Holden High School - Clarion Yearbook (Holden, MA)

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VVar II. Its primary aim is to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war. Tl is is a high and noble aim but already another tragic chap- ter of history is being written in Korea. It is on the international level that man has made the least progress in bettering human relations. Although man through the ages has advanced from the cave dwelling to the castle in his international relations he has ad- vanced only from the club to the standing army. Individuals make up the family and they have learned to live together happily. Individual families make up communities and they have learned to iron out their differences through town meetings. Indi- vidual communities make up the nation and they have learned to co-operate for the common good. lc-'trn to live together in peace and harmony or they will he destroyed together in a third world catastrophe. The very existence of a social civilization depends upon the emotional relationship among the peoples of the world. The nations must learn to recognize their problems to analyze them scientifically and proceed to solve them in a calm and intelligent manner. In order to do this we must have open and honest co-operation of all world governments. VVe, the graduates of 1953 going out into a changing world must face this problem realistically along with the other problems of our age. Ours is being called an age of confusion an age of uncertainty. We can- not sit back and wait for someone else to end this confusion for us. We cannot nait to see which direction this change will ta.ke for change is not necessarily for the better. In the modern world. changes take place at an ever increasing pace, and we cannot let things take their course and then expect to pick up the threads and go ahead without a pause to untangle the confusion. Aesop wrote a fable about a fly perched on the wheel of a swiftly racing chariot. The Hy survey ed the enveloping clouds of dense dust and remarked: See what a dust I am, raising. In these rapidly changing times we cannot be like Aesops fly and fro along for a free ride' we must accept our responsibilities and pull our own weight on the wheels of progress. We must end the confusion. VVe must go forward or we shall slip into a second dark ae. We must elect to office men of proven leadership and integrity. We must use our knowl- of a world in which there is less suffering less poverty 'md less misery. We must rebuild the moral founda- tions of our modern life. VVe must end race hatreds for we are all members of one race-mankind. With the shadow of World War III hanging over us dare we say we can do nothing about the desperate need of the world for better human relations? The strongest voice in a democracy is the voice of public opinion. Within a few short years ours will be a part of this voice. But we must have opinions to voice' what is more we must have convictions and the courage of our convictions. The balance of the twentieth century is ours. We shall live its history. May it be a glorious chapter. 4' The Two Tenifvles by Viola B. Shepherd. DOROTHY J. SERGENT U H 1 , 1 Y ll JI K I y H , , Individual nations make up the world, and they must eflgc for good' for human beffeffnent- for the makmg , , , . , Y , , . , 1 , Y Y 7 A v 58

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