Scituate High School - Chimes Yearbook (Scituate, MA)

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THE CHIMES 29 letter in full, and I hope that the Kihitzer readers will Ije pleased with the information contained in each. L8 E26 Al f ernageopatheatico wi sti , Central Siheria, Fehruary 6, 1953 It is with great pleasure that I have heard from my old friends again. I am, as you probahly know, in Central Siberia. I will tell you something of my home city. It is the largest in the world with a total area of twenty-five square miles and a population of three billion people. (This which I am calling a city is really only an enormous build- ing.) In the center of the building is a small meeting room. The streets of this city, or building as you may wish to call it, are not marked as they are in Scituate for the simple rea- son that there are no streets ; there are only corridors. From the meeting room I have just mentioned the building radi- ates in all directions in the form of a huge cylinder. It rises to a height of three hundred and fifty stories and des- cends into the earth the same distance. From the center to the outmost edge is exactly the same distance as from the earth level to the roof. As you will notice, I have started my letter with L 8 E 36. That corresponds to your street and house number. The markings of the rooms all start from the central meeting room. For instance, where I live the L means lower or subterranean. L 8 means eight stories beneath the surface while E stands for east and E 36 means east thirty-six stor- ies. This system makes everything very easy to find. On top of the city the roof has a ten-foot covering of earth so that agriculture, and all ordinary land conditions exist here. This roof might be compared to a large plot of your country property. Light, ventilation, and electricity generation are all carried on by means of water which is supplied by the rainfall. I will explain the process. All the rainfall which is not ab- sorbed by the earth on the roof is allowed to filter through onto glass sheets which conduct it to a huge reservoir situ- ated on the top floor. This reservoir has access to the di- rect rays of the sun. By a process, which I, myself, will have to modestly admit the inventing of, a preparation put into the water, causes the water to confine the rays of the sun until we wish to make use of them again. Through a

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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

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30 THE CHIMES network of ultra- violet-ray-adinitter tu])es, which touch ev- ery room in the city, this water with the conhned hi ht rays is allowed to fall. As the water falls through the tuhes, the liglit rays are diffused e(|ually to all rooms so that every room is lighted at all times hy these light-rays from the sun. These rays also contain their original heat so that all rooms are heated to an ecjual, healthful temperature. Half the energy of falling water is converted into electricity, while the rest of the energy is used in forcing the water hack to the top again. This supply is re-rayed again hy the soluray ])rocess and used again. This falling water also causes air currents whicli completely ventilate the huilding. We ha -e enough excess of the rayed water to carry us through any period in which tlie sun should not appear. I am inven- tor, owner, and general overseer of all this system. I liave now well over two hillion dollars in my , }ersonal for- tune. I am very happy with my wdfe and children, and I hope all of my friends in Scituate are happy too. Yours truly, Ernest Dillon 14 Gogistan Via Lepigwistan, Equatof rigid Kihitzer, Ji- ne 4, 1955 I am very glad to hear from you. I understand you wish to know of my success and surroundings. Well, I shall en- deavor to enlighten you about both. I am now in Equator- frigid which was formerly the warmest place this ' side of H ades, dxit which is now as cold as a girl ' s icy stare. It is all my fault. How can I ever repair my mistake. Oh, the injustice of it all after my trying my l:iest to alleviate the heat of this district, — to get this result. It is indeed terrible. I wnll tell you about it. Miile in school tw enty years ago, I had occasion to give intensive study to the torrid zone. After reading about the disease and suffering caused l:.y the intense heat, I de- cided that my life ' s work would l)e to lessen these people ' s discomfort. ' ith this determination in mind, I embarked for Lepigwistan w ith my personal chemical outfit. I had already determined that this alleviation was to be done by chemical and not by mechanical means. For fifteen years I labored to find a method to lessen this intense heat. Einally I found a way. By mixing three chemicals together, I evolved a gas