Lunenburg High School - Echo Yearbook (Lunenburg, MA)

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CONVERSATION IN A NYLON LINE -5 'Nylonsl Nylons! Did I hear somebody say nylons? 'Get in line ladies. You'l1 have to wait your turn.' 'You know, dear, I haven't had a pair of nylons since the war ended, I wonder---N ' 'Oh, I have three pair already. I just get in every line I see andlhope--1-u 'gyyndust look at the length of this line. It goes all the way up to ll ---Q a - 'Now you get in frontnof me. I'1l give vou the money, but don't let them know'you're my ---- ., 3 'Lillian, do you like that hat the woman in front of me is wear- in ?' - g WI wonder if they'll have any my size?n nbook at that woman coming up to the line. Doesn't she----' nPeg, did you read about that professional line stander? Well--W 'Oh! I'm not going to wait much longer. we don't seem to be moving at all.' , nOh! Did you get some, Jan. What are they like? Do they ---- N 'I'm sorry but we haven'ta y more today, ladies.' Jean Huntington LES CHAPEAUX 'Greetings from the Royale Hat Shoppe Madame! May I help you?n nThank you, yes. I'm not quite sure about the kind of hat I wish to buy---wait! Let me see the pert, little red and white one p1ease.u 'Cha Madame, that hat is devastating on you. Do you wish me to wrap ---- NI positively must try on that darling blue model. Look at those exquisite swirls. Hurry before the other saleslady gets to it!n r nThis model is deginitely for you. It is your color! You may pay for it at the end ---- uThe black creation with the thick veilg just what I needin Ah, Nmdame, you look positively naive in this model. Do you wish a box for ---- 0 'We1l, thank you just the same but I'll probably stop by tomorrow to pick it up. Thank you for everything. You have a wonderful shop here. Good-bye!' W Shirley Lancey MY DREAM I see the game from the substitute's bench. as I watch the game, my mind is not on the game---it is dreaming of the day when I will be on the first team. The coach will give me the sign that I had been hoping for, to go into the game as halfback. In the game I amin- structed by the quarter back to take the ball on an end run. I get the ball and as I start to run with it everybody else is running too, some with me, some against me. The ground under me is speeding fast. I am behind my interference and each one takes out a man that might takC m0 down. Now there are no men in front of me but the men on the other team. I have gained five yards. Out-running one man and dodging another. I am in the clear and the touchdown that I made is theminning one, But it is only a dream. Roland Leblanc

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COMIC BOOKS I doubt if I'm alone in usually referred to as 'lfunnyu and girls read these idiotic reading for unbalanced people, reading. Comic books are rot diculous and nonsensical pictures with not so much ledge of proper reading, In my opinion the comic ishing from news-stands renlly do many boys and goods ' J I have observed many children, especially bovs from these books, The pictures that are printed are so deeply imaginative that certain individuals try to pr be some super physical being derived from their reading. The certain imaginative person as an ideal, even though there is PGTSOTIU The reading of conic books is absolutely u educatioral boys and girls lose education in school by gaining the habit stituting comic reading for school work. This practice is of ried on during school hours when the student should occupy studying and gaining accurate knowledge. There should time with Nothing to do while' ttending school since it tution which gives you something to do and to occupy vour Another bad feature of comic books is the inrense wasted. To prove that the reading of cosics is a waste of will first grant that it is true that these books were sent to Kthe disapproval of reading comi bocksi' Nevertheless, thousands books which in my opinion are for they have reason to en even reading, but merely lfokin as usirg t book could girls a pr , who seem in comic m IISVG c books, of boys perfect joy such g at ri- he know- by van- ofitable affected agazines etend to y hold a no such . Many sub- car- time of ten his r be any is an insti- time time that is time, I wounded endless learned anything of value? In my opinion he has not. In the first place, the reader has wasted his money in order to waste his time. Few boys and girls have less than two or three books, since they buy them in bun- dles at s lower cost.--A cost for cheap reading. Sometimes I wonder where the writers of these ubooks' come from and what kind of people they can be to write such material for the young people of America. The writers of these books, with no doubt, make large profits when young people continue to buy this kind of serviceman lying in hospitals for the sole purpose of passing hours away. But after reading these books, has the reader reading material. Porh nough attertion to lure doubt that the writers people, but that does ops the colorful cover of the book att the purchaser into buying it. The know what they are doing to the minds not seem to stop the publishing of t book. To the writers it is a good money scheme which does no the ideas and outlook of children. The majority of the so-called comic books are not really These books about gangsters and heroes are illustrated so as attention to the reader. The form of speech used in these racts e- re is no of young he comic good for comical. to bring books is contrary to that taught in school. Therefore, these comic books are not really comical, but deal with gangsters, heroes, plotters and murderers. Are these books good reading matter for children? Is any- thing accomplished by reading these books? 'From what I know about them, I believe that they are not good reading for the future citizens of America. Lucy Hirsch

