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

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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

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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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THE SEARCHLIGHT Stamp Collecting as , Hobby By Ruth K ch While strmp collecting has always been a fascinating hobby. Perhaps the main reason for its growing popularity is that it is an asset to education. Another good thing about the stamp hobby is that it is so easy to get started. A stamp collection does n t have to be expensive o r complicated and even a small collection can yield a world of enjoyment. All you need in order to start are some stamps and an album to put them in. Some stamps are worth fortunes. I think the stamp that is worth the most money is the one cent stamp from British Guiana. There arc millions of stamp collectors, but there is only on copy of the one cent stamp from British Guiana that was published in eighteen hundred and fifty-six. It is estimated that this stamp today would s- ' ll at a price of fifty thousand dollars. Th.re are also many nether stamps worth thousands of dollars. It is not a hobby of any particular class of p opls; ther. are many kings, queens, and princes in the royal families of the world who are stamp collectors, softer a nation-wide survey it was - nnounced. that among boys and girls, stamp collecting is three times as popular as any other pastime. The Christmas Spirit By Lolo Cuddy During the days that precede Christinamost of us a,re so busy with Christr shopping, sending greeting cores and decorating our homes, that wa hove no time to stop to think of the real Christmas spirit. Yet, having the Christmas spirit is on. of the most important parts ’.bout Christmas, First, I feel that to have the Christmas spirit you must be happy. There is a reason to be so. Wo a.re commemorating Christ ' s birth on that starry night in Bethlehem. To be happy, you must realise the. joyousness of the season. Was it not a great and wondrous thing that God sent his only S ' n to save sinners? Secondly, a merciful and forgiving spirit is necessary. Forget your grouches and. gripes ' .gainst people and openly forgive. For until you forgive j r ou shall not b. forgivv.n. People whom you think you can never forgive are not so bad °s -all that Thirdly, comes • harder part of the Christmas spirit-kind li n an . Kindliness is not hard sometimes, but to be kind .all the time is more difficult. Smile at th children, be friendly to people your own age, and be polite to your elders. If things don ' t suit you, central your temper and smile some rare It is not nearly so hard -as you think, oner, you get started and used to the id a, an the people will begin to think of you as a pleasant person. u four-lettered word cn sum up all these traits. It is short, but it is meaningful. The word is love. Love is the real Christar - spirit. Was it not of love th t Christ was born? His life was ■ life of 1- ve. By love ana love alone can we truly syy we have th. Christmas spirit.