Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1901 — Peace Reigns Supreme. [ARTICLE]

Peace Reigns Supreme.

S weet peace seems to have spread her downy pinions with several very large spreads over the erstwhile darksome scone of conflict where the embattled hosts of the different classes of our city high school struggled for supremacy. Whether the peace (is permanent or only awaits a spark to light the smoldering embers into flames only future events can determine. There has been something akin to an armed intervention on the part of the school officials, and Mayor Eger has also taken a hand- by ordering that no class banners be fluttered, like red rags iu the eyes of taurus, from the water-works tower. This intervention on the part of the powers that be, is right and proper under the circumstances for the reason that young people when involved in such contests are apt to take them to seriously, to get angry and personal injuries be inflicted, and enmity and ill-feel-ing between families be created. All parties involved in the late class fracas should see the humorous side thereof, and laugh and make merry, and bury all ill-feeling. A generous rivalry and even some playful and friendly contests, between school and college classes is all right, and something to be always remembered with pleasure But class enmities and angry rivalries and conflicts are all wrong and are always looked back to with regret.