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

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the required time, and not have to take five years to dfo what their classmates have d-one in four years. Many of these people who are not going to graduate this year have been heard to remiark pensively, MII I had only realized when I wars a Freshman or a Sophomore how important it was to earn every credit, I might have graduated, but it's too late now. Yes, it is too late for them, but it is not too late for all the remaining sudents in this school to take notice, and to act accordingly. Every junior, every Sophomore and every Freshman should take a few minutes to consider whether, when it comes his turn to graduate, he, too, will be one of those who has been forced to see his classmates and friends graduate and go into college or the business world without himz. Even although this is the end' of the school year and your mind is full of plans for vacation pleasures, just take a little of your valuable time, look up your credits and see exactly where you stand. Then make up your mind that you are going to get all your subjects next year, and are going to graduate when you should and you'll enjoy your vacation equally as much and will know how to start right in September. Dklklkik GIRLS A girl is a young maiden endowed with a peculiar attractiveness and a fondness for bon bons and jewelry. Take a very pretty girl and place her on a desert island, and in less than a week the desert island would be covered with the foot-prints of two or three hundred bipeds of the masculine gender. To capture one of these specimens of femininity is a comparatively easy matter. Almost any bashful young man, when properly schooled to look pleasant and speak cleverly, can effect the capture of a girl who looks like a million dollars to him. Of course, he must be dressed to fit the occasion. If the girl attends moonlight dances, hire an evening suit and part the hair in the middle. If she adores cow-boy hlms, find a wide- brimmed sombrero and choke the neck with a bandana. If she is a racing bug, hire a jitney-bus and wear goggles. When you have succeeded in picking off the prize, make no effort to keep it. The more these queer creatures are loved, the less they care for the sensation-from the same lover. If you would win fame and acquire a bank account, put your heart in the ice-box and steer your course away from the ladies. But if you would enjoy life-think it over. After all, pigs is pigs. Boys will be boys. But girls are inexplicable. I Viz Twelve V

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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

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