Newport High School - Live Wire Yearbook (Newport, ME)

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THE LIVE WIRE pound some shoddy was selllng for slxty cents a pound What IS the rea son for th1S7 Why IS one sort of wool more valuable than another? In wool the fine fibres are the ones first looked for but unfortunately wherever one finds the Hbres fine they are also very short So we see that the finer flbre and the longer the fibre the more val uable IS the wool When one finds long fibres ln the wool they are usual ly very coarse that IS the reason why some shoddy can be more valuable than some vlrgln wool For lnstance aclothlng company buys some very SXDSDSIVG vlrgln wool and makes a large number of men s and boys sweaters In ten years the sweaters are worn out and are reclalmed and ground up lnto shoddy Thls vlool shoddy IS stlll qulte expenslve and IS made back lnto CIOthlHg agaln Thls clothlng made from the wool shoddy would be more valuable than some clothlng made from a medlum grade of vlrgln wool Where ever wool goods are dealt Wlth there are three classes of wool They are good medlum and poor The poor grade of shoddy that IS the very short fibres IS used ln maklng roofing wlrelnsulatlon felts and fer tlllzers The medlum grade IS used to make cheap sults auto cloth and car pets Whlle the good grade IS used to make wlnter socks better sults sweaters and overcoats Let us follow the story of a vlrgln wool sweater from the tlme lt leaves the store The prlce IS elght dollars Some one comes lnto the store and buys thls brown sweater In a llttle Whlle there may be deslgns of cotton sewed on It or It may be patched wlth cotton thread or rayon yarn In a few years a rag peddler plcks It up In cldentally It may be stated that some of these rag peddlers really make a pretty good llvlng One may go up to a home and tell the lady of the house that he Wlll glve her five cents a pound for old lags that she may have around Among these rags there may be old worn out woolen sweaters old socks and other old rags He Wlll buy the rags for five cents a pound and sell them to some shoddy mlll for fif teen or twenty cents a pound One of these peddlers pls ks up our brown sweater wlth hls bunch of rags He goes to a shoddy mlll Thls sweat er IS sorted wlth many others of the color and quallty They then are put lnto a machlne called a carbonlzer that takes out all the cotton rayon dust and other lmpUFltl8S that may be ln the wool After thlS the rags Whlch are pure wool now are put lnto a large tub contalnlng chemlcals Thls process takes out all the color and then dyed agaln to a deslrable color When It IS all through thls process lt IS taken to the maclllnes called plCk ers These machlnes plck and grlnd the rags Then they are taken to an other machlne called a cardlng ma chlne When IC has been carded It IS qulte fluffy and IS ready to be spun lnto yarn Thls wool shoddy IS then put lnto large bales and shlpped to a splnnlng mlll where lt IS made lnto cloth agaln When thls cloth IS made the second tlme lt IS no longer marked vlrgln Wool It IS marked Pure Wool If your garment IS marked Pure Wool lt may have undergone thls -IL I 18 l 1- 9 Q . , ' - - ' 1 , ' . Z . A '. 9 9 Y . I ' 0 , ' n I y . . . . 7 1 - . . . - . - . 9 . . . . V 7 o . I ' 1 . . 7 leaves the wool a dirty yellow. It is : ' ' I 1 u n , u L , y . . . - , ' ' ' . Q . . 1 9 v ' . ' Z ' , , H . . . . , . . ,, . . ,,. . . 7 . , as 77 - . . . 4' Q l 9

