Houtzdale High School - Jack O Lantern Yearbook (Houtzdale, PA)

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. 'Y ' I T , - Tim Jkcil o 15435-r1:i3N, Q experiences on reaching the goal. Things easily attained are not as sweet as those for which we have to labor hard. This can be applied to the getting of an education. ' The greatest common fault of young people in their work of secur- ing an education, is thoughtlessness. A teacher in a western college proved this to be true, by a few simple tests. He left a book lying on the floor Where every student saw it as he entered the class room. Seven students stepped over th book. Th eighth kicked it a little further along the aisle. Four stepped on it, and did not even see it. The twentieth student picked it up and placed it on the teacher's table. He stated that only one boy out of a hundred was usually thoughtful enough to see and do the necessary thing. After an accident in the kitchen, in the factory, or with an automobile, the common excuse is, I didn't think. How many of us are borrowers? I do not mean of money, but of a more valuable thing, knowledge. We often do it unconsciously, but the habit grows until it becomes so strong we cannot break it. You know what happens to a perpetual borrower of money. Disaster also faces one who is always borrowing from others in getting an education. The pupil who is a borrower, never tries to do anything for himself, but is always asking help or copying the work of others. He may get by in his classes, but is he playing fair? He never knows the thrill which comes from mastering a diflicult problem or a dry subject. Let us then cease borrowing and try standing on our own feet both in school and life. We could say much concerning education, but as Ruskin says, The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but enjoy the right thing - not 'merely industrious, but to love industry - not merely learned, but, to love knowledge - not merely pure, but to love purity - not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice. V. G. W. '25 H. H. S. LEARNING Learning passes for wisdom among those who want bo'th. Learn- ing is wealth to the poor, an honor to the rich, an aid to the young, and a support and comfort to the aged. Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands, in unskillful, the most mischiev- ous. Wear your lea.rning, like your watch, in a private pocket. Do not pull it out merely to show that you have one. If asked what time it is, tell itg but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman. There are three classes of people in the world. The first learn from their own experiences - these are wise, the second learn from the experience of others-f-these are the happy, the third neither learn from

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THE JACK O' LANTERN S emen sf EDETORS1 n 2 GETTING AN EDUCATION It is the old story heard so many times, but never worn out. Educa- tion is beginning to take its proper place in the world, but even today too many people miss the true aim and value of education. Many High School pupils are in school merely to have a good time. They are a hindrance to those who really are desirous of getting an education. Many of these go on to college with no higher motive. They have gotten into the habit of fooling away time and slipping through on the work of others. Habit triumphs and their four years in college are exact duplicates of their High School life. Is it any wonder that many people criticise High School and College bred men? A good many young people go to college for the good times they can have, or expect to have. Some go just to be able to say, I am a COLLEGE GRADUATE. Many who are rich, go merely to pass the time. It is well to have a college education, but if not used in the right way it is injurious. Only a small percentage of those who graduate ever make a success of life. So, many business men complain about the failure of college graduates to make good. How many of the prominent figures and valedictorians do we hear of in later life? Too many rely on these early successes, which fail to carry them safely through the sea of life. The person who easily wins success usually weakens as some point in later life. Some years ago a professor of 'philosophy in a certain college was talking with a number of young men who had been in his class while in college. The appointment of one of their classmates who had just been appointed to the presidency of a large corporation, was refer- red to by one of the young men in this manner, Pretty fine honor for so young a man, don't you think? Yes, replied the professor, but I'm afraid a little too easy an honor for him. Don't you think he can hold it down, said the other in anxious haste? I have no doubt about that. I'm afraid he will hold it down, and be content to do so. I don't like to see things come so easily for young a man. I'd rather have him weather for some ten years more. He's capable of bigger things than this. One needs to be toughened by hardships, some times, before they are brought into the land of luxury. Early successes are dangerous. The man that gets easy success usually weakens at some point. Don't be in a hurry to conquer the world. Don't be afraid to weather and season a little. Then when the strain comes you won't warp and break. Have you ever climbed to the top of-a mountain? If so, you will agree with me, that the harder it is to gain the top, the more joy one

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g g g g THE JACK of LANTERN I their own experience nor the experience of others - these are fools. .I 'Learning, if rightly applied, makes a young man thinking, attent- ive, industrious, confident, and wary, and an old man cheerful and use- ful. It is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and enter- tainment at all times, it cheers in solitude, and gives moderation and wisdom in all circumstances. He who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few happy mortals who take and give in every point of time. The tide and ebb of giving and receiving is the sum of human happiness, which he alone enjoys who always wishes to acquire new knowledge, and always finds it. V. G. W. '25 H.a-H. S. SPRINGTIME Springtime, is very familiar to all of us. It is the time when everything in nature starts anew. We love springtime as it brings beauty and warmth to the world after the chill of winter. The blossoms give forth their fragrance, and the birds build their homes. Without springtime we would have no harvest. The beauties we see in nature would be absent. Can you really picture the world without spring- time. Is there not a springtime in life also? The youth in the world represent the springtime of life. How many times we Waste the spring- time l When the golden summer comes we realize too late our mistakes. and the harvest fails to appear. The beauties of springtime are still in the hearts and souls of the pupils of Houtzdale High School. Let us use the springtime of our lives that the bounty may increase. Let us go out into life with the determination th at the springtime shall not pass unheeded. V. G. W. '25 H. H. S. HPEPH f - What a little wor-:ll What a powerful word! lt is slang perhaps but it embodies the fundamentals of success, whether in school or out in the world. VVhat can we accomplish without it? Very little. VVhat can we do with it? XVe can conquer our little worlds and gain the real Heart's Desire.. Q - It implies manylthings but first and foremost it carries the implica- tion of real, all-absorbing interest in everything in which we are engag- ed. It wishes to accomplish more than that. It seeks to put its inter- ests on a working basis, make them effective, and bring about the desir- ed result. A student has this genuine, all-wool-and-a-yard-wide pep, is never content with half-hearted recitations, half way measures in pre- paring an assignment. He is never content to sit on the opposite side of the Gym, and watch his comrades on the other side trying to cheer HIS team. He is not satisfied to take a back seat, and watch with half- 7A