Standish High School - Crimson Rambler Yearbook (Standish, ME)

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In order to insure the stability of a reconstructed economic and social balance, let us recognize and assume our duty to these students in life. Let us teach them practical citiienship and fellowship by our own example. Let us strive to give the next generation a better world ani life than has been our lot. As a means to this end, let ue be a bit more faithful to our private and public obligations, more alert in our attention to public trends and policies. Lct us teach that the possessor of riches is not inevitably happier than thc possessor of kindness, optimism, a humble home and the knowledge that he is of true service to his country men. I Minot Pitts '55 Frogs' Winter Quarters Frogs are just as industrious frost dodgers as are birds, but while the birds travel thouands of miles to winter quarters, the frog migrates but a feet, and that straight down. The frog is a cold-blooded animal, Clike some of our big magnatesl and has no power to rise his body temperature above that of surrounding water or air. He can stand quite a bit of chilly weather, and can even survive after being partially frozen for a short time, but the smart frog avoids the frost, At the first sign of ice forming on his favrite pond, the frog empties all the air from his lungs and dives ' into the water, burying himself in the soft mud at the bottom. The ice may freeze solidly over the surface of the pond or lake, but the frog selects a place deep cn- ough so that there will always be some unfrozen water above his mud bed. He thus gets enough oxygen through his skin to keep him alive, although he seems to be dead. With the ice gone in spring, a couple of warm days are usually enough to wake him up.

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SEVENTEIN This age so well portrayed by Booth Tarhington comes in everywhere for a laugh, but let us consider the victim himselfg here is no laughing matter. It is a period of adjustment when the guiding ties of parents are cast off, and the youngster sets out on his course through life with buffeting disillusions and dragging temptations to ttrow his career on the rocks. In many cases substitutions are made in hitherto accepted standards of right and wrong to permit more speed by cutting corners about dangerous practices. All goes well if the youth has sufficiently absorbed the fundamental principles of navigating in troubled waters, if he has a strong and properly trained conscience and an ability to detect false argument, if he has a proper conception of the rel, ative values of his honor, his hapfiness and his accumulation of the world's goods. The average high school student does not probe thus deeply into dry details. He follows the line of least resistance. He imitates his elders. To him honesty is the b1st policy, only if he finds the majority about him practicing strict strairbt forwardness. Thus we have ourselves to thank if a youth pat- terns his like after some grown-up who has made good by self- ishness and deceit. As hard lines pour upon us like a testing acid, we find how many are really a benefit to the community. How many are willing, when the past has been kind enough to grant then the ownership of a business or an influential political standing, to share their profits with their help, as well as to under- take contracts with slight personal gain for the sake of help- ing those neighbors who are dependent upon the work thus supp- lied? Among the causes of the present business collapse may be cited the fact that certain of our leaders were not sufficiently trained in their seventeens to withstand the pinch, rather than to pass the buck to their less fortunate fellowmen. Many of those who are thoroughly unselfish are igno ant in these tin , of where and how to cut expenses. Such men as believe they are being truly generous when as presidents of a cone-rn they out salaries the same percent they cut their help, forgetful of the fact that the help are already out to a scanty living wage, while the president and his staff of salaries depart- mental heads could live on a much greater percent reduction than the wage earner. Men do not yet know the true value of a dollar through having to support a family of five in a rent on a dollar and a half a day part time. It is at this plastic age of Seventeen, that our lead- ers have chosen such ethics as have lei them to save them- selves and let the Devil take the hindmost or to help his neighbors with some thing more substantial than smiles, prom- ises and assurances.

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UHIROEQ SF THB SOUTF' HRestus, is vo'-all afraid ob ghosts?U WVose, mv bov, why for you as me them no-'count questi NDon't vo-all know how brave en' menful ah is?W WTuh?' - WBoy, do mah ears deodive me, or did yo-all seid vo' ain't scared of nothin'?H UYossir, yo' s ore heard rightlV.W . 'Vo:tus, wo' n' me is goin? on e trip.' WTO' is a man after oak own Feart.W 'Vait e minitg who told Vo'a1l ah was foin'.soremkeresTH NYO' ein't afreif of 1otLin'g you en' me is ooiwr ova! Hy Y the nraveyard fo' a lit le stroll.f WYeah, Vo' en' me vithout me.n WBOV, remember.yo' is en ell-fired brave guy.U WSLure, dat's me allrishtg when do we ste?t?H WVister, vo' is iert as good na tkere right now.H WThen we kin stay ri kt Tere just as fell.' HNow5 Vo'-all f.SJfO2? en' got scared agin', dnt's what's the matter wiv yo'.W WDid somebody tell yo' that or did vo' ruess it?' WAwright, I'l1 go.' nCome On.W qwait e minit now, Rastus, COWQ to ifink, I don't know i- rt absotively neoesgary for us to go ovak by that fravevard, he cou1dn't see anyt ins in the dark anvhow.W NMose, yo' nightmare, Vo' all express mah opinion to rer- fection.H Richard Hiwgins '34 In the new British Museum Repository at Hendon, England, are 275,000 bound volumes of newspapers. The bongo is one of the rarest of enteloges.