The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-05-10

own country and in foreign countries.
In order That we may be able to give
a good account OF ourselves on FRIDAY,
we reau the papers during tne week.
Our current knowledge is obtained
from cartoons as well as from the edi-
tOrials. We congratulate ourselves
tnaC we are STUDYING Modern History
in the present rather than in the tu-
ture, because history is moving very
rapidly now and we are getting 1t
fresh from the mill instead Of cut and
dried.
Louise Parker. Glass of 1917.
Civics
Civics, or the study Of Civil Govern
Inent, is the most interesting subject
in the High School Course for most
students. 1t is not at all surprising
that this subject should be foremost
in the minds of both student and in
structor, for what young American
would not feel it a shame and dis
grace to be obliged to admit that he
knew nothing of the government CT
his own country?
We began our study of Civics this
year at the top and worked down, that
is, we started with the Central Gov
eminent and then took in order the
State, the local and last the govern
ment of our own state, Minnesota. The
reason for taking up the study in this
order was, that we had learned a few
of the principles of the Central Gov
eminent during our study of Senior
American History in the first semes-
ter.
When we started the study of local
government we found that to be much
more complicated than any of the
work we had taken thus far. But at
last we reached our Minnesota State
Government and then we were on a
firm footing again, for it is almost
identical with the Central Government
in many respects. We took it up in
the same order as the forms of gov
eminent which had gone before, first
it's organization, and then it's powers,
ascribed or denied.
Bessie M. Sohle, Class of 1917
The Study of Physics.
Physics is an interesting as we'll as
practical subject. It is a subject
every boy and girl hould know some
thing about before leaving high
school. We learn many things that
are sure to be of use to US in later
years.
Everyone knows that by pulling the
handle of a pump up and down we can
obtain water. But how the pump
works and why some pumps will give
water sooner than others is thing
we learned in physics. We also stud
led about the different kinds of ther-
mometers and how they worked. We
learned something about the heating
Of buildings with hot water and hot
air. The working of the steam and
gas engine was a very interesting
subject. We also studied the causes
of lightning and thunder.
Perhap the most interesting part Of
physics, from the boys viewpoint, is
the study of electricity. Here we
learned how to connect up batteries in
order to get the greatest amount Of
current. We studied the workings of
the dynamo and electric motor. The
ability to read the meter, perhaps,
was the most interesting part for the
girls as this gave them chance to
know how much the use of electric
iron and washing machine was costing
them. We also learned little about
the workings of the electric bell, tel
egraph and telephone. We became
familiar with the system of arc light
ing and of street cars.
We went little way into optics by
studying about the human eye and
the different kinds of lenses. A study
of the microscope, telescope and opera
glasses was a very interesting part.
A short study of the modern NOV
ing picture machine made clear to the
class why the people on the screen are
always in motion. The reason we
found was this: The moving picture
machine is a form lantern used to
throw upon screen in rapid success
sion a series of pictures taken at in
tervals of small fraction of a sec
ond. The retina of the eye retains