Northampton Area High School - Amptennian Yearbook (Northampton, PA)

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battered 1nto fr'1gn1ents 'll'lCl pounded 1nto S'1l'lCl Above all let us I'6IT1Cl'11bS1 tl1at SCYVICS 15 the measure of l1un1'm CHTCICIICY What can you do? VVhat serv1ce ca11 you render? lNh1t COI'!ll!'llJL1lC1OI'l can you make to the world s worth? Are vou to be a 11oral beggar O1 a 111or'1l benefactor? These are tl1e great questlons of hfe a11d he wl1o forrnulates tl1e best ann er 11111 phrase lt 111 deeds of servxce ratl1e1 than words of PTOIHISC Efhment QCIVICC means Llllfilllllllg clevot1on to some supreme 111 terest 1111f'11te11ng fa1th 111 your 2l.lJ1l1tV to acco111pl1sh some defimte p11r pose unclaunted courage 111 the presence of d1ff1cult1es and t1reless per S1StCIlCy 111 your efforts to reach tl1e goal of a worthy Z1IHb1t1Oll These are the quaht1es tl1at g1VC strength to the 111d1v1du'1l that enable l11n1 to serve successfully the lughest mtcrests of the 1 1ce and that l1elp h1111 add h1s quota of sheaves to tl1e great h'1rvest of hun1'111 Cfl'lClCl1CN GR KCI T XUFR AMERICA. S ACHIFVFMENTQ Thou too sa1l on Oh' Qlllp of state TIu111a111t1 wx 1tl1 '1ll ltg fears Xfxfllfh all 1ts hopes of future years ls hanglng breathless on thx t'1te ULU VSCIC tl1e words NV1lIl.'l which Longfellow bade 0111 11at1o11 God s speed whe11 she was settmg out on tl1e rough vovage of self governlnent In h1s day fem people understood hon the hopes and fears of hun1an1ty rested 011 tl1e fate of L'11ner11ea but to day tl1e world knows a11d teels tl1at VK1tl'lOl1lI AITICFICH hun1an1ty would st1ll be 111 the clutches of pettv tyrants and ClV1lIZ21lI10I1 would st1ll hnger Ill 1ts first stages w1th the masses strugghng for thelr emstence beneath the 1ron hand of despotlsm SIIICC An1e111ea has founded 1ts republ1c'111 forn1 of govern n1e11t the fate of hu111a111tv has been changed a11d fl om the cruelest and most L111YCZlSOI1'llJlC f011HS of GDPTCGSIOII tl1e greatest and gra11de t 11 bertles l1ave grown W1tl1 tl1e soundmg of tl1e hrst shot at LCX1l'lglIOI1 a 11ew er'1 of c1v ll1Z'l'l11Ol1 was 11sl1ered 111 and NX l1e11 tl1e l1'Ol1 tongue ot the L1berty Bell 24 I c F c , . c . , . ' D I. L ' v ' I C . . , - c , ' c ' e 4 1 1 5 ' . y X P K 7 VI. X K . . L K4 . 1 . .. . Q . - M , C .. . . . . U .L M E . - , I . 4 . y l H - .. , 1 ' ' J ' A ' 3 . 1 . .- ' 1' : c 3. f. I 'V- O 4. 4' A L ' 44 1.4 1 L. s- ' - N l Sail on, oh! nation strong and great - . ' 7- 4 I ., 1 I T 1' . c .1 -, C I G. . 'V -C -.Q N g 7 4 X B . . I C 1 . A . 7 . .5 . D I dc ' 7 .7 3 ic X K . ,, . I N ' ' ' L 3 C V .. , . ' . ' , . ' .7 ' L 1 - 1 s G, - W V 1 X - 4 . ' 1 , s '- Q ' ., , A . f' fl , c . ' .. C . my . L V . . A .

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modern science and an educated public has made possible, inefficiency of the individual cannot be said to be due to lack of health but rather to the lack of observing the well known laws of health. But to use his bodily energy most efhciently he must have the equipment of good education. The National Association of Corpora- tion Schools has concluded that. in order to extend the American in- dustries to foreign commerce, it will be absolutely necessary to train and educate the employees better. Education added to the sound body w-ill make for efficiency. Edu- cation inlinences the youth and even the adult to seek a short cnt to the mountain of his success. Proper education is the gateway for ser- vice. The individual seeks to find the shortest and easiest way to the most important service. he can render. Xl-'hen once his highest goal is service, then only he becomes efficient. With all the aforesaid qualities he must be persistent. One stroke seldom drives a nail however sharp its point. Golden harvests that wave their welcome to the reaper and pour out their treasure to the husbandman are not the result of a single shower. lt takes more than one wave to polish the rock and to rim the ocean's beach with velvet Sand. And the young man who would triumphantly sail into any port of life worth entering, must feed the furnaces of his ehiort with the fuel of persistency. He may, and often will be disappointed with what he accomplishes: but let him remember lf, what shown afar so grand Turn to nothing in your hand. On again-the virtue lies ln the struggle, not the prize. At the siege of Port Arthur, the laps selected their position, planted their guns, aimed them deliberately at what they believed the weakest point in the enemy's works, and then fired. Hour after hour, and day after day their cannon tbundered without any visible results. But with serene purpose, calm confidence, and stolid persistency they continued to load, aim and hre. Like ten thousand battering rams the storm of shells hammered the walls until they could stand it no longerg they staggered. tottered, crumbled, fell, and one of the greatest sieges of modern times was ended. So if the individual would succeed, he must load, aim and fire again and again. and still again till the walls that stand athwart the pathway of his progress toward efficiency are

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proclaimed 'lliberty thruout the land , the masses of the world heard its sweet music and were enraptured by its glorious strains. Then men's hearts beat faster, as the great sun of liberty began to appear above the horizon. Then tyranny and oppression trembled in their foundation and then it was that the seeds of that liberty, for which all humanity craves, were sown in American toil, where they have grown into a glorious vine whose mysteri-ous fragrance has charmed the world, till every race has craved to burst the monarchial fetters that bind them and to enjoy with America the sweet fruits of the vine of Liberty. To give to man that blessing, personal liberty, which to life is the greatest human blessing, is not a slight achievement and to accom- plish- such a task, a people must have m.ore than the natural tendency for that object. This fact has caused many people to believe Ameri- cans are a people chosen by God to be the propagandists of liberty, or they could never have achieved as they have. Every nation that to- day has a republican form of government or that gives her people their deserved liberties must admit they were spurred on to this by Americas example. Showing the oppressed people of the world that liberty is not an impossibility and pointing out the way by which it is to be obtained. is Americas first and one of her greatest achievements. From an economic standpoint, Amenica has also made some won- derful achievements, foremost among which is the construction of the Panama Canal. This great waterway is at the same time, a great scientific and engineering accomplishment. Nothing in the history of man can be compared to it. Even the old pyramids of Egypt and the beautiful temples of ancient Rome, which for years stood unrivaled as the wonders of the world, had to give way to a product of Ameri- can genius when the Panama Canal was completed. As an economic achievement, the Canal effects the world. lt cuts the distances between most of the trading centers in half and it forms a cheap-er and a great time saving route between all the nations of the earth. It has revolutionized commerce, it has changed the pathways of the oceans and it has opened a new age in the world of trade. an engineering achievement, it is an unrivaled structure, no machinery on earth is so complex and yet so simple, no work ever undertaken required so much excavating and filling in, never before was the course of nature so changed and yet all this would have been