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

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win fairlyh but, if you can't win, lose with a good spirit. Good sportsmanship is what really counts in a game, not victory alone. A good sport is one who can play a goods game, who can play fairly, and who is always p good loser. The team is always encouraged by a good representation ' of the student body. It also shows good school spirit. Therefore as pupils of this school, let us keep our gpgrtsman- ship standard hifh, even if our games are not always of the hi hest score. A good rule is to be courteous to our opponents There is a far greater victory to oe von than just a victory of the game,-Jthe victory of losing! .H p pf Louise Sanborn 'Bb ' End Ass't Editor-in-Chief A GOVERNMENTAL FAVORS One of the proudest boasts of our country is freedom from class distinctions resulting from birth. In.America there is more opportunity to rise in the financial, social, and educational scale than in any other country. But we are fast building up another kind of group civiliza tion, one even more destrustive to our nation than the caste systems or other fixed aristocracy of foreign countries. These classes are special favor groups: those who are always seeking to procure some aid, gift, or favor from the government. Opportunity has, in some cases, degener ted - into a race for government l help. A short time ago there was a group of people who thought the stock market owed them a living. They were looking for favors to which they were not entitled, and, for a time, they received all they asked for. This process was so artificial :nd vicious that it left behind it results from which we shall be a long time recovering. Disabled soldiers and the unemployed should, of course, be looked after by the government. But there is no reason why a special body of people should J entitl,d to extra patronage just because they belong to . p.rticular political party or live in a certain section of the country, Favors have the fatal weakness of opening the door to an endless series of other causes and groupings. A favor to one person will be used by others as a complete justifi- cation for their requests. Barbara Higgins '54 lst Ass't Editor-in-Chief

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Their minds must meet and solve the difficult and crucial problems that will be their inheritance. Let each community invest ih schools so that it may thereby invest in a trained manhood and womanhood that can play their part in the great period of rebuilding and reconstruction that lies beta s us. ,A -T ' - Our hope is not.in the welfare of a singlenprofe-ssion: we are not pleading for a special class, our plea ds for america, her larger, her brighter, her richer future and the fulfillment of her glorious promise. Our interest is inla widerfteaehing of the principles, the purposes, and the ideals of this nation, that all men shall know her meaning and shall have equal elites to her opportunities, THAT THE LIGHT OF AMERICAQIBM SHALL S0 QHINE THAT IT SHALL FLOON EVERY HOME AND EVERY HEART IN OUR GREAT LAND. Bertha Frost '54 Editor-in-Chief SPORTS AND SPORTSMANQLIP I believe that athletics are one of the fine things a school can teach. They must be taught because it doesn't come natural to anyone to know the rules of the games and the manner in which to play them. Imagine the results, if a coach should pick up a group of boys who had never heard of basketball and should send them up against a champion team! Une important thing which sports teach a boy is sportsmanship, which is required in any form of fame or work because if a man or a group of men are poor sports, they are greatly'dis1iked by all and can never be recommended by the people. Furthermore, to play on a school team, a player has to attain a certain rank in his studies. In this way a boy has to depend on himself to make the team, and not on others. This will be true in later life, for, when he is in search of a position the employer will choose a person on whom he can depend to do his own work and do it correctly. We have in our school a basketball team in the winter season and a baseball team in the spring season. Our school in the past has been ranked highly in sports and in sportsmanship. If our basketball and baseball teams tell us they they have been defeated in a game, we know they mean that they had the lowest score, not that they were defeated in spirit and endur- ance. When our teams know that the opposing teams are ahead, they do not falter or give up, they keep on playing with a good spirit until the last whistle is blown. Go in to win and to

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On May 4, in an Arbor Day assembly, mrs. Harold Hanold, as a representative of the Ladies' Social Alliance presented the girls of the High School a book, NCareers for Momen,W by Catherine Filene. The girls wish to thank the Alliance for the book. we appreciate the gift very much and we are sure it will prove a great help to the girls in choosing careers and future occupations. v UCareers for Women' is a book of new ideas, new methods new opportunities--to fit a new world. This completely rewritten edition of the standard vocations open to women is especially timely more women than ever before are seeking ways livelihood. It is a surprise to the average variety of careers from which she may choose new and guide to the today, when of earning a girl to see the , and it is an inspiration to her to hear from women lmany of them world famedl who have been successful in their chosen fields. Frankly and concisely this book tells the disadvantages as well as the advantages that go with such vocation, the salary that may be expected, the opportunities ior advancement, the qualifications which are essentisl, and the best preparation, giving all the information necessary for the wise choice of congenial work. The contrioutors include Francis Perkins, Secretary of Labor, Blair Niles, Margaret Fishback, Rachel Crothers, Mary Anderson, and 150 other women who have achieved success. Under the supervision of miss Coombs interesting assembly programs have been given during the year.