Newtown High School - Newtowner Yearbook (Elmhurst, NY)

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NEWTOWN 1 1 1 1 1 lunc, 1937 trained corps of doctors and nurses would greatly strengthen the conquest of pestilence and disease. Money could be used for highways, bridges, and railways. Communication could reach a new peak of perfection. More time could be given to the arts and recrea- tion. The world would be a happier place to live in and living in it would make us happy. To all this, you might answer, This is a vague Utopian dream. I reply, No. This is life without war. This is peace on earth. Samuel Hodgdon ll 'idz lVarl1l' Ph nlox Twelve

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lzme, 1937 f f f f f NEWTOWN taken sotne steps in this direction. liy neutralizing the Great Lakes and eliminating fortifications on our boundary, we have maintained complete harmony and understanding with Canada for over one hundred years. We have settled many disputes with England by diplomacy and arbitration. More recently, we have negotiated reciprocal trade and monetary agreements with other powers that should serve to lessen economic friction, and President Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policyn has greatly improved our relations with the nations of thc Caribbean. All the ideals of past accomplishments have been embodied in the peace proposals ol' Secretary of State Cordell Hull at the recent conference in Buenos Aires. Should the United States ratify the agreements brought up at this conference, she will launch a delinite program of international co-operation. She will prove her acceptance of arbitra- tion and her denunciation of war as a means of settling international disputes. She will show herself ready to elitninate economic peace barriers by means of more reciprocal trade agreements. She will give evidence that she realizes that the hope of peace is not nationalism but internationalism. There remains one more problem. The people must learn to answer this question: VVhy peace? Common sense alone can teach them. Year after year, billions of dollars are spent for armaments. National treasuries are drained to supply bigger ships, faster planes, and more eifective destroyers. This money is inevitably wasted because the weapons are either soon outmoded or destroyed by war. Think how much more intelligent it would be to direct these staggering sums into more constructive channels. Great progress could be made in the Held of education. Science and medicine could reach new heights. Erlicient, fully equipped hospitals, with highly Eleven

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I une, I9 37 1 1 1 1 1 NEWTOWN Now Let Us Tray Peateel The cannon has made a last retort, The battle of nations is doneg Another war has been cruelly fought, But which is the country that won? Does ever a country come forth from a war With-something to the gain- With so much more than it had before To repay for the horrors and pain? No battle ever righted a wrong Which couldn't have been done with pen, Still, men, stirred on by the words of a song, Have murdered their fellowmen. Age after age, war has been used To make grave problems cease. Each time this remedy has been refused, Now, let us try peace! Fannctte A. Sandberg Pax vobi5cum, the padre said, Pax nobiscum, the earth replied, And God looked down from his throne- And sighed. For the earth by turmoil and war was rent, And nations fought nations, and men fought men, People had died, and peace had died, Yet the padre said, and people, and the whole earth replied- Pax. And God looked down from his throne- And cried. Eflzcl M. Iackson Thirteen