Hart High School - Hartian Yearbook (Hart, MI)

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I THE HARTIAN S 25 ?5 c OW5 OWO OW 3 ; vX? JXaX? f WQ fWO OWO OWO OWi C WO i jXJ Osa O WjXi owo owo owo owo HART; MICH., OCTOBER 28, 1935 STAFF NEnBERS Editor.........................................Bette Welsh Assistant Editor..............................Gladys Shinn Business Manager.....................Barbara Jenkins Assistant Business Manager Mary Jean Dayharsh Calendar of Events ..............Edna Mae Winget Literary ....................................Mildred Lurie Photography Larraine Hal lad ay Society ..................................Marguerite Winget Humor.........................................Jeanne Watkins Boys’ Athletics.................................Dick Rummer Girls' Athletics .............................Elaine Grate Typists ...............Marjorie Reed, Della Cargill The Seniors of Hart High School are undertaking a new system of publishing the “Hartian.” This year we will issue a monthly paper with one special edition at the end of the year. The paper will continue under the name “Hartian” and will give a complete summary of the year’s activities from month to month. There will be eight editions in all. besides the final one, which will be dedicated to the Seniors. It is our intention that you keep each edition, in a notebook or in any way you care tc, and at the end of the year you will have a complete magazine, similar to the former “Hartian,” only, it will contain much more material. We hope you will cooperate with us and help to make this a great success. A SPIDER’S PERSISTENCY Six times a spider has spun its web outside my study window and six times 1 have destroyed it. Tomorrow morning I’m sure it will be there again. To prevent a spider from spinning its web time after time in the same place one has to kill the spider. If we who are interested in selling the Hartian had the persistency of spiders, we’d amount to something, wouldn’t we? CALENDAR OF EVENTS Sept. 2—Enrollment the largest ever! Freshmen number 87. Sept. 3—Seventh graders are in Seventh Heaven when passing to classes. Sept. 4—Many swollen lips appeared from the first official band practice. Sept. 6—Seats were assigned and Gonder get a back seat so he can entertain better during study hours. Sept. 9—Typing students get the school news. Fire drills today. Sept. 10—Robert Palen gave a grand speech in Literature class. Horray! Two days off for the Fair. Sept. 16—Schedule cards were made out. Sept. 17—After much bickering the U. S. Civics classes appeared at 8 o’clock for their class from Mr. Meehan. Sept. 18—Gladys Shinn gets up so early that she fell asleep while walking and fell down the stairs. Sept. 20—Big pep meeting with speeches by Dal-man, Ole, Gonder, and Palen. Shelby beat Hart 14-7. Sept. 23—Debates between Mugs Winget and Gonder took place at the Senior class meeting. Sept. 24—Fire drill with the fire department as visitors. Sept. 25—Gonder has nothing to say concerning Max Baer after the fight. Sept. 27—Big Pep meeting with Dalman as special cheer-leader. Lost our game to Montague 13-0. Oct. 1—Tryouts for drum major in the band. Oct. 2—A musical program by Mendley and Brown given for the benefit of the Athletic Association. Oct. 4—Lost the game at Scottville 12-7. The boys played a good game. Oct. 7—Many posters are being made for fire prevention week. Oct. 9—Gonder wants Elaine and Edna Mae to bring their megaphones to school so it will be easier for them to gossip during 5th hour study. Oct. 11—Bette Welsh was chosen as editor and Barbara Jenkins as business manager of the Hartian. Oct. 14—Shelby’s second team beat Hart’s second team 14-7. Oct. 15—The Chemistry class entertained the Speech class by hanging out the windows so they wouldn’t breath in the smoke from the room. School started at 10 o’clock so Mr. Cowles could catch a rabbit for his dinner. Oct. 17—Expressions of all kinds were seen while report cards were being handed out and then again some different expressions were seen after the report cards were received. PAGE 3

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GREAT MEN AND GREAT WOMEN BOUT sixty years ago there (jeor°C W was a boy living in Brooklyn. ® N. Y., who, after school hours each day, hurried away to his work as a cashier in a New York market. He did this from the time he was eleven years old, as his parents needed the money, and he wanted to help them. In this way George Washington Goethals supported himself while at school. Still working each evening he entered college and began to study to be a doctor, but the long hours of study and work told on his health, and he had to give up the idea. In 1876, when he was eighteen, he entered West Point Academy, and began to study army engineering. His willingness to work and his efficiency brought him to the attention of Mr. W. H. Taft, who was at