Scituate High School - Chimes Yearbook (Scituate, MA)

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THE FACULTY Frederick A. Calkin, B.S. Ed. M. Principal Michael B. Gillespie, B.S., M.A. Sub-master, Mathematics C. 0. Atkinson, B.S Economics, History, Mathematics Philip W. L. Cox, Jr., B. Mus Music Anne L. Cunneen, Hyannis Teachers College English Bessie M. Dudley, A.B English Eleanor Gile, A.B. English, History Elizabeth Giles, B.S. in Ed. Civics, History, Penmanship Esther M. Harrington, A.B., Ed. M. Latin, French Ruth E. Hawkes, B.S Commercial Subjects Mary S. Kingsbury, B.S Household Arts Dorothy L. Maxim, Keene Teachers College Geography, Hygiene Nels H. Sandberg Practical Arts Training School for Teachers in Practical Arts Edward L. Stewart, A.B Latin, Biology, Physical Training Clare Walker, B.S Mathematics, Science Doris D. Ward, Massachusetts School of Art Art Ruth A. Whidden, Posse School Physical Training Edward W. Whitmore, B.S. in Ed Science

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EDITORIAL STAFF From Row: Shirley Huntley. Evelyn Smith, Charles Manning, Arnold Fuller, Patrick Butler Middle Row: Charlotte Turner, Gladys Films, Fudora Bartlett, Paul Harrigan, Maurice Bartlett, Polly Soule, Madeline Duffey, irginia Chipman, Betty Franzen Rear Row: Betty White, Alberta Cerilli, Mary Hill. Angelo Foniri. Joseph Driscoll. David Murphy, Chester Gurney, Betty Kenney, Helen Poland, Nancy Wade, Jean Cole

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4 THE CHIMES PEACETIME ARMAMENT — SIGNIFICANT? Maurice Bartlett, ' 39 Let us go back just a few years in the world ' s history and see if we can determine to some extent whether or not there Hes in peacetime armament any real significance. By the end of the Franco-German war in 1871, the world could clearly see the marked advantage of Germany ' s short service army. Therefore the rest of the nations abandoned the old long-term armies in use up to that time; and then began a race — an awful race — by all the major pow- ers of Europe and Asia, to produce the largest and best equipped armed force ever to have existed. This race lasted for forty-three years — forty- three years of the hardest and bitterest military struggle ever engaged in — and for forty-three years Germany set the pace — a stiff pace which even the best were hard put to keep. And all this time the dove of peace smiled sweetly and serenely down! From 1890 on, this great struggle for peace-time war supremacy in- creased in earnestness and intensity. What had the world to fight about? Why all this preparation? So far, no reason or cause whatever. Then Power began to shine in his own light and nation feared nation. Alliances and entanglements were made and the fight went on. Everywhere the short service term of enlistment was in use, and the cream of the world ' s man power was trained for wholesale murder. So, by 1913 the greatest mass of potential force ever to exist was ready to annihilate itself. For what? The glory of war! And now as we look out upon the earth today to see nations once more engaged in a titanic peace-time struggle for military supremacy, what can we think? Has human nature so changed that this time the contest is merely one for show? No, we would hardly think so. Thus it would seem that this tremendous struggle is highly significant, and it shows us only too well how generations of learning by experience have left the world still ignorant and uneducated, still with the idea that only war can end war. Shall we never learn? That depends upon us — you and me; we are the world of today — and tomorrow. It is up to us to show forth in its own glory — the right — and might — of Peace.