Western High School - Friendship Yearbook (Parma, MI)

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MY AMERICA By Josephine Mlleskz I shall tell you a story of slmple Pollsh em1grants Vladlslav was a peasant The t1ny farm owned by h1s father was to be h1s entlre future world In Poland one d1d not r1se above h1s born statlon It was unth1nk able that he should contemplate anythlng further than the dally chores about the flat acres and the Sunday rest day Had not h1S father and h1s forefathers gleaned sustenance from the goodly so1l'7 Were they not well provlded for 1n food and cloth1ng'7 What more could one ask of l1fe But the seed of unrest was planted one day at the mentlon of Amer1ca At f1rst It seemed only a word and nothmg more Then Vladlslav s cur1os1ty aroused grew mtense What was thls Amer1ca about Wh1Ch so many all sources some lde3S erroneous some true Every where ldeas of hberty and equallty Amer1ca was a land free r1ch m so1l a land 1n whlch the poor w1th the wealthy had an equal rlght to l1Ve and mount to greater helghts An lmposslble hope began to be born ID the heart of Vladlslav an eage1 deslre to transplant h1S roots and bury them deep 1n the brlght land he now constantly dreamed of Consclentlously pamfully he gathered the necessary rubles that would mean a new begmn1ng Vladlslav at last crossed 1n Steerage the broad Atlant1c waters Hopefully he glanced at the level expanse of land on whlch bu1ld1ngs taller that he beheved could 6X1St rose I'I1aJ6St1Cally He landed as the p1lgr1m fathers before hlm had landed wlth the hellef that all Page fourteen h1s ldeals were to be fulfllled 1n th1s strange land Wlth but a few rubles Jmglmg d1sconsolately ID h1s rough spun trousers he sought work IH order to save for a home and land A short t1me passed and brought to h1m Tofela a Pohsh peasant g1rl soon to become h1s vufe F1om th1s un1on ten ch1ldren were born and I the eleventh And so It happened that 1n the heart of Amer1ca we were nurtured and cherlshed To me these Pollsh peasants are the Splflt of Amer1ca awkward young eager to learn extravagantly warm hearted and per onally sol1c1tous of her ch1ldren It IS thus that I owe to Amer1ca the fact that I was concelved IH a land that would fulf1ll my slncere 1deal1 m of her my av1d grasplng for the 11ghts to express myself 1n vt hat I beheve to be unafra1d of threatenlng oppress1on unafra1d of the rul1ng of a few over the suffermg of many Wlfe found for thelr ch1ldren and themselves but a com plete fulflllment of sp111tual wealth that IS so wrongly regarded and suppressed ln lands where the great mass es are ex1st1ng solely for sustenance of the flesh and not of the staryed soul Of the people for the people by the people how true do those gleatest of all words r1ng 1n my heart Fully do I reahze how fo1 tunate 1t IS for me that I am an Amellcan Nowhere do the stars shme so br1ghtly so fearlessly as here Nowhere else 15 there laughter and happmess among the great m1ll1ons No where else can one say Here am I myself here shall I l1ve and d1e as myself and here are the multltudes one 1nd1v1s1ble as I myself am one w1th my Amer1can natlon 7 ' 5 Q 1 . . . , I . . , , ' V y - , - S . . . . . Y . , . . , , . . , . . ' U . spoke and so few knew? He gathered information from If WHS DOI 1T13t91'i3l riches V13diS1HV and hiS YOUUS , , . - v ' , . . . , . . . , - N Y . . . 37 , , . Oh, , 1 . . , s , ' , . . . ' . 5. ' ' - ' 7 - . 4 ' 1 , sc . I - 1 1 , . . . , . 7 . , . . ' 3 . . . . ,, , .