Johnstown High School - Spectator Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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I. W W If x ,V jfffif ,jqy ,Q f ' f SPECTATOR 21 8. Not allowing boys to smoke cigarettes. 9. Allowing no liquor to be manufactured or sold. 10. Requiring one to pay school taxes when one has no children to send to school. A High School Band Johnstown has never had a High School Band. When occasions arose from time to time, and a band was especial- ly needed a few of the boys with true school spirit gathered together on their own initiative and furnished music which was appreciated though it was the jazz band kindg but this haphazard way of doing things cannot go on forever. Anything but a well organized band with a' pretty uniform and the best of instruments is inadequate to the present needs of Johnstown High. Pep rallies, athletic games, and a variety of school events demand the services of a well trained group of musi- cians. Johnstown High School has the material for such an organization. It will give an opportunity for some boys to serve the school who cannot represent it in any other way. I feel safe in saying that a number of organizations and industries in our city are ready and eager to furnish the uniform and instruments for a High School Band and that the School Board Will pay for the instruction. This band would be a factor in creating a good school spirit and would render very valuable service not only to our High School but to the community as well. We hope that the near future will see a Johnstown High School Band organized systematically, practicing reg- ularly, and ready to assist on the many occassions where its assistance will be needed not only in school but in the city. J. D. Ripple.

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'x x I xx x...' 20 SPECTATOR if this government for the people is not to perish from the earth. A democracy is a country where all the people are free, where all have a voice in making the laws and in de- ciding how they shall be governed. These are parts of the meaning of democracy, but not all. Our word democracy is made from two Greek words meaning people and rule. Lincoln spoke of a government of the people, by the peo- ple, for the people, and that is just about what a dem- ocracy is. How can all the people rule? Suppose one wants one thing and another something else. Somebody has to give up, of course, just as when children want to play different games. Since they have to play together to have a game at all, they decide on the game that most of them want. That is what we mean when We say the majority rules. How can people be free if they have to do what the majority wants when it isn't what they want themselves? Let's ask it the other way. How could they be free if they did not do this? Suppose one man wants something his neighbors have-their cows, or furniture, or automobiles. His neighbors, of course, do not want Lhim to have them, and perhaps if he could take them, some one might come along someday and be free to take what he has. That wouldn't be freedom for anybody. It would be just savagery, rule by, force. The only person with any rights would bethe one with might to take them. That which is really democratic is good not for any one class or group but for all. Here are a few laws and customs that are common in America. Are they democratic in this, that they are good for all rather than for a class or group? 1. Forbidding people to spit or smoke where they please. 2. Always keeping to the right of the road. 3. Letting the umpire in a game decide disputes. . 4. Not permitting a- farmer to sell unclean milk. 5. Not allowing one man to have slaves. 6. Not permitting a pupil to cut classes. 7. Making children go to school till they are 16 years old.

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22 SPECTATOR The iglq Snlqunl Speniatnr JOHNSTOWN, PA., NOVEMBER, 1921 Subscription Price 51.50 Per Year. Per Copy 25 Cents. ' hitnrizrl Staff Editor in Chief, GLADYS M. BANTLY, '2117Q Associate Editor JANE GORE, '22 Literary Editor ANNA MAY FRANKE, '22 Exchanges IMELDA RINCKENBERGER, '22 Ruthless Rimes DOROTHY BELLE RUTLEDGE, '22 ELIZABETH GREINER, '22 Cartoonist GERARD ROONEY, '24 Art Editor SAMUEL STREHLER, '21b2 Jokes STANTON FUNK, '22 BRANDON RHODEHAMEL, '22BQ School News PAUL BARNETT, '22 Athletics JOHN JOHNSON, '22 Alumni Notes BESSIE GLOSSER Faculty Advisers KATHARINE M. ULERY JOHN W. HEDGE usinzss Staff Business Manager, WILLIAM BOWERS, '211,Q Assistant Business Manager EMMET BRIDGES, '22 Advertising Manager HAROLD PRICE, '22 Assistant Advertising Managers HELEN FRYE, '22 HELEN McCALL, 'ZIBQ ANITA TREDENNICK, '22 WILBUR STUVER, '225Q EUGENE EPPLEY, '22 ARTHUR JACKEL, '211,Q JAMES TOMB, '22 PAUL JOHNSON, '22 HARRY GRAYBILL, '21Bi HAROLD SMITH, '211pQ HAROLD DONGES, '211,Q The Spectator ls published monthly during the school term. Address all communications to The Spectator, room 216, High School Bulldlng, Johnstown, Pa.. Entered at the Postollice, Johnstown, Pa., as second-class matter. In order to secure publication ln the current Issues, MSS. must be handed to editor not later than the tlrst of each month.