Central High School - Mirror Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

Text from Pages 1 - 160 of the 1921 volume:

Why Buy Ordinary Meal When JIM DANDY Costs No More? Packed Fresh Daily By WESTERN GRAIN COMPANY Birmingham, Ala. r SWAPPING TRADE IS GOOD BUSINESS. Gibbs-Fort Drug Co. A good drug store' I DRUGS. CIGARS. SODAS I I i ' Corner 5th Ave. and 20th St. i I Phone Main 8211 “BUY THE BEST” Hart, Schaffner Marx Clothes arc all wool and all.styles At M. Weil Bro. Clothing j Company, Inc. 1906 Second Ave. j I Ben Weil. President I Chas. Swango, Sec. and Manager | j Page One « Well-known articles prove their W. Y. Taylor, President value in the months of continued J. O. Taylor, Vice-President service to their wearers Tom J. Taylor, Sec’y and Treas. Star Brand Shoes J. O. Taylor Grocery Company Arrow Shirts and Collars Black Cat Topsy Hose (Incorporated) and other well-known brands of Dry Goods and Groceries are sold by WHOLESALE GROCERIES Telephone Main 3088-8407 W. D. Bishop Mercantile 1 4 Company 2305-7 Second Avenue 2209 Morris Avenue Phone Main 3495 4 TELL THEM YOU SAW IT IN THE MIRROR. V I Mackin Bros. Grocery Company We Carry a Full Line of Staple and Fancy Groceries 1722 Avenue G 1 Phones 79, 145, 252 and 625 j Page Two PEANUT BRITTLE Ask For P. M. Try It Again Made By j Punch Malloy Candy j WOODLAWN SHOE HOSPITAL 5516 First Ave. Phone No. 9 ( Work Called For and Delivered SHOE REPAIRING | NEATLY DONE Shoe Laces for Ladies and Gentlemen—Men’s Hose, Paste and Polish Always in Stock Company Birmingham. Ala. L •Nuff Sed r Don’t be a mere looker-on—do something. T You Should Visit Our Sanitary Plant Birmingham Chero-Cola Bottling Co. Phone Main 6296 STOKELY BROS. CO. Canned Vegetables Packed Fresh From the Fields Where Grown Ask Your Grocer Every Can Guaranteed •V. Page Three | High School Styles in High - Grade Footwear for “Him” and “Her” Correct, careful fitting and moderate prices are features at— RICH’S 1912 First Avenue Birmingham, Alabama I i V. W. WOOD CO. Wholesale and Retail Dealers In Staple and Fancy Groceries 2400 and 2402 Second Avenue j Birmingham, Ala. i Bell Phones 6091-2-3 THANK OUR ADVERTISERS WITH VOUR TRADE. TYLER GROCERY CO WHOLESALE f j 1 Come to Mary Ann's O. K. SHOE SHOP First-Class Shoe Repairing | for Light Lunches and We Fix 'Em for Less | Drinks of All Kinds PHONE MAIN 8387 Special Service for I Special Parties and 2308 Second Avenue. North | Banquets IN A CLASS OF ITS OWN ( j ■ Mary Ann’s Tea Room Morris Hotel BARBER SHOP Loveman, Joseph Loeb’s Annex 1903 First Avenue HUFFMAN BROS., Proprietors The Mirror lovcth a trader with advertisers. | JEMISON CO. X S CALL 2237 MAIN Inc. For Your Dry Cleaning. Pressing, Dyeing, Altering, Repairing—La- Real Estate, Mortgage dies Work a Specialty—Goods Called for and Delivered Prompt- Loans, Investments, ly—All Work Guaranteed Bankers White Star Pressing Parlor 211 North Twentieth Street Right Across Paul Mayne F. W. GURLEY, Proprietor BIRMINGHAM. ALA. 428 South 20th Street Page Five Best Inside Best Outside Use ANGEL FOOD FLOUR i i i | E. P. Allen Company j Distributors Electric Chandeliers Wiring, Repairs S. M. BERNHEIM ELECTRIC CO. 2023 First Ave. Main 5100 i OUR ADVERTISERS DESERVE YOUR TRADE. You Will Enjoy • Dixie Club Coffee 1 I Compliments j Because It’s Good of j Holzer’s Market A FRIEND Wholesale and Retail MEAT DEALERS of Central Game, Lard, Butter. Cheese, Provisions, Poultry and Eggs 1824-26 Fourth Avenue Birmingham, Alabama Pag i- Six WHITE HOUSE COFFEE Best At Any Price EARLE BROS., Wholesale Grocers Birmingham, Ala. BOOST, D IT, BOOST! • • COMPLIMENTS —Of— JOHNS UNDERTAKING CO. Page Seven BAINS DRUG CO. Woodlawn Drink Cherry Pep Aids Digestion 5c Phones Woodlawn 125 and 9110 Knight Hardware and Electric Company Incorporated Manufacturers and Importers of Build era' Hardware and Lighting Fixtures 2023 4th Ave. Phone Main 1201 Birmingham, Ala. Knight Lights Make Light Nights First Avenue Coal and j Lumber Company ! Long Leaf Yellow Pine Lumber, Laths. Shingles, and Domestic Coal. All Kinds of Building Material Office and Yards 6424 FIRST AVENUE East Lake Car Line Phone 56 Woodlawn Phone 57 Woodlawn Britling Number One 1913-17 First Ave., Birmingham, Ala Britling Number Two j 307-11 N. 20th St., Birmingham. Ala. I Atlanta Britling No. One 90 North Pryor St., Atlanta. Ga. Page High I j STRAUSS CLOTHES i The Young Men and i From maker to wearer are high Women of To-day j classed, but not high priced. We can save you from $10.01) to $IJ� .(H) should profit by OUR years of j experience in the present and the J. B. Strauss Co. past, by shopping at Birmingham Branch i 1 2007 Second Avenue DRENNEN CO. j Factories New York and Rochester Department Store j If everybody was like you, what would become of the MIRROR? PHIL DORN Alabama’s Real Instate Bought. Sold and j Best and Greatest Popu- i Exchanged If you want investment call and see me. lar - Priced Department Phone Main 3504 Store 214 Farley Building Third Avenue and 20th Street Birmingham, Ala. The Busy Corner • Second Avenue and 18th Street J. W. BROOKS Fresh Meats, Groceries and ! Country Produce, Etc. 1 LOUIS PIZITZ 1 Your Business Appreciated The Store That Sells As It PHONE MAIN 7901 Advertises | | 2320 Second Avenue j I J Page Sine i { j JUDSON COLLEGE ! Marion, : : Alabama Established in 1S38 Standard College Courses Leading to the B. A. Degree. Home Economics, Art, Expression, Conservatory of Music with B. M. Degree. Write for Catalog and View book Paul V. Bomar, Pres. SMfMfAVf M JK I I ! Life May Bring You A Bunch of Big Disappointments— £ Telephone Us Telephone Us The Highland Pharmacy Phone Main 1080 Five Points Birmingham, Ala. BUT there’ll he none from vour appearance if you’ll affiliate yourself with the already big class of well-dressed men who have to our gratification, adopted this store as theirs. Our policies make dissatisfied or disappointed customers impossible. Odum, Bowers White The House of Kuppenheimer Good Clothes” 1908 Second Ave. Birmingham ■ AWilW ivy , wsmmzm Pane Ten 1 PURE RICH CLEAN HIRSCH’S Milk Cream and Buttermilk Cottage Cheese Commencement Hats and Hats for the Graduate are al- and Better Ice Cream ways stylish and in good taste. Hirsch’s prices arc much lower this season. Our Own Make $5.00, $7.50, $10.00, $12.50, $15.00 Glen Iris Dairy Co. 1008 S. 15th St. 2131 Ave. H. Tel. M. 1643 Tel. M. 3278 We appreciate a visit from you. Hirsch’s 213 and 215 19th Street Put vourself in the advertisers shoes. T WHAT DO YOU NEED? WE HAVE IT!! We keep everything that a young man needs to wear and are selling it cheap. Be sure to see us befort buying. You’ll do BEST at 1908 FIRST AVE 'birmingham.ala. Dim Vision Rectified ________________________ Quickly Don't have it said that you pass your friends and fall to recognize them. If your sight is poor, come to us for glasses that will enable you to see clearly. Our Glasses Are Right In Every Particular MULLY OPTICAL CO.. Inc. Take Elevator Third Floor 310 Brown-Mark Bldg. .1 Page Eleven Purity at Parker’s | Huyler’s and Allegretti Candies I BIRMINGHAM’S i PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS i I The Choicest Stock of Flowers j PARKER'S I DRUG STORE I WATCH FOR OUR SPECIALS The price is reduced, but not the excellent quality. Fine Cake and French Pastries j ! i Puritan Baking Co. j 110 North 20th Street Next to Birmingham Trust Savings Bank i SHOW YOUR APPRECIATION. James H. Tinder Louis H. Tinder j J. H. TINDER Sc SON TOMORROW’S 1 Optometrists STYLES Manufacturing Opticians —TODAY [ Phone Main 568 1927 1st Ave. Woodward Bldg. Birmingham. Ala. and at much lower prices than i ground floor stores can possibly j quote. If a Drug Store Sells It We Have It “Take the El” Prescriptions Our Specialty Pure Drugs and Sundries Phone Orders Delivered to All • Parts of City I KLOTHES Phones Main 9294-8568 1 SHOPPE j North Highlands Drug 1 Upstairs Co., Inc. 1501 Allen Street 207 4 North 19th Street Birmingham, Alabama Page Twelve 1 I I I YOU CAN LEAD THE WORLD If You Graduate in a Leader’s Suit $17.50 For Superior Young Men Suits that give you that snappy, dignified appearance that none but Leader’s Suits can do. “America’s Leading Values” LEADER’S CLOTHES 113 NORTH 19TH STREET ALWAYS MENTION THE MIRROR. PAIGE The Most Beautiful Car in America i j DETROIT MOTOR CAR CO. j 617-619 South 20th Street i I j ! i Pote Thirteen If Drug Stores Keep It I We Have It Our Service Satisfies Birmingham Drug Co. Phones W. E. 785 and 786 Birmingham Buggy Co. Where the Best Automobile Painting Is Done Second Ave. and 17th St. PHONE 2998 Woman’s College of Alabama Standard course leading to B. A. degrees. Certificates and Diplomas awarded in Music. Art. Expression Home Economics. Library Science. Standard A Grade College for Young Womei New buildings. $50,000 Dormitories. Swimming pool and gymnasium under competent instructors. Tennis, Basket Ball, and other Athletics. SESSION OPENS SEPT. 15TH Write for Catalogue and View Book M. W. Swartz, President Montgomery. Alabama TRADE. TRADE. TRADE with our ADVERTISERS. LIFE-TIME Phone Main 8592 FURNITURE • We Have a Complete Line of MAIN STORE 2013 4TH AVE. Up-to-Date Gifts for Graduates | Hood Wheeler Furniture Co. ! Farmer-Cannon Jewelry ■ Company, Inc. BRANCH STORE 2207 2d AVE. 1 Diamonds, Watches. Etc. You Get the Girl and We Will 318 North 20th Street Furnish the Home L_ Birmingham. : Alabama Page Fourteen i Madison Drug Co., Inc. 1 1 As Close to You as Your Phone OMEGA FLOUR 700 South 20th Street Absolutely the best We appreciate your trade, and cater to the whims of the boys and girls of Central Hy. The man in charge of this up-to-date store is an old Central man who had as his ambition: “To he ; EARLE BROTHERS j world-famed pill-roller.” (See page 84, Commencement Mirror. 1917.) So when you trade with us you are dealing with friends who are interested in your welfare and will see that you ure treated fair. Wholesale Distributors Birmingham 700 SOUTH 20TH STREET | Main 1439 Main 1008 J J Phones Main 7103-9255 i They have it—go to 'em. 1 It Pleases | CHRIS’ PLACE Chris Colias, Prop. MORNING STAR COFFEE i A Pure High-Grade 1 I Coffee I - 1926 First Ave. A Birmingham Product I Southern Coffee and i I Birmingham, Ala. i Spice Company ! Pugs Fifteen WANT TO GO SWIMMING? Register for Camp Winnataska EIGHT CAMPS CONDUCTED THIS SUMMER BY THE BIRMINGHAM SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION Younger Hoy8 —............ Girls’ Council------------ Hoys' Council ........... Younger Girls............. High School Girls......... College Girls............. Younger Girls (Overflow!... High School Boys---------- THE BEST OF LEADERSH CAMP DATES ....-............................... June 7-17 —...................................June 20-27 --------------------------------June 27-July 4 -- -----------------------------------July 6-16 ....................................July 10-29 .............................. .....August 2-9 ....-.......-.......................August 6-1(1 ------------------------ August 30-September S Each Camp Limited to 120 IP, LOTS OF FUN. WORTH WHILE ACTIVITIES Page Dedication --------------------------------------------------- Editorials --------------------------------------------------- Bird of Omen_______________________Dorothy Elizabeth Winters The Winner-------------------------William Elliott------------ A Woman Scorned____________________Evelyn Heidenrich---------- To the Juniors_____________________Luther E. Reynolds--------- Sighs from Brother Bavard__________Ethclred Sykes------------- 1 Wonder All the More______________J Martin Smith------------- Senior Dignity---------------------Helen E. Richards---------- When I Forgot to Dust the Piano— and Was Glad!______________________Ruth Tucker---------------- The Call of the Sea________________Russell Smith-------------- R. O. T. C......................................... -....... Happenings in High School_____________________________________ Cartoon ___________________________Bill Donovan_______________ Exchanges ____________________________________________________ Clubs ________________________________________________________ 18 10 21 23 29 34 35 11 43 45 47 50 59 10 04 05 An a Great Big Southern Moon_______1. Martin Smith-------------------70 Athletics ___________________________________________________________71 Gas Jet---------------------------------------------------------------75 Jokes ________________________________________________________________80 Senior Department 81 a a s ;T 2- -e I - c 3- S' o n o .—- 5 cr r, _ t; 2 £ = 1 -t n •- tn 0105000202020100010202010101000202 □ THE MIRROR PUBLISHED BY THE LITERARY SOCIETIES OF THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL June. 1Q?1 Birmingham, Ala. BOARD OF EDITORS EDITORS-IN-CHIEF RUTH DEWBERRY LUTHER REYNOLDS HAPPENINGS IN SCHOOL LE XOIR DRYER HIGH ADVERTISING MANAGER FRED CARTER BUSINESS MANAGER EXCHANGES BEN GREEN RUTH TUCKER FICTION HELEN RICHARDS WILLIAM ELLIOTT ETHELRED SKYES EVELYN HELDBNRICH ESSAYS AND SPECIAL ARTICLES LOUISE MELCHER MAE HAMILTON HORTON CLARENCE BERK POETRY MARTIN SMITH CLUBS VIRGINIA DONOVAN WIT AND HUMOR GRAHAM WILLOUGHBY ED HUGENSCHMIDT ATHLETICS RUSSELL SMITH ART LOUISE MONTGOMERY BILLIE DONOVAN LEONE BOWERS ASSISTANTS NED STUBBS JULIAN ALAND CARMELITE JACKSON EUGENE JOHNSTON FLOYD WEED CLARENCE MATH I SON CIRCULATION MANAGER HARRY BRYAN ASSISTANTS RICHARD STOCKHOLM JOSEPH LA SALLE TYPISTS MOLLIS PI EM MARGARET CONRAD The words, “A Diploma. sound as sweet to a Senior as did the lyre to the ears of Apollo. Maybe the under-classmen cannot understand. It’s not the mere slip of paper that's so desired, but it is the enormous amount of energy and the historic duration of time required for obtaining it that causes many a dignified Senior to lose sleep, weight and even mentality. Counting in the grade school years, this said slip of parchment represents exactly 11,550.5 hours spent for educational purposes during the school hours alone. Including the time spent staying in for punishment and afternoon sessions. this figure runs up. in my own case, to 789.425.? hours, besides an hour or two thrown in occasionally for regular study. If I had spent all this time working even at the wage of the lowest laborer 1 would have amassed a fortune large enough to buy a comfortable home, a modest automobile, and a loaf of bread. All this have 1 denied myself for this document- On the other hand, this seemingly worthless article represents, also, an untold knowledge of everything, a developed brain and a host of friends. Then, in the consideration of the fact that we do know everything, what corporation can refuse us its presidency with its accompanying gigantic salary whereby we can recuperate our financial condition? What fruit-stand will not gladly yield its proprietorship to us—the great minded? But. finally, in all seriousness, it has been worth time, effort and all. and let us hope that if we ever receive a similar college certificate it will he. at least, as well deserved and appreciated. L. R. OUR NEW CENTRAL” In the memory of twenty-five per cent of the Class of '21 there dwell the sweet recollections of one joyous semester in “Old Central,” and with the other seventy-five per cent there remains only the fleeting vision of one full day in that far famed institution of learning. One day—and on the evening of the opening day of the spring session the great structure was reduced to ruin! The rest of the four years has been completed—and well completed, we may boast—in churches, stores, the old Medical College, and the improvised “annexes.” But as we look back over these many months we can but realize that there must have been a strong force which held us all together under such trying circumstances, nor is it hard to decide who deserves the credit for this successful work of reorganization. We may give it entirely to our faithful principal and sympathetic faculty. All that we may have lost in the burning of our school they have, as amply as was possible, repaid to us. The spirit of Old Central is with us, and we joyfully pass it on to that enviable class—the class which even now must be represented in our ranks as Freshmen, Sophomores, or perhaps Juniors—which on some glorious June day will he the first