All Saints Commercial High School - Excelsior Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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AMEHIEA5 YUUTH llats oll' to the teen-agersl rl-hey are the cream ol Americas tomorrow. Amid the chaos and turmoil of the recent glohal war, Americas youth stood lirm and unafraid. True, they were too young to enter into the actual conflict but they did what they could. Nothing was safe when they led a salvage drive. Vxfhat matter if Mother could still use that old iron lcettleg it could he put to hetter advantage in the scrap drive. American youth was never too young to malce sacrifices., When our boys in the service needed help most, our youngsters were giving up movies, calces and candy and huying with their treasured money stamps and honds. They sacrihced their precious leisure hours after school to talce a man-sized joh in order to lift the tremendous hurden of lahor shortage. America will never forget how generous and proud her youth was to he an blood donor. Many and many a pint of treasured young hlood found its way across the ocean and onto the hattle front. Here is something which everyone should rememher. American youth had no part in hringing ahout the past vicious warl lt was not the greed or the jealousy of the teen-agers which caused it. But, it certainly was the courage and hlood of the teen-agers who won itl The lands of the war-torn countries have heen hathed and hlessed with the crimson hlood of American hoys and girls. Many of them did not lcnow why they were Fighting, hut-Htheirs nol to aslc the reason why-theirs hut to do and die? Just when our teen-agers were old enough to appreciate life to the l ull they were hurled into the jaws of a paralyzing fear and death. lndeed America may he proud of her youth for they have heen tried in a crisis and they were not found wanting. Now that the tenseness of war has been relaxed, the eyes and minds of the adults have hecome critical when they turn to the teen-agers. All of a sudden there is much headwagging and wondering about the young hoys and girls. The youngsters have heen on their own a great deal and they have developed a rather independent attitude, hut under the rough surface their characters are still sterling. They are enjoying life hut isn't that a priv- ilge of exhuherant youth? .lust loecause they dress Hsharpn is no reason to cause parents to loolc on in holy horror. Franlcly, though there isn't much lueauty in the teen-ager,s regalia it is more comfortahle and more modest than the costume worn hy the Hljlappern not so many years ago. Of course, they swoon ahout Franlc Sinatra and Van Johnson-every generation has its swoon-