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

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F55 yi' UIZXBZXZSQQEZXQS I - 5, sal P 3 .,,.,,.. lr if P v 5 ggi-+,.e,L'f , WvvvY-Yvv--YvYQ-vvvv-v--vvv-vv,-vv'?afv-vv-n,-m--fwvv-vvv-vvvvv P A M BOEX The Good Men Do Lwes After Them T WAS the lmmortal Shakespeare who sald the evil that men do lrxes after them whrle the good IS oft mterred wlth therr bones Thrs statement rs true rn sense that the great dramatlst lntended but lt cannot be establrshed as a prrncrple of lrfe There rs ample evidence ID the worlds of art screnee polrtrcs and human relatronshrps that the good men do lrves after them whrle therr farlures and exrl deeds are forgotten Thousands of Instances of heroism could be clted rn tracrng the story of human progress through the ages Present crxrlrzatron culture strente and art rest on the foun datron of self sacrrhce and personal serxlce Exerythrng, that rs good and true rn our xxorld today rs the drrect outgrowth of the goodness and truthfulness of men who have hxed before us Those classed by the world among the rmmortals are the true benefactors of the human race The Hood they accomplished rn the course of therr lrxes trll remarns vtrth us and renders therr memorres a blessrng Art and musrc probably come Hrst to mxnd when we speak of men xx hose deed hve after them, for most often do we hear the word rmmortal applred to the artrsts and muslclans of the world The parntmgs of Raphael the statues of Mrthacl Angelo the plays of Shakespeare and Dante the operas of Wagner all these tonstrtutc the xery substance of the lrxes of these rmmortal artrsts They are the thrngs of good uhrth crvs tallrzed from therr souls and whrch will remain as long as men lrxt upon thrs errth It rs, also a fact rn the Held of scxence that the gr od men do rs ncxtr rntcrred wrtm then bones Vvhth the lrglrtnrng of the clouds dr mn down to earth by grrnt mrehrne md harnessed for the well berng of the rate the sprrrts of Benjamrn Frankhn md Thomr Edrson wrll hve always rn thrs marvelous achrexement Prrnkhn brought the tlcttrre forte from nrture Edrson hrs harnessed lf for the progress of crvrlrzatron And some future gcnrus burldrng on the h rrd work and contrrbutrons of these tvto proncers vxrll Gnd .1 wrx to tontrol the destruetrxe fortes of the tloud to serxe manlnnd rn trll more rnrrxelous xx my In another decade xxe shall be able to srt at our de k and trllt xxrth lrrend rn Europe 'fu urty lun E EERE 5 TP v l I r r gb r 'F n l. r P 5 r v l s 1 r r 5 l b , P s . . 5 r 1 r b - , b Kr b . ,. . .V A lv , s - Q, , . . . A., .- , . 4 rr X' ' L M a s - rr . . . .. 1 - k lb s K s lr t ri i , V . Q. x Q 1 , -- 1 , - 1 - ab . K is . L I V, U V . , 7 .x Y . , . . 1 1- 1 P v . as , V n K e 'I I , Ah I v' ', .- ' Q: v , A 5 ' 1' ' - ' .' 5 ' P ..- .1 . 1 r ' . ' .. P . . , . .1 .' 1 r s - - 1 s - 1 b 1 . V , . Q . V Q - ' t I ' ' -Q I b 'Q ' l' ' f' , a ' - f 1 ' ' . ,' . .. I I. . 1 , x . Vx - L . ' -' , n 1' ' Q ' 'l - ' ' ' . .. , . ' ' ' .. . . 1 1 R 1' 5 : . U. , , .. , A. .'k. '. ' , ' 1 is ':, 1 ' ' ' .1 ' s, V ' gl' - J '. ' s t ' ' ' s' 1 . '1 rs. 1 1 r. ' J 1 ' ' ' s 1 1 ' s' - s 'Nb fr 7 ,. ., . wi P A, Ria-.i.v---:5:-ffitia:-:-::W.----A-1-Ag.-- Af:-5V--Y----t--i1.::5-A------ 'J Q E I I

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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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x Uiikikiikikikii rvwr-vw THE GOOD MEN DO LIVES AFTER THEM Contmued over 1 vvrreless telephone the aehrevement of the genrus of Frernklrn and Edrson md 'Klexander Graham Bell In the polrtrcal vvorld consrder the figures of George Washrngton and Abraham Lrncoln What of the many who have drshonored themselves by unscrupulous practrcc rn publre lrfeh' They are forgotten and therr vvorl-ts are forgotten wrth them But Wash rngton 1nd Lrncoln lrve today therr memorres shorn of everythrng except the nohrllty vvhrch they personrhed and the glorrous uprrghtness of therr publrc lrves Somevvhere the story 1s told of a Chrrstran