New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 16, 1916, Page 6

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1916. argest Class in Histoty ;f N. B. H. S. is Given Diplomas. storm is moving, the wind at any or our constitution, is “to promote - . . i - TR 3 point will depend upon its position orable conduct and the spirit of 3 . — . . S ot Ry s o in the revolving mass. It seems hardy ce among the students.” We are » PR A i i . i 4 o Sl i ; » : . g s D Bt et e ving through this organization to S e Z : : S 5 v 4 ; f=s e 3 5 2 MRS : iig strong from the northeast the k out to t! (Continued From First Page). l gives us the direction highest degrce our| [ . : | P, ; B 3 : Ny : storm is coming towards us from of service, so t school as E 5 Fiudaen i K s 4 i 0 B A SR 3 the south, but this we know to be true. i Ly e el : . X o . : : Vg it . S ; : R 3 TR Ry Even the number and sources of htest possible benefit therefrom. s & - £ : y e A § T ? 5 4 i 0 probable storms have been estimated e enorie el geheretrom . : 5 e . 2 i 4 . 3 - 4 7 About 100 storr affect the country sl edu et ionsue g otk Sl » - ) ¥ . - ey . : 3 4 in a normal yes Of these, all but e in any way in which either . . . : ; ; ‘ ol or community may need help. fies especially in ting the pol administration in the ways al- y mentioned and in serving the munity whenever our service will heeded and whenever our service, ve are able to give it. will be of seven, on the average, come from the | west Fifteen storms a year origin- e in the western gulf states. Twon- . ty-two are started in Colorado av Wyoming. And twenty begin in Brit- { ish Columbi. N rly all of the re- | maining forty storms enter from the Pacific, through Washington and Ore- gon. Almost all of these storms pass out through the St. Lawrence valley | In that part of the country they say, “If you don't like our weather, wait a'" minute, e ends toward which this spirit rvice will lead are many and im- ant. First, it is the training for ice in school, in our Service ue, which will make us more 3 ble to serve in later life in the i 2 B s g a R g . ! - R & In spite of all that is said about munity. It will make us inter- R Wit & T 3 A e 3 % the general perversity of the ate f in the welfare, not of ourselves, % , of our. fellow citizens and it will i us so that we will be able and A Photos by Murr e e o T os floce o ng to work for our nation, for AQLOBRDYE N HLEAY. We have no wet and no dry season. communities, for our fellowmen. ALDEN LINCOLN RUTH BACON SUPT. HOLMES. CATHERINE FINNEGAN JOHN KINIRY Our rainfall is nearly unifor , the spirit of service, of willing- Treasurer. Secretary. i Presented Diplomas, Vice President. President, throughout the year. There is enoug ootk rorlotterawilll be e . rain to enable all crops to grow with-. G iataTorl desirosingl iticl alase — s — out irrigation, and yet there is plen'y ctions and the social lines which 1 5 . | of sun. We are indet I f 5 able, until it has been read, and re- |finest. As old folks, we shall gather | and, during the night, a change of they never seem to do anything about reau. It costs the people $1,600,000 a | € are indebted to the cool hreatening to introduce into our 3 Y g poc | refreshing anticyclone for our cner b that harmtul system of arin. |read, and loved, and loved again; and [round the fireplace in the stillness | weather took place, melting the snow it. However, (he times have changed. year, but it is a good investment. | "freshing A oy which is usually associated | marked so that you can refer to the | of winter evenings with them as our fand leaving his horse hanging to the The people are doing something about $3,000,000 worth of protection was |8V and vitality. Descending from the monarchies. Moreover, it will | PASsages you want in it as a soldier | sole companions. steeple. , the weather. The weather burcau made possible in one cold wave; the | PUr® UPPer air it drives out the hui- ve our own personal ambitions, | 2D Seize the weapon he needs in an| I think I can best sum up these| yye jn America arc fond of hreak- CArefully studies (he weather with the California citrus growers estimated | ™id ir of out city streets better than selfish interests, and instead will | &FmOry, or a housewife bring the|rambling thoughts of mine on hooks, | ing records, and we have a fair share 214 of many stations and delicate in- that one warning saved $14,000,000 | anY ventilation that man could devise oy all these soclal classes and all | SPice she needs from her store. Bread | in the words % the great Roman | ¢ oqiher records to our credit. The Struments. The scientific study of the worth of fruit; shipping has been | TNOoSe Who are old and feeble; those personal abilities to further the |Of flour is good: but there is bread, |orator, Cicero. He was speaking of | ,yiyy temperaure recorded is Weather is a recent development, but saved many losses by hurricane warn- [ Who are suffering from disease or for othors, It will combine all | SWeet as honev, if we would eat it, [the pursuit of literature in general— | i3 1T GERRCIETe Yeeorded e EERCE 8 CFE S SRERTEER T i Savings are mide by fanmers, | Other weakness ;and the idle rich ~he bs, all interests, all personal |in & Eood book.” R but mxl?’nu:'my; 1“.