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

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' MUSIC AID WAR Music is an art that everybody likes. It is said to rest people, to stimulate them, to encourage and comfort them, to teach them-efor music has much to teach. The classicals are stories in themselves. A lover of music learns much of the countries, thelr peoples, their custons, their manners, their attitudes, their teuperaments. The folk song? of the Barth are good examples of this, for they tell the stories of the darkies ln slavery as well as the life on the plantatqons. Stephen Foster, one of our foremost composers, has left Amor- ica such old favorites as thy Old Kentuckj Kegel, and N ixien. The music of the West is interesting, for it depicts the romantic and exclting life of oowbors on the range. nlfm Heading For The Last Boundupu, 'Boots And Seillesu, VBury me Hot Cn The Lone Frairieh are just a few well-known Eastern sorgs. Also from the West haae cone songs which immortellze historical characters, for instance, NThe Life Of Jessxe Jonesn has kept this famous chalacter allve 1D Ameuloan his tory. Hhome On The 2an3e','NSanta Fe Trall', ani HTho Oregon TrailJ bring the romance of the old West down to the present may. All wars have their songs. Some are sed, some sentimen- tal, some humorous, some martial and warline- HTentiug On The Old Camp Gmothif, Wderching Through He3ryia', ani uRattle Hymn Of The ?6?1olic' came out of the Civil Vain HOVQP Theren uThero's A-Long, long Trailn, nioep The Home Fleer Bunnlngtare our legacieonjrom Uorld Ear 1. World War TI has produced its share of swnqsu and hrought to our attention others heretofore little notifod. The strong, werliro rhythm of the Umafinc Hymni, Hlhn Ceisson bongn, 'Anchors Aweight, and 'The Army Air Corpsn is in shore contrast to the scntintntal Strains of nwhon The Llghts Home Or Again', nl'll De Home For Christmasn, nihite Cliff. of Dovofn, 4Johnny Doughbcyn or tho more humor- ous nThis fs 1-e Army, Yr, Joncsu, nDtn't Sit Under The Apple Troon, 01 'Der Feuhron's Facou. Much can be road from those songs. America can stir its people to a fightlrg moody lt can tug at their heart strings through its homes and its own peculiar chara always find humor in the most tragic of situ Mad ctoristicsg it can ations. , oline Wescott '45

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. ' movies .iss isis WAR V nbesert Victoryn, USO Proudly We Hailn, nWake Islandu, nnataann, nhrs. Minivcrv---yes, these and many more Pass through our minds when we r-View the contributions to the war effort of one of Mnerica's greatest igdustriesm-motion picture production- I haver't even touched some of the greatest war stories, but all these movies are highly val- uable in trlrging before thc public the realization of the hardships, the discourvgements, the cruelties, the horrors, the psychology :I mass warfare. sible is reached The highest percentage of people pos through the movies, From the villages coast of California morr people atten newspapers. Therefore, movies are one cf cational forces, if rightly directed. of Maine to the d movies than rfad our greatest edu- Movies are an cfcellent, yet subtle, way for spreading proeoganda. They are written and produced to form in our minds, either consciously or subconsciously, mixed emo- tions. They can make us feel hatred and a yearning for revenge against our enemiesg they have the power to raise the our driv feeling own co e us fo -'1 'VD of pride in our own people, our own soldiers, ntry to such a high extent that it tends 'to ward in an attempt to do our utmost for that T boy nout ther-.H hHltler's Lhildrcnn, udehind The Rising Sunn, and ndostagosn Aero good examples of the first use, nSalute lo The Marincsn, Hair Forccn, and fdorvotte K 225, of the last. l Movie producers are responsible for the typo of movies the public secs. lhcir task is an important one for they are educating the public. Today their task is to educate for wart Adbonoariicrn discusses the techinque of hign pro- cision bombing. tVictory Through Air Powcrn .demonstrates the necessity of crncentreted air attazk on spetific ulaoes rather than diffused bombing. Jdalute To Vue Marinesn sms phasizos .tr. importance of each individual, private or oolonslg HCorvcttc K 225H, the necessity of teamwork. The public sees theses hifcle do we know of tho actual var pictures that are limitec to our armed forces. No one would underestimate the value of movies as an educational mtdium. Thoughtful citizens wonder why, if a war can produce such'valuablo, films, cannot peace do the same? Is it not as necessary to be educated for peace as for war? Vanota Furman '45

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,-o LITERATURE IF THE NAR Down through all ages some of the greatest and'most last- ing stories have come from observers of or participants in wars. Recording the adventures of Ulysses in the Trojan Wars, Homer, the great Greek poet, wrote his two greatest works. Perhaps the most familiar work of the Rmmans is Caesar's ac- count of his many battles on the continent of Europe. Many a chapter in the Bible is the story of warfare between two tribes. There is not eneurh space to list the names of au- thors and poets of every language who have used incidents or whole battles as material for their fiction. ' From this present war have cone already many books--among them: HBerl1n Diaryu by a war correspondent, William Shirerg HParis Undorgroundn by Ltta Shiber, a woman caught in Paris when the Germans cameg Hlhirty Seconds Over Tokyon writtenky a.noted flier, Ted Lawson, HThese Hen Shall Never Dieu by Lowell Thomas, a well-known comuentatorg Hiar Tiden by a young Chinese girl, Lin Taijig dRoad To Tunisu by a splendid Amer- ican author, David Rameg Nhy Native Banda a report on the Par- tisan-Chctnik conflict in yuyoslavia by Louis Adamif and countless others. It is too soon as yet to determine whether anyone of these will halo a place for itself as permanent lit- erature. But there is no doubt of their future value as first hand accounts and, therefore, they will be referred to con- stantly, as time goes on, as sources of local color and cor- rect details. Jhatever their future may bc, now almost all of these are the utmost ingortance to us as individuals ,and as a nation. Diese books, accounts by corresgcndents on the battle fronts, narratives of the war's victims, and personal accounts of sol- diers, give us a better conception of thc causes and possible results of this gigantic battle. In the book Nlhe Serbs Choos, Warn by Ruth litchell, the author tells us of the struggle within Yugoslavia itself and of the horrors being suffered there by her oeoplc. Above and beyond this sho tries to make us realize what nay be oxgected from these discouraged homeless warsick people. Hiis story is only one of the many fine books of this type. me of America who have no idea of Wh3tffiS really like cannot hope to understand our allies' attitude without clearer understanding, and we can hope to attain that clearer under- standing only by clearer thinking which is to be obtained only through extensive and thcuyhtful readiny. Shirley Whalen '45