Hart High School - Hartian Yearbook (Hart, MI)

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FOOTBALL Football practice was started September 3 with forty-four candidates cut. Among these there were five lettermen from last year composed of: Lawrence Lombard, fullback; Frank Schramm, left guard; Lavant Pickens, left tackle; Daniel Gonder, center; and Robert Palane, left end. Gonder and Palen were elected co-captains by the western Michigan football tampions of nineteen thirty-four. Although our team has not been so successful in its games thus far, all of the students are behind it and wish it success in its future games. ---------o-------- Typing Troubles Can anything be more disgusting Can anything make you more blue, Than one of those bad days in typing? I don’t think so—do you? You sit at your keyboard and hammer; You hit the wrong key, and “bang!” Ycu pound on the next one as if it would help. When it doesn’t, you whisper. “Oh, hang!” You like to shout it out loud, all right, Hut, for heaven’s sake, keep still. Just whisper soft curses beneath your brea h, O: teacher will think you are ill. One of our teachers keeps saying to us That if you’re lazy, you’re ill. If they think that you’re ill, can they turn it around And say that you’re lazy, at will? We won’; give them the chance to think it of us. We’ll act like we like it, and then— To our great surprise, we’ll all realize It wasn’t so bad. Was it, men? —Gladys Wiesenborn. The V. C. H. S. Booster. ---------o-------- STICK TO YOIR AIM Stick to your aim. The mongrel’s hold will slip But only the crowbars loose the bulldog’s grip Small though he looks, the jaw that never yields Drags down the bellowing monarch of the fields. A —Oliver Wendal Holmes. Ole has wondered what that snapping noise wa3 in American History. You will have to ask Wanda Bovid. -------o-------- It looks like Virginia Butler “forgot to como back” from her trip to Washington, D. C. -------o-------- We wonder who it is that calls on Velma Vine every now and then? TRICKS AND STUNTS —--------------------------———-—1 THE ROOSTER FIGHT This out-of-door game will be fun for the boys. With a stick draw a circle on the ground. Now let each boy, or “rooster,” as he is called in this game, hold his arms behind his back and stand side by side within the circle. Some boy who has been chosen as leader shouts, “Fight, roosters, fight!” At these words the “roosters” try to push one another out of the circle by means of their shoulders. Any rooster who unfolds his arms or falls down or is pushed outside the circle is out of the game. The winning “rooster” is the boy who succeeds in pushing all the others out of the circle. A BACK-TO-BACK RACE A back-to-back race is a good out of doors game and furnishes the players with a novel exercise; that of running backwards. Mark off a level stretch of ground one hundred feet in length. Now make up as many teams of two members each as possible. Have the members of each team stand back-to-back; then tie them together with a piece of rope. The contestants stand along the starting line. At the signal to go, each team makes for the other line, one hundred feet away and parallel to the first. One of the two members will, of course, have to run backward. As soon as they reach the second line, the teammates reverse the direction of their progress and run back toward the line from which they started; that is, the member who previously went backward now goes forward. The team wins that first covers the course out and back. SOME UNUSUAL FORFEITS It is sometimes hard to think up forfeits on the spur of the moment. Here are some that have caused much fun: Tie your feet together and try to walk around the room. Stand on one foot and spell “sensible” backward. Select some player in the room, put your hand over your heart and repeat each letter of the alphabet, to him or her. Walk backwards around the room and bow backwards to the three “wisest persons” in the room. Go about the room and smile at each of seven persons. Stand in the corner of the room blindfolded for five minutes calling for “help.’ Make a noise like soda water coming out of a pop fountain. Walk around the room and give a piece of good advice to the three youngest persons in the room. Represent some animal by motions only, untL some one in the room is able to guess what animal it is. Hop about the floor on one foot and curtsy to each empty chair. ■------o-------- The outer skin of a snake may be completely renewed about three times a year. PAGE 9

