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

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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

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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 0' HANTIERN W hearted interest the effects of his classmates to put on a drive, whether for membership in the Athletic Association, or for subscriptions for the School Paper. He is in the fight. His school's interests are his own. He respects the right and privileges of his classmates. He is alive. He is vital He accomplishes what he sets out to do. Do you have this Pep ? If not, why not? H. H. S. ' HOW ABOUT IT? Is the spirit of H. H. S. what it has been in years gone by? Is the cooperation of the student body equal to that of the other schools of which we hear such glowing reports? We have been taught from the time we entered the H. H. S. that we should forget self in doing our little bit for the school. We may say that the only fellow that can show his loyalty is the one who makes the varsity basket ball team or plays base ball or perhaps runs for the school in a track meet. However this is not so. Authors at diff- erent times in the history of Literature have spoken words to the effect that the fellow who keeps plugging along, doing his best at all times. not riding when he should be pushing is the fellow who shows the right spirit. ln every school there seems to be that element that, knows things are going to the dogs so what it the use of worrying ones head about it Is the student body of H. H.S. this kind? The faculty has been very poorly supported in the various school activitiesby the students throughout the year. For some reason, no one wishes to accept responsibility. When they are asked to assist in some undertaking they seem to think that some one who has a little less to do should be asked. Every one would rather that someone else should do the work. ' f' It is very easy to point out faults in a school. Let us boost for r change. The words of Rudyard Kipling are a very good motto for us to apply in all H. S. activities. It is not the work of the soldier, ' Or the army as a whole, But the everlasting team work Of every bloomin' soul. E. T. P. '25 ...g...