Germantown High School - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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A SllllllDlIRlllSNlINlNl?f EDISEDVIBRGM' HARRY WYETH ACK HARVEY was happy, very happy. At last he had perfected the aeroplane of his dreams. He had been trying to get a record- breaking climber and at the present moment was hugely enjoying himself in one. He was eighty thousand feet up in the air on just a trial trip. This was forty thousand feet higher than any plane had been flown until now. Yvhile lack was having the time of his life flying around in these high regions, he became aware of a distant bright spot that sparkled and glittered. His curi- osity prompted him to drive his plane towards it to discover what it was. After driving for an hour or so, lack was surprised at the tremendous size of this object. A close scrutiny of it disclosed that it was an enormous cloud. How- ever, there was something queer about this cloud. In the first place it was entirely too high for a cloud. Secondly, the cloud seemed to be composed of jagged, diamond-like particles of ice which glittered and gleamed in a very delightful way. Ordinary clouds are soft, fluffy, and billowy. This strange cloud aroused an impulsive whim to drive through it. So he drove into it head-on. When he had become tired of riding around in the cloud and had explored what he thought to be most of it, Jack decided that it was time to leave for home. He immediately began to take his bearings and to start back to earth. To his surprise his compass was behaving in an unaccountable manner. It was pointing to each of the directions in turn instead of to the north. Using it as much as he could, which was not using it at all, he tried to get out of the cloud. After an hour of futile attempts he finally realized that he was lost in the cloud. Furthermore, the supply of gas- oline was rapidly diminishing. His motor soon began to cough and sputter. It stopped all of a sudden and the plane began to fall. His speed in- creased rapidly and in hardly any time at all, the plane was rushing downward at a terrific pace. YVhen he had just about given up hope of getting control of the plane, the earth burst upon his vision. It required all his efforts and skill to get control of the plane but he did it and barely managed to bring the plane out of a tailspin and make a three-point landing on a large bush- covered plain. After a few minutes of rest from his strenuous experience, lack became aware of a bitter, acrid taste in his mouth and of a burning sensation in his nose. NVondering what it was, he opened the door of the cabin plane to get a breath of air. Almost immediately the sensations became stronger. In a minute or two he found out that it was the air that disturbed him. Thinking nothing of it, he stepped out of the plane to have a look at his motor. He experienced the curious feeling of stepping off into space and his body seemed to feel extraordinarily light. When he endeavored to step around to the front of the plane, he was fifteen feet beyond it before he knew it. This time he made a very startling and disturbing discovery. Instead of going one yard at a step he traveled five. With his mind in a turmoil, he tried to forget these things, so he looked around to take stock of his surroundings. ei171YC'

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7 JY ,f f y ..f- ' ,f ,V ' f f f f ,f A a a ,, y f eNNNiNe ff 2 f ,ffajl p l f .V,N ARNOLD-R. MAUSERT Q, Z N NN N N NN As the season for X -TQSP lyflih' , . f . -mi rr,-1 Ag - Ai.. V gunning rolls around, ,igfga Z i' th ht c d 'J A 'I .f. f, , 1 2:ih,f:5m5.:,r1,,'1:5:,zS f sais? lp, us into the great out- -'-5 p doors where we may en- 'Q ' 'H l ' 'I joy the company of Mother Nature to the utmost. As depicted by the accompany- ing illustration. The hunter goes out to spend a lovely, balmy, peaceful day, banging away at ducks. Quite unexpectedly the weather gets damp and then nice and squooozzzy. After about half an hour of this, the old boy gets fretful and pulls out his pipe, only to find that his fuel is like soup. While remarking how much this pleases him, he does a tailspin into a batch of especially gooey mud. After thanking Ma Nature for catching him in her lap, he goes about the business of loading his gun and suddenly becomes aware that one of those blank new-fangled shells he bought at Shnossenbinger's Hardware and Bakery has jammed up the works. This, of course, causes a severe mental recrudescence fDaddy, what's a severe mental recrudescence'!j during which he manages to extract the fcensoredj shell at the expense of taking a goodly nick from his thumb. Pausing a moment to salute his thumb with a broadside of strong