Ipswich High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ipswich, MA)

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1893, during which untold changes have taken place. With the passing of each year something new, some- thing different, is either discovered or invented. We marveled at the novel phonograph, but today we come into contact with any section of the world through the magic me- dium of radio. By a simple turning of the dial we can see and hear our favorite program which is being rendered many miles away. Not only is radio employed for enter- tainment but for the purpose of crime detection and for news broad- casts, which furnish a contact with the outside world. Recently we heard over our radio the fact that Professor Piccard ascended into space for ten miles to bri ng to us and science valuable information concerning the stratosphere. To ac- complish this amazing feat the sci- entist and his coleague hermetically sealed themselves within a hollow steel ball suspended from a gas bag which was their sole agency for elevating power. Though the mod- ern liner recruires only four or five days to cross the ocean, Lindbergh spanned the three thousand miles in approximately thirtv-three hours and the Graf-Zeppelin circumnavi- gated the globe in twenty-one days. It is not, however, for speed alone that the air is used. Transportation by air has now advanced to the stage where it is a speedy, safe, and economical means of conveyance. Between the majority of the larger cities of the United States one may travel on schedule by air. On land as well as by air we have progressed amazingly since 1893. The automobile has replaced the horse and buggy of the gay nineties to such an extent that a horse is an uncommon sight about the streets. Travel by automobile is the sole means of transportation for the greater part of the American peo- ple. It now becomes a question in many discussions in this confused world, whether the automobile is a necessity or a luxury. It is still wiser to cross the ocean in a liner, in spite of our advance in other lines of travel. The ocean- going craft of today is a luxurious floating palace skimming over the depths of the sea, defying its moun- tainous swells and severe storms, to arrive at its European destination in less than five days. So many have been the inventions in the innumerable fields of science for the past forty years that no one man alive could relate each one to you successfully. The three progres- sions on land, sea, and air previous- ly mentioned are a mere microscop- ic resume of the broader fields which they represent. To predict the changes of the next forty years, which we, the coming generation will experience, is at once perceived impossible. There occurs this summer the op- ening of the greatest exposition ever imagined. It will set a new standard for exhibitions of its class, a worthy expression of the energy, enthusi- asm. and resources of the New World. 21

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broad boulevard connecting Jack- son Park with the neighboring Washington Park. Altogether the Exposition occupied 666 acres and was two years in the making, not including the time required for planning and advertising. On October 23, 1892 the magnifi- cent World’s Fair of Chicago was formally dedicated. It was not com- pleted, however, until May 1, 1893 when President Cleveland touched the button that unfurled the official flags and set the machinery in mo- tion. For six months people from all over the world streamed through the gates of this City Beautiful, drinking in its glories and absorb- ing the rich educational benefits it bestowed. As one entered the grounds, the main buildings appeared like fairy palaces. They were built of a com- position called staff which made them gleam like marble so that peo- ple came to speak of this wonder- land as the “White City.” It was a liberal education in architecture to study those buildings for they rep- resented many different types — classic. Renaissance. Spanish, rus- tic. and modern. The largest of them all. in fact, the biggest expo- sition building ever constructed up to that time was the Manuafcturing and Liberal Arts Building, covering nearly forty acres. Other interesting structures were Machinery Hall and Administration, Agricultural, Electrical, Horticultu- ral, and Fisheries buildings. The exposition had numerous special features. The Midway Plais- ance was one of these, a fascinat- ing avenue of adventure, the home of all the strange sights and sounds of all the world. Here were grouped hundreds of popular amusement features, above them towering the great Ferris Wheel, with its swing- ing couches in which one could be carried 264 feet into the air. One could circle the globe in the space of an afternoon, for here were the streets of Cairo, the Moorish Palace, the Japanese Bazaar, the Irish, Javanese, Eskimo, Samoan villages, and duplicates of many other sights. The Transportation Building with its imposing Golden Doorway furn- ished in its exhibits an inspiring ob- ject lesson on how the world goes a-traveling, beginning with the most primitive vehicles and bringing the lesson by degrees through models of the Viking ship, the Pinta, Nina, and Santa Maria of Columbus’ fleet, the George Washington coach, and so on, down to the marvelous steamers, battleships, locomotives, and other conveyances of the then modern day. The Forestry Building needed no name over its entrance, for its columns, the unfinished trunks brought from different states and countries, told its story. So attractive was this glamorous exposition that the average daily attendance was 172,712 and it is a fact that on “Chicago Day,” Octo- ber 9th, the anniversary of the burn- ing of the city, the attendance ex- ceeded 00,000. At the close of the Exposition there was a profit of $1,850,000 a practical tribute to the enterprise and splendid manage- ment of those who had its affairs in charge. Forty years have elapsed since the gala opening of the Fair of 20

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Education in a Time of Crisis By Lazrus Lazaropoulos :n • H OW to save the tax payers’ money in these days when ev- erybody has less of it than he used to, appears to be the chief interest of the average citizen just now. The demand for economy is a natural outgrowth of general distress and righteous indignation against waste and corruption. Every newspaper and magazine is loud with outcries against any extravagance of the federal, state, and local govern- ments. But its usual target is that which is most needed by the people during a depression — the educa- tional institutions. They have chos- en the wrong remedy, and I shall strive to prove that they have chos- en the wrong department to attack. One of the most unfortunate fea- tures of our preesnt economic situa- tion is the effect on education. I have read of several hundred dis- trict schools being closed altogether in one region of what, usually is a prosperous state. In other places I have been informed that the school year has been shortened from eight months or nine months to seven or even six months. Some boards of education have reduced salaries so drastically that the really good teachers have gone elsewhere, leav- ing only the inexperienced and the incompetent. In certain cities teach- ers have gone without pay for months at a time, so that their mo- rale has been greatly lowered. The result of all these things is, to put it plainly and bluntly, that our boys and girls are not being as well ed- ucated as they were, that they are not being prepared for every day work as they ought to be, and that they are not being trained as effec- tively as is necessary for the trying days that are bound to come in the future. In the greatest crisis in the na- tion’s history the people of the Unit- ed States need education more than all else. The young people of Amer- ica must be taught to understand the economic system which has de- veloped in the past century. Espec- ially must they understand that democratic government can succeed only by the “consent” of those who are goverend. But “consent” can- not be given by the people to the acts of their representatives unless they themselves understand the po- litical and economic problems that face them. There is only one sure way to guarantee that the nation may be governed by the “consent” of the people and that is by educa- tion. Furthermore education is the bas- is of prosperity. The fact that pub- lic education takes a large portion (about 28%) of the public expen- ditures of Massachusetts causes some people to think of education as an expense rather than as a prof- itable investment. Prosperity is based upon the earning and spend- ing of the masses, not of the few. Rather than being a drain upon bus- iness, our school system is one of the finest aids to business, a supporting- bulwark in our e conomic structure. During the year 1930-31, $84,468,- 319 was spent for public schools in 22