West Division High School - Comet Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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PRINCIPAL WILLIAM C. KNOELK Your Comet Announcer will now read an open letter from Mr. Knoell: To the Seniors. ' It is your high privilege to graduate in a global period. Our period is called global because the idea of a huge earth, too big for close contacts, with poles too remote to discover, has gone. People speak of great circles, of map projections and extended horizons in as casual and intimate a way as they spoke of the corner grocery and street signs formerly. Oceans have ceased to be barriers, continents have become neighborhoods, strange manners and customs have become commonplace, communication is instantaneous. The ingenuity of man has in effect caused our globe to shrink: the cupidity of human beings has pitted one part of the globe against the other. Our mechanical reaches are enormous: our social understandings have not kept pace. To produce the abilities and the will to advance in civic and social life as we have in the mechanical world is the supreme challenge of our day. It will require so high a degree oi cooperation that past efforts in working together will seem puny. To create dissension, foster hatred, or build suspicion in our democratic structure or among our citizens is to help the nation's foe. Freedom now depends far more upon our ability to cooperate than upon aggres- sive individualisrn. When we have won the war by compulsory cooperation, will we have the courage and unseliishness to voluntarily cooperate in peace? Only thus can the fruits of victory be won. To help in this way is to advance our cause. That is a high privilege even though it means denial and suffering: it also means that you must make decisions of such wisdom and nobility, with so little of suspi- cion and animosity, that this period-your era- shall become memorable. Thank you, Mr. Knoelk!

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Your Comet announcer brings you . . . West at War, a fantasy based on fact. Any similarity to persons living is purely intentional. In an old venerable building, high in a southeastern wing, a noble looking man, his hair streaked with gray, labored patiently behind bars of gray steel. A lovely maiden tirelessly toiled beside him in their little Vic- Lady Ethel Kenney and White Knight Carlson in their Victory Shop tory shop. Each day texcept on Saturday and Sundayl they could be seen pouring over heaps of silver, and counting and arranging numberless precious objects of green, pink, and purple hue: like the pipings of the Pied Piper, these mysterious objects drew throngs of gay young folk up to the old steel bars. They brought with them gifts of hard earned gold representing many sacrifices. These they exchanged for the precious objects. So great did their enthusiasm become that it was necessary for the lovely maiden and the noble man to move into a vast hall, lined with statues and full of little aisles. Here the Rumpus Wizard, who frequently changed his form merely by turning around just once, amused the youth. His curious dress, and his yellow and red striped socks of unusual radiance which matched his suspenders and his tie were especially appealing. A fascinating dog chain hung at his side. Weird music lured the youth to the very feet of the Wizard, where again they gladly gave their gold, but this time the good Wizard gave them many pre- cious gifts in return. From all over the old building a stream of young people came, led by Carlson, the noble White Knight, and Lady Ethel Kenney. A gay multitude they were, and always the Rurnpus Wizard took the proffered gold until a heap of 17,899 dollars lay before him. This he took to be transformed into strange little vehicles known to all as jeeps.

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