John Adams High School - Clipper Yearbook (Ozone Park, NY)

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PEACE EN EARTH ANDREW SARR S AS our late and 1llustr1ous P1651 dent Franklm D Roosevelt once so aptly put 1t There IS a curlous cycle 1n world h1story To some generatlons much 1S g1ven from others much IS excepted T1me has proven that from our gen eratlon much was excepted much has been g1ven and much more IS de manded Our generat1on had to r1se and solve the problems that arose from the economlc pol1t1cal and socxal chaos of the twentles and th1rt1es It has been called upon to destroy the ruthless tyrants that sought to enslave the human sp1r1t It IS now bemg asked to rebu1ld from the charred ru1ns of th1s ternble war a new world possessed of the falth to seek to attam mans dreams for centunes past permanent world peace and secur1ty As great a problem as was the wmnmg of the war lt IS not nearly so great as w1ll be the problem of wmnmg the peace Our greatest task w1ll not end but w1ll begm after the w1nn1ng of the war It w1ll be up to us to tackle the endless problems d1sputes and grxevances of the world and settle them so that the founda tlons of peace may be safely la1d Th1s huge task w1ll requlre patlence good falth and courage courage to mamtam our 1deals good fa1th to trust our fellow men and pat1ence because no undertakmg as huge as th1s can succeed 1mmed1ately In the days ahead there w1ll be many volces dxscouragmg vozces sneermg volces doubtful volces voxces that w1ll be a hmdrance to the realxzatlon of a lastmg peace There w1ll be the perfect1on1sts people who w1ll not be sat1sf1ed w1th any peace plan 1f 1t does not sat1sfy the1r 1dea of perfectlon There w1ll be the cyn1cs who w1ll pomt out that men can never keep falth w1th each other when the1r mterests are at stake Both the cyn1c and the perfectmomst w1ll have ev1dence to support the1r pomts of v1ew but both of them are too ex treme rn the1r pomts of v1ew to be of serv1ce to mank1nd Thus we must f1nd a happy me d1um between the cynlcal att1tude and the perfect1on1st attltude for our selves We must stand for our prm clples and 1deals but we must reallze that other natlons m a less fortunate posxtlon cannot completely ma1ntam our prmc1ples and therefore we should not attempt to force all our 1deals upon them We must have fa1th m our fr1ends and alhes but we must never become gull1ble e must compromlse but we must never agam appease Lastmg peace IS not a glfl It IS a purchase In order to buy 1t we must assume the respons1b1l1ty of bemg ever Vlglldlll of seekmg to allevlate suffenng anywhere 1n the world and of protectmg our 1deals wherever and whenever they are threatened That w1ll be our Job the h1gh school stu dents of today the cltxzens of tomor row As lh1S respons1b1l1ty of ma1n ta1nmg the peace w1ll fall on our houlders we must prepare for 1t 1n every way posslble We must con 111t1on ourselves to the fact that we are l1vmg m cruclal tlmes tunes that w1ll determme the future course of centurxes to come Thus we must equrp ourselves w1th all the knowl edge and sktlls that are wlthm our reach We must not slacken our efforts now as the war nears 1ts end feelmg that those who have fought and won the war l1ave done the blg 8 E - - - -Q 1 1 1 8 1' . 1 U7 H- u 1 . 1 ' ' I O . 1 1 . C 1 ' 1 1 O . l ' 'P' - 1 . . 1 1 ' I . 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 . . 1 1 , . W 1 1 I n 1 1 1 ' ' ' .1 1 1 1 1 1 1 . I , 1 I - 1 , - 1 1 1 1 ' . - I ' 5 1 . - ' 1 1 1 - 1 1 ' 1 1 , 1

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gest lob that was to be done Our yob the wmmng of the peace xs the hugest undertaking of all As ln all thmgs m hfe so m th1s search for an effectlve peace plan hrst thmgs must come hrst For thou sands of year men have been search mg for a plan a form of govemment or a set of laws that would enable them to form a perfect socmety wh1ch 1LlSllC9 was supreme ln wh1ch everyone was contented and m wh1ch here would be no 1mportant prob lems Such an zdeal socmety has never been created Why? Because of the lack of a sultable system Hardly smce every concexvable system known to man has been tned before and has falled to produce the deslred result The fault thus l1es not ln the system but rather w1th the 1nd1v1duals who are governed by the systems EXCGSSIVG bureaucracy red tape and corruptlon do not result from our orm of government but rather from the corrupt 1nd1v1duals ln our mxdst Thus an xmportant thmg to remember IS that govemments nat1ons and sys tems are all art1f1c1al creatlons created to govem the hves of lndl v1duals It 15 the 1nd1v1duals who efhc1ent and 1ust and systems success ful ThlS may be compared to a bed ol flowers The bed ltself has no 1 e that determlne the character1st1cs of e bed If the flowers are beautiful e the flowers are unattractlve the bed wx not be very pleasmg to the eye It IS the flowers Wllhln the bed bed w1ll reflect th1s beauty If Sxmmlarly any proposed peace plans success w1ll depend largely 1f not entlrely on the cooperatlon f every 1nd1v1dual 1n every natlon of the world Wxth the full realxzatlon of 9 the fact that there w11l always be selhsh ev1l cymcal people e world vt 15 absolutely necessary that all the decent peace of the word regardless of race color class or creed 1o1n xn a common bond of frlendshxp to thwart the deslres of these selhsh few Th1s common bond of fr1endsh1p cannot be effected by a proclamatlon or a law It must Spflng from the heart and soul of each and every one of the peace lov mg people of the world lovmg people Thus each and every one of us has a vltal role ln the world of tomorrow for before we can 1mprove the world we must 1mprove ourselves Umversal self1mprovement w1ll be the surest guarantee of unlversal peace We certamly should get enough msplra tlon for the d1ff1cult job ahead from the great sacnhces made by men all over the world to save the world from tyranny In fact the famous m1 t1als of a man who gave lus l1fe for that purpose should form the comer stone of a new world F D R Free dom decency and nghteousness ,, lf , 174 4500 l I I IQ! fd! 1 ,fl 4.0! fill- If fl dll XI 1 tn l 0 9 .O 00 I 1l::Tl AA-1 ' l . I . . It . I .I . in th .I - ' l 1 . ' . . . . - make nations strong, governments ' jjfaf, ' . . 1 I f ' . lf . f ' fgy . . . I Xl --- . .. th ff - ,I X ' :n . - ,th , f rea., I ' I . 'f ' , 'll , Q ll 4 : ' r ,Q I i ' 0 f?El.hl I - - I I. ' . . . 0 - . . . ' W-I' . wg-