Mondovi High School - Mirror Yearbook (Mondovi, WI)

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THE HIGH SCHOOL MIRROR SENIORS pay hurtley Fay” Teachers' Training Course Nautilus 1-2-3-4, Vice-president First Semester 4, President Second Semester 4. Class Treasurer 2. Junior Red Cross 4. Mirror Staff 4, Though modest and gentle, she rules her own heart.” Everett smith “Ted Commercial Course Demosthenian Society 2-3-4, Athletic Society 4. Junior Red Cross 4. “He oft hath burned the midnight oil. But never wavering in toil.

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THE HIGH SCHOO L MIRROR SENIORS AN.VADBLLE PEARL TIFFANY Ann Teachers' Training Course. Entered as a Junior from Durand High School, Nautilus 3-4, Secretary 3, Athletic Aspoc ation 3. “She travels safe who is guided by love.' GENHARD STRAND “Gennie” English Course Class liasket Ball 4, Junior Red Cross 4. Athletic Association 4. Demosthenian Society 4. 1 am slain by a fair, cruel maid.” MINA FLEISCHAUER “Mina” English-German-Teachers’ Training Courses Nautilus 1-2-3-4. Junior Red Cross 4. Athletic Association 1-2-3-4, Salutatorian. “What she has undertaken she has done. HELMER JOHNSON “Johnson Commercial Course Demosthenian Society 1-2-3-4, Athletic Society 1-2-3-4. Class President 3, Junior Red Cross 4. “When joy and duty clash. I let duty go to smash.” GLADYS MARIAN HILL Glad- Teachers’ Training Course. Nautilus 1-2-3-4. Athletic Association 1-2, Glee Club 4. Junior Red Cross 4. Long of Stature but short of Speech.”

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THE HIGH SCHOOL Ml It H O b VALEDICTORY. By Jacob P. Lee. fulfill the wish Of a few g.eedy, unscrupulous. military leaders who have for the past OCR DUTY AS AMERICANS The morning of the twenty-eighth day of June 1914, dawned upon a peaceful, prosperous and happy civilisation. Peaceful, for only a few months before the peace conference had met at The Hague in a mighty assembly and assured us that we were in no danger of war. Prosperous, because throughout the world, regardless of race or nation, there was international commerce. Happy, because it seemed that the inseparable bonds of love and fellowship had united civilization as one people. But with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand on the 28th of June, a dark cloud appeared above our horizon. With the demands of Austria and the complications involved, the cloud loomed greater. Instead of the calm of peace, prosperity, and happiness, there were mutterings. threatenings, severing of family ties and sad farewells. Suddenly the storm broke on the first of August, and is still raging in all its rury; while today Europe staggers in a loathsome scene of death and devastation. For nearly four years Europe has been drenched in blood; youth in its splendor, in its glory and in its gallantry has been fed to the furnace of war. A few mocking efforts fo.-peace,, a sudden shifting of armies and navies, the instant throttliug of newspapers, and then the terrible crash. Treaties became scraps of paper, necessity supplanted justice, even God was claimed as a partner in the evil and the wanton work of destruction Today Europe sees herself in murder and devastation; she sees her fertile fields to;n with steel and saturated with human blood, her harvest destroyed, her industry and commerce paralyzed, her schools and churches demolished, her treasury depleted; while starving, wretched millions pray for bread and yearn for peace. Now, we too, have been thrust into this terrible carnage. America's youth is being hurled into the jaws of death. Our wealth is being used to p'erce the hearts of our fellow-men. simply because Militarism has made its last and final assault on Democracy. Why is Germany waging this world war? The Germ: n people are fighting today to fifty years controlled and Prussianized the German government to the.r own ends, and who now seek world domination to secure for the Kaiser a place beside Alexander, Caesar, and Napoleon. We are fighting because Right is More Precious Than Peace.” We are fighting for liberty to do and to think as we feel, while allowing others the same right, without fear of any kaiser bringing war and sorrow to us over again. We are not fighting because we hate the people of Germany, but because the world cannot, as President Wilson wisely said, be safe for Democracy as long as a few men can force battle and death on all mankind. Concretely, so far as our immediate future is concerned. Germany seeks the capital of the United States to replace the enormous wastage of her own resources. Germany has spent over thirty-five billions of dollars in the prosecution of this war. But this does not constitute her entire expenditure. Since the beginning of the war there has been a constant and increasing deterioration of her railroads, public roads buildings and factories. The fertility of her soil has become exhausted and her supply of live-stock sacrificed. Germany kno vs that she cannot look to England. France or Russia to make good this wastage. It has become very clear at present that Germany can never hope to pay her war debt, nor to restore her wasted pioperty. The. efore. she looks with eager eyes upon the United States as the last great source of capital to repair her roads; to replace her buildings and factories; to restore her soil and flocks; to pay off her outstanding war bends; and to provide the money and the material to renew, re-establish and re-entrench her military machine, and thus make her. in very truth, the ruler of the world. Is there any pacifist so foolish as to think this is mere fancy—that once she has us in her power she will do other than to feed to us unrelentlessly the grudge and the resentment she feels toward us for refus'ng to acquiesce in her nefarious plans? What