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c- ,, JOHN D. BLACKFORD. Superintendent Historians tell us that from about the time of the beginning of the Christian Era until one hundred years ago the population of the world remained practically the same. Peo- ples shifted as cultures decayed, but warfare! disease, starvation, and the elements contrived to keep the world population relatively constant. We are also told that during the last one hundred years the population of the world has doubled. During this same one hundred years, science, mechanics, industry, agriculture, and transportation have made more progress than in all previous history. We have advanced from the covered wagon to jet propelled transport planes; from muskets to atom bombs; from canal boats to streamlined trains; troma rural economy to an industrialeconomy. The impact of this progress on the minds and souls of a doubled population has re- sulted in two World Warsuand a present state Of delicately balanced armistice. The direct and indirect casualties of World War II are estimated at 296 of the world population. Only in a few favored nations is there enough to eat, enough to wear, enough housing. Malnutrition and starvation are wide-Spread. Disease and pestilence are at a modern high. Man knows how to avoid or combat all these things. He also knows how to destroy himself and his civilization in a iew hours. Three possibilities are before us. We can release the atom bomb with the probable final result being the annihilation of Western civilization. We can continue as we are. in a condition where starvation, disease, and warfare bid fair to combine to stabilize the population for another 2,000 years. Perhaps, by devoting his best talents to human and social engineering for a generation, man may learn to live in peace and plenty in some sort of a world federation of states. Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be found. Your generation cannot escape the responsibility of making these decisions The as- signment is perhaps the most difficult ever to confront a single generation. The decision must be made Within the next twenty years. The nature of the decision will determine the course of all human history from this point on. 14
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EARLE R. SEIDNER. Principal In answer to the question, What do you wish the principal to write to you in your annuai? students have made the following replies: It makes little difference, few students will read it anyhow. Don't tell us that now the world is our oyster, and all we need to do is crack it. , Don't tell us to go out into the world and do great deeds. Be simple and sincere, and you won't miss. All of these replies are candid and honest; certainty they merit consideration as advice and counsel. Though you are leaving Plainvilte High School, you still remain a part of it and it remains a part of you. You have had some successes and some failures While you have been here. In either case, the things you have done are now a part of the history of this school. Some of them are good; some, bad. They represent the part of you that remains with the school. What part of the school are you taking with you? Knowledge and ideas that you may use some day? The respect of your teachers? The friendship and esteem of other stu- dents? Ambitions and ideals to guide you? Sympathy and understanding for those of your group who have succeeded less otten than you? An awareness of the many things you have yet to learn? These things your school has tried to give you. Have you been successful while you were here in school? That depends upon what you have left here. It the school is better because you were here, you have undoubtedly been successful. Will you be successful in the life you 1iVe after you have been graduated? That ques- tion cannot be answered by how much money you make, by how big a job you tilt, by how well-known you become. It will be answered by your contribution to the home you establish, the Church you attend. the community in Which you live. The measure of your success is the benefit that other people derive from your efforts. It you can keep this thought ever betore you, you cannotbeataiture. 15
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