Alton High School - Tatler Yearbook (Alton, IL)

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SUN PHILOSOPHY Smile ! This advice is worth a pile— Beats ter blazes strikin’ ile; When yer blood begins ter bile, Jes’ you smile! Smile ! Let the other feller cuss. ’Taint your biz ter make a fuss; You can clear away the muss With a smile. Smile ! When things go tarnation wrong Buck your courage with a song; Luck can’t lose you very long Ef you smile. Smile ! ’Til the bluey heavens shine thru; An’ ole Sol winks down at you; Thinks you are a sunbeam too, ’Cause you smile. Florence M. Pierce. Page Five

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f iFnmwirft, Foreword implies what goes before. There is | nothing that is quite such a hypocrite as that word. I It is a no such thing. Instead of going before any j literary work it is always the last thing done in 1 a great literary work such as this. Good head I writers on newspapers write the captions last, to | make them fit what is in the body of the article. « That is what we have done here. Otherwise we could I not be boastful. Did you ever read a Tatler fore- | word that could have been written before the book | was finished? Now we look it over and we say J that this Tatler is the best that ever decorated | white paper with printer’s ink. Others have said j this before us, so pardon us for taking the same 1 privilege. Aside from doing a bit of what may seem boasting, but to us seems only pardonable pride, we are trying to make this issue really original. Each of our forerunners has claimed the same in the years gone by. We hope in this issue to have set a pace for the future, and one when we have become aged, soured critics of all else in the world, in which we will still take that, excuse us, pardonable pride. Other Tatler staffs thoughts the same of their efforts, but we can compare ours with all others and assume to have positive knowledge. Ours is the only genuine best Tatler that has ever been issued. It bases its claims on originality, interest, and above all, high quality of the subjects treated photograph ically. We believe we have set a mark toward which our successors may scramble, using every effort to reach, but baffling the ambitions of editors of the future. It will stand, we believe, as the unattainable peak of Mt. Everest which naught but ! the winds and the sunlight has ever touched. 1 It is something to have made a mark so high | that others, aiming at it and missing, have still j risen beyond what they could have hoped to reach 1 without that mark luring them on to try for I higher things. i +--------------------------------------------—«-------- Page Four

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 ;-r - cuff -fW TATLER STAFF V. KOCH. Social Editor PAUL COUSLRY,Editor WALTER SCHKNKK. Athletic Editor A. DEAN, Circulation Manager HAROLD BROWN , Business Mgr. ALLEN HASKETT. Adv. Mgr. CLIFFORD PAUL, Art Editor HOWARD WHITESIDE, Snapshots SWAIN BENEDICT, Art Editor ROBERT TYNER, Jokes Page Six