St Ignatius High School - Ignatius Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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be found That man was now rrsrng from hrs posrtron rn the murky waters of the r1ce paddy clutchrng hrs prstol wrth deadly pur pose He found a s1de road deserted at th1s late hour and walked brrskly The actron warmed h1s blood and qurckened h1s mmd He was unaware of hrs wet clothrng and hrs hunger as he revrewed hrs plan Sud dently he stopped short Why should not The Beast be shot? None could deny that he deserved death as no other mortal had ever deserved rt And yet hrs unspeakable crrmes could never be washed away not even wrth hrs own blood Shootrng h1m would be an act of mercy and he d1d not deserve mercy No he must endure the slow torture the Amerrcans had felt He must bear the 1gnom1ny of losrng face before the 1eer1ng crowds of men whom he had treated as anlmals He must feel the heavy hand of Iustrce strrke hrm to the ground' Hrs dec1s1on made the Iap turned toward the camp of the Amerrcans In the lrght of the cold gray dawn he was ushered 1nto the OIIICG of the commandrng offlcer of the Occupatron forces The Amerlcan looked up sharply from the prle of papers on hrs desk annoyed at the 1ntrus1on of th1s wretch at such an ungodly hour Hrs lrp curled as he saw bowrng before h1m the crrngrng exemplar of con quered Nrppon They crawled from the1r frlthy holes to cower on the1r knees before those rn power begg1ng for mercy But rn the1r hearts there was not sorrow no w1sh to repay those upon whom they had rnflrcted such mrsery He drd not allow hlmself to thrnk any further What do you want? he barked The lap rose slowly Beads of persprratron stood out on hrs fat face and he was very pale Wrth shakrng hands he drew h1s prstol and presented rt to the Amerrcan I am Colonel Osato he who 1S known as The Beast I have come to surrender ffzong o eafzf fCont1nued from page 182 on hrs rnrnd He began to heave double loads rnto the furnace and the steam gauge crept upward Come on krd he growled Adrran gr1tted hrs teeth and began to take the loads on the run By 2 oclock no one could have recognrzed h1m Hrs face was black Hrs over alls were black Hrs body strrpped to the warst was coated w1th a sweat streaked dust Pete glanced aga1n at the gauge and frowned Then for a moment he had a look of satrsfactron as he saw Adrran hesrtate at the foot of the ramp wrth terror rn hrs eyes Suddenly Pete real1zed the reason when he heard a sharp whrstle Steam' A borler break' A horrrhed look crossed hrs face as he clung frozen to the rarlrng A deathly scream of wrenchrng metal as the borler s s1de gave way the whrstle breakrng 1nto a roar of borlrng water and burstrng steam A flyrng prece of the borler cracked Petes skull Adrran stood grlmly rn the path of the steamrng flood and flyrng metal and took the werght of Pete s fallrng body Somehow he dragged both Pete and hrmself up on the coal prle and thence to the ramp away from the borlrng flood It was four weeks before the burns on hrs legs and body healed enough to enable Adnan to go back to the plant When he drd he rmmedrately went to the Employment Manager and handed hrm a frve and a ten The ten IS for Pete he sard Well thanks' sa1d the Employment Manager You know we really owe you the money Thats all rrght sard Adnan The Employment Manager grrnned Had enough drd you? Yes I had enough to convrnce the Socrety s doctor that he was nuts about my heart not berng able to take exclternent or strarn I am enterrng the Iesurt Order to morrow 1 1 I - ' 1 . 1 . ' 1 1 - - u 11 . . . , . ' 1 1 . . . . - . n 11 - 1 . . 1 . . . . . H . I - 1 - - - 1 11 1 . . . . 1 . n . 11 . . 1 . 1 1 . . . ' . , . , - ' 1 , n - 11 . n 11 . . . . 1 - n - 1 11 ' ' u 1 . 11 - - . n . 11 1 ' ' . 1 . . . u 11 - , . . . . . - 1 1 . - - . . . 11

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udllace fd a 04 pple by JAMES DAGENAIS 46 The lap was cold H1s teeth chattered and hrs numbed frngers shook as he trred to draw hrs water soaked racket more closely about h1m He had been srttrng rn the mrddle of the rrce freld for two days now and rt was nrght Hunger cold mrsery and fatrgue had begun to make therr appearance He Was a soldrer but you could hardly recognlze hrs unrform beneath the mud whrch covered hrm from head to foot H was unshaven unspeakably frlthy and al most exhausted from squattrng among the half grown stalks of rrce Absently he prcked a lump of mud from the sleeve of hrs Jacket and consrdered rts nutrrtronal value He cursed and dropped rt 1nto the water whrch rose almost to hrs warst He proceeded to curse methodrcally He cursed the young rrce stalks for berng rng v ater and the clouds of mosqurtoes whrch almost maddened hrm but most es pecrally he cursed the Amerrcans Yesterday he had been a man of power a loyal slave of the Emperor a member of hrs great army Hrs slrghtest wrsh had been carrred out lmmedrately But the comrng of the Amerrcans had changed everythrng Today he rs beaten he must flee alone The Amerrcans were searchrng for all the brave soldrers of Nrp pon l1ke hrm who preferred hrdrng to sur render He was afrard of the Amerlcans afrard of what they would do to hrm He had heard torres of the horrrble tortures undergone by loyal Iapanese at the hands of the bestral Amerrcans and he had no wrsh to suffer But even he knew that no one had ever recerved such rnhuman treatment as that meted out by Colonel Osato untrl recently commander of a prrson camp