Ipswich High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ipswich, MA)

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oiir composition in order that we may he al)le to express ourselves more clearly with reiifard for the fine distinction of meaning so that others may understand us. Ilow we should a])preciate and de- veloj) this marvelous gift of words! i iit sometimes we find one who makes them an end in themselves and then the i)ers- pective is entirely wrong. No truly great man ever reached greatness by mere words ; the deeds that prom])ted those words really decided whether he was great in the highest sense of the word or not. The tendency in this modern Avorld of ours is to give too much credit to pomp and show and too little to the more simple but worth while things in life. Tt Ralph Waldo Emerson recognized this same trend, for it was he who said, What you are speaks so loud I can’t hear what you say.” W ' ords without deeds are fruitless but one can give deeds without words and his life will be well spent. The truth of this is seen through the life and actions of our present president, Calvin Coolidge. Although one o f the most quiet and re- served men we know, he is almost uni- versally loved and esteemed. No nation would have elected a president by popu- lar vote simply because of his eloquence of expression, though, of course, some men have more ability in this art than others. Throughout President Coolidge’s career — as a lawyer, as mayor of North- hampton. as governor of Massachusetts, and in the various other public duties which he has performed, until he at- tained the office which he now holds, his accomplishments, and deeds, and quiet strength have attracted men to him and made them love and honor him. He is a man who surely possesses virtuous qualities, for he displays both purity and firmness in all that he attempts. Honesty is certainly another quality of virtue, and one that cannot possiblv be neglected. It is no recently dis - covered need, for we remember Dio- genes. the cinic ])hiloso])her, who is pic- tured as searching with his lantern for an honest man. W ' hen Mathew Scott Sloan, at the age of twenty-seven, ac- ce])ted an im])ortant ])osition with the Prooklyn hklison Com])any and found that one of the employees was receiving large amounts of money through graft, he realized that he must have honest hel])ers, first of all. lie remembered a ' ■ollege friend, one of whcxse oustanding traits was honesty, who, when his mates would ask him to indulge in a certain ])rank. would always tell them to do it by themselves, — he would have none of it. After sufficient inquiries, he learned that this fellow was holding a moderate- ly successful ])osition in the Middle WTst ; he telegraphed him to come to New York and then offered him a $10,000 salary with promise of an increase as soon as he had learne d the business. Add to these qualities of strength and honesty, that of self-forgetfulness, a mark of true nobility which everyone admires. This world would amount to very little if each one of us thought only of himself, disregarding everything and everyone else. Sir Philip Sidney was an author of the sixteenth century, yet people remember him, not so much for his “Arcadia” or for his daring and splen- did deeds as or his one act of forgetful- ness of self. When he lay mortally wounded on the battlefield, a cup of water was passed to him, and although he was faint and thirsting, he offered it to one who was lying near him, saving. Thy necessity is greater than mine.” The story of the fearlessness and hero- ism of Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans, has great attractions for us all. What was it, if not bravery, another of the es- sential qualities of virtue, that she dis- played throughout her whole life? She was the j easant maid who delivered her country and was a martyr in its cause. Her earnestness in carrying out her mis- sion, her power over the soldiers, her courage in battle, her simplicity amid triumph and splendor, and her blameless and holy life all help us to realize the real character of this martyr. W e might mention, as a modern exam])le of bravery and fearlessness. Colonel Charles Lindbergh who re- cently made the first non-stop flight 30