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., - -A-5-,-A. .. . n ' -- - f- '1 .ws -1 . wine :g-- - , .,- gfl' ' fly n PRIZE-WINNING WAR ROND LSSAY -. 1 , ' I am especially pleased to see that so many of you patriotic American citizens were able to be present here this evening. I real- ize, of course, that you all have more important things to do than to sit hero and listen to me make a speech, but I also realize that you all want to contribute your share, and most of you more than your share, to our wir effort. Of course each and every one of you knows by this time, that the 7th oar Loan drive is now in progress. It has been named the lighty 7th! The national quota is 9l4,000,000,000, with goals of 37,000,000,000 each for individuals and corporations . The publics NLN bond goal in Missachusetts is 3l40,000,000. Recently the great allied victory was proclaimed in Lurope. It cost vast sums of money each day to carry on the wer there. Before the final victory was won, our government hid to sponsor six war bond campaigns. New we are in the seventh. If everyone contributes just as much as they can to this one, perhaps it will take only one drive to conquer Remember that for each day and hour this war is prolonged, the wounded and dead service men rises. The sooner the war ends Pacific theater, the sooner our loved ones will return home to ful nation and world. ' . Listen to this story which took place in Holland. The weathervms cold and rainy and it wasn't any warmer inside the bherman tank in which this soldier was riding. For the sake of convenience I shall call him Paul. Previously Paul had lost his scarf and on this particular Japan. toll of in the alpaace- heard the command day he missed it. He was new in this armored outfit. Earlier on this day he had volunteered to take the place of a tank nuchine-gunner. When the tank came to a halt, out for a look at the llndscape and A bomb had made 1 mess of tht discovered a huge German flag ----- a blazoned a black swastika. wafon's assivc Realizing that he needed a scarf, he took out mechanical trouble, Paul scrambled to look at a wrecked supply wagon. contents. .Among them he rod field on which was em, his knife and made one, a little flamboyant, but warm and comfortable. He felt right in step with the times, as he had seen the scarfs on the tank crew. As they lumbered on to their objective, Paul several members of 'Got ReadyI9 come over the earphones. Then the tank stopped andthe gun went into action, When the smoke cleared, they were rumbling down the street that led into the town. The street was gray and empty, but 100 yards ahead of them, blocking their path, was a strange bulking object, a German tank. For a second there wus silence and then, the awful announcement: 'We're hit! Run for itl' A sheet of flame lept up behind him. Paul recalledardmnrl'ho.had heard, that if a tank caught fire and you were only two possibilities: to be roasted He could open the hatch just enough to the gun was blocking it. Suddenly he made hatch was open, He lept up, pushfd his way ed down onto the good earth. To a man who had just escaped death, anti-climax. As he made his way toward the lines, Paul encountered a colonel and his aides. The colonel was smiling. uCwngratulations,'he said. nYou certainly earned your red scarf.u Paul thanked the colonel ind then asked if he would please explain what he meant by 'earning' the red scarf. ' alt is a custom in this rcgiment,u the colonel said, 'that only men who have escaped from a burning tank may wear a red scarf made of a German flag. You had yours on before the attack started.n . inside, there bit8o the barrel of a discovery---the driver's were caught or blown to reveal that through the top, and jump- the exploding tank was an