Besse High School - Breeze Yearbook (Albion, ME)

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Going To College 'No I'm not go1ng to college I can't afford lt ' I am My fam1ly has saved for years for th1s purpose 'l've got a Job wa1t1ng I m golng r1ght o work after I gradua e These are some react1ons to the quest1on of go1ng to college Before a person de c1des whether or not he IS go1ng to college he should carefully analyze the advantages a college educat1on In th1s age of tough compet1t1on for the best Jobs a college educat1on 1S 1mportant Doctors, lawyers teachers sc1ent1sts and clergymen must be college tralned The buslness and 1ndustr1al world needs men and women wlth a college educat1on for pos1t1ons of leader Shlp Many other Jobs demand men and women who through the1r college tralnlng have mastered the skllls of the1r trades SIat1St1CS have proved that college graduates earn S50 000 more dur1ng the1r l1fet1me than h1gh school graduates One of the most 1mportant th1ngs however that a college educatxon can do for you 15 to help you become an 1nterest1ng personallty Your college courses expand your know ledge and sharpen your m1nd A college educat1on helps you to have a better soc1al l1fe and how to get along w1th other people In college you learn to apprec1ate the better thlngs 1n Today w1th the many scholarshlp and student a1d plans lt 1S POSS1ble for anyone to go to college 1f he or she really wants to and has the ab111ty to learn Whatever you do I don't th1nk there 1S a subst1tute for a good college educat1on Ronald L1ttlef1eld '56 A Moment To Remember It w1ll be a moment to remember when I-Ierble and I take off 1n our space Shlp to the planet Mars We expect to have our sh1p completed on or about the year of 1969 We have not yet begun the actual structure but we have all the blue prlnts and plans We founded our corporat1on back 1n 1955 Last year we test flew a new rocket sh1p for the U S A1r Force Our f1rst stop was the moon There we found a new k1nd of metal that can be heated to a h1gh degree put 1nto shape and hardened Bullet proof t 1S so tough that 1f a space sh1p constructed of th1S materlal should crash lt would not dent or scratch Our next stop was to be Mars but we ran low on fuel and had to come home We don't expect to have d1ff1culty wlth fuel agaln because wh1le we were dolng some research work 1n the laboratory the other day we made an eye st1ng1ng d1scovery We found a new for mula for space Shlp fuel We call lt I-I UMSIF We th1nk our fuel W111 revolut1on1ze the whole f1eld of space travel When we land on the Planet Mars we w1ll send a deta1l report of our trlp back to earth by a superson1c carrler p1geon Roger Lawrence Herbert Shores 55 50 O I ' . ' I , . . , . . . ' , . . t t . . . , of ' I 1 I . 9 3 . . , , . . life such as good books, music, etc. , . . - . , . . . ' 2 , . . , . l , i , . 7 . C , ll ll

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Inventor Do you have an 1dea that could be developed 1nto fame and a money mak1ng sensat1on'7 The U S patent off1ces 1n Washmgton, D C f11e thousands of new 1nvent1ons every year from new vers1ons of can openers to the most dehcate of modern 1nstruments The U S patent laws prov1de that any new and useful art, mach1ne, compos1t1on of matter, art1cle of manufacture, or any new and useful 1mprovement thereof may be patented 1f the act of 1nvent1on IS 1nv olved The people that send 1n the1r xdeas are not all acc1a1med 1nventors or SC18Ht1StS but they are people that feel that they have an 1dea and not afrald of be1ng r1d1culed because the 1dea appears to be far fetched and unreal1st1c The fact IS that the most startlxng 1nvent1ons 1n all h1story are those wh1ch at one t1me appeared to be unreal1st1c Certalnly, twenty years ago most people would have called send1ng telev1s1on pxctures through the a1r at the speed of l1ght and recreat1ng them 1n your l1v1ng room a very far fetched dream Even today some people regard such modern 1nvent1ons as m1racles, but lt 1S dreamers 11ke the telev1s1on 1nventors that br1ng new development 1nto the world There 15 a say1ng, 'Thos who Wonder shall Re1gn Certamly those who create have asked the quest1ons how and why When confronted w1th these quest1ons, the real creator w1ll come up w1th an answer that perhaps w1ll be the forerunner to another great 1nvent1on People Wlth the 1n1t1at1ve to use th1s creat1ve qual1ty, Wh1Ch we all have 1n d1ffer1ng a mounts w1ll cont1nue to advance the c1v1l1zat1on of the world Robert Llttlefleld 56 The Umted States Largest Problem We the people 1n Amer1ca have everyday problems One of the greatest problems we Amer1cans face today 15 the affa1rs beh1nd the Iron Curta1n Nobody can really explam to us Just what Russ1a's future plans are The Un1ted States bel1eves that Russ1a's ma1n 1dea 15 to conquer the world One th1ng that makes us beheve th1s IS the way they have recently started an aggress1on on Formosa an 1sland east of Ch1na The1r ma1n threat IS to set up Commun1st part1es throughout the East and eventually the world We Amer1cans try to get 1nformat1on to these Commun1st people, telllng them of how unfa1r they are be1ng treated Congress IS all the tune th1nk1ng up new schemes 1n order to overthrow the Commun1st party But lt st1ll rema1ns one of our greatest world w1de problems It can't be fought by a small maJor1ty of the people It 1S a problem that must be taken 1nto cons1derat1on by each 1nd1v1dual We don't know just where Commun1st ag gress1on w1ll start next Th1S aggress1on does not always take the form of open warfare but can be any scheme to weaken our soc1al structure, to arouse and 1ncrease raclal pre Jud1ces pol1t1cal corrupt1on and to overthrow 1ndustr1es It m1ght be 1n our town or state so all people should be aware of the fact We should al so know and apprec1ate our present day government and do all W1th1H our power to combat any and all ev1ls that may befall lt Charlle Spearr1n '56 49 0 4 . . . a . . . . . ' H 1 . . . . . . . I . e . H . . - 1 , . . . ' 0 , . 1 , . . . . J , . J

