Morton High School - Pierian Yearbook (Richmond, IN)

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2- M.H.S. THE PIERIAN 1923 f rittripaTa Mt aaag? THE best gift an American school can make to its pupils is an un- derstanding of democracy ; that you consciously and conscientiously prac- tice democracy, is the best advice I can give to you as you graduate. Democracy is a scheme for suc- cessful, contented living and is based on two assumptions : 1. That society is a man-made organization to allow and to help the individual to develop his natural self as far as he can along any lines that society has, in past experience, found good. 2. That the individual, therefore, owes to society his opportunity for, and the advantages of, a happy life, should appreciate this fact, and should serve wholeheartedly the so- cial groups to which he belongs. There are many implications of these two statements, only a few of which I shall mention : 1. Society stores up information, good habits, tried customs — wise ex- perience of the ages — which it places at the disposal of individuals through churches, schools, other social organizations, and through laws and customs. 2. Better individuals improve society and an improved society produces better individuals. 3. The easiest, best, most satisfying way for an individual to grow is to make one ' s social group (family, school, city, nation, and world) grow better and to grow better with it. 4. The larger the number of social groups to which one belongs, the greater the opportunity to develop one ' s different capacities and interests and the greater the opportunity to give to the world the benefit of one ' s education. Social service — to preserve the stored-up experience of humanity, to increase and better this store by you r individual contributions, to help yourselves by for- getting yourselves in the service of your fellow — is your duty, your opportunity, your happiness : your duty, because you owe to society what you are ; your op- portunity, because only thus can you become a full-grown individual ; your hap- piness, because, actually, it is more blessed to give than to receive. E. C. Cline. Good advice Page eleven =X 3

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M.H.S. THE PIERIAN 9 2 3 luarit nf Ouratum W. G. Bate — Superintendent Charles W. Jordan — President Walter Reid — Treasurer H. Ray Robinson — Secretary lutg To do your little bit of toil. To play life ' s game with head erect; To stoop to nothing that would soil Your honor or your self-respect: To win what gold and fame you can. But first of all to be a man. To know the bitter and the sweet. The sunshine and the days of rain : To meet both victory and defeat. Nor boast too loudlv nor complain ; To face whatever fates befall And be a man throughout it all. To seek success in honest strife. But not to value it so much That, winning it. you go through life Stained by dishonor ' s scarlet touch. hat goal or dream you choose, pursue. But be a man whate ' er you o -Edgar A. Guest. % The unseen bosses. Page ten %

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M.H.S. THE PIERIAN 1 g 2 3 pntiHor ' a iflfHHctg? 1 I ' HE diploma you get in June i- going - ■ to mean •an many things to you ; hence. When you come upon it as you are rummaging thru some treasure box. it will call up for you all the fun and work and worry of your high school davs : it will bring back forgotten face- : it will remind you of forgotten frolics and scrapes — yes. and of really splendid things you will be proud to remember having done. That is what this diploma will come to mean to you. But in the first few day- and weeks of its possession, and particularly next September, when all come trooping back- without you. it will seem to you more like a barrier shutting you out from a dear, familiar world. That is what I really wish to talk to you about. When you read these words. it will be but a day or two until your diploma is in your hands. When that day comes. I should like you to re- member that, altho we may seem very far away to you. to us you are still very near. You still belong to us. You are just not with us. For many a long day, we shall speak to each other of you. We shall be eager for news of you, and, not hearing, we shall ask. What do you hear from So- and-So? Where is he? What is he doing this year? We shall rejoice when the news is splendid. We shall grieve with you when things go badly. And when there is no news, our hearts will sink for we shall know you have forgotten your dreams. Will you then, in the davs. the weeks, yes. even in the years to come, remember that we have not forgotten, that we are waiting for news, splen- did, glorious news of you? Mary Morrow. Once more the high school graduates Appear in bright array. ' Twill take thorn twenty years to know How much thev know today. A broad-minded sponsor has vision. Page twelve