to be graduated in the auditorium of the new and greater Central. And such a Central as it will he! Even now the ground on which it is to stand is being cleared, an entire block reaching from Sixth to Seventh Avenues, and from Twenty-third to Twenty-fourth Streets. The large stone building will be situated in the centre, bounded on all sides by a space of sixty feet. This will insure quiet and, incidentally, add much to, the appearance of our school. Page Twenty Within, all will be arranged so as to include the latest conveniences. Large, comfortable, well-lighted study rooms will be provided and the special departments will be fitted out to meet the most modern requirements. The class rooms, too, will equal any in the states, and, oh, ye plodders of the lunch room trail, there will be a regular cafeteria that rivals Brirling’s or the Tutwilcr. or both. Our library, dedicated to Orville Coston. will be a special feature in the new building. Surely we appreciate the interest of those who have so earnestly contributed to its success. May it live always in its new home as a lasting memorial to him who represented us so faithfully in the Great War. o student of Central could have shown more interest in his class and club, nor gone so bravely out to defend all that he held dear. And in the library no volume will be treasured so much as a small, soiled book, the lone survival of Central’s old library, “The Future of America.” by II. G. Wells. We attach a special sentiment to the tact that of some fifteen hundred volumes, this book, whose title bears such a meaning significance, alone was saved. It is the fundamental belief of all great teachers that their life’s work is to prepare us, as the builders of the future of our nation, for the tasks of life. Each class will leave the future of Central to those who arc to come, as they depart to share in constructing the future of America. May no class of our school enter upon this sacred mission in vain! R. D. BIRD OF OMEN Bare brown beach where the wind is deep. Catching the waves’ white hands. As they fling her beautiful jewels to keep. Tossing her shells on the sands. In the lee of the rock the long sea-moss, Flaunting her floating, hair—__ The wind in the grey crags mourns its loss. To the deep pools hidden there. O Sea! with thy wonder of white and blue. And the silver of blown sea-spray— O’er thy lone levels a white bird flew. Into the ebbing day. And the tremulous tints of sunset came. Though we viewed them through our tears— And the bird flew forth like a purple flame, And was lost in the Night of Years. Dorothy Elizabeth Winters, 21. Page Twenty-one THE WINNER Little Chief Tom Tom's ancestors were not very different from other good, straightforward Indians. They wore butcher knives, collected scalps at regular and frequent intervals and had astounding capacities for firewater. Xow when circumstance forced Little Chief Tom 'Pom to deprive himself of many of these little joys wherein his predecessors had found innocent enjoyment, he submitted with easy grace. Not so his noble brother. White Sachem did not mind discarding the butcher knife, and peace with the pale face troubled him not. Hut touching the third aforementioned essential he could not find it in his heart to forsake the ways of his forefathers. Indeed, his inability to look John barleycorn nonchalantly in the eye gave him much worry; so much, in fact, that he was frequently seen making gallant effort to banish his sorrows with the aid of the bubbling bottle. here he got the stuff was no mystery. Kyerybody knew that, and several there were who turned their knowledge to good account. In the dingy little building which stood next to the sheriff's office one John O'Shea dispensed booze with a lavish hand. Grocer by trade and bootlegger by inclination. he pursued his calling without fear or favor. It is even said that he made the sheriff await his turn. At any rate, he helped White Sachem to be happy. Indeed, sometimes the Indian would grow a trifle hilarious and it would take the local vigilance committee to convince him that the time was not ripe for the noble Shawnees to resume the Warpath. On these occasions it became the duty of his older brother to play the role of the good Samaritan. Little Chief Tom Tom never stopped to question. Am I my brother’s keeper? hut would ride to the sheriff's office and endeavor to loosen the grip of the law, gently chiding, perhaps. Tonight. Little Chief Tom Tom departed on this errand of mercy for the hundredth time. White Sachem had been in trouble so much of late that it had become almost a habit for his brother to he in the neighborhood of the blind tiger at 11 o’clock. There was no light in the place when Tom Tom arrived. The Indian tied his pony to the banister and then opened the door. The room was deathly still. A ray of moonlight entered over his shoulder and softly flooded the place. At a table sat a man. his head pillowed in his arms. By his hand lay a pistol. Save for this and the unnatural stillness of the form, one would have thought he was sleeping. A few playing cards were scattered about and on the other side of the table was an overturned chair. The Indian crossed swiftly over and knelt by a figure which lay face to the floor. For a long time he was motionless. Dimly he became aware of the ticking of a clock and slowly raised his head. A door in the hack of the room had been opened and in the lamp-light that came from within stood Johnny O’Shea, a jeer on his face. The Indian spoke. Page Tweii ty-1 liter “Johnny, why did you kill White Sachem?” It was a minute before the man deigned to answer. ‘•He killed Charlie,” pointing to the figure at the table, “and I killed him.” • ♦ “The Shawnee fired twice.” the sheriff said the next morning as he recruited a posse, “and both bullets took effect.” Little Chief Tom Tom softly closed the door on the room and its occupants and walked out into the open air. Slowly he realized what he had done, lie had killed a “big” man of the neighborhood and among these people—he glanced at their houses—he, an Indian, would have the same chance of living as a coyote when a hunter finds him in his steel trap. He mounted his pony and turned its head toward the mountains, black in the distance. For hours the Indian rode, seeing nothing but the white road before him and listening to the frogs in the ponds along the wayside and the pounding of his pony’s hoofs. The hour before dawn found him high in the hills which overlook the town of Susanville. lie had dismounted to rest his pony and stood looking down through the darkness at the valley below. The morning breeze rustled the leaves over his head and numerous small sounds came thru the solemn stillness, the bark of watch-dogs anti now and then the voice of some one talking. After a while lights appeared in scattered places and twinkled like stars. The new day was beginning. In the valley below lay the village of Susanville. Chief 'Pom Tom was almost as well informed about happenings there as if it were his own town, lie knew that a racing tournament was in progress and that today the final race was to be run—the grand sweepstakes with two thousand dollars as prize. He thought of what lie could do with that much money, hirst, he would secure the services of Covey Hooper, the. best lawyer in seven counties—a man who could prove the moon was made of cheese. That man could save—even an Indian. It he could but enter his pony in the races. But no. Tepee was old; his last race was probably run. Never again would she flash over the line at the head of a flying body of horses. Besides, Tepee was tired. But there was yet a chance. In the town below there was a great Arabian stallion who had not been entered in the race. According to his master, no one could ride him with sufficient ease. Little Chief Tom Tom could ride him. Tom Tom, Shawnee brave, the Indian who could ride a horse where a horse could not be ridden. Yes, there was still a chance. He would make a fifty-fifty proposition to the owner, sell Tepee for money with which to pay the entrance fee and then ride, ride. ride. A pale light in the east cut short the Indian’s thoughts. He gathered Page Twenty-five the pony's bridle under his arm and rode down the steep side of the mountain. It had hurt Little Chief Tom Tom to sell his pony, but it hurt him worse to hear the caller announce, “Tepee, Indian pony, has been entered in the race.” As he led his horse out on the track he called himself a fool for having sold the pony as a good runner. Tepee took the lead at the very beginning and toward the end of the race was a dozen yards ahead of her nearest opponent. A cheer rang out as the little pony rounded the last curve and stretched out down the long course for home. She could hear behind her the thundering hoofs of the big Arabian. Her keen ears heard the pleading voice of her own rider urging her to make a last desperate sprint. With beautiful ardor she sought in vain to respond. Tepee was tired, tired, tired. Her breath came with alarming irregularity and her worn lungs expanded with stabs of pain. Tepee was slowly failing under the terrific pace, and to make it worse she could sec the shadow of the great Arabian creeping upon her. Little Chief Tom Tom rose higher in his stirrups and gave his steed the cue tor the final burst of speed. The Indian was leaning over his horse's neck, his teeth gleaming white against his copper skin and a smile of triumph on his lips. 'Phe little stand of the judges seemed to be flying toward him. Then in its place lie could see the prize money—two thousand dollars. He knew that waiting for him was a tired looking man with a dust-covered horse, lie had seen him just as the race began walking up and down and jingling a metallic something from his hand. But Little Chief Tom Tom did not care. He would flaunt the prize money in the sheriff’s face and dare the law to do its worst. Then freedom, happiness perhaps, at least not the hangman’s gallows. A cheer went up from the followers of Number Nine as the Indian slowly forged ahead. Little Chief Tom Tom turned in his stirrups to view again his beloved pony in action and his smile faded on his lips. He saw the tired, patient eyes of his pony, he heard the pitiful gasps for breath. His pony, his own unbeaten steed, whose pride was as his own. was going down with gallant courage in the first defeat of her life. The big Arabian appeared to falter, just for a moment, but long enough. Tepee went by like a whirlwind and Little Chief Tom Tom rode up to the man with the big hat and the dust covered pony and smilingly extended his hands. Wit, 1.1 AM El.l IMTT. '21. Pane Twenty-seven CLIO LITERARY SOCIETY A WOMAN SCORNED Tis sweet to be young in the spring-time. some person who is widely known in literary circles, remarked. Then, in a sprightly manner, he proceeded to repeat the entire verse, three consecutive times, substituting the words summer—autumn—and winter—in the place of springtime each time, until what is called a joyous poem was completed. Perhaps he was right. I suppose he was, in a way. but for tear that the meaning be misconstrued. I will endeavor to make it so plain that all mistakes will be avoided. He meant. It is sweet for some one else, if you are young in the springtime.” I know; yea, verily! And this is how I obtained my information. I am, by nature, more dignified than my friends. Ever since childhood I have possessed an aloofness becoming to one who is in all ways superior. I do not mean to be conceited, but I have always maintained that the traits one acquires in his youth will follow' him through life; and what more than dignity can be desirable for the president of these United States, or some other high officials? Looking back upon all that has happened, I can see that if I had had the wisdom that is acquired along with the seventeenth birthday, it would probably never have happened. But the chasm between sixteen and seventeen is so deep that it cannot be bridged, so, of course, I could not have known. I remember distinctly that the beginning of my—er—mistake came on the day after school closed. I was feeling rather good, and all that, because of what the coming three months promised. Besides, I had left my studies buoyed up by the most miraculous of all miracles—that is, summer school would know me not this time, as it had previously. So it was that I strolled out of the front door, with my hands in my pockets, and a whistling tune on my lips. But before progressing very far. I stopped, arrested by a peculiar procedure going on beneath the trees. Right here 1 might as well say that I have a little sister. Little sisters, just like the rest of your relations, cannot be helped, and Patricia is no exception to the rule. She is long drawn out for a child of her years; that is. she is inclined to be awkward—a source of extreme embarassment to me. At present she was engaged in bowing profoundly to a fellow female in imitation. as 1 could readily see. of a member oi one of our best families. But the object that attracted ray attention was the person receiving this magnificent courtesy. She had lived around the corner from me the entire ten years of her life, and her name was Cynthia. 1 reflected on what a shameful waste it was to give that beautiful name to such an ungainly bearer. For certainly she was a most ludicrous sight, now more so than usual. A battered doll was thrust under one arm. while with the other she held a borrowed lorgnette, gazing through it at some point over Patricia's head. Her skirt—too short tor even a little girl of her age—seemed to hang unevenly. Page Twenty-nine CURRY LITERARY SOCIETY and looking at it closely 1 perceived a ragged tear running its course down one side. Being fastidious myself, 1 of course felt a natural repugnance for this playmate of my little sister and wondered how my mother could allow her daughter to associate with one possessing these characteristics. Suddenly there was a squeal of dismay and I saw the child hastily drop her lorgnette, in order that she might push the scraggly flaxen locks out of her eyes. Then, turning sideways so that the tear in her skirt would remain invisible, she said to me in tones that I had never heard her use before. “Why, Teddy—I mean 'Theodore! 1 didn't see you! Did you see him, Patty?” But my little sister did not answer all ai once. She fixed an impish eye upon Cynthia's blushing countenance, and started to dance around her ill a circle, screaming at the top of her voice, the while. “So that’s who you arc crazy about! Wouldn't tell me! Thought I wouldn't find out! Hides his picture 'neverthing! So that's who your------.” She was interrupted here by her friend who cried. “I’m not! Don’t you believe it. Teddy! Why, I never even------’’ But. thinking that my dignity had been assailed sufficiently, I “squelched her with a look and said coldly, Be still! Run along and play with your dolls, little girl!’’ 