Holbrook High School - Echo Yearbook (Holbrook, MA)

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To the Seniors jD A ay Knowledge increase for you day by day. A s bravely, Seniors, in work or play our trials you conquer along the way. I nown by all within our school, N ever to break the Golden Rule! O h! how earnestly now you strive W hen thoughts of graduation arrive, I earning all that is to be had, lhach one forgetting about being sad. X)elightful days with us you’ve spent Cjrant we those days you’ll ne’er repent E enjoying the gifts the Gods have lent. If ever blue days should come to you N ever forget to your motto be true Garry your cross with a cheery smile Raising your head, each weary mile, E ach moment of each livelong day i long life’s toilsome, busy way. Sumner High bids success to you E ach boy and girl, so loyal and true.

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THE ECHO 5 Editorial June and graduation has come once more, and Sumner loses another class. The class of 1924 are leaving to seek the world in their separate ways. May success and happiness follow them as they take the road of life. We hope they may always be loyal to their classmates and to the school they are leaving. In losing the class of 1924 we lose a class that has been of great help to the school. They have taken an active part in athletics and other school activities and were the first class to publish the “Echo.” As Juniors they distinguished them- selves in scholarship by five of the class being admitted to the Pro- merito Society. May they go through life with the same spirit that they have shown in Sumner, and as they go may their knowledge increase. THELMA PETERSON ' , ;25. The Southeastern Massachusetts League of School Publications We are associated with the South- eastern Massachusetts League of School Publications which has for its members schools publishing papers or magazines. This League holds its meetings four times a year at the different schools belonging to it. Representatives from our staff have been sent to several of these meetings and can bear testimony of the universal good time enjoyed. The Echo was submitted together with the other papers to a committee to be judged on different points. The Hingham School carried off the prize for the best poem while The Echo re- ceived honorable mention. The poem which brought us this credit was “The Brooklet,” in last year’s Gradu- ation issue. We, of the staff, were proud of this success and now we aspire to one of the prizes. This means that we must have the wholehearted support of each individual, with which I feel sure that we will achieve the end we pursue ! EMILY M. LAKEWITZ, ’25. School Spirit Dear and gentle reader, fellow stu- dents, and those who are to become students in High School this fall, my theme is short but sweet. It con- cerns school spirit. If you haven’t it, your worthless, not worthy of being educated or be- coming a citizen, for school spirit is only the stirring of the spirit of pat- riotism. If you have it you love your school, obey its standards of conduct, sup- port its activities, and hold it in pride before the world. It is that intangi- ble thing that makes the world go ’round. Have you it? E. A. J., ’24.

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THE ECHO 7 Americans In four or five years this class of nineteen twenty-four will be young men and women: full fledged, loyal, and patriotic citizens of the United States. That means on election day they will vote either for the Repub- lican or Democratic party, as the case may be, and otherwise tread the conventionalized path of conduct which goes outwardly to make a good citizen. But if they have a sincere desire to be of worth to their com- munity, to be truly loyal and patri- otic in the truer sense, much more is required of them. The first essential of citizenship is education. That is, not education in the pedagogical sense of the word, but political education. One needs must have a clear understanding of governmental laws and functions both in order to sanction and obey them. An unclouded comprehension of the administration’s domestic and foreign policies with what they in- volve is necessary. They constitute the life blood of the nation and are of vital importance to the private as well as the industrial life of every citizen in it. Thus, since it is im- possible and impotent to attempt to judge that which is foreign to the in- tellect, if one wishes to consider these same laws and policies impartially with a view of ascertaining their justness, one must know them thor- oughly. Ones decision should be un- prejudiced and carefully thought out if they are to be of value. It is dan- gerous to cast a vote which may help decide the destiny of a nation when it is founded on ignorance or snap judg- ment. Even of the sport page is more at- tractive one must keep up to date by intelligent reading, for the every-day citizen is the one most concerned and it is his duty to himself, society, and his government to give his attention for a small part of the day to nation- al affairs. When a people become indifferent to their government that government becomes futile. The first precept of a citizen, therefore, is to so educate and train his mind that he can independently formulate his own ideas and principles while at the same time restricting them to a practicable and compatible channel. When a citizen has then armed himself with the potent magic of knowledge he stands ready to take an active participation in govern- ment. There are three principal ways in which he may do so. The first way is by holding public office. Nature has doubly blessed some men with the rare quality of leadership. America has many such and she needs them all. The day of the pro- fessional politician is passing, but his place must be filled with tactful, hon- est, uncorrupt leaders and states- men. Personal distaste must be pushed aside if the public welfare hangs in the balance. Those who are greatly gifted must bear great re- sponsibility. The best are needed to govern. America honors those who lead. The second way is not less import- ant. It is the privilege and duty of each and every citizen to vote. Americans have dearly bought that power. It is one not to be sold for favors or partisan loyalty. It is the very foundation of our state. The use of it determines the fate of our leaders and their policies. It sways the economics of a world. It is all powerful. Accordingly he who mis- uses it profanes the sacred trust that thousands have protected with their blood that it might remain intact. If a citizen would rightly use this power he must, having unbiasedly weighed the evidence, cast his vote for the candidate or measure which he truly believes the better, irre- spective of personality or party. The third way is the most danger- ous of the three. It is citizen’s con- tribution to that vast, awful power named public opinion. Composed of the same thoughts in many minds, once it is crystallized everything is swept before it. It makes and breaks. It is not easily aroused, but poli- ticians tremble before it. It is to be no less carefully used. These are the three cardinal shares