Manual Arts High School - Artisan Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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T H E A R T I S A N S ' 3 ALEX F. HANSEN ADVl S EB. ROBEUT RlDGWA r ASfOCIATE BO I TOR NOBEL JOHNSON AUT E D 1 TO It JAMES HALL SPOILT SD1TO ■JJMii iiiiiiii

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Foreword Bv Bob Ridgwav V 1 u- nV ATlIl- XIAXS. IX THE INTERIM l)etvveen civil disayrctwcnt. fuund time to make their chiefest city a shrine to l)eauty. It was not merely the hearty of a woman ' s face or a proud steed, carved in stone, hut the heauty of the living mind and the living body of man. Ergo, there evolved the Olympic Games, where man, oiled and naked, flaunted his physical perfection Ijefore the critical populace. Pew Athenians would .say, Think not of my flesh if it offends vour sight. l)Ut of my mind, which is beautiful. ' That great race was aware that a beautiful mind bcgeis a beautiful body, and sometimes vice-versa. The Athenian athlete was asked to lay aside the laurel crown and delight his admirers with his skill upon the lute or the lei)th of his philosophy. To Athens we owe an eternal debt of gratituile for so exalting the greatness, the thrilling symmetry of man, and placing him in his true station above the level of lesser beasts. Today the nations of the earth strive to attain the perfection of manhood achieved by the ancients, and to that end the jieople are given the boon •hletics. Instruction in scientific e.-cercise, mass athletics for youth, and play- nds for the white collar men are the outgrowth of realization that intelligence jodily .strength can and should be one. Nations take pride in the scope (jf athletic ])rograms. Then at the Olympic ( iames they place their manhood arade. fundamental ])ur])()se of tile ( )lym])ic (iames is to create a si)irit of inter- iT brotherhood through the medium of the play instinct, which is inherent in pie and subordinates jealousy while nurturing honesty. At times sectiona will injec a note of bitterness, but slowly and unostentatiously, like an, lUs drug, the great purpose is being fulfilled. Finland, rent by a civil war bloody than our own, merges into a nation of mutual ideals and asjiirations h interest in sports. ations profit by observation of rival methods in developing young men andty women. Germany, freed from the bondage of Jingoism, advances a pro-( n of mass participation in athletics in order to compete on equal terms with f rica. Japan does the same and is overcoming the handicap of small stature threatening Occidental supremacy. Men learn not to hold contempt for less fortunate nations, and cherish memories of a great race by a man whose color and creed are not their own. In this the Olympic ' Games have achieved a result eclipsing all the peace pacts in the annals of governments. Glory to ancient . thens ; glory to those who advance the torch she lighted so long ago. fy r H. ' Vii, p) :)• U

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A k T I S A X S T A F F THE ARTISAN STAFF GERTRiroE WWJTON LENNIE MOORE SCHOOL LITE FEATUR-ES - ■ ' % JOE SHORTER