The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-08
!. Twelve cherished years have

ing. Twelve cherished years have
been spent under your guidance in
! earnest preparation for this today
| of rejoicing. We are now to re-
ceive our pilots wings. For the
| past seventeen or eighteen years
we have flown along life's airways
with the aid of our parents, our
teachers and our friends. The re-
mainder of our flight must be con-
tinued unaided. Henceforth, we
are the sole pilots of our dehtiny.
AS we step into the world we
have numerous obligations to full
fill, problems to solve, and diff.
ficulties to face. Foremost among
these obstacles is the preservation
of peace.
With thousands of other gradu-
ates We are entering world of eco
nomic and political chaos. Treaties
and agreements are again being
regarded as mere scraps of paper.
Espionage movements are being
conducted by nearly every nation.
Powder barrels requiring only a
spark to ignite them can be found
in every corner of the globe, wait
ing the opportunity to tear modern
civilization asunder. Vast arma-
ment races and defense programs
such as the world has never before
witnessed are rushing forward at
express-train speed. The entire
world is on the brink of another
tragic eruption such as was exper-
fenced in the years of 1914 through
1918.
Never before have we been in
such urgent need of a practical
peace program. New inventions
and discoveries created even more
powerful and dangerous monsters
Of destruction. These advances, if
they may be termed such, have
made the preservation of civiliza-
ton ITSELF dependent upon the pre-
servation Of peace.
That peace cannot be secured by
war was proved by the last great
conflict. Only two decades ago the
war to end wars was terminated vet
we are again endangered with an
other ravaging strife. Never has
there been a treaty which has not
born the seeds of some future war
Peaceful tactics assure peace; war
ring tactics promote wars.
Our country was founded by our
forefathers upon the principle of
democracy. They gave their lives
that we might have a better nation
in which to live. To them we owe
hearty thanks of appreciation,
and it is our duty to pledge our
earnest support toward maintaining
the same unaltered democracy for
future generations. Democracy and
war, however, cannot exist together.
We must have peace if we are to
nave a true democracy. Every
warning nation which claims to be
democratic is only presenting a
false front. Beneath the surface
can be found all the evils of the
monarchy and the aristocracy.
There can be no war with honor,
Therefore as graduates in this
year of crises it is our principal
obligation to unite and exert our
selves to the utmost in order to
preserve peace for America and for
the world. What the world is to
be, we must make it.
Kenneth Forsberg.
VALEDICTORY
This year, our class has chosen
as its motto, "Qui erimus, nunc
flmus"-what we are to be, we are
now becoming. Tonight, as we set
out upon our various paths, we
leave behind us happy memories of
our school terms, and perhaps al
so many of the things that we
have learned. But there is some
thing that we cannot leave behind
our characters. The habits we
have formed, and the character
training that has been given us,
will remain a part of us, even
when our school experiences have
become memories of the dim past.
We have learned that honesty
is the best policy, and that we must
be truthful with ourselves and 9TH
erS at all times. We have been
taught that ambition, perseverance
are essential factors in any under
taking, and that charity and court
esy are necessary to social we'll
being and happiness. We have
found that in unity there is strength
and consequently, that the key to
success is cooperation. These and
innumerable other principles have
been instilled in our minds by our
teachers and parents.
Therefore we feel that to them