Ashtabula High School - Dart Yearbook (Ashtabula, OH)

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“Officer 666” THE DART 27 The “best yet” was the opinion of all when I Ik Senior Play was presented on Friday evening, April 12, 19IS, in tin High School Auditorium. It was a comedy in three acts and contained all the fun which “Jim” Shea and Wade Jenkins and the rest could put into it. The acting was fine and showed what can be done even by amateurs. But “there’s a reason”— Mrs. Manford Warren directed it. Nuf said. CAST OF CHARACTERS Bataeto, Japanese valet to Travers Gladwin ............Hcrcule Paolino Michael Phelan, Officer GOO..James Shea Whitney Barnes, friend of Gladwin .....................George Dewey Travers Gladwin, a millionaire.. .......................Wade Jenkins Helen Burton, a debutante....Merle Dawson Sadie Small, her cousin....Genevra Duero Mrs. Burton, her aunt.....Mary Rainnie Alfred Wilson, a picture thief.. ....................Francis Rogers Watkins, chauffeur...........Wirt August Police Captain Stone.................Mac Crosby Kearney, plainclothes-man ..Olaf Swanson Ryan, police officer ........Harry Peek Policeman..........................Elmer Miller Policeman ..................John Kohut SPECIALTIES Between acts the following specialties were given: “United States Drill,” by Mary Newberry, Katherine Sill. Martha Soder-gren, IxM na Zaugg, Alice Weldon, Ellen Metcalf, Thelma Swedenborg, Ethelin- da Rice, Elizabeth Godley, Grace Ship-man, Hazel Farr, Mary Brake. “Military Specialty,” by Merle Dawson and Chorus. “I’ve Got Everything I Want But You,” by Merle Dawson and Wade Jenkins, and Chorus. Another Play Tuesday evening. May 28, will be Class Night for tin Seniors. On that night another play will be given, entitled, “The Claim Allowed.” The cast has been working hard and the play promises to be a novel affair as the plot has to do with the present war times. Mrs.Warren is directing this also. Don’t miss it! CAST OF CHARACTERS Mr. LaFohl, manufacturer of munitions ........................Mac Crosby Mrs. LaFohl, his wife.Mary Newberry Dabney LaFohl, his patriotic son .......................Wade Jenkins Ethel LaFohl, his daughter..Etheliiida Rice Lillian Carmen, Dabney’s fiancee .........................Ruby Spring Tom Bradley, Ethel’s patriot ...James Shea Mr. Metz, an American-German ......................... Elmer Miller Mrs. Metz, his son’s wife...Katherine Sill Sherman Metz, his grandson ...................Rupert Kimball Mary Metz, his granddaughter .........................Ellen Metcalf Mrs. Hohenzollern, a propagandist ...................Josephine Dibbs Heine Hohenzollern, her brother ...................Nathaniel Wallin Mrs. Thompson, of the Red Cross .........................Marleah Cox Little Scout, doing his bit.Albert Guerini Neb, a blackbird......George Guarnieri

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THE DART 29 Eight years before the Great War a German widow with her two sons came to America, to the great land of freedom and of plenty. During their first year in the new country both the mother and the older son, who was then seventeen years old, worked to earn their living and to send young Max to the public school. By the next year Frederick was able to support the small family. Thus they had been living quite happily for several years when Germany declared war and all Europe was on fire. Then one day Frederick, who was very much excited by the day’s paper, declared that he would go back to Germany to fight. “Aeh, my son, but this is not our war! Why should you go? What shall we do without you?” But when a report of another advance came, he no longer listened to his mother, but sailed on the next liner, leaving Max to support his mother and himself. “I am happy, my mother. I am fighting for the Fatherland. Some day we shall have conquered the world and shall bring German Kultur to all peoples,” Frederick wrote. The mother thot little, then, of the meaning of the war. She feared only the death of her son. But when the United States was threatened, she realized its seriousness and thot of her other son. Should he or could he fight against the Fatherland? “Mother, would you wish me to fight against Germany if the United States should enter the war?” Max asked her. But she put him off. “Hush, my boy; how can I know what I would wish. But we will not enter the war.” But the day came when the United States did enter—declared war on Germany, declared war for the democracy of the world. Max burst in upon his mother, waving an “extra,” with glaring headlines. “Mother, I must go,” he said. “Yes, my son, you must go.” That was all that was said. She was a brave mother; she would have no one left now, but she had left her native country because of its militarism and autocracy. Would she wish that militarism and autocracy to follow her to her new home? No. She gladly gave her son to fight it, to fight for the freedom she had found. Max enlisted and was sent to a training camp. He was among the first to go to France, and in due time was sent to the front line trenches. For only one thing was Max afraid, and that was that he might meet his brother. Could he do what surely was his duty? When he thot of this, cold chills ran down his back. In the same company there was a young Irish lad. Terry Donovan enlisted because he had always hated the Germans. Terry was suspicious—always suspecting someone