McAdory High School - Yellow Jacket Yearbook (McCalla, AL)

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THE YELLOW JACKET President’s Address Parents. Faculty. Fellow Classmates and Friends: It affords me a peculiar pleasure to welcome you to this, the greatest occasion of our lives. It is the day towards which we have eagerly looked forward., and for which we have labored faithfully and earnestly in our efforts during our stay at this institution. We. the class of 24 are very glad to express our appreciation to our parents and many friends who have made it possible few us to reach this point in our educational career. To you we extend a most cordial and hearty welcome to share with us the joys of this occasion, which shall ever Ik- the happiest among our most cherished memories. As we come to the day of graduation and commencement, a spirit of just pride and a feeling of success comes over each and every one of us. for we have labored faithfully and have come at last to receive the crown of victory over all the trials and tribulations of a high school career. Fellow Classmates, as we pass from the walls of this institution, far more important to us than the mere knowledge we have gained from lxw ks. is the broadening of our narrow mental horizon, so that our visions may begin to increase and expand till we can get a broader and clearer vision of life and of service to mankind. It matters not what walks of life we may pursue, our success in the future depends entirely on our faithfulness to duty, and may our efforts ever be worthy and to the extent of the powers God has given us. Whatever we undertake, let us endeavor to do it with the spirit that nothnig worth while is accomplished without lalior. In the future let us work with but one great purpose in view. Make the whole world brighter, happier and better by our having lived in it. To the success we have attained in school, we owe a three-fold debt of gratitude to our parents our faculty, and our friends. First of all. we are indebted to our parents who have lal»orcd hard at home, providing for us the necessities of life, who have made many sacrifices in our behalf, and by their untiring efforts and encouragement, have made it possible for us to be here on the platform today. Also, we owe a debt of gratitude to our faculty and our dear old McAdory High School. f« r we deem it an honor to graduate from this, one of the very best and most highly recognized high school of Jefferson County. Finally, we are indebted to our many friends and school officials, who have ever been ready to lend their support and encouragement. Now to you fellow classmates, I must express my sincerest appreciation and deepest gratitude for the great honor you have so kindly bestowed upon me by voting me your president. Your kindness and most hearty cooperation have always been greatly appreciated, and in serving such a loyal class to the best of my ability. I have always felt a keen pleasure and a distinct honor. Now as we leave this institution and enter the various walks of life, may the passjx rt «»f our journey 1h “ The service that we render each day as we go. Hu on Hickman. Kintteen

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THE YELLOW JACKET Senior Class Poem When tlu sun is sinking behind the hill And the clouds give off a purple light. The gold is lingering with the purple still The world prepares for the coming night. While age retires to its favorite nooks And dreams of things gone by. Youth goes «»n without a backward look. And thinks of the things that before them lie. May youth strive to keep the book unstained As the tender years depart from life, May the highest aims he obtained. With more of love and less of strife. When life’s sun is sinking low And the gold has turned to gray. When the years have lost their golden glow Then age has won the day. Willie Mae Taught Eighteen

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TIIE YELLOW JACKET Oration POLITICAL CORRUPTION Weighing upon the American people of today and tomorrow is the one great subject that has demanded more attention than any other. It is the subject of “Political Corruption ’ It claims America’s business consideration and undivided attention. Living under a government today in which the organized finance is the chief | o ver. we will learn more atout this thick-skinned moral and physical animal, whom it is our business to eliminate. Public ownership should be defended on every side, to keep it out of the hands of the ungodly political grafters, the management of America’s future business. The |x»litical grafter is the most determined fighting l»east in our democracy. For instance, in the great Tea-Pot Dome Oil Scandal, he is the central figure, trying to gain control of the oil system, to rule in such a way that it is akin to despotism. Hut we will, by the last drop of American blood that runs through our veins, crush out of existence this scandalous system of authority and give to the public it’s dues of a well-spent life. The way to kill this dreaded creature is to over-whelm the power of numbers through the ballot, by the voters, whose work it; is to help hamstring this political corruption in the African fashion, by dropping him over Life’s Cliff, to seek an untimely death among the leaders of Hades. The Christian Religion does not constitute the life of selfish, incompetent, unworthy, leaders whose sole joy is robbing the American people of the many millions, daily that are needed for its’ support. In a land where colleges are endowed by financial corruptionists and where trustees discharge professors to please plutocrats, the suggestion of a fashionable boycott is pathetic. The strength of the trust owner and the political corruptionists lies in the control of natural monojKilies and national necessities. Public streets, electric lighting and endless other monopolies are sold by political bosses tu the highest bidder. These bids are disguised bribes, which are a curse to « ur nation and by future American citizens will Ik- stamped out forever. An ( i! Dome Scandal, is only a bigger, more vicious bribe that few can luckily bid for. If every good and worthy citizen of the United States will devote bis energy to developing ideas of public (state, city and national) ownership, it will within a very few years become a dominant idea. With universal cooperation we can, and VK WILL bind and skin this big financial rhinoccrous. called political corruption before he really knows what has happened. The thing for you to do is to spread your convictions among your fellownien. Don’t 1 c contented with the fact that you know the truth. Don't be satisfied with exjxmnding your doctrines in your family circle, but Ik- as energetic in the defense of public ownership as the financial bandit and corrupt politicians are energetic in furthering their interests. Public ownership would practically do away with corruption in jxditics because it lowers taxes, benefits business men and for us all it increases the Twenty