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4 VERGENNES HIGH SCHOOL Httmtnj Faith Kenyon, ’36, Editor ESSAYS They deal with places, fun. beliefs and hooks, Or people. fancies, and the best of cooks. A light and brief outline is all they need, Informal to the nth degree. Now heed hat 1 have said, and you can soon compete. With maybe Stephen Leacock at your feet. Euphrosyne Ward, ’35 THAT’S THE MAN Marie Little. ’35 He is not a hero in the eyes of the world. He has never performed any marvelous deed; nor was he ever crowned with laurels. But day by day, unheralded, he takes his place in the world’s great enterprise, like part of the silent mechanism of an intricate machine, making no complaint and seeking no applause from a changeable audience of the thrill-seeking hordes. All he asks is recognition in the trade of his choice in order that the compensation which he receives for labor well done will make others happy. Who but a man strong in mind and will can day after day. week after week, year after year, countenance defeat in his struggle upward and still plod on with a smile and a cheery greeting for other wayfarers? Perhaps some think him unlearned in the halls of the sciences; but who can judge how many noble thoughts and glorious aspirations have been crushed by the commonplace? Who can tell to how high a star he had hitched his wagon, only to have the bond severed by some lowlier necessity? He has never braved the rigors of an Arctic winter. However, weather never keeps him from “the job.” “That is the man,” the one who, steady and fearless, is slowly but surely conquering the depression which has crushed many people, destroyed air castles (Who knows how many?) and even ruined those little hopes and desires for the future. He overcomes obstacles to reach his goal, not for honors to be conferred upon him, but to answer the call of duty, having for his battle-cry, “Onward; I must not fail.” Human nature is frail, yet this man’s heart is pure gold and he commands the love which is due him. That is the man, uncrowned by Public Glory, the man who helps to form the bulwark of our nation. Who is he? Why, that’s your dad and mine! And that’s the Man who, daily strong and fine. Unsung, unpraised, toils on—your dad and mine.
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BLUE AND WHITE 5 THE WESTERN MOVIE Richard Bennett, ’35 If you go frequently to the Saturday night moving pictures, you will notice that in most country towns you most often see a cheap Western movie. What about the influence these movies exert on children of today? In my own town I remember on a Sunday night listening to a broadcast from the South Pole. At the end of the broadcast a boy of about fourteen who was sitting near remarked that he didn’t believe they could broadcast from the South Pole and that the people in the Studio probably made it up. Yet that same boy believed what he had seen in these same cheap Western movies. In every Western Movie the plot is exactly the same, even though it may be expressed a little differently. On the screen there flashes a picture of a West- A horse. a gun, a And many fans will ern cowboy on a horse—a wild, love-making, fast-shooting, brave hero. Now where is the girl? Where can she be ? Oh! here she is—a sweet, young, bashful thing. As likely as not she and the hero were childhood sweethearts. The hero has just returned home and finds the villain (as likely as not to be a sheriff) holding a mortgage on his sweetheart's or his father’s land. Everyone takes the hero wrong, of course, and thinks he’s bad—everyone except his sweetheart .The hero fights the villain and his men single handed; he is captured, but of course gets away. (The hero could not get killed). He wins back the mortgage and also makes the villain admit many hold-ups, etc. In the last reel we see the hero and heroine in eath other’s arms murmuring—“Darling.” girl, a risky spill, get an honest thrill. TREATISE ON MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Edward Ryan, ’35 Nearly everyone thinks he is a musician at one time or another. Some really are but most of us just think we are. In the following lines I will try to describe some popular instruments and methods used by aspiring musicians. Probably more gu tars are bought and sold in this country today than any other instruments. You can travel through city, village or countryside and hear attempts at vocalizing “The Dying Cowboy” accompanied bv the twanging of guitar strings (usually out of tune). One could swear that the Dying Cowboy himself was singing. The student employs a well thumbed “5-Minit” course to perfect himself in chords. As he plays chords, he must also sing (cowboy songs preferred.) The proper cowboy tone is acquired by applying a clothespin to the nose to give the nasal effect. If the would-be musician doesn’t sing, he teams up with a fiddler. The violin, or fiddle, is one of the best sounding or one of the most nerve-rack:ng instruments. A good violin player produces about the most beautiful music there is. As these cases are few and far between, we will discuss the fiddler. When learning to play, you’re a fiddler; when you are capable of beautiful music, you’re a violinist. The main fault with the fiddler is the whining tone he produces. This is because of the finger’s sliding along the string in a frenzied search for the correct note. A mute helps sometimes, but if the student would store his bow in moth balls until the desired note is se-
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