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IS REFLECTOR Xke New Deal President Roosevelt is putting on a new deal — the N. R. A. Its main object is to put the un- employed back to work. For each industry the President has a code or a group of laws which governs that industry, sets standard wages, and stops overproduction, one of the main reasons why this country is in a depression. In any in- dustry no person may work more than forty hours a week ; the minimum wage is twelve dol- lars a week. A drive for N. R. A. members and consum- ers has been going on for the past few months with great success. Some towns have already signed the blanket code, showing that their mer- chants are one hundred per cent. N. R. A. General Hugh Johnson was appointed chair- man of the N. .R. A. committee by President Roosevelt. He should receive the help of the people, because the N. R. A. is a plan which will help this country. Robert Pirie ' 37 A Trip To Candy Land Once I thought I ' d take a trip; To candy land would be a pip. I ran and got my airplane toy, And off I started full of joy. Laugh! I thought that I should die; For then I saw the gumdrop pie! Five cents read the sign And then that gumdrop pie was mine. The chocolates were the cobble stones, The lemon drops the telephones. But most of all I got a kick Out of the lamp-post peppermint stick. Alice Magee ' 37 Compliments of ELBRIDGE NASH DRUG CO. William B. Nash, Jr., Registered Manager Columbian Square, South Weymouth, Mass. A Real TkanL A brisk north wind swept across the ice-land region. It was middle afternoon and the dull light was beginning to fade along the frozen northern wastes. Two human figures plodded slowly and painfully after a slow-moving dog sled. Their faces were frost-bitten, and their breaths came short. The three dogs, all that were left of a full team, slipped and fell on ac- count of the buffeting winds, as if they were fighting for life. Hard-frozen snow whipped across their faces. It ' s going to be a cold season, kid, said the older man. It ' ll be the last, too. If we don ' t sight some settlement outpost soon, they will die. Those dogs haven ' t had meat for two days running. I ' d like to eat one more square meal before I go, grunted his companion. Tomorrow ' s Tha nksgiving, too. .Nothing was heard except the low moaning of the wind and the swish, swish of the men ' s furry parkas, as they swung their arms to keep the blood in circulation. It was horribly cold, but they always kept on. Twenty-four hours had elapsed, and the sun was again sinking. The wind still moaned. Only one man and two dogs moved across the top of the frozen world. The younger man lay on the sled, unconscious with a fever. Can ' t be more than a mile now. I can get a doctor for him. He slipped, and crawled up a slight rise. He thought he would never come through, but he got to the top, and saw before him a few snow-covered buildings. With a cry he ran and fell unconscious by the doorway of the nearest house. The men who picked him up wondered at his delirious mutterings. Thank God, I made it, and a real Thanks- giving! A. A. Galen ' 37 WEYMOUTH THEATRE Where Friends Meet

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17 The Chicago W orld s Fair The Century of Progress Exposition of 1933 was held in Chicago. Chicago has been prepar- ing for this exposition for several years, forty- four states and seventeen countries having ex- hibits there. Chicago invested $25,000,000 in the fair and it has attracted more than 25,000,- 000 people. First of all, the fair was opened by the star Arcturus, which is forty-one light years away. The rays which started the fair left Arcturus forty-one years ago, at the time of the last Chi- cago World ' s Fair in 1892. These rays were caught by a giant telescope at the Harvard Ob- servatory in Cambridge which flashed them on a photo-electric eye and turned them into elec- trical impulses. These were sent to Chicago and automatically turned on all the lights on the fair ground, which contains over four square miles of dazzling exhibits. One of the most interesting things at tnc World ' s Fair is the Hall of Science, where you may find out how drops of water happen to be round ; how molecules arrange themselves into crystals ; how sound waves are produced and transmitted through the air; how scientists plan to harness the atom for its energy ; how cosmic rays could change the industrial world, and many other things that are explained in an easily understood manner. The Golden Pavilion of Jehol was reproduced exactly as it stands not far from Peking, its graceful double-roof covered with copper shingles and filmed over with gold leaf. The 28,000 wood and bronze pieces required to make this temple were all carved in China and then transported to Chicago for the Century of Prog- ress Exposition. The travel and transport building is a marvel of modern engineering, with its dome suspended from cables so that it rises and lowers as the air inside expands and contracts. Inside you may see side by side, the oldest railroad locomotives and the latest. Bell-funneled, wood-burning