Ashtabula High School - Dart Yearbook (Ashtabula, OH)

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T HE I) A R T 23 The Scimitar. Austinburg, Ohio.—1 his paper contains no stcries, and its jokes are too few. We are glad to see you increase your exchange column. Be careful with your cover designs, they are not very artistic. Your athletic notes are good. The Owaissa, Paducah. N. Y.—There is not a sufficient number of stories and jokes here. Your cover design is clever and school notes are splendid. You should have many more cuts but. on the whole, this paper will make some Senior H. S. papers sit up and take notice! The Lyceum. Chillicothe, Ohio.—Your March number is great! We admire the size and quality of this exchange. We notice a mighty improvement in the literary department. Your advertisements are attractively arranged, too, but let’s have more pep in your exchange notices. Ihe Kencowom, Danville, Ky.—The print and paper should be of better quality and some cuts should be introduced. Your stories are interesting but not exciting. “Aeneas and Dido is good. The photographs of the college are excellent. I he Fram, Sandusky. Ohio.— An Elizabethan Romance we think is the cleverest story ever published in a high school paper. It is unusual and most refreshing. Your Shakespeare number is certainly a success. We are pleased with the improvement in your print and paper. Your cover design is not pleasing, aliho in keeping with this number. 1 he Mercury. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.— We hardly ever review a paper without finding something to criticise, but circumstances alter cases for in your periodical we cannot find a single flaw. Must mention y fr»cover design, which is beautiful. The Oriole. Pittsburg, Pa.—We think your literary department is not up to its usual standard, but your cuts are certainly clever. You have a very ordinary cover design but we like the way in which your exchanges are written. I he Anvil, Painesville, Ohio.—Th is is net a lively paper. You seem to have very little school spirit. Try to enlarge all your departments. You should do better with your exchange column. We think the April number is an improvement on former numbers. The Student, Detroit, Michigan.—You have high class material; every department is complete, but do not think that all these things make up for your exceedingly poor print and paper, for they do not! I he cover design is dainty and odd. I he numerous snap-shots are the only cuts which liven up your paper. The Dragon, Greenfield, Ohio.—We are surprised that you have no exchange column and so few cuts. This number disappoints us. The Monroe High School Bugle.—You have an excellent literary element in your school Continued on Page 28.

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22 T II E I) A R T The Law is without doubt one of the most broadening of the professions for a lawyer can say with Terence—‘There is nothing in all the affairs of men that does not concern me. A True Democracy We are living in a country which our ancestors founded and called a Democracy. I hey were earnest and industrious, lending a hand to discouraged neighbors and living a simple, wholesome life. This democracy was our heritage. The ancestors who by their labor founded our present democracy, founded it on the principle that all men are created equal— to use a common expression—each is as good as his neighbor. Yet in the struggle to appear as “good as anybody. we lose the very spirit of democracy. It seems to be the eternal struggle to wear as fine clothes, to live in as beautiful a house and to drive as expensive a car as our neighbor. When the people of this so called democracy come to the realization that wealth is not the measure of a man, then can we begin to render a valuable service to the world—to preserve and protect the democratic spirit in its true sense—for by this spirit alone can the finest race of men and the highest type of civilization be developed. J. D. I6. The Dart As this is the last issue of the Dart this year, and in view of the fact that from a financial as well as a literary standpoint, the year of 19 I 5-1 6 has been a very successful one, it seems that some space should be devoted to comment upon the loyal support that we have received from the student-body. A census of the various papers of the state was taken recently by the Sandusky high school paper, the Fram , and in its May number are printed the results of this census. In making the canvass the exchange editor sent to each high school a card on which questions were asked as to total enrollment and total number of subscribers. The report shows A. II. S. ranking fourth in the state, with 5 I 5 enrolled and 425 on our subscription list. I his is a record to be proud of. The staffs feel quite certain that a paper of such rank could not have been issued had not the students responded as they did. This year the faculty followed the rule of last year, appointing associate editors and assistant business managers, and then promoting them to editors and business managers the next year. 7 he system has proved a success because of the fact that during his or her apprenticeship, he can learn what is expected of him, and in this way turns out better work. The staff wishes to thank those outside of the staff who contributed work, especially Harry Rowe, whose artistic work improved our paper fifty per cent. In leaving the work of publishing th» Dart to the staff of 19 16-1 7 the Seniors wish them every success in their undertaking and hope that they meet with as favorable support as we had this year. On page 14 we print a picture of the 1915-16 Dart” staff. From left to right they are as follows: Standing—Lina Smith. Clara Seaman, David Ford, Harold Johnson, Howard Nazor, Jane Dickinson. Fay Sweet, George Potter. Martha Stone, Walter Stewart. I heresa Smith, Mary Johnson. Clifton Sanborn. Seated—Margaret Stapleton, Lola Remick, John Stewart, Harriet Gallup. Ida Sevenen. Cicero said that many great men of Rome left at their death, likenesses of their bodies, not of their minds. I le inquired if they should not prefer to leave some written expression of their character and ability. Could any staff ask for a better rewaid of their service than that when they were graduated, they might leave behind them not a statue of the class, but an image of the minds of the members of the class? So the Dart Staff of 1916 desire that this, the last edition of the Dart, may be a true picture of the character and ability of the Class of 1916. M. T. 'I 7

