Brockton High School - Brocktonia Yearbook (Brockton, MA)

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14 BROCKTONIA EDMUND PILLA Or to Class Orfatzon Unemploymen Without a doubt many of us of the graduating class will find in the portals of Brockton High School the termina tion of the long road to educat on Many of us either because of lack of funds or other hindrances will find ourselves cast into immediate contact and conflict with the economlc con ditions of this world Those who broaden their education in some h gher this experience from four to six years later if not before You parents and friends, have already tasted che world s venom and its nectar, you have met its passions its people its prob lems But all of us pupils parents friends, teachers all are concerned or will be concerned in one of the great est of modern problems unemploy ment Almost as far back as we turn the dusty pages of history we discover that employment of mankind was a tre mendously important factor in the gov ernment and ClVlllZ3.tl0I1 of every land True various countries have tempo rarxly succeeded in confronting and solving this question Tradition says that in ancient Peru where the gov ernment was paternahstic and hier archial each unit of society was re sponsible for the one below it and the king and the government were respon sible for the whole Throughout the ages of civilization shackled leaving a trail of civil war, bloodshed, and death behind it During the re gn of Henry VIII society afflicted with the pleas and plaints of the helpless unemployed, conceived a solution to the conundrum as to the disposal of 72 000 sufferers Think' What a genius it must have re quired to solve so baffling an enigma' Yet how simple' They hanged them' There seemed noth ng else to do with them after all they were the refuse, the offal of humanity Picture it to yourselves 72000 frightful examples of the ultimate results of unemploy Class a r ' ff t,, s 1 ' 1 . ' ' , - , . 9 5 ' Y institution of learning will encounter this iminent question has stalked, un- , . i , . . i . , , : . ' , - . , 9 3 ' ' -' 1 9 - , . - , . . 1. S v - T- , .