St Marys High School - La Maria Yearbook (Huber, OR)

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Page Thirty-Four LA MARIA America, hither Goest Thou? XVe are not ready to confess that for centuries mankind has been wrong in aiming at a complete realiziation of individual liberties and rights. YVe are not ready to turn back to paternalism, bureau- cratic discipline, star chambers and executitive orders. VVe know whose children we are, whose inheritance we possess. Frantic and timorous men may throw up their hands and surrender their liberty to a strong man in order to avoid what they think is the onrush of the Red Ter- ror, but we need not so much strong government, but wise gov- ernment. Government vested with the virtues of insight. dignity, mod- eration, tolerance and acute sense of social justice to all our people. For while a strong government may drive men to an artificial loy- alty to its slogans and catch- phrases, and build itself into a brief interlude of power upon the clever strategies of a political clique, it is only wise government that by de- serving men's faith and trust, can draw them into authentic and abiding loyalty to its purposes. The true purpose of governs inent, as a wise old Pythagorean declared 2500 years ago, is to se- eure that freedom, which without unity is a delusion, and that unity. which without freedom is a snare. The true statesman. mindful that he has a covenant with the dead and with the unborn. unwilling to sell the future into slavery or set the stage for chaos, even though he thereby reap temporary advantages, will seek to lead rather than to follow the popular moods of his time: he will realize if he be faith- ful to himself, that the future of America must be entrusted only to those who, knowing her history, her traditions, her ideals, her de- votion to her Constitution, cannot choose but love her. It is in this spirit that we meet the menace of the future. The fight is not now upon the blood-stained steppes of Siberia. It is at our own door-Sovietism crimson and un- adorned-the law of the bayonet, the law spoken by the fiery mouth of the musket, the law that gives power and tyranny to a few and misery and slavery to millions. Communism looks across the seas and observes that here the western world stands open. VVhy strain at the cross-crowned gates of Poland, Christian and warrior for a thous- and years, when lllexico already subdued by a military despotism is ready at hand, and just beyond the goal of all Soviet ambition- America and American riches. The dark forces of the ancient gods, throwing out their vanguards from the battleground of the Ural lllountains, have carried the war to us. The forces of pagan dark- ness, of reversalism, of Communist animalism are arrayed against free- dom, against America, against Christian civilization of the west- ern world. lt is a fight to save America from the degradation of Russia, a degradation that reduces man to the level of a soulless anim- al, a Communized highfpower beast. It is the old warfare be- tween the Powers of Light and the Powers of darkness, the struggle