Windsor Locks High School - Herald Yearbook (Windsor Locks, CT)

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THE HIGH SCHOOL HERALD Also, Marion, follow Henry O’Leary’s ex¬ ample by coming late only four days in the week and save the fifth to cheer up the Principal. Hilda Rego and Marie Midden, we espec¬ ially advise you to be a little more atten¬ tive in the future, when Radio programs are given in the Main Room. We would advise Lucille Knowles to be¬ come a little better acquainted with text books and a little less acquainted with Ford and Buick Cars! We keenly advise you, Douglas Barberie, to invest some of your extra cash in the book entitled, “The Seven Secrets of Speed in Typewriting,” so that if the Juniors should ever give another exhibition of type¬ writing in the Main Room, you will come out a little better than with an average of seven words per minute! ! !! Silly Sophomores—We have yet to find a class that has lived up to its name as well as you have. You are truly silly—but we have to admit that you are a bright class and we congratulate you for coming out ahead on the reading tests, but don’t be too proud of the fact for you still have a long, long way to go, as far as behavior is concerned. We sincerely hope that dur¬ ing the summer months you will play to your heart’s content, and in the fall when you return to be Juniors, you will have lost some of the playfulness and will give the rest of the school some peace. Everett Tate, we suggest that you come straight up to. your home room and stop teasing the eighth grade girls at noon¬ time. We know, Everett, this will be diffi- cult, for the girls will not leave you alone. We are often reminded of that old song, “They go wild, simply wild, over me!” We advise you, Mae White, to buy your¬ self a big red bow to tie in front of you, when going into French Class. “Red” is a very appropriate color for you, Mae, so that every r time you look at it, it will remind you to behave yourself, at least in French Class. Lloyd Burwood, we would suggest th you bring a lunch with you every mornii to be eaten at recess, so that members the faculty will not worry when they lea the paste or explosives lying around in t chemistry room. Now, we come to the Freshies who a m dire need of some good advice. Fir of all Freshies—cultivate those voices yours. ! ! We have our doubts sometimt when passing the main room, as to wheth they are human voices or not. Vam Freshman girls, especially, we a 19 vise that you get together and buy your¬ selves a mirror. Remembe(r, girls, the mirror in the dressing-room was intended for all the girls in the High School and not for Freshman girls alone. We would advise Pinky Wallace and Fred Kennedy to leave the Point a little earlier evenings. We have often wondered why two who lived so near the school should be late so often. Now we know that if you would leave Warehouse Point before 12.30 in the morning, you might get to school on time one day in the week. Emma Hart and Rose Polozie, we advise you two not to linger so long on the bridge just now, for it is being repaired, and your presence is distracting the young men who are working there. I am afraid that the work will never be completed if you con¬ tinue to take your exercise there every noon. As for Willie Karges, all we do, Billy, is advise you to join a circus and become a clown. You have much talent along this line. You have had plenty of practice giving daily performances during study periods. In spite of all this advice, Undergradu¬ ates, we love you dearly and our associa¬ tion with you for four years has been most pnjoyable. It is with a heavy heart that we leave you to-night. In the future our memory will often carry us back to the happy hours spent with you. Florence J. Migliora, ’26. -(o)- RESPONSE TO ADVICE to Undergraduates. We, the Undergraduates of the Windsor Locks High School, after having listened to your kind words of advice wish to thank you, and at the same time give our opinion of your class, as a whole. Although much may be said about you as a fine and honorable class, there is another side which has been evident during the past year. You have upheld your repu¬ tation of being a noisy class. We also notice in the Activity Period when the Principal leaves that the dignified Seniors start the ball rolling and are as talkative as the rest of the school. In spite of these criticisms we congratu¬ late you on the successful presentation of the Senior Play and we also thank you for assisting in the various programs and activities of the school. The members of the baseball team will be greatly missed next year. We are sorry to see you go and as a

