Toulon Township High School - Tolo Yearbook (Toulon, IL)

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14 March, Nineteen Thirty-one WHAT IS TRUE HAPPINESS? Happiness is a condition which can not be purchased. Can we have true happiness and still have very little money? Yes! A rich person is not always happy. Smiles bring happiness. If one sees a very lonely and poor person he thinks, “Oh! If I only had some money I could give him, but I haven’t any.” Then a queer little voice whispers, “Oh yes, you can give him something. You can give him a friendly smile.” Then if that person will smile at someone else and that somebody will smile at the next person, soon everybody will be smiling and everyone will be happy. You will be the nappiest because you will know that everyone was made happy by your smile. “Something each day—a smile; It is not much to give, But the little deeds of life Make happy the days we live. The world has dreary hearts That we can bless and cheer, And a smile for every day Makes happiness all the year.” Kind deeds and kind words bring happiness to the giver and to the receiver. To be happy one must play fair. You and I are not happy if we cheat or get what we want by means of unfair play. The sincere and fair playing person is the happiest—first, because he has more friends, and second, because he knows he has done right. If we would only help the unfortunate we would be happy. We should not think, “Thank God, I am not as others.” After all, true happiness comes to us if we make others happy. It has been proved, but let us prove it too. —K. Goodwin. OWNERSHIP. Take Care Of Your Personal Property. When you scratch on your desks, kick the plaster off the wall in the locker rooms, and throw your library books around, do you realize that you are destroying your own personal property? We don’t realize this. Our parents pay taxes to keep the building up and the more we destroy the more taxes they have to pay. We should be proud of our school and do our best to keep it looking nice. We should never write on the walls in the halls, or play basketball on the gym floor without tennis-shoes, or be careless with equipment in the science laboratories. Avoid throwing paper on the school campus. Just remember that a waste paper basket is in every classroom. In other words, let us all take care of our school property. —William McClellan.

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March, Nineteen Thirty-one 13 ine how you would feel if they yelled “hey” at you. Some students try to escape walking with their teacher for fear they will make a mistake in English while they are talking. I don’t believe any teacher is watching you this closely, so why not be more friendly with your teachers. There are many things that we might remember while on the school grounds. If we throw paper around the school ground and cut across the yard so that we wear a path in the grass, do you think people will give our school a high rating? After many of the football games we find the campus full of paper, but let us hope that this is not done by any of our students. It would be a good plan, I think, to have some of the students pick up this paper as a traffic cop penalty. When there are parties in the gymnasium often some of the boys kick the candy boxes around the gym. We all know that these boys know better, but why do you suppose they insist upon doing it? Do they call it fun or do they just like to see how' much of a disturbance they can make? In my opinion I think they do it because they believe it to be funny. Many students come into the class rooms or assembly and slam their books on the desk. Sometimes this may be done unconsciously but in most cases I think people do it either to be smart or to let people know that they have arrived. Also before the teacher gets in the room the class members talk loudly. I believe that it is perfectly all right to talk if you talk low. I think a person should leave the tops of the desks as clean as he finds them. It does not improve the looks of the schoolroom any if the desks are littered with papers. If you wish to use the telephone and someone else is talking don’t stand and yell at him or her to hurry. Especially if some older person is using the phone we should go out of the office and wait outside. However, if you are using the phone and someone else is waiting, you should hurry and not talk as long as you possibly can. As we all know, it is not proper to chew gum in public, but still some of us do it. No one iikes to see gum in the water fountain or to step in some and certainly it doesn’t improve our school’s rating any to see gum lying around. If you go to a football game and are buying something at a stand, always be courteous to those who are waiting on you. It isn’t polite to keep yelling and screaming at them. They will wait on you as soon as they get around to it. Probably the longer you yell the longer it will be before you are waited on. I would also class good sportsmanship under school etiquette. I don’t call it good etiquette for one to go to a ball game and continually jeer at the players or the opposing school. If they make fun of your team I would say to defend your team but not to make fun of them. Show them that you are an example of your school and that it is not that kind. In my opinion no one can live this life successfully and escape the practice of good etiquette. —L. Fritz.

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