Scituate High School - Chimes Yearbook (Scituate, MA)

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8 THE CHIMES YESTERDAY AND TODAY As we look back over the long road which leads to the en- lightenment of today, we wonder just what has happened to bring about such changes as have taken place. Let us investigate the life of the greatest inventor and the process of development of some of his inventions which have changed this world from darkness into light. Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847. He was not a smart lad in school. His favorite study was chemistry, and upon this subject he spent most of his time. He liked to experiment and on one occasion he gave his chum a huge dose of Seidletz powders, expecting that the gases gen- erated would make him light enough to fly. He was severely punished by his parents, and in the future he gave up the idea of using his friends as ''articles for experiments. When he was fifteen years of age, Edison invented a tele- graph repeater by means of which he was able to take dis- patches which came too fast for him to transcribe. At twenty- one years of age he devised a ''stock quotation printing apparatus. His inventions up to this time had earned for him about 140,000. With this money, young Edison started a factory and a laboratory of his own. He studied day and night in his laboratory, for he knew that Success came only with a great deal of work. He did something which probably none of us would do — he went without his dinner, in order that he might put extra time on inventing. His hard labor was not always rewarded with success. Some of his ideas have been failures just the same as ours. Failure,

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Vol. 6. January, 1929 No. 1. Member of Published by the Students of the Scituate High School, Scituate, Massachusetts. EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief Gertrude Jones Assistant Editors SAMUEL TiLDEN Assistant iLditors l Tierney Literary Editors Nellie Mitchell I Carolyn Poland Business Manager Phyllis Hyland Assistant Business Manager LiviA BONGARZONE Athletic Editors LaVANGE Athletic JLditors Ernest Dillon Art Editor Judith Partridge Alumni Editor James O'CONNOR Dramatic Editor Barbara Colman 17 1.0., 1 Virginia Russell Exchange Editors ] Alwilda Hendrickson Joke Editor Herbert Dwyer The Editorial Board appreciates the hearty support of the advertisers who have helped to make possible the publication of this magazine. We hope that they will derive some benefit from their generous contributions. Gertrude Jones, '29.

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THE CHIMES 9 however, meant little in Edison's life. It merely meant that he would have to work all the harder on something else. Mr. Edison says, ''One secret of my success is my ability to spend years of siow, patient experiment on some seemingly trivial and uninteresting problem. It is the ever patient and sacrificing effort of men, such as Edison, which has brought this world out of the darkness of yesterday into the light of today. Gertrude Jones, '29. A PROFITABLE HOBBY John, who is in the grammar school and beginning to study history, asked his father to take him to different places of historical interest. His father got the camera and told him to come along ; and off they started. The place they visited that afternoon was very interesting and John snapped a picture of it. He returned home with an intense desire to learn all about it. John made a practice of visiting all the interesting historical landmarks until finally he grew so much interested in this that he made it a great hobby. Every week John would manage to visit something new. Sometimes he would go to the home of a great painter or a tomb of some great man. John became so much interested in these places that he studied, that when he was called upon to recite in class, he had a very good recitation. His hobby was profitable and helped to develop a good edu- cation. Can there be anything more thrilling than suddenly discovering that one's hobby is profitable as well as inter- esting? Helyn Matthews, '30. SCHOOL SPIRIT What this school needs is school spirit, — not the spirit that pays its dues and obligations when asked, but the spirit that pays before the thing is due ; not the spirit that gives ridicule and laughter to the person who has the seeming temerity to get up and ask the group to cheer, but a school spirit that says, ''Get up. We'll support you. We'll give you hearty cheers in- stead of cowardly jeers. There is a school spirit that conquers all obstacles, that en- livens a team, and that keeps a school in good community standing; but this school spirit cannot be made by one or two but must be fostered and developed by the whole student body. A student does not like to hear his school ridiculed. For example : A boy is walking along the street with another boy from a different school. The stranger may make a slanderous remark about the local school. Instantly it is taken up by the local boy, who bravely defends his school. This boy has school spirit in a slight degree. He will have the true school spirit in a high degree when he is prepared to screech to the multi-