Hallowell High School - Venture Yearbook (Hallowell, ME)

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The VENTURE 25 able to withstand the continued strain of non-stop flights over thou- sands of miles-planes that will car- ry a huge burden and carry it at a terrific speed. Commercial airplane service is, perhaps, more extensive in Europe than in America at the present time. London to Paris via the air-route is a daily occurrence, in fact, all the important cities of European nations are linked by air-routes. The power- ful motors which sustain these air- crafts in flight are really only im- proved designs of the engines that drive high-speed racing cars. Engineers of the automotive in- dustry strive unceasingly to alter and improve in the manufacture of motors to comply with the demands of the racing world. The highly eflicient motor of a modern aeroplane is derived from engines such as the one that propelled Major Segrave in his car Mystery S over the hard sandy-beach of Daytona, Florida, at the fastest pace ever reached by man on land--two hundred and seven miles an hour. Not only in air and on land does this amazing development extend, but on water. Marine engines are but another branch of the automo- tive industry. Gar Wood, the noted builde1', owner, and pilot of speed- boats, has a record of over eighty miles an hour. No longer do we look upon mar- velously equipped luxurious cars or radios as anything other than ordi- nary adjuncts to the middle-class American home, and yet how rela- tively short a time since the first of these were introduced. A wonderful new light has been designed to guide airplanes safely to their landing fields in bad weather. The rays from this light are orange- red and are said to penetrate dense fog. The tube which gives off these rays contains neon gas and a mir- ror of the rare and costly metal cal- cium. Somebody evidently decided that sky-writing by airplane was not sufliciently an efficient or pleasing method of advertising or entertain- ment, therefore the General Electric Company has perfected a gun or cannon that will hurl images on dis- timt clouds, and rouse jaded curios- 1 y. Other inventions and developments too numerous to consider are rapidly being thrust upon us. It is with a strong mixture of feelings that we attempt to peer into the future and consider the powers that posterity may hold. Many years from now, In a land of magic things, Suppose man fails to bow To Nature's mutterings. Then shall he divide the atom, And recombine in manner new, Then shall he curb the storm, Send or withhold the dew. Yet if he grew too bold, And try to reach too far, Then like to Titan, famed of old, He shall fail from star to star. All once again shall changeg A new world shall appear. Then the Creator shall arrange, And man hold him in fear. The earth move on again. Intact, serene, and clear. 1.i PRESENTATION OF GIFTS One more school year now has passedg Comes our Commencement Day at last. I have a gift for each one hereg Accept them, please, O Classmates dear. 1. Pat, I hope, will like what I bringg It certainly is a useful thing. He'll follow the trade of his brothers, Press and clean the suits of others. For you, Joe, this flatircw now, For the suits that are brought to you. 2. They say our Johnny likes to go Two miles north to a picture showy And many a night he has walked home Through brooding darkness, all alone. Now, when the cars have ceased to run, Walking home is not much fun. This trolley car each night use, Think what you'll save on shoes.

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24 The VENTURE apart or to combine elements in some definite way to serve some particular end. Perhaps the greatest of the more recent scientific inventions is tele- vision. A group of sixty men recent- ly witnessed in a large research laboratory in New York City, a thrill- ing demonstration of the first practi- cal system for transmitting sight as well as sound. The system had been developed by scientists of the Bell Telephone Laboratories. As the six- ty men looked into the magic screen, they saw the animated face of Her- bert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, shot across miles of wire with the speed of light. He was talking to them from a desk telephone in Wash- ington, and as they listened, they saw his lips move to form each word. To-day, he was saying, as his eyes so many miles distant looked into theirs, we have, in a sense, the transmission of sight for the first time in history. Human genius has destroyed the impediment of distance in a new respect, and in a manner hitherto unknown. Today there has been created a marvelous agency for whatever the future may hold. The faces changed on the screen, a telephone girl appeared, then tele- phone officials in New York chatted with colleagues in Washington. Friends smiled across the miles. Long distance vision by wire was at last a fact. This was not all, however, vision by radio was likewise suddenly real- ized. Living images leaped across the ether, and landed on the screen before which the sixty sat spell- bound. The form of a blackface comedian. transformed into ether waves, for an instantaneous fiight across space, appeared on the screen while his jokes were made audible by a radio loud-speaker. Television is, in its development, typical of the new era in invention- an era when creative men no longer labor single-handed to perfect their ideas, but join forces in systematic research and experiment to solve dif- ficult problems. One man did not invent television, it was the work of a group of scientists and engineers, all coordinating their efforts towards the goal. After this final demonstra- tion, television was sent back to the laboratories which originated it, with the terse instruction, Condition it for commerce. If this invention is made practical for commercial use, there is no doubt that in a very short time we shall see distant men and events by means of radio as we sit in our homes, with as much ease as we now listen to far-away voices and music. One cannot refrain from a gasp of astonishment in trying to conceive the prospect of seeing baseball and football games, all kinds of races, boxing-matches, and similar events transpiring before one's eyes, as if one were in a ring-side seat or on the grandstand. Imagine its uses for opera, vaude- ville, and business. We are unable to claim that this can not be done, for it has been done. Nor does tele- vision stand alone! Let us make a brief review of similar startling de- velopments in other fields. Interest in aviation has, perhaps, never been so keen as at the present time. Records in height and dis- tance are being constantly broken. Small all-steel aeroplanes attain a speed of nearly three hundred miles an hour. A huge sea-plane was re- cently built in Germany, capable of carrying a load of one hundred and ten passengers. Designers of airplane craft the world over embody in their work all the knowledge gained from a minute study of aeronautics since the first successful flight of a heavier-than- air machine, over a score of years ago. Painstaking research has re- sulted in the construction of planes