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18 THE HIGH SCHOOL HERALD FEEDING THE SOIL. Out of the eighty elements, only thirteen are necessary for crops. Four of these are gases: Hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and chlorine. Five are metals: Potassium, mag¬ nesium, calcium, iron and sodium. ' Four are non-metallic solids: Carbon, sulphur, phosporous and silicon. Three of these, hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon, which make up the greatest part of the plant are ob¬ tainable “adlibitum” from the air and water. The other ten in the form of salts are dissolved in water and sucked up from the soil. The quantity needed by the plant is so small and the quantity in the soil is so great that ordinarily we need not bother about the supply except in case of three of them. These are nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus. These would be useless in the elemental form but when blended in the form of a neutral salt are most essen¬ tial. A ton of wheat takes from the soil 47 pounds of nitrogen, 18 pounds of phos¬ phoric acid and 12 pounds of potash and if the farmer does not put back as much material on the soil each year, his crops will soon fail to pay him. The modern farmer now realizes that the soil is a laboratory for the production of plant food and often takes more pains to provide a balanced ration for it than he does for his own family. The need of feeding the soil was founded many hundreds of years ago by the great Latin poet, Virgil, in his poem, “The Georgies.” The nitrates used in fertilizer were found in Peru and Chile by a German, Taddeo Haehke, in 1809, but it was not until the last quarter of the century that nitrates came into commonNise as a fertilizer. Germany had a natural monopoly of potash as Chile had a natural monopoly of nitrates The world has been virtually dependent upon these two sources of plain foods. Were it not for the nitrate beds of Chile and potash beds of Germany, what would the United States have done for fertilizer before the war? In 1915, when the Great World War took hold of America, the Ger¬ man potash supply was shut off. What was to be done for fertilizer? An extensive search was made in this country for potassium compounds, and many sources of potash were found. The most promising of these are the recovery of potash from the flue dust of cement works and the dust from iron blast fur¬ naces, the evaporation of brims of lakes, which were located in California and Ne¬ braska and the separation of potassium compounds from kelp. The United States used two hundred and thirty-seven thousand tons of potash in 1911. Although beds were found in our own country, they were not as large as those in Stassfuit and Germany. Germany prepared, during the war. be¬ cause she had a new process of making nitrates while our own country was without a way of getting nitrates. Much money had been spent upon a new method of pro¬ ducing nitrates, which w’as a success. The place that now supplies America with nitrates is Muscle Shoals, which is situated in Alabama, on the Tenneessee river. A great amount of money was spent in build¬ ing a large dam to make power to take free nitrogen from the air and change it into nitrates. Now the United States gets most of her fertilizer materials in her own country, which was made possible by the building of the nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals. Our country is now independent of any country for its fertilizer supplies. Marcus Lawson, ’2fl. -(o)- ADVICE TO UNDERGRADUATES. Undergraduates of the Windsor Locks High School. Dear Infants:— After four short years in dear old Wind¬ sor Locks High School, we cannot bear to leave you to-night without giving you a few words of good, sound, much-needed advice. During these years we have watched you carefully, and have burdened our hearts to the extent that to-night we take the opportunity of telling you some of your faults and’ of giving you a little ad¬ vice how to overcome them. For example, we, Seniors, simply cannot understand, why. during Activity Period, the room is so silent that you can hear a pin drop, but the moment the Princinal leaves the room, it is like Bedlum let loose. There is an uproar, a conglomeration of voices! If you undergraduates, wou ' d glance behind you a+ the Seniors, you would see a fine exam¬ ple of cultured and well-mannered young men and women. Juniors, in particular, this is the fir ' ! year that the Junior Class has not nartici- nated in the Junior Prize Essav Contest. We strongly urge vou to maintain the tra¬ ditions of the old Windsor Locks High. I would suggest to you. Marion Pheln that you buy an alarm clock, for vou niav not be fortunate enough to get a ride across the bridge at 8.29 in the morning next year.

