Mercy Academy - Thesaurus Yearbook (Marshall, MO)

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WILL THE RADIO DISPLACE THE NEWSPAPER AS THE CHIEF DISSEMINATOR OF NEWS DURING THE NEXT DECADE By JOSEPH PATRICK SWEENEY This Editorial won second place in Missouri in the International Quill and Scroll Contest. TODAY the important news of the world is broadcasted through- out radio-land. It reaches the minds of forty per cent of the people. Today both the important and minor news is published in millions of newspapers throughout the world reaching the minds of seventy per cent of the people. The question is, will the radio displace the newspaper as the chief disseminator or distributor of news within the next ten years? It is believed that as long as the radio uses the concise, brief method of distributing news and only news that is of general interest to the world, it will never displace the newspaper. The newspaper gives news in a more complete more interesting way. There is a guarantee of understanding. The radio at present shows no pictures, and unless one under- stands the speaker the first time, he does not get the news. The radio announcer does not repeat until he is understood. A newspaper can be read at any leisure time, but one has to go to a radio at a particular time which is often inconvenient. Yet news can be distributed by radio to thousands of people less than two seconds after it occurs. If television is made practical and put in use as it is expected a combination with radio, the radio and television together may stand a good chance of displacing the newspaper. When that time comes, radio-televisions will be in every home, in public places, broadcasting and showing moving pictures at the same time, while the news is actually taking place. This may come within the next ten years and, if so, radio will displace the newspaper as the chief disseminator of news. Page 32

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KINDNESS KINDNESS or charity is the greatest of all virtues. If we would follow more closely the golden rule many of the heartaches and much of the sadness of the world would be lessened. How easy it is to speak a word of kindness and cheer to our neighbors, but no, we are only thinking of ourselves and do not take the time to bother about them. How often during the day do we bruise the hearts that love us by being abrupt and cold with them. Little acts or words of kindness will encourage the most distressed and make them want to go on and win in the strife of life. Isn't it worth while to be kind at home and at school gladening the hearts of those that are about you and spreading sunshine wherever you go? M. C. OUR FIRST CODE CDon't Be a Quitterb Strive on, hold on No matter what people sayg Smile on, sing on Things will surely come your way. Sitting down and whining Never helps one a bitg The only way to reach the top is By never saying quit, Don't quit, keep hoping Even if your ship goes downg Grab a spar or something just refuse to drown. Don't give up trying just because you're hit, Smile in the face of danger And never say quit, E. B. TRIOLET I haven't any time To write this little rhyme. My words won't really chime I haven't any time. I cannot write a line That poets would call fine. I haven't any time To write this little rhyme. R. IVI. P531

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THE COMMERCIAL CLASS THE Commercial Department is not the least of the activities at Mercy Academy. In this department one is trained for the duties in the business world. The touch system of typewriting is used and the Gregg system of shorthand. The scope of the training received in this department is the full and harmonious training of the body, the mind and the heart, and its distinctive feature is thorough- ness which aims at the complete development of the intellectual powers and the moral character. A most interesting and profitable form of activity in this class are the tests that the students take each month. Beginning in the first month of the school year with one, two, three, by Christmas the machines are keeping time with Sousa's VVashington March. Many awards have been received this year for accuracy and speed. The following have received pinsfor writing hfty words and over: Gwendolyn Daly, Mildred Castle, Frances Fitzgerald, Agatha Dormer, Edna Giger, Agnes McLaughlin, Felice Swisher, Eleanor Hall, and Marguerite Bryan. The following girls received pins for writing from forty to fifty words: Mary Malone, Bertha Mae Motzel, Rita McKay, Ruth Crow, Katherine Titterington. I 33