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Q. Why are Indians beardless? A. It is a racial characteristic the same as thei” red skin. • c Q Who are the shortest people in the world? A. The shortest race of people are the pigmies of Central Africa, some of whom measure only twenty-seven inches. Q. Where was St. Patrick born? A. His birthplace is uncertain. He is said by some writers to have been born in Boulogne-sur-Mer France, and by others in Kilpatrick, near Dumbarton, Ireland. Q. How long do goldfish live? A. The average life is said to be only six weeks because so many people do not know how to care for them. Goldfish have been known to live for thirty years. o • Q. What is the size of the Sahara Desert? A. No very precise boundary lines have been established but its length is roughly calculated to be a little more than 3000 miles and its total area is about 2,000,000 square miles. Q. What is the average width and depth of the Grand canyon? A. The width varies from ten to forty miles, and the depth is about 3000 feet to the plateau below the rim. Through this the Colorado River winds in narrow granite gorge 1400 feet deep and about 3500 wide at the top. Q. Was there a man named Robinson Crusoe or is that a fictitious character? How did the story originate? A. Daniel Defoe founded the story of Robinson Crusoe on the adventures of Alexander Selkirk, sailing master of the privateer Cinque Ports Galley, who was left by Capt. Stradling on the desolate island of Juan Fernandez for four years and four months (1704-1709) when he was rescued by Captain Woodes Rogers and brought to England. Q. Do fish have a sense of hearing? A. This question is disputed. Popularly it is supposed that fish can hear and fishermen usually insist that it is necessary to keep quiet while fishing. Scientists, however, are inclined to balieve that fish have very little, if any, sense of hearing. They are equipped with no outer ear whatever. It is supposed that the inner ear is merely an organ of equilibrium. Investigations have given conflicting results, some indicating that fish are wholly deaf. One thing is certain, if fish can hear at all it amounts to litt'e more than detecting disturbances in the water. They certainly could not hear a human voice Fish do. however, have a Keen sensp of THE SHEEPSKIN PAYS ONE OF the jokes about business in the hard-boiled era which has completely lost its point in recent years is the one with many variations purporting to show that industry doesn’t know what to do with the information a young man gets in college. The chief significance of this is that it indicates the colleges, particularly in their technical departments, have been getting nearer and nearer for some years to an estimate of what business requires of its young men. This was proved not long ago when one of the big electric manufacturing companies offered to hire the entire graduating class of a leading eastern St Agricultural college. For some years this corporation had been watching and encouraging the growth of electrical farms. Ir connection with this it was interested also in the decentralization of industry. When the farm electrification program reached the point where it oe-gan to promise big business, the corporation naturally went after men with technical knowledge of agriculture to look after its interests. Most personnel managers of large corporations now admit that the search for young executive material has completely reversed the job finding business for the average college graduate. A competition for men has developed as a result of which— in the technical schools or departments of colleges, at any rate—virtually every man in the graduating class may take his choice of industries. Many colleges which formerly had committees to hunt for jobs for their graduates now employ the same organization to sort out the applicants for men A committee or agent from an employer must show the standing of his concern before he is permitted to interview any of the graduates-to-be. One motor manufacturer sends such a committee to half a dozen colleges every year in order to selecr. from twelve to fifteen young men. The committen contains a representative each from the manufacturing, executive and sales departments. By exercising extreme care in its selections this corporation has succeeded during the past five years in retaining seventy-five per cent of the men it employs by this process. In the experience of many other corporations, however, it pays to hire college trained men, as such, even though only twenty-five per cent of them remain after a few years. --------o-------- TEASERS 1. What island ought to have many small fish. 2. Why are bankrupts more to be pitied than idiots? 3. What do you know about the baseball rep r in the Bible? 4. What is that thing, and the name of a bird, without which we should die? Answers 1. Sard’ 2. Because bankrupts are broken while idiots are only cracked. 3. Eve stole first, Adam stole second; Gideon cattled the pitchers; Goliath was put out by Davie and the prodigal son made a home run. 4. Shallow. PAGE 8

