Gnadenhutten High School - Goal Yearbook (Gnadenhutten, OH)

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T IUC GOAL 1 1 CHOOSING A VOCATION We should all choose our vocation as early in life aw possible, in order that all our enmrgies may be directed towards the cultivation of those talents, which will help us in our calling. One may possess the most excellent gifts, yet if our efforts in their cultivation are divided, we can never expect to accomplish what we had hoped to. Care should be taken in choosing our vocation, it should be one into which we can put our whole soul, for it is then only, that wc will use our best effort because we believe in it and feel that it is worthy of our undivided energy. There are always difficulties and draw- backs, to be found in every occupation, yet it is the overcoming of them that really tests the worth of the man. When this country was new, the pioneers had to have a smatttring of knowledge along all lines, but now this is no longer necessary, and the history of all localities plainly shows, that he yy ho has only the one main purpose in view, has learnt the first lesson neces- sary for a successful career. This is an age of specialties, and it is only he who faith- lully follows out his natural inclination who becomes a.i experteit is these who are al- ways in demand. The lower walks of life are crowded, because there are so many who are content with their present accomp- lishments and do not have the ambition to seize their chance for something better. Competition is strong, and it is therefore such who, after they have chosen their vo- cation and then fitted themselves for it, who do not have to give way for others or fall out of the race altogether. Lulu Rupert ll HOME Home is the magic circle within which the weary spirit finds refugeg it is the sac- red asylum to which the care-worn heart retreats to find rest from the toils and in- quietudes of life. If you were to start out and ask every- one what home meant to them, you would no doubt find many different answers. lf you should ask a lone wanderer as he plods along his way, bent with age, he would probably tell you, lt is a green spot in memory, or an oasis in the desert, and oh! how he loves to talk of home. It seems like heaven to him to visit the old home, arid in a dream live his childhood over again. If a child were asked what home meant to himg he would tell you it was all the world to him and he knew no other. It is the spot where he pours out all his com- plaints and it is the grave of all his sor- rows. . Home has an influence which is stronger than death. It is law to our hearts and binds us with a spell which neither time nor change can break. Home should be the sacred refuge of our lives whether rich or poor. Among the poor the affections and love are the great- est and they make the beautiful and grace- ful things of life. Home stands at the end of every day's labor and beckons to us. lt is the one great object of life and the chief school of hu- man virtue. ' But taking all these things together with- out home friends, home is nothing but a name. Everything that is good, kind, or noble is linked either with mother, home, or heaven. God bless our homes, for any nation that holds and keeps them pure, holy and un- stained need not fear decay or stagnation. Grace E. Wheland AIM OF LIFE lt is the aim in life that makes the man and without this he is nothing. To accomp- lish great things, it is necessary that we should have a high aim in life, Whatever a man's talents and advantages may be, if he has no aim, or only a low one, he is weak and worthless. Without some definite object before us, some standard which we are earnestly striving to reach, we cannot expect to attain to any great heights either mentally or morally. We do not realize to what heights and noble accomplishments we can attain and on this account often fail in being what we long to be. We must not place high stan- dards for ourselves and hope to reach them without any further efforts on our part. God Vonlliiued on page to lsl column,

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1U THE GOAL. PROCRASTINATION Procrastination is the thief of time. Many valuable minutes are lost and many opportunities neglected because of proscrati- nation. If we were to study carefully the lives and early training of many of our great men, we would find that they were trained to prompt and courteous obedience. History affords many examples of wasted opportunities. The greatest battle that ever was fought, the battle of Waterloo, was lost because one man was slow to obey orders. When the South seceded Buchanan feared the crisis and strove to avoid the critical period as long as possible. But our great president, Abraham Lincoln, when he was elected took immediate steps to bring the southern states back into the union. There is always a place ready for the man who is ready for it. In this age of the world-he who can do a thing well and do it possible is the one who the quickest way will succeed. Our American public will not wait on any man Procrastination to make up his mind. is caused by a motive of laziness, which in itself is to be discouraged. Someone has said, never put off till tomor- row the things you have to do now. To- morrow is doubtful and uncertain. Now is your golden opportunity, then let us be quick and eager to do what is required of us now, and the future will take care of itself. Florence Johnson The Future of American Music Strange as it may seem, the engines of war now being used in Europe are mostly of American make. The machine-guns, the submarines, the airoplanes are all products of American genius, and so itdoes not seem strange to learn from the refugees, that the troops of all waring countries, have been marching to battle fields, to the tune of Sousa's marches. Although America has always devoted herself to industry and commerce, still she has not altogether lost sight of the artistic world. One of the best signs of musical advance- ment is the fact, that young composers are springing up all over '-our country, and not only -writing for the money they -get out of it, but because they love it These young composers of America are not imitators, and do not copy after Strauss or Beethoven, but has write their own ideas. This fact, as been proven ages ago in the history of the world, is a great step towards success in anything. America at the present time is looking on with horror at conditions in Europe, where music is drowned out by the cannon's roar. She is now in many ways the hope of the world and must see- to it that high -standards and ideals predominate over selfishness, pride and commercialism, and among other things make greater efforts in bettering the ideals in the musical world. Lucy McConnell -1- TH-E WOMAN OF T0-DAY Thruout the Union, women organized and unorganized are preparing to offer their services to the government, and meetings are 'being 'hold in many cities and towns thruout the United -States. who .have joined the'Red America. The medical profession lowed by men only, every of women studying medicine increases. lt has always been the popular opinion that women do not have nerves strong enough to beasurgeon, but men have found out that her power of endurance and fortitude is on a par with that of the sterner sex. The woman of today is making history as well as man, remember we have a woman in congress, an aviatorix, and in Colorado, the women are even now demanding that they be allowed to sit as jurors, in order that justice be given to the women and chil- dren. This shows that since she is doing the same work as man, she should have equal suffrage. Let us look at the women in Europe, and see -what they are doing during this great war. Women are taking the places of men un the farm, in the factories, on the street cars, railroads and in every walk of life. Womenare no longer looked upon as in- ferior, butnas. equals of the sterner sex. -She is the builder of the home, the counselor of her -husband, and the guiding star of her children. Eunice Huston There are many Cross Society of is no longer fol- year the number

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12 THE GOAL THE GOAL. Punuslmu ANNUALLY nv 'run HIGH Scnnoi. or GNADENHUTTEN, OHIO. '18 Raymond F. Peter '17 BUSINESS MANAGER ..... Walter Barnes Enrron ....,........ . . llflorence Johnson '17 Assocuvrn Emmons . .. In Herbert Gray ,18 - f Nellie Walton '19 '18 17 Helen lininilton 1. . .Esther l'e-try Cnnss Emmons 4... ...' - ATHLETIC Emron .. .. Ralph Johnson '18 'l'anAsuima . . . . I.ucy McConnell '17 5 .. Grace Wlnelnnrl '17 , , .. Mamie Mathews '18 BUBSCRIPTION AG T5 .. Helen Hamilton '18 . Grant Uumbauld '19 Vol.. 8 MXY 29. 1917 PRICE 1Ut7're Pnmfsn AT TH: PRESS PRINT SHOP GNADENHUTTEN, - ' OHIO EDITORIAL REMARKS to tender our any wise con- this magazine, source of grati- fication to its readers and those who have so kindly added to its interest with their communications, not forgetting the advertis- ers, who have made its publication a possi- bility Hnancially. Our business manager did his work well and deserves special mention. We are indebted to Miss Alma Kinsey for our frontispiece, it is the familiar view of the hill beyond the south end of Walnut street. We deem it a pleasure thanks to all who have in tributed to the success of which we believe will be a Our nation is now facing a crisis. People are horriiied at the Waste of human life, but though we are a peace-loving nation we must stand up for our national honor. We must stand firmly behind the president. Everywhere you hear people say, If they need me I will go. This is the right spirit and the true American way. Whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so. --tPsalms 16 parts of 3rd and 4th verses.J This quotation is a statement so befitting the life of a pupil, that it must have been expressly written for him. It does not mean that the school tasks of a pupil who loves God will be accomplished without effort. But the pupil will be endowed with a strong desire and determination to accomplish them by the help of God. This promise :hould be a very precious one to the young man or woman whose desire and duty it is, to make the world better for those living in it. . The idea, that to prosper is to merely ac- cumulate the riches of this world, is courted only by narrow and selfish people, who expect to receive their reward in this life only, regardless of the next. The truly prosperous person is he, who receives spiritual riches. Near the close of life is not the time to make sure that you shall prosper-your chance is nearly gone then-but in the morning of life is the time. lt is sad indeed that we lind such a small number of young people who are really claiming this promise and so many others that God offers. The education-moral and intellectual-- of every individual must be chiefly his own work. How else could it happen that young men who have had precisely the same op- portunities should be continually presenting us with such diiferent results and rushing to such opposite destinies? Difference of talent will not solve it, because that differ- ence is very often in favor of the disap- pointed candidate. It is perseverance that helps form the foundation of character so essential in all our dealings with our fellow- men. Opportunities rarely come to us without some degree of effort. You will see coming from the walls of the same college, and sometimes from the bosom of the same fanl- ily, two young men,' of whom one shall be admitted to be a genius of high order, while the other not. You are compelled to recog- nize the genius sinking and perishing in poverty of effort in the one, while in the other, a determination to plod his slow but sure way up the hill of life, gaining stead- fastly at every step, and mounting at length to eminence and distinction-an ornament to his family, a blessing to his country.