Athens Area High School - Athenian Yearbook (Athens, PA)

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AD VICK TO THE JUNIORS Juniors, we have watched through your high school course and have seen your raults and of course have noticed that there is a chance for impro.emeiu. Now is is time lor you to enter into your Senior year. You will be looked upon as a leaner, and you are to set an example for the lower classes. Do you tnink tnat you are capable of doing this? Now it is time to consider upon some sort of advice 11 om an older class. We know that you are all stars along athletic lines, but get some life into your class and work together. It seems that every one works for himself. For instance look at your class party in the gymnasium; not half of your class mem-neis there. You will have to get more spirit than that before entering into the realm of Seniorship. To President Leon Cooper, we advise to pay more attention to class matters and not so much to other school affairs. As for cleverness some of you get the “boobie” prize. How about the night that some of you tried to get away with the punch bowl downstairs? Why don’t you pay more attention to the lower classes and get them interested in school affairs? Follow Mr. Hunt’s example. Mr. Blostein is always displaying such a knowledge of almost everything in general that you can hardly walk through the halls without hearing him. It would be a good idea to start in business. Why don’t you set up an ice cream stand? You could surely induce your customers to buy them. Then if you needed an office force you could And several among the Juniors who have had experience in that work. Why, there would be Kathryn Birney; she is certainly well qualified. There is a rumor going about that Frederick Root is going to start a theatre down in Milan. Pretty good idea, there would be Rheta for pianist! 1 have noticed that some of your class members act as if they were holding a “Quaker meeting.’’ Look at Dorothy Stevens and Kathryn McClarty, always so quiet, but when playing the piano they make more noise than a menagerie. Also Mr. Casper, before thinking of being a Senior, should learn to light a Bunsen burner. How about it? Mr. Catlin, don’t spoil your splendid studious course by staying up in Sayre too late nights. Isn’t Athens good enough for you? And there is Letha Kinner and Arleigh Wiggins, two of the most popular young ladies of the Junior class. How could any one help but to agree to this? But why don’t you forget about it? Mr. Lurcock, they say is going to write a French dictionery. That would be fine. I am certain that you could get ample assistance in the Junior class or even you might find help in the Second Year class! Why don’t you take political economy, Mr. Miller, and devise some sort of a carrier for your bicycle, so that you can bring Mary Moore back and forth from school. There’s your chance, “Jim.’’ It is believed by some that you come back as an animal or some kind of an insect. If this is the case, why don’t you find out what Fred Kosel came back as. There is Pauline Lynch, who appears to be a very brilliant investigator, she might be able to tell you. Well, I guess that we will have to compliment Essie and Ruth Dibble on their cooking, noticing that they spend considerable time in the kitchen. Keep it up, girls, more than one girls has made world-wide fame for her wonderful doughnuts that do not make their consumers sick for eating the hole, or even you might win 17