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The Fisher: “Then it won’t be a crime if 1 land a fish?” The Inhabitant: “No, it’ll be a miracle!” Artist: “I’ve got some of the funniest pictures you ever saw.” Editor: “Really? Where did you have them taken?” He was an up-to-the-minute motorist, but had lost his way. Suddenly his eyes brightened as he shouted to his wife: “I think we’re getting near a town. We’re hitting more people.” Wiggs: “Sorry to keep you waiting, old man; but I’ve just been setting a trap for my wife.” Wagg: “Heavens! What do you suspect?” Wigg: “A mouse in the pantry.” • “How old is your son?” asked the visitor. “Well,” replied the dad, “he’s reached that age when he thinks the most important thing to pass isn’t his examination, but the car ahead.” Kind Friend: “I did what I could, Tony; I told her you had more money than sense.” The Victim: “And what did she say?” Kind Friend: “She asked if you had any money.” • • The teacher was giving a lesson on “snow.” “As you walk out on a cold winter day and look around, what do we see on every hand?” she inquired. “Gloves,” answered the jedhaired boy in the rear seat. “One of our little pigs was sick, so I gave him some sugar.” “Sugar—what for?” “For medicine, of course. Haven’t you heard of sugar-cured hams?” • • Patient: “Will the anaesthetic make me sick?” Doctor: “No, I think not.” Patient: “How long will it be before I know anything?” Doctor: “Aren’t you expecting too much of an anaesthetic?” Old Lady: “Oh, conductor, please stop the train. I dropped my wig out the window.” Conductor: “Never mind, madam, there is a switch just this side of the next station.” The Fisher: “Is this a public lake?” The Inhabitant: “Yes, sir.” • A man who was wanted by the police had been photographed in six positions and the pictures sent out to the state police. In a few days headquarters received this from a small-town chief: ‘I duly received the pictures of six miscreants wanted. Five of them have been captured and we are on the trail of the sixth.” Oldest Sewing Machines. A contest for the purpose of discovering the hundred oldest sewing machines in the United States has brought to light many interesting facts. Two A chines began service in 1853, which is only two yeW-Ps after the first successful machine was placed on the market. The one hundred prize-winning machines range in age from sixty-eight to seventy-four years. The make of the winning machines included: Singer, 73; Grover Baker, 10; Howe, 5; Willcox Gibbs, 5; Wheeler Wilson, 5; Leavit, 1, and Bartholf, 1. One machine, owned by Mrs. Frank Pallot of Plain-well. Mich., was the machine on which she made her own wedding gown and the christening, graduation and wedding dresses of her two daughters. Snowy Owl Captured at Sea. Out of a clear blue sky one thousand miles from land, came a snowy white owl, says The Pathfinder. It flew to the rigging of the Leviathan, giant American liner, crossing the Atlantic. The rare “creature of the night” was captured by the crew and is now in the possession of the New York zoo. In announcing the gift to the zoo. Captain Hartley of the Leviathan, said the bird had alighted in mid-ocean and anparently had relayed from other liners. » « Birch Wood Used for Spools. Nearly all ordinary spools are said to be made from the white birch, and while this species of tree grows in all parts of the United States, we read that it grows best in Maine. Practically all of the world’s supply of spool wood comes from the great woods of the north. A few spools are manufactured in Maine, but generally after the wood is seasoned, it is shipped elsewhere to be made into spools. (’ash Preferred to Paternalism. No man is rich enough or wise enough to set himself up as his brother’s keeper, declared Dr. C. R. Brown, dean of Yale Divinity School, not long ago. He stated that he was opposed to the policy of paternalism. “Welfare work on the part of great corporations Is an excellent thing; but the workers prefer to rewarded in cash. It is good mathematics and good morals to insist that ‘I am my brother’s brother’ from beginning to end,” he said. TROCADERO ORGAN. After twenty years of silence and disuse, the “finest concert organ in Europe,” that of the Troca aero at Paris, is once more in tune and is functioning. An American’s contribution of $500 started thn fund for repairs. The organ has twelve keyboards and is now blown by electric motors instead of hand pumped bel ows. PAGE 10