Granite City High School - Warrior Yearbook (Granite City, IL)

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CLASS ORATION, A League of Nations. The first thing I want to show you, is how a League of Nations would help the world. I will begin by drawing a picture of a battle field “over there.” The boys are standing knee deep in mud and water, their clothes, hands and faces are covered with blood and grime of the battle field, shrapnel is bursting overhead and spreading its death dealing havoc in the trenches, bullets shriek over- head, and now and then find their mark. Now and then can be heard the tattoo of a machine gun mingled with the groans of the wounded and dying, the smoke of battle clears away for a few seconds and the bodies of the dead and dying can be seen lying out there in that great no mans land. Maybe one of those poor fellows lying out there is your father or your brother, or your sweetheart. This is just what the League of Nations wants to prevent, instead of having to make the manhood of the country lay down their lives, for their country, as a sacrifice to the god of War, the league would have a board of arbitration settle all disputes and yet hold up the honor of the countries involved. This board would be appointed by the nations of the League, and all investigations made by them would be reported to the different nations by means of the press. Never before in the history of the world has there been a better co-operation between the great nations of the world than there is now, all the big nations are now bound together in that great brotherhood of mankind, for the purpose of free- ing the world from the clutches of that barbarian known as War. Now is the time to strike while the iron is hot, now is the time to weld together this great divided world into one of united peace and happiness. The Monroe Doctrine of the United States, which has been the foundation of the opposers of the League, is safe, England stands behind us as do most of the Allies, in saying that we shall have the Rights, set forth in the Monroe Doc- trine, safe and sound. The opposers of the League go still further, and say, there must be no entangling alliances, but that the U. S. must remain aloft as she hitherto has done. Those people desire for us to go on until the end of time, using butchery and throat cutting to settle all our disputes. Some of our radical senators proposed that the treaty and the League of Nations constitution should be drawn up at Paris and then brought to the United States for ratification by the Senate. This plan is objectionable, first, because a League of at least the Allies must be established in the treaty in order to effect its enforcement, and the preservation of peace established. It is objectionable, in the second place, because it is entirely certain that an academic conference such Phyllis Nicodemus: “A little lively miss.! ' Page Twenty-three

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CLASS DAY EXERCISES. CLASS OF 1 ’19. Thursday Afternoon, May Twenty-ninth, Nineteen Nineteen. Granite High Auditorium. PROGRAM. Piano Duet Margaret Coleman, Thelma Weissenhorn Class History Lawln Class Oration Edward Moschell Cornet and Piano Duet Genevieve Turley, Thelma Weissenhorn Cl ass Will . Luella Deterding C lass Prophecy George Short, Kathleen Rader Piano Duet Margaret Coleman. Thelma Weissenhorn Farce: — “The Goose Creek Line. CAST OF CHARACTERS. Daniel Dutton Reuben Rogers Frederick Fielding Marjorie Dutton Thankful Thelander. . . Caroline Fielding Mrs. Minerva Battles. . Little Wimple Wiggins Mrs. Smith Mrs. Woodward j Mrs. Drake } Mrs. Allen ) • .The Largest Stockholder .A young farmer in love with Marjorie ....Putting in the line ..Always interrupting her Pa A School Teacher . . . Frederick ' s sister A Widow who gossips An Orphan — Very Precarious Neighbors who attend the Social Circle . Frank Krill . . . . Oliver Winkler George Short Thelma McCullough Lela Taylor Bessie DeBow . Phyllis Nicodemus . . . . Marie Lohman . . Engle Eisenbarth ....Henrietta Finke ......... Mae Riley Helen Gerling Maud Mueller: “After looking into eyes of brown. Can you be true to eyes of blue? Page Twenty-two

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as the second would be if peace were possible without a League, would result in no agreement at all. The League is possible, only because it is indispensible. No one of the opposers of the League has yet offered a substitute for it that can enforce peace. They never seem to think of that problem, all that opposers think of. is to let us go on in the same old rut. year in and year out. never getting the chance to better ourselves, for it is not possible to advance in civilization when the coun- tries of the w r orld are always in a turmoil. Furthermore Labor, one of the big features of any nation today, demands a League of Nations which will give us everlasting Peace. Deep down in the soul of the sturdy sons of toil, there is not alone the passionate longing for a lasting peace among men. but the stern determination that as they fought this war to make the world safe for democracy, they are determined to fight to make the future safe against war. JAMES E. MOSCHELL Granite Hi li School Baccalaureate Service N1EDRINGHAUS MEMORIAL M. E. CHCRCH Sunday May 25th, 1919. Eight P. M. Mae Riley: “What sweet delight a quiet life affords.” Page Twenty-four