Ipswich High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ipswich, MA)

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GETTING AND SPENDING WE LAY WASTE OUR POWERS by Grover C Barley Ill Before the begrnnrng of the Industrral Revolutron the marorrty of people lrved rn a slow paced srmple socrety At that trme there were no crtres teemrng wrth rushrng mrllrons and smokrng factorres There were no movres trarns stock markes These people had none of our modern Convenrences Therr trme was Spent rn rarsrng enougn food to support 'nerr famrlres and to pay therr taxes ln therr lersure they took trme to offer reverence to therr Creator To us perhaps thrs seems lrke a dull exrstence yet accordrng to varrous sources these people were qurte happy wrth therr lrves Today man lrves rn a very complex and materralrstrc socrety rn whrch lrfe rs geared to a very raprd pace It seems that almost every one rs fully occupred tryrng to cram a twenty four hour day rnto erght hours Rush and worry seems to be our motto and the faster the pace becomes the more man wants to rnc ease rt Certarnly rn thrs age of ret planes and atomrc power man rs not content In fact he rs probably less content than ever before rn hrstory It rs true that socrety rs changrng rt has been rn revolutron srnce man has exrsted but srnce the rnceptron of rndustrralrzatron socrety has changed radrcally and raprdly At frrst through necessrty man was vrrtually enslaved by the machrnes he burlt but gradually he has freed hrmself Frrst men worked srxteen hours a day Thrs workrng day was gradually decreased to twelve hours erght hours and now there rs talk of an even shorter workrng day Man has been able to decrease hrs work rng hours by rncreasrng the productrvrty of the machrne Ivlachrne hours are raprdly berng substrtuted for man hours and rt rs such a substrtutron that rs creatrng a serrous socral problem Vlan rs berng enslaved rn a heterogeneous manner by that whrch he devrsed b cause hrs rn eress and search for happrness durrng hrs rn reased lersure are based on one thrng maternal sm In tne nrn teenth century Wrllram Wordsworth ex pressed qurte srmply the effect of these same evrls rn hrs day The world rs too much wrth us late and soon Gettrng and spendrng we lay waste our powers When man seeks materralrstrc goals the best he can obtarn rs a superfrcral happrness resultrng from transrtory pleasures But even today man strll has sources open to rm that wll decrease hrs subrectron to the machrne ma terral sm and socrety tnese sources can rncrease hrs happrness and grve hrs lrfe more meanrng Probably one of the frnest drversrons rs athletrcs As an avenue of reraxatron sports offer more to a greater number and varrety of people Certarnly very few sources of good pleasure offer equal enroyment from the vrewporn f botn spectator and partrcrpant Another and probably more endurrng satrsfactron rs the cultrva ron of he mrnd through the apprecratron of tne frner thrngs rn lrfe such as frne art good musrc and wor h whrle Ir era ure Thrs does not mean that one must hobrtually attend the opera house wander through ar gallerres o be a book worm to be happy We should however recognrze the beauty of such self expressron and wrth a lr le effort and study try to apprecrate the rnrel ect that the creatron of such a work rnvolves Througrr hrs source we can drscover new pleasure and satrsfactron Another channel through whrch one may derrve a fuller meanrng of lrfe rs through our na ural surround rngs Thrnk for a momen of ne dazzlrng whrte sand and prcturesque sand dunes at Cranes Beach or the trees and multrcolored r cks that border the twrs rng turnrng Ipswrch Rrver One mrght say these are srmple thrngs but they are sources of pleasure wrthrn the reach of all of us and very much a part of our every day lrfe The fault lres rn the fact that whrle absorbed rn worldly cares or pleasures few stop to apprecrate the beauty and the perfect balance of exrstence that' rs darly paraded before our eyes Maybe rf man slackened hrs pace a brt he would take note of the srmple tranqurllrty that resrdes on every srde If man began to realrze these thrngs he mrght awaken to the fact that nature offers hrm two ardes to hrs quest for happrness a source of rnsprratron and asprratron However the best and basrc source of all satrsfactron rs our element of farth Man may search far and wrde for happrness but unless he turns to God to seek help and grve thanks he wrll never attarn a full and lastrng peace of mrnd When mon realrzes the beauty of tne truth that lres rn relrgron he wrll frnd strength for truth has vast power thrs power wrll complement hrs needs for facrng lrfe There rs then no doubt that man can not long endure rf he seeks only materralrstrc ends If however he uses hrs rncreased lersure for recreatrng hrmsell physrcally mentally and sprrrtualry he wrll no longer frnd the world too much wrth hrm he wrll not be ex haustrng hrs powers merely rn gettrng and spendrng He wrll on the other hand be lrvrng a lrfe wrth meanrng and purpose He wrll have as Cardrnal Newman ex pressed rt rn hrs defrnrtron of The Educated Man the repose of mrnd whrch lrves rn rtself whrle rt lrves rn the world and whrch has resources for rts happrness at home when rt cannot go abroad AMERICANS NEED FOR SPIRITUAL VALUES Patrrcra Polychronoplos At a trme when there rs so much rnternatronal turmorl and tensron wrth so much stress berng lard on arma ments and nuclear weapons rt would serve the rn drvrdual as well as the country as a whole to pause for a thorough check on hrs moral and ethrcal well berng The sprrrtual factors of a persons make up can very easrly be lost or neglected rn the fast materralrstrc war tense trmes of our day Our free world can be saved rt seems to me only by a redrscovery of sprrrtual resources and the revrval of a dynamrc relrgrous forth among our free people I wonder rf we do realrze the vast extent of desola tron and hopeless rurn that would result rf we abandoned relrgron Imag ne God and a future lrfe berng completely erased from the mrnd of every man There would rndeed be no hope for our worrd Selfrshness and sensualrty would absorb the whole man A sordrd self rnterest would replace every other feelrng and our natron would be an unhappy place rn whrch to lrve ' ' '55 I rr r . . 