Eagle River High School - Northern Trail Yearbook (Eagle River, WI)

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THE NORTHERN TRAIL lFrecl G. Melntyre MR. MCINTYRE has been janitor of our school since the completion of the new building. That he has drone his Work Well is attested to by the fact that. our building, in spite of seven years of use, appears as neat and clean today as it did the day it was completed. He is not the ordin- ary slouchy grouchy type of janitor one usually finds in our public schools. He takes a genuine personal pride not only in keeping the building pre- sentable at all times, but also himself. Having served as postmiaster in our community for some time, he is a man with some education which does not come amiss in the position he is now filling. Fred, as he is called by many, is 'an integral part of our school gi he is a cooperative and Willing helper and. ag friend to all. We hope he will continue to be janitor of our school for many more years as We feel he would be at hard man to repllace. Page seventy four

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THE NORTHERN TRAIL 1 Page seventy-three Pere Arremion An Old Fashion Girl The Four Horsemen So Studious

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THE NORTHERN TRAIL Why Graduate From High School? T HERE are many different view-points prevalent among people with respect to the value of a high school education. We often hear the remark from certain short-sighted people and ignorant individuals, Why should I go to high school? I can get along just as well without it. Let me, therefore, say a few more words proving to you that attending high school is not a waste of time or of no value to an. individual. Let us look at the matter from a financial view-point. A person not attending high school may put four hundred dollars in the bank in four years. You are ten times as liable not to do so as you are to do so. If you are one of the lucky ten you may get sixteen dollars a year for life. How little can be bought for sixteen dollars! If you don't go to high school you will probably have money to spend during the four years, but even so, will the use you make of it in the spending im- prove you later as a man or awoman? It.is shown by reliable statistics that two years after a person graduates from high school he is ahead of 1 the average individual who did not gradu- , ate. The ordinary person who finishes the eighth grade only can earn an aver- age of forty-five thousand dollars between the ages of fourteen land sixty years. The high school graduate can earn seventy- eight thousand dollars between the ages of eighteen and sixty years. To every average person then a high school educa- tion is worth thirty-three thousand dol- lars during this length of time. However, the financial advantages are the least to be considered. Most im- portant is the fact that whatever one learns in an institution is a matter of rec- ord. He hlas something that is market- able. It is like the pedigree of a pure- bred animal. There is a guarantee that you have successfully mastered some- thing during your lifetime. We have seen two cows stand side by. side in the barn. They looked very much, alike. They were Droxy and Roxy. Droxy gvave more milk than Roxy and it was as good in quality, but Droxy could be bought for seventy- five dollars while Roxy could not be bought for seven hundred and fifty dollars. Why? Droxy had no pedigree record. Roxy, with her guaranteed pure blood was sure to produce calves with mucha the same quality she had, but there was no know- ing what weak strain in Droxy's blood might produce a weakling now and then. Page seventy live