Climax High School - Viking Yearbook (Climax, MN)

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ef every one to whom has been given a fair amount of brains. Never before in the history of our country has the op- portunity for acquiring knfwledgo been so wedespread as now. In every state in our land, in every couty nad township we have the public schools. All over the continent everywhere in fact, the hands of the Amer- ican people are stretching out to assist the seekers of knowledge. One strange quality about the theing we call education is that it must never cease. No matter how great our knowledge may be, we can never come to the time when we can honestly say, NI know cnough.n Since there is no limit to the knowledge which the human mind may acquire, wo there should be no limit to the desire for its attainment. There are two rules that all who desire an education should remember, ULearn a little every dayn, and when you are confronted by something which you do not knew rest not until you learn it. Richard VanMiddlcsworth SUCCESS IN LIFE. Life is a journey we make only once. There is no round trip ticket. It isn't the number of years we live but what we put in those years that make our lives successful. I'm quoting from Bailey when I Say: NWe live in deeds not years, ' In feelings not in figures on a dial, In thoughts, not breaths, We should count time by heart threbs, He lives most who thinks most Many people that have pnly a short journey in life at- tain success, whilt scum people that travel the road for many years never achieve it. Why is this true? Maybe the people that never became successful did not have a definite goal in mind when they started out. To be succ essfull one must know exactly what he wants to do, and how he intends to achieve what he desires. The road to success is difficult but few things are easy. Some people get on the wrong road and never find the way back to the main highway. Thus the great secret of mak- ing the tourney of life successful 1 es in discovering at the start the main road and then staying on it. A1- 5

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though thatroad may be difficult to find there are many sign posts to help us find it. Some of the sign posts are ambition, imagination, enthus- iasm, and persistence. Many of us may have ambition to get ahead but we might net have persistence or imaginat- ion. If that be the case, we must overcomn our weak points and make them strong. On the road to success there are many handicaps but if we are persistent, many times we can overcome them and rise rhovt them. Look at some of our really succesfull people Milton, who was a great poet was blind but he became a sucees in life, Beethoven who was one of the greatest writers of music vas deaf, but he still had the desire and determination to become a success regardless of his handicap. So, why can't we be successful? We can, every- one can. We seniors who are graduating to-night have had only a taste of education but -nr four years of high school will help us reach the main highway which will help us to succ- eed. So, friens if you forget everything else K say, don't for- get these two lines. nHe lives most, who thinks most,N Who feels noblest, And who acts the best.H Violet Heritz: ? THE AMERICAN YOUTH We, the seniors of 1940 are representatives of the Amer- icn youth. Among all the wide variety of English phrases. there is perhaps none more comprehensive, suggesting, and stimulating to the imagination than the one called Amer- ican youth, potentialities of greatness and of goodness, of power and of foolishness and evil. Even the simple word NYouthU standing alone without any qualifications, whatever, sends the lively imagination soaring to far distant heights. In the face of this fact does not the developement of the American boy and girl a- waken the attention of every thoughtful and intelligent human being. We reached a point where we begin to see life from a new angle, the angle of the welfare of others, instead of that of ourselves. The American youth of tommorrow must be br- ought up to this ideal as never before in the history of the world. The world was has taught us the great lesson of the inter-