Standish High School - Crimson Rambler Yearbook (Standish, ME)

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iagtal WN NNW if :f?W5k 5. it ,Q has 3e.4mu . -. ,mf A' if A , Q xv' , l'iLe ?Eqxx 'ir 7'f? FB' 'V .465 Join the Army When you received word from overseas that millions of young men had laid aside their dreams, their hopes, and their ambitions to take up the arms of war didn't it do something to you, inside? Didn't it make you wonder just what prompted men to build and do big things, and then, in a brief period of rebellion and hatred destroy all that had been accom- plished? Why, you may ask, does anyone want to take part in the silliest, the most dreadful, the most indefensible game that man ever created? Why? I wish I knew! I wish that all men knew so that such a ca- tastrophe could be avoided. Everyone has his own theory as to the solution of the problem. Everyone in America has a right to his own particular opinion in the matter. The main thing is, will that theory work? Some Nbrass hats? say WLet's join the army. That is the only way that it Jwill- workin!-Mhyb6L.ythey're right. I don't know. I'm almost inclined to agree with them that an army is the only method. I 'don't agree, however, an army of men, guns, mobilized units, and ammunition will end war forever. I can't agree that by killing men and destroying their houses, we will ever lessen that feeling of hatred between ourselves and our enemies. That sounds incredible. That kind of an army is only to stave off and weaken the enemy's resistence for a period of perhaps twenty to fifty years ---- maybe less. What we consider a new war is nothing more than a prolongation of the ones preced- ing. It can be nothing but a game of defense over a period of years---maybe centuries. The army that I consider fitt- ing is the twenty-seven million Americans who begin their march every time that September rolls around. They do not march to war They mean ill to no man in the world unless he is an enemy of democracy and an unbeliever in the American man's rights. This group is made up ot'the'most joy- ous, most carefree, most hopeful army in the whole wide world. It is made up of the children who each year attend our public schools. They are, in future, years, to be the true up-holders of our American democracy. They are in each respect everything that our democracy stands for. Each morning when the boys and girls start for school, they pass under the flag of their country which waves, or should wave, at every schoolhouse door. In pass- ing they pause for a moment, and with all faith and sincerity they give their pledge of allegiance to that Flag. ' I've often wondered what that Flag would reply to those chil- dren if it could but speak. Re- cently I read an cuexcerpt . from nThe Flag Speaks' by Franklin K.