Standish High School - Crimson Rambler Yearbook (Standish, ME)

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1 RP D, , -rf-arf ! fx' 5, xJIX J' ......... ..... - - ,r - , ,,,-,J Neither the first thought nor the first impression is al- ways right. One must walk all around a thing to see it from every angle and make the best decision. NA word fitly spoken is like apples -of gold in pictures of silver.'--Proverbs 25-ll Not so long ago a group of young women were engaged in the interesting pastime of naming the heart's dearest -wish. One de- sired above everything else that she possessed a marvelous voice so that she might hold audiences spellbound. Another longed for the power to reproduce accurately on canvas the beauties of nature, the emotions expressed on human countenances, and the imageries of fancy. A third said, nAll that would be wonderful, but, as for me, let me be always clever enough to speak the right word at the right time so that I may be an agreeable companion for anyone in any mood. If a person is sad, let me be able to express com- forting thoughts that will help him. If he is gay, let me say just the right thing to enhance rather than curb his gaiety. And for any mood between these two extremes let me have the under- standing word at my tonguets end.H Was the third girl not wise? Is not the improving of one's vo- cabulary a worth while purpose? It is said that a word is not truly one's own till he has mas- tered it well enough to use it in conversation. Hobbies are very popular to- day. People are collecting all sorts of articles--buttons, auto- graphs, coins, stamps. Why not words? with all thy collecting, collect words, There is much to be said in favor of it. Many hobbies require money--not so with words.l Anyone can be striv- ing constantly to improve his speech without the expenditure of wealth. Nor is talent neces- sary. To be sure a person who has an inclination toward fluent speech will make greater progress but anyone can improve his speech surprisingly once he has under- taken the task. Many hobbies lose their charm to a person as he grows older but he who is mental- ly alert enough to be ever watch- ful for the better word or phrase will never grow tired of that di- version. Then, too, as he grows older, he has more experiences and so more thoughts to express. Perhaps in crowded living quar- ters there is no room for collec- tions of birds' eggs or stamp al- bums but where is the man who has no room for more words? If one adopts the hobby of collecting words and practices their use daily, he is improving himself by gaining self-reliance and poise and making himself a more Hagreeable companion for anyone in any mood.U WBut fairer than all others, A word, when fitly placed, Is like to golden apples In silver pictures traced.n Zela B. Dolloff Member School Committee All susincss, All art, all fisf nancQ,every airplane in the air, every ship at sea, every bridge that spans the water, every dis- covery in the world owes its ori- gin, its inception, its first im- pulse to the existence of that strange thing---IHAGINATION

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ills! l ll Q fRADIUM . Not long ago an entirely new element was discovered called ra-A dium, because of the rays of radi- ation from it, which was destined to become one of the most useful of all elements and certainly the most wonderful. It is a metal closely resembling barium and in fact, what is sometimes called ra- dium is in reality the salt radium bromide.. Radium and all its salts are extremely radiocative, henceg the term radiocativity. Severalf otner elements have these same ra-. dioactive properties but all to at lesser degree. Numerous experi-Q ments show that this action isf caused by the spontaneous emissiong of two kinds of electrically. charged particles, called alpha and beta. The emission of betaf particles is accompanied by pulsa- tions in the ether called gamma rays. The fgamma rays have the lcasti ionizing and photographing power, but they are the most pene- trating. These rays exert a very powerful pressure on all living matter, and it has been thought that they would be useful in cur- ing various diseases. The results however, have not been as success- ful as was first hoped, but radium seems to be beneficial in treating certain kinds of cancer and simi- lar Qrowtns. It is very expensive because of its scarcity, and an ounce is said to cost approximate- ly 34,252,500 or pl50,000 per gram. A minute quantity of radium com- Secondly, radium compounds affect a photographic plate just as light does. If a tube contain- ing a radium compound is left a short time on a photographic plate wrapped in black paper, or even drawn slowly across it, an image is produced when the plate is de- veloped. Thirdly, radium compounds ionize the surrounding air, that is, make it a conductor of elec- tricity. And finally, radium compounds make certain substances luminous. Helium and radon are coming off continually from all radiu compounds independently ature and other conditions. Thus we conclude that the radium atom is disintegrating slowly and while disintegrating forms radio lead. This action cannot be hastened or retarded in any way. Of course this transformation means that radium is slowly disappearing, but there will be ages which we are unable to dream about before it entirely exhausts itself. of temper- This precious , element is found to a very slight degree in England, plentifully in Bohemia, Colorado, and Utah. There are rich deposits in the Belgian Congo district of Africa and in central Europe. pound is used when mixed with zincg sulphide to produce luminous watch,i We attribute this great die- clock, and instrument dials, push.geOVery to e Woman whe,.until re- bu?t0n?: dowr unumbefsa and elec' fcently, was little known, but the trlc llght Qhalns' :American people are desirous of . t ' , fknowing more about her, and I am Radlum Compounds have Speolal -sure that all of us are awaiting properties which are conspicuous- Qwith anxiety the .movie Seen te be ly different from those of most Iproduced entitled uMedame Curie u substances. One of these proper-Q ' ' ties is that radium compounds , Amy It Lewis spontaneously envolve considerable? 1957 heat. That is, one gram of pure radium salt gives off over cnet hundred calories of heat per hour,i , . cr it liberaties enough heat to raise a little more than its own I I lt is estimated that on an average an electric clock may Weighfi Of Water from the freezing run for lOO hours at a cost of point to the boiling point. OILS CGIITZ.