Wadsworth High School - Whisperer Yearbook (Wadsworth, OH)

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m labor. Policernen are not employed to watch people whose hands are busily engaged in honest toil. Morally, if the hearts of men are right, jails, peni- tentiaries and law-courts would be useless, because he would then recognize his rights and the rights of others. Every pupil should have high ideals. ln the four years of high school training they should have an opportunity to gain information and skill which will help them to live well the common life while they are enjoying and working out the less materialistics of the ideals of humanity. The school should exercise over the pupil firm, but reasonable control, inspiration and self discovery. The high school benefits a community, first, it affords a place where the susceptible, unsteady child can spend his time with little danger of harm from evil associationsg second, the positive advantages that a man or woman with a high school education has in the battle of life over one who does not have this training. The high school is a helping hand which the state extends to all its citizens in order to secure for them a high class of individual and social efficiency. There is no place that an education would not be valuable. A child with no education has one chance in 150,000 of being worthy of a place in Who's Who in America. With an elementary education he has four times the chance, with a high school education he has eighty-seven times the chance, and with a college education he has eight hundred times the chance. The high school graduate earns an average of S500 per year more than an un- educated person. During forty years he would earn 520,000 more. To gain this sum he spends twelve years of one-hundred-eighty days in school, giving him a little less than S28 a day for his school work. With such a great difference in intelligence and wages, it would surely be worth the time and effort to receive this education. Leona Mohler, '26 Li... ..-m.. Wadsworth Business Men , Too much can not be said in favor of the Wadsworth Credit Associa- tion and business men. These public spirited men are continually on the lookout for industries or any worthy institution that might locate in Wads- worth. They are ever mindful of civic duties and take great pride in beauti- fying our little city. Hardly a week passes by that this group of men is not called upon to give its moral or financial support to some worthy cause. Our efficient business managers, Allene Houglan and Ross Shenk, of The Whisperer will testify that the generous and courteous treatment ac- corded them made possible a High School Annual. It has been proved re- peatedly that an Annual is impossible without the advertising. We are in- deed grateful for your generous support. ln return, Business Men, we will feel honored to have you call upon the Wadsworth High School to perform some service that will benefit our little city. T wcnty

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EDITORIALS School Spirit The students of Wadsworth High School during the year of l924-25 have been showing great school spirit. At all games the students have been turning out in great numbers and helping the various teams win their games by cheering from the side lines. They are also behind other things as well as sports, the Literary Club, Dramatics, Debate, Orchestra, C-lee Club, Hi-Y and all other activities that help build up a school. The School itself is built up around school spirit. lf it were not for the Spirit where would our school be? It is not the name of the school that makes it great: it is the students themselves. Students can make or break a school. ln the instance of good old W. H. S. the students are making it. and are putting the name of Wadsworth High School on the scholastic map of Ohio. We expect in time to come, to have one of the best schools if not the best in the State of Ohio. And who will do it? The students, by getting behind the school activities and pushing it forward into the scholastic lime- light. The faculty is another great factor in building up the school and school spirit. And is the main cog in maintaining the function and activities. The faculty of W. H. S. is behind every move we make and the Superintendent, Principal and teachers we have this year are-there are none better. They help us in all problems and difficulties that arise, in class, in the gym, and on the gridiron or diamond and any other place it happens to be. New faces in school this year have helped to create a strong school spirit. The different members of the faculty, each had a different kind of work to do and it was done well. There were rallies, the big Peppy Pep Party, the different plays, the Glee Club, Music, Public Speaking and sports. The first was the big Peppy Pep Party which started the ball rolling and there is an old saying that a rolling stone gathers no moss. l don't believe we have gathered any moss, but l think we have gathered a great school spirit this year, and in the years to follow we hope to see a stronger bond called School Spirit holding the students of Wadsworth Hi together. Nuff sed! Do your stuff W. H. S. We're with you! . Donald Parmelee, '25 The Value of a High School Education Why is education so important? We know that many fathers and mothers have saved and deprived themselves of many pleasures so that their children could go through high school. But why did they do this? Because they don't want their children to work as hard as they did. They don't want them to get their hands dirty, in other words, they want them to get a position to use the mind more than the hands. The first thing that intellectual education does for a man is to wake him up. If a man is intelligent, he can and will see what things are aids to pros- perity. It also makes a man patriotic. For example, when your intelligent American citizen reads the history of this republic and thinks of the blood that has been shed, the lives that have been laid down to secure and perpetuate freedom to the most humble citizen, a feeling of love and pride for his country swells up within him. Education also teaches him to economize, and economy is the road to wealth. However large an income, if he doesn't learn to economize, he will never be prosperous. It teaches the dignity of honest Ninvlw-I1

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