Frankfort High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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Editorial If the most fertile piece oi ground in the world were left solely to Nature's erratic care, the product would he useless to man. Also, if the most superb intellect were compelled to spend its existence in some remote district awav from any cultivation, it could have no effect on mankind. Hut time has fully demonstrated that the proper care bestowed even on sterile soil, and on a mind even below the average in intelligence, will give results gratifying not only in the individual case but to society at large. For this reason, the hand oi the State is laid on the youth of today at an early age. and these citizens in the making become part of our great school system. Although most high school pupils are past the age at which they are legally compelled to attend school, after eight years spent in acquiring the knowledge of our graded schools, they realize the value and necessity of an education, and are willing and anxious to continue their work. Later in life, if not while we arc students, we realize that the schools give to us not only knowledge and intellectual stimulus, but. what is of tar greater value, moral and spiritual growth as well. To train an intellect and equip it with ma terial facts without the anchor of morality and conscience, is to ere ate a monster to be dreaded, and this is not the purpose nor the result o1 tlic school. When the La Normandie” went down off the coast of Newfoundland, the women, the children, the aged, and the infirm, were cast aside bv the men in their mail effort to save their °wn lives, t’pon investigation it was found that the men were mostly ignorant roustabouts obeying the brute instinct of self-preservation. But what a difference when the Titanic went down! Here men said. “This is a man's game, and we will play it like men.” They played it to the end. giving their lives for others. These men were educated men. We. the class of 1913. feel that we have gained much from the F rankfort High School. For the teachers who have put forth their best efforts in our behalf, wc entertain a high regard, and will always cherish their memory. If at times we appeared ungrateful, it was due to the heedlessness of youth—not to a lack of appreciation. Some of us. no doubt, will enter other schools, but this school shall always be our Alma Mater. Here we have spent four years at the most formative pcri d of our lives, and the impress is on our characters. While wc have been members of the F. 11. S. wc feel that we have done much to add to its pleasure and success. But nothing that we have done has given us as great pleasure as to be able to give the students of the F. 11. S. the second volume of The Cauldron. I hat we have been able to do this is due largely to the as sistance of the members of the faculty. Hence we wish to express our thanks and appreciation to all who aided us in its publication. Especially arc we indebted to Miss Boyd, our art supervisor, for her unselfish and untiring work on the art work of The Cauldron. (hir task is completed, and soon the glorious class of 1913 will e only a memory a memory which we wish to perpetuate bv this last gift, the second edition of “The Cauldron.”

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CAULDRON STAFF: EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Martha Ellen Jones ASSISTANT EDITOR Kathryn L. Norris ORATORY AND DEBATE Rosa Johnson Bemus Hodgen Ernest Thompson ATHLETICS Robert Campbell Levi Horlacher Arthur Price ORGANIZATION Helen Ruddell Beryl Femald DRAMA Beth Lydy Paul Meifeld PROOF READERS Beryl Femald Lydia Spray EXCHANGE Edith Harmon Ernest Thompson ALUMNI Louise Fortune B O A RD Business Manager Fred B. Cohee Assistant Business Manager Paul J. Meifeld Secretary-Treasurer..... Jerome Z. Epstein Assistant Secretary I-evi J. Horlacher Advertising Manager Herschel D. Bryant K i g h t

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