The Junior Historian, Volume 15, Number 1, September 1954 Page: Front Inside
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THE TEXAS STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
1897-THE OLDEST LEARNED SOCIETY IN TEXAS-1897
President :
CLAUDE ELLIOTTVice-Presidents :
PAUL ADAMS
RALPH STEEN MERLE DUNCAN
FRED R. COTTENDirector :
H. BAILEY CARROLL
Cor. Sec. and Treas.:
MRS. CORAL HORTON TULLIS0
THE JUNIOR HISTORIAN
Published by
The Texas State Historical Association
Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center
Box 8011, University Statio:n,
University of Texas, Austin 12, Texas
Editor:
H. BAILEY CARROLL
Associate Editors:CHESTER V. KIELMAN
"No man is fit to be entrusted with the control of the PRESENT
who is ignorant of the PAST, and no People who are indifferent
to their PAST need hope to make their FUTURE great."
Issued six times during the school year in: September, November, December, January, March, and
May. Regular subscription $2.00; club subscriptions (five or more to Chapter members) $1.50
each. Entered as second-class matter February 21, 1945, at the post office at Austin, Texas, under
the Act of March 3, 1879.THE FOUNDATION OF THE FUTURE
by N. ETHIE EAGLETONR ECENTLY two service men on
leave sauntered into their high
school library toward the Texas
Shelf. As they fingered familiar books
there, they seemed lost in reverie. Less
than six months before, as high school
boys, one had collected arrowheads from
a near-by mountain and searched for
evidences of early human habitation in
the area; the other had taken his sixth
trip to an old fort for final notes to use
in completing the construction of a dio-
rama of the fort.
Less than six months after the visit,
these men left their native land. One
went to Okinawa, from where he wrote
his Junior Historian Chapter of the an-
cient culture of a proud people on that
island. The other, in Tokyo, wrote of
the great skill used in the construction
of an ancient temple in that city.
These two men, who are not vet
twenty-one years old, studied the his-
tory of their native state. In far-awayplaces, they realize now more than ever
that the enduring foundations of human
institutions reach far into the past.
In exploring the past and in record-
ing their findings, Junior Historians
enrich their present by cultivating an
appreciation for the fine achievement of
ethers. Thus, they secure stability for
themselves. They establish a firm foun-
dation for wholesome citizenship.
In their study they learn that secure
foundations have been laid not by one
man but by the work of many. Success
depended on the spirit of willingness
and the effective participation of whole-
some citizens.
To further the cause of freedom in
Texas, or in faraway places, success
depends, now and in the future, as it
did in the past, upon the patient work
of well-informed men and women work-
ing together with a spirit of willing-
ness. In the past lies the foundation of
the future.DORMAN H. WINFREY
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