Jamestown High School - Red and Green Yearbook (Jamestown, NY)

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light in dingy cellars-Russians were thinking. They assembled in the Russian-japanese war and there gave much. In return they demanded mueh and despotism was foreed to compromise with a Duma and written promises. Now throughout the country men are thinking in terms of liberty. Nilyoukuv and other exponents of the new school are coming to the front. May their training be more universal and consistent that their revolution may grow less bloody than that of the' French, and their victory more complete. Individuals within nations have demonstrated their determination and ability to develop their inherent qualities free from arbitrary re- straint. To-day, the world is in a revolution that indivdual nations may possess the same rights. In 1776, republican government was all but negligible. To-day, four fifths of the world's inhabited area and three fourths of its people are nominally under republican government. lidu- Cation, struggling under adverse conditions, has been responsible for de- moeracy's victory thus far. liducation. if loyally supported, will ulti- mately bury despotie and arbitrary government. Thales was right. Mind and not matter rules the universe. Earle S. Palmer. Thinking If you think you're beaten, you are: lf you think you dare not, you dou't: If you like to win, but yon think you can't, lt's almost a eiueh you won't. lf you think you'll lose, you're lost, N For out in the world we find Success begins with a fellow's will: lt's all the state of mind. If you think you're ontclassed, you are: You've got to think big to rise: You've got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man: But soon or late the man who wins Is the man who thinks he can. -Exchange. 31

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and bled for American democracy, had returned to France with minds capable of thinking only in terms of liberty. XVise old Benjamin Frank- lin, radiant with democracy, had had translated and spread broadcast among the French the written constitution of America's republic. French thinking everywhere was experiencing a reformation. The mere men- tion of I..aFayette's name sent hurling in the air the cap of the French- man whether a soldier or a mere hanger-on of the saloon. Long be- fore 1789, the French had begun to think in terms of liberty and justice. During the struggle thus precipitated, Louis XVI had been compelled to compromise again and again even to the extent of summoning the old States General at LaFayette's command. XVhen the revolution had con- tinued until 1789, the hurling of bombs and the booming of cannon opened the world's eyes to the warfare despotism had long been waging against those mighty forces mobilizing for years in French minds- forces too great for even a Bonaparte or a Napoleon III to effectually destroy. XVhile -the Russian revolution is only just beginning in its more audible stage and has hardly yet started on its career of violence and bloodshed, its real birth date was red-lettered many years ago. Des- potism, still vigorous, for years has been compromising in fierce struggle with the forces of liberty and justice as they have been gradually mobi- lizing under the orders of trained thought. The sacrifice, by this uu- scrupulous monster, of the Romanoffs is only the last in a long series of compromises. The training of the Russian mind to think in terms of liberty began long ago. Nearly a century and a quarter have passed since Kosciusko, who had breathed with Washington and Laliayette tl1e same American air of liberty and democracy, carried the seeds of discontent home to Russia in his revolt of Poland. In less than another quarter of a century, in spite of all Metternich could do, the seeds of democracy had taken such deep root in the world that despotic Russia felt compelled to become a part to the Holy Alliance to wage everlasting warfare on so great a foe. As a result, the soldiers of Nicholas I were sent to crush the liberty-loving Kossuth in Hungary only to return to their homes in Russia to think more and more loudly in terms of liberty. In the nineteenth century, this thinking became nourished as never before. Face to face with unscrupulous and despotic Prussianism, Russia became the ally of Europe's two great republican nations-l2ng- land and France. Unwittingly, despotism, in thus drawing' more tightly the bonds of association about the Russian people and the Anglo-Saxon. dealt itself an effective blow. Such apostles of liberty as Leo Tolstoi now began writing:- Everything that savors of compulsion is harmful- Freedom is the only criterion. Depotism struggled hard against the onslaughts of freedom by such means as wholesale exiling, imprisonment and strict censorship of dangerous writings such as Green's English I-Iistory, Bryce's American Commonwealth, and the works of 'I'olstoi- but its struggle was in vain. Russians were reading Tolstoi by candle 30

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X Miss Elizabetlfs Victory ll T ISS lilizaheth was not so happy as usual. True she was not WSU unhappy as she walked hriskly down the main street of the little Q-iv' S village, lint her face lacked its custoniarykhright smile, and her eyes their usual cheery look. She was thinking of Andrew, the t' only one of her school of little foreigners whose confidence and ' affection she could not gain. She could not understand why she eoulcl not reach the hoy's heart. lrler huys and girls, with the exception of Andrew, were responsive and affectionate, aml loved her with all the devotion of their warm little hearts. Now, as she neared the neatly painted white school-house, she saw the door push quickly open and two little dark clad figures came racing down the path toward her. She knew they u'cre -Ioe and Rose, the children of the Italian fruit peddler. lfloth held out to her hunehes of soiled arhutus, which they had gathered the night hefore in t'ater's woods. She well knew that these woods were a good mile from the low, dilapidated cottage, which the children called home. The flowers were wilted and broken, and the hands which held them were hot and grimy, but the eager, confident light in the eyes of joe and Rosie was not to be mistaken. She took the arhutus, greeted the children pleasant- ly, and at their urgent clamoring allowed them to carry her dinner-box hut insisted on carrying her hooks herself. XVhen she entered the schoolroom, il great cry of, Miss lless! .Xhl Miss Hess has come! greeted her. This joyous greeting hrought Il happy, wonderful light into the eyes of the young teacher, hut her smiling face clouded a hit as she noticed the sullen, scowling face of the slight dark-haired boy in the corner desk. However, she greeted him with a pleasant, Good morning, Andrew. 'Moruingf' he grnmbled. A few minutes later at the sound of a tiny hell, the tumult ceased 32