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

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PROBLEMS . 17 rn, A 1llllllIll.,, ..,. ,......,,, , H llunm' ..,,,., H Yimlllw CI llllwllllllw ,N.,.. r.. ,,unl1Iuli. .. mmf, Jmllu mlWM vfm. fl? Willllllllmiililulllllllllgfp Wlllllmnullllllllli' fWlW1qjHllllllli.E 0 N'll l lj M Hi in,themselves. They are but the means with which we may create happy. homesg and under Cod, better men and women. It is a great thing to accomplish. It is a great heritage to hand down to our children. JULIA ELLEN ROGERS julia Ellen Rogers is known t-o the outside world as the author of books on nature. Among the students of the Long Beach schools she is admired and respected as one wh-o has their interests always at heart. Cn the eve of her departure for a trip abroad she has graciously consented to write us a message. She says: V The greatest need of the 'moment in California is the saving for future generations of the magnincent trees, the Sequoias. They are the wonder of the outside world. They are thousands of years old, they top all the forests in height, and outf measure them in girth of trunk. The redwoods -occupy the coast plain, the big trees, the mountain plateaus, in scattered groves. Both are restricted now in area, for the lumberman has, for seventyfiive years, been converting these living giants into lumber. Fortunes have been made in this exploitation of the world's greatest natural asset. . Now the thoughtful citizens of California are W. i realizing how wasteful has been the destruction of Julia Euan Rogers these noble trees. The most practicalfminded person, as well as the dreamer, feels alarm that the chief attraction that lures world travellers to our state is doomed within a few years. Cn the shoulders of the rising generation rests the duty of carrying on the con' servation program well started by the m-en and women in the Save the Redwoods League and the American Green Cross. The hardest work is done. The enlisting of thousands in this great movement will bring us to the goal: the preservation of the Sequoias of the California forests for California and the WORLD! CLYDE- DOYLE Clyde Doyle was graduated from Poly in 1908 and since then has been a continually active alumnus. His unflagging and enthusiastic loyalty to the school have been an inspiration to students and teachers alike. His letter is characteristic of him.

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Q --, g gpg, CAERULEA'27 i ll! ---1-W--will ,.,,, ,H ,Ima ., l 'l '. .,.,,, 3 r glln!l ,, I I-imlllufmlwlilia V... de lwnllwwgmullulllllllglyb Wlllnmnnlnflliwufw lV'fi1g51!l!Wlliii?m0 iW'l 'iHeWIlMWW WMiiw CNSIDERATION of California's romantic future brings a consciousness, not only of her opportunities but also of her needs. With this fact in mind, the editor has asked men and women of authority as educators and statesmen to suggest the problems which in their opinions should challenge the attention and interest of the students who are to be the future men and Wiomen of our state. HERBERT HCCVER An article by Herbert Hoover needs no introduction. His name alone is a guarantee of its value. Mr. Hoover has given us permission to use the following excerpts from his article, The Future Development of the Great Valley of California: 1 K' If we were to scan the whole nation for the I greatest opportunity of national development we would ff ' find that it lies right here in the great central valley of 'a gqi ' '4e. California.-If we can accomplish the great thing of 'i,-331159. -of .. . . . lvgh jg providing water for 6,000,000 acres more, we shall have added fully a million people to the state and a I ai-. ' f wealth of one or two billion dollars-an addition to 'tfieihif' f America as great as the fine state of Maryland.-It is 1 , ' is . the official purpose of the Department of Commerce to Herbert Hoover foster and promote commerce and industry-and ' there is no greater opportunity in our country than here. This is my purpose in addressing you and I should be proud to de' vote myself to securing the adhesion of the Federal Administration to the plan which I have here advocated. All this is for a great human purpose as well. California has created alm-ost a new agricultural civilization. Humanity has had for centuries a great idealg that is, to abolish poverty. In this great valley, on its farms, in its villages, and its cities, you have come nearer to this ideal than the world has ever been before. And its future is even greater. If sixty years ago we could have had a sound plan of flood control and conformed every development to it we should have saved tens of millions in losses and quarrels. We have about completed satisfactory guarantees against loss by great floods but this work only comprehends getting rid of the water, not conserving it. All these works-the dams and reservoirs, the power plants, the irrigation canals, the pumps, the levees, and the orchards-are not an end

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B5 C .aug gCAERULEQ'27 On a recent business trip to Chicago I had the experience of riding upon an elevated railroad. As I journeyed from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois it was a revelation to me to look directly out onto the second story back yards, of these hundreds of thousands of j Chicago tenements and flats, close to which we passed on the elevated. Returning from Evanston by automobile, I passed through the same district on the ground levcl and noted thousands of children-black, brown, white -playing together on the streets and sidefwalks. Cn my way home to fortunate Long Beach and sunny California it occurred to me that we should better prepare the foundation and groundwork so that Clyde Db,-E, with the rapid increase in population which is bound to occur hereabouts, we should be prepared to assimi' late the same with as little tenement district as is possible. The center of population of the United States is bound to m-ove to the West. My native State of California will have an additional five million of population in the next several years. Let's build our cities and lives on a broad, sane basis of tolerance, fortitude, perseverance-strong enough to prevent injustice and trained enough to dispatch our duties as citizens with sanity and equality. RAY o. HUGHES I During the past year Dr. Ray C. Hughes has acted on a committee sponsoring a series of articles on Problems of America for the Scholastic Magazine. Dr. Hughes is vicefprincipal of Peabody High School, Pitts' burgh, Pennsylvania. He is chairman of the Social Studies Committee of the N. E. A. He sends us the following advice: I have made three visits to California, and am in love with the counf try, but I am not at all sure, that I am qualified to speak on the greatest problem of California in the future. In this connection, however, the words of an old hymn occur to me - Where every prospect pleases and only man is vile. Man is not vile in California. A thing that I fear might happen, however, unless the good people of the Golden State are on their guard, is that the enjoyment of the comforts and advantages which nature has given them so abundantly should cause them to lose their interests in the higher and deeper things of life. There must be a great temptation to Southern Californians to