Phillips High School - Mirror Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

 - Class of 1935

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WHAT OF THE FUTURE? TtjIROM lime immemorial, in common parlance, opportunity has l»een knock- ing at every man’s door. Our forefathers had about the same privileges ffi l that we of today have. This is true because the response to opportunity lies within one’s self; it arises within the scope of one’s knowledge and is active within the Ixninds of one’s desires and ambitions. While the defeated may define the term as “a convenient time.” it is the part of the individual not to quibble over the definition but to l e ready to answer the call. So we. the graduating class, will soon be struggling with problems of applying our education to meet and to change situations in our broader lives. But we must live up to our traditions. Even in the past youth was the hope of the world. In those early days the young men were the guarantors because they were the fighters, those who enabled the people to live in peace and prosperity. As time goes on, particularly since the late wan. the younger generations are as ever the hoj c of nations localise of their enthusiasms and l»ecause of their visions and ambitions to remake the world. In the last few decades they have been playing a large part in the political and social structures. It was the youthful spirit of the radical party in Russia that overthrew the C zar in 1917 to establish the principle of equality in the government; a like power in Spain that overthrew the monarchy in order to found a republic; young Japan that changed a backward, oriental nation into the modem, ambitious western country that Japan is today; and the youth of South American countries who revolted against the tyranny of overpowering foreign nations. But the activity of youth is often a turbulent force—a force not always wise—a force not always worthy. Fomenting needless revolutions, as in the case of Cuba, and the supjHirt of the extreme measures of the Nazi and Racist parties deserves condemnation instead of praise. However, for the establishment of republics, for the modernization of backward nations .and for the furtherance of world ethics young people must Ik- responsible. Today more than ever, young men and young women arc called to Ik the designers and preservers of high civilizations. From the present chaotic conditions of politics and economics they must evolve principles upon which to build the future life of our own country and other countries of the world. They must devise and try to put into operation new systems of government to replace the ineffectual ones now in operation. They must attempt to change our democracy, which is now run on the “laisscz faire” system, into a democracy controlled by responsible and enlightened statesmen. They must attempt to revive the principles of Wilson’s idealistic internationalism which would promote good will among all nations and thus tend to prevent future wars. They must study reforms to Ik made in our present economic system and

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 %o M I R RQR OTHER MEMBERS OF JANUARY C LASS. 1935 Michrai. Baranelli Herman Wilson Cobb J. Cecil Delon y, Jr. June Isabelle Dennis William Mabry Etch isos Sarah Marjorie Glasgow Pax’link Goldberg Fred Harper Sadie Hei.eer Margaret Hendon Myrtle Gertrude: Jenkins Jean Johnson Clareno Lee Kincaid Mary Jean LaKue Clara 1-ouisf. LaTuille Herman Levi nr Annie Lovoy James Willard Morris Hva Margaret Owens Lucille Dei.mas Perry Herbert E. Reynolds Annie Margaret Russell Ramona Marie Sims Charles Melvin Stone Marlaret Amelia Thompson Cook Mitchkli. Waldron, Jr. Lin me IMOGENE Walthall Edith Theodore Ward SUMMER SCHOOL GRADUATES, 1934 Jean Baker James Brown Oze Broyles Howard Bitler John Pkarsr Campbell Mildred Edwards Margaret Frances Hacker Paul Ei.i.is Jordan Robert Arthur Song Teula Mae Perkins Morton Perry Joseph Davenport Smith, Jr. Johnnie Toscano William Ethridge Vernek Henry Boone Yielding



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be ready to carry out such reforms. Again it will Ik their privilege to attempt to devise plans for the approximate equalization in the division of profits between capital and labor; to retrieve the ideals of the economic interdependence of nations and manifest a genuine concern in the welfare of all peoples—thus championing the cause of justice and equity to all—thus helping to abolish the belief that the intelligent and the wealthy are entitled to special privileges, at the expense of the forgotten man. By so doing they will restore faith and confidence in humanity. But before they can hope for success in these high enterprises young men and young women must recapture the spirit of truth, honor, faith and self-reliance. Truth, honor, faith, and self-reliance make intrinsic nobility, and this intrinsic nobility finds expression in ideal usefulness as in the practical sanity of Undliergh or in the prophetic wisdom of Glenn Frank. Within the last few years there has l ecn a decided uplift in the finer and nobler thoughts and emotions. These have always been present to a certain degree, but are now more widespread and general. What further do we need to show that young men and young women are becoming more and more able to meet the demands of the new civilization—a development that has doubtless come about through increased study and increased leisure. Appreciation of literature. art, and music has given not only sensitiveness to the needs and conditions of mankind but sensitiveness to delicacy of sound and loveliness of color. Through this feeling, succeeding generations are becoming not only spectators but participants in the leisure life of the nation and in the spiritual holdings of those “who live not by bread alone.” Furthermore the arts will bring into materialistic civilization the enjoyment of beauty, for beauty is something born in the soul of a sensitive and radiant people. If revolution begins in the unrest of hungry men. if they long for licautiful homes, humane factories, and just relations in community, state and national life, let us remember men hunger not only for food and other physical blessings—they hunger also for peace and joy, things that make life free, adventurous and abundant, tor these are the things that turn “the ruin and revolt” of depression into the radiance of “creative living.” Classmates, young men and young women of the graduating class of 1935, if we understand that truth is beauty: if we appreciate that beauty is truth— then we can answer the question “What of the Future?“ For such understanding and such appreciation will offer ample and full opportunity for “radiant energy”— that energy which will make and sustain the jov and the work of “creative living.” Byron Mattiikws.

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