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The obstacle course type of commercial, and its usual partner, the facts-and-figures type of commercial is usually designed to trap the man who thinks he knows everything about anything mechanized. Women are not taken into account in this commercial since they fall victim to one of the former two advertisements. The obstacle type of commercial depicts an automobile, for instance1 suffering colossal injustices to both engine and chassis. This is followed closely by a cavalcade of facts and figures. Together, they produce an argument which convinces the men that this certain product is the most durable on the market.
This adds up to the fact that modern advertising has developed a technique of sales promotion which has yet to be equalled. The sales have been so great that now people begin to wonder why there is so much of the month left at the end of the money.
Life
life is like a flowing river Going on and on for ever, Pushing onward
Never ceasing
To the goal that lies beyond it. Often it cIimbs over ridges Plunges downward
Dips and eddies
Ti II at last it rushes forth
Into the great, mighty ocean Where it mixes with the waters
And no longer is its own.
So through life we work and labour Striving for the highest goal, Never giving up to mountains Always rising when we fall;
Ti II at last we mix with history Where there is no single name
We just set a path before us
And ourselves no glory claim.
On and on the river flows
Things may stop but an life goes.
Carolyn Christensen XA
Eternal Quest
What is the answer to the cry
Of the child who walks the streets? With outstretched hands
Alone he stands--
What can it be he seeks?
The lonely mother walks the floor, Not one to care or see
The tears that fall.,
Who'II hear her coII
And answer to her plea.
I search so long; my Iife was one That tears and heart-ache trod, Until at last,
My search wns past,
Don't Blame lJs
Adults read in the papers and hear on the air
Of robberies and HI lings and crime everywhere; They sigh and tfrey say, as they notice the trend, "This young generation--where will it end?"
But can they be sure that it's our fault alone? That maybe a part of it isn't their own?
Are they less guilty when they place in our way Too many things that lead us astray?
Too much money, tea much idle time, Too many movies of passion and crime, Too many books not fit to be read,
Too many kids encouraged to room
By too many parents who won't stay at home?
We don't make the movies, we don~t write the books, That paint gay pictures of gangsters and crooks.
We don't make the liquor and don't run the bars,
We don't make the laws and we seldom make cars. We don't peJdle drugs that addle the brain-
That's all done by older folks, greedy for gain.
Delinquent teen-agers: Oh, now they condemn
The sins of the nation and blame it on them,
By the Laws of the Blameless the Lord made known,
I found the answer--God. Jennifer Abernethy
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Wayne Wheeler XIIA
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Who is there among us to cast the first stone? For, in so many cases, it's sad but it's true, The title, "Delinquent," fits older folks, tool
Jack Bent, lOF
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