Park City High School - Kalendar Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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trees. He came to a hickory tree. Now, anyone who has never been in the country does not know what a hard wood the hickory is. The boy surveyed the tree a moment, then his dull axe. He started chopping on the tree with a fixed air of determination. By the way, some of our most gritty people are from the country. Inquire into the lives of our educators and wealthy business men of today. Did they come from the city or country? Nine-tenths of them were reared in the country. Well, to return to this boy. He kept on chop- ping with a dogged perserverance. There was an unseen spec- tator standing behind a brush pile. He was intently watching the boy, who was hot and tired, but still working away. Final- ly the tree fell, he had accomplished his aim. He had gone the forty miles. The spectator, a middle-aged man, stepped from behind the brush. He introduced himself as owner of a de- partment store in a near-by town, and asked the boy if he would accept a position in his store. He said this was the very boy for which he was hunting, one that would stay with his job. Now this was just what the boy was longing for, an op- portunity to earn money enough to put him through school the next winter. He gladly accepted the offer and was soon a clerk in the store. In a. short time he was promoted and his salary raised. He was economical and saved enough to pay his tuition in school. He worked in the store his spare time. By the time he had finished school he was holding a high po- sition. Later he bought stock and started in business for himself. His education enabled him to manage his business well. He gradually climbed the ladder. He is now owner of one of New York 's largest department stores. He has again gone the full journey, fortv miles.. Does it pay to finish what you start? Yes, get the habit, it always pays. Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. By Olive Vifatson, 'l7. 55

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last mile is hard and requires lots of thought. The last prob- lem in the lesson is always the hardest. The others lead up to it. Several principles are involved in the last problem. If you do not work this one, you have lost half the lesson. You are no more efficient at the thirty-ninth mile in that lesson than you were at the twentieth mile. Many people have started great enterprises, but stopped just when they were on the verge of success. Michael Angelo, the Greek sculptor, worked a long time on his master-piece. He had it almost completed when he died. It remains unfin- ished to this day. No one has been able to finish it. The last mile consisted of the finishing touches, expression, etc. lt was the hardest mile and no one but Michael Angelo could finish the journey. The piece of sculture was just as beautiful at the twentieth mile as at the thirty-ninth. The most important feature was lacking. Taking out the last box we find that when difficulties arise we are prone to give up. Did you ever see anyone, bubbling over with ambition, start out to do things, and when difficulties came up, he would stop? That isn't the kind of ambition that counts. lt it the steady stick-to-it fellow that does things. Some people wa.nt honors, but won't work for them. One will find difficulties to overcome in all walks of life. If one would get up he must struggle up. Take a certain young man studying to be a book-keeper. He started in business college very ambitious, he was going to finish his course right away and go to work. Well. his lessons were hard for him, he didn't have as much money to spend as he wished for, and he did not like to study. But he went on till he was nearly through. He went thirty-nine miles but not the forty. Finally he just quit, he had neglected his lessons till he was behind. Now what good will his book-keeping course do to' ward holding a book-keeper's position? He had better stop- ped at the twentieth mile and not wasted his time. Several years later he was still clerk in a shoe store. Take another young man, he was the son of a poor farmer. He had a fairly good education, and high ambitions: he also had the ability to stick to his job. One hot sunnner's day he was in a field near his honie, with a dull axe, cutting down 54 . .1-,,... :- Mu'

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Some Facts and F ancies lol. School's greatest need Most popular girl ......... The best all-round student . . . The heart smasher ....... . The biggest bluffer . . . The greatest politician ...... Most likely to become a millionaire Best basketball player Cgirlb .... Best basketball player Cboyj .... Best baseball player ......... Most dignified pupil . . . Biggest sport ........ Sweetest teacher . . . . Most bashful boy . . . The human Vietrola .............. Most appropriate nickname- Beam Most popular boy ................ Mrs. Comfort's favorite expression. thing without my permission. Miss Duncan 's favorite expression ..... Miss Lenoir 's favorite expression.. gum out the window. Miss Skaggs' favorite expression. . . Miss AcuFf's favorite occupation. . . tainments with Mr. Gray. Miss Mallicoat's favorite occupation ..... books. 56 Money . . . Mildred Cash . . . . . Mattie Trotter J. Walter Stalsworth . . . . . . Dewey Wylie . . . . . Professor Sellers t Frank Brumback l Robert Tatum . . . . Elizabeth Baker . . . . Cecil Copeland . . . Bert Stalsworth . . . . Robert Tatum . . . Herbert Clarke . . . aliss Acuff . . . . Verne Dukes . ..... . . . Mrs. Comfort pole . .Carroll Holmes . . . Clarence Watson .... Don't do any- . . Guess again . . Throw your . . One at a time, please . . . .Corning to enter- . . . .Collecting note- , ..a . ..u:b,.. gazing..