Norfolk High School - Milestone Yearbook (Norfolk, NE)

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Thus it was we begun our young days of High School After long years of arduous toil in the Grades. Our number was small; a score’d include all Our brave boys and bright-eyed, smiling, neat, gentle maids. Education Necessary for Success. EDWARD GEORGE HYDE. Nothing great or good can ever be accomplished without labor. Action is the law of life. Inaction is the symbol of death, if not death itself. In man, education means action; and well directed action means success. There are tribes of savages so low in mental development that they have no desire to add to their stock of information. Their brains have never yet been sufficiently aroused to enable them to think. Without thought, they are satisfied with their condition. China illustrates the condition of a people without progressive education. They still cling to the teachings of Confucius and desire no reforms. Idleness leads to poverty and often to crime. Emerson says: “Who does not work, begs or steals.” The annual cost of the apprehension, detention and conviction of criminals throughout the United States may be set down at five hundred million dollars. Idleness and

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THE MILESTONE. 21 Some lonely wanderer upon the sea will breathe forth to the enchanted world the song which is buried in his heart. Another with an artist genius will transform the canvas into the beautiful gold which lights the western horizon and the azure blue of the peaceful sea. Some one by the magic influence of the pen like Harriet Beecher Stowe will thrill the hearts and influence the minds of the people. Be it in the field of music, art or literature, let each hold in mind the words of our motto:— “Different Path , One Purpose.” To accomplish the most good in the world and to have a beneficent influence upon our co-laborers in this world’s toils and struggles, are our purposes. “Brave barks! Id light, in darkness too! Through winds and tides one compass guides— To that and your own selves be true. But O, blithe breeze! and O. great seas Though ne’er that earliest parting past, On your wide plain they join again Together lead them home at last. One port methought alike they sought— One purpose hold where’er they fare O, bounding breeze, O, rushing seas, Ai last, at last, unite them there.”

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THE MILESTONE. 2:i ignorance often cause strikes and riots. Idleness also means indifference to the rights of others and loss of self respect. Education not only secures the means of subsist-rnce, but effectually takes away the inducements of idleness and vice. But education does not necessarily mean book-lore. It means knowledge along some certain line or lines of work. If you would have success you must have knowledge; and the greater the field of work you are engaged in, the more knowledge is necessary for success. Washington and Lincoln, Edison, Astor and Field, Vanderbilt and Gould, were men who never received a collegiate education. Yet they were educated along theii several lines, which education was gained by hard work. Ruskin says: “If you want knowledge you must toil for it; if food you must toil for it; if pleasure you must toil for it; toil is law.” These men spent their energies along their several lines of work and succeeded in making their lives successful. But riches are of no benefit to a man without a cultured mind. True happiness depends upon the beneficent use of wealth, directed by the educated and cultured mind. Capitalists the world over, give preference to the skilled and educated laborer, even though at an increased compensation; because an uneducated or unskilled laborer will waste more in machinery and material than the difference in wages, and therefore is the more expensive of the two. Educated laborers seeing their advantage are less liable to engage in strikes and riots. A man to be successful must be able to withstand competition. Education will the better fit him for this struggle. For the man or company of men having the most knowledge of the subject in hand will be sure to triumph in the end.