West Night High School - Echo Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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vvvvvvvrwrvvvvvrivvv-r1,vvvvvvvv'v vvvrv'vvvvrvvvvvvvvvvvvQ'3'vvvv FAME BELONGS NOT TO THE MEN ALONE Continued Hull House In Chicago from which help IS given to the poor stands as a monument to her glory The object of Hull House as stated In ltS charter 15 To provide a center for a higher civic and social life to lFlQtltUtC and maintain educational and philanthropic enterprises and to Improve the living conditions In general But It IS more human than this cold statement Indicates It IS also the Intention of Hull House to enter Into the lives of the poor and ignorant and to keep aglow that spark of humanity which all too often becomes crushed under the ceaseless and relentless heel of poxerty Her work consisted In uplIftIng thousands of unfortunates and In re directing numerous careers That old age finds Itself not abandoned that youth finds Itself appreciated that the sorrowful hnd comfort that the discouraged hnd Inspiration that the weak hnd strength that the sick End health that the misunderstood find toleration that the Immigrant Ends hi place In the new world these are the real accomplishments of Hull House And all these were achieved through a womans devotion and a womans sympathy and thi xxoman was Jane Addams Still another woman of merit IS Frances Kellor She aided the Immigrant beyond Imagmation Before she took charge of the Bureau of Immigration the poor ignorant person from Europe was treated with contempt and cruelty Often conmving persons through some scheme took from the Immigrant the little money that he had on arriving In our great AHICFICR the place which In his mind had taken the form of a second Heaven the land of peace love and prosperity Through her efforts many of the existing corruptions were remedied Overcrowding filth squalor, and disease In the Immigrant districts were almost entirely done away with For years she has guarded the gateway to America extending a helping hand to those xx ho wIsh to adopt a new fatherland and endeavoring to see that the entering alien bears untouched hIs material possessions and still more Important that he keeps Intact those high Ideals of liberty justice and fair treatment which America symbolizes for him A fourth member to our womans hall of fame IS uha Tutwiler a woman who stroxe to glVC hlgher education to the girls of Alabama After many failures she at last was assisted financially by the State and conducted the College for Girls 1D Alabama The cause of higher education for women In that State was vron She never stopped to consider herself she vtas for the boy and girl black and vthite good and bad S e In a Gnancial way Her good work IH the prisons of Al1bama stands out as a colossal example of sincere charity to the crestfallen Ind erring She oiganized classes ID the jails md sought to bring sunshine through the wills Ind cheer the numbered prisoners She bettered conditions and brought peace to their troubled consciences Not for gloiy nor for honor has she toiled although both are heis but for the great end vsith no thought of elf In the words of her State song IS her life best typihed Alabama Mother mine All I have and am are thine Take oh take the gift and giver Take and serve thyself with me I will e er be true to thee In our group of fiinous women also belongs Dr Anna Shaw Her xiewpoint In regard to her life s career Is Nothing bigger can come tc a human being than to lose a great Cause more than life Itself and to hue the priv lege throughout life of working for that Cause She looked past the present Into the future years that IS she was a woman with a vision Her Cause in life was Vkoman Suffrage She worked with courage dIgnIty and unfailing common sense In the day of small things when the suffrage pioneers were ridiculed by both men and women as a band of unwomanly freaks and fanatics She was cominced that only through an understanding and sharing of responsi Twenty . . i . . . 5 k k S . . , I , : ' , A 5 I .K . . . , V K n t I , .I I I , h ' . 's ' - . 1 . . F1 I 9 I I I 1 7 s s - ' 3 k . . I ' , . I . , . . . A , , . . . . . . K A Y - V K -' 5 ' A , ' ' , . h extended help to the struggling students, assisting them not only in their studies, but also s . ' r ' ' : Y f I . . , . .k . F--,, . . I i g . V S Q 7 - A -11 ....... - .......... ,,,i:VLt,4g,A,.-,,-A.i-,t,f--:- ........ -N

