Bar Harbor High School - Islander Yearbook (Bar Harbor, ME)

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1tor1a Three years ago, the world emerged from a conflrct almost beyond descrrptron rn 1ts cost of lrves and materrals Weary wrth the terrrflc fatrguesof war thc great natrons staggered mto a dawn made strange wlth a new quiet It was peace' Durxng the long hrdeous nrght of bloodshed mankmd has been brought to look rtself squarely ln the face Man had seen man, rnllamed wrth hate, wrthout restrarnts lower hrmself to the level of ber serk beasts Horror had walked abroad and smrrked at the skrll of the nroderns rn torture and mass murder It was an evrl prcture But from rt one great good emerged Long before the lfrst gun had echoed on mto eternrty there had formed 111 the hearts of men a great resolve 3 new and tt rrlllle deterrlllnatlorl that fOl'6VBI' after war should be externnnated At some trme and place ln the tumult 'md terror of those days, thrs great resolutron took shape rn the mrnds of nrrllrons In documents that we shall always treasure, the Great Ones 'rave the resolutlon form and sub stance, but rts true brrth sprang from that embryo of yearrung 1l'1 the war srck souls of mankrnd Of such was the gene-515 of world government and probably rts greatest hope rn eventual adoptron We of today have been permrtted to see thrs radrcally new rdea gr0W ffOIY1 H Slllllltllliflllg ll0P6 I0 an Organlzed reallty Not fully realrzrng rts great portent, we have watched the t Illtetl NHUOHS qtlllgale tllfflllgll an Hd0leSCeHCe, fraught though rt rs wrth frustratrons and gfowlng palns toward a future of strength and stabrllty Con srder the magnltude of these first faltermg steps, when, for the ttfet tlltlf H1 the ll1Qt0fY Ot maflkmtl, the world s peoples s1t at a conference table and try to lealfl l10W to llve t0gether peaceably There have been many mlstakesj but most of them are known and acknowledged and reluc tantly accepted as necessary compromrses for the greater Heed Of lieepltlg all tl10Se peoples at the COI1fer ence table Yes, there are too many vetoeg and no enforcment agency There IS too much natronal sov erergntv, not enough compromrse, and, as yet, lrttle,secur1tv anywhere An armament race goes on, sprung from these faults and dedrcated to more buzz bombs and 3t0IT1lC OlJl1tCr21t10I1 These are real dangers and not to be taken lrffhtlv, but therr solutron does not lre rn the drrec tron of drscard of the Unrted Natrons as a farlure Rather we mllet etfellgtllen lt, and I'aPlttlY, to the 5t3tl1S on the rrghts and welfare of the1r nelghbors, as the mdltlflllal SIHIPS III Our Country do Governments must come to submrt to an lnternatronal enforcement ageI1CV7 Jllbt HS we accept P0l1C6 6Ilf0rC6II1CIlt lil our darly lrves Courts of world scope must be accepted as the ultrmate authorrty after arbrtratlon falls, rn drsputes between natlons Representatrse government has the pattern, and we rn Amerrea have seen lt work as rt nurtured thrrteen rsolated and quarrelsome colonres to a strong Lhlted States We need vo no further back than our grandfathers trme to hear tales of border drsput6S Hllfl btwllg Qef tl0I1al teellflgS tJetWeeH States, and yet how perfectly preposterous IS the rdea of a War between Malne and M2iSsaClll1SettS l0day 01106, ln 1861, we Qpht In half but who of the Ngrth or South wrll not today, thank God that a strong federal gov ernment was able to pull us together aga1n9 Who Could be so rnsensrble to the Qplflt of Amerrca as ever to expect rt to happen aga1n'7 True, there are greater problems rn burldrng a world federal government than we encountered here There are racral drflerences, customs, patterns of thrnklng, and languaves that vary There are economlc problems, struggles for survrval, and these can be very real and lmmedlate 1n older socletles, but the more of these drllicultres we face, the more urgent becomes our need for a just and strong arbrter of world scope l rgent, because, breathrng hot on our necks today rs the fact that the old order of sev erergn states wrth therr secret treatres, balance of power polrtrcs, and eventually the final resort, war, has farled And wrll we wrthrn the framework of a federal world government suffer a loss of that very necessarv ego our patr1ot1sm I thrnk not For after a