Central High School - Mirror Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

Text from Pages 1 - 154 of the 1918 volume:

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Exclusive Hats for Graduation and Commencement Do Likewise Drink at Our Fountain ADAMS Drug Store MILAN'S and LEGHORNS SECOND AND NINETEENTH Prices $r to $12.50 OPEN ALL NIGHT “Traylor-Made Glasses, Good for the Eyes’’ Traylor Optical Co. 104 No. 20th St. Graduates! Wc have need in our organization for young men and women with high school educations. We will he glad to consider your applications for positions. which will mean substantial futures to you who are ambitious. Lo vermin, Joseph Loeb Optometrists and Manufacturing Opticians In trading with advertisers, In sure to mention The Mirror. NELSON DRUGCO. 5th Ave. and 23rd St. PHONE PHONE 199 9188 Le Ostcr’s Feather Your Nest’’ Oster Bros. Furniture Co. 2020-2022 Third Ave. Birmingham’s Foremost Home Furnishers Charge Accounts Opened Most Boys Will Graduate in a Porter Suit Single (tOC Double Breasted Breasted You’ll find plenty of real young man’s style and real Quality and Service in the suits we show at this popular price. Every thing Men am Boys Hear Porter Clothing Co. 1922-1924 FIRST AVENUE IN THE HEART OF BIRMINGHAM In trading with advertisers, be sure to mention The Mirror. Home products BdTTLRION ffEE Quality MadeThem Famous SOID j At Your Grocers J £3 a : ■. j . ; : • v. Ek f; • 1; 't � Vi ,, D i § •AY | 1 M ifi ... � 7 |R 10 iR � t 19 •� Dedication ... Editorial .... Daybreak ...... Honor Roll ... Managing Mother....Kathleen Merke Spring ’Membmner .... William Kin Trial and Tribulation of n Sammic ..................Sarah MrCar The Heart of the Hill ....Bra Quit It Might Have Hern. Hot It Waan't .................. . Jlot Form Overheard..............I'irgil WtMe A Desert Experience..H’ellboea Bari A Favorite Hath No Friend.......... .................. Loretta Don Song of the Sun Sprite.. William Kim Air Castle Rttdrly Disintegrated.. ......................Jock Brya One American..............Fred Slot My Funeral............Katherine Byr Hefore An Open Fire.. .A If red Dime Exchange ......................... Hapiu-ningy in High School......... Club. Athletic The Trot Line Grin The Senior Department President Vldrrs — MTn-Morrow ......... Junta Bley Robertson.. 115 Cla-� History...............Rosalie Engel 117 Class Oration- The Mission of America Clyde Marion Kennedy 1 jo Via— Statistic ............ ...Leon dandy IJ4 ClaM Prophecy— The City of Camelot” Emma Stofbmnr ijH Class Poem — “Vinrit. Qtti Se Vincit’ .... Ann Evangeline Quirk tjj Class Essay- American Spirit ........... Lillys Anne Rockett 135 Farewell — Reconstruction .............. Moro Lucille Hurras. 137 iHiss Anita (Caroline jSlalMuirst io our tear her nub fricnb, ifliss Anita (Caroline lllalbhorst, faiho for four nears as sponsor of the iifirror has hmrlu'b hiitli untiring energy to keep our magazine up to the high stanbarb tuhich it holbs, hie affectiouallu bebicatc this iflirror. I I □ THE MIRROR □ n PUBLISHED BY THE Bl- — LITERARY ==)IS)t== SOCIETIES OF THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL MAY 30. 1918 PRICE TWENTY-FIVE CENTS ISOAk’l or KDITOUS EOITORS-IN.CHIEF MARGARET MARTIN TOM MOOKK BUSINESS MANAGER FRED SLOSS ESSAYS LILLY 8 ROCKKTT JAMES ROBERTSON LUCILK HARPER A NAURU STITII FICTION ROSALIE ENGEL LIBBIE I moss LOUISE COSBY l.l'TII KR Mt'RI’HY ALFRED OLNEY MIRANDA HERNDON CATHERINE RYRD POETRY EVA QUIRK ANITA SLOSS JUNIOR HIGH WILLIAM ELLIOT RUTH DEWBERRY ADOLPH LOVEMAN HAPPENINGS IN HIGH SCHOOL TORRANCE REDD ANNIE LEE MASON EXCHANGES SARAH McCARTY VIROIL WILDER WIT AND HUMOR VERHoN KEMP LEON GANDY CLUBS ROSA LEE WALSTON ATHLETICS CAMBRIDGE NORRIS ART MARGARET McCALL ROMA1NE PlUHTOlt DAVID HOLMES ADVERTISING MANAGER CLYDE KENNEDY ASSISTANTS LI VILE VINTSON LUCILK COLVIN ELSIE WERTHEIMER Louis pollock I MUG LAS HESTER MARGARET FEARN JEAN BLACH FRANCIS SMITH CIRCULATION MANAGER ben cooper Klevcn classes had graduated under the Per Asp era ad Astra of the Central uditorium before it. too, went down in the flames that consumed our school. W e, the class of ID 1.8, must receive our diplomas in a place which holds no memories, no associations for us; and yet we feel that we are upholding the motto of Central High School as worthily as any class which has preceded us. The Senior Class is usually representative of the spirit of the school, and we are justly proud of our part in every activity, besides our manifestation of the indomitable spirit which always has characterized Central pupils. We have the distinction, unfortunate as it is. of being the last Senior Mirror Board Class which had even a part of their final year in Old Central, and we are quite sure that no greater spirit can exist than the close co-operation which has held us together this semester. “The Mirror” wishes Godspeed to this Senior Class which has struggled under such difficulties and wishes for them a glorious pathway, “through difficulties t« the stars.” After eight weeks of hardships we are again united and ready to a great extent for the new term next September. The Juniors and Seniors are in the Medical College and the Sophomores in the annexes. Although the Freshmen cannot now be with us. they can indulge wtih even more eagerness the joy of anticipating High School. We are glad that the lunch room and gymnasium are restored. It is at least a partial compensation and we arc expecting greater things. Through the efforts of the Vhimni Association the library, too. will he ready for use next September. Hut wc already have an auditorium, not the crowded, stuffy kind, but one out iu the ojxm air. This is indeed the nearest thing to having Central hack. When wc meet together on Tuesdays. Wednesdays and Fridays, we can almost believe that wc have. It will 1 another year at least before the new High School is completed. Till that time we must do our duty where wc are. for that is the spirit of old Central High. From time to time High School has given teachers and students to the army. Mr. 1 hi ford. Mr. Farris and Mr. Lee left this year to join the colors. Though High School regrets to lose them, we are proud of them, and we wish them a part in the world fight for democracy. The members of the Mirror Hoard thank the advertisers who have given such cordial and substantial support to the Mirror, not only this year, hut throughout all the years of its history. It is largely to them that we are indebted for furnishing us the “sinews of war.” And to the suhscrilnrs who have so cordially supported us by their friendly reading of our pages; to those who have contributed material from which wc make our choice; to those members of the Commercial Department who aided the business staff as bookkeeper and typist: to the teachers whose never-failing assistance has liecn invaluable, we wish also to express our thanks. The editors regret that in the last issue of the Mirror the names of several of the most active members of the staff were omitted from the board of editors. These were Miss Elsie Wertheimer, of the Advertising Department; Miss Torrance Redd and Miss Annie Lee Mason, of the Department of Happenings in High School, and Miss Rosa Lee Walston, of “Clubs. In addition to the Honor Roll. Central High, like every one else, has a service flag, made by the girls in our own sewing classes. Unlike nearly everyone. however, our service flag has lived through a fire. Strangely enough the flag, which hung in the auditorium, fell through to the gymnasium and was not destroyed. Pag fifit n Two of the stars, which represent those who left school to enlist, are Luther Tyler and Joe O’Brien, members of our own Senior Class, who enlisted last year. W e are proud of our soldier boys, and from the many messages which come to us from the boys in camp. they. too. feel proud that we remember them. If any of our readers know of any names which have not appeared on our Honor Roll, we will be glad to have them, as the Honor Roll will be continued next year. Just to show how much our Mirror, and especially our Honor Roll, means to the boys in camp, we arc printing a letter from a former High School student who is now with the colors.” “I have just finished reading the last issue of 'The Mirror.’ 1 couldn’t put it down when I got started! Really, it was mighty good. You have some very promising talent. Some of the pieces —in fact, most of them were fine. The High School students seem to get smaller and wiser. 1 congratulate you on putting out such an issue under the adverse conditions the big fire must have caused. You can guess that I was tickled to see my name on the Honor Roll. The old school days bring back fond recollections to the most lax among us. and to he remembered in the school paper is more of an honor than you. perhaps, thought when you made out the list. I had to write and let you know what I thought of your last Mirror. I will send it on to my good friend Henry Simpson in the naval school at Newport. Rhode Island. Yon forgot him in your Honor Roll. W ith best regards to all my friends and to the school in its present state of confusion, and hoping to see a large new High School building when 1 get back home, I will close for this time. Herbert Robinson. DAYBREAK Dawn comes softly at the break Of day. Chasing darkness in her flight And all messengers of night Far away. 1 leraiding the day's approach In the skies, Calling every bird and flower From the tree-top or the bower To arise. Till, at last, bright sunbeams shine Far and near. And the sleeping world awakes. From itself sweet slumber shakes— Day is here. lixttm —Eva Ql irk. 18. HONOR ROLL Adelson. Saul Engineers. Camp Sheridan. Bclden, lvin (Lieut.)—Medical Corps. Blair. illiain Camp Librarian, Camp Shelby. Blank. S. H. (Yoeman) C. S. X.. Mobile. Bromberg, W illiam (Ydcman) C. S. X.. Mobile. Buck, Hubert Signal Corps. Fort Oglethorpe. Durham, Edwin—U. S. S. Roanoke. Engel, I. M. (Lieut.). Engel. W. P. (Lieut.). Fox, Jerome—In France. Garrison. Burdette. Guthrie. Clyde. Haley, J. F.dward. Haley, W. Smythc. Hanby, Robert. Heydom, Gambetta. Holmes. Grady—In France. Jackson, Fred. Jackson. Ralph (Lieut.). Jones. William—In France. Kinney. Irving. Lay, James—-Home Guard, Macon, Ga. Lay hay. Maurice (Capt.)— In France. Long, Earl Infantry, In France. Loveless, Ellis Xavy. Massey. W. Broaddus (Dentist)—Navy, Key West. Montgomery. W illiam E. (Lieut.)- Infantry, Atlanta. Mullen, Kellie Army Nurse in Italy. Pogue. Arthur Signal Corps, Charleston. S. C. Rockett. A11« n—Xavy. Robinson. Gordon—Macon. Ga. Robinson. W illiam Walter—Infantry. Rowley. Harold In France. Sabiston, Robert Infantry, Chattanooga. Tenn. Simpson. Henry ( Lieut.). Smith, W. Sumter (Lieut.) Signal Corps. Dallas, Texas. Sutter, T. D. I'pchurch, Dewey—Coast Artillery. Weinstein. Julius (Lieut.) In France. Williams. John Rufus (Sergt.) Aviation. Wilson, Guy. Wingo, Thomas. Wood, W. W. (Lieut.)— Signal Corps, In France. I’aoe tevrnteen AGL.AI A I.ITEKARV SOCIETY MANAGING MOTHER There it lay on the library table, the big. square, white envelope for which 1 had been longing. It was an invitation to the dance of the season, given by the Vice-President of our Senior Class. Oh, how I wanted to go. Wasn't it natural for a girl of seventeen to love dancing? Hut I was almost sure of mother’s verdict—“No.” before 1 asked her. Throwing down my books I picked up the envelope and marched, waving it above my head, into her room. ” I lello, dear. I wish--” ()h! ()h! Oh! Isn’t This just too nice? Marjory’s invited me to her dance. Mother, and it will be just wonderful. nd there s the dearest old rose dress at Hergman’s that will be the very thing and it just suits me. lsn t it joyful.” )n I babbled in the same strain, conscious of the expression on Mothers face and trying to talk it o!T. Still I kept on. until:— Now. Jean, suppose you let me say something. Of course you are not going: I do not approve of those fiances and the boys Marjory will have there. It’s utterly foolish for you to talk so. And as for evening dresses, you are altogether too young for them and dances, too.” The very idea! “If you will wait until later in the summer we might have a little jxarty and-- Hut 1 had fled, tor I knew what “a little party” meant. Tea, in the afternoon, with half a dozen middle-aged Indies—dear, hut old just the same: three or four girls, about that many men. old bachelors mostly, and one boy, the ideal boy. lie was the only child of Mother’s best friend, and 1 could hardly bear him. And that was to console me for that wonderful time at Marjory's—lights, music and real hoys! That night, in bed. I thought about it a great deal, with a few hard thoughts toward Mother. She and ! are really true pals, she shares all my secrets ami reads all my letters—not that 1 have any interesting ones, and I adore her. Hut she does have opinions unlike mine, as you have seen, and she just won't let me grow up. I think that seventeen is old enough to do almost anything, but she doesn’t. Dad and site married when they were young, and they want to keep me from it, as if 1 wanted to marry! So 1 go to few parties, no fiances, atul when any of the boys come over. Dad and Mother help me entertain. That’s all right, but one gets tired of it. And I am not a baby! I thought a long time and was almost asleep when I heard the boy next door whistling. 1 haven’t told you about him. have I ? The family has been living there about two months and I don’t know much about them. Mamma can’t hear the whole family and dislikes the boy especially. “One simply can’t me intimate with such people, you know.” etc. The hoy. rthur, is very good-looking. hut conceited, too. Most of those “pretty hoys are conceited, don’t you think? 1 don’t like him at all, but Mother thinks 1 do. lie had asked twice to call, but once I was going from home and Mother was with me the other time. You can imagine the answer. Remembering that, and his good looks and what Mother often proudly Said—that all the girls in her family married early. 1 giggled, and made my plans. Next day was Saturday: the fiance was to he on Tuesday. It was an ideal nineteen clay for tennis, and. as I was up early. I saw Arthur, with a racquet under his arm. pass our house. I snatched up mine and rati out our hack gate, just in time to l:e sauntering leisurely along when he turned the corner. 1 heard him whistle, then: Good morning. Miss Jean. I didn't know you were an early bird, too. Tennis today?” Yes, it's fine for tennis, don't you think? And Tin Jean, please.” ‘•Jean it is then, and you’re going to play a set with me, aren’t you ?” That fitted my plan nicely, so we walked on to the court, talking only as young folks can. He was a dandy player and I enjoyed the game so much that we played another, and I was late for breakfast. “Mow was the game, Jeanie?” Dad asked, and I began an enthusiastic re- f ort. Whom did you play with, dear?” trout Mother, and 1 could feel her start as 1 answered sweetly. Arthur, Mother. Didn’t you see us walking to the court together?” Then 1 added a few of my partner’s charms. Utter in the morning I picked up a boo’c —it happened to be Tennyson, and went to the hammock. By the time Mother came out I had succeeded in getting a dreamy, far-away, sentimental expression on my face. I’m not that way at all, and 1 nearly choked. I felt so idiotic. Do you want to go to town with me this afternoon, Jean? I have quite a deal of shopping to do. You need a new dress. I lad you rather have a green linen or a pongee? she asked. I believe I’ll stay here ami read: I’m very much interested in this, and I opened the book to Uauncelot and Elaine.’’ You choose anything you please for my dress.” Very well.” she answered, and left me with a puzzled frown on her face. I went in swimming instead of reading Tennyson. From then on the boy next door was very much in evidence. I didn't enjoy the time very much—he was conceited ami silly too. but I had to go to that dance, lie went to church with me and was very attentive. At dinner, Mother said: “Jean. I’m sorry I can't let you go to that dance, but you know how 1 feel.” Oh. yes. and I don’t mind so much now. There are other things in the world, bigger, better things than dances, don’t you think?” I asked innocently. I could feel their startled glances meet over mv head. That night Mother and I were on the porch when Arthur came over. She was in the shadows, in the swing, and I was in the moonlight on the steps. I le talked very low and we seemed very much engrossed in each other, just as I wanted us to appear to Mother. I could hardly sit there when he began to he sentimental, and only managed to do so when I thought of my plan. There was only one more day. and so that night, with my door locked, I wrote a note, on pa|� er not my own and in a masculine hand, 1 wrote— Piiffe twenty Dearest Jane: I hare bought the tickets for the play and will meet you by the big gate at eight-thirty tomorrow night. Yours, Arthur. Just as I left for school next morning. I let the note slip naturally from my I ook. right where Mother would see it. All day I wondered about it and the result. It was a hard day and I grew more pessimistic as the front door hanged behind me that afternoon. Mother met me in the hall. Your father thinks it will be all right for you to go to the dance after all. So he and 1 will take you. Without hearing more I turned thankfully into my room—and there on my l ed lay that frilly dream of a dress! Kathleen Mckkkl. ’18. SPRINT, MKMRR XCKS “I)e springtime sun is shinin’ jes’ as warn as he can he. n' de mockin’-bird is singin' in de bloomin’ apple tree, While de ole man is a-dozin' by de little cabin do' Jes’ a-dreamin’ an' rememberin’ !c days of long ago. “How de young fo'ks after sunset, when ole night druv day away. I'sed t’ gather in de quarters for to sing an’ dance an play An' I amongst de udders, to de banjo's thumpin’ tune. Used t’ laugh an' dance an’ sing dere neath the golden southern moon. “Whilst de ole fo'ks on de do' steps scraped de fiddle for de dance I«aws a mercy! How deni niggers used t' shake dev feet an’ prance! n' de mammies stood a-bcatin’ time, an' swayin’ to an' fro. Like de saplin’s on de hill-top when de lazy souf wind blow. “Hut dat’s gone now, an’ dese niggers wid dere hi-falutin' ways I'ergit de good ole customs of de Ante-Helium days. An’ stead o’ dancin’ in de moonlight in de good ole-fashioned way. Dey ape de white fo'ks doin’s wid dere “Cullud Cabaray. “Hut don’t think dat I’sc complainin’. Lor', I'se happy as kin he! 'Caze I’se jes a plain ole nigger, an' dat’s all 1 wants t' l e Till ole Gab’rel blows his trumpet for to bring to life our dust: Den I hopes to he a angel, on de Right I land, wid de Just.” Pace In'riily onr —William Kinc., 11). ART CLUB THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF A SAMMY (. I.,'tier from a Seventeen-)’car-Old Soldier to His Mother) Hear Mamma:—1 don’t like this place detail. The other hoys would think I wan t a sport it they knew I wrote you such sob stuff, blit, hottest, mamma, being a Son 01 Freedom” doesn’t necessarily mean that one is a free son. I’m not. 1 m confined to barracks for three weeks and assigned to k. I', duty for the remainder of tin’s one. Let me tell you why they are administering a little discipline—1 assure you I am entirely blameless. Yesterday was Wednesday, the afternoon we “get off” to go to town, and 1 had a dale with a nice little girl. She's one of these blue-eyed, golden-haired kids who hasn t much sense, hut who can play Joan of Arc” and “Over There on the ukalele and who admires the tit of your uniform and the -dick of your pompadour all the time you are there. Naturally. I stayed so late I had to hire a taxi to get me back to camp in time—and at that 1 just did make it. So. of course when I go to bed so much earlier every Other night. I was so sleepy this morning that at the sound of the reveille I just couldn't get up, and so I was right in the midst of my shaving when the officer yelled, “Fall in!” But I dashed the soap off my face and ran, you had letter believe. We were drilling about ten o’clock and I thought I was doing splendidly for a recruit of two months (1 really can tell my right from my left and that's more than most of them can do) when along came Colonel Stone and with him— whom do you suppose?—Mary. Now. mamma. I ask you, what is a fellow standing at attention to do when a pretty girl, whom he has known all his life smiles at him but drop his gun and smile and tip his hat? That’s what 1 did—but evidently that isn’t the thing in army circles. Colonel Stone gave me an icy glare that would have frozen the Panama Canal and the sergeant who was drilling us turned purple with fury. the fellows roared, and Mary—kept on smiling. I picked up my gun and looked about the color I was when I was getting over measles, and tried to stand at attention, but the guy on my right was laughing so he shook my gun out of my hand. After they had passed on we went on drillingand all went well until time to wash. Then, when every mother’s darling was bending over a tub. scrubbing his khaki breeches till they attained that sickening molasses color. Colonel Stone led little Mary around to inspect the model laundry. This time I didn’t 7cant to speak. Honest Injun. I was so embarrassed I wished I could have fallen hind j art before into the tub. but I couldn’t, so I reached for the Octagon soap and went on with my socks. Ye had pork and beans and molasses and com bread and bacon and corn for dinner. There were some good-looking visitors for dinner and afterward we went over to the V M. C. A. and danced. I was almost sorry I wasn't sick when we took a peep at the non-contagious ward of the hospital because the girls raved over the lucky fellows there and promised to come again and read to them. Still, it isn’t necessary to be a sick soldier—I haven’t seen a girl yet who wouldn’t fall for a healthy one’s uniform. W hen I was going back to the Y. to write this letter, after the girls had gone. l toe tu'ruly-thrrt 1 met a seedy old major—a“ regular armv chap who thinks he knows it all. 11c is about as bow-legged as papa, so you know how funny he must look in uniform and officers hoots. Well. 1 saluted, and after I thought he was out of hearing distance I said to one of the boys with me, ‘‘Golly Moses! How docs he nrr get out of those boots?” Really, mamma, it is the hardest thing in the world to get the things off. I helped a lieutenant get his off once and I put my foot in his stomach and pulled and pulled and he kicked and kicked and I tugged and grunted for an hour, and the lieutenant wasn't even how-lcggcd, so no wonder I marveled how this fellow ever got out of his. But he heard me and the low-down thing sent me immediately to headquarters and there—I was assigned to K. I’, duty for the remainder of the week and “confined to barracks for three whole weeks! nd 1 had a date with that little blue-eved girl for Sunday night! And take it from me, K. 1 . duty isn’t much fun. picking up folks old cigarette boxes with some good-looking girls watching you and laughing at you; and j ccling potatoes for a cross old cook and cutting your finger with a jagged knife. And to think I’ll have to send one of the boys over to Alice’s and have him tell her I can’t come to see her for three weeks because I told the truth—I called an obviously bow-legged major bow-legged. Sometimes it’s not much fun I eing one of “Democracy’s Vanguard.’ As ever, your devoted son. Sammie. LT. S. A. f S — I he candy was fine. Tell Sis to make some more and be quick about it. Sara McCarty, ’IS. THE HEART OK THE HILLS Far away from the noisy city A wonderful country lies, Where the wind-flower swings And the oriole sings All day under azure skies. Tis a land of rest and beauty. And peace all this valley fills. There skies are blue And friends are true. Tis the happy heart of the hills. 1 long to dwell in this country; To rest by its rippling rills. To banish dull care. With all doubt and fear. There, in the heart of the hills. —Eva Quirk, T8. Paqt Ixrrnty-five COMMERCIAL « CLUB daughter. Then she would have—but that is not the question. I would have said that it was as nothing and that saving lives was an every-day affair with me and hence I thought nothing about it. I had rounded the curve and the puffing of the train came plainly to my ears. The rails lay out perfectly before me. I jumped from the rails and a huge freight train | Kissed by. Ah, yes. it might have been, hut it wasn't. Mac Fornky, T9. OVERHEARD Mawnin’, Sambo! “How's you? 'Tse all right. hot you lookin' so spunkeious erbout? J'sc gwine ter dc bank! “L)e bank? Nigger, whatcha think you wants at er bank? 'Tse gwine t' buy sum mo’ shrif stamps. Has you got cny ? W hot’s dem shrif stamps? “Whot's dat? You (loan know whot’s er shrif stamp? Nigger, yer eddi-kaslmn am awful. Dev's stamps you gits at dc pos' office an' bank. Dev’s ter titc dc Kcescr wid. “Whot dev cos'? Aw. nigger, shet up! I sc gwine ter tell yer all erbout hit if ver let me splain hit. Dev cos' two bits. “Whot yer do wid dem? “Yer git foah dollahs wuth an' swap dem ter er Baby Ron’. “What dey cos’? -VlU gcr’ didn t I tell you dat dey cos’ foah dollahs an’ er few cents intrust? hot dey good fer?” De gubberment will gib yer five dollahs fer hit in nin'tecn twenty-tree, an' if yer need de money Ik-foah den dey will gib yer ba’k yoah money. Wish Alt bad er hundred dollahs. Hundred dollahs? Whot yer want wid dat much? “If yer gits sieh yer gits yer money fer ver Baby Bon’? “Dat’s right. Lead me ter de bank, nigger! I’se got er quartah an’ I’se gwine jine! YlKC.lt. Wll.OKK. ’IS. fn-mfy-ntnc A DESb'RT EXPERIENCE im| and I were riding along slowly. The sun’s rays were heating down upon the vast expanse of glaring white sand that was so hot that heat waves could he seen rising from it. W e were covered with a fine grey alkali dust and our throats were as dr as pith. High overhead, three buzzards were flaming lazily in a circle. Alter a short period of silence, Ned remarked: My. how good an ice cold chocolate milk with ice cream would taste?” I told him if he did not hush I would get off and choke him. Finally Xed looked hack to see if the others were following, and as he did so. we heard his uncle, Mr. Johnson, shout for us to stop. We did so. and on looking hack saw him waving his hand frantically toward the west. l this moment something went wrong with my motor and I bent over to investigate, hut Xed on looking in the west was alarmed by what he saw, and exclaimed: “Mv goodness. look what a black cloud! It’s as black as ink.” (hi looking. I. too. was alarmed. There is a storm brewing as sure as shooting.” continued Xed. “Ves, Inn what kind of a storm?” I inquired. I don t know, hut it doesn i look like a thunder storm. returned my chum. Xed had described it as inkv black, but this description was not altogether correct, although at first sight the heavens did appear to have a sable pall over them. 