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

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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-

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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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ETIIAYAL It IIN Ill Ill llli 9 E C Ox 2 QW X ..' .ff 5 uv'-' x Skt X IOHN STEIGER xxxx ft? S X XX SLOWLY AND painfully, lim Casey, right halfback for the Central High eleven, picked himself up. Stopped every time, he thought to himself, not a single play has clicked yet. Only three minutes remained for the half. If only they could hold that ball. Quickly, he filled up his position in the huddle, just in time to hear Artie Mackey, the quarterback of the team, say, Come on, fellows, we'll try Number 6. That's your play, he said to Ben Fuller, the big, brawny full- back. Put it over that 45 yard line for our first down Ill try answered Ben They lined up Then Art called the numbers swiftly 23 24 25 38 26 and the numbers rang out clear and true The ball snapped nght back into Fullers hands He gathered t m and started for the openmg made between guard and tackled for him He hit the openmg square in the middle yet there seemed to be some force hold mg him back He felt himself sinking slowly to the ground Then he used every ounce of strength and gave one more mighty heave As if hit by a solid bnck wall he fell to the ground There they were right in the m1d dle of nowhere What were they go ing to do? Only a couple of minutes to go to the half said Evans the lightning right end Its their down on our 45 yard line he added Do you thmk we can hold them until the whistle? asked Mackey As if by some magical touch they all shouted yes at once They quickly regamed their footing and walked to their positions The first play was around end but the ball carner was thrown for a three yard loss by Ioe Evans the right end The second went threw center for six yards. Then the whistle blew and the half was over. At the end of the half on their own 45 yard line. They slowly trotted to the dress- ing room. Once in the dressing room, Grimes, the coach. said, Well, fellows, what's wrong? We don't know, answered Fuller. Do you, coach? asked Evans. Yes, I think I do, answered Grimes. But I'm not going to tell you. I think I'll leave that up to Shaw, our center, to explain I've been doing a little checking up and I thmk he could explain 1t better than I Maybe he doesnt care to talk I dont know what you are talking about he stammered Perhaps I can refresh your mem ory said Grimes It all happened about three weeks ago when you went out of bounds when you werent supposed to What actually happened I dont know but maybe you had better tell us All right said Shaw still showing a little of his fright It happened 1ust l1ke coach said I went out of bounds one night Thought I needed a little fun a different kind of l1fe than I was leading here lust all studies backaches from football remarks from my teachers no fun at all I went to one of the nightclubs ui town and got myself into a ruce gamblmg debt of S150 Iust a few days before this big game today with Van Courtland High the nightclub manager told me to have the money by game time or else I didnt know what to do It must have been all planned Because the captam of the Van Courtland team came over to me yesterday when I was m town and asked if I wanted to repay that S150 debt I owed to the nightclub All I had to , ,, . . . Il I II ' ' . 1 11 I I ll I - n lt I I I I I 1 . I 1 - i u 'II s I I 15 , . 1 . 1 1 I . . . - l - - - tt - . In 1 1 D . . . I ll ' 1 . . ,. . . . . . 11 . . . . , t. 11 - 1 fww I . . 4 ,Q if Ta: r 1 ff 1 ' ' me JWQMF ' Af' l . 1A,1, .f ' . C I 'Ns' Q K Z1-L :1 .,4 1 7' ii ,ig-S ' ,, x fqxawk ssl 1' X X .,. . VV