Elkhart High School - Pennant Yearbook (Elkhart, IN)

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Fourteen THE PENNANT Editor-ln-Chief Associate Editor HARRY A. ZOOK, '18 Literary Editor IVAN MILLER, '18 ISABEL HARDY, '18 High School Editor Exchange Editor VVILSON VVETHERBIGIG, '18 MILDRED GILDEA, '19 Art Editor Athletic Editor EDYVARD CUIIIJEN, '18 RICHARD BRFISSLER, '19 Assistant Art Editor Assistant Athletic Editor MARGARET C'AR'I'ER, '19 MARIAN HUGHES, '19 Alumni Editor GRACE WHITE, '17 Business Manager Asst. Business Managers SMITH FRYIC, '18 MARLIN MEISER, '18 BRUCE HALL, '20 Assignment Reporter FREDERICK KI.1'7l'H. '19 DONALD ELVVOOD, '20 Class Reporters IIA DALE CARTER, '18 IIC IMOGIJNE TILL, '20 IA BILLIE GODFREY, '18 IC IRVIN HESS, '20 IIB HELEN LOUNSBERRY, '19 IID FRANCES HOUSEVVORTH, '21 IB JUDSOPN GRIFFIN, '19 ID AR'l H'UR KFIIL, '21 Faculty Manager FRANK J. DESMOND Faculty Advisory Committee MISS PEARL SHAFER. MR. E. T. ORGAN Subscription Ratesw60c per Term: 31.00 per Year. Single Copies, 1503 Graduation Issues, 250. Entered as Second-Class Matter, February 19. 1909, at the Post O'fHce at Elkhart, Indiana, Under the Act of March 3, 1878. Vol. X ELKHART, IND., JAN., 1918 No. 4 Z A DEPARTURE FRoM PRICCEDENT. Departing from the time-honorecl precedent of issuing' two granluation numbers, onewin llannary :incl one in May, The Pennant this year will combine the two in one extra large issue to appear in Nay. lioth ISHS graduating classes will be rcpresentecl in this number, each class having its own inrliviclual suction of the niagazine. I X - Iwo reasons proniptccl the staff to make the change. Ono was because the

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IHE PENNANT fhzrteen The Story the Service Flag Told By james Smurr, '18, Theres a little cottage standing Down the street about half-way, And I pass it going, coming From school most every day. 'I'h'ere's a flag hung in the window And in its heaven of white, A star of blu-e is resting For each son who went to light. The mother gave all her boys To light with death and chance, And they were all together th-en, Somewhere in far-OH: France. But yesterday as I passed the door Instead of the blue so bold, Une star had changed its color And was a dull, deep gold. One of her boys had fallen In some battle far away, And a star of gold was placed there For the blue one taken away. Vacation time arrived and passed, And, as I passed the cottage old, Three more blue stars had fled, And in their place was gold. At the window sat the mother, And her sad face seemed to say, I only regret I have no more Brave sons to give awayf, Q 9

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THE PENNANT Fifteen january class is unusually small, too small in truth, to compile a graduation num- ber that would be up to the high standard of the last few years. The other was the desire, especially on the part of the business staff, to relieve, as much as pos- sible, the city's business men from the need of heavy advertising. As this is a period when conservation and thrift are necessary and are be- ing widely practiced in other lines of endeavor, The Pennant feels it should like- wise make some effort in that direction. The Seniors, in combining forc-es, hope to make their joint issue the best Pennant ever published. V ' -i.- .. ' AN INVENTORY. i The old year passes and the new year enters-and with the passing out of the old year, the present staff prepares to lay down the pen, discard the blue pencil, and abandon the typewriter. XVhile we of the staff must offer apology for the scarcity of new illustrations in this issue which we have chosen to term our conservation or thrift number, yet it is with some satisfaction that we look back over the semesteris record. Not for years has The Pennant for any other school paperj faced the sit- uation that now exists in the advertising field. Due to heavy expenses and de- creased profits which, of course, are traceable indirectly to the war, retrenehment has gradually become an established policy among busin-ess men, and as a con- sequence, Pennant advertising space has not been taken as readily as in the past. Then, in, addition, there is always the ogre of rising printing and en- graving costs to stare the weary business manager in the face. Were it not for theihappy fact that The Pennant has been blessed with such a capable and energetic business manager as Smith Frye has proven him- self to be, the student publication of E. H. S. might now be in dire financial straits. But, thanks to the good management and bustling activity of the busi- ness staif, The Pennant has emerged from one of its most trying semesters with its finances in good condition. Perhaps the feature of the semester was the first issue, the October num- ber, of which the engraving bill for illustrations was one of the largest, if not the largest, ever received, exclusive of graduation issues. , It is with best wishes for the success of the incoming staff that we of the vacating staff' complete four months of striving for the advancement and better- ment of The Pennant and Elkhart High. May both institutions continue to grow and prosper. .l A SUGGESTION ON CHRISTMAS VACATIONS. A prominent Elkhart merchant, a regular Pennant advertiser, has offered the suggestion, for the consideration of the school board, that in the future, public school pupils, and especially High school stud-ents, be dismissed for their two-weeks' Christmas vacation a week earlier than has been the custom, in order to enable the students to work during the Nrush period just before the holidays. Many students make a practice of earning their spending money dur-