'I he color of the sky before me was a greenish black with an underglow of livid copper beneath its ragged edges. While we looked on a zig-zag ribbon of lambent flame flickered across the dark curtain of cloud. It was followed by another and another until the dark cloud was slashed and tom in every direction. “Did you ever see anything like it. gasped Ned. !• ' lhis the truck carrying the tents, grub and water tank stopped close by. Mr. Johnson gave orders to make everything secure. The motorcycles were lashed to the auto and everything that stood a chance of being blown away was Made last. Ned s uncle did not say much while these preparations were being, made, but his looks spoke volumes. It was clear that he feared a terrific wind would accompany the breaking of the storm. Although it was almost dark, the atmosphere had in itself a ghastlv tinge that made our faces livid and unearthly. An odd odor also was in the air. a sulphurous smell that made our nostrils tingle. The whole desert was shrouded in a curtain of darkness and the lightning ripped and tore through the black cloud draperies, hut as yet not a drop of rain had fallen nor had a rumble of thunder resounded. Except lor the zip and crackle of the lightning there was not a sound. Motionless and wordless, we stood by the side of the automobile, watching the inky heavens. Suddenly in the sky there apj eared an extraordinary sight. Imagine a vast form similar to a balloon, slightly inclined to one side, spinning faster than the fastest top. and you have an idea of the strange sight. At the bottom the snout-like form in which the mass ended wavered about Pat e thirty-one as though feeling for something, as an octopus looking for food with one of its long arms. Front its violent motions it appeared almost as if the upper part � f the strange formation were trying to tear itself loose. Now from the face of the desert another snout was raised, attached to a similar balloon, and advanced with great rapidity toward the first strange form. The two silently whirling balloons, each of great height and so black that they stood out sharp! silhouetted against the surrounding gloom, now began a witch’s dance in the sky. Sometimes they leaned far back and then danced forward as if saluting each other. Then they would dart from each other as if repelled by some unseen force. Again they appeared about to rush into each other’s arms, only to whirl off once more and resume their weird dance in the skies. At last a low moaning noise was heard in the air. It sounded not unlike the breaking of an angry sea on a rockv coast. Suddenly, while the balloon-like forms were still going through one of their strange dances, they rushed together. ()n meeting, the two forms appeared to engage in a giant struggle. Round and round they spun, wavering, leaning, bouncing here and there as if they were having a wrestling match. All this time there was a steady roar like that of a big waterfall. Unable to speak or even move, we watched this ghastly dance, in great alarm. From time to time the lightning illumined our pallid faces. Once Ned glanced around at his uncle, whose face was set and drawn as the lightning played upon it flickering!}’. _ Suddenly there was a shout from Charlie, the guide. It’s coming this way!” ■'(let to cover, crawl under the auto and hold tight for your lives.” shouted our leader. scramble for the shelter of the heavy car followed. The lightning was now continual. No one spoke a word. In fact, even a shout would hard!} have been carried more than a hand's breadth in the car-split-ting turmoil. The air became full of sand and pebbles that stung like needles when they struck us in the face. Instinctively we lay on our faces, clutching the ground for fear of being blown away. If this pillar of cloud, or whatever it is. ever hits us.” 1 said to myself, it means ‘good-bye.’ ” I was clutching the sj okes of one of the auto's hind wheels at that moment and distinctly felt the immense machine rise an inch or so and settle back with a bump. Not even the heavy auto can remain steady in such a case, I thought with additional alarm: it will be swept away like a straw and wc will go whirling after it. to be dashed to death somewhere out on the desert.” The thought had hardly flashed through my mind when there came a glare of lightning so fearfully vivid that it seemed to scorch my eyes. Blinded for one instant, the next moment a deafening crash like the report of a huge gun deprived me of my hearing. Mow long I lay there, half stunned. I never knew, hut in reality it was not many minutes before Ned was shaking me by the shoulder. Are you all right ? he questioned. (Continued on Page 35) Pau thirty-two A FAVORITE HATH NO FRIEND Gee! I never did get myself in so much trouble before, an' all because of being a gentleman. You know my Sunday school teacher. Miss Alice? Well, she told us boys we gotta be little gentlemen, an’ always be polite an’ everything esjxscially to ladies, ’cause that's what those knights did a long time ago. So, I thought I’d try it. There was a new teacher at our school, teaehin’ my grade. V Miss Janson: know her? Well, anyway, she was uglier n ole Mix Skeggs’ cat! Regular old maid, so cross an' cranky. Hut Miss Alice said to he ’specially nice to the homely uns, so I did. VYisht I hadn't now. ’Course I didn't do much: jus' picked up things she dropped an carried her chair around for her. But she surely did like it. Smile? She grinned like a chessy-cat. Then she began to pet me. It was. “Willie, clear, you may do this,” an’ “Willie, that was perfectly correct, an’ “If all you boys were such little gentlemen as Willie.” until all the other fellows in the room began calling me, “Dear Little Willie” and “Teacher’s Pet.” 'stead of “Slats” an’ “Rill.” I don’t blame 'em, either. Hut even my fanihly wondered how come I got such good marks. Mother ast me if I was sick. Dad threw it up to Sis that I got better in conduct than she. She called me a “Goody, Goody.” You bet I pulled her hair hard. too. For a while I didn't mind, but one day Fatty an' Red an’ Cakes Alston was goin’ fishin’—playing hooky, you know, an’ goin’ down to the creek. I knew it ’cause I heard ’em whisperin'. Hut when I came near 1 heard somebody say: “Mush! Don’t let Sissy know. He might tell teacher. Me left out of the fishin’ trip? Me! who can swim botter'n any hoy in this school? Me! who onct caught a fish 'bout as long as both arms—well, anyway, as big as my front-part-ot-mv-arm. Me! who can lick Fatty I Hair any old day. an’ he’s three years older than me! Yessirec. Rob! So I had to get back like I was. This was too lonesome. Finally 1 found a peachy plan. So next day. when teacher dropped her hook. I never even looked up. Willie, will you please pick up my hook for me? Thank you. dear. csrn, I said, sorta sulky. Rut I gave the thing a kick 'fore I touched it. Then I got out a rubber band and made a lot of ammunition. Zing! Right on her glasses. W bo did that ' Your work, rthur Hlair; come here, sir'” and site led poor Fatty to the comer and made him stay there. “Hut, Miss Janson, I did it' “It is very noble i I think she said noble) of you to assume the blame. William. but rthur must suffer his own punishment.” She beamed at me over her specs. Then I tried upsetting the boy-what-sat-bchind-me’s ink. She called that an accident. Accident when I knocked it over with mv ruler! I was desp'rate So at recess I stole back and drew a picture on the l oard Poo thirty-three Dramatic Club of a teacher with a hump an’ a funny nose an' everything. Then I sneaked back out. She was hoppin’ mad all right. Who drew this disgraceful caricature?” Me.” I shook in my shoes. Go to the principal immediately.” dec! 1 hadn't counted on that. I tut I went, jus' the samcc. lie wasn't there. 1 sat on the bench, getting nervouscr and nervouser all the time Pretty soon he came. William, your teacher says you have l een rude and discourteous. This is not like you. What have you to say for yourself?” I couldn’t help but tell it all! 1 was so scared 1 nearly cried. Put he was sorta quiet, an' his eyes twinkled sometimes. Guess he understood, 'cause he jus’ made me promise not to do it again and to apologize. I did. Still, now Miss Janson don't like me at all. I get the same low marks in conduct and the same hlessin’-outs on report days from Dad. But I go a-tishin’ with the boys an' they daresn’t call me Sissy.” I show 'em. Lokktta Dent. T9. A DESERT EXPERIENCE (Continued from page 32) Yes. I'm all right. I responded, hut how about the others? Nobody hurt! Thank heaven, the climax of the storm passed us some distance to the south,” exclaimed Mr. Johnson. Had its center struck us. there would have been a different talc to tell. We should have all been caught in it like so many straws and whirled upward in that funnel, to land—who knows where!” Wei.imikn Bam.kss. ' 1.9. I'aoe thirty-five IK)VS GLEE CLUB SONG OF THE SUN SPRITE ' 1 am the sprite of the sunshine. I live 'mongst the flowers and trees, And I ride o’er the fields on a butterfly's hack. W afted along with the breeze. “I do not hide like mv brothers, Who only appear with the night. I dance and play with the birds and bees. Roaming about o'er the hills, through the leas. Living in joy-giving light. All the long day-time I wander. Careless and happy and free, Basking in I leaven-given warmness. Pleased by the beauties I see. '()h. the joy to sail over the meadows When the great sun's barely up. nd gaze on the flower-gemmed greenness, A ilew-pearl in every bright cup. There, oftimes my airy courser. Lured by the daisies’ sweets. Lets me alight and play with them While he of their pollen eats. And if. perchance, we grow weary, We pause by the murmuring creek. nd there in the fragrant iris, quietly fall asleep— Lulled by the streamlet's purling. Drows'd by the flowers’ scent. But soon we awake, and are off again. To the place where the daffodils throng. nd merrily there 'neath the maple-tree Dance to the mocking-bird's song. But when the dimni’d sun sinks low in the west. We. like the birds ami the flowers, go to rest: And 1 stable my steed ’neath a clematis vine. Then creep down the cup of a columbine. nd dream of the day that will come. Page thiriy-tevn —William Kino, ’19. GIRLS GLEE CLUB AIR CASTLES RUDELY DISINTEGRATED Jack, mother called at Saturday morning, get up. You know the garden must be worked today and you won't work after it gets warm. All right, mother. I answered, and turned over, marveling how it is I hate to go to bed so much at night and yet hate still more to get up in the morning. Kver feel that way? Peculiar, isn't it? Jack! shall 1 have to come in there and pull you out? Father this time. No, sir,” 1 answered, jumping out and hastily dressing. I’m nearly dressed already. After eye-rubbing, much yawning, running my hands through my hair, and various other formalities I am compiled to undergo before awakening, I emerge from my room, build the fire and proceed to wake the chickens up. gathering the garden tools from the chicken house. I sleepily hoe one row (about twenty feet) of beans, leaving about one-halt of them still standing and practically all the weeds and clods intact. 1 then decide to remove mv coat attd throwing my coat on the ground I proceed to yawn and stretch all over, deciding, meanwhile, the morning is too fine to waste on the mercenary though necessary occupation of gardening. The beautiful little sparrows warbling sweetly in the lovely blossoms of the large pear tree seem to invite me to loose my imagination and soar with them high into the azure to greet the rosv-hued dawn, just stealing over the scrawny outline of a machine shop in the distance. Thus tempted 1 easily fall, and in another minute I am lying on my coat, to all intents and purposes, lost to the world. My thoughts easily span the space of time and I imagine myself in turn a famous baseball player, then I am married, next a famous actor, and again a noted auto racer. Finally, most wonderful of all. I live again the life of the aviator I read of the night before, and 1 am gracefully swooping from dizzy heights to loop-the-loop and up on the tail of a Gernian Mercedes, when I am suddenly called back to Birmingham. Jack —far distant, almost in the next world, as it were. Jack! get off that ground, you’ll catch your death of cold. Here it is breakfast time and you haven’t started yet. A fine gardener you’d make! I wish you’d look at those beans! If that isn’t the limit! Murry and eat breakfast. You have all that to do over, now. Thus endeth all my dreams, not one step farther along life’s way or one whit better off. I lowever. I would part with anything I jxjssess or hope to possess rather than give up my lovely air castles! Moral: Laziness is its own reward. Jack Bryan, T9. I’tUfr thirty-mine HILLIARD LITERARY SOCIETY ONE AMERICAN Billy Craig circled his fleet machine far above the lm|K rial German dread-naught Crown Prince. This was in the early spring of 11)1? immediately preceding the entrance of the United States into the World War. Billy was from Richmond, a., and had completed his training at the Virginia Military Institute, graduating with honors. While there he had become intensely interested in aeroplanes, especially in the French war planes, which were making their first appearance at the outbreak of the war. Germany's atrocities in Belgium inflamed his ancestral wrath at injustice in any form. It suffices to say that he sailed on the next ship for France and within the month became a tnemlwr of the ground squad of the French Kscadrille. Two years passed rapidly. Lieutenant William Craig basked in the glory of his third victory over Bochc planes and incidentally his first medal for bravery. Then came the eventful day which brought the order of transference to a coast station in the north. Billy enthusiastically took up his new duties, which consisted of flights far out over the North Sea in search of enemy craft. Today Craig intuitively felt the nearness of death, nevertheless he prepared for his daily flight as eagerly as ever. He took an unusual number of bombs with him. About nine miles out he sighted the Crown Prince and immediately hove to preparatory to dropping the bombs. Too late he perceived the six German planes hearing down upon him. There was no escajK-. 1 le would not have time to drop the bombs before they would be upon him. Their machine guns opened up. firing at him from all sides “Well, they'll surely get me. he said through gritted teeth, “blit I'll sink the ship yet. One of his planes was blown completely off: his chance was gone. Like a bird with a broken wing the crippled machine fell. If I can only guide my machine so that it will fall on the ship, the boml)s will destroy it. thought Craig. Twisting the rudder, he slightly checked his downward flight and swerved the machine toward the ship. At a height of only two hundred feet a bullet from the enemy’s machine guns pierced his heart. A moment later the aeroplane crashed to the deck of the Crown Prince. Almost instantaneously a mighty detonation rent the peaceful sea as the bombs exploded. The Crown Prince sank. A few floating timbers and other debris marked the success and last effort of the heroic American and the grave of three thousand lerman sailors. The enemy planes wheeled slowly and sailed dejectedly shoreward. Frkd Sloss, T8. I’otlf forty-one 1’ikmax Litkrary Socikty MY FUNERAL That's all right, they'll be sorry when I’m gone into the great unknown. 1 exclaimed dramatically as I threw myself on the window-seat and gazed savagely on the heads of three of my friends as they passed down the street. How could they he so gay and frivolous when the whole world was dark and sad for me? Ah. 1 knew—their parents had given their consent while mine had absolutely refused. What a smooth life those girls must lead! Rarely to have one say them nay. So, I’m not criticising my parents at all. Only they arc sometimes a little too particular and this time, to my mind, they were a great deal too particular. How bright I had been only a half hour before when I went into luncheon and how very unhappy I was now! Then I had sprung the request or rather the statement (so sure had 1 been, in my ignorance, of their complete co-operation with my plans) that six of the town girls were going to visit Camp (i---- and attend the dances. I glanced around the table expecting to see delighted aj -proval light up the faces of my family—but what 1 saw there instead brought a chill fear to my heart. Rather was the first to speak. Now, daughter. (when he calls me daughter I always know the game's up ). Now. daughter. he said in a serious voice. I don’t want you to go to these army camps to dances and such things. You are getting to he a regular— well, you go to too many dances anyway. Stay at home and get a little sense into that head of yours. 1 looked at mother as appealingly as I could, hut before she could speak. Sis cut in with, in her most dignified manner. N on are entirely too young. Dot, to go to these camp dances (she had been only the week before and had come home praising the camp, the marvelous dances and the wonderful time she had had). You know only the debutantes ought to go and you have two years yet before you will lie 'out.' Mother was my last hope, hut when 1 looked at her I realized that she was a very slim one. She shook her head and said. Dorothy, dear, vour father has said that he doesn’t care for you to go and neither do 1. Resides, that 'Foreign Missionary Convention' is to meet here next week and you have a paper to read. And then, too, dearie, you haven't a new evening dress and there isn't time to plan one now. Just try and be patient. Dot. and maybe you can go next time. Mv gracious! I felt as far removed from thinking, much less reading, about the heathen as the South is from the North, and 1 wouldn’t have minded wearing my old evening dress one bit! (It’s quite becoming). Hence the cause of my oft-repeated remark. They’ll he sorry when I’m gone ! As 1 sat gazing forlornly out the window 1 repeated that sentence over and over, each time I said it more strongly than the last, til finally I found myself fairly gloating over the picture of my | oor family slowly wearing itself away with grief over their dear, loving, deceased little Dorothy! They’ll be sorry when I'm dead and buried; they’ll be sorry when I’m gone. I was saying the words in a slow sing-songs monotone, when drowsiness overcame me and 1 slept. As I slept 1 dreamt—and what a dream it was! (Continued on ('age Ifi) f vjr fortyihrer Yancky Literary Socikty BEFORE AN OPEN FIRE During our recent cold spell I had a very unique experience which might Ik interesting to those who place so much faith in dreams, and therefore I relate it for the psychologists, although scoffers may listen it they feel any interest in the subject, and in this dream who would not be interested? Returning from school on this day of which I speak, at about dusk, somewhat fatigued with the day's studies. 1 entered the living room of my home to find it deserted, and a glowing coal fire in the grate. An easy chair in front invited me to sit down for just a moment, ami I accepted the invitation. As I sat there I first thought of the events of the day, but gradually my mind fell on the war. the great war, to which everything these days will finally turn. s 1 meditated. my eyes on the coals, the surroundings of the room seemed to fade and I saw only the fire, dull red. with a few tongues of flame here ami there. Suddenly out of the flames emerged a spiked helmet, and then I seemed to see steel flashing and the flames from the guns of soldiers. A row of Americans, black against a red hack ground, charged forward. Old Glory waving in front. I turned in my chair. What 1 saw was hut one of the war posters that I had seen tacked around the walls at school. I half closed my eyes again; this time I saw nothing at first, but gradually a great expanse of dark fields appeared, strangely bare, with only a sort of ditch in the distance; in the background still glowed the red, hut now I saw it only in flashes. On the left, under the overcast sky, I made out the sea. and on it were many ships. To me it was a strange picture, one which I had never seen before and vet one which seemed familiar. Then it came to me in a flash. I remembered the sjwaker at school, and his statement that the Allies would be pushed back to the Atlantic Ocean, fighting foot for fr ot. and that there they would make a final stand. This then was the Flanders front, near Calais—yes. that town with the smoke rising from it must he Calais itself. Suddenly 1 seemed to hear the crack of rifles and machine guns, and the rumble of cannon. From the dark line in the distance which now I recognized to he the German trench. I perceived a long line of soldiers in gray uniforms spread and start toward me. Now 1 could not see them for the shells of the barrage hurst right before me. Then, just before me. 1 saw another trench in which waited another line, a thin line, of soldiers facing the oncoming Germans. They were dressed in khaki—they were Americans. I could hear them talking. I learned that this was the last charge: if they lost, the Germans would win Calais; but if they won. the German .advance would be stopped and the whole German army crushed and thrown hack. The smoke cleared away, and the next instant the enemy were over the top. There was much shouting and the whole picture seemed to revolve for a minute, and then I saw the trench again. It was still filled with the men in khaki. Democracy had won again. Then the forms hecame confused and the flames lcaj� ed once more up the chimney. Now. however, the chair began to rock slightly and suddeni) I found myself in an airplane high above the earth. Below me was a river—3 blue river with long fields on either side. Across this river ran man) | ontoon bridges, and huge snake-like lines of men marched across them. What could this be? What Paae forty-five river was this? it could he none other than the Rhine, and this must he another strategic retreat of the Kaiser. A reddish hue still hung over the scene, but this time it appeared that the Hashes of the cannon came from the French side of the line. Glancing toward the tail of the plane, in this direction. I could see long lines of Allied cavalry and armored cars, attacking the German rear. Once more war was in the open and cavalry had come into its own. 'Phis was not a retreat—it was a rout, and now we were lighting on German soil. The cannon approached nearer and nearer—the red light got brighter, and again the whole was merged in a chaos of fiame. And now I saw two groups of men facing each other—it was Washington receiving the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. 1 distinguished the red coats of the British and the dark blue of the American. Then Washington and Cornwallis seemed to fade away and 1 saw the room at Appomattox Courthouse with Lee and Grant, l.ee sat at the table writing, his officers arranged around him. and Grant with his staff stood on the other side. Once more the light deepened and brightened and now appeared a scene which no artist’s brush lias yet painted. On one side of a plainly furnished room, in a library in Cologne, stood a tall, slender officer in the uniform of a Prussian field commander, ten officers in full dress liesidc him: on the other side a general in khaki. nce is fa- miliar to all Americans. Behind him ranged officers of five nations in the bright uniforms of France. Italy and Belgium, and the darker ones of England and the United States. I am looking on the surrender of the Crown Prince of Germany to General Pershing, commander of the llied arms. The world is safe for Democracy. 1 hear the old Liberty Bell in Philadelphia ringing. Hurrah! 1 turn over again in my chair and find that the hell is ringing for dinner and all this is only a dream— Yes, that’s only a dream, says everyone, but let them remember that dreams sometimes come true.” Ai.frkd ( )i.nky. 18. MY FUNERAL ( Continued from fatje 43) I he day had arrived for the girls to leave for the cantonment and for the opening of the convention. As my chums were going to the station I was walking to the church! 1 was terribly disappointed (1 had hoped ’til the last minute), almost heart-broken and just about ready to weep! Mother kissed me good-bye (it was well that she did in view of what followed) and told me to try and forget it. As if I could! Sis contributed the comforting remark that I could go in two years when I was a little older. ( I wonder why she always alludes to my age at the most inopportune moments? Besides, she is only two years old than I). Then came the accident. As I crossed a busy thoroughfare an immense auto truck bore down upon me and knocked me—stone dead! They took me home. Then came the funeral. In all my planning on former occasions had I ever conceived anything so perfect! I lay in state a perfect rosebud among the hundreds that surrounded me.” to quote my mother, with a martyr-like expression on my face. (Continued on patje 7) Pao• forty -xix This year '1 lie Mirror’s friends in the world of Exchanges have proven to he very interesting as well as instructive. The Exchange Editors have tried to be as frank and fair as possible, and they feel that the Exchanges have accepted their criticisms in the same spirit. May each Exchange be with us next fall, and here’s to a jolly vacation 1 LAST LICKS Dobra. Newport. Ky. Dandy little magazine. The I tumble It.” Moonc, Iowa—Exchanges arc woeful!) slighted. His Choice is an exceedingly excellent story. The Kollo. Lewiston. Maine—Good magazine, but there is room for improvement. The Oracle, Des Moines, la.—A very thorough magazine. May your Poets Corner prosper. Your Exchange Eds. have, wc hope, made a unique and forward step in the realm of Exchanges. The Ouill, New Brighton. N. Y.—Your editorial on “April Sixth” has a very clear-cut and convincing ring. Your literary department needs improvement. The Roman. Rome. Ga.—AYe enjoyed The Iron Cross. The Salem Oak. Salem. N. J.—We are delighted to welcome you as an exchange. Your Exchange Eds. are to l:e congratulated on the size and thoroughness of their department. The Signal. Columbia. 'Penn.- If you would add a tabic of contents, an exchange department and put your jokes under a single department, your magazine would he much improved. 'Pile Spectator. Trenton, N. J.—It is a had policy to run an ad after your table of contents, as you did in your March number. Democracy and Imperialism is very interesting. The Tattler. Pensacola, Ela.