Ipswich High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ipswich, MA)

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personal feelings to over-rule the necessity of getting the story before the public. There are many sections and de- partments to a paper. Each has its own staff. Today women are edit- ing pages of interest to women, while years ago a woman was not allowed near a newspaper. The book reviews are written by the most eminent critics in the coun- try. The theatrical news is covered by a man whose sole work it is to see the cinemas and plays and write them up. Of great interest to young and old alike are the comic strips. Most of these are syndicated ; that is, they are owned by a large firm who has the right to sell them all over the country. That is the rea- son that Maggie can be found beating poor Jiggs with the rolling pin not only from coast to coast, but even in foreign countries, and “Moon” Mullens is as well known in San Ber- nardino, California, as in Skow- hegan, Maine. To illustrate the value of the comics, Sydney Smith, the owner of the Gump family, was offered $150 000 for the rights to it, but refused to sell. The photo-engravers play a prom- inent part in the production of a newspaper, for it is through their work that the pictures are repro- duced in a newspaper. All this and even more labor goes into the production of the news- paper for which you protest paying two cents a day. The newspaper is but one of the wonderful inventions which the years have brought us. And as the years roll by, who knows or can guess what the world of Progress will bring us. Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony By Curtis Haley T HE Puritan migration to New England marks the dawn of a new era in the course of the world ' s history. The voyage of the “May- flower was one of the events in this era and was followed in a few years by the extensive settlement of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The moral and political issues in- volved in the struggles of the Eng- lish Parliament with Charles the First were to become of world-wide importance, and the influence of the men associated with Oliver Cromwell has left a lasting influence on the welfare of mankind. This year commemorates the three hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Ips- wich, and it is the oldest town in Essex County which has remained three hundred years a town. Originally Ipswich embraced the present towns of Essex and Hamil- ton. When first discovered by the English, the land was owned and occupied by Masconomo and known as Agawam. Masconomo sold his title to John Winthrop for twenty pounds. The original deed of this transaction is preserved among the Winthrop papers at the Essex Ir ) stitute. John Winthrop, son of the Gov- ernor, was the leader in the expedi- tion of twelve men who came to Agawam in March of 1633, or August 4. 1634 (old stvle). The settlement attained sufficient im- portance and dignity to be incorp- orated as a town and the General 21

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type page on the matrix. It is then dried in an electric oven and placed in the casting box of the auto-plate. When all the modern machinery was placed in operation, much fear was expressed by labor that it would displace many of the work- ers, but the reverse has been true in this case. There has been a sixty to seventy per cent increase in the number employed in the industry owing to the fact that newspapers have increased their size from eight and twelve pages to an average of forty to sixty pages daily, including the Sunday issue. This has required a great many more employees out- side of the setting of type and make- up of the pages, although this end has required a great increase in workers. Since the inventions of these rev- olutionary methods, there has come a great improvement in the produc- tion of books and magazines. Color work has been added by what is known as the offset process, which has greatly increased the value of the publications as advertising me- diums and has created a more skilled class of workers in the tech- nical parts of newspaper and maga- zine printing. The old-time worker has by no means lagged behind, but has kept pace with the modern methods and is looked upon as the real backbone of the industry. It is a very interesting thing to note the great number of profes- sional men who have been news- paper workers. Statesmen, doctors of the various branches of medicine, clergymen, politicians, and prac- tically any profession which you may name has had, and does have today, its quota of newspaper men. A story is first received in a newspaper office by the head of the news desk. To make the situation seem more real, we can use the sink- ing of the “Titanic” in 1912 as a specific example. This story was on the street forty minutes after it was received over the wire. The story is given out to re-write men who write it in its proper form for publication. It is then sent to the Composing Room where it is marked or keyed in the sequence of paragraphs. These men who do this work are called copy cutters. The copy cutters give it to the men who run the linotypes. Here it is set up in type and a proof taken of it. The proof is sent to the Proof Room where it is read and then re- turned to what is called a revise bank. This is a slanting desk on which the necessary corrections in the proof are made. The story is received next by the make-up men who make it up in columns. This department is con- nected with the editorial room, be- cause it is necessary for the head- ings and other such material to be written here. The page is then made on the molding press into a matrix which is dried in an electric oven. In the auto-plate machine the matrix makes four plates per minute in the circular form of .metal. This is the next to the last step, for the story is then locked on the presses and printed in the form of our daily newspaper. A story as human and pathetic as the sinking of the “Titanic” shows the co-operation of the news- paper men, for many had friends on that boat but did not allow their 20

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Court so decreed. Ipswich derives its name from Ipswich in “Old Eng- land,” in acknowledgement of the great honor and kindness done to our people who took shipping there. The first English to visit Agawam came in 1611, but it remained for Captain John Smith, the celebrated explorer and colonist, to leave us a detailed account of Ipswich and vicinity. Smith in 1614 describes Agawam’s many hills planted to corn and Plum Island to the East with its groves of Mulberry trees. William Wood in his “New Eng- land Prospect” describes Agawam as “one of the most spacious places for a plantation.” Thus the perma- nent settlement by John Winthrop and others can easily be understood. Even the historian of the Pilgrim colony at Plymouth relates that in the very first winter of 1620, some of the Pilgrims urged removal to Agawam because of its excellent harbor, better ground, and better fishing. The settlers of Ipswich were men of intelligence and sterling char- acter. John Winthrop. at twenty- eight years of age the leader in the settlement of 1633, was a graduate of Trinity College, a member of the bar, and a veteran of the English navy. A man of culture, he gath- ered about him in the first settle- ment others of eminent parts, which made Ipswich from the beginning a town of rare quality. The Rev. Nathaniel Ward, author of the “Simple Cobbler of Aga- wam,” was the first pastor of the church organized in 1634. The life of Ward is the history of an irrecon- cilable Puritan, summoned before Archbishop Laud for non-conform- ity and roughly excommunicated. Ward, with hundreds of others, found a field for usefulness in New England, and when he was sixty- four years of age, we find him here in Ipswich. The Rev. Nathaniel Ward is the author of the code of laws known as the “Body of Liber- ties,” the first code of laws estab- lished in New England. A very witty mfin, Mr. Ward remarked to Cotton Mather that he had only two comforts to live upon, the one in the perfections of Christ, the other, in the imperfections of Chris- tians. Richard Saltonstall was another who came early to Ipswich and par- ticipated in a prominent manner in the affairs of Ipswich. Governor Thomas Dudley made Ipswich his early home, and his daughter Anne married Simon Bradstreet, after- wards Governor of the colony, and was the first woman to write poetry in the new world. One of the original developments in the Massachusetts colony was the senaration of the colonv into towns. There was nothing in the land the Puritan left that contained such an institution, and as Jefferson re- marked of the New England towns, “thev are the vital principle of their government.” The towns ordered their local affairs, disposed of land, and elected officers, and the town meeting supplied a definite neces- sity in the exercises of government. In the development of town govern- ment and the town meeting, Ips- wich, because of its members and wealth, played a notable part. 22