Saline High School - Salinian Yearbook (Saline, MI)

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of the tenement district and other sordid dwelling flwwer needs solving. The poverty of the proverbial lower tnird imperils the peace, the health, and the security of the whole nation. The problems of the sharecroppers, the slums the poor of the South weaken our country because those places are the breeding places of discontent, hatred, dis- ease, and crime. The problem of unemployment is to be solved, but it can't be done by the graduating classes, joining the unem- ployed, as long as these graduates have the attitude that- all opportunities are gene. The morals of the people should be raised, as right now they seem to be at a rather low level. Juvenile Delin- ouency apparently, is on the increase. The problem of labor, the problem of the distribution of resources--all need solving besides the problems in medi eine, in manufacturing, and in various other sciences. We, as a graduating class, realize that we shall not Find the easy world that graduating clesees of fifteen and twenty years ego found, but we feel that we have been prepared to meet these problems. All of our time has not been devoted to football, dances, class parties, but much of our time has been spent in studying the problems the world Paces. We will face the future with the attitude that we can and will succeed.