Schuylerville Central School - Schuyler Yearbook (Schuylerville, NY)

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A COMMON PUBLIC NUISANCE Every city, town, and village on the face of the sphere has one of these creatures. They are either feminine or masculine and there is little to choose between the sexes. They lurk in the most unexpected places, ready to spring forth and spoil the day of any citizen by overshadowing his intelligence. These pests are commonly called “know-it-alls. Unbounded wisdom is commonly credited to them. They are. according to themselves, in on the most confidential secrets of the big shots” of sport, finance, government, and everything else. But the fact is that a know-it-all’s real knowl- edge is exceedingly meager. Without a moment's hesitation, this undesirable will tell you that the referee who tolled off the now-famous long count over Gene Tunney in 1927 never counted to fourteen but only to thirteen. Was he at the ringside? No. he saw it in a slow motion picture a month later. He may, if anyone believed the last one, now swing into the National Pastime. He is able to, and does tell the world at large just exactly how long Mr. George Herman Ruth, the Supreme Sultan of Swat, will continue to drive the customers into the Yankees’ ballyard and drive baseballs out of the park. This he tells you within about two days of the time. Was he talking with the Babe’s doctor? No. he read it in the paper. The stock market is the next stop for the know-it-all. He thinks that, if the bulls and bears were killed off (the ones who climb the trees in Wall Street are the ones to whom he is referring) and sold to Yiddish meat markets, the price of Russian convict wood would soar so high that Luxemburg could manufacture pretzels at a profit. This may not be his argument, but it will be something as clear and sensible. Because of the fact that his cousin once bought a horse from a man who knew Joan Crawford's gardener, he is on the inside of Hollywood’s secrets. This undesirable is usually a confirmed pessimist. Some cloudy day. when you are standing on the corner musing that perhaps the Elks will have their clam- bake after all. along he comes with the cheerful report that the radio predicted rain. A public nuisance in its most serious form is this know-it-all person. And the sad part of it is that he is ignorant of the fact that he is considered a pest. So he goes on his way frightening even the most intelligent, who would rather go some place else than listen to his line. No one is rude enough to insult him so he carries on, despised and pitied. James Hoev, ’32. Thirty

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ELASTIC ENERGIES If a person wanted to apply a term which would cover the students of our high school, he would have to find one filled with elastic adaptations. It would have to he so adapted as to take in all kinds and ages, to he able to describe the people who are found in our high school. It is said that the average person meets every type of human being, the spiritually minded, the atheist, the indifferent, and the pessimistic versus the optimistic. It is with these various kinds or “breeds” of human beings that this article will deal. Surely the spiritually minded need some praise. They justly deserve it, for their lot is hard to bear in the modern high school. They receive the sneers and rebukes of all others who are not affected by the educational and cultural emphasis of high school. They don’t know which channel to take, or which atti- tude towards life to adopt. They are suspicious and have a right to he. But this is not an apology for the religionists, for we all have more or less of religion, but just a casual view of what the spiritually minded have to put up with—those things showered upon the Founder of Christianity. Then come the atheists, or those without God, therefore without religion, other than socialism. They are noted for having no spiritual lives, no lives of ambition or hope, hut only the half-hearted wish or desire that they may get a job after the stormy days of high school are over. Perhaps there are some who went to Washington this year and looked at the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, and the Library of Congress without feeling the greatness and grandness of God. When a person is to give a summary of the lives of the indifferent of our high school, the question immediately arises as to what particular phase of life these persons are indifferent about. At first, I should say, about getting knowl- edge of things educational and practical. The real truth of the question, too, is that they are not bent upon getting experience for the life which is just ahead. They simply wander through the school year, dreaming and dreaming. They dream of nothing spiritual, aesthetic, educational, practical, or of any future value. When we come to those natures, mainly optimism and pessimism combatting, we think of a day when the blue is combatting the dark clouds in the heavens, now one and now another gaining but neither showing any particular advantage. If one could drop in on a conversation of two of this “breed, it would run some- thing like this: “Well, so and so. I doubt whether many will pass this term in History; they all seem so lacking in history facts. Anyhow I don't give a snap whether I get through or not, but I would like to pass.” What a combination of dispositions. One striving to gain victory over the other, but underlying always that one ambition “to get through.” As a summary, I should say that the future success of our high school de- pends upon leadership, both lay and professional. If we are so fortunate next year as to secure such leaders as the present leaders of our high school classes, or such professional generals as we have had this year, we need not worry about the morale of our students. Should we he so unfortunate as not to secure these leaders, the result will be fatal. We appreciate good leaders, we love them, and even underneath it all. cherish them. With all truth, we may say that we have had them. Our one hope is that we may have them in the future to guide these different “breeds” to the ideal. C. Kilmer Myers, 34. Twenty-nine

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GIRLS’ BASKETBALL Olive Jones Mary Reed Esther Carlson Barb Potter Verne Flood Ethel Carlson Mitzie Mosher Tub Beaulac Hon Beaulac Nonie Bennett Peg DeGuire E. Phillips Dot Shearer TEAM PLUS PERSONALITY SKETCH The spotlight lingers, moves as if to go on; we become nervous. Ah! at last we are introduced. “This is station S. H. S., Girls’ Basketball team speaking. Hello, everybody.” Now that the announcement and greetings are over let us continue our broad- cast. Let us say that this year has been enjoyed by us to the highest extent. Although our record isn’t perfect, yet it is better than last year’s, and that's some- thing. Success isn’t gained in a minute or a year. Instead of looking backward, we are looking forward. In the near future we can see ourselves as champions. Fame at last will be ours. With the closing of this season we lose three important players. May I present them? “Hon” Beaulac. star forward and best basket maker we ever had. Did you notice that I said had? Some day we expect to find one as good to fill her place, but to find one better would be impossible. And now—“Ollie” Jones, as center guard and often center. With her going, one side of the team will he put out of commission for a while. She has a few little secrets about guarding which we hope she will spill before that time. One we already know. When her hands refuse to work, her feet are always depend- able. Watch out for your toes when she uses that idea. Thirty-one