Milford High School - Spartan Yearbook (Milford, NH)

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PRESIDE In these troubled trmes we are standrng on the threshold of a new world one wrth problems and possrbrlrtres surpassrng the dreams and worrres of the most vrsronary prophet of even a short trme ago The past score of years has produced greater change rn our world and our way of lrfe than any hundred years prevrously Wrth each new rnventron the conservatrves sard rt can t be done but rt was done and man s technology advanced another step Of course some of these changes were good and some were bad but on the whole the world benefrted by them at least as far as materral comforts were concerned There are always people who yearn for the good old days but at heart they wouldn t change thrngs very much As anatron we never had rt so good Strll there are a few black clouds rn the skres We are threatened on all srdes by rnter natronal communrsm rn the forseeable future we shall be facrng the problem of overpopulatron we are exhaustrng our natural resources at an ever rncreasrng rate our cnme and Juvenrle de lrnquency rate rs sky rocketrng and our economy rs showrng srgns of rllness To top rt all we now have the power to destroy the human race rn any future war Communrsm and caprtalrsm must leam to coexrst There rs no other chorce unless we wrsh to lrve wrt.h the constant threat of a war started by accrdent a war that certarnly wrll end all war and all lrfe as well Man has come a long way srnce he frrst clrmbed down out of the trees but hrs warrrng past has frnally caught up wrth hrm I-Ie wrll have to lrve rn peace or cease to lrve However unless man has somethrng to lrve for he mrght Just as well pull the trrgger and get rt over wrth Otherwrse rt rs lrke choosrng between executron and lrfe rmprrsonment Therefore man must make hrs world worth lrvrng rn He must try to lrve lrke a ratronal berng rnstead of an anrmal Man has the potentral to do practrcally anythrng he sets hrs mrnd to, and rt s about trme he set hrs mrnd to somethrng other than the destructron of hrs fellow creatures Someone once lrkened man s preoccupatron wrth the scrences to a chrld playrng wrth some new and glrtterrng toys Thrs rn rtself rs not bad What rs drsturbrng rs when the chrld neglects everythrng for the sake of the to s In recent trmes thrs has been the posrtron of the socral scrences They have been tossed asrde rn favor of somethrng that goes bang or looks rmpressrve Granted our screntrfrc developments are necessary rf only as a measure of our progress But, Just as man does not lrve by bread alone so a revolutronary type of vacuum cleaner wrll not frll a cultural vacuum and that rs what rs developrng rn the Unrted States 46 1 ' t . . . . . . 11 - 1 . 1 11 - 1 , . 1 1 . 11 1 ,, , . . . 1 1 - D - ' 1 - 1 . 1 1 - . , , - 1 . . . . , ' U , . . A . ,, ,, . . . . . 1 - 1 1 . , 1