Swatara High School - Yearbook (Oberlin, PA)

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DONALD S. BILLOW President LESTER F. AUNGST ' Vice President EARL LESTER L. WOLFE A. SHEAFPER ' ELMER G. LIVINGSTON Secretary Treasurer ERNEST E. ESHENAUR EARL C. WHITE SWATAHA TIIWENSHIP SIIHUIIL Bl!!-Illll

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AIIMINISTHATIUN

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R. N. KEIM Supervising Principal A Zosendau This brief message is to call to your attention the names of three persons whom' you have met, comment very briefly on their most outstanding traits and permit you to select one as your ideal on whose philosophy your future will be most secure. The persons referred to are Mr. Optimist, Mr. Pessimist and Mr. Realist. Mr. Optimist is always cheerful and happy. He con- tends that all is right with the world in spite of history, Divine prophecy and present facts and conditions. He is jovial though he has walked to the brink of the precipice and knows that the step he is taking will dash him to the rocks below. Mr. Pessimist is never cheerful and happy. Even in his times of greatest success and prosperity, he can convince himself that these are only stepping stones to greater ills and hardships than he has ever known. No person, object or condition is ever just right. His greatest satis- faction comes from viewing dark clouds rather than thinking. of the silver lining. Mr. Realist lives midway up the slope: on the middle ground between Mr. Optimist on the top of the hill and Mr. Pessimist down in the valley. He detects and appre- ciates the finer things of life but, at the same time, he realizes that all that glitters is not gold. He is never lost in the darkness of adversity nor are his eyes blinded by the dazzling glare of prosperity. He seeks facts and reasons which are used to find solutions and control actions. Truth, honesty, accuracy and faith are among his outstanding attributes. You are facing the future. The decision is yours to make. , O. B. BALDWIN Principal Smm '7au' lt is a commonly heard expression: I will put in the time some way! No one puts in time with a definite plan: it is always at blank haphazard. No one who puts in time expects definite results: he only expects to avoid ennui, and get through the hours till something comes along that is worth while. But the expression is an admission that time is being put into something. K Plainly it is being put into a hole, the big, black, bot- tomless pit of vacuity. Nothing comes out of that hole, though oceans of time flow in. lt is one of the most greedy maws in the universe, and one of the least profit- able. Time is far too valuable to throw in there. Time is the one thing that man cannot make, nor can ever hope to make. Though it- is given so freely, it is given most grudgingly-only a second at a time. Moreover, time is what everything else that is worth while is made up of. Time is the universal solvent sought by the philosophers of the world: it may be transformed into all other valu- ables. Think of putting time into the yawning gulf of emptiness! When next you have a chance to put in time, put it into a plan. Have a plan all ready, for you will have no chance to go after it. Time is the most volatile and ef- fervescent of substances. The difference between failure and success in life is largely in this matter of putting in time. Tell me how you spend your spare minutes, and I will tell you how to spend the rest of your life-and what salary you can expect to get for doing it.