\? m-nri fl.gm‘}:f land Ranch, Cal. The minimum an. the weather still survive among us, manufacturers, photographers and in- { 2'¢ happy nowhere may avoid the ri- #1010} & working| organtsation fto ||| Eerfapsimany heve heapd bRt fear Iioni & SRCoRE e 0 BeREl 0988 niiallpreceptation) on record istiRatlat | DVe Of New: land are familiar with surance companies, and many other | EOr® of winter hy going to Californ Sochmate NIt mill introduceny if:‘\thh:\](:)\:‘]s'(l]:::'i(:‘n:]r}‘l"‘:)mcn;‘{n\‘ki(:l‘( 2587 ornament our days' of prosperity: | Bagdal) California, in 1918, when no!, Many of them. occupations are directly benefited by | °F TLIHGH Had TS hert of ridsun: :‘;"fier‘;ir‘:":fi:"g'i‘;:;e; CEZ:’V‘:(Q;'" e entitled “Sesame or The King's | bring us refuge and solace in times | *in ‘lel benii: comes to rain, | I the groundhog comes out on e foreca ‘ : | the seashore, but the man who w fih e e bl L of affliction; they do not hinder us [Rowever, the palm must ho given to Candlemass day and sees his shadow, | To MOst of us a storm means rain | o work with vigor vear after year at etition in which there is no i1l | _During the past vear, I was given |at business; they are with us at|India where at Cherrapunii in 1561, he crawls back t his hole and aozes lor snow, but to the weather bureau | his appointed tasks will find no betier g; in which there is rivalry, but this quotation to memorize as an as- | night and they trm-e_x about with us.” | Nine ll!}rlv(t‘l and m(? inches of rain again. He knows there will stiii be ! i in which there is rivalry, but | o ent. At first my only object | Are they mot our friends? fell, more than twenty times as much a month of sharp weather.” t W & Reetd - ow now that most storms are was to learn it so that I could s Z as we get in a whole year. pa s B . |We know now e RO G AMUIREEL R e e e s (0 Ges Ahe Weather Mark Twain said, “Peopl ! [ it rains on Saint Swithin's day | \hat are called “cyclones” that is, so often leads to intense hatred. | ° b 5 e e 4 eople are al- it will rain for forty days to come. masses of air revolving about a cen- ally, and undoubtedly this will | light the heart of my English teach- (Richard Lowrey White.) ways talking about the weather, but T While tr Shel el e . On S > 5 greatest result, the spirit of | €T Our world is a world of change. y ter. hile the motion of the center (Continued On Seventh Page), e will solve the peace problem. But while repeating the words over | One whole h‘lsu‘(\\' s a hmnr.vv ot = e spirit of service teaches us to | and over, suddenly I grew conscious |changes. Customs are changing, ourselves and to work for |of the deep, beautiful meaning en- |fashions are changing, nations are| s in the community, as it teaches | closed in what I had heedlessly been | changing, and the map of the world | work for other communities | memorizing as mere Wworc and |is changing with them. There is but | he state, and lastly as it teaches | phrases. It suddenly dawned on me |one thing in the whole history of | look beyond the states to the | why Ruskin applied the word “treas- | recorded time that has not changed. , so eventually this spirit of |ures,” to books. For it means some- | The chief topic of conversation -wiae e will force us to recognize |thing both valuable and dear and | Noah built the Ark was the weather, patriotism in its present | both of these words are true of worth | and the one topic that everybody is & selfish interest; it will [ while books discusses today is that same weather. us to reconstruct our ideas of Letting my thoughts meander far- | The weather as a subject’of conversa- btism and make us recognize |ther, T recalled that Stevenson had |tion is everlasting. lights of brother countries each | written of a friend as “the most val- | And what subject is more worthy to hich. should possess as great | uable thing in the world.” Then by |be talked about? The weather has 4nd as high a standing as we, | some system of reasoning—whether | endless variety; a variety that can al- or whom, then, \ve should u strictly logical or not— any rate I |wayvs be felt even if it cannot be seen. | ervices. Into one solid combin- , took delight in the conclusion it [ And there is no possible kind of weath- of nations, serving one another | brought me--“T decided that the terms | er that we do not get right here in New nindful eache of the others | “books” and friends” are synonyms. | Britain. We freeze, we burn, we , will this spirit of service weld For a good book does for us what | drown, and at long intervals we even ervice is in reality the founda- |a true friend can. For example, the |pray for rain. bf all union. It will not mean | wise friend advises us at our need.