Plymouth High School - Mayflower Yearbook (Plymouth, IN)

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8 ntun (SInmmitters Olga Tomlinson Dale C. Ryans May Daniels Allen Johnson Ruth Vinali Ruth Vinali Roland I . Metsker Muriel Bosworth PIN Bess M. Lemert, Chairman Katherine Stevens Allen Johnson COLORS Erma K. Humrichouser, Chair man John L. Bolenbaugh Grace E. Mow MOTTO Caroline E. Rhodes. Chairman Bess Lemert Dale Evans INVITATION Olga Tomlinson, Chairman Linnelle Schrock Edna Switzer Bess Lemert, Secretary YELL I'ord S. Cressner. Chairman Katherine Stevens James Iloham SOCIAL Ford S. Cressner, Chairman Bess M. Lemert Dale C. Evans Jt’NIOR RECEPTION T. Conroy Eley, Chairman Schnylei Nolan Erma Cressner Olga Tomlinson CLASS DAY Dale C. Evans, Chairman Katherine Stevens Ford Cressner COMMENCEM ENT Roland B. Metsker, Chairman Schuyler Nolan Allen Johnson Delpha Zumbaugh DECORATION Mae Ruth Vinali, Chairman Theodora P. Art . Erma Cressner James Iloham Allen Johnson GIFT Schuyler N. Nolan, Chairman George W. Firestone Roland Metsker Ruth Beyler COMME.W EMENT DANCE % Ford S. Cressner, Chairman Conroy Eley George V. Firestone Edna E. Adams PICNIC Erma K. Humrichouser, Chairman Erma Cressner Allen Johnson a BA CCA LACR EATE SKR MON A. Linnelle Schrock. Chairman Carrie Rhodes Delpha Zumbaugh Ruth Yinall Theodora Art . 29 Clifford Goodrich Carrie Rhodes Allen Johnson Katherine Stevens Clifford Goodrich Erma Humrichouser Katherine Stevens Bess Lemert Ruth Vinall William Woltarth May Daniels A. Linnelle Schrock Roland Metsker Erma Humrichouser

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Edna E. Adams. “Those about her Shall read the perfect way of honor.” I va H. Scott. To say she is generous, whole-souled, true, I am only telling half truths to you.” Roscois Glenn Lke. Post-graduate P. H. S., ’ll. Lvla Mae Ovekmver. Post-graduate. Loiters High School, ’09. Rochester Musical College, ’07. Oberlin College, ’lO-’ll. Ruama Sult, P. H. S., ’ll. 28

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'HalefttrUtry THE INEQUALITY OF WEALTH ROLAND B. MKTS KICK WE live in a world of inequalities. To live is to exist under an inequality of conditions. Domineered by the nature of all matter, this law is universal. Consider the various magnitudes of the constellations, the gentle breezes as compared with sweeping hurricanes, the productive soil of the Soudan as compared with the bogus sands of the Sahara-all these are mani- festations of the supreme idea portraying in nature the semblance of God and man. Equality is unnatural and nature will not tolerate it. Fundamentally, there is a wide disparity in mental freedom. The strong and the feeble minded exist everywhere. Human possibilities are not the same. Human destinies are at variance. Some are to evolve truth to guide the weak as the heavens evolve stars to guide the sailor on unknown seas. There exist by nature those to lead and those to be led. The faculties of one mind are not to the same degree developed as are those of every other. One man is a finan- cier. He knows just how to invest his money that it may return twofold or more. Another does not possess the abilty to maintain possession of the prin- cipal, much less to invest it profitably. How then are we to maintain an equality in wealth? With the corresponding faculties of different minds differ- ently developed, with man’s nature unchanged, equality is impossible. To sustain a material equalization, all must necessarily be spendthrifts or econom- ical men; nature must undergo radical changes; the laws of God must be remodeled; the power that shaped and is still shaping the world, that is forming and ever reforming, evolving and ever re-evolving the uni- verse, must acknowledge a superiority in mortal power and mortal ingenuity. On'the contrary, our competitive system is one grounded upon nature and governed by natural laws. It is a common strife for the same object. As every gravitating particle upon the earth gravitates toward the very same point in the center of the globe, so do men strive together tinder our chosen system. We call it competition. Now competition is strife and strife is the outgrowth of the immutable natures of men. It appears in the savage state as a sanguinary warfare but in civilized society during times of peace as competition. We do not hope for its abolition but for its humanitiza- tion. Life is a struggle and we love to live on account of it. As great the inexpediency to battle against the forces which regulate society and govern the relations of men as to oppose the laws of the human body or to contend against the forces governing the universe. Blind and narrow minded theorists seek to counteract the present con- formity but they cannot succeed. The creatures of natural law live on and oil and opposing theories totter and fade away. Cummunism grew but withered in a day. Russian nihilism and American anarchy are dying embers of social- istic practices withering before nature and established justice. These institu- tions fall short of their intended purpose. They cannot establish and perpet- uate a united brotherhood. Jealousy grows and takes the place of a better 30