The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-05-21
ValedictOry
By BESSIE ZIMMERMAN

the Board of Education Teachers Parents and
Friends when attempt out the time honored custom
bidding farewell the school and to its associations
that makes the attempt hollow and flu
tile We say goodbye to that which has become
part of what ourselves and which will accompany
to the end of days.
personalities of fellow students and of teachers their
precepts and principles their attitudes and ideals their
mannems have become so ntegrated our own PERSONAL
ties that cannot would we could, bid them farewell
q may leave behind teachers and fellow
students but it is equally true that all that is most worth while
Them their mental and moral aspects and their of
thinking and working have become and will remain part of
u.s. and it is futile to attempt to bid them farewell.
Farewells have the disadvantage of requiring to look
backward shoulders but leaving high
school in times that aloud for the forward direction OF our
To look backward with regret and longing
is to initiate habit which, if cultivated will eventually turn
pillars of salt and doom to face forward
with aspiration hope purpose, and courage
Old middle prone pass judgment youth
We condemned for lack of serious purpose Tor apparent
for future and for lack of respect for
cial, political, and economic institutions
In to these criticisms let remind old and middle
that there time in mans history when slavery
better way of dsposng with the prisoners of than the
previous way-that of killing them. This did not
learned that slavery the best possible basis
of social and economic life.
Like slavery previous economic arrangements our
industrial capitalism has developed its PHILOSOPHERS 1t
fored certain forms of government and developed doc
of free enterprise for the of establishing itself
firmly the terminus of human progress
Today, before think that because capitalism
merely better than what had gone before is therefore the
organization that be achieved If we
forward rather than backward must recognize
be better is not necessarily to be best What bet
later stage of his development.
Today human has reached stage OF development
which possible for bid farewell to of
scarcity that implies of human want and
international warfare prompted by fears of scarcity and to
forward a age in which will accommodate
our habits thought domestic and international
age of abundance which easily at
tainabe
Every stage development contributed something
civilization. We credit capitalism with the dlScoV
inventions and the development of productive technqe
which have brought to the twilight hour OF age OF
scarcity and to the dawn of era of abundance but
admit that capitalism had in mind the destruc
scarcity the creation of abundancetha had
only the attainment of the sort of profit that be
money and bonds and evidences
debt which in the hands of the few reveal the OF
the many This kind of profit be exacted only from
of scarcity Capitalism shrnks from the
pect of abundance.
the function of agriculture produce food and the
of clothing such abundances that
child need be undernouhed poorly Clad but today
for the sake profit seeks to restore
perpeuate that scarcity from which profits be secured
Since, the past scarcity yielded high prices and
profits money industry like agriculture seeks to place
ducve capacity under restraint and to create scarcity for the
of the profit that be eXacted from human want
Youth questions the foresight of adult generation which
seeks proong the of scarcity the expectation of OBJ
tanning their profit from human want We wonder at the
perfection system that nssten profits that it
them the toll of generations unborn
Youth hardly to blame for doubling the sanctty of
a system which apparently cannot give opportunity
live the production of the implements
with which youth to be forth to destroy the lives
If its fellowmen. ca
This the world that after graduation ra
these the facts of reality which must face down be-
which shall need improve govern