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A ' ' 4. 4 'P :L , , , mv JP I , 1 r '1 1 4 , 41' v 41 , 4 4 J JS, , 4 1, 4 , 4 , 4 1, 4 lr CELESTE RENNER Fame Belongs Not to the Men Alone ANY of us thmk that all progress rn the world has been brouifht about by men but thls ldea IS erroneous for some of the hnest noblest and the most VNUftl'1Wl1llC thmgs hue been englneered and accomplished by women Vsfomen of course have not lnvented michmerv as has Mr Edison nor have they led gre xt lrmles on the held of battle as General Pershlng dld but they have lnxented new ldeas of copmg wlth modern problems and have led armxes of dxstressed followers through tlmes of sufferlng sorrow and trouble In br1ef they have helped to make the world a happler a finer a more splrltual and nobler place in whlch to lrve Some of the women who haxe partlclpated ln th1s work are Florence Nxghtmgale Clara Barton Frances Kellor ane Addims uha TlltXY1lCf Dr Anna Shaw and Rhce Freeman Palmer Florence Nrghtlngale one of the hrst famous women was born ln 18'O She was an English Hospxtal Supermtendent Upon the outbreak of the f' :mean War m 1854 she set out for the battle front By untlrmg energy and extraordlnary dbllllly rn the face of almost ll'1CI'EdlblE Cllfl1Cl,llflB9 Vluss Nlghtxngale succeeded ln alleuatlng the suffermg of the slck and wounded Durlng the Amencln Clwll War and the Franco PFUSSIAU War she wrs often con sulted on questlons concermng camp hospltals M155 Nlghtlngale recewed mxny honor from varxous governments and was the hrst woman upon whom the Order of lvlerlt was conferred In 1917 a new statuary group for the Crlmean Memorlal was anxerled One of the Hgures lb that ol Florence Nlghtxnvale namely The Lady wlth the Lamp Except for monuments to royal dames If was the hr t public statue for a woman ln London She 1s noted for laylng the loundatnon of one of the most humane and phllanthropl organlzatlons that the world has yet seen th lt 15 the Red Lros Vvhat man may I :sk you hr started an organization whlch his done any more to allexl nte the Klllfffflllgg of mankind Another remarkable woman one who sulfered from youth with 1n aflllctxun which would haxe daunted the courage ol a xast army ot men chose medlclne as her profe sion and the care ol the poor as her special tllentage She had a real Chrlstlan attltude toward the world and ha done muth to rehue tho e who were de peratelx rn need mf a sn tan e 1 X11 teen SQLELZXQQ ' E415-9' W P P , 4 r yr QP , 4 , 4 , 4 P P P P I 4 4 P , 4 , 4 v v v r r r 11 K . . 41 , , ' . '. K, 1 , 41 1' A - , , V. - . .. ,, 5 . 1 ' V s - s 4 1: ' ' . ' I . , ' 2 1 '. 4 , 5 . . V ' . Y , , . 11 r . . . . 4 l U - x r 14 , , . .. , - , , 4 - , 4 P . . . . . 2 , ' , . , J' . J f , 3 t r , 1 , , . , 1 . 4 . . . V4 . 41 1: 1 , F 1 , 1 -. . ,1 4 . . Vx I ' . . +751 or. ' f ' 4 1 In ' ' 4 I ' ' s, A J Q , . . . . . , 'Q ' ', ' f ' ',: 4 xx , . . .. . , , . , , , .4 g M . . . .. 1 , 4 . N k , 4 11 f . 1 . 4 : ' .. V Y M r - ., I V. I 4 1 . . . . . , . ., 4 gl: 1 5 .s s s l ' ' A 4' 4' x ly , . W' S - K, . , ' A -K , - - , - ' D. . . -, C ,X . , . , 41 H ' ' 5 ' 1 1 z f ' .s, ' ' , - go , 4 :lr ' y- n 'Ap if ' ' 'z Q 5 ' ' ' 7 Il' P A . . . . ',v ' ' ' ' , ' J ' ' 1 ' I ', - 1 - . 5, 4 JU N x . L I . , ll' X140 , 5 1, 5 4 .S . 1, 1 .gps 6,1 I 2 rr 1, 41 Q, ' 4, Q, , ya li J 4 r . M il' -- A - --AA A A: ::,:,A: f :fi LA : :,f,f,' 1 2,2 A 1 Ag Afgx Laeggggx A A A A..A A A.,.A A :gif Ae: A Auf, An ',r 1 o 'sf f .rf T' '32 v 3 . J' X X s

