Milo High School - Breeze Yearbook (Milo, ME)

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school dipicma will stand a far better chance than those who have nothing to shows However, we must have workers in our factories. With Uncle Sam's needing msn and women- in the services there are many opportunities offered to youth with tempting wages. Some day these clouds will spread away and show a clear blue sky shining through, We must prepare ourselves for that time, Although many men will remain in the services to maintain a standing army, many will come home. There will be fewer Jobs with more men to fill them. Many men will find themselves without Jobs. Gur seeming blue sky stands a chance of clouding over again, and once the sky is blue, we must do our best to keep it so. ' , o There are days when these clouds seem so filled with gloom and despair that they simply overflow and enshroud the population. Don't let the low hanging clouds overshadow your life too darkly. We must look forward to the time when they will rise and disclose the gleaming future which they have been protecting. 'Each dark cloud must have a silver lin1ng.' . ' Estella Byther '44 THEY CALL ME A DRIP I am a little ralndrop. Last night I fell to the earth during a thunder shower. I landed smack in a river, Now it is morning. The day is hot and dry. The air needs more humidity, so it's time for us little drops to evaporate, After I had evaporated, a current of warm air lifted me higher and higher above the earth. It's getting cold up here so I will have to look for a dust particle to condense on. Then I hurried for the nearest cloud. I've been floating up here for two weeks now, First I was in a cumulus cloud, one that is white and fluffy like a big bunch of cotton. The sky was clear and bright then. Now' I am in a stratus cloud, one that almost completely overcasts the sky. - I am getting dark and heavy. The other 'drops dare putting on their parachutes preparing to Jump. Well, so long, for now I must precipitate. a -Gerald Tapley '48

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? 5i1T i ZVf n f POOR ME Poor mel I'm the little guy that always gets pushed around.' No one ever uses me very much because I am weak, Folks always use my older brothers, Period and Semi-colon,to fill in the big and important lplaces because they -are stronger than I, When someone does use me, he 'tucks me in anywhere, Ifm ,just shoved out of the way or scattered all over the place. I . A Yes, that's rightg I'm a comma,the little guy who isn't there when I should be, ands when I-shouldnft be there, 17m almost anywhere. My real home is in the English book, the only one that ever uses me right, and I seldom go anywhere else. My usual jobs are to connect series in a sentence and to connect principal clauses, but I have various other uses too. A Q p Although I don't suppose I ever will be any more than a comma, my real ambition is to be a strong guy like my older brothers, Period, Semi-colon and Golon. I have some very important relatives too, whose names are Question Mark and Exclamation Point. ' But all we commas are or ever will be are just punctuw ation marks and to most human beings this doesn't mean much, The minute students get out of English class they go pushing us around again as if we didn't have any feeling at all, Oh dear! I suppose I will have to remain the same for- ever, just a poor unimportant guy, ep v 'Q Maurena Stevens '46 r A ess! Gtouos HOVEHING4 ' There are grey clouds hovering over our nation today- clouds that may open and offer a rain of bombs at the most unsuspecting time, with little or no warning. ' Everyone his considering the nlet's do our bit' angle, A great many from our senior class that entered the build - ing, four falls ago are missing. -They are doing what they consider their part in this world crisis. Some are in the armed services, but still more are in vital defense work, I still maintain lthat getting an education is one of the best ways of doing our bit, A few,' but only a few, will return to their' education when this war has been settled and wages have been lowered. p X d ' When this war fwhich is beginning to promise us yet a longer span of strife? has been forgotten, those with a high

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' A BARGAIN It is, of course, understood among all us free people that this war will eventually be won by us. But following this war, what kind of peace are we going to bargain for? Are we going to put these defeated people under military rules and punish them in general by taking all liberties from them? Or shall we bargain for a more sensible peace, one where we would treat others, even our once despised enemies, as we would have them treat us under similar con- ditions? Obviously, the latter is the method we should choose. There are some people who would crush the Germans and Japanese from the earth, but is there any such a thing as exterminating a race of people? In my opinion, this question has been answered many times over in the German occupied, countries when the iron rule of the Nazi war-lords has murdered the total population of many cities. The answer to these exploits of the Germans was a more severe retaliation by the suppressed people in the form of sabotage. .Of course, the leaders of our enemies should be punished, but the real peace should be a fair bargain made with the common people of these countries. I Marylin Buck 'LL CAMUUFLAGED ICE Why is it that practically everyone is around when you slip and fall on the ice recently camouflaged with soft snow flakes? It seems as though the people you wouldnnt want to see you fall are always there. 1 You'll be walking merrily along minding no one's busi- ness but your own, when all of a sudden you find yourself seated, and I may add, not gently. Immediately you turn to see, just a few steps behind you, some of your friends try- ing their hardest to keep from, laughing so as to save you some embarrassment. If you are lucky enough to have some- one with you, he'll give assistance in yanking you from the ground. Yes, I mean yanking. At least you feel as if those pesky- little gremlins are yanking at their hat-pins they stuck in you when you were mysteriously seated. You think that it wouldn't hurt as much if you could just sit there so the thousand little gremlins couldn't get the opportunity to rescue their hat-pins. . I guess the best relief is rubbing alcohol. Ouchl I didn't mean to mention rubbing, so I now suggest that you try sleeping face down. , 1 Muriel Carter 'L5