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6 THE QUILL A ti ng-.- I n i llin z sl I LITERARY THINKING Once upon a time there was a family of big monkeys, a mother, Matilda, a father, Jeremiah, and three children, Henry, Pete and Hilda. Now, these monkeys had a lovely home on a branch of a tree, which all claimed as the ancestral estate. Nature fur- nished them with clothing Cthey grew their ownj, and food - sometimes. They all were happy and all day long chased each other up and down and dropped cocoanuts upon each other's heads whenever possible. But one day, Henry, who always was the intellectual child, wondered whether he could not see more of the world if he got up on his hind feet. He talked the matter over with his parents and brother and sister, but they all pooh-poohed the idea and said he would only fall down. Henry, however, was not easily discouraged, so he sat down and thought the matter over some more. He decided it 'would give him additional poise and make him stand above the rest. Also he could use his fore feet for peeling bananas as he walked along-a decided advantage. At last he attempted the great feat. He stumbled and fell several times, but at last got the knack of it. Finally he got this new- fangled walking down to a science and used it all the time. The W rest of the family would have nothing to do with it because it was not in style. To this day they still move by the good old-fashioned four-leg- ged gait. Henry taught all his children the new cult, and his later descendants thought up new innovations, such as using another animal's skin for clothing, living in a cave, and laying up a supply of food for the winter. Because Henry sat down and did some heavy thinking in those days of long ago, we are what we are today. Because of his individuality he was not afraid of the jeers of his fellows and invented a new method of perambulation. Unfortunately, however, about ninety- nine out of every hundred of Henry's de- scendants maintain the old family tradition of not using their heads. Today, one has only to look about him to see the people of the world, huddled to- gether like frightened sheep and folded and unfolded at the volition of those they chose to do their thinking. We hear of enemies of the people. The people are their own
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Th Published by the Students of Gardiner High School, Gardiner, Maine Volume Seventeen g JUNE, Nineteenljhirty-sire Number One T BNWT B QDILL BOARD EDITOR - -- - ----- Edith Mann ASSISTANT EDITOR ----f-- - David Jamison BUSINESS MANAGER - - ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER LITERARY EDITOR - - - JOKES EDITOR - - - ATHLETICS EDITOR GIRLS BOYS ALUMNI EDITOR - - EXCHANGE EDITOR - - SCHOOL NEWS EDITOR - SENIOR REPORTER: - JUNIOR - SOP!-IOMORE - - - - FRESHMAN ----- STAEE TYPISTS - Beryl Loring - Helen Morang - Pauline Colliton - - Elinor Hodgkins Elizabeth Webber Jean Clark - William Brann Beulah Baker Gerald Mann Verna Troop Ruby Cottle - Robert Gingrow - Winona Wilder June Gallant Eloise Wood .lane Ward Frances Taylor Editorial WHAT IS GRADUATION? This question means not only get- ting through high school, but many other things. Strange as it may seem, others who have graduated always say they would like to go back to school once again. When it comes class day, and the chord is struck, down the aisle marches the graduation class led by their president. This is a very im- pressive scene to the spectators and to those taking part. Although it is a sad proces- sion, the destination of a hundred or more students has been reached after twelve long years of studying, physical training, athlet- ics, and social times with teachers and fel- low students. However, after the speakers and the class march out, graduation night is yet to come, when the class again gets to- gether. Soon the eventful night arrives. and the members no longer feel joyous but have all kinds of lumps in their throats. Laugh- ter, however, peals from the members when the class gifts are distributed and the proph- ecy is read. The minutes soon pass and the diplomas and prizes are awarded. Then comes the class ode which, on tbe last verse, is mingled with a few sobs from the girls. I shouldn't be surprised if the boys too became tender-hearted. But what is going to be done now that graduation is over? Some of you will go to preparatory schools, colleges, and training schools for nurses. When you are ready to go away in the fall, keep in mind that you are going to get all you can out of your training. lt will mean leaving old friends and making new ones. Remember, also that it will not be long before you are to be the citizens, and you will be the ones governing your community, state, and country. -The Editor
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THE QUILL 7 worst enemies. Did Hitler rise to power at the hand of thinking people? Can a thoughtful person today, and an intelligent one, subscribe to the heresy of Aryanism? Can the thinking person see a New Free- dom when his home is packed with secret dictaphones? When his every movement is under the scrutiny of secret police? While his life is endangered every movement by the firing squad and worse? While his son is taught to be cannon fodder and his daughter to bear more children of misery? To see the result of this lack of thinking we can recall the days of the late Republic and Early Empire of Rome. We see the Roman people, sterling and sturdy, as they lose their reasoning and morals, become a snarling pack of wolves, fed or starved at the whim of their leaders and ever ready to arise at the whim of a new leader to tear the old to pieces. For centuries the matter grows steadily worse until come the emper- ors who check the last powers of the mob and reduce them to basest slavery. In his Man with the Hoe, Markham says, Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow? Whose hand, indeed! With his own hand and with the hand of his fathers the man hath slanted back his brow! His own empty mind and the empty minds of his forbears reduce him to the beast. They and they alone must account for it. Whenever we do as others because they do, we ourselves flatten our brows imper- ceptibly. As we allow that animal instinct to follow others and let the morrow take care of itself to hold sway, we regain, to a small extent, the unadmirable characteris- tics of our cousins, the monkeys. Can we in this country today believe that by destroying food we shall have plenty? That two times two equals ninety-nine and one-half? That a dollar worth fifty cents is as good in purchasing power as a dollar of one hundred cents, while in earning power it is worth fifty? That the fact that a thing is up does not mean it will come down? That black is white? To get closer to home, how can we expect to learn if we let others do the work and thinking? The way to settle a question is not to answer it the way they do. Do not be afraid to be in a minority. Go into your closet and coolly and carefully examine the question at length. Before making a decis- ion, weigh the factors as they stand and not as others dog to keep with the crowd is selfish to yourself, to your fellows, and to your country. The future of this country of ours lies not in talking and rushing hap- hazardly about, but in quiet, purposeful thinking followed in turn by cool and decisive action. -Robert B. Linsley, '36 PASSING THOUGHTS The attendance bell has just rung. The monitors are taking their seats and there is a general buzz of conversation as classmates exchange ideas, questions, and opinions on the day's lesson. Mr. Danforth rises, takes the attendance, then addressing the class he asks, What are your questions on this lesson? Questions always lead to discussions and before long our attention is centered on the subject, radicals. Today it is particularly the sulphate radical QS O4j, which plays such a large part in modern industry, that is up for discussion. Like all other classes and subjects chemis- try has its monotonous moments when try as one will, he cannot keep his mind od' the
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