St Catherine High School - Mentor Yearbook (DuBois, PA)

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The Meu10r Tleririritg ONE of the greatest Wonders in the world to-day is electricity, or the source of all electrical phenomena. What is this mystic power? Scientists do not know, although they have made it our new and ready friend. - Within the last half century, the discovery of new powers of this remarkable force and the inventions of machines for utiliz- ing these powers have constituted some of the greatest wonders in the world of science. The first important application of elec- tricity to practical service was in the operation of the telegraph in 1844. The invention of the other devices was slow until about 1880, but since that time they have increased rapidly both in num- ber and variety. The uses are now so many that it is almost impossible to enu- merate them. So gradually has this subtle force extended its sway over civilization, that there is scarcely an industry that does not depend upon or is not modified by it. The application of elec- tric energy to the operation of machinery enables the housewife to change what was formerly drudgery into a delightful occu- pation. The electric motor which can be installed at a slight ex- pense and operated by attaching it to an electric light socket, runs the sewing machine, the washer, wringer and vacuum. Its application to the production of heat and the invention of in- numerable devices for household use also makes housekeeping a pleasure and enables the wife and mother to devote time and en- ergy thus saved, to recreation and other tasks. First among these conveniences may be mentioned the elec- tric iron, which is heated by the passage of the current over the resistance coil. The same motor that is used about the home, also turns the grindstone, runs the food grinder and many other farm implements. Our lights are furnished by the electric current. The War of the Nations led to uses of electricity never before attempted. All aeroplanes depend upon it for ignition. Electric searchlights and range finders are controlling factors in artillery fire. The largest guns are often armed as ,directed by officers far removed from the gunners who arrange them by use of the elec- tric current instead of the old method. Without these convenienc- es modern methods of warfare would have to be almost entirely changed. s Thus, the world is daily depending more and more upon this unknown servant. Will the day ever come when we shall know exactly what electricity is? MARGARET MARANDO, 'za Page Number Thirrcen

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F l . The Mentor- . - Elmo zrhxrn G OOD Nature-Oh, what a rare gift to possess! With it we have sweetness, pleasure and contentment, without it we have the antagonistic isolation of self, bitterness and sorrow. Our disposition forces itself upon everyone with whom we come in contact whether it be in the home, in the office, or in the factory. Then why not make it worth while and share its delights with our associates? Thus the dayis toils will be lightened, fatigue will be kept aloof, sadness will not be given a chance to depress when a cheerful nature presides. On the other hand, your duties will be burdensome, your life miserable, if you allow anger or vi- olent emotions to give rise to frowns and sulkiness. A pleasing disposition causes the home to be a garden of sun- shine. The children love it, they are ever carefree and happy when mother and father reign in. perfect harmony, for a joyful greeting from father and a loving smile from mother could de- velop no other than a cheerful disposition in the child. Do you enter your establishment with a cheery Good Morn- ing to your employees? Do you keep the corners of your mouth turned up during those trying hours that go to make up the busi- ness day? If so, your work is pleasure and joy. On the contrary, let gloom and irritability accompany you to your daily task, per- mit them to enter your place of business, and a curt salutation will necessarily be given your co-workers, and friction and disorder will reign throughout the day. An alluring disposition enters the factory with the same glorious effect as sunshine 'has when piercing the gloom and tres- passing the darkness. It scatters seeds of kindness which lie dor- mant in the surroundings chilled by sultry dispositions, but ere long when the Warm rain drops of good cheer unearth it, it takes root and springs up. Its petals turn to the necessity of duty, its calyxes assume the beautiful deep green of subjection, its heart is the purest gold. It has conquered the cold ground of the sultry disposition, has budded and bloomed into the laurel of success. Bear always in mind, good reader, this motto: Angry words are the waves that submerge a kindly disposition. LEO ALLEN, '27, INITI

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Q Q , . y' Lginrn . A if The Men10p t Bains nf mints' ' 'G IME is one of the most essential things in our lives. Although to some it has a very insignificant meaning, yet it means to those who can comprehend the fullness of its understanding, the good or the evil actions registered in the bookfof life, for every hour, yes, every minute or second of this most precious gift of God shall be accounted for at the consummation of time. Time is man's most valuable asset, which, if lost cannot be re- gained.,.There are times of joy and times of sorrow, times of feast- ing and times of fasting, times of work and times of play. Neglect to seize the opportunity and to use it well, and you shall have lost a jewel so highly priced that no effort, however splendid in its ac- complishment, could bring back one second of this very import- ant thing, time. What would have befallen the penitent thief had he not been given and had 'he not seized that golden instant of time to say, Remember me when Thou shalt come into Thy Kingdomv? He would have been hurled into eternity an unrepentant criminal, doomed to a miserable life, whereas time to him meant heaven itself. s In the exercises of life and the passing of time there is nothing so strongly recommended by the saints as offering each small act iniour diurnal routine to the ever-present God. There is no place iny the entire universe that is not consecrated by His Divine Pre- sence and we should then have Him continually in view and em- ploy time as always having Him for a witness. To waste time is a sin, and Saint Augustine says, To sin against God is a grievous crime, but he who sins with God in his view is a monster. But few sinners would be audacious enough to go so far, if their thoughts were pre-occupied with the value of time. What then can more deeply impress its value upon us, to animate us more, and correct in us the disorder of a slothful and neglectful life, than the remembrance of God's Presence ?- The stream that hurries by the shore of life returns no more. So too, with time. It rushes on and ever onward with an unex- hausted breath, to death. Even with each word we speak, a mo- ment flies never more to return. How often does the ship of time drift into our channel of thoughts! How frequently do we dwell upon the fact that if God should reject us and withdraw the gift of time, the slender thread of life would be cut and the value of time too late realized !' The lesson of experience is altered in this case, and does not prove to Page Number Four teen