Atlanta High School - Atalanta Yearbook (Atlanta, IL)

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Now the brightest thing to do is to learn something about your car so if you are going to Bloomington and the motor starts acting a little queer you will know what to do. I didnft. If a Ford starts sputtering, there are a million and one things that can be the matter, but after looking everywhere, you usually find the trouble in the motor, the place where you would least expect to find It. Now if you do get a Ford, you don't have to take my advice, but it is always a good idea to carry enough money and a couple of fairly strong fellows with you, not that you don't trust your car, but just In case the motor starts popping and cr.eking like a box of fir crackers that had been dumped Into the manifold. Now there has been talk going around about a certain fellow by the name of Ben B. who thinks he has a nice looking, easier riding, faster running, longer enduring, and all together a better Model T than anyone else in town; but although Betsy doesn't shine as much as Ben's does, she is just as good and I think a lot more of her. Jack Brown SHOO !! 1 If a pleasant land is ever discovered where there are no flies In the summer time, please do me the favor of notifying me immediately, and I will proceed to throw my scanty belongings into the immortal bandana handkerchief and head for the nearest bus station. Science says that the diptera (better known as the fly) carry thousands upon thousanas of germs, and I might even go so far as to say millions. Moving hand in hand with this indisputable fact, is the more irritating one from which none are immune, namely: the maddening hum of a fly as he sails dex- terously around one's head. Then he lights just out of reach ano smugly wipes his paws. It is easily understood how a periectly sane, healthy, young male creature could lose his mind after battling such a pest but a few minutes. It is indeed futile to sneak up on a fly and, at the correct second, slap viciously where the pest is, or rather was. Nine times out of ten, he will have soared away at an opportune moment and left his potential murderer with a stinging hand and a seething mind. And don't be drastic by folding a newspaper and using It as if it were a baseball bat. I have purposely omitted mentioning the fly swatter as it is the most useless of all weapons. Haven't you secretly told yourself that the flies just seem to KNOW when you determinedly grasp said utensil? And don't they sail out of reach so effortlessly? A waste of time and energy--the fly swatter. The purpose of this article is not to teach amateurs or professionals the correct procedure in killing a fly. But, taking advice from an old timer, wno has waged many a furious battle on these pests, just relax, fold a newspaper over your race, dream sweet dreams, and occasionally issue a well-timed Shoo! Ruth Applegate Judge: Last time you were here I told you I never wanted to see you again. Prisoner: That's what I told the cop, tut he insisted on bringing me here. First Tenderfoot: What is the bump you have on your forehead? Second Ditto: Oh, that is where a thought struck me. Freshman: May I have the last dance with you? Footsore Maiden: You've had it. Lazy Boy: I am always tired on the first of April. Friend: Why? Lazy Boy: Who wouldn't be after a March of 31 days? It's so good of you, doctor, to have come this far to see my husband. Not at all, madam. I have a patient next door, and I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone. (29)

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SENIOR ESSAYS iVRITIKC AN ESSAY Our English assignment for Tuesday is simple. Just write an essay of about two hundred words writing on one side of the paper. Pick out any topic you like and write about it.” Veil, thi3 sounus easy enough. First you decide on Just which topic you can .vrite the best essay. So far it is still easy--about as easy as finding a needle in a haystack. Everything you think of would make a good paper. But when you try to write on just one, your mind goes blank. Then you decide that it just wasn t the right subject anyhow. Now you begin to wonder why the teacher ever thought of such an assignment. It seems that she mu3t have known just how easy it is to write an essay. After staring out of the window for a while, then looking at everyone inside the room—the pictures and even the posters on the back wall—nothing seems to be worth writing about. Then you begin some deep thinking. You can see ideas for hundreds of essays. Again you try to pick the subject that seems the clearest in your mind, but you have the,same luck you had the first time. This is too much. You put away your paper and decide to take a zero. Now you can get out your chemistry book and really study. No 1 A new idea just flashed tlirough your brain. This proves to be the one. You have a flying start. The first paragraph is good. Then the bell rings. Gee I that was hard work, trying so long before you found what to write; then that brilliant idea, and a good introductory paragraph. Eut you still don't have an essay! Joseph Speciale TliE NURSING OF A FORD Before you can nurse a Ford you must have one. When you find one that has been sitting out in the weather all winter long, you must get someone to help you pull it out of its lodgings. Usually you would have to pull it all day, but if you get hold of a good one. It may start in a few blocks Now that you have it started, you ride around in it the rest of the day to see how it runs and how it drives. The Junior Woman's Club will be having the annual dance, so the thing to do is to get all dressed up ana go get your girl and take her to the dance in your new Ford. Of course you have to park your Ford so it won't be facing the wind because it might rain and get the heart of the motor wet. After the dance is over, you walk as proua as a king out to your work. Now here is where the nursing begins. The starter doesn't work, so you have to crank it. You can't get mad at the Ford when it doesn't start right off, because if you start using profane language and paw the earth, a Ford just seem3 to hear you and fails to start as long as you carry on. Finally, after most of your knuckles are skinned from hitting something while cranking it. the Ford finally starts. The next day you get up early and go out to your pride and joy, your car. You try to start it but it just doesn't seem to want to start running on the Sabbath. After cranking for about ten or fifteen minutes, the Ford starts and away you go. In the afternoon you nurse your Foru all the way down to the show and back. The trouble of having a new 1S27 Model T with 22.5 horse power whose license number is 1250486 is that you are never sure when it is going to run. Of course it isn't your car's fault, but most generally the fault of the men wj.o put the car together, or, farther yet, the man that thought her up, Henry Ford. When you have your first flat, you must hop right out and change it without a mean thought in your mind because after all those tires have been on that car for about seven years and the treaa is just starting to wear; in fact it has worn clear through. (23)

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