'Then, flecking a speck of dust off my coat, 1 turned haughtily, and wended my way up the street, dismissing the unpleasant scene from my mind. Although T did hot care especially where I was going, I soon found my way to the house of my “buddy, Jack. And while 1 was there a marvelous thing happened, for 1 met Alicia, who had but come home from a year’s stay at school, and who was spending the day with Jack’s older sister. As she came up the path, I thought she was the most beautiful object I had ever seen. “Tall, and most divinely fair. with crinkly brown hair and laughing brown eyes, she looked like a picture of Diana, nr some other goddess. A feeling of rapture came over me. Jack's older sister said in a low voice, ‘‘Bob Simpson's little brother, Teddy. You know Bob is president of the (dee Club, and captain of the football team, and a wonderful dancer! Then we were introduced, and I could see that she was interested right away. I will admit that I have a way with me, but usually this quality isn’t discovered immediately. But then Alicia was of the appreciative type! Walking home, an hour or so later, 1 reflected upon the new wonderment that life held for me. Of course, she was a bit older than I—two years, in fact -but. goodness, in a few years it wouldn't make so much difference! For instance, when I would be twenty-three, and she twenty-five—why, it wouldn’t he anything at all. Here the sound of our dinner gong, half a block away, interrupted my musings, and I hastened homewards. Page Thirty-one For a month I continued in a dreamy state of mind. Everything seemed to be in my favor, for even mother didn't suggest that 1 do some extra studying, as she had formerly. As for those little creatures, Cynthia and Patricia, they kept out of my way beautifully. True, Alicia was mighty popular, and I couldn't always see her alone, hut when I did she was lovely to me. and so solicitous of my family! And then came the day of the Rockaford picnic. The affair was unusually large, and everyone, from ten upwards, attended. Why, even my brother Bob, who is nineteen, and the head of everything, went! The event had been eagerly anticipated by me. for was not Alicia going, and would not her favoritism for me be shown before everyone? The day was most warm, but I kept cool, with numerous ice cream cones and glasses of lemonade, dispensed at a friendly booth. There was a whole flock of little children there, but for the most part they kept at a discreet distance. It was late in the afternoon when I suddenly discovered that 1 could not find Alicia. Perhaps while I had been gone that last time for cooling refreshment, she had slipped out into a wooded path to get away from the crowd and wait for me! But—it was not so. Seated upon a big boulder I found Alicia and Bob—my brother Bob. Unseen by them I stood still, and then I heard Alicia say. “Do you really think my eyes arc pretty? That’s just what your brother Teddy says. He’s a nice little kid, and I have actually wanted to meet you—really 1 have! Silently I walked away, and walked with bent head and heavy heart, on and on, and on. until I finally stopped again; for, under a tree, with a doll beneath her arm. and gazing up at the sky, sat Cynthia, my little sister’s chum. As I stood there tender thoughts began to steal through my mind. She was a pretty little thing, just like a statuette. The sinking sun touched her hair with gold, and lent a luminous quality to her blue eyes. Why she was—she was—why, she was almost related to me! My own precious little sister's friend—you knew that she was the kind who would stick to a friend forever! “Why, Cynthia! 1 cried, a trifle huskily, W hat are you doing here? It's getting awfully dark, isn’t it?” But I was not prepared for what happened next. Getting to her feet, and rising to her full height, she gazed at me superbly, saying in coldest tones these significant words: “Be still! Run along and play with your dolls, little girl! Then, flecking an imaginary speck of dust from her shoulder, she walked on back through the woods, until the foliage of the trees hid her from my view. As I followed slowly, a stray phrase came to my mind. “A woman scorned ------ Wasn’t that it? Well, anyway, whatever it was, Cynthia was the perfect embodiment of it all. Putting my hand in my pocket. I touched a folorn dime—my last friend, and the exact price of a glass of lemonade. And so 1 hurried hack to the picnic grounds before the lemonade booth should close. Evelyn Heidkxrich, ’28. Pa ye Thirty-two TO THE JUNIORS Would that some of my kind hearted predecessors had been considerate enough to do for me what 1 am now undertaking to do for you. for understand that it is not because of any ambition or literary aspirations that I now burn these midnight Mazdas but it is through genuine sympathy and brotherly love that 1 pen these advices and forewarnings. Let the fates decree whether the publication of these thoughts condemn me to the lowest pit or reserve fur nu a shade in the flowery fields of Elysium. It matters not. It is for your betterment and mental enrichment that I strive. First, and very important, let me take up your relations with your teachers. Undoubtedly you should be on the good side of them—hut how? Ah! That is where years of tedious experience are of service: Always have a cheerful “good morning and a doleful, lingering “good-bye for them. Above all, manage to get caught studying as many times as possible, for a good impression is worth all the time you might waste in that occupation. N’cxt, and equally important, is your conduct toward your lessons. Contrive so as not to get over ninety in any subject the first month, for in case you should, a feeling of security would overcome you and soon your innocence (meaning not knowing) would be only too apparent to both you and your teacher. As Mr. McBctli has said: “You all know security is mortal’s chiefest enemy. If you are one of those fortunates who appreciated the excellence of that most complete of all languages, that expander of the periphery of the hcad-Latin. it will serve you well to bear in mind that Socrates said. “Ride your pony freely, blit do not become its vassal. And, by all means, if. while perusing your interlinear, you come upon a construction that does not penetrate your comprehension, take it to your instructor for explanation, for if you sought enlightenment from a fellow student, he. upon learning that you were the proprietor of one of the desired volumes, would endeavor to borrow it and thus you would be deprived. Never fail to study the night before a test, for occasionally a question is asked the answer to which is in the book. l)o not let the mythology side of Latin cause dark circles under your eyes for. as the word itself indicates, it is composed entirely of myths. Mr. Webster defines a myth as “a thing existing only in imagination,’ ’and if by this time von have not developed a rambling imagination, return in shame to Semester I and start over. Last, only to give it emphasis, is general behavior. Most of the above might well be applied to your under-classmen but Senior behavior is unique. First, a stately posture must be adopted for striding through the halls. This consists of slightly tilting the body forward, clasping the hands in the rear, and keeping a far-away gaze in the eyes. Remembering that all the United States presidents have onec been Seniors and that you. too. might attain this Path' Thirty-four dignity, will help you to perfect the gaze. Take heed that you do not jeer at, nay, not even notice the childish freshmen for this would not enhance your distinction. Now, if you of the class of nineteen twenty-two take advantage of the advice writ herein, you will be a close rival of the class of nineteen twenty-one in splendor and prospects and you will be numbered among Central's illustrious alumni. LUTIIKR K. Rl;V 'OI.I� S. ’21. SIGHS FROM BROTHER BAYARD You must know that an overseer is more of a personage than a person. Brother Bavard was a wonderful personage and therefore a wonderful overseer. The day was hot, one of those wet, warm, sticky days, when the earth is Steaming from the spring rains and the spring sun. Friend Overseer had his favorite wicker chair out under the big, broad leaves of the umbrella tree, and he was more or less wedged in with a number of fluffy pillows. By bis side, on a little, narrow table of the same wicker design as the chair, rested a frosty, piquant, mint julep. Upon his head he had his brown bamboo summer hat. and upon his face the part which was visible beneath and around his trefoil heard—played a smile of genuine self-satisfaction as he gazed lovingly at the julep. Just behind him, statue-like, stood a little black hit of humanity by the name of Hannibal Hiawatha Ephiliphate. In his hand was a great palm leaf fan with which he was slowly cooling the torrid brow of his master. I tell you, Brother Bavard was a personage. As 1 was just returning to the house from a visit to my lines down at the creek, I had several catfish in my sack. These 1 gave to the black boy with directions that they be taken to the quarters. I got the fan and with a more or less careless gesture, asked’Brother Bavard a momentous question. “Are you in the mood for telling me a little story?’' “A tale? A little story? Why. ah—why, ye-cs—er—aw, any inducements?” “My whole half-glass of sherry at supper tonight, and the breast from those two doves I got last evening—if the tale is a good one!’” “Enough.” said he ;and I knew that fortune was looking my way. I got ready for a mammoth mark! He called me Xerxes. “Aw. Xerxes, you know last morning, just before my julep, I saw' a figure perched in the top of the umbrella tree down in the lawn. Upon closer observance I discovered Hannibal poring over some sort of a rather large and voluminous libretto, it seemed. I hailed him with all my might and the shock from my voice nigh shook him from the tree. ‘Hannah.’ I cried, ‘You Hannah, see how fast you can give me that book!' He brought it. and I rue- Patjc Thirty-fire PIERIAN LITERARY SOCIETY fully beheld a tattered, be-thunibed ‘Ancient Mariner,' a rare edition, in the black’s trembling hands. ‘May,’ I fairly shouted, 'where in the name of the Lord did you get this book? I was mad, Xerxes, furiously mad. and Hannah was equally frightened. 'M-m—Marster said he, fo’ de Lawd’s sake don’ hit me on inuh haid! I foun' dis heah book on de bridge in de orchard two months back.’ And. believe me, Xerxes, I calmed down, for I remembered leaving it there. But all that has nothing to do with the tale. Sit down and 1 will tell you what that little darky dreamed after poring over the big. fantastic pictures in that volume. 'Marse BaVard, git lots o' paper if yo wants to write dis heah dream. Yassir, dis heah is muh greatest dream, an' de wussest. Is yo’ got a li'l mo' o’ dat beer, Marse Bavard? Yassir, thank y suh. Is vo' ready, Marster? ‘I dreamt I was a-trottin' down to Tubby crick, on de Windin' Road, w’en all of a sudden a tall feller popped up right in front o’ me! I.awsy. Marse Bavard. muh man sho’ was tall, n skinny, an’ his eyes was mos' as big as mine is. an' ’at’s savin’ a-hcaps. Marse Bavard. I was powerful skeered. Bam! an’ I tries to hit im wid muh fishin' pole, n Marster. hit went right on tlioo him. Then I knowed he was a go—wist. ‘ But 1 says to myself that I is a voodoo man; voodoo mens is not skeered of go-wists. So I struts up sassy like I was a-goin’ to pass him. Down popped one o’ them skinny ban’s, and fust thing 1 knows lie's a savin . 'I needs a li'l black boy like you,’ says he. an' he gits me by the back o’ my neck. ’Commere!’ An’ he puts me in a sack an' totes me a long ways to a big boat. He throws me on th' deck an' says. 'Here's a nigger to wash deni dishes.’ An’ they unties the sack an’ 1 hops out. X then I gits some new clo'es. “ ‘Then they histed them sails, an’ they got all filled up and we jest flew along. All the time I washed the dishes, and ironed them sailors' clo’es. Buh-lieve me, Marse Bavard. thet ole ship went faster n any train ever I seed, an’ pretty soon it looked like 1 never was a-gonna see muh maw no mo.' I tried to ketch some perches off'n the back end o’ the boat, but we was goin’ so fast the fishes couldn't keep up wid muh bait. “ ‘ An’ then, law-zee. Marse Bavard. it got colder’n th' inside of the big cave down in th' lawn, where we keeps th’ milk. An' some chunks of ice ’bout large as the Big House in Washin'ton came a-floatin’ by. an' ever now 'n then one would bust with a big noise like a cannon. “ 'Says I to mnhsclf. ‘Hannah, yo' sholy is a-gonna freezeratc now.’ But I didn’t. n’ then it got terrible foggy, like Marse Dick’s room looks when he's been a-sinokin’ stogies. An’ all th’ time we was a dodgin’ them chunks o’ ice, an’ most of the sailors hung ’round’ in th' kitchen an' I couldn't git to muh dishes full 'em. ‘Pretty soon we sees a tumble big bird, an’ he comes a-flyin’ at me. an' 1 says to muh-self. 'I lannah. right now you is gonna he a has-been’; an' I tries to duck, but I couldn’t. Dat’s de way it is in dreams. Marse Bavard; vo' wants to run from de debbil, but yo cain’t. An' the bird he grabbed me wid them big claws o' his’n right in the seat of muh jeans, and up we went! Page Thirty-seven YANCEY LITERARY SOCIETY 'We kep” a-goin’ till he dropped me, and plunk! 1 comes down ’tween one o’ deni big chunks o' ice. an' I gits muh foot caught. I hollers all mull hreaf out an' Mister Bird comes an’ pecks muh head right light, an’ then the big chunk busts, an’ plunk! down 1 comes on th deck o’ th’ boat. Sizz! I slides! The’ deck o’ th’ boat was covered vvid ice. an' 1 mos’ busts mull-self gainst t’other side. An’ the ole skinny shot Mister Bird. I thought I'd stew him. but we saved him on account of he would keep in the cold. ” ‘Pretty soon we turned ’roun’ an’ got outer dat ice, an’ fell outer the skillet on to th’ blaze. Law-zee, Marsc Bavard, we come to a place whar they wa’n’t no wind! An’ 1 went in swimmin’ 'n I like to got et up by a fish, only I wuz so dry he couldn’t swalllow me. An’ lemme tell ver, Marster, 1 did muh cookin’ 'n Idlin' on th’ bo’ds o’ dc deck. Dat was th' Debbil’s land where th' Ole Boy burns folkscs. Lots o’ snails crawled on me, an’ I couldn't move a muscle on ‘count I was skeered I’d drown muh-sclf in muh sweat. ‘“When I'd a-done thought 1 was dried up on the stalk, ole skinny hollers. ‘I.an’ sakes. fellers, yonder’s a boat!’ It was a boat, Marse Bavard, an' the Ole Boy an’ his wife was shootin' dice on de deck. Th' Old Boy was lucky an he won all two hunnerd of our men, all ’cept Old Skinny. His wife got Ole Skinny on account of the Ole Boy throwin’ craps. Th’ Ole Lady sho’ly was easy to look at. She looked like some «� ' dem X’Yawlcens womans. ‘An’ then all of a sudden some feller blows out the lamp, and it gits powerful dark, all at once. An’ all at once, kcrflunk! an’ the Old Boy gits all the two hunnerd men. All ’cepen Ole Skinny flopped down on de deck. Me bein’ jus' a li'l nigger. 1 didn’t count. Me an’ Ole Skinny tried to turn 'em over, but they wouldn’t turn, an’ the way they looked at him mos’ run him crazy. Ik would walk the deck, steppin’ high so as he wouldn’t trip hisself on dem corpses. “ ‘An’ every night I seed some white snakes a-follcrin’ us. an' 1 tells Ole Skinny 1 believes they's had luck. Ole Skinny was a mean ole cuss, an’ 1 ’spccted some o’ dat strong language o’ his’n. But he says, softlike, ‘Oh. I guess they will do; let them live.’ And just that minnit Mister Bird, what had been a-bangin’ roun’ his neck all this time plunked down into the water. “ ‘Then Ole Skinny an’ me took a nap. an’ while we was a-slccpin’ it was a shower, an’ we got heaps o’ fresh water. Law-zee, Marse Bavard. water an' sleep is two scrumptious things w’en you needs ’em real bad. ” ‘An’ a tumble storm come up, an’ I dumb the mast to lx a lookout, an’ the wind mos’ blew me off. An’ all dem dead ones come to life an’ run de ship. Dey was go-wists, Marse Bavard! But they didn’t eat nuthin’ an’ I never had no dishes to wash. Every mornin’ they got dead again, an’ we got to a place where th’ sun was right over our heads. “ ‘Then Mister Ship rested to’ a minnit. I knew sumpin was a-comin’ so I dumb the mast. Buhlieve me. Marse Bavard, it come. Ole Mister Ship tuk a jump like one o’ dem kangaroos what 1 seen at the sukkus. It knocked Ole Skinny plumb silly, an’ he laid down on th’ deck like a dead one. Me, I I'uijc Thirty-nine Ain ci.un wroppcd muhsclf 'round th mast an hung on. We sho’ly was a travelling Soon I secs a spcrrit. den I sees ’nother spcrrit. An they stops fo a fricn’ly chatter. 'Who is dis feller? says one. ‘Oat’s th’ feller what shot nitih pet bird. He’s havin’ a hard time, but he ain’t started yit ! ” In bout a half-a-day Ole Skinny woke up an’ we was nearin’ lan’. Golly, he was happy! An' he runs up an’ down th’ deck, yellin'. Th’ ole feller was glad. I was too. It was melon time, Marse Bavard. We was gittin’ close about night w’en all o’ dem dead one turns to go-wists! They signals the ole feller what runs th’ boat an he comes to get us. Iiuhlieve me, Marse Bavard, I started on the mast. ” ‘The ole feller gits a preacher because he don’t like th’ way them go-wists signalled him. an’ they gits real near. Then they sees how ramshackle the boat is an' says the ole feller: ‘Shucks, ’tain't no use of a-takin' them folks off; look how rotten the boat is!’ 'Never min,' says the preacher, they may have a dollar. Light a shuck!’ “'An' they lit in an’ come alongside. ’Bout that time the ship busted in two an’ down come me an' the mast! Th’ ole feller an his boy had a spasm, hut the preacher had ter git his dollar So lie grabbed the oars. All the dead men went down but he got Ole Skinny an’ me hung on the tail of tin- rudder. Me bein’ just a li’l nigger, 1 didn't count fo’ nuthin’. “ ’The preacher carried us to land an’ asked fo’ his pay. When Ole Skinny said he never had no money we left all three o’ the fellers in a spasm. ” 'As I was a-fixin’ to skeedaddlc Ole Skinny got me by muh collar. ‘Sonny,’ says he. 'Hannibal Hiawatha Ephiliphate, be mos' careful 'bout how yo' shoots other folkses birds. It ain’t good fo’ yo’ health!’ “ ‘Yassir,’ says I, an’ 1 edges off. ‘Git yo ban’s off’n me. ole man!’ But he grabbed me again' an’ he stahts t’ look at me tumble hahd. Wider. n wider, 'n wider lie opened his mouf like he was a-gonna eat me up. Closer, ’n closer, closer, wen ham! Ail’ I wakes up! “‘Got enny mo beer, Marse Bavard?’” Etiiei.reo Sykes. 22. I WONDER ALL THE MORE I wonder, when I 'm close to you About a million things. And I wonder if you wonder too. And then that “wonder” brings A “wonder” that I've pondered Thru the dreary nights of yore— When I wonder “why” I wonder. Then I wonder all the more! Page Forty-one J. Martin Smith, ’21. COMMERCIAL CLUB SENIOR DIGNITY Margia lias stepped forth from between the curtains of childhood upon the stage of womanhood where she must play her part in the drama of life, a comedy or tragedy—in many acts. Is it surprising that her brown eyes appear deeper, her youthful chin firmer, and her curved lips more resolute than on yesterday? It is such a short while ago that she came, a giggling, boisterous freshman, thrilled to death over anything from a new boy in Latin class down to making one hundred on a French test. But look at her now. She is complacently conscious of the somber charm lent by her recently acquired cap and gown—but thrilled? No, exalted is more nearly the word, for she presents to the world a mien so sedate that ever her young brother is awed into submissive silence. Poor Dad sits stiffly erect—feeling painfully out of it all. yet mournfully proud that his little—no, not his little girl,” but his young daughter” is the cynosure of all eves. Mother outwardly composed is inwardly struggling against a baffling heartache, when she ought to be so happy, she reproaches herself. Thus the family goes through the ordeal of seeing their oldest graduate—their joyous anticipation dispelled by an intangible sensation of bereavement. After ages of smiling and bowing and endless congratulations, it is all over, and Dad pilots the old car homeward. The drive is spent in polite, inane conversation with even Johnny lasping into speechlessness for minutes at a time. Upon reaching home, Margia gathers up her mail in aloof abstraction, remarking. “Only a letter from Uncle Kd!” and ignoring Johnny’s derisive Well, whatchcr expect, a diamond necklace?” Margia moves gracefully up the stairs, mother hastens to the kitchen to attend to the innumerable details of a “company dinner” while Johnny subtly fades from the scene with little-boy elusiveness. Dad ostensibly reading the evening paper, gazes moodily into space. Suddenly, however, the spell is broken. Dad, with a blissful sigh settles down to his paper—his moodiness dispelled like ashes from the desert's dusty face. Johnny materializes from nowhere, whistling discordantly for Margia has rushed wildly into the kitchen, shouting, Oh. Moth’, Moth’, what do you think? It wasn’t only a letter from Uncle Ed. it was a check, too. And Dad, hearing the amount, is not properly shocked by Uncle Ed’s extravagance, but merely chuckles under his breath: They're all just alike: you never know where you stand.” And Johnny, the spurned, down-trodden Johnny, fervently echoes. Ain’t it so.” llKLKN E. Richards. AM. Payc Forty-three DRAMATIC CLUB WHEN I FORGOT TO DUST THE PIANO—AND WAS GLAD! “Virginia, ' said mother, “don’t forget to dust everything—especially the piano. ' Yes, mother,” 1 answered meekly—what else could, would or should I answer? That was Saturday. Mother went to town and I stayed at home to possess my soul in patience and—to dust the piano—though 1 do not see why mother is so particular that the cook should not do it. 1 began dusting—honestly. I did—but as luck or fate would have it, 1 began with the bookcase and there I found Eloping by Moonlight.” I had smuggled it in and before 1 finished it. it had mysteriously disappeared. Hut there it was, safe and sound and evidently unknown to anyone but mvself. Really, now, can you blame me for falling? I was right in the most interesting place—where the lovely heorine was preparing for flight—and the temptation was too strong. 1 returned to my secluded nook—that's a “poetic flight”; in plain English, I curled up on the floor in what mother calles a “most undignified position”—and began to read. When mother came home I had just finished and was in a very romantic mood. She brought news. Hrother was going to bring a friend home to dinner. That meant fixing my hair again, etc. In due course of time, brother arrived with “Mr. Watson.” He was tall and dark, just my ideal! I was thrilled and exalted. Undustcd pianos had no part in my thoughts. I was occupied with “higher and more heavenly things. After dinner things dragged a bit. and then brother remarked that Mr. W atson played the piano. Even then the thing which nearly wrecked my life was far from my consciousness. It was not until he rose that the awful truth suddenly dawned on me—I had forgotten to dust the piano! He played! 1 do not know whether he played Chopin or rag-time. The awful fact that he was playing was enough—too much. All the time I was wavering, trying to choose the lesser evil. Should 1 confess and and trust to his sense of humor. “Those dark-eved Creek gods never have a sense of humor.” I wailed tragically to myself; or should I let him leave, thinking what a careless housekeeper mother was? The horror of the latter course was infinitely exaggerated in my mind during those torturing few minutes I waited. Well. I chose the former course. My moment of martydom was fast approaching. The details of that moment are hazy. 1 only remember that somehow I found myself alone with him and blurted out the, now very ridiculous, then very horrible, truth. Then 1 waited, wondering whether his reply would be formal and polite, or just cold and disgusted. I had no choice—one was as bad as the other. Page Forty-five EUTERPEAN CLUB Why. you are human, after all! That astounding remark brought me back to earth to stare yes, stare— at him. W ell. you see.'' he seemed rather uncomfortable and embarrassed, I was beginning to think you were just a—a sort of—pretty doll—not at all nice and jolly, and---” What?” 1 managed to gasp. lie didn’t have time to finish. Brother came in just then. But I didn't care. Why should I? I had forgotten to dust the piano—and I was glad! Ruth Tucker, ’22. THE CALL OF THE SEA If you had been standing on the deck of the smack which was standing in to shore down the sea lane, sparkling in the light of the failing, but still brilliant sun, you would have seen, beyond the creaming curl of the now gentle surf, the snuggling fisher huts, on the storm riven slope, the larger edifices above on the crest and, finally, the jagged angle of Arm Street, run ning like a bent arm up the rise, with the Barty home perched in the palm of its Brobdinagian hand. And if your eyes had possessed the quality peculiar to the eyes of seamen, that of piercing the wide, blank stretches, you might have discerned the drooping figure of a mail in the arm chair on the porch. The figure sat facing the sea. in an attitude of expectancy. It was William Barty, erstwhile sea captain, and master of the roof under which he sat. 11 is sister, Mary stood in the back yard conversing with a neighbor. Land, but I wish I d stayed back in Bracklcton, like I started. It’s just ‘Bring me the glass, Mary,’ ‘Mary, fetch the pipe.’ and ‘Now, a light, Mary,’ the whole day long, while he sits there and stares the sea out of face, like it could sympathize with him.” Her audience nodded weakly, and ejaculated in an unconvincing manner, Really?” Mary continued, “1 don’t see what he likes about the ocean, anyway, so big it is. and cold, and look at the men it s murdered. Yet he pines for it like it wouldn’t do him the same way.” At this instant, a whiff of something from the kitchen recalled her mind to culinary duties and she sped to the house, with the explanation, Them dratted flounders.” The neighbor followed this example and departed kitchenward. On the old chest against the foot of the mast of the Mollie Belle sat the pilot, who was off duty, and one of the crew. They carried on a desultory Pane Forty-sewn conversation, interspersed with long intervals of silence and billowing clouds of pipe smoke. The moon had not yet risen and the only light visible from their vantage point was that streaming from the window of the forward stateroom. Yes, sir. it's the first time the old ‘Mol’ sailed without Itill Barty was on her. Thus the pilot. Receiving an encouraging Huh from the listener. lie went on. “I don’t sec how he stood it. stein’ the old ship get away with no Barty a-hollerin at the men. He's set there on his gall’ry for the last two weeks while we outfitted.” Once mure the silence came till presently there was a slight shuffling and a figure slipped into the light from the far side of the cabin and stood peering in. The pilot cursed in amazement and stared with eyes of wonder. “Dog if tain t him. • • Mr. Henry Jarvis of Boston tried once more to adjust himself to the dip and rise of the “Mollie Belle.” once more tailed and once more seized the railing. Then he turned to the old man beside him and said. “Devil take Smithson, anyway; but for that jackass I’d never have had to risk my life like this. lie accented the “my slightly, but noticeably. illiam Barty said nothing. He merely turned to look at the grey race of the billows below, and his look held much of reverence, much of love, but more than all it contained welcome, the same sort that must have leaped and glinted in the eyes of the Prodigal when he saw the house of his father. The captain said it was going to he quite a blow, so you’d better come down below. Nothing serious, y’know. but he said the waves might he dangerous. 1 hate the confounded sea; it got a friend of mine last year. Think of lying down there, cold and wet. with the slimy things around vou.” Mr. Henry Jarvis lit a cigarette and staggered to the hatchway. William Barty once more held his peace and gazed upon the swirl and hurry of the waves. In the captain s cabin sat a small company. The captain himself, the two mates, the pilot and Mr. Henry Jarvis composed it. They were talking in subdued voices and the face of Mr. Jarvis was of a curious pallor. 1 told him to come below. He was talking to me. alive and breathing, only two or three hours ago. and now—think of him. in the ooze.” Mr. Henry Jarvis shuddered. The other faces did not bear the same expression, hut only one of grief, mingled with resignation. They understood. Far away lay what had been William Barty. shifting with the urge of the nether tides. Now. who shall say that the twirking smile of the lips was some trick of the shadows which trailed ever across him. or an accident of the swaying flow, nr that its wondrous peace was not from within? Russkm. Smith. Page Forty-nine . O. T. STUDENT STAFF FOSTER OF REGULAR ARMY INSTRUCTORS AND NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF OFFICE RS.Mn Jor Kw l Carter OF CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DATTAUON. Adjutant Flral Lieutenant IM lluKcme hmldt INSTRUCTORS (OFFICERS) Supply Officer Second I.• mttiI (iwr|� Freeman . Kilinllon Hcrjcnant Major Addlnon Merrill I.| mii Colonel Robert M. Nolan, U. H A . Retired Color Soriffanl Wwivcr Graves Captain (ItunKK M Shelton |T. K. A.. ll«'ilr«trL Captain Willluin C. Tromalnn. U H. A., Retired STUDENT OFFICERS ASSISTANT INSTRUCTORS Sergeant Frank M Ifippert, I). K. M I,, Sergeant Hoy I., Crider I� . 1C. M L Sergeant Waller II .ItK'looiri. D. K M I . H� i ir n111 Huy IC Htelnhoff. I). K m |, Captain William lirlit Captain Robin Staton c«iplain Richard Stockhutn Captain ICd, Leak -Captain J II llunlnm ‘’aplain Wolford WelH Finn Uottt( nnnt Alwyn McConnell Flral Lieutenant John Barton Finn Lieutenant Kd. Jarrell Firm Lieutenant Alvin Rlaitlo Flral Lieutenant Melton Collin Firm Lieutenant HoWf Fie in inter Second Lieutenant Fred Freeman Second Lieutenant Welbnurm Ruyll Second Lieutenant Curry EHI Second Lloutonnnt William Ferryman Second Lieutenant I-'rank Heat Second Lieutenant Andrew CtutMldy Second Lieutenant J 15 Merrill The Unit of the It. O, T C. at fontml High School, watt organised during the firm mhnexter I91{l-'2(i, with an enrollment of 210 student’. The enrollment ha nHadllv inoreaaed and with the beginning «� f the � «hoo| iwniwjtor IMO-'SI, when IBS now mudenta antered the H. O. T c. the total •■nrollnictii reached 609 The t'etitrul 11 lull School Unit la orjcunlftcd h� l° 11 Battalion of nix companion and Band of The IRtnnrve offleoiw Training Corps it organised. under Act of Cower® Juno 3, 1026. Tim primary object In to provide -yNlematlc military training � t Civil R durational Institutions f«r the purpose of •iiuilirylng fleeted atudants of ■m'li Inatltutlona a It orve Officers In the military force of the United Siutm It In Intended to obtain thla object during the time that student are purNiiltiK their general « r professional Kindle with the leant practicable Interference with their civil career by employing method designed to fit men phy-ihally. mentally, and morally for pursuit ..f pence an well a pur uH- of war. ROSTER OF HEADQUARTERS COMPANY BATTALION SPONSOR MiM Bessie Merrill OFFICERS First Lieutenant Fred Freeman Hubert Lowry Dirk Clayton SERGEANTS Lout McConnell CORPORALS A ml it w Knight James Dillard IJniley. cieorgo Barriger, Klhrrt Fried man. Frank Oravlet . Walter Harris. Cecil Johnston. Emmett Lipsltx. Joe Livingston, Stewart Walden. PRIVATES Moric-in. Hugh Morris, Augustus I'ostell, Alton Powell, Caesar Sachs. Coleman Sober. John Sprigal. Roman CrQuhart. Collins Lucius FIRST SERGEANT Charles Snook SERGEANTS Ben Copeland Ohnrtw Pwr Terry Hogue John Hillhouxe William Lowry CORPORALS A. Buxalrd Don Bather Robert San dors Jiimi's R. Smith Russell Scott Cameron Williams Brunt Shelburne BUGLERS Bert God holt Seymour Kronen berg ROSTER OF COMPANY A SPONSORS .Miss Mary Griffin Johns Miss Kllxubeth South Kate OFFICERS Wllilnm Britt, Captain Alwyn McConnell, First Lieutenant Wei bourne Bnyll s, Second Lieutenant PRIVATES Alexander. Lonnie Arbetter, Joe Aldsitt, Frnncis Buss. Newton Bardwell. Malcolm Barnett. Frank Beatty. Richmond Boytl, Chas. Burdette. Leslie Carter, Myers chambers. Arthur Chnneey, Bryunt Cole, Robert Cross, llaymond Oremum. U. 1.. Drlesbttch, Jay Klllott, BnmoM Elliott. Edgar Flower, Stanley Groves, Jack Godwin. Masscim Griffin, Sidney Gillian. Cotrmun Goudelock. Claire Hunt, Harwell Hackney, Cecil Juffo. Colo Kirkland. Gordon lairkln, Felix Lipsltx, Max Lawrence, Marion Lewis, Frank Ledford, Itoyee McArthur. W. I . McDormnn. Clarence Mann, l uls Myatt, Ia� ul Perry, Roy Partridge. Harold Boole. Everett Bamsey. Eugene Buhel. Morris Richard, Frank Snell, Robert Simonson. Churchill Strlcklamk. Charles Scott, Clyde Thompson. Walter Smyly, Euclid Vn uith n. 1-nwson Viddlng. Clyde ROSTER OF COMPANY ••B' SPONSORS Mltfil Mildred links MIkh Until Eherhnnlt OFFICERS Robert Staton, Captain John Barton, First Lieutenant furry Kills, Second Lieutenant FIRST SERGE NT Clarence Fossett SERGEANTS George Harwell Orville Reed Eugene Johnson Thomas Kent Ed lteaumont Jnek Saks CORPORALS ISoRenc Law Icy Kelly Posey Sam Lisohkoff W- J. Duncan Harry McCreuiy Withers Lockhart Willllam Bancroft Frank Lynch BUGLERS Charles Paul Joe La Salle PRIVATES AI vis. Lester Brett, George Blackford, Frank Bowers, James Blokerton. Herbert Bennett, Comer Barger, William Blnch, Julius Cason. John Dunlap, Sam Downey, Herman Dohyns, Lynn Fulton, Fluitt Ferrfll. Clifton George. Clifton Glasgow, Ben Goodaon, Gerald Griffin. John I lenckle, Roh rt Unroll. Sol Hoppings. Edward Hitchcock. Roy Helm. I.ouw Hill. J. B. Johnson, Bryant Jennings, Carmen Jones, T. M Jenks, E. B. Johnson, Hardee Kay, Robert Kaxanuugh. Ernest Levy, Walter Mick wee, Sam Morris, Hugh MeKoy. Churles McCreery, Percy McDaniel. John Nabors, Cecil Nall, Bernard Price, Luther Passmore. Harry Peace. Marvin Prince. Hcrsclial Phillips, Wolford Rogers. Claude Rush. Edwin Riddle. Glenn Kanyom, Chris Savage. Clayton Stern. Max Stovall. Edgar Tntom. William Whaley, lamis White, Winston Young. A. C. FIRST SERGEANT Jock Morrison SERGEANTS Charles Allison William Cobbs Charles Cox I . 