Ipswich High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ipswich, MA)

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ally inclined, but we pity the neighbors when she starts on this fife. The mighty brained Valedictorian will surely need this small pencil to write her valued thoughts. Jane the cook certainly raised the dust on the Town Hall stage so that even the curtain came down after her. My friend hopes that we will all beware when Cora starts in with this mammoth broom. Bessie Chapman is a long distance from everybody, so as all women like to talk I have pitied her and seen that her present was a talking ma chine. E. Tucker’s highest aspirations seem to come in plain gold from the medical school. I hope this band will console her for the time. Marion Phillips is often seen walking on Central Street. May she put what she is after in this ponderous basket. Every country girl is brought in close connection Avith the chickens, but Susie Dewar’s flock is incomplete without a rooster. Ella 0 ’Brien is very busy fishing in the stream of life. I hope she succeeds in landing what she hooks, but I am afraid this line will not be strong enough. Elsie Jones has a hard time trying to find room for her face in the school mir- rors, so I have found one for her very own. Emily Hobart enjoys military affairs, but the best I could do was to find a sailor for her. CLEON JOHNSON, ’19. Presentation of Class G-ifts. AFTER THE WHIRLWIND THE STILL SMALL VOICE At last the whirlwind is over and once more peace reigns over the earth. Once more the supreme hand of justice has lent guidance to the righteous. Once more it has been proved that might is not right. Now once again the sun can rise and set on nations whose main purpose is not to kill, but to lend a helping hand to the civilization of mankind, wjhieh is ever surging ahead, in its evolutionary course. Mankind is once again looking forward to something better, something higher, is working to attain some more lofty ideal. But at what a terrific cost have these great achievements been accomplished ! Not only financially and socially were they dearly purchased, but also at the ex- pense of a vast river of human lives. Let us slowly and sadly turn back the pages of history, so that we can more fully re- alize and understand the circumstances and conditions under which these achieve- ments Avere made, so that our imagination will paint life-like pictures of these past situations and add neAV vigor and life to our patriotism and devotion. On the 4th of July, 1776, fifty-six men signed the declaration which separated us from the bonds and shackles of England and made us a free and independanit na- tion. A nation that might govern itself according to principles of justice and lib- erty, a nation that might govern itself ac- cording to its OAvn inspirations and ideals, and not according to the Avishes of a croAvned head three thousand miles aAvay! Thus, the founders of this nation were seeking justice, liberty, and self govern- ment. How our imagination thrills us when Ave think of Paul Revere and his famous ride and The Boston Tea Party, Avhioh marked the resentment of a people to unjust taxation; “taxation Avithout rep- resentation.” These and similar events marked the beginning of the Revolution. The war was Avaged, and seven years later Ave emerged victorious, a new na- tion on God’s earth, one destined to be- 7

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THE GIFT OF A FRIEND. A friend of mine was in town tihe other day. He is stricken with that very seri- ous malady known as “Girlitus.” One of the characteristic symptoms of this disease, is extreme curiosity in re- spect to the girl population of the town which one visits. At the time my friend was visiting me I was not so wise as I am now. Consequently, I let that poor, strick- en friend of mine go to town, on a Satur- day afternoon, with no person to guard him against the temptation of his disease. That poor, misguided, stricken gentle- man went astray, and of course, the main attraction was in dresses. The High School ball team was valiantly trying to hold its own, that afternoon at the ball grounds, and the feminine support was strong. Little did the lady rooters suspect that directly opposite them was this specimen of girl sickness, for he had followed the crowd, and had eagerly planted himself in a grand stand seat so far as our High School beauties were concerned. I came home from work that night and unsuspectingly asked Iioav the game came out. It was all my fault, I should have known better, but I was new to the di- sease, and had never seen it before. God help me ! I don’t ever want to see it again. His answer as to the result of the game was very hazy, but Great Gats! I had opened the spigot so far as questions were concerned, for he asked me about each girl in the senior class. It seems he had sat beside George Mayes, and George had pointed them out to him one by one. It was a case of, “Let George do it,” and George had done it, and had done it brown. You can’t treat your guests always as you would like to, otherwise I should have tried to break my trusty bat upon his head. For the next hour the conversation be- tween us had two forms of sentences, ex- planatory ones from myself and wholly interrogative from him. This did not end the episode however, for on the morning he left he brought a student’s bag full of small packages to me, and asked me to give the package to the person whose name was marked upon it. Aloud I said, “Certainly,” inwardly I said to myself, “You poor fool.” To-night I am going to give you these things he left. Georgia Reed is full of fun so let her brighten up the corners with the contents of this small box. Thelma Damon may powder her way through life, by using this little puff. Aunt Amelia’s quart of powder may give out, but there is lots more where this came from. Althea Hayes as Mrs. B. did not even have as good a biscuit as this in the pan- try. I hope Gladys Brown’s friend in Kit- tery, Me., will not wait until the hands of this wrist watch go around before com- ing to see her. Perhaps Hildred Davis can get a little closer to Douglas than she did in the play if they walk together under this parasol. Myrtle Goddit likes autos of all kinds, even Jimmie’s flivver, so I will give her a regular car. Margaret Reilly is hoping to get a slightly better ring than this from John Conley, I think. Anyway that’s the way it looks from the outside. Clara Dawson has got to bring a num- ber of packages for those “awful boys,” so I have taken pity on her and my friend is giving her a string bag. We all know that Lucy Sturgis is music - ,6

