Franklin High School - Almanac Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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9 N ' 5 f .ll -Q t Tl at X Xxx . -X, Q f gm I S -X., ' - 1 'X , if ,N i ii R ,X ' ' If Wm 5, 'A - 0 OODROW Wilson, addressing a group of college students, said: 4 lt cannot be admitted that a man establishes the right to call L 4s himself a college or high school graduate merely by exhibiting his diploma. What Mr. Wilson wished to point out was that the value and proof of education lay in the high ideal and high goals that - became the result of the achievement of that diploma, not in the ,E parchment itself. One cannot go around wearing his diploma on the lapel of his coat. He can, however go around letting his actions speak loud of good deeds that he who runs may read and know that what he has attained has been worth while. If all that was learned at high school was that two plus two equal four or some such proposition, the four years of the student life would be wasted. iistory, literature, science, teach not just the facts of life but how to live. ln so far as these studies have done this were they successful. For our part, as students, in so far as we have grasped the essentials. recognized the path to higher things to which we may aspire, and resolved to make use of the worthy things of life, so far have we benefited by our education. Now as we are graduated into a larger school, we can show our appreciation of the beauties and wonders of life that have been pointed out to us, by using them as tools for greater usefullnessf' Thus can we carry on the spirit of Franklin and establish the right to call ourselves educated! I2

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Zin jlilrmnriam The most substantial glory of a nation is in its virtuous great men. Never before in its history has our country suffered such a tragic loss as in the passing of these two great statesmen. Each gave his life in the service of his country. The people of the United States are grateful, and love and respect them both for their untiring efforts and magnificent achievements. The name of Warren G. Harding will go down in history as that of an upright and kindly man whose fellow citizens thought him sufficiently worthy and capable of filling the highest office which they could confer upon him. At the time when he entered upon his presidential duties, the war was over but nevertheless his task was a difficult one-that of reconstruction. While he was living, he discharged his duties to the best of his ability, but his untimely death came while he was still in the public service. When Woodrow Wilson died, a nation grieved, and a world paid tribute to his memory. He was a national figure, a world leader. At one of the most critical periods in world history, the people of all nations looked to him for guidance. Life's crowning star is brotherhood might well have been the motto of Woodrow Wilson. He spent his whole life in spreading and teaching this ideal and cherished the hope that some day the world would accept it and that all nations would unite in a union of brotherhood. We have often heard of the many-sided Franklin but we must realize that Wilson also was many-sided. We think of him as a truly great president who came at a time of peril when just such a man was needed. Often we regard him as an idealist who fought and died for his ideal. Besides being a statesman, a diplomat, and a man of public affairs, he was a thorough scholar, a teacher, an author of note, and a just lawyer. Although his plan of a league of nations has not as yet been accepted by the world, it will stand as a monument to his ideals. Few great men are really appreciated until years after their death, but Wilson has already been called, The Saviour of Democracy. We students of Franklin High School are thankful that it has been our good fortune to live in the age that produced these figures and we wish to pay due honor to these men who have meant so much to our nation and have accomplished so much for America. 14