Nelsonville High School - Saga Yearbook (Nelsonville, OH)

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The Scarlet and Gray 9 civic and sanitary conditions that exist Our town must be made beautiful and healthful. If the city could in some way get control of the old canal bed which runs through the center of our town and fill and pave it, leave squares and ovals for flowers, trees and grass and if we could have cluster lights and seats at different points, it would make a beau- tiful boulevard and a great addition to our city, and also, if we would take an interest in home gardening, tree and flower planting, it would help to beatify our city. If we will all work together for the good of Nelsonville, we may hope to seeherin the near future, the real queen city of the Hocking valley. FLORENCE PARKS ‘14 The Awakened Conscience of Our Nation There is one great fundamental prin- ciple, which underlies all questions that are discussed on the political platform today. That singular principle, says Woodrow Wilson, is, that nothing is done in this country as it was twenty years ago. We are in a decade of a new organi- zation of society. The life of America is not the life it was twenty years ago; indeed it is not the life it was ten years ago. Economic conditions in every phase of our existance have changed. Our Developement has been so rapid that a new nation seems to have been created. The present decade is nothing less than a new social age, a new era of human relationships; it is, if you please, a new stage setting for the drama of life. There is something very nev . very big, very complex, about this new re- lationship. It is however, a very fit- ting garment. Ours is the country which has lifted to the admiration of the whole world, its ideal of absolute- ly free opportunity; where no man is. under any limitations except the lim- itations of his character and mind; where there is no distinction of blood, no distinction of social status, but where men win or lose on their merits. Our country depends upon the invent- ions, the originations, and the ambit- ions of unknown men, not only our own country, or fatherland, bnt every land on the face of the earth is renewed not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful, but out of the ranks of the unknown. Take for instance Abraham Lincoln. He rose from the ranks of a poor couutry lawer to the Presidency of the United States. The freeing of the slaves was not accomplished by a not- ed politician of 1860, nor by a great general, nor by any noted man, but through a poor, uneducated, unknown backwoodsman We hear much nowadays about poli- tical machines. But we are sure you will agree withus, for it is a well known and established fact that the day of heartless conscienceless machines is fast drawing to a close. Our people are awakening or perhaos we had better say their consciences are awakening. Grafters are being weeded out and our government is rapidly developing its new found conscience. The old order is changing, changing under our very eyes, not quietly and equably, but swiftly and with the noise the heat and tumult of reconstruction. It is said by some, as if with superior knowledge, that every age has been an age of transition and that no age is more full of change than another: yet in every few ages if any of the world, can the struggle for change have been so wide spread, so deliberate or upon so great a scale as in this in which we are taking part. The transition we are witnessing is no silent unconscious unfolding of one age into another, its natural heir and suc- cessor. Society is making fresh and critical analysis of its very elements,

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 9 The Scarlet and Gray girls do keep quiet!” cried he, makeing more noise than the whole crowd. ‘‘Whats the use,” answered another, “They know the yacht,” This was true and deeming it wise they slakened speed in place of racing with them. In the meantime, the ‘‘Little Freder- ick” was steadily pursuing and at last overtook them. In a few moments Prof. Campton, Prof. Miller, Miss Leason and Miss Jamison had come on the students yachts and asked the meaning of this unheard of escapade, ‘‘I will admit,” said Prof. Milles, .‘‘that this is a most alluring night for a sail, but rules at Berwick must be obeyed, I will think tomorrow of some punish- Nelsoriville in Nelsonville has in the past depended chiefly on coal mines for support. These hills which surround our city contained coal in large quantities. Mines were opened in these hills and this industry furnished a means of occupation and support for the people. The mines near town have been worked out. The coal has been exhaust- ed, and the miners are compelled to go farther and farther from town to find work, and Nelsonville must in the future look to some other means for her sup- por». The city now contains a population of over six thousand. No employment can be found here nor in fact there never has been any for boys and girls over sixteen years of age. Now if Nelsonville is to be a growing and pros- perous city in the future, these boys and girls, as well as the men, must have employment. Manufactories must come to Nelsonville. Naturally we look about us to see what the natural resources are, and we find that these hills surrounding our city contain great clay beds. The brick factories are using some of this clay and giving employment to some of the people. If large potteries ment befitting this disobedience; but boys the next time you attempt such a prank I advise you to leave the girls at home!” They were premitted to have their spread, however, the teachers saying that it might as well be made use of, being prepared! The students had al- most as much pleasure as they had an- ticipated, even though they were ban- ished from chapel for two weeks and until the close of college, you could hear them whispering among them- selves on the campus wondering whether the teachers really meant to pursue them when they started. Who knows? HAZEL MAY ROSSER ‘14. the Future could be induced to locate here, that would be a great industry and give employment to many persons. Some of this clay is said to be of superior quality, and is the kind used in many of the best potteries. So in the near future we may hope to see this industry thriving here. Now we have a good railroad and a big coal yard, and having plenty of coal and wattr would be items for in- ducing manufactories to locate here. If shoes and clothing manufactories could be induced to come here, they give employment to many girls and boys. In fact any manufactory would be a success in this city. There is very little or no farming done near Nelsonville. The land has just been abandoned. But it muut be reclaimed that is fertilized and treat- ed on scientific principles so the soil will be productive. We could then have good truck gar- dens near town, good dairying farms, good poultry farms, sheep could be raised in some parts and these hills could be set out in fruit trees and made to blossom and bear delicious frnit. Now if we do grow prosperous and self-reliant we must not overlook the

