Jordan High School - Beetdigger Yearbook (Sandy, UT)

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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

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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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§dtmil Saijfi CHOOL days-—how much reflection these words contain. This is the springtime of life when the buds of thought are just ready for opening. It is then that we are so earn- estly mounting the great ladder of learning, that ladder which has no end but leads ever on and upward. It is true that we must always be ascending or descending; we cannot remain still, we must either fall back or advance. But our school days, the time when the mind is developing and forming, is the time of the greatest ascension. It is then that the brain is most ready to receive; it is then that the character is formed for future life. Each act or thought, be it ever so small, will some time make itself known. Our school days are the days of happy hours. In them we form true friendships that will last throughout the coming years, and though we are scattered far apart, time or distance can never blot out the memory of our happy school days. They will come back to us in dark hours of sorrow. In our dreams we will live again the time we spent in forming the golden chains of friendship, whose links can never be broken or rusted apart. And when we are tottering down the hill of life, vve will look back and long for just once more our “Happy School Days.”