South Side High School - Optimist Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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r CLET Cin (ЛА. ARTHUR W. BELCHER Principal Seniors: This Optimist is published during the year following the great victories of 1945. Let us here express heartfelt thanks for the splendid deeds of American fighting men and leaders. Let our eyes shine with pride as we think of the great contributions of South Side's 1,300 servicemen, carrying on all over the world. With a resolve to keep their memory green, let us bow our heads in honor of those fifty-four boys who did not come home, The hard-won victories must not bring merely an occasion for self-gratification, for patting ourselves on the back, afterward relaxing to bask in the sunshine of peace-time comforts and the search for glamor. Such superficial smugness could only be a prelude to a pleasure-seeking orgy which would inevitably bring us to softness, disorganizati on, and depression. It would invite advantage-seeking by other nations, commercial if not military aggressions by less scrupulous but more industrious peoples of stronger will than ourselves. Americans can only maintain their leadership in a world of peace by studying more faithfully, working more diligently, striving for greater efficiency. Each one of us can do his part only by making the most of his opportunities in high school by continuing his education in college or technical school if possible, by cheerful devotion to American democracy and universal good will, and by hard work. Arthur W. Belcher

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