Kingfield High School - Abram Breeze Yearbook (Kingfield, ME)

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EDITORIALS HAPPINESS tcon.l these you have to strive for. Enjoy your- self with them and get along with them. Trying to get your own way all the time will not bring you friends. Choosing your life work will mean your happiness, also. This is especially true for boys as they will have to do that work for the rest of their lives. So, come on! Do not let happiness slip by. Remember you have only one life. Shirley Wilbur '55 ACHIEVEMENT ' The big man starts as a boy back in the first years of school. He forms the habit of being quiet and listening when the tea- cher speaks to him. He learns what is asked of him even though he fails to see any immediate use for it. He continues doing things other and old- er people think are best for him. When he gets to high school, he does odd jobs about the school for his teachers. He does things for his class and teammates. He helps do the mean and dirty jobs that have to be done. If asked to get oranges for a basket- ball game, he does that, too, without grum- bling. After he leaves high school, he goes on to further schooling or he learns a special trade. Now he is prepared for what life holds in store for him is this work. Prob- ably he starts at a very small job in the bus- ness and, without any hard feelings, he begins working his way up the line. After many hard years of work, he is well repaid for the cooperation and effort that has made him the man he has become. These incidents all help to show that big men become big by doing what they don't want to do when they don't want to do it. Leone Chadbourne 754 YES. BUT ' Big men become big by doing what they donit want to, when they don't want to. I believe on the whole that this state- ment is true. Men 'in companies, where advancement is possible must be accomo- dating at all times, or they will not get ahead. Bosses don't like men who will do nothing out of their regular line of work. In business this is also true. In order to be popular with your customers, you must be willing to put yourself out to help others. In another sense, however, this isn,t true. Thomas Edison became great by working in his laboratory when others con- sidered it ridiculous. Walter P. Chrysler was a very independent fellow. Once he tore every piece of a new automobile-his first-apart before he even had taken a ride in it. This he did much against the will of his family. Abraham Lincoln spent time studying books when people around him were ignorant and thought he was wasting his time. The statement applies to more people than there are exceptions to it. However, I think many men have become great by yielding to inner urgings of their own, re- gardless of other people. Norman Knapp '54 13

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EDITORIALS ALMOST SIXTEEN You are almost sixteen - but are you grown up? This is a familiar question. Usually if you are in doubt, there are a few things you have slipped up on. If you are grown up, your outlook on life is much different and the way you take things is very changed, also. To become grown up you must be de- pendable. This is the basic clue by which you are judged. Do what you say you will. If the windows are to be washed by Mon- day, that does not mean Tuesday or Wednesday. Don't forget Mrs. Brown wants you to take care of Mary and Billy, Friday, at 7:00 P. M. Are you careful about your person? Do you always look well in public? just one thing, such as greasy hair, will spoil your whole appearance. Too, you will want to overcome your social failures. Shyness in public can and should be conquered. Meeting people isnlt hard, since they usually donit bite. Ad- mitted it will be hard at first, but most people are uncertain at times. Remember your manners. The Golden Rule should be followed as closely as pos- sible. If you enjoy people bumping into you accidentally and not at least saying a hurried 'Tm sorryf, probably other peo- ple do not enjoy it. Also, remember the familiar Ladies before g e n tl e m e n. Thoughtfulness is the keynote. Accept things as they are. Usually they canit be changed, so there is no use crying over spilled milk. Truthfully now, are you grown up? jean Morrison ,55 - WEARING GLASSES Hey there, Four-eyes,', and Goggle- eyes,', are the remarks that usually follow me as I walk along. No matter where I am or what I am doing, people always have the same comment to make about my glasses. I guess this is the fate of all of us- who wear them. Of course, there are peo- ple who say I look good in glasses or that the rims of my glasses go beautifully with the dress I am wearing. Those I love! I think a personis eyes are accented with glasses, and that tricky usage of the eyes will make him even better looking. For instance, a trick of mine that brings out the color of my eyes is to open them very wide when someone asks me some- thing or when some one very special is talking to me. Itis fun because I enjoy peopleis reaction to this. Some even go so far as to tell me I have pretty eyes! All this with glasses on! No, I donit mind wearing glasses, in fact, sometimes I actually enjoy it. Muriel Winter ,55 HAPPINESS Happiness! What is it? What does it mean? Is it something you can buy? No, I do not believe it is although some peo- ple will sacrifice happiness for money. Afterwards they may regret it when they think of the wrong they have committed. Happiness to me is living moderately and enjoying life from one minute to the 12 next. You must make each minute count. The word happiness means a lot to you all through your life. You cannot expect it to come looking for you, you must put an effort forward to look for it. Once you find it do not throw it away for petty things. To be happy you need good friends and

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EDITORIALS THE Who are you fooling when you try to pretend that you are someone else? Do you really Want to know? Well, just take a good look into the mirror. Thatis right, it is nobody but yourself. You may fool oth- ers for a while, but it does not last. The only one that you really cheat is yourself. If people would only stop to think things over, they would realize that they cannot pretend to be some one else or to have ac- complishd some thing that they could not possibly do. It is like a daydreamer, who sits all day in school and does positively nothing but dream. He pretends that he is some great person. just inside of his own body, though. Outside he looks to CHEAT ,A others just like his real, true character. He is not taken to be some great person. Some people even go as far as to pretend that they are some Prince or Duke. They travel around the country, introducing themselves as such and enjoying the grand welcomes they get. They may eventually deceive themselves into thinking they are this person. No! Do not ever cheat yourself by pre- tending you are some one or something else. People will like you much better if you do not try to deceive. just remember: The worst of all frauds is to cheat oneis selff, ' Christie Packard '53 REMEMBER THAT YOU STAND OR FALL BY YOUR OWN WORK Behind the little white church in the cemetery stands a large marble headstone which marks the remains of George H. Cropper. Yes, he made an achievement. He own- ed the Cropper mines and off its handsome profits he lived, smugly looking down his nose to the men and boys who went down into those mines. He never gave a penny to charity and he never gave a thought to the women and children whose husbands, brothers, and sons his mines had suifocated. Beside his grave a wooden marker bears the name Samuel Smith. Sam Smith was only a farmer, who tilled his soil, took his products to town and at- tended church on Sunday. He helped paint the little church white. He always wore a smile as he peddled his fresh butter and eggs to the housewives. To those too poor to buy-he gave. It is not so important what you achieve during your life as how you achieve it. A person like Sam will stand in the hearts of his fellow men forever. Beverly Boynton ,53 YOUR OWN MARK The last class bell rang and Bill saunter- ed into the classroom. Today was the day for the big test. Bill didnit see why they gave these final exams in English anyway so why should he bother to study for it? jack, his brother, had spent all last even- ing studying for the foolish test and passed up a chance to go to Dryden to the movies. 14 Bill vowed that he would never be that stupid over some silly exam and, of course, jumped at the chance to go. This was jack's and Bill's last year in high school and they both planned to en- ter Northwestern College the next fall. Anyone wishing to enter that college had to have a high scholastic standing to be