Arizona republican., 1919-09-25
Letters to c Hagh
 School Boy

Dear Spick;
 Mother writes to tell me that you have just entered high school and she wants me to write and give you some advics about what to dc and how to do it in your school work. She adds that ought to be able to give you lots of ad- vice because she had enough trouble getting me through school and college and that now I ought to let you profit by my experience.
 Spick, old kid, I know I'm your big brother and ought to do a lot for you, and so l want to, but to try to give any advice, real hard headed advice, to youngster in high school? Nothing stirring NOTHING stir ring! I'd sooner try to put the league of nations idea across. But l can tell you some of the things I'd do if I had chance to go through high school again.
 We've Been There, Spick
 You know, Spfck, it's not so many years since I was right where you are now. You probably don't remember it, because you had just started to think about sliLdergarten-at least mother did the thinking for you. Now, people may tell you how vastly different it was when they went to high school some 12 or 15 years ago-how much harder it was and all that. Tommy rot, Spick. It was the same thing that you're going to get; the courses of study will be just as difficult for you {; the teams will oa just as hard to make; school life will be just as fascinating, and it will be just as lonesome to do the homework as it was for us Is years ago
 Times are, sSpick, when I get to reminiscing about the days that l wasted in school and, I could kick my self for having done it. It makes me . want to do something foolish, like bet ting on the Cincinnati Reds" in the coming worlds series.
 Introducing MT. X.
 And why did waste time? Simply because I didn't realize what was in school for. I didn't realize that was there primarily to learn something about the value of x under all sorts ol conditions and in various kinds oi weather. l didn't realize that in later life X would turn up disguised as my margin of profit On a carload of wasl goods or the surplus required over my living expenses if I ever hoped tc marry the girl who some day I hop: will be your sister-in- law. I didn't realize that some day would want tc know when and how to use a relative clause 10 the best advantage, particu. larly when l was making an applica. tion for a job, and the advertisement said, Please reply by letter in yoIl own handwriting. In brief, Spick, didn't realize that for every minut, that I wasted in school, I'd have tt work hours to make up in later life.
 The Prof. Assumes
 To get my idea across, let me tell yo: how when you get to college or ou into the business world, for that mat ter, you will pay the penalty for indif ference and indigency in your higl school classes. It was at the frs meeting of our freshman English clas at the university. There we were il that class room. gathered from al parts of the country. and each on hi own merits. We all looked alike L the professor. And we were all o edge, nervous, and suffering iron something akin to stage fright Tn professor, peering at us over his spec started out, 'I assume, of course, tha we are all here equipped with som of the rudiments of grammar and rhet oric, and that we are now ready to pu into use some of the things we hay learned. Now, then, if you please, jus a few days to be devoted to brushin llD on some of the things we oI1pht f know. Let me ask few questions a random merely to give you an idea C what We are expecting"
 Our Blood CongeaIs His cold eye swept the classroom