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The communaty too as well as the school as losing saght of some worthwhale pursuats There as a noted paucity of events an whach the whole communaty takes part Instead of gatherang for busaness reasons alone town meetangs and the lake why not assemble for pleasure too? Pacnacs and community sangs whach are far from common an many towns afford fun for young and old alake and provade an excellent opportunaty to develop a better relataonshap wath townspeople and neighbors Some people are realazang that many American trada taons are becoming lost and these people are tryang to revave them Grady Johnson and has famaly washed to brang back the sample hospatalaty of yester year ln an artacle an the Readers Dagest whach probably many of you read entatled We Revaved the Lost Art of Calling CD Mr Johnson said that the average American neagh borly by tradataon has forgotten casual vasatang and maarataaned than socaal relataons only through RSVP partaes and dinners What he says as true Todays socaal code requares that entertaanang be done on a formal basas and has resulted an the elamanataon of the casual dropping an on friends wathout a formal anvata aon The Johnson famaly wondered how many of thear fraends were at home lake them washang that they could chat wath thear fraends but from fear of offendang established etiquette were unwallang to vasat without an satuataon and dad lust what they intended they brought back the lost art of callang by vasatang people unex pectedly and for no other reason then merely wanting to see them ln Mr Johnsons words Were learning to enloy one anothers company instead of dreading the trouble and expense we formerly caused Danner entertaanang as fallang off although we break bread more often than before famaly style Edgar Guest an has perhaps rather homely fashion expresses the same sentiment an these lanes from has poem When Friends Drop ln 0 Theres no pomp of preparation theres no style or sham or fuss We are glad to welcome callers who are glad to be wath us An we sat around and vasat or we start a merry game An we show them by our manner that we re mighty pleased they came For theres something real about at and the yarns we love to span And the tame flaes oh so swaftly when a few good friends drop an Speaking of vasatang friends an thear home makes us thank about the famaly Over the years ther has been a gradual dasantegrataon of famaly lafe Many of the taes that once bound members of a famaly closely an love and regard for each other are now beang elaman ated Outsade actavataes make such a constant demand on our tame that we rarely indulge an the sample enloy ment of staying home talking wath those who are dear to us Good conversataon as dyang Its murderers are televasaon movaes radao and other equally modern amusemens I do not wasn to say there as not much gaaned from navang these anventaons at our disposal I do wan to stress however that we are becoming addacted to them I once read thas cartoon quap0 Last naght I was talking to my wafe you know how you do when the televasaon se as broken Some of you may thank that as a rather exaggerated allustrataon of my poant but an a great many homes at as very near the truth In a typacal Ameracan household of the l900s the famaly often gathered around the piano for an hour or two of sangang Mother struck a chord and each member of the famaly loaned an the sangang Perhaps tharteen year old Jammy was out of tune and has chang ang voace cracked now and then but no one seemed to mand They felt a closer relataonshap wath each other by sharang an thas enloyment Following thas recreataon the kids settled down to thear studaes sometames seated at one large table especaally suited for that purpose wath Mother and Dad lookang on In thas scene there existed a feeling of mutual love and happaness a closeness so evident at was almost tangable Now the pa ture as changed After the evening meal as over Johnny grabs has coat and as off for the movaes Sas waats ampataently for her babysattang employer to preparations for a naght out Each one goes has separate way an many homes The close harmony that was once prevalent has ceased to be Now more than ever before at seems to me a chald needs the assurance that he as growang up an a home where has essentaal need for love guadance and un derstandang as beang supplaed Every youngster needs that sense of securaty felt when he knows that someone as waatang for ham at has home Today as a womans place an the world becomes ancreasangly promanent and chaldren are growang more andependent more and more mothers are workang In some cases at as absolutely necessary that the woman of the house work to help wath famaly expenses but unless that as the case I belaeve