0 Klkourle Vincent Russo George St Jen CORPORALS Fred Corns William Fid let Clarke Kendrick Floyd I.iiwlev J. I). Rosenburger Walton Smith BUGLER Warrick Saunders ROSTER OF COMPANY “C SPONSORS Miss Helen Bow Miss Mary Emma Strong OFFICERS Richard Stockham. Captain I’M ward Jarrell, First Lieutenant William Perryman. Second Lieutenant PRIVATES Ashcraft. Robert Ames, Ambrose Anderson. Cecil Allen. Nathan Barrett, Frank Bust . George Beasley. Nell Chappell. Cecil Caldwell, Harold Conwcll. Buell Clark. Dwight Dorough, Claude Davis, Lewis Islington. Floyd Fiddler. William Pitapat rick. Lawrence Gruvftleo, Ralph t'lordon, Donald Gray. John Garry, Gus Harrison. John Jaffe, Hurry King, Fletcher Lankford. Douglass Little. Harrell I .aligner. Eugene MnHer, Dalton Mntloek. Guy Morrison, Joe Mothavln, Eugene Mays. Marvin Murphy, Douglas McAllister. Marvin McWhorter, Robert McClendon. Henry Nesmith. Morton Nowell, Fred Ollveria. Robert Perryman, John Pugh, John Riggs. Chester Stockmur. Adolph Sutter. Wilbur Smith. Thomas Smith, Edward Stung , Walter Slaughter. Sam Shies. Clarence Thompson. Eugene Tomlinson, Guy Teal. Emmett Wilder. Malcolm Wingate, Henry Whittaker. Fulton FIRST SERGEANT Frank Young SERGEANTS Paul Bowron ifulleri Carroll Willett Rudolph Fred Schatx Jo© Meade CORPORALS Aaron Alpor Harold Cowart Harrell Murphy A lie Tonnebflum Jo - Travis Charles Vaughn BUGLER Buford Cross ROSTER OF COMPANY SPONSORS Miss Klixuheth Hewln Miss Augusta Mason OFFICERS K l I.enke. Captain Alvin RIkkIo. First (lieutenant Frank Rest, Second IJeutenunt PRIVATES Abercrombie, Iloxmcr Allen. Hall Harrington, Howard I lent ley. Osco Rurke. Bruner Burns. Mitehell Cross. Buford. CovnlloH, Tom Cranford. Howard Curry. Charles Danenberg, Kll Dixon. I.y. rly I ninean. Charles Knglish. Vick Pulhrlght. la-x Hurdlen, Earl Cordon, Hymun i Intone, Gilbert Heacock. Joe Humphrey. Russell Hendrix. James Irwin. Willie Kramer, John l tnkford. Douglas By emu nee. James Maggto, Angulo May. Paul Moon. Weldon Moore, Leo McAllister, Melvin McConnoll. Nathaniel McKver, Macauley McRoster, .tame McNobb. Carlton Nation, Kugene O'Brien, Frank Prince. Irving I’arsons, Parker Saegar, Bert Sarnsohn. ].ouls Schou. Wilbur Sharpe. Archibald Shepard. Sam Smith, Selwyn Siegal. Harry Tallferrao. Mark Travis. Huy Wilklng. John William?, ReHrande ROSTER OF COMPANY E” SPONSORS Miss Rllxabeth Smith Miss Catherine Wood OFFICERS J. B. Haslam, Captain Melton Collins. First Lieut ••mint Andrew Cassidy. Second Lieutenant FIRST SERGEANT PRIVATES Grahum, Charles Mims, Erskim Frank Bromberg Acee. Junius George, Fletcher McTyurle. Billy SERGEANTS Alley. Leonard Holder, Harry McCunlg, DonaM Rhrman Fox Benton. Junies 1 hmks. Grayson Newton. Oliver Richard Nunnelly Broek. James Hill. James I’rice. Vivian Harry Letuw Barber, Dun Hackney. Ralph Posey, Donald Ernest Moore Burns. Booth Homrle. Lewis Bay. uuentin Herbert Bigham Brock. Arthur Henry. Taylor Buddick. William Frank Hollo Brown. Holiert Hughes, Clarence RU'c. Roger Bullard Bayliss Burdette. Richard Inscho. Ralph Sanford. Herman CORPORALS Chapman. Corley Jones, Rdwin Scruggs. Hubert Ryan Armstrong Chisholm. Paul Jaffe. Morris Smith, Robert Cecil Jordan Coyle. Garrett Jones, Ivor Smith, Norman Pulmer Port is Clarke. Paschal Kontos, Chris Scott. Goodson Jeff Henry Collins. Howard Lcvvy, Francis ScolcO, Herbert Allen Moore Covington. James Morrow. Thomas Simpson. Bert Milton Chandler Davis, Herbert Massey, Dennis Shannon, Hubert Clarence Massey lift vis. Homer McWhorter, Alton Then !, Harold Horace Rd wards Elliott. Lewis Merriwethor. Win. Triplett. Paul Rugcne Harrell Kvnns. Wiley Marbury, James Wilder. Gaston BUGLER Frazier, Jack Morton, Taxzewell Walker. Tom S. Lewis lav'lle Foster, Kdgur Mcl.aurhl'n. Wm. Young. Fred FIRST SERGEANT I ouIjj Fox SERGEANTS Phillips Alford Henry Jones Walter Htead EthHrcd Sykes William Ware Jack Wise CORPORALS Ixtrenxo Bragan .1 nines AIrd Frances Coleman JV IUIuiii Cabuniss Lewis Moseley Fluster Rlngfand Leonard White BUGLER Hersohnl Holrnes ROSTER OF COMPANY ••P’ SPONSOPS Miss Grace Ash Miss Merle Marlin OFFICERS Welford. Wells. Captain Robert Flcmlater. Flr t Lleutennnt .1 B. Merrill. Second Lieutenant PRIVATES Adams, Robert Allen. John Realty, Malcolm Klims, Kdward Brown. John CJole. Gordon Cartwright, llulsri Chambers. Henry f'arau, LdwrenCc Carter. ls?o Caldwell. Bd Davis. Nelson Douglass, Kdward Dobbs, WI list on Espy, .larnea Fort. William Green. Clifford Godwin. Claude Green. Kbhle Goldstein, Morris Ooodhcw, William Hood, William lluynfc, William llulgin, Guy Hampton, Jack Hunt. Juntos isenherg, David Johnson. Joe Kretnxer, Raymond Kottleman. Louis Kent. l-uwrenee l Caf. Lewis Lewis. James McConnell. James McNeil, Milton MeKernll. Perry Miles, perry Massey, Kills Malloy, Glenn Mnrbury. Ia e Martin, Douglas Mackey. Jesse McWilliams. Geo. Nunnelly, Kd. Norris, Allen Porter. Clyde Payne. Glenn Kay. Frank Renfroe, Thomas Smith. Roland Siuldeth. Kttell Smith. Louis Tennebaum. Jacob Thomas. Richard Trader. William Tobin, John Wynn. Culpepper Williams. Curtis Wood. Morwfn Will oughby. IT 3 vt The most important, the greatest and the most eagerly anticipated event of the high school year has come and gone. Oh! ISut it was great—that Senior play! With Lucilc Vinston as Florence Cole, the leading lady, and Luther Reynolds as T. Hoggs Johns playing opposite her. it was a roaring success ; yes, just one more howling success. Miss Vinston showed remarkable skill as a visitor who enters into a complicated business and family affair of which, until the last act of the play, she has no knowledge. Mr. Reynolds has been receiving many notes trying to induce him to become some one’s butler, but due to educational complications has accepted none. Miss Merle Martin, as the hysterical Mrs. George K. Xettleton, was a “scream and her husband. Martin Smith, played splendidly the part of the successful pill dealer. Watch out for Douglas Hester—he was a regular villain in the role of the lawyer, Thomas J. Vanderholt. As for the gum-chewing stenographer. Miss Sallic Parker, with her winning ways; Miss Corinnc Travis, who played that role, was an ideal poor working girl; If he is as successful in real life as he was in the part of the traveling salesman for the Eureka Digestive Pill Co., Wclford Wells certainly has a future! As for Mr. Kromc. clerk in the office, played by Morris Haum, well if he and Graves Weaver as the shipping clerk, Abe Tenenbaum as office boy. and Vernon Bridges as Mr. Applegate, were placed at the head of the firm, uni, just watch their rivals squirm! What is to be said of Coddles, the maid.' W hy. as Coddles, Miss Helen Powell was perfect, a veritable genius! As far as the individual parts are concerned and as a whole, the play could not have been better! This cast would knock Broadway cold ! The Astraea Literary Society recently enlightened us somewhat on some Japanese questions. W e who heard the speakers on their program say that they certainly succeeded in their undertaking for we all enjoyed Helen Richard’s talk on the Commercial Relations Between Japan and America. Equally enjoyable were The Life and History of the W ritings of Lafcadio Hearn by Dorothy W inters, and an unusual fairy story read us by Grace Ash, A Summer Day by Lafcadio Hearn. In remembrance of John Burroughs, the great American naturalist and essayist, the Pierian Literary Society gave the following program the week of April 8th. during the regular auditorium assembly period: The Life of Page Fifty-nine DRAMATIC John Burroughs” was well told by Elizabeth Gewin. Kathleen Willis gave a poem, “Tribute to John Burroughs written bv Edwin Markham. An article, 'The Flight of Birds,” by John Burroughs was read by LeXoir Dryer, which shows, as do his other literary achievements, the outcome of his keen observation of nature and animal life. The program was a fitting tribute to this great man, whose death is mourned by the entire nation. According to Shakespeare, “Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast.” What would Shakespeare say of the music offered by the High School Orchestra? Words are not able to express the enjoyment the Orchestra afforded the lucky Centralites who were present at auditorium Friday. April 15th. Miss Helen Warner has certainly done wonderful work, but you know you cannot work without material, and that with which she works is exceptional! We see among our midst future directors and future members of great symphony orchestras! Central has an orchestra of which to be proud. On with the music! Have you accumulated your pound of tin foil yet? You have not? Well, you’d just better get to work! You know Central wants to get together one ton before school is out in June. To do this every pupil must bring a pound, but more is gladly received. With Miss Bush as chairman we hope you will all co-operate—for nothing succeeds like success. The Vocational Department has had the opportunity of hearing many good speakers of the local business world. Mr. Landis Sevier, Sr., president of the Alabama Manufacturers’ Association, spoke to the students of this department on the important factors of a business career, giving them much sound advice, many “don’ts” and “do's.” Mr. Bandman, a member of our faculty, spoke to the department, emphasizing the importance of neatness, politeness and the thousands of “little things.” Mr. John Frye, president of the Traders National Bank, talked of how essential it is to know all kinds of people in the business world and especially to remember people’s faces. He says also that one must not be afraid of work, and must learn to hold one’s tongue. W e are sure the department is profiting by these valuable talks. What was everybody talking about Monday, April 18th? Foolish question! They were talking of the “Feast of the Little Lanterns, which was given by the music pupils of the first three semesters, at the Jefferson Theatre, April 15th. Miss Lauer, the director, and Miss Stine, accompanist, deserve much credit for the surprise and thrill given the pupils of the upper semesters. Wonderful talent was displayed. We thought ourselves in far Japan when the curtain went up on a scene in which Miss Helen Bauer was a real Japanese princess. Miss Frances Wood, as Mai Ku, the juggler maid; Miss Bessie Howell, as Ou Long, and Miss Ethel Hearn also deserve honorable mention. A great deal of the success is due to the other participants. The entire operetta was splendid. On Monday. April 18th, Mr. Harry White, a graduate of the Class of 1913 of Central, spoke to us. telling us of an alcove which is to be set apart Page Sixty-one in the library of the new High School building in memory of Orville Coston. also a member of the Class of 1913, who was killed in action in the World W ar. Mr. White gave us a sketch of the high school career of Orville Coston, telling us that all through life Coston was both efficient and aggressive, always taking the greatest interest in every high school activity. His class could always count on him, always looked up to him. For these same reasons he was a leader at the State University. Mr. White was in training camp with Coston, but Coston reached France first and saw action at the front. In the battle of Argonne, while leading his men, he had orders to take them forward. While doing so. he was shot in the leg twice but did not stop. He kept calling to his men to go forward. At last he received a fatal wound in the head. His last words were, Go forward! To this hero and and lover of Central High School this memorial is to he established by the graduating class of 1913. Books or money are wanted. Following Mr. White’s speech it was decided that Wednesday, the 21st of April, be set aside as library day. but on all other days books will he gladly received. During the week of April the 17th the Clio Literary Society entertained during the regular auditorium assembly period. Essentials in the life of President Harding were discussed. The Life of Mrs. Warren G. Harding” was given by Eugenia Thompson. President Harding and His Books” was the topic of a talk by Miriam Thornton. Sophie Siegel told something of each member of President Harding’s cabinet. We all feel better acquainted with White House inhabitants now. Friday, 13, was not unlucky for two parties of whom we know. Of course it wasn't exactly luck, but it was good hard work and brains that brought about the winning of the Joint Debate held Friday, May !• , in the open air auditorium. The subject for the debate was. Resolved, That the Open Shop Policy Is for the Best Interests of the Country. The judges, who were Miss Greg-hory. Mr. Stallings and Mr. Jocelyn, decided in favor of the affirmative, which was upheld by Ruth Dewberry of the Pierian and Well ford Wells of the Hilliard, who were ably supported by Louise Montgomery and Abe Tennenbaum as seconds. It is a pity that one side must always lose, but the upholders of the negative, although they did lose, put up an excellent debate. Those representing the negative were Kathleen Moore of the Clio and A. J. Bryant of the Curry, who had as their able assistants Leone Bowers and Frank Ilolle. Luther Reynolds of the Yancey presided with ability and ease while Inez Patton of the Astraea made a charming secretary. What lawyers and congressmen there will he in the future both men and women, if such work is kept up. The entire school and others hearing the debate congratulate you on your ability to work out and solve such an important problem. We are all now convinced that the open shop policy is for the best interests of the country. Page Sixty-two The following announcement gives an accurate notion of the pleasing nature of the operetta so successfully presented by the Euterpean Club on the night of May 30, at the Jefferson Theater. THE EUTERPEAN CUM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL Presents MAM’ZKLLK TAPS” or “THE SILVER BUGLER” American-Anglo-French Operetta by Arthur A. Penn. CAST Col. Piquet, retired owner of chateau__________________Shelby C. Patton Marie, his daughter_____________________________Marv Elizabeth McClure Lieut. Jean Piquet, her cousin_______________________________Roy Carlisle Lieut. Billy Brown, of the A. E. F__________________________John McVay Lieut. Frederick Bull, of British Army____________________George Nealans Aunt Josephine, Col. Piquet's housekeeper___________________Inez Patton The Duchess of Douchester, a suffragette_______________Malvina Coleman Feggy, captain of Tommywaacs”____________________________Evelyn Kinney Charlotte, a Red Cross nurse_________________________Elizabeth Shannon Sid Edmund Pompous, a Shakespearean tragedian_________Luther Reynolds Lewis Potter, a motion picture photographer---------------Ludwig Smith Captain Gringo, a German spy------------------------ Easley Blackwood Chorus—Girls. Nurses. Soldiers, “Tommywaacs.” SCENES ACT I—Garden and Terrace of Chateau Piquet. A summer evening in 101s. ACT II—Outside a convalescent hospital near Paris. An afternoon two weeks later. Special Feature—“Cupid Dance”------------------Muriel DeBardeleben SYNOPSIS Act I takes place after American soldiers have landed in France. One after another we are introduced to a delightful series of characters, chief among whom are Jean. Frederick and Billy, soldier boys who represent respectively France. Great Britain and America. Marie is much talked of, but nobody seems to know where she is or what she is doing. She has disappeared. In reality, she has become a bugler in the French army and is known and beloved by all as “Mam'zelle Taps.” It is Mam’zellc Taps with whom Jean, Frederick and