Broadalbin High School - Kennyetto Kronicle Yearbook (Broadalbin, NY)

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SALUTATORY It was the rmmortal Shakespeare who wrote that the menace to SOClEly and enemy of all crvlllzatlon All the world s a stage And all the men and women merely players They have thexr exlts and thelr entrances And so tomght we make our tearful exrt from this seat of learnmg and our hopeful entrance into the school of lrfe And while we play our one allotted hour upon the stage to me has been glven the honor of welcoming you to share wlth us our last publrc appearance For we feel that you all belong here It rs through your encouragement and assistance that we have anved where we are you the Board of Educatlon the Faculty our parents friends and fellow students and we cannot find adequate expres sron of our appreclatlon God wove a web of lovelmess Of clouds and stars and brrds But made not anythmg at all So beautiful as words t s wlth these words that I shall have to at tempt to welcome you and to express our gratltude for your presence and kmd Interest This evenlng our drsturbmg that lt would be drffrcult to glve proper ut terance to our thoughts That rs why I should find lt almost lmPOSSlblC to greet you with half the fervor with which your attendance fllls us I hnd that I have no words which could be expresslve of our emotlons at havmg you wrth us on thus occasion S the only beauty rn the words whrch we address to you tonight must he rn our srmpllcrty and smcerlty of purpose Perhaps we shall make mlstakes and fall to speak as eloquently as we should wish but we shall stnve to do our very best and to wrtness these endeavors we bud you a most heartfelt welcome Mlss SONYA T SIROTICK CRIME AND CRIMINALS loday there rs a great problem which occupies the mmds of the Amerlcan people and demands to be solved a problem which IQ vltal momentous and very expensive lt IS a welghty matter which an nually costs us approxlmately thirteen brllron dollars and countless hundreds of lrves It IS concerned w1th I 22 crrme and crrmlnals Crime IS the name by which an offense agamst establrshed law rs called It may be an omlsslon of a duty commanded or the commlsslon of an act forbidden by publrc statute and rs punlshable by law lhe crrmmal rs the mdlvldual who rs gurlty of such an act Causes of Crrme Crlmmologrsts cannot seem to agree on any one factor as the cause of crrme Many clalm that there has been a great cnme wave ever slnce and because of the World War and Prohrbrtron But the law lessness which rs sweeping the country can hardly be considered a sudden wave lt rs on the contrary a trde of wrongdomg whlch has been rrslng steadily for years Scarcely anyone wlll deny that environment and heredity are decrsrve factors m determlnmg the lndl vxduals conduct and character Many traits are transmissible from one generatlon to another but cnm mal tendencres are very seldom lf ever hereditary Envrronment on the other hand seems to play a large part rn the makmg or breaklng of a man Bad home and commumty lrfe are ln a large measure responsrble for a man s deterroratlon Chll dren whose parents have been unable to correct hablts of defiance and drsobedlence at home seldom pay attentlon to any law Others have never been taught nght from wrong The slums rn the large crtles are one great source of crrme One of the problems we flnd here rs the large famllles Often the father does not support hrs dependents because of unemployment low wages or drmlung and gamblmg Driven by dare want and hunger the chrldren are prompted to steal Even rf they lack the courage to do this on thexr own lnltra trve they may fall an easy prey to the gangs where they become the tools of vlcrous mmds and soon flnd rt rmpos rble to abandon thelr llfe of crrme Here too because of the crowded condrtrons every man has easy access to his nelghbor s property lhe vnctrm of the robbery wxll not remain unavenged and funds taklnv matters m hrs own hands preferable to xsartmg for the slow moving and meffectrve wheels of Justrce to tum 1 . . . , . U ' ' U ' - , - . 2 a 1 . 3 . I U . .. . . . . .- ' . , . I 1 - . . . ' . . , . . . . . , , i feelings, are so intense and varied, so profound and , ' , , ' ' . , . . . o Q I l , . . . . . ' 0 , . I I . U Q ' ' ca v 1 ' . '

