Scarborough High School - Four Corners Yearbook (Scarborough, ME)

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6 FOUR CORNERS put, as much hard work, hard study, on the subjects that are well taught as do the students of the larger schools? If you do, you can safely compete with them in the higher institutions of learning. I sincerely hope that each one of you is thinking and planning to go to the college, normal school or technical school that will train you in your best line of endeavor, because this country is now demand¬ ing leaders in war and will most certainly demand more leaders in peace after the world war is over. Scarboro has done well in all of the various war activities up to this time, and yet has one more task, —to furnish its quota of leaders in peace as well as in war. Whether she does or not, depends entirely on you, and on your capabilities and on your perseverance. To get that leadership you must have special training, of which your high school course is one step. Then comes the normal school or college. Money need not stand in your way. Every college has funds to help young men and women of limited means to obtain the college training they need to attack the tasks facing us in our own country. The students to whom the scholarships are given are chosen for character, mental ability, physical fitness, and promise of future usefulness. To those who choose a career for the possi¬ bilities of the Service it affords, the yearly allowances are given outright; for those who choose a business career or one that yields material returns, the allowances are lent, to be returned within a reasonable time. They are sufficient to relieve the scholars from the financial stress and worry that often lessen or divert a student’s energies. College trained men and university trained men are demanded as the leaders in our business, labor, industries, and national life. Are you going to be those leaders ? I am sure that you all will be successful in the lines of endeavor that you undertake, if you only put the best of yourself into your work. So I wish you success and happiness, and always remain, Your friend, Veo F. Small. PATRIOTISM. Today flags are flying all over the land as never before and in every

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FOUR CORNERS S school work, to earn money for a college or technical school educa¬ tion and to save that money. President Wilson says: “I would particularly urge upon the young people who are leaving our high schools that as many of them as can, do so avail themselves this year of the opportunities offered by the colleges and technical schools, to the end that the industries of the country may not lack an adequate supply of trained men and women.” What Dr. Claxton, United States Commissioner of Education, says to pupils in the High Schools of the United States, is: “I wish to urge all who graduate from high school this year and who possibly can do so, to enter some institution of higher learning. . . . I appeal to you as you love your country and mankind, that you make full use of every opportunity offered by our colleges and all other institutions to gain all possible preparation for the mighty tasks that lie before, possibly in war and certainly in peace.” President Wilson and Dr. Claxton are but two among the many clear-sighted men who are warning the pupils of our secondary schools against the temptation to forego a college education. We must let nothing short of absolute necessity deprive us of the educa¬ tion with which we can best serve the Republic. We all understand the need of camp trained Americans during the war. But there is grave danger that we may not fully realize the need of college trained Americans to undertake the tasks the country must face after the war. So let us of Scarboro High School do our part by looking ahead at our goal of serving our Republic as Leaders, and of preparing ourselves for that leadership by hard work on the farms this sum¬ mer and in the schools, normal schools and colleges next fall, and thus help Scarboro to be the leading town in the country. Portland, Maine, June 1, 1918. To My Friends in the Scarboro High School: Since I left you last February I have had a splendid opportunity to observe you and your work from a short distance and have been very pleased with the results you have attained. There is only one reason why you might not do as well as any student in a larger school. That reason is yourself. Are you willing to put, and do you

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FOUR CORNERS 7 city the unifonus of our country’s soldiers and sailors are seen in great numbers. America has experienced a rebirth of patriotism. Except in a few out-of-the-way places, intense patriotism is every¬ where in evidence, and nearly everyone is being stirred by the com¬ mon desire to serve his country—the country of freedom and democracy. True patriotism manifests itself in service, and an opportunity is offered to every person in the United States to exemplify his patriot¬ ism in some particular line of service. We are proud of the boys from Scarborough, who have gladly and unreservedly given them¬ selves to the service of the country, for thereby they are showing true patriotism in the extreme. But to all of us this privilege is not extended. Every patriotic American, if not privileged to shoulder the gun, should be asking himself, “What can I do? How can I help?” The answer is this. Show these boys, our representatives at the battle front, that we are with them heart and soul. Exercise a true patriotic spirit in giving to the many institutions which render service to them and to the Allies. This spirit has already shown itself in three great Liberty Loan subscriptions, aggregating several billions of dollars, in Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. subscriptions, in adherence to food and fuel regula¬ tions, and in many other ways. Scarborough has responded nobly in subscribing to the Liberty Bond issues. It has made a splendid showing in the Red Cross drive and greatly exceeded its quota. It has gone “over the top” on every call for the support of the war. The schools have been especially interested in the War Savings Stamp campaign and nearly every pupil in school has bought stamps. Several boys in Scarborough High School have already enlisted in the Junior Volunteers for work during the coming months. Last year several pupils made a substantial offering to the problem of food production through their home gardens and are planning to do more of this work this year. The only way to bring about an early and successful termination of the war is by doing such things as these, however small and trivial they may seem to be. As Americans, we all have a distinct duty to perform. Let us rejoice in this splendid opportunity for us to do our part. Any sacri¬ fice that we are called on to make, let us do it cheerfully for the sake of our country which we have learned to love as never before. Let us all be unanimous in our loyalty to our government, for in no other way can we make the world “safe for democracy.”