Greenville High School - Hi Life Yearbook (Greenville, MI)

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CQZXQSEZXQQZX HI - I I FE QXQQZKQBQZXQ 'T his Tointing to the Sky Tall trees stretching their arms to the skyg Church steeples all flinging their tapered spires to the sky, City skyscrapers blotting the light in slender columns demanding the sky, And man hurrying along lifting his face to the Is it symbolic, or just an idle jest of the futility of hope? This pointing to the sky. On Alone, Child ! Walk on alone, child. It'.r a hard, .map road, All lonerom: ana' wild, But Right i.r your goaal, .Ya walk on alone, child. - s ,J1930,i S 'Page 92 .,.. .i ,

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QZXQQIZXQQZX HI - ,C I FE ZKQQESZQQESF1 From religion to this formerly much sought beauty in the universe. Yes! it is worth while to spend a few hours in the garden to provoke beauty from the little seed and bulbs. It is worth while to seek beauty on Sundays, if time permits. It can not be completely scorned, only partially neglected through lack of time and absence of interest. Again, this old truth-eternal-superhuman. I seek no super- human! I see no eternal! Yes! I desire truth, but only material and physical truth, truth made by God, discovered and criticized by man. My love -love of life, of fellow humans is materialistic. I feel no superhuman attraction between myself or any other element. It is an attraction based on human qualities-a human love expanding and contracting with human existance, not soaring on high spiritual feeling. No more of the supposed-to-be possessed qualities of a happy human being need to be disdained. Progress is my creed-progress in material advancements. An American Babbitt is my ideal. An economic success is the religion which I worship-the only one I could ever worship successfully-the only one I could enjoy. In short, my philo- sophy of life is the philosophy of a materialist, simply because I have been reared in a world in which I feel no attraction toward the spiritual. As long as this is the personal interpretation of my life which to me makes it most enjoyable and most fruitful, let me be subjected to no criticism. A SENIOR. a 11930 1 'Pale 91

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Q'2iQC9T2ifEQ'2i HI - ,CI FE ZXQQEQXEBQZSQ Is The World, Then, of Green Cheese 9 Youth climbed to the knee of the World one day and inquired, Where it beaug, Jir, the beauty of nature and God? And the World replied, No beauty, child, only bright gold. Youth sighed and afked, But what of truth, World, but what of truth? The World replied, Nothing to believe, child, no truth. Youth gave one laxt pleading try, acking of dreamc and hope.r. Dreamt and hopet, child, were killed when man becmirehed the real . Ah! But there ic b01J6,'H Jmiled the child, Love will mend it all. un Looe, .rneered the World, Nothing but liex, pretence and pa.r.rionJ. IJ the world, then, of green cheese? cried the .foul murdered child. Onbf green cheese, cried the Joullen World, 0nbf green chee.re. The World laughed and the child wept, waching ite youth away. ,1930,- ,i T Y 'Page 95