The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1921-01-22
"WOMAN SUFFRAGE"
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as close to that ideal as it is posi-
bic for her to come.
Dear friends, we who are passing
out of High School life into more ac-
tive citizenship today, feel that We
have place in the national life.
We feel that each one of us has a
work to do in demonstrating tho
spirit of patriotism that is within
US. Reconstruction is going on, all
over the land Much indeed, needs
to be reconstructed, much to be
destroyed. We can all have part
in it, women as well as men, girls as
well as boys Whatever helps to
make the nation better and nobler,
whatever helps to elevate the people
of the land to any higher plane of
thought and life, whatever in any
way serves to make America or any
portion of it better worth the living
in, is helping on the great work of
present day reconstruction, and re
member, whatever helps the indivi-
dual helps to a greater or lesser de-
gree the community in which that in
dividual lives. We are overlooking
with class patriotism tonight, and we
enter into the arena with full sense
of our own Importance. We know
of course we are not bound to make
the earth go right, but we are sure
that realizing our possibilities we will
endeavor to do with cheerful heart
the work that God appoints.
Dear teachers, you who have had
the training Of us in this spirit of
patriotism for the past four years,
we know how fully you have realiz-
ed that the strongest asset of the
American Nation was its citizenship.
You have certainly put forth every
effort within your power to make
true American men and women out
Of the raw material within your
hands. How well you have succeed
ed, of course, only the future can de-
termine. But we thank you at this
time for all you have so cheerfully
done and tried to do for each one of
us, and trust that the years to come
may demonstrate to your satisfac-
ton as well as to our own, that out
of the stuff from which we were
made, you were really as successful
as your ambition could desire, in
turning us out men and women.
Classmates, let us resolve that they
shall. May the colors of our class
and all that they stand for, but SYM
bolize, in its larger sense, the, prin-
ciples of the American Nation. Let
us as we separate, 60 forth with the
determination of proving to the world
that our High School was certainly
one of the best mills for grinding out
individuals worth while. Let us
make loyalty our controlling spirit,
and in being loyal to ourselves, we
shall of necessity be loyal to every
larger claim that the American Ma
ton can demand of the most efficient
Of her sons and daughters in any
hour of her need. Let US show the
| world as we step out into its fields
of endeavor that we are the stuff the
best citizens and truest patriots are
made of, still carrying in our heart
whatever life may bring, the same
spirit of courage in resolution and
high-minded integrity with which we
must now bid one another farewell !.
Let me, in speaking this last word,
propose this new toast, to replace
the suggestion Of Decatur's, and voice
the higher patriotism that should
animate US all:
"Our class!
Here's that she may always be in the
right!
Here's that her standard may ever
! be white!
Here's that whatever our future may
be,
Steady and fearlessly God-like may
Our class!"
(Oration delivered by Miss Aline
Villermin at the graduating exercises
of the New Iberia High School.