Grand Junction High School - Tiger Yearbook (Grand Junction, CO)

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Kollln Slinnk Class Pres. (3) Football (3. 4) Basketball (2. 3. 4). Not Hercules could have knocked out his brains for he had none. Martha Staele G4ee Club (1. 2. 3. 4) Operetta (3. 4) D. S. Club (4). A little nonsense now and then is relished by the best of men. Wendell Stephens Corning. Kan (1, 2. 3) Football (4) Baseball (4). What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. David Sanders Mt. Lincoln (1, 2) Baseball (3. 4). He has a liking: for jewels: very fond of rubies. ItcKinald F« Smith Harrisburg:. 111. (1, 2, 3) Class Play (4) Rhetorical Club ( 4) Junior Rotary (4) There are two great actors in the world, Shakespeare and I. Henry Stark S. L. Club. He that endures chemistry with patience is a conqueror. Vlrica Stont Class Play (4) Glee Club (1. 2. 4) Spanish Club (3, 4). Blessed with plain reason and sober sense. Ray Sutton Orchestra (4) Spanish Club (3. 4) Class Play Mt Senior-Junior (4). 'Tls charming to see him blush and smile. cal phases of life just as tho the whole business of life is to amuse others. With this introduction, I would like to write briefly concerning some of the essentials of manliness, which is a so intended to include womanliness. One of the essentials of manliness is an abundant vocabulary sufficient to express one's views clearly, concisely, c-leanly. convincingly. Our democracy demands of alt its citizens that they should be facile in public speaking. In the home, in school, in the church, in our social life, in common conversation, in business life, in community building and in ail affairs of staJte it is highly important that all who desire to contribute anything to the group to w'hich they belong or who desire to become citizens who are to be reckoned with in all civic and social questions must prepare themselves so that they can use the English language effectively. Tidiness in speech, precision in choice of words, and power in speaking are the qualities that cannot be learned in a day. To be able to speak our native language correctly, fluently and elegantly means that we must devote a good many years to earnest study and faithful practice of the art. Many evils -that harm young people are due to incapacity for interesting conversation and lack of taste for reading and music and worthy uses of leisure, which should be a special object of education at home and in school. Swearing and slang both indicate poverty of language. It is partly because of poverty of words that there is too much spooning and skipping feet and “cheek to cheek social fellowship. Lips that • an not talk do too much kissing: and holding hands becomes necessary when one cannot hold a friend by conversation. Men a.nd women go to brutal prize fights and the like because they have not learned the finer boxing and fern ing of repartee. Time is wasted at sentimental movies because folks do not know the art of good talking. There is nothing more delightful to real i eople than good talk, if they have intelligence and are capable of it. Another essential of maniness and womanliness is courteous independence. The manly man does not say “yes, yes to everything heard or proposed, like the me. too of Po-lonius. in Shakespeare, •who agreed with him that a ertaln cloud looked like a camel,” and then changed his mind when Polonius, on further examination, opined, It looks more like a weasel, Me Too said, “I think it looks like a weasel.” The manly boy or man does not follow the crowd, but oftener leads it: or, if not. dares walk alone, in wiiat be believes to be right. Captain Richmond P. Hobson laid the foundations of his military and moral leadership In the Naval Academy when he endured a boycott of his classmates because he stood for a clean life. Thayer's “Life of Roosevelt tells of the way in which Theodore Roosevelt met the peculiar temptations of university life. He went to college with the fruit of the quiet but firm teaching of his parents, “with a body of rational moral principles which he made no parade of, but obeyed instinctively.” The result was that he was never betrayed into folly. He was never fooled into mistaking novelty for truth or libertinism for manliness. Purity is essential to manly strength, as Tennyson hints in that line about the greatest of King Arthur’s knight. Sir Galahad: My strength is as the strength of ten Because my heart is pure.” A third essential of manliness is up-to-dateness in important knowledge. A man in the most up-to-date clothes would advertise