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NEWPORT HIGH SCHOOL Jackle whlspered Here we are They went lnslde Jackle ran to the e Mum Mum Mum' ve got some help He ralsed her up shook her gently Don tyou hear me Mum? Igot yer some help See hlm? You ll llV9l Mum can t you hear me? But It was too late Mum dldn t need any help now The pollceman knelt beslde Jackle and took hlm gently away Come on kld' Brace up It s all my fault You see I dldn t understand You see you see You kllled her' The only person ln the world I have and you kllled her It would have saved her but now now He couldn t finlsh Sobs choked out the words What wlll I do now? You see llttle feller Im all alone ln the world too I haven t anyone elther Maybe you and I we maybe we could sort of hltch horses ya know get together on lt Igotta house a Job and a blg black dog named Tom Hed love you We could get alongjust great What do you say? No I guess It s no use for me to bother you Mlster any more only Yes I can remember my Mum the pollceman sald as lf to hlmself What? What dld you say Mls ter? The blg awkward pollceman held Jackle close to hlm and sadly stam mered Ihada Mum too She was Just as dear as yours and she left me but I dldn t glV6 up So you see how lt IS? Now what do you say? Wlll you be my pal kld? Gee MISt6Y do you really want me? May may I really go wlth you? Hope began to gleam through tears You surely can sonny' But my Mum What What? Come on let s you and me go and see Tom Your Mum s all rlght now kld Shes happy shes wlth God and my Mum the tHe chokedl the two best people ever Nellle LEWIS 38 WOOL SHODDY TRANGE but true when we see the tag Pure Wool t does not mean much It merely means that that garment IS made of pure wool only The wool IU that garment may have been used many tlmes be fore The one who buysa garment that IS marked Pure Wool does not know that people from all over the world have worn that same wool O the other hand lf one sees a garment marked Vlrgln Wool or Vlrgln Worsted he can easlly be sure that the wool has never been used before A good many people get the ldea somehow that vlrgln wool IS the only wool that should be used for maklng clothlng but some clothlng made from wool shoddy IS abetter grade than some vlrgln wool clothlng What IS Shoddy? How many people know? A surprlslngly large number of people do not know what shoddy IS Shoddy IS the materlal after It has been re worked A palr or woolen pants ground up lnto thelr orlglnal state are shoddy Once when Malne wool was selllng for thlrty cents a f- -L I 11 l 1- - - sa ,, . l O 0 L . . . . H , . bd M - ' 1' 11 ' aa yy . , , . an yy O C i l u 1 H 7 1 - ' - , . 7 ' g 4 . ' 7 - , ,, . ' 7 - 7 ' ' Y - . -11 . . . . . ' ' 7 ' as ' 7 .-.- , . . . ' 1 -. -Y, . H - ' 1 1 . - ss 11 ' ' 1 1 1 -91 1 - . . . 44 ' , . ' - 64 ' 7 - 1 1 , ' ' 1 , . . ' - ll ' H H - 1 1 . - . n 1 1 1 L4 - ' H u ' - . . , . H . . , , , 77 is '1 - Y . -,, . . . 1 1 55 77 ' 1 1 ' 1 H . .1 . . , -' ,, . . . . . as - 1 a - - . , . . .. Q ' I . . , . . ,, . 1 - 1 - H . . . 1 1

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NEWPORT HIGH SCHOOL process twenty five or thlrty tlmes Who knows? Maybe some of the wool ln your garment IS more than one hun dred years old Thls seems lncredlble but It IS true Maybe the person nearest you IS Weaflng some of the very wool that you wore five or ten years ago The only way tllat you can be sure that your sweater or other garment has not wool shoddy ln It IS to look for the tag Vlrgln Wool Thls does not mean that Wool shoddy IS lnferlor but some people cannot understand It and re fuse to buy It When you buy a garment marked Vlrgln Wool you know that only the sheep have worn thls wool before you Sam Warren 37 THE MEANEST THING I EVER DID BEING a perfectly normal boy had by the tlme I was elght done the followlng thlngs wlthout botherlng my COHSCIGHCS at all pulled my slster s plg talls tled tln cans to dogs talls klcked our nelghbor s cat put paper bags on cats paws sklpped school had at least ten good fist fights These thlngs passed out of my mlnd almost lmmedlately but the meanest thlng I ever dld wlll stay ln my mem ory untll I dle It was on Saturday May fifth 1932 that lt happened I was lelsurely walklng down the street IH my home town when the bllllng of our local theatre caught my eye Buck Jones ln the Ralnbow Trall Nothlng at that stage IU my llfe of fered more thrllls than a Buck Jones Western I felt ln all of my pockets one by one butl couldn t find even one penny It wouldn t do any good to ask my parents Wlth my weekly allowance spent on chocolate sodas I sat down oll the curb stone The glrls and boys flocked by laughlng and Jok lng on thelr way to the show Isat there for ten mlnutes then suddenly Igot up and ran off An ldea had flashed through my mlnd As Iran along I DlCk8d up a smooth thln round rock When I reached the cor ner of Pleasant and North Streets I decreased my strlde Yes sure enough she was there ln her usual place Walklng nonchalantly I dropped my smooth rock lnto her cup and qulckly extracted a dlme Yes It was a bllnd woman Ican stlll hear her pathetlc God Bless You and see her pale face llght up' I saw the movle but Ill confess lt lacked the P Fraser 37 GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN KT HE MOON IS at ltS full Sum K mer IS at lts best How beautlful lt IS here IH the Malne woods From one end of the lake to the other the moon paves a sllver wav whlch dlS appears lnto the woods beyond as lf It had been cut by a knlfe and part of It carrled away Trees sway gently ln the falnt mldlllght breeze whlle Mother Nature glVBS off her most fra grant perfumes to her wlld llfe As we walk along the shore of the lake we see a busy beaver now and then huntlng for hls evenlng meal -L I 19 l 1- , 7 . . , , - ' 2 , , . . . H . . .. ,, Q ' u s ' V ! Y 1 ' ' ' 9 .. . . I ,, . . ,, . 1 ! 1 I y . , a n 1 ' ! ' 54 l 97 1'l 1 Y J , -- ! 9 usual thrllls. lx , , , C' Y 1 . , .- . 1 . . , . . . , y s , , . lp . . 9 ' n . . 7 v ' .1 ' ' 1 v D1 1 . l ' n 9 , .