Gardiner Area High School - Quill Yearbook (Gardiner, ME)

 - Class of 1938

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THE QUILL 9 We My f if Rat WWI V T 1 - r l in fi lllur T it T + 1 'til ll T ff- 1. 4 ' ., 423, WORD SYMPHONY Andante fSlowg quietj The day was warm with sun and splashed lavishly with its gold. All along the streets maples flamed like living fire, sumac glowedg every bronze and russet tree dreamed of light. Only the evergreens remained un' changed, unresponsive to the witchery of autumn: rough dark patches on the tapes- try of warm reds and brownsg indrawn, re- mote, against pale yellow. A subtle wind set the leaves whispering, and rustled them along the walks, then with a start whirled them up like waterspouts to scratch faintly at doors and fall into win- dow-boxes. The old houses were sleeping in the warmth, their eyes closed, the smoke from their chimneys curling lazily in a blue haze. They made one think of old men, drowsing on a sunny bench, their pipes forgotten but still smoking in their mouths. Pianissimo fVery softj The wind was really very tired. Finally it rested in the translucent clouds that had grown over the face of the sun. The after- noon became breathless. From the south and the west two different thunder-heads growled at each other, their dark looks casting a pall over the whole sky. Desultory lightnings played along their edges, chasing one another, cutting off ragged corners of clouds. The lighted trees wondered at the quick fires. The evergreens brooded in secret fear. Smoke-rings mounted and disappeared like wraiths in the sky. Crescendo COradually increasing in forcej Abruptly the wind lived again. A fierce gust rushed swiftly along the hills and through the town, sending the leaves pirouf etting madly up and down the roadways. It swept up the dust in the streets and flung it into the eyes of the old housesg and the sleepy old houses blinked and came awake. The trees shivered as tattered fragments

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8 THE QUILL you could have matinee dances after school. If you each paid five cents or so, you could have a teacher come to show those who do not know how - and those who do - the fundamentals and the newer steps in danc- ing. This should be very helpful to those who are somewhat shy and should give everyone a better time at the Prom. However, there are enough activities of- fered by this school to afford every one of you the opportunity to participate in the work and fun of some one of our organiza- tions if you have enough interest in the school and in yourself to try out for them. Why do you let a small percentage of the students walk off with the fun and honor which might belong to you if you wanted it badly enough? It is not only school spirit that I am asking you to think of A you have all heard that too often. I am asking you to think of yourselves and of your social life when your school days are finished. -The Editor HAVE THEY DIED IN VAIN? The scene - a battlefield in northern France on November ll, 1918. Overhead is heard the dull drone of airplanes, below, the roar of cannon, the shriek of shells, and the crash of bombs. Suddenly all is still. A few lingering bursts of rifle fire are the only sound. A whisper races along the trenches, The Armistice! But this is merely hearsay. It remains for a few quiet words spoken with authority to make the men go wild with joy. The Armistice has been signed! The war is over! All war is ended! Never again will such a terrible thing happen! These men believed that they had fought a war to end all wars. They believed in giving and had been willing to give their lives in order that a lasting peace might be effected. Have they died in vain? The answer might well be yes if we but take no- tice of present-day events. The very Arm- istice which was intended to be an everlast- ing pact of peace, has already been shat- tered by the greedy power-lust of nations. In the eastern hemisphere, japan is war- ring upon China because of one thing, a thing that no treaty has been able to curb - the desire for territory. Several citizens of neutral countries have been killed, and it is only by the most tactful diplomacy that the mother countries of these citizens have been restrained from avenging their death by war, In the opposite hemisphere, Germany has nearly swallowed up Austria, and al- though the country consumed does not seem to mind, several other neighbors of the aggressive country are feverishly arming in anticipation of an attack upon their domains. Not long ago a European nation needed more territory for her over-flowing popula- tion. War was the answer, and a small African country was subjected to her rule. In Flanders Field, Lieutenant john McCrae says: To you from failing hands we throw The torchg be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep. Have we broken faith with those who died? I say we have. Was the dream of these sixty-five million men who fought a war to end all wars fulfilled? Read any current article, newspaper, or magazine and you will find the answer - no! -Dexter Fowles, '38



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IO THE QUILL of their garments were loosened and borne away. Then it was raining, incrediby hard. Fortissimo CVery loudl The thunder-heads raised their quarrel- ling voices higher and higher, hurled light- nings. The bolts crashed into one another and rolled and rumbled and were lost in the uproar. An evergreen was cleft asunder through its very heart and trembled and toppled. The old houses wept. Morendo CGradually softer and slowerj At its very height the storm ended, sud- denly, completely. The lightnings went out as though controlled by a master-switch, the thunder died into sullen rumblings, the rain stopped as if a faucet somewhere had been turned off. The wind became only a wandering breeze, touching lightly the sud- den ruins of flowers. The wet fires of the trees burned thickly, unquenched. -Thelma Gillespie, '38 EATING Eating is essential. Everybody, of course, realizes this fact, although I sometimes won- der if everybody does. During the past few months I have been watching people eat, especially as to how much they eat and how they eat. I find that there are eating classes: the elderly, the middle-aged, and the young people. First, I will discuss the older generation. Most old people like to eat. By old I don't mean aged to the extent that they are feeble, but about sixty-five or seventy years old. I may be wrong, but it seems to me that this group of people like to eat and eat a lot and take their time in doing it too. They just love to have their food all around them and then start in with the first course and eat their way to the dessert. The women of this class have good table manners, but those of the men are not likely to be so good. Now, the middle aged group. This group of eaters, in my opinion, is the best. They have moderation in the amount of food that they consume and also in the way they eat. Nor do they Cat slowly or in very large amounts. Persons of forty or forty- five, I think, are at their prime as far as eat- ing is concerned. Their diet is balanced, and they realize that food must digest. Their manners are generally good, but they aren't fussy to the extent that every thing must be eaten just so. Young people - boys. Every boy that I have ever had an acquaintance with, liked to eat. We don't like to dilly-dally around when we eat either. If there's anything that gets me, it is waiting for the older people to finish in order to get the dessert. Sad to say our manners aren't what they should be and no one knows a formula to clear the situation up. Girls-I actually have a great deal of sympathy for them. I suppose they really have to be stylish and not be fat, but when it comes to starving oneself in order to keep the body looking nice, it seems to me a little foolish. Naturally -- thin girl, you are lucky - at least you can eat. But there is one thing. I have noticed some girls eat little, but much of what they do eat is fat- tening food, candy and the like. No won- der they have trouble in keeping thin. Girls for the most part have nice manners. On the whole I think males eat more than

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