Frederick Douglass High School - Survey Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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THAT FREEDOM SHALL NOT PERISH By BESSIE TRAVERS America ns at war, and us fnghtung to preserve what thus country of ours was founded to achieve that which more fully than any other nation has created polntucal freedom the right to vote wuthout mtnmudatnon mtellectual freedom the rught to seek and proclaum the truth relngnous freedom tolerance of the rlght of others to worshnp nn thenr own way Thus America IS ready to pour forth an end less stream of munltlons to wm thus war She IS ready to gave generously her labor and her money She dad not fall In l776 norm l86l and she wull not faul now to meet the challenge of the day and hour Thus ns a war to permut our very democracy to endure Our democracy does not tell nts cltlzens what to do lts cntlzens tell the democracy what to do lf sts cntuzens are strong wuse and self sacrufucm for a com are not ut wall fall ln thls dlffucult terrlble war torn world of today democracy the only Governmental system yet trued which respects the dlgnlty of the lndlvldual man has no smgle chance to endure unless we the Amer: can people have It stamped upon our spmts as an :deal for whuch we as unduvnduals are ready to fnght and uf necessary due lf we as Amencans belueve ln democracy af we wlsh vt to endure the duty of every one of us IS clear We must do all we can to wln thus war We must Iuve so as to strengthen our democracy and make It unconquerable from wlthln as well as from wlthout Let us not be deceuved by the easy sneers and propa ganda so frequently expressed un these days that no Ideal was ever gamed by fnghtung for t Our hnstory refutes thas subtle untruth Our Revolutuonary War gamed for thas coun try the rlght to govern utself our Cuvul War enforced the national determmatron that thus natnon must endure one and mdnvlsnble Nelther of these wars gamed a perfect dem ocracy for us they only permutted democracy to keep on trying We hear many of our Amerncans saynng or asknng the question, Wull we really have free dom truth gustlce equalnty and all those thmgs that we are supposed to be fnghtnng for? We cannot promuse any of these thmgs we only belueve and we are wnllmg to rnsk our Inves on the beluef that we wull have a greater chance of attamlng these ends than If we now compromuse wuth the perverted polutncs of the ductators We must thunk of our democracy as a prnvul ege The rnght to govern one s self us a prnvu lege and If we are not worthy of that pruvalege we shall lose It We must f el democracy luke we worshup our own relngson We must realnze nn these crucnal tnmes that our forefathers made thus country Amenca a government of the people by the people and for the people We must engrave thus Idea of democracy on our mmds and our hearts We must be deter mnned to preserve It no matter what the cost Only wnth thus noble conceptlon ln our hearts can Amerucans today be worthy of Amerlca Only then can we clarsfy our thoughts and acts ln order that thus democracy may endure And as Abraham Luncoln sand un has speech at Gettysburg Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on thus contlnent a new natuon conceuved un llberty and dedlcated to the proposutlon that all men are created equal that thus nation under Cod shall have a new bnrth of freedom and that the govern ment of the people by the people and for the people shall not perush from the earth LET S FACE IT By RAYMOND T CARPENTER J For twelve long years we have been hoping praying worklng and antlclpatlng the day when we shall recenve our dnplomas sugnafymg the completlon of our baslc educatlon After thus great event we start out on the unknown seas not knownng what the future holds un store for us We shall not launch out un protected for we have been equupped mentally and thoroughly drilled an the Ideals whuch make for good cntuzenshnp Thus we shall face the future with fortitude lContnnued on Page lOl . . I. - I I ' , . I . . - . - ' II ' I . . I . ' G ' - , . I I I 1 Q I - - . - . ll ' ' . . , - I u I . , I I - . I 1 f . . , , Q 1 . - .- ' 1 ' 9 ' . ' S . . . mon ideal, democracy will succeedg if they a flame an our hearts, we must worshup nt luke I . h . . . I . 1 h u ' - I I U . . . . . I I u l ' I 1 ' ' I 1 I ' ' . . f . ' . ' I . ll I . u I Q . I , 1 u . . , - . . . - I I . . . . - ll , . I . , r, . 1 u . D I l - I . - - I 1 I 9