Dennysville High School - Dentonian Yearbook (Dennysville, ME)

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24 THE GOSSIP Editorial FIRST HONORABLE MENTION . Juvenile Delinquency Juvenile delinquency has become an important incident in the Work of our law enforcing bodies today. Many cases are arising which are juvenile crimes. The young people of today are not entirely to blame. Now the war is over and the parents have more time at home, yet it does not seem to reduce juvenile delinquency. Not e- nough parent control is given to the children to take care of the ever in- creasing crimes by juveniles. Parents could help reduce the ju- venile crimes more than any of our law enforcing bodies. If they should give the child more attention and help to influence them in the correct ideas, it would be a great help. They also could see that their children at- tended schools and got the education which was being provided for them free of cost. With the correct influ- ence the young people could be made into helpful citizens of this country. They could see there was a better fu- ture in doing right than in doing wrong. Many young boys and girls belong to gangs which they themselves make up. Parents should look into the work they are doing and prove to the 'ld whether or not this is a good org' iza- tion for them tb belong to. In this country 4-H club is a great organiza- tion and provides part time amuse- ment for the young people. It gives the young folks something to do to keep the mind occupied and also pro- vides good times for the young peo- pe. The ever increasing threat of ju- venile delinquency will not be stamp- ed out by punishment of the guilty person or party. The parents too must do all in their power to correct this at home and set the young people of A- merica on the right track so they will grow up to become helpful American citizens who will be the head of our government in the years to come. Alton Ward '46 Ik HK IF il Editorial SECOND HONORABLE MENTION For A Better World It is the tradition of the Americans to rush to the aid of those in distress. Such a tradition is not born only of the natural charity in the heart of Amer- icans. It is born of remembrance. It may mean darker bread, less al- coholic beverages, even, perhaps, the rationing of food again. Yet who could object, who can object? We must all share and because We share, others will live. How its-.sh do we appreciate this land of nz xs? How grateful are we for our freeuom? Do we realize that for every minor hardship we endure, in other countries it is many times worse? We are not forced to givgg money to the Red Cross and the War Loan drives. We are merely asked to share and we should all share alike. We are called upon chiefly be- cause We have been blessed with a- bundance. That abundance may come of enterprise, skill, hard work and foresight. But we are also blessed. Marjorie Lund '49 HF ill IF IF WORLD POWER OF TOMORROW As things look today we shall have another war with all the World pow- ers. They will be united under one power. The war will be principally F

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' HH' .U fn' I 1 I 1 i THE GOSSIP 23 Once at school two pages dance up to us and take our books and wraps. Then we begin school. We want our algebra book, it is in our desk. Why lean to get it? We don't have to. All we do is speak lightly, not to disturb our classmates and say sweetly, Al- gebra , and before we know it we have it in front of us. When our teach- ers ask us for our papers, a leather covered table comes up beside us on the row, and we put the papers on it, and they automatically go sliding down to the teacher in order. You may wonder where our algebra book comes from. Well, that was a micro- phone We just taked into. We do the same when we want the teacher, no more snapping the fingers or such. It is now lunch time and our maids rush up to us with a nice hot lunch and plush seats to sit on. CI rather go for plush seats and things of that kindj. If we are too tired to chew our food, we are given pills, and they serve as the same things as our food, and have just as many vitamins. Things like this can go on for ages. We can have mechanical dishwashers and Cmind if I coin a word?J puta- wayers. When we have automatic laundries and ironers, why we will never have to lift a hand! We will be told of course by the very old fashioned that We will get very stout doing nothing. We will fool them. There are many things that a person can do without working, and not gain weight. We can ski, swim, iceskate, roller skate, play golf, dance, slide, play basketball, ,foot- ball, and softball, besides horse back riding, all of which we enjoy every minute. Oh! What a. wonderful world! Dear me, some one has waked me up out of a very pleasant dream 3' please let me go back to sleep.flVIay,beisome- day I won't be dreaming. 'Maybe someday I'l1 have a house thatrre- volves with the sun, push button com- bined, and a television set in my hel- icoptor or just in my possession. Martha Sanford '46 PF PF HK PF SECOND HONORABLE MENTION Waiting for the School Bus I had much rather do dishes or any other thing than wait. Waiting for the school bus every morning gets on my nerves. Of course I like to go places: but when I'm ready, I want to go and not have to wait two or three hours for something else. Every morning I have to wait for the bus. It's better than walking I will agree, but it surely gets on my nerves to wait. I'm ready about seven-thirty each morning for school. Then comes the hard part of it all, sitting around with all my outdoor clothes on. After get- ting so warm I sweat, then I go out doors. There I wait a while until I get coldg then back to the house I go to store up more heat. g Some mornings I do this three to four times, other mornings I just get into the house to get warm when the bus comes, and I have to go to school with cold hands and feet. By the time we all get to the school- house, I'm nearly frozen. But life is life. Barbara Brown '48

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THE GOSSIP between the United States and Rus- sia. The United States is going to ad- mit the Philippine Islands as a state which will make forty nine states. Germany and France will come in on the:side of the United States. -Germany and France are supported by the United States, which makes a scarcity of food in our country. We should have a better and stronger government to control Russia. I think that Germany and France should furnish themselves with food so We could have more ourselves. We should build more factories, newer machin- ery, more homes and farms, and make this country the biggest and strongest country in the world. Colon Morrison '47 Guy Cook '47 Editors 4' if if Ik First Prize Short Story A BLUE STAR TURNS TO GOLD Sometimes the smaller children poked fun and called them names, but Franco Del Amico Wasn't ashamed of his name nor that his parents could speak only broken Engish. His par- '3ents had come fron. Italy, but Franco had been born in America. He had studied about Italy and heard his father tell of its great men. They were Americans now, there Was nothing to be ashamed of. They lived in a small town in eastern Maine. Their home was furnished better than some for they had known many hardships in the old country and their money was not to be wasted. Still they were known as those Italians when peo- ple spoke of them. Hardly anyone knew his name was Franco Del Amico. To everyone he was known as Lucky . When he told I Q.. Q 25 people his name in his heavily accent- ed English, they asked him to repeat and always a look of disapproval spread over their faces.'Lucky seem- ed to be just what his name implied, always the happy-go-lucky fellow., For Lucky there was fun in everything? but it was always on his mind that he' was that Italian boy . Lucky graduated in June of 1943 and the following December he was eighteen. Things happened fast after that. A month after he had become eighteen there was a blue star in the window of those Italians . Lucky was proud of his chance to prove to the people in his town that he was an American and loved his country as much as they did. The snow was falling softly when Lucky said good-bye to his parents and his girl, Carolyn. He didn't seem to take even this seriously. Rather jokingly he told his parents to look after Carolyn for him and Carolyn assured him she'd be waiting when he came home. It was June, and Lucky was coming home. He was a different Lucky, quiet and serious. It had been new and ex- citing the first few months and he hadn't minded taking orders. His of- ficers and buddies liked him and ma- n I rote home about their buddy, Sgt. Lucly, they called him, who never complained and seelned to have all the luck. During the first few months the crap games, boxes from home, week-end leaves, and talks with the boys about their girls had off-set hard- work. Now he was tired of it all. To him now it was just a hard daily routine and the very thoughts of it made him bitter. People had said the war couldn't last long, but Lucky