Central High School - Red and Black Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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5' -'if Y X ' ' 2. -i - - 1. '- W , 1 V - . . 1, - Le. 5' A f l' . fF '3 'Q-til 15155--' rag ,gaff1fRf 'r+1:oi3 51 if -ffffi--.ez fr -L4r,AiL.Ir1L -45 Age Aan- Mfr- .,gL,R.LD.4a Ml 40 -4' AAND..4rf -if -ect -if!- ..gBl.AC.lls-i..i where they found the gold they were in In later years, they were to tell children search of. Later, they predicted clearing of their careers of danger and daring and weather and when the gray dawn came highroads of peril: but in their hearts, they over the horizon, they set under sail. knew there were new worlds to conquer. 1. The Young Trailers ,,........... TITLES OF BOOKS IN THE UJANIBOREEH By Stella Walezak .Altsheler 2. Men of Iron ,..,......., ..,..,.. P yle 3. Gold .............. .,..,... W hite 4. Bare Hands ........,.. ......., D aniel 5. Sea Devil ....,............... .,..,.,. L owell Thomas 6. Gari. the Elephant ...,....,.....,.. Mukerji 7. Hari, the Jungle Lad .....,....... 8. The Call of the Wild ,.,.......,., Mukerji London 9. Pieces of Eight .,.,....,..,........... Le Gallienne 10. The Ancient Highway ......,..... Curwood 1 l. Oregon Trail ...,.,...,...,............ Parkman 12. The Boy Who Was ..,.....,.,..... Hallock 13. The Pathfinder ......... ........ C ooper 14. Short Sword ....... ....... I rwin 15. Beau Geste ....,. ........ W ren 16. Skyward ,........ ..,.... B yrd 17, Jim Davis ,...,.....,.. ..,..... M aselield 18. Westward Ho! .......... ....... K ingsley 19. Lost in the Jungle .................. Du Chaillu 20. Bob North Starts Hunting ..... North 21. Black Arrow ..............,........... Stevenson 22. Spotted Deer ...... ........ G regor 23. Deerslayer ......... ......,. C ooper 24. Nimble Legs ........... ..,..... C apuana 25. Search of Gold ....... ..,..,.. F ordyce 26. Blue Water .............. ..... H ildebrand 27. Smugglers Island ...............,... Knee Land 28. Mutineers .............................. Hawes 29. The Captain of the Crew ....... Barbour 30. Black Bucaneer ...............,....... Meader 31. Tattooed Man ........................ Pease 32. Courageous Companions ..,...... Finger 3 3. Pirates .........................,......... Scott 34. Lad ................ ......... T erhune 3 5 . Chance ............. ......... C onrad 36. Pearl Lagoon ....,,.. ......., N ordhoff 37. The Jinx Ship ........ ......... P ease 38. Clearing Weather .....,. ......... M eigs 3 9. Gray Dawn ............................ Terhune 40. Under Sail .....................,..,.. Riesenburg 41. Careers of Danger and Daring Moffett 42. Highroads of Peril . ...........,., Bill 43. New Worlds to Conquer ......... Halliburton I LIKE TO READ By Norman Richman, '37 HOSE who have not formed the habit of securing a book, stowing them- selves away into a quiet nook and losing themselves to the outer world, have missed one of the greatest pleasures and thrills of life. As Carlyle said, ln books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. In a book you may look at the past or future, the dark or bright side of life, Without coming into actual contact with them. Books are the roads and gates to new worlds. They are oftentimes a path to heavenly bliss and mental and physical con- solation. After a hard day at some task, be it in school or out, isn't it a comfort and a fine sensation to bury your head in a book and fade into the mists of fiction or reality in fiction? For books are inseparable com- forters. Those who know not this joy I have just mentioned read with foreign eyes the above words. I know some people who procure a book, Nineteen

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I e' w s. . an ,- fic-ie ., g N R W my , vs aa. I T T' limi: -.--- 0- -. 'iig-!e1'Zi1i'i:'zif -rif -.-.r gQ - -.gr in w i Qatar: Inr.-,.,ag,,,..,-f -A ,,,gggu,,6g,ntD...am-.avf.,.ac:c a.-rc:...a1cL.,AND...c1r...f.-:cc.,.ms:c....11c..,s.f.ffz, BLAci1,..asi.aQw skim through the pages, and, when they reading matter we wish with little or no have finished, know no more about the difficulty. story than when they first began. You have to read a book twice and read between the lines before you seize the actual plot of the story. Alcott said, That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. These words are per- fectly true and anyone well-versed in read- ing will verify them. Books are the means to knowledge. worldly and spiritual: and even the most casual readers-those that read a book not for any definite purpose, cannot escape cer- tain passages which the eye meets and the mind records. O. W. Holmes brings out my idea when he declares, The foolishest book is a kind of leaky boat on a sea of wisdom: some of the wisdom will get in anyhow. I, through books, as in the storming of the Bastille by the French peasants in A Tale of Two Cities. have learned of the ways of the aristocrats, of various person- alities, of moods and passions of all classes of people, and the works of genius, besides much more information than I can men- tion. I-Iow thankful I am that although our forefathers had not an easy way of printing and securing books, we of this mechanical age have. Printing has made tremendous strides and our various dis- tributing agencies, such as our public library. have enabled us to get almost any I .- M I 9.1 lumlll lllllllllllx . Elllfll-1 1- Since that historic year of 1929, unem- ployed men, and employed men with leisure, have found, as one man once said, that books are the children of the brainY Those men, because of nothing else to oc- cupy their time, and the men with leisure, are steadily learning this, and are taking advantage of their discovery. As citizens of this glorious land of ours, one of our many duties to our country is to help better it. It isn't a one-man job. and, from my point of view, I don't see how any person, man or woman. boy or girl, can help to further his government if he doesn't know and read about other types of governments that were established and that have fallen or grown great with the passing generations. I Venture to say. how- ever daring it may seem to the reader, that many of us, at the end of our four years of high school, know more about the his- tcry of the world than do our fathers. This might not be true in business matters. but I am thinking of such subjects as geography, history, and literature. There are still many modern students, however. who need to learn that knowledge through books, observation by the means of one's mental capacity, and actual experience, are the fundamentals for worldly contacts, and that the true university is a collection of books. Y -.1,5- . ' '.. i X 'z l if java? L, fat., 2 2818 ' ig . rw Eu- ln if , f. Twenty ..,.m-11ez f , ,f ,v 1, I f--fy , arf i i,7'j'I'lf . U-ffffI-4M.aowmfftwfaoganna'fwir .mimi-it .' ,ma flaw. tp'