Frankfort High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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THE CAULDRON Stephen Decatur shows that he had the right idea of patriotism when he said, “Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always -be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.’’ By these words, Decatur indicated that he would stand by his country at all times, and that if she were in the wrong, he would not desert her, but would try to bring her back to the right path. The attitude of Decatur is especially needed at this time when there is an uncertainty about our country being plunged into war. Some people have declared that patriotism arose from war or arose from the universal attempt of the people to defend themselves. If this be so, and if war is declared, it is the wish of all who really feel a deep interest in their country, that all of those men who have not as yet felt the sacredness of their duty toward the country, will realize it and will use every ounce of strength to accomplish their duty. Thus they will show that they are patriotic and that they have the welfare of the country at heart. ANNA DAVIS, T8. A Young Man’s Fancy Tennyson’s quotation on the young man’s tendency in spring may well be paraphrased thus: In the spring the small boy’s fancy madly turns to thoughts of marbles. For from the latter part of March on to May, those small bits of clay hold that delectable place in a boy’s mind, figuratively called in an elder’s, “the apple of his eye.” True, the marble is displaced later by the baseball or the hoop, even as it, in its turn, supplanted the sled and skate. But as soon as Mother Nature shows the least tendency to don her spring costume— before the first robin is hailed, or the pioneer crocus appears—you may see groups of youngsters on the sidewalks, or preferably on some cinder drive, playing marbles. Billy is worth “a hundred an’ seventy-five marbles,” but Sam is apparently higher in the world of finance, for in addition to his “two hundred an’ fifty,” he has “three steelies and an agate.” In these juvenile circles, indeed, are enacted many a tragedy as keen in anguish as any in Wall Street, many a comedy as happy as any penned by Sheridan or Congreve. Here verily the youth sometimes exchanges all his possessions for the pearl of great price, save that in this instance it is of far more substantial and—to him—precious material, agate! Like the actor, a small boy in his time plays many parts, not the least of which, we will venture to assert, is his part in the game of marbles. DONALD BOND, ’18. Fourteen

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THE CAULDRON Orvan Cohee. “Hez.” (Editor-in-chief; President of the Latin Club; Class Play; Glee Club, Winner of County Solo Contest, ’16; Jean Grenicheux in “Chimes of Normandy;’ “Pinafore;’ Class Vice-President.) “My beauty took a vacation ’Bout the time of my creation.’’ Mary Kelly. “Cutio.’ (President of the German Club; Cauldron staff; Class Play; County Declamation Contest, ’17; Sally Mae Byers’ Elocution Contest, ’16 and ’17.) “Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.’’ Ralph Biery. “Biery.’’ (Latin Club.) “When tillage begins, other arts follow; The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.” “Biery” roams about in the “Forest” a great deal. He likes to hear canaries—I mean “Trenaries”— sing. Elizabeth Beard. (Office Assistant; Vice-President of the Sunshine Society, 16; President of the Sunshine Society, ’17.) Elizabeth is very quiet until it comes to working for the Sunshine Society. Sixteen