Johnstown High School - Spectator Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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SPECTATOR 3 Ellie High Srhnnl Smertatnr Truth, to the fact and a good spirit in the treatment VoL. XVII. JQHNSTOWN, PA., OCTOBER, 1914. No. 1 hmm Z' Y 1 2 r A fn - I October l g Gertrude Sanford '15 VVhen the iields of grain are garnered, And the 'fHarvest Home we sing, Wfhen the rustling corn grows yellow, And the heavy grape vines swing, When the mountains glow with color, Scarlet, yellow, russet-brown Wlien jack Frost steals thru the forest, And the nuts come rattling down Then we hail thee, bright October!

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' The ability to write was a proficiency that tempted me, but in practice I found it as hard as learning to whittle. Stevenson.

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4 SPECTATOR ' South America Everett Wetherbee '15 The war has deprived one country, South America, of most of its imports, and it has also given the United States the opportunity to take up this trade. Let us learn some facts about South America. South America, the southern division of the American continent, is a large, triangular shaped peninsula having a total area of from 6,500,000 to 7,500,000 square milesg and it is divided among ten republics and three colonies. Of this immense area, nearly half is included in Brazil and one- sixth in the Argentine Republic. But South America is an undeveloped country, and al- though discovered only ten years after ours, it is many years behind us in trade and manufacture. South America has as yet hardly any important manu- factures, the most advanced regions in this respect are Ar- gentine, Chili, and Southern Brazil. Most of her trade is in raw products, exchanging agricultural products, rubber and cattle for manufactured goods of nearly all kinds. The chief agricultural products are wheat in Chili and Argentine, coffee in Brazil, sugar in Brazil and Guiana, and chocolate on the Amazon. Columbia and Venezuela, the tropical regions, produce corn, fruits, and vegetables abun- dantlyg but these are little exported. The principal center of grazing is about the Plata in Argentine, in Uruguay, and in Southern Brazil. Rubber islthe principal export of the Amazon, parts of it coming from Bolivia, Columbia, and Peru. South America is also rich in metals, including gold, silver, copper, mercury, platinum, lead, and irong the first two are the only ones extensively mined. Although, at the present time, South America does not rank very high in the world's trade and business, it is a land of possibility, it is the ,land of to-morrow. South Amer- ica needs money to develope her resources and to build