Johnstown High School - Spectator Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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26 SPECTATOR Sz J. College in 1912. Last year Mr. Steele played end on the W. Sz J. team. Mr. Steele lives in Ruffdale. Mr. ,Victor A. Schmidt, teacher of Manual training, is a graduate of Bucknell in 1911. Mr. Schmidt has also been elected Athletic Director of the High School. He has had experience as a football player and coach, having played four years on the Bucknell team, of which during one year he was Captain. Last year he successfully coached the Du- bois High School team. judging from his past record, we think that he should have little trouble in turning out win- ning teams here. The Spectator and the Student Body welcome the new teachers and wish them a successful season. Current Events Probably the topic which creates the most interest to- day is the affair with Mexico. Since the United States has prohibited foreign nations from interfering with the affair of Mexico, the world at large looks to the United States to guarantee peace. The only logical course of action now is mediation. If thru the good offices of Ex-Governor Lind those who favor war can be persuaded to retire in favor of peace, we shall do the Mexican people a great service. Mex- ico does not want a substitution of one despotic ruler for another, but she needs the union of patriotic and fair-minded citizens in securing a Congress and Ministry which can dis- cuss such questions as land monopoly and which will act under, yet with, a President. Georgia still has child labor. While other states have been advancing the legislative standard of child labor, Geor- gia still has only the one law which was passed seven years ago and which even then was not up to the standard. In that state children at the age of ten years can work for eleven

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X SPECTATOR 25 All Commercial students, excepting the Seniors, and Freshmen taking the four year course, assemble on the third Floor. Two special classes in Penmanship, under Mr. Wight- man, have been added to our course of study. Eighty-live students have taken advantage of this opportunity. Our teaching corps has been strengthened by the addi- tion of three teachers, making a total of 30, as against last year's 27. ' Miss Parker is a teacher in the Biological Department. Miss Parker lives in Georgetown, S. C. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago and has taught two years in the Presbyterian College for Women at Charlotte, N. C., and one year at Grodia School at Georgetown, S. C. Mr. Fitch teaches in the Commercial Department. Mr. Fitch comes from Fargo, S. D. Miss Fugate is teacher of German. Miss Fugate gradu- ated from Allegheny College in 1908. She ranked very high in her class, being one of the live members admitted to the Phi Betta Kappa Society. She has taught four years in the Dubois High School. Miss Yost, a graduate of Allegheny College in 1912, teacher in English, comes from South Fork. Miss Yost has had experience in the teachinlg of English in the South Fork schools. Mr. Davis, teacher of English, graduated from Lafay- ette College. He formerly taught at Banger High School. Mr. J. Brennemari, teacher of Mathematics, graduated from Dickinson in the 1912 class. Mr. W. W. Smith, teacher of Mathematics, graduated from Princeton in 1911. Mr. Smith has taught in Irwin, Pa. Miss Lynch, a graduate of Johnstown High School in the class of 1913, has charge of the Typewriting Department. Mr. B. P. Smith, teacher of Mathematics, graduated from Dickinson in 1911. Since he graduated, he has taught and has attended Columbia. D Mr. Steele, teacher of Physics, graduated from the W.

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SPECTATOR 27 hours daily. Nowhere else in the country is such inhuman- ity permitted. Not long ago President Anderson of the Senate introduced a bill into the Senate raising the age limit for working children to 13 for 1914 and to 14 in 1915. The bill also provided that no child be employed who could not read and write. The bill was defeated and the children must suffer for a few more years. New express rates will go into effect on October 15th. The rates are lowered considerably on Interstate trade. The rules require all the companies to adopt uniform classification of matter, the first class of which consists of general merchandise, the second class of articles of food and drink. The reduction in the rates is due to the establishment of the parcel post system. From the appearance of affairs both parties are gaining financially. . . .mi r Father Craig-Glee, didn't 1 hear you slipping up stairs at 4 A. M. Glee-No! That was when I slipped down after crawl- ing halfway up. ' Three cheers for the Dannenbaums! They seem to be able to spring the new styles and get away with them. Pipe their hats.