James Monroe High School - Monrovian Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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A PAN AMERICAN POLICY By HON. ELIHU ROOT Former Secreiary of Shale O nalion can live un+o ilsell alone, and conlinue +o live. Each naIion's growlh is a parl' of lhe developmenl' of lhe race. There may be leaders and 'rhere may be Iaggards, bu? no nalion can long conlinue very lar in advance of Ihe general progress of manlcind, and no nalion lhal is noi doomed Io exlinclion can remain very lar behind. His wilh nalions as il is wiI'h individual men: inlercourse, associalion, correclion ol egofism by The inlluence of olhers' iudgmenl, broadening of views by I'he experience and 'rhoughl of equals, acceplance of Ihe moral slandards ol a communily and Ihe desire lor whose good opinion lends a sanclion lo l'he rules of righl conducl,--rhese are The condilions of growlh in civilizalion. A people whose minds are noi' open 'ro Ihe lessons ol 'rhe world's progress, whose spirils are no+ slirred by lhe aspiralions and achievemenls of humanily slruggling Ihe world over for Iiberly and iuslice, musl' be Iell' behind by civilizalion, in i+s sleady and beneficienl advance. These benelicenl resulls lhe Governmenl and Ihe people ol l'he Uniled Slales ol America greally desire. We wish lor no viclories bul 'rhose of peace: lor no Ierrilory excepl our own: lor no sovereignly excepl l'he sovereignly over ourselves. We deem 'rhe independence and equal righls of Ihe smallesl' and wealcesl member of Ihe family of nalions enlillecl Io as much respecl as lhose ol lhe grealesl empire, and we deem +he observance of lhal respecl +he chief guaran+y ol lhe wealc againsl 'rhe oppression of 'rhe slrong. We neilher claim nor desire any righls, or privileges, or powers lhal we do nol freely concede Io every American republic. We wish 'ro increase our prosperily, lo expand our Trade, lo grow in weallh, in wisdom and in spiril, buf our conceplion of 'rhe True way Io accomplish lhis is nol lo pull down olhers and profil by Iheir ruin, bul Io help all friends Io a common prosperily and a common growlh, Ihal we may all become grealer and slronger logelher. Lel us help each olher show lhal' lor all Ihe races ol men Ihe Liberly for which we have loughf and labored is 'rhe Iwin sis+er of Juslice and Peace. Lei' us unile in crealing and mainlaining and making efleclive an all-American public opinion, whose power shall influence inlernalional conducl and prevenl infernafional wrong, and narrow Ihe causes of war, and 'forever preserve our free lands from lhe burden ol such armamenls as are massed behind Ihe fronliers of Europe, and bring us ever nearer +o Ihe perfeclion ol ordered Iiberly. So shall come securily and prosperi+y, procluclion and Irade, weallh, learning, +he arls, and happiness for us all.

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FOREWORD ERE beTore you is our conTribuTion To The Senior Class. We presenT This book To our classmaTes wiTh The sense ThaT iT represenTs The very besT oT our eTTorTs. By The adopTion of a Pan-American moTiT ThroughouT The book, we have endeavored To express our recogniTion oT a Trend in modern aTTairs, especially since so many of us have begun To realize The significance oT Pan-Americanism. We hope ThaT in The years To come This book will be a source of ioy To all, bringing back pleasanT memories of The Class of June, nineTeen- ThirTy-Two. Tl-IE EDITORS

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Office of the Principal GRADUATION TIME: June, I932 Dear Friend: UnderTake noT whaT you cannoT Perform buf be Careful To keep your Promise. A young boy named George WashingTon wroTe ouf This precepf aImosT Two hundred years ago as parT of a charf by which he infended To sTeer his own life's course. Our environmenf differs greafly from ThaT in which George WashingTon grew up, buT life iTseIf goes on in The same way. The mariner of Two hun- dred years ago sailed in a ship far differenT from ThaT used Toda , buf The norTh sTar, The sun, and The compass by which he guided himself are The very same means ThaT The capfain of The Leviafhan uses. In This IasT message To you as a sTudenT of This school. I urge upon you To read The rules of conducf ThaT Washingfon laid down for his own guidance, and parficularly do I place before you The rule wiTh which I begin This leTTer. IT implies firsT of all ThaT you know yourself Thoroughly: ThaT you are honesf wiTh yourself: ThaT you do noT allow vain conceiT To fool you info Thinking ThaT you are greafer Than you are, buf also ThaT you do noT permiT false modesTy To hold you back from doing The big Things ThaT you know you can do. OT course The rule ThaT we are To be careful To keep our promises To oThers. has been preached To you for many years. I hope ThaT you have made iT parT of yourself. There is anofher phase of This rule wiTh which you may noT be familiar. WhaT abouT promises To ourself? Do you consider Them also as sacred? When you pledge yourself To a cerTain line of acTion. only of course afTer weighing The worTh-whileness of such course of acTion. are you as parTicuIar abouT keeping ThaT promise To your- self? JusT as you cannoT refain The respecf of ofhers To whom you have made a promise and failed To keep iT. iusf so you cannoT mainfain your self-respecf if you pledge yourself To a cerfain procedure and Then fail To live up To iT. To Thine own self be True And if musf follow as The nighT The day, Thou cansT noT Then be false To any man. Ivlay your fufure be mosT happy and successful. May your life be such. no maTTer how high or low The parT you have To play, ThaT The CiTy will feel iTseIf more Than repaid for whaf iT has generously expended upon you. Sincerely yours, r HENRY E. HEIN Principal 6