Fairhaven High School - Huttlestonian Yearbook (Fairhaven, MA)

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THE HUTTL.E ETONIAN 25 Ad Astra Catherine Morey What beauty Belongs to the shining night, With the innumerable Lights of heaven sprinkling dust Through untrammeled space! Stars— Soberly staid, Big and little. Bright and little. Bright and dim. Stars— Unchanged and unchanging In time. Somber, glorious figures trooping The great spaces. Each carrying its own message To a world of discouragement. One inspiring hope. Another conceiving dreams. And all instilling in us Desire and courage. Courage to search For the higher things in life. The stars look down. Do they find us looking up?

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24 THE HUTTLESTONI AN Satire Shirley Kanter You can never tell about a woman; you shouldn’t anyhow! There were just as many careless drivers thirty years ago, but the horses had more sense. A pedestrian is a man whose son is home from college. She called her husband ' ' Theory”, because he so seldom worked. The car to watch is the car behind the car in front of you. EXiplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. When a woman talks about her past she’s confessing; when a man does he’s bragging. Half the world does not know how the other half lives, but it has its suspicions. As nearly as one can analyze, George Bernard Shaw has outlived the time for which he was born too soon. War does not determine who is right — only who is left. The father of six children bought a daschund, so all six children could pet him at once. We have a head on us for the same reason that a pin has— to keep us from going too far. Epitaph: The tomb monument of a certain genial host bears his name and the inscription This is on me.” SLIPS THAT PASS IN THE WRITE A corps is a dead gentleman, and a corpse is a dead lady. Inertia is the ability to rest. A martyr is a pile of wood set on fire with a man on top. A sinister is an old maid. Nero was a cruel tyrant who used to torture his subjects by playing the fiddle to them. There were no Christians among the early Gauls — most of them were lawyers. Just before Nathan Hale was hung, he said, Give me liberty or give me death.”

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26 THE HUTTLESTONI AN Youth and Politics Arthur Milhench ommunist”, hypocrite”, Dictator”, Red”, — such was the propaganda thrown in all directions by every known medium throughout the recent political campaign. Now the widely ballyhooed national election of 1936 is over and we, in turn, pass from unrest into what we hope will be four years of tranquillity and prosperity. The populace once again settles down to take their respective places in society. What does the future hold for these people? What are they to expect? Soothsayers present a prodigious amount of highly diver¬ sified, and in no way related predictions from which we may choose. Some prognosticate a one party government up¬ holding the democratic ideals of the constitution, while others claim that we shall fall prey to Communism, Fascism, or Socialism. The latter forecast may appear fantastic, but it cannot be disregarded inasmuch as it is based on authentic information and current happenings. One has only to observe the existing conditions in our maritime unions, where Marx- iams have gained an astoundingly strong foothold, to convince himself that this statement is not the result of alarmist ten¬ dencies. To further the proof of this personal conviction, I might here mention Sinclair Lewis and his book, It Can’t Happen Here.” To predict the future, would be folly, and even H. G. Wells might hesitate. But in whatever political changes the coming years may effect, we, the students of today, will be implicated. We will determine the course of America, of democracy, and perhaps of the world. We will be the ones to choose between a happy livelihood and strife with devastation. Such great powers are difficult to conceive, yet they inevitably await us. With its self devaluation, youth is all too readily inclined to declare itself impotent and insignificant. Foresight and realization, now, will help us to determine the policies we wish our executives to pursue. At present, while we are still stud-