Wakefield High School - Oracle Yearbook (Wakefield, MA)

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It THE W. H. S. DKBATKR DEBATER STAFF Editor-in-Cbief . Assistant Editors Business Manager Asst. Business Mgrs. Exchange Editor Chief Reporter Asst. Reporters Athletic Editor Staff Artist EARLE R. STEWART fHILDlTR L. CARLSON ( ANNA. G. BARNES J-HERIHA M. MAcINrOSH I RUTH VV. BOA RDM AN LUKAN E. WALDRON MANSON M. DILLAVVAY ROBERT T. PHIPPS WILLIAM H. DOUCE r MILLARD W. THRESHER MARGARET E. O ' CONNOR .CLARENCE H. FAY ARTHUR W COLLINSON, ' 15 DOROTHY H. BEALS, ' 16 WILLIAM R. HASKELL, ' 17 STANLEY E. COLLINSON ALVIN W. GORDON ?Etiitanal0 Something the Spectator failed to see was a record of tardiness and absence kept by Mr. Howe. All good things usually come out however. It must be a line thing to look back on a record of perfect attendance, or a perfect record for punctuality. Several remarkable stories are contained in the plain figures following. Think it over. Leon R. Home — Not absent, tardy or dismissed in High School. Not nbsent since 5th grade, tardy once in 1st year. Ruth Boardman — Not absent, tardy or dismissed in High School. Not absent since 5th grade, tardy once in 1st year. Estelle Horton — Not absent, tardy or dismissed in High School. Not absent since 4th grade. JVcccr tardy, never dismissed. Bertha Macintosh — Not absent, tardy or disn)issed in High School. Not absent since 4th grade, not tardy since 3d grade, not dismissed since ;5d grade. It is not always you meet someone who works and says nothing. How many fellows remember when a foot or more of snow was shoveled from the hockey rink ? One of the faculty went down and pushed and hauled, with soaking wet feet, until after six p. m., and hardly spoke at all. Boys, don ' t forget people who do not tell you what they ' ve done. Thanks, Mr. Preble. The following statistics regarding the membership of the class of 1914 may be of interest to our readers, especially in view of the fact so widely stated that not 7% of the children entering school fini sh High School : Four years ago 123 pupils entered. ' I his June 70 are being grnduated, or 56. ' . ' %. This is an unusually high percentage for the Wakefield High School and is far above the number graduating from city school systems. New High School Like Haverhill An article in this Dki ' .atek, deseritiing the Haverhill High School, gives a charming picture of what we should have in Wakefield. No doubt our pupils could study to better advantage in a beautifid building fitted with every convenience. Strike Thk strike in Wakefield brings the great question of Capital vs. Labor right into our midst. It is a deep question, taken either morally or financially. The claims of each side seem to be reduced to the following : Should not laborers have the right to band together to better their interests? If so, how far should they be allowed to control matters? On the other hand, what rights has the investor? A man in a small business seems to have the right of discharging an employee for any reason or no reason ; anger is sometimes sulHeient ground. Should a large business interest destroy this right? Honesty the Best Policy Don ' t smile ! You may have come to regard this as a joke, but evidence shows that it still rings true. A mem- ber of the Senior Class was tn Iking with a representative of Whitman ' s studio. Maiden. He urged her to inter- view the picture committee and make a bid for the class contract. This was the only large concern which ottered no favor to the committee. Above all matters of jirice and pictures, stood that policy ; and when the class voted for its photographer, Whitman ' s studio had all but one vote. As for satisfaction over pictures ! Even the Spect ator cannot find a dissatisfied look among the Seniors. The secret of this is found in the evident aim of Whitman ' s studio to please all comers in every way. Thk cover design was made by William Doucet of the Senior Cl.ass. There were several very creditable de- signs submitted for this issue, those of Dean Waldron and Roy Eriberg deserving special commendation. When we look at the finished cover, that is, those who have

