Salem State University - Clipper Yearbook

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E 11 Alia' Bagumrh Eillllilfhii You have wurleecl with Us fm' foul' ye:n's. In the CIZ1SQl'lllll'l'l, you have heemne l4nmm'u fm' yulll' quiet mliglnty, fm' work well flunef' ful' 5-nur pleasant :uul grzleinus lnanner. Tn those uf us who have nut heen ymn' wtudents, ynur willingness tn Ct'lU15Cl'2lIL' in student :1H':n1's has heen reengxuzefl and Il wweelzltefl. K I -Ks n music luver nf estnhlishecl repute vnu have de111u11st1'21te1,l your zlhility In elmjuy the hnex' things in life. You have heen 1ncn'e than mu' i11st1'11etur-nm have heen our friencl. - l

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Elie lgrvnihritfs Miramar l share with everv reader of this message a horror and detestation of war. lt is the most frightful condition in which mankind can exist. lt stitlesg it corruptsg it consumes: it destroys: it tears down and obliterates the accirmplishments of cen- turies. The futility of the whole brutal business has been brought home with start- ling clarity to the minds and hearts of our people by the experience of twenty years ago. Yet, despite its awful signilicance, war has always been, lt has seourged the earth incessantly through every generation since the birth of time. l can recall a college debate in which l undertook to prove that war will be inevitable as long as nature follows the pattern of the past. as long as envy, greed, and hatred control the destinies of men, and until the signilicance of lmman brotherhood becomes something more than a shibboleth and a sham. The merits of that contention are irrelevant here, but the fact remains that our own generation finds itself in the midst of a global conflict whose cataclysmic tentialities are so gruesome that the imagination staggers before them. lu the years which lie ahead, every American will be affected, not slightly, not indirectly, but so affected that the very currents of his life will be diverted and transformed. The inalienable rights which are treasured as a heritage will be circumscribed by the re- strictions of necessity and law. Luxuries and physical comforts now accepted as a matter of rote will be enjoyed only in retrospect. Sacrifice and danger will replace normal, happy living. The shadow of death will stalk the households of our land. Can anything be done to ameliorate the drabness of this panorama? Kluch can be done. Our history points the way. If we would chart a proper course for the future, we need only turn the pages of the past. There may be found the imper- ishable story of pioneers who, in the cause of justice, braved the perils of an un- known land. There may be found the thrilling record of colonists who flung defiance in the face of a tyrannous king. There may be found the chronicle of Appomattox where that very serfdom which now torments the once proud free peoples of Europe was forever banished from these shores. There may be found the saga of those indomitable Crusaders of the tirst World XX'ar who hurled them- selves into the very arms of death to perpetuate a democracy which had been sealed with the blood of their ancestors. There may be found, on a page whose type is hardly dry, the exploits of men like Colin Kelly and Edward O'Hare-and Douglas MacArthur. T Surely there is inspiration for us in all of this. XYe yield nothing to the past in our tolerance of oppression, in our hatred of injustice, in our contempt for the doctrine that might is synonymous with right. Perverted conceptions of govern- ment which have their roots in foreign soil can never thrive in a nation whose whole history is a living protest against them. Our Hag stands todav exactly for what it has stood through all the brave years that have gone. It stainds forithe spirit of universal equality born upon these shores one hundred and sixty-six years ago, nurtured and made strong by successive generations of patriots. to be kept vigorous by us in our time and by those who follow us until the end of time. T QWJ4 W.