Scituate High School - Chimes Yearbook (Scituate, MA)

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THE CHIMES 27 children in this Httle village until the time came for h ' im to go to school. The school was another low-thatched cot- tage. Alost of the teachers at this time were men masters and many of them were very stern. Each day opened with a short devotional service. One morning while all the children ' s heads were bowed and all was very still, a curious intruder came down the rope which tolled the bell. After the service was over, the school-master offered a prize to the child who would write the best verse on the incident. To some of the little folks this was a huge task but Burns was not troul:!led with the assignment. In a short time his poem was finished and he had captured the honors. His poem was much longer 1)ut only these few lines are remembered : The rat that had no better stairs, Came down the rope to hear prayers. And so this lad li ' ed and grew until we know him as one of the celebrities of his country. He did much to ennol)le the humble, Scottish peasant ' s life. After he had joined the better class of people, he was seen talking to a K)or man with shal3by clothes one day. Upon being reprimanded for association with such a man, Burns said ' Tis not the clothes that make the man. ' ' THE AIRPLANE AS A WAR WEAPON George Lowell, ' 31 There appeared in one of our local newspapers recently, a series of articles written by General Mitchell, a famous authority on aircraft, in which he discussed the future pos- sibilities of airplane warfare and ridiculed the United States to a certain extent because of the unpreparedness of this country for the use of air forces in future wars. A hen we stop to consider, we can see that the L ' nited States has not any too many fighting aircraft. It is true that we have wonderful coast defense, mammoth guns, anti- aircraft guns, super-dreadnoughts of the sea, tanks, mach- ine guns, and other war equipment that was used in the past World War. But what good wall all these do against huge bombing planes capable of launching with deadly accuracy a bomb of two-ton weight filled with high explosives and deadly gases? The most powerful battleship afloat could not withstand this menace. Future wars. General Mitchell says, will be fought entirely from the air. A can see that this is not entirely impossible.

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26 THE CHIMES RULES A XI) REGULATIONS ' Twas September the ninth and all through the school Miss Craig could he heard, Now this is the rule, In your seats at hve of, and then not a sound ' Til ten after the hour. Then do not bound Eroni your desks — but just wait till I say ' All right ' — then to classes, or here you may stay, If you ' ll speak not a w ord or make not a noise, Just all try to be model girls — model boys, Mien study hour finds me before you all seated. Like ladies and gentlemen you will be treated. If you ' ll just form in line with your slips to be signed And take only five minutes of my precious time. Please don ' t leave your seats till the signal I give Or you ' ll stay after school just as sure as you live AMien you leave Room 11 for work or for game Just sign in my notebook — destination and name Column right — column left — or hot on your track Mr. Cole will send to bring you right l ack. These rules are not of my making you know And I tell them to you just so you may go In the way straight and narrow which leads not to sin But to the diploma you some day w ould win. ANONYMOUS ROBERT BURNS Mary Westington, ' 30 One stormy evening we asked Mother for a story of her travelling experiences and she related this to us. This in- formation she obtained while on her visit to Ireland and Scotland some years ago. She described to us, a wee, stone hunt located in Alloway, a small town on the west coast of Scotland. In this home- like, thatch-roofed cottage on January 25, 1759, Robert Burns was born. On the morning of this great day, it is said that a robin sat on the window sill and sang merrily. Thus the child was given his name; for by his parents and friends he was known as Robin. His home was a crude little dwelling. It was very long and rather low. The floor was made of stone. The fur- niture was of the plainest kind, and in one corner stood the iron crane which held the kettles over the open fireplace. Robin ' ' lived and grew much the same as the other

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28 THE CHIMES Let us imagine a foreign ])o ver preparing for war against the United States. Great Britain, Japan, Italy, and all the rest have huge air forces to which our country has no equal. Any one of these foreign powers might set sail for our country with their planes safely housed in the huge airplane carriers. They would anchor their fleet one hundred miles or so off our coastline and from jthere they would send out their scouting planes and huge bombers which, loaded with dealy explosives, would fly over the chief cities of the United States and drop the deadly missiles on the unpro- tected occupants. One of these shells, says General Mitchell, would completely annihilate a city. All the anti-aircraft guns and coast defence guns would be helpless before this onslaught. So we can see that there is really something in the theory of this expert. Let us hope, however, that no more wars will menace our country, and bring into ' play that deadly implement of destruction, the airplane. ALUMNI NOTES FROM THE KIBITZER A Magazine Written, Edited and Published by R. Bresnahan, ' 30; E. Dillon, ' 30; H. Dwyer, ' 30 It is with great thankfulness and satisfaction that I have finally heard from our noble Alumni. After years of hard unceasing work, I have at last received word from the three members of that noble body. I, as the Kibitzer Alumni editor, have been w orking since 1950 in an effort to get in communication with them, so that the Kibitzer readers could read of what success each had made of his life. It w as not until 1953 that a letter arrived at the Kibitzer office suite from x lfernageopatheaticowisti, Siberia, stating that Mr. Ernest Dillon, formerly of the Kibitzer staff, was in that city, which we all know is the largest in the world. After receiving this letter we immediately got into commun- ication with Mr. Dillon with the aid of some multi-vibro thought waves. After co-transmitting thought with him I got a lead as to wdiere the other two members were. By 19 ' 55 we found that Mr. Robert Bresnahan was in the city of Lepigwistan in the now frigid equatorial zone. In the early part of 1956 w e located Mr. Herbert Dwyer in Torri- didia, in Antarctia. As we have not developed our thought wave transmis- sion to a very high degree I asked each member to write a letter telling of his life. I have taken pains to recopy each