that the modern wafe and mother would serve her famaly far better by beang on hand when they needed her than by ancreasang the famalys store of material comforts The unaform closely constructed famaly lafe that once domanated almost every home can exast gust as strongly today We have to realaze that the need for truas closeness does exist that we are elamanatang many practaces whach would help to make our home lafe more abundant and that we can remedy the satuataon by beang a lattle old fashioned and puttang less emphasas on the movae screen and more on the home To conclude quate samply Let us not shut the door on yesterday and throw away the key Gfor behand that door lae some of the secrets to a happaer and more satasfyang lafe I Readers Dgest December I954 pp I5 I8 I Refldefs D'9e5f December I954 P 99 lCondensed from Chrastaan Science Monatort I Friends by Edgar A Guest Copyragh I925 I Cartoon quaps Ball Keane Regaster ond Trabune Syndacate The Reelly und Lee Company p 20 I Paraphrosea auoagvaon by Vavaora Y Laramore Today I I I ' ' - 1 1 1 . . . . , - a . . . - I I I I . 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Today rn America we have been endowed with freedom by our forefath rs God fearing men who sought religious liberty Tney relied upon prayer and drvrne guidance rn all crises and thus triumphed rn 'he bat le for our freedom As Patrick Henry declared rn the speech for which he is so famous There rs a lust God who presides over he destrnres of nations and who wrll raise up friends to fight our battles for us Another rnsprrrng example of this faith rs the picture of George Washington the father of our country kneeling at prayer at Valley Forge when the srtuatron was so desperate and when everything else seemed futrle Again when he left the Presidency to retire to Mt Vernon he reminded ne American people as fol lows Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to pol trcal prosperity religion and morality are rndrspen sable supports ln the next serious crisis through which our country passed we find the same devotion to what each be lreved a sacred cause and reliance on prayer lt was near the end of the Crvrl War that Lincoln delivered these words Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God and each invokes Hrs ard against the other lt may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a lust Gods assistance rn wrrngrng their bread from the sweat of other mens faces but let us ot ludge that we be not rudged The point rs that though we believe one side to have been mistaken both sides were sincere rn believing their cause to be rust and that they were rustrfred rn appealing to a drvrne power ln the decades before T914 throughout most of the crvrlrzed world people thought that war was dying out They disregarded the growth of the armament lndustry and the growth of disruptive forces An easy self sufficiency and complacency fell over the English speaking nations but not over Germany Her declara tions of war rr' l9l4 aroused the entire world from its comfortable seats World War l followed and after four years of distress left its af ermath Our nation was concerned wrtl a ous prob m sp I life vas at a low ebb r .fvere disillusioned by ne horrors of the war and were wrtn neither n p far h or usefulness They were wrt nessrng sprrr ual de pair a greo emptiness rn lrfe The situation differed after World War ll and the Korean War Ou p ople wer frnally recovering from tne darkness of scepticism and emerging into the lrght of forth The churcnes were filled with people praying for the re urn of their boys from the disastrous war A revival of faith began With a knowledge of the atom bomb and the hydrogen bomb men everywhere f lt tno tn y had to place their hope and faith rn God as their only refuge and strength Everywhere today the evidence of a spiritual awaken ing appears The newspapers last summer gave wide Churches rn Chicago There rs a notable increase rn the relrgrous news now printed and religious books are outsellrng all others three to one Hollywood rs pro ducrng religious films and films wrth sprrrtual emphasis There rs an increase of prayer rn public lrfe and a religious renaissance rn our colleges The government rn the United States rs reclaiming its heritage and demonstrating that relrgron rs an important factor rn strengthening our country Recently Congress passed a resolution which inserts into the salute to the flag the expression under God Another recent development rs the opening of a Prayer Room rn the United Nations Capitol for silent prayer and meditation by the members of Congress lt rs only however as each rndrvrdual makes himself better that the world can be made better Thus rf our free people all practice a regular church attendance observe the lessons of the Ten Commandments and maintain a conscious realrzatron that man rs made rn the image of hrs Maker we shall find ourselves worthy of the prrvrlege of berng Gods children and Amerrca can continue and carry forward tts tradrtrons of a free people recognizing the hand of God rn all our dealings wrth each other and wrth the peoples of the world ' ' A seri le 1 - Eritua ' .f r . Vlen D - - . W . ., . F . . . . . V l . . A . . .T S . I T V . . . ' f , ' ' ' V ' r . A . I ,, . . ' I 5 6 . . . . . , ,, . , . . . . . ' .e ' t ' e ' ' ' . ll ' A ' ' ' ' D ' 5' ' , ' ' ' ' ' - coverage to the meeting of the United Council of I , l . - ll ' . l ' I I , ' , 2 n . . . . ' ' II ' ' ' Il ll 1 - 1 ' , I I l I h . . 1 , ' I . ,, . . . . I ' - I , , V . , .!,. . 29