Westbrook High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Westbrook, ME)

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Westbrook High School And surely I cannot begin THE SUN CHARIOT On the third week. Indeed, I'd better wait until next month Then surely I'll succeed. It came in the dusk of dawn Rising from a mountain wall, Breaking sleep and night with morn, Renewing life with its golden call. So on it goes from month to month, And yet I do not fear Until I hear with awful dread, It came as in the days of old Heralded by a mist of fire, Riding in a chariot of gold, Thai June is almost here. Mounting upward ever higher, And then 'tis cramming,-hopeless tears- And Oh! the nameless woe VVhen I hear that I've flunked, And I say, How can that be, after working so ? Beginning his journey of hope anew. Until at last it sinks in the West Flinging banners of royal hue. Leaving this world to starlit rest E. S., '27. ERNESTINE HANNA, '25 V V '2lfdtQQ5iSiQ32 L fia. 1 Q lrizirilv , 4 qt BOOST WESTBROOK BOOST WESTBROOK 2 estlirnnlx News dl cyfomef 'Paper for Teoma, 'Peoples' OURAOBJECT IS TO BOOST WESTBROOK Read the High School News We follow the Westbrook High School Teams Let's Get Together for 1925 32.00 per year 31.25 for 6 months 5 cents per copy PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BOOST WESTBROOK BOOST WESTBROOK

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Westbrook High School V again. If I act badly I am turned upside, down and usually given a dose of oil, I suppose for med- icine. If I am touched on the wrong place, the student blames me and begins to pound me all the harder. Sometimes when a student finds an im- perfect place in the line I have written, he raises his hand and asks what the matter is with the typewriter and a friend will answer, I am sorry, but I think the fault is with you and not with the typewriter. In spite of the fact that I have to undergo many abuses there are some students who I know to be my friends. With the aid of these friends I am able to perform my work faithfully. BARBARA LEIGHTON, '26, MONEY The story of money is very interesting. There are very few people who realize how many changes have taken place since the first colonists came to America. There are five different kinds of paper money: The gold certificate which is backed by gold coing the silver certificate represented only by silver dollars in the United States Treasury, kept for the sole purpose of redeeming the silver certifi- categ the United States Promissory Note or green- back the amount of which is limited by law to S346,681,016 having new notes only to replace old ones and with a gold reserve of EB150,000.000 in coin, kept for redemption, the Federal Reserve Note issued only thru the Federal Reserve Banks 5 the Bank Notes issued by the National Banks, the fifth kind. All National Banks must make a reserve of Government Bonds in the Treasury at Washington for the amount issued and must keep 519 of the amount for redemption. When the colonists first came over here they did not bring much money with them, and that soon went back to England for supplies. To make up for the scarcity which existed, they ex- changed articles. Among these articles were Wampum, tobacco fthe Tobacco Note of 1728 was backed by tobacco depositsj, beaver skins, and vegetables. The first coins to be made in this country, adopted from the Spanish coin, were the silver Z5 shilling, sixpence, threepence and twopence made in Massachusetts in 1652. For a figure the pine tree was used and for thirty years they were dated 1652 with the exception of the two penny piece dated 1662. The first paper money was also made in Massa- chusetts thirty-eight years later. The colonists made blunders, and people and institutions, no- tably Harvard College, lost much money. The bills depreciated until one pound equalled five dollars. The next paper money was the Conti- nental Currency made by the states. By the end of the Revolution it had been too popular and there was a depreciation to such an extent that a bushel of corn cost 3150.00 and for a hat and suit Samuel Adams paid 32,000 The financial genius of the Revolution was Robert Morris, who established the Bank of North America in 1781. Alexander Hamilton, first Secretary of the Treasury, devised our present system of coining and the decimal system, the silver dollar being the unit. It was at Hamilton's suggestion that the First Bank of the United State was established in Philadelphia, issuing pa- per money, called bank notes. Other banks were established in Philadelphia, issuing paper money, called bank notes. Other banks were established in seven of the principal cities, but when they were needed most their charters had expired. The second Bank of the United States was es- tablished a few years later but was involved in political strife and in 1837 the charter ran out and the situation became worse than before. At this time many Wild Cat banks were estab- lished and found to be frauds, so in 1846 the Gov- ernment found it wiser to withdraw all of its deposits from all banks and take care of it at Washington. At the beginning of the Civil War all the gold and silver money disappeared so that large amounts of paper money had to be issued, causing still another depreciation. The people next ex- perimented in changes of postage stamps and then issued fractional currency in paper money, such as 3.50, .25, .10, and .05 bills . jay Cook established the National Banks in 1864 with a backing of Government Bonds in the Treasury at Washington. 'In 1879 paper money was still in currency but on Black Friday, Septem-