Dexter High School - Signet Yearbook (Dexter, ME)

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THE SIGNET 17 The Flying and Peaceful Age We are now in the dawn of the dying, and 'peaceful age. The horrors, the sorrows of the World War are now things of the past. The animosity which once existed be- tween Various nations is now rapidly dimin- ishing, and in fact, is being converted into friendshipg friendship not off the kind that springs from treaties and alliances, but friendship such as exists among people who are all working for a common cause. The cause in the present case is 't-he ad- vancement of aviation. The men of nearly every country are working diligently, and bravely for this punpose. 'Many have given their lives for it, a few -have been success- ful, while the people of the world have mourned the first, and applauded and praised the second, irrespective of nation- ality. If wwe consider the friendly feeling which now exists between France, Ger- many, England, Ireland and America asl a result of the few successful flights, will not this friendliness be greatly magnified when aviation will have become a practical mode of travel and thousands will cross the ocean yearly? This is what we are looking for- ward to, and what we hope will really occur, for, above everything else, the world longs for peace. Donald Palmer '29 Ruts Of all the things we are most likely to do that of getting into a rut is the commonest. Most of us lay the foundation for our future life in school. It we form the habit here of just getting by in our school work, in doing well in those subjects we like, but almost failing in those we do not '1ike, or if we form the habit of doing only enough to get by in our subjects and enjoying life the rest of the time, or if-and most of us are guil- ty of this-we put -off until the last miinute our work, we form haibits which we shall be sure to follow, and which will 'become more pronounced as we follow them in later life. While in school we should prepare ourselves for future emergencies and overcome these habits. When we leave school we do not have time to do so. Work comes then, and some of us, compelled by financial necessity, must do the same joib over and over again. But if we are not burdened with careless habits we can study after work, and thus get a better job with higher -pay and prospect for a better future. Those of us who drive automobiles know that ruts are undesirable -things to get into. But mental ruts are 'twice as deep and twice as hard to get out of. The state or town smooths up the automobile ruts, but no one but ourselves can smooth out our mental ruts. Therefore, let us build the kind of roads, while we are in school that we wish to follow for the rest of our livesg roads even and straight and true. Robert Thomas '29. X ,, l '2g . -:VA lv - ,. gl.-., 4 -lv ' A 3. A F8 . ' 5 ,fm-at f ' .a X

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