Joplin High School - Joplimo Yearbook (Joplin, MO)

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until the required depth is reached. When this water is forced out, the sub- marines rise to the surface again, Compressed air is used for two different things in submarine warfare. It is used to maintain fresh air in the interior while underwater, thus enabling the occupants to remain below the surface for several hours, and it is used to force the torpedoes out of the guns. The invention of the periscope has greatly reduced the danger of sub- marine sailing. One of the principal dangers it has almost done away with, is that of running into, or being run into by, a surface ship. This accident is always fatal because the ships are so lightly constructed that the very touch of a ship's hull will tear open their shells and send them to the bottom. SAUCY TUG Saucy tug, you ought to be A model of humility. Have you ever traveled far? Did you ever win a war? Have you any claim to fame? Does anyone recall your name? Tiny tug, I want to know Why you always come and go With that impious air of pride. What pert secret do you hide? Is it proper, now, to mock The bigger, better boats at dock? Saucy tug, is it because Gigantic liners always pause And let you guide them in and out And nose their helpless hulks about? You have conquered and defied The great. Of course you're satisfied. -Margaret Calbeck, '34. Second place in poetry contest. Seucnre n

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In 1910 Captain R. E. Scott set sail from England with the Terra Nova. His purpose was to make extensive scientific investigations. He was quite surprised to find a Norwegian party sailing around in the Antarctic Ocean under the direction of Captain Roald Amundsen. Amundsen had been sent on a trip to the north pole, but had decided to trythe south, and managed to get there without being discovered. Scott reached the pole, but was bitterly disappointed to find that Amundsen had preceded him and set up a tent there to let him know that he had been there. Scott and the men who went into the interior with him perished there on the return trip. The latest explorer to sail to the Antarctic is Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd. who is now there for the second time. On his first trip he took the steel ship Eleanor Bolling and his flagship, the City of New York. The latter ship is old, and has been battered by ice and gales that would have demolished any other ship. It carried Roald Amundsen on one of its first voyages into the north, on a Greenland sealing trip. This ship is excellent for Antarctic work because its bottom is built to lift the boat should it be caught in a freeze. The sides are three and one-third feet thick, and the ribs are only a few inches apart. A ship of lesser strength than this could not have withstood the ice and gales of the Antarctic. On his second trip Byrd again took it for these very reasons. Had there been no ship like this, the men would probably never have returned from Little America, for one gale loaded it with two hundred tons of ice. a load which would have sunk another, and yet it pulled through to bring the men back to civilization. Thus, ships have been used throughout history in the expansion and enlightenment of the inhabitants of the World. ' SUBMARINES Submarines were known and used as long ago as the American Revolution- ary War. The first submarine, a wooden ship, was invented by David Bush- nell and was used by Sergeant Lee to go under the bow of the British ship Eagle and attach a magazine of explosives to its hull. A little later than this Robert Fulton built a submarine and offered it to Napoleon to aid him in his invasion of England. However, submarines were not yet efficient enough to become as valuable as they are today. Experi- ments have been made continuously to improve them, and shortly after the Civil War valuable improvements were made by John P. Holland and Simon Lake. The submarines were then a much more effective weapon of war. By means of oil engines the vessels can maintain a high speed on the sur- face of the ocean. However, because of fumes from the oil, the submarines use the less powerful electric motors to propel them under the surface at an average speed of twelve miles an hour. For this reason they dive only when necessary. The electric motors are practically noiseless and heatless, and in addition leave no bubbles to warn the enemy. The boats have, besides the ordinary rudder, two rudders placed horizon- tally to help make them go up or down. However, the greatest force for vertical motion is the weight of the ocean water, which is let in through valves Sixteen

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HIT AND RUN Green Wood Lane, a short, winding street upon which three houses stood behind high hedges, is infrequently used by either cars or pedestrians, and its intersection with Walnut Avenue is poorly lighted. Since darkness had already fallen, Pat Shepro had no way of knowing that a small boy was racing along tho lane as he approached the avenue, until with a dart the lad skipped off the sidewalk directly into the path of the speeding roadster. No one could have prevented what followed. In about as long a time as it takes a lightning flash to fade, the whole incident was over and photographed on Shepro's mind. Unforgettably, he saw a small hand thrown protectively up. He heard a bump and felt it, a very little one. There wasn't any cry. He saw a limp figure thrown to the side of the road. It was panic that then gripped Shepro and caused him to look into the rear vision mirror. He saw that there were no cars behind. No one was ahead: no one was coming. It was still panic, not Shepro's conscientious thinking, that set foot on the gas and sent the roadster racing ahead. In a moment he saw a light ahead. Panic at the wheel whispered that the roadster must not be seen at that spot. From street to street, left to right, in and out like a fox he drove. He reached the boulevard. Then he lost part of his terror because he thought he could lose himself for good. He made a wide left turn in the desperation of flight. His foot pressed hard on the gas, harder than before. Many cars were on the boulevard, but none of them passed him or even seemed to keep up. How come the cops didn't get me? he asked himself through chattering teeth. They're thick on the boulevard. The roadster slowed down to sanity, and Shepro began to think. I couldn't have helped hitting him, he told himself, a dry sob catching in his throat. I couldn't help it. It wasn't my fault at all. He ran right into my path. But panic still at his elbow helped him to reconcile things. Only one thing to do. It was his fault. But they might have held me. He glanced about to see where he Was. Rosemont. He recognized the suburb. He must have come fast. Rosemont was seven miles from where he had been. He told himself he must make some kind of plan, do something. decide. Dorothy and Jimmy, his lips tightened, must never know. No, but they would wonder about him if he were late. His habits were very regular. He was already late. Two hours, from five to seven o'clock. He began to plan coldly-as coldly as possible. Of course he had hit someone, but it wasn't his fault. But it was done now. What next? Dorothy was so keen to see through things. But she must never suspect. He drew into a parking space in front of a drug store. With fists actually clenched, he got out and walked into the store. Slug, please. liiyhlccn