—Wc enjoy “I. II. Wise. Lilly in Command is a very touching story. The Oracle. Montgomery. la.—An excellent magazine. Your dramatic activities are most interesting. . PAPERS College Topics—University of Virginia. West High Weekly—Minneapolis. Minn. Page 1or iy seven Ocalcean Ensign—Ocala. Fla. The Crimson-W hite—I'nivcrsity of Alabama. The Ring-turn I 'hi—Washington and Lee. The X-Ray—Sacramento, Cal. ()range and Blue—Auburn. Ala. Utolakcan—Kissimmee, Ha. The Athenian—Athens, Ala. The Record Monthly- Wheeling. Va. Central High News—Minneapolis. Minn. ELIXIR OF LIFE Fat (on way to jail)— There goes your hat. Let me get it for you.” Cop— Shure. and wouldn't I he a foine one? N on stay here and 1 11 chase it meself. —Ex. Mow long will I have to wait for a shave? asked Fred Williams as he entered the barber shop. “About a year, said the barker, glancing at his youthful face. Fat, whose regiment was in action, became frightened, and started in a run for the rear. An officer called on him, Halt or I'll fire! Fat increased his speed. Foire away: what’s one bullet to a bushel of ’em? Burrus—“Can a person lie punished for something he hasn’t done? Mr. Counsclman— Of course not. Burrus— Well, 1 haven't done my ’Trig.’ ” � Murphy— Kennedy says his home is heated by hot air. High Student— Then it is well heated. I’ve heard him talk.” Ben Cooper— Have you seen A1 ? Herston Cooj er— A! who? Ben— Alcohol. 1 la-ha-ha-ha !’’ Herston— Kerosene him awhile ago. but he hasn't benzine since. Akers— W hat command can you execute the easiest? High School Battalion (in unison)— Rest. Hawaii ?’’ “Hungary. Then let me Fiji Turkey Greece Inde-China. Aw, Guam! I’ai f forty-eight HAPPENINGS IN HIGH SCHOOL Fires way conic ami schools way go. Bui Centrals spirit goes on forever.’ An example of how true tins is was shown on the morning of April IP, when the pupils of Medical College met those of the adjoining annexes to dedicate the new open-air auditorium just hack of the Medical College building. Dr. Brown conducted the dedication exercises and thanked the student body and the faculty on their splendid co-operation. Commissioner J. K. I lornady congratulated the children and also the citizens of llirmingham on the manner in which we have answered the enemy's attempt to break up our school, and put the matter of the mill tax and million dollar bond issue forcibly before us. Dr. Phillips also talked to the hoys and girls ami spoke enthusiastically of the future of Birmingham schools. The performance of the hand, under the direction of Mr. Sewatl was also a pleasant surprise. Notwithstanding the fact that we had no auditorium until a few weeks ago. we have had many lecturers and speakers of note. Mr. Paul Goode front the University of Chicago was one of the interesting lecturers of the Lyceum Course Everybody who heard the Prussian Dream « f World Conquest came away with a clearer idea of what America is lighting against. A message of optimism at the beginning of the Great German drive was the lecture hv Major Ian I lay llielh. the author of the popular book, The First 1 lundred Thousand. Miss McClain, the president of the Red Cross of Birmingham, gave a talk to the Senior Class girls which thrilled every one. She told of the worthy work of nursing which awaited them after graduation and of the many advantages it held. During the campaign for the benefit of the Girls' Industrial School. Miss Tda Gelders spoke to the Senior Class and asked their help. Consequently a basketball game was given by the girls' teams for this cause On April SO the Senior Class assembled to hear a most wonderful talk by Major George W. Simmons of the Red Cross. Major Simmons has just returned from the front, has been all up and down the line and has much inside knowledge of the real situation. He showed the pupils several pieces of the soldier's impedimenta. the tin hat. the trench cap and the gas helmet. With Major Simmons was Mr. Givens, of Florence. Ala., who is the father of the first American hero wounded at the front. Major Simmons told the students of the heroic action of this young man. Sergeant Homer Gibbons, who was afterward given a Croix dc Guerre.” It stirred the heart of every student. Mr. R. A. Ross, sociologist of the University of Wisconsin, was another interesting lecturer of the Lyceum Course. He gave two lectures. May 2 and 3, on Russia and Social Revolution in Russia. Pagt foriynint Our Open-Air AUDITORIUM Central High School is proud to announce a 100 per cent membership in the Junior Division of the American Red Cross and approximately $450 in membership fees. Many members of the faculty have organized units which are doing excellent work. Largely by means of the funds donated by Coach Thomas, the proceeds fresit the last football game of the season, the seven units then organized for practical work were put on a paying basis. They were those belonging to Miss Prender-gast. Misses Cross and Little. Misses Moody and Dickinson. Misses Lush and Koch. Miss Robinson, Miss Dickson and Miss Montgomery. Several of these units have added materially to their funds by various entertainments, the first of which was a basketball game between Miss Ransom’s and Miss Pendergast's units. This game was well advertised and netted approximately $100 for the Red Cross. The Shadow 1 'arty given at Paul Haync on April 22 by the units of Misses Robinson and Tilles was unique and enjoyable affair, as was also the Measuring Party given bv Miss Moody and Miss Dickinson's unit. Coach Thomas has brightened the hopes of the organization by generously offering part of the proceeds of all athletic activities until the Athletic Association shall become self sup|K� rting. after which time he offers to donate all the proceeds of the game to the “cause . I; if teen rahs for Coach! Besides contributing money, the various units have also done a large amount of valuable work. Among the first units to knit for the soldiers and make garments for refugee women and children were those organized by Misses I’render-gast. Moody and Dickinson. Bush and Koch and Robinson. Miss Tides' unit has made a number of dresses for refugee children and has also donated a large bundle of old kid gloves to be made into aviator's vests. Miss Ransom's girls devote their Saturday mornings to the making of refugee garments and to doing surgical dressing work at Loveman's. The girls in Miss Montgomery and Mrs. La Rue's unit spend every Thursday afternoon after school in the sewing room making complete outfits for refugee children and babies. Miss Dickson's girls have been making babv layettes of which a number of complete sets are already on their way to Prance. Miss Dryer's unit has been making khaki handkerchiefs and scrap-books for the soldiers. Miss Comer's Art Club has also made a number of scrap-books and members of the club do gauze and bandage work at Loveman's on Saturday mornings. Two alumnae—Misses Helen Jackson and Dorothy A! len—have organized units for bandage work on Saturday morning at Loveman’s and have made approximately 5oo bandages. It may seem that the girls have been doing all the Red Cross work, hut this is by no means true, for the hoys under Mr. Graves have done a most valuable work in making and selling boxes for the Red Cross. The Red Cross Department has been more than pleased by the enthusiasm shown by the High School as a whole and is looking forward to carrying on the work with even more enthusiasm next year. The gauze bandage work will be carried on all summer and those who wish to join the classes may do so at Love-man’s. I’aur fifty-onr I Iif High School students have been hard at work tor the last three months saving their money to buv Thrift Stamps ami W ar Saving Stamps. We have been trying to till our forty-thousand-doliar quota. and we would have succeeded if we had only had a lull semester, hach session room has been organized and the agents have been very active in selling the stamps. Miss linden encouraged her pupils to bring their pennies to her. so that she could save the coins for them and convert them into Thrift Stamps. 'This and other schemes were followed in the various classes. Those in charge of the campaign are anxious that the students shall continue to buy stamps during the summer months, although these stamps will give no credit to the school agency. W e must remember that we are buying for onr country and not for our school. As a report for the work done up to May IK. Chairman Clyde Kennedy has turned in the following statement: Medical College—seven societies_______________________$11..SM0.25 Annexes—ten societies______________________________ ti.0£j).ir� Paul I layne—sixteen societies________________________ U.II I..It Grand total------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.!� ( :{,!)t About six weeks ago Miss Handley suggested to her music classes that they form a Buftalo Nickel Club for the purpose of buying 'Thrift Stamps and encourage thrift itself. 'These have been organized in every music class, with a captain and a lieutenant and up t.� date they have bought about $400 worth of 1 fiTiit Stamps with buffalo nickels alone. 'The first period class has succeeded especially, saving about $100. All Thrift Stamps go toward the credit of the purchasers. The movement has been enthusiastically received and Miss Handley hopes next year to include the entire school in her plans. One of the most enjoyable programs of the school term was that given by the music department for the benefit of the equipment, of that department. Scenes from operas were presented in costume with the stories of the opera, told by Dorothy Bowron. before each scene. The High School orchestra, under the direction of Miss Kitts, played several numbers. 'The program was as follows: hascination—( Marchetti)---------------------------1 Ijgh School Orchestra Knowest Thou That Fair I.and (Mignon)............................ Thomas Elizabeth Ransom Elsa’s Dream—( Lohengrin) __________________________________________Wagner Margaret Hillhouse: Maids. N’allie Mae Casey. Mary Privctt Nina Sides, Elizabeth Jones The Perfect Melody tO’Hara)..........................High School Orchestra Mieaela’s Aria (Carmen)______________________________________________Bizet Elisc Kinney Page fifty-two Death of Valentine (Faust) _______________________________________Goethe Valentine—James Smiley; Marguerite—Margaret Hillhouse; Martha Elizabeth Jones. Chorus of Villagers—Marv Privett. Irene Schwartz, Nallie Mae Casey, Nina Kate Sides. Myrtle Painter, Helen Davis. Louise Hernandez, Virginia Holmes, Lillie Maddox. Lillie Gordon, Fred Sloss. Odell Garrison, James Rittenbcrry, Hubert Norris, Millard Reynolds. Fred Colley, Herston Cooper. Virgil Wilder, Douglas Hester. The Legend of the Rose-----------------------------High School Orchestra Waiting Scene—Madame Butterfly _________________________________Puccini Madame Butterfly Josephine Hay low; Suzuki (Maid), Mary Kinney; Trouble, Madame Butterfly’s child. Virginia Sharpies. The Mirror Board presented tile High School a beautiful tnerican flag on May in in the new auditorium. Mr. Ben Cooper made the presentation speech on behalf of the Mirror and Mr. James Robertson, president of the Senior Class, accepted the flag on behalf of the school. Wc hope that next year we shall have a pole on which the flag may Ikj raised as part of each day’s exercises. ’1 he Seniors went over the top” this year in the selection of their play and cast. They scored a big success and had a real playhouse in which to present it. The Orchestra, scenery and crowd furnished reasons for the comment. Best yet! 11 tirrah tor the new library. Play—Green Stockings. Cast Celia—Emily Thompson. Aunt Ida—Mora Burrus. Phyllis—Katherine Lynch. Madge—Frances I flair. Evelyn—Rosalie Engel. Bobby—Dan Coyle. Mr. Faraday—Verbon Kemp. Admiral Grice—Leon Gandy. Steele—Clyde Kennedy. Raleigh—Edwin Gumming. Col. Smith—Homer Russell. Suzanne— Anabel Stith. The Art Club gave their annual picnic at Queenstown. Saturday, May IS The party left Birmingham in a large truck about five o'clock in the afternoon returning later in the evening. The Curry will give their annual picnic at Queenstown on Friday, May 31, the Yancey is looking forward to their picnic at West Lake on June the first, and the Hilliard will give their banquet at the Tutwiler on the night of the thirty-first. Since we could not have the joint debate this year, more interest than ever before was taken in the oratorical contests. Both of the contests were held in the lunch room, the boys' on the tenth, the girls' one week later. All the se- Pflor fifty-three lections had a patriotic appeal, and were thoroughly enjoyed by everybody. In the boys' oratorical, the speeches were: Wilson’s Flag Day Address -Ben Cooper, of the Vaneev. Verdun. by Raymond Poncairc—Jim Jackson, of the Curry. Henry L. Stinson’s The Issues of the Conflict —Clyde Kennedy of Uie Hilliard. The Stars and Stripes.” by Simmons—Arthur Mason, of the Yancey. America Enters the War.” by David Lloyd George—Fred Williamson, of the Curry. Shoulders Together.” by Franklin K. Lane—Verbon Kemp, or the Hillard. The judges gave team work to the Yancey, first place to Clyde Kennedy, and second place to Arthur Mason. The girls' selections were: The Last Class’—Mora Burrus, of the Aglaia. They Claim Aloud”—Louise Puckett, of the Clio. In This Cross, Conquer Katherine Williams, of the Astraca. A Man W ithout a Country Harriet Smith, of the Pierian. Jean Dos Brez —Dora Mae Vincent, of the Aglaia. For France”—Helen Rube!, of the Astraca. The Three Things —Anabcl Stith, of the Clio. “Her Country”—Frances Blair, of the Pierian. „ The judges awarded team work to the Clio, first place to Harriet Smith, and second place to Louise Puckett. The High School Battalion has made marked progress and now drills almost like West Pointers. But all this has not been gained without much hard and steady practice. On March there was a sham battle tatween Companies A and B at Edge wood. Company A fortified the club-house and stationed many guards and sharp-shooters around at various places. Company B. after a very careful and well planned approach, attacked the fortified club and took it. killing many men and taking prisoners. There were several skirmishes after this, in which both sides showed remarkable ability. On Liberty Day the Battalion took part in the parade and made a good showing. Many of the High School students also marched in the parade, carrying flags. ()wing to the departure of Warfield Wood to Sheffield, Ala., Percy Brown has been made Lieutenant Adjutant of the Battalion. On Thursday, May !� , Companies A and B held a competitive wall-scaling contest at Magnolia Park. It was very closely contested and both companies made worthy records. Company B won the contest. Page fifty-four AGLA1A AGLAIA President -........-.....— M® BuITJJS Vice-President ------------------------------------- 1 osa M Walston Secretary -....................................... Kliraf.etli Webb Treasurer _________________________________________________Ruth 1 Titian Executive Committee---------------------------Eva Quirk, Hazel Haynes Membership Committee-----Clara Mae dc Lony. Velma Riggs. Louise Burnis Critic _________________________________________________Miranda Herndon ART CLUB President--------------- Vice-President---------- Secretary--------------- Treasurer--------------- Executive Committee — Press Committee--------- President--------------- Vice-President---------- Recording Secretary----- Corresponding Secretary Treasurer--------------- Executive Committee --Membership Committee Critic------------------ President--------------- Vice-President_________ Secretary--------------- Treasurer -------------- Executive Committee_____ Membership Committee. Critic_________________ ---------------------------Julia Bowers -------------------------Romainc Proctor __________________________Wilbur Leake ________________________Margaret McCall _____________Trelle Moon, Sarah Balsam __________Martha Montgomery, Martha Hill ASTRAEA CLIO _____________Sarah McCarty _________Catherine Williams _________Lucia May Giddens ______________Mildred Toler _______________Ruth Pi tit tan __Loretta Dent, Gladys Lyon Tekla Blach, Lena Knighton _____________Marjorie Moore _______________________________ Lillys Rockett _______________________________Rosalie Engel ____________________________________I-oy Hall ___________________________ Elizabeth Ransom __________________ nabel Stith, Edith Starbuck Louise Puckett. Susie Reed Morton, Grace Carr COMMERCIAL CLUB Eula Jacob President------ Vice-President Secretary----- {‘aye fifly-fivt ____Eva Early Esther Temerson Esther Coplon Treasures............................................. Etna Dodd Corresponding Secretary____________________________________ Eva Quirk Executive Committee------------...Vera Williamson. Elizabeth Wilkcrson Membership Committee- -.Annie Greenhurg, Dora I pchurch. Hannah Koplan Press Committee--------------------------Elsie Wertheimer, Rose Keinburg Critic---------------------------------------------------Julius Stein CURRY President-------------------------------------------- Hcrston Cooper Vice-President_____________________________________________Jim Jackson Recording Secretary--------------------------------------- Karl Holmes Corresponding Secretary------------------------------Wellborn Bayliss Treasurer ------------------------------------------ I-'red Williamson Third Member Standing Committee-------------------------- David Buck Custodian ------------------------------------------ Bcauford Bledsoe Librarian----------------------------------------------- Joe Duncan Critic--------------------------------------------------Virgil Wilder Press Committee-----------------Louis Pollock. Ben Shapiro, Abram Band DRAMATIC President--------------------------------------------------------Clyde Kennedy Vice-President------------------------------------------Verbon Kemp Secretary----------------------------------------------- Rosalie Engel Treasurers---------------------------------James Smiley, Anabel Stith BOYS’ GLEE CLUB President -------------------------------------------- Lucian Allgood Vice-President -----------------------------------------Charles Miller Secretary--------------------------------------------Jim Rit ten berry Treasurer----------------------------------------------- Beatty Tanner GIRLS’ GLEE CLUB President--------------------------------------------- Helen Davis Secretary-Treasurer---------------------------------Margaret Hillhouse HILLIARD President----------------------------------------------Verbon E. Kemp Vice-President...................................... Clyde Kennedy Recording Secretary-------------------------------------Clarence Cox Corresponding Secretary_________________________________Albert Wynn Treasurer--------------------------------------------Milton Coplon Third Member Standing Committee______________________ Douglas Hester Custodian_______________________________________________Jack Hale Critic --------------------------------------------- Kirby Hammond Press Committee--------------------------------------------Louis Fox LA SOC1EDAD CAST ELLA X A” President--------------------------------------------Lizzie Lee Allsup first Vice-President___________________________ Mildred T tier Second Vice-President ...............................Sue Edith Smith Secretary-----■----------------------------------------- Lula Courtney Treasurer............................................ Florine Ha good I'agt fifly tix Third ‘Member Standing Committee____________________________Trelic Moon Critic----------------------------------------------------Jewel Ha good Membership Committee—Lucile Mills, Bluniic Shugarman, Josephine Flora Turner PI BRIAN President_________________ Vice-President------------ Secretary ---------------- 'l'reasurer_______________ 11xeculive Committee------ Membership Committee— sliavv. Critic.................... Press Committee___________ -------------------------------- Wilbur Leake ------------------------------ Mary Eva Wood ------------------------------Katherine Lynch ------------------------------Esther Kennedy ------------------Lillie Maddox. Harriet Smith Mary Brown Roberts. Rose Roberts, ('.race Rrad- ---------------------------------- Julia Riser ---Julia Bowers, Pearle Bell Odom, Frances Blair VANCEV President-------------------------------------------------------------Ben Cooper Vice-President______________________________________________________James Robertson Recording Secretary ---------------------------------------- Tom Moore Corresponding Secretary______________________________________________Leon Gandy 'Treasurer____________________________________________ Allison Loventhal Third Member Standing Committee____________________________ Alfred Olney Press Committee---------- mislead Leake, Romaine Proctor, Bcrney Perry MV FUNERAL (Continued from page 46) My father, poor man, seemed grieved to distraction and kept saying over and over that it was his fault, that he should have allowed me to go to the camp and that he blamed himself for the accident. Even Louise seemed to care that I was gone. Ah, she at last realized my value even if I only served as someone for her to argue with. She told a neighbor that she felt so sorry about the way she had talked to me as I left home on that fatal day. that I was such a dear little girl when 1 wanted to Ik ! Then they took me away. I awoke with a start. Sis was shaking me rudely by the shoulder, reminding me that it was time to dress for dinner. Ah. me, then 1 hadn't been delivered from this world of disappointments by sweet death! I would have to go on. I assumed an expression of martyrdom, of the heroine of a hopeless cause and started to dress, whispering to myself as I arranged my hair, “They’ll be sorry---- ! t'avt fifty-seven Katherine Byrd, ’18. COACH THOMAS Coach II. I.. Thomas came to us late in this year’s football season, but since then has established himself at Central. From a late start in football he piloted the Central boys to the top round in the championship struggle, l ie gave us a good basketball team, although practice was broken by several unavoidable events. As it was. they were tip to the standard. The baseball team is as strong as usual, despite the light material used. Ml of these successes are due to the work of Coach Thomas. He has made athletics hum around Central this year. Working under difficulties that no other coach at Central has ever encountered, he has given us as good teams as any of his predecessors. We will be able to see next year what he really can accomplish if given a fair chance. Wc hope to see three championship teams at Central next year, and if anv one can make them, it is Coach Thomas. - THE YEAR'S REX IEXV This years football team was one of the best that Central has ever produced and you know that it was “some team.” Although Coach Thomas arrived late in the season and was under a great handicap, in that this was his first experience with Southern boys, he certainly came up standing. Central played seven games, losing only one, and that bv one point and to a prep, school of well known ability. Those who were at the games know how our boys played. We certainly are proud of them. They arc Captain Hall (that is). Captain Craig (that was). Captain Jones (that is to be), Shine Montgomery. Joyce Levvy, Lionel Levvy, James Doster, Toto Jaffe. Karl Stokes. Harry Watkins, Clay Jack-son. Morel Montgomery. Joel Hall. basketball was not fjuitc the success that we could have wished for. hut it was not so bad. ()ut of nine games played Central won seven. One game with Sidney Lanier was lost, but by one point only, and on a foreign court, while Central defeated them here by ten points, so we still have things in our favor. Howard defeated us by four points after having been beaten by us by thirteen points, leaving us still the favorites in point of score. All the troubles that visited Central came in basketball season, both the two weeks recess and the fire. After the tire it was decided that the season should he cut short, as the team was unable to practice regularly together. Next year's captain has not yet been chosen. The letter men are Captain Shine Montgomery, Flcmmon Hall. Fritz Jones. “Obie” Newman. Milton Griffin, “Rill” Moughon and Cambridge Norris. Page fifty-eight The baseball season is coining along fine now for Central. The team is essentially a “kids' team, By this wc mean, composed of the younger, smaller boys of the school. This is very unusual, as these boys are generally very backward in coming out for the team. Coach's smile and good word for everyone has evidently won the boys over. They certainly arc giving him all that is in them, for he has a bunch” of boys who don't know how to sjjcII quit. The team deserves much praise for what they have accomplished in the face of all the difficulties that have beset them this year. All the baselxdl equipment was destroyed on the night of February 11th, but the spirit of baseball was only strengthened. In all five games played up to date Central has been victorious with a total of Hi | oints to her opponents' 11. The l oys who are fighting for Central arc Griffin, Crane. Mcl.aughin. Jake Levy, Reynolds. Hahn. I). Robertson. Snowden. Duddy, Babe Levy. Henderson, Bond. Ed Robinson and Goldstein. The Athletic Association is entering into the Red Cross work with its full strength. The varsity team played in one exhibition game for the l enefit of the boys Over There. Also in the game played against Jefferson County High, two-thirds of the gross gate receipts were turned over to the Red Cross. This work is highly commendable and we hope that it will continue. The girls' Red Cross units played two games of basketball, late in the season, for the benefit of the Junior Red Cross. The details of these games arc not available. but they drew a large attendance and were both well played. Some money was cleared on each game. OUR NEW GYMNASIUM The new gym has been finished and we have moved in. Although it is not fully equip| cd yet. both boys and girls have bad classes regularly. It has a floor space equal to that of the old gym. but there is no running track or balcony. Dressing rooms or stalls have been made in a room in the rear of the building. Lockers for the equipment have been constructed under the seats in the dressing room. Four showers with both hot and cold water are in one end of the dressing room, while wash basins are in the other. The hot water is furnished by a self-regulating heater which keeps the water just below the boiling point all the time. We are all thankful that the Board of Education saw fit to appropriate money for the construction of a gymnasium when money is a very scarce article in the school fund treasury. Coach Thomas is well pleased with the new gym, as are all the pupils. B1RMI.YGI I M COLLEGE, i� : CENTRAL. On May In Central met her old rivals on Mlinger Field, where she defeated them by a to 0 score. Central’s men played their usual game, except Levy. Levy must surely have run into a jinx somewhere, for he allowed four hits and fanned only seven men. McCoy, of Birmingham College, was the man of the day. fanning eleven men. The two Levys are some base stealers. This is the I'aae fifty-nine second game in which they have each stolen two bases. Norton played a good game for the College. Centra! Birmingham College AB R 11 ro A E AB R II PO A F. Griffin, 2b 0 n i 2 2 Norton, cf ... 