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THE W. H. S. DEBATER 13 THE WAY Tliroimii tlio crowded streets of the cit) ' On past the haunts of busy men, Wiierc unceasing toil knows no pity, For hearts it must crush in tiie end. Out into tlie vast silent places, Where sorrow wall s with veiled eye, And calling shapes and sweet memories Stir hearts tliat may utter no cry Tlien onward to meet new endeavor, To flglit, perciiance fall, and tlien rise Witli unfailing courage, tliat ever Ilatli beclioned man on to tlie skies. Ei.iZAiJKrii Fhanc ' ks Incjuam. THE SPRING-TIME CALL I ' olly, woman, are you tiiinkin ' .As tlie breeze drifts in tliis way. With its breath of early springtime, An its propiiecies of May, — Are j ' ou thinkin ' of the springtime In the days of long ago, Wlien tlie breeze would call us, call ns, Out to watch till ' young things grow? Do you mind the day you met me Down beside the pu tnre bars? How we found the tir t white vi ' let An ' the tiny Bethreni stars? How we wondered at their courage Just to push up through the sod ! Seems as thongh they feared for nothin ' When they felt the call of God! Arc you thinkin ' . Tolly darlin . Of the little brook that flowed, Bubblin ' and just boilin over, Down beneatli the old toll road? We fair couldn ' t keep from joinin ' In its merry, gurgliir glee: Seemed as thongh ' twas hiiinaii. I ' olly. In its joy at bein ' free. Are you thinkin ' , Polly, sweetheart, Of the cherry-blossom spray Growin ' wild, out in the wood-lot, — How we found it there one day Long ' fore orchard branches blossomed — How we stole one cluster there. And you shyly let ?iie place it In your tumljled, wind-blown hair? I ' olly, lass, ' tis long, I ' m thinkin . Since we watched the sunset fade Out beyond the hills to west ' ard. While our partiu ' we delayed; But tlie first warm breath of springtime Always makes me long to go Where the breeze would call us, call ns. Out to watch the young things grow. Ethkl Ri:i;i . L enoir ONE day years ago two men went into the north country from Fort Garry (Winnipeg) in search of the lost mine. One man was an American named Grant; the other a Frenchman named Lenoir, because of his black hair. For years they prospected fruitlessly. The season was short and only three months could they hunt for the mine. In August of tlie sixth year, they camped on tlie Tete Joune river, at the base of the Mountain of the Winds . One morning they started a moose. They both fired, but the moose kept on at his swift hinibering gallop. The men followed the trail as it led away from the liver. For seven miles they tracked the moose, till Ihe trees ended and they stood on the edge of a bluff. Forty feet below lay the Itody of the moose. Tlie strip of beach was not more than thirty feet wide, and it ran past a roaring stream. On the other side rose another bluff. The next day they came back and Lenoir lowered Grant dowai to the beacii. He cut the moose up and went to explore the cliff. He found a cave and w-ent in. Soon he came out and by iiis actions Lenoir thought he had gone mad. He danced, waved his arms and shout- ed. Lenoir slid down the rope to the beach. Grant had found the mine; at the end of a luontli they had all the gold they could carry. Two hundred pounds had been packed in the canoe. There remained but fifty pounds on tlie beacli and that was in two moose sacks. Lenoir was down below and had tied both sacks to the rope. Grant pulled tiiem up and Lenoir waited for the rope to come down. It did not come. He shouted and cursed Grant for the delay. After a half hour of watching the top of the bluff, Lenoir realized the truth. Grant bad either been taken by the Indians or run away with the gold. He went over the cliff but could not find any way of getting up. Later he found a path in the light end of the cliff and got to the top. He went to the place where he had seen Grant last and found sure signs of a fight. Grant had been taken by the Indians. He followed the trail till night and then started early in the morning. He over-took the Indians just at dusk. That night he stole into the camp and cut Grant ' s bonds and then they got their canoe and paddled all night not daring to stop. By forced marches they got to the camp before the Indians did. They sold their gold for a large fortune and spent the rest of their days keeping a hotel at Winnipeg. CrNNINGH. AI, ' 17 CtiiiLKY in II History, naming four historians of the . ngustaii age, Livy, Tacitus, Caesar and Saleratus (Sallust) .

