Dorchester High School for Boys - Red and Black Yearbook (Dorchester, MA)

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0444 plz-evienl' y ...- Jfeaxf lwadfen AMW' 62. Reef! 1943 -- 1949 A Message From the Head Master Thoreau recalls the tale that Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. 'Tell the tailors,, said he, 'to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitchf' His companions prayer is forgotten. Foresight is better than hindsightv! Look before you leapn! MA stitch in time saves ninen! How many proverbs of similar meaning can you recall? Old truths handed down through the ages, they are still as valid as when first put into words. History teaches us only that history teaches us nothing . Mankind stumbles into the same old pitfalls because he heeds not the voice of the past. The material world of to-day is a new World. By inventive genius we have in a few score vears progressed farther in material ways than mankind had advanced in all ages before. The spiritual truths, the moral truths, are the same yesterday, today, and forever. Bran AND BLACK 5

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I explained that because of what he had done in building up the Industrial Department into the best in the city, he was therefore chosen as the teacher of 1948 --49. After this preli- minary struggle, I obtained the following information: Mr. Bacon was born, March 21, 1891 in the sourest town in the universe Leominster, which is situated outside Worcester. At the usual unfortunate age he commenced his school career never realizing that 53 years later he would still be going. From grammar school he went to Leominster High and then to State Teachers College, known at that time as Fitchburg Normal School where he struggled through a Practical Arts course. After graduating cum laudev QHalj he began his teachings in Everett, and from there went to Newton and then to Providence, R. I. On April Fools Dayv, 1918 his lucky', day came. He was assigned to Dorchester High. Mr. Bacon became head of the fwood bu ...... D Industrial Department in 1925 when the boys of Dorchester were moved to the residential section of the community, Dunbar Avenuev. Mr. Bacon is married, has no children, and lives in Milton. just then the telephone rang, so I, who never cut a period in my whole life, well just a few, thought it best to leave before being asked. I left. '7fameZ fqfwaqd Bake Alert to Humanityis endless need, Reliable, true, and spurred with speed, Long on Patience, quick with smile Qierspreading a face that glares at guile, Noting the good engendered in all, Berating the fool who fears no fall, AQ ctive when tedious tasks appear, Constant-until the coast is clear, 0u1' one last plea, when all forsake- Never give up - Theres always 'Bakeifi FRANCIS L. Fonu, Faculty Editor 4 RED AND BLACK

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i'All men are created equal -endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights- among these life, liberty, and the pursuit of happinessv. Such moral truths we hold to be self- evident, and on such truths was our government founded. Rousseau saw man, created free, yet everywhere in chains. Our government was established under the Declaration of Independence and a Constitution, with a Bill of rights, to keep us free from chains. Naziism, Fascism, Communism are new names for old tyrannies which have kept men in chains-which make the Individual the slave of the State. In our land We are the State! The Land of the Freen! A most important Freedom which has made us great is Free enterprise in business. Thomas Iefferson said, 'il know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlighened enough to ex- ercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by Educationu. The greatest human driving force yet developed is liberty and freedom of opportunity. This was one of the forces which has made us great yet, today, as I write this, the paper in front of me tells of renewed efforts on the part of certain Kadvisersi' to our Chief Executive to socialize our industry and business-to place them under government control and operation. How much difference between socialism and communism? Free Enterprise and Capitalism -these are the crimes of which the Communists accuse us! Behold two factories, one in Russia, the other, here. In front of the first a few motor cars, in front of the other, thousands, i'We own the factorylv cry the Communists. But who own the cars. The bosses. Who owns that factory here? General Motorsf, say we. Who own those thousand of cars? We, the employees! But who are General Motors? We are! Billions of dollars, some two hundred billion, re- present the capital invested here in business enterprises. Ninety percent of all the stockholders have yearly incomes of less than five thousand dollars! If you have a savings acount in a bank, a life insuranserpolicy, however small, you have money invested in American business enterprise, even though no stock is issued in your name. So we own the factories, we are the wicked capital- ists! Less than two percent of our citizens have incomes of over five thousand dollars, only one tenth of one percent have more than twenty-five thousand dollars -and of incomes larger than that, the government takes almost all in taxes. What about the profits of capital? Last year they averaged a little more than six per- cent, and half of that was used for plant up-keep and expansion, for more machinery, for in our free land our slaves are machines! These machines furnish us with the necessities and lux- uries which the Communist lack. No other country than ours has made machines do so much of the work which formerly was done by hand on farms, in factories, even in our homes. Five hundred thousand corporations, three million unincorporated enterprises, competing against each other, each year increase production, make prices lower. This is our Capitalism, the basis of our prosperity, this the reason for the envy and hatred of the Communists. Money is the root of all evilv, but greed for power is a million times worse-the cause of all the cruelty, the slaughter, the misery of the past two score years. Mussoliniis gang, Hitler's gang, and now the Kremlin gang, each employing the same tactics-propaganda, falsehood, in- filtration, the setting of class against class, riots, stealing of State secrets -creating conditions which will make their victory easy. It canit happen here? Yes, it can happen here, unless we tie fast in our thread the knot of eternal vigilance - unless we know and cherish the principles of our democracy. Two world wars in two generations! We must not have another. If we iight communism here at home, there will be less fear that real war may come. Remember how the Communists joined Hitler, and then switched sides? Their policy is not to fight openly until they are sure of victory. Never let them feel confident of victory. Come to know their methods and their ways, learn to answer their arguments, to refute their lies. Do this, and success will be yours, for you will have tied the knot in the thread. 6 RED AND BLACK