Hicksville High School - Hixonian Yearbook (Hicksville, OH)

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E NEW EXECUTIVES FIND FAVGR Wf W. SCHUBERT Principal Commerce J D BLACKFORD Super nfenderd' Malrhe af cs Gu dance

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THE I-IIXONIAN uQ3Q BCDARD OF EDUCATION Read ng Tom leTT To rughT Glen I-looTman Glen B oovr J O Longs orTh P J Murphy ForesT IvIcCaIua and W II am Cleland Twelve years ago when you The graduaTung class oT I939 enTered The TursT grade Ameruca was en loyung an unparalleled prosperuTy AuTomobule producTuon Tar surpassed prevuous records car load ungs were The hughesT sunce The World War home buuldung boom was un progress ln New York ThaT day was consudered losT whuch dud noT see a new record esTablushed Tor sTock pruces and volume OT Tradung A hugh school or college graduaTe had Tew worrues abouT securung employmenT I-lus only problem was whuch oT The varuous avaulable 'obs shall I Take7 Then came The sTock markeT crash Tollowed by a compleTe collapse oT our bankung sysTern Indus Trual producTuon was a mere shadow oT uTs Torrner selT Farm pruces reached rock boTTom IT was cheaper To burn corn Than To buy coal Unem ploymenT Tell To dangerous almosT revoluTuonary proporTuons Bank Tanlures reached The epuderruuc sTage and Tor a shorT peruod every bank un The l.lnuTed STaTes was closed Desp raTuon and Terror were plaunly wruTTen on The counTenances OT The un employed whule Those who had uobs luved un morTal Tear oT beung laud oTT I-lunger malnuTruTuon ex posure worry and Tear were The order oT The day and relueT became The pruncupal TuncTuon oT The governmenT Gradually slowly The wheels OT undusTry agaun began To Turn Farm pruces slowly recovered some OT Theur prevuous losses RelueT and governmenT employmenT were provudung a margunal exusTence Tor The unemployed By I936 uT seemed ThaT pros peruTy was Truly uusT around The corner JusT as undusTrual recovery seemed assured labor duspuTes became promunenT The suT down sTruke became an unsTrumenT In labor polucy Labor was duvuded agaunsT uTselT wuTh ruval TacTuons Tyung up key undusTrues CapuTal and managemenT appalled by The poTency and devasTaTuon oT These new phe nomena reTrenched and down we wenT agaun noT so deep perhaps buT down As Thus IS wruTTen I suT by The raduo lusTenung To every avaulable news broadcasT hopung ThaT I wull noT hear a lasT munuTe bulleTun sTaTung ThaT a gen eral war has broken ouT un Europe a war un whuch we musT unevuTably become Involved All Thus has been expensuve The cosT un human resources cannoT be esTumaTed The cosT un socual progress us lukewuse uncalculable BuT we do know ThaT The naTuonal debT has rusen To a dangerous hugh OT ThurTy nune bulluon dollars whuch amounTs To Three hundred dollars Tor every person luvung un Thus counTry And we assume ThaT uT wull evenTually be paud Yes we have made a mess oT uTl Whule you were receuvung your basuc educaTuon we who have been durecTung The varuous aTTaurs oT our counTry have guven you a kaleudoscopuc dusplay un socual poIuTucal and economuc husTory noT equalled or ap preached un any prevuous Amerucan era In a Tew shorT years all Thus becomes your worry and responsubuluTy The TaTe oT our naTuon The TaTe oT The pruncuple oT Democracy perhaps even The TaTe OT conTemporary cuvuluzaTuon depends upon how well you and your ummeduaTe predecessors and suc cessors execuTe Thus responsubululTy God granT ThaT you do a beTTer 'ob Than we have done J D BlackTord I r ' 2 I url yue, . . w , . . I il , . . . ,.. .. . I I - I I - ' . . . . . . . . . . . II . II I I T ' - I I a ' T 0 I Q I I I I - I I - I ,I . . . . . . . I ,, . . . . . .. . ,I . . . . . ' A - I I , . . e I . T 1 I I I . I. . .I .. . . . . . . ' I I T I I I I - ., . ,, . . . . . . I I - I - I . I.. ,, . , ' . I I

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HE HIXONIAN lQ3QY fl FACULTY EQ MER How Emsmmg STUDENTS GERALD SAP? Hsfor IV Coach JAMES A BRIGHT Chem sfry PHYSICS Scum Geomefr