Sumner High School - Spindrift Yearbook (East Sullivan, ME)

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THE HARBOR BEACON less notable were gn en to the lrons of the Co lrseum As howey er the Chrrstarn rellgron made ltS lnfluence felt ln the Roman Emplre the atrocrtres of the gladrtorral arena ceased to be The rlse of Chrlstlanlty and the yarrous rn terpretatrons of rts code book the Brble haxe caused many cruel wars and some horrrble massacres Yet on the whole Chrrstranrtv has done more for crvrlrzatlon than has any other rnfluence and even the ner er to be forgotten Crusades drd much good as some of the worst characters of Chrrst ndom met therr deaths durlng these wars From about the tlme of the Crusades to late rn the srxteenth century the barons and petty lords of the drfferent European countries lry ed hke great bloated sprders secure rn therr evrres on the rocky herghts and gorvrng themsely es to satlety on the rude magnrflcence of therr stolen rrches When therr money coffers ran low they came pectrng and peaceful wayfarers or to fight some other baron of precrsely the same drsposrtron and on the scene for the same purpose Therr prrsoners were cruelly tortured for therr possess Ions and such rngenrous rnstruments of torture as the rack thumbscrew boot etc whrch are sometlmes found ey en now rn the horrrble vault lrke dungeons of medraeval rums testrfy as to the lncreasrng rngenurtv of man rn the makrng of machrnery Let us pass on to the comparatrvely recent trmes and mark the humanrty shown by captors to prrsoners The Amerrcan prrsoners of Great Brrtarn rn the VN ar of the Amerrcan Revolutron were trust into rat rnfested prrson shrps bereft of the lrght of day mocked by the brutal foreign hrrelrngs of England and fed on the filthv refuse of the Brrtrsh camps Note the humane and sanrtary methods used bv a natron who proudly vaunts her world s pr emacy the power of parhament and the rrghts of the people Yet she used Hessran hrrelrngs to execute the wrll of a tyrant krng drunk wrth despotrc power The French Rex olutron has shown Us to what lengths the lowest passron of man can go The beautrful Queen Marre Antornette of whom John Paul Jones sard she was a good grrl and deserved to be happy was rudely torn from her chlldren and rn a common tumbrll carrled to the gurllotrne The few nobles who sury ry ed the frrghtful massacres fled to other countrres later to rally around another Bourbon prrnce The other European countrres promptly com blned when suddenly a new rdol arose ka poleon who Whlle an artrllery oflicer had cap tured Toulon from the Brrtrsh Thrs new rdol rose raprdly rn rank became general of the army of Italy and finally Frrst Consul After a new campargn he was made Emperor of the French Emprre Then trouble began hrs IDX asron of Russra ended drsastrouslx most of the path of retreat to France berng marked out by corpses But at the battle of Austerlrtz he strewed the battlefield wrth dead Yet wrth all hrs splendld remaln Qey eral trmes after battles because of scarcrty of prow rsrons he caused hrs prrsoners to be marched out rn squads and shot The Amerlcan Curl ll ar showed a marked tendency towards humanrty to prrsoners a fact whrch rs expressly true of the North On the other hand rn the South such places as Andersonyrlle and Lrbby prrsons show to what excesses the keepers of these prrsons went VX 1rt of Andersony rlle berng so bad that he was executed after the war as a common murderer Lnronrst and Confederate wound d were treated alrke rn the Northern army hosprtals and the tender care of Northern women for the the soldrers of both Sld6S made them forget their wounds Nl hen erther srde captured prrsoners the yrctorlous soldrers courteously refrarned rn most cases from referrlng to any subject that would hurt therr prrsoners and when Grant was finally yrctorrous he returned the captured horses to the Confederates and actually shared hrs supplies wrth Lee Recent wars such as -' 17 Y . Y . - v . N . , v , . T R . 7 7 If 7 . . . . Q . H . . . . . Y Y . . - v ,, Y ' a ' y a v 1 1 y H Y , .L . . Y .4 . 5, n L Y r . '-a I , Y - - . . - . Q . V . , l u , K , ' t , ' ' . Q . . . - ' V 1 1 7 . Q . . , V A I 7 U, ' 7 Z7 Y N .if . , . I . . . out from therr strongholds to attack unsus- record, several great blots on his character still f 1 I l ' lf Y i . 1 v Q I Y . , . . y . . . K - v . . N, 1 1 7 'v 1 ' il - . 7 . . . 7 1 Y -. T ' 7 . . ,K 7 . . 9 . H . . . .A AT . Y . . . , . . Q, , - ' 2 , C . V L y . . . my Q. Y T 7 l ,Y u , n . . , y . . . , , v ' J ' - 9

