Westbrook High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Westbrook, ME)

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lll4lilJ3llilll'l'll. 23 and put the tables back where the chairs used to be. This will cause endless difficulties, because tif you have ever had movies in the home. you will knowj it is very hard to arrange chairs so that all can see. llut when we do see, what a disappointment it will be at first to see all our favorites and learn that so-and-so has a funny walk, that another is much too tall, that the old man in the skits is not old at all. that the setting isn't on the beach at Bali Ilali, and that there isn't any moon. If the television companies can afford it. they may be able to make scenery that will do, but they won't be able to do anything about the appearance of a star. and we all know and dislike the movie hero who depends for his fame on beauty only and not a bit on good acting. .Xu argument for the other side is that we shall be able to have Robert Taylor or Greta fiarbo come right into our own homes on our sets and lint lt will be so nuich like the movies that it will ruin the will not have to go to the movies to see them. there is another bad point of television. movie business simply because it will take all the fun out of them, and whereas before we had the the nights that we were unable to go ont, now we shall movies for some nights and the radio for have only one. For those of us who like to go to bed and rest our eyes, at the same time listening to the radio, the television will present another problem. It will be impossible to rest our eyes and very diffi- cult to adjust the set so that we can see easily from the bed. Our whole habits of spending the evenings will have to be changed. When the television is turned on we shall have to gather round and stop talking. stop reading, and make sure that we aren't in sonieone's way. If we decide to read, how shall we long for the radio to give us soft music to go along with our story, but when we turn on the television, every few minutes we shall have to get up and run the machine to see what this actor looks like. lf we want to continue the out-of-date custom of reading. we shall have to leave the room and find some place where there is not one of those hor- rible televisions! Pl XV., ,37- RELEASE I walked alone with silence and the night Communicating secrets to the stars. My loneliness had bound me like a wall Until I saw a comet burn in flight. J. K., KIDS FOREVER lt is proper. I think, to call an infant a baby, a small girl or boy a child, a woman or man an adult, etc., but I do not think it fair that a sixteen-year- old boy or girl should be treated as or even called a kid. Since I reached the age of thirteen, I have secretly hoped that a new amendment would be added to our Constitution which would read: .Xny boy or girl living in the United States of .Xmeriea, who is over thirteen years of age. has the grave privilege of being treated as an adult. I know this sounds too good to be true, but that is certainly what is needed in .Xmerica today. Of course, at thirteen no person is supposed to be still a baby, but in accordance with the way we are sometimes treated, if a bottle and nipple were given to us with the singing of a lullaby before bedtime at night, we'd certainly be a perfect baby. And I always thought at thirteen we were grown up. l find now that it takes a terribly long time to grow up. Wihen I was fourteen I thought it would be right for me to sit at the table with adults. It was until someone came to tell me that a place had been reserved for me at the children's table and I was expected to go to that table, I was so burned up that I decided right then and there that. when l was married, the adults would sit at the childrens table and the children would sit at the place of the adults! This idea calmed me a little but I was still mad to think that at four- teen I had been treated as a kid, I had reached the ripe old age of fifteen when I wanted to wear high heels. Mother nearly fainted when I asked her to get me a pair of shoes with such heels. She said I would break my neck when I walked with them. I disagreed with her and one night, when she was not at home, I tried on a pair of high-heeled shoes and proceeded to walk down- stairs with them on. XVhat happened? A fall down

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22 Le?lUlll'I'II SHALL WE LIKE TELEVISION? Scientists tell us that television set at a price that we can all afford will he on sale in a few years. Even toclay, there are hroatleasting sets :mtl a few lninilrerl receiving sets in use. NVe know that television sets will sell fast as soon as the price is lowererl. hecanse everyone is anxions to have one hefore the other fellow. The rapicl sale of rarlios is a gootl preeeflent for stating this. lint after we all get our sets. shall we enjoy them as mnch as we now enjoy the rarlio that will then he out of clate anrl ohsolete? There is one group of people who are not a hit anxious to see the raclio hroarlcasting companies go out of hnsiness anfl the television companies take their places, lly this, l tlon't mean the offieials or the workmen ot the rarlio companies. I mean the hlincl people. The thonsanrls of un- Iortunates who have always heen nnahle to see have founel in the rarlio a lasting source of pleas- ure. Un the r:ulio everything' is explainecl so that sight is not necessary, antl the hlintl person can unclerstanzl a raclio play as well as can the person with sight. Right now it seems as though their lasting pleasure is going to he taken away from them. Un the other hanrl, the cleat' people have proh- ahly haterl the raflio. XYhen they wonlcl try to get anyone to play checkers with them. they wnulrl tintl that their prospective opponent was too en- grossefl in a razlio program that they themselves conlcl not even tell was in progress. The tele- vision set will he ol a little more use to them. .Xt least they can tell what it is iloing, ancl perhaps they will get a little enjoyment out of watching a person sing or watching' two people tell jokes. Nevertheless, it is the mass oi people. the people who have normal sight. hearing anrl intelligence. that the raclio anfl television people mnst consirler. Perhaps there will he one station that will con- tinue with the olcl-fashionecl ratlios anrl perhaps there will he one television station that will have written worfls thrown on the screen for the rleaf people. The normal person is now anxious for tele- vision, hut will he he when he learns that the arl- veitivers ol' .Xlka-Seltzer tahlets will he ahle to show you just how their tahlets tizz when they are pnt into water? .Xt the present time, most of us hate to have to spentl two or three minutes listen- ing to the tixz. ln the same way. we, who now hate to hear over anal over again the chng-chng- cling of the show hoat :mtl the same theme song. will now have to watch the hoat slowly wintl its way up the river just as it has rlone every night for years. .Xlso. we shall he hamperetl hy an an- nouncer showing ns how to open the can of cheese or how to use his type of razor: or hy some woman announcer who has to show ns how to wash wintlows with her wintlow WIISIII or another woman showing us how to test her cleaning procl- uct to pri-ve that it cloesnit scratch. .Xll these will heeome very tiresome hecause. if we turn our heacls away. we shall still hear worrls, antl wortls of the announcer won't mean a thing to ns when we eanuot see what he is tloing. .Xt the present time. orchestras antl singers are favorite programs for many. ln the clays of tele- vision that are coming. what shall we :lo when the orchestra starts to play? lironi experience in the movies. we know that there is nothing so horing as to watch the orchestra leacler heat his haton for piece after piece, antl from the movies, also. we know that there is nothing worse than watch- ing the eontortions that many of the singers have to perform to make the sonnils we like to hear. XYhat are we going to tlo? .Xre we going to look away into space while the song is going on antl then look hack again when the new singer hegins? We can't go away hecanse we shall never know when the new artist will he introflueerl, antl it we have gone away we may have lost our seats hefore the set. 'lihat hrings np another clifhculty-the seating plan. Yes, we shall have to have a seating plan. Unr parlors are now tlesignetl so that the ratlio is in one eorner antl the chairs are spreatl aroinul the room in tlitiferent places where we can hear anil still he in a goofl reatling light. Vvhen television comes. most of us won't he ahle to attortl to have a new room huilt where all the seats are arr:mgeil in theater fashion, To make the hest of what we have, we shall group all the chairs arounrl the set. which will, iuulonhtetlly, he a eumhersome thing,

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