McKinley Junior High School - Purple and Gold Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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,-111 .Qln-ii-11-111-1 limmie's Truimphn It was the end of January. Final tests for both studies and foot- ball werc drawing near. Jimmie Adams was one of the best football players on the school team, and he was also good in his studies. In the last few weeks, however, instead of studying he would rush out to join the boys in football practice. In the evenings, he found that a tired body was a great drawback to an active mind. He would try to concentrate on his studies, but his mind refused to respond to his desire to study. Jimmie felt that he was doing wrong to neglect his school work, but he argued that his team could not do without him. Hiis school might lose the final game in the series of games that were to determine the championship! With this thought to justify him, Jimmie continued to give all his time and thought to preparing for the final game. Just two days before the game was to be played, a summons from the oiiice startled Jimmie to the realization that he was failing in his studies. The principal warned him that unless he gave his time to picking up the work he missed he would be unable to gradualte with his class. That night Jimmie went home feeling very despondent. He knew that after all, his studies counted more than the game. As he argued with himself, he recalled the lines his mother had taught him to say: I am master of myself. I have strong will power. I know what is right. I want to do right. I will do right. Repeating this 'to himself had been the means of keeping strong when temptation assailed him on many occasions. Jimmie studied his lessons that evening, and another thing he did was to tell the boys he had decided to drop out. They protested, but he hurried off before he began togweaken in his resolve. Needless to say, Jimmie graduated with high standing in all his studies, and what was of great satisfaqtion to him, his team won the game which made his school the football champions. Jim- mie learned a little lesson from this game. He began to realize that no maftter how important a person may feel himself to be in any organization, there is always some other person who can fill his place. Jimmie's father understood what a sacrifice his boy had made in giving up his place on the team to win out in hiis studies, and because he had done the better thing the father presented him with a shiny new roadster with his initials engraved on the door. This gift delighted the boy, but his greatest joy came from the realization that he had conquered himself by giving up pleasure for duty.-Kathryn. Ritchie, B9.

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