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

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proper value upon ThaT realiTy, is a primary obiecTive oT all our eTTorTs here aT school. UnTorTunaTely, ThaT abiliTy oTTen appears noT as wide- spread among The members oT our democraTic American socieTy as we should like. We musT. ThereTore, re- double our eTTorTs To help esTablish The rule oT reason over The dicTaTes oT emoTion, iT our counTry is To avoid The mosT serious dangers oT The con- Troversies ThaT may beseT us now and in The TuTure. Cur Taslc would be an easy one and The soluTion oT our diTTiculTies readily wiThin our grasp, iT a Tew words or a simple Tormula would be enough To save us. Keenness oT wiTs. readiness To use The sTore oT experi- ence and The accumulaTed wisdom oT The pasT, compleTe honesTy oT purpose, and eTernal vigilance will always have immense value in help- ing us cuT our way Through Talse argumenTs and dishonesT emoTional appeals To reach The way oT TruTh ThaT They serve To obscure, Une Tur- Ther cauTion seems in order. The Schoolmen, as The philosoph- ers oT The Middle Ages are called. have leTT us The heriTage oT a word and a procedure ThaT should prove immensely helpTul. The word is The l.aTin verb disTinguo , ThaT may be rendered inTo English as l malce a disTincTion or a deTiniTion and The procedure is similarly The deTiniTion oT Terms or The precise marking ouT oT The exacT meaning oT each oT The maTTers under discussion. Qnce boTh sides To a conTroversy have deTined Their Terms and seT TorTh whaT They regard as The basic issues oT The dispuTe, The way is clear Tor a raTional weighing oT The argu menTs pro and con. ln our Torums and discussions, in school and be- yond our school days, leT us Try To apply The word and The procedure oT The Schoolmen. We shall Thus help malce our C5reaT DebaTes producTive oT True wisdom and lasTing good. l is kk

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A ESSAGE RO THE S K I P P WILLIAM A. CLARKE f' f, ii'X QP i I I . I -- , f - ,. ' Q N T , isi A L., rv I Ta, 4 Tl-lE GREAT DEBATE is a Term oT TreguenT recurrence These days. We seem To pass Trom one such .debaTG upon a maTTer oT naTional inTeresT and policy To anoTher similar conTro- versy over an issue oT equally grave concern. The halls oT Congress. The sessions oT The UniTed NaTions, The discussion and commenTaTor prO- grams on radio and Television, The ediTorial and correspondence col- umns oT our newspapers alike are given over To argumenTs on one side or The oTher oT These momenTous public guesTions. No sooner does one maTTer oT dispuTe appear seTT'ed Than we are launched upon a new war oT words over a Tresh diTTerence oT opinion. lT should be a source oT greaT saT- isTacTion ThaT These remain conTlicTs oT words and ideas raTher Than baT- Tles wiTh arms in a liTe-and-deaTh miliTary conTesT. Even Though Tem- pers may Tlare and The shoddiesT Triclcs oT The demagogue may seem To be employed aT Times by one side or The oTher, The dispuTes happily are sTill bloodless. YeT, They do con- Tain very real dangers and cerTain precauTions are essenTial if we are To come Through These conTroversies wiThouT serious harm. The TacTics oT our Tireless Com- munisT enemies, wiThin our own coun- Try and abroad, Tind a TerTile Tield here Tor beclouding issues and per- verTing Tree discussion To Their own sinisTer ends. IT is all The more im- porTanT, ThereTore, ThaT we be pre- pared To deal wiTh Their new Type oT aggression in which They spread pro- paganda and sow disaTTecTion. IT is essenTial Tor our own presenT and TuTure securiTy ThaT we weigh and measure mosT careTully The proposals and supporTing reasons oT all Those who aim To win our allegiance To any new program oT public policy. The abiliTy, improved by Training and pracTice, To cuT Through The smokescreen OT Talse reasoning To The realiTy ThaT lies hidden under- neaTh This disguise and To puT 5

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PRO I E PRING PEGGIANN KARPF The Train ierked To an abrupT halr. l.ori Baker, TwenTy-Two years old, iumped To The plaTTorm. I-ler anxious gray eyes scanned The Throng oT waiTing people unTil They came To resT on a graying, middle-aged man aT The Tar end. Uncle lvlaThew, she called. l-le Turned, a smile breaking over his weaTher-beaTen TeaTures, as he hur- ried Towards her. Why, Lori, how you've grown, he laughed, as he planTed a lighT kiss on her cheek. Lori laughed Too. IT was a privaTe ioke oT Theirs. l have grown, Though, she ThoughT To herselT. Older, sadder, and I hope a Iirrle wiser. I-laven'T you anyThing To say ThaT would brighTen The day Tor an old man? Uncle lVIaTT inquired, as Tive minuTes laTer he drove The beaT-up Ford along The well-paved road. Qld man? Why, I don'T know any old men, l.ori declared sTouTly. Lori smiled, buT her gaze was Tixed on The VermonT counTryside ThaT was slipping by. I-lere and There paTches oT brown showed Through The Thin layer oT snow. Bleak mounTains rose To meeT The darkening sky oT Twi- lighT. There was someThing wisTTul abouT Those mounTains. Lori TelT close To Tears. Luckily, They reached The Tarm Then, and in The exciTemenT oT greeTing AunT MarTy her spiriTs rose. Well, iT sure does seem like ages since you were here lasT, her aunT said, when halT an hour laTer They were seaTed abouT The round dining room Table, helping Themselves To 6 , ' Z? ai rr Zi S iw! generous servings oT The delicious New England cooking. I wanTed To come aT ChrisTmas. buT I had To work. l'm glad I was able To Take Two weeks oT my vacaTion now, she explained. I don'T Think l could have waiTed unTil This sum- mer To geT away. We couldn'T have waiTed 'Til summer, eiTher, AunT MarTy smiled. Lori looked graTeTully aT her plump, gray eyed aunT. ShorT, premaTurely whiTe hair Tramed The happy, pink- cheeked Tace, in which smile lines were eTched deeply. She knew They loved her as much as she loved Them, and ThaT They looked Torward To her visiTs as much as she did. They had no children oT Their own, Their only son having been killed in The Korean War, and ever since her own TaTher had died when she was a baby. she had spend almosT all oT her vacaTions on Their Tarm. lT was VermonT ThaT she had come To look upon as her home, iusT as she had come To con- Tide in AunT lVlarTy and look To her and Uncle IVlaTT Tor advice. IT was To Them ThaT she had come wiTh her childhood ioys and sorrows. IT wasn'T ThaT her moTher didn'T care abouT her: iT was iusT ThaT she had had To work so hard To geT herselT The high posiTion in The company Tor which she worked, ThaT she had sorT oT become more oT an execuTive Than a moTher, even aT home. l-ori, l almosT TorgoT, buT There's a Grange meeTing TonighT. Would you like To come? OTherwise, l'll sTay home wiTh you, AunT MarTy inTerrupTed her ThoughTs.