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THE HARBOR BEACON That men may llse IH stepping stones Of thelr dead selx es to higher things Max xour SLCCESSES too WhlCh I am sure have been manx glxe you fresh courage to strlxe manfully and xallently on to gain your goa FRESHMEN Before xou IS spread the wlde field of knowledge before you IS spread the greater part of your Hlgh School course You have but begun youl work here 'xlay you lmprove each and ex ery opportunity and leave the Alma Mater well prepal ed for llfe Fresh men It IS during your High School course that you though unconsciously take vour LIFE stand Hlgh School IS a bridge from childhood to manhood and whlle crossing that bridge you d9Cld6 what path to take on reaching the ful ther shore Euclld Sald There IS no royal load to Geometrv nelthel IS there any royal road to blrds of the alr and the creeping thlngs of the field 9X1St but Llfe IS the unselfish deslre to llve nobler the reallzatlon of high anlbltlons that have long been hldden ln your hearts and the earnest craving to make this great world bettel because you have llx ed IH It Freshmen I have but one more charge for you and that IS the Wol ds hat KlHgSl6y gax e to the llttle maid Do noble things not dream them all day ong And make this llfe and that vast forex er One grand sweet song LNDERCRADUATES Tonight we leave you Oul school days are ox er perhaps fol ex er Vie must step lnto this x ast unknown wol ld as men and women Others wlll take oul places here and the places IH your hearts dedicated to us Yet we trust that ex en Times corlodlng fln gers cannot break the bands of pure fl lend shlp we hax e formed here that IS so sacred both to you and to ourselx es DMH'14 OR ATION THE ENOLLTIONI or WARFARE The Prophets of old foretelllng the comlng of the son of God must hax e dreamed of a VN orld Peace as complete IH its perfection as Slr Thomas More s xague half my thloglcal Uto pla Thev lmaglned that the lNl6SSl3l1 would be an all powerful klng who after conquering all other natlons lnto subjection would malntaln a unix ersal peace with the Jews as the rullng race There 15 some excuse for thelr thus lnter pretlng the messages of the prophets for at the tlme of the actllal COmlHg of Christ the Jews were the subjects of the Roman Emperor and had at varlous tlmes been elther slax es or trlbutarles to Egvpt Assyrla Babylonla Per sla Phoenlcla and Macedonla These ancient peoples had methods of thelr kings of Assyrla reconquered lnsubordlnate cltles the xerv best terms the unfortunate IH habltants of these cltles could hope for was elther the total dlsmemberlng of the men or thelr deaths bx hanglng or cluclfixlon The greater number of the women and children were generally sold as slax es some of the best looklng women of the highest rank belng perhaps spared that fate and gathered lnto the harems of the conquerers Egyptlan and Babylonlan methods resembled those of ASSYIUH whlle the Phoenlclans were experts ln the art of slave trading Alexander of 'xlacedon was mole humane IH hls methods for he merely stripped hls captlves of all thelr portable wealth and burned what he could not carry awav Persepolls the acme of the long llst of wonderful PGFSIRH Cltl9S he burned at the wlsh of the wanton Thals Caesal at a later date forced hls prlsoners to walk through the streets of Rome ln hls trlumphal procession after whlch the most lm portant ones were executed ln cold blood for belng notable enemies of Rome whlle others 16 l' ' . ' ' 99 v Q . A v ' l A 'V My V' v , ' s o v y ' v 7 . r v X 1 - . V , v . . , l l K l. , V - , . , - ' ! ' I- y Y . . . , . . . I Y n - .1 Q I 7 I Y , 4' u , Y v Q i LM 1 .r . . y . . . V . , . y 7 ! -1 I . - , I ' 1 9 7 I . x 1 9 ' . . H . g . . . . . , , . v,, . g . . . life. Life is not merely an existance. The own in dealing with their prisoners. When the . , 4. . A . . . . , Y V . - Y . , y v . 7 . . i , , . 7 My ' x. I I - c , , ss . I n In -, . 1 y . , . H ' . V 1 xi ' 7 I n u n . , , . v - - 7 - - L v ' ' I . Y ' K. Q 1 . BL ' . ' ' - Q . Q ' ' Y 7 91 ,' . . , - ' 7 ' . n 1 u a 7 , . . . . . , ,

