Wilton Academy - Eagle Yearbook (Wilton, ME)

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194-4- ing war machines for the German armies. You would work there until noon. Then you would rush down the street to the nearest bread shop to get a lunch. A big lunch!!! You'd get a slice of bread and a glass of muddy water. Then back to the factory immediately to work until you could hardly stand. You then would grab another A' lunch . Your food supply and money allotments are limitedg hence you have no worries about over-eating. Ah, then to a movie? Sure and what would you have? Musical, comedy, or drama? It makes no difference which you prefer because the Nazis always have some propaganda movies to show how their in- vincible armies are conquering the world. CThey do this by running the film from the Russian and other fronts backwardsl These are meant to lower the morale of the French people until they become harmless. But strangely enough the French people are ready, ready for the coming invasion. Most of the people in this country would fold up in about two weeks under the conditions mentioned. They are the ones who cannot go without something even when it goes for bettering the world for tomorrow. Let's not complain if some of our pleasures are taken from usg let's think of our boys fighting at the front, boys who might get that extra bullet or gallon of gas just in time to save his life. So let's tighten our belts and set- tle right down to the hardships of war - and look ahead to victory. - Philip Smiley. PRESERVING VICTORY AVE you ever caught a snowflake on your mittened hand and had the desire to keep the dainty piece of art? How quickly it melts to nothing. If we don't preserve our victory after we have acquired it, how quickly it will vanish. How much more valuable victory is than a small snowdrop and yet. are people thinking any more about preserving it than they are the latter? True. hrst we must achieve our victory, but let's look ahead to the daywhen we must set about to keep this victory of ours forever. Never again in twenty or thirty years will we be hit over the head and wake up dazed to find ourselves in the midst of a war. From now on our eyes will be open and our ears alert to all our global neigh- bors. Although we want to be on the best of terms with everyone, we won't believe that everyone is the best of friends with the U. S. A. and couldnt possibly be planning a surprise for us. VVe'll in- vestigate to find out what is going on on the other side of the world and then act for the best interests of what we proudly consider the best country in the world - America. How about the countries that keep pop- ping up every score of years or so to kill off our boys and break the hearts of those who love them? NVill they be allowed to do it again? Not if your vote and my vote can prevent it. And ca11 we prevent it? We can because this is America, where the newspaper boy can talk to the major a11d your son can become Presi- dent. This is America, 4' The land of the free and the home of the brave, and we, the youth of America. plan to keep it that way. - Pauline Hall.

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1944 WHAT IS VICTORY? CCORDING to Noah Webster, vic- tory is the gaining of the superi- ority in any struggleg a triumph. There is another way in which we may define victory. It is the Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom from VV ant, Freedom from Fear. When all the peoples of the world are living in peace under the protection of these four freedoms, then. and then alone, is there a victory. XVe are living in a country where the freedom of speech is something just taken for granted. We read about the subju- gated peoples of Europe and how this privilege of speaking is denied them. There is sympathy in our hearts for them, and yet, I wonder if we realize that this freedom is one-fourth of the requirement for victory. Perhaps the most important of the freedoms is religion-if any one can be more important than another. If we are given freedom of religion, and if we have a religion, we can overcome many obsta- cles. A truly religious man always has freedom from fear, yea, even freedom from the fear of fear. VVe the people of the United States are in a position to do more than any other country to promote the freedom from want. Wfithout any real sacrificing, that is, to the point of starvation within our own country, we could make the United States the bread basket for the world. Indeed, the rest of the world has not asked this aid. But some means must be provided for feeding parts of Europe and Asia during the period of reconstruction, and who is in a better position to do this than we are? In fact, what other coun- try can do it? Thus the freedom from want becames a very significant one for us. Our last, the freedom from fear, in- cludes the three preceding ones and a bit more. VV e are pledged by our national inheritance to maintain no peacetime con- centration camps, no arbitrary courts, no dictators. At times we may be overcau- tious when our liberties are threatened - from within and without-but we are ever anxious when a real threat to our peaceful way of life arises as it did at Pearl Harbor. And our fear is not for us alone but - we are proud to say - for the whole world. Each of these four freedoms is indis- pensable, since each is essential for hap- piness, and happiness is OLII' goal. When we have attained this, then. the victory is won. Wfinston Churchill once said: You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is Victory, vic- tory at all costs, victory in spite of all ter- ror, victory, however long and hard the road may beg for without victory, there is no survival. - Helen jones. GAIN ING THE VICTORY VERYONE is talking these days of victory and the peace to follow. They talk of the terrible conditions that we have to put up with here on the home front. U Oh, I'm so afraid they are go- ing to cut down on the gas quota this time or K' If things get much worse, they won't even be giving us anything to eat. These are common complaints in cities and towns all over the nation. Some of the complainers ought to live in France or Germany itself to see what war really is. If you were in France during this war, you would get up at such a time in the morning. You would have a newspaper, yes, but there would be only what the Nazis want you to read. Then you would be trundled off to a war plant mak-

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1 9 44 MURIEL ARLENE BURRILL Avocation - Sports Course - Clursirul CLEO MAE COCHRAN Intended Vocation -- Beauty Culture Avocation - Writing letters C ourre -- H ame Economic: EAGLE 45 W Club 2, 3, 4: Home Economics Club 1, 2, 3, 45 Basketball 1, 2, 3, 45 Field Hockey 1, 2, 3, 45 Tennis 2. WANTED AT ONCE To know what sense there is in studying, reading, and some other school fool stuff. Naturally, I don't complain about talking Qto that fellow across the aislej or writing fthose many lettersi. HAGU-I 4, Band 2, 3, 43 Chorus l, 2, 3, 45 W Club 2, 3, 43 Hockey 1, 2, 3, Capt. 45 Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4: Tennis l, 2, 3, 4 Intended Vocation -Cadet Nurse 19 CLASSIFIED - My heart. fSee the ring on the third finger?j In the meantime the nurse cadets should he interested in those capabilities as revealed in hockey, basketball, and tennis, to speak only on the athletics side. LEWIS EDWIN Intended Vocation - Farming Avocation -- Radio Course' - i'IgI'ft'!lll1'l7'C F. F. A. Public Speaking l, Z5 Sophomore EAGLET Board 2: EAGLE 4: F. F. A. 1, 2, 3, 45 Track 1, 25 Honor Rank 4. Service Standing: Passed Air Cadet Test FOR RENT My talent for tractor-driving, animal-tending, and crop-gathering at long hours without complaint, all known as tanning. Yes, that's the life, unless of course, the Air Force should need my services. LOUISE MAE CROSSETT ' Intended Vocation - Nursing Avocation-Writing letters to service men Course 7 Home Economic: EAGU 45 Chorus l, 2, 3, 45 Band 1, 2, 3, 4: Orches- tra 45 Home Economics Club 1, 2, 3, 4. WILL LEASE For many years ahead, my calmness and modesty and interest in the welfare of others. You guessed it: Flor- ence Nightingalds profession has long had First claim upon my attention. And I'll be a good nurse or none . at all.