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 Warren Potter Minstrel Show (2, 3. •I) Operetta (2, 3. 4) Spanish Club (3, 4) Junior Rotary (4). Where’s my parallel? Frances II. Reed Class Poet. Spanish Club (3). Look. then, into thine heart and write. Frances Ready Lake City (1. 2, 3) D. S. Club. Fair, with all the charms of woman. Wendell Ridley Junior Rotary (3, 4). The world knows nothing of its greatest men. Ruth Rigg Mt. Lincoln (1, 2) Basketball (3, 4) Rhetorical Club (4) Class Play (4) Ass. Tiger Staff (4). A senior girl of wide reputation, noted most for unique conversation. velyn Roberts Class Play (4) Vice Pres. (3) O. B. (1) Glee Club (1, 2. 3. 4) Operetta (3, 4). Vigorous. various, versatile mind. Anna Ryan Glee Club (4) Operetta (4) Spanish Club (2, 4). Her cardinal virtues are all in her hair. Sne Saunders Palisade (1, 2). So sweet, so coy, for shame—so fond of boy. The Orange and Black; Its Future OHE Orange and Black has again enjoyed a prosperous year, for which many thanks are due the student body, the business men who gave their support, and our other friends. Several changes and innovations were introduced into the paper this year, chief of which was the return to the magazine size but retaining the newspaper style as much as possible, and the absence of advertising with the exception of one ad at the 'bottom of the front page, which carried the names of those business men supporting the O. and B. The outlook for future years at present includes a printing establishment—a feature which all progressive high schools are installing and which prove to be a success in all phases. In some small communities the high school paper also serves as the community newspaper. Many high schools publish weekly papers; others, semi-weekly, and a few, daily papers. The natural and logical step for the Orange and Black would he from the monthly to the semi-monthly edition; thence, in time, to the weekly publication. One notable feature evident in a good many school publications, which we have received, is a tendency toward the newspaper style and away from the “joke-book” idea. Instead of a vast conglomeration of second-hand jokes, and a faint scattering of school notes and athletics, the school paper is beginning to-fulfill the true functions for which it is intended, namely: the publishing of news of interest to the high school, providing a medium for the exercise of literary and journalistic talent and endeavor, and to promote-school spirit by keeping the students interested in their school. At the State High School Press Conference,, held last March at the University of Colorado,, the Orange and Black was represented by two delegates. A state press association was formed and is now the Colorado Division of the Central Interscholastie Press Association, an organization composed of over four hundred high school publications in the United States. We were admitted to membership in both organizations. With this honor as an incentive and with the constructive criticism and aid furnished by the C. I. P. A., the Orange and Black has an enviable future before it, and, providing that it has the whole-hearted support of the student body and an energetic, tireless staff, it can easily become of the first rank among high school publications. Essentials of Manliness Y ERBERT Spencer, the great scientist, JL| once remarked; “To play billiards well is the mark of a gentleman, but to play billiards too well is the mark of a misspent life.” How true such a statement is, and yet a great many people go on and on spending their time and energy altogether too liberally in popular sports and other diversions. Too often we see young people of high school age who are tempted to follow the lighter physi-

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Ki-nm-lh Tolly Minstrel Show (2, 4) Operetta 1, 2. 3, 4) Junior Rotary (4). Vanity, vanity, what a ourse thou art to humanity. Harvey Tup per Pres Boosters' Club 4) Junior Rotary 3. 4). Sweet sixteen and never been kissed Now girls, don’t crowd. Kathryn WellN Glee Club (1, 2. 3, 4) Operetta (3, 4) Clans Historian (4) Orchestra (1. 2, 3. 4) Spanish Club (3). Music hath charms to soothe the sava e breast. Margaret Whitney Glee Club (1, 4) Operetta (3, 4) D. a Club 4). Nay. if he loves me not I care not for him. Raymond Workman Orchestra (2. 3) Senior-Junior (4). Men of few words are the best workers. Lawrence Young Hoel-Ross (4) Junior Rotary (3, 4). If seeming wise would make one wise. How wondrous wise he’d be. himself a boor, if, in a social party, he showed that he had no knowledge of important current events and great issues of the hour. The citizen otf today must be familiar with the new scientific discoveries. He must also bb familiar with the great moral and social problems that society is trying to solve. The ignorant. like the fanatical, are a very great hindrance when it comes to working out a correct solution for the problems of human life. Sound knowledge helps us to answer the many perplexing questions that arise in the daily run of affairs. Newton’s laws of motion were accepted by most thinking people long ago because these laws apparently answer every question concerning motion which the expert physicist can ask. In like manner, the Copernican theory was accepted because it answers the questions of the astronomer; Mendel’s law w'as also accepted because it demonstrates hereditary influences, and the Evolutionary theory became the commonly accepted theory because it seems to answer every question that is asked by the geologist, the biologist and the anthropologist. For centuries men did not know who had shot the arrows that have killed most of the millions who have died. Not until a few' years ago was bacteriology able to point out the tiny enemies that prey upon human life so ruthlessly. Now, if our knowledge is sound, wfe know the results of indulgence in tobacco, alcohol and other poisonous drugs, and we can also fortify ourselves against the attacks of germs, parasites and microbes that have been firing their poisoned arrows into man’s body ever since men have iived in the world. All the world’s a stage, says Shakespeare, and all the men and women are merely players. A lot of them arc very poor players. Kin Hubbard-, the celebrated Indiana humorist, was once assigned to cover a performance of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.’ He reported the play thus: Thf dogs was good, but they had poor support. True manliness helps a man to play his part well, at least so well that a comparison with dogfc would be unfavorable, i a:ways like the following vow: I am hut one, but I ain one. I c-acnot do everything, but I can do something, and what I can do and ought to do, by the help of God I will do. R. E. TOPE. Superintendent of Schools. A Vision I nHIS, 0 reader, is but a wild, romantic dream, the childish w-amderings of a much over-worked imagination, the most impossible fiction ever written, and the weirdest outpouring of a visionary mind yet recorded. So it is only fair to warn you. if you read further, that what is about to l e written will never be a reality, as you w-;il soon discover for yourself. Read it, then, for what it is and seek not for a moral, for there is none. Our story takes place about the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-seven. The scene is laid in Grand Junction, which is now a prosperous city of about twenty or more thousand. The tiTst chapter, if so we may call it. takes plate at thv old high school, where we yent, to s hool in nineteen hundred nd twenty-two. It is much the same in appearance. extept that a new wing has been added. A greater change than this,' however, has taken place. Here we find only the eighth and ninth grades. It is now known