1 0 1 0 0 1 McLaughlin, ss_ — 1 n n 4 •) v 1 Malone. 2b _ 4 0 1 1 n 0 Malm, rf 1 0 3 0 0 Miller. c_ 4 0 0 11 o 1 J. Levy, p ... 1 1 l 0 3 V Stancell, lb 3 0 0 9 0 I Goldstein. 3b —_ 1 1 1 1 1 0 I’allenger, 3b ... 4 0 1 3 1 0 Reynolds, c 0 1 8 1 0 Mike, ss 0 0 0 3 1 I. Lew. cf_ 0 1 2 1 0 Evans. If _ . 3 0 0 0 0 1 Duchlv. lb 3 0 0 8 0 2 McCoy, p ... 4 0 1 1 4 0 Crane. If 0 0 0 0 0 Byars, rf ... 4 0 0 2 1 1 31 3 1 27 10 i 34 0 4 27 1 11 r� Two-base hit. Malone: safe hit. Crane; double play. Mcl.aughlin to Duddy; base on balls. Levy 2. McCoy 1 : struck out, by Levy 7, McCoy 11 : stolen bases. Norton. McLaughlin. Goldstein, Levy 2. I. Levy 2. Umpire. Little. BESSEMER. 2; CENTRAL. 7 Our return engagement with Bessemer was played at Mungcr Field on May 3. The Cadets from school were there and passed m review before the Commissioners. W e also had the High School Land, which livened up the crowd. This is the first time that so many of our High School activities have been represented at one time at one place. The crowd was jolly and everybody had a good time, incidentally seing a good game of baseball. Griffin and McLaughlin shared scoring honors with two each. “Jake. as usual, laid the visitors low. fanning eleven men. 'Phis will be a memorable occasion. Central Bessemer AB R 11 PO A E AB R 11 PO A E Griffin, 2b 5 2 2 2 4 1 Winters. 2b_ 4 i 0 0 1 l McLaughlin, ss. 5 o 2 i 0 0 Cox. lb 1 1 4 0 0 Hahn, rf 5 0 0 0 0 0 Skews, cf 1 I 0 2 0 0 J. Levy, p 0 3 2 3 0 Harrison. If I 0 I 1 0 1 Goldstein, 3b — 3 0 0 0 1 0 Lowry, p .{ u 1 1 1 0 Reynolds, c 1 1 0 11 0 1 Johnson. ss_ 3 0 0 4 1 1 I Levy, cf — _ 1 I 0 1 0 0 Merritt. 3b _ 8 0 0 0 2 3 Duddv, lb _ 3 1 0 8 1 I Hawkins, rf 3 0 0 1 n 0 Crane. If — _ 4 0 1 2 0 1 Luck, c 3 o 1 11 0 1 Robertson, ss _ _ 0 0 0 0 1 0 - . Robinson. 3b ___ 1 0 0 0 0 0 32 2 4 21 5 4 1 lender son. cf 0 () 0 0 0 0 38 I 9 27 10 3 Two-base hit. McUughlin; three-base hits. Griffin, McLaughlin: double plays. Goldstein to Duddy; triple play. Johnson to Cox; base on balls. Levy 2, Pane sirly Lowry ; struck out, by Levy II. Lowry 10; stolen bases. (‘.ritTin. McLaughlin. J. Levy 2, Reynolds, I. Levy 2, Duddy. BESSEMER, 2; CENTRAL. April l!� saw one of the annual B. II. S.-C. II. S. battles. Central went over the top and put Bessemer to riot 5 to 2. Jake Levy’s well-directed attack at the center of their line completely baffled them and therefore their fall. (Iriffin played his usual game, bringing in two of Central’s five runs. Jake certainly is showing up well this year, and should lie one of Central’s brightest stars next year. In this game lie allowed only one hit. while Central made eight, lie fanned'' twelve men. Bessemer only six. The team is rounding out nicely now and cer-tainlv ought to tack on some more victories for Central. Central Bessemer AB R H PO A E AB R II PO A E Griffin. 2l _ — 1 0 2 1 n 0 inters. 2l .. 3 0 0 3 3 0 Reynolds, ct __ 3 1 0 i) 0 2 Cox. 11 3 n 0 i) 0 1 Hahn, rf - _ __ 3 n 0 6 1 0 Skews. If 3 0 1) 1 0 0 J- Levy, p __ I 1 1 13 1 0 Harrison, ct-. 3 It 0 • 0 1 Mclwtughlin. s . — 3 0 1 0 2 0 Lowry, rf and P— 1 0 0 3 1 Goldstein. 3I 3 0 0 0 1 0 Johnson, ss — 3 0 0 3 •J ■N. 1 Duddy, lb 4 0 1 8 0 n Merritt. 3b 3 1 1 0 1 1 Crane, If — 3 1 1 1 0 0 1 lawkins. p 3 0 0 fi (1 n Henderson, ss 1 0 1 0 0 0 Buck, c 3 0 0 3 0 1 Robinson, 3b 1 0 0 0 0 0 I. Levy, If.. — . n 0 0 0 0 0 25 •J V 1 27 Jt (i 34 . ) 8 27 J) 3 Hits off Hawkins (I in I innings. Lowry 2 in I innings. J. Levy I : safe hits. J. Levy, Hahn. Cox, Skews; double plays. Winters to Cox. McLaughlin to C.rif-tin to Duddy: base on balls. Levy 3, Hawkins I. Lowry 2: struck out, Levy 1. Hawkins 2. Lowry I. Played in Bessemer. MOODY. IS; BUSH. 1 Miss Moody’s Reel Cross baseball team defeated that of Miss Bush on April I' hy :i score of Is to I. The varsity team upheld Miss Moody and a picked team defended Miss Bush, while both were slugging the Kaiser’s “Frightfulness.’' 1 hey had an enthusiastic crowd, although it might have been somewhat larger. I here were 200 persons there, showing that the units had been working hard. Griffin was the hard hitter of the game, making two two-base hits. Hannah, of the Bush team, was the hero of the clay, making their lone score. The proceeds of this game, which was about $-15, went to the Red Cross. I wo-base hits, Griffin 2, J. Levy. Duddy, Irwin Levy; struck out. Levy 2. Pow J, Jaffee 1 ; base on balls. Pow 3, Jaffee 2. Moughon 4 ; safe hits. Griffin. Hahn. Umpires, McGowan, Proctor. Page sixty-out CENTRAL. 22: YOUXG ANN', 3 On April — Central met the Young vS: V ann nine at Smithfield 1’ark. The young salesmen were defeated hy the enormous score of 22 to 3. Central had a walk-awav game from the second inning. The only outstanding feature of the game was a home run hv Reynolds. All of the Crimson's men played well and Coach Thomas soon gave all the fellows a chance. Levy, who pitched for Central, held his own with l.'t strike-outs. Donelson. who was with Central last year, played a good game for Young • aim, fanning nine men. followed bv Shine Montgomery. with 2. Levy allowed only three liases on balls and three hits. JEFFERSON COIWTV IIlOH. ♦: CENTRAL HIGH, 9 Central's first baseball game was played against Jefferson County High, who were defeated in a hotly contested game of eleven innings, by a score of 9 to 7. Jefferson had a good team, working well together, but in the end Central outplayed them. They have fewer candidates for the team than Central and therefore must make this up in hard work. Levy for Central played his game well, ’’fanning ’ 1 I men: Thomas, of Jefferson, s. “Jake and Griffin shared the honors in scoring with three runs each. W e look forward to some good games this year, although it has been difficult to arrange a schedule. Central Jefferson County AB R 11 1 0 A E SB i B R H PO A E SB Griffin. 2b •1 3 1 3 7 1 4 Freeman. Ih 1 0 11 1 1 1 Crane, If 4 0 2 1 0 0 0 Rives, c 3 2 2 9 0 0 0 McUiughlin, ss_ 4 0 1 2 0 0 1 Fundcrbcrg, rf_ 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 • i i i i — 4 3 2 1 3 0 3 Thomas, p 5 1 1 1 1 (1 1 Reynolds, cf 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 Helton. If 4 0 0 3 0 1 0 Hahn, rf ti 0 3 1 0 0 0 Little. 2b 5 2 2 5 4 1 1 D. Robertson, 3b 3 0 1 0 0 2 () Keith, ss 5 1 2 1 3 0 1 Snowden, c 3 0 0 13 0 1 0 Lynch, cf 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 Duddv. lb __ _ 5 0 2 12 0 0 () M. Green. 3b 4 0 0 2 6 1 0 Babe Levy, If.. 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 C. Green, rf 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 lenderson 1 1 0 0 1 1 2 • Waddenback— 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Bond .. 2 0 0 0 0 (I II Ed. Robinson— 2 0 0 0 0 (I 0 42 7 7 33 1(1 4 6 44 fl 13 33 13 5 12 • Batted for I lei ton in eleventh. Two-base hit. Little; three-base hit. Rives: safe base. Griffin 4, McLaughlin. Jake Levy 3, Reynolds. Babe Levy. Henderson 2. Freeman. Thomas. Little, Keith. Waddenback 2 : base on balls, by Levy 9. by Thomas 3; struck out by Levy 14, Thomas S. Empire, Allan Deal. Time of game, 2:10. Attendance. 300. Scorer. Manager I'roctor. Pant sixty two VOL. I No. 4 The Trot Line MAY 30. 1918 BENNIE COOPER AND MONEY RUSSELL IN HORSE-IMTAL The alnivc two remorseful lads are in a serious condition at Stickem’s veterinary asylum as the result of a fatal joy-ride. It seems that the victims escajied from their keepers some time between 8:15 A. M. and 3:0o P. M. Feeling desjjerate and ferocious, they entered a theater. As they watched the villain steal the heroine’s Latin kook, their muscles became so tense that they kicked down the two seats in front of them, severely injuring the occupants therein. Witnesses declared that when the two desperadoes emerged from the theater they neither looked to the right or left, in front or behind. After going in a fox trot for several blocks they entered a drink emporium and bellowed in thundering tones, “Give us each a chocolate milk.” This strong beverage so affected them that they staggered to. and got into a gasoline go-cart. (Observers state that evidently in some manner the steering gear became locked. With the speed of lightning, they went round and round and round very much like a greatly accelerated merry-go-round. Thus for two hours, with faces and the hair of demons, the seasick motorists circuinvolvcd. The wh-e-e-w. spl-u-u-t. bam, bang of the punctured tires mixed with the clatter of the machinery and the groans of the two inmates reminded one of a brisk battle in Picardy. Several hours later the attaches of the ambulance found the thoroughly “drunkened” fugitives as lindier and slipjK ry as banana peels. Friends will be allowed to see them as soon as thc are “sober.” VICTORY FOR THE EDS. The dual duel between “Ifeephole” James Rob-his-son and the editors has transpired . (Refer to last Trot Line). I'll field of combat was the alley back of school. With the measured tread of 1 Camlet or a chain gang hero, we. accompanied and supported by six doctors each, arrived at our respective positions. Armed with brick bats, we approached each other with fast and hesitating gait. The wind began to wail and a black cloud blotted out the sun. Being not able to espy one another in the darkness, we collided head on head. A dismal hollow sound arose. The sun came out and saw the two unconscious foes. SENIOR CLASS RESCUED BY MATADOR Last Tuesday the Senior Class came very nearly being attacked bv a horned quadruped. As the class, clad in red ribbon and crimson bow ties, passed a “Bull Durham” sign, the bull with an angry snort lowered his head to charge. Admiral Marvin Stephens, seeing the danger, pulled off his (Admiral’s) hat and Shot the bull.” thus pacifying the raging beast. NEW ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTION A few of Central's lucky students were permitted to see a rare and an inspiring sight one afternoon not long ago. Two noted and infamous students wended their way down the front steps and approached the sidewalk. They were suddenly stopped by a young lady. The casual observers noticed the young lady ask a question and were surprised at the young men. The students in question were Messrs. Cooperson and Robber. They immediately lined up against the wall and with a do-it-or-die expression they faced the gun. The young lady secured a beautiful specimen (likeness) that would do credit to any zoological collection. fter this she took a picture of each one alone, then she had each to take her picture with each, then they tied a string to the shutter and snapped a standing of the three. We would like to suggest to Mr. Hoover that sheets from Graduating Looks he used as borders on fancy wall paper. BLACK CRELE Mr. James Doster, our beloved tombstone, has sunk into oblivion. We never hear from him during these days of struggle and strife. It is rumored that he is suffering: some say that a pair of hammer and tongs were lost somewhere in the regions of his epiglottis during a recent siege of mathematics. Others say that Mr. Counselman hurt his feelings by failing him a dummy. We, the Eds., have a few personal injunctions on the subject, the chief of which is the belief that he is slowly expiring on account of too much Hoover. We certainly hope that he will soon recover, ns we arc about out of jokes. E RIU )N US AND I. EO X A DUS TO THE CHEESEMAKERS (SENIORS) Yc call me Cheese and ye do well to call me Cheese who for four long years has worked in a limlnirgcr factory. My ancestors worked in a cheese factory and my early life was spent amid odiferous surroundings. One day I ate a cheese, and lo and behold, I nearly died with a cheese upon my lijits. And fellow-cheese-makers, must you and I die like cheese? (). Cheese! Cheese! thou hast been a tender nurse and a strong stimulant to me. Ye stand here like cheese, as yc are, emitting sweet perfume from your curly locks. If ye are cheeses, follow me. (). cheeses, cheeses, cheeses, we must tight! I f we must die, let it he under the clear sky and in the open air, and not in a cheese mausoleum. WANTED To conjugate a verb: Apply to Clyde Kennedv. + Some second-hand chewing gum: Apply to John Duddy. A foot up and an inch out: Dick- son Robertson. Some more ink to write in graduating hooks with: Shames Robertson. A quantity of ego, I haven't enough of my own: Apply to Clarence D. Cox. To know who stepped on Corric's foot: X. Y. Z. To know why the girls persist ii� wearing their hair down tied with red ribbons: Senior Boys. Page tirtyfeur THE MOVIE QUESTION A scarcity of energy makes the establishment of an elevator system imperative for next term. It takes Catherine W illiams forty-two minutes to go from the first to the fourth floor, with only a ten-minute nap on each floor. CHILDREN The Senior Class is alarmed at the precocity of the coming students of High School. They are slightly to the Minors. One little girl appeared in kid socks, another could not patronize the sandwich counter of the lunch room because she had not cut her “tooties.” while a second semester hoy unbuttoned his Duster Brown collar, removed his Windsor tie and asked to he rocked to sleep. The Trot Line wishes to thank its many supporters for their prompt attention to the demands of their paper. We wish to thank our advertisers and our subordinate contemporary. the “Mirror.” When answering ads. please mention The Trot Line. OUR SUBSCRIBER As we go to press we learn that our beautiful and influential subscriber has acquired the nickname of “Garbage,” the said subscriber being the Right Honorable .Ben Proctor. The secret is out. we have but one subscriber. ADVICE TO SENIORS Horn-rimmed spectacles should be owned by all graduates. They fool the | eople. Look thrice (in front, behind and all around) before you study. Somc-l ody may accuse you of being a “high brow. Don’t count your chickens after they arc hatched. Save trouble. You probably will not have any the next day. When having photographs made, wear a heavy disguise so as to deceive the temperamental camera. You know that when you | osed to have your pictures taken for the Trot Line the camera “struck” on the job and even let copious tears flow from its eyes (lens). SPBIGGLY WIGGLY A few members of the Band have become afflicted with the new epidemic. Spriggly Wiggly. It comes about in this way: The Band has a habit of playing in the Auditorium. As the melodious tones begin to flow, one of the pedal extremities attached to Mr. Hugh Spriggs begins to wiggle; the louder the tones, the more they wiggle, until finally the whole Band gets the movement which imitates a Ford with an Ingersoll engine. It happens that Mr. Spriggs plays an elongated instrument known as a trombone, and it often happens that the foot and the trombone (both having a mutual component) get mixed up. This malady is enjoyed by all of the students, who hope Mr. Hoover will not interfere with the spread of the disease, because of the damage done to shoes. Pape titty-five TIN CAN HILLS FOR SALE Mr. Verdant Hemp, Mr. A. Loon Gander, Comlectionatc editors: I shore did disciver lots of ludicrous divilmints in a chemistry that I bayed at a second hand sale in yore cosmodropolis. Being as yore iduca tion is inilegant 1 thunk that i should advise yer what i Harm frum hit. Cryolite:—Hit’s the furst time i ever knowed thet a light cried. Io-didc:—I didn't know hit. Where wuz she berried ? Chlo-rides:—I wundcr whut she rifles. Silli-cate:—Kate always did look silly. Win don’t they ship bar to the crazic huse? Ox-a-latc:—Anybody knows that a ox without acception is forever and iternally late. Alde-hydes:—You'd be susprized at the price of thim hides. Dyna-mitc:—Thet is a prevarication. Dina tips the scales at 350 lbs. Sister to William Abbott. Manganese:—Sounds like a new tribe, ividently related to the Japanese. Carbon-atc and ox-ate—hay. Whis-kev:—I bet this key unlocks a lot of doors. Yore respect full-lie, Georgianahana Jonah. Lines of no-bul papers will remind us That we have made our lines so blind That the things we leave behind us Are pebbles from vour hands unkind. Cheap: A chance at a diploma. Apply to Verbon Kemp. Going out of business: A complete line of ( . K.’s. Fred Sloss. A Carlyle's Essay on Rums to anybody who will translate it. The Trot Line Board. A bad reputation: James Jimmy Jim J. Jackson. My Graduation Book: Leon Gati- dy. To the highest bidder: A line of opinions from others. Apply locally. IT IS THE WOMEN ( ld maids in general deplore and tirade the clinging vine type of woman. but a clinging vine looks a great deal better than a vine trying to stand alone. Why, mere man is an innocent weakling. It is the women who arc brave and courageous. Then, too. just cogitate over the vast superiority of the woman’s intellect. What man ever in all time invented anything whatsoever? None. Woman is able to move the universe and to comj ound an omnipotent panacea for man, beast and machinery. while humiliated man hides in the cellar. What matter it that Virgil exclaimed in clarion notes, “Yarium et mutahile semper femina (Woman is ever a changeable thing) and Shakespeare shouted. “Frailty, thy name is woman. These senseless composer?-were fossilified falsifiers. O, ye wicked, deceiving men! Page tisly-six W AR NEWS The Spring Drive is over, the fail urcs have flunked and the Hunkers have failed. Many hordes of demerit slips have been hurled hack with heavy losses of hours after school, so after interviews with the commander-in-chief. action has been suspended. There are strong hopes that we may have peace without continuing the campaigning into tlu summer. X 01)1? TO THE SENIORS They know not and think they know, They think without a base for thought. Every boy departs as some girl's beau. They came as ignorant as could he. Now all learning’s theirs, lti their own opinion, They stand on freedom’s stairs. They came in hundreds. They leave in pairs. They came as lambs. They dejwrt with airs. While on the subject of future-business lines, we would like to comment on Mr. Ben V. Cooper’s ambition to shoot hot air for a living all the rest of his life If the ridiculous is funny, we suggest that the producers of comedy films make a moving picture of the diners in the lunch room, at lunch period. When the stars glitter brightly 1 go to sec her nightly. ERIC TO SEN IORS XI — “The) shall not pass, ho never pass.” Is spoken by tongues in every class. O, sassa f ras! ). sassa fras! This is the last issue of the Trot Line. The editors desire to thank their friends for their kind and unkind criticisms. The position of edi tor is more difficult than you may think. While you were snoozing peacefully in bed, the editors were probably doing the same. If we have offended any, we offer our a-pot-of-lics” to them. We pro fess the use of bad diction and incorrect grammar in some instances, but please take into consideration that our time is limited to twenty-four hours a day. and. also, that we have to study about the wanderings of Aeneas in 1 lades. To those who have disliked having their thrilling adventures set down in cold print, we will mail our photograph- so that when they look thereon. pity will rise in their hearts and tears in their eyes. Readers of the Trot Line. Dear ties of “Auld Lang Sync Will forever strongly bind You deep within our mind. I do sec Rosalie. Emily, Emily, Rosalie. ODE TO LAWRENCE WAT WOOD Me munches And crunches Big bunches Of lunches. I lit me on the head, Is what George Till said. I hit him with lead. Now, he is in bed— Somebody says, nearly dead. Page sixty settn leather (in Music Class)—Now let’s sing the second verse—“Among the I rain There was a Swain, etc. “Kitty Klyce—What’s a swain? Bright Pupil (horrified)—Katherine! Don't you know what a swain is? It’s a pig. Mr. Chase—Why can't the (iermans get to Paris? Herman Coplan—Because the merican soldiers are in Paris. Mr. Poindexter -My grandfather settled on the Isle of Jersev in the vear 1000. Henry A.— How old is he. Professor? Ida R.—Mrs Long, is this right? Mrs. Long N es, but put your decimal point and two naughts and show that you haven’t anv cents. Miss Boden—John, are you chewing gum? John Duddy (leaning over as if he did not understand)—No, I did not say a word. Miss Boden—1 said, were you chewing gum? John (guiltily) Yes. Miss Boden. but it is a piece that I had last week. Miss Koch—What are brackets and parentheses? A Ciir! They arc things that arc unnecessary: they can he left out. Clifford Greene—You cannot leave them out in Math. franklin Selt—Mr. Counselman, are you going to lead the “Dummy Squad in the Liberty Loan parade ? Mr. Counsel man—If I do. you will he in the front line. Mr. Chase—Name some of the inventions of this period. May I larris—Somebody invented a sewing machine. Mr. Chase—Yes. Howe. May—I don't know how. Page sixty-eight James Ashton—My goodness, they let the annex out. Charles Mills (looking out of the window)—Huh, it's still there. Frances Blair—'Pom, do you know what this construction is? Pom Moore—Je nc sais pas. Mademoiselle. (Meaning. I don't know. ) Frances—Oh, you don’t say. 'Pom—Je do savf Mademoiselle. Wesley Westmoreland (in chemistry class)—Where does light go when it goes out? Bill Moughon—It is too dark to see. FONT. AGO BEFORE THE FIRE Heslin (after disturbing the class in a useless attempt to cram some 'Prig, nto Israel’s dome)—Mr. Counsclman. you can't drive nails into wood without a hammer. A GOOD TRADE I Iammond—Cox. 1 have a good trade last for you. Cox (breathlessly)—What is it? I Iammond—A girl told me that you surely did think that you were good-looking. OUT Houghton—Have you heard the latest out? Wynn—What? Out of money? Cox—Naw, out at home plate, you boob. Houghton—It's not out yet. SECANT AND COSECANT Francis Smith—Secant pass, can he. Mr. Counsclman? Seay (mournfully)—What's that? Margaret Martin—Cosecant. (Note to the 'Prig, sharks—this is a test for density.) MORE EQUIPMENT NECESSARY Wade—Mr. Counsclman, Kennedy is about ready to quit driving a laundry wagon and start to driving an elevator, isn't he? Mr. Counsclman—No, he will have to go to college before he will know enough to drive an elevator. Eloise (studying for a Latin test)—Where is Troy? Robertson—Why, in South Alabama, of course. Mr. McGIathery Why can’t we travel from one planet to another? Mr. Honnycutt—Because there are not any roads. Foot nxty-nint Senior department Class 3Jamcs lilr Hubert sent 4Hary Charles Cole Hcujanun Hauccy Cooper iHora tncillc Hurras HMuin Dabis (Humming Hosalic Ungcl Clybe iflarion Hcnncby zmmn Stockmar Tleott Oaubu .Ann Hbaugclmc (Quirk Tillys i imc Hockett Corrie iliac Craitiforb Harry Hones Stcintuchl Josephine 4Hary Haylolti Homer pillslntry Hussell (Officers - Presibcnt Hicc-prcsibcnt Hecorbiug Secretary Corrcspotibing Secretary (Treasurer Historian Orator prophet Statistician oet Essayist Pianist Violinist Vocalist Cartoonist Jllotto : Hi licit (Qui Sc Viucit Colors: Or ecu nub Vlbitc IFlotner: Stucet pea Senior tutors Verbou Hitric Hemp Sarah Henrietta 4llcCnrty 'Eniily (Thompson Uloreua ifeuucll Hntily Parrish JlicCoy JAMES ELKY ROBERTSON -Jim” None but himself cun be his parallel. Yancey—Third Member Standing Committee 16. Recording Secretary ‘17. Joint Debate 17. President '17 18, Vice-President 18; Dramatic—Treasurer 17. Thanksgiving Play T6. President Senior Class. Ambition—To excel in the greatest profession. MARY CHARLES COLE ''Charlie Sis Major Room for success, she seemed li’ith (jruce to win, with heart to hold. Clio—President '17; Athletic Association—President '17. Head Sponsor '17; Mirror Board '17; Dramatic; Vice-President Senior Class. Ambition—To be a member of the A-One Hobo Club. BENJAMIN YANCEY COOPER Bcny Large-brained, clear-eyed, of such as he Shall Freedom's young apostles be Yancey—Recording Secretary '17. President '18. Oratorical Contest '17-’1S; Mirror Board ’17-'IS; President Standing Committees. '18; Recording Secretary Senior Class. Ambition—To plead before the bar of justice MORA LUCILLE BURR US “Morality Library “A perfect woman, nobly planned. 7 o warm, to comfort and command. Aglaia—Supervisor 15. Membership Committee 1( . Vice-President '16-'17. President 17-'18; Dra-matic—Thanksgiving Play '16. '17. Senior Play '18; Spanish Cluh—Secretary T6. President '16-’17; Hilliard-Honorary Member; Good Speech League. President '17; Girls’ Reading Contest '17; Mirror Board _’16; Council—Vice-President '17; Joint Debate '17; Corresponding Secretary Senior Cla� s. Ambition—To be the Joan of Arc of America. Page tereniy-two EDWIN DAVIS CUMMING “Ed A man, the mirror of all courtesy, possessed of splendid talents. Yancey—Oratorical 16. Treasurer lr . Chairman Press Committee ’17, Vice-President '17. Second on Joint Debate ’17; Dramatic—Vice-President '17. Secretary ’17. Shakespearean Play ‘17; Senior Play 17. 'IS; Athletic Association—Secretary 17. Cheet Leader '17; President Council '17; Editor-in-Chief “The Mirror” 17; Treasurer Senior Class. Ambition—Not to lire in rain. ROSALIE ENGEL Shorty “Anger The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct and the hand to execute.” Euterpean — Operetta ’16; Dramatic - - Shakespearean Pageant ‘16. Thanksgiving Play. '16, '17. Secretary ’18; Athletic Association — Basketball 16- 17 18, Sponsor '17- 18. Treasurer '17 '18; Clio— Joint Debate '17. Vice-President T8; Mirror Board 18; Honorary Member Hilliard; Historian Senior Class. Ambition—To play center on the first girls' foot ball team of America and to go through. CLYDE MARION KENNEDY “Chemical” “Schlidc “Ram” Worth, Courage, Honor—these indeed Your sustenance and birthright are. Hilliard—Press Committee '15; Corresponding Secretary T6-M7; Vice-President T7-'18; President '17; Oratorical Contest '17-M8; Athletic Association; Dramatic Club—Treasurer 17. President '18; Thanksgiving Play '16; Shakespearean Play '17; Senior Play '18: Mirror Board '17 18; Orator Senior Class. Ambition—To master the Mary had a little lamb process. EMMA STOCK MAR “Maudie” “Maggie “Cites” No one hath walked along our roads with step so active, so inquiring eye or tongue so varied in discourse. Pierian—Executive Committee 16. Critic 17. President 17; Dramatic—Secretary 17. Senior Play '17: Council—Secretary 17. Vice-President 17: Athletic ssociation; Prophet Senior Class. .