Billy are in love, but they are not aware that she is the missing Marie. Captain Gringo arrives in search of Marie, who presently bursts in on the scene and— (To be continued, Jefferson Theatre, 8:00 p. m.. May 30, 1981.) Page Sixty-three EXCHANGES Once upon a time some clever person thought of the idea of exchanging school magazines, and ever since we've been doing the most interesting thing in the world—talking about other people! And the very best part of all is that we are able to say so many complimentary things al out our “exchanges. If what “somebody said is true that laughter is the common Icvclcr, then certainly all who have the good fortune to receive the “Voice of Knox-ville High must be absolutely on the same plane. And while we arc on the subject of humor, wc would like to say to the editors of the John Marshall Recorder of Richmond. Va., that while their literary department is excellent, humor is entirely omitted. To make use of the view of another philosopher perhaps not so deep, hut doubtless better known, those who read their magazine would never grow fat. Another of our contemporaries has an exceptionally good poetry department. The Rumble R” evidently appreciates good work in this field. (Sh! for with proper recognition, of course, they published “Drifting from our magazine.) The editorial department is especially well done in “The Pioneer of Frank ford High. Philadelphia. Rut speaking of editorials, wc are grieved to notice that The Echo of Portland, Maine, which, without doubt, takes first place as to athletics, slights this much needed department. While wc are having such a good time “throwing bouquets, wc want to say that the “Howard Crimson of our own “Magic City is one of the most interesting papers wc receive. And now we come to the department nearest our heart—Exchanges. Nearly all the papers we receive have this department ably edited. Wo mention “The Orient of Newark. X. J., as the best example—but O. please. “Chronicle of Poultncy. Yt„ and you, Jeffcohi of Boyles. Ala . see that this well deserving department of your magazines get more attention. (By the way, you know all these “exchanges are kept at the library.) Page Sixty-four AGLAIA Iliff| Hang! Boom! The slamming of lockers, the slinging of books, and the hustle and bustle of enthusiastic “Aglaians” prevails iti the halls on Friday afternoons. To Nellie, a new-comer, all this seemed rather queer, and her inquisitive nature prompted her to ask, “Annie, what is it that makes the girls so excited and restless, on Friday afternoons especially? “Why, Nfellie! Haven't you heard? The literary societies meet on Friday afternoons. Literary societies? Do you belong to one? “Yes, I'll say I do. to the best club in old Central—the Aglaia. W e have some of the most attractive programs, and besides that we have a jolly good time. This semester we have been studying ‘Modern Authors.’ among whom arc Edgar A. Guest, Marv Roberts Rinehart, Gouverneur Morris, and Octavius Roy Cohen, Birmingham’s own writer. “Oh. that sounds interesting! I'd like to belong. 'Fell me sonic more about it. “The social side is stressed as well as the literary side, for we have a social meeting semi-annually, and also a picnic. The outing at Turkey Creek was so successful that we are planning to have another soon. Goodness! It is nearly club time now! Don't you want to go with me? We are always glad to have visitors.” “Sure! Wait lor me. ASTRAEA When the Astraea’s guardian angel closed the big book in which he kept the record of this year’s doings in the club which lie watches over so tenderly. he closed it with a bang —a tremendous, a portentous bang. That bang Page Sixty-five spoke volumes, each one as optimistic as a New Year's greeting, about the snappy times we've had this year in club. We don’t make as much noise about it as some people, but we do things in the Astraea, and there isn't a blot on our scutcheon anywhere. If you don't believe it, we’d every one of us be delighted to receive you at any of our Friday afternoon “At Homes — you know the place and hour; and you're sure to go away a happier and a wiser man. CLIO OWL SCHOOL Your presence is requested. April 15th, 1021 This announcement indicates only one of the many enjoyable afternoons spent by the members of the Clio. During the semester they have learned to do a great many things besides sing and cat. They have been initiated into the mysteries of voting and debating and have the names and histories of great story writers, inventors and scientists of the day at their fingers' ends. However, as this successful semester draws to a close, the Clio regrets to think of losing so many of its faithful “Senior workers and takes this opportunity of wishing them all of the joy and happiness that life can possibly hold. CURRY Last September the Curry began what has proved to be a successful year. Easley Blackwood, a popular Senior, headed the club as president. Due to his efforts we produced two orators who won the Boys' Oratorical. Easley Blackwood won first place and the Curry won in team work. At the beginning of the new term, Wilton Wise was elected president. With the support of the staff of officers, he set about to make the second term as successful as the first. Although our record of membership has not been broken this term, we have members who are conscientious workers. A Parliamentary Law course was given by Mrs. Snell, after which we held our Parliamentary Law drill. Other programs have consisted of debates, socials, get-together gatherings. business meetings and extemporaneous speeches. Altogether we have had a most profitable year. HILLIARD Perhaps the greatest asset a club can have is the right spirit prevailing. This, coupled with the desire to do big things, has been the outstanding feature of the work in the Hilliard this term. From the very first program of the term, the members started their work off with a bang. And they have Pane Sixty-six continued to keep up the “banging” until they have made their influence felt in the school. The programs this term have varied from debates, essays, to a minstrel show. The last mentioned was “a great musical achievement and was voted the greatest success of the year. The scope of the work has been exceedingly broad and the experience and benefit gained are immeasurable. The most pleasant thing to contemplate right now and something that we can well boast of. is our record of conducting the meetings in business-like fashion. W ith that record behind us, is it Strange that the Hilliard looks forward with intense eagerness to the coming fall term? W ith a greater vision before us and with officers who excel as leaders, the club is destined for greater heights. PIERIAN Have you ever inherited a reputation? And isn't it the most exacting, yet inspiring thing imaginable to walk in the footsteps of our forebears, to live up to their standards, or set ours even a little higher and always to remember “noblesse oblige”? This is what Pierians have had to do this year. Modestly admitting that our club was the best in Central High School, we set about keeping it so. With the work, and sometimes laughable trials, have come companionship and sympathy and fun and excitement! With our social, mr unusual programs, the Senior play, the Joint Oratorical and the Joint Debate, not to mention what went on behind the scenes, we’ve found much to fill our time and banish our morose moods. To our Seniors who arc leaving, we say: “Well done, ye good and faithful servants.” Meanwhile our Freshmen. Sophomores and Juniors, looking backward, see a long line of achievements and wonderful examples of club spirit; then they look forward, seeing visions greater than these, and murmur with the strong voice of courage and inspiration, “The best is yet to be!” YANCEY As in every other year of its history, the Yancey has enjoyed a continuous season of success and advancement. It especially distinguished itself in school activities, obtaining second honors in the Joint Oratorical and being well represented in the Senior play. Operetta and Senior Class officers. There is one outstanding reason for Yancey supremacy: the “Yancey spirit.” The Yancey spirit” is a phrase as far famed as is the Yancey Literary Society.” The new member gets the inspiration when he signs the constitution and in the vast majority of cases retains it until lie receives his diploma. The spirit is that of an organization having singleness of purpose in boosting debates, oratpricals, school activities, fellowship and good times. Every commencement changes a number of valuable Yancey members to Yancey alumni, but it is pleasing and encouraging to note that these graduates always remember and are proud of the Yancey. Every term we Page Sixty-seven receive letters from graduates at college and in business, congratulating the club on some recent achievement or in some other way complimenting it. To these graduates the Yancey extends a fond farewell and a thousand wishes for success, prosperity and plenty of sevens (in their proper place). ()n the other hand, we blushinglv acknowledge that we have the best bunch of Freshmen, Sophomores and Juniors obtainable in the city of Birmingham. Among them niav be noted the offspring of many of our prominent doctors. lawyers, ministers and business men. To these young hopefuls the Yancey bequeaths its past and intrusts its future. We’ll see you at W est Lake on the Yancey picnic! ART CLUB Maybe you don't know much about the American illustrator or his works and maybe you don’t care. But if you had happened in at an Art Club meeting last semester your interest would have been aroused—maybe—for you would then have been on the inside of things looking out, instead of on the outside looking in. This is the way of everything and particularly of art. He who knows most about it, appreciates it most. The Art Club has just completed one of its most successful years and judging by the past we may safely prophesy that next year will be even more successful. Here’s hoping! THE COMMERCIAL CLUB Tlu practical and material things in life are of the most interest to Commercial Club members. ”lhey like to see and bear people who have done things worth while, and not merely read about them in books. Therefore, a number of Birmingham’s most prominent business men have been invited to speak every Thursday to the Commercial pupils, and as a result they have been enlightened on the subjects of banking, salesmanship, business ideals, and the road that leads to success. Mr. L. Sevier, president of the Alabama Manufacturers’ Association, was the first to honor the club. In a most interesting manner, lie told tlu pupils of his experiences on the road to success. Mr. John Frye, president of the Traders National Bank, stressed the point that promotion conics only through earnest effort and personality. Mr. Joseph Loveman, vice-president of one of Birmingham’s largest department stores, gave a most instructive talk on salesmanship. Mr. Chester Bandman. one of our own teachers and advisers, gave manv specific instances of how personal habits either make or mar our success. As all these ideas arc stored deep within the gray matter, where thev mav be recalled when needed: they go into making each Commercial Club member one who can always be depended upon to do things promptly, accurately and efficiently; for he lives up to the standard that whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well, and remembers Page Sixty-eight “That day is lost Whose low descending sun Views from his hand No worthy action done.” DRAMATIC CLUB The programs as outlined in the Dramatic Club year book have been carefully carried out through the year. Among the most interesting of these have been the plays presented and the talks of the speakers who have come to us. Those who have addressed the club are: Mrs. J. R. Hornady. Mrs. Julia Truitt Bishop, Miss Bess Clark, Mrs. Solon Jacobs and Mrs. . F. Smith. The plays presented are: “The Piper.” “The Neighbors,” “Children of Farth” and “The Case of Miss Sophronia.” This has indeed been one of the club’s most successful years. GLEE CLUB The Glee Club incorporated with the Euterpean to concentrate Central’s vocal talent in the operetta. W as it a success? If you saw it you wouldn’t ask. Of course, we didn’t have an opportunity to don our “soup and fish and give a special concert, but nevertheless all of our Carusos.” “McCormacks” and “Bert Williamses had an equal chance to display their adeptness at warbling, by raving about “Marie. Besides we believe that the raiment worn was much more comfortable it not more becoming! Altogether it has been a very successful and enjoyable year, and we intend to come back strong next fall. LA SOCIEDAD CASTELLANA Well! who would ever have thought that this club was once called “the littlest fellow” in High School? Some day it will lose this title altogether, and instead of the “littlest” it will be the “biggest.” The programs which the members have enjoyed this term were not only interesting, but added greatly to their knowledge of Spanish literature and the Spanish-speaking countries. LE CERCLE FRANCAIS Lc Cercle Francais is improving greatly, both in attendance and programs: and if you don’t believe it. just come to the lunch room any “every-other” Monday afternoon and see for yourself. The most enjoyable program of the semester was that of April the 18th, when Rosalie.” a little French play, was given by several members of the club. We hope to have many more programs just as interesting and let us say that “tous les eleves, qui suivent les cours Francais, sont invites et les visiteurs sont toujous les bienvenus.” Page Sixty-nine PEN AND INK CLUB Although the Pen and Ink Club has only about as many members as tlie literary clubs have officers, it is a club organized strictly fur business. I lie members of the Pen and Ink Club furnish the headings for the Mirror departments and the cartoons. I he club has no programs and its entire meetings are devoted to work for the Mirror. During the past year the six or seven members of the club have supplied each issue of the Mirror with neat, snappy art work, and the Mirror’s art work is classed with the best in high school publications. We hope, and are confident, that the Pen and Ink Club will uphold this reputation of the Mirror’s in future years. AN’ A GREAT BIG SOUTHERN MOON! We’ll drift out there where the waves are still. Where the breezes softly croon— And sail by the side of the somnolent hill. That slumbers o’er yonder, so somber, so still: We’ll sail like a sprite through the night, until— Just you and I—a summer sky. An a great big Southern Moon! We’ll drift way out where the sea-clouds go, Where the sea-voice calls the loon— And sail to the south where the shadowlets flow. Where silvered sands sigh as the zephyr winds blow. And roam like the foam that drifts so slow— Just you and I—a summer sky, An’ a great big Southern Moon! We'll stay way out where the night is clear. W here the waves are diamond-strewn— And sing to the sea our secrets, dear, And laugh like the echoes with never a fear Of being heard—for who’s to hear? Just you and I—a summer sky. An’ a great big Southern Moon! J. M xkti.n Smith. Yl. Pane Seventy There s no need to tell any one at Central that the likeness above is that of Coach Meyers. There were only a few who had ever heard of him a year ago, for there were few baseball fans here; but now the most ignorant and erdant rat knows without being told when Gil passes by. Never in the history of the school has any man. with as poor an outlook as that faced by him when he first came, made so brilliant a record. Through the long trail of football, basketball, and track, his teams have trekked without the semblance of a defeat and now the baseball squad is carrying on in the same admirable way. Si'intiy-onc While it is not absolutely certain that he will return to Central next year, for a lot of offers both to coach and play baseball have come to him this season, it is the earnest wish of every boy and girl in Central High School that he come back and give us long awaited victory over Bessemer. REVIEW OF THE PAST SEASON IN ATHLETICS Central has almost rounded out an entire year without a