Orleans High School - Sword Yearbook (Orleans, VT)

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Dletstorships are not something new as some people might suppose. They have been going en ever since ahdidht fimiie Way back ln Eggpt they had a dictator but they called him a Pharao . He ruled the people with a rod or iron. He did not have to tight for his power. He was born a ruler. The people accepted him because they had to, whether they liked it or not. They didnit have much choice in the matter. It was the same in ancient Greece. The P00910 hid a democratic to m of government and ruled themselves but lt wasn't long before one man who was smarter and stronger than the rest took control or the government and ran things the way that he wanted them run. During the days when Rome was at its height the people ru ed for awhile but it wasn't long before their consuls were chosen not by the people but because a certain man happened to have more power than any of the rest of them. Yet Home flourished, for a while, even with a d1ctator.- But everything haante.e diaad so Rama was finally captured and ruined. Ancient China and Japan were ruled by 0mP0P0P8e Yet the emperors had the power of dictators and they acted like dictators. The people put up with it because they had to whether they wanted to or not. They thought that these men ruled by the udivine rightng that s, that those men were supposedly descendants from the Sods. Probably many times the people wished things were ifferent but there was nothing that they could do about it so they accepted it just as the people who had lived before and after them had to. Dlctators are not monsters. In fact they do good in many places. But they are very unscrupulous and they will do almost anything to get what they want. For most of them their days are numbered. They never know whether they are going to be shot through the heart or knited in the back. For this reason they are always heavily guarded wherever they go. Life on the whole must be quite unpleasant for them. But dictators come and dictators go and thus it will go on as long as the world lasts. The powerful will dominate the weaker and there ls nothing that any- one can do about it. Beverly Turnbull '40 u . ll , gli ' ,,,, ff- -'V,1,aun' , l 4-null' '. ', 104 ...sal Q' . , ,,,.. . 1 H l' fs .4 A' 5 .fa n'o T no ' . A nu - 1 o. I nv-- - 'l ,,..cn.u'u. ...anus ..- ..

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I found myself, after several minutes, bowing to a dozen such monsters which were moving in all directions. 'You enjoy am sement parks very m ch,W remarked T0mo WEspec1ally the roller eoasters,N pug in Ed. I re- arranged what parts of me I could find but my voice hadn' caught up with me so I waited about five minutes till it did and then I couldn't say anything. Now I always find out how and where I am going be- fore I get there. Do you blame me? Robert Bennett 140 DICTATORS Dictators just about predominate in Europe today. If that is true what is going to happen to the rest or the democracies that are in Europe? That is not a hard question to answer because most of the smaller countries have already been eaten up by the great dictators. How did these men such as Hit er and Mussolini manage to reach out and get control of these countries? And after they got control, how do they keep it? Most of these men get their power by so e crooked or under-handed method--either when a country was all torn to pieces or was about to be. It is said that many people gain many ends during the t.1ld1ng up or tearing down of a nation. Germany was no enception, She was torn by a war, which she herself had started, and her people were starving. The-people didu't have clothes enough to wear nor did they know where their next piece of money was coming from, What were they to do? They didnft have the slightest idea. The rest of the world was at peace again yet the German people were treated as if they were still at war. What could the people do? Naturally a drowning man will clutch an anything to save himself ana than is what the people of Germany did, When they saw a chance for betterment, they' went ahead and took its That chance was Hitler. It is true that he came into power by some very under-handed and corrupt methods. It is true that he grasped the reins of the government from the hands of the dying Von Hindenburg but when he got in the saddlq he made things start. Thus the people began to cling to him and as time went on they clung to him tighter than ever. The people think he is wonderful because ofsll the wonderful things he has done for Germany. Is it any wonder that he stays in power?

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, , ' l 'FH j , s-. ' . om Tr-1E,HAasT5 OF A ooo One morning when I arrived home after a two weeks' camping trip, I was introduced to Mickey. I had always wanted a pet and when I came face to face with him for the first time, his features and posture were a comedy. Evidently the family knew all his pranks and had grown accustomed to him.. His sharp, cocked ears, long, thin face and jovial eyes made me think of an old man, espe- cially hls chin whiskers. I reached out my hand to stroke him, and I was met more than half way. With a terrible growl and showing of tiny teeth, he grappled with my little finger and proceeded to savagely maul it. After this first establishment of prestige, I was let in on his charmed circle of friendship. Mick's coat is brown and white, with two patches over both his eyes. His stub of a tail is continually wagging and his long chin whiskers do not quite conceal the tip of a pink tongue. He is very fond of a good time and always ready for a fight. We were troubled with '.-' rats in our cellar and especially under the woodpile at 1t's farther end. I used to stick my finger between the blocks and call to Mick,, whereupon, hearing something move he would go frantic with anxiety and leap ezg Law away at the wood until I concluded it wise to wit,irsw my finger. One morning we went into t?c s hkar and there were two dead rats beside the wosdpile. 'ick was curled up in his box, the wounds of the ruth J-1 poisoned him. I have longed for but never had a Letter friend or com- panion. Ernest Mathews '40 .-g , A .,n.-,X xi. ' .':i lg' tt 2F,, :Miha A?M,'u M.. . fn jfs g ll