{mbition—To sing bass. Pape LEON GANDY Gander” Candy” Loon He cheers himself with ends of verse And sayings of philosophers.” Yancey—Corresponding Secretary '18: Dramatic— Shakespearean Pageant '16, Thanksgiving Play '16, ’17, Shakespearean Play ’17, Senior Play '18; Mirror Beard '17-’18; Statistician Senior Class. Ambition—-To decide on an ambition for life. ANN EVANGELINE QUIRK Dede Runt” Thy busy shuttle comes and goes Across the rhymes, and deftly weaves A tissue out of autumn leaves Aglaia— Executive Committee '18; Commercial-Recording Secretary '17. Corresponding Secretary '18: Mirror Board 17-T8; Poet Senior Class. Ambition—To understand one problem in Math. LILLYS ANNE ROCKETT Lilly ‘Wane knew thee but to love thee. Nor named thee but to praise Clio—Secretary ’17-’l8, President ’18, Second on Joint Debate'17; Dramatic—Shakespearean Pageant '16. Thanksgiving Play '17. '18: Mirror Board 17-’18; Essayist Senior Class. Ambition—To be of service “Over There. CORK IE MAYE CRAWFORD Come Might Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony.” Pierian—Treasurer '17; Euterpcau; Pianist Senior Class. Ambition—To be an ideal woman. I’uof seventy-four MARRY JONES STEINMEHL • TeaoT Of scout discourse and an excellent musician. Orchestra 'Ifi-’17 ‘1H: Violinist Senior Class. Ambition—To he a virtuoso. JOSEPHINE MARY HAYLOW Jee “Her voice, sweet as a seraph's son ;.' V calist Senior Class; Musicale ’18. . I mbit inn—To pass in Latin. HOMER PILLSBURY RUSSEI.L “Russ Rubin “Rusey” “Well fitted in arts Yancey; Kuterpean—Chairman Membership Committee. Captain of Plymouth,” Drum Major : Glee Club—Secretary '17; Mirror Board T( - 17; Seni' r Hay 'IS: Cartoonist Senior Class. Ambition—To do that put before me with all the power within me. WILLIAM THOMAS ABBOTT Bill Trout the crown of his head to the lip of his foot, he was all mirth.” A mbit in—To reach poetic heiuhts in the interpretation of Carlyle’s lissay on Turn' Page seventy-five THELMA ABERNATHY Thoughtless of beauty, she teas beauty itself. Clio; Thanksgiving Play '17. Ambition—To be an expert in Trench. OTHAR THIRST EX ALFORD “Awful” “A moral, sensible, well-bred man. Ambition—Wanted: To know as much Latin as Miss Thornton. LIZZIE LEE ALLSUP “Boss “Billie Tin Lizzie Her voice was always soft and low. An excellent thing in woman Agiaia—Press Committee ‘17; Dramatic—Shakespearean Pageant '16. Thanksgiving Play ’17;Spanish Club—Press Committee T6. Chairman Membership Committee '17. President '18. Ambition—To succeed in all my undertakings. MELVILLE REYNOLDS BAUM “Baum” All the world might ’round him stand. And say, 'Here at least is a man ” Ambition—To become an English shark. Page seventy-six PAULINE BERKO WITZ '‘Paul “Peg ' She I (isles the joy that springs from labor. Clio; Commercial. A m bit ion—To donee forever. CORRIE IRENE MERRY “Kerne 'Her look composed and steady eye Bespoke a matchless constancy. Clio; Dramatic. Ambition—To help chase the Kaiser off his throne. JEAN I . BEACH “Gene Talk to her of Jacob's ladder. and she would ask the number of steps.” Astraea—Critic 17. Treasurer '18. Press Committee '17; Dramatic-Thanksgiving Play ’17; Athletic Association. Ambition—To succeed in what I am destined to do. FRANCES ELIZABETH “Frank Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime and sunny as her skies.” Pierian—Membership Committee '17. Press Committee 18, Girls’ Joint Oratorical; Dramatic—Execu live Committee. Membership Committee '18. Thanksgiving Play 16. '16. '17. Shakespearean Play '17; Senior Play 18: Euterpcan—Operetta '15; Athletic Association. Ambition—To command an army. Attention! BLAIR Page ievtntysnm ORTON BLAKE “Ort The flash of his keen black eyes. Ambition—To witness the bombardment of Berlin. HERBERT BUSS “Foots” ••IVItat trusty treasure in the world c m counter-vail a friend Commercial Club—President ‘17. Ambition To lake dictation from Miss Spauldiny as fast as she gives it. MAGDALENE BOWEN “Bo” A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded Pierian. Ambition—To be a musician. EVA SHOLL BOYETT “Eve” ‘Gentle of speech, beneficent of mind. Euterpcan 16-f17; Cantata—“Peace Pipe”: Glee Club 17-1 1 Astraea—Corresponding Secretary '17. Executive Committee '17-'1K; Drainatic—Thanksgiving Play ’17 Ambition—To learn to play a piano. Page tevenly eight VIRGINIA BRAZEAI. Sis” Quiet, unassuming and reserved. Aglaia; Eutcrpean—' Drum Major.” Ambition—To be an expert conk. RUTH DOLAND BRITTAN “Brit Her wit was more than man. her innocence a child.” Aglaia—Treasurer 18. Ambition—To be an architect. DAVID BROWN “Brownie 'Great shall be his reward when measured according to his worth.” Class Basketball ‘15. Ambition—Don’t use them. ZELMA VIRGINIA BROWN “ZeF It is good to lengthen to the last a sunny mood.” Clio; Dramatic. Ambition—To paddle my own canoe. age seventy-nine KATHERINE MAE BYRD A noble simplicity and calm grandeur. Pierian: Mirror Board ‘18. mbition—To translate something more than punctuation marks in Trench. AMY FRANCES CAI.I.EN •‘Red” Freckles And 'ncath that mask of wit and fun a warmer heart ne'er beat. Art Club; Athletic Association. Ambition—To lire on a farm. THELMA A Rl.INK CAR NS Good nature is one of the richest fruits of life ” Spanish. Ambiticn—To be a school teacher. GRACE ELIZABETH CARR “Street Car” “There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. Clio—Membership Committee T8: Dramatic Thanksgiving Play '17; Etitcrpcan. Ambition — To know when to let well enough alone. Page eighty THOMAS OTTO CARTER Ki l K.'ilcr” el sense of humor is the t jt of flic f ods. 1 irhition—To keep out of jail. ETHEL COCKRELL Cliing merry heart makelh a cheerful countenance.” Clio. Ambition—To he a doctor. HERSTON McACER COOPER Cooper II ill thou have music Hark! Apollo plays” Curry—President. T7 'l.S;Euterpean: Glee Club Musical? ’18: Drainaiic. Ambition-To attain the highest standards of an tmerican citizen. HERMAN E. CO PLAN Slicker “llis time forever and everywhere his place. elmbitinn—To be a second J. Rufus M allinn ford. PA'je eight yon e LOUISE COSBY Luisc” ”There arc some silent people who are more in terestimj than the best talkers. Clio: Mirror Board 17-'18. .•I m bit ion—To delight Miss Thornton. LULA ADAIR COURTNEY Loola She laughed, and danced, and talked and sang.v Spanish Club—Secretary 18; Aglaia; Athletic Association. .Ambition— To live and learn. EMMA BELLE CULPEPPER “Wibbles Bones Industry makes all things easy. Astraca: Dramatic—Shakespearean Pageant 16. Ambition—To be the second Joan of Are ami then, “on to Berlin.” MILDRED CUNXINGH A M “She is pretty to ‘calk until And unity to talk with And pleasant, too, to think on. Ambition—To outdraze Mr. J. iIf. Flagg. Pape eiphty-iwo CLARA MAE DE LONY “Bologna” The Sausage Queen “Cay ideas crowd her inventive brain, li'hen she speaks zee to laugh are fain. Aglaia—Membership Committee 16, 18; Art— Critic ’17. Membership Committee ’17; Dramatic— Shakespearean Pageant 16. Thanksgiving Play 16. 17: Euterpean Operetta 16; Girls' Glee Club; Mirror Board T7. Ambition—To be pallbearer at the Kaisers funeral CHRISTINE BOVVER DICKINSON “Tina 0 manners quiet, of affection mild Clio; Commercial; Athletic Association: Kutcr pean—“Drum Major. Captain of Plymouth;' Shakespearean Pageant T6. chnbition—To be secretary to the president of the greatest nation—V. S. A. ETNA DODD “Bridget” “ am i citisen of the world.’ Commercial—Executive Committee ’17. Corresponding Secretary T7. Treasurer ’18: Aglaia: Orchestra; Euterpean. Ambition—To be a nurse. EVA OLGA EARLY “Wie Wie The fay of youth and health her eyes displayed And ease of heart her every look conveyed. Aglaia: Commercial Club—Membership Committee '16. Treasurer 17, President '18; Mirror Board 17 T Ambition—To pass Civil Service examination and work for Uncle Sam. Pasc nahty-lhrr EDNA EARL EASTIS She keeps the golden menu between saying too much and too li tle. , Aglaia—Membership Committee '17. Treasurer '17: Dramatic—Shakespearean Pageant '16, Thark giving Play '17. . habition—To be happy and to make others happy. MARGARET FEARN Notchic She excels all women in the magic of her locks. Pierian; Mirror Board ‘18. .Imhition—7 dive without holding my nose JESSIE MILDRED FELDSTEIN Irish ‘II tlh malice toward none, with charity for all. with firmness in the right.” Clio; Dramatic; Commercial—Executive Commit tee 16. Treasurer '17. Vice-President 17; Mirror Board '17. .Imhition—7u learn to drive a Huiek in the proper way. LORENA FENNELL “Lorenzo ' Sis” 'Tis good will makes intelligence Astraca—Critic 'I6-’I7, Pro Committee '16-,17. Treasurer '17: Mirror Beard 17. Senior Editor. Ambition—To scan just one line of I Argil correctly. Pnge eighty-four WILLIE KINDS FENNELL ''Bill Little Bill....William fltc :v‘’ so transparent that through them one sees Astraca. 'tut bit ion—To be loved by everybody. MARY GERTRUDE FINCH Gcrty Trudy That gentle, soft. engaging air Which in old times adorned the fair.' Clio. Ambition—To do unto others as I ‘would have them do unto me. A. J. FRAZER Kraycr” His words are bonds, his thoughts immaculate. His heart so far from fraud as heaven from earth Yancey; Athletic Association, Ambition—To find out what I am good for. SARAH ELIZABETH GAINES Woobit” Good sense and good humor are never separated. Aglaia-—Chairman Membership Committee 17. Secretary '17; Euterpean—“Dmm Major To. Mu-sicale T7; Dramatic—Shakespearean Pageant T6: Athletic Sponsor T7. Ambition—To be a great singer. Page eighty-five MARY LEE GASSAWAY Cap “There's life alone in duty done, and rest alone in striving Aglaia; Athletic Association—Captain Senior Basketball Team ‘18. Ambition—Basketball forever. FRANCES GILMORE Cis Sincerity and truth—the basis of all virtue Astraca r Ambition—To be a harpist. LOUIS GIN GOLD Zingo” Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of rightf 4 Curry. Ambition—To be as popular as a Ford. VIRGINIA LUCILLE GOB IN Goblin Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.” Aglaia. Ambition—To be a great musician. Page eighty-sit EDNA GOLDBERG To know how to wait is the great secret of sue■ .ess” Dramatic; Commercial. Ambition—To be happy always. ESTELLE GOLDSTEIN' Baby” ‘.III things are accomplished by diligence and laborr Clio; Commercial. Ambition—To know something about everything. JACOB MEYER GOTTLIEB “Jake” Everything comes to him who hustles while he Xcoils.” Ambition—7'o be engineer on a stage coach. JANIE FERMINE GRACE “John” “Jamie Tew things are impossible to her diligence and skillr Clio: Athletic Association. A mbition—Basketball forever. Paoe eighty-seven WALTON GRAVES •'Graves Silence, when not It in a lift’d be said, is the eh. qiience of discretion. Cjirry—Recording Secretary 16. Ci rresp ndiitK Secretary '17. Ambition—To copy fast. MERCER DAVID Gl YSON “Red His rye beyets occasion for his wit; •'or every object that the one doth catch, The other turns into a mirth-ntoviny jest.’ tin bit ion—To yet off the Dummy Squad. MARY SUE GOUDKLOCK “Pete Susie She was a friend indeed. IVith all a friend's best virtues shminy briylit. Aglaia; Eutcrpcan: Commercial. Ambition—For everyone to love me. EVAN PRIESTLY HALE. JR. Sam Hale Happy am I. from care I’m free! Why aren't they all contented like me f . 1 mbit ion— T o f ly. Payr eighty-eight FLEMMON MALL The kindest man, the best conditioned and unwearied spirit in doiny courtesies. Baseball ,14-,15-,I6-’17; Basketball T4-T5-Tj6- 17: Football '15-'16-'17—Captain '17 Ambition—To be captain of the Dummy Squad Alumni. GRACE FOV IIALL -Boy” The cheerful heart makes bright the way.' Clio— Membership Committee '17. Chairman K ecu live Committee 17. Recording Secretary 18: Dra matic—Thanksgiving Play 17: Euterpcan. Ambition—To cultivate a pleasant laugh. GRACE HALL ••Hall' “A residuum of graces Ambition—To yet fat. JOY NAFF HANSBERGER “Miss Joy A will that cannot be changed easily proves a strong woman. Ambition—To be a joy to everybody. t aye eighty-nine LUC ILK BEDFORD HARPER Ccal “Loo Ccal Her sweet smile anti unassuming way Have won for her many a happy day, Pierian; Kmerpenn—Operetta 15; Art Club; Vice-President ‘16; Spanish Club—Treasurer '17; Dramatic—Executive Committee '17, Thanksgiving Play 17; Mirror Board ‘IS. Ambition—To be serious and humorous at the right time. RUTH HARRIS ‘‘Whose nature is so far from doing harm that she suspects none.’' Dramatic-Thanksgiving Play ’16. '17. Ambition—To swat the Kaiser. GLADYS PRICE HAYS “Hays” ‘‘The smiles that ( low and tell of days of goodness spent.n Ex-Clio—Critic '15; Astraca—Treasurer '15-T6, Vice-President '16. President '17; Mirror Board ’16. A mbition—To graduate. HOBSON HEAD “Hop” Bone Head” “A moral, sensible, well-bred man. Ambition—To acquire an overflowing soul in communion with Carlyle. Page ninety WILLIAM HOBART HENDERSON Hobo Whose armour is his honest thought. And simple truth his utmost skill ' Class Basketball ’15-’16; Baseball ’IS Ambition—To be an English shark. KATHARINE HENRY A gentle woman xehosc ‘.forth is not hidden Ambition—I ways to be happy. MIRANDA HERNDON “Randa Sober, steadfast and demure Aglaia—Critic '17- 18; Mirror Board '17-’18 Ambition—To be a country “school inarm. GEORGE GREER HESLIX “Gee Gee “Judge” “ The reason firm, the temperate will. Endurance, foresight, strength and skill. Milliard; Mirror Board '17. Ambition—To be a pallbearer at the Kaiser's funeral. Page ninety-one LUCIl.E GORDON HILTON “Cilc Good company and merry talk U'armct i the heart of a friend Aglaia; Dramatic—Thanksgiving P1a 'lf� , '17. Ambition—To work in papa’s office. JOHN DEAN HOLT “Lock Breaker 7� i a thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thourt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow. Hilliard. Ambition—To be an engineer on Tele's peanut stand. MARGARET HOWARD “Barba” “Maggie” Sis Let me have music and I ask no more delight Euterpean; Girls' Glee Club. Ambition—To be a Taderewski. MAX IIURVICI1 “Sandy A man of courage and of faith. Curry; Commercial. Ambition—To be successful in the business world Pag •nnety tU’O BEATTIK ANDREW INCUS “Beatty General And thus he burr without abuse the grand old mime of gentleman. Yancey; Dramatic; Athletic Association Ambition—To oxen a Ford and rail it an automo bile. CLARENCE ELBERT ISRAEL “Eycs-rail ‘7 do not fear to follow out the truth Albeit along the precipice's edge. Milliard—Critic ‘15. Vice-President 16-77. Secretary 77, Oratorical ’16-’17. Joint Debate 17. Dramatic—Grammar School Play 76. Shakespearean Pageant lo. Ambition -To leave the world a little better than I found it. EULA CLARK JACOB Yakic Her mind to her a kingdom is. Clio—Critic 18; Commercial; Spanish Club. Ambition—To cultivate a poetic soul. BERTHA TEBEAl JOSSEI.YX “Bert By her life alone, gracious and sweet, the better way is shown. Ambition—To teach school. Ptoje ninety-three LILLIAN ELSA KARPELES “Lilly Ann At once I'm glad and sad and mad, And blue and bright and good and bad Pierian; Dramatic—Thanksgiving Play ’1 . Shake spearcan I'ngcant '16. Ambition—To be a “sportsman. VERBON ERIC KEMP “Vek “Cyclone “Slump lie teas active, stirring fire. Could not rest, would not tire. Milliard—Custodian '15. Critic '16. Corresponding Secretary 17. Recording Secretary 17. President '18. Oratorical Contest '18; Dramatic—Vice-President 18. Shakespearean Play '17. Thanksgiving Play '17. Senior Play '18; Athletic Association ’16; Mirror Board ’17-‘18. Senior Editor '18. Ambition—That Chemical Kennedy and I may lire to bury each other. ESTHER LOUISE KENNEDY “Essie’’ “She mores among us as if she commanded her t cays. Pierian—Press Committee ’17. Treasurer ‘18; Dramatic-Thanksgiving Play'16. '17; Athletic -MH-ia-tion '17. Ambition—To eliminate er-r.r from my vocabulary. RUTH DOROTHY KESTLER Kestlcr’’ Rookie As merry as the day is long. Aglaia; Basketball ’16-'17-’18; Euterpean— 'Drum Major ’16, Captain of Plymouth 'IS; Dramatic— Shakespearean Pageant '17. Thanksgiving Play '17. Ambition—To lick Kaiser BUI “Over There. Pai e ninety-four WILLIE HUGH KIRK ••Billie Wee Willie Winkle Never idle a moment. but thrifty and thoughtful of others. .Ini bit inn—To teach a country school. SARAH ERMINE KITCHENS Ermine Her only fault is that she has no fault. Aglaia. Ambition—To know when to think. MARY KATHERINE KLYCE Leen “A cheerful temper joined with innocence makes Iter beauty attractive, iter knowledge delightful and her wit good intended.” Ambition—To play the piano like Miss Handley. ANITA LATADY K-Nita “So well to know her own. that what she wills to to do or say Scents wisest, virtousest. discrcctest, best. Pierian—Secretary '16. President 17; Student Council-President 16, Secretary ’17: Auditorium Committee—President ‘17: Eutcrpean. Ambition—To do some good for humanity. Page ni«fty-fivr WILBUR LEA Kit “Bill” ’'Formed by thy converse, happily to steer From grove to gay. from lively to severe Pierian—Vice-President ’17. President ‘IS: rt Club-—President '16. Vice-President '17. Secretary 'IS; Secretary of Standing Committees 17: Kuter-pcan: Girls' Glee Club. Ambition—To be able to write so Mr. Mcdlathery eon read it. HOY LEWIS “Bill Tact comes as much from goodness of heart as from fineness of taste.” Kutcrpcan; Dramatic; Art Club. Ambition—To do one thing well. MARGARET McCALL “Maggie It's guid to be merry and wise— It's guid to be honest and true.” Aglaia—Second Joint Debate '17. Vice-President '17. Custodian '18; Art Club—Treasurer '16. 'IS: President '17: Athletic Association—Basketball 'IS; Sponsor 18; Mirror Board '17-'1S. Ambition—To make I'ncle Sam proud of his niece. MARGKET JEANNETTE LEWIS Margy And we ore rich in having such a jewel. Pierian: Dramatic—Thanksgiving Play ’16-'17. Eutcrpean— Captain of Plymouth '15. “Drum Ma jor '16; Art Club. Ambition—To be successful in everything I under-I ike. Page ninety-sis SARAH HENRIETTA McCARTY Sarah Sally Mac” Toady Little Sarah Polly” Young in years, bul in sage counsel old.” Astraca—Membership Committee '16, Executive Committee '17, President ’18, Oratorical '17. Joint Debate '17: Dramatic—Thanksgiving Play '17; Mirror Board ’16-’17-'18 Ambition- To do more titan my bit.” EMILY PARRISH McCOY Molly Kmalinc Kid McCoy .111 beaming with light as thy young features are. There's a light ’round thy heart that's lowlier far Pierian; Spanish Club—Vice-President 16, Secretary 17. President '17; Dramatic—Vice-President '17. Shakespearean Pageant 16. Thanksgiving Play 17; Mirror Board ’17-18. AmbitioH—Ahvays to know what to do at the right time. I.ESSIE MAE McEACHEKN Less Good humor and complacency of temper outlive all charms” Aglaia—Press Committee ’16; Commercial. Ambition—To be a musician. myrtle McLaughlin •use with dignity. Euterpean. Ambition—To be a Chemistry ‘Shark.” roar ninety-seven bertha McPherson ••Petite ’ The mildest manners and the gentlest heart. Clio; Dramatic; Gonunercial. Ambition—To sing at the Kaiser's funeral. CARRIE BOSS McVAV Boss “Piggy It does not pay to worry, things are bound to hap. pen anyway. Aglaia; Art Clul . Ambition To study Math and escape Hades. IRMA MAASS Uma “The best way to have friends is to be one. Pierian. Ambition—To do as please—once. LILLIE MADDOX Peggie” Liberty Rond” The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known.” Pierian—Executive Committee ’18; Eutcrpcan— “Drum Major.” Peace Pipe”; Girls’ Glee Club; Athletic Association: Dramatic—Shakespearean Pageant 16. Thanksgiving Play '17; Sponsor of Company A ’18; Musicaie '18. Ambition—To be a big girl. '«{ •• ninety-eight MARGARET ELISABETH MARTIN' •'Peggy' “The fairest Harden in her looks And in her mind the xvisest books.” Astraea—Executive Committee ’17; Dramatic— Thanksgiving Play ’17; Athletic Association; Cadet Sponsor MR; Editor-in-Chief “The Mirror M7-M8. Ambition—To teach Latin in the new Central High ANNIE LEE MASON “Lee Annie “Her sympathy is deep, for has she not a poet’s souir Clio; Mirror Board M8. Ambition—To be Dr. A. I. Mason KATHLEEN ROBERTA MERKEL “Kate “Leon “Polly K” “(treat thoughts, great feelings, come to her like instincts, unawares.” Aglaia—Executive Committee M7; Commercial-Critic M7: Spanish Cluh—Treasurer M6. Ambition—To prove to my family that my exist Cnee is worth while. ESTELLE CORN EL I METHVIN Steir “Shorty “Mcty A will to persevere ” Ambition—To grata tall. ‘one ninety-nine WILLIAM THOMAS MOORIi “Tommy Scoop” lit' weareth the rose of youth upon him and vaunteth not himself ’ Yancey-—Third Member Standing Committee ‘17, Recording Secretary '18; Kuterpean—Operetta 16; Dramatic—Thanksgiving Play ‘16, '17. Shakespearean Play 17; Mirror Hoard '17, Kditor-in-Chief '18. Ambition—To be a chemist. F.LOISE MORAN “Wise “Wiser Nothing cun be fairer or more noble than the holy ferror of true seal Kuterpean—“Miles Standish 15. Drum Major.'' Ambition—To keep the home fires burning. WII.I.IAM SANFORD MOUGHOK. JR. Bill” “Mohon Mr. Will lie is a whimsical gentleman that pleases by his mV Yancey; Varsity Basketball '17-'18; Athletic Association; Glee Chib; Kuterpean Club. Ambition—To be the topmost success in whatever I undertake. LUTHER MURPHY A true philosopher is bey iid the reach of fortune “Luke Mirror Hoard '17, '18. Ambition—To have a life which will seem too short:' I 'a tie ant hundred CATHERINE HARRIET NEWSOM “Kitten” “Quiet, demure, with thoughtful ways. Astraca; Mirror Board Ambition—To grow. IDA NICHOLS Nick” ‘-.I maiden who hath no tongue hut thought.” I mbit ion—To be a social worker. CAMBRIDGE DOWLING NORRIS Monk n “The cheerful man is a king. Mirror Board ’17-'18; Basketball '17-'18. Ambition—To capture the Kaiser for the C. 11. S. Museum. MAX IE CELIA NORRIS •'air and witty. A little proud but full of pity. Pierian. Ambition—To he eternally happy. t'age one hundred one THELMA ODOM She ts great enough to be her own master.” Ay lam: Athletic—Haskctbnll ,14-’15-’16-,17. Ambition—7 o play basketball on a college team ALFRED CLARENCE OLXEY Oncy Ape” tes$9h CrrCt,d thou� ,,ts in a heart of cour- l.VrrT di-ll'm'nbCr S,an'linK C°mmitU'e Ambition To see Merlin fn,m an aeroplane. VICTOR GEORGE FILL “Doc Cap Brevity is the soul of wit. .1 mbit ion—To be a traffic cop. LOUS ’ATI I AXIAL POLLOCK Lew “Excellence is never granted to man but is the reward of labor. Curry—-Custodian '16. Recording Secretary 17-Mirror Hoard '18. Ambition—To make I 'iryil as easy as possible. Page one hundred toco VIRGINIA PRAYTOR Speech is the gift of nil. but thought of few. Mirror Board '17. Ambition—Ahuays gladly to make a truce with ne ccssity. EVA GLADYS REGAN Patience and gentleness is power ' Eutcrpcan. Ambition—7'o be eternally happy. TORRANCE REDD “T. Red “Torrents Intellect—the starlight of the brain. Pierian—Executive Committee '17; Shakespearean Pageant '16: Mirror Board ’17-'18; Sponsor Cadet Company “A ’18. Ambition—To cease to be the inspiration of all talking. RICHARD RUTHERFORD RANDOLPH Thy humorous rein, thy pleasing folly ' Yancey. Ambition—To be deckhand on a submarine, fane one hundred three JOHNNIE MAE Hi DOLE Jonnie” Teacher” Content with the calm triumph of modest pride. Aglaia—Secretary ’16. Treasurer '17. Ambition—To take the odor out of hydrogen sulphide. TRYMRME ODETTE RYAN “Trcbbic “What more thou mirth would mortals have ” Aglaia; Athletic Association—Basketball 16-'17. Ambition Always to look cheerful. MARCIA PIERCE SAUNDERS Marcella All things about her drawn Trout May time and the cheerful dawn. Eutcrpean— Peace Pipe, Drum Major”; glaia. Ambition—To be caught in the rain of prosperity. WILL A MAE SCOTT Bill” She was Quiet and unassuming. Clio. Ambition—To be eternally happy. I'itgr one hundred tour ERSKINE AUSTIN’ SEAY Seays ■'An original gentleman, who. if manners had not existed, would have invented them.” Yancey—Treasurer ’17. Ambition- To keep my laundry wagon accounts straight. JAMES SEAY The Mighty Hunter from the East 7 have a heart with room for every joy. Athletic Association. Ambition—To be an M. D. mule driver.) ORANGE ARTHUR SHELTON Lemon Along the coot sequestered vale of life He kept the noiseless tenor of his zvay.” Hilliard; Athletic Association; Commercial—Executive Committee '17. Vice-President ’16. Ambition—To own an orange grove. REBECCA SHIFLETT Rcbic Grandma She is great who is what she is from nature and never tries to remind us of others.” Clio. Ambition—To ozem a Ford. Page one huudrta bve NINA KATE SIDES “T rixcy “Kitty “How brilliant and mirthful the light of her ,-Vt... Aglaia; Girl's Glee Club- Music; le ’18; Slmkes., rean Pageant 16. Ambition—To succeed Miss Kitts. MARY I.EONE SIMPSON A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet. Clio; Dramatic Club—Thanksgiving Play '16. ‘17. Ambition—To he a great musician. ANITA VIRGINIA SLOSS “Mike” “Miny Withe and debonair” Pierian; Shakespearean Pageant ‘16; Mirror Board 18. Ambition—To attain the dignity of being termed Miss Stoss.” PR ED MACUN SI.OSS Pug II hat he did teas done with so much ease In him alone ’twas natural to please. Track ‘17—Captain and Manager; Glee: Euter-pean; Mirror Board ‘17-‘18; Musicale 18, Ambition—To sell Robertson an old shirt at a fair profit. Pane i tic hundred tix FRANCIS CARROWAY SMITH Poseidon” “Venus’' 'VI man he seems of cheerful yesterdays and confident tomorrows Spanish Ciub- -Standing Committee ’16; Yancey. Ambition—To stabilise a government � � i Mexico. SUE EDITH SMITH Swcdith Still and quiet; but deeper than you think. Dramatic; Spanish Club—Third Member Standing Ci mmittee '17, Second Vice-President 'IS; Clio. Ambition—To see the Kaiser in his grave. MARGIE SPARKS An able woman shows her spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. Clio; Dramatic—Thanksgiving Play '17; Knterpcan —“Drum Major.” Ambition—To discover my ambition. JULIUS STEIN Shulius” On their own merits modest men are dumb. Commercial. Ambition—To make the world better. Page me hundred seven DAVID STEWART Sloan” Scotchman” “Shorty” “Stewart?.” Steadfast and true the whole day through Ambition—To keep off a laundry wagon fust once AN ABEL ST ITU Canibal Ante BcIIum Stith Thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of the mind. Clio—Executive Committee '18; Dramatic—Treasurer ’17-’1S, Thanksgiving Play '16. '17. Shakespearean I'lav '17; Eutcrpcan '15-T6, Operetta '16; thletic Association: Girls’ Joint Oratorical; Senior Play ’18. Ambition—If my ambition you would know )’onder to Trance I'd like to go. CARL JACKSON STRADEORD Black Jack” Little Speedy” He that has patience can hare what he wills. Ambition—To graduate from the naval academy at Annapolis. ESTHER ANNIE TEMERSOX “Dimples Mcanic . ’ She was just the quiet kind whose natures never vary. Commercial—Vice-President '17. Critic '18. Ambition—To be Miss Spaulding's assistant. Pane onr hundred eight EMILY THOMPSON Yc gods! but she is wondrous fair. Clio; Dramatic- Thanksgiving Play 17, Senior Play ’IS; Art; Athletic Association; Senior Editor '18. Ambition—To learn to write just one chemistry formula. J A ALLAN JACKSON WADE -Wade “Math Shark” And still they gazed and still the wonder grezv That one small head could carry all he knezv. Ambition—To prove to Mr. Counselnuw that I do not belong to the Dummy Squad ROSA LEE WALSTON She was a scholar-exceeding wise, fair spoken and persuading. Dramatic; Mirror Hoard T7-'18; Aglaia—Custo dian '17; Girls' Oratorical 17. Vice-President '18. Ambition—To have an intelligent look. MARY LOUISE WARE “Dink” It is by presence of mind in untried circumstances that the native mettle of woman is tested. Clio—Treasurer '17; Euterpean. Ambition—‘To be little. Pope one hundred nine BEN WARNER ’IJfr always comes to him who smiles.'' Yancey. Ariibitinn To simplify Carlyle's “Essay on Hums. HARRY WATKINS .V lion can him fright He’ll with a giant fight.” Athletic A'.sociali«� n; Baseball '16’17; Football ‘I6-'17. Ambition—To be a prosperous preacher. ELIZABETH WEBB Weber (hie of those beings who never find anything hard to do. Aglaia—Secretary '18. Membership Committee '17; Dramatic—Thanksgiving Play 17; Euterpean— •Peace Pipe. Captain , f Plymouth”; Girls' Glee C tub. Ambition To meet the original ll’al acc Reid. ELSIE WERTHEIMER Pat Chom neither shape nor danger ran dismay.” Commercial; Mirror Board '18. Ambition—To be able to see all the baseball games I 7could like to. f-nje « • humhe t WESI.EY WADE WESTMORELAND Wes” Wes Morelands 'youth is My ,in,i holds no society tenth sorrow V anccy. Ambition—7 0 graduate from Annapolis Military Academy. LEON ADAS VIRGIL WILDER Wilder” Wildest He uires us the very quintessence of perception. Athletic Association; Curry -Vice-President 'IS. Joint Debate ’IS: Glee Club; Eutcrpcan; Mirror Hoard '17-’1H. A mbition—To he a man. ELIZABETH TAYLOR WINGO “Lib Libbie” “Never exultant when a friend’s depressed; A ’ever despondent when another’s blest.” Eutcrpean; Glee Club; Dramatic—Thanksgiving Play '17; Athletic Association. Ambition—To catch the German who burned Central. HENRY SINKLER WOOD “Woods IfIxatcver anyone does or says. must be qaod Curry. Ambition—To jet off the Dummy Squad. four ttne hundred eleven MARY KVA WOOD Mini “She is virtue, wit and vtprth. Pierian—Membership Committee '17. Vicc-Proi rlent ’18: Dramatic -Shakespearean Pageant 'lb. Thanksgiving Play '17; Mirror B ar l ‘17; Art Club. Ambition —To lire long, grow wise and be happy. MARTHA BANKSTON WRIGHT Mot “So unaffected, so composed a mind. So strong, yet so refined Clio—Vice-President '17. Ambition—To distinguish 'animus from anima.