Franklin High School - Molecule Yearbook (Franklin, VT)

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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-

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erage in his studies before he tries to do too many other things, or he will be neglecting his work - the real thing he comes to school for. Students should also cooperate with one another in actual school work. Ix one puoil is studying , others should not see how just how much noise they can make to disturb his. And it is not fair'to have one pupil study and do his work only to have someone else copy his papers. Copying nay help a pupil for one day's work, but it will not help at test time. If a person does his own work, he will know more, feel better, and be ready to let other people study when they choose. Rachel Streeter '42 Friendship How many friends do ycu think you have? If this question were put to you , what would you say? You would probably answer fifteen, twenty, or twenty-five. You might be right , but I question it. Are them really your friends?How many would you really trust? How many of them would you confide a secret to, and would they keen it if you did? I doubt if all of them would. These people are not your enemies. They probably wouldn't go out of their way to hurt you, but would they help you? Some would and some ’wouldn't. There are many so called friends. These friends are the type that I don t like. If you' £re in trouble or nearly down and out,I don't believe that you would find many of those so called friends by your side. They would be gone. The’' wouldn't even take the trouble to give you a moment s thought. The; nave departed, probably to make friends with someone else, or should I say to be so called friends to someone else? I don't mean that you shouldn't be friendly to everyone, far from that. Be friendly, but don'tjlead the other fellow to believe that yand Cl£Sf friend if you really aren't. To be Intimate overlook S'T?1 y0 haTe t0 » • sacrifices. Ycu have to whenever Jo S’7 can DorTtll SU°h , everybody has. You should aid him , ,,,?u can t be reproaching him fo- ever y li+tle tMnr r+ It 3tr 5° fS ' V9 “u lnC to be raSeit Si It just isn t human nature. In a way it isn’t -Sur faul+ Jvl, can improve yourself. Don't try to fool the other fell Si; BeVo self- pretent to be somethinS you aren't.Sooner or later you will be ’ found out, and then you will be much worse off. anri +hiJ6lieVe is too much confidence between too many people ana this may easily lead to trouble unless you know that ot er son is a real friend. Promises are all right if they are kept but i0n't k?ep then’ 1 f y°u a friend? 1 lt B man °f your word 81X1(1 7°u wil e a true o+ ?men have a fri®nd treat him as one. Don't use him as a doo-. T ?pai?rUet ir+end8hl'PiiSn t found as often as it could be or should be I realize that we can t all be perfect, but we can at least trv tcTan ' e1t0Ur L ta of times people help us when we d 't°eJen hi 111 nil Sometimes we tum right around and hurt that person after he has done something for us. TThat, ingratitude.'