Newport High School - Live Wire Yearbook (Newport, ME)

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SCHOOL DIRECTORY Superintendent of Schools Mr. Howard Libby School Board Mr, Frank Boylan Mr. John Tasker Mr. Charles Sheridan FACULTY Mr. Ivan Sherman, Principal Mathematics, Guidance, Science Miss Jacqueline Greenwood Social and General Science Mr. Robert Beedy Agriculture Mrs. Eleanor Bryant Commercial Miss Ruth Hawkins English Miss Genevieve Hawkins Language, Public Speaking, English Miss Florence Treworgy Home Economics, Biology Miss Gertrude Thorne Music SPORTS Boys' Basketball Captain Richard Swanson Manager Sidney Cookson Baseball Manager Sidney Cookson Girls' Basketball Captains Mildred Cookson Mildred Fletcher Manager Helen Wiers Cheer Leaders Dorcas Carsley Louise Wiers STUDENT COUNCIL President John H. Webb, Jr. Vice President Bernard Foss Secretary and Treasurer Mildred Fletcher Faculty Adviser Mr. Sherman CLASS OFFICERS Seniors President John H. Webb, Jr. Vice President Eva Dow Secretary and Treasurer Mildred Fletcher Student Council Bernard Foss Lorraine Clement Juniors President Colleen Richardson Vice President Helen Wiers Secretary Marilyn MacLauchlan Treasurer Celia Jo Roberson Student Council Richard Swanson Richard Scott Howard Shapiro Helen Wiers Sophomores President Roland Peterson Vice President Sidney Smith Secretary Margaret Fletcher Treasurer Genevieve Mitchell Student Council Louise Wiers Frank Pray Guy Mullen Freshmen President Earle O'Farrell Vice President Elizabeth Turner Treasurer Marilyn Reed Secretary Dorothy Garrison Morris Bradford Hadley Smith Student Council

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TEE EIEVE WEEE PUBLISHED BY THE STUDFNTS OF Newport High School VOL. XVI NEWPORT, MAINE, MAY, 1944 NO. 1 EDITORIAL BOARD Back Row, left to right-H, Wiers, D. MacLauchlin, S. Smith, H. Sawyer, Q. Rich, R. Peterson, G. Mullen: Second Row, left to right-E. Dow, E. Henderson, C. Roberson, M. Parker, E. Woodward. S. Darlin f. J. Littl field, A. WhAtt'k : F t R lft t 'fht-M. Fl 1: h J. W'bb H. Sh' r' J. I-. 9 I d Ll TOYI OW, 9 0 1 l1-, 9 C 6.1, L , dl lI'O, Fletcher, P. Whittaker, M. Cookson, C. Richardson, L. Clement. EDITORIAL BOARD Editor-in-Chief Assistants Local Editor Assistants Personals Assistant Athletics, boys Assistant Athletics, girls Assistant Mildred Fletcher Phyllis Whittaker Howard Shapiro Jeanne Littlefield Dale MacLauchlin Quinn Rich Mildred Cookson Margaret Fletcher Sidney Cookson Homer Sawyer Celia Roberson Helen Wiers Exchanges Literary Assistant Alumni Assistant Business Manager Assistants Typists Lorraine Clement Shirley Darling Mabel Parker Ethel Henderson Sidney Smith John Webb Colleen Richardson Frank Pray Eva Dow Emma Woodward Alice Whittaker Mabel Parker

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THE LIVE WIRE EDHTQRHALS IS THIS WAR? Is a world at war truly a civilized world? War certainly is a major in- strument in the formation of a na- tion's policies. Haven't we always noticed that, as a civilization prog- ressed, war has tended to play an 1n- creasing part in society? War has always occupied a domi- nant role as a way of preserving the ruling class and balance of power. Why has a war been made a more ef- fective instrument of policy used against a less industrialized world? This can be very easily answered by one word, Inventions -the inven- tion of explosives, inventions of im- proved ships, new kinds of commer- cial blockades,the inventions of aerial and submarine transportation. But at the present, the most important and up to date is chemical warfare. But do you think that these inven- tions have made a war just effective between equal industrialized coun- tries? N o, because it has made it more likely for each country to lose, and usually there will be no important gain to each. I truly believe, personally, that that will be the outcome of the present war because I believe that each ally is about equal so far as the present showing indicates. I do not mean to say that one nation will not overcome the others, but I do mean that it will not be equal, because there will never be a true understanding of nations l after it is over. Have all nations al- ways agreed with each other? But there is a general decline in the length of wars. Haven't we read of the long drawn out wars, such as the Hundred Year War, the Thirty Year War, and the Seven Year War? Don't we seem to be turning from war years to peace years? It is true that Greece and Rome were at war a larger proportion of time than are the modern nations. But the wars today seem to be, and are, of greater importance because they do occupy more room. Yes, even the land doesn't seem to be large enough. We are now making most of the important events of war by the use of air power. Let's go back to the Hundred Year War for a moment. The most impor- tant events of that long war occurred only about every ten years. Maybe the number of war years to- day have declined, yet the increase of war per year has increased rapidly. Haven't we all noticed that there has been more war in the last century than before? Yes, the intensity of war has increased. More people are killed in battle to- day. The population engaged in armies is greater than before, the proportion of the population killed in war tends to increase. It is said sometimes that disarma- ment cannot abolish war, because if a man wants anything badly enough, he will use his fists as clubs, or any- l