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THE W. H. S. DEBATER 1 ) never tried to make one, we little realize the hours of patient labor for which it stands. Therefore, it seems to me that we should not only consider the neatness and originality of the design but also the sticktoitiveness of the designer which made the finished product possible. Grimm ' s Fairy Tales At the English conference held lately in Wakefield, Professor William A. Neilson made a statement which has caused much comment all over the country. The statement is as follows : The stories by the brothers Grimm, were, written many years ago, and perhaps the most charitable way of dismissing them wotdd be to say that for their time they were all right. The fact remains, Iiowever, that they are standard and classic, and that there is still a profita- able business in publishing them. Sooner or later they fall into the hands of our little folk. I believe that these stories should be discarded because their suggestion to the childish mind is that every wrong was avenged. Revenge is a bad enough vice to exist in any of us, with- out being suggested and inlaid in the childish mind by a fairy tale. The Dial criticises this statement for several reasons. First, because such precautions against teaching revenge are unnecessary with the world in its present condition. vSi ' Ccmd, the ordinary child does not take Grimm ' s tales literally. And, again, the impression of pleasure at the justice shown supercedes any thought as to incentive. Rather than state our opinion upon this matter we will point out what another great educator thought on the question of harmful books. Ruskin evidently did not fear any bad iuHuence from books, and trusted to tht child ' s innocence to spurn any harmful suggestions. In Lilies h(! says of the girl: Let her loose in the library, I say, as you do a fawn in a field. It knows the ]);ul weeds twenty times better than you, and the good ones, too; and will eat some bitter and prickly ones, good for it, which you had not the slightest thought would have been so. It seems, upon such authority, as if we might risk any chance of harm from the thought of revense contained in Grimm ' s tales. The Labor Question If occurs to some people that there are other (piestions involved in a labor disturbance besides the question of labor against capital. How about the community in which the fight is going on? What riglit have any persons to instigate scenes of violence in a community? Every means should be used to discourage all attempts toward a settlement of difficulties through mob violence. Such a proceeding shows a revertance to the methods of five or six centuries ago, when law and order were little respected. The hurling of missiles and threatening personal violence take us back to the reign of terror in Paris. The means employed by the I. W. W. in Law- rence have checked our progress toward a peaceful settlement of labor difficulties. They planted the germs of mob violence in many an uncultivated European head, which need only the nursing of skillful labor leaders to develop into anarchy. Another question to be considered in connection with the use of violence is that of the cost. Who pays for it? The town ! Consider the big city of Lawrence. It was overwhelmed with debt through the expenses imposed by its recent strike. It was obliged to protect its citi- zens from the violence of the strikers and did so at a tremendous cost. Who pays for the extra police pro- tection in Wakefield? The town ! In other words, the people of Wakefield, whether interested in the labor question or not, must pay the ])rice. For this reason, if for no other, violence during labor troubles should not be countenanced. Violent methods are unfair to the citizens of a community, and they must give way to peaceful ones. Without doubt in the end a cure will be found in the ballot: in the establishment of courts of arbitrati(m to which all questions will be sub- mitted. Then we shall have peace, but not until then. A LI, interested in the welfare of the Dkuatkk wish to thank their friends who make possible, financially, the pul)lication of the paper. The last number was so great a financial success that the business managers were obliged to solicit only a few advertisements for this number. We wish to burden the business men as little as possible. Every bit received is put into the paper ; there is no surplus left over as profit. Again, we wish to thank our patrons. SOME of our pupils are gaining a name for themselves. When a man gets famous you begin to see his name in the newsp pers. A freshman reports having seen an article in the Mail concerning a Mr. C. Garett Feenil, said to be of the Wakefield High School. The article in fitting terms described the settling of a warm dispute between the Senior and Junior boys, said C. (iaiett Feend being the central figure. It seems that this Feend carried about with him a (jueer looking thing which the Seniors claimed was a down, while the .Juniors declared it was a moustache. The argument became strenuous and wjir was imminent. I?ut at last a method of settlement was found. The down or moustache, so- called, was divided. The Seniors took half of it, which they called down; and the Juniors took the other half, which was called moustache. How ever, the Seniors hist their half in the grass on the common and ould not find it again, while the aforesaid C. Gai-ett Feend went otf with the other half, the moustache, so-called. Now they are questioning who won the argument. We believe the whole story is fal.se, anyway.