Jordan High School - Beetdigger Yearbook (Sandy, UT)

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®1t? Country a (Call © UR great country is in a state of war. In an age when we hoped for universal and perpetual peace the earth is deluged with blood and our own great nation is involved in the strug- gle. We are called upon to rally to her standards. But war is not an unmixed evil. By that bloody process the hu- man race has broken its chains, overthrown despotism and strug- gled upward to liberty and democracy. That goal that has been real- ized now by our own and many other people must be reached by all. It is in the overthrow of despotism and the establishing of democracy and freedom that our nation has enlisted. Our country now calls upon all her children to give her strength. In this crisis she needs us all. Some are required to bear arms and carry our standards, the standards of liberty, to the tront; some to produce munitions of war and weapons for armies-and navies ; some to produce and. conserve food and clothing for ourselves and allies; and some to bind up the wounds and minister to the needs of those in- jured in battle. In these activities we can all enlist and each should find the place where he can serve the best. In this crisis the call has come to the school—to our school. We have responded promptly with a dozen or a score in the army and navy, with a hundred enlisted in farming activities to produce the needed food, with a hundred Red Cross auxiliaries to aid in the cause of relief of suffering, and with fifty as a body of minute men responding to the calls of our labor bureau for quick and urgent help. Honor comes to the soldier who risks his life or sacrifices it for freedom, honor to the mother and sister who anxiously wait and pray for the soldier, honor also to the industrial worker who supplies the needs, and to the nurse who binds up the wounds. Honor comes to all in these varied lines who put their life and energy into this cause of human freedom. The thrill of the feeling of patriotism is the reward for right action in this time of needed help. The cause of humanity invites us all to enlist in some phase of this activity and get the reward. SO

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Ijatl tn ®hpr, Utah Hail to thee, Utah ! Thy dear mountain valleys; Hail to the toilers, that made thee so fair; Hail to thine emblem, the pure sego-lily, Token of innocence, spotless and rare. Grand are thy mountains, and wild are thy torrents, Limpid thy streamlets; thy skies, oh, how fair; Making thy clime a delight and a wonder; Thrilling the soul with a rapture most rare. Let thy vales ring with the songs of thy people; Cheery and blithesome, yet loving and kind; May the refrain echo down through the ages; All thy son’s hearts in true brotherhood bind. Utah, we crown thee the Queen of the Mountains, Land of the foothill and desert sage-clad, Long may thy children, a bounteous harvest, Heap from thy water-kissed valleys made glad. O, may thy sons and thy daughters be ever True to the flag with its red and white bars, Making thy light, from the deep field of azure, Brightest of all in the cluster of stars. 2!)

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lEnltatrit 4fen Boys from Jordan High School who have enlisted in the United States army: THIS YEAR STUDENTS. Oscar Olson, Frank Ellis, Clyde Brady, William Park, George Oliver, Norman Oburn William Boggess, Dewey Canning, Clemen Green. Flavius Erickson Griffith Dowans. Rufus Ray. Ivan Born. Ray Vincent. Gerald Butler. Charles Van. LAST YEAR STUDENTS. Verlan Bateman. Elgin Erickson. Elmer Charter. Dewey Monteer. Marion Milne. Hyrum Stag. Carlos Hanson. PROBABLY WILL ENLIST ON JUNE 1. Thomas Dewey. John Oldham. Herbert Morris. Wilford Thornblad. William Egbert. Merlin Butler. 31