San Mateo High School - Elm Yearbook (San Mateo, CA)

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Transportation Makes School Accessible 0 oo THE FEW thousand years ago we probably would have worshipped transportation as a divine EI-M being. Modern cartoonists with a dormant sense of humor and no originality often illus- Q- trate this racing race of commuters as flat on their faces in humble homage to the god of from-here-to-there. None of us, when leaping from bus, auto, street car or Austin, steamship or aeroplane in our usual perpetually preoccupied slate of mind, realize what a long walk it would be, or what a tiring trip in a row boat. Few people will struggle through snow drifts. and fight their way through primeval forests for mere hook learning, when it is 11ot absolutely essential, and necessary. The government could not compel young people to attend school if it required a super human effort to get there. Even the laziest individual can not call walking a few steps and waiting a. few moments for a ve- hicle to take one to the school's front door an effort in these days. The educational system could sing to transportation: You made we what I am todayg I hope you're satisfied, and be as rele- vant as the original significance. . One of the greatest steps in the advancement of San Mateo High School has been the build- ing and opening of the Bay Shore Highway at the rear of the school, in affording a comfortable and convenient method for transfortation of all kinds to allparts of the community. For ' persons without vehicles, the two y Pierce Arrow busses, made in the Q school shops, have their familiar it routesg though to those viewing f the miscellany of machines A parked at the rear of the building every morning, it would seem that few students are left to partonize this form of hospitality. Indeed, W one student out of every ten, owns or operates la machine of sorts, some of which seem peculiarly lacking in the elements of mech- anism. Those whose fortunes are not up to the maintenance of a gas-devouring vehicle can afford . bikes, considering the low price e of machines and their upkeep. ' In the future, perhaps, auto- f mobile owners will be treated with the disdain the owners of ' bikes suffer today, skates will have passed entirely out of ex- istence, and the smart and ac- . cepted way of arriving for an ed- ucation every morning will be to 9 drop into your classroom via parachute. The opening of air- 5 ports in the vicinity of the school has made flying in general a less obscure and mysterious enter- prise. So to transportation, which has 5 minimized distances, we owe, in ' part, the growth of San Mateo U High School, fro1n a small frame 5 house to the extensive English I-1 Lownn-F1us'r HIGII senoor. BUILDING, 1902-:z brick buildings that form the San -PAGE 222312R23521353JIila211I'JJB'Zi3E,11335.53 N Mateo lflemt- I 5

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fa THE llini ll-lloe Sigmio Viimieiimnus E LM w o rw PAGE 4 By JOEY ALTIERI AND BIORTON HART, JR. mama is an ancient Spanish legend that the devil had a subterranean school of magic at Toledo. At the close of the term the graduating classes were made to run through a sub- terranean hall, the venerable president being entitled to be the last one. It was added that as the hindmost had the benefit of a post-graduate course, he turned out to be the best magician. But his soul was hopelessly forfeit. Hence the proverb: Every man for himself, and the devil catch the hindmost g or, as we abbreviate it: Every man for himself. Isn't this just the way some of us feel at times when we go down to the Cafe for lunch, or to the Gym for an assembly, or to the Co-op as the bell rings, or after the Hi on Thursday, or out of Study when the bell rings, or through the I halls at noon? This seemed to have 5 been the general attitude of the stu- L dents as it appeared when we first entered this school in August, 1927. I don't know if you have guessed what the so-called Things are. True, it is the attitude of everyone for himself , but it may all be summed up in two words which include the actions and frame of mind of the Student Body as a whole. Those two words are School Spirit. Separated, the words mean nothing, they have no significance whatsoever. It is just as this or- - A ganization was in the time I men- tioned. Together, in their right po- sitions, these words mean everything and are the basis of our now-practically united-institu- tion, the Associated Students. Here again comes a famous quotation: United we stand, di- vided we fall! v Dance Committee Promotes School Spirit A builder is erecting a large building. He realizes the fundamental essentials of construc- tion. Therefore he carefully plans his foundations and the structure of the house with metricul- ous care. He is aware that when the building is completed that the strains and stresses will bear heavily on the foundations and on the skeleton of the building. In this call there is a sort of general unity that enables that house to stand up, to bear the winds, to be as sturdy as the oak. There is a co-operation, a union, a close bond of relationship between the foundation and the frame that forms a perfect harmony of balance, strength, unity and durability which applied to our human buildings is known as School Spirit. ' The early cave man, realizing the dire necessity of keeping himself alive, had to band to- gether with other Il16ll'llJCl'S to kill his prey for food or protection. In his rude way he saw there was unity in strength. If he threw his cares to the winds, and if every one shifted for himself, the race of cavemen would have eventually perished. ' A great general, supreme in military strategy, a diplomat, a leader of 1ne11 swept the Euro- pean continent with the power of his personality ails!-lieer will. He made daring conquests, made the generals of other nations fear him, changed the geopraphical locations of prominent nations on the European continent. Behind his determination, will and personality was a strong army which he sacrificed to achieve his goal. Such a man was Napoleon. He saw a great unity in strength, a monument of permanence, a colossus of power in his men. When that spirit di- minished, he was overpowered and he died in solitude on a desert island. A WVhether it is the builder, or the general, or the president of a corporation, or the captain of the football team, each 1'espective person senses the something that tells him he can not work alone. He has a sixth sense that warns him of an impending obstacle that must be surmounted