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26 , The VENTURE 3. Dorothy' a business woman will make, That is the path her life 'will takeg And when she goes to business school. I'm sure shefll need this little rule. Then, in spite of unkind fate, All her lines will be quite straight. 4 Pike surely likes ice cream, H. P. Gray's can make him beam. He eats one, two, three, four, When, after school, his work is o'erg Still he can't get quite enough, And to spend ,one's money thus is tough. So, Harold, here are five big cones. Hope they won't cause you groans. 5. Anna, for you here is a bed, A soft place to lay your sleepy head, Here for a long time you can rest, For the bed is one of the best. Perhaps long enough you'll dream, And nevermore sleepy seem. 6. Kenneth had always a story of a spook, When at school his lunch he took. And the girls all grew pale, As he reeled off tale after tale. Since you like ghost stories a lot, This book of them for you I bought. , 7. Ruth doesn't like to walk home Through the darkness all alone So this lantern for her I got To brighten any dark or dreary spot Take it, Ruthie, and grow bolder Forget your fear as you grow older. 8 Duke is going to school some more, To learn much of woodland lore A tree surgeon he plans to be. George, this knife I'll give to thee. Use it to prune day after day, It will bring success, they say. 9. Blushing gives Margaret too much colorg So I'll give her this to make it duller. This powder here, applied with care, Will make her much more fair. Use it daily, but don't be late, For employers don't like to wait. 10. ' Evelyn always wanted a boat, So she and Lloyd towards home could float. Now her wishes have all come true, Here is that boat, all nice and new, Quite ready for the girl and boy. Now their trip will be all joy. 11. Ridgwell, now, is sure a dandy, Perhaps this cane will come in handy. It is the very latest style, With it he can walk many a mile. You see it harmonizes well, 'Twas the best that they would sell. 12. We have one girl in our class Who is a jolly little lass. But I'm afraid she is too small To be of any use at all, So these stilts for her I bought, They surely ought to help a lot. 13. Stevie, too, is quite a sheik. He dresses Oh! so nice and neat. He likes his ties of sober hue, But this is the best that I could do. Accept this tie from your classmates dear. The girls will all like it, never fear. 14. Eugene Arata, a hunter bold, Went once, so we are told, To hunt for partridge, deer, and rabbitg For such had always been his habit. But poor Snookie had no good luckg He met a wild cat, not a buck. Now if this little gun you'd had, The end would not have been so sad. 15. Veronica seems by far to prefer A truck and its chauffeur To a sedan, however new. To one Ford she has been true. But a truck is not so badg Especially if you like the lad. But in case it should break down, Here's another to bring you to town. , 16. Harold, here's something to make you growg Your growth so far has been too slow. Here is a medicine specially made. Why, ten whole cents for it I paid! One thing about it, I am sureg It's guaranteed to kill or cure. 17. Reta next fall to school will gog Fate decrees that that be so. Then what will Carroll do, Deprived of sweetheart true? At least, though her face he may not see, Notes, letters and cards, he may have all three. To Reta I'll give this stationery, That in writing to him she need not tarry. 18. Scott, I know you must be tired Of making speeches with spirit fired.