doctor spendrng hrs genrus among the Chrnese and rrskrng hrs l1fe to cure therr rll On three occasrons thrs Amerrean physrcran Dr C H Barlow delrberately exposed hrmself to death by swallowrng the germs of a malrgnant Orrental drsease He had no labor rtory rn Chrna whrch vvould offer the proper faerlrtres for studymg the deadl, germs and the rmmrgratron hws of the Unrted States forbade hrm to brrng over specrmens rn the body of a srck Orrental So he delrber ately swallowed a number of these germs and bror ght them to ohn Hopkrns Urrrversrty where they mrght be studred wrth the help of experts and the proper laboratory equrpment Thus do men render themselves rmmortal by elf sacrrhee to uphold the tradrtrons of noble servree rn the cause of humanrty Examples rn every day lrfe show too the everlastrngness of the good rn men Every parent sees hrmself perpetu1ted and rmmortalr ed so to speak rn the form of the chrld that rs brought rnto the vvorld Not a srngle ancestor of ours rs really dead because all of them lrve rn us over and above the exrsteme thev have rn the world of sprrrts And rfter the same fashron no man IS really dead to the race who has left behrnd hrmself the least achrevement of goodness The human rree rtself rs the greatest example of the perpeturty of goodness From generatron to generatron rt burlds upon foundatrons e tab lrshed rn the eras vvhrch have gone before eontrnurng forever whatever of good 1 left to rt as a legacy by the passrng denrzens of the earth It rs true that the smallest good deed of the most humble man never really dres Lrke an rndestruetrble force the good deed reacts on the doer md modrfies hrm flrst and through hrm all who come under hrs rnfluenee Lrke the povver that radrates from any mechanreal source the good deed goes on and out rn great vvaves and eddyrng crrcles of rnfluente reaehrng rn trme every place and every man Have you ever thrown a pebble rnto a pool of vvater and stopped to watch the crrclrng rrpples and waves untrl the entrre body of water was d1sturbed7 A good deed rn lrke fashron errcles the vvorld and rn trme reaches rts frrthest lrmrts The mm vvho rs concerned rbout perpetuatrng hrmself by havrng hrs name cut rn letters of granrte on a costly tombstone rs a fool The tombstone wrll not last and wrth rts passrng wrll hrs memory fade Even should he succeed rn ereetrng a mausoleum lrke the ancrent Krngs of Egypt what vvrll rt avarl hrm except as an attractron to the currous of later age 7 Let the man vvho would deserve to be remembered medrtate on the everlastrng Influence of the good vvord poken and the krnd deed done Nothrng rn the vvorld ever really perrshes It may change but rt never shall perrsh untrl the omnrpotent Creator wrlls t utter de truetron as He wrlled rts creatron -Kpply thrs commonplace observatron of the rmmortalrty of goodness The vvorld 1 1 temple of fame wherern exch man may be enshrrned throughout thc ages rf he has the Xl ron and the courage to lrve a lrfe that rs truly noble and good Lrves of great men all remrnd us We can make our lrves sublrme And departrng leave behind us Footprrnts on the rnds of trme Twenty thvcc r.44x.f ss.: Q.: 4.1 54: ss.: 4444 KJQJWSQ ESA ff , v-T4-vvv--v-v--- vvv- ---v- V 'w v r v P , - . v V , . . . . P r ' .r gf ' .' 1 t 2 r , 1 . . V . v . 1 , S , . C . .. ir , ,TK g Y n ,, V K K . V N 1 . . . K K . V 1 J , . . . . , I vs lx .5 .. X a V. ' 1 s ' V. . 5 1 f . , , '. 1 . P . , 4 . . . , s 1 3 s s , s ' ' ' , 1' Q .' , . p . . , . .. ' ., ' rr ' .. ', I ' .. 2 rf' , . ' . ' .1 ' ' 'Q ' ' . z 1 ' A .' 5 P t . . . . . , , 5 f P s , 5 r ' ' 1 . r ' . ' .' , 'K 1 A . ' . , , ' . '. ' ' . ' , . , , Vvk , . v v ' V, ' ' ' V V . V r , . . . , . v ' 5 , . , . , . P 2 . ' P v . . . . , . , 1 1 r 1 1 . 1 5 , , Q .g . p . , , K . . , . . Y K 1 . . V N . L - 1 ' ' - s I z s. r . g. . + , . . 1 K r , 5 - I - - , E ' '. ' , . . . rs K S I I. ' . 1 '. ,, 1 ' ' , . P . , . vt 1 sz 2' ' ' ' : 7. W JS. .V . . V A r ..- - P I , l Y 3 , . ,., sz 1 . l It . r Ag, Y -- .... ....... ........ - . ...... - -- ..... --- --- q V