Soldan High School - Scrip Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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Q f ' A ' --Q fr- --N -- -Y - Y - ,p:,fgi 'f7 ' S N f-1 +-7' se .f- .,.J-A ,4 1 is -'C-5336 A' f 1' f fesaffe f -fe ef' T Q, Since.-C l . The Allegiance of the Immigrant 'T MERICA! Waiting, beckoning, shining in the distance- the land of hope, the land of promise, the great melting W pot where all the races of the world are fused together as it one. 'N uh i A-: I i l A It is this America, with its spirit of humanity and democracy, that has led our immigrants to renounce their fathers and their homes for the country whose doors are open to all. Here they have been welcomed, protected, and loved. For here the exile met from every clime, And spoke in friendship every distant tongue. We have had over thirty-two and one-half millions of these immi- grants. They have come to us individually or in families, with the intention of residing here permanently. They have acted upon their own initiative and responsibility, without official support or compulsion. Had they come to some other country, they would have been classed as aliens 3 but America has adopted them. She has spent millions in educating them, so that they may become better individuals, better citizens, better patriots. To accomplish this, night schools have been opened all over the country for their benefit. In the St. Louis night schools and those of other large cities, special classes have been formed for them and every effort has been made to select teachers who are especially fitted for the work of Americanization. Here they have been taught our language, our customsg here they are given opportunities to become true Americans. In the present conflict of nations, America could no longer maintain her tradition of isolation. She has been forced to play her part in this great world war. The waters of the Atlantic are no longer barriers of human interchange. We are at 'war with Germany and Austria and the status of the alien has been a very troublesome question. How have the immigrants repaid America? Can they accept her benefits and give no returns? They certainly have some sense of obliga- tion toward her. They have sworn to protect the constitution of the United States, but now in this national emergency, where do they stand? Patriotism is being subjected to closer scrutiny than ever before and ,patriotism demands that they be faithfulg but in this crisis, do they hesitate? Can they give up all memories of their childhood days and take arms against their friends, their brothers, their parents? Picture, for one moment, an eager and ambitious youth in the old world. The alluring tales of his friends across the water have Fired his 5

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Nl- v- A- Q f., +.,f'-,n,.R.,, - - .fx -...-- -Q., Lk' - ,'V-' F' - ??ff?c i5a i xii:-1'- The Graduation Program Processional,-Coronation March .,,,..........,.,,..,.....,,,.,,,.,,,,,..,,,,,,,,,, Meyer-beer The Soldan Orchestra Chorus,-The Star Spangled Banner The Class and Audience War and Education C. Gordon Fennell The Allegiance of the Immigrant Gertrude M. Fleishman Sallltes to the Flag ........................................................ .....,... . Marquard The Chaminade Club Women and the War Eunice Genette Marten The League to Enforce Peace Harold S. Cook Scene de Ballet, Mazurka de Concert .......................... ......... A ndreef The Mandolin Club Literature and the War Mary Mahan Dougherty The Price of Liberty Howell Gershom Evans Violin S0l0,-Mazurka ................................................ ...,..... M Iynarski Ethel Knobeloch Address Dr. james W. Lee, Chaplain Barnes Hospital The Vikings ............................................................................. Coleridge- Taylor The Glee Club Presentation of the Class to the Board of Education Mr. John Rush Powell Principal Soldan High School Response and Presentation of Diplomas Dr. Henry Gettys Member Board of Education Awarding of the Washington University Scholarship Mr. W. J. S. Bryan Assistant Superintendent of Instruction Chorus,-On to Battle ............................................................ ........ ........ The Glee Clubs and Class Recessional,-Stars and Stripes ....................................... The Soldan Orchestra 4 Gaul Sousa

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imagination. American opportunities have called him and, inspired by great hope, he has come to the country where he may realize all his dreams. He works, he strives, he accomplishes! He loves his adopted country with a devotion born of gratitude, the country that took him in and gave him willingly of her bounties. His ties are not those merely of dutyg and when that America which has given him so much and asked so little needs his aid to preserve this democracy, he must rally to its cause in a very ecstasy of renunciation. But it is renuncia- tion? Renunciation of old ties, old friends, old memories. Can he renounce all these without a pang? Is it easy to forget? And, have we not all a common feeling of sympathy for some country from whence our grandfathers or great grandfathers have come? But they, these grandfathers, have steadily shown themselves to be true and dutiful citizens. With their blood they have helped to build and uphold the nation. Will the present immigrant show the same spirit of loyalty, of love? When war was declared by Congress, the foreign papers here saw but one duty-America! In the great Liberty Loan campaigns, the foreign-born were the ones that made them a success. In the numerous training camps of the country a large percentage of the soldiers gath- ered there are immigrants. The food conservation movement has met with the greatest success in our own city, which has a very large per- centage of descendants of immigrants, even of those from our enemy countries. They have upheld our nation in the past. Will they continue to do so in the future, so that the war drum shall throb no longer, and the world shall be made safe for democracy? Newcomers all from the eastem seas, Help us to incarnate dreams like these: Help us to father a nation strong, In the comradeship of an equal birth, And the wealth of the richest bloods of earth. G6fffUd62FI6iShH18D. Women and the War AR-when one thinks of war it is usually of the men who EQ' shoulder the guns and go to the trenches. But do they wi-f? alone serve? What of the women? Is not the part they Qi 1 play, the work they do, as important as that of the soldier ,f . on the firing line? Women give their sons, their brothers, their husbands, yes, and their daughters, for a cause which they know is right. It is a sacrifice, the greatest a woman can make. But they feel that no sacrifice