McKinley High School - President Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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THE ARTISAN V 109 INITIATIVE The world bestows its big prizes, both in money and honors, for but one thing, and that is initiative. Vtfhat is Initiative? l'll tell you: lt is doing the right thing without being told. But next to doing the thing without being told is to do it when you are told once. That is to say, carry the Message to Garcia: those who can carry a message get high honors but their pay is not always in proportion. Next there are those who never do a thing until they are told twice: such get no honors and small pay. Next, there are those who do the right thing only when Necessity kicks them from behind, and these get inditference instead of l1o11ors, and a pittance for pay. This kind spends most of its time polishing a bench with a hard luck story. Then, still lower down in the scale than this, we have the fellow who will not do the right thing even when some one goes along to show him how and stays to see that he does it: he is always out of a job, and receives the contempt he deserves, unless he happens to have a rich Pa, in which case .Destiny patiently awaits around the corner with a stutfed club. To wl1icl1 class do you belong ?-Elbert Hubbarcl. 'When put to the test, an ounce of Loyalty is worth a pound of Cleverness. -Elbert llnbYm1 cl. MEN The biggest' single asset of the Bethlehem Steel Company is not its plant, its mines, its lIlZlCl1illC1'j' or any of its material possessions, but its organization of 1l1011.H-C1lfH'T0.S M. .SC7lll7!lb. - PURPOSE '4For everything you must have a plan. WVhatever is not profoundly con- sidered in its details produces no good results. I trust nothing to chance. - -Napoleon. lf he had only learnt a .little less, how ,infinitely better he might have taught much more !-Uiclircns. The secret of this matter is, that it ain't so much that a person goes into Socieityjas that Society goes into a person. -Got-ng 'into Society. lVlisfortunes can never have fallen upon such a. man but for some good purpose, and when I see its traces in his gentle nature and his earnest feeling, l am the less disposed to murmur at such trials as fl may have undergone myself. -Master II'm1i.p7z,rcy's Clock. A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a. little patronage more so. May the blessings of God await thee. May the sun of glory shine around thy bed: and may the gates of plenty, honour, and happiness be ever open to thee,-Diclceus' The Uncoirumerczfal Traveler. ln the common things of life lies the strength of the nation. lt is not in brilliant conceptions and strokes of genius that we shall find the chief reliance of our country, but in the home, in the school and in religion. America will continue to defend these shrines. Every evil force that seeks to desecrate -or destroy them will find that a Higher Power has endowed the people with an inherent spirit of 1'esista11ce.-Cczlfuin, Coolidge. A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. -D'ie7cens-Tale of Two Cities.

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S 103 THE ARTISAN WI-IAT A SCREVVDRIVER CAN DO. - Manicuring tool. Chisel to split wood. Crowbar to lift boxes, pry open cases, and windows, etc. Hammer-using the handle as a mallet. Scraper-removing paint, removing chewing gum from soles of shoes. Tire 'iron-removing, placing pneumatic tires. Paddle-for mixing paints. Putty knife. Prying lids from friction-top cans, or plug holes in milk cans. Removing tacks. Reainer for enlarging holes, Making holes in wood for starting screws. lice pick. 'llool for insertion in electrical light sockets to see if there is juice on the line. Removing caps from bottles. Toasting fork. A woman in an eastern city left a bag ol' jewelry worth live thousand dollars in a taxicab. The next day she learned that the driver had turned in the Wealth Io the police station. lf only did my duty, said the taxi driver. Go back into the boyhood of that taxi driver and somewhere you will find some training in the home, school, or church where he learned that it was not a, fine and showy thing to he honest. He didnlt learn that he would get credit for being honest. He simply learned that it was his duty as a man and a citizen to be honest. Wliat a wonderful lesson it is once it learned! I only did my duty. Schools of Industry, schools where the simple knowledge learned from hooks is made pointedly useful, and immediately applicable to the duties and business of life, directly conductive to order, cleanliness, punctuality, and economy schools on such principles, deep as the lowest depths of society, and leaving none of its dregs untouched, are the only means of removing the scandal and the danger that besets us in this nineteenth century of our ljorcl.-Diclivens. w It has always been in my observation of human nature, that a man who has any good reason to believe in himself never iflourishes himself before the faces of other people in order that they may believe in liini.-D'ich'eo1s, It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a. complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every babv born in the world is a, finer one that the last.-Dichzens' Nicholas Nickleby.

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110 .THE 21.11351 '1 SAN HOW' TO BE HAPPY Are you ahnost disgusted with lite, little man? Iill tell you a wonderful triek That will bring you contentment, if anything can, Do something for somebody quick! Are you awfully tired with play, little girl? VVea.ried, discouraged and sick? .l'll tell you the loveliest game in the rrorld, Do soniething for somebody quick! Though it rains, like the rain of the flood, little man, And the clouds are forbidden and thick You can make the sun shine in your soul, little man, Do something for somebody quick! J Though the stars are like brass overhead, little girl, And the walks like a well heated brick And our earthly affairs in a terrible whirl, Do soinething for soinebody quick! -All-olzynious. It is heard and terrible speech used by Buddha. 4'The wheel follows the foot of hini who draws the cart. You ean't get away from that. Habit is not something that has you. It is soniething that you have. You can not let go. You pull it after you over the rough road of life-as the wheel follows the foot of the man who drags the cart. Every failure teaches a man soinething, if he will learn. That out of death his single purpose springs? Awake the present, shall no seene display The tragie passion of the passing day? ls it with man, as with some ineaner things, That out of death his single purpose springs 'l Can his eventful life no moral teach Until he be, for aye, beyond its reach? -Dzcleefns. The affections are not so easily wounded as the passions, but their hurts are deeper and more lasting. If there is anything real in the world, it is those amazingly fine feelings and those natural obligations which inust subsist between father and son, A 'oke's a 'oke- and even Jraetieal 'ests are ver f ea Jital in their way, if you J J , 1 , can only get the other party to see the fun of them. How a erust well earned was sweeter far than a feast inherited.-Dialsans. The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answer- ing look and never finds it, is in cheering society as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily, that were once the countenance of friends.