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Show U. S. Furthers World Peace By Supporting The United Nations J By Jay Horrocks Editor's Note: The following essay on the general subject, "The United States' Contribution For a Permanent World Peace," placed third in the recent American Amer-ican Legion Auxiliary essay contest. con-test. Jay Horrocks, the author, is a student at the Roosevelt high school. The world today is recuperating recuperat-ing from the greatest war of all time; a war so great, that in men and materials destroyed, it exceeded ex-ceeded all other wars combined. Did this great struggle accomplish accom-plish its purpose; the ending of all wars, or was it, like so many others in the past, fought in a vain attempt to destroy what so many people regard as an inevitable inevi-table occurance. After the First World War , United States stumbled over u self, through political bungling f in trying to keep away tl world organizations for maintain f ing peace. It was President wii P son who started the machine m motion for a League of Na lions. The idea was hastily an! proved by many foreign cou jC tries but upon his return to thu i country he was unable to get th I two-thirds vote of Congress neS ' essary for the United States s participate in the plan Th"; League of Nations ended' with i out accomplishing its putdo&T Deprived of the prestige and J power the United States coulS have given it, its results werp i negligible. It did, however s show that nations could plan tri gether with enduring peace a. i their objective. a Today the United Nation have started the strongest organ. ization ever attempted to dtp.' serve the peace. Their airn:r0 make a peace so strong and last, 3 ing that belligerent nations will 'f-hesitate 'f-hesitate to start trouble because ; of the fear of bringing the wrath of the entire civilized world u ? on them. r j) The United States has had the s leading vote in this because we know of the failure of the H League of Nations and what caui-v ted it. We have guided thfe new t organization with such wisdom a and understanding of the prott lems that confront us that the world has come to look upon the United States with trust, know ing that whatever we do, it will 5 be for the betterment of the world as a whole. We have al- i ways been first in wars for jug- 3 tice. Let us be first in lasting x peace! t |