Stockton High School - Guard and Tackle Yearbook (Stockton, CA)

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,, M... ,W designing, interior decorating, woodblock printing, stenciling, and jewelry work. For her singing we have a splendid two-year course in vocal music and also a course in music history. So while she is attending school, she can also be improving her natural talents without the expen- diture of additional time or money. Or a father, when approached on the subject of high school, may say. Xl ell, I d'on't care to have my boy become a teacher, an artist, or a doctor, I want him to enter the business world. Then, we reply, you could not do better financially or educa- tionally than to give him a high school commercial course. This includes bookkeeping, business practice, stenography and typewriting, arithmetic and accounting, penmanship, commercial law, commercial English, commercial geopgraphy, advertising and salesmanship, and several other subjects that he may choose. You pay no tuition. The only expense to you is for his books, and he will study under the best and most efficient teachers obtainable. And so it goes. For the future ,carpenter we offer joining, cabinet making, wood turning, shop mathematics, geometrical and mechanical drawing and architectural drawing and designing. For the young doctor or scientist, there is biology, physiology and hygiene, general and applied' chemistry and physics. For the prospective farmer, agriculture, horticulture, poultry, live stock, chemistry, and farm mechanics. For the engineer, algebra, plane and solid geometry, trigo- nometry and physics. 'And for the dear little girl Qbless her heartlj who shyly admits that it is her ambition just to be a good housekeeperi' an excellent course in cooking and sewing. And just one more thought in closing. How often inthe past has the mother of the pupil living at a distance from school sighed' over the fact that her dear one must subsist on a cold lunch at noon, while she and dad are enjoying their hot and appetizing meal at home! Now she may set her mind at rest, for with the new cafeteria, the boy and girl can enjoy a thoroughly nutritious and wholesome lunch at a price which will be an agreeable surprise. So. no longer is the high school merely for the boy and girl who expect to teach or to remain at home. Cn the contrary, it is now open to every boy and every girl, for among the many courses and' several branches. there is at least one particular corner to please and satisfy each pupil, whatever his ambitions and expectations. ' bk Pkvls all MILITARY TRAINING IN HIGH SCHOOL Military authorities have agreed that preparedness is necessary to maintain peace in the United' States. They have agreed that ad-equate preparedness will cost an enormous sum of money. Economical states- men, recognizing the necessity and seeing the costiliness of prepared- ness, hit upon a plan of training the high school students to defend this great broad country of ours in time of stress. This a most despicable and cowardly procedure. In the event of wrar these mlen would sit back and enjoy peace that was paid for, not in money, but in the lives of the young men of the coming generation, in the lives of the young men who had not yet met with the world. Another 'iobjection 'to military training is that it destroys seli reliance. The duty of a soldier is to obey. The officer is only to do the thinking, the private obeys, He is forced by intangible rules into blind obedience. The schools were established for the purpose of Ten

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DITO F T396-5-VAO GREATER STOCKTON HIGH As the term closes andl we go forth boldly, faithfully, successfully, we cannot help turning for a last look at dear old Stockton Hi with all her added embellishments and opportunities, and contrasting this with the high school of the past in which but one prescribed course was offered -the old one-horsev type- and then turning again to the present to rejoice in the modern school with its many courses to prepare the student for that particular branch which he wishes to make his life work. . For example, a mother, well blessed' with wordly goods, will say, My daughter will never need to work. I want her education to tit her for her place in society. Very well, mad'am, we reply, we can give her a course which will prepare her to occupy the position she expects to hold. IYe will acquaint her with the best in literatureg we will make her skilled in Latin and the modern languages, in art and music, we will teach her to converse properly, we will instruct her in the history of the human race-its struggles and accomplishments, and we will add to her grace and general health by our splendid course in physical trainingf, Surely that mfother could not desire a more appropriate course for her daughter. Again, a fond parent may explain, ':My daughter is talented in music and art. VVhile I would like to send her to high school, I feel that it is my duty to improve her talents, and I cannot afford to do bothf' Send her to us,', we answer, Hand you will not need to give her outside drawing and singing lessons. IYe have a course in freehand drawing which will acquaint her with the rudiments of her art, and then take her on to leather work, pen and ink sketching, costume ' Nine

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encouraging and cultivating thought. The military system on the other hand, ignores and discourages thought on the part of any but the officers. The student is given a rifle. He is told to hold the riiie at attention. He does. He is told to fire the rifle. He fires. In thus blindly executing the will of another, he is a mere automaton. Tenny- sonunderstood this principleand ably expressed it in f'The Charge of the Light Brigade. i Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred Though the soldiers knew Some one had blundered Theirs not to reason why, Theirs not to make reply, Theirs but to do and die. The school system and! the war system have nothing in common. We should be unalterably opposed to military training in our schools, because it wfould join in close partnership the finest thing that -American civilization has given to humanity-our free public schools, the hope of democracy-with war, the most barbaric, inhuman, un-Christian system that a cruel fate ever inflicted on a struggling world It has been the custom in the past to send only our physically perfect men away to iight, leaving at homie the scholars, the philoso- phers, and the sages to gather the wisdom and the learning of the present and past and preserve that wisdzom and learning for the future In this way struggling civilization has been carried over many a dan- gerous chasm and preserved for us. We are now intrusted with the wisdom and learning of a thousand generations back to be preserved by us for a thousand generations to come. Are we then to think lightly of this sacred trust and endanger the safety of it by risking the lives of the coming philosophers and scholars? Then we must look at the moral side of the question. The average student goes to church on Sunday and is taught the Golden Rule. f'Thou shalt not kill, He comes black to school on Monday and' is taught how to kill his fellow men in the mfost cold blooded, scientific manner, both with gun and the swords. He will undoubtedly see the inconsistency of things but as he goes to school I-ive days a Week and to church but one, he will think his chool five tims as important as his church, Thou shalt kill live times as important as Thou shalt not kill and that his commander is live times as important as his God. i Pk P14 Pk Pk STAY WITH IT. a Every year when graduation days roll around, there are a number of students who are dropped from the list of the Senior students who will receive diplomas. .This year the number of these boys and girls is unusually large, for in a class of over one hundred and ten fourth-year students, only eighty will graduate. This shows a sad lack of 'purpose and of good hard application on the part of the thirty or m-ore students who will either have to come back next year or will leave high school after having ipracE6llyT'waste'd four years oftheiflifefi Some may say that this is not a waste of time-that they have learned something from part of their subjects, at any rate. That is partly true, for they may have learned a few facts, but the greatest thing of all they have not learned. What is the greatest thing of all? you ask. The art of applying themselves so that they may go through the high school in Eleven