McKinley High School - President Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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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.

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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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I 'll E AIifT1iS.5lN 1-I l Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. 'l'here Zllllit much credit in that. .lf .l was very ragged and very jolly, then l. should begin to feel that I had gained a point. -Dickens, Lfifc and AcZ4ve1itizw'cs'of Martin Cliazztewit. There is little Wisdom in knowing that every man must be up and doing, and that all mankind are made dependent upon one another. Forty per cent. of the people in the United States raise enough food to feed the other sixty per cent. and have a lot left over to ship to other lands. Over in China from eighty to eighty-five per cent. of the Chinese are farmers and yet they barely raise enough food to feed the other fifteen or twenty per cent. Chinese civilization as far as top-cream of scholars goes, is of fine quality. But what a dismal failure it is for all but a handful. The glory of America is the amazing achievement of having made living tolerable and even comfortable for the greater number. To be sure there is much more in true civilization than industrial and scientific advancement. But without science and industrialism, most of ns humans would be in poverty and just like the millions of the enslaved classes of the Far East. A woman will cut out most everything to reduce, but not a blamed thing to reduce expenses. Perhaps all things come to him who waits but there are some things not worth waiting for. One thorn of experience is worth whole wilderness of warning.-Lowelt. Beads of perspiration 2l1'C the jewels of toil. Weai' your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket, do not pull it out merely to show you have one.-Ch-es'terfl,elcZ. lt takes a mighty smart man to conceal what he doesn't know. Some report elsewhere whatever is told them, the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has lieard.-Ofuicl. A wise traveler never dispises his own country, We thank thee for this place in which we dwell, for the lovc that unites usg for the peace accorded us this day, for the hope with which We expect the mor- row, for the health, the work, the food, and the bright skies that make our lives delightful 5 for our friends in all parts of the earth it Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it, maybe, in all our innocent. endeavors. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we be brave in peril, constant in tribulations, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another. -Robert Louis St6'U6'I7fS07l-.