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Stanton Sabbattrs the brg hrngle and twofby four man has come down from the North Woods rn Howards Ford long enouvh to accompany Hazel Phrllrps the evangelrst on her tour of Afrrca La t Sunday she preached a very strrrrn sermon for the benefrt of drsabled lrons The hosprtal where she gave her speech rs rn charge of Andre Beletsky the Vetrnary Stanton stopped rn New N ork to see the srghts and that lrttle doctor on hrs w ay to meet Hazel but feelrng the competrtron too great he heard hrs duty callrng He was qurte a sensatron on Broadway dodg mg taxrs and hydrants rn Howard s Ford dressed rn hrs I0 gallon hat red plard shrrt and hrgh topped boots Ha7el rs constantly changrng her corffeur now she copres rt after the Fully Wuzlys Hazel has made her campargn song Stanton on the Promrs Plhe female lrons are o fascrnated by Andy that they are constantly tryrng to commrt surcrde but he aves them all Andy has always taken a great rnterest rn potato bu s and butterflres Hes sure they have teeth because one brt hrm about a week ago Now rf they had been lady bugs rt would have been drfferent Howard Werderman suffered a thumb fracture recerved rn an accrdent on the Varl Mrlls road The accrdent occured when Howard turned hrs Varl Mrlls to Broadalbm bus off the road rn order to avord lrrttrng a caterprllar He nevertheless arrrved on chedule Good old rr ht on the dot Howdy' H rs also kept bu y landscaprnv rn Plattsburgh and teachrng Sophra to drrve Mr and Mrs Howard Eaton have opened a new general store at 55 l'hrrd Avenue Gloversvrlle It rs ard they wrll specralrze rn Eaton rmplerrents Harold has been dom some fancy prtchrng as a srde lrne Last week he ortched a whole game wrth two broken arms It drdnt bother Harold rn the least as there rs no connectron between hrs head and hrs hands A new Latrn extermrnator has been rnvented by the rrsrng young screrrtrst Schuyler Lathers whrch wrll save the future puprl many hours of worry dur rng exams as to whether Caesar crossed the Rubicon rn a yacht or a motor boat Schuyler thinks rt s the Mr srssrppr he crossed He has been offered I0 000 a week to croon Moonlrght and Roses over th radro for the Amerrcan Lan Company He has also rnvented a lrttle rnslrument for absent mrnded professors to be worn on the ears Frrst rt whrspers then rt shouts At least rt rs upposed to get teachers to class on trme Sr ter Swears the new Phy rcal Drrector of her dear frrend Elrzabeth Barlett the proprretor of that very fashronable place nlhe Lrttle Reducing Shop Around the Corner Whrle attendrng the the horse races Lrzzy was seen to jump gallantly over the fence and onto the race track to revrve a horse wrth fallen arches by massage Whrle she was gone Srster notrcrnv a susprcrous lookrng character runnrng away wrth Lrbby s pocket book tackled hrm prompt ly on the spot He was ard to be rn a very serrous ccndrtron last nrght and Mrss Swears may be taken for man slaughter but wrth her newly acqurred lrne we feel sure she can vamp the Jury Mrss Swears rs rn a very worrred corrdrtron Lrzzy nearly had hys lerrcs when she found to her great amazement that her horse had won and she actually lost four pounds Sr ned CEE AND WHIZ CRLTH CORNELL and MArzc,rzr.TTA LUFF 353 GLOVERSVII LE BUSINESS SCHOOL The U B S Qrves a fhoro :gh course rn Busrness Admrnrstratron and Secretarral Trarnrng wlerch would be frne to round out your Hrgh School educatron Send for Catalog 8 IO East Fulton St Gloversvrlle N Y I 21 1 . S . V - . g . . . ' y Q. , 1 g . . , . S Y . . U . D n , v . . , v. . - . . . , . M . . , U 1 Y . . Y - .S . . . K S '- ' ' ' I - V ll ' U! Y 9 , ' e . , - . s ., - . . . es . 5 . . . . . .Q S. . s . ' Broadalbrn's exclusrve school for weaklrngs rs vrsrtrng I 1 . ll ' ' ' t 9 Y . . V . , . g . . D . . M , - . . . I - A , H Q . . . . , , . c 5 4 fg - - - v V ' E , , .L . , S . O . . - A ,. . . Q r , l s J , l - . Q , - -

