Broadview High School - Beam Yearbook (Broadview, Saskatchewan Canada)

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selves in relation to these advances has lagged far behind. Practical, technical truth has overshadowed moral truth. We create but we cannot understand what we have created. The emotions of the Stone Age rule us, while we think in the terms of the Space Age. For we may send a man to the moon, but his black brother’s child is barred from the school whose purpose it is to teach the use of freedom. The secrets of life itself unfold in a test tube, but man cannot live with his fellow man. We may want a new split-level bungalow, but we are quite content to let o ur brother live in a slum as we do not have to see it. When we build armaments it is to protect ourselves. When our so- called “enemy” arms he is threatening attack. We are still living in the fear that has followed us through the centuries. Prejudice, superstition, selfishness, and ignorance still claim us as their own. “Solum veritatem quaerite.” Seek truth only. A fitting motto for our school, for is this not the chief challenge to education, to make the truth available to all? And to teach men to judge facts wisely? Seek truth only. It has been established that truth possesses two faces, factual and moral. Technical truth has given us the power to survive, but, on the other hand, has given us the power of destroying the whole human race. It has brought us to a chasm it cannot bridge—the H-bomb. Now man must apply what moral truth has always taught, “I am my brother’s keeper,” or surely perish from the earth. But it is also true that moral truth cannot fill the belly of a starving child. Love thy neighbour means little when life is an endless battle against the elements for bread. But it is now possible for every person here to carry on a comfortable physical existence. It is incumbent upon us then to turn to the great task of making one world, one people, whose desires are unified. We have the means. The search for moral truth compels us to reach out the hand of brotherhood to the less fortunate. As one writer expresses it, “At our stage of evolution the struggle for morality and spirituality has replaced the struggle for life.” This is the challenge to the youth of today. We must seek truth—not only the truth that will give us three meals a day and a bed to lie on, but the truth that will make all men brothers in freedom. Herein lies the immortality of our race. —May Edwards.