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

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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.

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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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32 SANDY TOWNSHIP Hlr.H SCHOOL FLAM HEAP -limit 10 In it 3 Hrarii I. The owl is ;i talkative bird you know. Ami the things In told me were surprising—Oil! lie put forth n souiitl, “Hip-Hip-Hooray! ’ The elass of ' ’23 is the Ik sI of the day.’ VII Vera Waggon's some girl with big brown eyes. And shining black hair. I'll tell you she’s wise, Alice llchcrling, her chum is another nice girl. Who wears down on her forehead, a tiny spit curt II. First on our list is Orville Ntipp, lie's very hashful now isn’t tluit luek? The cause of this I’m sure 1 don’t know; Hut we'll find out in a year or so. VIII. Hero comes Harry Kaplan, the ls st of the class, He doesn’t butt in unless he’s asked. Along with him marches Donald Kiel, Whose trombone playing would make you reel. III. IX. Now here's Sam Nannie, a Narrow Creek lad. Who eoui! s on 2i hiki and drives like mail, lie's tartly often. My! isn't that fine! 11 is only excuse is. 1 didn’t have time.” •limiuie Anderson’s a Imy, who is always quiet, lie is never 1111 2111 or starts 21 riot; Hud Rupert's 21 hid who yells when he talks. Why the people could hear him for hh»cks and blocks. IV. Here’s bright eyed Kubv, a wee little lass. Who thinks that she is the smartest of the class. She can scrap, pull hair! .Me! oh! my! She's the worst little girl that’s under the sky. A. Martha Dinger’s a girl who knows how to work, If 21 job awaits, she will not shirk. Her only hobby is to e it 21 nice frosted cookx She certainly objects to playing hooky. V. XI Vera Shaffer’s a girl with nice curly hair. A more studious lass, you'll not find anywhere, All the time with an Algebra, and works and pecks; The result of this is 21 |Niir of sjiecks. If you ant to buy peeps, just go to Miss Chick, She makes you hike and sometimes kicks. Her chum Teddy Russell is the other wav, She never growls from night till dav. VI XII. Next is (! corgi Mora lee, whom we call Sis . His subject is history, well it won't come amiss; All he wants to do is scrap and debate, His tongue gets speedy, now what is its rate? Now how could you guess, just where or when That we have in our class, 21 precious gem. It's Pe2irl Harmick of whom we all are so fond, Oh! Yes there’s Crystal, a beautiful blonde.