George Washington High School - Hatchet Yearbook (New York, NY)

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THE KIND CDF WGRLD SECURITY AND OPPORTUNITY CHILD asks hrs older srster What rs a war 7 And the reply comes A w ar rs a nasty cruel fight where men krll each other Why do they light' They frght because they both thrnk they re rrght Who rs really rrghtf Well we dont know that Wrll we ever have another war? Probably Why ' Well because as long as there are people there wrll be wars You see rmmy men can t seem to lrve together happrly even after mrllrons of years No rmmy you don t understand what war rs None of us do The world gets out of shape when there are hungry men That s what s wrong now the world rs out of shape But rf we get rt back to rts real shape then we won t have any more wars 2 UNIVERSAL BR E want a world rn whrch our plans our hopes and our dreams need not be sur rendered for those of one leader Our arm rs a world where creatrye abrlrty need not be used as a means of destructron but may rnstead be used for the furtherance of man s lrfe lrberty and hap prness XX e do not want a world where exrl and hate and domrnatron over the many by the few must be suppressed by force rather we want a world w here such monsters cannot flourrsh We want true brotherhood of man economrc No rf can we thrnk of the best sh rpe to make the world and rf we can work hard to keep rt that wa Wfhat would that best shape be lrkef Wfell we want a happy chrldhood for eyery chrld good schools for them and happy homes XVe w ant them to haye Chrrstmas trees wrth brrght lrghts and presents XX'e want them to haye happy memorres lrke the ones we haye of trmes before thrs war memorres of school plays ball games and Qenror Wfeek wrth rts orange caps and brrght red lollypops We w ant every chrld all oyer the world to be able to go to frrendly hrgh schools lrke the ones we have rn Amerrca so that they can learn whats rrght and what s wrong Wfe w ant work for all who had to rnterrupt therr yobs to nght thrs w ar Wfe w ant to be able to assure each of hrs former happrness wrthout the unhapprness that went wrth rt We want to make thrs world a place w here each may do as he thrnks best so that he may leave thrs world knowrng rt rs better than rt was when he first came rnto rt jurwr IRI LDMAN OTHERHOOD and relrgrous a globe where Negro wrll not be prtted agarn t Whrte nor Chrrstran agarnst jew Rather than a unrversal relrgron or government we want an rnternatronal tolerant rndrvrdualrty of mprnrons and belrefs Perhaps one sentence wrll cover rt we want a world where each rndrvrdual rs free to grow physr cally mentally and sprrrtually towards the realr zatron of hrs ambrtrons and the fulfillment of hrs rdeals rgrrnzr COBRIN - - .1 - .1 1 1 4 , C li I 1 . 1 1 , 1 ' 9 .1 . 11 1 . 1 . 1, 1 . , y. - 11 1. 1 1. 111 .1 A 1 1 , 1 1 , ' , .1 . , . W . 1 , 1 1 7 7 ' - 11 1 A - - , 1, 1 1 .1 1 1 ,11 - 1 y 1 I 1 1 1 ll D vy A - ' . 1 1 - 1 1 1 9 ' 9 .1 - 11 . - , 1 , . 1 ' 7 7 Y .1 11 - - - - , , 1 , -, y . U , 11 111 1 . 1 1 1 1 .1 - A ' v 7 7 . . , . . . Y Y V ' ' ' 7 3 7 1 - - - 11 1 - 1 V 7 ' Y 7 ' 7 Y , . . 1.Oh11 .1 V - iv ' ! ' I D I y 71 7 ' . 1 1 ' 1 y 1 I ! ! I 1 I l r 1 - , ' y 7 - Y! I 7 , y 1 ' 1 1 ' , 1 U I , , 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1' ' ' 1 , -. , , 1 , . . ,, 1 -11 1 1 -1 A , 1 1 , r: 3 1: V V . V . . . I . r 1 , - 3 , . ' 1 V V . .7 . . . . . 1 . . 9 , . Q , . . l . . . V , . 1 1, 1 Q . . . . . , 1, 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 , , 1 1 - . . Y Y E . . V H I .- 1 a - A 11 1 ' 3 V x l . . 7 . 4 3

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WERE FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM AND FULFILLMENT OF IDEALS ODAYS WAR 15 but one small part of a great crusade Thrs crusade began centurres ago rllumrnated by one small spark man s hope for freedom As men pressed steadlly forward this spark became ever brrghter for them and to attarn rt they became rnvoly ed rn war after war each bloodrer than the last Every common man who has loved lrberty has been a part of thrs crusade The strong haye sup ported the weak all have been unrted by therr per severance towards thrs goal The French Revolu tronrsts marched rn the crusade as drd Tom Parne Wfashmgton Jetterson and Lrncoln Today 1t1s ldvancrny, eyer more swrftly more surely as na tron lorns natron to suppress the foes of freedom Yet as we haxe put forth our best efforts to attack these enemres we haye learned one thrng that w hrle hghtrny., may brmy, vrctory as a means of approachrng the end of our crusade the end rtself the realrzatron of our hope for freedom can be won only throuph farth rn our rdeals and per severance rn strryrng to establrsh them rn the peace that IS to follow CLORIA MARSHALL FAMILIAR THINGS ESIDES the Four Freedoms and all the rdeals that have been brought mto focus for us as a result of thrs war we are flghflllg also for all our peacetrme assocratrons the lrttle thrngs whrch consrdered one by one seem neglrgrble yet taken together add up to the full meanmg of the word peace Poppmg corn by an open hreplace on a wrnter nrght an apple on a teacher s desk the day of a test a taffy pull followed by castor o1l famlly drrves on Sunday when krd brother muff do somethrng wrong or else rts not a full day Saturday nrght dates the hackneyed jokes rn each rssue of the school paper prcnncs and unrestrrcted quantrtxes of hamburgers and hot dogs vacatrons of rdleness mstead of a job or extra studyrng freak summer afternoons spent at the beach bathrng and makrng sand castles wmter afternoons spent over cups of steamrng cocoa accompanred by the jul-ce box or gossrpy drscussrons Each trrflnng detarl rs a part of those great rdeals upon whrch the peace IS to be based freedom securrty and brotherly love It IS those thrngs too whrch are hastenrng our vrctory as we fight And what IS lrfe anyway but a serres of fleet mg seconds whxch we must apprecrate and use to the fullest of our abrl1ty7 One second of joy and the whole span of years that follow must rnevr tably be brrghtened THACHER CLARKE 4 . W I ' . , A ' , , -' y r v' v r . ' 4 V 7 . , , . . . . , . . f ' S , 1 1 -f A y f V ' . ' 1 A . ff ' Y V 7' ' A A ' Y y 7 V f 7 . , , , ' y ' f ' , ' , 1 7 , ' - f f V - Y v y I ' A ' . ' c , . , I A f 1 7 - 1 I ' - I I a 1 7 . . . . . . . V . . . , , . . . 7 9 7 7 7 7 .. .. I h I D V I- 7 - V , , - , . , , . , . I I Y V . - ' ' s 9 , . . . . . , r y f 7 . , , , . . , . . . , -