Farragut High School - Admiral Yearbook (Farragut, TN)

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T H E A D M I R A L IllIlllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllllIIllIllIIIIIIIllllIIllIIIIIIlIliliIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlIlllIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllIllllIlllIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIlllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllll On out in Louisiana progress has been almost everywhere in evidence and New Orleans is carrying on such gigantic undertakings toward drain- ing the Mississipi Valey by water and by rail that is is giving a demonstra- tion of the emphatic way in which J. J. Hill, the great railroad builder, once expressed his view of New Orleans when he said, Kick over a bar- rel of flour at Minniapolis, and it will roll down hill of its own motion to New Orleans. Texas, the mighty empire of the country, is as rich in natural re- sources as it is vast in extentg with a population energetic, aggressive, and broad minded to the extreme, it is building up its commerce, its agricul- tural and its industrial interests. It is different to suggest in what part of Texas, or in what city of Texas the greatest progress is being made. for when one sees Texas rivalry of Florida fruits and truck farming, his horizon widens, and he begins to get a faint conception of what can be done for Texas in religious activities, in industry, commerce and agricul- ture. Arkansas, long cursed by the impression of the Arkansas Traveler tales, is joining Texas any may yet vie with Texas in industrial and agri- cultural activity. And then pass on to Oklahoma which has been one of the marvels of modern times. The settlement of that state has been one of the out- standinig events in American History. A large proportion of the people who went into Oklahoma were from the South, and to a large extent, they were men of christian apsirations. Education went hand in hand with religion in company with vast oil operations and general business advance- ment. Though Tennessee has not boasted of its progress, its progress has been worthy of boasting. It is a beautiful state, a land of magnificient mountain ranges, of superb valleys, of many streams and rivers, of hydro- electric potentialities, of rich farm lands. It is a state in which cattle raising is so dominant that a motorist traveling thru this state from end to end, last year, said that he had never seen so many fine cattle anywhere, except in Holland, as he found in Tennessee. It is a state of fruits in abundance, of wheat and corn and cotton, with other great activities in dairying and in raising chickens as well as a state of great mineral and timber resources. Our educational progress has been in keeping with our material advancement. Yet Tennessee has barely scratched the ground as compared with what it will do in the future. Kentucky, the far-famed blue grass region of the Southland, has more coal than has Great Britan. It has great stretches of virgin hardwood of many kinds. It has a soil not surpassed in productive power in all the land. It has now surpassed all other states in the rapidity of the growth of its output of coal. But there is so much yet to be done, so much even yet to be utilized in Kentucky, that the achievements of the present are a bazatelle as compared with what the future can and will produce. Twenty-Nine

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T H E A D M I R A L HVlIIII1ll!llIIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllHHllHillllllilllllIlllllllHilllllllllll1lllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllMHllllllN1II1llIII1IIllIIIIIllIIIlIllIIIIIIIlIIIIIllIIIIiillIIIIIIIIIiIHIIllllllllllllllllllllilllHlilllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Smluiatinn , Grace Harren Ladies and Gentlemen: the Class of Twenty-Seven extends to you a cordial welcome. Within a few days we will have reached that goal for which we have been striving for four long yet seemingly short, years. The time is now at hand for us to part as a class, but We can defy those cir- cumstances to arise which can weaken these ties of friendship so dearly formed by us during our High School Course. In future years in both prosperity and disaster they can be a source of the greatest pleasure and comfort to us. Our equipment is good, our armor strong, and both nature and destiny honest, to the victor they grant the spoil. Destiny gave us our birth in this wonderful Southland, and Nature has made it beautiful for our pleasure. Do we do our duty as citizens of the South? We think so, and yet, we need to be better acquainted with our home land. The South is blessed with the three elements of agricultural produc- tion-soil, moisture, and climate in rare combination. Every element for success exists in the South-in raw materials, climate, in the natural forces of nature, and, above all, an abundant supply of labor. Walter S. Gifford, president of the American Telephone Sz Telegraph Co., said, The East and North are turning their eyes southward and are planning to pour many millions of dollars into commercial and industrial projects to be located in the South. During 1925 much progress was made in the establishment of rayon plants, one of the world's most rapidly growing textile industries, in vari- ous parts of the South. Rayon plants of enormous capacity which repre- sent a capital of many millions of dollars, and employing thousands of hands, are now in operation at Roanoke, Va., and Hopewell, Va., near Nash- ville, Tenn., and plants are under construction in Parkersburg, W. Va., and in Johnson City, Tennessee. Here and there throughout the South are evidences of rapid develop- ment, provisions to watch, to some extent at least, the great drama which has been carrying Florida forward at a rate that has amazed the nation, Western Carolina is also one of the centers of this activity. Alabama, with its vast mineral interests, has now reached a point of development where it is universally recognized as one of the greatest metallurgical centers of all the world. Mississippi, awakening from its long sleep, is catching the vision of these rich possibilities. 'I zc'cnfy-Eighl

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T H E A D M I R A L lliIIIIIlllIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllIIIlllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllilllilllllllllllllllllllllHHHHllWllllllHHHHllllllllllHlHlllHIlIllIlllllIlllll!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIliIIlIIHlllllllllllHllllllilllllllllllllllllllllll Virginia, the Mother of States, is awakening to her natural resources, and by our aid as future citizens, our old aristocratic backbone of the Southland can be made the most widely known farming state of the nation. Virginia's possibilities as a state are boundless. Her rivers, her moun- tains, and her agricultural outlook is one to be proud of, and we are glad that Virginia is encouraging so many improvements. Today the manufacturing plants are moving toward the South. From the Mason-Dixon line southward to the coast we have a climate which is the best climate in the nation. Therein lies the keynote to the rapid growth of the South. Ponce de Leon's frolicking imagination left to us ai dream, dear to all Americans, of the perpetual fountain of youth, and do we not see fulfillment of his dream in a more material form perhaps, come to us in our beautiful Southland? Our rapid growth from a devasted bleeding country in 65 to a throbbing wide-awake paradise in 1927. The key that unlocks Paradise is climate, and the South holds the key. Thirty