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

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TRUK BLUE 10 and oratorical contests given before it than to a selected few. Be- cause there can only be a limited number taking part in these contests many good speakers are prevented from being heard. Musical programs and community sings are appreciated by all of us. The English students would be permitted to display their talents by giving one or two acts of a play which they may be studying in class. Vocational talks given by prominent business men would benefit all of us in choosing our life work. In fact one might name endless ways of using this period, but what would we all appreciate most and what would be to our best advantage? Snoose and Mike, they lgok slihe A happy pair are they, They laugh and talk, joke and walk, And live life merrily, No matter the weather, they’re always together As jolly as they can be. Negro to his nurse: “Nurse, I’m goin’ back to de front to- morrah. “No,” said the nurse, “you have lost vour hand.” “Ah knows, but I left mv razor in that hand.” —Exchange Le tous the subjects que nous take Notre class de Phvsics takes the cat'e Le Maitre est un Rock by nomme et nature, Mais still il est un tres bon teacher. —M. R. ’20 Just take it from me, it nays to skip school. Ask Charles D., who scraped ink spots three hours for skipping one half day. Floy Slauscn believes in spirits. In Latin the other day she translated “The corpses finished the battle.” No one knew how to fix Their hair in those dips, Until one day The Dunbars came to stay And now it’s as simple as nix. Miss McCarthy in History—“David, don’t you know anything at all?” Dave S. in a drawl—“I don’t know nothin’ and I’m not sure of that.”

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TRI E BLUE 9 In larger cities nurses have been placed in the schools to watch the health of the pupils, not only to guard against the contagious diseases, but also to see that physical defects such as nearsightedness, adenoids, deafness, etc., are adjusted. The child subject to any of these defects pulls down the standard of his whole class in that the other pupils are forced to adjust their progress to his. The child who is physically handi- capped cannot make much mental progress. If the class advances in a normal manner, the defective child is dragged along in his studies, not properly understanding his lessons, and therefore deriving no benefit from them. In later life, because of his un- developed mental powers, he becomes a burden to the community. The people of the city cannot seem to realize that a comparatively small sum of money expended at the right time would save them large sums in later life. It would be more profitable for the city to prevent a person from being a drag on the community rather than to support that person after he is hopelessly unable to care for himself. In a small town, the necessity for a nurse is often overlooked, but, nevertheless, the need is as great if not greater in such a place. The authorities are now considering such a nurse for Hudson schools. We appeal to them to make no hasty decision on such an important problem of the day and hope Hudson will be one of the privileged utLs v.hicli will be able to boast its progress in all things pertaining to the welfare of its citizens. THE AUDITORIUM PERIOD. The High school is to have the privilege of a period averaging twenty minutes each day in its new auditorium, probably begin- ning in January. We have greatly missed the good old days of the Main room in the old building and everyone has been anxiously waiting to learn what plans have been made for the use of our new entertainment room. We have all missed the get-together spirit that existed in the Fridav choruses of former times. Last year the school spirit had practically died out because of the fact that the upper classmen had difficulty in becoming acquainted with the lower classmen. This year things are much changed and many suggestions have been made to bring the pupils together in a clan spirit. The faculty, with the help of the student cabinet, has successfully carried out many of its plans but plans for the new periods in the auditorium are not fully developed. In what way can this period be used to the best advantage? We want many suggestions for the solving of this problem. Some which have already been made are helpful and interesting. The school would rather have the preliminaries for the declamatory

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TRUE BLUE 11 MASS MEETINGS During the football season mass meetings were held in the auditorium on the afternoons preceding the games. Lyle Halver- son as cheer leader, Mr. Rock, Mr. Kellerman and members of the t°am as speakers, found a responsive student body. The girls took charge of one meeting, conducting it with equal ability. Dr. H. Bleir, an alumnus, in his speech on the afternoon of the River Falls game, showed his keen interest in having the pre- sent team defeat the team from an old rival school. Mass meetings will be scheduled again with the opening of the basketball season. DEBATE The Interscholastic Debate will be held next semester, Febru- ary thirteenth. The question for debate will be:“Resolved, That the Principle of the Open Shop Should be Maintained in Industry”. With William Banks, Fred Hanna, Anita Haven, and Nellie Palmer of last year’s team back and with promising material in Stanley Beggs, William Scanlon and Willis Thorn, the prospects of a win- ning team look bright. The Commercial classes have enioyed a series of talk-s, given by Mr. F. J Can- of one of the local banks. Different phases of banking such as Money, Banvs and Banking, Federal Reserve Bank, Negotioble Instruments, and Banking as a Vocation, have been discussed. Mr. Clarence Slaughter from Walla Walla. Washington g ve an interesting talk to the book1 eeWng class in Oct b r on the essential requirements of a good bookJ-eeper. He gave, as the three chief requirements of bo i-keeping. accuracy, speed and neatness. Mr. Slaughter sails Jan. 1 for Shanghai. China where he will have charge of the bookkeeping for the China Import; and Export Company.