Sandy Township High School - Flambeau Yearbook (Du Bois, PA)

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30 SANDY TOWN SUIT NIOH SCHOOL FLAM HEAT A ffenplf fflitluutt A (Cmmtru In earlier times Armenia was tin home of a cultured and progressive people, all the great virtues and vices were found among the Armenians. The happier side of life was present. lav social events gave life and color to the lives of these people. In spite of oriental tyrannies, she survived the assults of her more powerful neighbors. In her early Christian days, she was aide to treat triumphantly with her neighbors. Hut when the Turks and .Mongols from Central Asia reached Armenia, and made her people their victims; there was no ap|K al which could he made to the eunque’ror’s. Clemency and ehilvarlv they had no such qualities. The Turks | ossesscd no religion, no decency, no culture. Conquest for loot was their belief. They robbed, murdered ami violated all the laws of social decency. They deemed it no crime to destroy Aliens. For three hundred years the Armenian nation was virtually buri« d, yet it’s people adhered to it’s traditions, language and customs. From the fourteenth century to the world’s war. the Turks assisttnl by the .Mongols have imjM scd every kind of abomination and barbarity upon the Armenians. Their word has bi en refused in courts of law. their women could be seized at anytime. They have been banned from the army and forbidden to bear arms. There is no sjmu on the globe today where there is more desperate and hopeless suffering than in Armenia. In other place's there is a famine that moves as to pity and give our help. Hut in Armenia it is not starvation alone that the ]M ople face, hut starvation after years of destruction, wrought by a war that has never l»een ended, it is starvation following pestilence, hand in hand with death from exposure, violence or disease. In the .Mountains between Karo and Alexandropal there are 2G3,OIH) human beings without clothing, food or shelter. Cnless they are succored within a short time, they will all | crish. Scattered throughout the Near Fast, there are thousands of Armctii ans who have neither Country, home and shelter or hope of regeneration, save that which lies in the great heart of America. I erlmps we cannot save all the grown |M ople, of this oldest Christian nation in the world. Hut at least we can save the little children, who hold the future in their hands. They have wronged no one, and they have suffered through the precious years a calvary of agony. For three years the Near Fast Relief, an American organization incor]M mtcd by Congress, lias built iip the foundation of the new generation in the New Fast, with little children that it has taken in from the road side and nursed back to health, fed, housed and educated, in the name of the American |M op]e, who have furnished the funds for this great work. This has been our signal contribution to the world’s future peace—that tens of thousands of these little ones shall all their lives look to us with gratitude and faith. It is a se d of world brotherhood that we have sown. Shall we let it die now? “The Near Fast Relief is appealing to the American people for the money to go on with this work—to keep these little lines alive, and to save this martyred Christian pimple. Sixty dollar |s r year—ten dollars |H r month, feeds a child. We have taken this great res|M iisihilitv upon us. A whole nation looks to us in faith and trust. “We cannot betray them.” ALICE LANDIS,

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SANDY township hush SCHOOL flam reap 29 m:. l I X ESf E X ('ES O r TH T tt IS K ET ML L N E I SO Readers would'st thou « u flighty warriors go • battle. Haul in miiditv airnior of canvas and jersey. ‘ I »» rovail chairs and benchi-s. tin beautiful ladiesuild diginllul Louis, forget their aloof newt and Oi nit v anil herald Uumi- ravorm knights with shouts siml encouragement anil joy • Would'st thou seen might v sciinimnge when legs anil arms an seen to fly ju-omiscuoiis anil in confusion. to break a i| at the blast of a trumpet leaving one cringing with pain, to Ik- help ed away ami another promptly replneing him. Would’st thou see a brilliant knight drop a shining leather sphere through a net till ring and swell his chest with pride and blush to the roots of his hair as he hears his favorite lady shout his praise? Yould st tlmu see the gallant warriors draw off at the sound of the lrnm|K t, to charge once more into the ranks of the enemy, and he driven back only to rush forward again and come out victorias or with defeat amid the shouts of the spectators, and the waving of flags and banner's. Readers, if thou would’st see this glorious sight, come with me to a big Hasket Hall game. ERNEST C. RUSS. 22. A Ifnrh Dream Skinny Pease was a good “Ho He bought a Lord that sure would go. lie twisted her tail and then hop|»ed on, Pushed in the clutch and he was gone. lie pushed on the gas and gave her more spark. For Skinny was out to have a real lark. He soon was going at terifie speiil. Taking curves on two wheels, unite slick indeed. lie struck a place where the road was bare, And turned a curve that wasn't there. Then with a bang and a terrible crash. The “Flivver was busted all to smash. When with a kick and a hysteric sneez, “Skinny woke with shaking arms and rattling knees. Hut not under a Ford all bloody or dead. Hut in a jumble of Iwdclothes beneath his lied. I . L ., 22.

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SANDY TOWNSHIP HIOIT SCHOOL LLA.MBEAL 31 Btrite One of the greatest assets of tin nation are birds. If they an destroyed, in a few years the insert will have multiplinl to stu-h an extent that the trees will lose all their foliage, plants will cease to thrive and crops eannot In raised. It has lieeii found hy dose observation and diss4 ction that a cuckoo consumes from r»0 to 400 caterpillars daily, and from 200 to noil inserts or their eggs. The average insecfiveroiis hints will mtiMinic 100 insects a day. K. |H‘rts have carefully estimated the number of insect eating birds and have found them to be not less than . » birds |N r acre. A great nuuilK r of our birds arc liecoming more scarce each year, while many spt ries an now on the verge of extinction. The forces that work against the increase of bird life an : man,—the elements, accidents, cats, hinls of prey, snakes and other animals. Mow can W( protect the birds? All states have good game laws protecting the birds from man, which would save the birds if the laws could be enfumsl. Hut the laws are not enforced. Homeless cats should not be allowed to roam the country, and special protection should be given birds at least from May to August, for during this time the young birds learn to fly. The red stpiirrels destroy many more birds than any other of the wild animals. With a few exceptions, birds of prey rarely feed upon other birds, as much as they tease and worry them. They are of considerable value and have their work to do ami should be left in the place nut lire intended them to In . Some may think that by saving the lives of two or three birds a year, will not do much, but by taking all in all, their elforts would soon Ik felt in tin bird kingdom. Therefore taken as a whole, birds arc a help rather than a hindrance to the crops, and if in a few years they are killed, in sects will have multiplied to such an extent that crops will be destroyed by them, and also make it disagreeable to live. It is very probable that if the hinls decrease in numbers rapidly in the next ten years, it would cause a universal famine. EVELYN HEBEKLING, 22. JJrufrflfiur’s Jfinr iCittlr Angle UnrntH I Tom Sandy conies a story, I know I must relate. About the very I test of us, Blair, Lay. Lillie. 3race and Kate. The subject is on angles. We prove them s« pm re and round, I think that’s the hardest study That mail has ever found. Say when we re proving theories. ••Colonel” has them ••grand”, Now really if you’d hear him, You’d think he had them canned. And then comes Lay the brightest, Who takes about live minutes, To prove a proposition in The “Theory of the Limits. Now Lillies’s good on |sdygons No matter how hard they be. There’s about a |s»lygon That Lillie can not see. Now we present our tSrace i Ami still one more remains), Hut in the whole Geometry Each pro|s sition she explains. As for me, folks, I am happy, The cars to be about, That when I didn’t know my lessons, Professor didn’t kick me out.