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

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4-a-f-1:r- Q - ' .f-A Q ggi Q-' - f-'--a, ,,f2w-34-F-e:,,f Qkis-:flea Program Processional-March from Athalia Mendelssohn Soldan Orchestra My Country, 'Tis of Thee Hail to the Heroes Verdi The Class The New Democracy Elizabeth Barrere Dougherty March of the Gladiators Pucin The Mandolin Club The Poet of Democracy Frances Vivian Feldkamp The Bugle Call of Freedom White The Chaminade Club A War Definition Gertrude M. Kehl Freedom for All Forever Hilliam Clyde G. Bassler A League of Nations Milton Yawitz To an Allied Soldier Strickland Adelaide Louise Kalkman The Returning Soldier Helen A. Wood America, the Beautiful Bates The Class and Audience The Man with a Vision Ellwood Dexter Adams The Bedouin Song Rogers The Glee Club The Great Adventure -A Message with a Foreword Benjamin Marx Loeb Presentation of the Class to the Board of Education Mr. john Rush Powell Principal Soldan High School Response and Presentation of Diplomas Dr. john M. Grant Member Board of Education Awarding of the Washington University Scholarship Mr. W. J. S. Bryan Assistant Superintendent of Instruction Recessional-Military March Tennanf Soldan Orchestra s

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4-.P A! W ki Ulitfiltg xl Football Team, 19,18 tliioiitispivu-i Graduation Program The New Democracy The Poet of Democracy A XVar Definition ,X League of Nations The Nan with a Vision The Returning Soldier A Message to Americans Stand To! Candidates for Graduation, january. l!Pl'P .AX Truth Miss Mary Holinan To Our Seniors Scriptoriuni Faculty Changes VVill You llelp Make the Recorcl Coiuipltta Attention ln Flanders For the Glory of Solclan High Exchanges Ilonor Seals Scholarship Honor flxoll for Terni em june H, 1918 Senior Stunt Day .Xs Wie Expected Student Activities Sports School Figures The Tattler Ijhm S5 7 F

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., .1-,-,-:QL '-g?f ' efigf 'i ' f GJ' - QQ,-:--i f?- ':7 The New Democracy HE trumpet calls of war have stirred the world for four years. Every great advance in civilization has been the direct result of war. The gain in this war has been the downfall of autocracy. The service star in the flag of civil- ization is the New Democracy. A Autocracy had its birth among savages, where the chiefs had supreme rule. Notwithstanding the progress of the ages, autocracy has never lost its savage fangs. This war has not only bared those fangs, but has buried them under the ruins of fallen thrones. 'ljgi ,L W - ,nys , P13 I- ' 4 .6 M, - .1141 all I Q4--7 America lighted the torch, which after more than a century blazed into the ideal of the New Democracy. Why did the Pilgrims leave England? Because they were oppressed and they hungered for free- dom, their own freedom. Why does this great nation recall with pride its kinship to that little band? Because they based their government not upon might but upon justice and right. In the present war to what country was the appeal made by both friend and foe for deliverance from the monster war? It was not to an autocracy but to a great democracy. Still, with all democracy had accomplished, it failed to prevent this terrible war. But out of its horrors had been wrought the ideals, embodied in a new democracy. So great is the scope of the new democracy that to attempt its definition belittles expression. We may call it freedomg we may call it prayer, we may call it soul growthg we may call it chivalry of man to man. It is all these. It has been truly said, There is nothing quite so wonderful in human history as this spectacle of America taking the high place on the judgment seat of the nations, and taking it not by right of might but by might of right. The love of freedom implanted in every heart finds expression in a desire for a voice in government. This, democracy gives. The New Democracy gives much more. It must give equal rights and privileges to all. And let us sketch the preamble to this new bill of rights. We, the people of all the sovereign and self-determined states of the world, in order to prevent the recurrence of this world catastrophe, to establish justice, promote universal tranquillity, and to secure to ourselves and our posterity the blessings of liberty, do ordain and establish this Consti- tution for the United States of the world. The articles of this consti- tution are being drawn up at Versailles, and President Wilson has given to the body there sitting, the fourteen basic principles. One of this council's first tasks will be to satisfy the labor element. Labor, the basis of democracy, is a seething cauldron of discontent, expressed in strikes and riots. The Bolshevists, its I. W. W.'s, the 7