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Show Perseverance Is Text Of Student's Prize Editorial Editor's Note: The following is the editorial written by Ona Bartlett, of Alterra High School, and judged the winner in the recent Intermountain Journalism Journal-ism Contest. Have you ever watched a tiny sailboat on a lake? If someone has a hold of the string it will follow an even course; but the minute. the hold is released, the boat is left to idly turn in whirling whirl-ing motions or is blown far out onto the lake. Are you an unguided sailboat, drilling idly by? Perhaps, but the answer is hidden in "just how well" you control your actions ac-tions and safeguard your ideals. When the average scholar has reached high school age, he usually us-ually has, or should have some goal or ideal to gain and accomplish. accom-plish. Don't be an Alexander the Great and weep because there are no more worlds to conquer. There may not be worlds of phy-1 sical substance, but think of the "worlds" of radio, atomic energy, ener-gy, modern art and music, that arc merely waiting for some one to perfect them. An apple fell on Sir Isaac Newton and he had the incentive to inform the. world about the force of gravity, and a kite and a flash of lightening made Benjamin Ben-jamin Franklin the inventor of electricity. Again we hear the saying, "the proof of the pudding is m the eating," but the succcss of accomplishment ac-complishment is in "you. Let's not ancnor our sanuu. at a secluded dock because we are afraid of the perils and hardships hard-ships of the sea. I challenge you to embark on a voyage that will make every dream and aspiration aspira-tion of today a material realization realiza-tion of tomorrow. |