defeat in any line of sport. In football and basketball not a single high school anywhere sullied the long record of victories and thus far in baseball none has been able to trail the Crimson banner in the dust. The football season introduced a new coach at the old school in the person of Gilbert Sandy Meyers. He had to make friends, a home, and a team and. believe us. he did all that and a bit more. Taking one of the lightest football squads ever reporting at Central, he turned out an aggregation which had a strong claim to the state title, despite ties with Marshall and Bessemer. The team had two all state kackficld men, Anderson and Lillian, and one linesman on the mythical selection, Captain McNeill. Besides this, the second all state team contained Rox and Shann6n. tackles; Simpson, half; Stubbs, guard, and Steele, end, all men who wore the Crimson, only three of whom had ever had any other than sand lot experience. The team was almost wrecked in the middle of the season when McNeill, captain and center, and Speigle, guard, were knocked out of the game with broken limbs. However, these and other misfortunes were finally smoothed out through the ability of Coach Gil. and the team steered through to an undefeated finish. As regards those two ties, while wc arc not trying to alibi—for a team such as Central had needs no alibis—it is the firm confiction of every student at Central that we had the best in the state. The Marshall game came when a third of the men who later made the team had not reported, and when the squad had only scrimmaged twice, while their opponents had been working hard for well over a month in preparation for this game alone. The Bessemer game is past history. But for the technicality of holding a man. even though said man was not in the play, the score would have been one touchdown in favor of the Crimsons. However, there is no kick coming in regard to officials. It was hard luck, hut it’s in the rule book—so the game is a tie. The basketball team had the poorest prospects of any that has started at Central in a long time. Lawlev, captain and center; Stubbs, forward, and Copeland, sub forward, were the only letter men returning. The guards looked to he wide open and the forwards none too strong. Pagc Sexnity-lti’o BASEBALL TEAM, 1921 After nearly three weeks of preparation Coach Gil sent his squad against Tuscaloosa and the “green Crimsons” effectually crushed the Tuscaloosa men 31 to 19. In this game Roy Carlisle and Ed Jarrell, at guards, and 'Pom Anderson. at forward, demonstrated that any worry wasted on their positions being cared for properly was lost. The team wound up a successful season by winning the state tourney given by the Birmingham Athletic Club, in which twenty-three teams competed, playing five games in three days and winning them all. The awful strain told in the last two battles, which were won by the counts of 22 to 20 and 25 to 20. Seldom has a more brilliant finish been seen here than that staged by Central to win the Springville game. Central, playing steadily, had compiled a 13 to 7 score in the first half and looked to be an easy winner. Coming back for the last period, however, the team seemed to go to pieces and Springville went into the lead with about five minutes to play, scoring ten points to Central's one and making the score if IT to 1-1. Fighting their hearts out. the hoys of Coach Meyers recovered from their over-confidence and tied the score at 20. all and in the last minute of play, Ed Jarrell shot two foul goals, one of them after time was up. The next night Barton Academy of Mobile went down to defeat in a similar, though not as breath-taking battle. Central placed two men, Carlisle and Stubbs on the all state team, and the other three. Anderson, Lawley and Jarrell on the second team. This is certainly a wonderful record and one which will take some shooting at to break. The baseball squad has continued the fine work, winning five out of six games, the other being a tie In these games Central has averaged nearly ten runs to the game, while holding their opponents to slightly over an average of four. This is remarkable, especially in a team whose hitting was supposed to be the weak spot. However, many of these contests were won. not on straightaway hitting, but as were so many in football and basketball, by the brains of “Little Sandy.“ In fact, there are only two or three men on the team who are fundamentally good hitters. Practically every one is a sure fielder, but the bunting attack inaugurated by Coach Meyers is the principal offensive factor. The team opened the year by defeating the Ensley Yellow Jackets, the ancient rivals, and strong contenders for the pennant, by the score of M to (� . Ensley made almost as many hits, but strategy was the thing that brought home the opening victory. Next came a (I to 3 tie with Simpson, the other strongest team in the circuit. Central was unfortunate in having to meet both these teams in her two first games, as they rank with Central as the first division of the league. Victories over Bessemer, Shadcs-Cahaba and Jefferson County followed in rapid succession. All of these were league games and the first game outside of the Jefferson County League was won from Blount County 13 to 9. after they had taken a 9 to 3 lead in the first four innings. The team has completed the first round of the league without mishap. Page S Venty-four if they can continue as well during the second half they are certain of the pennant. However, it will he a hard struggle, as all the other teams have grown stronger and arc particularly anxious to stop the Crimsons. During the past year Central has taken part in twenty-two athletic contests. Nineteen of these were put down in the records as victories and three were ties, one of the finest all-round years any school has ever had. This does not include the state wrestling tournament which we won. Central has the following prep wrestling champions in her ranks: Hubert Meadows, 108-pound class; Hill Steele, ltd-pound class; Ralph Mills, lag-pound class, and Hob McNeill, heavyweight class. These hoys went on the mat with hardly any preliminary work and as they easily won the meet for Central, are to be accorded the highest praise. This is Steele’s second cham pionship, lie having taken the 135-pound title last year. Following is the wonderful record which Central has compiled the past year: FOOTBALL Central 0 Marshall _ 0 Central 20 Discjue 0 Central Morgan __ 0 Central _ 43 lefferson 0 Central - — 13 Walker 0 Central __ - 7 Bessemer Central 14 F.nslev G Total. - 124 Total. 13 BASKETBALL Central . 34 Tuscaloosa 19 Central 41 Simpson - _ 15 Central . 42 Dora 14 Central 43 Kaulton 'Y _ 19 Central _ __ _ 63 Ha Icy vi He 26 Central . _ . 49 Gordo 21 Central Simpson 17 Central 22 Springville 20 Central - — 25 Barton 20 Total 319 Total 154 BASEBALL Central 14 Enslcv 6 Central 6 Simpson __ 6 Central 3 Bessemer 0 Central __ _ 6 Shades-Cahaba 1 Central _ _ 16 lefferson 0 Central — 13 Blount 9 Total 58 Total 22 GRAND TOTAL: Central. 536; Opponents. 206 Page Seventy-five Established IDES OF MARCH THE GAS JET Read The CAS JET FOR 13 B. C. WHICH ABSORBED THE MIRROR BY PURCHASE Fresh New CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL VOL. XII. NO. 131313 Our idea of nerve is when a man tries to borrow a dollar from his barber to buy a safety razor. Is fifty dollars and sixty days an example of a compound sentence? A Barber College Annex is being built and a new department in the Laundry Wagon Drivers' Academy is being equipped to take care of this year’s graduating class. Leave applications find get pamphlet ‘from Paul Brown. President’s Address. Attention. Rats: Lend me your ears, for I would fain prattle into them. While you toil at your desks truly graduation seems far away, but if you diligently study, as I have done, with the aid of time, you will attain it. Graduation! The word gives me a strange elation. Free! Free to call my soul my own, no longer a life led by the ringing of bells. Free from the High School lunch. Do but persevere in your studies, my children, follow the example set by my companions and me, and you too will be free. Stand up for your rights, vote for better lunches, shorter periods and more holidays. Sadly, and with a strange, briny moisture in my eyes, I bid you a fond final farewell. International Strike Threatened. We have heard rumors of a new international strike. Our reporters traced this and we have received the following epistle: Whereat, Alabama, Yesterday. Dear Editors: Your troublesome reporter, Mr. William Tharpc. so harassed me that I promised him this letter. Yes, there will be an internationtl strike today. Our clocks have been working twenty-four hours a day for so long that they will all strike today at noon. Disrespectfully mine, I. CLANG, Advisory Dept. The class prophet says that her vision shows that about ninety-eight per cent of the male population of the Senior Class is headed for jail. Howcomc. W is. April 81, 1987% Dear Editors: I want your advice on a serious matter. At the beginning of the term I entered Room 20 and a teacher said: “Sit here for ttie present. ' I sat there all day and all the rest of the week and she never did bring it. W hat should 1 do? RUSH SIMPSON. Page Seventy-six Ivy Xuff......................Editor Published every now and then by the G. J. Publishing Company, Birmingham, Alabama. Entered as AA first-class matter at the Pratt City postofficc. Subscription Rates As much as we can get. Free copy of “The Mirror” given with each issue. Sworn Circulation_____________10.000 (For thirty years.) ♦ Established Later. Phone Main 12345G Private exchange to all departments. No manuscrips returned unless accompanied by postage. No anonymous contributions accepted. Kwestion Korner. 1. If a man runs a merry-go-round, are his children qualified to join The Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution? 3. Censored. 4. W hen a chairman recognizes a lady, should he tip his hat? 5. To what will lawyers be admitted now that there are no bars? (5. W hy is a policeman? i. Why can't judges have chairs instead of benches? 8. Docs the floating kidney ever sink? !). Should evening dress be worn to a St. Vitus dance? Answers next year. Prohibition. At last C. H. S. has taken the drastic step and imposed the law of prohibition upon us. But prohibition of what? Of drinking—water in the balls. Already Graves Weave! has been convicted and must serve 15 days in the pen. Captain Pinky Wells is very military. The other day a newsboy held out a paper to him and said, “Post, sir?” Pinky came to attention, brought up a salute, did about face and walked two blocks looking for his company. George Vail says bis father’s name was Noah, and therefore lie’s a descendant of Xioah Vail. Future of School Threatened. The Senior Class is very much alarmed at the constant in -rease of small children and infant weul '-he prodigies in our school. It is predicted that if this keeps up at the rate is going now, in five years our noble institution will be reduced to an all-day nursery. Excuses are issued daily to these babes to go home as they become feverish while cutting their second teeth at school. It has been proposed that a size and age limit be established for entrance to high school in order to put a stop to this menace. Something should be done, and done at once. Who’s Who in High School. (Our artist was afflicted with heart failure while endeavoring to depict the features of this handsome brute.—Editor.) Mr. Benjamin Frances X Crabbe. Mr. Crabbe is one of Central’s shining lights. Already a memorial statue of him has been designed and Page Sevcntyrscvcti subscribed to. He is the most favored ladies' man that has ever been in our institution; they are never too old or too young to fall for his enduring charms, lie is also a clever staller, having a bluffing record of thirteen minutes forty-five seconds. Benjie expects to graduate this semester. but if he does it won't be his fault. Let us all wish him the best of luck in attaining his ambition. lie hasn’t any! Mr. Alfonso Kugenius Zeidman. Mr. Zeidman is intending to graduate this term, and if he does it will shock and surprise all who know him. He is a noted inventor, having patented the famous felt-lined bath tub and the vacuum auto tires. He is also credited with having introduced the Student Self-Grading System into many schools of our state. Upon graduation he is to take a position as president of one of our foremost industries. Mr. Archimedes Clifford Inglis. Mr. Inglis is a prominent member of the Senior Class and his graduation will be a great loss to the school. He is noted for his lunch exterminating abilities, having disposed of seventeen in one period. He has finished High School in the course of time. It is rumored that he will take a responsible position at the Barber College upon his exit from school. Important! See page 365! Senior Class Poem. The happiest of days are come, the best of all the year. The end of May has passed away, and tests no more we fear. The term was finished days ago. and summer joys have come. Now running brooks and baited hooks will keep us on the run. But soon, alas, will summer pass, the bells will ring once more. ith drooping heads and lagging steps you’ll enter in the door. But we all know the saying goes, It really could be worse. School might be held from the beginning of the year, Pill January the first. COO KOO. 10. The Senior Play. The Senior Class presented the comical tragedy. “A Pair of Sixes.’ or Crapped Out.” to a large audience on April 22. The house was full because of an announcement that what in-cent Martin would be re vealed. On the whole the melodrama was good, and much sympathy was felt for the actors, especially when they had to smoke the stogies given them. Luther Reynolds has had several offers from the best of families to act as butler and has been continuously refusing to sign contracts with movie corporations, while Miss Helen Powell has been swamped with mail concerning positions as cook. Mr. Vandcrbolt was hissed off the stage several times because of his I aye Sevcnly-ciyh I wicked plot to collect lees on an unlawful contract and had to obtain police protection in order to leave the theater. However, there are two questions that we would like to ask: 1. Why did the office of the Ku-reka Pill Co. have arched windows and stained glass? 2. What was Corinne Travis writing to enable her to pound the typewriter at the speed she did? A pleasant time was had by all. notwithstanding the fact that the plot was as deep as some Wells and needed I‘.ridges in some spots. I loth audience and actors are to be commended for their noble work. • PLOT UNCOVERED Entire Senior Class Trapped by An Amateur Detective; Lawrence Schroeder Becomes Famous. While passing a printer's shop down town. Mr. Schroeder saw the tracks of a number of Seniors entering and leaving the building. The t r.us had a drag between each foot showing that the owners were school boys, too tired to lift their feet. Salt, from salted peanuts, scattered around showed that they were from Central, while a very deep heel print, caused by uprightness of stature, showed that they were seniors. Mr. Schroeder put his trained rhinoceri on one of the trails at once, and they overtook one of the miscreants before he reached home. A package was taken from him containing a diploma and a report blank. Each Senior's home was searched and one of each found at every home. It is supposed that all who failed were to fill in their reports and take their diploma home and thus put an end to their school days. Election Returns. (Vincent Russo. Special Cor.) A little trouble was had over whether our reporter or the man from the Amalgamated Press be admitted to the Class Elections, as Section XXVI, Rule IV, states that only one correspondent may be admitted. The difficulty was settled however after a fistic demonstration, as the Press reporter stated in vivid language that he never wanted to hear r see anything of this school as long as he lived, lie was released from the hospital about three weeks later. The following results Were obtained. but the girls' reports are not in yet: Best looking—Eugene Zeidman. Thinks he is best looking—George Vail. Best singer—B. F. Crabbc Meanest—Jack Shannon. Biggest liar—Xot settled yet. Worst—Paul Wolfe. Best staller (time, 15 mins., M sec.)