Charlotte High School - Delphian Yearbook (Charlotte, MI)

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THE DELPHIAN BOARD 4 RUTH CLARK Artist EDWIN SANTEE Artist Athletic Editor LEON ROOSA WILLIAM P. SMITH Business Manager FRANK COBB Advertising Manager

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THE DELPHIAN BOARD IR ' - JULIUS B. WOOD Editor-in-Chief KATHERINE GRIFFITH Asst. Editor-in-Chief HELEN SPENCER Society Editor ROBERT MURRAY Joke Editor MAE NEWCOMER ike Editor

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DELPHIAN, ' FIFTEEN EDITORIAL PROGRESS Progress is the watchword of the times — to those in the foot- hills, to those in the middle plains and to those steadily rising to- ward the ultimate heights beyond. Progress is the watchword of youth, of middle life, of all, in fact, but age with the race nearly rmi. AVhen we cease to progress we may know our star is in the descendeney. Youth is the time of greatest opportunity. It is only as we are mellowed by the years that we have time to think overmuch on pa.st achievements. Youth is a time of happy hearts and care-free days ; later years bring reflection and sometimes regret, over wasted youth. Youth goes merrily on singing songs with a musical lilt, whatever the wording. Old age cares not for the beauty of phras- ing, if the poem or music but quiet and soothe the restless spirit. Youth sees the world as a wonderland of experience — new and novel and exciting. Old age knows life as a hard taskmaster. To it life has also shown the hidden paths to be avoided, the pitfalls, the fanged jaws. It has shown, as well, scenes made saered by discipline, by hard work, by sorrow, perhaps. Youth has all to gain ; age has naught to lose. And so, just in proportion to our ambition to progress, do oppor- tunities of a ncAV and larger life open to us. We may have talent, but talent is only the hard, cold instrument ; if we progress we must also have genius — a genius that drives us to a labor that achieves something, a genius that impels the instriunent in our hand to do its best, its very best, with every effort, that the results may ring- true. But the years come and go. Mayhap the old year slipped away with little done : the new year comes and with it comes, too, to young or old a new determination — a will to do, a buoyancy of spirit that incites within us the cheerful hope of progress toward realization, And thus we live our lives as men ever have lived them, as they ever will live them, always with the soul yearning for more stately mansions. Those nations that have become the bulwark of civilization are not the ones that cling to ancient manners and customs. Those cities that take giant strides forward are not the ones that wait quietly for Progress to knock at the outer gates. There must be alertness