| Our past winter has been one that: \ve abandon our national spirit | We profit by the advantages possibly, | has afforded unlimited opportunity | Ledom or that we give up our | of his wider experience—s X for conversation, Irom early in Do 1 ideals, customs, and charac- | ience, so the adage has i > | cember until late in the spring the | fics, but it will mean that we em- | best teacher. Tt is not nice to think | winter weather held on with hardly a | these qualities in the service of | that one need not grow old, wrinkled | break. The ground was covered with countries. . They in turn will | and grey-haired, to attain experience |snow, and the great number of snow- us, thus uniting the nations into | —but may reap its benefits through |storms was lamented by those, who | oalition, and that a coalition of | simple and entertaining medium of |like myself, were oblized to shovel | iship based on the principles of | good books? For when we read sym- | the walks. Even after the rains had | e to mankind. pathetically about the vicissitudes of | removed the snow from the ground, | fortune of our heroes and heroines; | the cold weather and bleak winds re- | about their moral struggles; jovs, | mained, good it may be, and that a |SCrTOWS and mistakes—in Imagination It is a strange coincidence that the of nations, brought about by | We ourselves pass through the same | yvear or 1316, just one century . 51 service, is & long way off. To | experiences, and thus learn the store | was in many respects the most re- atter I wish to reply that it will | °f Wise knowledge which life has|markable year in our history. The | be so far off, that time until then | tAUgNt them | whole year, with only brief exceptions, | pbnly be so long, as w make it. In real life we may not have | was one of storms and cold. On June sooner we spread this spirit of | friends to charm our every mood be- | 17th of that year, one of the severest e throughout our schoels and | cause our friends may be few and our | storms that ever occured even in our students in it, sooner other mm;dfl r;:m_\'_ But \V\‘nn]y' W r}er “rjr ‘\\'lnlm‘, devastated the northeastern ¥ / ! 5 Ins will adopt it and that desir- [ books, there is no such dearth ¢ | section of this country. Snow fell in Y 4 r D o et o™ | have the thoughttul friend, to inspire | Vermont to & depr a: ter meones and | : it = THEY HELPED NATURE MAKE THE Ihe the former statement, that|our more serious, pensive moods—to iin New York, New Jersey and Penn- ¢ ; 105 PO, e can possess to such an extent | Suggest and guide our noble impulses. |sylvania to a depth of three inches. A 4 2 Ty @ TOBACCO FOR PERFECTIONS JUST lspirit of service, I wish to call | There is Milton for instance, speak-} A cold bleak wind came from the ; : : E ention to the fact that the per- | ing to us through his “Comus,” and | north, piling the snow i drite The | 2 . NATURALLY GQOD cation of service in its-broadest | Bryant inspiring us with his “Than- | uncle of a certain James wWinchester | o - : P A is found in New Britain's great- | atopsis.” | who went out to find some sheep in | on, Elihu Burritt. His services Then there is the merry, resource- |a distant pasture was lost, and three | ed the whole world and through- | ful friend who cheers us when we | days later a searching party found | he world he is known as the ! are down-hearted, by diverting tales. | him dead in a great drift. There w of New Englanad, it is undoubtedly far a storm means a movement of windg. | climate in all the world than rignt here in old New England, whos changing weathers, while not a perpef But to get back to the weather Lu- w you may say that no one can jss such a spirit of servic how- S | of service. Let us consider some | Such a one is Mark Twain’s humor- [no summer that terrible season. AMr. ; i o s services. After the war of | ous “Tom Sawyer.” Winchester said, “The wind during | 1 o e ectl n when all the country was filled | When our minds are dull, and life | June, July and August of 1816 was | ° hatred and bitterness, he issued |‘seems to drag along uninterestingly, | continuously from the north ana it | . articles in favor of peace. “The | such friends as Shakespeare and Dick- | blew flercely and cold. Farmers wore | X tian Citizen” and “Olive Leaves” | ens come to coax us out of our un- |heavy overcoats and sweaters while | : o created throughout the coun- | wholesome mood. What a world of |about their work every day during | i No wonder you smokers love every puff of them. very strong sentiment in favor | exciting and interesting events they |these months. There was but little | . Lace. Continuing his efforts for | tell us about! High School English [use of planting anything; nothing