Scituate High School - Chimes Yearbook (Scituate, MA)

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8 . THE CHIMES EVERY DAY Ruth Dwyer, '29 Everyday . . . As we sit in school doing our sometimes tiresome lessons, do we often realize that each day is one more checked off on our calendar of life? Or as we sit waiting anxiously for three o'clock to come, do we realize that that day is a thing of the past, that we shall never again live through it, and that v. e have one less day to live? I wonder! No, I think we look at the passing of a day as another day of trouble and trial gone by. Instead of this attitude, we should try to use every minute of that time accomplishing [Something which will be of a lasting value to us. We should not waste a moment, for tomorrow may never come. None of us know how long we shall be given the opportunity to enjoy these days ; so why waste them? Think how tediously men like Edison have worked each day in order to accomplish the almost impossible. Some of us wait for the day to end and leave all our tire- some tasks for tomorrow or ''another day . Remember the proverb, ''Don't wait until tomorrow to do the things you could do today, for He who hesitates is lost. SUCCESS Phylis Hyland, '29 Success is one of the promised goals of mankind. Every- one in the world can not be successful. There must be people who fail as well as people who can climb the ladder of suc- cess with much ease. Success can only be obtained by hard work on the part of the individual. The persons who fail think their failures are due to some ill-luck, which seems to surround them. They think the successful people of the world have a mascot of Good Luck guiding them through the ins and outs on the road to success. This thought misleads these people, and is like a barrier, which keeps them from being successful. This class of people cannot be made to realize that success can only be attained by hard work, which is success' right -hand man . A few people, however hard they may try, will not be suc- cessful. But this is not because of the lack of effort on their part. It is their course. There are others who weaken as hard work confronts them. These may be classed as flat failures . Satisfied with themselves, they are willing to remain so. Lindbergh is the success of the present day, and a figure of perfect manhood. How did he attain his success? Not by words without action, but with unknown courage and the hardest of work, physically and mentally.

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THE CHIMES 7 the knees, the momentary sensation of emptiness as the plane rises, the adjusting of the tail rudder as the plane reaches the desired altitude, the adjusting of the right speed, the seeing of the heavy cloud bank after about fifty miles of flying, the sudden plunging of the ship into that cloud, the rocking around of the plane by the storm, the soggy rain, the vivid bars of lightning, the awe-inspiring bolts of thunder, the clogged feed-line, the deadening motor, the volplaning downward to the hidden earth, the final terrific flash of light- ning seeming to display the whole hideous truth of the use- lessness of the airplane, the tail spin, the sickening crash, — and the death of a brave and intrepid aviator. , ALL ARE ARCHITECTS OF FATE Velma Damon, '28 For the structures that we raise, Time is with materials filled ; Our todays and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build. As I read over the above lines, I wonder if people would build their ''todays and yesterdays the way they do if they would stop and realize that they are building the whole foun- dation of their lives. The bad habits we form today strengthen with tomorrow, and thus we go — from day to day, year to year, perhaps held back from our highest aim by that one bad habit. What a dif- ferent world this would be were we to realize that good habits are just as easy to form as bad ones — and they are much more useful ! When we enter high school, it is to train for our life's work. Everything we do at this time is going to follow us through our life. Bad habits formed at this tim.e will not build a strong and sure foundation on which to build our life's work; will they? Another thing — people of the world often base their opinion on first impressions. Someone who might be a great help to us during our battle with life may get the impression when first meeting us, that we are untidy, careless, and illiter- ate. No matter what we may do to dispel this idea, he will never forget that first impression. If all high school pupils adopted the last verse of Long- fellow's poem as their motto, there would be many more contented people in the world. ''Build today then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base, And ascending and secure Shall tomorrow find its place.

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THE CHIMES 9 You have often heard it said that success is the cause of self-possessed vanity. This is not true because in order to ain success, one must work hard. Hard work takes one down from his ''perch , and shows him his weak points. There is no better remedy for vanity than hard work, the pilot of success. DRIFTWOOD Dorothy MacDonald, '31 There is a storm on the sea. The waves are mammoth as they come rolling along, stand up, and then burst in all their fury. Far away in the distance one can see brown specks. They are bobbing up and down, first going to the right, then to the left. As they come closer to shore, one can see they are pieces of wood. When the waves burst upon the shore, they are washed up only to be sucked down by the sea again and again. Although they seem helpless, they are like people who have no goal. Some people are like them in many respects. Many human beings live by others' wits. They do things be- cause others do. They are influenced by people who they think should influence them. They just drift, going the way people push them. In other words, they are just driftwood. EDITORIAL BOARD