Central High School - Red and Black Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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Keep Faith with Them By Promoting Peace in One World The war is over-the guns, the cannons, and the tanks are once again silent. But the light for the peace has yet to be won. Today our world, though war-torn and weary, is full of many international conflicts. Making world peace a reality is a difficult task, and involves a genuine understanding and close cooperation between all countries and peoples. It was only a short time ago-slightly more than a quarter of a century-that the allied nations gained an outstanding victory over the forces of conquest and aggression. But the peace that followed that war miserably failed. Are we going to repeat that mistake? To aid us in securing peace on a global basis we have established the United Nations Organization-an international organization composed of all the allied nations that have pledged to promote peace in our world. The recent meeting of the U. N. O. has displayed its possibilities, and promises to be an im- portant instrument in making and securing lasting peace. World peace at the moment seems to depend largely on a single issue-the control and use of the atomic bomb. The atomic bomb is hailed by many scientists as the most powerful and destructive weapon ever created. It is the result of a planned program of research which made use of known facts, and it is the offspring of twen- tieth-century physics in combination with twentieth-century technology. In discussing the atomic bomb and its possibilities, we must keep in mind that it is bigger than the Big Five. Its power is greater than the combined armed forces of the United States, Russia, Great Britain, France, and China. This weapon is destined to play an influential role in the future. If we fail this time to establish a lasting peace, war will inevitably return, and with such devastating and terrifying re- sults that almost everything will be utterly destroyed. Scientists have already suggested a name for the next warg they have called it the Last War. One of our biggest problems in the world today is American cooperation with Russia. Many people still see a big question mark on the U. S. S. R. We strongly believe that the Soviet Union wants peace, but we differ on the ways of arriving at it: and there are undoubtedly two sides to this issue. We find it diflicult to understand why Rus- sia should have complete control of Balkan State elections and extensive political influence in Iran. At the Ilrst London conference, the council had no sooner got under way than the misunderstanding between the two parties became clear. Two facts stood out plainly- Russia was renewing her age-old drive to the south toward the Mediterranean and the Per- sian Gulf, while Great Britain was as stub- bornly marshalling against it. However, we must remember that Russia has fought long and courageously to make possible the common victory over Germany and Japan. And we must remember, too, that war, such as swept the Soviet land, not only wiped out millions of human lives and the precious fruits of years of labor, but shat- tered homes and families from one end of the country to the other. The mass murders, the torture, the millions driven into slavery, the countless children orphaned and plunged into a nightmare world+all this has left complex human and social problems for the Soviet government and people to solve-problems that we, who did not feel the withering breath of war on our own country, cannot even imagine. In finding a solution to this problem, we must realize that Russia has evolved from the war as one of the wor1d's leading powers. A country that is destined to raise a large and troublesome problem in the future is India, judging from the perplexities she has presented in the past. India wants independ- ence and has been wanting it for many years. The leader of India's Congress Party, the