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lead the world to international well be- ing . And clearly that is America’s duty. As she has led in other projects, so must she make the initial move toward world ])eace and harmony. The entire world acknowledges that America holds the key to the world’s future. Should she not then unlock the treasure chest which contains mutual fellowship and world brotherhood? Europe merely awaits America’s initiatory move to join toget- her under God as a world wide race rather than as continually contending factions. This then is the outlook that America has for the coming years. Her star is still ascendant. More and more will Ameri- cans as a people dominate the world. Nor do we wish this domination to be- come the arrogant, autocratic, overbear- ing lordship of previous world leaders. Rather do we desire it to be a true lead- ership copying after the general who never refused to lead his men wdiere he ordered them to go. With that guiding principle of leadership, not compelling authority, America will proceed and suc- ceed. That ideal originates from the over- whelming supremacy of the fair-minded Anglo-Saxon element in our country. That element has influenced all immi- grants to such an extent that today America is characteristically Anglo-Sax- on. At the present time the Anglo-Saxon race is more firmly knitted together by the recent war than ever before. More- over, that race practically controls the world by holding the greater part of the world’s minerals. Great Britain, the other Anglo- Saxon nation, went into the war mistress of the world. Through that ungodly combat the leadershij) devoted upon our own country which contains two-thirds of the dominant race of the world. The power was transfered from London to Washington. 1 heodore Roosevelt, ])reeminentlv an American, said. “The golden hope s of mankind can be realized only by men who have iron in their l)lood ; by men who scorn to do wrong and equally scorn to submit to wrong; by men of gentle souls whose hearts are harder than steel in their readiness to war against brutal ity and evil.’’ Could any people fit this statement more finely than our own? Certainly, then, they will realize the op- ])ortunities presented. Wdien Napoleon drew up his troops before the Nlame- lukes, under the shadow of the ])yramids, he pointed to the latter, saying to his soldiers, “Remember that from yonder heights forty centuries look down on you.’’ Fellow Americans, from the sum- mit of the pyramid of o])portunity we look down upon forty centuries. Again in the words of Roosevelt, “We are not only custodians of the hopes of our children, but in a peculiar sense we are custodians of the hope of the world.’ Opportunity comes but once ; let us seize it while we may. Therefore, let us repeat with Admiral Decatur those thrilling words, “Our country ! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be right ; but our county, right or wrong!’’ “O beautiful for i)atriot dream. That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears ; America ! America ! God shed his grace on thee. And crown thy good with brother- hood From sea to shining sea.’’ Karl P. Raupach. “VIRTUTE, NON VERBIS” “ irtute, non verbis,’’ by virtue, not by wordsjs the motto which we, the class of 1927, have chosen. T- are all indivi- duals, have our own thoughts, and com- municate them one to another by the wonderful gift of language. In the home those who know us best are able to in- terpret our thoughts by a nudge, a nod, of a lifting of the eye-brows; but outside we make our thoughts known by our vords. e study English through long years at school; we try, by reading, to enlarge our vocabulary and to perfect 29

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from New York to Paris, whom we ad- mire no less for the more sul)tle courage (lisi)layed than for the daring spectacu- lar type. When in France, amid the popular applause and entertainment, at the banquet toasts were drunk to him in champagne, and he in turn pledged a toast to the French people, though he raised the glass to his lips, the contents did not pass his lips. Again the 15,000 francs offered to him for his unpreced- ented feat, he asked to be used as a memorial to the French aviators. Y expect great things of him if he can keep his self-dontrol and balance amid the general admiration and temptations which are being, and will continue to be showered upon him. Abraham Lincoln ! The great Eman- cipator ! We picture a man, homely but honest, born in the wild and rough state of Kentucky of a poor and destitute family; we think of his privations, his struggles, and hard work ; and then we see him as a member of Congress, a noted politician, yet a man who radiated sympathy, and later as the greatest ])resident the United States has ever pro- duced. Lincoln, if anyone, shows up- rightness and strength, and Ruskin says, “The very word ‘virtue’ means not ‘con- duct’ but ‘strength’ the vital energy in the heart.” Wdien we combine all these outstand- ing qualities of virtue, — quiet power, honesty, sielf-forgetfullness, ' bravery, sympathy, and strength, as we have ob- served them in the characters and per- sonalities of these great men, we have, as a result, an ideal. But there are many people who exagerate the importance of words and who have no regard for vir- tues, and it is this sort of people who instead of doing anything for the up- building of the nation destroy public con- fidence by their hy])ocritical words. Each one of us wants to attain virtue. 1 ' he question is how can it be accom- plished ; — by practice, first in the small things and then in the larger and more im])ortant. Let us strive for success which will be measured not by words, not by wealth, but by virtue ; for this will leave a ])ermanent influence on the lives of others. Let us be remembered for our deeds, and not for our words — “Virtute, non verbis.” Elizabeth Glover. WIRELESS COMMUNICATION W’ireless and radio have come to mean ])ractically the same thing; but, strictly speaking, radio is only one form of wire- less communication. Wireless may ap- ])ly to the various ])rimative forms of signaling such as smoke signals, flash signals from mirrors, light signals, blasts from a whistle, signals with flags, and numerous other methods for conveying a message over greater than speaking distance without the use of wires. Radio, however, is the most important l)ranch of wireless communication. Until 1896 when Marconi demonstrated the electro- magnet wave system everything of this nature was called wireless. His method became so po])ular and showed so much greater efficiency that the others were discarded. “Radio” was given as a name to distinguish Alarconi’s method from the older ones. It would be useless, as well as unin- teresting to try to give all the primative methods of signaling. Several attempts at wireless communication before Mar- coni, however, were notable. In 1842 Alorse sent a message across a canal in Wkishington. He used water as a conductor for the electricity generated on one side of the canal, while he had a receiver on the opposite side. Preece of England in 1882 succeeded m transmitting a message without the use of either earth or water as a conduc- tor. He used two big loops of wire se])arated a half a mile or more. Con- nected to one of these looi)s was a source of electrical power. To the other was connected a tele])hone receiver. The waves made by the ])ower travelled to the receiving loop, making the signals audible. Preece transmitted over what was then considered a remarkable dis- tance. 31