St Mary of the Assumption High School - Assumpta Yearbook (Brookline, MA)

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86 Drama Making up the princi- pals of The Conn! and flve Co-ed Cast. Tzming np for the num- bers in the Belly of Beufzjolair. Cbevkiflg up the alunmi and friends of the Sen- ior Thespians.

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The price of liberty is eternal watchful- ness. There is no party or group who do not require constant vigilance. A great deal of the political mismanagement and civic corruption, which citizens are in- clined to bemoan when it is too late, can be laid to their inactivity, lack of public interest and to their willingness to leave the entire business of government to those who have gained control of the offices of power of the country, city, state and na- tion. Freedom of speech and of the press as co- adjutors of our educational system, can be used to clarify issues, tell the truth and in- spire to better living, or can become an in- strument of selfish propaganda, confusion, falsehood, intolerance and vicious social warfare largely as the people determine or allow. It is not the amount of freedom and education that determines their content and direction. This can lead to tyranny as well as to the guarantees of rights and can prove a curse as well as a blessing. Cultural freedom can be trusted to sus- tain Democracy only so long as the pillar rests upon the foundation of a spiritual concept of man and society. A pagan, atheistic Democracy is a contradiction in terms. Only where religion is allowed to flourish can there be taught the true basis of human liberty and moral checks be placed upon the development of State abso- lutism. Fortunately, this has been keenly recognized in the United States. Liberty is productive of good only inso- far as it follows and respects the due course of rights and duties. As the grant of a democratic society, it is a dutiful and faith- ful social servant, only insofar as it aban- dons whims and devotes itself to right order. Democracy, like the mystical body of Christ, to which it may well be compared, is composed of many interdependent mem- bers. Like any solid organic structure, it is supported and held together, not by a series of makeshift compromises, but by sound and well-planned foundations and interlocking parts. The whole cannot do without the parts, or the superstructure without the pillars. It is towards the maintenance of these pillars upon the sound rock foundations of human dignity and divine sanctions that Catholics must pledge themselves-that through the service of our fellow man, whom we must love as ourselves, we may attain the full stature of sons of God and heirs of heaven-that through the example of peace, compassion, and universal bounty this nation shall under God in the words of Lincoln, have a new birth of freedom. It is therefore, to a high sense of Chris- tian principle and responsibility to God that we must appeal increasingly, both to the general public and to the governing ofiicials. In this effective inspiration Chris- tianity and the Catholic Church will show themselves the strongest supports of right order, justice and functioning democracy. Only in the teachings of Catholicism do we find the lasting pillars of freedom. FAYE F. GALLIMORE

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Music Murden College in the Middlevvest with Prexy, Agatha Lock- step, Birdie Boggs and Sleepy Carter. Lydia, Fay and Bev- erly of M215 Blue Eyef become the charming co-eds of Murden Col- lege. The Countess Marie and john Bender, principals in the Belly of Benz:-joluif. SSUTHPTP 1 2 9 41