Scituate High School - Chimes Yearbook (Scituate, MA)

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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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6 THE CHIMES q HE SCITUATE CHAMBER OF COM- MERCE of todav extends its greetings and best wishes to the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE of tomorrow — the High School Pupils. And cast in some Diviner mould Let the new cycle sha me the old Patronize Chimes Advertisers

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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,