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20 THE HIGH SCHOOL HERALD parting word, we extend to you a welcome to come back any time to visit the o ' d school where the four happiest years of your life were spent. Douglas Barberie, ’27. -(o)- ADDRESS OF WELCOME. Members of the School Board, Superintend¬ ent, Teachers, Undergraduates, Parents and Friends:— It is with great pleasure that I, in behalf of the Class of 1926 , welcome you here this evening. After four long years, we have reached our goal. But it is with sadness as well as with joy that we come here to-night, for the thought that our happiest days are over, seems to overshadow the happiness that we have attained. As our class motto vve have chosen the Latin phrase, “Facta, non verba,” which is in English “Deeds, not words.” The deeds of great men excel any mere words that they have ever spoken. Just for example, take Wellington, the great English general, who overcame Napoleon. Hardly a word that he ever spoke is remem¬ bered, but his act at Waterloo marks the end of a great epoch. Now we are about to undertake new en¬ terprises and ve intend to follow this motto. The Class of 1926 has striven and will strive for “Deeds, not words.” Marcus Lawson, ’26. -(o)- ADVERTISING. Years ago in the Old Testament times the Carthaginians used to sail along the Med¬ iterranean with their merchandise, until they reached Lybia. They would then un¬ load and light a large bonfire on the coast near their wares and would return to their ship. The inhabitant? knowing that there was something for sale would go down to the fire, inspect the goods, and place a pile of gold next to them. The Carthaginians would land again, examine the gold and if in their judgment the goods were well paid for they took the gold and sailed away. This bonfire is the first form of advertising of which history tells. Before advertising was developed into a fine art and before it became a factor in the commercial world, the business of the manufacturer and merchant was to supply the normal needs and desires of the human family. Man knew little of the luxuries of yesterday which prove to be the necessities of to-day. Advertising makes one think of new and fascinating things, and thus fills one’s mind with new desires. To secure judicious advertising four ques¬ tions must be determined: What to adver¬ tise, where to advertise, when to advertise, and how to advertise. What to advertise.—Obviously that product may be the most advertised for which there is the greatest demand. Every¬ body knows that food stuffs, c othing, furni¬ ture, and homes should be brought before the eyes of the public extensively, while eyeglasses, ear-trumpets and other articles, in order to remain progressive must be ad¬ vertised less. It may be stated as a rule, therefore, that how extensively an article should be published depends upon how use¬ ful it is to the public. Where to advertise.—The advertiser must be careful not to advertise articles such as coal in Newcastle, fur coats in Brazil and palm leaf fans in Iceland. The manufac¬ turer must first discover where the great¬ est demand for his special line exists before starting to advertise. Some do not hesitate to place homely placards all over the beau¬ tiful landscape of our country. Is this thoughtful advertising? When to advertise.—No man would ever commit such an error as to inform the pub¬ lic about straw hats in January, and snow shovejs in August, yet it is difficult to de¬ cide just when certain articles should be advertised. Here again the rule of demand applies: Advertise when there is a demand or when a demand may be created. How to advertise.—Among the several mediums through which the manufacturer calls attention to his godos are magazines, newspapers, trade papers, street car signs, circulars, and billboards. Such articles as a straw hat would be published to a better advantage in a monthly magazine, for the demand for this article lasts only two months, while real estate would be adver¬ tised more successfully in a newspaper, for when the sale or rental is accomplished, the advertisement need no longer appear. 1 he circulation of the magazine or paper, the sort of people it reaches, the location of a billboard, the type of passenger on a street car—all these aid the expert in de¬ termining the best medium for this pur¬ pose. 1’he next thing that the advertiser has to determine is whether he should advertise in print or illustration. It has recently been discovered that catchy phrases such as “Buy an Hour-g ass Clock and your time will be as faithful as the Tides of the Ocean;” “Breakfast without wine—rich cof¬ fee is a disappointment;’’ Sunlight-soap,