Cleveland High School - Beacon Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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N 545'-. , iq r'4 aw V, Ml 129.31 'Il' fix ' W ,v ,V f ' I av ll' Hr ' A mis .u J 5 --f ia X. t ,7 ra x ,. Y, . -- ,Y Y, A ,,,, ,Y Q .rg- You could send ten million boys and girls through college at a cost of one thousand dollars each, or build one thousand schoolhouses, costing one million dollars each, in every one of the forty-eight states. Before the World War a well known army engineer estimated that an expenditure of seventy-five per cent of the Federal Revenue would cover the cost of paving every unpaved country road in the United States. ln com- parison, the United States in l920, two years after the end of the war, was expending ninety-three per cent of the Federal Revenue on wars, both old and new. The monetary cost of war may seem enormous, but compared to the cost of human life it is insignificant. From the United States one hundred and fifty thousand Americans sacrificed their lives in their country's service, most of them in the flower of youth. After a war the physically unfit, the aged, and the mentally unbalanced are left to carry on. Thus war tends to retard human progress. One hundred and fifty thousand men, the most intelligent and physically fit, stand at the edge of a yawning abyss. Death awaits them. Slowly, inex- orably, the relentless tide of war pushes them over, one by one. When Nations eventually realize that nothing is really gained by engaging in war, the millenium of International Brotherhood shall be reached. TWENTIETH-CENTURY ALTRUISM LUCILLE CRTITGIER, 'za HERE has come to us through the ages this idea: lt is better to give than to receive. Whether or not it is diligently carried EK' out does not matter. The idea persists, as all good things do, and wherever one goes there is sure to be someone who is trying to help his fellowmen. With our world courts and good-will ambassadors the subject of war is becoming rather obsolete, and more than ever the nations are establishing friendly relations with each other. Several centuries ago war was quite the fashion and peace was considered as rather a hopeless state of lethargy. just as today war is thought of with dread, even so was peace avoided then. But civilization has advanced another step and with it has advanced the Brotherhood of Man. Throughout the world there are scattered monuments that prove the pres- ence of this brotherly love. Not impressive masses of cold stone with an inscription in bronze, but monuments that are filled with pulsing life-colleges, libraries, organizations for welfare work, and all sorts of charitable aidsg these stand out in our twentieth-century world as living testimonies of good- fellowship. Twenty -three

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