Rangeley High School - Tattler Yearbook (Rangeley, ME)

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fs! WAI wixxixlka. Wx EDITORIALS A PATTERN FOR PEACE WGood evening, ladies and gen- tlemen. This is the American Rpstrum of the Air. We areehappy to present as our gpest speaker tonight a man whose name is known and loved wherever the doctrine-of democracy is preached. For many years this man has been an honored resident of a distant country, but he has returned tonight to speak a IEW words to his beloved nation. I present to you Mr. Abraham Lincoln.N WFe1low Americans, it is witho mingled pride and sorrow that I speak to you tonight--pride because of the greatness to which this nation has risen, and sorrow because of many faults to be found in it. WToday our country is engaged in the most titanic struggle in history. Although the end is not yet in sight, policies and ideas are being outlined. Some are practicalg some, idiotic. However, before we are ready to 'Pluck the mote from our brother's eye, we must remove the beam from our own.' Ulm our beloved land we have had tremendous race riots, indica- tive of our lack of love for even our fellow countrymen. we must learn to look with greater tolerance on those whose color, ideas, and speech are different from ours. We must learn to put the good of the country as a whole above our own desires and needs. After we have done this, we can approach the peace table with a hope of making a better world. WLet us not deal too harshly with those who are our enemies. It is true that the leaders and those who have brought the nation to this terrible conflict must be punished, but let us remember that there are many who may not be responsible for the things they have been forced to do. NWith malice toward none, with charity for allg with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are ing to bind up the nations' wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan--to do all which

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THE TfX'fT LEIQ Published by the Students of Rangeley High School - f n- 1 -f 1: num pp: '1-at 1 nl T 1 Vol. XXVIII The Commencement Number No. 1 ' lla .llr' -'L -V EDUOK Editor-in-chit! Robert Frederich 'Ah Assistant Editor Norma Smith 'AS Business Manager James Irish 'bb Assistant Manager John St8lHPt'L5 Athletic Editor Patricia Reckards'L5 Athletic Editor 1hule1l'lJ+ BOARD Alu ni Editor Exchange Editor Cartoonist Joke Editor Typists Athalene Nile Patricia Bradbury Margaret Irish Everett Pillsbury Joyce Ferguson Mary Ferguson

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may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.' R. Frederich THEY STOOD ALONE Nearly every night now, Allied planes are blasting Germany. Night after night we are paying them back for the destruction they rained on England in the fall and winter of B940 and the spring of 1941. England stood alone then, a gallant nation that defied Hitler's might. Britain won by an alarmingly small margin. Friendly nations held their breaths and prayed for this h ave island that wouldn't say die. The agony that England endured is beyond our comprehension. The first blow came on September 7, 1940. Thousands of fires were started, and thousands of people were made home- less. But this was only the very be- ginning ef the horror which we call 'The Battle of Britain.' A few thousand fires a night were nothing strange. Some of these blazes con- sisted entirely of sugar, tea, rum, and other commodities. The gray dawn showed London's streets to be a mass of ashes and littered wreckage. Uh- accountable numbers were made home- less, but the kind English country people opened their hearts to them. Invasion was expected at any minute, and the Home Guard was on call day and night. They prepared to defend room by room Buckingham Palace, which was heavily mined and could be destroyed at a moment's notice. Yes, after the fall of France, the English stood alone, but only in a military sense. In our hearts, we prayed for them and our prayers were not in vain. Today, England is more than Germany's equal. She is Germany's superior, capable of 'returning with interest all that she took.' Norma Smith '45 THE AGE OF OPPORTUNITY We are approaching an age of the greatest opportunity for youth. To us and to the youth of the world will fall the task of erecting a new and better world from the rubble of this war's devastation--not only building a new material world but also creat- ing a new feeling of brotherhood among the people of the world. The new develo ments in science and industry which are certain to follow the great discoveries coming out of the war and the change-over from war production to peace time production will open tremendous pos- sibilities to youth. We are told that after the war there will be thousands of new homes and buildings to be constructed since it is impos- sible to build them now due to war restrictions. ' On the continents of Europe and Asia there will be tremendous opera- tions requirodstn the building of new roads, homes, dams, bridges, rail roads, and public utilities. We will have the responsibilities for building up the health of entire populations who have been living on starvation diets for years. This task alone will require the atten- tion of thousands of trained nurses, doctors, and public health workers, It is our duty that we prepare to take advantage of all these op- portunities. we have a responsi- bility to mankind to fulfill. Let those who now can attend school do so. We must try not to look upon school life as drudgery, but as the highway by which we may reach new heights of opportunity and attain- ment. Lst us stop wasting time and settle down to do all we can to end this war and then to be prepared to take our place in the post-war world. R. Frederich