shed? Time alone can prove this but even now, we have come to the realization that there is a warm spot in our hearts for the place where stands the monument of the dead of the past, and where the corner stone of the future has just been laid. There is no limit to the heights to which our school may rise. She may but must not fall. Let us each take it on ourselves as an individual duty to be always ready to put our shoulder to the wheel to keep her always going upward until she may reach the place where she will stand immortally a monument to the dreamers who make up our dynamic society. The question may have already been formed in your mind “What’s the use”? The use is this: We must keep striving onward, never pausing in our ascent, doing our work well, that after it is done we may repose peacefully saying “I have fought a good fight.” We must fight on to the zenith that our ancestors in their eternal resting- place may gaze down upon us and say, My children, I am proud of you.” Nelson Wilkinson, Editor-in-Chief.
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