Lakota High School - Lakhian Yearbook (Kansas, OH)

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Without realizing it, England instilled in the colonists the individual purpose and ingenuity that necessity breeds. With trade goods cut to a minimum, determined young leaders of the time set out to find ways of surviv- ing without support from the Mother Country. Agricultural methods and machines and labor saving devices were designed by our forefathers. As frontiers opened, Yankee genius had to conquer natural barriers in the wild new country, so suspension bridges were invented and methods of transportation were perfected for the purpose of opening the untamed areas. Later, they sought to section off the land with the revolution- ary and controversial invention - barbed wire. Cooper's 1-horsepower Tom Thumb train in 1830 and later, automobiles like the first Model T, and the 4-horsepower airplane, became American modes of travel from city to city and coast to coast. Americans knew that the fertile lands of this nation would produce unequalled harvests if machines were designed to take over for man. They knew also that trade routes were difficult to travel and manufacturing would have to be done close to home. The cotton gin, textile looms, drill presses and a reaper which could cut six times as much grain as a hand scythe were some of the tools invented. Protection for themselves and for their young country prodded inventors like Eli Whitney to perfect firearms and others to work on plans for the first submarine. Young inventors like Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison lcalled the nation's most valuable citi- zenj visualized machines that would light the country and open up communication with those in the far cor- ners of the nation. The telephone, telegraph, phono- graph and the first light bulb were discovered in the late 1800's and early twentieth century. This American way of doing for oneself inspired many to become inventors in their own right. Some sought to save labor and mass- produce for profit while others envisioned not only riches, but excitement and adventure as they discovered ways to defy nature. Throughout the past 200 years the American mind has been unleashed to take whatever paths necessary to ful- fill the needs. In the last half-century, the pace of dis- covery has been overwhelming and inventions for the taming of the universe lie in the grasp of America while the habit of finding a way is ingrained in its people. The seeds of industrial America were sown by these inventors resulting in today's mechanized society.

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THEY M DE THEIR MARK Men and women who helped shape America's history THOMAS PAINE, a bankrupt Quaker corsetrnaker, some lrme leaehera preacher and grocer wrote the most brrl llanl pamphlet ol the Amerrcan Revolutroh. Hts words rn Common Sense relllectecl lorrgmgs and asprratuons that have remalned part ol Amerrcan culture to thls day Chrel lustrce IOHN MARSHALL establlshed lundamental pnnctples ol Amerlcan conslututronal law Hers noted lor hrs preceoental declaratron ol a Congresslonal act as unconstrtutlonal He served through lrve adrnmlstra llons,lrom1E0l-1835. ABRAHAM LINCOLN eputomrzed the Amerrcan dream ol a humble young man ascendmg to the hughest olltce ot the land He was superbly skulled at analyzrng complex rs' sues and translatrng them rnto meanmgtul words lor the publuc He was devoted to the preservatron ol the Unuon DANIEL WEBSTER chose law as a career and went on to become well-known rn the courts and an polrtlcs He was twlce Secretary ol State wrlh an eye always to the Pres: dency whrch eluded hrm Born a slave ln Maryland, FREDERICK DOUGLASS taught lumsell to read and wnte secretly and.at 21. escaped to lreedom He was an ardent abolrtronrsl campargnrng successlully lor Negro sullrage and crvrl rrghts HARRIET BEECHER STONE wrote Uncle Torrr's Cabin tn an ellort to make the whole nation reallze the rnhumanrf ty ol slavery Her book resulted ln one ol the most popu- lar and controversual plays on the Amerucan stage The Crvll War was klndled by thus work, l l ' ' 1 DDROTHEA DIX worked her entrre adult lrle lor relorm of the exlstrng penal and mental rnstrlullons rn the mrd- 1800's The lrrst state hosprtal rn the nalron at Trenton, New lersey was a drrect result ol her ellorts The New Colossus, a sonnet composed by EMMA LAI' ARUS rn 1883 as rnscrrbed on a bronze tablet at the base ol the Statue ol Llherty She organrzed relrel tor lews and helped lugulrves from the Czar's ghettos to establlsh homes rn Amerrca l t The creator ol the Cherokee alphabet, SEQUOVAH, was an artust. wnter and snlversmuth He used a srrnple 1821 Englush orrmer to compose the characters The famous redwood trees ol the Pactlrc coast bear has name AMELIA IENKS BLOOIAER, best known tor a mode ol dress she adopted durlng her campargn lor equal rrghts lor women Though rrdrculed untrl she gave up the cos- tume. the term oIoomer came to symbolrze womans bud lor lndtvndual lreedom HORACE GREELETS admonrtron to Go West young man was a rallying cry of the proneers ol Amerrca He was lounder and edntor ol the New York Trroune He was best known lor hls philosophy of socral relorm and hrs unsuccesslul had torthe Fresldency rn 1872. IOSEPH PULITZER was the ltrst yournalrst to reach a tru- ly masslve audrence Hrs New York World newspaper was the symbol ol yellow yournalusmu wrth tts sensatuonalv rsm aimed at the common man