Scituate High School - Chimes Yearbook (Scituate, MA)

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THE CHIMES 19 THE FOUR CLIFFS Margaret Fallon, ' 38 First Cliff ' T am a cliff mighty and high, No other cliff is as old as I. I at the mouth of the harbor stand With my rich green acres of solid land. Second Cliff ' T overlook the ocean blue. I am higher than First Cliff ' tis true. He is older than I but smaller So I am younger than he and taller. TJiird Cliff My cliff is rough and very high I almost touch the deep blue sky; I watch the ships and clouds go past Over the ocean deep and vast. ' ' » Fourth Cliff I, Fourth Cliff, am very tall Tho ' I may seem very small. By me all the sand boats pass And admire my green, green grass, ' ' KARL ' S ADVENTURES UNDERGROUND Theodore Vinal, ' 38 Karl von Hiltzer, the eminent German scientist, stood [reside his two faithful friends. Hop Lu and Tony Siscenora. Hop Lu, a Chin- ese of high birth, had given free use of his wealth in Karl ' s projects in criminology. Tony Siscenora was an erstwhile gangster, who was chief of the mob that was hired by Karl. They stood beside a wide yawning pit that went down miles into the earth. Aliove it straddled a (|ueer machine, a new drill that Karl had i erfecte(l. The reason they had b een drilling the past month was that a small man about one foot and a half in height had suddenly appeared in Karl ' s laboratory. He told them that he had l een sent hy the

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18 THE CHIMES PROCRASTINATION Eileen Neuhausel, ' 35 It is said that procrastination is the thief of time, ' ' and time is precious — whether you l eheve it or not. Every minute that you waste is lost — can ucxqv he regained. Just think of it — with the future hefore you and a goal to accomplish, what does it profit to succumb to the idle or lazy mood which you happen to feel for the moment ? The longer you put a thing off, the harder it is to face it, and sooner or later you must face a situation whether you like it or not. If doubt, or fear, or idleness makes you put a thing off, it just means one more obstacle W ' hich you must overcome; — and overcoming it means you must first meet the situation face to face, overcome the fear or doubt which makes you waver, and rise one step higher to be prepared for the next issue in the events of life. Self-confidence is a great factor in your scheme of progression. Very often the reason you lay a thing aside or try to push it into the future, is that you haven ' t the confidence in yourself that is neces- sary to give a plan the final boost. One writer has even said that every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. The conceit puts the go or the life in you which is necessary to send 3 ou ' ' over the top. It ' s true, you can never be really successful or concjuer the big opportunities until you have learned to do the things which today uncovers; and in order to do them, you need self-con- fidence. What you are tomorrow will lie the result of your plans today. If you continually strive to meet the thing which is at hand, then you can put it behind you, and l)e prepared to meet the greater op- portunities of tomorrow. A person who is continually pAitting things off will develop a weak character. If you are that type of person, don ' t admit it — even to yourself. Rise above the l elief and i rove, once and for all, that when you make up your mind to accom])lis]i something, nothing can stand in your way — not even your own thinking, which after all is really the only pow r that has any influence over you. Miss Fiske — ' ' You all know our language is called the ' Mother of Languages ' . But why is this? Gates — Because the father never has a chance to say anything!

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20 THE CHIMES king of the underground people, deep in the earth, to ask Karl ' s aid. it seemed that there had heen grotesque, cloudlike shapes floating around in the air which had told the dwarfs that if they didn ' t give up all their flawless diamonds (there were tons upon tons of them down there) all the people of the kingdom would be killed. Karl had promised to help rid them of these menaces. They were going to descend in a special scientific car constructed by Karl. In shape it was a square box, with retractable wheels and propellers which closely resembled those of an autogyro. Karl said to the men, We ' d better all be getting to bed as we have to get up early tomorrow, and then added to himself, I only- hope that my old archenemy, Banger Closker, is not implicated in this. ' ' The next day everybody was up and at work at numerous odd jobs before the sun rose. Karl, Tony, and Hop Lu ate a hearty breakfast, then jumped into the car. Karl seated himself at the con- trols and gave a signal to the men outside. The men pushed the car over and into the pit. They fell for nearly five minutes before the welcome whirr of the electric motors rotated the huge propellers above them, slackening their speed. A whole hour later they landed with scarcely a bump, as a result of Karl ' s clever manipulation of the levers. They ad- justed their metal suits which they used when under great pressure. These closely resembled diving suits, but were much improved. As they stepped out of the car, they were welcomed by several small men. While they were talking, they heard a moaning sound in the air, and the natives disappeared behind rocks and dived into caves. Karl ran into the car and reappeared with a queer-looking appara- tus which had a cord leading l ack into the car. He turned a switch, and a stream of blue light appeared around one of the shapes; then one piece of the blue light streaked in a straight line right up to the other side of the cave, w iere a wail of pain was heard. The three friends ran in that direction and whom did they find but Banger Closker, holding onto a small box and dancing around, yelling. Karl hit him over the head with his pistol, and he dropped like a log. Hop Lu and Tony were mystified and wanted to know what it was all about. Karl said, Well, when I put that circle of my spec- ial electricity around that shape, it followed the ray by which Ban- ger was directing the movements of those clouds. Those clouds are