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

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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.

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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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LIBRARIES --atlzgla .Qbrcz1'z'eJ Few of us really realize the vast importance of these institutions, the greatest sources of knowledge to which we can go. In every walk of life, we will find the works in these libraries of great importance to our welfare. If we form the habit now of making regular visits to these buildings of learning, we will be thankful for it in our future years, for not only will we increase our vocabularies, but the standards in our communities will be raised. YVe all want to be everything expected of us by others and in order to attain this end, we must have an extensive knowledge of the essentials per- taining to life. This knowledge can be obtained through study at the library. A veneer of knowledge may appear bright for a while, but when the real wood of understanding shows through, will it be line or course? This is for us to decide. Make the understanding of knowledge within you of the best and when your real self is shown to others, it will be just as pleasing as the veneer had been. Tomorrow is our day-we are the future generation, shall we make it or break it? -MARVEL BARNETT. Tlzyfzkf It was the belief of Plato that the human race could not exist without slavery, and this might have been true had it not been for the discovery and development of that body of natural laws, known as physics, which control the various forces of nature. It is an indisputable fact that the many conveniences which we now enjoy, and even consider necessary are almost all attributable to a knowledge of the laws and forces of nature, which man through his understanding of them has compelled to work for him. By the direction of these forces it has been pos- sible to accomplish tasks, which, from a standpoint of manual labor alone, would have been economically and often physically impossible. All machinery and engineering structures and therefore all our present industrial life is a direct application of the laws of physics. The steam railway is only possible through a knowledge of the laws governing heat, levers, inclined planes, friction, centri-fugal force, and Newton's laws of motion. The various truss bridges, from the small highway bridge to the Quebec can- tilever bridge, illustrate the laws of resolution of forces and of moments and the properties of materials such as their elasticity and strength. As our industrial, so also our political, social, and economic life indirectly depends upon the laws of physics, without such inventions as the steamship, railway, street-car, automobile, telephone, telegraph, and radio commerce Continued on Page 128