St Michaels High School - Crusader Yearbook (Crowley, LA)

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EVILS OF COMMUNISM nCOMMUNISM,' ACCORDING TO MARX, HIS A COMPLETE PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE, IT,HAS A THEORY AND A PRACTICE, IT WISHES TO BE NOT ONLY A STATE BUT ALSO A CHURCH JUDGING FROM THE CONSCIENCE OF MAN' IT IS A DOCTRINE OF SALVATION AND AS SUCH CLATMS THE WHOLE MAN, BODY AND SOUL AND IN THIS SENSE IT IS TOTALITARIANnn THIS DEADLY WEAPON IS IN THE HANDS OF ONE MAN' IT STRIKES WITH DREAD PRECISION AT THE POOR: AND POVERTY BECOMES AN UGLY THING TO LURK IN ALLEYS, TO DROWN OUT REMEMBRANCES IN GLASS GLASS OF INTOXICATING LIQUOR. IT HURLS OUT AT THE WEAK AND LESS AND WIDOWS PRAY FOR DEATH TO BRING RELIEF, OLD MEN WEEP DAYS WHEN LIFE WAS A BEAUTIFUL THING, CHILDREN IN HELPLESS AFTER HELP- FOR WEAK- NESS CRY FOR BREAD. STALIN, IN THE DEFIANT STAND WHICH HE HAS TAKEN AGAINST DEMOCRACY AND ITS IDEALS, IS THE TYRANT OF THE AGE Now AT A MOMENT WHEN THE AGGRESSIVE BRUTALITY OF COMMUNISM SEEMS TO BE DISTRESSINGLY TRIUMPHANT EVEN AMERICA FEELS DEMOCRACY IS NOT AN ASSURED POSSESSION. THAT WE, THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE FOR YEARS CHERISHED THE IDEALS AND ASP THE INF ARE ALL MUN DELUDED WITH THE PROMISES OF THE CLASSLESS SOCIETY IN IST PROPAGANDA CLOAKS ITSELF IN HYPOCRITICAL DOUBLE TALK IRATIONS FOR WHICH OUR FOREFATHERS FOUGHT, ARE DISTRESSED AT EVILS WHICH WE SEE IN THE WAKE OF COMMUNISM. THESE EVILS ARE ILTRATED INTO ALL OF THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD. CERTAIN GROUPS WHICH MEN WILL BE FREE AND EQUAL. To ENSNARE THE MASSES CLEVER COM- ABOUT DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS. MANY ARE DUPED INTO BLIND FOLLOWING ONLY TO DISCOVER THE HOAX TOO LATE. A DANGER. YES, INDEED IT IS. A VERY REAL, VERY PRESSING DANGER WHICH THREATENS NOT ONLY RUSSIA, BUT ALSO US, IN AMERICA TODAY, THERE IS NO ASSURANCE FOR US THAT IT cAN'T HAPPEN HERE, THERE'S N0 TIME FOR COMPLACENCYI THIS IS THE TIME FOR DEFINITE COUNTER ACTION, ACTION--Now TO WIN A WORLD! THAT SHOULD BE OUR PASSWORD. WHAT ARE WE DOING ABOUT IT? A WE MUST SELL T0 THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE THE IDEA OF DEMOCRACY BY MAKING DEMOCRACY THEIR PRINCIPLES AND GUIDEL IF WE SUOOEED WE WILL HAVE JUSTIFIED OUR IDEALS OF DEMOCRACY, BUT IF WE FAIL WE WILL BE BUT CARBON COPIES OF ALL OF THE FALLEN COUNTRIES. THE QUESTION WHICH IS PLACED BEFORE US TODAY IS MERELY THIS! 'How COMMUNISTIC OR RATHER, How MATERIALISTIO ARE THE RUSSIAN PEOPLET' TODAY, WE ARE LIVING IN A CONFUSED woRLD, WTHE COLD WAR'