Climax High School - Viking Yearbook (Climax, MN)

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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-

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dependence of humanity. We have been made to understan in no uncertain way that the old query hdm I my eros thers keopcru is a tnfoughly legitimate and resonsble one, and also that it is one to which a satisfact- ory answer must be sent echweing down the ages. Since America, then, is to be the soul of this great movement, to the american youth must come the frcost ' and fullest developement of the rose tinted dreams of the ages. It therefore becomes the manifest duty of every man and woman, who has reached years of deseretion to de all in his cr her power to develop every youn Amerw lean into that indeal entity known as a good citizen. A good citizen, whort words and familiar ones, yet how deep and wide their significance. On the good citizens of every nation must depend it stability and pronresssm The country which possesses only a minority of good citizens must be dashed to pieces on rocks of andre chy and riot as in the ease of Russia. Or it must be led to bow beneath a libertyhthrottling tyranny as is clearly illustrated in Germany. what constitutes good citizenship. A question which has been answered differently in different stages ef the worldfs osistonce. A good citizen, while obeying the laws of his nation, state or village must be will- ing to cooperate with his fellow mon to secure the good of the whole. Ono plan for encouraging the growth of good citizen- ship is to teach the biographical side of history. The practice of keeping Waahinton, Lincoln and Cola umbus days is well but short stories of other great persons should be told at frequent intervals thereby giving the youth a taste of stories that are true and cultivating his admiration for high and noble charact- oristics. he the young people of today have a great barrier to break through, that ef the lack of sufficient funds to complete an education, but as every thing we do that is worth while takes hard work and uaselfish view point of life we must follow through until we reached our dos tinatien. ' But if we have the cooperation of parents and friends and teachers, I believe that we can reach our goal no matter how difficult it may bo. Betty Ewing: VALQUICTOHY To-night we meet for the last time as the class of 1910 O'n'rr n'ln!1Q 'mnh'l1n nl xrrvn 'hnvr-. hr..-.nA -in UA-iw. Inn-.-1. f,-...A hnnfl