Imperial Schools - Diplomat Yearbook (Gladewater, TX)

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I the Language of Arr During the regular school year students are trained in the basic elements of drawing, use of color, and some craft skills. However, it is during the Summer Recreational Program that the many hours needed to adequately treat an aft or craft project are available. Oil painting, sketching, leather-craft, enameling, modeling, sewing and weaving, wood work- ing, and a host of other art skills and craft projects are made available during the sum- mer months. Students are able to attend regu- larly scheduled classes held three days weekly from 9 to 3. Also included in the day's pro- gram are sport and game activities as well as occasional field trips to museums, parks, the beaches or to the mountains. Probably along with music there is no greater divergency of opinion as to what is good and what is bad as there is in the realm of art. Art, like music and literature, is a means of communication. Music conveys emotional impact through rhythm, beat, mel- ody. Literature through the printed word. These mediums of expression require a cer- tain amount of time to be heard or read and therefore their impact can be more discrimi- nately evaluated. Not so with art. Its impact tends to be immediate because the whole is instantly viewed. The first impression then is beautiful, oh, ugh, horrors, or ridiculous! The average person judges art without con- sideration of the purpose or intent of the work and often categorically condemns any- thing which does not strike him as beauti- fulf'

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Revolooxuneri Uproq Sooner or later almost everyone who has experienced the English language has been somewhat exasperated by the complexities and inconsistencies of its spelling. Cough, rough, hough, through, thought, and thorb. g ough should amply illustrate the point. The time has come when this whole chaotic sys- tem should be cleared up and the language overhauled and simplified. The third grade class of Imperial Schools has embarked on an in depth study of spelling difficulties in the English language. Their Hndings, based on three years of research and experience, are summarized here as students once again break with tradition and propose their solution for a pure languagef, To start off matters, some letters are always borrowing from other letters for their sounds. They include c, qu, and x. To remove this character-destroying trait from the language they propose: soft c be written as 5, hard c as le, qu as kw, and x as ks or gz. The egsakt rea- son for these changes sertainly bekomes kwite klear as you see them used. We kould also ekonomize on typewriter produktion by re- moving these three keys. Digraphs like pb, tb, cb, and sla kan be kleverly deseptive so they need to be eksposed for what they are. Sinse pb says f anyway, they propose it be spelled fThis kould be- kome a great boon to mikrofilmers as it offers an automatik 20W reduktion in every foto- grafj Tb, cb, and sb sounds kan be korres- pondingly replaced by the resently diskon- tinued c, q, and x. Cen ce standard typewriter kould kontinue to be used wicout any qanges. Double konsonants and silent and substi- tuted leters wood be nekst too go. Now cu langwej iz geting stremlind enuf too be jenu- inli ezi. Cis noo uproq too speling iz meting over- welming uproovl in cu elumentari skool and iz bound too kauz a revolooxun in cu feld uv edukaxun. in Speling! ' si' N .gilt , w ',,1 ' li5g,.wi. X y . t ' jUSff!f7, t ' gi IM 51. ' 'X ml' V .49 A' A . 1 -' Qi k . 15, , E srgyxiff tr W fy iltigtzfffil srsc T5 me .1 'WOW 41+ ,lilies i ti inoxfezy yy . af: fmfle ffljllshym l '-SP5 en fam un,

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rsff'V l FMR SPRC ,xg if 'N .. .. A raaraaaaia Q Y -'::E:::: is :'i 11.1 Who would expect a war correspondent to write a beautiful', essay on the course of a bloody battle? Wouldn't the logical thing be for him to write on the horrors of war, the conflict, the struggle, the death? Would an artist then portray a battle scene as something beautiful? Would not his effort be directed toward shocking you with the ugliness and hopelessness of war? Where there is social injustice essayists compose satires, orators pound podiums, composers create stirring marches or hymns, and artists paint or sculptor works which con- vey to the world around them the emotional conflicts which they seek to have rectified. If we remember that art is a mode of com- munication with more than one story to tell perhaps then we can evaluate it more ob- jectively. Its purpose is not only to portray the grandeur of a towering range of moun- tains, but also the sorrow of a lost loved one, the humor of anincongruous situation, the symmetry of balance of an abstraction, and perhaps just an experiment in a new dimen- sion. Granted, there IS good and bad in art as there is in every field man has put his hand to, but let our judgment be based on know- ledge and not prejudice. ll !52'n I-