St Albans School - Albanian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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Front row left to nght Harper Perry McKnew 1Secrelaryl Mmnne Garland Second raw left to rxghl Pryor Magruder Leach C Warner Bohar! Slsson Carson Schoen E Warner Thoma Dmmar For ter Hardnson Nutung Thrrd row I It lo rlghl Clagell lconservatlve Leader! Gervasl 1Llberal Leader! The Government Class LIBERAL The problem c1v1l rlghtsl the essence of the problem how to deal w1th the mlnorltxes the Negro the Communlst, and for that matter, the true llberal Such was the first lssue confrontlng the Government Club and, more spec1hcally the Lxberal Party at the begmnmg doctored, and then p1eced together tn a logxcal and satlsfactory fashxon, a feat that could onlv be accompllshed by an actlve and alert Llberal Party In past years the Government Club had been predommantly and unhapplly conservat1ve but at the openmg of thls year prospects loolced brxghter wth a number of apparent hberals to be led bv Sean Gervasl, and wtth a number of antagonlstlc conservatxves to be used as folls To general d1smay the erstwhnle hberals CONSERVATIVE The hrst meetmg of the Club was, as usual, devoted to oratlons by the leaders and dlscus s1ons of the party platforms I had been mtldly apprehens1ve concernmg my platform, whtch was rather vague, but when at the meetmg I saw the I.1beral document for the first ttme days before all my worrxes vamshed Of the fifteen clauses, sxx were absolutely meamngless and s1x more were so laden w1th quallficatlon and ambxgulty as to be practtcally so Notwuh stanchng the xnnocuous quallty of GCYVHSI s ex pressed L1beral1sm wh1ch seemed orthodoxly Trumaman wherever we could dlscover any of xt , a large majorlty of the Club jomed the Con servat1ve Party Our first subject was Clvxl Rlghts I put ORGAN of this yea,r. It was a subject to be unraveled, fMr. Gervasi had fxlched a copy of mine several I Z A T I O N S l 9 5 0

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Fon! ro left to ight l: Wamer Marriott Hollingsworth Abell lBusmess Manager! Thomas lEdll0IllI Chnefl Gervasn Rnll Brown Back row left lo ugh! Galloway Coleman Kingsbury Bohart Stsson Thornton McCabe Pagter Pnce Schoen Stenhouse Albaman HE ALBANIAN thls year had a very mformal staff, and unul the early part of February, ll put sued its bllssful way at a very lexsurely pace Very few btographles were wrltten, and only a hand ful of ads had been collected Meettngs of the edltortal board Thomas, Gervasx, Eddie Warner, and any one else who hap pened along produced very httle The fxrst meetmg a s1x hour sesslon resulted ln the de structxon of several sandwxches and a quart of 1ce cream, and the production of one blography However, after exams, Edxtor Thomas and Business Manager Abell decxded that lf they wanted to go to Florxda during vacatton, the ALBANIAN would have to be ready to go to press before vacatton Therefore, by constant proddmg, productxon was stepped up to a snalls pace, and the begmmng of March enough ads had been sold to send the yearbook to press The ALBANIAN thls year, as ln every other year, was supposed to embody many new features However, wlth the struggle between the Busmess Manager and the Edltor over how the money should be spent, and wlth the great dtfhculty of extractlng labor from the Senlors, most of the 1111 provements have vantshed At best, mere vestlges remaln of the proposed changes However, ln sptte of all tts complaints, the Board ts grateful to every one who has put hls tlme mto the yearbook We want to thank partlcularly Tom Carson and Eddie Warner for their wxll xngness to wrxte d1H:lCUlf bxographles, B111 Marrlott and B111 Holltngsworth for all the ads they have collected Don Hand and Nick Donnelly for many of the pictures, and Douglas Stenhousc for most of the cartoons Above all, we thank Heaven that the ALBANIAN IS publlshed THE ALBANIA . X ' , el V T 1 'v X i i F lf f i I. , 1. , t if v 1 ' , . fe' Y W, , 1' I W. . ' , ' . I , A , ' -' - Absenl: Broome. Cearson. Clagett, Dittmar: Donnelly, Forster. briedlander, Hahd, Hubbell. Libby: Mitchell. O . . . . , 9

