Franklin High School - Molecule Yearbook (Franklin, VT)

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 -» - « EDITORIALS » ARMSTICE DAY j' This week, we have celebrated Armstice Day» A good many of us are too young to understand what that meant in 1918» but we do know how everyone felt at V-J Day when World War II officially ended. Armstice Day should not be just a legal holiday. It is more than a celebration of past victories, or tribute to our armed strength. There should be, and no doubt, is, a deep yearning for a lasting peace, on our Reinberance Day . Thoughts on Armstice Day should go toward a goal of reaching that peace, not by surrendering our ideals of democracy, but by progressing through great leadership, and st-’ :ngth, toward world democracy and lib- erty. Shirley Glidden, '53 ELECTION November I4., 1952 was an important day for the citizens of the United States. About sixty million people went to the polls to cast their ballots for the President of the United States. Republican presidential, candidate. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, of New York and vice-presidential candidate, Richard Nixon, of Califor- nia, his running mate in the election, received about thirty-two million votes. Presidential candidate, Governor Adlai Stevenson, of Illinois and vice-presidential candidate, John Sparkman, of Alabama, running mates on the Democratic ticket, received about twenty-six million votes. Eisenhower will go to Korea to look over the situation and try to stoo fighting. He will lower taxes and try to rub out corruption in the government. Do you think Stevenson would do this? If so, why didn't Truman? Eisenhower will make a good President because he is more experienced about war, avid we spend most of our time at war. Nov; let's see what Truman was doing before election. We all know how Truman throw mud at Eisenhower and the Republican Party as well. But clo you remember in 19kS when Truman wanted Eisenhower to run on the Democratic ticket? Isn't Ike as good now as he was then? ..hy did Truman throw so much mud? Did ho think he would gain something? He didn't dare run for President again. Lucky for himI

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2 He meant to help Stevenson, but he hurt him more than he helped him. Just what did he gain? Nothing. '.Thy was Truman so against Ike ? Was it because he thought a Republican President and Congress would uncover a great many scandals in the Federal Government? I believe for this reason, mainly, that Truman threw so much mud at Eisenhower and the Republican party. Truman was angry because Eisenhower would not run for President on the Democratic ticket four years ago. Leland West, '56 WHATS WRONG WITH DEER SEASON? Rutland Hunters' First Fatality of '52 Season ; Second Hunter Killed-Two Shot ; Condition of Y atorbury Hunter Hit by Stray Bullet Still Critical . These are some of the headlines from The Burlington Free Press , summing up the good luck some hunters had during' the first four days of Vermont's 193'2 deer hunting season. These are typical headlines of newspapers dtirin ' each derr season. It sets us all wondering if anything can ' a -one to novent such wanton killing, and such serious accidents, r. id if anything will be done. No mention is made of the ecus and horses that each year are shot by enthusiastic, but rafctle-b. ainod and trigger-happy Nimrods. Some people are wondering: if it might not be a very good plan to require each applicant for a hunting license to pass some kind of test, as we are required to do before we can receive a driver's license. They maintain that a gun powerful enough bo kill a door is as deadly a weapon as a car, and endangers life and property equally in the hands of an unskilled and car-loss person. Some say that all hunters should have their eyes examined before vonturmg into the woods. Optometrists and opticians in the state of Vermont have offered free eye examinations to all hunters this fall. Now, you bo's who shoot in the general direction of a rustling leaf or a whispering p5.no, don't you thin).: it visor to see what you're shooting at before you pull the trigger? Is it • ot bettor to carry your rifle pointed at the ground instead of at the back of your hunt- ing companion? Shooting deaths and acciderts can be avoided. It's nig] time our legislature passed laws with teeth in, to deal with careless hunters. Mary Towle, '53