Farmington High School - Laurel Yearbook (Farmington, ME)

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6 . THE LAUREL one termination of the great pathway, the completion of four years of high school studies. Now the great unknown calls for these young people. Will they make good? F. H. S. has every reason to be confident that tihey will, and that they will be suitably fitted to cope with the trials and tribula- tions of their future life. For many in the Class of 1929, their graduation from F. H. S. will not mean the closing of the door to the chamber of knowledge forever. Many will further safeguard the promise of success in their future life by attending 'higher institutions of learning. The mind is never so great but that it can receive additions to its al- ready valuable store of knowledge. Others will become shining lights in the business world, for many of the master minds of the world are found in just such a phase of our lives. From all appearances the Class of 1929 is a group of students to be proud of. From the obscurity of the Freshman Class their climb to the rank of Seniors has been memorable. Throughout their four years of struggle they have continually passed on many good points for their underclass- men to follow. There was no rivalry be- tween the Seniors and their inferiors, but simply frank and whole-hearted counsel. This class strove to guide the straggling band which 'was Seniors in the makingg to be an example for them, and one which would guide their footsteps in knowledge as well as in outside affairs. We, the undergraduates of F. H. S., wish to express our appreciation of all the many things which the Class of 1929 has done for us in the past. We feel sincerely grateful to them for making our pathway easier. You haveever been a guiding star to us for four eventful years. We pay silent tribute to you as one of the most worthy classes ever to graduate under the Grey and theVBlue. Let us :hope that as we come into the much coveted place as Seniors, we may be able to acquit ourselves as loyally as you did, in leaving a record that F. H. S. may well be proud of, not only as athletes and students but as the true sons and daughters of the Grey and the Blue. Frances Wcatlzcrn, '30. TT' FRESHMEN, STOP! LOOK! LISTEN! UR success or failure in life depends on circumstances, our surrounding, the people with wlhom we mingle and our- selves. It is mostly the latter which counts. Every person in the universe has some secret hope, some ambition to spur them on, something which says, You can-if you try. Many of the Shabits of later life are founded here in school. The pupil, who studies diligently, prepares each lesson conscientiously, can not fail to make good. It is easier to shirk, to lay aside our books, and run out at the side door, at the glimpse of a clear day and a vision of an auto ride. SUCCESS IN SCHOOL WORK IS A PRAISE.- WORTHY ACCOMPLISHMENT Scholarship counts. That 's a fact that many of us know but to wlhich we seem to pay little attention. Low grades represent time wasted. That time wasted may be the very millstone required to drown you at some future date. We can all get higher marks. There is, indeed, a feeling of work well done when cne's card shows an average of eighty-five or better. Keep working and excel your schoolmates. Show them there is some- thing of worth in you. Thelma Meisncr, 129. TT First Prize-F. H. S. National High School Essay Contest WHY SHOULD I VOTE? HAT civilization may be preserved, the will of the multitude must be known. Today, in the age we are living,

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THE LAUREL 7 we are not ruled by some brave and fear- less leader. That custom is being out- lawed along with war and despotism. Today we rule ourselves or at least we are allowed to. The word of sane, upright citizens throughout this land rules the na- tion. Each of us has equal rights of citi- zenship and voting. They are our birth- rights as Americans. These are our own laws and we elect our own officials to carry them out. Let me liken this government to a big machine with myriads of tiny wheels. If one stops, it makes no particular stir but if fifty cease the damage is immense in qual- ity, if not in quantity. After all, it is quality we are seeking in these our laws. We want them to be the best, the wisest, and the most just on earth, Grade A quality that will wear successfully long after the makers have gone out of existence. One man's voting more or less would seem to make no difference but eleven mil- lion would make a striking difference. They could swing the pendulum either way or avert a threatened crisis. Duty it is to every citizen to cooperate with his fellow-men at the polls. Voting is not compulsory, no man is obliged to vote, but some man must or this government would be a nonentity, if it lacked the strength and cooperation of its voters back of it, to vote is such a little thing in effort and so great in result. Truly the man that does not vote is a slacker and a quitter 'on the job of living his own life, for in the world today every man's life is a tiny part of the nation's life, each man's deeds may some day be history. The combination of the deeds and labors of every man make up the great movements of history. In short the lives and work and successes of each and every person living are irretrievably interwoven in the life work and success of his com- munity, county, state and nation. The voting of one alone is not weighty in the result but there are bigger reasons, higher moral reasons why we should vote. Voting is a duty, a privilege and a trust, a duty in that we owe the oflicials our opin- ion of the issue, a privilege as a citizen of the United States to be allowed to speak as to its governing, and a trust in that we are believed to give our true, honest opinion of the matter at hand. These should be the thoughts of each person when voting day arrives. It is first a duty to my country, a debt, yes, a moral debt, a debt I was born with on American soil, a debt I should be and am proud to shoulder, a debt it is I am anxious to pay because of the peace and safety I am assured, protected by tl1e laws and consti- tution of this country, protected not only on the streets and highways of America but in cities of foreign nations where her citizens may travel. The protective cloak of her name makes them safe. It is truly a strong and great arm, our government. Within its clasp we are assured of safety and Well-being,-but more than this fact should confront us. Let us remember that it is the strength of the people backing it that makes our name the strong and influential ,weapon that it is. Lincoln said in 'his Gettysburg Address -'K This is a government of the people, by the people and for the people, and this is a basic fact of our nation even lit- erally. Thus it is the duty, the moral debt of every one to vote to uphold the govern- ment, each being a minute fraction of its foundation. Secondly-it is a privilege to vote as a citizen, to be allowed to speak as to its governing. When we think of the old monarchial rulers,-the Russian Czars, the Emperors of the Orient, the kings and feudal lords of England, Germany and France, the one man rule of Caesar, William the Conquerer and Napoleon. When we think of these monarchies under one man ofttimes a war chief, the pain, the cruelties, the injustice