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E ki sig vvvvvvvvJT1vvvvvv0'T'WYvvvvvvvv v+vJ'T'7'71vvY'7'7TW'?vvvv7Qvvvv'V 'U 4 FAME BELONGS NOT TO THE MEN ALONE Continued bllities of citizenship by both men 'md women could the best interests of society be served Her platform shows 1 mind alert and actixe conversant on everyday national problems md looking as she claims to look toward the benefit of the country as a whole What man has had a broader VICW7 Her faithfulness is now rewarded and she can rejoice ll! the fact that the world has responded to her call and at the present day she sees the fruits of her labors when the women cist their ballots as only men had previously done Truly it is a great thing for our country and our womankind' It emphasizes the meaning of the words A government of the people for the people and by the people' Clara Barton should be mentioned because of her sympathy for mankind in distress Her philosophy of life was Living is doing She was 1 nurse and one incident well illustrates the characteristic confidence with which she moved about amid scenes of terror ind panic At Fredericksburg when every house was a hospital she was passing along when she had to step aslde to allow a regiment of infantry to sweep by At that moment General Patrick caught sight of her and said You are alone and ln great danger madam Miss Barton smiled and said I believe I am the best protected woman in the United States Her real life was measured by deeds rich in the joy of service She proved the truth of the words We gain in so far as we give If we would find our life we must be willing to lose it There is also in our row of wonder women Alice Freeman Palmer and she well illustrates the girl who is struggllng for an education who tries to the limit of her ability to nse and says I will succeed All through her youth obstacle after obstacle seemed to block her progress So ferxent was she that the sincere belief that her goal would be reached her pluck and grit and happy spirit were nmparted to others The President of Wellesley College made reference to her ln these words Without assuming or strning for leadership she could not but be to .1 certain degree a leader Wherever she went her genial outgoing spirit seemed to carry with her an atmosphere of cheerfulness and joy Her tasks were at last completed and she became teacher friend sympathi er and comrade to those with whom she came in contact There are many memorials speaking in different places of her work But more teaching Now in concluding we miy say that God had ordained that men should engage in manly endeavors while the home was supposed to be the sphere of woman The Held in which man acted was larger than was woman s This was the result of the older custom of mankind because man was the natural proxider It was through the brolder and diversified Held that men won renown And now we ee that since womans field ha been enlarged within the la t fifty years to equal that of man s woman has shown by her deeds that she not only can equal man but that sometime she can excel him Outside of the home woman s pursuits have carried her in numerous and dixersitied held hh herexer kindness sympathy understanding tenderness and motherly love are required there undoubtedly will be found woman giving freely unparalleled by any man As old helds broaden ind new nelds are opened for woman so will woman adapt herself arid so will her importance u d f1me increase It is true that most of the historx of the progress of cixili ation ha been centered about men but now from the preceding considerition we can fully understand that fame belongs not to the men alone for women haxe organized the Red Cro they haxe Uixen women the right to xote they haxe gixen women educational opp mrtumties they hue made our prisons human and just institution md Hnally women haxe made the world a cleaner 1 happier a more refined a more wholesome a sweeter a nobler a more spiritual place in which to lne Woman lifts the world out of the mud znd darkness and outs it ln Gods clean sunshine to thrne and blossom Tu emx on Ll! ill! ill! 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