Central High School - Warrior Yearbook (Memphis, TN)

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SENIOR EDITION? 1939 Our Future Tonight, we, the Class of 39, bid our last farewell to Central High School, receive our diplomas, a handshake and a blessing. We, who have looked forward to this mght of eraduation, now regret its passing and are not so eager to leave the school and faculty we have grown to know and respect. As we sit here, a continuous train of rem- iniscences flashes across Our memories. Friends we have made; tasks we have ac- complished; lessons we have perhaps not liked, yet studied; teachers with whom we have worked; all have a place in this rapid chain of events and bring back thoughts of familiar surroundings. Thus saddened by our leaving, yet en- couraged and strengthened by ambition and determination, we shall soon remove these caps and gowns, being no longer High School seniors, but another class of graduates step- ping cautiously forth into a new and un- known world. As we prepare to go forth, even the most daring among us hesitate as we realize fully the precarious surroundings into which we are advancing. We see a world of hostile nations striv- ing for power, quarreling over territories hovering on the brink of a major war. Ethopia, Spain, and China have already felt the crushing force of devastating con- flicts. Austria, Czechoslavakia, Bohemia, Lithuania, Memel, and Albania have felt the devouring greed of men mad with power. As democratic statesmen struggle valiantly for peace, the Rome-Berlin axis pushes its way into the richest lands of Europe. While British armaments and conscription are doubled and gas masks fitted on men, women, and children, foreign dictators meet to de- cide the fate of nations. Into such a world do we cautiously advance to meet the might- lest challenge ever offered a civilization—a challenge to save modern civilization from complete destruction, Page Thirty The most progressive advance of science, business, and culture the world has ever wit- nessed is being threatened. Marvelous dis- coveries in the fields of medicine and sci- ence, new theories of law and government yet in the making, all the inventions of the twen- tieth century will be crushed if the next war is as terrible as it must inevitably be. Not only do we see such alarming con- ditions in Europe, but focusing our attention on matters of unrest and disturbance nearer home, we see alarming conditions and inter- national problems in South America. Alarm- ing conditions? International problems? Yes, caused by Nazi and Fascist representa- tives who have gained a strong foothold in Latin American Countries. Communication and transportation between South America and Europe have been carefully built up by German agents schooled in ‘‘Organization and Colonization in the Americas.’’ While Germany’s South American cotton trade was doubled in 1938, Mextco signed oil trade agreements with Italy. These treaties were formerly consigned to Great Britain. Thus the trouble-makers of Europe provide for future colonies in the Americas. These are the eonditions of the outside world. Now let us determine the more im- mediate problems of our own nation. Just what may we expect to find when we examine the possibilities of making a successful start now or after college years? Viewing our own country, we see it in the midst of the most radical experiment it has ever attempted. Overwhelmed by un- employment, faced with the problem of a very unbalanced budget, appropriating bil- lions for defense, striving to make adjust- ments between big business, and the govern- ment, it is passing through the most pre- carious decade of its entire history. Never before have more dictatorial peace time pow- (Continued on page 39)

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CENTRAL HIGH WARRIOR All «A” Pupils Rosalind Dubroyner S. L. Kopald, Jr. Dorothy Gall Gladys Moore, Ruth Irby Dorothy Jean Northern Sara Morehead Page Thirty-one