Jamestown High School - Red and Green Yearbook (Jamestown, NY)

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must be so satisfactory that the Principal shall be able to recommend that the State Department allow the credit. Young men who heed this call to service on the farms are doing as noble and as patriotic a service as the soldier boys, and with their help this mighty nation, of the people. by the people, and for the people, shall not stiffer disgrace, nor defeat. but shall uphold her honor and place among the inations of the world. Morgan L. Heath, '17. 9 Q Q 0 This organization has a definite purpose-the enlargement and perma- nent improvement of the High School Campus. The Campus plan was first, announced at the ammal banquet of the Improvement J. I-l. S. Alumni Association last june. The committee Association which did the initial work was made up of representa- tives of the Board of Education, the teachers of thc city, the Alumni Association and the Board of Commerce. This committee formed a. corporation, borrowed money through the assistance of about one hundred fifty public spirited citizens as guar- antors, purchased five properties east of College Street for enlargiii the Campus, and secured through action of the Common Council a resolu- tion for closing College Street at such time as the Association might be ready to proceed with the final improvements. - The amount paid for the properties purchased with the expenses in- cidental thereto approximates S20,000.00. In addition to this, it is likely that 310,000.00 will be required to grade the entire field. fence it, erect the necessary bleachers, etc. This is a very large debt to pay through voluntary contributions and the proceeds of entertainments. It will bc all the more difficult to pay this debt under the war conditions existing at the present timeg but such a crisis was not anticipated when this enterprise was started. lt is too late to retreat. This is a community undertaking for the benefit of all. The city, and the High School in particular, are in need of this central field for athletics and community entertainments. It is therefore con- fidently expected that, in spite of adverse conditions. our students and our citizens generally will help, as opportunity offers, to carry this undertaking through. The general plan for paying the debt as worked out by the directors of the Association is as follows: The houses purchased on College Street will be rented for several years and the proceeds used to pay the interest on the debt, The ath- letic field, put in good condition for use and provided with bleachers. will be used for several years as it stands for raising revenue by means 21

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required to pursue another subject, or group of subjects, intensively. ln this line he must be, to use a common school expression, A grind. ln other words, within the possible range of high school attainnients he must become a specialist and approach something like mastery of some narrow field of knowledge. To receive credit in such courses the student would be required to attain a higher standing than is now accepted as a passing mark. This plan would undoubtedly work well. lt provides a means for securing the general information which every person needs, the lack of which sometimes makes the narrow specialist ridiculous: at the same time it insures for the capable and industrious student both mental discipline and vital scholarship. There is much reason to believe that many high school students are already availing themselves of the advantages of securing only a general knowledge of their subjects. and are quite unaware of the benefits to be derived from an intensive pursuit of some single subject. Such students should learn that real study begins only after one has met the minimum requirements ot' recitaticn and examination. Rovillus R. Rogers. 0 Q Q Q The pressing need of our country today is Preparedness. Preparedness in both the army and navy. But to be fully prepared The C0untry's for war our country nmst be able to feed and care for Call her fighting men. Consider then. from whence this food nmst come. Naturally the answer is from the farms. hut unless tilled the soil will not yield abundantly, and here has loomed up a great difficulty: namely the scarcity cf farm laborers. Young men are called to the city because of higher pay and shorter working hours, and consequently the farmers are left destitute of help. One thing then is certain, farms and farmers need steady, dependable young men to help and cooperate willingly and faithfully with them, and in this way our country will he able to support, and support well our army and navy. With this situation clearly in view the liducation Department of New York State inaugurated' for the aiding of the farmers the follow- ing plan: All young men between fourteen and eighteen years of age. who are attending public- schools in the state of New York. are urged to enlist in what is known as the Farm Cadet t'orps. The purpose of this corps is to aid the farmers during the present year. All students joining this corps will receive Regents' counts in all subjects which they are now pursuing without further study or examina- tions. In order, however, to secure this credit the work of the student 20'

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of various forms of athletics and entertainments. A central committee will have charge of arranging the season's schedule of entertainments each year, and rentals will also yield some revenue. The directors have also planned a system of membership which should produce considerable revenue from animal dues. There are four kinds of membership-an honorary permanent membership on the pay- ment of S25 or moreg a sustaining membership with ammal dues of five dollarsg a senior, or active membership with dues of one dollar a yearg and a junior membership with animal dues of twenty-five cents. The junior membership is intended for minors--especially pupils in the schools. After enough of the deht has been paid to warrant such action, the houses purchased east of College Street will be removed and the final enlargement and improvement of the Campus completed. Everybody help, please! Principal Milton j. Fletcher. ' o Q 4 Q Whenever we hear anyone discussing the present World War it is usually concerning the latest French drive or tiermany's Democracy food supply. lint behind these outside facts there are and War taking place some great and far reaching changes. As a result of the present gigantic struggle new conditions are developing, which are to prove whether monarchy or democracy is to be the future government ofthe world. Now. how do these two forms of government show up under this acid test ? l can point out nothing new and startling. You, yourselves. have seen and are seeing the results of this test. You know that in a short time great changes have taken place in the most unthought of quarters, for has not Russia, that supposed stronghold of imperialism, resounded with the tread of the revolution- ists? There, democracy has now the upperhaud while monarchy lies crushed. A people, believed to be subject and bound down under the stern hand of an autocracy, have broke-n their fetters in the struggle for more liberty and more light. Under a democracy what may not this contry with all its marvelous recources accomplish? Over sixty per cent of the Russian people are illiterate and here indeed. is a tremendous task for the leaders of the new government, for the corner stone of democracy is education. But let us ask what is happening in Germany. liven in that systematized. efficient mcnarehy the people clamor for more freedom. livents are daily happening whch tend toward democracy and which seem to show that monarchy is not the most satisfactory form of govern- ment. The people there are educated. it is true, but only to the one end. militarism. Thus, out of this great conflict in Europe today, there seems to he a movement which, slowly but surely, is hostile to monarchy, and that movement is democracy. C. H. Hugo Nicholson, '18. 22