Kouts High School - Kostang Yearbook (Kouts, IN)

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iafe’S Sunset A S THE sun is slowly sinking To it’s rest beyond the day. In my solitude I’m thinking Of the sunlight’s lingering ray. How when you and I are traveling In our path toward the west, May we ever be unraveling Golden cords to guide the rest. Cords of truth, and cords of kindness Leading on to webs of love. Which unite at last to bind us To the throne of God above. To some wayward soul despairing Of his hopes of long ago May our kindness have a sharing Of his path of hidden woe. What if we neglect this duty Which our Father’s given ust Shall we ever see the beauty Of that home in which we trust? Toward each other let us ever Manifest our love for Him, Whose great love for us can never In its tenderness grow dim. As the sunbeam in the twilight So our life each day may be If we but reflect the sunlight Of the life that is to be. Ethel C., ’12.

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€nbless Cftain The teacher is solemnly Calling the roll. As the nine o’clock bell Is beginning to toll. Lessons are completed; Hooks are closed for the day; And the hand has ope’d them, Now lays them away. Hooks are uncovered. Brought to the light; Toil is unbroken From morning till night. No voice in the schoolroom No sound in the hall. Each one is studying; Silence reigns over all. Deserted the schoolroom; Silence is complete; No voices are ringing; No patter of feet. Dim grow the shadows. And soon fade away; Darkness comes slowly To cover the day. All have good lessons Each day of the week; For knowledge and wisdom Is the goal which all seek. Thus pass the hours. Day after day; Now darkness; now daylight; Now work and now play. Raymond L. Williamson. T2

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 $lea for Cleaner politics; IT IS an established fact that there has been at different times a great deal of corruption in politics. This has not been entirely eliminated yet. What we want to strive for and must accomplish is the elimination of all cor- ruption in politics. The corruption in politics today consists of the rule of the machine, or in other words of the rule of the demagogue and of the political boss. These perils are inter- woven to form a strong organization, strong enough to grasp the reins of the government and to hold them against all op- position. The work of the proper rulers of this country, that is the people, is to educate themselves in the ways in which any can- didate of the machine secures his election. I do not mean to say that this political corruption is an epidemic in all sections of the country but in certain localities traces of it are easily found. Here and there all over the country men whose only distinction is their wealth, and men whose only profession is the concentration of political schemes by means of underhand work, compared to real statesmen as quacks are to real physicans, have at times found their way into some of our highest governmental positions. The presence of such men in our government is a slur on the education and worthiness of our American citizens. It is an undisputated fact that money talks. But the pro- blem confronting the Amercian people to-day is to see that money does not .do all the talking. It is not likely that the demagogue, the wealthy man and the “Boss” will ever become the ruling class of this intellegent country in the open. That the rich man will support the dema-