Camden High School - Megunticook Yearbook (Camden, ME)

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2 MEGUNTICOOK: Ci C . e Jnegunticoo PUBLISHED BY STUDENTS OF THE CAMDEN HIGH SCHOOL The school firstg personal honors last gwenty-Second uqnnua! Edition CAMDEN, MAINE MAY, 1949 MEGUNTICOOK BOARD Editor-in-Chief ................ Stanley L. Payson, Jr., '49 Assistant Editor ....... .... H enry S. Bickford, Jr., '49 Assistant Editor ......... . Junior Assistant Editor . . , Sports Editor I Girls Q .... Sports Editor fBoysj . . . Art Editor ......... . Alumni Editor ..... Exchange Editor .......... . . . . . .Frances O. Light, '49 . . . .Lucille W. Talbot, '50 . . . .Joanne F. Clayter, '49 . . . . . . .Paul B. Putnam, '49 . . . .Charles E. Dudley, '50 . . . . . .Bebe P. Brown, '49 . . . . . . .Sally E. Brown, '49 Business Manager .....,.... .... L ouis V. Arau, Jr., '49 Assistant Business Manager . . . ...... Dirk W. Brown, '50 EDITOR'S NOTE We wish to thank the high school students and members of the faculty who have given us their time and as- sistance in publishing this year book. We also want to thank the business men from Camden and surrounding towns for th'eir generous assistance. WORLD GOVERNMENT Man, from the beginning of the world, has been fighting and killing. This bloody art has been going on through the ages and is still being carried on today. Due to primitive methods comparatively few have been killed but now with the atomic bomb and bacteriological warfare millions of lives can be taken in a very short period of time. This whole- sale massacre must be prevented or man will destroy himself. The only way this can be done is through uni- versal understanding among all men in all countries or-in shortened title- World Government. World Government is that govern- ment whereby all countries and all men can be equal, a government in which all countries would be to each other as the states are to each other in the United States. In this system countries with vast mineral reserves, scientific and medical knowledge and educational facilities would share with the poorer nationsg thereby eli- minating one of the main causes of war. Every country has something to share with the other countries how- ever large or small they may be. By this sharing and resharing the small countries would no longer live in con- stant fear of their greater neighbors. This all leads to one thing: the com- mon interest of all men in each other's welfare.

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DEDICATION We the students o C H S respectfully dedzcate our yeavbook to our esteemed 'rzend Mr Roger Calderu ood uho'hasghelped and guzded us m mcmy ways , f-.-, ' ' f',- ', ,LQ . . .

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CAMDEN, MAINE 3 MEGUNTICOOK BOARD Seated: Louis Arau, Henry Bickford, Stanley Payson, Frances -Light, Lucille Talbot. Standing: Dirk Brown, Marilyn Brown, Paul Putnam, Joanne Clayter, Charles Dudley, Bebe Brown. We must not underestimate the worth of the United Nations because it has not at all trials been spectacu- lar or because through the constant veto and negative action of Com- munist Russia it has not as yet achieved all that may have been ex- pected of it. If we consider but one thing, the fact that men of many na- tions and many parts of the world diverse in their thinking, customs, intellect, social surroundings, racial differences, and of various religious convictions have been able to get to- gether and discuss freely their views over the conference table, then we realize the possibility of men living together democratically in one world for a common purpose and a common good. The Atlantic Pact, though conceiv- ed for security measures by the At- lantic community against the expan- sionist motives of Russia's world communism may well be the strength and life blood that will bolster the United Nations to higher objectives and greater accomplishments. Rome was not built in a day, nor should we expect world government to be achieved over night. We must hope for its final arrival and attain- ment through evolutionary processes -United Nations - Atlantic Pact- perhaps a future United States of Europe and even a democratic World Government, bringing peace and good will to all men. Stanley Payson, '49 WE ARE AMERICA We, the youth of America, must begin to realize that soon it will be our job to take in our stride the reins of guiding America. Our fathers and forefathers have given us a land to be proud of and we must show our ap- preciation by making them proud of