Unity High School - Monitor Yearbook (Unity, ME)

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SCHOGL GROUP First row, left to right: M. Brown, R. Rollins, B. Maxim, B. H-eald, V. Carter, M. Tozier E. McComick, B. Dean, W. Barnes, D. Mason, M. Vickery, G. Shorcy. Second row: E. Walker, A. Danforth, K. Tozier, H. Reynolds, F. Tozier, M. Peppard, B. Harding, J. Pratt, F. Bacon, E. Brillard, B. Maxim. Third row: C. Hillman, G. Moody, F. Luce, B. Reynolds, W. Rich, E. Rollins, P. Mason, D. Perkins, B. Fletcher, F. Pratt, M. Reynolds, A. McCormick, A. Seaver, B. Boudreau, R. Hillman, K. McKechnie. President ..,., Vice President . Secretary-Treasurer President ...., Vice President . Secretary-Treasurer President . . . Vice President . Secretary . . . Treasurer President . . . Vice President . Secretary-Treasurer Page Six CLA SS OFFICERS Seniors Juniors Sophomores Freshmen . Wyona Barnes Eleanor McCormick , Virginia Carter . Beverly Dean . Karl McKechnie .. Dora Clifford .. Frank Tozier . Beverly Maxim . Barbara Maxim Alton McCormick Barbara Reynolds , , , Eva Brillard . Micihael Varney

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MONITOR STAFF Seated left to right: Barb. Max'm, B. Dean, M. Tozier, V. Carter, B. llardinfg, W. Barnes, E. McCormick. Standing: Mrs. Hicks, M. Viekery, R. Hillman, F. Tozier, W. Rich, A. Metlormiek, K. Me- Keehnfe, K. Tozier. lflditor-in-chiei' , Beverly llardin-1 Assistant Editors Beverly llean, Virginia Carter Business M3l1ilg'L'l' . Eleanor Mctlorniisli Assistant Business Managers Karl McKeehnie, Barbara Maxim Athletic Editors Wyona Barnes, Walter Iiiuh Literary Editor . Michael V'ckery Joke Editor , Wyona Barnes Assistant Joke l'fd'tor , , .. . Alton McCormick, Jr. Alumni Editors . Marilyn Tozier, Richard Hillman Iflxchange Editor . . , , . , Frank Tozier Senior Class Editor . Marilyn Tozier Junior Class Editor , Karl M:Kechnie, Jr. Sophomore Class Editor , Alton llfleflormick, Jr. Freshman Class Editor Kenneth Tozier, Jr. Page Five

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I EDITORIALS H ENEMY PROPAGANDA The meaning of propaganda is forcing ideas upon people. It is effective only if the person infiuenced is led to act without thinking. Prop- aganda works upon the emotions, and, be- cause of this, emotionally unstable people are most easily swayed by it. It is being used -during this war by the enemy nations as a v-ery effective weapon of war. It has made progress for the Germans relatively simple in Europe by ldisuniting the small countries before the Nazi armies en- tered. A country that is divided by internal strife cannot long stan-d against a united enemy. At present German and Japanese propa- ganda masters are hammering at the allied countries. They are trying to start little sparks of discord, which, unless checked, may flame into a confiagration. Every day little rumors are started-very unobtrusively, of course. Every day we hear of spies being caught by the F. B. I. We have recently had a very good example of this in our own state, and we real- ized more fully how close to us the war really is. A young boy scout by his alertness brought about the capture of two German spies who had entered this country on a lonely stretch of Maine beach. If these spies had not been caught in time, they might have done untold damage. Enemy spies, however, are no more danger- ous than many of our own American citizens. And by American citizens, I don't mean just those of German or Japanese ancestry. I mean people like you and me and the person next door. Maybe you don't 1'ealize it, but these people can be just as dangerous and just as instrumental in spreading propaganda as the most hardened German. They hear a story, it may be about anything that will start hard feelings between different classes or races of people. 'Ilhe story is handed from mouth to moutih, ibut no one ever seems to know where it originated. Every day these common people, who would be greatly shocked if they were ac- cused of helping the enemy, do that very thing by passing along harmful rumors. How, you ask, can we help to stop all this? First, by not repeating stories told us. Second, by trying to make the person who tells them realize how dangerous they are, and, last of all, by stuldying the true facts of the situation ourselves. Some of the tales told are too far fetched for belief. Others, when they have been thought over, can be seen for what they really are-little seeds of discord which have been planted here by the enemy to start bitter feeling among the people of this country and lbetween allied nations. Don't be half an Amer- icang be an American. -Beverly Harding, '45 Editor-in-chicf BOOGIE-WOOGIE The word Boogie-Woogie is a new word for our vocabulary. As we all know, it is a kind of music. Boogie-Woogie has in the past year become very popular. Although we think of it as some- thing new, it actually has been on this earth for over four hundred years under a different flaflle. Boogie-woogie has the same chording and formula as the blues. If one can play the blues, he can also play Boogie-woogie. The left hand plays repeated chords. The pedal is very seldom used, as the same effects are ob- tained by the hands and staccato notes. This new type of music is used mostly for the new dance called the Jitte1'bug . They go very well together as they both are exercises- one for the left hand and the other for the body. Boogie-Woogie is not especially pretty, but-it is fascinating to listen tog the Jitter- bug is not pretty either, but it is fun to dance or to watch it. As is true of all music, it takes hours, and even years, of practice to master Boogie- Woogie. Some people cannot play it correctly even then, as it has a different rhythm from any other music. Personally, I don't care especially for this new kind of music. I think that it would be very boring to listen to all the time. Some or- chestras can play it very well and make it sound at its best, but I like the old melodies, waltzes and the popular music of today much better. Boogie-woogie to me is a Hjumbled up mess a kind of music that will be popular only a short time and then forgotten. -Beverly Dean, '46 Assistant Editor GIRLS DO THEIR PART, TOO Girls as well as boys, are fighting in this war even though they do not use guns, bul- lets, airplanes, tanks and ships. fcontinued on page fourteeni Page Seven