Beverly Hills High School - Watchtower Yearbook (Beverly Hills, CA)

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if x 1 'IW U NY ' 1 i FOREVJORD p I was asked to write a Foreword for this Beverly I-Iills High School Congressional Record. This is not really a Foreword itIs a Warning. Every book or magazine should have a warning, the same as we have at railroad crossings where there are signs warning the trains to look out for cars. The electric lines out there killed more people than the war. They don't run fast -until they get near a crossing-and they never will hit one person in a car, they can't monkey their time away with only one they wait for a load. But that'.s got nothing to do with this warning, this one is telling you to look out for this magazine. 'You are liable to sneak up on it and read it before you know you have done it if it wasnlt for the warning, Course people donlt pay much attention to warnings, they think they are just put there by people with nothing else to dog but I want to tell you that is not the case with me., I am busy and when I take time to warn you to lay off this Almanac I mean Time is valuaf ble nowadays, and people havenlt got any time to be monkeying with this thing. IH

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Z 1 ,aw I want to warn parents especially, for if they read this they will wonder Why do we send them to schoolf' But if they don't read it why they will still think you are learning something. They get these illustrated handfbills out every year in all the schools, just to keep their minds off any work that the teachers might have given them to do. Some high school started it as a substitute for study and the rest of course have followed. Now, Beverly is a new school, and I am glad of that for if you don't take my warning and go read this you won't have to read about Tradition . The school has absolutely no 'lTradition . It was started to keep our children from going to Hollywood. In fact it cost us over a million dollars just to keep you out of Hollyf wood and its evil influences. You would have learned more if you had gone to Holly' wood school, but it was not what we wanted you to learn. I want you to know we had to move two oil wells to make room for the thing. We could enlarge the school but it would interfere with the golf course. There are thousands of people learning to play golf to every one learning to read. 'You donit have to know about History to get along but you certainly do have to know how to HPutt . There are people playf ing golf in America today that think the word 'lCoolidgeU is an add for some new fangled Refrigerator. 'You all must be sure and go to College when you get out of High School. In the old days college boys had nowhere to go when they come out of college, but now they go to work in filling stations. All they have to do is to be there to hand over the money, whenever a robber appears fgenerally another college manj. I think everybody ought to have a fine education, even if you can't make a living at it. Itis good to know that you know more than the people that you have to ask for jobs from. Not that this has anything to do with the subject, but how is the old town anyf how7 Howis the water, has it cleared up anyl 'You never had any trouble with it when I was Mayor. That was the hrst thing I would do every morning was to see that the water was clear. I think they made a big mistake by ever letting me out. How is the Parents' Teachers' Association, still telling the teachers how to teach their children things that they couldn't teach 'em at home themselves. These'high schools down south here where I am now are coming along fine, they are getting some splenf did Coaches. Who's got the most votes out there now, the North or the South side of the tracks7 'You might think the north side had more money, but they haven't, they only owe more. The south side pays rent and the north side pays interest on Mort' gages. Now all this ought to be warning enough for anybody. After reading this they certainly would go on at their own peril. Tours, WILL ROGERS ff! f XX f1lW'v-fri V ,nh ik T 'F If-rr f ruin' . 'P ,N I -0 K-Ti E51