Franklin High School - Molecule Yearbook (Franklin, VT)

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 i UOLECU' EDITOR-IN-CHIEF - - - ASSISTANT EDITOR - - . 3U3I”ZSS ZAF.iGSR - - - JOKE EDITOR ----- SPORTS EDITOR -- - - - REVS REPORTER - - - - ALUMNI EDITOR - - - - STAFF - MARGUERITE 3ENJAHIN ----- DORIS KING - - - -R05.7ELL PLOOF ----------KEITH DUNH41 - - - - GUY LOTHIAN - - - - ELEANOR EV.iliS - - - RACHEL STREETER EDITORIALS High School t w Pf cJicfllyTa1} °l us earrt our own liVing, and work hard all our lives to do it. .lost of us accept this fact cheerfully. Indeed, many are so eager to get started that they quit school as soon as the law nermits, grab the first job offered them, and begin the long, discour- sing grind of the untrained worker, Put five yeafs later they see things from a very different angle, for they are earning only a little more than they did when thev start- ed. Learning on the Job is slow, hard work; and although their five years of ejc rience have given them manual skill, they have reached trie limit of their earning power. They may change their jobs from me to time, but they can t earn, any more because they are not train- ed for anything better. . s, the experience of the great majority of young people who , °+??t‘+fini®h hi-h SGh001- TheY canrt go any further or earn any more until they have made up the high school training that they lack . Pauline Perry '44 ',7hat Kind of Person Are You ? ,ipntQPer s hi8 8fems a slightly queer title. Maybe it isj but,stu- a®n , } 8 abou time that we got wise to ourselves. Ston and take stocg. ihinc of the kind of person you'd like to be, and them comoare yourself. Do you measure uo? Very few of us do, but nevertheless,why not strive to do better and be better students and citizens for our- selves, our community, and our country? There are many places in which we haven't measured uo to the re- sponsibility and privileges given us. Perhaps you think you have a right to these privileges; of course you have, but only when you re- spect the rights of others. 7e haven't had to struggle for our right to freedom and equality as did Jas'.ington,Adams, Jefferson, Hancock and Paul Revere at the tine of the Revolution, or as did Lincoln and