Hugh John Macdonald School - Searchlight Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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The School Spirit By Doreen Gutoski Not many students of the present have the school spirit. By this I mean, they are not as eager to go to school as they should b°, but instead dread the word and the thought of it. Do these students re lly know what they receive from school? Do they once consider that they could enjoy school? I don ' t think so. These students don ' t even try to enjoy school. They just stick to their old saying, I hate school”, In the morning instead of thinking well of the school-day ahead, they gigrumble about haying to get up early just for school. At school they automatically tbegin to complain about the subjects and teachers that they have for the day. For instance, they ask each other why they have to take Social Studies, Science, etc. if they are going to be secretaries. When a teacher tries to keep a class ’• quiet and tells the students not to talk, they say she ' s an old :! crab or some¬ thing or other. Students should enjoy learning about nature, which surrounds them throughout life. Also, they should enjoy learning about other countries, their peoples and the peoples ' customs. If these students would only appreciate the education they are receiving fr e of charge I think they would also ,njoy school. Some students plan to quit schnol as soon as they roach the age of sixteen, so they don ' t work and as a result tney fail. Are they conscious of what they arc doing when they leav school not wholly educated? They are leading themselves to hard factory labour which they will r not enjoy. When the students have to rise out of bed early to go to school they don ' t realize that when they go to work they have to get up even earlier. Oh! don ' t get me wrong for I ' m not speaking of all students, and I haven ' t anything against them, really, but I ' d just like to hear a few students say they ' appreciate and enjoy the educational part of school. Not just the few moments they have in which they have to talk while changing periods. A Brotherly Burglar By Albert Harvey I awoke with a start. I could hear someone trying to open N windc; down¬ stairs. Was a burglar trying to get into the house? I got up qu cl y and dressed, I grabbed my baseball bat from out of the closet and quietly tiptoed downstairs. I could hear him moving around in the living room now. I clutched my bat more tightly. I could see his shadow against the window. Slowly I closed in on him. Just as he came out of the living room I hit him with c bat. He crumpled to the floor with a low groan, I flicked on the light and turned him over on his back. It was my brother! After I had revived him, he explained that he had forgotten his key and had come through the window l»ecnu c he didn ' t want to wake everyone up by ringing the doorbell. Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others. — inston Churchill

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On Being A Canadian By Brian Rae I am prrud of being a Canadian. Beauty, paralleled by very few other countries of the world, may be found right in Canada, the This beauty is n t limited to just one port of th country, but may bo foiw wr , r nearly everywhere from coast to coast. The beautiful fishing ports of the East coast, the luxurious forest and orchard growth and the dazzling Niagra Falls of Ontario, the ancient beauty of old Quebec City, and last of nil, th r ' ll round cor beauty of British Columbia make up, along with millions of friendly people a evt country which every Canadian should and does honour with patriotic respect. Canada is not only respected by its own inhabitants, but is honoured througtg r out the world as a progressive friendly nation with n .nvious future. It is not be only looked up to in peace but in war also. p 0 et Through the years Canadian warriors have proved themselves brave and brilliq U on the battlefield. These, ' .long with thousands of other reasons, make me proud of being a Canadian, Homework th th th th sc By Gertrude Manners s Homework again J That teacher just piles it on . Why do we have to have it ? Those and many more are the expressions you hear when a teacher assigns homework. But what happens if she assigns it at the beginning of the period? Some start right in; but others sit around, talk, and send notes over to the othern side of the room. If n teacher asks if the work is done the gasp of amazement d usually comes from those who have been sitting around. ’. ' hat would happen if teachers didn ' t give homework? Most of us would, fall terribly in our work. Some would do a little studying r.t home and when a test canes they would be ready without cr ' mming. The others would cram the night before and t onder why they get low marks; but the next week they would be laughing at someone who said she couldn ' t come out because she wanted to study. And then what happens in the study period? Some do their homework. Others sit around and do nothing, or rise talk and send notes. Those that a.re trying to clo thoir homework are distracted by what is going on beside them. The people tha.t don ' t do their work arc usually the one ' s that complain about homework. Why don ' t they do it in the time given? I do not like homework, but I try to do all I can in study periods so I will not have as much to do at home. ajc Jim D. : Father, can you write your name with your eyes shut? Father: I think so, Jim. Jin D, : -11 right then, Father, lot ' s see you shut them and sign this report card,

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i ' H |»AHOMS,sg«» An Autum n S cene Py Shir] o r Tnmsic Autumn is the heavenly kingdon of paradise. Om,r by the river stands -■ tiny soft brown sp-ttet fawn, who, by the looic 3e - of him has just cone into this world. Now end then h glances up and looks t around him, into the deep colourful forest. The brown l-?av -s match th f wn ' s skin. These all blend to look like a picture freshly painted on • u artist ' s canvas. The sky with its harmonies of blue blend with the majestic colours of m the trees, shrubs, n nd the gl- zed. look of the water rushing by. They all add c the beauty of Nature ' s paintbrush, t most colourful se s n of the y-ar. As I or into this Nature ' s artists, let mo do sc rib.; to you a little of this m; ' A gust of wind gently back and forth. It seems as they go to rest. The laves on a wedding day in Church, leaves fall to their evor-ro magnificent heaven. shakes th e great, rainbow coloured troa. , bonding these if the whole forest is d r ' ing its 1-st danc- ' before start to fall slowly but - rely, like the confetti Y u g,a year last look of this dr ml ' .ad, as the c sting place. Here on ea.rt is the beauty of Nature ' s- AT cohol By Ka.zu ' Su - Alcohol is produced by +h : action of ye-st upon sjg-r and starch. This substance; is found in boor, whisk y, oc, and h s a verv b d effect on those who drink it. It causes bad .fleets on the organs of th body, A few drinks containing alcohol cause loss of ra r ro o dily heat than is normally lost and a person who drinks them is apt c-o got pneumonia, as a result. Alcoholic beverages nr :p .richly harmful to the nervous system, interferes with the sending of messag s from the brain to the muscles, has had „ few drinks may think h. is doing something skillfully but ha very clumsy and slow. His brain nixes up the- orders whd ah go out to tho It A man who is actual! muscles. As alcohol dulls tho brain, tho drinker forgets his feels that he is fine follow.. Heavy drinking may became one ' s back on trouble doors not nokr i: fly away. The orly successfully is to meet thorn face t- face. worries f-r a time and a habit. But turning way t - deal with probl.. Drinkers get most of L ,noi; energy from alcohol and d- n t eat all the other loops they need. One rea am Co this is that alcohol irritates the lining of the stomach. Instead of getting th food containing vitair.i is they need uhsy fill up with -al co holic beverages which contain no vitamins, minerals, or proteins. Seme heavy drinkers . y live companies have found that , hca the. p red with those of nor —drinkei , tho drinkers. to .good old age. However life insurance- sj.f records of a group of drinkers are crra¬ te-ws tnat non-rdrinkrrs live .Longer than Children and wives fee.:, acini. ' .in red before friends -nd relatives their poverty and di-giti.ee. Lee a oce.de in our 1 ves tv avoid this causes the downfall, bringing ■ .m:..ch s- rrow to our loved ones. becauseof evil that