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Valedictory Address By a Senior Four years ago the class of 1918 stood where the graduates of the eighth grade now stand. Proud then of our success, joyous now in our accomplishments. We stood then ready to cross the threshold of High School and High School work. Timid, doubting, somewhat blindly we entered the lane that was four years long. Th ' rty-eight received di plomas then; fifteen of us are now answering roll call for the last time in our high school career. Four, short, happy years, the best years of our lives are now behind us and some of us now stand on the threshold of college, while others await at the portals of life, with the world at large as the next great teacher. We look back through these four, fleeting years upon many joys and few regrets. Encouraged with the thought of success, happy to fight ar.d win but regretful that the parting of the ways takes us down the different streams of l fe and as the curtain falls, High School work will be made history. While we have been performing our tasks these four years, the world has been reeling and trembling for the Monsters “Greed and Lust” have been clawing at the throat of democracy trying to crush out her life’s blood. But patient, bleeding democracy has called to her sons, the free republics of the earth, and they have responded fighting shoulder to shoulder, trying to loosen the strangling hoi 1 of that gluttonous, grue- some thing called autocracy, but not yet has the monster been subdued. Brave democracy shall be saved though it takes every drop of blood of this nation. This is the sum total of these four years of work that we, fellow students have been doing. The sum total of our education, thus far, is that these democratic ideals shall exist and be perpetuated and if this autocratic monster is destroyed as it shall and must be, a re- organization of society will begin. A reorganization that calls for the best that’s in you and me. If not, then ten million souls will have per- ished partly in vain. Therefore, fellow students, your part and mine is to aid in this great re-making process. It will take an effort almost as strenuous as the one we are putting forth f or victory, in order to safe-guard the ideals Page Thirty-seven.
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of society. Do you not see that the big tasks are ahead of us? Can you not see the labor for you and me? Yes, certainly, we must all be soldiers whether it be soldiers of the soil, soldiers of the cross, soldiers of the army or of the home. It makes no difference for each must play his part in this great canton- ment. Our work is now over in the Sugar-Salem ' High School, fellow students, and we are off for the firing line. We must leave behind us these training officers whose love and de- votion to our cause has made us revere and honor them. These officers who must train the next company before it is sent to the firing line, have our love and respect, our admiration and good-will and as we march a- way under the colors, we shall never forget their teachings. We are now about to march away to the trenches of life with the fire-arm of efficiency. Therefore, fellow students, wherever we may be let us fight for our colors, the red for vigor, the white for clean lives, the blue for loyalty and should we fall fighting for such a cause, our names shall be placed on the honor roll among the archives of that great General of ours and when he says, “I need thee for a greater service,” may there be no regrets. c rsxa: j Page Thirty-eight.
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