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During the period of the war our people have been robbed of their food to feed the starving nations of Europe. That was no more than right. But now. after the war. these foreigners will flock to this country after being so hard pressed during the war. But they are needed in their own country to till the soil and feed themselves. This is what most of them will do if they are shut out from this country and food will again be normal in this country. In Russia and in other nations of Europe there are a class of people who are always looking for trouble and are never satisfied. The Bolsheviks are a good example of this class. Their aim seems to be to make trouble. Some of them have invaded this country, causing strikes and political unrest among the working classes. If an immigration law were passed restricting all immigration to this country for a period of five years, this class of men would be shut out until the time when the country is normal again. For these reasons, as an after-war measure, as a preventive against civil strife, I am convinced that a law should be passed to restrict all immigration to this country for a period of five years. HINTON COOK, ’19. NEGATIVE Such a law as proposed by my opponent is not necessary, first because of the labor conditions at the present time. Wages are exceptionally high, but not high compared with the high cost of living. Each day the papers bring the glad news of thousands of our boys returning from their adventurous days of trench life to their positions which they held before the war. Thus there will be little demand for foreign labor and consequently the tide will be checked, if not stopped, until again the demand for more labor arises. Mr. Howe, who has studied immigration from every viewpoint, states that opportunities in their own country equal those to be found in the United States and prevent most European immigrants from feeling the impulse of immigration. Men and women do not tear themselves up by the roots, take ship and begin life anew amidst unfamiliar surroundings in communities of which they do not even know the language in the mere spirit of adventure. They submit to terror and discomfort, yielding to the hope of immigration only because they find conditions at home unfavorable. If home conditions become attractive, even if they become endurable, few will leave familiar conditions for those to be found here. It was the spirit of immigration that brought the United States into existence and has so well developed it into such a prosperous nation. Still at the present time the labor force depends somewhat upon the number of immigrants. Without immigration the United States would be more than twenty years later in progress than she is today. Such a law would be offensive to other countries and thereby would be a source of renewed trouble and a danger which should be avoided at the present day. Under the present peace terms all nations are to be at peace with one another. Why exclude from your presence those whom interest in the United States has drawn from foreign countries? Considering reasons above stated there is no firm ground upon which such a, law might be laid. GEORGE BARTON, '19. 16

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a prize on some new recipe that our great-grandmothers taught our mothers! And there is Miss Havens, who now appears to be considerably happier than a short time ago. A good way to be. but why so sudden? It will be too bad for Miss Dettra when some of her friends graduate this year. I suppose it will cause her great pain (Payne). As I look over at some of the Juniors I often wonder when they will wake up. Look at Leon Rogers, always dreaming of his Lady Sickie (Psyche). Sleep on. fair one, you will soon overtake her in the First Year class. I hear that Miss Thorp is getting to be a well known boxer. It is a good thing to be able to defend one’s self, but it is a bad idea to practice it on a poor innocent person in a public place. I have often wondered what Kathryn Russell will do when her brother, or perhaps some of her other friends in the Senior class, have gone and she will have to come to school alone. That would be a shame. Why don’t you dig up acquaintances in some of the classes? Maybe some of them own Fords. That would seem like old times. But, my dear little Juniors, don’t fall into tears. Nor suppose that I should rank you with Freshmen as peers. Though you may seem hopeless, I don’t mean to say That you can’t be Seniors like we are some day. It is almost the end of your Junior year now. Each one will be a Senior next year, I allow. If you don’t often make your average the best. It’s because you don’t like your name higher than the rest. T’would be well if your members should all make a trial; Follow the advice of the Seniors, you’ll find it worth while. LEIGH CRAWFORD, ’19. THE JUNIOR RESPONSE i Perhaps never before in the history of Athens High School has there been such a strong bond of brotherly friendship between two classes as between the classes of 1919 and 1920. And why shouldn’t there be? When we first entered high school, you were so concerned in making us full-fledged members that you even went so far as to provide a special reception, somewhat embarassing it is true, but yet indicative of a tender interest in our welfare. The burning of the high school building strengthened this friendship, as we occupied the same room in the Presbyterian Church. The next year was the only time we were not close together, but our friendship did not lessen. Throughout our high school years you have proved faithful and sincere friends and your departure will be keenly felt. Knowing your advice to be invaluable (for doubtless you yourselves have observed it) we shall endeavor to follow it most carefully, in order that we may prove ourselves worthy followers of the work you have carried out so well. Your advice rather leans to our faults, but it must not be forgotten that the class of 1920 is worthy of praise. The class of 1919 is most ably represented in every phase of high school activities. The Senior girls were an important factor in keeping up the reputation of the class. They figured prominently in war work, sports, high school meetings and clubs, and most of all they backed the high school teams with enthusiasm. We shall briefly run over their accomplishments. In our war work all the girls played an important part, but Genevieve Brown took the lead. Muriel Carner and Rheta Samson played basketball, while Rheta Samson. Thelma Brown and Marie Salsman bear off the honors in the oratorical field. Muriel Carner, Rheta Samson and Marie 18