that time secretary of war. In 1905 Mr. Taft found it necessary to inspect the work being done on the Panama Canal, and to make plans for fortifying it. He took George W. Goethals—who by this time had been promoted to a major—along with him. The great French engineer, Ferdinand De Lesseps, builder of the Suez Canal, had undertaken to construct the Panama Canal, but after two hundred and fifty million dollars had been spent the work had scarcely been begun and De Lesseps, broken-hearted, was compelled to give up. In 1907 Mr. Goethals was put in charge of the Panama Canal, and it remained to be seen if he could succeed where others had failed. He knew perfectly well that he had tackled one of the hardest jobs that any man ever undertook. In the first place the climate was a serious handicap, as, chiefly through lack of proper sanitation, hundreds of workmen had died. Then men were of so many different nationalities that trouble broke out continually. A passage nine miles long had to be made through the mountain rock at what is now called the “Culebra Cut.” The rock seemed like granite and offered stubborn resistance to the great army of workmen who. armed with huge drills and picks, swarmed among the rocks, carving a way through the mountain. Day after day for months and even years tremendous explosions of dynamite were necessary to split rocks asunder. Then, after the explosion, tons of earth had to be shoveled away. “We have to fight against nature.” said Goethals, and the hard, stiff battle went on lor years. For years he had under him not less than forty thousand men, speaking forty-five different languages He was responsible for seeing that they were all properly housed and fed; for keeping up enormous supplies of machinery and tools, and what was the hardest task of all, keeping everybody in good humor and satisfied. He succeeded in doing these things; never was an employer more popular with his men. They liked his modesty. Although he was a colonel in the army, he never wore his uniform while at the Panama and gave himself no overbearing airs. He was patient and good-natured, with a keen sense of humor, and his men enjoyed that. Then he believed that the canal could be built and his confidence spread to all around him with the result that every man went to work with a will inspired by his fine example. Fur- Goethals thermore, every man knew that there was no harder worker on the canal than Colonel Goethals himself. He war up early and late, and there was no detail that escaped his attention, and no advice he was not willing to give. “The only time that Colonel isn’t working,” said one foreman, “is between ten p. m. and five a. m., and then he is asleep.” The heat was often terrific and, of course, with so much machinery pounding away, the noise was deafening. Holes cannot be bored through great mountains without noise, yet Goethals stayed or f job for seven years and set an example of hard work and perseverance which has seldom been equalled, and which inspired the workmen to do their best. “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” Colonel Goethals realized this and he knew that recreation was necessary for men as well as boys. He saw that provision was made for all manner of games, both indoor and outdoor. Basketball, football, bowling, baseball and other games were all made possible, and good equipment supplied; reading rooms with books, magazines and newspapers were provided. The women who were brave enough to live down at the Panama with its dangers and monotony, were not forgotten, and first class bands concerts and other fine entertainments were arranged. These things all proved well worth while, and the result was forty thousand contented workmen; every man anxious to do his best. “He’s the squarest boss I ever worked for,” said one workman to a visitor, and that is how the entire Panama gang felt about their “boss.” It is well known that Colonel Goethals frowned upon graft and dishonesty of every kind. Honest and straight forward himself, he would not tolerate dishonesty in others. From the time he took charge of the great task until he finished it he was determined to make it a clean job, and in this high purpose he was successful. One of the hardest fights that Colonel Goethals had was against disease. For years workmen had died at an alarming rate; some dry seasons they had died like flies. It was largely due to the determination of Goethals to make the Panama a reasonably safe place in which to live that the menace of disease was greatly reduced. He carried through a fine system of sanitation and engaged the best medical advice possible to insure the safety and comfort of the workmen and their families. The great day came in September, 1913. In spite of the misgivings of his friends, and the doleful prophecies of adverse critics the Panama was completed; the first ship sailed safely through Gat Locks and the canal was thrown open to the ships of the world. Letters and telegrams of congratulation came to Colonel Goethals from all parts of the world; he had succeeded where others had failed, and many who had often said that the canal could never be constructed were the first to acknowledge themselves in the wrong and offer their congratulations. One thing he made clear: he was not solely responsible for the success of the entire project. He could not forget the thousands of others, whether foremen or laborers, who had worked hard. PAGE 2

