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

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CONTINUATION OF EVILS OF COIIMUNI'SI'I-- WHICH NOW DIVIDES THE EAST AND THE WEST POLITICALLY IS BUT TYPICAL OF THE nCOLD WAR WHICH IS NOW IN PROGRESS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BE- TWEEN FAITH AND SCIENCE5 TRUTH AND SKEPTICISM3 RELIGION AND ATHE- ISHS VIRTUE AND VICE. NEITHER SOVIET RUSSIA NOR THE U.S. WILL EVER BE ABLE TO AVOID WAR UNLESS THEY UNDERSTAND ONE ANOTHERIS TENETS, UNTIL TH1S IS ACCOMPLISHED THERE IS NO azxsns ron PEACE. IN THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO WE FIND THESE WORDS 'ABOLITION OF THE FAMILY.' BUT ON WHAT FOUNDATION IS THE FAMILY BASED? ON CAPI TAL, ON PRIVATE GAIN? THE IDEA THAT THE FAMILY WILL BE ABOLISHED MEANS SIMPLY THAT THE GREAT SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE, INSTITUTED BY CHRIST WILL VANISH, AND NOT ONLY BIRTH CONTROL, BUT STATE BIRTH CONTROL WILL PREVAIL. THIS MATERIALISTIC PHILOSOPHY AS MARX PUTS IT IS, 'A WORLD CONCEPT,' BASED UPON STALINIS WORDS ON 'VIOLENCE AND FORCE,' AND IN LENINIS ON nTRICKERY AND DECEIT.n FROM EARLJEST STAGES OF CoM- MUNISM T0 THE PRESENT DAY, NO LEADER OF COMMUNISM HAS EVER GIVEN UP THE IDEA OF BRINGING COMMUNISM TO ALL THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD EITHER BY AGGRESSIVE OR SUBVERSIVE EFFORTS OR BY VIOLENT OR PEACEFUL MEANS. AMERICAN YOUTH, YOU ARE THE HOPE OF THE NATION, UPON YOU RESTS A GREAT RESPONSIBILITY, YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT, YOUR FAMILY LOOKS TO YOU FOR ITS SAFETY. OUR LORD PLACES IN YOUR HANDS A SACRED TRUST, WILL YOU LET COMMUNISM REAR ITS UGLY HEAD IN THE SHADOW OF OUR STARS AND STRIPES? WILL YOU TAKE A STAND AGAINST THE ATROCIOUS AGGRESSOR OF OEMOCRATIC IDEALS? OR WILL YOU PERMIT AMERICAN HERITAGE TO BE THRUST INTO THE MIRE OF COMMUNISM? --JOANN BAROUSSE I 2 5 A .7 E E'

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WELCOME TO THE EIGHTH GRADERS AUGUST EIGHTH GRADERS: AN IMMENSE AND TREMENDOUS DUTY IS SHORTLY TO FALL UPON YOUR SHOULDERS. STRAIGHTEN YOUR CHESTS, STAND STRAIGHT AND TALL FOR IT WILL TAKE ALL OF YOUR STRENGTH TO SUPPORT THIS MARVELOUS NEW DUTY. YOU WILL HAVE THE DUTY OF PUTTING ST. MICHAELIS ON EVERY STUDENT'S ITINERARY, AS WE HAVE SO ABLY DONE THESE PAST TWELVE YEARS. WE PLACE THE FUTURE OF OUR SCHOOL IN YOUR HANDS, AND WE DO SO WITHOUT EVEN TURNING PALE! AT FIRST, THESE WAS A LINGERING SHADOW OF DOUBT IN OUR MINDS, BUT AFTER MUCH DELIBERATION, WE, AS A CLASS, HAVE DECIDED THAT YOU ARE CAPABLE. THERE IS ENOUGH MUSCLE AMONG YOU TO BRING BOXING HONORS TO ST: MICHAELIS, THAT WE DO NOT SAY WILL EQUAL THOSE OF THE OUTGOING CLASS, BUT WILL BE A CREDIT, WE ARE SURE: As FOR INTELLECTUAL GENIUS, WE ARE INDEED DOUBTFUL THAT YOU CAN EQUAL US IN THAT, BUT WITH STEADY DEVOTION TO YOUR SCHOOL AND PRIDE IN YOUR WORK, WE FEEL THAT YOU MAY MAKE THE GRADE. GIVE YOUR BEST TO OUR AND YOUR SCHOOL, LET EVERY ACT REFLECT GLORY ON THE NAME OF OUR ALMA MATER. WE MAKE THESE REQUESTS WITH DEEP CON- FIDENCE. WE FEEL CERTAIN THAT YOU ARE WELL EQUIPPED TO TAKE OUR PLACES. WE WISH You GOOD LUCK AND A WONDERFUL CAREER NEXT YEAR. MAY EVERY ONE or You, WHEN THE PROPER TIME coMEs, BE IN THE POSITION WE ARE IN TONIGHT, EMBARRAGSED BUT TICKLED, SELF-CONSCIOUS BUT ELATED, AND HARPIER THAN WE EVER EXPECT TO BE AGAIN. A woRTHv FEELING, EIGHTH GRADERG, AND ONE THAT WE RECOMMEND WITH ALL ouR HEARTS. TRY IT! --DORA ELLEN MARKS 'UI4 LJ