When some people look around and see the broken lives, the defeated hopesm and the national failures they release their savage rage and say that education is a failure, and our youth is leading the nation to destruction. The reality is that any race which does not value trained intelligence, is doomed. In this situation, all the military might cannot move back the finger of fate.


Today we live, tomorrow education will move this world forward one step more. The student of today finds himself and his life a part of this great pattern. High School should be a part of your life forever. The disgruntled individual who causes one step in the wrong direction in his pattern of life would do much harm to the institution of family, school, or country . . .


In looking at the individual step or group step which has caused much harm in our schools, universities, or cities think what a blot has been placed on the institution and how long it will take to replace that institution back to Harmony.


Every person in life has his fair share of responsibility to keep himself from influencing any step which prevents harmony. I am not saying everybody should conform at all times, but his pattern of life should be improved and maintained on a level of approved social standards.


Certain conditions do exist and we must recognize them and work for the ideal situation. You cannot accept second place and be satisfid, but must strive for the

ideal of first place. In striving and seeking for first place everyone will look up to you. Students should never look down on anyone but have everyone look up to you. That is education in it's true value.

Students can make a great contribution to the common good. Wrong acts become excessive and many, many accumulated good deeds are covered up by by over emphasis on a few wrongs. Students should always be thinking about acts of greatness and they will be doing acts of greatness.

I have been most happy looking up to the students of Polk Township over the years. As the communities have joined together my happiness has increased by knowing the students of Lincoln and Johnson Townships who are equally as inspiring.

In this final issue under my tenure here I want to thank every reader of these lines for your inspiration and help in any way.

I shall spend the future looking up to the students of Polk-Lincoln- Johnson School Corporation.

                                                   -- Claude V. York

The FFA went to St. Louis My 14-17. We stayed in the Mark Twain Hotel. On saturday we visited the Purina Farms, 40 miles northwest of St. Louis.

May 6th, the FFA elected officers, they are as follows: