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

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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 , .

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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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THE LIVE WIRE Here at the head of the lake we come upon a babbllng brook that trles wlth all its mlght to tell us how happy It feels danclng along IH the moonhght to enter the lake gracefully only to take lts Journey up agaln at the out let Deer rabblts foxes and all klnds of anlmals scamper away at our ap proach Blrds ln the trees scold us for wakmg them at such a late hour Everythlng seems so wonderful that lt IS hard to leave but we are spared from knowmg we wlll not return for a long tlme to thls paradise on earth Flfty years later we walk ove1 these same places agam The moon IS st1ll there but It can only shlne 1ts sllver rays on a deserted mudhole The once colorful lake has dlsappeared and wltn lt have gone all of nature s wlld hfe Mother Nature does her best to fill our achlng nostrlls wlth sweet per fume but It lS useless All her materlals for maklng thmgs beautlful have gone from th1s once gorgeous spot Oh humans why are you so ln human? You thlnk nothlng of beauty of nature of peace' You thlnk only of money money money' Nature means nothlng to you when money can be had by destroymg lt Very well go ahead and slaughter the beauty of our forest but remember that comlng generatlons wlll pay for lt and they ln turn w1ll hate you for carelessness We take a good look at our one tlme paradlse and leave It wlth ach1ng hearts It doesn t seem posslble that man could be so careless as to forget the beauty of nature that he once has a Carlle Brackett 37 A REAL FRIEND OVIING down the m IH street of Lovell a small New England town were two boys These two boys offered a strlklng contrast One of them Jack Rogers by name was a well bullt boy who stood slx feet three ln hls stocklng feet He was a well llked boy except for hls temper HIS one feature that he desplsed was a firery crop of red halr from whlch he got hls nlck name Red The other boy was Thomas J Jackson a perfect speclman of the proverblal bookworm horn rlmmed glasses and all stood five feet slx mches ln hxs stock mg feet These two boys were the captaln and the manager of the Lovell Hlgh School basketball team As they came to a corner the two boys parted Thomas golng up another street towards hls home and Red contlnu mg on hlS way down the street Sud denly Red saw hls best frlend blg Johnme Murphy Johnme s blg broad shouldered figure was framed ln the doorway of Wllllam s Ice Cream Parlor where he stood very lntent on a chocolate bar he was eatmg Red crossed the street and Jolned hlS pal Together they walked on down the street Say Johnme basketball practlce starts tomorrow mght Red sald very enthuslastlcally Yeah mumbled Johnme drawing forth from hls pocket another choco late bar All you do I9 eat Johnme? Nope It looks lt Everytlmel see you you re eatmg ' L A a' Y I , . . ' . I l , , V . . . . U - U Y ' ' - ' 44 u . , f a , , . ' . . 9 . - . He , - . . ' . . , . , . - ' . n n , , v - ' . . . . D H H i H ,, . . . . v - - . . , . I 1 a - - . s - . . , , . y 1 - , ' ' I6 yy . - - N . . . - . , . I u . . . H , , 1 v . . . , H , 1 - . ' u ' ' 9 I , . . K , as ' ' 77 . , . la n h d ' ' . . , - , 1 ' 1