Summit School - Flame Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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The Senior Class of 1943 Dediccxtes this FLHME to RUTH STEPHENS

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Q -if S - if if 5, gxxQ..- f ,,.,? Symbols of Democracy VERY nation of the world has had her principles-the basis on which she stands. Each country has had certain ways of expressing these principles, usually through symbols of some kind. England has her lion, France her fleur-de-lisg and Germany her swastika. When the unhappy group of Englishmen set out from their own country for America, they took with them many of the same, familiar symbols of Britain. During the Revolution, however, when America was becoming a nation in her own right, the ties that linked her to the mother country were discarded, and from the still warm ashes of war came a new national anthem, flag, and the Great Seal with the eagle on one sideg the anthem singing the glory of the country, the flag symbolizing in its stripes the thirteen original states, in its stars the states of the whole uniong the eagle embody- ing the lofty freedom and swiftness of this country. Great American leaders such as Wzislaington and Jefferson were interested in these symbols and saw to it that they caught the imagination of the people. From then on, the symbols became an integral part of American life. The eagle was the most com- mon, appearing on everything from tiny snuff boxes to hgure-heads on ships. The liberty bell began to appear in the form of cast iron banks and even roulette wheels. Tavern signs, wall paper, stirrup leathers, and Grandmotherls best patchwork quilt blossomed with Columbia, Uncle Sam, the shield with eaglels wings, and the stars and stripes. Children ate their carrots and drank their milk because the eagle with the ribbon, E Pluribus Unum,', in his mouth, or Wzlsliington in a liberty cap was waiting on the surface of the dish or in the depths of the mug. Storms were forecast, and sunshine, too, by the statue of Liberty, and all the neighborhood children flocked to Ringling Brothers' circus wagon to the beat of a drum with a carved eagle carrying the olive branch and arrows. The circus wagon was the prize. On top of the world, holding her flag to the eagle, its wings spread above her, stood Columbia leaning on her red and white shield, flanked by much carving of stars and flowers, depicting our ideas of democracy and freedom. These emblems are still ours today, and they have taken on a new significance because this war has given us a new hope: that of the guarantee of our basic rights. This year in our FLAME we have chosen as the theme, the symbols of past years. The silk screen prints depict our basic rights of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, universal suffrage, and equality before the law. Throughout the pages are drawings of some of our ancient symbols of democracy and our impression of what our democracy means to 'IIX in this, our war. CLELIA THoMPsoN Ezfifor 6 THE FLAME VXQER7-,, .4