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remammg from last year mamtamed for some up a brll Gervasx postponed hrs legxslauve debut tune a broodmg srlence whlle Gervasr alone for meetmg after meetmg untxl finally at the countered the conservative onslaught He mtroduced no blll hlmself but attacked the conservatxve one wrrn its dlsdamful arr regarding mmorxtres and the attack was to some extent sucess ful smce the conservatrve bull was passed by only a comparatrvely low conser vatlve showmg As for the lxberal stand on c1v1l rights If was less clear cut than on the followmg rssues but took the general positron that there must be equal rrghts for all Unxted States cltrzens, and that rf mlnorx txes are not accorded these rrghts the Federal Govern ment must see that they are The broad and rnexhaustrble subject of Federal control and how far lf should go con stltuted the drscusslon of the next hve meetmgs of the Club Again the Liberal Party was handr WI! HWgg capped by absences and dnsumon The Conser vatxve Party on the other hand drd rtself dam age by too bombastrcally denouncmg any Fed eral mterference rn pnvate enterprrse and by bemg obvlously rncapable of seemg all sldes of the questron The lrberals attempted to pomt out that over the years condrtrons have ar1sen that necessitate Government supervrsron They mamtamed that the number of mdrgent ln the country has been mcreasmg and they must be re lreved rf not for any other reason so that mternal strlfe whrch would be aggravated by Communists might be avolded The Liberals drd not belleve FEPC to be elther a wlse measure or a just one They supported an extended so- cral securlty program and federal ard to housmg and educatlon The Llberal resolutron embodymg these programs was voted down but at the last mo ment two of the conservatxves surprxsmgly re crucral pornt he managed to get lost rn Baltrmore and never appeared at all Thus we had only my reso lutnon to vote on and the Club preferred xt to the Lrberal negatlon The fundamental prrncrple of the Conservatrve brll was the rlght of ll'ldlVlClU3lS and local governments to conduct their own affairs wxthout federal mterfer ence Thus one clause guaranteed free speech un hmxted except rn cases of llbel and exhortatxon t treason or not and another rejected FEPC others de med the right of the Fed eral government to prohrbrt whxte prrmarres and poll taxes or to deny the rrght of segrega tlon and dlscrrmrnatron to pnvate corporatrons They all passed except the prxmarres clause whrch was rejected by a txe vote so dubxous usual proxles were lnvolved that another vote was taken the next week Thls trme smce Ger vasr mtroduced a blll the Conservative policy clearly 13 9 prevarled Our next subject was the Welfare State The Club heard two extremely able speakers on thls xssue Dr Mlchael Davls defendlng Presx dent Truman s health program and Mr Perry of the AMA opposmg lt Gervasr orlgmally favored the Truman plan but finally realrzmg as he saxd that full socxallzed medxcxne could not pass the Club sponsored the SUSPICIOUSIV srmrlar Douglas plan whrch he saxd was a com promrse Hrs bull was defeated 112 The Conservatlve bxll contalned three clauses The first set forth the general prmclple that govern ment should sponsor welfare programs only for the lndlgent and that these programs should be admmrstered whenever poss1l'le by local gov ernments The other two clauses respectrvelv THE ANIA 9 9 9 9 ' 1 . . , 2 v 1 9 9 ' 9 0 ' 9 , , , , v - ' , , a er . a oner, Chairman ' ' - - - et - - - xr , - 9 . '- fas - ' 9 l Q y ' ' 9 ' ' 7 ' ' ' ' ' - :Q as : . , . - . . , . , , , . ' 9 a s . ,Q . . . . a ' ' n . ' 7 . ' ' ' . . . . N 1 - , ' ' ' ' ' . ,, . . . , . , . ' te as a a s 9 ' '