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

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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

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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 YOUR OWN MARK icon.l accepted. The boys had decided to enter the col- lege during their freshman year in high school and they both realized they would have to get high ranks. jack had got busy and was on the honor roll his four years, but Bill-that was different! Bill thought he was brilliant enough without studying. He was sure he could pass any tests that were given by just using common sense. When he got into college he would studyl Bill knew the only reason he had received C's and Dis was that the teachers had a grudge against him! - Well, today was his final exam in English and he knew it was going to be a cinch. FIRE Over the trees there was a red glow. I immediately thought: Firel', A fire frightens me very much, but at the same time it fascinates me. So when I came in view of the fire, I kept my eyes glued to it every minute. It was a house and barn combined, and they were both quite large. just a half hour before, I had gone by the house, and the owner had been mowing his lawn. Now, on my way home, I saw that the buildings were nearly burned flat. Every now and then a glowing beam would crash down, and the flames would leap higher. The leaves of the trees around the When the boys arrived home from their last day of high school, there were two letters waiting for them. The first was to jack from Northwestern College. It read: We are proud, because of your scholastic ability and standing, to accept you as one of our students next Septemberf, The other one was for Bill, and it read: We regret to inform you that we cannot accept you into Northwestern College because your scholastic standing is not high enough to be accepted in our collegef' Bill was very angry, but his mother said to him, Remember that you stand or fall by your own work, Bill. Q Betty Kirkwood ,53 house were burning, and the trunks of the trees were black and singed. When the blaze was over only a few charred beams remained. This is only one of the numerous fires that occur annually, destroying not only buildings, but land areas and even life. Many fires could be prevented, others, by quicker action, could be kept less costly. It is the duty of all of us to know the principles of fire prevention and to prac- tice them. Only in that way can our justi- fiable fear of fire be lessened. Anne Williamson '56 I ENTER A CONTEST The first land probably the lastj ski contest I entered was on Sugarloaf Moun- tain last spring. I had no idea of entering it, until on the Saturday night before the day of the race when Finn Sprague and his wife, two skiers from Portland, came to visit Mother and Dad. Amanda,v she asked, will you enter the race with me tomorrow?,' I thought for a minute before I answered her. I knew I shouldnit say no, and Uncle Amos wanted me to, so I told her I would. The next morning we arrived early at the ski hut at the bottom of the mountain. It was a cold, rainy day, but despite this, there were about seventy people there. 15