“ JOSEPHINE ZINZER “Of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Astraca: Dramatic. Ambition—To cross the river Styx and not fall in. one hundred turn 3jn iUcmortam William jjoites (6iuuau of the (Class of Nineteen liiuni rei� Eighteen of the (Class of JCincteen ¥tuttftrrd Nineteen Sut such a tide as mooing seems asleep Zoo full for Aouiu'i a«i� foam, When that whirh i� rew from out the houuMess deep (Turns again home.’’ (Commencement Calendar (Central High § cl]nnl (Class of Nineteen Sjunhreh iiiyhteeu lU'hm'shau, Jifau 29th, 8:15 p. m. j.llau bu Senior (Class, (Central Jiigh r!tociI .1J offers mi (Theatre (Lhurshau, iWixi) 30th, 9:30 a. tit. Uxcrciscs nf $ rabuating (Class, (Central liiyb j rhooi ifirst Saptist (Church (Lhurshau, jHau 30th, 8:15 p. m. Annual Abbress anb presentation of Diplomas •UeffersDii (Theatre TOMORROW Classmates, at this time of change in the established customs and ideals of every nation it is wise to look to the future for guidance. We cannot deal in the past nor in the present, for the very nearness of that time blinds us and makes it impossible to secure a true perspective. Hut with the present and past in the background we may deal in the future unhani| ered. Our tomorrow will lx- complex; a day of changed situations and problems to which it will he necessary to readjust ourselves. Our thought of that tomorrow, however, is free from any consideration of failure for the future is a time of victory, boundless iti its possibilities. We have faith, as Lincoln had. that right makes might, and in that faith we will do our duty as we understand it. Not the horrors nor even the glories of war have dimmed mir faith in peace. We still have a living faith in the far-reaching ideal of permanent world peace, an ideal to he secured by a federation of the nations. 'This formerly seemed to the average mind the wildest of fantasies, for people would not believe that the nations could be persuaded to put aside their right to make war and j eace as they please and to submit these important decisions to a tribunal of representatives front every country. Hut this plan has been approved by nearly all the great men of this time through organizations like the League to Knforce Peace.” and there is no longer any doubt that peace will be followed by “some definite concert of power which will make it virtually impossible that any such catastrophe should ever overwhelm us again. One of the greatest services that the j eople of America will he challenged to render will he to add their authority and their power to the authority and force of other nations to guarantee | eacc and justice throughout the world. It is inconceivable that we should play no part in the foundation of peace among nations and we cannot, with honor, withhold the service for which we have prepared ourselves since the foundation of our nation. We believe that out of this war will come a working world democracy. The fact that this is a war in defense of democracy does not mean that it has failed. We. who have always enjoyed its benefits, know that democracy will thrive if given the opportunity. In the words of President ilson. “No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed. If tins principle of government by consent of the governed had been universally accepted there would be no war today. It is being fought for now by force of arms and peace must inevitably bring its full recognition, and the opportunity to prove the wisdom of our faith, that democracy will succeed in uniting the world in a new spirit of peace and service through its teachings of liberty and justice. Let us not forget that our tomorrows are a product of our yesterdays. We trust that the yesterdays we have spent in our work have been worthy ami in keeping with the great principles we so earnestly desire to see accepted as part of the doctrine of the world. It is certain that the days spent in high school have been rich in the true spirit of democracy and we take with us as we leave principles of faith which will he of immeasurable benefit to us in the time when the peace of all will be contingent upon the degree in which faith is kept. Strength- Pope one hundred fifteen enecl hy these principles we may, if we keep our aims worthy ami strive patiently for their achievement, face tomorrow unafraid and yesterday, filled with memories of school days and friends, will he forever a part of the future. Classmates, today as we leave ohl paths for untried fields we walk by faith. ’•Let us light tomorrow with today, Trust on and think tomorrow will repay.” James E. Robertson, President. ’18. Pag one hundred sixteen ALLIED FOR VICTORY It is a remarkable coincidence that we, the Senior Class of 1D1H. should have realized, as we first took our stand in this school in I'. II, that year of world-startling record, that we, too. were coming to the battle front to fight for the much-abused principles of enlightened humanity. We could not remain neutral—ample op| ortunity had l cen given us to test the strength of our mortal foe. Ignorance, and seven years experience of armed neutrality had shown us that it was indeed time for us to take the part of a belligerent force. We entered with zest into the organization of our forces. The most striking necessity that presented itself was equipping our forces and placing them on the field. Naturally, for this purpose, the athletic corps quickly came to the front. They have never disappointed us—these dependable lads—and they have always held the old Crimson and White up to the utmost heights. They kept in perfect physical trim l ccausc they knew that upon their ability depended the reputation of Central. And they showed their ability and spirit in every conflict they entered—witness, for instance. the Fayette skirmage. To their gallant officers is due a great part of their bounding success, because if it had not been for the enthusiasm of their leaders. Flemmon Mall and Harry Watkins, the boys could not have gone “over the top” in the manner they did. However, it is most positive that if it had not been for the hearty supjiort of their Sponsors, headed by their chief. Mary Charles Cole, our banners would I sadly furled. Besides, remembering the reason for Japan's success in the Russo-Japanese war and realizing that the soldiers in camp were continually coming into contact with the community, wc got busy and put the Tuberculosis Seal campaign, aided by the tinfoil saving, through with such vim and force that that great ally of Ignorance. Disease, was given a crushing set-back. The leaders in these worthy causes made the campaigns so successful that they received ample reward for their service by the thought of the good done. By far the most important element in our cantonment, however, was the upkeep of the splendid morale of our troops. During the whole four years of our struggle such a feeling of co-operation permeated our ranks from the lowest private to the highest officer that not a time did any noticeable friction take place. To the famous Club Division belongs the praise, because whatever that noted hand undertakes. it does with all its might. Numbers upon numbers in our ranks enlisted in this worthy Club Division; numbers upon numbers of valiant officers distinguished themselves in this branch of service. Captains Kennedy and Wilder, capably aided by Lieutenants Leake and Rockett, made Company A of this division remarkable for its altruistic work, yet Captain Robertson of Company B was so sincere and had such earnest co-workers in the persons of Lieutenants McCarty and Walston that the rewards of service may he equally divided between the two. They all succeeded in their work—the only evidence necessary to prove this fact is the conduct of the whole encampment when our strongest barricade, old Central, itself, was taken; Ix-tter spirit than this was never known anywhere—wc entered into our temporary quarters with a cheerfulness thar, in the face of such a calamity, was astounding, and we endured hardships with such Pace one hundred jevenleen a good will that it in itself will be typical enough of the whole community spirit we represent to dishearten our common enemy. The Club Division set the standard, they made our forces the best and fairest lighters that ever entered the front lines and now, after four years of strenuous fighting, when they arc preparing to take their places only for a short while, it is true, in Rest Billets, their morale is keener and stronger than ever. The 1918 class was sufficiently wise to realize the imjmrtance of recreation. Remembering that “a little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the best of men. wc staged many a plav and entertainment for the benefit of the war-weary fighters. The Shakespearean Play of 1917. “The Taming of the Shrew, the Thanksgiving Play of our Senior year. “'Hie Spirit of 1917,“ and our Senior play, whose name “Green Stockings” tells of the worlds of fun therein, bring to us the fondest memories. There is no doubt that a goodly number of those discouraged ones who had been tempted to fall front the ranks were warmed back into service by the glow of good fellowship roused by these performances. Fortune blessed us with members showing much histrionic ability, among whom Emily Thompson, Tom Moore. Emily McCoy and nabel Stith distinguished themselves. Our musicians were as talented and as faithful as our actors, and Steinmehl. the famous violinist, Crawford, the pianist, and Ilaylow, the singer, did “untwist all the chains that tie the hidden souls of harmony.' Margaret Howard and Lillian Karpeles have always been ready to do any tiling asked of them, and also Lillie Maddox, who has worked untiringly for the success and development of better music in the ranks. )ratory always thrives in times of crises and we were no exception to this general rule. Numerous orations were given, orations filled with the spirit of the times, radiating good cheer and optimism to all and enlightening our w hole cantonment as to the circumstances under which our own government is existing. Such eloquent speeches as those of Benjamin Yancey Cooper, Mora Burrus, Emma Stockmar and Elbert Israel stirred our hearts and gave the impetus to our years of anxiety. They had such masterful ability and they were so imbued with the spirit of the world- the spirit of patriotism, loyalty and noble resolution that in practically all of their many orations they passed on to us their noble ideas and ideals. It is not surprising that the class’s spirit was so strong that they combined successful courage with keenness. Never was more diplomacy of the scholarly type used than in signing the Treaty of Learning which seemed so hard to keep at first, hut which has now assumed a permanent form. IIow materially we weakened the cnenn can never be ascertained, but when such neutrals as Math and Uitin at length joined their strong forces with ours, it can readily be seen that ultimate victory is inevitable. We won to our cause and used many another commander of knowledge, who, though seemingly indifferent to our cause, soon willingly rendered as great service. These had all been neutral only because at first, not realizing what an aid their friendship would be. we had held toward them a lax attitude. But we rejoice to think that we wake up in time. Regular routine has now taken on the asj� cct of real pleasure and vve arc happy that in the strug- Pagr one hundred eighteen glc for enlightenment we have been so broadened that for us to work is to live. During the first three years our struggle was especially in behalf of Health and Knowledge and our drive against the outlying trenches of Ignorance and Disease. Holding this sector as best we could, we did not forget the length of the line and the strength of the enemy of Democracy. Such of our men as were fitted for the work actually joined the fighting ranks of I’nclc Sam—Luther Tyler and Joe O’Brien. The rest of ns gave our spare time, small as it was, and our money to the aid of Uncle Sam's boys and their allies. We realized that they are sacrificing their all for us and we wanted to make them realize that we. too. over here, arc hacking them up while carrying on. Wc joined in with the splendid work of the V. M. C. A. Majors Cumming and Kemp handled this with such vigor and ability that before Camp Central realized the fact, wc had pledged ourselves to pay for the upkeep of one soldier each a year. Ten dollars is no trifle to a High School student, but we gave. The good this did is not composite, is not a thing we can point to and say to the world, “Observe our handiwork,” but we know it is there and we rejoice in the fact. With equal zeal wc organized Thrift Societies and sacrificed the petty everyday luxuries we have been accustomed to enjoy and lent this money to Uncle Sam. Every member of the class has bought or sold Thrift Stamps and the group bought a Liberty I loud. Our Red Cross membership is one hundred per cent, and many a plan, such as playing basketball, has been devised by which we could raise money for the soldiers fight mg tor Democracy. 'The Liberty Fund met with active response, each member of the class contributing three books. Many of us made scrap-books for the wounded Sammies. This help sent to the far-flung battle-line has not lessened the vigor or regularity of our local drives. At every attack we have pushed our lines forward a little and have always dealt the enemy crushing blows. Though at times it seemed as if we could go no further, vet whenever necessity called, an inventor stepped forward and it was these inventions—our answer to Ignorance—that aided us in surmounting the obstacles that so often seemed to rise to unscalable heights. We realize and appreciate the fact that there arc a great many more realms to be placed under the standard of knowledge than we have not yet conquered. but we are determined to push forward unceasingly until Ignorance, Disease and that bane of all Humanity. Autocracy, have been driven from this world forever. The members of the 1918 class have always been brave. And now we have reached our first objective—the more desired because of the difficulty of attainment. We have a record that of which any class may well be proud, and although we have endured four years of constant drive, we are willing, nay. eager, to keep on at the Front, for now we can take our positions even more enthusiastic and better equipped as fighters for the principles of enlightened Humanity. Rosalie Engel. I listorian, T8. Pai)f � n hundred nineteen THb' MISSION OF AMERICA Classmates and Friends: No class in the history of our High School, nay in the history of any high school, has more cause to he thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness, hut with gratitude to the (liver of Good, who has blessed us with the conditions which will enable us to achieve so much for the betterment of humanity. To us is granted to see that America has not lost her way in a wilderness of materialism. To see that in spite of her great financial advance, her |� th is clear, her goal is in her mind's eye and her mission in the hearts of her millions. Could we ask a larger or more promising task? For four long years the dreadful cry of war has been terrorizing the greater part of what we call the civilized world. Thousands, yes millions, of men have been taken out of all walks of life, away front their friends and homes, sent to cantonments, trained in the disipline ol war. and then transported to the battlefield. Battles surpassing anything the military exjterts of the world ever dreamed of. have been fought, with the use of the most destructive implements of warfare. Hundreds of thousands of men have laid down their lives to supply the demand of such struggles. hven today our own land, after over a year of preparation, is taking an active part in the terrible conflict. )nly now is she beginning to feel the results of such action, and let us he proud to say that these results are firing her to greater efforts and giving her a determination that no iron hand can crush. My friends, this, our present conflict, is no accident. YVc are too wise to think that. It is not the result of some peculiar state of being, that we enlisted our services on the side of Fngland and France, instead of that of Germany. It is true that we had suffered wrongs at the hands of the Imperial German government, hut gross and unbearable as those wrongs were, they were not the cause of our entering the list of battle. No. vengeance was not the impelling force of American action. 1 he cause lies far deeper than that. It was because we know that upon the battlefields of Europe the future of the free institutions ot the world is at stake. Above and beyond all, it was because we wanted to protect the world from the destruction of true democracy and because we realized that the last hopes of mankind rest with us.” The famous words of Daniel Webster are still true, even more true today than they were in 1825. When that patriot said, Let us endeavor to comprehend, in all of its magnitude, and to feel in all its importance, the part assigned to us in the drama of human affairs for we arc at the head of a system of representative and popular governments. he truly pointed out our position as a nation at the present time. With such a mission and such a position we must strive to make democracy supreme and to drive autocracy from the universe. Our country has had one mission since the beginning. It has only been widening its radius of action until now it includes the world. From the moment the first little struggling colony was planted on the coast of V irginia in IG07, the leading spirit of every action has been freedom, the basis of democracy. Through all hardships this spirit cheered the colonists and kept continually before them f'aue one hundred twenty their purpose. They made steady progress and in a few years had increased from a few hundred to many thousands. With this growth something else grew. The spirit of the mountains and wide forests, of the great outdoors, fanned a small spark that bums in the heart of every man. The colonists' view of freedom and its privileges grew wider and wider. The colonial governments which were once adequate became to them oppressive. The Mother Country, slower in catching the spirit in her island home, refused to grant the rights they demanded. For a while the colonists remained silent, hut all the time the tire smoldered in their hearts. It burst into flame on the morning of April 1!� . 17 5. when the people of America tried another method of securing their rights. Instead of asking some special privileges, the colonists demanded freedom and got it. They then set to work to found a new government upon the principle that all men are equal. This done, they realized for the first time their position in the world. They realized that theirs was the only experiment of its kind existing. That the world was looking upon them with disgust and saying that they could not exist. Hut such a spirit as encouraged men to cross the ocean, to fight the Indian, and to die for their independence was not to be so easily daunted. Knowing that the democracy he loved and respected, depended upon him for protection and development, and knowing should it fail in America the knell of popular liberty would he sounded throughout the earth, our Revolutionary forefather set to work to improve his country and make it an example for the rest of the world. Was lie successful? Did the country he developed exert any influence on changing the governments of the earth? Did it stand the test? Ask France, she knows. Ask the South American Republics, they will answer. Time passed. '1 he Western Republic began to command respect in all parts of the earth. Her credit was accepted and her trade solicited. Her name was in the mouths of all men and her flag was saluted as that of any nation, hundreds of years older. The wheel of progress turned rapidly. Recognition changed to amazement and people of foreign birth began to come over to the country which was given a title possessed by no country in the history of the world. The I .and of the Free. In the midst of such peace and progress a deep rumble of dissatisfaction developed and soon the country was engaged in a civil war; a war in which the strength of a democratic government was tested. It stood the test, and today both North and South rejoice that the union was preserved and that “ ld (iloryM still commands our combined allegiance. With the end of the struggle things resumed their advancement with still greater speed. In a few years the wounds of the war were healed and wc were a united people again. Our manufactures grew, our commerce increased, and our people were known in all parts of the earth. We were soon recognized as a world power. Along with this development our democracy also kept pace, guiding our every action. The feeling which had prompted New England neighbor to aid New England neighbor made us want to help our fellow-man. It made us want to offer the people of other countries the liberty and happiness that wc possessed in this blessed land of ours. Wc welcomed the oppressed people of foreign countries and aided them in starting upon their new life. While Page one hundred Ixventy-one we were helping those far away, right off our coast to the southwest poor Cuba was suffering under the Spanish rule. Secretly some of our people had been giving her aid for a long time. The conditions instead of improving became more horrible until the citizens of the I’nitcd States in 1S9S demanded that their government help the Cubans in accomplishing their purpose. This they readily did and for the first time the “Stars and Stripes” fought on foreign soil to secure for a mistreated people their freedom. After accomplishing this, a new situation presented itself to the American people—a situation in which our action aroused much comment on the part of foreign nations. Owing to the killing of our citizens and the raiding of our border towns, conditions were brought on us by Mexico which generally result in war. The first impulse, however, died away, and under quieter circumstances wc learned more and more about the people who committed these acts. We found that they formed a very small minority of the population of Mexico; that the people of that land were trying to gain their freedom and put down the upper classes who had ruled them so long and that some powerful leaders took advantage of these circumstances and influenced the ignorant to enlist in their service under the impression that they were helping their country. These discoveries changed the policy of the American government and instead of punishing the Mexican people as a whole, they made preparations to capture the leaders and punish them. To do this was to act contrary to the opinions of the leading countries of the world. This, however, mattered little to the people of the United States, as they were forwarding our mission and refraining from interfering with a nation in a struggle to better their condition. This, my friends, is the mission that America has fulfilled up to the present day—first putting themselves on a firm basis and then helping others in their struggles for liberty—seeking, obtaining, maintaining and spreading democracy. Now we can well understand why our government waited so long before entering the present war. We can sec why thousands of our young men drifted across the border into Canada and enlisted under a foreign flag; why thirty thousand of these men were fighting for the Allies on the Von llindcnburg line in HUT; why others were tending the wounded behind the line in France and Belgium; why last of all we entered the war to fight it to a finish. It was to protect democracy and preserve it for the world in its death grapple with autocracy and in the protection of democracy to show the world that a little nation was to he respected as much as a large one. It was to make impossible another invasion of defenseless Belgium with all its Cruelties and horrors. It was to make the Stars and Stripes ’ stand for love, justice, freedom and honor in all parts of the earth ns it does in our native America. In the language of the greatest of all mericans. Woodrow Wilson. “To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that wc are and everything that wc have, with pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and peace which she has treasured. God helping her. she can do no other.” Classmates, let me repeat. “The last ho|)es of mankind rest with us.” Our country, our friends, humanity is calling. Democracy must win! The decision l'age one hundred ixrenly-ttro is in our hands and that of our countrymen. There is only one answer ictory! It is our duty to our forefathers who died to give us a free government. It is our debt to humanity! Arc we equal to the task? The answer rests with us! Let us support our country! Let us in the Spirit of ’?