Plymouth High School - Pilgrim Yearbook (Plymouth, MA)

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The Principal Speaks FAITH Nl upon faith — faith in another person, in a group of persons, faith in the future. When a man in Boston buys the product of a man in California, he does so beheving that the article will come up to certain specifications, and the man in California sends that article to Boston, firm in his faith that the buyer will remit payment. The check itself, merely a man ' s signature on a piece of paper, is accepted on faith. The whole trans- action from beginning to end is based upon mutual acceptance of the other man ' s good word. EARLY every human relationship is based If one examines other human contacts and analyzes them he finds that in essence all but a very few are based upon the faith we have in our fellow men, in their good intentions and their good judgment. When faith is broken we find that the failure lies in the field of judgment more often than in motives. Today when the nations of the world regard themselves with so much suspicion and distrust it seems a pity that the ordinary practices of human behavior cannot apply more generally. There is little doubt that if reasonable men the world over were given a chance to come together and discuss and understand the problems which affect them individually and as members of national groups that all their differences could be peaceably composed provided good will be present. If that ingredient is missing, suspicion and distrust will not yield to knowledge, for malice always has distorted knowledge and turned it into prejudice. With a new foreign policy for this country evolving from the welter of national interests now in conflict throughout the world, more than ever it becomes necessary for us to remember how much of the work of the world goes on from day to day simply because men are ready to accept the word of other men. Whatever the deficiencies of faith may at the moment be there are still great reserves of it at work, and the world does go on because of that. Anything we can do to extend and widen faith of men in each other will serve to bolster up the peace of the world. EDGAR J. MONGAN 22

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DORIS VALERIANI We became enthralled, When us she ' d fascinate; For her voice has proved It ' s force to captivate. THONY YANNI ow when it x;omes.t)t swift departures Tony really Utbl ' tlysAfake; We ' re swept e by nasty exits He and Bett jiaily make. CRAIG WEBBER He lopes about our corridors Glad to have returned; At any rate, he ' s proud to say His diploma was really earned. JANE WOOD We ' d like to give to Janie A wondrous fountain pen To help her write her letters ' Til Art comes home again. HAROLD YOUNG As the third musketeer In a trio of fame With Pinball and Crowell; To clown is their aim! if MANANA To the south there ' s a clime. Where I ' m going sometime. There, work is a sin, not a virtue. And it ' s not the belief That sleep is a thief. That rest in the daytime will hurt you. There speech in its beauty Has no word like duty. The natives just never know sorrow. Should some job arise They just open their eyes; Oh, just let it go ' til tomorrow. Now these folks are my kind, I have made up my mind — No one must delay my departing: Though today I must wait, I ' m tired and it ' s late — Tomorrow I ' ll surely be starting. BARBARA RAYMOND 21

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