Central High School - Cog N Pen Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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A STADIUM BY The agitation for a thoroughly adequate and up- to-date stadium on our city field, is more than timely. The present accommodations are woefully unsatis- factory. It has got to the point that our high schools are staging their important games outside of the city. They know very well that the game itself should draw a large crowd, but the discomforts of our city field will discourage attendance more than good sportsman- ship will attract. We need a new stadium. No one denies it, but where are we going to get it? The city is already over-burdened with taxation. Our schools are running in double shifts because we have no money to erect new buildings. We cannot ask the city to build us a stadium. The Broad of Education is right: the tax-payers will not stand it. The pres- ent welfare and future prosperity of our city depend on keeping taxes down, but Newark needs a stadium, and Newark knows how. We can have a stadium Another graduation draws near. This one means more to the Pivot Board than all the other gradua- tions combined. Five members, including the editor- in chief and the associate editors are leaving school this February to pursue their courses in the higher schools of learning. ‘They have given the best in them to make the Pivot the best paper in the United States. Their efforts have not been in vain. From every State in the Union has praise been showered on the Pivot. It is eargerly sought for by every high school, and many colleges in the country. Yes, even a college in China has requested a copy of ihe Prvor. Many students in the school have approached me with the question whether I received any renumeration for the work I did on the Pivot Board. I answere d them that the only renumeration anyone receives on the Ріхот is the satisfaction of seeing an issue published and sold. We of the Pivot Board have given our services free to the Pivot. We have done what we felt was the duty of Centralites; to give as much as possible of ourselves and our time for the benefit of SUBSCRIPTION as easily as rolling off alog. Тһе city cannot afford it, but the people can. The city of East Orange could not afford to build their new stadium but the citizens and the school children of East Orange bought stadium bonds, and raised the money. Nobody thought the bonds would pay dividends, but they do. The people gave this money for a stadium as a present to the young people of their city, but the indications are that the stadium as a financial proposition will pay back every penny subscribed. Let a committee of live Newarkers take this matter in hand and Newark, the unconquerable Newark ihat financed its 250th An- niversary, its new Board of Trade building, and its spendid athletic club wil! provide a stadium for the city field without even turning a hair. High school students, you know the men that can put this thing over—set ihem io work, right now. --О. W. Snodgrass. THE PIVOT That we have done our duty toward our school, we have no doubt. We feel proud that we were called upon to do it. Repeated requests have come from the Ріуот Board for students to do their share for the Pivot, but our students think more of getting financial remuneration for their work than of giving a helping hand to the school. Today the Pivot needs some students with executive ability to direct its course in the future. Will you students of Central volunteer to take our places when we are gone? Are you prepared to take upon yourselves the responsibility of keeping the Pivot the best school paper in the country. as has been done in the past? If you are ready to do your share, arrange for an interview with Mr. Snodgrass or the new editor-in-chief, Elizabeth Jay. Both will teach and direct you as to ihe meth- ods of the Pivot. The PIVOT needs real true blue blooded Centralites with a sparkle of red blood in them to fight their way to success. See if you are capable of winning for yourself a place on the Pivot. —L. С. our school.