( and with all the force of mankind and womanhood nurtured and strengthened by liberty, offer again the sacrifice of | osscssions and of life itself, that this nation may still l e free, that the mission of American democracy shall not fail—that the world shall he Ct.vnK Kennedy. Orator. 'IS. f’rtfft one hundred tu enty three STATISTICS FOR SENIOR CLASS, 1918 So important are the statistics of the class of IRIS that they will he published in the world’s greatest literary magazine, “The Trot Line.” The editor of the above-mentioned paper made this astounding statement: I will pay billions for an article on the most miraculous class of IRIS A. LX I want to donate this article to posterity as a priceless legacy. Though the sky should fall to the ground and though an oyster should swim, the characteristics and exploits of this intellectual class will never be forgotten—especially by the teachers. 'I he whole universe agrees with me when I declaim that these are the only perfect specimens of high school students in captivity.” Therefore, everyone who wants a detailed account of this class’s misdemeanors, physical and mental peculiarities, merits and demerits, perfections and imperfections, and everyone who ardently desires a record of their achievements and accomplishments, their exiles and banishments, and their official records bearing the o. k. of the Principal, will find the same in The Trot Line. Notwithstanding this abundance of data, the office of statistician is very difficult and lugubrious to me for various and sundry misapprehensions. In the first place. I had to practice a week before I could pronounce the word statistician.” and two weeks before I could spell it with any degree of celerity or accuracy. In the second place, it would take a man or. more probably, a woman with a dozen tongues to enunciate, articulate or even gesticulate some of the names of this Senior Class. Without having had my tongue massaged by the famous beauty specialists, Messrs. Vcrhon Kemp and Clyde Kennedy, it would have been impossible for me on the first encounter to utter with acrobatic skill such appellations as B-e-r-k-o-w-i-t-z or i-ti-g-o or M-c-E-a-c-h-e-r-n or J-o-s-s-c-l-y-n or W-e-r-t-h-o-i-m-c-r or (i-o-t-t-l-i-e-h or Z-i-n-s-z-o-r. While these names were doing violence to my optics, others were requiring extraordinary visionary capabilities. Among them were Pillsbury, Eric, Greer, Naff, Parrish. Arline, Pierce. nita. Wade. Simpler. Virgil. Dowling, Lee Ola, Culpepj er, Nathaniel. Carrie Boss, Leonadus and Trylilbie. We see by the above cognomens that this is a conglomerate Transcendental body composed of Romans. Greeks, Norwegians, old Biblical characters and manufacturers of flour and hot soft drinks. We eat and drink to their health and immortalize them in the following epic: Thus goes the immortal ode—The ruler of Brittan (Ruth) and Brazeal (Virginia) (Mc)Call(ed) (Margaret) the Harper ( Lucile) to Blair (Frances) in the Halls (Grace and Flcmmon). A Carter (Otto), two Coojkts ( Horston and Ben) and a Mason (Annie Leo) were Cununing ( Edwin) there with Bliss (Herbert) in an Al-ford (Othar) Carr (Grace), whose Sparks (Margie) were not Wright (Martha). A Byrd (Katherine), a Martin (Margaret), threw a Stein (Julius) full of Cole (Marv Charles) Hale (Evan) like a Pill (George) on their liead(s) (Hobson). The Woods (Marv Eva and Henry) Redd (Torrance) and said Allsup” (Lizzie Lee). Their escape is a Webb (Elizabeth) and a Riddle (Johnnie). Their heads are Goldberg(s) (Edna). I Seay (James and Erskinc) and will Berry (Irene) the Shell-(ton) (Orange). So Early (Eva) it was laid in a Hill-(ton) (Lucile) in the East (is) (Edna). And lo! an Engel Pan one hundred twenty-four (Rosalie) with a Russell (Homer) like a Rockett (Lillys) laid Spriggs (Hugh) of Careen (David) Ream (Margaret) and Rrown (David and Zeltna) Hays (Gladys) on the Sides (Nina Kate) of the Graves (Walton). With apologies to the unmentioned and taking into consideration all the vicissitudes and dudes tins is indeed a marvelous galaxy of glittering talent. Ves, sir. when it comes to genius this congregation towers above like a grain of sand towers above the pyramids. s Shakespeare would have said, this is a class that keepeth old men in the chimney corner, rats in the cellar; and niaketh Hamlet teachers to go to the asylum and fond (xtrents to g � down in their j ockcts. Another thing that we gloat over is our weight—physical, not mental. With due respect for the laws of gravitation and geology, the total avoirduj� ois. in eluding W illiam hhott. is three thousand kilograms, six ounces and one yard— enough, if all sat on him at one time, to completely annihilate the Kaiser. ur height i equal to the weight reversed plus the altitudes of James Robertson and Louis Pollock, hi short, in lineal measure, our class is similar to a crooked line— it has length without reach and obtuse thickness without depth or breadth except that Alfred Olncy and Ren Cooper are four gallons deep in their own estimations. Trying to find the ages was about the hardest proposition that 1 ever tackled since this class is composed chiefly of girls. Whenever 1 approached them on this interesting topic they closed their mouths like clams—(). wonder of wonders! —and looked at me with icy stares. In spite of this obstruction, though, the exact duration of their lives was found by a toothpick, a prying tool, and also by a mathematical formula that has enlivened “dummy squads arid driven “stage coaches” and “laundry wagons.” The proportion is: The age is to the size of the class as the size of the head is to the intellect. The youngest one, and. consequently, in number of years nearest to infancy is Tom Moore, and the oldest is —don't shoot. I will not tell—I am proud to he the possessor of so sacred a confidence. Rut to he very accurate. Kva Quirk. Lillian Karpcles, Eloise Moran. Flemmon Hall. Cambridge Norris, Richard Randolph, Wesley Westmoreland and William Moughon have spent the flower of their childhood within the five walls of school, the combined ages of whom would wither the flower of any youth, while the combined ages of all would cause Methuselah to turn green with envy, white with fear, black with despair and blue with chagrin, a color study for any artist. The question of age naturally brings 11s around to the question of beauty. Never before in all history has there been in one assembly such magnitude of feminine and masculine pulchritude. I.et your eyes look on the maidens’ (rosy) complexions which show the effect of resisting the pale midnight oil and bear evidence of the adoption of camouflage devices. The loveliness of the girls has nothing on the handsomeness of the hoys. Haven’t you noticed the stern and owl-like visages of our young heroes, particularly of Reynolds Baum. Harry Steinmehl, Carl Stradford, Max Hurvich, Hobart Henderson and Evan Hale? These faces before you are enough to electrocute a leaden image. Even their photographs refuse to stay on paper, nevertheless, the originals appear in public places. Rut don’t blame any of these martyrs for tb abnormal countenances Vaqe one hundred ivemy-fve they have. If you hail to contort your brain with trickful trigonometry and the Latin vernacular, no doubt you would resemble the expression of a flivver when the joy-ride has come to grief. Exultant over our physiognomies we can't ignore our main strength which, like Sampson, lies in our hair. If all were cut ofT and woven into a rope it would he sufficient to entangle and bind the whole ierman army—which would l� e perfectly feasible since some of our members jjosscss red hair, white skin and blue eyes. All hail to the red. white and blue! Our hair ranges in color from Mora liurrus, Katherine Klycc to Jean Itfach. and taking into consideration that Lillie Maddox, Virginia (lobiu. Josephine llaylow. Atiabel Stith, Prances Itlair. Kebic Shiflett, Lucile Harper. Thelma Cams and Hoy Lewis, all look exceedingly charming wearing their hair in teasing curls,—it is a fact that two l� oys. Fred Sloss and Herman Coplan, did win the prize for the most beautiful hirsute adornments with their g H d imitations of the Spanish pompadour. As for the ears, they arc of all varieties from the sharp, acute, pointed, strained-to-a-point type to the happy, oval, palmetto-fan kind. The cause of our auditory apj endages being in these deplorable shapes and conditions is that we have listened to high school teachers for four or five years. ! that we had not responded when they commanded, Lend me your ears. Hut let not your motto be. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and an ear for a nose, for in speaking of noses it is sufficient to say that this class nose (knows) everything. So an ear for a nose would Ik an unequal bargain. Drink to me with thine eyes would Ik a goml toast to this lonely hand of fugitives from knowledge, Rig eyes, little eyes, pretty eyes, good eyes, kind eyes, round eyes, square eyes, glad eyes, sad eyes, mad eyes, had eyes, owl eyes, bird eyes, cat eyes and the yellow, brown, green, black and lavender eyes of Anita Sloss and Latady. Etna Dodd. Mary Leone Simpson, Margaret Howard. Lula Jacob, Marcia Saunders, Esther Tcmerson. W illie Kirk. Corrie Crawford and Mary Sue (Joudelock have all been winking and blinking at knowledge. See the twinkling optics of Miranda Herndon. Emily McCoy. Foy Hall, Emily Thompson and Rosalie Engel. When Luther Murphy. Orton I‘lake. Clara Mac dc Lorn and I orcna and Willie Fennell fasten their hypnotic orbs ( that sec not) on you, you will invariably capitulate. 0 the wise • 'yes rise sit sighs. skies and f ics. Some learned philosopher has said that the eyes arc a mouth, hut if he should see this gaping throng he would without hesitancy retract his statement. While there are a good many small mouths (which hear no resemblance to eyes) with small tongues. large mouths with large tongues seem to be in the majority. See the yawning chasm of thought. Of course, so. Hear the noise, noise, noise Of the hoys. hoys. hoys. And the clatter, clatter, clatter Of the chatter, chatter, chatter. And the gabble, gabble, gabble Of the rabble, rabble, rabble. Paye one hundred menty-jix If all the speeches were uttered in one monologue the heathen “Chinee” would believe that Armageddon had arrived. With a speedometer attached to everybody's tongue the number of words spoken per hour were found to be as numberless as the movements of Ben Warner in fourth period study class. Through use of the speedometer Rosa Lee Walston and Hilbert Israel proved to be the champion high-speed conversationalists, their speed being sixty words per second in low gear. If all the mouths were made into one it would he huge enough to cat at one meal a barrel of flour, a car load of candy, a billion high school lunches ami at the same time chew a piece of gum as large as a cannon ball. Since the mouths depend on the feet. Senior classes may come and Senior classes may go. but I venture to say no class will ever surpass us in the number and size of feet per capita. Francis Smith in forecasting a casualty list of the present war said. “Were I to go to war and lose my right foot I would still have one left that is big enough for two. Perhaps the less said about the feet the better. It is a long descent from the big subject of describing the feet to the timeworn subject ot apparel, hut our apparel must not go uneulogized. The proverb, ‘A lollies denote the man. may be taken as an index to our education. Some of our garments are manufactured by silkworms, not bookworms—though the bookworms may have eaten our books on account of their not having l een consumed by us. It is fitting that most of our clothing is made of wool l ecausc. as you know, sheep are mutton-headed. Dean F Toll. Harry Watkins. James Seay wear woolen clothes. We also show a distant kinship to the boll weevil in preferring cotton. Also boll weevils have bills and our fathers say we have bills, particularly Mercer Grayson and Beattie Inglis. s to the matter of the color of our clothes we show wide and extensive taste. The favorite colors of Emily McCoy, Estelle Methvin and Marv McAnally arc blue, saffron, white, brown, orange and green, because in it they can best be seen. The most predominating and prevailing tint is crimson red. Red is for bravery; and aren’t we brave to have captured a diploma in the face of heavy artillery tire, aerial bombardments and gas attacks? Now. good friends, patient class-mates and kind pedagogues. Please listen with fortitude to my epilogues. Margaret Martin. Lillys Rockett and Tom Moore. Also Emma Stockmar made in books the best score. True, even Sarah McCarty could do no more. Indeed, they made the perfect adding machine sore. I ask your pardon for mv sins of omission; I am sure they are not of my own volition. It is almost impossible to sav adieu. I cannot think of anything else to say—thank you. Leon Gandy, Statistician, T8. Page one hundred tweniy-teven THE CITY OF CAMELOT The morning after my graduation 1 was feeling particularly proud and puffed up about the regions of my heart and head. As I sat looking and wondering over my newly acquired assurance of superior wisdom, my diploma, a sudden inflated feeling buoyed me up. My eyes made pictures while they were shut and a Dream of Dreams extended my vision. 1 saw in the distance the fair city of Camelot. the city of ideals. I marvelled at it. not as the meeting place of knights and ladies of high degree, but as the ideally real home of my classmates, who were working out high ideals and noble thoughts. Just on the outskirts of the city lay the immense camp of the lighting force, for the protection and extension of their democratic ideals. It was indeed a marvelous organization. Here. tfetnmon Hall, with his aides-de-camp, Greer Ileslin and Carl St rad ford, were the recognized leaders, but so ardently had they struggled to make the world safe for democracy ’ that, marvelous to be told, hardly any discrimination was made between the officer and the high private In the rear ranks. “Truly the toe of the peasant was pressing hard on the heel of the courtier,” for even the armv was democratic, here in this city of Camelot. On the right lay a Y. M. C. A. hut. where Clyde Kennedy and Yerbon Kemp were providing amusements for the soldiers. I’nder their auspices, furthering the interest in airships, Wesley Westmoreland was patriotically doing his Flying Dance, nothcr youth, Evan Hale, who had successfully resisted any knowledge of the German language was giving, in plain English, a monologue, entitled. On to Berlin. while the soldier circus called forth loud cheers of approval from the spectators. I lerman C'oplon, in the guise of a bareback rider, balanced precariously on the back of an unruly mule. Herman had dared much before. In another part of the ring William Abbott, with his usual friendly and companionable nature, was fraternizing with a tame bear. Verily, it was a gala day in camp! But the boys were not alone in their military activities. Fulfilling the tender mission of healing and serving, binding the wounds of the invalids and bringing them good cheer, were Kathleen Merkel, Martha Wright, Eva Quirk and Katharine Henry. I heard reports of other nurses' efficiency. Anita Sloss and Esther Kennedy, but a subtle thought came to me. that possibly they were doing contradictory service: binding heads, yet breaking hearts. Closely allied with the military forces were the scientists. Amy Callen, with her usual thoroughness, was burrowing into the depths of things, and working out a formula for a deadly explosive, all ground work; while Francis Smith, with his soaring tendencies, was perfecting a new Hying machine In the laboratories of the city, other noted scientists, Othar Alford, Emily Thompson and Wilbur Leake, were laboring over a long range gun. which, in its flight, would rise and fall, travel crosswise and sidewise, then—on to its objective. Their invention was based on the theory and practice of answers to questions in High School, which, through many indirections, windings and twin tags sometimes find directions out. In another part of the laboratories, Ben Warner. Irma Maass and Maxic Xorris were bending over their experiment tables, puzzling over an Page one hundred tieenty-tighl invigorating machine, devised to check the inertia common among the High School students. It was quite plain to them that a body, when inert, could remain inert but the problem of perpetual motion was too great a tax for their wits. Across from the laboratories, the magnificent new High School offered great variety in the choice of studies, with some choice of teachers. Its busy executive head, Anita l.atady, was installing the new method of teaching with moving picture demonstrations. The only objection to the. device that Thelma Cams, Ethel Cockrell and Virginia I Irazeal could raise in their domestic science classes, was, that the new educational facilities limited their opportunities to talk. Estelle Goldstein and Virginia Praytor were beloved English teachers— they demanded no themes. In a quiet room most suited to her disposition. Joy Hansbcrger taught irgil and Cicero, while Eula Jacob complained that Henry Wood’s classes in manual arts never made anv noise, unless she was asking important questions and couldn’t hear the answers, much to the delight of her Spanish students. In the school library I found that, though there were no royal roads to learning. there were royal heights, for the celebrities in the varied fields of writing were many in the city of Camelot. Richard Randolph, through his works of a didactic nature on, “How to Evade Study, had achieved enviable prominence. They had been translated into ten languages, and could hardly he printed fast enough to supply the demand. Several of the University students, Orange Shelton. Louis Gingold and David Stewart, had secured copies only under great difficulties. Rut the didactic writers did not outnumber the other authors. The dashing heroes and heroines of the fiction writers, J.ueilc Harper ami Margaret Martin, were the objects of much imitation. Leading the dramatic writers of the day were Sara McCarty, the piquant genius of so many clever comedies: Luther Murphy, well-known writer of tragedy, whose ever present theme was that All Men Arc the Victims of Fate, and Lillys Rockett, the talented young playwright in the field of serious drama. Across from the library, the artistic news stand of Dean Holt sold the leading newspaper of Camelot. Its vast circulation was undoubtedly due to the cleverness of the staff. In its pages one would read with interest the editorial comments of 'font Moore on How to Make 100— While Refraining from Social Pleasures, or While Enjoying Society : while the serio-comic genius of Bertha Josselyn made the reader wonder whether to laugh or to cry was the proper social form. It had also a brilliant information column containing Howto Behave When Flunked — What Res] onse to Make When You Don’t Know. all purposefully designed to bring the school and home close together. These hints were prepared by Trebbie Ryan and Elizabeth Webb. From its news columns 1 found that Leon Gandy, the eccentric genius, had to avoid public notice because of the popularity of The Trot Line, and was now a real Isaak Walton, hunting and fishing in haunts of jn-ace and quietude. Since the press is always ahead of the times, the foreign correspondents, Reynolds Baum and Rebecca Shiflctt. had almost ceased to w rite of war and bloodshed, and had now begun to speak of the coming brotherhood of nations, when they should all be Pag 0 ' hundred twenty-nine working together for a common purpose, nnie Lee Mason's prose verse on the same subject was unequalled, while Ktna Dodd’s “Bed-time Talcs” charmed all the little children to sleep when the Sand Man” failed. I'nder the Helpful Hints? column, Virginia Gobin and Lula Courtney brought joy to the hearts of many young ladies, when they disclosed the secrets of stage make-up. while Grace Hall’s and Lillie Maddox’s “Fashion Hints” were invaluable. In the advertising department. Hobart Henderson. Jacob Gottlieb and Mercer Grayson were canvassing tor ails like this: “Mesdemoiselles McCoy. Wood and Lewis offer their new hat models at � c on the dollar.” This lx-ing reminiscent of old school days would stimulate friendly competition, so on the next day after such an announcement. Margret Lewis. Ermine Kitchens and Jean Blach would offer theirs on the installment plan, 50c down and . � per cent a week for three weeks—advertising “()ur models always pass.” Each day the society news was duly chronicled by Torrance Redd. I lore one would read of the gay crowds at the Hilton-Klyce-Saundcrs Tea Room; the luncheons at the Hotel I lays-Methvin; the return of Ida Xicholls’ touring party from the summer resort of Kloise Moran. Catherine Newsom and Johnnie Riddle or the announcement that on Tuesday Mary Leone Simpson would lecture the Ladies’ Club on How to Keep Young. newspaper of newspapers, this one of Camelot! But even more inspirational pleasure was found in art. In this realm, l.il lian Karpeles was a pianist on the concert stage: Frances Gilmore, a harpist. Oh. music! The ccslacy of walking with heads above the clouds! I ruly no one was more soulful than Harry Steinmchl. with his long hair and rapt expression. The ambitious W illiam Moughon and Josephine l laylow were singing in grand opera composed by Corric Crawford, while in the W'illa Scott Theatre, the liquid notes of Edna Lewis’ lyric soprano ascended to the tune of Margaret Howard’s melody and $3,000. In Camelot. the art of dramatic expression, the appeal of the s| oken word, was not lost upon an unappreciative community. Anabel Stith, as Juliet, was actually as popular with the girls as Ed Cumming was as Romeo. In the title role of the musical comedy, Mice—and Women,” Rosalie Engel sang her way into the hearts of all theatre-goers: Rosa Lee Walston’s character impersonations were unequalled, while Frances Blair and other stars were winning many laurels in their dramatic roles. All of these were aided and abetted by their busy press agents. Ruth Brittan and Louise Cosby, to whom they owed much. In the artists’ quarter, the studios of Margaret McCall and Homer Russell were the scenes of much-contention. W hen they were not good-naturedly caricaturing each other and everybody else, they illustrated magazines and sold their idealistic paintings for fabulous prices. Associated with them was Clara Mae de I.ony. a decorator of note. But in this city of ideals, the business end of life was not neglected. Owing to the fact that James Robertson had great difficulty in acquiring the Mary-had-a-little-lamh” process of learning the ( % method in Math, he was doing very well as president of a large bank. His bank “could not be fleeced. Being the president of a large bank isn't the easiest thing in the world, so he chose a board Page one hundred thirty of directors, A. J. Frazier, Fred Sloss, George Fill and Otto Carter, who had a capacity for shifting responsibility. In a great domc-shajx d observatory. Jennie Fcldstcin and Christine Dickinson were gazing at the stars, remembering the old motto, “Per Aspera Ad Astra.” In the same busy quarter Magdalene Bowen, Esther Temerson and Thelma Abernathy had a flower shop—specialty, corsages. They were supplied bv the flower gardens of Bertha McPherson and Emma Culpepper. In almost as high a building as the observatory was the office of Architect David Brown. Fp on the top floor. Weatherman Max Munich foretold storms and freezes months off. Just below him was the Sides-McEachern-Ware Insurance Company. They would insure you from tire to damages incurred by not reading the yearly Almanac, which prophetic guesses were made by Cambridge Norris and Irene Berry from force of High School habit. ( n the ground floor, Jewelers Pauline Berkowitz. Lizzie lx e Allsup and Eva Boyett were introducing an innovation in cuff buttons, which would not roll under convenient furniture. Their fortune was made. “But just take a jx-ep next door, will you ? I heard one of my class-mates at the window exclaim, “Zelma Brown, Katherine Byrd and ( '.race Carr are excitedly searching their entire stock of athletic goods, to find a hasketliall worthy of Mary Lee (iassaway’s champion basketball team, which is still winning, and yonder goes an aero-bus of the Cunningham-Early Bus-Line with Gertrude Finch. Margaret Fcam and Willie Fennell in it. They’re planning interior decorations for the White House, now, and, oh. see how important they look! lust outside the city, on a large scientific farm. James Seay. Hobson Head and Alfred Olney were remembering that farming required a knowledge of Latin-so they dug. dug. dug as they used to dig for Latin roots. Here I unintentionally turned mv attention to the court house, where a most astonishing sight greeted me—a court session. Margie Sparks had brought suit against Mary McAuallv for letting her lawn sprinkler spoil her new Easter bonnet. Eva Regan and Willie Kirk were brilliant lawyers arrayed against each other. Willie argued no damage was done, as the flowers on the bonnet were so realistically true to life, so withered, that they called for refreshing showers., Willie and Eva had overcome their timidity because Camelot encouraged women in the professions. In their departure from the usual, Mary Sue Gaudelock and Miranda Herndon, genealogists, had put away a substantial bank roll against a rainy day.” Many were the fine ladies who had bought noble ancestry from them, and many were the family trees they had watered! Charity administration was ably directed by the alert Foy Hall, who was capably assisted by Myrtle Mcl«aughlin and Edna Goldberg. In the athletic club of the city. Harry Watkins had worked such wonders in strengthening the people that no physicians were needed. As evidence to his success. Ruth Harris. Louis Pollock and Janie Grace had grown large and aggressive. Thelma Odom was co-operating by giving free swimming lessons to the public. In the main, recreation was not neglected in Camelot. Sue Smith and Carrie McVay conducted an amusement park, where everything could be enjoyed, from a visit to Virgil Wilder’s Wiles to Elsie Wertheimer’s Submarine Subway. Pane one hundred thirty-one All of which was brought about by men and women working together in positions of equal responsibility. Presiding over the city commission. Hen Cooper was working harder than he ever had before, trying to keep Mora Burrus and Mary Charles Cole from quarreling over whether a noun could ever be a verb, or an adjective an adverb, of which dispute Elbert Israel was the official agitator. Kdna Fastis. Mian Wade. I.orena Fennell and Herbert Bliss, on the Committee of Ways and Means, had worked out such a perfect system of self-government, that the |X)lice force was gradually being diminished. Herston Cooper and Julius Stein bad already lost their jobs. 