Nixon Township High School - Nixonia Yearbook (Weldon, IL)

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SALUTATORIAN ADDRESS Friends, faculty, and parents, in behalf of the Class of 1918, I welcome you to our class night exercises. During our High School career we have endeavored to take advantage of the opportunities offered us and have endeavored to be a credit to the High School which the people of the community have seen fit to offer us. We are grateful to those people who have given us these opportunities. At this time we have a great deal to be thankful for, yet sad thoughts also come with this meeting. Only once more will we be permitted to come before the public as a class and as members of the Nixon Township High School. With tomorrow even-mg our high school career will end and we will then be the alumni of the Nixon Township High school. Our class has taken part in all the activities Of the High School and has tried to do its best and bear its share of the responsibilities. We may or may not have suc- ceeded in this, but we have endeavored to set an example before the other classes that will be proner for them to follow and will be a credit to us in after years. We are grateful to the faculty who have done so much for us during our sojourn in the High School. They have helped us over many obstacles and have aided us as best they could. Especially are we grateful to Mr. Johnson, who has been with us during the greater part of our High School career and has helped to make our High School what it now’ is. We wish to thank our parents who have made it possible for us to attend the school. In some cases it has been a sacrifice, yet it is best for us that we have the education. By having the education we are better fitted to fill our place in life. We also wish to thank our classmates who have aided us in all our undertakings and have supported the High School as well as the Senior class. We have finished our High School career, but we are not really educated so that we may properly fill our place in the throng. ()ur High School has given us proper training but this training is not sufficient. Wemust seek further training elsewhere. When we think of seeking training elsewhere it brings sad thoughts to our minds. We know that we must leave those people with whom we have so long been assoc:a ed and must seek new friends. We shall not forget that those people have done so much for us and in after years will hope to still see a Nixon Township High School greater and better thaji the one w-e are now’ leaving. Our ourposc this evening in giving this entertainment is to come before the community once more as a class. We hope to give a fitting farewell to our classmates -ml friends, a farewell that will long be remembered in our community and by our School. I'o such an entertainment I now bid you a hcartv and sincere welcome. M. MILDRF.D SAYLOR, ’18. FAMOUS STALLS I didn’t get that far. 1 guess I studied the wrong lesson. I didn’t understand that part of the lesson. ! brought the wrong paper to class. I didn’t understand the assignment. I didn’t have time to get over quite all of the lesson. I’ve lost my paper. I don’t recall. 1 don’t know. I tranlatcd all but that. Was that our lesson for today. Juniors are inclined to write “Young Books” on exams.

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Nixon Township High School Class Day Program, 1918 M. E. CHURCH Tuesday, May 7th 8:30 o’clock P. M. Class Song .......................... Salutatory .......................... Solo ................................ Class History ....................... Class Prophecy ...................... Piano Solo ................„......... Class Poem .......................... Class Oration ....................... Song — Class Quartet Class Will ............. Senior Charge........... Junior Response......... Song — Class Male Quartet Valedictory ....... ........By the Class ...M. Mildred Saylor ....K. Fleet Summers .........W. H. Gray ...Yern L. Shinneman ...M. Mildred Saylor .....Karl I4. Peterson ...K. Fleet Summers K. Fleet Summers Yern L- Shinneman i Lola A. Kmerv M. Mildred Saylor ..........C. C. Gray .....Clarence F. Keel .....Rachel Summers ) K. Fleet Summers I Yern I,. Shinneman Clarence F. Keel W. H. Gray ......I.ola A. Emery Never Satisfied— The Freshies

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CLASS ORATION THE INDICTMENT AGAINST GERMANY Today it is a common story how this awful war in which wc arc now engaged, was brought about by a hatched up scheme of Austria against Serbia, by claiming a Serbian subject had killed the Crown Prince of Austria. It is also definitely known today that these very acts were carried on under Germany’s supervision, and that she sanctioned the whole proceeding. And when Austria refused to accept Serbia’s submissive reply to her humiliating ultimatum, it was positive proof of but one thing, namely, that Germany and her ally. Austria, meant to engage Europe in war, for the purpose of military expansion and territorial acquisition. The idea for such acts, as justified by such German historians and philosophers as Treitschke, Nietzsche and even in tlu present day by Bernhardt, dates back to ancient Imperialism as expounded by Julius Caesar. Ancient Caesarism and Imperialism arc living forces in Germany today. Imperialism is far older than Rome, but it was in the Roman Empire that Imperialism found that expression that has taken captive the imaginations of later men; in that Empire it found, if anywhere, its justification. Rome’s wonderful progress from insignificance to world-empire has long appealed to German philosonhers as a most conscious example of the Hcgalian Welt-geist’s expression of himself through his chosen nation. I hilosophy and history are living influences in Germany. Philosophers have taught then disciples and readers that the Germans arc now the chosen people of the W elt geist; that it is their mission to take the place of Rome as the great conquering and cwiliz.ng power. Historians have kept alive the memory of the mighty role played by the ancient Germans as champions or as wreckers of the Roman Empire; they have emphasized that link that binds the ancient Imperialism with the modern— the Holy Roman Empire.” Hut while she is very proud to speak of her antiquity, and her association with the Roman Empire, there is one thing she is very careful to sav nothing ‘about The Germans are again m admg northern France and Italy, and the trenches on the west trout are drawn where Caesar threw up his earthworks in the vicinity of the isne 1 be invaders are murdering non-combatants or carrying them into slavery the same as Caesar of old; they are wantonly destroying monuments, priceless in their historical associations, irreplaceable in their beauty. We have seen a race pre-eminent for its technical s ill reverting in its ideas of international morality to its ancestors of the wild German forests, to men like those described by Caesar. who measured their national glory by the extent of wasted country that surrounded their territory. Surely he trmmph of these ideas would mean the return of ages no less dark” because the new barbarians have at their disposal all the resources of modern science. They have summoned the spirit and skill of a scientist’s hell and set it to work without curb of conscience or humanity. , w We see then that Caesarism and Kaiscrism are practically svnonomous Kaiser-ism implies that the State has no conscience— that the State as swayed by the monarch is supreme and is. therefore, by its very nature, relieved from the moral obligations incumbent upon private individuals. Accordingly, if the State — i.e.. the Kaiser and h‘nc,,nicn —aff,rnl anything to be of interest, other considerations even the most sacred, are ohl.terated and. beyond all else, the inviolability of human perVonaHtv whether in an individual Jr a free pcop|c ;s sct at t,augi,t. P fossibly the best idea of what Kaiscrism implies may he had from the Kaiser’s cnishWtordnier2n yAnnC ' mal,cr ‘I’’ col, ,ry- That is I. Who opposes mo. I shall law. and [ViatYs my law.”OU C ° 'y ° C and ,ha' is my wi ’ « • °nc Pen •» a!I unCLW.0t- Gcrnlanv's Plans, how she would rush across Relzium strike Fram e before she had time to prepare, as in 1870. comin suddenly so as to rrush her h?r Hw (Soun,ln on Russia to he slow, turn on that country, and make an end of her But Germany forgot to reckon with the hosts. She was mistaken in Beleium As I '®“,r.w.a8 hanKed to the cross with the nail prints in his hands, and a crown of on his head, in order that the world ntiKht he saved from sin. so did poor, bleed- our thorn Specditis”—Our slogan.