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

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'Fs.- COMMUNITY RECREATION This community has never had a special place for its young people to go, a chance for them to get together for recreation. Of course, there are always the few church socials and high school affairs such as dramas, dances, and ball games, but there is little that is regular and sure. The parents have their clubsl--Kiwanis, Mothers' Club, the Masons, the American Legion, for instance, but the young people have no clubs with the exception of the Pilgrim Fellowship, the purpose of which is not recreation and the Boy Scouts obviously for boys only. Why should not we young people have a chance to get together, too? ' Because of this lack of a regular source of recreation, young people have sought enjoyment elsewhere, mostly out of town, particularly the movies. Movies have their good points, to be sure, but young people should realize the fun there is in community gatherings. We young people have had little chance to experience the faction that comes from planning for constructive recreation that would be of inter- est to all within the community. It seems that the majority of young people from the seventh grade up to and including the high school level, regard the gatherings we have had as dull. Could it not be that this is so because of lack of planning for participation by all? I feel this feeling could be eliminated if we young people were taught. to organ- ize parties carefully. ' ' In a community such as this there are plenty of chances for recreation if we were only taught how to organize and plan. Why would not public tennis courts and badminton courts be a good idea? Or organized skiing parties? baseball games during the summer? Is not there any that might be I think above type is of recreation agree, why do Or hall suitable for bowling alleys? . the type such as movies. The thought is there. If all we not act? 1 that all would agree that recreation of much more beneficial than the sedentary Lora Moulton '46 f

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complished without cooperation. Cooperationf should, be the keynote of the peace. With tolerance, loyalty, sacrifice, and cooperation America will stand united, without these she will fall. , A- 44.1 V1 . - is - x- D Vaneta Furman '45 A--',.' The Magic Key A? M A North Platte, Nebraska, and a street called Locust, where stood a humble cottage sheltering a family of eleven. The father was earning the altogether inadequate sum of fifty-five dollars a month. This meant that if any one memberfof the family required more than five dollars per month for food and clothing, it would be at the sacrifice of another. Luxury was unknown to them. William was fourteen years old when he realized that more money had to be earned. One day he set out to do some- thing about it. He soon found himself in a foreman's office of the Union Pacific Railroad shops. .Tho foreman lookedfthe boy over,'and entrusted him with the job of sweeping floors. He was to begin work at seven in the evening and work until seven in the morning. His wages--fifteen dollars per month. Fifteen dollars 'his parents. was oceans to William, and he brought joy to 4 He found many things in the shops he wanted to do, and so he would spend his free hours in the shops helping other workers. The telegraph appealed to him greatly, and in re- turn for running errands, for which he refused pay, the agent taught him how to send messages. , 5. A X Two years passed, then came the day when a new clerk was' needed in the maintenance department--and William put his broom awa . The timekeeper in the shops had his difficulties Y and William did the timekeeper, f In his new to practice his called for, and part of his work. 'mme passed, and so did and young Jeffers became timekeeper. position, William had even more opportunity philosophy of doing more than the pay envelope he was moved up to train dispatcher. His salary rose to three admirable figures monthly. And one day the railroad company needed a trainmaster at Green River, Wyoming. They looked around for a responsible man. So Wlllf iam found himself at Green River, but it wasn't long Before they needed a man for a bigger job in Denver, and Green River lost the best trainmaster it ever had--he did many things not required of him William M. Jeffers became president of the famous Union Pacific. And the street in North Platte that used to be call- ed nLocust,nls now uJeffers Street.W

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POST WAR AVIATION The eyes ef future young people will be turned toward the skies. Their thoughts will be in the air, for undoubt- edly the airplane will pisy an impertant role in the postwar world. The plane, which can cause so much destruction during wartime, can provide new impetus to transportation and furnish jobs to thousands of returning servicemen. The large transpo that designers have promised us ticnizc foreign trade. quickly and easily fre Fruit, which is picked Maine on the follewing able goods to prices within there is, the reach ef t planes of ttday and the larger ones for the future will revolu- can be carried much more Freight . the Atlantic Coast tc the Pacific. Florida, can be marketed in today in day. Not only will this allow perish- be mere widely distributed, but it will lower all, for the mtre demand and production lower the prices will be. ' Commerce between nations will be greatly accelerated. Freight that has had to travel by way of sea can be flown in a fraction of the time to its destinatien. When people can get access tc products, they arp tempted tv buy. This will be especially true in the years after the war'when the demand for goods fran War-torn countries will be great. t Changes in iviction are going to be ctnfined to large corporations or usiness enterprises. Many civilians are already planning ftr their own private planes. These may be modeled after the type We see ttday, but more prtbably the majority will be helietpters because if their many advantages. The time required tu learn tv pilot one is small--three hours at the most. A helicrpter does nrt need a large field in which tc take eff or land. It can gc straight up er dawn, or ntver in the air. Its possibilities fir ftrest rangers or fire fiehters are limitless. To so tv New Ytrk fer dinner cr Q Q to Flurida ftr a week-end ls almost unbelievable, but not improbable. ' The success of pest-war aviatien is guing tc depend nn the use be which planes are put. .If their users can see in them a means tt further transptrtatien, to increase exports and inptrts, te increase our economic security by providing constructive jobs fir thuusands ef men, to bring pleasure,' then, indeed, will the airplane Lf the future lie a blessing to mankind. If, un the Lther hand, the citizens ef ttmerrow are no more successful in cantr-lling their use than they have been--if speedier, more pfwerful airplanes are develfpcd to be used tu blast cities intv piles cf rubble, tc heap death and destruction fn millions cf innrcent victims then the airplane will becnme a curse tw its very inventrrs. Let us htpc we will be a little wiser than our ancestors. - X David Plympton '46