largest and best organized political group, is Mohandas K. Ghandi, whose policy of non- violent resistence and non-cooperation has long been the Congress Party's weapon in its iight for independence. In 1942, Sir Stafford Cripps, a Socialist, was authorized by the Churchill government to negotiate self-government with Indian leaders. Cripps proposed, briefly, that as soon as the war was over, the Indians were to draft their own constitution which Britain pledged to accept. Since the war has ended, compli- cations have set in which have delayed India's independence. However, India's biggest prob- lem is maintaining cooperation between her 365 native states, since there are many con- flicting internal factions within her borders. The maintenance of British troops in Greece has been another cause of agitation

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THE NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Raymond C. Tittle, '40 Natale Torti, 40 Harold Trentmann, '45 George Louis Trost, '33 James Truetken, 41 Garland R. Tschudin, '41 Thomas A. Twamley, '43 Joseph Var Vera. '44 Joseph Villarreal, 42 Robert E. Walbridge, 42 Leroy C. Walters, '29 Vito Waluk. 144 Jewell W. Ware, '43 Charles R. Weber, '44 Raymond A. Weber, '44 Charles J. Wedemeier, '31 K. Carl Wehmueller, '43 Richard J. Weis, 42 ' H. M. Weisflug, '36 Robert G. Wellmann, '42 Andrew Dale Wheeler, '42 Bernard Wichmann, '3 6 George Wichmann, 4'42 Celia Wiener, '34 Kenneth H. Wiese, '36 Daniel W. Wildfong. '39 Alfred Willbanks, 42 Clyde B. Williams, '37 Ralph Louis Williams, 4:43 Richard E. Williams, '44 W. Ralph Wills, '3 6 Harold Wilson, :'44 Florian W. Windisch, '44 Ray W. Winkler, '41 Edward Wisniewski, 42 Kenneth H. Woods, Jr., 42 William W. Woodard, '37 Robert E. Worthington, '43 Harold Robert Wright, '35 Betty Wuennenberg, '41 Kenneth W. Wulfemeyer, '41 Eugene L. Wunderlick, 41 Elmer Yeager, '41 Harry Young, '41 Robert Youse, '43 R. L. Zehner, 41 Reinhold A. Zeidler, '37 Walter Warren Zeip, '41 Vincent S. Zucchero, '38 Chester Zwilling, 'F3 7 Marie Zwilling, '40 THE MARINES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Melvin Adams, 42 Robert E. Allen, ,'40 Ralph Edward Alt, 43 Philip E. Bachman, '42 Charles W. Barthel, '45 Alvin William Batteiger, '37 Jacob F. Beeman. '42 -Raymond Becker, '34 William Bernard, 44 George Louis Block, '42 Glennon Boyle, '40 Vernon A. Bradshaw, '40 Warren A. Brewer. '35 Robert A. Brightfield, '35 Donald J. Brindley, '43 Thomas Jefferson Brown, 42 Clifford A. Brune, '40 Robert Edgar Buehrig, 43 9 James M. Butler, '44 Richard Campbell, 45 Vernon R. Couch, '39 Dale Crittenden, '44 Harold W. Crow, '39 Edward W. Czebrinski, 36 Lester Dade. '3 9 Raymond Davis, '46 Walter Dennison, '33 Jack Dickerson, 42 Robert R. Dixon, '42 Richard Dobrick, 40 Robert Dorries, 43 Michael P. Dowl, '36 Delmar DuVall, 43 Raymond E. J. Ebeler, '39 George Eden, '41 William G. Evans, '40 Robert Fallen, 39 Michael Favazza, 43 Ray Flowers, 45 John A. Frost, 41 James Gray, '44 Kenneth E. Gronemeyer, '38 Walter E. Guinn, 44 Ronald Hagan, '44 Joseph G. Hemkens, 4:37 Cecil Henshaw, 445 Harold A. Herbst, '41 Leo Higgins, 42 Thomas E. Hildebrand, '42 George Hutchings, 40 Theodore J. Imbierowicz, '39 Mallett C. Jackson, '42 Lawrence R. Johnson, '44 William A. Johnson, 41 Paul P. Kaelin, +44 Robert J. Keppel, '44 Myrna Iola King, '26 Raymond G. King, '45 Emil J. Knopf, '36 Richard Kollack, 44 Robert N. Kollack, 441 Paul Krantz, 44 Edwin B. Kreitler. '39 Alexander Krupski. '33 Vincent Joseph Langan, '36 Charles K. Layton, 43 Victor Lehr, '42 Thomas J. Lemp, '39 Dale T. Lueking, '40 Albert P. Lugger. '43 Clifford Marik, '30 Howard R. Maschhoff, '38 Wilbert N. Meyer, 40 James Paul Miller, '37 Robert L. Miller, '39 John Morgan. '41 Ray Mrozewski, '35 Kenneth Neibling, 39 Stanton Neibling, 40 Ed R. Neubauer, 40 Fred K. Neubauer. '40 Edward Newsham, 41 John L. Newsham, '41 Robert Nielsen, '43 Frank Bernard Nolkemper, '40 Edward M. Nolte, 43 Eugene Norris, 42 Carl E. Odam, '41 Thelma Odam, '40 John E. O'Laughlin, '42 Alois J. Oprych, '45 Santa Estelle Palermo, '39 Thomas N. Parres, '39 Harold Paul, '35 Walter Paul Petting, 38 Richard Pickering. 