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

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fContanued from Page 97 Many of us wall be anducted anto the armed servaces others wall go to hagher anstltutaons of learnang and others wall go to work but wherever we go or whatever we do we should be able to adjust ourselves antellagently to ever rasang problems The road of lafe wall not be a smooth one there are hard tames ahead There wall be tames when we wall feel lake gavang up-but we must not do that We must hold our heads hagh and march onward to vnctory We must face the future wath confadence and hope We should look beyond the dark clouds now hoverang overhead to the other sade where the sun as shanang and a braght future IS loomang The horrors of war cast thear shadows be fore realazang thas and the daffacultaes that probably wall confront us we wall consecrate ourselves to the task of doang what we can to preserve democracy and the adeals of a free country We shall faght shed blood and dae an order to wan the war and that the pranca ples laad down an our Constututaon shall be maantaaned We can never forget the ansparang talk rendered us by Dr J J Seabrooke of Morgan State College Dr Seabrooke as a splendad example of good catazenshap and af we follow an has footsteps we would certaanly evadence the type of loyalty that our country requares o us Whatever measure of success we shall achaeve we shall atrabute at to our ever faath ful parents and loyal teachers who have been the guadang sparats behund us all the way We the February Class of naneteen hun dred forty three bud the school a fond fare well ere we go forth an lafe wath our heads hagh and banners flyang wath thas song on our laps Cod Bless Ameraca THE PRESENT CRISIS BECKCNS US BY MILDRED THOMPSON Havang termanated twelve successful years of education and traanang we the February graduatang class of naneteen hundred and forty three are prepared to launch out upon a new phase of lafe We are about to enter a world of chaos Are we prepared to meet thas dasastrous satuataon audacaously or are we apprehensave7 If we are to be the fearles men and women of tomorrow we must face the crasas wath faath hope and determanataon lt IS essentaal that we cultavate and maantam a hagh morale The freedom we now enjoy was bought wath blood sweat and tears now that freedom as beang threatened We must accept the chal lenge and preserve our heratage It as up to us to see that the fortatudanous sparat of 76 re maans alave Our country as engaged an a global war that seems to be long and hard We must not labor under any delusaon we are expected to shed blood and even dae to help our country rea laze ats bag obaectave At home at school or at work the one unuted cry as Total de structaon of the Axas and thear malatary ma chane To achaeve thas obgectave at as umperatnve that we partacapate actnvely an all actavataes pertaanang to the nataonal emergency In hagh school we had experaence wath the Red Cross the Vactory Corps and the Salvage Commattee As graduates we can transfer our member shap to the large communaty unats In every case we must maantaan loyalty to the cause Our experaence an hagh school enabled us to not only know the prancaples of democracy but also to lave them Thus as the present crasas beckons us we go fearlessly for we are garded about wath a certaan poase both physacal and mental whach wall enable us to take a noble stand for our country durang thas her soul trymg peraod ' 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 ' I . . . I ' I I . , , ' I . . . . . . I 1 - . 1 1 - - ll - ll , . I ' I I . . - - Il 7 l - I . - ll 1 1 , . . I ' , . . . . . , . . . . 1 1 , ' 1 - u Q 1 I I , , 1 - 1 I .

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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

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OUR AMERICAN l 'lERlTAGE GRACE v JACKSON Freedom ns much un our mlnds these turbu lent days One by one around the world the lights of llberty are gradually fluckerung and golng out quenched by a ruthless tyranny and we have come to look at our own brnght burnnng torch wnth new respect and fervent love There has come to us a realuzatlon that thus beautiful thang thus freedom was bought for us and everyone should now be wllllng to pay a heavy price to keep It Our forefathers have bestowed upon us those unnumerable :deals of freedom of the press freedom of speech freedom of relngnon and popular self government government of the people by the people and for the people There ns no country better adapted to realnze these hugh :deals than Ameruca one nation that IS nnduvxsuble wnth lnberty and gus tnce for all We can t and we won t let down Q now for our heroes obstlnacy tenacity anc love of freedom are In our munds Truumphung over everylcatastrophe of man we the lnvnng representatlves of an unbroken lane have battled out of the dark prehustorlc forests of Europe down through countless ages to a free America Liberty prevanls as that last unassanlable fortress and stronghold of man No one can deny the fact that he would rather seek free dom of death than to yneld to the brutal slav ery of force Consequently nn these hours of stress Americans fnght proudly to preserve that tra dltuon and ln the end nf there IS a failure vlc tory shall Ile wlth the dead who have re spected the American herutage wlth efforts for nts conservatlon and not with the llvlng who have fought agaunst thus herntage X Ex OF Tl lEE WE SING FREEDOM MURIEL WATERS How would you luke to be told what language to speak what church to attend what to print nn our newspapers and things of the luke? Would you luke ut? Of course not' We In America today enjoy the above pruvu leges and pay lnttle or no attentuon to It Our forefathers struggled and fought dnlugently to secure those unaluenable rights which const: tute our democracy Freedom IS essential to every natnon When a country corrupts wnthln It IS bound to col lapse and cause certaln dusturbances wnthout ln order to establish a strong central govern ment nt IS necessary for the nnhabltants to ll thunk freely so as to partucupate nntelllgently nn the government spread democratlc :deals through the press be at ease always and brxng about a general harmony Practnces of democracy should flrst begun and orlgnnate In the home If thus us done t as likely to transfer and branch out In the schools churches clubs and other organlza tions We as Amerucans sung of the land of the free and the home of the brave Let us then be conscuous of thus vltal problem that as fac :ng us and flght wath the help of God to mam tam that one potent solace to man freedom . , . , . . . ' , 1 1 5 . , ' 1 1 1 1 ' I I ' - I 1 1 1 1 I I I l l - 1 1 1 I ' l . I - I , - I I . 1 1 ' ' ' - Q... .,g.-1- .....:,: - . X 'Z : Nc X Q , X - A sic N Q N X X5 T I I I - . . . , ' 1 . . , I ' 1 1 ' 1 - . I i .