West Night High School - Echo Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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E I F OREWORD L; M .XmLiucAM, :ch thc disciples of :1 ncu' philosA OlWhyitilr philosophy of Franklin D. Rthcm-lt. ii chcci'f'til, kintih'. intcnScly ilLIHLIll Pa'csidgnt. who has LiCSCUHLiCkI into thc .xhittitms :imi fought with tlm hunts tit Ephcsus, imtl cumc forth smiling .imi Linscnthcd -.m inf spirution t0 cVL-I'y aspiring scholar. If his ilkllninihtillfiun nmkus no othcr contribution to our history, he Will most Ccrt.tinly racix'c impci'ishahic filmy as thc Pi'csiticnt who ru- ntoi'cd tht- tllith of thc :Xmu'icm pctlpic in tht-mSt-Ex'cs. It is through his cntlci'n'ors 1:11th tin; youth uf Amwica UHCC 334.1111 11.15 Eh: uniimitct! pnssihilitius th.it our fm'hmrs hiui Thc pmem-Jity Anti mu'its of his docti'incs hzlx'c ticwlopui nuw hops; Ctmiiticnt'g gmt! Cutlinigc in thc hurts M US :111. Wm .15 studcnts, should hc thankful for thcsu ncw oppoia tumtics hi; has opunul for us; and for thc tlt'vuut cnthusiusm hc 11115 shown for our u't-lftn'c us the future mm Ami wnmcn lcmlcrs of our CULIHEU'. Hc has IniruCquusly transposed thc pogiriun uf' ninth in thc commcrciztl world From Ehc tlcpths tit dismay .md kiCSPJI-l' to thc hcights 0f hopt- LlHLi hilppincss. It is with with that H'L', thc CLiiEOI'S, JlSSthiLIEC his mum with 0111' :XXNL'AL anti ply him thc ti'ihutc of. which hc is So Licsui'x'ing. 7 THI-Z EDITORS.

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THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS EXTRACTS FROM PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S STATEMENT OUTLINING POLICIES or NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION JUNE 16, 1933 THE LAW I HAVE JUST SIGNED was passed to put people back to worketo let them buy more of the products of farms and factories and start our business at a living rate again. This task is in two stages-first, to get many hundreds of thousands of the unemployed back on the pay roll by snowfall and, second, to plan for a better future for the longer pull. While we shall not neglect the second, the first stage is an emergency 'fob. It has the right of way. Throughout industry, the change from starvation wages and starvation employ- ment to living wages and sustained employment can, in large part, be made by an industrial covenant to which all employers shall subscribe. This is the principle that makes this one of the most important laws that ever came from Congress because, before the passage of this act, no such industrial covenant was ever possible. On this idea, the First part of the act proposes to our industry a great spontaneous co-operation to put millions of men back in their regular jobs this summer. The idea is simply for employers to hire more men to do the existing work by reducing the work hours of each man's week and at the same time paying a. living wage for the shorter week. The challenge of this law is whether we can sink selfish interest and present a solid front against a common peril. It is a challenge to industry which has long insisted that given the right to act in unison, it could do much for the general good Which has hitherto been unlawful. From to-day it has that right. This law is also a challenge to labor. Workers, too, are here given 21 new charter of rights long sought and hitherto denied. But they know that the first move expected by the nation is a great co-operation of all employers, by one single mass action, to improve the case of workers 011 a scale never attempted in any nation. Industries can do this only if they have the support of the whole public and especially of their own workersi It is, further, a challenge to administration. We are relaxing some of the safeguards of the antitrust laws. The public must be protected against the abuses that led to their enactment, and to this end we are putting in place of old principles of unchecked competition some new government controls. They must, above all, be impartial and iust. Between these twin eEortSepublic works and industrial revemployment-it is not too much to expect that a great many men and women can be taken from the ranks of the unemployed before winter comes. It is the most important attempt of this kind in history. As in the great crisis of the World War, it puts a whole people to the simple but vital test: Must we go on in many groping, disorganized, separate units to defeat or shall we move as one great team to victory ? 16