Gowanda Central School - Valley Bugle Yearbook (Gowanda, NY)

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2 QEDITORIALD ILINE, 1947 VALLEY Bus E Valley Bugle Published Annually Cowanda, New York SENIOR CLASS, Editor When the Valley Bugle Staff met for the purpose of choosing a theme t'or the yearbook, they wished to find one which would be timely, original, and adaptable. The newspaper theme was chosen. First, we considered the timeliness of the newspaper theme. We thought that surely tlIe newspaper plays a greater part in our lives today than ever before. We recognize the news- paper as the mouthpiece of the nation and the arbiter of public opinion. As the reader turns the pages of our paper, he may judge for himself the adaptability and the originality of our theme as we have used it to relate the unfcensored facts about Gowanda High Schrzol, about its students, about its faculty, Zllltl about its activities. We have recorded permanently school events and we have depicted school activities for the community. We are exercising the same freedom of the press which has become a heated topic for discussion in inter- national circles today. We are entitled to the same freedom -of the press for which men have lived and died. In- deed, the importance of the newspaper has been recognized universally. Only through truthful knowledge may we attain liberty from the dark, yawning caverns of ignorance, poverty, greed, and oppression, which threaten to en- snare and engulf us at every turn of the way. Cowper expressed his own sentiments when he wrote He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, and all are slaves besides. In some foreign countries there is profound suspicion of anyone who is in touch with the rest of the world. The newspapers print little or nothing of happenings in other parts of the globe. Ignorance breeds its ugly and more dangerous progeny-fear. Fear, in turn, leads to submission and to the loss of civil and personal liberties. The people become as ra meek herd of cattle blindly obeying the commands of anyone who may choose to assert his authority over them. They become the masses, losing their distinction as individuals enjoying Icertai-n God- given rights some of which are stated in our Declaration of Independence as inalienable. Among the rights so stated are the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Happi- ness is destroyed by the fear, the op- pression, and the poverty brought inevitably by a totalitarian or other undemocratic form of government. We consider freedom of the press as one of our essential freedoms. The states of t.he original United States refused to ratify the constitution until the first. ten amendments, which still remain a cornerstone of our liberty today, were added. Among the first ten amendments is the one which states that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of the press. Freedom of the press will ever seem as important to us as it seemed to early lawmakers, who were often charged with treason in pre-Revolu- tionary days, when they criticized the acts of governors who were appointed by the King of England. In order to form a more perfect and more lasting peace, we must have free- dom of the press to promote complete understanding and goodwill among all national, racial, and religious groups of the world. Understanding is gained only through a knowledge of fact as given by expert and unbiased men. -HETIFIN AI.I.ExsAHT INDEX huge EDITORIAL - - - 2 DEDICATIUN - - - 3 IXPPRECIATION - - 4 PUBLISHERS-BOARD or EDU:-ATIoN - - - 6 MANAGING EDI'l'0li-PlUNl'll'Al. - 7 CITY En1'rcms-FAc-ULTY - 8 SENIOR HIS'FORY - - - 9 Arr: R.lCl'0R'l'ERS-SICNIORS - - 19-15 WAR ICoaIz1-:sroNpEN'rs- VETERANS - - - 16 FEATURE REPIIRTERS-JUNIORS - 17 BEAT tMEN-SoPIIoMonEs - - 18 LEG MEN-FRESHMl'IN - - 19 Cllli l2EPOR'l'ERS--EIGHTII GRAM: 20 Curr BOYS-Sl'1Vl'lN'l'H GRADE - 21 CALENIIAR ---- 22 EDITORIAI. S'I'Alf'l1' - - - 24 I oIu-:IGN Nl'lW'S-PRlIl'lll-lt'Y - 25 Loom. NI-:ws-W1I.I. - - 26 CLUBS - - 29-32 SOCIETY - - - - 27 THEATRE - - 28 COMICS - 33 Sroirrs - 3 -37 FEATURE - -40 IFINANCIAL - - 4 -56