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The Great Wall Street Crash The fol1ow1ng 1S a report based on arncles wrmtten by John K Galbralth Harper s Magaz1ne, and ed1tor1a1s from Newsweek The great depress1on 1n New York mn October 1929 was one of the most harmful thmgs that ever occurred 1n the lustory of the Umted States allowmg only one exceptzon The C1v1l War ' There was a lot of d1scuss1on at the t1me as to what day the great panlc selzed the mar ket The rnajorzty of the people beheve lt struck on Thursday October 24 On Monday and Tuesday the losses were very great but on Wednesday thmgs were tolerably qu1et The great crash lasted all of the autumn of 1929 The reason for the stock crash was because durlng the early 20's there was a great boom 1n manufacturlng 1h the bu1ld1ng of modern bu1ld1ngs and m 1ndustry Before the great CraSh 21 large group of people were buymng stocks because they had heard that the stock market was a place where they could get rlch fast and the1r r1ght of gett1ng r1ch was as good as anyone else's For an example of the great change of stock prxces one hundred dollars worth of shares wh1ch provxded an average return of S5 90 1n 1921 pa1d only S3 50 1n 1929 Stock that had been worth S47 1n 1932 dropped to a mere S6 per share On October 24 the crash came and 1n that one day more than 12 000 000 shares were sold at tumblxng prmces that rumed the fortunes of thousands Dur1ng thxs depresslon there were hard t1mes because the consumer dollars were scarce and as unbought products gathered dust on the Nat1on's shelves manufacturers had to cut down further on productxon Th1s meant lay1ng off help The v1c1ous cycle cont1nued Unemployed workers had no money to buy goods and goods were not pro duced because there was no market Farm 1ncome dropped from a total of S7 b1l11on 1n 1929 to S2 b1ll1on 1n 1932 Money needed to buy farm equxpment was nonex1stent The bhght extended to 1ndustr1es wh1ch produced farm machlnery Salar1es of those work1ng were cut By the end of 1932 about 15 000 O00 Amerlcans were unemployed Some people beheved that 1929 would be d1fferent because Mr Hoover would replace Pre sldent Cool1dge Mr Hoover sa1d that Pres1dent Cool1dge knew nothmg and cared less aoout the speculatwe orgy 1n wh1ch the country was 1ndu1g1ng xtself But 1 don't th1nk lt mattered as to who was pres1dent because the stock crash rn my op1n1on, under the c1rcumstances couldn't have been prevented at the tlme The government took over by hav1ng Pre s1dent Hoover adm1n1ster the Reconstruct1on Fmance CorpO1'at1On an agency to a1d 1n the fmancmg of 1ndustry and agrxculture Under Pres1dent Roosevelt the alphabet took on new meamng for those out of work The WPA PWA CCC and NYA were all government projects 1n wh1ch men women and young people were put to work and paxd w1th tax money Dur1ng th1s per1od 10 b1111on was spent for work re11ef through these agencles Projects 1ncluded erectwn of pubhc bu11d1ngs constructlon of roads plant1ng of trees and bu1ld1ng of parks creatmg cler1ca1 jobs for students on college campuses etc In add1t1on the Federal Emergency Rehef Adm1n1strat1on prov1ded d1rect rehef to de st1tute fam1l1es Some happemngs from the Great Crash to the present t1me affectmg our econom1c status are World War II wh1ch brought death to more than 407 O00 Amer1cans atomlc bomb 1n 1945 mass product1on of telev1s1on sets creat1on of conservatlon projects such as TVA and the enormous productlon of goods to meet the demands of our defense pro gram and ever mcreasmg popu1at1on Annuallly we now produce 112 M tons of steel 7 M cars and trucks l M new homes and 275 M tons of food Even so, our unemploy ed at the present numbers about 3 m1l11on I th1nk that the Umted States may and probably 1n t1me w1l1 have another slump but that we shall never aga1n see what 15 known as a great depressmn because the govern ment has orgamzed and st1l1 wxll orgamze d1fferent dev1ces to employ men and that by these government projects we w1l1 stay out of a depress1on Leon Fowler 51 . . . . , H I ' 1 1 1 1 ll I . , . 1 . 71 , . 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' . , , . 1 1 I T 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 ' , 1 1 1 j 1 , . 1 1 1 S 5 1 , - . - , . , . . . ' I 1