Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-05-19

We the class Of 1915, are about to-
close never-to-be-forgotten chap
ter in the history OF our lives. To-
the impatience OF youth our four
years OF high school life may have
seemed long in the passing, but, as
We are about to commence the new
chapter. we realize how inadequate
the time has been to prepare us to
take up life's battles. Louder. and
with fuller meaning ring the
words, ''oh. what things want know
ing"
High School life has not been all
pleasures. We have had our ups
and downs. but We have fought and
won our battles; and are We not the
better prepared to square our shoul-
ders and face life on account Of
thems
Life! What a wonderful word
that Is. II brings up before our
minds eye. first. the complete past,
which nothing but time can erase
from our memory; second, the pres
ent. which is incessantly giving us
opportunities to grasp; and lastly,
the future, that vague Indefinite
time for which we are always plan
ming. II may hold struggles and
hardships In store for us, but we
hope shall always be able to meet
these with the same indomitable
spirit with which we met those Of
our high school years. Temptations
may confront us which win cause a
conflict between mind and body.
but. as Browning has said. when
the nght begins within himself, a
mans worth something"
The echoes from the first rumb-
lings OF the war god we're Just reach
ing us as we entered our Freshman
year. Little did we realize that be-
fore our high school days were over
all the great world powers would be
plunged into the maelstorm OF the
worst war In the history OF the
world. At the beginning the war
seemed far distant. We were inter-
ested. OF course. but there were so
many new and absorbing things
about school life that the war took
a very small part OF our thoughts.
Rather were we more interested In
organizing our class. choosing a
class motto. making haste to un-
fold our beautiful 1918 pennant. and
planning activities peculiar to high
school. Oh, We were very ambi-
tious. but "on what strange stun
ambition feeds"
During the course OF years we
have passed through the varying
stages OF young manhood and young
womanhood. The steadying influ-
ence OF our splendid faculty have
developed character and brought
our frivolous minds to a deep reali-
zation OF the seriousness OF life as
II Is today. We are now able to put
the proper valne. on events transpir-
ing. The war spirit has entered our
very souls and We know that ouI
whole future lies in the balance.
Our beloved and peace-lovine
country has been drawn into this
erican or the Prussian standard oi
most terrible and disastrous OF al
wars to vindicate the right. the hu
man right to settle whether the Am
morality Is valid, and to make thi
world better and safer place II
which to live, for both the presen
and future generations.
How deeply are we stirred owe
the inhuman practices OF supposed
ly civilized nation, a nation who's
public welfare requires that mel
should betray and lie and massacre
whose people are always right be
cause they number S7,000,0 900 souls
and claim the right to say they form
the soul OF humanity and are bearer
OF superior "kultur."
We choose not the path of submis
sion which allowed the sacred right
of nations and peoples to be ignore
and violated the wanton and whole
sale destruction Of the lives of in
nocent women and children. OIL
Glory is waving and our boys ar
singing another battle cry of free
dom in the trenches "over there.
A member Of our class is one O
those boys over there, William Poi
lock, and he sends us these fe,
words Of greeting for this occasion
Somewhere in France
Dear Classmates:
AS ii is nearing the end of an
other term OF school. think shoul
say Hello" to the senior class.
have often wondered how the elias
OF '1S was getting along this, thei
last year. send my congratula
tions to the whole G.. p. II. s. 70
the victories you have won both /