Ypsilanti High School - Ypsi Dixit Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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ws, gl Recently the all xmportant draft b1ll was passed Th1s meant that all of the men physlcally able between the ages of twenty one and thxrty five would be conscrrpted for a year of mlhtary servxce In thexr eyes they would be asked to pay a prlce for the blessnngs of freedom Immedxately there began a heated dxs cussxon by the public They complamed that Selectrve Servlce would be takmg a year out of thexr llves In truth however thls IS not a sacnfice but rather a prlvllege Lyle M Spencer tells the facts when he says ln Februarys Readers Dxgest of thls year The truth 15 that the average draftee IS gomg to go back to c1v1l l1fe better equxpped to earn a Ilvxng than he was when hrs number came up because Select1ve Servlce rs feedxng clothmg housmg and paymg hlm to spend a year rn the world s largest trade school Another great sacrlfice we are havmg to face at thls t1me IS the tax s1tua t1on Besrdes the heavy taxes we have already many more are belng levled on general taxes are bemg mcreased m every department In answer to this problem I say that 1f we are gomg to mamtam our freedom and perpetuate our present good government we must pay for lt m the form of taxes At thxs t1me we must wxllmgly contrlbute all that IS necessary to keep us free We must lend supphes to England and rf necessary we must enter the war ourselves In the end I bel1eve that we wxll be the wmners of thrs war Th1s statement IS supported by an art1cle appearmg xn a recent edxtlon of the Current H1story whxch states as follows But wrth few exceptxons Amencan experts agree that when thxs nat1ons arms productlon mach1nery really gets roll1ng xts output will be tremendous They agree that Hrtler and hrs assoclates wxll be beaten 1n the end and that th1s output of Amencan mdustry whether or not lt IS ever used m1l1tar1ly by the Umted States Army and Navy wxll determine the outcome In short they agree that Amerlca wxll wm thxs war At present we are not dolng all rn our power to mamtam our freedom We must co operate w1th each other VV'e must vxork so that when our work IS done we can nghtfully say that we dxd our part 1n bulldmg a great natron whxch by our own sacxfices and endeavors remams free X41 E Q C! H' r. . . . . . . 5 Q Y , . . . . Q . , . . . . . A .. . i . i . . ' all forms of merchandlse. The mcome tax exemptxon has been lowered and, ln Y ' 3 ' I 1 I I . . ,, . . . U 9 1 , M . A . . , . r I I I , . 1 U 1

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CLASS ORATION HOMER DIEBLER x YOUTH'S PLEA FOR FREEDOM Not smce the Red Coats challenged the New Englanders at Lexington and Bunker Hxll have Amerncans been asked to pay such a heavy pnce for the bless xngs of freedom Lmberty equalxty and jUSClC6 have been accepted as natural t1me has come to pay the pnce and the toll may be heavy A government of the people by the people and for the people can be malntaxned only an terms of severe sacnlice In thls manner only shall we rema1n free from enslavement at the hands of a foreign dxctatorshlp If th1s 18 not done we w1ll be obhged to hve as those 1n Europe vlctxms of Commumsm and completely at the mercy of a few ruthless tyrants Jan Valtm author of Out of the Night has experlenced both forms of lxvxng He has llved under the tyrannical government of Europe and also the democrat1c gov emment of our own Umted States In relatmg h1s experiences of h1s book he says I wanted to tell the people of Amenca that nexther the Natxonal Soclahsm of Hltler nor the Commumsm of Stalm nor any other tyranny could ever succeed ln bnngmg happlness mto a smgle humble dwellmg These Socxallstxc Commumstlc and Fasclst forms of government represent just the opposxte of our own democracy The people of these countnes have lived ln extreme poverty for many years Thelr standard of hvmg has been very low compared to that of the Umted States They have been mere serfs on the land of the nch upper classes For many years now the people of Russxa have been suppressed by the powerful hand of Joseph Stahn and h1s clan The mhabxtants of the Slavic countnes such as Czechoslovakla Bulgaria and Yugoslavla have spent thexr lxves work1ng from dawn txll dark to get enough supphes to sustam thelr meager lxvmg Now they are v1ct1ms of the new German order Hztler has conquered or has under h1s control practxcally all of the Eastern hemxsphere except for the fightmg Bntxsh who are falling fast Now xt comes our tum to carry on the iight As stated xn the Current Hlstory magazme 'The reahza txon that Amerxca IS now largely responsxble for the outcome of World War Il xs gamxng ground xn the Umted States It IS our tum to make extreme sacrifices to meet the challenge No one xn the Umted States wants war but 1f It comes we must be pre pared to glve everythmg-even our l1ves to save our freedom fought for by our ancestors We must be wlllmg to meet th1s challenge wxth all we have We must be ready to make every ultlmate sacnfice for freedom By ': ' bom rights and privileges: just as free speech and the right to worship. Now the

