West High School - Hesperian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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THE ill 0 FI L D HRS B E C 0IT1E OHt CITY ★ WE BEGIN TO SEE NOW THAT ONLY A SOPHO-MORIC AND A STUPENDOUS CONCEIT CAN JUSTIFY THE CLAIMS OF ANY RACE OF PEOPLE TO BE WHOLLY SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER. ★ NO ONE RACE CAN EVER BE MADE PERFECT WITHOUT ALL THE VIRTUES OF EVERY OTHER, OR WITHOUT THE UNIVERSAL FELLOWSHIP OF THE CHILDREN OF MEN. ★ DARKNESS WILL COVER THE EARTH UNTIL WE LEARN FULLY THE LESSON OF UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD. ★ BY OUR PRACTICE AND OUR TESTIMONY LET US STAND FEARLESSLY AND LOVINGLY FOR THE UNITY OF MANKIND. 5 BENJAMIN FAY MILLS, 1857-1916.

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From all our diverse cultures and nationalities: One Nation Prom all our diverse nations: One World in the Making

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HOW WILL you CHOOSE? Men fight when there is no other way According to their leaders. We must build wide roads to the house oj peace And show the common people the path that leads away from killing. The cynics sneer and say, It has never been done hefore.” Do you think to do it now? Yet is it true that since men had always seen with candles, They never could know a better light? Man never had flown. His crude-made wings had always failed. Yet now he soars on brown and silver wings. So much more can we make peace where war has been. Miracles will not come down Before our waiting eyes. We must pay the price of vigilance for liberty And add the price of work and faith and selflessness for peace. Is it too great a price to pay for life. For bodies that stand straight and strong And minds unwarped by fear? Or would you rather pay the price of war? We have these choices . . . only two . . . To give ourselves to make a better world Or sit idly by in selfish apathy Not caring about the fate of fellow men And finding war is our reward. How will you choose? 6 —Marian Bakkr.