Polytechnic High School - Caerulea Yearbook (Long Beach, CA)

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O, blighted l1ill, whose furrowed back is torn By whirling shafts of steel through all 'the night, Whose very heart is rent by screaming drillsg Resent this dinning rack, and show your might. The brooding hill crouched lowe1'. All the day Its baleful glance surveyed the dismal sight, A shudder racked its derrick-bristled crown. The hill lay ready, waiting for the night. Then when the shroud of darkness clasped tl1e da And all the city slept in quietude, A rumbling blast re-echoed through the night, And woke to terror all the multitude. A 'tongue of fire shot up and licked the sky, A tortured flame that struggled to be free. The roar resounded in the vault of space, And drowned the deep-voiced rumble of the sea. Woe be to him who taunts old Vulcan's might, Or thrusts his darts in Pluto's Stygian halls. On him who seeks to rob their ebon wealth, The roaring rage of all Cinnneria falls. ltlelvin Nielsen A '22 3 9 V U

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ef GHG 'I' ' of ' LLFRGG T was a dull, dreary afternoon. H ea v y, rain-soaked clouds if lnmg low in the sky, clouds Wir, which, before uigmfaii, will have dampened considerably the few .square miles of territory that, accord- ing to the broken sign on the box-like railway station, was known as Bull- frog. The little back room of Lige Per- p kins, general store held its usual after- ' noon crowd of 'ginfluential citizens of Bullfrogf' and old Jim Crawford, as usual, was doing the talking. g'Yes, sir,', .lim wa.s saying, I maintains that there are times when it is absolutely necessary for a man to lie. A lie can do just as much good as the truth many times an, Iill prove it to you some time. There ainit any occasion fer it now, but I'll prove it. The old 1112111 gave his head a peculiar jerk. It was his strange way of giving a note of assurance and finality to what he had said. '6VVa-al, Jim,', drawled Lem Tucker, mebbe you're right and mebbe youire not. Leastwise it donit do no harm to prove itf' Yep, you gotta show us, Jim, broke in Lige Perkins. HA good 111any people says as how a man's got to be a good liar to get along in business. Now I don't consider myself a liar, but I will say Iim a real pert business man. .lim Crawford smiled at the storekeeper's boastfulness and then spoke again. A good liar, providin' he is good, is all right as long as he lies fer the good of all concerned. Jim was possibly speaking pretty strongly for one of the con- servative members of Bullfrog's elite, but this was not altogether unusual. Une or two more farmers came in from the front of the store