Santa Rosa High School - Echo Yearbook (Santa Rosa, CA)

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Arne By Gero) “Today whenever | see a likeness of our country’s President, I see, not only him, but the mighty concourse behind him of the rulers of America. Forever they are there, I know, and in time of our country’s peril and danger, stil! will they step forth to her succor. They ever keep watch over the loved land, and ever does their 1ma- jestic presence rest as a light of love over old Glory.” Dear old Mr. Norton is dead now, but still I remember his ear- nest words to me, when we parted that day never to meet again on this side of the grave—‘Old Glory, their shades brood o’er it, for they love it still.” Lawrence Hart, ’20. DEATH Death, thou blessed and eternal rest, Essence of sleep with dreams enduring ever; And an unknown reward used but to sever, The sufferings of the aged and opprest. The one unfailing goal of Life’s Great Quest, To mortal sense thou seemest but the lever, Designed to raise our life-worn souls, forever Gone—here no more, but onward—West. Death! What is death? Comes now the fevered question; Ask we what we will dream ere we may sleep? Thou of Morpheus a mute relation, A dream for Every Man to silent reap. O Death! Of mortal life the culmination: ‘Tis but for joy of infinite rest we weep! Alex Trachman.

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THE ECHO 25 uous looking man, jumping from his seat, ‘there shall be no sacri- fice! We'll put our Yankees across to France, and if they don't lick the Huns in one year they’re not worthy of their country! We're going to win, and win soon. I tell you, General Pershing is a real fighting man, with a real fighting man’s blood, and he'll defeat them within sever months after he gets a real army of Amer- i can fighters. Jh, I hate those—’ “ Mr. Jackson, vou forget. Leave hate to our enemies,’ said Vashington. He sat down, seemingly rather abashed by his leader's rebuke, for even men of as strong will and mind as Andrew Jackson were ruled by the simple dignity of Washington’s character, “Then Harrison spoke, also about armies and military things. He treated especially the new weapons of warfare, and plead a mighty aerial force. nd many others talked that evening. Everything they said I do not remember, but never shall I forget the speech of the most beloved of our Presidents, but one. “ This national sacrifice of which you spoke, Sir,’ said Lincoln, addiessing Washington, ‘is a vital thing to me. Guiding the nation through four years of civil warfare, ! realize as truly as anybody the suffering which it involves for those who fight and those who remain at home. Yet i see, even as do you, Sir, the mighty forces which come from Him who plans all human evolution. I see merica as the instrument of the divine powers. ‘To me has been shown the plan of a United States of the world, of the Parliament of the nations, the federation of men. ‘I perceive that among the mighty plans which dwell in the Creator’s all embracing mind, is the thought of one world-wide republic. Well may America make sacrifice for the world, and shed her life’s blood for the good of humanity ! The sacrifice is the greatest which mortal man can offer. Yet he who gives is he who gains, and they who sacrifice themselves find themselves. All is raled by the principle of divine, universal LOVEY’ The old man paused in his story. “I do not remember more after this, I do not recall leaving the capitol building The only thing I now recollect is the cool breath of morning felt upon my brow, and a morning-time mist before my eyes. TEvidently I stole homeward in the early hours, and gained my rooms before anyone else arose. Martha found me lying on my bed in a stupor, which lasted for several days. “Tow the plans of the supreme war council were conveyed to the President I do not know, but I do know that soon after this America’s great leader, Woodrow Wilson, brought forward the plan for the nation’s league. None guessed the high source whence it came.

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riba DHE; eeiCiH © WAR SOCKS IM SAT THERE, moodily staring at them. They were a fine looking pair of socks, a fine pair! Why, he could knit as well as that, he was sure. Tiow all the dropped stitches had passed the critical eve of the inspector was a mystery to him. flowever, he concluded, there was nothing to be gained by sitting there looking at them, at the same time just about freezing to death; so he sighed heavily, and started to put one on. As he did so, a small card fell to the ground floor of the bunkhouse. Ie stooped and picked it up- It was an engraved calling card bearing the name, “Francis M. Palmer,” and below it was scribbled in a rather bold tiand: “This is my first pair, so please overlook the various original stitches and knots.’ Turning the card over, he found: ‘538 Lowell avenue, Mayfield, Caiifornia,” in the saine handwriting. As he read the card his face softened and broke into a charming 5 smile, then he threw back his head and laughed long and loud. “Well,” he said, in a pleasant voice, to his shoes as he laced them, “so this is her first pair. I suppose I shall have to write to Miss Francis and thank her-” That evening, ina Y. M. C.A. hut, he sat at a desk, with writing paper before him; should he, or should he not? All the other fel- iows in his company corresponded with girls at home, so why shouldn't he? But still, they were all fellows who had had many gir! friends all their lives: but he, he had always avoided them. There were no girls in the office where he had worked, and none at the boarding house where he had boarded. The only feminine personage he was acquainted with, or interested in, had been the stout, good-natured Mrs. O’Leary, his landlady. But this girl was, no doubt, expecting an answer, and he would not disappoint her. Taking up a pen he wrote a brief, business- like note of thanks, signed: “Respectfully, Sgt. James C- Lawton, . E. F., France,’ and dismissed the matter from his mind. The following weeks were spent in drilling and intensive train- ing; but the boys were becoming restless, they wanted a change; they hadn’t come six thousand miles to drill; they could do that at home; they came over to fight, and if they didn’t get a chance to do so soon, they vowed they weuldn’t be responsible for their actions. 27