Pennell Institute - Whirlpool Yearbook (Gray, ME)

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had to walk to school, which might be anywhere, from one to five miles awaye When they got thoro they sat on benches with no backs. They studiod Mathomat- ics, English, Geography, Latin, and Greok, many of which held no interest for the normal boy or girl, This was not all, they generally had to suffor from the cold during the winter. I do not mention the summer becouse very few pupils went to school in the summer. They stayed at home and worked. was the only school session for theme You may ask: Well, don't they hate to go to school now? I don't think so as a rule, There is too much to interest them in school nowe For instance, thore are sports. Every school has athletic teams of somo sort, and is there any bey or girl who is not intercsted in sports? The subjects taught in the High Schools of today are somewhat different from those taught in the paste We still have English, Arithmetic, History ond . ““oography, but we have added to the curricula, such subjects as Home Economics and iignunl Training. There was little money spent on education when our grand- parents went to school. The schoolhouse was a small and cheaply constructed building. It was built sometimes for as little as six hundred dollarse Tha only expenses of running it were for fuel and for a teachere The wood was often supplied by some farmer who sent his children there and the teacher generally taught for his board ot some of the pupils! homes; so, the running expenses were small, To-day, tho cost of running a school is very high. There hes to be heat, light, pencils, paper, books, teachers, janitors, and many other things which help to incur exponsce Large schools, which teach such subjects as biol- ogy, chemistry and physics have to have special laboratories for these classes. This may give you some idea of the cost of running a modern high school. Of course the expense is tremendous, but isn't it worth it? As timc goes on it is hoped thnt the public High Schools throughout the United States will continue to improve and give to the future generations all they could hope to have along the line of training for education and culture. --Ronald Colley Winter Safety First Safety First driver, Whon walking, always walk on the left m nd side of the road, When a car comes toward you, step off the rond enough if necessary so that they will not hit you, A driver should obscrve all traffic rules, He does not have to drive as -though he has only a minute to get to his destination. Fast and careless drivers often sond innocent people tc an untimely death or maim them for life, thereby brcaking up homes and causing much suffering and sadnosse should be the mctto of every person whether pedestrian or Much is being done by traffic officors ond safety drive directors to eliminate these terrible accidents that nro happoning all around use The fault does not alymys lie with the driver. Many times children and sometimes older peoplo do not pay attention when they aro crossing tho strocte Children are being taught in school to be careful when crossing the street. arents who allow children to play in the street are not only endangering the life of the child but also the lives of the driver and occupants of the cay, that tries to avoid hitting him, We little realize the number of deaths caused by automobiles throughout the country until some of our dear ones are victims of one of these accidents Some of the faults of the pedestrians aro: dodging out between parked ae PR

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to nervousness 211 show a person's habits, No one wants to read a book or paper thet is blotted, with two or three colors of ink on it and dirty fingerprints on the paper. That person will have to master a great deal in this subject of un- tidiness if he wants to succeed and be able to earn a livinge Untidiness in the homes and streets make excellent places for brecding disease germs, Filth is germ's boarding house until tho germ finds a place on the body or in food, Cities ond health departments have helped in lessening :. these unsanitary conditions by health crusades and organizations. One of the most helpful hints, I think, that have made people self-con- scious is the advortisemont of B.O. Even if a person is not guilty of this offence he takes it to heart. We should 211 have tidiness for our pass word. --Evelyn Morrill Peace Every country, state, and person begs for peace, yet our great governments are having a race for war» Many societies have been formed to prevent war. dust before the World War there were over one hundred of these societies, Their solgan was: We will stop this war by keeping out of it, but after we were forced to enter, the societies thon changed their slogan to: We will stop the war by winning it. Not so long ago a peace conference was hold in one of tho Centra] American states, tho object of this gathering was that every country could express its ideas on the reduction of tho army nnd navy and the slowing up of building new Ships. After each speaker hed voiced his idea, a small, tanned man arose, ade dressed the officers, then mado the move that each country should disarm come pletely. The other members were overwholmed! How should he dare to even sug- gest this at a peace conference? People say that we are directly hcaded for war and if it over docs come we will be much worse off, than after the Great War, If that is truc I don't see how these conditions and countries would have the least idea of causing trouble. Everyone suffered, and still we are suffering, from the resultse I om a girl, but if I wore a boy I om sure I would hate to think that when I was a bit older I would have to join the army and suffer all the war tortures instead of making somcthing of a career to help bring peace and happiness e -- Marie Pousland. High Schools The present school system as it is today had its beginning three hundred years ago with the establishment of the Boston Latin School. This gave to the Amcrican people the principle of free public education; an opportunity for each individual to receive training in the subjects that are so necessary for every- duy living. We have found it feasible to meet the expenditures of the school system by taxation, that is, by taxing the people and they are being educated more end more, As time goes on, they are being educeted in the achievements, and possibilitios that can be accomplished through the proper management and workings of a well balancod system, Why did children hate to go to school in the Good Old Days ? Toke a look back and see what they wont through while trying to secure an educations They

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cars, running across the strect when they should be walking, jay walking ond many other things that the foot person does, If all the people, who are killed and maimed in one week, could be brought together in one place for the people who drive and walk carelessly to sec maybe they would be more careful what they do in tho future, Thus I wish to leave with you the impression, that safety, first, last and always is the best policye --Earla Whitney Base sue ee Transportation and Communication Since time immemorial, man has used some method of signaling: through spaces Cyrus the Great is knovn to have used a mysterious system of signals by which he could send a message ecross the Persian Empire in one day, e dis- tance which could not be covercd by a horseman in less than thirty dayse Roman soldiers sent signals by moving their shields into a definite position or by flashing them in the sunlight. The Amcrican Indian built a smoke tire on a hilltop to send signals. . Biblical history contains many references to smoke signals and it is belicved that signals were sent in this manner from the Tower of Babel. , The Semaphore System of communication, called the tclegraph, was later used, Hone of these methods could bo emplcyed at night or even in the dey time with low visibility, Communication at night, by flashing lights has been in use for many cene turiose It is believed that the Chinese first started this mothod, Paul Revere in 1775 aroused the Minute Men between Boston and Concord by signal lamps in the belfry of the old North Church, Later, guns, cannons and bells were used as signals, The fact thnt clectricity could be sent through a wire of considerable length was first demonstrated by Stephen Gray in 1729, but it did not occur to him that he had mado a great discovery e ' The discovery of electro-magnetism by Oerstod in 1820 may be said to have been the culminating episode in the development cf the clectric telegraphe The electric telegraph was realized at last as the result of a chence conversation between Samuel F. B. Morse and Dr, Charles T. Jackson, At first it was a crude method but it became more and more modern as time went one Finally from tho men's chance conversation, the ocoon telegraph sprung up, the fire alarm telegraph, the telephone which was introduced by Alexander Graham Bell and Albert Marconi nn Italian Scicntiste All these methods have boon improved immensely as time went one. One thing more is being developed quickly, that is television which enables us to see the performers of the radio as well as hear them, In years to como there will be many more improvements which will make us look upon the inventions of our time as very crude rather than very modern, as we suppose todaye --Doris Manchester