Evening High School - Owl Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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THE OWL 87 Qlnmmenrrment igrngram Selection- Waltz of The Flowers Tchaikowsky Orchestra Essay- The Tempo of American Life - Dorothy A. Horan Valedictory Oration- VVhat Education is Worth Most? -Anthony Hehn Presentation of Diplomas - Mr. Edwin L. Hettinger President of Board of Education Selection- Chanson Paroles - - Tchaikowsky Orchestra Report of the Judges: Mr. Horace L. Custer lChairmanJ Principal of Southern Junior High School Reading, Pa. Miss Errne K. Hepler, R. D. No. 2, Reading, Penna. First Vice-President, Business and Professional Wornen's Club. Mr. Alfred Decker Keator, 1501 Hill Road, Reading, Pa. Librarian, Reading Public Library. Presentation of the Alice H. Jones Medals -Mr. Horace L. Custer CDonated by Mrs. Wellington M. Bertolety 1541 Mineral Spring Road. Benediction - - Rev. Father John J. Judycki Recessional- The Black Mask Hayes Orchestra

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THE OWL 89 HARALD BRAGG THE MAN YVITHOUT A COUNTRY 3 The popular story of HThe Man VVithout A Country,'i by Ed- ward Everett Hale, is admittedly entirely fictional. Hale admitted that he invented the character of 'Philip Nolan. But while Hale invented his story, the idea of which came to him .through the famous C. L. Vallandigham case, he did not know that a drama of a real lVIan Without A Country, was then being enacted in real life. A few years before his death, Hale learned of the Bragg story, at which he was greatly surprised. The real lVIan Without A Country was Lieut. Harold Bragg of Charleston, S. C., who was tried and convicted by a court martial of a treasonable utterance. Bragg is supposed to have disapproved of the impending war between the states and expressed a wish never to hear Habout these what you believe to,l:,e United States. Almost one of the first acts the newly appointed Secretary of War, Cameron, had to reveiw, was the case of Lieut. Bragg. In accordance with Lincoln's wish, a sentence of death was set aside and a commutation to lifelong banishment was substituted. In ac- cordance with Lieut. Bragg's own pronouncement, he was to be kept in ignorance of the fate of the United States. Lincoln intended this punishment for a short time only. But unfortunately. Cameron was soon removed and by the time the case was again called to the President's attention, lVIr. Lincoln had been assassinated. Bragg was originally on the U. S. frigate Carolina bound for Hong Kong. All during the passage he was well treated, but he was refused shore leave and all newspapers brought aboard were exfiised, lest some news of the United States would come to the attention of the poor outcast. On April 2, 1893, he was transferred to the U. S. frigate lVIedusa. On May 4th he attempted to escape in the harbor of Valpariso, Venezuela. He was recaptured and brought again aboard. Three years later he was stationed on the Ncptune,' whence he was finallv transferred to the Georgia On board the Georgia, Lieut. Bragg died in the port of Cal- cutta, on the Hooghly River on September 15, 1883, after 22 years of isolation from American matters. The fate of the United States was for the first time revealed to him on his death bed. The story is based on a reprint of a United States Publication dated 1893 in which I have implicit confidence. BELIEVE IT OR NOT