Girls High School - Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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CLASS SONG Naomi A. Riegel The reveille has sounded, And we needs must answer the call, For the world is calling boldly On the other side of the wall. Down the Sea of Life we're drifting, But to the shore of Memory we'll steer For the spirit of the Rose and Silver ls calling loud and clear. Four years of hardships and toil Have awakened our dormant soulsg We see from the threshold of the world The tide of success as it rolls. We hope our future will he As bright as the stars in the sky, And if it is, we owe it all To dear old Reading' High. 26

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The Armistice Anna A. Stout The armistice, a truce preparatory to a permanent peace, was signed at Eve o'clock, Paris time, on the eleventh day of November, nineteen hundred and eighteen. Six hours after German envoys had signed the terms im- posed by the Allied and American governments, hostilities ceased and the World War was over. For four terrible years almost all of Europe was engaged in the most horrible and destructive war ever waged in all the thousands of years of the world's history, a war started, by a fanatical and ambitious despot in a vain attempt to conquer the world and to force upon its people the propaganda of German Kultur, It is well known how his Prussian Guards made way into Belgium, crushing as they went overy object of beauty which came across their path. Ever since August fourth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, the quiet vil- rages and farm lands of France have furnished the battle-ground for the op- posing forces and the turmoil and destruction which accompanies these hostilities. However, at eleven o'clock, Paris time, or six o'clock, Washington time, the last shot of the Great World War was fired. The troops of both armies came from out the trenches and dug-outs, and gathered together rejoicing, the allied army rejoicing in salvation and freedom, for which they had sacrificed so much, and those who had been our enemy rejoicing in the cessation of hostili- ties and the hope of returning home. The lighting forces were not the only ones who celebrated this event. The news reached Washington just after midnight. In turn, every city, town and village was notified as soon as possible. Many places, expecting the glad news, had arranged a system of bells by which they might arouse the inhab- itants. As soon as the bells announced its arrival, the people, aroused from their slumber, congregated in the streets and public places. All were eager to show their pariotism. Throughout the country there were patriotic demon- strations of all kinds, parades formed of all societies, of people in all walks of life, regardless of creed or nationality, public sings and exhibitions of fireworks. The whole day was a gala day for America. No one worked, all factories, schools, omces and stores were closed. The one ambition in the minds of the American people was to show their thankfulness for freedom and peace and to give tribute to those who had won it. 28