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Tom O’Neill, 1st Grade Ronald Brososky, 2d grado
JohnPytel, 3d grade Wm. Humpheries, 4th grade Lyle Morris, Gth grade
Bruce Morris, 9th grade Frank Morris, 10th grade
Initialed Items Are Written By Elementary Pupils; All Others Are By High School Pupils.
Editorials
JoLn Muir
John Muir was a great naturalist and explorer. Everyone
should remember his name because he saved the forests and
got the government to set aside National Parks protecting ani
mals and trees within them.
When Muir was a young man, the formation of Yosemite
Valley was still a question. J. D. Whitney, professor of Geol
ogy at Harvard; thought he knew all about it and explained that
the valley was caused by an earthquake. While he held his the
ory and it was accepted, a sheepherder named John Muir
openly disagreed with h im. He said that several thousand
years ago a glacier came down and worked its way along a fault
in the rock and plowed it out. They had a debate and John
Muir won.
In Alaska he explored the inlets of Bering Sea and disco
vered a glacier in southeastern Alaska which bears his name.
You may wonder why we should remember him at this
time. We do it because it is his hundredth birthday anniver
sary. Wre need to think about it now because the world is war
ring quite a bit and he was a man of peace. lie can set a g< oJ
example for other people to he quiet and peacetul instead of try
ing to run the world with selfishness and bloodshed.-Frenk
Population cf AJasLa
If we bad more people in Alaska, costs of transportation
wouldn’t be so high. Materials wouldn't be so high either.
People need libraries and other means of spending tlnir time
usefully. " .
On the other hand, if people swarmed to Alaska they might
do a lot of harm They would increase crime. Everyone would
'have to lock Ins door at night. Even now a person must take the
key out of his automobile. You would always be in danger of
jobbery and you would have to watch your possessions like a
hawk.
If many people came here they would plaster the country
with billboards and chop down the trees. They .would-fill the
country with fire and smoke and noise. Now the land is free
and so a e we. So imry be we don’t need any more people here
after all.—Biuce
We may not be one in blood bub we are one in feeling. We
may nob be one in color but we are one in all that really matters.
Books
THE OREGON TRAIL, by
Francis Parkman. — In the
spring of 1846 Parkman decided
to go out to the West to study
the Indians so that he could
have material to write about
them. He hired a guide and
cook named Harry Chatillon and
Deslauriers. Also, Parkraan’s
relative and friend, Quincy
Adams Sliavv, went with them.
They had horses and mules
as means of transportation. The
horses-Were ridden and the
mules pulled a cart and were
ridden also; After they started
the horses got away several
time£ and headed lor home but
were caught. Parkman took
sick and was sick bn and off
during the entire expedition.
They lived off of the country as
they went along.
When they reached the Indian
catnp that they were looking for
they stayed with the Indians
until the first of August. Dur
ing that tithe they moved around
in the Kooky mountains and
hunted. Then Parkman and
Ins guide—not Ohatillon, but a
new one picked up later—went
back to join Ohatillon and Shaw,
who had' gone exploring in other
directions. Then they headed
back toward the settlements. It
Whs just after the Mexican War
and they met soldiers along the
way. ■ -t •** '•
Once when t»he.y stopped at a
trading post they, joined up with
four men, one of whom was era
z.v and another lazy. Finally
they reached the settlements.
' Frank Morris
TAWNY, by Thomas C.
Hinkle —This book starts out
on a ranbh. There was a man
and every week when pavday
came he would go to town and
get drtink. • Once he found a
yellow dog. He- Would beat
her. so oho day she ran away in
to the woods. Everybody tried
to catch her, and her pup Taw
ny. because they killed all the
cattle. The mother was killed
and then everybody tried to k II
Tawny. - He finally . found a
home with a boy. Lyle Morris
Wit & Wisdom
“Here, here!” exclaimed the
professor of Blackburn school,
“I have been talking for over
three hours and a half, but there
are so many interruptions aud
so much racket in all parts-of
the room that i can scarcely
hear myself speaking ”
“Cheer up!” came a voice,
‘ You’re not missing much.”
No man is greater than his
thoughts.
John: “What is a fortifica
tion?”
The professor: “A fortifica
tion is a large fort.”
Johnny: “Then a ratification
is a large rat.”
Consideration for others is also
consideration for ypurself. ,
Bruce: “Mr. Richelsen.called
while you out.' ; He said he
wanted to beat you up.”
The professor:.; “And what
did you ,say to him?”
Bruce: “I said I was sorry
you were out.”
A man without a purpose isi
like a train without a track. He
has no destination and there
isn’t a chance that lie’ll get
anywhere.
The professor: k‘In this vast,
limitless expanse of the mighty
universe, man is so infinitesimal
that it makes me feel like a little
grub.”
' Billy £ “Me too. Besides, it’s
after twelve o’clock.”
It is more noble to improve
than to condemn; to criticize 1
yourself than others. If the
world seems to need fixing, try
to fix it; if all your neighbors
seem to need fixing, try to fix
yourself.
want >
Stere Pytel:’ Do you
a room for 25/ or'5u/?”
’* Stranger: “What’s the differ
ence between them?” . * ’
Steve: “Well, we put a rat
trap in the 50/ room.”
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