Downingtown High School - Our Year Cuckoo Yearbook (Downingtown, PA)

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22 THE CUCKOO Roosevelt is gone but America need not be without his worthy successor. He had little or nothing that others may not have. What a fine tiling it would he if the young men throughout the nation which he loved and served so well, should equip themselves with the same potent qualities. If the real meaning of Roosevelt’s life shall be fully appreciated we shall find in the coming generation a veritable race of moral giants to whom the name of patriot can truthfully apply in its largest sense. CLASS POEM f2t Four years have passed since first we met In dear “Old Dowingtown High,”— Years that we shall never forget While memory brings it nigh. The day draws near when we must part, Our class relations sever, To pass to higher plains of work, With highest and best endeavor. Idle have not been our years. Nor vain our ceaseless care, We labored with bright hopes and fears, And success is our to declare. Our lives are just beginning now, For the largest fields of life, Hut, we ll make success, we know not how, In the world in all its’ strife. We have not labored all in vain, To attain our highest aim, For the best of work will always remain, With us forever and ever. Let us press up and on with fervor, With each defeat the greater to strife, For fame comes only by hard endeavor And thus to future honor we may arrive. And when we re weary from burdens of care, Let us recall the days long passed, It may comfort, help us, fill us with cheer To think again of our dear class. Can you stand, as firm as any rock? Can you conquer with the few? Then the world is waiting for you. Classmates, The world is waiting for you ! —Gladys M. Crisman, ’21

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THE CUCKOO 21 to the other without troubling Cape Horn. He defied the opinions of all foreign countries and pushed the Panama Canal through with all the zeal that was characteristic of him. His way of doing things is well expressed in the advice that he gave to the Rough Riders when they were mustered out. I le told them : “(Jet action; do things; be sane, don’t fritter away your time; create, act; take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action but don’t get gay.” His work as President, however, was not his only work. Many thought that when he went out of office he would pass into oblivion but the ten years following his presidency were the greatest years of his life. Every one knows of Roosevelt’s trip into the jungles of Africa as soon as he left the Presidential Office. On this trip he obtained many specimans of jungle life and much information valuable to naturalists and geographers. When he emerged from the jungles he went through the most important countries of Europe. He was received everywhere with ovations. Whom were the people honoring? The President of the United States? They were not. Roosevelt was no longer President. It was not the office but the man to whom they paid homage. When the world war broke out he urged 11s to enter it to save our honor and when we eventually did enter he sent his sons into the service and tried his best to go himself but he was needed more at home where he had as much if not more influence than any other American in keeping up our patriotic spirit. He wrote many books of a patriotic nature and was contributing editor of “The Outlook’’ for many years. He filled engagements to speak with unbelievable frequency. He dieated a message to the American Defense Society the day before his death. This message was read in the Hippodrome before the Society on the same night that he retired, never to awake again in this world, but instead, in that world whose rewards he had so well earned. In this message he phrased anew the thoughts that had been filling his mind. The following extract from it rings with patriotism from beginning to end. “There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says that he is an American but something else also isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and that excludes the Red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as it exludes any foreign flag to whom we are hostle. “We have room for but one language here, that is the American language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not dwellers in a polyglot boarding house, and we have room for but one lovalty and that is lovalty p 7 » . to the American people.” This last epistle of his is a good example of the thought that was always uppermost in his mind, namely the welfare of America. Roosevelt was a man who could not fail. He had in himself that which made him very largely independent of circumstances or of fortune. A “laborer with God” can never be without work nor fail to draw his sure wages. Roosevelt surely was a “laborer with God.” He was a man who would stand for justice though the whole world were in arms against him.

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THE CUCKOO 23 EXCHANGES As we look over the exchanges for several years back we see that our department has grown from a few copies until our exchange now numbers over fifty. The magazines we receive come from all over the United States and represent the best type of journalism produced. Many of these magazines have been with us since we started our paper. There are more coming in all the time. Our paper is ever growing. We hope to see all of these magazines back with us next year. We need their help. We acknowledge with thanks, the receipt of the following; “The Oracle”—Gloversville, N. V. “The Garnet and White”—West Chester High School, West Chester, Pa. “The Onas”—William Penn High School, Philadelphia, Pa. “The Vocational School Record”—Louisville Vocational Schoojl, Louisville, Ky. “The Dawn”—Connecticut School for Boys, Meridan, Conn. “The Oracle”—Rensselae High School, Renssclae, N. Y. “The Ursinus Weekly”—Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pa. “Mountain Echo”—Altoona High School, Altoona, Pa. “Freshmen Issue”—Virginia, Minn. “Kensington Distaff”—Kensington High School, Philadelphia, Pa. “Uui Dali”—Upper Darby High School, Upper Darby, Pa. “The Eastfrin” Tredyffrin-Easttown High School, Berwyn, Pa. The Garnet and Gray”—Lansdowne High School, Lansdowne, Pa. “The Spokesman”—Central High School, Erie, Pa. “The Pennant”—Meridan High School, Meridan, Conn. “The Brown and White”—Grcensburg High School, Greensburg, Pa. “The Helios”—Grand Rapids, Michigan. “The M U nite”—Mount Union High School, Mount Union, Pa. “The White and Gold”—Woodbury High School. Woodbury, X. J. “The Gleam”—Johnson High School, Saint Paul, Minn. “Argus” Hunting ton High School, Huntington, Pa. “The Maroon and White”—Uniontown High School, Uniontown, Pa. “The I it Weekly”—University of Pittsburg, Pittsburg, Pa. “The Pulse”—Washington High School, Cedar Rapills, Michigan. “The Magnet”—Butler High School, Butler, Pa. “The Archive”—Northeast High School, Philadelphia, Pa. “The Missile”—Petersburg High School, Petersburg, Virginia. “The Pattersonian”—Mount Joy High School, Mount Joy, Pa. “The Drexerd”—Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, Pa. “Tech Life” -Technical High School, Washington, 1). C. “Orient”—Minneapolis High School, Minneaoplis, Minn. —♦D.H.S.- — A LYRIC So thank the Senior, my little friend, For the lesson thou art taught! Thus each succeeding class may see What you so dearly bought; That however big a Freshman feels, He really is but naught!