Nappanee High School - Napanet Yearbook (Nappanee, IN)

 - Class of 1913

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In the year 1894 the first automobile appeared in Detroit, which is now probably the greatest automobile center in the world. In 1903 the Ford Motor Co. was organized, and in 1912 manufactured and sold 75,000 cars, and is planing to double its out put for 1913. This great business has developed in the short time of ten years. The future of the automobile is great, especially in the commercial car field. The U S. government has carried on numerous experiments to find a motor truck that w ill bear great loads but w ill not be so heavy as to break down the light bridges found in the thinly settled parts of the United States. The commercial truck has taken the place of horses with most of the large department stores and other places where large number of horses are used. They do not get tired, can haul heavier loads and the driver does not have to pity them as he would a horse The automobile hasgiven thousands of people many hours of enjoyment and also many hours of trouble, but nothing unites the people of neighboring towns as does a means of rapid transportation. The automobile simple, durable, and efficient, solves this question, and people are enabled to penetrate places never entered by a railroad. Now let us look into those parts of the automobile that tend to make it so durable and efficient. Of the motorcars one sees on the street there are three kinds: gasoline, electric, and steam— refering to their motive power. The last named can be dismissed with a few words, for steam cars are becoming fewer and fewer each year. Early in the history of the motor car industry the steam car was the most popular owing to the lack of development of the other two kinds. There are many-people to-day who prefer the steam car because of its smoothness and ability to climb hills. The steam car works on the same principle as the railway locomotive, generating steam in a boiler to operate the steam engine. Gasoline is the fuel gener ally used for the tire under the boiler. Most people feel that to drive and to care for a steam car one must be something of an engineer. In fact the chief difference between the steam car and the gasoline car has been aptly expressed by a motorist who has driven both types, in the statement that, when something went w rong with the gasoline car it took a day to find the trouble and a minute to fix it, while with the steam car it took a minute to find it and a week to fix it. Electric cars are driven by one or two electric motors which receive current for their opera- tion from an electric storage battery carried in the car. They have a distinct field and in that field they are popular. They do not have to be cranked, are silent, smooth and reliable. The chief features urged against them are that they are heavy and the fact that the storage batteries must be recharged with electrical energy about every one hundred miles which necessitates that they get not too far away from a charging station. Dismissing these tw o classes of cars with this, we will turn to the gasoline type of car, by far the most widely used type, and the one which will receive the greatest part of our attention. To make clear from the beginning the order in w hich the gasoline motorcar is to be explained, it is necessary at first to look at the car as a whole. It is made oi two main parts, entirely distinct from one another, the body and the chassis. The body of a motor car is simply the result of the carriage builder’s art and need not concern us. The chassis is w hat is left of the car when we loosen up the bolts that hold the body to the frame and take off the body and fenders. The chassis is the real w orks of the car. It consists first of the engine or motor located in front of the dashboard, performing the same duties and occupying the same location as the horse does in the older type of road vehicle. Next there is the transmission, which term includes all the machinery that helps in making the power of the motor turn the driving wheels. The terra is often used incorrectly to mean the gear set, which is only part of the transmission system. This system includes the clutch, which is next to the motor, then comes a short shaft to the gear set From the gear set extends a shaft called the driving shaft or the propeller shaft, to the rear axle, in shaft-driven cars. In chain-driven cars the driving shaft only part way to the rear axle, but connects w ith the cross shaft from which chains run either to the rear axle or to the rear wheels. The final part of the transmission system is the rear axle with its differential. The differential is a device for allowing either wheel to turn faster than the other. To accomplish this the driving axle is made in two parts, a driving wheel being attached to the outer end of each part, and the driving power applied to the axle w here the inner ends meet. The two parts of the axle are connected by gears, so that if one wheel is revolved forward, the driving gear being held stationary, the wheel will revolve backwards at the same speed as the first one turns forward. The device enables one wheel

