Clifton High School - Rotunda Yearbook (Clifton, NJ)

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cxxKJoannnnnr »Tm nnrm nnrinnrrrrrrin nnrinrTfyTnrinr-r r a-m - RECONSTRUCTION ilHE war is over; soldiers are returning daily from across the sea and from camps. And now there is an even greater work to do than providing for those same soldiers. That work is reconstruction; for where there is war there is x und to be ruin, misery and suffering. The American Red Cross, in continuation of its great work, is planning to take up this wide subject. What are we going to do to help? Are we going to let those war-torn countries struggle on by themselves or are we going to aid them back to peace, to that real peace which is more than cessation of hostilities? We of school age have energy and vim with which to help, if we will. M ore than this, we have the time, which many of those older than we have not. Clifton has gone “over the top” in every drive since the war began: shall its standard fail now? Let us show what we can do. Let us help the Red Cross, the “Greatest Mother,” to bring to these devastated countries that peace and freedom which has always been ours. V. C„ ’20. DOWN, BUT NEVER OUT 1 he above slogan which helped put the Salvation Army “over the top,” would indeed be an excellent motto for each one of us to adopt. 1 oo many of us become discouraged at trivial matters which appear to us as mountains when they occur but which indeed ought really to serve as incentives to accomplish the very thing which has thumped us. Of course none of our lives are beds of roses, and very often the thorns in our path cause us to be overcome by that “downish” feeling. Reverses in business, failure to come up to the standard in our school work, and very often a harsh word dropped by a thoughtless person add much to our depressed feelings. Should we allow ourselves to be downed by such matters? No. Troubles come to everyone, so we need not think five