VOL. 6, NO. 3
OCT. 23, 1964
Era of achievement
Although you students of today do not yet have a voice in our national policies - yours is a golden opportunity to plan for tomorrow.

You are still - through your studies - so close to the world of Washington and Lincoln - and to the great of our own day - and their tasks will soon be in your hands.

It is so easy to take sides and so easy to get on the soapbox for this or that issue. It is so easy to love and to hate - so easy to praise or condemn. And it is so difficult to sit back and listen and learn - but that is your role, so when your turn comes, you'll have both feet firmly on the ground.
 Ours is an era of achievement. The commonplace of today was never in the wildest dreams of your forefathers. Yours can be the era of fulfillment - but only if you train yourselves in judgment, in restraint, in physical fitness and most of all, in ideals so that a government founded by the people, of the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth.

Learn to think - to observe - yes, to see the "forest and not just the trees" for tomorrow it will be your world and you won't be able to say, "Stop it - I want to get off." (Editor's note: The editorial above was reprinted with permission from Teen-Mail, Inc., Riverside Plaza, Chicago, Ill. The article was originally printed in the "Teen Thinking" column of Teen-Mail in their September issue.)