'This so incensed Orton Blake that he stirred up strife, thereby again to enlarge the police force. Verily, Camelot has capable politicians. Elizabeth Gaines and Beattie Itiglis were responsible for the existing low taxes, and their revenue compilers were Walton Graves and Elizabeth Wingo, whose knowledge of values and figures at High School had consisted mostly in knowing that 230 meant Math. As 1 rejoiced over equality in taxes this city of dreams faded from my vision. I opened my eyes, inclined to believe that in the future Birmingham will realize its hopes and dreams, through the efforts and ideals of my worthy classmates. Emma Stock mar. Prophet, is. I'afit ow� hundred thirl y-ltvo VINCIT QUI SE VINCIT In the carlv light of morning Youth’s joyous Future stands. A figure of promise and urging To life’s unconquered lands. Dauntless in hopes and courage. In happiness, merit, and truth. Strong in the world’s high honor She seems as she beckons to Youth. nd Youth as he faces her beauty Is conscious of only one thought: 'Phis maiden of dreams here before him In beauty and vigor has wrought. He feels her power in the distance, Her fearless dominant will. Her lofty might, the force of Right, That leads, but follows him still. For Youth like the wind seems the power That forces her on through the day. N et the swifter he runs to o’ertake her. The farther she leads the way. Till at last, when evening stars glimmer. And a faint moon beams over the sea. Youth stops, but a voice on the breezes Whispers. “Follow, follow me.” Rut Youth turns now to the ocean. To the soft breezes high in the skies; Oh! tell me. how shall I be victor? The way seems so long, Youth sighs. Then the winds and the waves together In one harmonious song To Youth this secret tell clearly, A secret of how to be strong. Page one hundred thirty-three “It you would know aught of the beauty. The happiness, honor and truth That Future holds in your fancy Standing and beckoning, Oh, Youth! I.earn a secret beloved of the sages. Handed down through life’s failure and pelf. To you—4iot yet old in life's Sxittlcs, “He conquers, who conquers himself.” —Eva Quirk. Poet. Page one hundred ihiny-four AMERICAN SPIRIT About three hundred years ago a people, lx)ld and determined, set foot on American soil. They willed to serve Clod as they pleased. In this atmosphere of protest, the American spirit was horn. Through hardship and toil it has grown staunch to attest its faith in. and its right to “justice, freedom and happiness. Through the struggles of nation building it has become firm—through the accomplishment of expansion it has Iiecomc brotherly and democratic. In its effort to bridge from the stern realities of toil to the ideals and hopes of dreams, the American folk have indulged in broad humor and sustaining jest. The realities of work, love and play have given to the American Spirit a sublime optimism. It has met obstacles and has overcome them. In meeting the various and varied trials to which a new nation is heir it has cultivated the sturdy qualities of the pioneer. The fruits of this spirit are boldness, perseverance and fidelity to truth. These early found expression in the practical mind of Franklin, and the mechanical genius of Morse. Whitney and Kdison. These men were high-thinkers seeking Truth, not so much through abstract ideals as in the practical working out of mechanical achievement. America’s early perception of nature was not a sensuous appreciation, hut God in Nature upholding law. moral and physical, whose operation knows neither variableness nor shadow of turning. And so in ol edience to law our people have built transcontinental railways and skyscrapers until Yankee ingenuity has become a proverb; it is an affirmative answer to the practical question, “Will it work? I hc corollary to the above law is, Is it economical? For this reason our magazines emphasize not only literary values but the technical arts of engineering and farming. 'They tend to encourage specialization. Our employment of realism is nothing more than the mathematical regard for the Truth. “The sum of the parts equals the whole ; therefore, the humdrum realities of life, the drudging tasks of the housewife, the simple toil of the laborer deserve recognition; they are parts of the whole. Possibly our greatest contribution to economic form in literature is the short story. which, with its “bee line, its directness and unity of impression, is the very essence of compression. In its unfolding, the economical American spirit has grown expansive. The courage which was not daunted by the blast of the storm or by the lash of the tempest; which did not quail before hunger and cold; which withstood attacks of savage and beast; which suffered in stoic agony the approach of the Silent Reaper; which held firm and unflinching through the clearing of the wilderness; which was careful and regardful of physical law in the founding of the nation and the building of internal improvements, now stands reverent in the presence of nature’s subtle spirit, respecting not only the rigidity of law, but the freedom thereof, for “The truth shall make ye free. America not only understands hut feels the majesty of the mountain, the sweep of the prairie, and the quiet of the valleys. It is this warning of the heart that broadens our appreciation. Wc sec worth in plain garb, and majesty in lowly humility. With Walt Whitman wc hear America singing her song of industry and trade. We acknowledge our debt Page one hundred thirty-fife to the piowboj, the milkmaid, the carpenter, and the factor)' hand, who have contributed to the world’s wealth and vigor; and in “songs of ourselves we rejoice with them and sympathize with them in helpful child labor laws, and a more righteous administration of tenement rent American spirit is energetic in work, and co-operative in love—and the fruits of love arc sympathy and trust. If, as Agnes Reppelier says, nations reveal national characteristics through their humor, what can we say of our national spirit which gives vent to its humor in exaggeration? To us exaggeration is humor, not incongruity. ( ur diversified surface, our teeming millions, have taught us unity in diversity, rather than incongruity of the whole. Reared in a land of contrasts, accustomed to an unequal cililization. we attempt everything with extravagant scope. We are a big folk with a world’s job before us. We do not stand aghast at the appalling task of whipping the Teuton enemy, but rush to the fray with such laughter ami jest on our lips that the enemy does noc understand what manner of man we be.' We do not cry only, Down with incongruities V but also “Down with conventions ! In other words, we invite the new, the untried, so when dreams of Reform, of Freedom, of Emancipation, of Referendum and Recall come knocking at the door, we, to paraphrase I oweH’s borrowing from .Shakespeare, do not cry out. Who in the name of Beelzebub is there?” but admit the reform as we admit foreigners to our citizenship—not to perpetuate the discordant, the unfriendly, but to fuse the inharmonious in our Melting Pot.” which bums out the dross, but keeps the gold tor our social and political welfare. The attempt to distinguish realities from appearances, to reduce the incongruous to harmony has made us keen and tolerant. Ffomor is the balance wheel —the delicate adjuster. We truly reveal ourselves in play, the fruits of whose spirit are tolerance, keenness and friendly fellowship. W ith these, and the perspective that Age has given us. we are strong to work out our national problems in the spirit of democracy and love. Daw Rockett Essayist, W. P.IVH linrif. tijt RECONSTRUCTION Classmates and Friends :- We, the thirty-fourth graduating class of the Central High School, do this day earnestly dedicate our lives to our country’s future. Wc recognize the uni |uc position wo hold as we go out into the world today. Though our hearts arc with our brothers in France, who are so gallantly fighting for the liberty of the world, we must resolutely turn our faces in another direction. Though we are ready anti willing to give our lives for our country now, we must prepare for the day when the burdens of this world will rest u] ou us; wc must educate ourselves in the arts of keeping peace. When it's over “over there. there will he, as one writer aptly phrased it. “Wanted: Somebody to administer Syria, protect Armenia jxilice the Balkans, elbow jealous jostlers out of Boland, su| erintciid the outlay of the restitution fund in Belgium, counsel Russia in setting up the machinery of a federal republic and. possibly, even advise Germany in the art of democratization.” Who shall it lie? Who can it lie but America? In our own country such problems as the demobilization of war industries, and the adaptation of their plants to peace time production, the industrial dislocation involved in the disbandment of troops and munition factories and trades now directly dependent upon war orders demand solution. Few of us can aid in these problems, for such questions demand the leadership of older and wiser heads. 1’resident Wilson says that, “I’at riot ism consists in some very practical things, practical in that they belong to the life of every day, that they wear no extraordinary distinction, that they are connected with commonplace duty. The way to he patriotic in America is not only to love America hut to love the duty that lies nearest our hand and know that in performing it wc are serving our country.” War has a tendency to exalt the mechanical, to crush initiative in imposing discipline. Our service begins today, and a successful reconstruction depends largely upon us. The duty that lies nearest us, classmates, is to educate ourselves in the professions Professional lines must balance the mechanical after the war. Law must he freercr from technicalities and more progressively open to the truth. Architects believe that the reconstruction must he along artistic lines, that succeeding generations shall live in the kindly atmosphere of beauty. Education with its emphasis upon high, broad thinking, and accuracy in social values will foster the initiative war has so crushed. Thus, professional life will make progress in every branch of human endeavor. By so educating ourselves and fostering initiative we will serve our country and posterity. republican form of government such as ours not only gives us privilege but places responsibility upon ns. “The War of Independence was waged in the interest of founding a government which on the one hand should lie responsible to the people and for which, on the other, the people should l e responsible. Our res| onsil ility will lie even greater after the war when we shall have to decide whether or not the government shall continue to oi erate and possibly own the railroads, control the food and fuel supply, and doubtless other public utilities. We cannot now understand or appreciate the great significance of these I'ilfjf !'«•’ hunrfrfd ihtrlv Wffl problems. But we must “face the facts and meet them with candor.” When the time of readjustment comes we must Ik? able to understand and more, to decide them for the best interests of the government and the people. Higher than our practical political ideals and our practical, vital religion of thrift, sobriety, manliness and womanliness is the universal love we have always possessed. We arc lighting for the political ideals, in the meantime our religion must be nurtured so that in the | eriod of readjustment it will not fail. Our hatred of Germany is righteous indignation against the ideals for which she is lighting and the methods she uses. But after all that hatred is but “inverted love,” as Carlyle would say, and after the war it will not be righteous indignation. The future demands that we keep our hearts free from hatred for the constructive work, that we may deal justly, “with malice toward none, with charity for all.” If we do educate ourselves to meet the political and social problems with candor, if we continue to uphold our religious ideals as well as the political ideals for which we are lighting, and if we succeed in keeping hatred from our hearts we can visualize the future as the period of the world's greatest reconstruction. Abroad, cities are being rebuilt, homes restored. In the hospitals wc see our doctors and nurses mending shattered bodies, caring for the sick and wounded. In the cities from the humblest laborers to the architect, the draftsman, the engineer. we see honest effort and its reward—success. At home over the great stretches of land we see foresters and farmers at work. In the factories is the hum of the machinery in peace-time production. ()n all sides the governmental and social efforts toward the restoration of the world to normal and ln-iter living. But greater than all this we see rising from the chaos of war a new and wonderful people welded together by a common purpose behind which is the “Supreme moral force of righteousness and hope and the liberty of mankind. And now. my classmates, surely there is no need for me to appeal to you to put forth every effort in preparedness for the day when all nations shall Ik? in the bond of peace. The democracies of the world are learning in a costly school what it means to become warring nations unprepared for war; they must see to it that when the war ends they shall not Ik peaceful nations unprepared for peace. I.et us avoid this by preparing ourselves, for. remember, the world can stay at j eace only so long as intelligent men and women arc bending every effort toward keeping it. W hen the call comes we must answer with one accord. “We are ready.” Mora Lucille Burrus, Corresi onding Secretary. IS. Page one hundred thirty-eight Matinee Daily 10c LOEWS Bijou Theatre Prices Include War Tax Z” A Theater and a Home My pride in work is based upon the fact that I keep the family together in its amusement . I ask fathers and mothers to criticize every act—writing me personally. MARCUS LOEW. The Name “LOEW Is All You Need Know'1 Continuous Performance 1 to 1 I P. M. Entire Change of Bill Monday and Thursday 5 Acts Vaudeville 10 Reels Pictures Say, You High School Lads, DO YOU KNOW WE SELL EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR WEAR? ND WE'LL SAVE YOU MONEY Goldstein’s 1915-17 THIRD AVENUE The Woman s College of Alabama Courses leading to the B. A. Degree in all departments of college work. Faculty of highly trained specialists. Certificate and diploma courses in music, art, expression and domestic Magnificent equipment; plant worth half million dollars. Gymnasium, swimming pool and all forms of athletics. Instruction by specialists free. For catalogue and information address, M. W. SCHWARTZ. President Montgomery. Ala. Dewberry Montgomery Stationery Co. PHOTOGRAPHS Are One of the Necessities of Graduation Time oooooooooo A graduation photograph should he something specially attractive, that will in after years bring hack the memories of that first GRADUATION It has been our privilege and pleasure to make many graduation photographs in past years. 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Toilet Articles Apollo and Johnston’s Candies You rc Welcome to Come in and Use our Phone—Office—Parcel Room Antwine- McGuirc- DeShazo CLOTHING, HATS Furnishing Goods Phone 3648 Main 1914 Third Ave. Alabama’s Best and Greatest Popular Priced Department Store The Store that Sells as it Advertises In trailing with advertisers, bo sure to mention The Mirror. Play the Games PIERCE BASE BALL and LAWN TENNIS Columbia with D. A M. EQUIPMENT D. A. M. Baseball and Lawn Agents Pierce, Columbia. Dayton. Tennis Goods Increase Playing Overland. Sterling. Harvard Efficiency. REPAIRING OUR SPECIALTY Work Called For and Delivered Wimbcrlv Thomas Edwards Bicycle Store Hardware Co. 419 North 19th Street 2011 First Avenue Birmingham Phone Main 4128 T. M. EDWARDS. Propr. We Have Moved To Our New Location 203 No. 19th St. □ □ Things that appeal to High School Misses: Up-to-Date Styles in Shoes. Ready-to-Wear and Millinery. Excellent Haberdashery Department for Men and Boys. Caheen Bros. |cJ,vv shoe] Style. Quality and Comfort Snappy Oxfords for Young Men Kcrner-Williams Shoe Co. 1924 2nd Ave. Birmingham “TheFlorsheimBooterv” □ c REAL SHINES REAL SATISFACTION SHINE GIVE US A TRIAL WHITE PALACE SHOE SHINE PARLOR Newest Parlor in Town 1902 2nd Avenue Corner 2nd and 19th BIRMINGHAM’S SECOND FLOOR SHOE STORE LOW RENTS—LOW PRICES The Only Shoe Store in Birmingham Selling Ladies Shoes Exclusively U. S. QUALITY SHOE STORES 2nd Floor Jefferson County Hank Bldg, in Front of 5 Elevators 1 STORE-19 ROOMS No Chance to Make A Mistake Here When you slip yourself into a Styleplus Suit at $21 you are getting right into real clothes satisfaction and are making a clothes acquaintance that will develop into a life long friendship. The Store oj Shunhtr Lines Odum, Bowers White W. W. Odum 1908 Second Ave. Harry L. White BIRMINGHAM COLLEGE BIHMHXG11AM COLLEGE ami SOITHKRN UNIVERSITY will combine their faculties, libraries and endowment at Birmingham in time for opening of the Kail Term, September 11, 1918. This union of educational forces will guarantee for Birmingham the existence of a high-class college where courses leading to the usual academic degrees will he offered. A strong faculty, tine library and superior facilities for the study of science will be afforded. Military training and athletic instruction will l e provided. A well-equipped high school with excellent separate building, and with well-prepared instructors will be conducted under the supervision of the President of the College. :: :: Graduates of Birmingham Central High School are requested to look into the advantages of taking a college course at home in the City of Birmingham. The great saving of expense should make a strong appeal to all ambitious students who desire to economize in their efforts to obtain an education. :: :: :: :: For further information address THE PRESIDENT OK THE COLLEGE. Young Ladies, Young Men, Congratulations. alter these many years of studious work, you have finished your High School labors and reached the goal for which most good men and young women aspire. feme of you will, perhaps, go still further seeking knowledge, while others of you may go into this great world on your own metal seeking fortune. I would suggest that you rail and talk with me regarding the matter of Life Insurance. We have a “Special Policy” suited for the young graduate. HERBERT J. “The Life Insurance Man” £35 Brown-Marx Building Feed Our Army and Our Allies Save Wheat Eat Corn, Rye, Potatoes, Rice PAGE DONATED BY THE MIRROR JOIN THE Red Cross BUY BUY BUY SACRIFICE! WS.S. WAR SAVINGS STAMPS ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Sold Everywhere Help Fill Our Quota ‘Jake the El”- For Hoi Weather Clothes This upstairs, low expense plan takes no summer vacation—it remains on the job of saving you money any day in the year. Palm Beach Suits, $6.50 Cool Cloth Suits, $6.50 and $8-50 Tropical Worsted Suits $15.00 and $20.00 Klothes Shoppe T J p- Sta I i st.y LIGE COLSON. V.-Pres. and Mgr. In trading with advertisers, Ik sure to mention The Mirror. 1 PURITY AT PARKER'S Wc Bake Our Own BREAD and PASTRY Plenty of We Serve FRESH COUNTRY EGGS Flowers And Fresh CREAMERY BUTTER We Serve The Our stock is now very extensive and very beautiful, offering flowers for all occasions—roses, carnations, daffodils, etc. Out-of-town orders carefully packed and promptly forwarded. If you need flowers for any purpose get them here. BEST FOOD OBTAINABLE PARKER’S Lontos Cafe 118 North 20th Street Flower Shop Woodward Building “The Convenient Corner FLOWER PHONE M. 918 For nil Kinds of Athletic and Sporting Goods see •Give Us A Trial CANDY CAKES Birmingham Arms FRUITS COLD DRINKS Cycle Co. Agents for A (J. Spalding A: Co.'s Line Pete Sarros 1919 8(1 Ave. Birmingham. Across the Street from Central THE GIRL WHO GRADUATES from the High School: who hesitates to pledge four years to u College Course: who. nevertheless. • lex Ires to study, to enjoy college advantage , to cultivate special talents, to enrich her Ilf ' and her friendship —should know of NATIONAL PARK SEMINARY It Ik u Junior College for young women planned especially to meet the needs of High School graduates. Collegiate nod Vocational Courses. Music. Art. Domestic Science, Business Law. Travel. Outdoor life a feature. Study of the National Capital, llluntrut. .1 hook of 126 pages free on request. Address Secretary. National Park Seminary, Forest fJlen. Maryland. (Suburb of Washington. ! . C.) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Established 1824 TROY. N. Y. ENGINEERING and SCIENCE Courses In Civil Engineering (C. E-). Mechanical Engineering (M. E.). Electrical Engineering (E.E.), Chemical Engineering (Ch. E.), and General Science (B. S.). Also Graduate and Specia Courses. Unsurpassed new Chemical. Physical. Electrical. Mechanical and Materials Testing Laboratories. For catalogue and Illustrated pamphlets showing work of graduates and students and views of buildings and campus, apply to JOHN W. NUGENT. Registrar. In trading with advertisers, he sure to mention The Mirror. Get Your Hair Cut Right Come to Neely’s Barber Shop Hotel Hillman call on us for The Gift Books and Other Presents. Wc have Fountain Pens, Bibles, Testaments. the l.atc Books. Fine Stationery. School Books and Supplies for all Schools. Get Summer Reading here. Webb Book Store 2022 SECOND AVENUE DON'T FORGET TO GET YOUR COMMENCEMENT HAIR CUT FROM O.K. Barber Shop 217 North 20th Street T. PICKARD. Proprietor. FOR EVERYTHING IN MUSIC SEE WILLIAMS MUSIC STORE 1818 THIRD AVENUE For the Best Coney Island Wienies, Lunches, Soft Drinks, Fruits Cigars, Cigarettes, Tobacco SEE XENEPHON JONES 77th St. and 1st Ave., East Lake Phone Woodlawn 87 R. B. Rogers CASH GROCERY STORE 7620 First Avc. IS THE PLACE TO SAVE YOUR MONEY Phone 1164 Woodlawn 106 North 20th Street Ground Floor Empire Building DO YOU SEEK QUALITY WHEN YOU BUY? If So-Tradc With Us Fine Candy, Refreshing Drinks and Accurate Prescriptions Goodman’s Drugstore 322 South 20th St. Main 6487 Manufacturing Optician EYES TESTED Broken Lenses Replaced 2027 Second Avenue Opposite Jefferson County Bank Bldg. JAS. II. TINDER Herzog-Thomp-son Co. JEWELERS 1907 3rd Ave. Birmingham. Ala. Fisk Teachers 1 You Are Assured Agency of FRESH FLOWERS BIRMINGHAM. ALABAMA Professionally and Artistically Arranged when you place your orders with the The various war activities have drawn perhaps more heavily upon the teaching profession than any other profession and the demand is much heavier than the supply. Even from a patriotic standpoint every qualified teacher should enlist to help fill the hundreds of positions vacant in the schools throughout the entire country. American Flower Shop Correspondence Invited Phone Main 3545 319 N. 20th St. R. A. CLAYTON, Manager A. K. Lambly, Mgr. Wc Congratulate You, Boys, and wish you all the success that you deserve. from maker !o wearer Capital $500,000.00 Surplus, Earned. $650,000.00 Birmingham Trust Savings Co. BIRMINGHAM. ALA. Organized 1887 $15.00. $20.00, $25.00 IW N. 2nd Avc. BIRMINGHAM. ALA. Factory HOI M)7 Broadway. New York Branch Store We Invite Your Bank Account Thirty Years Safe Banking New York, N. Y. Birmingham, Ala. Memphis. Tenn. Nashville. Tenn. Columbia. S. C. Charleston. S. C. Asheville, N. C. Charlotte. N. C. Winston Salem, N.C Jackson. Mich. Battle Creek. Mich. Kalamazoo, Mich. Lansing. Mlcli. Flint, Mich. Allentown. Pa. Lancaster. Pa. Pasaic, N. J. Fort Wayne. Inti. OFFICERS . W. Smith. President Tom O. Smith. Vice-President W. II. Manley, Cashier Benson Cain. Asst. Cashier C. IJ. Col ten, Asst. Cashier E. W. Finch. Asst. Cashier White Canvas Shoes for JUDSON Summer Wear COLLEGE f ■ w Marion, Ala. M | j For Young Women Offers Standard College £ Courses Leading to B. J I ( A. B. S. Degrees. $1.95 a pair High or Low IIccl Paul V. Bomar President Guarantee Shoe Co. IW3 Third Avenue West Lake West Lake Attention! HIGH SCHOOL BOYS AND GIRLS Best Dance Floor in District Good Music—Dancing Every Weekday Night Swimming Pool Has Concrete Bottom No mud to mar your pleasure Water Nice and Warm Come Out and Enjoy Yourselves H. W. Taylor has a fine line of Bathing Caps. Come in and buy one for The Yancy Picnic 601 N. 19th St. Central High m THIS is the Last Issue of “The Mirror” for this year—but we will be here to serve you on the First Issue next year. This is our third year with the different Mirror boards and we refer you to them as to the service we have given : : : Birmingham Printin Bindery Co. Cor. Third Avenue and 17th St Phone Main 6898 WHEN IN DOUBT WHAT IS PROPER We Shall Be Glad to Inform You Also drop around and see our new line of: Engraved Cards, Monogramed Stationery, Invitations oj All Kinds, Etc. We Cater to the High School Students Richardson Engraving Co. 2010 Third Avenue For Graduation We have it! Have what! That superior .IKYVKLKY to give him or her. All styles, shapes, prices and (pi a lilies to suit each individual taste. Kacli teacher and mother, girl and hoy, let us show you our merchandise before' buying. I ur stocks are at vour service. I)iamong Kings from $5 up to $1,000 Card Cases from $4 up to $35 I‘earl Necklaces from $5 up to $100 Solid Hold Mesh Bags from $25 up to $275 Sterling Silver Belt Buckles from $1.25 up to $10 t 'uIT Links from $1.25 up to $25 Bracelet Watches from $10 up to $350 Sterling Silver Dorine Boxes from $2 up to $7.50 Silver Mesh Bags from $5 up to $50 Stick Pins from $1 up to $50 Special Offering of Boys' Watches Jaffe Jewelry Co Corner 2nd Avenue and 19th Street