Lunenburg High School - Echo Yearbook (Lunenburg, MA)

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'firms Fowl! MILE SPEED LIMIT By Copeland Hague Recently,the state passed a new speed limit holding all Massachu- setts automobiles down to forty miles per hour. They set a penalty of not more than five hundred dollars fine, a year in jail, or both. This law is neither being obeyed by all of the public,nor are the penalties being enforced. I have driven many miles at forty miles an hour since the passage of this law. Others have passed me making me look as if I were standing still. On the straight-a-way, the cars do much more than forty. This would make me think that this law was passed to keep those who would ordinarily go sixty, down to fifty. Why !tn't something done about it? Then there is the penalty. No one has five hundred dollars for a fine these days, and, consequently, would have to take the year imprison ent. Perhaps there will be a new nJail Draft' to decide the order in which the thousands of violators will serve their time. If this law is going to be, enforce it, and lower the fine. A SLIP CDF THE LIP ' By Ruth Arnold The request has been issued by the government for people not to talk about Army, Navy or Governmental work that might help an enemy nation. The people should not only hear or see this but take heed and obey it. Although it is not a law, people young and old should real- ize the vital importance of the request, Many ships have been sunk and lives have been lost because a person has talked in public or to a person he thought was a friend. To this person has been revealed when a boat left port, where it was going, or sometimes even what was on board the ship. All Army plans as well as Navy plans must be kept seoret and are important to the safety of our nation. So if you are a true American, nDon't talkn,for remember--NA Slip of a Lip, Might Sink a Ship.' - 5P0i'4,'f5hfl.LXN5HIP IN HSHJNG By Robert Foster Nowdays thousands of sportsmen go out every day and catch fish. Bmne of these so called uSportsmen' go out in the morning,catch their limit of fish for that day, return homo, put their fish on ice, and then proceed to go back in the afternoon and catch some more. People of this type are not sportsmen to my way of thinking. These people Oven have so much gall as to go out and brag of their so called 'a- chievementn. I think these people should be punished, Ybu probably say, nwell some of them aren. Yes I admit 'semen are,but what about the ones that don't pay for their crime. They go out the next day and the day after and do the same thing over again. I think that the state should have more game wardens on duty in order to protect the rights of the law abiding sportsmen and to punish the law breakers. 75

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g7r',V- W 'iq' ' -' SENIOIQS AND THE Siifblifgi By Stanley Page In every senior class there are two classes of students: first, those who intend to go to higher institutions of learning, and second, those who will, in all probability, go out and get a job after gradua- tion. Those who are in the first group can help the government more by going to college than joining the armed services, because the govern- ment needs men with college training. Those in the second class have-two alternatives. First they may go into industry or some other work after graduation, or they may join the armed services before graduation and still get their diplomas pro- vided their marks are passing. Some boys in this second group may feel that they can help the government more by getting into some industry that is manufacturing material for the government or by getting a job on some fann. Or they may feel that they may make more money by getting a job. But I think that if they are patriotic they should join the armed services because the services need men desperately. These boys have nothing to lose because they will get their diplomas. Therefore I think the lenid boys should think this over carefully. r fd fd Q g'I-l as I ' 5 fd 3 dl L, Vx.. L 1, JI l-QJ.1xf.-Xue By Martha Harrington Bicycles are presently going to be the only mode of transporta- tion. They, like auto tires, are costing more and more. The youth of America are buying bikes for joy rides, or just plain laziness. Pretty soon the bicycle tires will be as scarce as auto tires, then the work- ing men, as well as the happy-go-lucky youth, will have to walk to his work. Isn't it better to determine who buys the bikes? If they can't get rubber for cars neither will they be able to meet the bike demand. Therefore, I suggest that the youth of America either stop buying new bikes or at least be willing to sell their old ones to people who really need transportation for their families' livelihoods. 55-IOIQTEK SC HOOL HQUK S By Nellie Maki In order to have more time to spend working, the school day should be shortened for the duration of the war. If we started school earlier in the morning, we could get out early in the afternoon. If school started at eight o'clock in the morning and classes ran right through until one o'clock with twenty minutes for lunch, we could get just as long periods every day as we have now. An hour for lunch is just a waste of time, for everyone Cexcept those who go home to lunchl spends his time hanging around. If we got out at one o'clock there would be a long afternoon to do other things---boys could do partetime work on farms and girls could either work at home to help their mothers who are employed in the defense plants or work for other women who are employed. 7 2. '

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r ' I .- - -.V i - -f- vw Y' PKOPAGA NDA , By Mary Harley Propaganda has been defined in the dictionary aa, any organized or concerted group, effort, or movement to spread particular doctrines or information.' Yet today, propaganda has come to be associated with lies, trickery, corruption, and above all, hate. Contrary to this, it has been proved that the most effective results are achieved by propa- ganda based on honor, honesty, and high idealism. In the United States, Nazi propaganda line stands out vividly in the pro-Axis press, still freely published and circulated here because it is protected by our own nBill of Rights.n, The primary objective of Germany's campaign is to influence and confuse public opinion. This is readily attempted through communication by rumors, illusions, sug- gestions, agitation, and deliberate lies. A main objective has been to destroy the morale of the new American Army and the faith of the public in it. Germany is accomplishing all this, not without bitter oppositions from our F. B. I. and F. C. C. In the United States, rep- resentatives of these agencies have reported that agents of Goebels maintain contact with Americans of German origin and establish re- lations with native Americans of German sympathies. Books, magazines and plays are definite mediums for propaganda. After the first world war, drama on the continent concentrated largely on political propaganda. Germany spread its totalitarian principles by means of the National Socialist Theatre. The presentation of prop- aganda in the modern theatre is ingenious and continuously varied. It connotes the force of special pleading through the actors' appeal, costumes, makeup, scenery, music, and effects combined. The darkened theatre, footlights and spotlight all help to dominate the mind of the audience and produce a kind of hypnotic concentration which induces them to succu b to the presented idea. . By Beverly Balcom In time of war, such as now the ordinary people think of propa- ganda as being one of our enemies, and a bad one at that. nPropaganda' a person might say, 'oh that, that's the talk those Germans, Italians, and Japs want us to get hold of, and to keep it.' But we Americans are trying as hard as we can to throw it right back at them if they start swinging it towards us. Those foreigners are having a hard time to plant the seeds of it in U. S. A. But we Americans, regardless if we are farmers, city slickers, all have some experience and knowledge of getting rid of the weed before it has very much chance to grow. . Once in a while people are liable to forget and some of the prop- aganda gets thrown around, like seeds from weeds in the fall. Then the propaganda,like seeds when snow comes, is sometimes covered up and forgotten. In spring the seeds after some rest start to flourish again, if people are not careful the propaganda is able to start again we Americans, if we are wise, will keep that crop of seeds Qor propaa gandal in the winter season if possible, so that it will be oovired, not loose and floating around in the breeze. 7 4