Randolph High School - Vergisz Mein Nicht Yearbook (Randolph, OH)

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' VERGISZ-MEIN-NIGHT tional figures are college graduates. True, in some respects, but many of our most prominent and success- ful Amen and women engaged in various pursuits never had the ad- vantages of a college education. I do not wish to leave the impression that a college course is not needed. It is, and everyone should go who has the time and financial means to do so. The high school curriculums are now so arranged that students are taught many of the subjects which formerly could be obtained only in the colleges. .Agriculture, for in- stance, prior to the last few years, was taught as a modern,.science, but limited exclusively to the State Agricultural Colleges. It now ap- pears in addition as a regular sub- ject in both 'our high and grade schools. For a school situated as Randolph Township High School, in a rich farming community, it certainly is one of the strongest subjects which can be applied to a high school training. Wishing the-future of Randolph High as successful as the past, I remain Yours very truly, G. E. O'BRIEN. If I .lf THE BROKEN WALL fMildred Gilbert, '17J , There is a popular faith that God takes care of children, fools, and the United States. We deem our- selves a chosen people and incline to the belief that the Almighty stands pledged to our prosperity. America, as the land of promise to all the world, is the destination of the most remarkable migration of 1 which We have any record. Like a mighty stream, it finds its source in a hundred rivulets. The huts of the mountain and the hovels of the plain are the springs which feed. The over-population of the coun- tries of the Old World is the force which moves. It is a steady flow, the like of which the world has never seen, and the immigrating masses are animated by but one idea. that of escaping from evils which have made existence intol- erable and of reaching the free air of countries where conditions are better shaped to the masses of the people. In this country every man is an American who has American ideals, the American spirit. Ameri- can conceptions of life, and Ameri- can habits. A man is foreign not because he was born in a foreign country, but because he clings to foreign customs and ideas. The causes of immigration are variously stated, but compressed into three words they are-attrac- tion, expulsion, solicitation. The attraction comes from the United States, the expulsion from the Old World, and the solicitation from the great transportation lines and their emissaries. Sometimes one cause is more potent, sometimes another. Of late, racial and religious persecu- tion has been active in Europe, and America gets the results. In Rus- sia there is an outbreak hideous and savage against the Jew, and an impulse is started whose end is not reached until it strikes Rivington street, in New York. Among the new immigrants there are individ- uals who are moved to come to this democracy by as lofty motives as ever moved the Puritan Fathers. They seek a better country, where the struggle for subsistence is not as hard and the fruits of one's toil are more secure. Cause and effect are manifest.

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VERGISZ-MEIN-NICHT were creased. You see, no one wore creased trousers to high school in those days but Archie Mumma. And when one day Frank Miller came to school singing a wonderful new college song that the Moist boys had taught him, my mind was fully made up. That song was about some beautiful girl, and I have forgotten her name and all but two lines, which were, Oh, youire such a fascinating shape, you would charm the blue- faced ape. Perhaps Frank re- members more of it. And so I went on to a course in a big University. I had little money, but the ideas, the enthu- siasm, and the ambition instilled into me in the days at Randolph High School stayed with me and a way opened up before me, as it will for any of you. Years have 'gone by, and I have gone away to other states to make my living. But I can never forget my four years at old R. H. S. Nothing can ever take their place. . Let me tell you once again. Cherish and make the most of your high school days, for they are the most important ones you will ever have. You may not agree with me now, but 'long about 1926 you will. Yours truly, HARRY R. O'BRIEN, R. H. S., '06. sl is sl Dewey- I suppose you have a career selected? Leon - Why-yesg but we hadn't intended to announce it till after commencement. April 12, 1916. Dear Editor:- Your request is indeed gratifying and I take pleasure in contributing this short letter for publishing in your paper. Being remembered in this manner vividly recalls to my mind those grand old school days I enjoyed while attending Randolph High School. Since I graduated, which was in 1910, many remarkable changes have been brought about. The paramount one, however, would be the erection of the new High School building. The patrons of Randolph Township are certainly to be congratulated upon arrang- ing for such a splendid structure devoted exclusively, as I under- stand, for. high school purposes. There is an old saying that Fine Feathers do not make Fine Birds. Notwithstanding, a modern, well equipped building certainly offers more arguments toward securing a larger attendance and adds in- ducements in the way of better fa- cilities for conducting laboratory work in connection with the lecture and quiz periods. Speaking for the Senior Class which will probably graduate in the near future, the hoped for 'aim of each one is undoubtedly to at- tend a higher institution of learn- ing. True it is, a college education is becoming a more vital necessity each and every day of our lives. It is to be greatly deplored that more of our young people cannot attend the State University or college of some sort. The assertion is often made that the majority of our na-

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VERGISZ-MEIN-NICHT In continental countries generally the best years of all able-bodied men 'are demanded for military duty. The Germans must-be seven years inthe army and give three of them to active service. The French nine years in the army and five years in active service. This robbery of a man's life. together with the expectation that war must come sooner or later, will con- tinue to be a powerful stimulus. and the blood tax which is required to support these millions of men during the unproductive years is steadily increasing. We find. there- fore, the fear of war, the thumb- screw of taxation given a frequent turn. and a dense population be- coming more crowded. all uniting their influence to swell European immigration for years to come. As a result the stream flows toward America. where there are no bur- dening taxes, and where steady work and high wages seem assured. The mighty magnet is the attract- iveness of America, real or pic- tured. America is the magic word throughout all Europe. No hamlet so remote that the name has not penetrated its peasant obscurity. America means two things-money and liberty-the two things which the European peasant lacks and wants. Necessity at home pushes, opportunity in America pulls. Commissioner Robert Watchorn, of the port of New York, packs the explanation into an epigram. American wages are the honey pot that brings the alien flies. He says further, if a steel mill were to start in a Mississippi swamp paying wages of 32.00 a day, the news would hum through foreign lands in a month and that swamp would become a bee hive of humanity and industry in an incredibly short space of time.. Dr. A. F. Schaiiier says with equal pith, that the great cause of immigration is, after all, that the immigrants propose to better themselves in this country. They come here not because they love us, orbecause we love them. They come here because they can, do themselves good, not because they can do us good. That is natural and true. and furnishes excellent reason why we must do them good, in order that they may not do us evil. To make their good ours, and our good theirs, is both Christian and safe. . 1 Q. Immigration rises and falls with ourprosperity. A financial crisis here operates at once as a check, but numbers increase again with the revival, of business and the brightening blaze of our riches will attract increased immigration. Equal rights also and free schools are operative. We expend for edu- cation nearly six times as much ner capita as Europe. Parents know that their children will have a better chance here, and come for their sake. Their ambition is to go to higher seats of learning, but in Europe the cost, as well as their social status, are prohibitive. They hear in the old country of America and its democratic institutions, and turning their faces to the West they hope to realize their ambition, and to the glory of America be it said that its colleges and universi- ties have thrown open their doors to thousands of men from foreign countries who are zealously im- proving the opportunities offered them. A young foreigner on be- ing asked why he came to this country, replied, I wanted more education. Every fall tens of thousands of foreign speaking young men attend night schools to learn the English language, and the instruction is for the most part free. Is there any wonder that they admire our public schools and praise America's institutions? These facts are becoming more widely known in other lands.