Wilmington High School - Hourglass Yearbook (Wilmington, MA)

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WHAT GRADUATION MEANS Dedicated to the Junior Class , 1 Parents, Friends, and Classmates: I have the honor of representing the Senior Class in Saluting' you. We extend to you, our most cordial welcome and hope that you, as well as ourselves, will be participants in this feeling of joy and sorrow, which we experience tonight. I say joy because we feel happy that we-are taking our places in the world and sorrow because we are leaving the one institution in which most of our happy days were spent. . f There are several meanings of ugraduationn,'therefore, I shall enumerate some of them: 11 Technically speaking, graduation may be defined as the completion of the high school term: the mere ac- ceptance of a diploma which certifies that you have accomplished your assigned work. 21 To some, Ugraduationn may be defined as the .dividing line between the past and the future. 51 To others, the word may instantly draw an imaginative picture of the future. This picture may be that of achieving their goal in the business world, or it may be that of furthering their education in order to widen their range of knowledge so that they may become more competent. 41 Besides the future, it also reminds us of the past. The time has come when we can look back and analyze our character. Did we make worthy use of our leisure time? Did we use mental effort to our full capacity? Did we accomplish everything we hoped to? Did we make good preparation for our new life? I believe when we have reached this stage in life, that we are fully able to answer these questions. 51 The word ugraduationn could also be interpreted as, Uresolutionn, that is, we resolve to make our future lives successful. 61 We might compare graduation with a lamp: the lamp of our new approaching life whose radiance predominates the darkness of'the past. 71 It may also be com- pared with a magnet, that is, it is drawing our future nearer to use Volumes could be written on this subject but I believe I have given you, the Junior class, enough examples to make you realize how really important this event is. . 1 Our motto is, nThe higher we climb, the broader our viewu and ngraduationu is the first step in preparation for the climb. BY Lillian Babineau

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CAN WE AVERT WAR? My I Probably the greatest problem that confronts the world today is that of maintaining world peace. When we look aoout us and observe the actual warfare that has recently taken place, and now exists throughout the world, we should do more than view with dreadful anticipation the threat of additional hostilitiesg we Should investigate the causes of the strife, and if possible, find a means by which we may avert what would undoubtedly be the most destructive war in the history of the world. It is Commonly believed that the principal causes of war are economic needs for raw materials and a market for surplus produc- tion, and a desire for an outlet for expanding population. When we realize that these reasons constitute the explanation for the recent agressive policies of Japan and Italy, we should seek an- other solution to the problem than the one which they have offer- ed--war, Some people maintain that it is necessary to redistribute territory in order to make every country as self-sufficient as pos- sible by giving it needed natural resources, and room for its ox- panding population--that the map of the world must be redrawn. Aside from the fact that it would be impossible to achieve this feat because impelled by a feeling of patriotism, no nation would yield a portion of its territory to a neighboring country or per- mit a foreign element within its borders, it is evident that if we were to redraw territorial boundaries today in terms of what are considered the most important natural resources, we should have to change them tomorrow because other commodities would have supplanted them in importance. The futility of changing frontiers is again evident when we realize that the transfer of territory results in no change in ownership of lands or mines. In the Philippine Islands for ex- ample, the United States does not control a single industry, and although we are said to own the islands, America obtains hor products on the same terms with the rest of the world. Accord- ing to the present day excuse for war, the United States is jus- tified in conquering Chile in order to procure some of her nitrates instead of simply purchasing them. The problem about raw materials is not in acquiring them, but the difficulty lies in disposing of them with the existing barri- ers to world trade. D It would be equally unreasonable to suppose that colonial possessions would aid in disposing of surplue production. To dis- count the theory that population pressure leads to war it is but necessary to and Wales is new complain colonies and observe that the density of population in England approximately twice that of Italy. The countries that of being over-crowded possess very sparsely settled authorities on the subject have agreed that Ireland is the only exception to the rule that emigration only temporarily alleviates the congestion within a country.