Thomaston High School - Sea Breeze Yearbook (Thomaston, ME)

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glL'M,flLCDR4flCCi1lEi5 1 4 v Wire bring hardships! This, by now is an establishedifact in our country. But even so, the difficulties of wer in past d years have been overcome and so the present difficulties must be mastered now. sichools, which are an all important factor to the education and growth of our country, are being hard hit. ,Statistics show thltaout of 6000 Maine teachers, 1000 have gone within the past year into defense industries where they can get more money. Two of our teachers have already left us, one for a better position in Mess. and the other to enter the Waves. School teachers 51nd it hard to get along on their meager salaries in this time o high prices. Another difficulty ls the fact that the draft is calling boys at the ages of 18 and 19 from the schools. The numherwof our students is decreasing gradually as the boys leave for the Service. Among other things is the fact that the ration- ing must be done, and y the teachers. This, of course, takes up time from the regular school hours and forces exit! responsi- b lity upon the teachers. Vacations are fine, but nevertheless we have s regular course of study to follow, and the work must he accomplished. In these wer times additional knowledge is needed and the, schools are trying to readjust their schedule so that they may accomplish this. - Even though we do find war times trying, especially in our school, we are doing our best to adjust surselves, to the situa- tion. However, because of the paper shortage, and other war conditions, our book may not be as long as usual. We have all been working hard on our year book and have tried to bring its guality up to that of other years, and feel that we have done our 88 s ' l We feel that it is necessary for every individual to do his or her part in carrying out our huge war effort. To do this we ' nust make sacrifices, but we must continue to carry on for our , country and its freedom. In view of the fact that our year book takes time, effort, and money, all of which are scarce in these trying times, we wish to express our thanks, especially this year, for the wonderful help and cooperation which the townspeople have given us to make our book e success. WPatriotism, Youth, and the Warn W' ' , ' , L, ' ' ' , '1T ' , , what is patriotism? Is it something which we can concisely explain in a few seconds by the use of one of two nouns, adjec- tives, vcrbals and so on? No, it certainly is not, I feel that Patriotism is something which is almost, if not, indefinable and inexplicable. The importance of patriotism to a country, eepee cially during war time cannot ever be stressed or reiterated too much.