45 Henry F. Podolski, 41 Henry Fred Pohlman, 37 Robert J. Preissler, 39 Sterling F. Price, '42 Calvin Randall, 44 James Edgar Reed, 42 James W. Reed, '41 Frank Sadulski, 38 W. Kirby Schlef, '42 Barney G. Schoer, 37 William A. Schuster, '39 Leonard B. Sendlein, '38 Cornelius J. Sheehan, '43 Harold Steele, '34 Gerald H. Steinmeyer. '44 Armine C. Stelzer, '36 Willard C. Straub, 39 William Stunkel, 38 George H. Sumpter, '42 Gertrude Swatske, '41 William Dale Tail, 40 Glennon E. Temme, '40 David Thomas, 43 Gerald Thomas, 40 Reginald Thomas, 39 Edward J. Thorn, '43 Raymond S. Tittel. '40 Peter J. Toniasso, 4'3 2 Gilbert Unland, '44 Kermit E. Vivian. '45 Kenneth W. Vollmer, '38 Raymond G. Vollmer, '41 Richard Warner, '32 Joseph S. Warzycki, 42 Melvin Wehmueller, 39 Charles E. Westerhold, 44 Danny Carl Wilbanks, 41 Russell William Wilkinson, 42 Jack G. Williams, '40 Robert J. Windish, '38 Willard J. Wolfe, '45 James H.Wo1ff, '31 Herman H. Wulfemeyer, '37 James L. Zerface, '46 Keep faith with themg they won our victory. 18

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between countries. Greece, because of its posi- tion in the Mediterranean, is of strategic im- portance to Britain. Riots and demonstra- tions have recently broken out in this coun- try in protest against Britain's actions. The case of Russia's influence in Iran and Britain's control in Greece is just another phase of the old story of imperial power politics. In China, where war has raged for more than eight years, peace seems to have been at last restored. After the end of lighting with the Japanese, civil war took hold in China between Chiang Kai Shek's nationalist party and the Communists of the northwest. With the aid of General George Marshall, our am- bassador to China, a truce has been made between the various political groups. Yet, China still faces a serious domestic problem. China and. her people are extremely poor, both politically and economically. Seventy per cent of her people live barely above star- vation, and famines are a common occurrence in the country. China's reconversation will be a very diflicult task, and it probably can- not be accomplished without the aid of the United States. Thus, in every corner of the world, the tired and war-worn masses look to American for hope, guidance, assistance. and leadership. Tomorrow's world is in our hands. The idea of One World, unified and strong, so aptly suggested by the late Wendell Willkie, will become an actuality only when nations replace petty bickering and power politics with close cooperation and true respect for fellow nations. Can we ever forget the many American G. I.'s who gave their lives on dis- tant battlefields that we might live in a peace- ful world? 1946 will be a year of many important decisions. We have endured the agony of two great wars in one generation! This time we dare not fail those who have put their faith in us. -MARTIN GRossMAN. This ls My Year To Die lWritten the day before he was killed. crossing the English Channel: picked up in a London pub : posted there and a copy sent to relativesj This is my year to die, I know, I know By sudden second looks at earth and sky As if, as if I must see all things twice For an Eternity or two. And in that last glance I see Each flower that ever I've seen bloom: Hear again the noisy prairie winds I chased mourning their busy doom: See the rivers that I've loved. The Cuivre and the Gasconade. What haven't I loved of the green earth? Only where I have not been or seen- And that, too, by the copy of my dreams. This is my year to die: So love, my Love, much more than I: Love all life well, Much more than I: Breathe deeply, see clearly, too-- Laughter full- And love all of life for two: For this is my year to die. -LARRY WEIR, Central, '34.