North High School - Silhouette Yearbook (Youngstown, OH)

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The eimiieige War is expensive. The Second World War has cost us more than three hundred billion dollars already. This is but a fraction of the eventual cost. Generations yet unborn will still be paying. Three hundred thousand of our young men, who had a right to expect much of life, will never return. No statistics can demonstrate, or the human mind conceive, the sum total of the want, misery, and suffering this war has entailed. Veteran hospitals are filled to overflowing and will remain so for the next quarter of a century. Likewise, the drain on our natural resources is almost irreparable and the tendency to lower moral and spiritual standards a danger to civilization. War is devastating. Can wars be prevented? The shopworn answer is, No , that hisioiy repeats itself, that its pages are filled with wars. But to-days world can no longer accept that answer. Destructive science has developed to the place where we must abolish wars or perish. We can no longer ,ignore the ques- tion. It must be answered NOW in the affirmative by the present genera- tion. We now know that we must become world minded and share the prob- lems of other peoples, believe that we are our brother's keeper, solve the problems of economics, meet the problems both spiritual and material of an intricate civilization. There are many new isms and philosophies in the world today. There is one so old that it is often considered old-fashioned. l would commend it to you as you step out into an uncertain world crying for leadership and the wisdom of the ages. The basis for the prevention of war must be founded upon this philosophy. You know it, already. It is the philosophy of the Carpenter's Son of Gallilee. C. V. Thompson eiight

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ood-gn, my 7'zien3s Democracy is on trial. The theory that the effective solution of har- assing problems is secured more fully by the thinking and voting of ALL the people has always been on trial but never more so than today. Inade- quate housing, inflation, higher wages, medical care, racial tension, sec- tional conflict in economic development, world relations, compulsory mili- tary training, are some of the problems pressing for a solution. Some of us are extreme optimists and believe that everything will come out all right even if no one does anything constructive about our problems. Some of us are extreme pessimists and believe that democracy is headed for the rocks in spite of all that we can do. The truth of the matter is that our country has always come through because there were always enough pat- riotic citizens who were willing to do constructive things and refrain from doing destructive things, e.g., black market operations. lt does not neces- sarily follow that this will always be true. My hope is that every North High graduate will make some contribu- tion to the solution of America's problems. I believe that satisfaction with life comes partly from a feeling of having done something which adds satis- faction to our country. Remember every person's effort counts no matter how insignificant it may seem. ls not the sea shore made up of billions of small grains of sand? Good Luck To You! Good Bye, My Friends! W. L. Richey SSM eh

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Mr. Louis Boyd was born in Cambridge, Ohio. He attended Rio Grande College where he received the Bachelor of Arts degree. Later he took the Master of Education degree at the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh. He teaches geography and business mathematics. CZ visefzs LOUIS BOYD HIRE JOSEPHINE ORVIBLE Miss Josephine Orville is a Local Gal. She went to Rayen School and graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Secretarial Science from Ohio University. Then she took a Master in Letters with a major in English from the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh. She teaches commercial work.