St Johns High School - Blue Devil Yearbook (Darlington, SC)

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EMMA ELIZABETH RHODES Member Lanier Literary Society; Member St. John’s Literary Society. VIVIAN LUCILE SANSBl RY Member Lanier Literary Society; Censor St. John's Literary Society; Assistant Adver- tising Editor Senior Edition ’24. ANNIE LEE SHARPE Vice-President St. John's Literary Society; Censor Lanier Literary Society; Vice-Presi- dent Lanier Literary Society; Football Spon- sor '23; Assistant Local Editor Bulletin ’24; Librarian ’24; Proctor ’24. EDNA LOUISE STOKES Member Lanier Literary Society; Member St. John’s Literary Society; Proctor ’24. KIMORY LAWSON STANLEY Member Hayne Literary Society; Member Coker Literary Society; Assistant Business Manager Bulletin '24; Football '23; Basket- ball 24; Assistant Business Manager Senior Edition ’24. BROADlS ALEXANDER VAUGHAN President Hayne Literary Society; Member Coker Literary Society. WALLACE WHITEMAN SI GGS Member Hayne Literary Society; Member Coker Literary Society; Literary Editor Bul- letin ’23. JESSIE YOUNG Member Lanier Literary Society; Secretary St. John’s Literary Society; Assistant Joke Editor Bulletin ’23; Class Play. Fifteen

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WILLIAM HOWARD Secretary Hayne Literary Society; Vice- President Coker Literary Society; Football '22; Secretary Class '23; Business Manager '24; Chief Marshall ’23. BENEDICT HYMAN Critic Coker Literary Society; Member Hayne Literary Society; Athletic Editor Bul- letin ‘23; Orchestra '21-‘24; Football '23; Class Lawyer '24; Class Play; Basketball '24. HARRY EDWARDS HI TCH1NSON Critic Hayne Literary Society; Member Coker Literary Society; Baseball '23-'24; Bas- ketball ’24; Athletic Editor Bulletin '24; Or- chestra ’21-’24. PAULINE FRANCES MONCRIEF President Lanier Literary Society ’22; Member St. John's Literary Society; Sponsor Baseball ’24; Joke Editor Bulletin '24; Busi- ness Manager Senior Edition; Proctor ’24; Class Play; Class Poet. MARY ALICE JEFFORDS Member Lanier Literary Society; Member St. John's Literary Society; Advertising Edi- tor. Senior Edition ’24. NOVICE RIVERS KIRVEN Member St. John's Literary Society. HARRIET LAW Secretary and Treasurer St. John’s Literary Society '24; Class Prophet ’24. LAURENS WILLIAMSON MILLING Secretary Hayne Literary Society; Critic Coker Literary Society; Football ’20-’22; Baseball ’20-’24; Captain Baseball ’24; Cap- tain Basketball ’24; Local Editor Bulletin '24; Class Minstrel ’24. Fourteen

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Woman in Politics BRILLIANT Frenchman has said “Would you judge a great Social movement, observe what role in it the woman played”. Woman has many roles to play in this world, there being few that are not open to her. To many she has brought honor, to some she has brought shame. Now woman has acquired the ballot. What will she make of this new role? The wind of sentiment inclines toward victory, but only time will tell. With the ballot woman is offered the same ad- vantage as man. Fields hitherto unconquered are hers to win. Woman now becomes more important in home, state and national life. Many of the op- posite sex have been so ready to pronounce judgment on woman in her new role. But to repudiate this judgment an old Latin philosopher has come to our aid, in saying. “Those who know little readily pronounce judgment”. This little saying should teach us to judge only where we have the knowledge. It would be foolish for an engineer to judge a cake, or the cook to criticise the bridge. This is not the first time that woman has been given the opportunity to participate in public life. In ancient Greece and in Europe of the middle ages, woman was accorded a surprising free- dom of education, and consequently exercises a surprisingly large influence over affairs. This in- fluence wras not always for the best, as may be seen from a study of the life of Catherine de Medici. And on the con'rary, it was often an affair of great good and mighty import, as witness by the reign of Elizabeth in England. The ballot for woman grew naturally out of education for woman. Education ought to give a person the proper background, the correct perspective, with which to view the facts of life as she may meet them. “The best claim that a college education can possibly make on your re- spect, the best thing it can aspire to accomplish for you.” William James, the grea: American psychologist said, “is this: that it should help you to know a good man when you see him. Then with the proper education woman will be fully capable of voting. Education gave woman the power that is knowledge. This power gave her the political power, that comes from knowledge of the affairs of government.” The giving of the vote to woman was of no great actual significance. It was merely the ratifying the act she had achieved for herself. In achieving the knowledge that is the real basis of political power. The negro, for instance, has the ballot, but because he lacks the ability to participate in the forming of a public opinion, lacks the knowledge, he has no real and genuine political power. “It’s not so much that ignorance of mankind that makes him ridiculous, as the knowin so many things that ain’t so,” says Josh Billings. Women as well as men, should be careful in their education, and not get the kind of knowledge that “a:n’t so”. But there can be no honest questioning of the intelligence of woman and her ability to acquire and digest true knowledge. To quote H. L. Mechar, American critic and writer on politics and literature, “Woman in truth are not only intelligent, they have almost a monoply of certain subtle and more utile forms of in- telligence”. Then surely, if for no other reason, woman should enter politics. That this in- telligence is not exactly the intelligence of man is also true. But it follows that the state should be given the benefit of the different viewpoint that is womans. She will bring in, new ideas, new hopes, and new fears. But coming down to real hard truth-----------government rests, as does civilization, upon the bedrock of the home, and the real maker of the home is woman. Since woman is now being offered the same advantages as man, she should therefore avail herself of the same opportunities of service to the common weal, lest the state and nation be denied the benefit of one half of the citizenship. Government in the end can build up or destroy the home. How necessary is it then that woman, the real home-maker, should take an active role, should have a prominent part in government. For the hand that rocks the cradle should rule the world for the benefit of the cradle. -ELIZABETH BUCHANAN. Sixteen