St Pauls Cathedral High School - Book and Sword Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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.U 6696 fejian ce To THE FLAG . . . to the stripes, which are a symbol of our humble beginning . . . to the stars, reminding us of the sovereignty of our nation over all . . . to the red, for the courage and zeal of those who carry on the lite of this great nation . . . to the white, for our mothers and fathers, our sisters and priests by whose unsung tasks high ideals have been instilled into these young hearts . . . to the blue, for the Immaculate Mother ol' God who is the royal patroness of America. OF 'IIIE UNI'1'ED S'I'A'I'Es oIf .AMERICA . . . those states for whose index pendeuce such great men as George Wlashington, John Barry, and Charles Carroll struggled . . . whose liberty Lincoln strived to preserve. ANII 'ro THI4: RIiI'tIIsI.Ic Ifok XVHICII IT smxns . . . the government of the people, by the people, and lor the peoplei' . . . the Democracy in which all have equal rights . . . the Republic of individual liberties. ONI5 NATIoN . . .a united people . . . one for all . . . all for one . . . seeking one object . . . loving one flag. INIJIVISIBLIQ . . . not divided into sections, but each state united to make the whole . . . never to be separated . . . ever to be one. lfVI'I'II LIBIILIUY . . . liberty of press . . . ol' speech . . . ol' religion . . . of all those precious rights which are our inheritance. AND -IIIs'rIcIa . . . that uprightness and fairness olf which we, the Youth of America, are so proud. FOR ALL . . . for all those people of different nationalities, of different races, ol' different creeds, who make up these United States . . . the minority as Well as the majority . . . the young . . . the old . . . you . . . nie.

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PA!!! 0 VA ?3'- CJ Z :- IN Q' 'Y UH35 151 70 ob' S gi 4 on 3 4s xx The theme of this yearbook is the jlreservation of our democracy through good eitizenship. True dI?1lI,0CTClC'y eorzsists essentially in the Catholie concept of the equality of human lII'Z.7'lgSLlltI? brotherhood of man in the Fatherhood of God. With the advent 0fCllTlS1LlH?'lllj' into a world emfelojaed in despotisra and darkness, the Son of God brought the spiritual empire of the Catholic' Clllltlfll and the lmrrzing flame of democracy and justice. From this flame, which ermolJled lfumari rzatare and destroyed the taste system, the demoralized world of yesterday rose to make 74I'llglUl7,-Ilf'II'l0I'7YlI'5', and eduration possible to us today. We, today. enjoy this freedom, given by God to man, which possesses the ideas of equality and willirzgrzess to serve lminariity. To some, democraey seems to be a good-to yozzr-neighbor, 77'Illlll-YU1lT'0'lUlI'l11lSl7'lI'SS polify in puhlir affairs, lm! in reality it is a self-governirzg form of rule, whose first aim is for the common good, one in whieh the poor and the imfortzmate as well as the rieh and the powerful are inrladed under the jzroteelion of the law. Bill rules and laws are eommon to all gowfrizmerzlsq when il is a rule of the people, exercised for the people, by the jaeojrle-then we have a true demoerazy lmliued with the heritage of this Calholiz concept of demoeraey, we Cathedraliles shall ever strive for perfection as loyal citizens of America.