Stoneham High School - Wildlife Yearbook (Stoneham, MA)

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Uh: Shmelprm High School Qudlpxdlc Elfhitnriala ' Self reliance ls a quality, much neglected among pupils ln the schools of today: and it is a quality to which much more attention should be given. It is easy to get into the rut of asking another about little things in your studies: and you soon get still deeper into the rut, by letting him do more and more of your work until finally he does the greater part of it. As a result, what will happen? You will try to bluff your way, and although blutl' may cause temporary success, it never results in permanent success. You will be inefficient, and lnetilclency is a quality which business men do not consider at all desirable. When you get out into the world, you will not find everyone willing to help you in your work, as your friend did at school. You must do it all yourself. Don't imagine that your superiors are going to help you to rise in the world. They are working for their own advancement,-not yours. If you expect a big j-ob when you get into the world-you will be obliged to work for it! The man who wills can do anything he determines to do. You must not let others do it for you. In doing it yourself, your brain power will expand, and you will ibe a bigger man for doing it. And so, be self-reliant-do it yourself-and you will succeed. Cigarette smoking has been universally condemned 'by scientists and learned men. Thomas Edison tells us that it has a violent action on thc nerve centers. It also produces degeneration of the brain cells, which hap- pens very rapidly among growing boys. This degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. As a result of smoking the brain acts more and more slowly, and the nervous system is paralized. Boys who are in the clutch of the cigarette habit become its slaves. They cannot put their minds on their work. Boys think they can smoke a little now and then and stop when they please. They don't understand that the continued use of cigarettes weakens their will so much, that when they want to stop, they cannot. Smoking lowers etliciency in all lines, thereby undermining the victim's future. Business men prefer non-smokers as their employees, for an habit- ual smoker is both morally and physically inefllclent. The cigarette strikes a direct blow at the most vital organ of the body -the heart. For this reason it is dangerous for the cigarette addict to en- gage ln athletics. The boy with a weakened heart is more lla-ble to suc- cumb to tuberculosis or other acute disease. ' The relation ot tobacco, especially ln the form of the cigarettes, to opium and alcohol is very close. A boy starts smoking before he begins drinking. He is likely to resort to alcohol to soothe the muscular unrest received from the cigarette. From alcohol he goes to morphine for the same reason. Cigarettes, liquor and drugs are the logical and regular series. I am not much of a mathematician, said the cigarette, but I can add nervous troubles to a boy: I can subtract from his physical energy: I can divide his mental powers: I can multiply his aches and painsg I can take Interest from his work, and discount his chances for success. 5

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imp ,stanelpmr High School Authentic A 7 it rr a ry :Pm Ebcperiment in Zffhlxnatinn Qfirst Qinnnx-I-liha ,Stefxms A God didn't create Provincetown, said an old native once to Charles Burton. It washed there. It might be said with equal significance that out of the bed of Lake Michigan was washed up Gary, Indiana, a city whose site was so sandy and drear that wmhen a few years ago, a moving picture concern wanted a iilm showing a. scene in an African desert, camels and all the necessary para- phernalia were sent to Gary. Where seven years ago there was a population of a scanty three hun- dred, the United States Steel Corporation has caused to spring up a bustl- ing city of forty thousand, modern in every respect. As its population, representing thirty nationalities, increased, the few schools proved insuillcient to meet the new demands. Something had to be done. When Mr. Wm. A. Wirt, the newly elected Supt. of Schools, was asked his opinion of the schools already built, he said, Well, you've made an ex- ceedingly bad beginning. . Why, they're built on the most modern American lines, the steel men protested. Exactly, replied Mr. Wirt, that's just what's the trouble with them. He then explained his plan of an ideal school. When they understood that his system would do the Work of three modern American schools, they were moved by this demonstration of 60011011152 And so it happened that Gary obtained the finest school system in the country, not because it was so rich, but because it was so poor. Under this system, the kindergarten, primary, grammar, high school and two years of college are in one school. This, in a large measure, solves the problem of pupils' leaving school, for as there are no graduations from grammar to high school, the pupils find no convenient stopping places. They are promoted by subjects rather than by grades: for example, in mathematics. a pupil might be in the eighth grade, while in Latin he might he a. sophomore in high school. This feature is ibetter economically, for it is cheaper to have completely equipped centers than to duplicate such equipment in many smaller centers. Nowadays, 'boys and girls have too much time on their hands, 1 con- dition which leads many to habits of vice and idleness. In Gary, this sit- uation is met by the fact that the school day is from nine until six and E