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HOW TO BUILD UP MUSCLES pOSITION—Lying on back, feet flexed with heels 1 near seat. Arms folded across chest. Raise body up forming a bridge, resting on shoulders or top of head and feet. Lying on back, arms folded across chest, knees bent with heels close to your seat. You have seen pictures of wrestlers doing the bridge with their bodies raised off the mat and supported by the feet ° nd head. This is the exercise. You are lying on ; our back arms folded across chest, feet close to seat, now push your body up so that it rests on your upper back, and your lower back forming a perfect arch. Now on each attempt to raise up, try to go upward and backward a little farther until you are resting on top of your head, your feet on the floor helping in forming the perfect bridge. Now rest a little while, then take your bath and rub down with a course towel, or just a rub down will do. You can also add the paddling of the muscles and kneading and massaging of the fleshy and fatty parts. T vpULUm . Position—Lying on back, hands resting under ?egs; legs raised, heels together. ean legs over to left and right, swinging like pendulum. Place hands under legs, arms straight. Now raise legs and hold them there. Do not raise the back. Now lean both legs over toward the left as far as you can without falling over, then lean to the right. Continue this, like the swinging of a pendulum, left and right. Sixteen or more counts. --------o--------- REMEDY FOR HICCOUGHS The following remedy for hiccoughs is submitted by a writer in the Railway Clerk: “Place the four fingers of the left hand on the left side of the neck close to the cervical vertebrae or backbone or midway from base of head to bottom of neck. Press slightly inward and toward cervicals. Hold for a minute or so and repeat if necessary. Have the patient hiccough while holding such a position, and you can feel where the vertebrae action occurs. Then press on this spot particularly. The patient should help by holding the head or neck rigid, or put your right hand on the chin and thus hold the head rigid. In case of infants be very careful of pressure. Stand on the right side of the patient when doing this.” --------o--------- Small splinters may be removed from the flesh with a needle, and large splinters with a knifs blade, but the needle should first be passed ones or twice and the blade several times through a flame A SMILE OR TWO rT-rT-f rr -f rt Journeyman: “Didn’t I tell you to notice when the glue boiled over?” Apprentice: “I did; it was at 3 o’clock.” Visitor: “What’s up? Had a bad day?” Financier: “Yes, I've lost $5,000, and the worst of it is that $20 of it was my own money!” jn-l Oshkosh had gone to Europe for his health. “Hov did you lose your health?” he was asked. “Earning the money to take the trip,” he sadly replied. ■ “Are you sure your folks know I'm coming home to dinner with you?” “They ought to—they argued with me a whole hour over it.” Our Bobby was in a store with his mother when he was given candy by one of the clerks. “What must you say, Bobbie?” “Charge it,” he replied. Jones: “Sorry, old man, my hen got loose and scratched up your garden.” Smith: “That's all right; my dog ate your hen.” Jones: “Fine; I just ran over your dog and killed him.” Mother: “Eric, dear! Don’t go too far out in the water!” Eric: “But, look. Daddy’s out a long way.” Mother: “I know, dear, but your father has his life insured.” Officer (very angry): “Not a man in this division will be given liberty this afternoon.” Voice: “Give me liberty or give me death.” Officer: “Who said that?” Voice: “Patrick Henry.” Mother: “We are going up to uncle’s farm for a visit.” Daughter: “Has uncle any nice neighbors?” Mother: “Oh, yes; I’ve often heard him speak highly of the Holsteins and the Guernseys.” Forgetful Husband (to friend): “I want you to help me. I promised to meet my wife at one o’clock for luncheon, and I can’t remember where. Wofti you mind ringing her up at our house and asking her where I am likely to be about that time?” “Do you know Lincoln’s Gettysburg address?” “No. T didn’t know he lived there.” Fred: Your car is six months old and yet hasn’t a scratch on it. How do you manage to preserve its finish, (Id man ?” Ted: “Quito simple. I make it a rule always to park between new cars.” PAGE A