Walker High School - Pepper Pot Yearbook (Simsbury, CT)

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us almosT unconsciously The lcnowledge oT our good TorTune in being Americans. By This means There would gradually be Tormed a deep, powerTul love oT our counTry wiThouT The haTred and iealousy oT oTher naTions which evolves Trom The over- emphasized brand oT paTrioTisrn demanded by dicTaTors. As To how Tar paTrioTism should go in suppressing individual opinions - in oTher words, how blindly we should Tollow our counTry - There is again an almosT egual spliT. The maioriTy oT The girls say ThaT They would supporT any war The counTry enTered inTo, buT There is a large body oT dissenTers, mosTly isolaTionisTs and paciTisTs. This diTTering opinion is a good sign, lThink. lT shows ThaT These girls have ThoughT abouT Their duTy To Their counTry, and ThaT They have Tormed Their own ideas. ln direcT conTrasT To The ToTaliTarian sTaTes, America is sTill The counTry where anyone can speak his mind, where more Than one side oT The quesTion is adrniTTed, and The preTerence is leTT enTirely To The individual. The duTy oT all paTrioTs is To help preserve These principles, noT by resToring To naTionalism, chauvinism or any spurious racial philosophies, louT by sTriving Tor and adhering To The TruTh. ThaT is whaT l, and l have Tound, my conTemporaries believe is The basis Tor paTrioTismg ThaT is whaT we Americans hope shall enable us To lead The world Torward. WiTh social vision and wiTh moral courage we shall have True paTrioTism. 98

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SUN OFFKIERS Florence Wesson lEdi+or ol Sun Raysl Nalhalie Rice lpresidenll Vera Richard lSecre+aryl The Suns E feel very apprecialive ol lhe ehforl and cooperalion shown by every Sun +his year, and we wish we coulcl Jrhanlq each one individually. All are To be con- gralulaled lor lheir ever-increasing good sporlsmanship. We hope Thal lhey have enioyed lhe year as much as we have. Wilhoul our enlhusiaslic opponenls, lhe Dials, always reacly lo give us friendly compelilion, we never could have crealed such a lively spiril, so we would like 'lo lhanlc lvlary, Dinlfy and Niggie, and all The Dials for malcing our year complele. IOO