Salem State University - Clipper Yearbook

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TM' TTLYII' Wool 1953 Ghz 122111 Roan There is infinite room for improvement in the panic-ridden civilization of 1933. but must the whole cosmos be shattered to bits in order to begin? Long ago, Omar Khayyarn felt and expressed the need for change, in words known to all who read English literature. Life was complex in the days when he said, 'AAh, Love! Could Thou and l with Fate conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, XYould we not shatter it to bitsf and then Re-mould it nearer to the l-leart's Desire! 1933 presents a panorama of vastly increased breadth. We behold economic struggles in Russia, social uprootings in Germany, increase of governmental experi- mentation everywhere. Should we seize them entire and revert to chaos? This is what some people desire. The need for rebuilding is greater than ever, but only half-understanding souls, with whom the writer has little sympathy, would wish to discard the values of the past. Upon the framework which we have, we should build further toward the sun of that much-heralded New Day of better understanding, sincerity, and toleration of true progress. With the aid of such lighthouses we may approach the Heart's Desire of international harmony. Pope was wrong when he said, Whatever is, is right. ln that smug philosophic soil of the eighteenth century were sown the dragon's teeth which have sprung to dreadful maturity in our own day. We must pursue the middle way between the extremes of Omar and Pope. We must be courageous enough to face and to overcome the things which are wrong, courageous enough to break away from the old which is outworn, clinging to that which is of value, courageous enough to cherish freedom of thought, courageous enough to prevent destruction Cunder the guise of improve- ment D of the foundations upon which a true civilization rests. We must build on the experience of the past in order to make a new world. Seemingly, we are moving toward one of the two ends, that of international fear or that of international sympathy. The first is debilitating, annihilatingg the second is invigorating, soothing to a blistering world, burnt now on all sides. A magnificent chance is ours-to direct our efforts and those of our successors into the way of true progress, to remould, without shattering to bits , to live, to teach so that the present fervent desires of the few may become the realization of all in an educated, light-infiltrated world. ANNA GERSHAW Elementary Senior 16

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