St Albans School - Albanian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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volted from thelr party and caused to be strlclcen from the party blll the clause l1m1t1ng soclal securxty The Conservatlve b1ll was then passed With forelgn pollcy as the questlon the most controverslal and arouslng subject of the year to face the Club party lmes were merged and each member extolled hxs own parttcular theory for solvmg the forexgn pollcy cr1s1s A number of the theorxes were mcorporated mto bllls Tom S1 son presented a mxhtary program for armmg all natlons opposed to Commumst expanslon and was supported by a good many of the conservatlves I presented a resolutxon axmed at avoldlng war by lceepmg the United States strong morally and physlcally and was supported by a number of the llberals The xnterestlng and lxvely debate strayed from foreign pollcy morals to control of apan and Germany to recogmtlon of Spam to the hydrogen bomb PRCIHSII1 was kept ahve by Clagett, Don McKnew and left wxnger Stanley Forster but xts proponents put lxttle v1r1l1ty lnto their arguments and even less smcerlty Fatahsm was supported by arch pessxmlst Tom Carson and the mcoherent Charlxe Warner The final result was that the votmg was spllt wlth seven votes each for the Slsson and Warner b1lls Thus, no fore1gn polxcy was formulated for the Club One b1ll was passed one xrrelevant to foretgn pollcy that called for world conserva tlon and voluntary bxrth control The next two meetmgs were devoted to a subject that had already been postponed once umflcatnon of the armed servlces Tom Sns son was the one most anxtous to take up the sub ject and also the one most averse to UIIIHCHYIOU He gave convmcxng arguments to show the m justlce of xt oe Dxttmar, leadmg the opposl t1on retorted with equally convmcmg argu ments Agaxn the Club was d1V1dCd and nelther a b1ll for UHlfiC3IlOl'l nor one agamst lt was passed EDWIN WARNER rejected SOCl3ll2Cd medlclne and enacted far reachmg reforms ln the social securlty system m accordance wlth the general prmclples of clause one On votmg mght the Club took a confusmg and self contradictory actxon If passed the first and second clauses of the Conservative bnll, but through Darrah Thomas s amendment, rejected the th1rd and even rejected an amendment of Carsons to glve control of SOCIBISCCUIIIY to the states' Thus the Club was willing to ap prove broad general prlnclples but unwlllmg to pass a measure whlch slmply applxed these prmcxples to a SPCCIHC sltuatxon The long debate on forelgn REBITS was not able for nts mcoherence confuslon and the ab sence of any constructlve concluslon The Club was spllt 1nto four factlons none of whlch could command a major1ty Both leaders deserted the1r partles and became ardent pacxfists though when votmg time came GCFVSSI chlclced out and declmed to cast h1s ballot for the paclflst McKnew Forster Clagett blll which received only the votes of 1ts three sponsors Charlle Warner wxldly advocated complete wxthdrawal of Amerxcan money troops etc from Europe S1sson wanted an aggressxve m1l1tar1st1c pollcy and Eddle Warner put up a comparatively mod erate and thorough bnll deslgned to avoid war wxthout S3CI'lflC1l'lg our nat1onal fntegrlty All were defeated and the forexgn polxcy of the Government Club became a program of edu cation so1l conservatlon, and blrth control the DuBois Wmnaclcer Resolutxon Altogether the forelgn pollcy debates whxch mcluded an ab sorbmg talk by Herr Gunther Harlcort were the most entertamlng and rxdxculous of the en t1re year Tom Ssson finally persuaded us lnto dls cussmg umflcatxon for two meetlngs At the first of these Slsson dehvered a speech whxch was perhaps the best of the year he possessed an artlculateness and a knowledge of the facts that have been all too rare m the Club How ever he falled to convert a major1ty to his antx umficatnon bellefs and hrs resolutxon went down to defeat as dud Charlle Warners opposmg measure BRICE CLAGETT ORGAN , . , . , . , . . , . . , . ' s . . . , . . . . . .5 .. I .. - I u 9 9 3 . .. . . . 0 l . . , ., - . .. . , . , J . , , . . . , - ' ' 1 1 'QQ a ,, , -' s 4 1 , - - ., . . ' . . .. . D , , I 3 I g a 9 . - . ' , ' s 1 1 - l u. , - , . . . . 0 R - ' . . . . ,, . 9 9 - . . - . . , . . - ' a .J . . .- I .- , ' ' - . . . . . . , . . . , . .. . .- 5 . . , . 1 IZATIONS 1950

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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 ' '

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