Walt Whitman Junior High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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7 A WORLD WITHOUT LIGHT l The night brings forth a stillness rare A darkening, eerie The sun is setting And Dark begins he A fire dances on t Of many candles wh yy Q4 A A plight: in a flare, r flight. he wick ite x fm While inside people start to flick x On their electric light. 9,31 . J ihsn , , i 1 The clouds present a sky so wild, The sky is cast with gray y A CK And every tired, sleeping child , .,- T A Is dreaming of the day. fgE l,,.f,'7j,X The darkness carefully descends NIMH And empties out her might H i' Of stars and moons and odds and ends W' That give the darkness light. N To walk within a gorgeous world 1 And not to see a thing, , would be as if away you've hurled y A precious diamond ring. A . X N., What good would eyes and beauty be W If darkness shielded sight? ,' A The crimson rose---the pearly sea X j f XL Would be hidden in the night. Tb get around we'd have to gropeg ' I No knowledge could be found jr K I There'd be no room for faith or hope A y No beauty to astound. XX? g The world would be a tumbled mess... A. X No time, no life, just space ---- I ' A darkened horror of distress: A chaos of disgrace. L The eyes of blue and green and brown 'K In darkness lose their might: gy -A Tx! But though forsaken and cast down L7 yf' .58 if They'll live again through light. Z?jQ1,xtQNk: fl Z Sharon Gilbert , if N Q C' ,L ,K ,ZZ ff? 'T A 'A --- 1 '12 JyLL. - 50 l i e gk gig!!-rv ' 11.. v Y ,-,,.2

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I Rrzilal X - MJDERN IAPAN One very often sees the mark, made in Japan on an object, and says, Oh, that's junk . Although some items manufactured in Japan are of poor a lot which quality, we turn out falls into the same .g-K4 category. Modern day Japan has ' come a long way from the period , ,immediately following World War II Hand she had developed her indus- itries to a very high degree. Her CaIIleIa,S 3.126 perhaps the finest in the world, and her small instru- ments, such as binoculars and ra- .4 - - I u dios are examples of fine workman ship. J JJUJJ' Japan is able to sell these products on the world market at ,H L4 LL- inexpensive prices because she maintains a lower standard of liv Q I., It MBL ing than we her workers do. She can then pay a smaller salary, and v-Q2 I AK f .... 4 2555, is. ir: gal? H lv WS is 1, 'xkrqlx -xg Q Z ,if ff I '4 :Q if'. , '14, Lp 8-t'bh ' 57 W' 9 'ty il ' V .HHN I y ' ya-f.wd '- fl' sg- C 2 T' nfs .,. I r P. JI' sf 'K K i manufacture her finished products 4 ' ' ' .L 4 3 more cheaply. al' QL K - S L J.: In spite of Japan's crushing gf x Lv... - .. defeat in the last World War, she S 4 , has recovered almost completely ' y L. 4 - ' 4 I f '-'-1- and now assumes a very important, 011' ,A L 2 pro-Western position in world af- ' ' Htl fairs, being both a member of the 5 ,v United Nations, and one of the f' At, 2, 'Ne strongest and most influential na- I 'AA ul lllL l,.,ux X tions in the Southeast Asia Treaty 'F' A X ... Organization. 'gf' 47 'xx In conclusion, we find that all R X this would not have been possible 'W without financial help from the Q United States. Credit is due, how- - ever, to the fine spirit of the X Japanese people, and all admiration must go to the technicians, both 'Q 1: H v 5 American and Japanese, to the scien- I ' ' 1' tists, and to the workers of modern 'Tv' , Japan. James McCormick I-VIERKER 52