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10 The Scarlet and Gray arrangment and motive of its life. No age we think was ever more con- scious of its task or more unanimously desirous of radical and extended change in its economic, political and moral practice. We veritably stand in the pres- ence of a revolution—No not a bloody revolution, for we believe America will never again become engaged in a great war.—-but a silent revolution, whereby America will insist upon recovering in practice those ideals which she has always professed, And with the energy of patriotic, unselfish men and the habit of coorperation, which has been instilled into us by long years of free government in which reason ratherthan passion has been made to prevail, we will be enabled to win through to still another great age. AUSTIN DOAN ‘14. FOR HIS WIFE’S SAKE One gloomy evening in the spring of the year 1913, a man of magnificent build was seen hurrying through the east end with his coat tails flying as tho he were Ichabod Crane and, was in flight from the headless horseman. People wondered what the excitement was and as there were several small urchins following him, I shall relate this story as it was partly heard from two of them •‘Hey Mickey. I say Mickey, Did ypu see the tall duy wid de twentieth cen- tury speed gear?” (meaning the gentleman who was in a hurry.) ‘Naw Eddie, I wuz out in the back yard throwing corncobs at old Mrs. Smith’s chickens.” ‘‘Well, you orter seen him, he wuz going as if his house wuz on fire.” “Say Eddie, mabby it is, less foller him?”' All right Mickey, come on.” And off down Chesnut street the two boys went on the run; They could see the gentleman a few blocks in advance stiil running. “Eddie, wait a minute I dropped a tommy.” “Aw come on. I’ll dib you a dlassy when we lit there.” So with the satisfaction of increased earnings they plodded on together. What a picture those two boys made, Mickey with an old cap two sizes too big for him , knickerbockers with the buckets torn off, stockings full of holes, a calico waist and no coat on. His face was bright and cheery and show- ed he was without one care in the wide world with the single exception of Eddies promise to “dib him a dlas- sy.” Eddie was dressed similar to Mickey. Ihere they go down the street hand in hand, panting like two nounds fresh from the chase, with minds curious and hearts at perfect peace. But let us get back to our story. The object of pursuit soon turned Reynolds’ cor- ner and went over to the railroad station in the yards, blustered up to the ticket window and with a look of worry and anxiety upon his face, in- quired if the train north had gone and to his complete satisfaction the agent replied that it was due in just four minutes, so he sauntered out side. Eddie was now far in advance of Mickey. As he neared the station, the train could be seen not far away. As it always stops at the yards for coal and water the gentleman walked up the track a short piece intending to walk down, the other side of the track after it stopped and board the train, but on it came. It approached the yards pass- ed them without stopping and went thundering on to the H. V. station. In the meantime the bewildered gentleman knowing that he had to be on that train at all hazards hardly knew what to do. But as the train was bearing down upon him a solution came to him in a flash. As the train was about to pass him he reached out his mighty arm caught hold of the bar that runs across the