Milford High School - Oak Lily and Ivy Yearbook (Milford, MA)

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GRADUATING CLASS, IC)I 9

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J. J. Lawton, President Carlton F. Sturdy, Treasurer 208 to 214 Main Street, Milford Interior Decorators, House Furnishers, Cut Glass, SILVERWARE, DRY GOODS AND MILLINERY Crystal Palace We sell the best Ice Cream, Soda Candy and Tobacco in town. BEST WISHES OF flfcacuen See Cream and Canfec - iionery Company 2 00 M ain St. Milford 157 Main St. MILFORD t w ri Is Compliments of V V « Store of Good Clothes Compliments of Burke’s Pharmacy) Lincoln Square MILFORD, MASS 3 ' fotel Gillian Ben Franklin LIGHT LUNCH Main St., next Hotel Willian. Lunches put up in neat packages for travelers. Picnics and Lawn Parties served. COMPLIMENTS OF 128 MAIN STREET, MILFORD

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OAK, LILY AND IVY Vol. XXXV. MILFORD, MASS., JUNE, 1919 NO. 1. Published by the Pupils of the Milford High School BOARD OF EDITORS E(litor-in-chief, Alvin L. Pianca,’19 Assistant Editor, Elizabeth A. Santosuosso, ’19 Business Manager, William L. Ahern, ’19 Assistant Business Manager, Arthur H. Fitzgerald ASSOCIATE EDITORS Jennie L. Connors, ’19 Kenneth W. Henderson, ’19 Roger M. Perham, ’19 Subscription Rates: For the year, 50 cents. Single copies, 10 cents Address all communications to Oak, Lily and Ivy, Milford, Mass. Entered at the Milford, Mass., Post Office, as second class matter. AMERICA’S PART IN THE GREAT WAR Thankful indeed are we, the members of the class of 1919 , that we enjoy the good fortune to be graduated at a time when all signs point to a future of friendship and benevolence between the nations of the world. For the past four years, marring the joys of graduation, the shadow of the sinister figure of the ruthless Hun, hated for his cruelty, has darkened the paths of students departing from American institutions. Now no longer does this terrible menace threaten the world; no more does the dreaded Boehe practice his game of plundering and of murdering helpless women and children. Destroyed are the ambitious dreams of the selfish Kaiser, who now views his land not as the mistress of the world with himself as Emperor, but a crushed and disintegrated country: his people, suffering from want of food, fighting among themselves; himself, scorned and despised by all, forced to seek a foreign country for refuge unwillingly accorded. The deadly peril of imperialism has been utterly destroyed by the united nations of the world, linked together by the common bond, Democracy. Yet certain of these nations received their rewards for the destruc¬ tion of the Prussian military machine. England, though she entered the war upon the violation of Belguim’s neutrality, is only too glad that her dangerous trade rival has been crushed. Her commercial standing is no longer threatened by the rivalry of German-made products. She has likewise received certain African colonies rescued from German misrule. Poor, bleeding France, upon whose fields fought men of all races, was so suddenly stricken by the German hordes that she had scarcely time to send her men against the oncoming foe. But now at the end of all her suffering and loss of life she has been rewarded by the return of Alsace-Lorraine and the safeguarding by America and Great Britain of her security from a future German peril. As for Italy, she, too, has received a recompense for her aid against the gray soldiers of the Kaiser, as shown by the recent disclosure of the secret “Pact of London”, drawn up by England, France, Russia, and herself. Italy has always had in mind the repossession of the Trentino,