for Amerrcans The Colonel was not pleasant to look at He was short and bowlegged and was so obese that he could only waddle Hrs head was round and covered wrth close cropped greasy black harr hrs face puffy and of an unhealthy color hrs thrck lrps curled betray 1ng hrs 1nner coarseness and lechery Hrs nearsrghted eyes were mere slrts rn the sag grng fleshy face and gleamed wrth the malevolence of a devrl Hrs flarr for rnvent 1ng unspeakable methods of torture had earned hrm the trtle of The Beast The Beast was one of those who had fled when the Amerrcans arrrved and only one person knew hrs whereabouts A cold trred man crouchrng rn a rrce held was the only lrvrng soul who could tell where The Beast lay hrdden and he would never grve the Amerrcans the satrsfactron of knowrng But after all he argued to hrmself The And that was true They hated hrm wrth a frerce burnrng hatred The Beast had seen therr hatred for hrm rn therr eyes each trme he had ordered one of them to b beaten to death as he drd when angered He had seen therr hate vented on the only ones who could be therr vrctrms the Amerr can prrsoners They vented therr hatred rn countless drabolrcal ways each day and contrrved rn every way to manufacture for the Amerrcan dogs a vrsrble hell on earth The Beast had never remonstrated wrth the men for therr cruelty to the prrsoners He only saw to rt that hrs own treatment of them was even more devrlrsh than therrs Small wonder then that the Amerrcan occupatron forces were combrng the entrre area to frnd h1m But he knew every rnch of the country They would never frnd hrm that rs not unless some one of hrs country men knew where he was and would report that fact One man knew where The Beast could O I I I . , . - . I . 5 I . . I . I . . . I - . . ' e . too bitter to be edibleg he cursed the stink- Beast' was hated' by his own men. , ' e I ' I . . I . . I S . . I , , - , , , 28

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PEACE TIME CUNSCRIPIIUN A TIDOTE OR POISON7 by ED zvETlNA 46 Proposals for compulsory m1l1tary con scr1pt1on have been much 1n the news lately and have strmulated a good deal of caustlc comment Iron1cally enough 1t seems to me that everyone and hrs brother has vorced an op1n1on on lh1S v1tal 1ssue everyone that IS except those of us who would be the rec1p1ents of such tra1n1ng So now I would llke to get 1n my two cents worth If few are lnfluenced by what I have to say at least I Wlll have the satlsfactlon of hav1ng gotten somethrng oft my chest As I see rt a program of compulsory m1l1tary tra1n1ng has all the earmarks of an attempt to perpetuate a system of power pOl1l1CS As a student at St Ignatrus I have read of the r1se and fall of all the great m1l1tary nat1ons whose arm was to dommate the world Only recently Germany Italy Russra and France have marntarned mrghty m1l1tary mach1nes but these have not pre vented wars Now I frnd Uncle Sam becom mg the exemplar of power pol1t1cs It 15 a httle drsconcerttng to me to hear talk about a World OIQQDIZGIIOD for Peace and Securrty through Law and then to f1nd that I am to be reglmented rn the greatest m1l1tary machme Ih1S country or the world has ever seen funct1on1ng 1n t1me of peace to my mlnd Chnstran pr1nc1ples and the moral code must ever be the keystone of the arch through whlch the world must pass to unrversal peace A system of compulsory tra1n1ng means that we are go1ng to rely on our own power and strength to keep the peace We have httle confldence that other nat1ons w1ll l1ve up to the moral code and keep the1r promrses It looks to me as 1f we have abandoned the tded that there IS an a1m1ghty God and that HIS laws are the standard not only for the 1nd1v1dual but also for all nattons Thrnk of Our Lord s warn1ng that the one who takes the sword Wlll pertsh by 1t Is not the fate of Italy and Germany a proof of that prophetrc warn1ng'? Relrgrous teachers 1ns1st that the greatest danger 1n a peace t1me mrlrtary program of the sort proposed IS the moral harm that w1ll result At home under parental guldance and scholast1c supervrsron we are better able to choose compamons whrle the army hte presents httle opportunrty to cultrvate fr1endsh1ps from whrch sp1r1tual benefrts Wlll be der1ved Certa1nly we w1ll be less able to reyect the compan1onsh1p of less des1rable buddles As I see 1t the proposed system of com pulsory m1l1tary tra1n1ng 1S another one of those rnroads on famlly hte so prevalent rn our modern t1mes It 1S an 1nterrupt1on from natural home IIGS that IS bound to have serrous repercussrons I know that 1n t1me of war such sacr1f1ces are essent1al but I cannot overlook the effects of these abnor mal cond1t1ons on generat1ons to come And yet there are those who would make these 1rregular cond1t1ons 1n trmes of emer gency the normal procedure rn t1me of peace Our educat1on has taught us that moral as well as physrcal and mental de velopment 1S essent1al to a proper world order founded on Chrrstran pr1nc1ples As a senror at St Ignatrus I begrn to dtscern that my tra1n1ng has emphas1zed man must f1rst conquer hrs lnner 1mpulses to prrde envy vengeance and self glory before he can frnd a way to compel respect for the collectrve w11l of human socrety I do not th1nk that compulsory m1l1tary servlce 1n peace t1me would rnculcate thls ph1loso phy of l1fe and make for the well rounded and well balanced man - I I O I l . - I . - . . . . , , . . . I - ' I l s . . - . . . , 1n the normal procedure Jarrrng us loose I - . n u . I I I - 30