Bromfield High School - Beacon Yearbook (Harvard, MA)

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--.1 -- ---.-1. --f--- V' 'f ' E Zi-lErom?ieLd Beacon!! Besides being able to train an athlete, a coach must have other quali- ties. He must have a good disposition and a likeable personality. If a man understands teen-agers and has the ambition to work with them, he has fulfilled a very important requirement. A good coach should have taken part, at one time or another, in the sport which he is planning to teach. He must have the ability to show his students the fundamentals, tricks that will improve their brand of play, and how to use these tricks to the best advantage. If one has all these qualities and wants to coach, there is no reason in this world why he should not be given the chance. You may wonder what is meant by the previous statement. I believe that any person that has a strong desire to coach should be allowed to prove himself, for he builds the youth of any community in many ways. For instance, there are many high school boys, who have a few faults, and because of these have not made a satisfactory position in society. If such a person is allowed the chance to become part of a team, and he shows that he has some of the same qualifications that other people have he is bound to win the respect of others. In this way he develops con- fidence in himself. Then, too, an athlete is taught how to absorb punish- ment and how to respect all persons whether they be opponents or officials. Another factor in coaching is that the youth of this country is built physically by such men. One cannot stress too much how the strength and endurance of young people have helped America in the past. No- matter what sport the athlete is training for, whether it be football, baseball, basketball, boxing, or even swimming, a great deal of time must be spent in practice. Such practice takes a great number of young boys from the streets and turns them into respectable citizens. Any athlete learns how to think and think quickly in most cases. This is an age of speed. Many of the sports have increased in speed and there- fore require a great deal of fast thought. Without this ability to think with speed an athlete is lost. Why shouldn't anybody who wishes to build the youth of America in so many ways be given a chance to prove himself? The work of a coach is interesting, nerve racking and endless. .He has to spend a great deal of time planning how to use the abilities, size, speed. and competitive spirit of the individuals he has to teach. Any coach is a target for criticism no matter how harmful such criticism may be. Many a night's sleep is lost because of criticism and because of a team's defeats and injuries. In football and basketball much thought and time has to be put into the devising of plays. Again he must consider the size, speed, abilities, and competitive spirit of the boys in the squad. Those with whom the coach works receive a great deal of training val- uable in future years. Because of their understanding of sports, they will enjoy them as spectators. They will also have a greater interest in their children and will enjoy watching them play the games they themselves once played. The coaching profession is a valuable one because it provides as an example to students the leadership of a man who has given them the satis- Page Nineteen 4,53 1' 9. .

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E U51-om? i ei.gl. Be afcoin The freight and elevator rates were so high that the farmer had to pay more to ship and store his produce than he received from them. Just before the first World War the Rural Credits Act and the Federal Farm Loan Banks came to the farmer's financial aid. During the war when the need for food increased and prices went up the farmers thought they saw a silver lining. They began to pay off their mortgages, paint their barns and buy expensive machinery. They bought more land and found themselves cultivating land that would not have paid them under ordinary circumstances. Then at the end of the war the prices again declined rapidly, and the farmers were plunged into worse difliculty than they had been in before the war. The prices of the farmer's necessities rose. He fell more and more in debt over taxes - which also rose. Greater improve- ment in farm machinery made it possible for the farmer to produce more food than ever, to add to the surplus for which he had no market. In the 1920's the average income of the farmer was S800 a year. More than one million people left their farms, and the value of farm property declined from seventy-nine billion to fifty-nine billion dollars. Though the popula- tion of the country was one fourth farmers they received less than ten per cent of the national income. In 1929 President Hoover tried to aid the farmer with the establish- ment of the Federal Farm Board. This provided for a fund of 355,000,000 from which loans could be drawn by co-operative associations to aid in the marketing of the farmers' produce. At first it looked as if this plan would succeed, but when prices continued to lag, borrowing money only burdened the farmer further. In 1933 the Agricultural Adjustment Act was passed in another at- tempt to aid the farmer. The object of this act was to raise the prices by cutting down the surplus. The government paid farmers to destroy part of their crops. Then in 1937 another act was passed providing for an ever normal granary to keep the surplus off the market in the fat years and release it in the lean years. Few people realize that we are still facing an agricultural problem today. Many brilliant men are attempting to devise a plan which will settle it. Though conditions have greatly improved since colonial times. the farming problem is still a major one. The farmers are still the back- bone of the nation just as they were when the colonies were first founded. Thedrise and fall of the country's prosperity follows the farmer's economic con ition. If the farmer is prosperous, the country will be prosperous. It is to the advantage of us all to help the farmer overcome his problems and enjoy his share of the world's good things. Robert E. Cobb . -1-.-1. .1. . THE HIGH SCHOOL COACH AND HIS VALUES Coaching is defined by Webster as the training of an athlete, physically and mentally, for a contest. If we add the practice of teaching good sports- manship, we might call this a very good definition. Page Eighteen

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Bromzig eLd. Beacon faction of relaxation and the spirit to compete against others all through 1 e. Ernest A. Cregar, Jr. .111- CITY AND TOWN POLICE In almost all our large towns and cities, civil service examinations are required for new members of the police department. Examinations are given annually, and the list of the citizens who take them are given to the Mayor. A new member is appointed when a member of the police department retires. In towns where examinations aren't required the chief of police, patrolmen, and reserve officers are appointed by the select- men. In Harvard only the chief of police, reserve and special police are appointed. Boston has a commissioner at the head of its large police department. Under his command are the following: commanding officers, deputy chiefs, captains, lieutenants, sergeants and patrolmen. Smaller cities have a Chief of Police instead of a Commissioner as the head of the police department. A chief of police has a great many responsibilities. He has authority over all the men in the department as well as over equipment used. In the town or city where he is Chief, he has to enforce all the laws, ordinances, by-laws and regulati-ons that are carried out by the police department. He is also responsible for preparing cases for court in the town or city. The Chief carries many more responsibilities besides these. In the city the commanding ofiicers under him assist him in every pos- sible way. Many types of records are kept by them. Deputy chiefs, cap- tains, and lieutenants all have the same amount of responsibility in that they are the heads of the station houses located in districts known as pre- cincts. They follow out the assignments given to them by the Chief or Commissioner, but these men train for higher positions in case a member is absent, retires, or dies. A very important member of the department is the Sergeant. He has full charge of the patrolmen on duty under his command. Cities and prob- ably some towns have a roll call each morning. All the men are inspected for neatness of uniform and equipment used. Necessary equipment includes a badge, revolver and sutiicient cartridges, police club, notebook and pencil to be carried by all members of all departments in each town and city. There are night and day patrolmen in cities and in large towns. Patrolling the streets by walking or driving a car is done almost always by these patrolmen. They direct strangers to their destinations, at night they check stores and homes for unlocked doors, they are familiar with their route of duty, and they keep in touch with suspicious persons. Some towns have a Chief on call twenty-four hours a day. In Harvard a reserve ofiicer becomes Acting-Chief when the Chief of Police is absent. In a large town the Sergeant becomes the acting Chief of Police. The Page Tweniy