McKinley High School - Nugget Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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AN INTERVIEW VVITH DR. MANGOLD -igfzjgiu Qin Im'erw'efw 7221712 Dr. Jlfwzgold Isn't it always interesting to go someplace you've never been before? Ch-! Certainly, it must be an interesting place to visit. Then too, we must live in hopes that we are going to meet interesting people. We had often whizzed by the home of the St. Louis Provident Asso- ciation and the Missouri School of Social Economy on Locust Street, but now as we are about to enter the building, we take time to read these words on the corner-stone, The greatest of these is charity. After entering the building a sign informs us that the Missouri School of Social Economy is on the third floor. As time would allow but a hasty glance through open doors along the corridor, a wave of .curiosity sweeps over us-it is inevitable that the place should then become an object of interest. If you have been a member of a class studying under the direction of a leader whose personality has caused dry notes to live because of their pertinence to the wholesome and happy life of everyone in your own city, and are on the way to interview him, you have no qualms-most assuredly it will be interesting. So we have no fears for this interview with Dr. Mangold, the Director of the Missouri School of Social Economy, which is a part of the Missouri University. After exchanging cheerful greetings, we settle down to business. What are the obligations of a High School graduate to his community? we ask Dr. Mangold. In a thoughtful manner he replies. As the High School students and graduates of today will be our leaders in our country of tomorrow, it is their business to make themselves capable of assuming intelligent leadership. Intelligent leadership consists not only in promoting business, but in promoting effective government and in pro- moting our public and social welfare. Every High School student should learn what his own personal obliga- tions to the city and the state and the nation are. He should then attempt to train himself effectively in order to meet those obligations. It is not enough for him to study civics and political economy, and elementary social prob- lems, he must make observations as well. It is not enough to absorb infor- mation from books, he must make observations in the laboratory of experi- ence. The High School student finds practice in doing this by participating in a system of self government. Here we note that McKinley is doing this through its Student Council, our organ of self government, which is also a laboratory in which we must learn to consider the rights of others and control matters pertaining to our school welfare. This is excellent practice in dis- ciplining ourselves to respect the rights and principles of others as well as in maintaining our own principles of right and justice. How may the student continue this after he has left school? we ask. He should cultivate a feeling of responsibility for public welfare. This is not accomplished by carrying business entirely apart from the community interest. A business man should be publicly minded, having the interests of the community as close to heart as those of his family and business. An individual should not cultivate the 'live and work for himself' idea.

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apsjgi.. T H E Cd R NA TI o N Previous to a century and a half ago, the only means of transportation were the sail boat and what may be termed the pony express. It took days to make a journey of a few miles on land and it required weeks and months to cross the ocean. But science presented a swifter and more convenient form of transportation when, in 1786, John Fitch exhibited the first steamboat in the United States. . However, this invention did not improve the method of land transpor- tation. However, the people were to have another opportunity to marvel at genius, when,ain 1826, the first railroad was put on successful trial. This progress in invention seemed even more marvellous, and all difficulties in transportation and travel seemed to have been solved, but let us go a step farther. In the latter part of the nineteenth century, the world was even more astonished at the production of the automobile. This vehicle, very crude in the beginning, was an object of fear at first, but now is the most common means of travel and has, to some extent, replaced the railroad. But even the automobile is likely to be replaced in time. As another stepping-stone in the improvement of transportation, we have the aeroplane. This machine, though very simple in its infancy, has been vastly developed, until now we have planes which are able to make non-stop flights across the continent, to fly across the ocean, and to attain the terrific speed of two hundred forty-five miles per hour. As a result of the developments in methods of transportation, we have the pony express replaced by the railroad, the sail boat by the steamboat, the steamboat, in its turn, by the great ocean liner, and the railroad, to some extent, by the automobile. What may we expect as a result of the develop- ment of the aeroplane, or what may we expect to replace it? The march of the human mind is slow, but when started on the road to success, there is no limit to its power. 1NELLIE BoswELL what zz Boy From Holland Tlzinkf of Ur Three years ago, my family left Holland to start a new life in America. We decided to come to St. Louis and settled in the Riddick School district. I was placed in the fourth grade. The first week was one of the hardest I have ever experienced in America. The children would not play with me because I could not understand them. But about a month later, I was beginning to understand the language. After living in St. Louis for a few months, we moved to Boston, Massa- chusetts, where I entered the Hfth grade. Instead of taking music and clay- work there, I studied English and Arithmetic in the sixth grade. When ex- amination time came, I passed the test for the sixth grade and at the same time took, and passed, the seventh grade test. Continued on Page 128

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-.-s5f28lS+ THE CARNA TION McKinley pupils will remember that a notice was posted last June, an- nouncing that girls who are graduates of a High School may enter a class for specific training in play-ground work. This is a contribution which a girl can make toward public and social welfare, by directing the play of the children of the crowded districts. Remembering this, we ask Dr. Mangold, Are there any other concrete examples for service? With a twirl of his pencil he an- swered-he may have twirled it before, but we were so busy taking down notes that we did not notice. In the field of social service many kinds of talent and many different forms of service may be utilized. Men are needed as leaders in philanthropic work, as ministers, and as heads of social and civic organizations. They should strive for a greater and greater efiiciency in our public service, and need to be made capable of doing such work effectively. They should stand for efficiency and not allow politics to break the system down. Is there any way in which the social service worker could use the assis- tance of volunteer work? we ask, for it is our turn to keep the ball a-rolling. A graduate over twenty-one years of age can help by assisting in those forms of social work which deal with families which are abnormal. Younger persons might help in class work of various kinds in churches, missions, settle- ments, and other neighborhood community centers. There are many organ- izations which are trying to connect the volunteer worker with opportunities for service. Among them are,-The Neighborhood Association, Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A., Jewish Community Center, Board of Religious Organiza- tions, and the Catholic Women's League. We close our interview with these words of Dr. Mangold, Everyone ought to assume some volunteer service to get himself into the right frame of mind. The obligation of volunteer service rests upon every citizen who is old Clmugh-U -V1oLA WIESENBORN good giflglliffi Good English is the road to success. But-this road is a very difficult one to travel and daily hundreds are being side-tracked. The road itself is narrow and it is clogged with many difficulties. Side-tracks, which at first appear beautiful, are seen in abundance on either side. However, after traveling over these roads, one Ends that they become clogged and there is no goal, where- as the good English road has the wonderful goal, success. On either side too, there are the sturdy trees of slang which have taken a firm hold in good English and their branches and twigs are tangled before you. In order to push forward, you must clear away these obstructions of slang. Then underfoot we find the pebbles and stones of faulty enunciation and pronunciation. These, too, must be done away with, and then our path will become smooth, not only for us but for those who follow in our footsteps. Begin now to clear your path and by the time you are ready to gain suc- cess, the difficulties and sidetracks will be so few that success will be yours. -MARVEL BARNETT.