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come great among the nations of the earth. The country was prosperous and the nation steadily grew, without any serious difficulties, until in 1812 England again tried the spirit and strength of America. This time it was a war on the sea. British ships seized American ships and seamen on the high seas. But we soon taught Great Britain a new lesson : namely, that justice and liberty reign, not only on the land, but on the sea as well. How well we remember Perry’s words on Lake Erie : “We have met the enemy and they are ours.’’ Our blood seems to flow faster in our veins as we imagine the tone and cir- cumstances under which these commemor- able words were spoken. Again we em- erged the victors, and this time we had the freedom both of land and of sea. We again started on a journey of suc- cess and advancement. We had eight times our original population, were stead- ily gaining in area and abounded in wealth. We had grown from a few states to a large and prosperous nation. No other country has had such a quick and widespread development. We Avere involved in no national dif- ficulties until in 1861 it became a question of whether or not the ' blackmail should have his freedom and obtain an equal standing with the whites. Another con- flict was the result and this time it was a great civil war. Again right was victori- ous, and in 1863, our beloved Abraham Lincoln, by a single stroke of the pen, signed a proclamation that gave over three million men that most privileged and divine right which God gave to every human being, liberty, the right to govern oneself. This was another achievement to add to our ever growing list. It Avas an eAent AAhich marked the pages of Amer- ican history, and a cause for AAhich many men laid doAA T n their lh r es. It established equal rights among men, regardless of creed or color. Noav again in 1919 we stand on the threshold of a neAv period in the develop- ment of our nation. We have just been engaged in one of the greatest conflicts that the world has CA er knoAAm. We have battled, not nation against nation, but nations against na- tions. We have fought not for our oAvn honor and glory, but for the freedom of the AAWld, to keep sacred these undying Acords of Lincoln, that, “All men are cre- ated equal,’’ with natural rights to the pursuit of happiness and of liberty. This time it Avas not a question of na- tional rights, of national freedom, for lib- erty and righteousness. Germany Avith her greedy hand of Autocracy Avas reach- ing out to crush the poAA T ers of Europe. She Avas AA T aging war regardless of interna- tional law. Americans Avere belittled and in suited. We Avere insulted on the high seas in the case of the Lusitania. Avhich had, perhaps, more to do with America’s entry into the Avar than any other single act. We entered the Avar, sent a seemingly never ending stream of khaki-clad boys across the sea, and to-day many of them sleep on the fields of France. Willingly and cheerfully, as Americans have always given, they gave their all. It is no Avonder AA ' e emerged victorious. It is no AA r onder Ave have the respect and admiration of the countries of Europe. It is to these hon- ored dead, that sleep in Flanders’ Fields that Ave owe all that AA e ha r e to-day. Once more the Avhirlwind is over. Noav let us all listen to the still small voice of duty that is calling us to soh r e the prob- lems of the Reconstruction Period. Let us all resolve that Ave Avill be Americans, with. American ideals and patriotism. Then, I am sure, Ave shall start on one of the most successful journeys that our nation has ever knoAvn. Such eternal troubles as lab- or agitation and social unrest aauII be un- knoAvn. Employer and employee will be A v orking for a common cause, the better- 8