Hilo High School - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Hilo, HI)

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Americafs Answer Today The Victory Corps for Victory lV1 rc in Ihr' I'iclary C'0rp.v To do our .vlmrc 111111 more, To pi'c.w'ri'1' our Iilzcrly .lml lcccp our l'0lllIfI'j' frmg' ll'c'r1' ben! on aiding our goof! allies. To kllflfk llzc .rlxix out of lllc .vlsirxv l'ou'II jim! Hx f'1 1'ywlze1'e, llbrkiiig lien' or Ihl'I'1', To kfcji our lilzwly fm' ll'e'rc in Ihr' l'iclo1'y Corfu. Perhaps the most graphic expression of student response to the chal- lenge of war eompulsives is the Victory Corps. An organization which suhf scrihes the efforts of 61,500,000 students ol' the 28,000 high schools throughout the country, how fertile must he its resources, how limitless its potentialities. ln such a program, the students of Ililo High were not to he denied. First among territorial groups to he organized, the local unit was hrought to the campus last November to more fully achieve homefront service among the memhers. livery student was enlisted, and Friday was set aside for that part of the Yictory Vorps program directly related to production and civilian defense training. Yet, to say that the Victory Corps was organized only to release student manpower to food production and other war needs is to he aware of only a small, though vitally important phase oi its work. The hes! weapon to light the axis, thc best strategy for IOINOITOWQS peace.

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It tony for the sake of Victory is self exaltation. 'l'hat is not the X ictory either :Xmerica or the campus Yictory Forps seeks. llnderlying all expression of student effort, is the de- sire of today's youth for real idcntihcation with the nation's victory program, integrant with the ultimate cause of the lnited Nations, freedom for all humanity. Student pur- pose can li.-st Ile setn, perhaps in the statement of President Roosevelt that the schools of the nation are a tremendous resource in this time of crisis. Today what we want is victory, and beyond victory a world in which freemen may fulfill their aspirations. So we turn again to our educators and ask them to help us mold men and women who can light through to victory. llc ask that every schoolhouse hecome a service center for the home front. And we pray that our young people will learn in the schools and in the colleges the wisdom and forbearance and patience needed hy men and women of good will who seek to bring to this earth a lasting peace . 'l'o coordinate administration planning and student eitort. the Victory Corps council was estalmlished and later incorporated into the student hody cabinet for the duration. Through the council and its subsidiary committees, campus interest, opinion, and energy found more representative and more :atisfying expressiong activities were more contiguous with individual apti- tude and democratic self direction. 'llhus while student manpower was channelled to produce for victory, concommittant practice in self govern- ment was also opportune. 'l'o the young student on the lmrink of tomorrow. with what moment this must manifest itselfg how great the need for clarity in purpose and action. WWII 1 liamluoo vases to cry the fragrance of lla- naii's llUXY1'I'S?L'llt'1'l' to ryervicc hospitals. l