Calhoun School - Ink Pot Yearbook (New York, NY)

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ink pot editorial FROM The observaTion car oT The souThbound Train rushing me To Florida, l waTched Maryland, Virginia, and The Carolinas TiguraTively Tly pasT. As we crossed each suc- cessive sTaTe line. The ThoughT recurred To me ThaT here was anoTher small principaliTy consTiTuTing a governmenTal uniT in iTselT and, simulTaneously. an inTegral parT oT This, our greaT naTion. Such could only have resuiTed Trom years oT consTanT compromise, eTFacing individual desires Tor The good OT The whole. Our hisTory subsTanTiaTes This. On The wings OT ThoughT l was borne To The European siTuaTion where The sTaTus of The diTTerenT counTries under The supervision oT The League of NaTions is similar To ThaT oT The TorTy-eighT sTaTes uniTed under one cenTral governmenT. Each counTry is, in a sense, like a small principaliTy or sTaTe, sending delegaTes To parleys. This League. The ouTgrowTh oT The lasT war, was Tormed Tor The express purpose oT eliminaTing The causes and prevenTing The recurrence of such calamiTies by seTTling dispuTes Through Tranlc discussions and muTual compromises. Up unTil I933, The League was a big success. Why? lTs auThoriTy had never been TesTed. When iT should have sTepped in To halT an aggressor, iT proved iTselT ineTTicienT and powerless. Japan, musTering up all her deTiance, invaded Manchuria. disregard- ing The League's mosT ardenT proTesTs. A Tew years laTer, expanding lTaly grabbed up unproTecTed EThiopia: naTionalisTic Germany renounced The Versailles TreaTy and laTely announced her inTenTions oT regaining her losT colonies. These Three counTries were shrewd enough To discover ThaT, alThough The League's proTesTaTions mighr seem Tirm and emphaTic, noT one member would have raised a 'linger physicdly To halT Their invasion or enTorce TreaTies Tor Tear oT becoming enTangled in a conTlicT. lnsTead, The League began a boycoTT oT These counTries' goods. Due To economic greed and The unwillingness oT people To sacriTice someThing Tor The advanTage of all, iT is diTTiculT To make a boycoTT eTTecTive. NeverTheiess, Germany is beginning To show signs oT The sTrain oT supplying her people wiTh The necessiTies oT liTe wiThouT The aid of Toreign Trade. IT human naTure could be changed, These drasTic measures would noT be neces- sary. BuT, being, as iT is, overruled by disTrusT and deceiT, an organizaTion such as The League can never eTTicienTly Tlourish unTil honor has displaced deceiT and sacrifice disTrusT. MILD RED SCHWARZ, '37 eighT

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Ink p 1 ink pot committee Edi+or-in-Chief, .A Associafe Edi+or, A Secrefa ry .A,,.,.. ...,, Juvenile Edi+or BeHy Baron, '37 Jane Poll, '38 CharIo+'re Shnipkin, '38 Sallee Fox, ' MILDRED SCHWARZ LILLIAN FICHTENHOLTZ , eee. .. J CAROL KADEN. ,. BETTY GERSTENZANG, ' Simoneffe Lens, '39 Fanny Miller, '39 Jean Cohen, '40 42