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

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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

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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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PROBLEMS i ,gg Tkggiiig let pleasure and material enjoyment have a high place in their everyday activities. To maintain ideals of good citizenship, of friendly relationship among the races of mankind, of devotion to honor and truth, and to search for ways of progress in all lines of thought and action, would be a worthy aim for Californians as well as for people of every state in the Union. Perhaps it may not be a present problem for California to maintain high ideals amid material comforts, but it may be well for Californians to see that it never does become difficult for them to become so. DR. FREDRIC P. WCELLNER Dr. Fredric P. W'OElll1C1', assistant professor of Education at the University of California at Los Angeles, is well known to the teachers of Long Beach. The students of Long Beach should became acquainted with him also, for his clear thinking is an inspiration to all. His letter pertains directly to the graduate. Each year an increasing number of high school graduates rushes into society with a louder battle cry of greater freedom and of more opporf tunity. These graduates are apt to be remarkably energetic, optimistic, and self confident. Each one wants to find his particular place in the sun. It was ever thus! Each year anxious groups of adults meet these graduates with greater concern for the Welfare of society and of these incoming members. Men and Women of affairs are apt to be a little uncertain and somewhat weary. They feel that they must not abdicate in favor of a lesser nobility. It was ever thus! f' wg Q ' ' ' ' .. The big problem now and tomorrow for the -' ,:, Polytechnic graduate, as of all graduates, concerns it' l ' self with convincing the adult world that it has no cause for anxiety or lack of faith. It will take years to convince these adults that graduates are able and will' ing to assume their responsibilities and to carry them' , Y' selves and society to higher levels of thinking and Q acting. But it must be done. It remains for graduaf ting senior of Poly High to warrant the respect of the nr. Fred,-is Woellnex' older generation. Hard work and good work will accomplish this. It must be remembered that one's place is not won in a day. It was ever thus! -14 L me 5555, Q i f-. 5 ' L-.il :fr my 1, ...ec 'gl ,- M Si H- - - ' -Q 1 -. - ' fm' -X - 1: .Q -- :E - - ri i . , . .K 'I Ei j.,Q, . , . - f ' 7- if . , 11 is giatfzgfx ' 'if-4