Spencerville High School - Echoes Yearbook (Spencerville, OH)

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'ki' qzovininioiuiw i k'k'kiri'ECHOESt'A'ik'ki'i' VALEDICTORY-Cont. We, as Americans, sometimes cannot appreciate what our life means to us. When a foreigner comes to America, it doesn't take him long af- ter he has seen the Statue of Liberty to tell you what it means to him. The story has been told of an old man who kept the Flag flying over his filling station for many years. When asked Why he did this, he told this story: He came to America as a boy, full of hopes and ambition. Filnally, he was able to establish himself in business, He alppreciated the chance for success that he had found in America, so much, that for many years he put aside a part of his income. This man sent this money to the government, not for income tax, or because he had to, no! He sent it because it was the only way that he could show his thanks for what America had done for him. The Stars and Stripes meant a lot to this man. What does it mean to you'?, If every one of us would answer that question, it would spur us on to still greater accomplishments. There are many problems which America has not solved successfully and the responsibility for solving these problems rests squarely on the shoulders of its youth as Well as its adults. Problems of sanitation, labor and industry, necessity of social control, and at the present the winning of a war, are all great problems which will have to be settled soon. We do not ask anyone to feel sorry for the youth who are graduating tonight. They are not to be pitied because they must start their careers in a War-torn world. Youth has not been defeated before it has started the iight, and it will not be. We will help win this war. We must, for we are fighting for the right. In ten words, Joe Louis told America why we would win this war. These words are: We will win this war, because God is with us. In these words is the reason that the youtlh: of today can face life as courageously as they do. So tonight, dear friends bid us, the future citizens of tomofrrow, a hearty and sincere welcome into the ranks of America, All of us, young and old, will do well to remember another poem which Dunbar Wrote: There are no beaten paths to Glory's height, There are no rules to compass greatness known, Each for himself must cleave a path alone, And press his own way forward in the iight. Smooth is the way to ease and calm delight, And soft the road Slotxhl chooseth for her own, But he who craves the flower of life full-blown, Must struggle up in all his armor dight! What though the burden bear him sorely down And crush to dust the mountain of his pride, Oh, then, with strong heart let fhim still abideg For rugged is the roadway to renown, Nor he hope to gain the envied crown, Till he hath thrust the looming rocks aside. 'ki' xzozoxoioioiozsviwrxcnxoxoir Pagg 24 101011 PI0.0.+

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