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THE HARBOR BEACON the Spamsh Amerlcan XI ar shows the great 1n fluence of the Red Cross Socrety but when We thmk of ey en the comparatry ely small loss of llfe resultmg from modern warfare the more deplorable does any krnd of warfare appear to Another terrrble aspect of war IS debt whrch lS shouldered by the conquered people who are at the same trme bewarlmg the loss of kms men At the end of the Franco Prussran VS ar Prussra demanded a sum of S300 000 000 from France Japan demanded and got a large war mdemnrty from Russra and as far back as the Amerrcan C1v1l War the Unrted States had a speedy reckomng wrth England wrth the Ala bama Clarm Much of the natlonal debt totals of the countrles of the globe have been mcurred by war and money equal to the total of the amount of the natronal debts of Germany Eng land France and Spam would be enough to satrsfy even the most rrdrculous equalrty schemes of the socralrsts ot Europe and Amer ca Yet there rs no doubt that unry er sal peace rs nearer now to rts realrzatron than 1t has ever been The varrous peace cony entrons whlch are bemg held all over the world prove 1t The leading statesmen of the world realrze that the end of War means the end of the natronal debt and bankruptcy Vlrth the abolltlon of war would come the lrftmg of the yoke of taxatron from the necks of the poorest classes and the subsequent end of strlkes and other such socral upheaymgs VS arfare as a personalrty has had a wonder ful rrse and fall In the prehrstorrc ages man was engaged rn flghtmg the great anrmals of the Earth for hrs own rrght to llve In the ages whrch y rewed the powers of Assy r1a and Babylon warfare was at its cruelest At the trme of the Crusades men fought for pastlme and later wars haye been for the re tentron or extensron of terrrtory A few centur res from now we may safely say war wrll cease S 0 14 PRESENT XTION OF GIFTS In many respects the class of 1914 has been drstmgurshed For the flr st trme m the hrstory of Sullry an Hrgh School two Hancock boys are numbered among the graduates Then too one of our present members leavmg the rllus trrous class of 1913 remamed out of school the rest of the year and now proudly claims a place wrth us Srdney ey en crossed the Atlantrc for the purpose of recerymff hrs drploma wlth our class Frnancrally we haye prospered beyond the wlldest dreams of ay ar1ce Vlhy rn our J unror year we had such a surplus rn the treasury that we had to deyrse some new means of spend mg rt so for the first tlme IH the hlstory of the school we had a Junlor Exhrbrtron But even after those expenses were pard we found our selves agarn thrs year wrth such an abundance of money that rt seems only fittmg that some of rt be drvlded among the members of the class m the form of small tokens whrch may perhaps be sulted to the personahtres of each I wrll begm wrth our class presrdent Har vard It rs not hard to tell what would most please hrm Durrng the four years he has at tended Hlh School we have notlced that he has taken an actrye part rn all the musrc He rs noted not onlv for hrs smgrng but for hrs won derful talent ln playrng the prano It Wlll be remembered that he would not dance wrth us rn the play Down m Nlame not wrshrng to be classed wlth us of ordrnary talents Har y ard y our career had long been marked out for you by your wonderful talent and surely you haye no other professron rn yrew than that of musrcran and musrc teacher So Harvard Blfnsdell thrs plano and musrc book LI present to you J In years to come we shall be proud to name y ou wrth 'llozart and Paderewskl Pay rs the talented one of the class He plays base ball dorng good work He smgs takmg part rn all the musrc and has proy ed hlmself an actor He rs noted for hrs appetrte for clam stew He has alwavs excelled as a socrety man 18 I . . Y. , Y . , , -. , - - . 1 ' ' V 1 Y T, u s , . v -' - ' v ' , . V s. US. , , . Y - 7 ' 7 - . Y . . Y Y . . , . a v o I Q Y I . . . . Y . 7 . ' 7 y r r ' Y - ' y 1 . ' . 1 y . Y . . . . Y I C f A Q - . Y H . . ,, . . --s 1 4 r 1' Y 7 1 ' ' y r ' - - . - y x 1 . . Y . Y . . Y. - v 1 C h , ' v' A - v Y . Y . Y . Y Y . v , . 1 . . Y . , s , . . Y Y - . . Y. 1 - 1 . . . Y - . . Y . 9 r - ' 9 - , . . . . Y, ,