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s 'Wt CLASS PROPHESY CHARLOTTE OLMSTED For years at the approach of the graduatron season Senrors have begun to wonder what members of therr class would be dorng rn the future I have been no exceptron srnce I too have pondered long over the prospectrve careers of each mdrvrdual rn the class of 41 In fact I thought so much about the subject that one evenrng as I lay back rn a soft, easy charr concentratrng on thoughts of my frrends there suddenly appeared before me a funny lrttle old man wrth twrnklrng eyes and a crooked mrschrevous grrn He looked lrke a dwarf from Grrmms Farry Tales He sur pnsed me so much that I was speechless for a moment When I Enally found my vorce I asked who he was In a wee trnklrng vorce he answered that he was the dwarf of the future and was gomg to foretell the future of my class mates Then he pulled from hrs tmy pocket a book The Movre of the Future I began to take hrm serrously as he handed me the book and told me I mrght look at rts contents Currously I opened rt and glanced at the first page There appeared a regular movrng prcture The figures were qurte small but as I looked closer I saw to my amazement that they were those of Homer Drebler and Roy Beuschlem Homer and Roy were great orators They were grvrng speeches agamst the draftrng of boys between the ages of ten and fourteen the burnrng questron of the trme As the scenes contmued to change I saw rn successron the other members of my class Harpo Harold Har ner and Don Barley had crashed mto movmg prctures Harpo was the modern Borrs Karloff' and Don was the new Brng Crosby I thrnk Don rs much nrcer lookrng though dont you grrls7 Carol Cook was a famous srnger and had been travelrng over the entrre country grvrng concerts The men were so entranced by her beauty and vorce that hundreds of drvorces had resulted causrng Russell Loesell and Audrey Beadle partners rn law to work overtrme Joe Brrtton was now on the legrtrmate stage starrrng rn that famous productron 'You Cant Take It Along Ioan Coleman was hrs manager rn more way than one Vera Beck Dona jean Grrfhn and Mary Holdrrdge were makrng good use of therr unbreakable glass rollrng prns Warren Oakes and Gerald Holly had turned out to be rnventors Together they had rnvented an arrplane wrth a reverse control whrch could stop strll rn mrd arr Therr latest efforts were bent toward rnventrng stop lrghts and stop srgnals for use rn arr trafllc Good luck boys' Merna Pat rck was now the leadrng telephone operator rn the country She has set a new style by srngrng rn her low alto vorce Num ber please Betty McKrllen had just broken the worlds record for fast talkrng by utterrng erght hundred twenty words per mrnute The former record was seven hundred srxty joe Samonelt Brll Kruse and james Grapp were full fledged flyers Brll and James were rnstructors at Ann Arbor arrport turnrng loop the loops rn therr spare trme Joe was grounded for two weeks because he flew too low over the crty causrng a scare among the people for fear hed hrt a burldrng and crack up Shrrley Brrggs was the oomph grrl Ann Sherrdan the second There rs a resemblance dont you thrnk7 Nancy Alford Charlotte Mosher Marjorre Roehm and Paulrne Shackelford were full fledged nurses They were very successful because therr quretness rn srck rooms was very soothrng Nelson Watlrng was the star salesman for Klrpper Klapper Klop shoes He was such a successful salesman that many corporatrons were beggrng hrm to work for them Mary Battelle and Ann Grll were noted musrcal artrsts Mary wrth her cello and Ann wrth her vrolm Mary had lately achreved great fame by playrng The Wrllram Tell Overture rn the key of H flat Ann was rn France where she had been playrng for some trme The French people were so enthralled by her playrng that they absolutely re fused to allow her to return home Drck Hall Ray Clark and Stanley Marken were behrnd bars not the krnd of whrch you are thrnkrng however Drck was a clerk rn the bank of Ypsrlanrr part of hrs trme was spent advrsrng Mr Best on sound rnvestments Ray was a postal clerk for Uncle Sam lrckrng postal stamps for pretty grrls and Stanley was trcket seller at the depot tryrng hard not to look cross eyed when lookrng through the bars john Leabu Margre O Key Helen Spears and jean Watlrng had formed a mrdget colony They were wrth the Curtrss and Gleason Crrcus owned by R-oger Curtrss and Oren Gleason Roger played for the srdeshow and Oren was the dare devrl prlot Both were qurte sensatronal X , S la. 4 J, , J r 9 - a . , . . tr an . . . . , , r . , . . . . . . . .I e n . , , r - - rn - n . . . , - . , , , . 4 - A tt w 1 ' ' - - - - ts. n rr - 1 ,. . ,, .... . . ' 1 r v ' - 1 r r - . .. . . . ,, , ,, 1 y . .. .- , r . . , . Y. . . . I . . , - rr 1- 1 1 - . . Q . . . . 4 r r - , . . . , , . . ' . A . tr n V - - v . u - v - ' f . , , . - rr . 1- , . . . U . . n . . . . f , 1 1 - 1 - - 1 s . , . . , r r , - tt - - -1 . - ' 1