Draper High School - Draperian Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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NATIONAL UNITY Natuonal unuty desurable at all tumes us umperatuve at present Engaged un thus tutanuc confluct we must exert ourselves to the utmost to preserve our Amerucan vvay of lufe Moral approval us unsuffucuent we must actuvely support the government un thus the supreme effort to defeat totalutaruanusm Our natuonal unuty us too unoperatuve ut must be strengthened and reunforced No longer should we remaun North and South East and West but we should be Ameruca We must destroy all ductatorshups Then and only then wull gov ernmental tyranny and oppressuon cease We have neglected our duty ll democracues have and thus too must cease Polutucal freedom us durectly de pendent upon eternal vugulance Everyone has undubutably noticed that plans are beung made for the post war vvorld Thus us our safest assurance of a more stable world un the future Men and natuons must stop theur polutucal unheavals lt us fervently to be hoped that unduvudual lubertues wull be permanently safe guarded un the post war world In thus vvar the emphasus us beung placed on an unternatuonal organuzatuon more powerful than the League of Natuons whuch should pro mote world unuty rather than natuonal unuty World unuty us the udealustuc and obvuous goal of governments In peace tume also natuonal unuty us desurable Only then can a federal admunustratuon act as a unut wuth the support of the people A really Unuted States could do vurtually anythung of worth We must work for peace Our best guarantee of peace us an overvvhelmungly decusuve vuctory over the Axus Natuonal unuty us the test of a natuon s abuluty to govern utself If a country of such suze as the Unuted States wuth uts conglomeratuon of peoples undustrues and clumates can conform utself unto one sungle solud unut then any socual reform can be leguslated Unuty us prumaruly a oneness of purpose a fuxuty of mund and a deter munatuon to follow the precept one for all and all for one lt us the desure to conform wuth all others an an attempt to create a compact satusfactory to all partues concerned MARVIN M MORCENSTERN Edutor un Chief 1942 Draperuan Page Seven

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BCND STAMPS I

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Page Eught AMERICAN The people who make up our C-reat Natuon have recently emugrated or are descendants from forebearers who luved un nearly every part of the world The force that unutes them us common :deals and common objectuves The fact that nearly all Amerlcans left theur former homes and em barked upon a new voyage of llfe nn a strange land to agaln bulld fraendshup ns convuncung evldence that the freedom Ameruca offers was their Concep tuon of a full llfe for themselves and theur chnldren The objectnves of our people are slmular and can only be attalned by unuty of thought and actton therefore an Amerlcan ns a person of any race or creed who belleves nn freedom of the lndlvldual to the extent of equal oppor tunlty for all EARL B ZIMMER Superlntendent of Schools f v