Los Angeles High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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HIIIHIIIIIIIIS 1 1 l I SUMNER WELLES There has never before been a time in the history of the American Republics when it was more imperative that the peoples of all the American Republics should know each other better, should have the fullest comprehension of their respective political, cultural, and economic lives. The concept of the Good Neighbor envisages an individual understanding and appreciation which goes much beyond the formal relations of government to govern- ment or of trader to trader. Economic and political relations must be buttressed by a more conscious and intense feeling on our part for the human values involved-the emotions, sentiments, sense of beauty, and creative genious of the peoples of the other American Republics. In our unity, we shall find increasing strength, strength to defend the ideals which all of us in the New World have come to hold more dear than life itself. SUMNER WELLES Under Secretary of State

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:X T x NM X K X 0 ol 7 ' Q mimi Palm ,Wi T Q GO REND THE CLOUDS LXJ Along a pafh fhaf led fo loffy heighfs There sfrode a youfh. His eyes, as one who sighfs A far-off dream, were veiled in fhoughf. There came Anofher down fhe frail, and he was lame Wifh foil. Youfh mef him on fhe pafh, and said, Old man, have you found Peace? He sho-ok his head. Good youfh, l could nof reach fhe Peace you seek. Serene upon fhe cresfed mounfain peak She sfands, and as l viewed her from afar, And saw her fhere, an imaqe like a sfar, l-1 And fhoughf her in my reach, clouds hid fhe pafh Thaf l would fake, and bursf in winfry wrafh Abouf my head, and fhus l musf refreaf And yield fhis crypfic pafh fo younger feef. Pray fhen fhaf Peace will sow fhe friendly seed, For now I see if rofled fhrough wifh greed Thaf sfifles growfh. And, youfh, if if be frue Thaf Fafe has nof alloffed 'lime fo you To bring warm Peace fo all, and if fhe way Cannof be reached, fhen youfh, af leasf you may Find Peace wifhin your hearf. Oh, if all men A Will know and love her fhere, sweef Peace may fhen Forsake fhe sfars and bring fo earfh fhe lighf Of silvered skies, fhe fouch of dreams made brighf. Go, youfh, fhe pafh is yours. l cede my pl c A Thaf you wlfh younger sfep and sfrengfh may frace A brlghfer course. And may fhe lusfrous hearfn,J ?-,vyq g 7 Of Peace appear. Go, rend fhe clouds aparf. 1 ' Grace Blue A-I2

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RUFUS BL von KLEINSMID A short time ago, an oiiicial in active service in one of the warring nations of the world dropped in at the office for a brief call. We discussed one sub- ject only, and that was ways to achieve peace and to preserve it. Even one act of War leaves much to be retrieved before peaceful relations can be established again, and the nation to which this officer belonged had piled war'upon War. How hopeless then it seemed to reach any goal of common understanding! It is interesting, however, and significant that we both agree that since all treaties of peace must be con- structed around a common conference tableg the world must learn to go to conference before it goes to war. It is difficult, even impossible, to estab- lish the ways of peace through the practice of war. Peace requires understanding and sympathy, respect, and goodwill. These can hardly be achieved through battle and conflict, they must be achieved, if at all, throfugh mutual sacrifice. As Kant says, No treaty of peace shall be esteemed valid on which is tacitly reserved matter for future war. No forced peace following international coniiict can be free of such reservation. Let me congratulate the Los Angeles High School and the Blue and White Semi-Annual upon laying the emphasis upon youth's individual responsibility for peaceful international relations. You are learn- ing the value of conference in human affairs and will live to practice it. Come let us reason togeth- er is the expression of necessity in human affairs. To reason is to think, and to think is to be. A peace- ful world is a thinking world, and the whole program of your educational experience points to peace when it emphasizes the privilege and obligation to reason. All good wishes are yours. Faithfully yours, RUFUS B. von KLEINSMID president, University of Southern California I EN, . DA VID P. BARRO WS I respond to your invitation to present a few words in dedication of the Blue and White. In the first place, and I cannot avoid mentioning this, the world war overshadows the American peopleg and as a nation, we are arming as never be- fore during peace. The summons to enter military service may come to many of you, or you may enter it voluntarily. Let me assure you that if you enter the United States Army or Navy, you are not engag- ing in an experience from which you would shrink or which will necessarily be unfortunate for you. Accepted in the right spirit, it well may be the most satisfying experience of your entire life. It is not only capable of strengthening the life of a young man on all sides of his activity, but out of its exper- iences and companionship may be written a record which you will forever after recall with satisfaction and that never seems to stale in its recounting. And I would further remind you that in the words of John Milton, who was himself a soldier under Crom- well, an adequate education .is something that fits every man for the duties of life not only in peace but in war. A great democratic institution like the school which you are leaving represents all sorts and con- ditions of human life and of the rewards of lifeg and to many, whose family circumstances have been unfortunate, the doors of opportunity in this state may seem narrow and hard to pass through, I wish to assure you that they are not closed. Great and attractive as are the possibilities of a good life in this state already, there is a greater wellbeing ulti- mately ahead of usg and for those who have com- pleted with distinction the training so liberally of- ferred by this state to its sons and daughters, there exist the means whereby lives of dignity, of service, and of distinction may be gained. DAVID P. BARROWS past president, University of California