Hamilton High School - Anchor Yearbook (Hamilton, IN)

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VALEDICTDBQY SDEECH . . . THIS WORLD-YESTERDAY AND TODAY Parents, Teachers, Friends: This world has just been through one of the darkest periods of its history. But now the facist states of the world have been subdued by the victorious allies. But is the real danger over? Before the development of the fascist countries, revolutionists in the largest country in the world seized control of the government and announced to the world a new system of government. This new system was based on equality of income. But even with the equality of income this so-called new government was primitive in that it did not guarantee fundamental human rights and freedom for its people. This new government has really turned out to be a military dictatorship. The leaders of this revolutionary movement have seized the governments of smaller, weaker neighbors and, hence, made them puppet satellites of the mother country. They have also tried, without success, to seize the governments of other governments by a mixture of propaganda, terriorisrn, and in some cases even civil war. This doctrine is called communism. The communists claim to despise facism, but they have actually adopted the worst features of it. Or, I should say the fascists adopted the worst features of communism. They both allow no or- ganized opposition to the ruling party. Both virtually abolished religion in the beginning. Both teach their subjects to love war and twist their youth's young minds into a military mold. The communists use slave labor to a larger extent than the fascists ever did. They both cultivate sus- picion against foreign countries, although Germany and Italy never succeeded in isolating their subjects so effectively as has the iron curtain. The professed difference between communism and fascism is that in a communist state all means of production, together with banks and stores, are publicly owned. In a fascist state all means of production are merely controlled by the government, There is a difference regarding professed final goals between communism and fascism. The communists look forward to a world proletarian revolution that will abolish capitalism and usher in millenium. Fascism thought in means of racial superiority. Communism is the largest problem that we graduates of '48 have to face. But at least we are rich by historical experience. We know that appeasement is not the answer to totalitarian aggression. Dale Hamman