Sabattus High School - Yearbook (Sabattus, ME)

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This is supposed to be a free country where all have equal rights but negroes are not always considered to be our equal, I thlnk we should all conslder the negro situation a llttle more thoughtfully and thoroughly I Johnny's Reactlon Toward Clvlllan Llfe It was on a dr ary, ralny mornlnb four years aoo wh 1 Johnny left hls home, famlly and pPl6HdS at a very low ebb to enter the service of hls country The four years hav pa ed by swiftly and Johnny, aft r many adventures, comes marchlng hom His famlly expected Johnny to have the same bollsh expres lons and attltudes he had four years ago and when thev flnd he has lost them and ha become a man wlth man' ldeas ald xperiences they are very much astonlshed John who has alway been full of llfe and has alway carried a shlle upon hls fac , now as become high strung and snappish He has be 1 home almost two m nths and tas never once thought about gettlng a Job If anyone has occasion to mentlon it to hlm he becomes angry and avs he doesn't need a job, he has hls muste in5 out pav, n p ts one hundred dollars a month for three months then lf le is stlll uzemploy d he pets unem ploym nt compensatlon whl h Dive hlm twenty dollars a week for flfty two we ks when he left he as enwa ed to a glrl ln hls hom town and after he had been bon for over a year sh found someone else and got mar i d That chan? d Tohnny consld rably he doesn care about datlng other E1 l wh r he nas classlfl d as belng all allke H used to a t nd church regularly blt nov he G3 sn't even go once a we V H Just stays around the house, Wl h a wlld frlghtenlng loo? on his face, S1ePDlUg, r ddlng a e ating He eldom p d s, specldlly about hls Army ex p Pl nces f anyore asks hlm about the war he becom s em The unpleasant plctu e of Johnny could b the plcture of your Johnny or m ne And vnat ar we gOlDg to do about it? I bel eve ohnny should t a Job, becau e he n ds someth ng to k p hln from tYlHklH about those dreadful thlnss that hdpo n d ovcr ther H shouldd't l t the fact that h 1S gettlnb twenty dollars a weck make hlm los h1s ambltlon to eo to work and support him elf Unfortunately, many tur ing veterans con ld r th m elves heroes because hey have b r fi5ht1ng for thelr country and that ClVlll3HS owe tn n a 1lVlHg for tF1S s rvlce Whlle they deserv our s dc rest pralse, they must not fore t that there wer a gr at many 4 P's who want d to go and couldn' and a gr at many drafted m n who could go and d1dr't Nant to Thos who remaln d at rom also s rved Kwlthout the gloryl in war plants and on the farms I believ that w sdould treat our r tUPHlH5 V terans the same way we did befor the went away We SHOQIQ w lcom them home to th sam llf , lov and pursuit of happ n ss ln our land of th fr and our hom of the brave hould try to g t them adyu ted to thlngs that would b of lnterest to them but do lt 1U such a way that they won't CODSldbF them solxes a DUPQcH to soclety, and stop asklng th m about what they saw and w nt through ovcrs Your Johnny, our Johnny or anyone's Johnny isn't the Johnny who left us to serve his country , 6 . . . L 'V . ' 9 M. G. 46 . . . . . S 9 2 ' L 'T 'A Q' GV' 5 . ., . L . A . , ' g 9 f S3 ', l O Y. . -J . . Q ' 'x 1 ' A Ml. . J D . . 'S ,L 3 . l e H . . ' .5 - S 3 1 S . L 1 9 . .T wr . fi . F' o .5 . . 1 - .. 9 - ' H . - 3 G. A L. V' Cl l 1 3 f ! . I - . . g J. L . . 1 .- e, l 5 - . S ,V 3' . 1 , , P . ' V ' :I -'QC 4. . . N' 1 . 'Y 2 1 I A 3 4. 1 ' 4 V D ' 1 e ' L 'c U s ' ' df . 1 Q 7 V e '7 up - farm ' ' ' Q ef vs ,. U 5-J . . ef A ' S .1 ' G A 1 n. r e . -f De e - .f e ' 'g 't . x ,Q . nn F . . . 3 . J . rd L Q O u 9 ' Q 'P ,L 1 1 'X I Nl Ll sl ' ' I 1 . ' S ' 23 .0 9 I . 4. . . 4 , . . Lf 2 .1 . . 3 JA . 53: . ,Q . X . X n' e . . e s s e.k e K . - . 7 Q . Q S3 Z 1 4. L 1 Ei ' 1 L ,, barrassed and answers them shortly. . - 4 . '11 - S 'X 1 . , . ' Y 1 . I E S , . 7 , T w ' rv-2. ' P Q we 'F .L u bb e .e . we - V . . . - . '33 Y J. f . 1 Q.. ,- . . ' L Sl G A G. 6 l l G ' 53 'x 'V' 'J 3 3 ' Q ' c ' 9 - .L ' ' Lv 1 ' -.J L . 'T S 3 5 . v I, 5 L Pi? 'fl -, 5 - S :J 9 HS 4- V I . . J 5 u X 3 GO L A' .. . . . G , G A . . . fi . ,, . V4.1 a l G 0 ' ' : '3 'X . 3 ' 6 L. we . qu L t. 1 , J E3 9 14 ' ci - - t - A . S ' A U , - ' Q . . 9 ' S l 3 S 5 3 - , A L ' ., 1 1 , G . S l S 'T 'S' ' l 1 A 1 1 13 J' 3 ' ., 6 9 G fm ' fn fx ' 1 ' Q., 19 e o J l :, xv 1. 6 '39 G 1 ' . 418 Sl . ,. . ' ' G J S 3 . - ' 3 .1 , . . . . I , - rs ' 'fm - ' 4 - . ' --, A . - L, ' G 7: r ' GHS, 'r X x , J. ' o A. C. 47 ... .-

