Conneaut High School - Tattler Yearbook (Conneaut, OH)

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The Faculty LOUISE E. KAHLER, Principal, German CAROLYN REED, English RUTH BURRINGTON, English CLARA LEET, History CHARLOTTE PELTON, Latin, Greek E. D. WILLIAMSON, Mathematics V. R. HENRY, Mathematics C. S. WARD, Science

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Salutatory. “OTHER BATTLES” We, the class of nineteen hundred and eight, wish to extend to you a sincere greeting. Conneaut High School belongs to you and it is right and appropriate that you should be interested in what it produces. We appreciate your presence at this function which marks our graduation from school life and our entrance into life’s school. We have reached that goal to which we have been aspiring for the last four years, and are about to sever our connections forever with Conneaut High School. Although meeting many obstacles which we have been compelled to surmount, this period of activity has proven very agreeable. Because of the large membership of the class, it has been deemed advisable to choose representatives from our number. However, this is not made necessary by lack of ability of members; each one is gifted, each possesses individual talents. The deep mind, resulting from long and continuous labor, is prominent in this class as in all previous ones. Perhaps, because we are willing to listen to the opinions so often expressed, and are forced to admit, sometimes harshly and bluntly, to the effect that the experience of the high school graduate does not fit him to advise and instruct the rulers of our community, state, or nation, we will attempt, therefore, to hide our superior knowledge “under a bushel.” History is filled with the record of the lives of great soldiers; of valor and courage displayed on the battlefield; of the privations and sufferings of war, and of the far reaching results of these heart rending struggles ; and yet how briefly have the mighty conflicts of the law, the issues of which were peace or war, been treated. These legal contests have “foreshadowed national crises,” and have, to a considerable degree, determined them. A study of the actions of the courts of our land unfolds an interesting as well as instructive portion of its history and “reveals the political and human forces at work.” Assemblages of men, sworn to judge from facts presented to them and not from individual opinions, are forced to determine momentous questions, and render a verdict which may decide the fate of a nation. It is a deep responsibility to determine the destiny of our fellow man. Our juries, therefore, should be made up of men who are willing to devote the best efforts of their unbiased minds toward a conscientious decision. Among the most essential features of a government “of the people, for the people, and by the people,” freedom of criticism is one of the most prominent. Indeed, monarchy looms up in the background when 9