West Paris High School - Nautilus Yearbook (West Paris, ME)

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PUBLIC ENEMY Nfl! Any tourist passing through the little town of West Paris might be thrilled by our cozy little community until he came to the cement bridge passing over the Little Androscoggin River. Now please don't misunderstand megthe cement bridge has been standing for as long as I can remember and it can stand there for as long as it wants. The dirty river and all its filth and refuse dumped in by generations of West Parisians has also been standing there for as long as I can remember, but believe me, I am not content to see that stand there forever. There is nothing that spoils the looks of a town any more than a river used as a garbage disposal unit. It is not surpris- ing to walk over the bridge any summer day and notice the not ex- actly pleasing aroma of decaying vegetable and animal matter. The river receives the sawdust of the mills,the sewerage and rub- bish of the houses, but the attention of nobody. It's human na- ture for people to be careless and forgetful, but neglect is just plain laziness. When confronted by this problem many people would say, Ult doesnft concern me.H I wonder what their reaction would be if they realized the number of rats which inhabit the river banks and the diseases they can and will cause unless something is done. Others may be of the opinion that anything that has beaugood enough for previous generations is good enough for them. They think that just because dear old grandpa lived through it they ought to be able to. There are still people around town who are living in the dark ages. You can't tell them anything and-you can't sell them anything. It would only take a little whole- hearted cooperation on the part of all of us to improve the looks of our town one hundred per cent. I know we, as citizens of West Paris, would like to see our little town grow and prosper, but I don't believe that that day is in the immediate future unless we do something about the chief eyesore in our otherwise beautiful town. Robert Young '50 Q JUVENSLE DELINCQUENCY Every year when Juvenile Court opens groups ' of .Americafs children all over the country stand before the court awaiting the verdict the Judges will give them, and each year Americas correc- tion houses are a little more full. There is no doubt about it - American Juvenile delinquency iss increasing. But there is not much that can be done about it until the cause of this increasing delineuency is discovered.