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

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D I SIRI BTH I PURPUSE With the flag rising above them as at symbol of opportunity, youthful Americans resolve to perpetuate their courltry's ideals.

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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

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