Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-05 | Page 9 | The High School Age

I If The High School Age I A WU.VDKMTL milOD OF LIl'K I Professor McKeever Thinks It Has I Great Possibilities When Mobil- - ized for the Public Good I Wi By Dr w-A McKecvcr LljK of I he -Nnllon'ft Ilcl-Kno-tti Mi B5 BKj cloloRlrnl Wrllcr. hC v A T lho B? of llo,0,,cnc'' hn I (Br V "1e J"011" aro Prprly n- I &K -" rolled In th high school, the I D future and the past or the human y'Wm ract moot ouch In h fond embrace I i II , aa( then part, each to -go It iepa- I , KB rat wny. To the charmed and 1 ' ST " charming youth It t now time to ' H j nutnway childish thine; an. I to ! HT take "up the ideals of tlho mutt i" about to bo. I Thin delightful high-school ace 1 I my maicot. A I traVel about thli busy country of our lecturing n nnd promoting s heal I can the i causa of young humanity I am I learning to depend on tho nlgh- I sche-ol group to holp mo put things If Iant placards and advertise- incnia dlntribtiteid; If I ,want car- i toon and oornlc posters; If I wnht ah appeal for uupport oarrled direct di-rect -to the home of the city; if I uwnt a nolay procession upon the . streets, with band nnd banners to accompany; If I want a rollicking: rsongnt assembly hour, or a yell to ntlmulatc my waning spirits before giving an address; If I want to play up n bit of humor and win a round of thunderous applause; If I want to awaken a lazy old town that has boon slcoplng along for a feneration; if I want to clean up the physical trash or lho social nllmo which has long bcgrlmvd a community If 1 want to undertake Ihe.io or a score of other valuablo purposes for tho genornl welfare I make a bee-line for that wonderful high-school high-school ape. Here among all tho agos of mankind man-kind wo nnd tho first mobile and pliable mass formation. True, the boys of the scout age quickly form a gang but it is an affair with but limited Idea, the banding together for mutual protection and for a wild life out of doors. 1 But the high school ago may be quickly mobilized for the general " good. Also It may be as easily formed into a mob for some wicked design. There aro many towns and village communltlca where the tho while putting on a campaign of their mis-directed mob mind, are all 4 thf whilf putting in a campaltrn of rlotloutnc?3 and octal ruin. Ther arc thousAnda of ether places where thu ame youthful mob plactlclty is turnrd toward better things and where It become a force, for moral and social uplift. A high sheol, turned looe on tho town without adequate management, man-agement, is often a source of much kcandal and n reproach upon the plaoe which permits it so to flourish. flour-ish. Hut a high school group, with Its overflowing enthusiasm turned in th, direction of high social and racial Ideals, is a Joy unto any people peo-ple and a promise of a betcr civilization civil-ization to be. Not you, Dear Parent, but the high school group to which he belongs be-longs will now mold tho character and set the life purpose for your , boy. And the easiest way to conserve con-serve nnd direct the God-given energies In your own boy or girl Is to holp him and all the others of his happy group to travel together upon lho same well-chosen higher way . bfllfc. Finally, 1 hope that you arc all In love with tho wonderful adolescent young humanity, even as I myself am, for such la one of the genuine pleasures of life.