Feb 12 '24 HOW LINCOLN STANDS HEARTS OF O. H. S. STUDENTS j A striking group of Lincoln day memories and observations was gathered by students of the advis- i ory groups of Ogden High school I Monday. Each student was per- ! mitted to hand in a quotation, a j sentiment or an observation con- ! cerning Abraham Lincoln. The ' following are culled from among several hundred: Thirty students quoted this- "A government of the people, for the people and by the people." Lincoln-the most honored, loved, revered character that Amer­ica has ever produced. His peer will probably never appear. A. O. N. The Gettysburg address-one hundred seven words-the great American classic. Every school boy and girl is required, and very rightly too, to memorize it. R. N. Reported by seven students- ! "I will work and become pre­pared and maybe my chance will ; come." One of Lincoln's cabinet mem­bers approached him saying, "Oh president, I do hope God is on our side." He replied, "I don't." The astonished member ques­tioned, "You don't? Why?" "Well," the chief executive drawled, "I guess everything will be all right just as long as we are sympathetic with God's side of the question." JEAN WARNER. Some say he was a fool when he ran two miles to return six cents to a lady customer. Maybe he was and again maybe he wasn't; you yourselves can judge. You might say the woman wouldn't have known her loss and would not return; others might say it wor­ried the man. The fact is it did worry Lincoln because the slight­est fleck of injustice irritated his soul like a cinder. Most common men would have let it go. Maybe that's what keeps them common. But Lincoln couldn't rest, not a night. And the answer is-His in­fluence. A man's influence is neither greater nor smaller than his own inner honesty, his own in­tegrity. WM. TAYLOR. Handed in by thirteen stu­dents- "All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." Abraham Lincoln was the em­bodiment of America's highest ideals. Lincoln was a masterpiece of God. MARGARET STIMSON. Abraham Lincoln was an Amer­ican who possessed that remark­able virtue of uniting persistence and patience. RUTH MERRILL. To Abraham Lincoln we may at­tribute the honor of being the most noble character of the past, and an ideal for every American citi­zen of the present and of future generations. NORMA JOHNS. Twenty students quoted this- "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Lincoln-the only man whom men have dared to compare with the "Man of Galilee." G. W. Born in obscurity, nursed by pov­erty, educated in the school of ad­versity, giving up his life at last as a token of his devotion to a great cause-he has become Im­mortalized, not only in the hearts of his countrymen, but in the hearts of all men everywhere. -M. A. Lincoln was the father of kind­ness and peace. Lincoln was brought upon this earth to meet the needs of his country in the time of a great struggle. M. L. H. A great crisis met in a fine man­ner by one of the finest of the world's great men-that' was Lin­coln. -F. M. The only statue of Lincoln that really typifies him is the statue where he is sitting; where he can be touched by everybody; where children can climb around upon the whole statue, and where men and women can study the thought- furrowed brow. No matter what is written about Abraham Lincoln as a man, or as ! president of the United , States, nothing will ever wurpass that story which every full-blooded American has read, "A Perfect Tribute." -MARION WALLACE. "For when the thunder split the house, he held the ridgepole up, and spiked again the rafters of the home."-Lincoln, the man of the people. -D. C. Lincoln-the kindest, the great­est, the noblest man the United States ever produced. --LESTA B. PURCELL. Abraham Lincoln, the only man who, being clothed with absolute dictatorial power, never abused it save on the side of mercy. Secretary Stanton, on hearing of the death of Lincoln, said: "Now j he belongs to the ages." Ten students handed in these words of Lincoln- "If I could save the union by forbidding slavery I would do it; if I could save the union with slavery, I would do it; if I could save the union, part slave and part free, I would do that, too." Lincoln-a loving, patriotic man, who was willing to give his life for the good of the people. If Washington was the father of the Revolution, then Lincoln was the father of freedom. -WILLIAM THOMAS. Even though Lincoln has taken his place among the immortals, his memory still lives and his influ­ence pervades the life of the na­tion whose leader he was. What it was in his great soul that enabled him, untutored and untrained in conventional ways, to control for four years the destiny of a great people, we may not understand. But we may recognize in his righteous purpose, his clear under­standing, his wise judgment, his earnest efforts to do what was right, the means by which he reached his goal. To know his duty and to do 'it were his sole concern. He was so simple and modest in manner, that those with j whom he walked did not realize his greatness. But when death suddenly removed him, the world by a quick instinct recognized him as one of the greatest of men. It beheld a conqueror who had led the nation through many perils, achieving his purpose and accom­plishing his task. -VIOLA ALLEN. To the man who gave his life to his country, whose every ambi­tion was for the American people, we owe our greatest respect. His golden thoughts were not clothed in fiery eloquence as were those of Douglas; they were the murmur- ings of his inner soul. As Markheim says, he rose from the red clay of the common road, but his strength of character and person­ality were matched against the mountains. IRENE MERRILL. Abraham Lincoln was probably one of the greatest men that Amer­ica has ever known. He lived for the people, worked for the people and did everything in his power to make America a strong and friend­ ly nation. Many people were against him, but in the end he was loved by everyone in America for the wonderful service he gave to the country. He will live forever in the hearts of the American peo­ple. -KENNETH DAVIDSON. Abraham Lincoln, the most loved president this country has ever known, deserves all the love and honor of every man and woman. We are now honoring the birthday of our martyred president and we should each set aside a few min­utes of that day to think of him and the wonderful things he did for our country. -ELMA SWANSON. LINCOLN AS A SPORTSMAN. During Lincoln's presidential campaign, previous to his election, he delivered a series of lectures and debates. As a debater, Lincoln was convincing, always believing in his ideal. Probably one of Lin­coln's worst opponents was Doug­las, a man from the south, who defeated Lincoln in one of the most important debates in Illinois. Upon learning the judges' decision, , Lincoln clasped the hand of Doug­las and acknowledged a square and good defeat. This was one of Abra­ham Lincoln's most pleasing char­acteristics. He was always a good loser. Upon the surrender of the Con­federacy, Lincoln did not show any signs of authority to the south. He was to them as he was to the north, a father to all men. He was not a knocker of anyone or anything. Thus, these incidents in his life show us that not a better sportsman ever lived. -B. GUNNELL.