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( tutorial By EDWARD PLATO. ITIIIX the last two months, while seeking adds for the Imp, questions such as: why do you print an annual? Is it of any value to Granite City? Will it pay? Have been asked. It is the intention of all nature and of the Heavenly Father that every deed and every life should have a fitting close. We have passed four years of our High School Career. We are now ready to take a fresh start into the world’s work. We have, as it were, run the first part of our race after success, and, as the Patriarchs of old thought it well to set up altars in the wilderness to show others how they were progressing spiritually and financially, so we thought it fitting and proper that we should have a mile stone from which we can in days to come measure the distance we have run toward our goal. This ANNUAL therefore is printed to mark the close of our school life and the beginning of a wider and better life which is to follow. Men from all parts of the globe flock to Granite City to work in its many mills and factories. Its granite and steel wares are found everywhere. We have won renown thru our factories and St. David’s Chorus. But much as these things advertise our town, the excellency of its schools will do more toward drawing the best type of citizenship within its borders than anything else. This ANNUAL will be sent to different parts of the U. S. and will show in a small measure what has been accomplished by the normal graduate of our High School. It will give the reader an idea of the business training that our graduates receive. It has real literary value and must serve as the best of advertisement Granite City could possibly have. Now I have come to the last question. A question that is put to us at every turn of the road: “Will it Pay? Will it pay the Seniors? The undergraduates? The advertiser? WILL IT PAY?’’ Everything in this work-a-day world of ours is measured by the pay standard. Men and women everywhere are concentrating practically all of their time and efforts on doing something that will pay, and we have followed in their wake and have made this ANNUAL a success: have made it pay. It has paid us financially, but that is the smallest part of the deal. It has paid the advertiser, for advertising always pays in dollars and cents plus the satisfaction it gives the merchant that he has helped along a good and noble enterprise. The value of this Year Book to the High School pupils is not to be measured in the pleasure of instruction we get out of it now, but its true worth will come to us in after years, when we are scattered to the utmost parts of the earth and all we shall have to connect our school days with life then will be the “IMP,’’ in which we can see the likenesses of those we once knew. It is then that we will recall the deeds done while in the G. C. II. S. and in the gay, studious life surrounding it. The jokes will then bring a new joy to our work and if some one of us has not done his best in the past, who knows but that the sight of some familiar face may inspire him to attain a higher ideal. If this book should in any way give us a lift now and then as we journey along it will have paid us in goods that cannot be measured in time or money but only in eternity. 4
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