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

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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 . , , , . . , . . . , -

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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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I' f E SAT down on what was left of the back porch starrs and watched the vromen hurry rng to and fro He was funny that way Even when he had been lrttle he had always been quret and he had developed a habrt of watchrng hrs mother from the back porch steps never speakrng but merely frxrng hrs eyes on her and lettrng hrs mrnd wander where rt mrght Nobody had ever drsturbed hrm Well hardly ever occasronally Scamps the cat would come over to clarm hrs share of atten tron but that was drfferent Odd how he was always calm when others were hurrred or frrghtened Maybe rt was rust hrs nature Maybe rt was rnherrted from Mom That had al ways been her way There was that day rn the up to smrle at hrm srttrng on the back porch and had suddenly heard a norse behrnd her whrch be rng a Westerner she had recognrzed rmmedrately She had merely called rn her natural vorce Brll fetch me the broom handle by the steps and slowly turned around Then wrthout another word she krlled the rattler and they called Pop to see Frrst he had looked at all rts erght feet then at Mom and then he had taken rt away to skrn rt Mom had gone rrght on workrng rn the pumpkrn patch her son Brll had gone rrght on watchrng her from the back porch steps And now he began to hum just the way he had when hed been a lrttle krd watchrng the clouds rn the blue sky and the way the pumpkrns reflected the suns blrndrng gold He would follow hrs thoughts wrth hrs tune makrng rt up as he went X along never rememberrng rt long enough to be able to repeat rt Mom had always lrked hrs songs even though he had never been able to tell rn words lust what they meant But then of course she could have read hrs thoughts wrthout hearrng the song Somehow though rt had seemed rmpor tant to tell the rest of the world Scamps the corn the brrds the pumpkrns So he had sung and they had understood too He drdn t even jump when rt fell Back home he had heard norses just as loud as thrs For rnstance the trme the lrghtnrng had struck the rrght srde of the house and rt had burst rnto roarrng flames A nerghbor had taken hrm by the hand and had bye to Mom and Pop And the thunder had been terrrfyrng rt had made the whole earth seem to shake The frre too thrs trme rt was loud and angry no relatron to the soft cracklrng flames he had known rn the lrvrng room fireplace After rt was all over he had begun to cry but Mom had merely laughed prcked hrm up and sard she d al ways meant to do that srde of the house over agarn anyway He wasn t cold but suddenly he shuddered One of the women rushrng by stopped to tap hrs shoulder Buck up young fellow It ll soon be over Funny she should say that to hrm Mom had once sard the very same words the trme hrs ear had parned hrm and the doctor had sard he had a mastord They had taken hrm to the hosprtal and K y Z ' N1 1 , ' ' . ' , 5 ' 7 I ' 7 ! 2 A J ' 1 : I I ' i Y l 7 7 ' Y . , : , , , , - 7 ' - ' 9 n - , . I . . . pumpkin patch, for instance, when she had looked led him away, but not before he had waved good- 3 7 ' , - : a ' ' a I 5 9 7 r - , , Q ' 1 7 7 ' a 9 ' 9 . V . . , , . , . , . Q . . . , ' ll , ' U .YY , . . . . , . I ' 7