hundred and seventy two years of federal govern ment here, who would not rather be born IH hrs natrve state than anywhere else ln the world? Who of us wrll not strll east a look of condescenslon and a llttle prty on the out of stater9 What son of Nevada wrll not march proudly under hrs statels banner amrdst all the splendor of New Yorks great avenues9 Ye , thrs rs the very stuff of patrrotlsm, and there IS plenty of room and strmulus to be happy that you are an Amerlcan a Frenchman or a Montenegran To those who may thrnk economic conflrcts rnsurmountable, l wrll pornt to the fact that from the four corners of our country come crres of dryergent baslc lnterests that challenges those of the world rn dlscordance Some great cconomrst of the past has stated that we I 0 Q r , - , r . I I y C g . . , . G , . 1 . v ln T v M n I D . 9 - I n u T n A A ' T Q D s u 7 . , , , Q , -D f . . of a federal government. Nations must learn to surrender that part of their SOV6reigIlty that infringes 0 0 9 ' ' 1 V I 1 ' A . I A, nu , C B , T. 5 'Y v - - . l D r, . 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l btlreye that any rrrovement toward lmproument of ulucrlron should rlways bc grvcn care ful consrderatron A gurdanee program such as has been proposed would seelt out the specral talents of students, and encourage and develop them qtuderrts ysrll mect nrore competltron, and through rt urll learn to adjust more readlly to a larger school or college Teachers rn a revronal hrgh school would be better prepared for therr partrcular subject Wrtlr only one subject to a teacher he could specralrze and not be oblrged to drvrde hrs attentrons among sex eral separate and unrelated subjects CON In a school of approxmrately I 000 puprls rt seems to me that these puprls would lose the xaluable personal contact wrth those about them I don t belreye the Island towns wrll want to lose therr mdnrdual rdentlty by jornrng thrs school Where would the money come from? I belreye that the money should be spent on makrng our Island a more Ideal vacatron spot to rnsure the resrdents that they Wrll be able to make a lrvmg Separate school scholarshrps, I presume, wrll not be transferred to the proposed Island school 'I lns would make rt mrpossrble to a great degree for some deservmg students to attend college We haye certarn clrques rn our schools, certamly there ysrll be many more 1n the proposed school After we get the school burlt we probably fan carry rt on but where, how and from whom are me gorng to get the money to begrn burldrngwl We should mart urrtrl we can be sure of our Island s future as a resort town The prrncrpal of one of the present Island hrgh schools stated that rf the town were wrllrng to spcrrd tlrr rrronev, hrs hrfflr school has room enough to hate every subject offered by the proposed re grorral lngh school What about t1ansportatron'7 The long drstances to be covered by the buses would make rt necessary for some puprls to leave home as early as 1 o clock and probably not return before 4 o clock That s a long day lv No one can be sure of the future of Bar Harbor I thrnk ne should get along as best we can for a few years untrl we find out whether there wrll be any busrness here to enable resrdents to make a lrvrng, otherwlse they wrll have to move elsewhere,and we shall hate no need for a larger school I don t thrnk the seventh and erghth grades should be housed rn the regronal school burldrng That would mean srx years of commutrng , and they would mlss the trme honored achrevement of Grammar school graduatron Opmrons Collected by MARJORIE STEVENS 6 6' 4' 54 g ' , . . V ' . , 1 y , i ' S I 1 1 ' , I V- - as 55 ' . . . . ' I Y, H Y. X . . . Y. . . ,V , i 77 44 E . . . . . . D , , , , 1 1 . . 1 -. I ' 77 I . . . . . . gc . 7 . . . V c J , , , , - as 44 7 . ,J K . . . . 7. . . . . . i I no cc - ' ' , T . I , . Q i . . . . T . . . ,, 54 . v. Q 1 . . . . . 7, I ' c ., . , ' . H V v . . . W . V. . 1 I 77 cc - - I 1 if . 1 1 - , - GS Y ' ' v D Q 4 ' 7 . Y 77 44 . . . . . . , L , ,, c ' ' . 7 , A- 1 x ' ' S . , , ' s 1 , , ,l b , c - l ' h ar 44 - ' ' . . . ' ' 1- 1 9 , ,L 'V , c , . c . . a r La - 1 , Y I ,ct , , . . I v. Y . 7 Y 5, 44 , . . . . . . Y . 44 I . ,, . . - . . . . ' 7, n . nf: x91 mf: U1 I I

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