Show A TO till til II 11 bast AND till during world war 1 bur fathers acro good natu singing 1 I dont know what this war wars 8 about aut I 1 know now by that ill soon hid find out well we learned little aside from tho the fact that wo lost hun areas of thousands of nion men and boys ind and acquired it i rood good many debts our fathers returned to the same kind of count country rk they lott ft a country still dedicated to tho the ideals of democracy to juba what sort bort of homo are tho the boys involved in this second struggle going to return tho the answer to that question Is being and will bo be formulated by those at homo home suppose Sup poso wo we pariso for a moment and got our hearings bearl nga in this fast moving world wo we hero at garfield Gart lold nigh are among the moro more fortunate 0 of f tho the younger generation wo we aro are still blonea with tho the opportunities of education wo iva aro are pro prepared for tho the positions of leadership but just how much do wo we along with tho the rest of the high school students over tho country really sense tho the extent of nt our responsibility do wo we fully sense the responsibility to tho the maintain anco of a democratic form of government after tho the war it if our national constitution bill of rights included bo thrown out the window as nn an outgrown and antiquated document the constitution took centuries to write con centuries of european I 1 suffering undo under r despotic forms of government it was not until the discovery of this land iana of ours oura that the hubo hove began to rise in those downtrodden down trodden people that it might be to have what Abra abraham linin lincoln la in tur tol as being ft a government liy by of and for tho the people 11 it wo we discard this historic document wo will bo be casting ca Fiting neldo Bom something ething which it will tako many many years to replace of course no document how over lengthy could possibly poss lLly sot lown down in III black binck and white all that this land of ours lias has boon or Is los tIned to bo be tho the constitution Is tho the backbone of tho the nation and our traditions prevent aturo of tho the apina you cannot possibly put those traditions on deoly into works but they aro are tho truo true essence ot of our bolno beir tir nover tho less it if wo do not conserve and protect these written and unwritten idohla and principles which nio our way of life then for what empty purpose are our friends brothers and sweet hearts offering their lives today EDI TOIlS NOTE nio proceeding beeding article was written by joseph C voy foy principal of tile tho garfield aar flold high school and was published in tho the last issue of the 0 11 II S sentinel it a small email periodical published by the high school its ita timeliness and logic appealed to ua its and we felt that there may bo be others who would like to read it and keep keel it tho the editor I 1 |