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

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Finally, we all retired for the night. The house, was very silent except for an occasional snore here and there. Crash! Ban 1 Such a noise and such yelling and screaming'you never heargf It sounded as though the roof had fallen in. - I was sleeping downstairs and as I passed through the upstairs hallway I saw some very peculiar sights. The women all looked as though they had just seen a ghost. Finally I reached the attic, and there I burst into peals of laughter. Mom and Dad were on the floor with the head and foot boards of the bed collapsed on top of them! Mom was laughing amid the uproar, but no such sounds emerged from Dad! He was thoroughly disgusted. NI knew that old bed was ready to collapse, we should have slept on the floor to begin with.N They crawled out from the wreck to'finish sleeping the night out. I went back downstairs and told the boarders not to worry that everything was all right and for them to go back to sleep. The rest of the night was uneventful. , Mom was instructed by Dad not to let any boarders have their bedroom again no matter how disappointed they looked. Ulf they can't find any place to-stay, tell them we would be delighted to set them up a bed in the atticln Norma Brown '55

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We Took Boarders At the time of this story we lived'in a small eastern town. so that we My mother wanted very much to build a stable might raise horses. Dad owned a general store in the town but the income was never large enough to lay away much money. By the time he had payed for food and clothes for a family of six plus frequently visiting in-laws the money was nearly gone. Mom with her love for horses decided to make some money by herself. We had a large old-fashioned house and now that we children were not babies she thought that taking boarders would be just the thing. So with the help of Ben, my brothen she made a large sign with the words nBoardersn printed in bold letters. It was in were coming to the town there night and this The first the our was was day early part of the summer and many tourists small town for rest and relaxation. In only one other place for people to stay over a disreputable looking hotel. we put up our sign in the middle of the afternoon, a loving young couple on their honeymoon inquired about a room. Mom was delighted and immediately gave them the best room we had. She told them what the cost would be and when supper was to be served. Most of the afternoon they sat in the love seat on the lawn, until my brother, Bill, caused them to have an argument. He hid behind the lilac bushes on the lawn, and with an old stick kept tickling the girl and ruffling up her hair. She turned into a little spitfire and blamed her loving husband for ruining her new hair-do. He tried to tell her that he wasn't doing it but she would not listen. nRudolph, don't perfect wreck.N And to the room they had let poor Rudolph in, you ever speak to me again., Now I'm a with that she went into the house and up been given. She locked the door and wouldn't where upon, he had to sleep in the car. afternoon we took in several other During the course of the boarders. In fact we had our rooms all filled by eight thirty. wasnft too pleased, for he didn't When Dad arrived home he like having strange people in we would be robbed and murdered during the night. the house. He was always afraid We were just preparing for bed at ten-thirty when there was a knock on the door. Mom went to the door while Dad waited up stairs with a gun, in case it was burglars. But there was no need of the gun for it was a very timid little man stand- ing in the doorway. He wanted a room for himself and his wife. Mom said she was very sorry but there were no vacancies. The little man looked so very disappointed that he softened mom's heart. In a few minutes the man was in the house with his robust wife beside him. They were having Mom and Dad's room over the night. Meanwhile Dad was in the attic setting up an extra bed for himself and Mom.

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Americanization Nwhat is Americanization?N To me it is the opportunities that America offers to her people. Hwhat are these opportun- ities?N Let us follow the life of an immigrant who has never had these opportunities and see what they are. This immigrant's name is Max Alban, he is just one of many persons who wishes to find oeace and freedom, and he has CODIS to America. I am proud that he has chosen America. He is on a boat coming to the harbor of New York. He is at the boats railing looking at the Statue of Liberty. He sees the tall lady which stands for freedom. He feels proud and he says to the person beside him, that stands for all I ever wanted, to be let alone and feel as though I wasn't being told what When he gets to New York, he finds the wav to Grand Station. It is here that he has his first real taste of freedom America offers. He goes uo to the ticket office asks for a ticket to a town where a friend lives. There to do. Central the and are no questions such as: Why are you going here? When are you going? How long are you going to be there? Then someone tell- ing him he can't go because they don't like his answers and don't believe he is telling the truth. When Max as to what to showed itself. This was the eager help which the people Alban arrived at his friends town he was lost do next, but one of the forms of Americanism of the town offered him. They gave him information and helped him out even though he was a stranger and a foreigner. This didn't make any difference to real Americans. Another thing which Max enjoyed was his choice of jobs, No one told him he had to do this and pay this and that. He got a job which he liked and enjoyed one of his first freedoms of free enterorise, the right to choose his own job. When he got this job he noticed another thing, that there was no discrimination. One of the great things about America is that it follows the rule, HAll Ten are Created Equa1.n Once Max got in an accident and it was then that he found another form of Americanism. This was the free courts and the right that a person is innocent until proven guilty. right is one of the true forms of Americanism. This Max Alban had been living in the United States the required amount of time and was learninj all the subjects required to become naturalized. Studying of the history of the United States he found out how hard it had been for the earlv Americans to establish freedom. He learned that Americans had wanted free- dom so bad that thev had united themselves together. They had beaten the strongest army of that great day and age in the