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

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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, ,

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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 BEACONI always upholdlng the name of the class ln these affalrs He IS very fond of dresslng up and golng to dances and came a long Way to attend danclng school thls wlnter Because of all these talents lt IS rather dlfllcult to declde what he llked most After solne conslderatlon I haxe declded to present to you Ray Partrldge thls palr of danclng sllppers I hope these wlll brlng you as good luck as the glass sllppers brought to Clnderllla And now comes the most bashful member of the class one whom I fear has been trembllng as he walts for hls turn to come so I Wlll not keep Sldney ln suspense any longer No doubt he would prefer that he would not hue to en dure the embarrassment of standlnff before an audlence But do you not thlnk Sldney you could ox er come your bashfulness long enough to YQCGIVQ your class glft? He has been Wlth us but one 1, ear so I do not know many of hls other characterlstlcs I have notlced however that he has seemed to be alone never slttlng wlth the glrls or talklng wlth them Whether It IS because he does not care for the glrls of S H S or because he IS so tlmld that he does not dare talk wlth them we cannot say Because of thls qulet and unassumlng nature or h1S taste concernlng glrls I had thought that he mlght never find hls ldeal so d9Cld9d to present to Sldney Osborne thls charmlng young lady She may not be llke the court ladles of England and belles of Ixew York or the country glrls at Sulllvan but I hope that she wlll llsten attentlvely to your slnglng and serx e as a model for your artlstlc sketches Blll IS the student of the class belng x ery fond of deep books You always find B111 studylng he nex er finds tlme to waste when he has any tlme to spare he spends It ln teachlng the bovs how to bat ln base ball And because of the won derful tralnlng they FQCGIX ed from hlm they have had good success ln the games V1 e chose Blll as Exchange Edltol fol we knew that he above all the rest would reallze the true worth of the dlfferent school papels He alway s Wrote so many excellent themes and was the flrst to pass them ln to hlS teachers Because of hls superlor knowledge ln hlgher thlngs he must have forgotten all about the studles of common schools He plans to teach after leavlng Hlgh School and wlll no doubt need some revlew ln these studles So I chose for you Wlllle Dow thls book from whlch you may refresh your mlnd regardlng the studles de scrlbed here ln I hope thls wlll be a help to you and wlll ald vou to make a success ln teachlng It IS rather dlfllcult to select a glft for Doro thy When thlnklng over her characterlstlcs there dld not seem to be any thlng qulte ap proprlate for her Among her other attrlbutes I thought of her sedate manner her fondness for some partlcular studles and her future plans etc Suddenly It came to me that for four years Dorothv had walked a great deal I thought how had lt not been for Vlfgll and hls black steed she would not have been able to be ln the Senlor play It occurred to me that a phllanthrophlc plan would be one whlch would comblne pleasure and necesslty Why not provlde Dorothy wlth means of locomotlon that would place her above dependlng upon others when she WlSh9d to tray el from place to place I thought over all the vehlcles lnvented by man Auto too uncertaln MOt0l Cycle too dlsturbllng to the peace Horse and carrlage too slow Jlnrlklsha but who would furnlsh the motor power? I then recalled your superlor knowledge IH physlcs and knew that you would understand the alr currents etc you would be able to manage a compllcated machlne So I se lected an alrshlp Then too vou may be able to take Emerson s adxlce and Hltch your wagon to a star ' To you Dorothy Merchant I present thls alr shlp May you be rewalded for the patlence you haxe had IH walklng so many weary IlIl19S Dorls I am surpl 1SQd to see you here at the CXQFCISQS so early you must be verv t1l'GC1fI'OIT1 hurrlng to get here on tlme It was unfol tunate l 19 . . . Y . . . . . f . Y 7 ' ' Y Y . N . . . . - . 7 v , . L' L - . . 7 . ' .. 7 .. cv - - -5 ' . X . . Y . v Y Y Y Y ' 7 . .. , . . . . . Y 7 , . . , . . . , Y . ' 9 , . . , . .. . V . . - , . . s c , . , ,t 7 . . 5 , ,. H. 7 Y Y Y .. . , Y v . w A ' I - '- ' '1 .y- , ' .' . . 7 . . Y N . Y u