locomotives nestle under the wing of giant, hun- dred-mile-an-hour engines. In the Electrical Building there are astound- ing electrical exhibits; glowing tubes that open doors, electric-eyes that count passing people, wireless telephones, and other marvelous exhib- its. People sit in the curved amphitheatre and see hundreds of miracles worked by electricity. All around are glowing neon tubes and glisten- ing creators of power. Inside the Adler Planetarium the light is dim. Its dome-like ceiling looks like a clear summer sky at night with all the stars. Around the walls are charts of the sky. One of the most interest- ing things is the map of Mars, showing the prin- cipal canals and land marks. At night visitors look through a giant telescope and get a close- up of the Moon an d Planets. The Enchanted Island is a children ' s Para- dise with its tiny railroad, magic shows, puppet shows, clowns and scores of other things that children enjoy. In the Industrial Buildings are automobiles, tires, clothes, hosiery, and other products made right before your eyes. On the Sky Ride one rides an elevator up a 600-foot tower from the top of which can be seen all Chicago laid out at one ' s feet, and in the country beyond, the farm-lands of three states — Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. From a lower platform on this same tower one gets into the very latest of all conveyances — a rocket ship ! This is a ship propelled by rocket explo- sions, traveling on a cable 200 feet above the roofs of the Exposition Buildings. Besides the exhibits previously mentioned there are many others, including The Trans- parent Man from the German Hygiene Mu- seum, many historical buildings, the Hall of States, the Administration Building, the Agri- cultural Building, the Zoo, the Aquarium, the Museum, the Art Institute, Admiral Byrd ' s Polar Ship, the Radio Building, the Communi- cations Building, tropical palms, alligator farms, models of famous cities and resorts from all over the world. The next World ' s Fair is to be held in Paris, in 1937. Already the city is preparing for it. French engineers are planning a tower for this Fair. It will be the highest structure ever built by man, 2,334 feet high, as they plan it now ; however, their plans might change. It will be called The Lighthouse of the World . Dnuylas MacDonald ' 37

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The faculty adviser, Mr. Brown, While at the Milton supper sitting down, Asked if he would be able To crawl underneath the table, And if E. M. would arise from sitting down. She looked at him with a surprised expres- sion ; The cause of his departure she then questioned. This reason was evoked : He wished to have a smoke, And to gain the smoking-room was his intention. Departing in this fashion might seem wrong, But one saw, by speculating at the throng, Two ladies who were talking Most carelessly were blocking The passageway through which he should have gone. B. seems to enjoy kissing parts in plays if he takes part in the scene. Four freshmen girls and a sophomore make so much noise — for little girls — on a bus that others can ' t hear themselves think. Can ' t they stop talking about notes and boys? H. H. is our Sophisticated Lady. P. escorts a certain girl to her home-room, but this girl seems to have a crush on — It ' s hot in here. Do you want me to open the window? E. M. never stops dreaming about a certain voung man at college who is a graduate of W. H. S. H. H. must be taking lessons from Walter Winchell. Just ask her anything! W. M. worries so much when his girl is sick that he can ' t do his school work. Poor little boy ! A. D. walks home with E. M. every night. E. must be less shy now. C. E. seems to be back for a P. G. course just to escort a certain red-headed girl to her home-room each morning. E. sits nearer to F. each night on a bus. Look out, E., you ' ll lose him out the window. R. M. wears the key to someone ' s heart. P. D. seems to find so much pleasure in bein fickle and in taking the other girls ' men away. ( Sour grapes?) Freshmen shouldn ' t be so afraid of a teacher they have for study periods. He ' s really not so gruff as his voice implies. It ' s all in the way you hold your mouth — in more things than one, said a teacher. How does he know? Nice-looking book agents shouldn ' t be sent to the school. These women teachers a well, P. S. seems to have a bad heart attack. Will someone please send for a doctor ? ( Now will he be more careful whom he confides in!) We Five ' 34 AS OIK setter Sophisticated Lady : Thanks , for The Day You Came Along . I ' m an old Lazvbones , who is just Buckin ' the Wind but I ' ll be Faithful . You know I ' ve a Cabin in the Pines , in the Valley of the Moon and it ' s By a Water- fall , Sophisticated Lady . It ' s Not a Secret Any More , I Love You Truly . Remember Shanghai Lil , The Torch Singer ? She Done Me Wrong and It ' s the Talk of the Town . I ' ve come back to my Louisville Lady . Either Give Me Libertv or Love or I ' ll be heading for The Last Roundup . Forever Yours Barnacle Bill the Sailor Virginia Burkett ' 34