From the Editofs Notebook The last grains of sand trickle through the glass. Soon another Senior class will have left the halls and classrooms of Easthampton High School. This class, like all others, will enter the world filled with the idealism of youth, and the world will struggle and fight consistently and strongly to take this most valu- able advantage in the game of life away from them. The idealistic mind is peaceful and content, for the idealist is an optimist. He doesn't seek after power or wealth, for he above all recognizes that these are not the sources of true happiness. He sees that too often men have searched for happiness in worldly things and have found only hate, mistrust, and war, and realizes the meaning of the words of Christ in the Sermon on the Mount: Therefore I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, what you shall eat, nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life a greater thing than the food, and the body than the clothing? Look at the birds of the airy they do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you of much more value than they? But which of you, by being anxious about it, can add to his stature a single cubit?'1 MATTHEW 6: 25-27 Of course, this does not mean that we should not provide for ourselves. It does mean that we should not become so obsessed with the struggle for wealth that we forget our First Cause and base our lives upon a materialistic philosophy. Materialism is not the answer to life and its prob- lems, for it makes man apprehensive. It frequently pushes him irretrievably into the dark abyss of fear and forces him to mistrust everyone, even his closest friends. Its sole purpose is to plunge him deeper and deeper into the complex web of everyday living. As modern youth enters the turbulent, confused world of today, it must face things that would make our great-grandparents shudder: the mistrust among nations, the constant fear of atomic war, the mad, fierce struggle for existence, the lies and propaganda which are so prevalent. All these combined form a maze which can 'be penetrated only by the spirit of a youth which has not yet lost faith in its Maker. Youth realizes no complexity. Youth is idealism personified. Youth is the romantic optimist. Youth is the hope of the world. Only when the entire human race adopts the idealistic, trusting attitude of youth, only when humanity acquires faith in itself and its Creator, will the last traces of hate, mistrust, and war disappear. Q7 X fy
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