Washington High School - Anvil Yearbook (East Chicago, IN)

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A WASHINGTON FOUNDRIES BULLETIN -B OARD TION! Notice!!! The arrangement of the new foundry will be as follows: PLANT I PLANT PLANT PLANT PLANT PLANT PLANT IE! l. . . .... i l l Plant Directors l2l Section Bosses t3l Dedictorial l4l Year Book Staff II .... .... l I l Labor Leaders t2l Master Workmen Ill .... . . . ll l Master Workmen, lcontl i2l Memorials for Deceased lV .... .. . ill Journeymen, tClass of 43 t2l Laborers, lClass of 44 l 131 Apprentices, lClass of 45 l l4l Snapshots of School Life V .... .... l ll Washington Foundries Sports l2l More Snapshots Vl .... VII... Student Government Musical Organizations Boy and Girl Counselors l ll l l2l l3l Committees, Staffs, and Crews l4l l5l Mr, and Miss Washington and Students of Most Promis tl l More Organizations l2l More Snapshots l3l Teachers' Name Quiz 443 Senior and Colored Plays l5l Student Court 8 ATTEB NOT

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DEDICATION No nation is any greater in integrity or worth than the character of the citizens who make it so. All that our country represents is an enduring monument to the sons of industry, for it is those hardy people who strength- ened the foundation of our democracy in spirit, power, wealth, and morale. lt is the men who do the hard, grueling, back-breaking work, day and night, in an effort to make America the great land that it is, who deserve the credit. For, it is they who toil amid all conditions, labor for long hours, and receive only wages for their services. The common laborer is often thought of as unimportant, 'but in reality, the status of the common laborer, either directly or indirectly, influences the status of the entire country, lf wages are low, as is usually the case when a depression sweeps the nation, and unemploy- ment is prevalent, ruin comes to all. l-lowever, if the years are prosperous ones and if output of industry strains toward the utmost peak of production until the streets are crowded with overalled workmen going to and from work, success comes. Children no longer weep from hunger, and the business man purchases another factory. And so the eternal cycle lessens or increases continually, to a certain degree, according to the activity of the laborer. Each worker skilled in a special field of industry is an essential part in every act of the wide range of activity found in this country, l-le is the ever important cog in the wheel from which radiates almost all of the necessary items for a fuller, richer life. lt is the so-called unimportant workman upon whom the wealthy in- dividual is dependant for his land, labor, and capital. l-le does not create the products of his factories or industrial plants with his own hands, but instead, he utilizes the labor of thousands of workmen to meet the demand of national and international markets. lt is the common workman who has built up the respect for America by foreign nations. The worker, laboring in the steel mills in large industrial centers, shapes molten metal into heavy girders for the construction of our world-famous sky-scrapers and bridges and into thousands of automobiles that total seven out of ten manufactured in the world. lt is the dusty miner, laboriously extracting minerals and ore far below the earth's surface who provides the fuel needed to heat American homes and to power huge loco- motives that rumble over shiny steel rails covering more territory than those of any other nation. And so, in appreciation for the services rendered by the laborers who, for the benefit of all, counting no task too difficult to perform, have made America the greatest nation on earth, to the common worker, the backbone of America, do we, the Class of l942, dedicate this, our Senior Anvil.