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

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and the thousands of men who fought and died in the Civil '.Var, or as did our own fathers who fought in 1917 for our freedom and rights. Now all these people fought not only against foreign aggressors but also against people far worse than foreigners - the people who live in this country, take its privileges, and then betray it. You know, we students had far-seeing forefathers who realized that there would always be some people who would not respect the rights of others. Therefore they made laws to govern those people who would seek to ruin the best country on earth. This is only telling you ,on a larger scale, what a few of you are doing in your own community and school. 3van though we have only a small minority of students who are not courteous, honest, industrious, or trustworthy, yetla small per cent can ruin a school. If you need proof of abuses, look at the marks on the desks, tin cans and papers on the lawn, lack of courtesy shown toward fellow students, interrupt tions at play rehearsals, gossiping, cutting clashes, and last but not least the deliberate annoying of several inhabitants of the town. If these offenders cannot carry the responsibility bestowed ... upon them, the majority should do something about it, and enforce laws tocphotect our rights. So let's get wise to ourselves and be better people. Marguerite Benjamin '41 Town Property Town property should be regarded as if it were our own. One of the most important pieces of town property is the school building where there Irermany young folks locking for a good tine. If there happens to be a melancholy person sitting around with nothing to ( or more likely with something to study but without the inclination to study) he will doubtless take cut a jacknife and start carving initials in the furniture. '.Vould he do it at home? Nol Then why does he do it on town property? Other destructive things done at school are breaking furniture, wasting surplus commodities , and marking school books. In other places throughout the town, the same destructive spirit may be found, but the school children are less to blame for it. Think twice before you mar anything which doesn’t belong to you. Regard town property as if it were your very own. Guy Lothian '41,,. School Conduct School is not a place in which to fool away our time;it is a place where we go to study and learn many things. Of course we can have lots of fun in school and be learning at the same time. Much fun and sociability can be obtained from the sports such as bas9bh.ll and basket ball, clubs, and class organizations. All these pleasures help us to ecooperate with each other , and teach us to get along with people, but a student rhould maintain fairly good av-