Because they give you the honest taste of naturally b he went to England and work- | has given us a taste of them in such |grew to speak of, but they did plant Od tobacc ith the same purposeto effect | hooks as “Macheth,” and “Twelfth |corn as usual and planted it with be g0 0. & peace, and throughout Europe | Night” and in the “Tale of Two |sweaters on. July was colder than P = America he became known as the | Cities.” They set our imagination to | June, and August was colder than | Nothmg fancy—nothing dolled up about Perfections stle of Peace.” During the fa- | working and therein lies much of the | July. Ice half an inch thick formed . : in, Ireland he assisted mot only | pleasure in the world. in July, but In August it froze an : but — their tobacco is as good as can be grown and real ontributing his own personal They present marvelous, everchang- j inch or more. There was a heavy o g ) BEGY slso by using the sreat|ing mental plotures {o our mind's | Snowstorm on August 30. The whols ; smokers know that and appreciate it. [nce, which he possessed, In | eye. To appreciate these, our imagin- | Summer was as bleak and dreary as ountries to gain their help in | ation must be wide-awake and when | November. There was nota green ! W ow muc. T na a s X - If you don’t know h h bette turall ood > - S eatestinerill Siqe e Al o e f Jictures | thing to be seen a re. i i i gliefimarkc ( But his greatest ser- | wide-awake. What heautiful plotur e seen anywhere i tobacco can taste in a cigarette —get Perfections because his service helped the | may it not learn to fashion, by itself? | The winter of 1741-42 was also ve 3 e world, was the reduction in the | Pictures of gay gardens and pleasant | severe, The snow fell in the mnidxlje,[ they’re JUST NATURALLY GOOD. for ocean postage. These rates | soothing people to cheer us when |of November and was still several feet : been very unreasonable and ex- | weary: thrilling battles to arouse our | deep the next April. The Boston Post lant, but through his efforts they | martial spirit; sunny, prosperous [ Boy for January 12, 1742 reports a reduced to a level which made | fields and happy, thriving cities, to|tent erected on the Charles river as ble the extensive ocean mall sys- | delight us; in fact all the loveliness in | an inn for the travelers who fre which we have today. For this | the world is brought within the focus [ quented the highway. s late as tion he delivered 150 addresses | of the powerful lense, imagination. March 6, people rode across to Long ngland alone and presented the Moreover, hooks, like all true |Island from Stratford, a distance of r before both parliament and |friends, are ours, all our lives long. | nine miles. Up to the second week | ress, by both of which the re- | For in childhood, we can all remem- [in July, a large body of ice as clear on was adopted. This was true | her, I'm sure, many happy hours|and solid as at Christmas time re- ce, service which obliterated self | spent “in the shade of the old [ mained on the east side of the Conn. Il selfish interests, and only pro- | apple tree,” thrilling over such de- | river. d the interests of others. His | lightful stories as Cinderella, Jack [ As we read of those things we call | is & most fitting name for the | the Giant Killer and Little Red Rid- | to mind some of the famous adven- | ce league of the New Britain |ing Hood. And when we grew older, | tures af Baron Munchansen, who in | ¥ . school for he exemplified, as |to our surprise, our book-friends | his memories tells of riding through i & R Bervice in il ™roadest sense | seemed to grow with us. | Russia on a cold, and dismal winter | : ; he brought out this fact,—that |I do not mean that the material of [ night. Tired with his long days e pbliteration of ones own personal | which they were made began to look | journey and seeing no village, he | es, ambitions and interests, and | raggedy and ancient; but our taste | stopped, tied his horse to what ap- | E sing of ones best endeavors and |in reading changed and there were | peared to be a sharp pointed post, and | ties for the welfare ot others, | books to gratify it. We no longer de- |lay down into the snow to sleep. He | L le true spirit of service, ired fairies and elves but stories of | awoke in the morning but could not | ] g PAUL EDWARD PIHL, 16, everyday people and everyday hap- fin.(l his horse. Hearing the hm‘,\e‘ A2 A : Books As Friends. penings. neigh he looked up and saw him hang- | A E SO pac e (Margaret M. Begley.) ”:\”ml x‘\‘lh(-‘n weh ?rnlll_;ia\;eflirfin\‘“‘: :’;:’mff';xln lahnelarklm_v c:n;rchh steeple. !It | E 0T P ally old, we sha sti 1a v B s that he had tied his horse to the | 0, boole, 1s worth anyhing which | hook-friends. Then no doubt, our | 0D of the steeple of the church | Pt worth much, nor iS it service- | mature judgment will choose only the ! Peing buried . in . the sno\\,l