Mount Diablo High School - Diablo Yearbook (Concord, CA)

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Dear Parents of Mt. Diablo Union High School Students: I am not writing to tell you that Tom has been playing hookey again, that Jim is not working in his Physics class, or that Ed is late too often be- cause of a certain attraction in the English Building. We have no serious epidem- ics—other than heart trouble. This comes with spring, but the bug travels quickly from one victim to another, so we do not worry about the serious- ness of any case. I am troubled, as you probably are, about certain things. Without our realizing what is happening, influences are at work which will convert our boys and girls to a way of life which will not bring them happiness, or eco- nomic and spiritual good. We are too tolerant of bad manners and bad social relationships. We have too much of lying, or dishonest motives; desire to get by with poor work or no work, to get by the law and its enforcing officers. We fear too often to stand for what we know to be right. We accept the cheap in our radio programs and even the vile in our books, plays, and magazines. We allow the claws of communism to grasp at the roots of our democracy. Our hope is in our young people. They, you, and I must stand together with determination to be clean, decent, honest, law-abiding Americans who will fearlessly guard our democracy from our own weaknesses, and from the undermining influence of any ism. My letter stresses serious issues, but I have not forgotten that humor, the beautiful in music, literature, and art, and honesty and cleanness in liv- ing still exist among us to give us courage. I may say, for your future comfort, that Anne, in spite of her spelling, finally passed her English A examination. Sincerely,