Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1919-01-16
THhT MEMORIAL.
Editor Payette Enterprise:

III lepy " your lufiedeiOl ~
suggestions Is 70 a fitting memoirs
for our boys who made the supren
sacrifice or the battle fields
France, and also for all who wei
in the service, The Board of Educ;
ton and Superintendent OF the Pa,
ette Schools respectfully submit tn
following:
4 Your statement that "a marbl
shaft with the names cut in it's po
ished sides would be enduring, bu
II would be only a marble shaft
cold, inanimate thing and, alone
would be inappropriate. is accept
ed with approval.
Your further statement that 9Th.
principle for which our boys gave al
is a LIVING principle, is vita
consideration and suggests that the
memorial should be something thai
would perpetuate that principle.
We propose, therefore, a MEMO
RIAL HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING.
This would be fitting because, OF
the boys going into service from
Payette, more than 100 of them are
graduates or former students of the
local High School.
i A Memorial High School in Pay
cite, which shall stand primarily for
emphasis in training for good citi-
zenship in all that that term invol
YES would be the most fitting reccg-
milton that a grateful public could
give to the boys who offered their
lives to perpetuate the principles Of
! Democracy. Dedication tablets up
ca which are engraved the names of
these boys should be placed in the
entrance corridor where they will
constantly meet the gaze CT all who
daily pass into or cut of the building.
Why would a Memorial High
Schocl Building be the best form of
memorial?
Because, therein, High School
pupils would not molly be reminded
CT the patriotism of our boys in the
World War, but they would be taught
that thero is patriotic work to do
IN times of peace as Well aswar,-
national ills to be withstood, politi-
cal dangers to be guarded against,
in all OF which patriotic business we
IF today and they of tomorrow have
a work TO do n less vital to the pub !
lie veal than what the great fathers |
did in the beginning of our hihstory. |
For the schools to study and point |
ont these dans'ers is to correct them !
To ignore or extenuate them is
neither honest nor safe
Peace needs love Of country as !
well as war. The honesty that shall
recognize the ills that threaten; the
couragc tc fight them; the eternal
vigilance which is the price of lib
srty; theh dogged patience to hunt
1ut CT office political tricksters; the
zeal to bestir ones self early and
ate in the face of apathy and con-
.umely in order to get faithful and
competent men elected to office, =
hese are quite as needful as the
bravery which sends men to the bat
lefield, and they are infinitely hard I
II to lind. The school has a duty {
iare and can do more for common
atraot-sm than any other agency. In {
truction in the rudiments OF politi- /
al and social science ought never
: cease in the schools from the t
rst year to the last. They should t
mphasize tho positive side of pa s
'iotisms-not merely love of coun- $
y, but service to country. They a
1ould point out not only the oppor- II
nifty os service in politics, but the n
'slaye duty of honest participation D.
politics. No citizen has the right al
fail or refuse to inform himself IL
| political issues or refuse to ex- Ifo
else his franchise by failing to ri
'te. Civic duty is positive thing, A
It negative. Our politics would be lex
Iinitely better If we even taught til
at political career should be es
'ked upon as something to be OPP wi
ly sought and aspired to by any ST
7perly qualified person, not as a m,
t CT gratuity or honor from poll tol
al friends, but as an opportunity
serve the commonwealth just as : he
serves the interests of TIL
religious life. The schools should ON
plastic that living for one's Ku
ntry in time of peace is just as eff
riotic as dying for ones country bel
Tune CT war rea
he browning work of the public thi
coils in aid of patriotism is to cor
Re this already worthy nation Chi
thier still. On the schools of to
erica depends, in eminent degree. slo
question of Americas. eternal say
The schools must see to it Ian
Righteousness abounds more and the
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