Woodbury High School - Warrior Yearbook (Woodbury, CT)

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ENIOR CLASS ELECTIONS Most popular girl—Margaret Smith Most popular boy—Robert Fray Best looking girl—Margaret Smith Best looking boy—Robert Fray Best boy athlete—Robert Fray Best girl athlete—Maude Eyre Most conceited—Robert Fray Class Humorist—Stanley Lusas Class baby—Maude Eyre Laziest—Harry Hull Class pessimist—Helen Belz Class Optimist—Robert Abbott Biggest bluffer—Raynall Coley Most bashful—Sigurd Lovdal Most musical—Candace Thompson Most literary—Robert Abbott Teacher’s pet—Harry Hull Best dressed girl—Margaret Smith Best dressed boy—Frank Matula Most quick tempered—Helen Belz Class pest —Raynall Coley Noisiest—Stanley Lusas and Maude Eyre Most studious—Elizabeth Martin Quietest—Oscar Johnson ■M Page Ten

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FRANK MATULA Keep smiling.” Dramatic Club (2). Glee Club (2). Operetta. Bits O’ Blarney” (3). Operetta, The Fire-Prince” (4). Member of A. A. (4). Senior Dance Committee (4). Agricultural Judging Team (4). Class Gifts (4). Frankie” surely can smile. His smile and his arched eyebrows have played no small part in our school career. He and his Chewy have been kept busy driving the girls around. Frankie is a good dresser and we might almost call him a sheik. Now that he has taken a year of Agriculture we hear that he is interested in going to Storrs. It would be fun to be a Freshman again. MARGARET ELEANOR SMITH Is she not passing fair?” Member of A. A. (1-3). Latin Club (2). Nature Study Club (2). Dramatic Club (2). Class Vice-President (3). Secretary of English Club (3). Prom Committee (3). Class Party Committee (3). Basketball (3). Dance Committee (4). Class Treasurer (4). Operetta, The Fire-Prince” (4). Class Prophecy (4). Margy” is our class beauty. Though beauty is its own excuse for being, she does more than sit around and look pretty. Back in the good old days when we had girls’ basketball, Margaret was on hand. She has been a clever politician, having held several class offices. Margy” and Maudie” have been an inseparable pair since grammar school days and they have been our social lionesses. Margaret has kept the boys busy and we are interested in what our flirtatious little miss will do next. CANDACE AUGUSTA THOMPSON I’m Capable of a tune” Basketball (1-2-3). Glee Club (1-2). Nature Study Club (2). Cast of Operetta, Bits O’ Blarney (3). Dance Committee (4). Commencement Soloist (4). Candace has been the most notable musician in our class. Her singing voice is very pleasing and she has initiated us into the mysteries of the xylophone. The proportion of eight boys to five girls has made us rather an unsociable class, but 'Candy has been a charming flower in the old brier patch. We wish her much good luck. Page Nine

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VALEDICTORY ESSAY Stanley T. Lusas “Depressions In all sciences, natural phenomena are governed by certain natural laws. Economics is a science and one of its fundamental laws is the law of supply and demand. The term Supply means the amount of goods or services that people are willing to sell. The term Demand means the amount of goods or services that people are willing to buy. If the supply is decreased while the demand remains the same, the price will go up. The fluctuations in the price of eggs at different times of the year offers a good illustration of the workings of this law. Except in cases of an absolute inon-oply of a necessary good, the law of supply and demand works just as inevitably as the law of gravitation. This was not evident in the Middle Ages because people lived in a continual depression. They worked hard from dawn until dusk with a few crude tools to produce the simple necessities of life. Yet they were satisfied because they had never known anything better. Manufacturers were men who had a house, workshop, and garden. They usually produced all the necessities of life themselves. In most trades no article was produced until there was an order for it, so there was little chance of over-production. When not engaged in the manufacture of goods, the apprentice helped about the house or garden so there was less chance of unemployment than at present. People rarely starved except in famines. With the invention of the steam engine, it was more economical to move machines into large factories, and people began to work these machines. At the same time the application of new machinery to farm labor made it possible for fewer laborers to produce all the necessary foods. But disadvantages have come also. The factory employees cannot work about the house or garden when not working in the factory because there are not enough jobs of that sort to go around. It is impractical for them to try to raise their own food for this can be done much more cheaply by the laborers on the farms. They are wholly dependent on their wages for their livelihood and when their wages stop they face starvation. Factories can be shut down and surplus goods can be stored for future use, but idle laborers cannot be placed in cold storage or in a state of suspended animation. They have to eat and they must have clothing and shelter. Labor is the most perishable of all commodities. War has always been followed by periods of depression. War takes laborers from peace time industries where they are creating wealth and causes a scarcity of labor in industries. The prices of goods and labor immediately rise. When wars are over, the return of laborers to the peace time industries is bound to create such an oversupply that the price of labor will be forced down below the normal level. At the same time the capital which has been invested in war time industries is not available and there cannot be the same demand for labor. In this connection, the wish to hire laborers is not a demand because the desire which is not backed up by cash or credit can have no effect on the market. The hopelessness of trying to make the defeated nation pay the expenses of a war is well shown by the situation in Europe today. A nation cannot pay debts of any kind unless it creates wealth and no nation at the present time can create wealth without the opportunity to carry on international trade. The lack of trade, credit, or good will on the part of any nation automatically affects the trade of other nations and so the depression is spread until it is international in scope. The inflation of money or stock helps bring about depressions because people will borrow money or obtain credit when money will buy a lot and try to pay it back when it will buy very little. If they succeed, they ruin the creditors or make them unwilling to loan money except at high rates of interest. Since most all of our business is done on credit, this has a bad effect on all industries and since people who have insurance policies and savings accounts are creditors indirectly. it is easy to see that we cannot ignore the welfare of creditors any more than we can the welfare of debtors. A great many causes have been given for economic depressions, but there is really only one explanation; this is, the fundamental characteristics Page Eleven