phrases, he spies a duck in the offing, roosting on a bushl -Ann-nqb - Forgetting about the dinged digit, he takes a crack at the duck, which im- mediately rises to its full stature of about five feet nine and hollers to our hunter to kindly be a bit more careful of what he shoots, for if he doesn't he's liable to kill somebody, or at least he says .romcilzing to that effect. Toward noon, our friend is touched by the pangs of hunger. Reaching into his pocket, he drags out three roast pork sand- wiches, strongly resembling a futuristic artist's conception of a well-scrambled egg. He makes an attempt to eat this conglomeration and then washes it down with a swallow or two of-er-orangeade which elevates his spirits surprisingly. Finally he actually sees a duck and lets out a load of lead to chase it. YOWEEII Got itl He wallows out into no-mans' land and retrieves it, puts it into his bag, loads his gun and proceeds to make his way back to comparatively dry land. Here he celebrates by orangeading him- self again whilst he peers about for bigger and better ducks to conquer. Two fC'onlinucd on page 421 -:1I16lb-

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U THE CLIVEDEN p Again lack was dismayed and unac- countably disturbed by finding out that the grass was a curious yellow color. It's appearance was far different from the ordinary grass, because at the top of each blade a small leaflet grew. Looking around once more he noticed that there appeared to be no trees in the country. As far as he could see there lay nothing but bushes of a dead-looking, reddish brown color. The land itself consisted mostly of rocks of some sparkling and glittering substance-probably mica. He could see no sign of human habitation- a fact which struck him as decidedly queer. By this time the sun had begun to go down. In all of his thirty years of experiences, Iack had never seen a sunset that could compare with this one. It seemed to be a vivid combination of the Aurora Borealis, a western desert sunset, and huge geysers of various vividly- colored gases. It had a weird and fantastic effect on the country around him. The bushes seemed to writhe and dance, the whole of the land seemed to be shivering and shaking, and even the rocks seemed to be living masses of stone which crawled and twisted in all direc- tions. All of the landscape was bathed in a curious mixture of colors, of which black soon began to predominate. The coming of the darkness made Iack realize that he would have to camp there for the night, so he began to hunt wood for a camp tire. This job was not hard, because even if there were no trees, there was plenty of brush. Yvhen he had completed this task, he felt in his pocket for a match. To his dismay he had none. After about ten minutes of utter dejection and confusion, he thought of an old Indian method he had learned when he was a boy. It was the bow and drill methods. Using his shoe lace as a bow string and two pieces of brush as bow and drill he soon had his equipment ready. After half an hours' tedious work, he managed to get a spark, and by careful nursing soon had a large camp- fire burning. Iackithen proceeded to make himself as comfortable as possible. He relaxed his tired muscles and lay flat on his stomach watching the sparks rise and soar upward. His attention was at- tracted by a vivid, green spark which did not move. It seemed strangely familiar to lack but he could not place what it resembled. Suddenly its identity burst upon him like a bomb and left aboutthe same effects behind it. XVith his mind in chaos, he tried to consider his plight in a sensible and calm manner. Out of fuel and alone on a strange planet, for the green spark was the earth he thought he was on. His thoughts of his predica- ment were suddenly and rudely inter- rupted by a hair-raising sound on the other side of the fire. His startled eyes met a huge apparition bearing down on him. Yvith a frightened gasp, lack sprang from his resting place and dashed madly away from the monster. The fact that he was able to travel five times as fast as he was accustomed to, gave him an advantage over the beast. In spite of this he was compelled to turn and twist to escape this menace. After several close shaves, his muscles began to tire. NVas there no escape? Yes, there wasl Before him a wide chasm yawned. He ran to the very edge and gave a tremendous leap. After what seemed to be endless minutes he landed on the other side with a painful jar. All during the next five minutes Iack was getting his breath back and congratulat- ing himself on his lucky escape. Hardly had he done this when he was menaced by another monster. During the next four hours he was compelled to flee from five of these