Newport High School - Blunita Yearbook (Newport, PA)

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Slip IhtP aitii ffiliilr ) VoL 3, No. 3 NEWPORT HIGH SCHOOL February, 1922 WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN. HELLO, DICK! Say, I am glad Miss Dohvin is giving us the choice of writing that essay about either Washington or Lincoln. Washington has always been my hero. Why, it quickens my pulse just to think about him and every loyal, red-blooded American experiences tine same thrill and exalts the name of the man who causes them. Yes, and a patriotic -citizen of any country must honor and revere a man of Washington’s type, no matter what his nationality. Washington was beyond description and 1 feel my efforts to express my thoughts are miserable failures when 1 think of the eloquent praises rendered him by countless others. We cannot give too much praise to the one who was most instrumental in winning American Independence. And then alter we. were established as a nation he showed his ability to head that nation. I can't think of any good trait of character that George

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CONTENTS. EDITORIAL. Washington and Lincoln. The Peace Conference. The Harassed Editor. LITERARY. An Adventure in the Far North. Fleet Deer. “0. “U.” Dickery, Dickery, Dock. All Through a Ferris Wheel. Just a War Poem. The Old Curiosity Shop. Little Eppie and Aaron. A Tedious Wait. y SPECIAL DEPARTMENT. Forsan et Haec Olim Meminisse Juvabit. EXCHANGES. SCHOOL NOTES. ATHLETICS. LAUGHING GAS.

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4 XTbe J6lue anC' ill bite. Washington lacked. We have proofs of his bravery too numerous to mention. He was firm, yet kind. Always calm in confusion, and dignified on all occasions, he gained the respect of all who came in contact with him, even his enemies. We admire the father of our country for his indomitable spirit and constancy of purpose. This God-fearing patriot was just and truthful. We would do well to use George Washington as a model in molding our characters. Now, Jim, 1 shall try to tell you why Abraham Lincoln ranks among the highest ideals of noble and heroic manhood in my estimation but first 1 want you to understand that 1 love the memory of Washington and take the greatest pride in the fact that he was an American. Abraham Lincoln was also courageous. He stood at the helm of the Ship of State when it was being buffeted about in the raging Sea of Civil Strife and was able to bring it to the Port of National Concord without its having been cleft by the angry waters. According to my way of thinking his patience and benevolence are unsurpassed. His trust in God, his forgiving spirit, broadmindedness, and honesty won for him the love of his countrymen. And so I say that if anyone should be successful in following the example set by Abraham Lincoln, “his will be the earth and everything that's in it and which is more, he’ll be a man.” Both boys spoke the truth. Washington and Lincoln were both wonderful men and one cannot help thinking that each was the right man in the right place at the right, time. LEAH SMITH, ’23. THE PEACE CONFERENCE. Tff HAT GOOD did the conference at Washington do? What was the ▼ » advantage of spending those thousands of dollars? Why did the United States bother to stir up this meeting? are the questions asked only by the unintelligent of our country. This conference has been of inestimable value to our country as well as to all other powers of this world. It would take volumes to answer fully the first question. This conference has threshed out grievances that; otherwise would have been settled by war; it has oiled places of friction and has created such fraternal feeling as was never before known. The Four Power Peace Pact has made conditions such that anything other than universal peace is impossible. This alone would have justified such a meeting. It has uprooted the sharp thorns of war and planted the sweet flowers of “Peace.” Advantages, likewise, were gained from a financial standpoint. Tis true that our country spent $200,000 to be host of this conference but this figure becomes a mere pittance when we consider that our naval disarmament will decrease our own appropriations to the extent oi $500,000,000 each year. Computers have announced that it will mean a decrease of at least three dollars to each taxpayer a year. This is but one small Item. Should we bear in mind possible wars which were averted at this association of nations, commercial rights, cable rights.