Skowhegan High School - Lever Yearbook (Skowhegan, ME)

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lIlIlHHIHlS The Present Indicative RAY F1Ni.i4:v '46 oivtii 'rninos ARE everybody's business. and unfortunately they become ultimately no- body's business. Among these things are the proper equipment and necessities for the best conduction of our high school athletic activities. XV hy not a serviceable wire fence surround- ing our football field? The dilapidated snow- fence borrowed from the road department is neither ornamental nor useful. True, it is a most obliging fence. l'pon the slightest prov- ocation it does a Raleigh and any number of persons walk right in over it. No admission. no tax, S .42 x any number of people : a loss and bad business. liquipment costs money. The money saved by a new fence would, in time be enough to outfit the basketball team as almost all money goes into the athletic fund. There is also an urgent need for a new set of bleachers in the gymnasium and around the football field. The bleachers now being used are incapable of seating a sufficient number of people and in general they are on the rackety decrepit side. At a recent basketball game the bleacher seats were so scarce that part of the playing surface was crowded with spectators who had paid to be seated. The lack of these things is the fault of every voting citizen. Some people criticize us because we do not have these facilities, but when they had the opportunity to they kept themselves By this I mean. that the town warrant to raised for them but it action was taken. buy them for the school. conveniently out of it. there was an article in see if money could be was passed over and no The fence and bleachers would be something to be proud of. and they could be obtained if everybody would get out and help. Four Lever Editorial Dxvis SMILIQY '46 iNcic 'rniz i..xsT izorriox of the Lizvizu was published. the world has undergone a change unequaled in history. The very fate of the earth is at stake. for we now have discovered a system by which we may either have the highest form of life possible, or we may literally blow the earth into the substances from which it was formed. This system is the method of releasing the power stored in an atom. This has been done by the atom bomb in Arizona, Hiroshima. and Nagasaki. The atom bomb is like the hole in the dyke. If it is not checked, it can destroy the earth. It is the duty. therefore. of every person in the world to cease his comparatively minor squabbles and to turn toward a new way of living. Unless this is done. they or their de- scendents will blow themselves. scientifically but assuredly, into eternity. Organizations have been established, pretentious conferences have been convoked, and numberless volumes have been expertly written about bettering world government and attaining world peace. flow- ever, it is absolutely certain that until the people are willing to relinquish their sovereignty to a world government we shall slowly destroy our- selves by continuous wars. lt is in the students power and in his power only to inaugurate a way to inspire this new form of social life. lie must accept the facts of life, and set out to teach others how to over- come their fears and suspicious of their neigh- bors. Every student in high school should take this into consideration seriously. They must not be content to sit back and let things remain as they are. They must get up on their feet squarely and solidly and release that power that is within them. Many will shirk their duty, but they must be brought around by logical reason- ing to look at people of the world as fellow human beings.

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