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were acquainted with both sides of whatever question they were called upon to discuss. Although a peron may attain a very high state of culture without the school, nevertheless the school is the most natural course taken by those striving for educational advantages. Many people are deprived of school education but Improve every opportunity to broaden their intellects by good reading and thus become self-educated. In fact, some of our most successful men, as Abraham Lincoln, have had few educational advantages. Men like Lincoln have succeeded only because they were determined to succeed and improved every moment by reading and studying all books which were at their disposal. That person who earns his own w'ay to high school or college is being educated for some purpose and is sure to succeed. On the other hand, the school aids the students by training them into the best ideals of integrity, interest and alertness. There are forms of conduct not found in books, butsimply acquired by contact with people, out of which come some of the best types of character. “Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity,” and Chas Eliot has said, just recently: “Nocapital earns so much interest on its investment as personal culture.” Perhaps one of the greatest means of culture is contact with people. Generally speaking, it is more advantageous to live in or near a large town, thus are gained both the advantage of the quiet and solitude of country life and, at the same time, contact with the various activities of city life. This is more noticeable in the manners of children. One can easily discern whether a child has been accustomed to much contact with people or not, or whether these people have education and refinement. But this is just as true of older persons, as such a great part of our education is sympathetic and social so you cannot have one cultured man or woman without a whole society of such. And in striving for culture, the true aim of culture must be kept in view. Thus, Harriet Beecher Stowe has said: “That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellowmen is not God’s refinement.” We should come into a closer relation with all mankind and learn to love what is simple and beautiful and strive to add something to the well-being of men. Culture cannot begin too early as the life of the young boy or girl foretells what the life of the man or woman will be. One of the highest purposes of culture is to give a man a perfect knowledge and master of his ow n inner self. Extensive travel is another means of gaining a more perfect intellectual knowledge of affairs. Most of our university and college professors have spent part of their time abroad, studying or for the purpose of research in their particular line of work, but also primarily for purposes of general culture. Longfellow gained a broader knowledge by his tours abroad and thus had a w ider range of subjects from which to choose, gaining an advantage over Whittier, w hose education and experience was very limited. Likewise many of our writers have made tours abroad, thus coming in contact with various peoples. A person may learn more from travelling than in several years of schooling, as some tilings only seem real when they have actually been seen and not merely read of in books, which often makes them seem imaginative. Thus, experience is always found to be the greatest teacher. Great men like Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, who became such great factors in the political life of their time, have had a great influence on the affairs of our nation and likew ise, upon the minds of all mankind. These men are always more honored and esteemed when it is found they possessed intellectual tastes and skill. Ms Hlhrrr (tanlhtr ts IKtitg lester gentziiorx He automobile in a practical form is a comparatively new invention. The majority of us remember when we looked upon the first automobile as a great curiosity, and to-day even in the small towns people do not turn their heads as one whizzes by. It is now a very com- mon sight to see the farmers come to town in the latest type of car. What has made the automobile so common and the price so low that it is no longer a luxury for the rich only? The answer is: quantity manufacturing.



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to turn faster than the other when the automobile runs in a curved path. At one or both ends of the propeller shaft and often in front of the gear set are placed universal joints sometimes called Carden joints or Hook’s joints. These allow the shaft to rock or hinge about in any direction while the shafts are rotating. The swaying of the car on its springs makes this flexible connection necessary. The third system of the car is the running gear. This includes the wheels, front axle, springs, the frame that carries the motor and transmission system, and the steering and control arrangements. In addition to these systems are the various adjuncts which are necessary to their proper operation. In the case of the motor these include the fuel and oil tanks, the ignition devices and self-starters if used. The transmission system is almost complete in itself and the running gear parts are such as the mud-pan under the motor, the hangers for the mudguards, and so on. Starting the gasoline motor has always been a question and in 1909 became serious because of racing cars constructed with motors too large to be turned over by hand unless geared down with an accessory shaft. Self-starters were also in great demand by women who drove their own cars. The year 1911 saw the first really serious agitation for starters, and so great has been the progress that by the year 1912 nearly every good make of car was equipped with one form or another. The first devices were springs, straps, chains, etc. They served their purpose well but were supplanted by presure devices using air, acetylene, and other sources of fluid pressure. These were followed by the electric devices in which the greatest prograss has been made. In some of the electric starting systems, the generator serves as a motor to start the engine and when the engine is running, lights the electric lamps and furnishes current for ignition, besides storing up current for starting the engine again. The automobile industry is only in its infancy and its future is great. This age is an “Age of Speed” and the automobile has its place. SPEED BY CARLTON EDHOLM The feverish motors Hashing by; The swift plane swooping in the sun, The skein of wires against the sky, All mean—unnumbered lives in one. These things we do in toil or play. Grow not as the deliberate oaks: The thought, the will, the deed to-day Are triple, tierce trip-hammer strokes. Old land-marks totter; in their place Rise overnight the spires the new Faith builds. They clutch the base and dare Like spears, the eternal blue. Our fate in one quick throw is cast. The Now. What far beyond know we: To live the day e'er it be past. Our answer is Eternity. (0ur iflnst Ultbrlu ICntirit IJnrt, 1®. ICmiijff llmu FRKIDA ELIZABETH PRICE T|s there anyone of America’s people who is not acquainted with Longfellow? Surely you all know of Priscilla's famous “Why don’t you speak for yourself, John,” and of “Hiawatha,” and of “Paul Itevere’s Ride.” On the twenty-seventh of March, 1807, our great poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was born in Portland, Maine, in a great brick house by the sea. 11 is father was a prominent lawyer; his mother though for years an invalid, had not lost the cheeriness which she possessed as a lively young girl. Longfellow had all the opportunities of a good education. He was turned loose in the library and there it was he became attached to books. Irving’s Sketch Book was the first book to attract his attention. At three he started to school, at six he wrote his first letter; and by the age of seven he was half way through his Latin Grammar. He was of a quiet, ambitious nature and loved to lie under a tree and read. He loved birds and animals just as well as the flowers and trees. He never could kill a bird or animal as his companions did. One time he did kill a robin red breast and lamenting on this he lovingly wrote: '‘The birds who muke sweet music for us all In our dark days as David did for Saul. He resolved never to kill another. He entered Bowdoin College at the age of fourteen. While there he wrote many verses of poetry and began to wish to make himself eminent some day. He won the friendship of

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