Siskiyou Union High School - White and Gold Yearbook (Weed, CA)

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THE CHALLENGES OF DEMOCRACY FursT Prize Essay l-las American democracy a chance To survuve wuTh unresTrncTed ToTaln Tarnan aggress1onTalcung place'7 lT has' A changlng world wull never deprive us oT our rughTs as Tree Amerucans There are challenges oT Today ThaT need a new lcnnd oT proneerang The TarsT challenge blows ouT lllce a bugle Can we meeT and lceep up wuTh The progress oT Germany'7 WlTh Germany s power sTeadTasTly Increasing we musT be The arsenal oT democracy Preparedness IS one T:rsT lune oT deTense boTh maTerlally and economically lT as Trom wealcness ThaT people clamor Tor dncTaTors and concenTraTed governmenTal power Only The sTrong can be Tree And only The producTuve can be sTrong ProducTuon as our basuc need Today No maTTer how TasT one Torce Trnes To change a con TnnenT democracy wall change wnTh equal rapuduTy The greaT role oT gov ernmenT In a democracy ns To combune all elemenTs nncludung uTselT Our consTuTuTuon ThaT unlgue and TundamenTal docTrune has remanned sTaunch Tor over one hundred and T4TTy years noTwlThsTandung The drasT:c changes oT The world As long as we are To remann a Tree people The consTuTuTuon musT be The supreme law oT The land The second challenge ns To The youTh oT our naTuon The quesTnon ns Can The youTh oT Today adapT Themselves To The rapidly changlno courses oT evenTs now Talcmng place7 The youTh of The naTuon are Tull oT enThuslasm and splraT and only wanT Theur heads To be Turned The rughT way To become good useTul c:Tuzens They wanT a hand To guide Them aT The crlsus oT Their laves when They are aT The crossroad where Their TuTure branches oTT Tor good or Tor eval Our publrc schools our open Torums and our youTh conTerences nnduvndually and lolnTly will prove To be a guadnng hand which will malce us good useTul cnTuzens Can a democracy deTend uTselT wuTh The eTTncuency Tound ID The ToTal: Tarlan sTaTes7 Thus IS The Thurd challenge All oT us have heard much oT how dlcTaTorral powers have mobilized The brains and nngenuuTy oT Theur labora Tory experTs In TulTlllmenT oTThe1r ambuTlon ls :T possible ThaT a counTry such as Germany or Russva can puT Theur scuenTuTuc research Tar ahead oT ours7 No as The answer gsven by leadung Amerncan research scnenTusTs MomenTarlly The marshalling oT sc1enTlT1c brains may and Their war machines buT In The nexT Tuve or Ten years They expecT These counTrles To lag Tar behind ID The race Tor Technological supremacy Scsence wlThouT a doubT IS oTTerung lncalculable conTrlbuTuons IU our ablluTy To deTend our Treedom I7