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

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Your High School Diploma is Free ' You, boys and girls of high school age, will be leaders within a period of ten or fifteen years. Then your ability to solve the world-wide political, social, and economic problems will be tested. How can you do your part if you don't take advantage of every opportunity offered to you? The actual cash value of a high school education to each person who possesses one is twenty-four thousand dollars, provided that person works until he or she is about sixty years of age. This means that a high school education is worth 3600 a year for fifty years. Do you want to throw this away by quitting school? Besides this loss, hundreds of millions of man hours of learning are lost forever. Neither you nor your country can afford this loss. It is a serious threat to you, to your country, and to the world. .Thousands of young men died in this war to give you the right and opportunity to go'to school, to learn to get a good job, and to live a good life. Are you going to let them down? Q We can make the future a peaceful one, and wars will become first chapters in history books---but only education can do it. Now that the war is over, there will be fewer jobs and more people to fill them. Employers will be able to pick and choose, and 72Z of them won't choose you unless you have a high school diploma. The market for war jobs has gone, but the market for education is still open, and it pays big dividends in the end. You need to invest nothing except four years of time and a little effort. Is that too big a price to pay for a good life in the future? In a highly competitive country like ours, we need brains, not brawn. This country is going to be bigger and better Progressive, not backward countries lead, and it is the people who are responsible for their country's pos1tion--- people fed on knowledge. If you quit school, you miss more than just knowledge and learning---you miss the good times you might have had. With the bitter there is always the sweet. You miss that feeling of great pride and satisfaction which you get when you slip on your class ring for the first time, when you wear your school letter for the first timeg or when you get a prize for something well doneg and finally, when, in a misty white dress 4

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or a dark suit, you receive that final reward---your diploma. It won't matter then that you had to work so hard to get these things---they will be more dear because of it. So think twice before you quit school. Think twice be- fore you toss away what is rightfully yours. Ethelyn Sturgis '48 Our Dwindling National Resources America, like nearly every other nation, is faced by the threat of rapidly dwindling national resources. The only real hope we have lies in the field of synthetics or in or- ganized, widespread measures of conservation. Forests, the source of an increasingly great number of products, are being wasted by carelessness. Fires destroy millions of feet of lumber yearly, careless lumbering methods waste a great deal of valuable material. Only by carefulness and conservatory seeps, can we make up for this loss. Another problem, about which there is even less that we can do, is that of our national metal resources. Those metals of which there is a limited supply are of two kinds: C12 those used in industry, such as iron and copper, and C21 those of a more chemically important nature, such as mercury, lead, and their compounds. There are many of these metals that we already have to import, but even these are not available in as large amounts as necessary. Type l metals can be largely replaced by other metals, or by plastics and synthetics. Type 2 metals are, for the most part, irreplaceable. The only thing we can do to all- eviate the shortage is to use them carefully and try to develop some other material that can be used in place of them. Petroleum resources are dwindling, too. Although gas can be obtained from coal, our petroleum deposits mean much to us, and are one of our most valuable resources. Discoveries are being made every day which may help us to solve these problems, just as the rubber shortage during the war was solved, but meanwhile, it is up to us alone to save what we can of these scarce materials, and make every effort to make them last just a little longer. f Philip Martin F48