Duxbury High School - Partridge Yearbook (Duxbury, MA)

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CLASS SONG l. 'Tis june, the month of roses, of golden, sunny hours, Of liquid birdnotes calling, the month of sun and flowers, And Natureis myraid voices from field and stream repeat The song our hearts are singing, Commencement Day to greet Chorus: 2. Right joyfully we hail thee, O long-expected day! Yet there's a thrill of sadness that will not pass away For autumns, golden weather no more for us will cell The hour of glad returning to scenes we've loved so well. 3. No more the good old friendships, no more the well-lcown ways For us new paths must open, new duties fill our days. But time can never alter devotion tried and true, And Mem'ry will malce sweeter the joys that here we lcnew. 4. So, Classmates, stand together, as heartily we raise One loyal song at parting in Duxbury High School's praise. May Fortune smile upon her, may men her name enthrone, And we forever cherfsh her honor as our own. Chorusg lift then your voices clear and strong! Hope gilds the future's wayg I ove lights the past we've known so long, l ld! to Commencement Day! U41

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HONOR ESSAY Propaganda in the News Today There are three sources of knowledge-experience, conversation, and reading. A person's experience and conversation would be very much limited without one's reading or the reading of others. If we stopped to make a general summary of books we would find that they contain the ex- perience, the conversation, and the deeds of great men and women as well as the knowledge of ages concerning other worlds and human beings and our connection with those of the past. Naturally the thoughts and deeds of pforl-G le neva reef' are fciv, feeble, alssitrd end childish, for read- ing is what develops the mind. What does America read? The mass of America reads a g. :at 0, ., 4 it does not read books. It reads magazin-es and newspapers. Europe: ns cin- not understand the part that the daily n-ws,a, t. s p.z'y .n ot.. gi cs, e ,r-2 know that they play an important part for the modern man s curiosity corcgz n,ng events outside of his own family and community is satisfi 'd by 1, ,lay-by-day diet of news which comes to us through the radio anl the newsqapers. How many of us here tonight, when reading our daily newspaper have not wondered how much was the truth and how much should be tak--n with the proverbial grain of sa.t ? There is nothing wrong with questioning what we read in our news- papers. As Americans we have that privilege, and we show intelligence if we try to find out facts that will explain more -eifectixely that which we are curious about. In America the word propaganda has a Lad ctlor. It is associated with the war especially and other evil practices. Even Americans, however, hav-e come to realize that they too ar-e sub- jected to propaganda. 'l his is not altogether surprising. for America is a country which is right now feeling the effect of a gigantic atterngl to guide pub.ic opinion. Both fools and wise man know that the n-ewspaper is the most import- ant vehicle of propaganda in modern life. Communists have their own press and seek to secure recognition from hostile papers. The propaganda sccQ- eties release information designed to app-ear in any pa,er wlrcli wil. tc cept the ofering. All efforts to s-ecure free publicity are directed toward capturing the newspaper reader's eyes. The pub.ic relations ciunszl creates news so that his product may b-ecome better known by the news- paper public at large. Pressure groups realize that items about their ac- tivities in the daily press reinforce their efforts to influence public opinion. The two important dictators of modern times, for example, captured their governments .n s te or t e str: ng' o ,p sit, n ct' .1i1pc:rt.nt n-wsiapers. And yet Hitler and Mussolini did have their support-ers among the mem- bers of the Press. l61l