Hudson High School - True Blue Yearbook (Hudson, WI)

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TRUE BLUE 3 Falls Normal, .Minneapolis Central, Minneapolis South Side High, St. Paul Central, and St. Paul Mechanics Arts. And we won from them in any line of work. What kind of a football team did we have in ’02, ’03, ’04, and’05? Was there anything around this part of the country that could defeat them? Indeed there was not. How is our football team nowadays? We have not had a football team for the past two years. O yes, we had one this year. We actually played one game, and any high school that can get enough eligible men to play one game is “some school.” Why have we descended to the class we are in now? Ft is because we did not have school spirit. For another example take girls’ basket ball. Eight or ten years ago, the Hudson High girls’ basket ball team irtet and vanquished by decisive scores the strongest girls’ teams in this section of the country. They played such teams as Menomonie, Baldwin, Dunn County Normal of Menomonie. Minneapolis Central, and South Side High of Minneapolis. Today what is the outlook? We have not had a girls’ basket ball team for several years, and this year at first practice only seven girls turned out. Still another example is found in debating. Eight years ago we had two debating societies, which had debates every few weeks, and there were several teams each year to debate such schools as New Richmond, Ellsworth and Grand Rapids. A noticeable feature is that the members of these de- bating societies were boys and girls prominent in athletics. Ten years ago when debates were scheduled with New Richmond, a special train was chartered to convey our enthusiastic High School students to New Richmond. Last year when Hudson High debated River Falls High (at Hudson) less than twenty high school students were present. Last year when New Rich- mond debated (hat same River Falls team, over two hundred high school students were present. It is a startling comparison (or rather contrast). Even our True Blue has deteriorated within the last few years. But this is not because the editors have been poorer, but because within late years the paper has not been the student’s, but the editor’s. You read an issue of the True Blue published in, well 1905. What do you find? You find in it articles of interest written by many different students. In fact the majority of the articles were written by students prominent in Athletics. At present many of our athletes consider themselves such great rough- necks” that it would disgrace them to write an article for the True Blue The High School is not supporting the True Blue financially. And those who are not taking the paper please remember this: seventy-five cents means just as much to us, and is just as hard for us to secure as it is for you. The only difference is that the subscribers have a little school spirit while you hove not. Many of you have not even enough grace to say you won’t take the True Blue. Recently, in the main room, all students who would take the paper were asked to stand. The majority of you did stand, but many of those who stood did not subscribe for the True Blue. Those who did this will probably “swipe” the paper from their neighbor’s desk

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TRUE BLUE NOVEMBER NUMBER, 1914. STAFF. EDWARD VIK .................... ISABELLE UTMAN ................ BURNIECE GRIDLEY .............. EILEEN BURKE .................. i CARL BORGE .................... HELEN SIATER .................. FLORENCE PEARSON . ( NORA STAPLETON ... LEW COIT ...................... RALPH PEARSON ................. LAWRENCE SINGER ............... .....Editor-in-Chief. ...Assistant Editor. ----Literary Editor. ......Ix cal Editor. ....Athletic Editor. ..Exchange Editor. ...Alumni Editors. .Business Manager. Assistant Manager. Assistant Manager. WANTED—SCHOOL SPIRIT What is the matter with our Hudson High School? Who knows? We’re dead; d-e-a-d, DEAD. We are so dead we don’t even realize we are dead. Why did we die? We died because we lacked school spirit. In this editorial we are going to show' you that our Hudson High School is dead, and that we must either wake up “mighty quick or be hopelessly lost. Students of Hudson High School, do you know that we seldom if ever have any contests, either athletic or literary, with those schools we competed with eight or ten years ago? Do you realize that the institutions we now send our first teams against, and fnd it difficult to defeat, are the very schools we formerly sent our second teams against? Do you realize that now if w'e compete with one of the schools w'e contested with ten years ago it is usually our big game, and that we invariably lose such a contest? How many of our students can name the institutions we competed with eight or ten years ago? Well here they are: Superior, Ellswvorth, Menomonie, Stillwater, Eau Claire, New Richmond, River Falls High, River

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4 TRUE BLUE and read it without digging up seventy-five cents. If you do this, all the school spirit you have could be enclosed in a mustard seed, and even then there would be so much room left that it would rattle like a bean in a bushel basket. So get some school spirit. Participate in at least two school organiza- tions, and aid financially all the rest. We know that we all have a tendency to become enthusiastic over new and attractive possibilities for betterment in any direction, and to stop there; to recommend admirable courses of ac- tion to others, and tail to adopt them ourselves; to advise change and remain unchanged; in short, to preach without practicing, but we are going to at- tempt to practice that we preach, and cultivate school spirit. And so we say again that this editorial is written to try to focus the dormant school spirit into action; to point out that Hudson High has lost its leadership, and that it can regain it only through the concerted, though individual action, of every student who believes we can regain the lost ground, and who wants Hudson High School prosperity, Hudson High School prestige, and Hudson High School leadership. If we have school spirit our interests are united. We are the Hudson High School and if anything is going to be done by this institution to regain its leadership, it must be done by you and me, acting as patriotic students. OUR AIM. It is the aim of the True Blue staff to reflect impartially the best thought of the school; and on its own behalf, to speak plainly on all questions affect, ing the school’s welfare. It aims, furthermore, to present the thoughts and actions of the student body; and above all, to increase the school spirit. BASKET BALL The Basket Ball season will open soon. l et’s boost for the team, so that we can have a successful season. And you inelligible men who are good basket ball players remember that if you had any school spirit you would not remain inelligible. You basket ball men, remember that you ex- pect the Glee Clubs, debators, and other organizations to support you finan- cially, but also remember that it is up to you to support the True Blue, Glee Club, and debating, and if you don’t support the other organizations, you have absolutely no school spirit, have absolutely no business playing basket ball. When the basket ball sale of tickets comes along, let us make a new record. Let our motto be: “For every student a basket ball ticket.” OUR POLICY In looking over the old files of the True Blue, we notice some very peculiar things. About every two years the same editorials are reprinted. This will not occur this year. If we can not find a suitable subject for an editorial we will “cut out” the editorial altogether. Another noticeable fea-