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The Immrgrant portIon of our populatlon con trlbutes a large percentage of the lawbreakers Frrst of all they are by nature very passIonate and excrt able They herd together In certaIn sectlons of our CIIICS and form communItIes wIth theIr own languages schools newspapers and churches They know nothmg of our laws customs or Ideals They are told that Amenca IS the land of lIberty whrch accordrng to thelr Interpretatron means that every one IS free to do as he pleases There are the dance halls the pool rooms and gamblmg places whIch are frequented at the same tIme by both ImpressIonable youths and experIenced crImIn als where much of the lawbreaker s techmque IS Im parted to the young hero worshrpper Heredrty seems to have lrttle to do wIth makmg a man cnmrnal or honest but sad to say many people are born feeble mrnded or Insane There are twenty two krnds or grades of Insanrty and many sub-dIvIsIons under them but that form known as dementra praecox has the largest toll and produces the most murders and suIcIdes Smce there seem to be no dehnrte symptoms of thIs drsease there are many manracs at large who are dangerous to theIr communItIes The percentage of InsanIty In the total populatlon IS Increasmg yearly qulte In proportlon to the Increase In Cflme ln recent years In several court cases the defendant has pleaded temporary Insanrty as an Incentrve to the crrme Another type whrch IS more to be pltlCd than censored IS the weak undecrded IndIvIdual If a man has not adopted a dCClSlVC attItude as to whether or not he wIll remarn wIthIn the bounds of the law he wIll sooner or later hnd that someone has decrcled for hIm and enmeshed hIm In a trap from whrch he cannot escape The Church forbrds both stealrng and man slaughter But relIgIon today seems to be out of-date and unrmportant Probably If we were more relIgIous we would have less crrme and yet many notorrous thIeves pray before dorng a Job because they clarm It brIngs them good luck More Important perhaps IS the wrdespread lack of respect for the law throughout the country There are so many some of whrch are qurte unfalr that a portron of them IS not even known to the publrc A a prrsoner once sard More law more crIme more rules more vIolatIons And It seems that unless a law drrectly concerns the welfare of the average CIIIZCD It IS very apt to be vrolated l 23 The World War IS very often presented as a cause of crIme When our men were released from servrce abroad they returned to Amerrca and trled to resume theIr normal lIves and actIvItIes Bu they had gone through hectrc months of actIon ad venture danger and suspense wIth the turmorl and excrtement always around them and the unknown facrng them just ahead They found lt hard to settle down to qulet routme For many there was no sort of employment Naturally they took to Cflme as the only way to keep from starvIng Also It could well furnrsh the excitement they craved Bootleggrng proved to be the most profitable pursuIt and so they turned to It whole heartedly PYOhlbltlOH the Noble Experlment Introduced Into the Amerrcan vocabulary many new expressions such as bootleggIng speakeasres roadhouses hI Jack ng and racketeerrng From the begrn nrng everyone seemed to resent lt and logrcally If no one approves of a law no one wIll enforce It People contmued to drmk as much as and more than prevrously ThlS In Itself was lawbreakmg But brrbmg publIc OHICIEIIS and usmg gunhre to escape the law presented a strll more senous aspect Bootleggmg was an Ideal occupahon as far as qulck and easy money was concerned and those Involved were wIll formed gangs for protectlon and were Swlfl to Cllmlnale any obstacle In therr way ln the wars be tween rIval gangs Innocent bystanders became the vIctIms of machme guns and Joy rrdes These great bootleggers and for that matter other vastly successful law breakers were wldely publIcIzed From coast to coast In screammg black headlrnes the newspapers proclarmed thelr latest feats ID luIId detarl They were grven more attentIon than famous celebrItIes and those who were bullders In stead of destroyers of socrety Thrs notorrety pleased ther sense of vanrty and Insprred them to strIve to reach greater herghts In the realm of yellow journal Ism Men llke Al Capone and Legs Dramond were ld0llZCd l-lNl'llS publrcrty of methods used by experxenced crImInals gave Ideas to the novrces Many crImInals have confessed that mo t of therr Ideas were taken from the movres and newspaper accounts of other crlmes Pumshmenl Under the old yall system the plan of actron was not to reform the Cflmlnal and Induce hIm to become law abrdmg but merely to pumsh hIm for the wrong Please lurn to Pa,.e Rr v l ' ' . . . 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