Franklin High School - Molecule Yearbook (Franklin, VT)

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 f HI.ctrxOil of £ j v j j , s tion that attempts to do so-e definiti™ a],S!'eafu wideninS applica- pare for thoughtful citizenship. fi ite ork in the world, or to pre- ta8tefosr?hSsrL rtT « i8sriisfisfthe, ai?1 °f • — be, and to act with considSaHon f°f the+rlch thin6 that it may 8nly the rankest kind”? aKmStiSS Iff interests of our fellows, an art object in dollars ande t 1 attempts to express the value of the best oart of life is as th » m st live , to be sure, but Culture ' like other New d book says' r ot bread alone but must be lived through The bl 'J!!SeS’ ?a!’mot be bought and sold, . the danger of personal littleness gnf aqt?r °+ leayinS school too early L even more than the actua] loco inViii agnation in a mental treadmill, don’t leave a ehon? 033 in dollars and cents. So, whoever you ire Hortense Roberts '48 C-UR MOVIE MACHINE chlne S ecoPS ?layer ir?ht3Bpr?n2eof0?S46natlf'’m01,ln8rtPl0tUre ma- for the first fe-v n,ontL for movie s f as u6ei ITXl the machine is used for is°the8aSpllfyl Jf the reJord lSyer? 5 yoKeay we have used the machine for pictures.” Yes »e have used th« machine. , e’ve had one ediwe+i nn-i • . ea we nave used the h rd he ei LsSr t s ot bec-Ss 6 8 wLrnoeblSckoS?nsehldesein Jhe ai Somf' ss?s p y.,ns» ; e bougnt the moving picture machine, but not for an or- nament, He want to 3ee some pictures. Alton Lothian '48 THE '.7Ea?0I’ FOR PZaCE tv, ° nce tb® days of the Revolution, Vermonters have never experienced hSS-S;VK WaL0n heir own soii- Few Vermonters have eveJwS rugged soil C°Uld n0t b® appeased by the bountiful fruits of that „ be was ron by Suns and the life of manu a promising Vermont youth, xhe peace now hangs in the balance, hunger among the vi-tims ay wel1 accomplish what their arms failed to do. TotalltariLism

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4. urnc'-’b if continued after the school «bell rin ;s in the fall. Few imoor-i -..'.iit. business positions go nov -a-days to young people with less than a Liyh school training; and the overcrowding of every .American university shows very clearly that even college education pay’s. • The lealned professions have no monopiy of the new demand for train- ny. cr example, the day of the small fanner is passing, Workers have drifted to town, and the farmer has been compelled to use labor-saving machinery or give up his occupation. A good machine does the work of° three to ten men, so that a progressive farmer may find the losses in mar. cov er more than made up by the gain in machine work. Yet, only a born ; cnius can operaoe and repair all sorts of machines without training in mechanics, and the best place to get that training is in the ri ht kind of school. ' Mechanical requirements form only a part of the change in farm conditt' 7e have passed the years of heavy cropping at the expense of native rich- ness. A return must be made to the land. Different soils and varied crops require different treatment. Crops that so well in one soil are net adapted tc another. The raising of stock under modern conditions reauire expert knowledge of a good many sorts. In short, while there is still a meager living, derived from old-fashioned farming, the men who make the bi money on the farm are students; and the short cuts to the things they need to knew are the agricultural schools and colleges. If a boy likes farming, but doesn t like the kind of school in his neighborhood, be- cause he doesn t see any use Of taking Latin, ancient history, and such; if he is in a hurry to get the best training for the big-scale farming-' the farming that pays - there are school in his state where he can find the very courses he needs, and often he can work to pay part of his expen- ses. Beyond any question this is the way to a big success outside the towns. Whatever the practical future we dream about beyond the wheel-barrow and the retailing counter, schools can shorten our road of life. Rerhor - the working wage of a life-time, it can be shown that every day in the four years of a completed high school course has been worth , to an av- erage student, about ten dollars. It is work with the head that pays. But the best reward of going to school is not counted in dollars and cen s. There is a stagnating littleness in the common routine of mechani cal tasks unless the mind has caught the secret of escape into broader f Whether gossip is malignant or harmless its interests in the crude facts - little lumps of information, rather more welcome If false - •about folks and things near by. Hundreds of men and women we know are dying mentally cf this kind of stricture. Training of the right sort gives a world wide range td our interest in facts, makes us reluctant tc accept mere hear-say and shows us how to test information and appearance . Yet, this is only the ground-work of an always fascinating mental ex- perience, Our training, whether received in school or out, should teach U3 to interpret facts. The reasoning student, unlike the newsgathering, gos-ip, values facts as part of a network of cause and effect, which it : his duty and pleasure to understand for the comnom good.

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• - ■ new marche? n u 5:: Cierent oattie front, XL:- onij weapon0 ..hi on vili. halt that march e.r? the weapons of food.- ”r Ca.il lo J.c fal] the Van nont boys who gave their lives foi’ the cause. - j new Ve ncnoei f, help to forge those weapons against starvation and. dictato i.bio by sharing o,nd contributing as much as possible Iraogene Columb '48 POET A POEM FOR TODAY I don't knew what I can find to say, But I gotta write a ooera today. I guess it's meant for the Molecule' Which is the little paper of our school. I try to think of words that rhyme, But some of them I just can't find. I gotta think of something pretty fast, For the time is quickly slipping past. This has to be done at two twenty sharp, Or it's after school I stay 'til dark. I guess I'll close with this last line, For it's all the words that I can find. Carroll Titemore »49 Y WISHES I wish I were across the sea, For this is torture, tis plain to see. This may be a democratic land. But teachers,I think, are out of hand. In this land is pros{ erity- V ithout the teacher's, there would be. Now, if there were no schools at all Boy's wouldn't worry in the fall) Our hair wouldn't turn to grey If there were no work,only play. But if oerchance there were no schools, Would we all grow up as fools? Gordon LaFlame '4 (with revision) MURDER '. . The skirts are longer, The stockings 'most black. There're ribbons in front, And bustles in back. The hips are padded; The waist-lines pinched. Whoever did it Ought to be lynched. Joyce Johnson '48