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United States Army The nation's armed forces, th natlons borderlng the seal, and of the nation in tlmes of peace time their purpose lS to become traln others so that ln tlme of army on land, the navy Cfor the alr force are the defenses as well as 1U war In peace tralned amd, if nece sary, to natlonal danger, tb y, too, will be prepared to take ap arms and reslst lnvaslon ln war tlme, the armed forces fight the aggressor to crush him or, that is lmpOSSlbl6, to hold him at bay untll more powerful forces can be ral ed wlthln the nation to protect t The trainlng of the army conslsts not only in handllng wea pons but in careful tearwork and close co OPd1H3tlOU amoung all unlts The prof ssional troops of the United States Army serve in peacetime and in war Thls army dates officlally from tlme of ratlflcatlon of the Cons ltutlon in 1789 lt had both the 1ts b ginnings in the Continental Armr of Revolutionary days, though there was a milltary ystem 10 thls country long before then American troops fought on th1S hemlspher as part of the Britlsh Army durlng the colonial period A very famous Brltlsn regiment of today, Tho K ng's Royal Hlfle Corps, was organlzed in Amer ca ln 1775 as th 62nd, and later as the 60th, Royal Amer can Reglment of Foot Only one unit of the regular army of today has exlsted slnce Contlnental tlmes Thls is Battery D, 5th Fleld Artlllery, whlch came lnto belng as Captaln Alexander Ham 1ton's Company of Artlllery During the American R volutlon the troops fightlng to free tae colonles from hngland fell lnto two groups, the Continen tals, who werc organlzed as a rational Iorc dlr ctly under the Contlnental Congres , and the mllitla, ralsed by the vari ous colonies Continental rcglments were OPflC8 d by men CONmlSSlOD6d by the Congress, the mllitia un ts by offlcers chosen by the colonv in which such units wer ral ed, frequent ly elected by the soldlers themsclve , and without regard for their knowledge of war Thls was a very unsatlsfactory syst but ln gereral lt continued until the World War of 1914 1918 There are two classes of olflcers who command the nllsted men ln the army lhere a e noncommissioned offlcers whlch are corporals, and sergeants appolnted from the ranks Warrant offlcers rank above the hlgH6St DOHCOmmlSSlOHLd officers There are two grades chlef warrant officers and warrant off1 c r, juUlOP grade Above th are th offlc rs ffrom second Lt to the General of the Armiesl who arc COmKlSS1OHGd by the PPcS1dGHt with the advnco and cons nt of th Senate, and whose terure of OfflCu 13 permanent until r tirement for age or for thlrty or more years of servlce The Presldent oi th Unlted State 1 the Command r 1U Chief of the Army Under him, the S crctary of Nar heads the War Department, whi h ras direct charge of the Army The hlghest ranklng offlcer of the army lS the Crl f of Staff, who advlses the Secretary of War on mllltary affairs The Combat Arms Cfighting troops? are thc lnfantry, cavalry, flcld artillery, coast artlllery corps, air forces, armored force, cnglncer corps, amd signal corps Support ng these are the S TVlCuS vhich keep thc wha ls of army buslncss turnlng The offlc rs and men of the regular army adopt m111tary lip as a career, Just as men adopt oth r occupatlons This is true also ln the armies of othcr countries, wh re the majority 7 . Q . Q Q O - . . 1 S . . Q Q D Lk! 1 . . . ' - . - f - . , . 1 Q Q . Q Y C1 I O I A Q 1 Q . . K Q - A! - ' A L Q o S I 4 f 1 - . . 1 ., -Q 1 ' 1 Q . - Q 4-, L . - V O e 1 1 al- .. . Q . 1 cv ' Q A . J . . - 4 . ' . 9 . Q Q . V 1 g ' ' 1 , - ' 4 1 ' A 4. ' . . . D 1 - .L V 3 , . . 4. 0 . Q Q Q ' s . . . Q . Q . ., . 4 Q 5 J. l Q ,y . 0 u. l 9 T . Q -1 . . L - X v -Q Q A ' L .. e v Lf Q Q . Q ' S .L v ' Q . Q 3 . 4. PS A . . . Q . . 1 .. 1 v 1 13 S ' 'A 1 , 2. T5 o , 1-J .1 Q Q A . J A' g em Q . ,- D L3 ' ' -. . Q . 4. 1 ,k Sl Q ,--1 - . q I I' . . ' U n . Q . Q 3 l . Q ' . . I . Q ' Y V Q , - I '3 q USS I S3 K3 L . 0 5 l ' L L g . . M 1 A A , v Q +3 . Q .1.1. 9 G A' P 1 I 2 I 2 . o , Q -. Q A . ., . 4. 8 U J 'S S A 9 'x ' . 1 Y a 3 . Q J f 4 .1 . C L Q ' Q . , Q p Q N Q 1. .. R J. U 1 Q Q , , . 1 g 1 LX ' ' 1 ' r 1 n A ' 1 v fu- . 4 rw' '1 Q ' Q A Q 4. N v Q - '4 - .1 3 .1 QQ V ' 3 0 . . . S .L 3 . 1 ,- Lf o 0 F A Q u V - - J