Woonsocket High School - Quiver Yearbook (Woonsocket, RI)

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THE QUIVER 15 machine to harvest this kelp, so that potash can be produced for six dollars a ton. These are just a few instances in which the war has helped our manufacturing, and there are many others too numerous to mention. When this war ends, Germany, if she is in a condition to do so, will probably raise the price of many of these articles to help recoup her losses from the war; but the United States will be able to compete with her, for in many cases these articles can be produced more cheaply here. Thus these new enterprises will be permanent, and under the influence of their success, other enterprises will be started which will tend to make the United States the leader of the world in scientific research and manufacture. SAMUEL A. McKEE. ’16. A MAIDEN’S REPLY On a bright summer evening So early in May, A sweet maiden sang To her lover this lay. “Oh, were I a queen In the realm of the sea, My fond heart would dream Of a lover like thee. “And had I dominion O’er all I can see, I should always be gay With a lover like thee. “Or were I a bird With my nest in a tree, I should sing all the day Of my lover like thee. “But a queen I am not, Nor a bird in a tree, Nor have I dominion O’er all I can see. “But despair not (since queen Of no realm I’ll e’er be), If I should refuse A poor lover like thee.’’ ' NELLIE R. WOOLLEY, ’16.

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14 THE QUIVER fact, shipped the sand to the Germans, who supplied this apparatus to the whole world under the name of Jena Glass. Soon after the war began, this glassware became a scarcity, and the chemical supply companies were swamped with orders which they could not fill. This demand became so great that quartz glass factories were built in the United States. The war stopped the importing of thermometers from Austria, which had almost a monopoly of the manufacture of them. In a short time, the demand was greater than the limited supply, so the American glass workers were called on. Then it was found that they did not know how to make them; but two Austrians who understood the rather complicated process were found. They were put under contract, at large salaries, to teach the Americans how to blow thermometer tubes. One of these men could not stand prosperity and died from overeating; but the other turned out a class of pupils who are able to -upply the needs of this country. At one time it looked as if we should have to do without indelible pencils. The lead for these is made from a coal-tar dye and a peculiar kind of clay. The American chemists could make the dye, but the clay was lacking until someone discovered a field of clay that did the work as well as that coming from Europe. Another branch of manufacturing that was affected by the war was the automobile and machinery concerns. Although the United States leads the world in the manufacture of high speed machinery, all of the high speed steel used in this machinery, automobiles, and machine tools was imported from the great Krupp Gun Company in Germany. This company had installed electric processes, and could furnish this steel at a price that discouraged all thought of competition by the American steel men; but when this supply stopped, the Americans had to produce it, and, as they were in a hurry, they installed electric processes and the most up-to-date methods. The Stassfort mines in Germany had supplied the world with potassium chloride, which is an essential in chemical, electrical, and metallurgical work, and in drugs, fertilizers, and munition powder. According to the United States trade report, the imports to this country of this product for the year ending June 30, 1914, were over two hundred thirty thousand tons, valued at nearly forty dollars a ton. During the last year, however, a process has been invented on the Pacific coast for obtaining a potassium chloride, or potash, from the inexhaustible supply of kelp, or sea-weed, for about twelve dollars a ton. Lately, a man on the Atlantic coast claims to have invented a

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16 THE QUIVER (TUfuitorialS EDITORIAL STAFF SAMUEL McKEE, ’16, Editor-in-Chief. ETHAN GOODNOW, T6. Business Manager ANNIE NAISM1TH, 16. RUTH SCHLIVEK. 18 OLIVE ROCHELEAU, T7. DOROTHY MOWRY, T9. EDITORIALS The past year, our first complete one in our new building, has seen several new faces in the ranks of our faculty. Five new teachers were appointed at the beginning of the school year to take care of new departments and the increase in others. Ihese were Miss Amy P. Gilbert, Miss Elise Rocheleau, Miss Louise K. Cushman, Miss E. Alberta Reed, and Mr. Charles V. Carroll. Miss Gilbert has taught Physical and Commercial Geography and Plane Geometry; Miss Rocheleau, French and Girls’ Physical Training; Miss Cushman, Bookkeeping; and Mr. Carroll, Algebra, Solid Geometry, and Freshman Science. Miss Reed was appointed to take charge of the new department of Domestic Science. In November, Miss Jane M. Given, teacher of English, resigned to fill a similar position in the High School of Water-bury, Conn., and Miss Edith J. Clark was appointed to fill the vacancy. The English department expanded to such an extent that, in January, Miss Verna M. Corey was appointed to take some of the work from the shoulders of Miss Mowry and Miss Clark. In addition to these changes. Miss Alice W. Cook, W. H. S. ’15, was appointed clerk for the Principal’s office. One of the chief reasons for the increased number of teachers is the growth of the student body. The number of pupils in the High School has advanced from the three hundred seventeen of last year to three hundred seventy-eight. This is a growth of nearly twenty per cent. Besides this, there are at present more graduates of Woonsocket