Colebrook Academy - Clipper Yearbook (Colebrook, NH)

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X Americans have long enjoyed. The government has been quite lenient in its establishment of our point rationing system. We know not how for- tunate we are to have such great nFreedom from Want.n Picture yourself in all the different war zones. At Wake Island, in the Solomons, and other strategic places in the Pacific many of our soldiers have suffered from the lack of wholesome food. Many of our boys have lived on horse meat. Our fighting forces in Africa have gone without food and clothing to fight for the freedom we love. We must fight equally as hard on the home front. Does every American citizen appreciate the liberty found in America? Think of those countries in Europe and Asia--Russia, Great Brit- ain, France, China, and the other smaller European countries--who have sacrificed everything to fight those who plan to conquer the world and destroy our democracy. Americans, we are next. We must continue to buy war stamps and bonds to help fight those who aim to destroy this freedom. We must continue to help Russia, Great Britain, and China to our utmost limit and stop such cruel treatment in this supposedly modern world. Many people oppose Willkieand his sympathy for the Russians. The' think he is exaggerating the conditions in Russia. If we had been through what Russia had, we would appreciate help. How many people in the United States oppose the Lend-Lease Bill? Every box of food that we send to Russia, Great Britain, and China is a step towards victory. We must not grumble at our slight food shortage,but work all the harder in our victory gardens to raise food for ourselves and our Allies. We must not think of ourselves but cooperate with our Allies and work together as one strong fighting force. One rope pulling in one direction is better than two ropes pulling in opposite directions. Lei us Fight! Fight! Fight! to preserve uFreedom from Want all over the world. - Richard Annis '43 FKEEDQM FROM FEAR Fourth . . . Freedom from fear all over the world. We here in Anurica do not fully know what significance the above sentence really bears. We do not have to run all of the time to escape the bombs which the Nazis and Japs are forever trying to hurl down upon us. Today when we go to work, we can walk along without having to be on the alert for the roaring of a great number of planes overhead, wondering if we are going to reach the air raid shelter before one of those bombs becomes fatal. It is true that we have had air raid drill and blackouts, but the evil has as yet been left out of the picture. We can put our children to bed at night and know that they will have a sound night's rest. We do not wake up in the middle of the night hearing planes roaring and children crying, shaking, and cling- ing to us and not knowing whether they will ever play again. It is with a deep cry of anguish that the mother in England, Russia, and the -25-

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y FREEDOM QF WQKSHIP What do they defend when they defend America, the hard-shouldored young men of our land? They are fighting for things simple and dear . to them--above all, a nfreedom of religion H In 1620 the Puritans came to America with a determined faith, and this unshakable conviction--that God was marching beside them in both peace and war--gave d e Puritans the strength they had to have to carve the first powerful American commonwealth out of'the,wilderness of New England. , I ' 'J fqfi It is good to be an Americana no choicer heritagercould be given to any man. His birthrightfincludes a majority of the things for which they will'evcr be realized.:1 ' ' g1'j,a , Q ,Aff ,I 4. ' All great wars bringxwith them some sort of spiritual revival. Whengwe are at war, material things must be sacrificed. yMen.then,grope for spiritual things as the only available alternative. ,If we look hack over the last two hundred years, we find that we infthe United States became conscious of an nAmerfean dream.N We visioned a vast continent to be opened up to the,repressed-and oppressed of?other lands. We ment far toward making that dream comeltrue. However3'if history teaches anything, it is that no natieh is great and no nation is strong unless its people are imbued with as active, living faithii We need to hayf this shared by theymany millions who live their liyesfwith regard for the fact that He ls'the Way, the Truth, and the Life., Facts about the oppressed,peoples in Europe are.known only too well. Protestants, Catholics, Jews--one and all--are herded like cattle before the Nazi murder machine for committing a hugh crime--that df worshiping as they please. In the midst of war, fury, and hate, we should not let ourselves forget that we in America still have the free- don to worship God unmolested. W,. f The Puritan spirit speaks from the pulpits andlhearts of Americans todayg the official statements of American leaders are filled with it. Indeed, President Roosevelt might have been speaking'for the Puritan Fathers when he closed his first radio address of the war37on December Q, 1941, with the words that our.cause and our hope wereHfor Wliberty under God,W - If 'A ' J. Walker '45 FRE BDSM FK OM WA N T I ' Every country in the world lacks UFreedom from Want.N This isfone of the four freedoms which Hitler and the Japs are planning to destroy in America. We must break those plans. Of course, America is the least affected by the lack of material things, but we are beginning to get accustomed to going without more and more. Many things that we wear, eat, drink, and use in everyday life are rationed. We are beginning to know what it means to go without butter, meat, and many luxuries that we -g4-

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13 invaded countries of Europe hurries out with children clinging to her to reach an air raid shelter. ' We know, also, that when our hospitals here in America are filled with sick people they will not be bombed. We are not forever kept on the lookout. We can walk down the streets and in the parks and not see the horror that the war has brought to our country. We do not see people and children going around homeless, half naked, hungry, and cold. Our families are not roving from place to place because our homes are the ones that were hit by bombs in the raid last night. We are spared, too, the horror of seeing the streets filled with people bleeding to death, many of which has been We do not row morning or America so far whom die because they refused to obey Hitler's New Order brought into their country. have to worry about the source of our breakfast tomor- about the medical care which we so badly need. Yes, has been very fortunate in many things. We here in America, though, do realize that war has done to a great many of us. There are thousands of loved ones in the fighting parts of the world who we hope and pray will come back to usg but, of course, we realize that we must make our sacrifices. We understand to some extent what this war means to us and are giving up many things through the rationing program that has been set up in this country. We are willing to go without so that this may enable our men and women to get that job done quicker. Yet we are not going to fall under the power of Hitler or Hirohitc We will pay in sacrifices too death, money, and bloodshed, yet we will not take these hard. There is going to be a time when we will have freedom from the many worries that today have suddenly come into our homes. The conspirators are going to pay for this, because America is strong and the morale of the people in England and the conquered coun- tries cannot be shattered. They are already paying, but they have not yet begun to pay the penalty that is going to be theirs. There is also another penalty to be dealt out which they will not be able to escape. This penalty will be given by the One who alone is Righter of all wrongs. Edith Fellows '43 KEY TO CLIPPER QUIZ 1. Detroit, Mich. 2. Sequoia 14. Louisiana 15. Virginia 5. Yes, Provincetown, Mass. 16. A tarentalla is a lively dance--a 4. Yes, Maryland and Delaware tarantula is a venomous spider. 5. President Grover Cleveland 17. One who bats either right or left 6. Penn. Packet and General Advertiser handed. Phil., 1734. 18. Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain 7. They constitute the first public 19. A point near Lebana, Smith County, 8 9. Denver or San telegraph message. . Chives, onions, garlic, shallots. Kansas. 20. Meaning toxcut apart and to bold fast. Franciso mints. 21. About one third, another third use 10. NO, London is a man's town, there's chop sticka balance their fingers. power in the air.n .22. The Missouri River ll. Keats', quotation, Enaymon 23. Minnesota 24. Guth1t:NbClintic 12. One, Washington. Macbeth 26. Pancreas 25. . nEqua1 Justice Under Law.n -26-