Weymouth High School - Campus / Reflector Yearbook (Weymouth, MA)

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high honor essays AMERICA ' S GREATEST ASSET YOUTH j lary Eunice Kolile. DEMOCRACY YOUTH ' S GREATEST ASSET -Gail B EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRATIC LIVING Mary Ethel Hurst

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18 three year honor roll tali honors j Gail Brittain Jane Damon Richard Daniele Sylvia Eliopoulos Evelyn Glidden Beverly Greenblatt Ann Healey Mary Hurst honors i Marie Baglione Richard Balboni Carole Bernard Robert Betts Janet Briggs Hannah Burgess Carla Connell Paul Craffey Priscilla Creaven Carol Crimmins Alian Crowther Doris Cumming Leo Donadio Loretta Donway Beatrice Duprey Henry DuVerger William Eldridge Richard Farwell Jane Foster John Haavisto Mary Hart James Haviland John Temple Mary Kohler James Mahoney Janice Margeson Alice McCraith Wendy McWilliam Rosemary Roberts Joanne Russell Doris Swart Virginia Hegarty Joan Jacobson Daniel Kelly Annette Kremin Joseph Lawson John Lingley Marie Maraget Louise Messier Marjorie Nash Penelope Pelkey Robert Persson Dorothy Pratt Nancy Rauch Lois Savola Daniel Sexton William Shanahan Laverna Somers Vivian Towne Katherine Travers Nancy Trudeau Janet White Barbara Whitney

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AMERICA ' S GREATEST . ASSET YOUTH Mary Eunice Koliler As the race for world supremacy feverishly continues, each nation counts its assets — material wealth, natural resources, the stockpile of atomic weapons. We shudder to think that guided missiles, capable of mass destruction, are now ready. In the haste of nations to produce aircraft of supersonic speeds, many have forgotten that that nation will remain supreme which utilizes its most precious asset; that is, its youth. In the early nineteenth century, Disraeli observed, The youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity. How true this is! Yet have freedom-loving countries fully realized the significance of this statement? Possibly not to the extent of the despotic or communistic powers. In our own century, we have the example of Adolph Hitler, who said, Let me train your youth, and I will rule the nation in whatever way I choose. More recently we have only to look at Russia, quietly carrying on the greatest youth conservation program in her history. It is the task of America to begin an equally magnificent effort to con- serve and utilize her youth. Think of the millions of dollars Americans are pouring into conservation projects, giant dams, and efficiency surveys of business resources! Shouldn ' t there be at least a comparable amount set aside for conservation of democracy ' s greatest asset? Does the lack of an effective program indicate that Americans are unable or unwilling to think in terms of long-range results? Here in America, most of the money allo- cated to youth goes to the study and correction of juvenile delinquency. Yet the results are not what they should be. In a recent statement, J. Edgar Hoover warned that the United States crime rate has mushroomed three times faster than the nation ' s population and that youngsters under