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24 T H E I) A R T i ISiatnrn nf Class of HUfi ) MARJORIE B. STAPLETON =3 no □C u fr= y= HE varnished soap bubbles the little boy was blowing were pretty things. Smooth and light they were wafted up and up until the force of the strong north wind caused them to collapse. The Destinies, wandering down the beach this sunny morning, were bored. For the last two or three days they had nothing to do that was interesting. It was the same old thing over and over. Clotho proposed sitting down in the sand, for lack of anything to do. So the three Daughters of night sat down, Atropos flinging down her sun-dial petulantly. A bubble of wondrous colors floated around the bank which separated them from the small boy. In amazement they gazed at this pretty thing. Nothing so dainty, so elusive had ever crossed their path. Eagerly Clotho sprang up to grasp it, but with a gentle click, it vanished. She was just about to reach for a second one, when a quick cry from Lachesis interrupted her. She pointed with her staff to this bright green sphere, and eyes opened wide at what she saw. Lightly touching it with her staff, she revolved it slowly, smiling as different things appealed to her sense of humor. The other two goddesses listened to her tale. 1 see groups of funny boys and girls standing near a long, red building. How queer they act. Ho! Ho! See the little man with the big glasses! He is leading them in. Such confusion, as there is in that building, I never saw before. Nobody pays any attention to them, but you couldn’t tell them that. After a time Lachesis’ interest decreased. Everything was going smoothly now. She had caught the name of these small people. ‘‘Freshmen’’ is what they call them, she told the goddesses. “They speak of them with contempt ”—perplexedly, “I wonder why?’’ They are bright little things. Now Lachesis did not know that the brightness was only skin deep and of a greenish hue. From time to time she reported doings of the Freshmen to the other goddesses. She worried a good deal over their terrible mid-year exams, and anxiously counted the failures. The bubble did not expand much and gradually the green tint faded. Unexpectedly it vanished. But with a little chuckle of delight Clotho pounced on another one. The coloring was rather somber. These little people were to be seen, a little older, not much wiser. Nothing exciting happened, they were still squelched but dignified looking people. As soon as the class organized, they came more to the front. Their first party was a great success, given at the home of a student who lived in the country. It is said these Sophomores had unusually good literary programs. Everyone was pretty studious and their representation on the honor roll was good. Then after Christmas they arranged for another party. What person will forget that ride home? Who does not yet hear the excited shrieks of the girls when the hugh sleigh tipped clear over? I hat parly was really the best one any class ever had. After this, events were few and far between. In June this second year ended. Some flunked! However, this element is always to be found, and in the long run it looked as if this class had a good future. Much to the apprehension of the goddesses the third bubble fell to the lot of Atropos, the inevitable. But she began most unconcernedly to relate what she saw, just as if the other Destinies did not fear her instrumer.t for cutting the thread of life. I his bubble was not much