—Luther Reynolds. Sma rt est— I 'a u 1 B rown. Thinks he is smartest—Terry Teague. I lash fu lest—George Nason. Biggest gambler—Marry Bryan. Boldest—David Hancock. Biggest flirt—Edgar Poe. The following results were the choice of the whole Senior Class: Motto—Da fidelem poneo (Reward the faithful pony). Colors—Black, white and rouge. Flower—Sunflower. Fruit—“Pomegranate. Food—Peanuts. Song— Sing out. oh ve crows, for school is over. Drink—Home Brew. Vegetable—Onion. Page Seventy-nine Crosseyed JudKC. trying three crosseyed men. To the first man: “What’s your name?” Second Man: Clifford Hester.” Judge, to second man: I wasn't talking to you. Third Mart: 1 didn’t say anything.” • • • • Captain Stockhatn: Inspection of rifles! Captain ’ditto” to private: “Where’s the balance of your rifle?” B. A. P. Levy: That’s all they gave me, sir.” • • • Yielding (on farm): Ah—good morning. How's the milkmaid? She: It isn’t made. sir. The cow gives it. • • • First Flea: Heavens! What’s happened? Why arc you so sunburned? Second Flea: Oh, some fool clipped the dog 1 was spending the summer on!” • • • Mr. Green: Ben, you let your mouth hang open all the time. It’s open now. Ben: Yes, sir. 1 know it. 1 opened it.” • 4 Inglis: “One of the inmates of the nut emporium died yesterday.” Nason: How’s that?” Cliff: “He went crazy playing ‘Puss in the Corner.’ They put him in a round cell and he ran himself to death hunting for a corner.” • • • Maid: The garbage man is here.” Absent-minded Professor: “Eh—what? Well, tell him we don’t want any today. Mr. Chase: Bad times make money scarce.” Knglehardt: Yes, sir, and so do good times.” • � « Visitor: Won’t you he glad when vour term expires?” Convict: No. madam. I’m in for life. • • • « Customer: Have you got any Coffee like mother used to make?” Waiter: Yes, sir.” Customer: Well, give me a cup of tea. • • • • Photographer: Do you want a large or small picture? Luther Reynolds: “Small, please.” Photographer: “Then close your mouth. • • • Hester (in barber shop) Barber, have you ever shaved a monkey? Barber (same location): No, but have a seat and I’ll try. • • • • IIF. MUST BE. Mr. Bandnian, after explaining a simple but puzzling problem, What do you think of yourselves now? Fred says he’s a boob. How many agree with him?” All hands went up. • • NATURALLY! “Pop Keller: Marie, you were absent yesterday—we took arsenic. Tomorrow we are going to take mercury, and the next day dye.” Page Highly (Central If}i0,1] School (Class 1921 iHotto: “Herum omnia liiiictt Colors: “Apricot mtb HHiite ’ 3[lohicr: “(Ophelia Hose” (Organisation Jrcsibrut Hire }Jresihent Hecorhiug Secretary Corresponding Secretary (Treasurer prophet Historian Orator - Statistician pianist - Vocalist Poet - - - Essayist Violinist Artist - - - - Shelby CbaMuick Ration - Dorothy Elizabeth JD inters Douglas Arnold Hester Harry Hayluood Vruan 3Fred Carter Incite Vessie Diittson Hose Kathleen lllheelock Easley Huilanb Slarktooob Halph lllelford lUells Helen Erltiie Jjamrick jiEilbrch Sticks ,1Jantes iHartin Smith ittae Hamilton Horton - Jacob Eeiiu Doris Alleett iitarler SHELBY CHADWICK PATTON Pat “Shelley Among the prime in worth.'' Hilliard ’18. 19. 20. 21: Critic 18; Third member Standing Committee '19; Corresponding Secretary T9; Recording Secretary ’20; Vice-President 21; Oratorical 20. 21; Kuterpean. President T«S. Treasurer ’20: Contest ot the Nations”: hire Prmo ” : Y • k. liama Mari'; MamV.elle Taps”; Glee Club. Business Manager '20. President 20. ’21: Athletic Association 'IX. T9, ’20, '21 ; Cheer Leader '20. '21 ; Dramatic; President Senior Gass. . I mbit ion: To disprove the • Id adage. 'fie who would‘t when he could, cannot when he would. DOROTHY ELIZABETH WINTERS “Betsy Phyl” “Monkey Doubly fair, in mind and face straea: Membership Committee 19: Executive Committee 20; President 20; Spanish: Executive Committee 'IX; Membership Committee TX; Treasurer T9; Art Club; Executive Committee 20; Good Speech League '17; Dramatic: Mirror Board; Editor-in-chief 20; Vice-President Senior Class. .iu.tntu n : To sail uncharted seas. DOUGLAS ARNOLD HESTER Doug Nose “Snoot One who never turned his back, but marched breast forward ’ Hilliard; Press Committee T8; Third Member Standing Committee 18; Treasurer T9; Corresponding Secretary T9: Mirror Board 18; Glee Club: Vice-President 19; Kuterpean: President '20: “The Yokohama Maid ; ’20; Class Football 19; Cheer Leader 19; Manager Football Team 20: Senior Plav 21: Recording Secretary, Senior Class. .Ambition: That M. M. T. Jnglis and may live to plant sunflowers on one another's graves.” HARRY HAYWOOD BRY N “Harry' Great heart, true faith and willing hands.” Yancey Third Member of Standing Committee ’20; Recording Secretary 20. 21 ; Vice-President 21; Mirror Board TX. 19; Circulation Manager ’20. 21; Boys’ Oratorical '21: Student Government Council, Vice-President 20, '21; President '21 : Dramatic Club Vice-President '20. '21 : President 21: Good Speech League President '20; French Club; Central Hi-S Club President '20. '21; Hv'kcso.« ean • F v f): Thanksgiving Pro- gramme '20; May Day Pageant '21; Corresp nd ing Secretary Senior Class. .Ambition: Lrt prosim (That I may be of service.) Page Eighty-three FRED CARTER “Zip “Bounteous, truth-speaking, brave Hilliard; Third Member Standing Committee; Major R. O. T. C.; Mirror Hoard; Ili-Y Club; Athletic Association '20, ’21; Senior Class Treasurer. Ambition; To be a peanut broker. RUSE KATHLEEN WIIKELOCK Kat “.I spirit intense anti rare” Clio; Press Committee ’19; Executive Committee ’3); Vice-President 21; Eutcrpcan; Contest of the Nations; Eire Prince; Athletic Association ’20; Dramatic; Press Committee ’20; Secretary ’21; Historian Senior Class. Ambition To have M. I) written after my name. EASLEY RUTLAND BLACKWOOD Pn fcssor” ' Measley “lie whose inborn worth his acts commend. Of gentle soul, to human race a friend Curry; Editor Currv Courier ; President ’20; Joint Debate '20; Oratorical Contest ’21: Mirror Hoard; Athletic Association; Cheer Leader 3); Dramatic Membership Committee ’20; Eutcrpcan; Treasurer ’19”; President ’3); Eire Prince ; Orator Senior Class. Ambition : To do as much good in this world as my Mother alwayx has wanted me to do. BESSIE LUCILLE VINSTON Coal “Born to smile serenely.” Aglaia; Press Committee ’17; Membership Committee '18; Custodian 19; President ’19. ’3); Vico President ’21; Oratorical ’3). 21; Joint Debate '3 ; Art Club ’3); Dramatic Club; Treasurer ’3 : Mirror Hoard T9. ’3); Exchange Editor '21; Thanksgiving Program ’20: Senior Plav 21; Prophet Scnii r Class. Ambition: “To sleep—perchance to dream: Page Bighty-four RALPH WELFORD WELLS Pinkie Boogcr 'High his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight 9 Hilliard; Press Committee 19; Recording Secretary '20; President ’21; R. O. T. C.: Second Lieutenant Staff ‘19: First Lieutenant Co. A ‘20; Captain Co. F” '21; President Standing Committee '21; Athletic Association 'IX. 19. ‘20. ‘21; Senior Play 21; Joint Debate 21; Mirror Hoard ’21; Statistician Senior Class. Ambition: To bo hr draftsman when Einstein draws a picture of his Theory of Relativity. JAMES MARTIN SMITH “Schmity “Every motion of his thought, governed by a strain of poetry.” Yancey; Standing Committee ’20; Corresponding Secretary ’21; Le Cerclc Frnncais '20. '21; Pen and Ink Club '20. '21 ; Athletic Association '19, '20. 21; Good Speech League T9, 20; Assistant Chemical Laboratory, Instructor ‘20; Mirror Board; Poetry ’20, 21; Senior Play: “A Pair of Sixes 21; Poet Senior Class. Ambition: To know no knowledge not knoxen to be worthy of knowing. v MARY HAMILTON HORTON “Tiny Sis” Hnmp “A bright and thorough-edged intellect. Astraca Vice-President '20; Mirror Board '20. 21; Spanish: Art Club; Essayist Sent r Class. Ambition: “Ay me. I fondly dream.'—to grow.” HELEN HAMRICK Dubby” IThat is best, she firmly lights upon.” Clio; Auditorium Committee 18; Mirror Board T9, ’20; Pianist Senior Class. Ambition: To have a brain throb. Page li igh ty-fne JACOB LEVY Jake 'His life hath many a hope ami aim. Baseball 17. ‘18, '19; Captain JO: Athletic Associate n; Orchestra 17. 19; Class Violinist. Ambition : To possess a brain that will answer alt the questions that the world asks. MILDRED MICKS Max I hen her voice's music—call it the well's bubbling, the bird's 'earhie. Atffain ‘20. 21; Kutcrpcan '19. 20; Contest of the Nations: The Yokohama Maid; Tin Fire Irince; Dramatic 20. ‘21; Sponsor Company «• ' ( Basket hail Team ‘ill; ncnlist Senior Class. Ambition To live to lean, to love Latin dales DORIS ALLEEX MAR LICK Tuts Bohemian Blonde - III Iter charm is not in her art.” Art Club 19. ’20; Mirror Board ’19. ’.20; Freshman Basketball Team 17; thlctic Assncia-tum 18. ‘19; Sponsor T8; Pen and Ink Club. Vice-President 18, T9; President ‘20: French Club: Senior Class Artist. Ambition: lo make Angelo ashamed of liis art. SIDNEY TAYLOR DAIR “Syd” A noble mind and true, that knows no boundary walls Pierian: Dramatic; Secretary Good Speech League '21. Ambition: To be or not to be. Page Highly-six MARGARET VIRGINIA ANDREWS Marge Mnrdic Pig She labors good on good to fix. Clio: l.c Ccrclc I'rancais; rt Club; Lunch Room Committee '21. .Ini bit ion: To be happy and make others happy. GRACE IONE ASH Ash In Iter brown eyes, radiant with vivacity. I here shines a brilliant and roman tie grace. Eutcrpcan; Contest of Nations ; Fire Prince ; Yokohama Maid ; Dramatic; Girls Glee Club; Chairman of Marshals: Girls' Oratorical; Good Speech League; Astrata. Vice-President. Membership Committee. Social Committee; Auditorium Committee. Ambition: To love 'em all. trust a few and do wrong to none. MILDRED RAKER The Maker Twin’ Sip “Her words do show her wit incomparable. Clio, Press Committee 21. Membership Com mittoc '20; Dramatic; I.e Cerelc Francais '20. Ambition'. To earn my laurels. MIRIAM MAKER Si Mimsj Twin” 44Nothing endures but personal qualities ' Clio. Treasurer '21. Critic 20; Dramatic. Ambition: To excel in all ! undertake. . • Page Eighty-seven � 9 WILLIAM MORGAN' RAKER “Shorty” “Mush A moral, sensible and well-bred man. Milliard; Hi-Y. Ambition-. To be Mayor of date City. MAE ELLEN BARRON' •Rear” Her lender, honest joy sparkled in her eyes.” Ambition: I o know 'why “the period isn't otter when the first bell rings.” NELLIE GLKD11 ILL FI ASTI DE Pug Her liberty exists in proportion to her wholesome restraint.” Aglaia ’19. '20; Commercial. Membership Committee '20. President '21. Ambition: To be either a ”Graham Cracker” • r ii “Jay Byrd.” MORRIS CARLKTOX BAUM Two Per Cent li ith what zest he plays his part'” Yancey; Dramatic '20, '21; Senior Play 21. Ambition: To rise to the top before I reach thirty. Page Eighty-eight . SAMUEL WEL BORNE BAYUSS “Doc Yac “Oh well for him whose will is strong. Curry. Chairman Press Committee 17; Cor responding Secretary 'IS; Treasurer Dramatic Club MS: High Schrol Orchestra MS; Secretary Athletic Association MS; Recording Secretary Curry M9; Vice-President M9; President Student Government Mods M9; Glee Club M9; Operetta •20. Ambition; To attain the highest standard,% of American citizenship. ELIZABETH ROBERTA BEAVERS “Libba” A maid, the wonder of her kind. H'hose form was upborne by a lovely mind ' Pierian, Executive Committee '21; Art Club. Executive Committee '20; Treasurer '20. President '21; Pen and Ink Club. Vice-President '20. 21. Ambition; To cultivate a sympathetic giggle. MELVIN CARLETOX BERKO WITZ Berk “Large was his bounty and his soul sincere Curry; Athletic Association; Baseball 20. Ambition: To make Habe Ruth tremble for his laurels. FRANK BEDFORD BEST A clcar-eved youth with independent views. Curry. Critic '20. Recording Secretary 21; R. O. T. C.. Corporal '20. Sergeant 20. Second Lieutenant 21. Ambition: To find out what Mr. Counsclman did with his 40 stamp after he left Central. Page Eighty-nine SARAH LEONE BOWERS Kapt ResI “Zimmie” 'there is a kindly mood of melancholy That uings her soul and faints her to'the skies. Spanish Club Treasurer IK; Pen an l Ink Club Secretary 19; Clio Social Committee '20; Executive Cc mmtttee '21; Second on Joint Delate '21. Advertising Staff. An Editor Mirror; Lunch Room Committee: Captain Senior GirU Itasket Bafl Team 19. '20 .4 mbit ion: To teork when I work, flay when I flay and to sfread joy along the way. ' WICK BROOM ALL. JR. “Wicked A man with heart, head. hand. Like some of the simfle great ones Hilliard. Press Committee '18, ’19. Critic T9. '20. Custodian 3 21. Council 18, T9 Alabama’s Centennial Program T8; R O. T. C. Sergeant T9. '31; Athletic s ciation T9. 30; Junior Drama League 3X '21; Christmas Drama League Play 31 Ambition: .Xullam habere 1XOROTHY ODETTE BROWN -Dot- Her ere teas large and dark, suppressing half its fire CHARLES M. Bt’CKXER Have you not observed his high seriousness ' Hilliard. Ambition To be able to danee with two girls at the same time. Page Ximety BEATRICE CAVER ”Bcc” “Bat” “Beat” A face o i r which a thousand shadows go. Euterpean; «lai;t Press Committee '17. Chairman Membership Committee ’18. Chairman Mem-hcrsliifi Committee '19. Treasurer '20, Executive Committee '21. Ambition: To succeed in all of my under-takings. NORMA VIRGINIA COCKRELL “I risk” '.I mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent. Commercial, Membership Committee; Dramatic. Ambition: To laugh and have the world laugh with me. MARIE COLE Marne” I here's a woman like a dew drop, Sites so purer than the purest. lenan; Art Club; Dramatic; Goo l Speech t.caguc IX. Ambition: To roll my own little red wagon. MARION’ MALVINA COL EM AX Mai” “Vina I he heavens such grace did lend her I hot she might admired be. Pierian. Chairman «� i Membership Committee 19. Executive Committee ’20. Critic 20; Dramatic Secretary '20: Art: Kuterpean: Contest '19 '20Um ’ ‘',am c,,e Taps : Mirror Board Ambition; To live happily ever after. - Page Xincty-ottc OUA LA VELLA COLLINS Veil “The Twins ‘ Tis the mind that makes the body rich ' Clio '20; Dramatic. Ambition: To ja hack to the Atie of In nocence.” ANNIE JANE CONNELL “Aunt Jane Lour cl la Ann” Laughter haunts her large, clear eye.” Lc Cerclc Franca is. Ambition: To net Mr. Roadman to stand a Math. 8 examination for me and shorten Carlyle's Essay on Hums. MARGARET EMMA CONRAD Margy The Twins ' Sedatelyr she goes her steadfast way:’ Clio; Dramatic; Mirror Board ’21. .habition: To carry on a conrersa ion with the Sphinx. BENJAMIN COPELAND Barnacle “Salty Irish” Regard of honor and rare courtesy.’' Sub Football T8, 19; Basket Ball 20. 21; ''Spanish Club. Ambition: To be an engineer on Tony's peanut stand. Page Ninety-two JENNIE ROSE COPIiOX Janie “Jency ” U'insomeness all her own” Commercial. Critic ’20. Ambition: To be some man’s future right hand. JAMES HAROLD COWART lt... Coart “Jelly Klilliard: Athletic -ociation '20. 21: R O 1. C. 10, ’20, ’21: Gi.od Speech League 19; Le Cerclc I- raucais ’21 Ambition: To be railed Shrewd.” BEXJAMIX FREDERIC CRAB BE. JR. D. T. Benjic No staid repose for him. He will be off having adventures of his own ” Yancey; Athletic Association ’20. ’21. Ambition: To invent a noiseless and chewless chewing gum that will pass Miss Thornton's censorship. C.ERTRl’DE ELIZABETH DAVIDSON Beth Booh Modest and shy as a nun is she.” Aglaia: Athletic Association 19; Euterpcan. Mam' elle Taps ; Gnmicrcial Club. Ambition: To outjive my nickname “Boob.” Page Ninety-three ETHEL SKELTON DESHAZO Kid” Matte ut' of glee ami energy.” Aglaia President ’21. Vice-President '20, Treasurer 20. Press Committee '19: Dramatic, Thanksgiving Program '20; Euterpean '19; Athletic Association. . I nihil ion: To be a soap-box orator. KI TH ELIZABETH DEWBERRY Hut this I know within her talent lies .Inviting but the pen,—and in her eyes There is a nameless beauty ' Pierian. Vice-President '21. Executive Committee ‘20; Dramatic. Vice-President '21; Art Club. Secretary ’21. President '19. '20; Pen ami Ink Club '20, ‘21; Euterpean ‘19, ’20. “Contest of Nations ’19; High School Court T9, ’20: Athletic Association ‘20. ’21 ; Junior Drama League '20. ’21: Mirror Board 17. T8. '20. Editor in-Chief '21; Joint Debate 21. Ambition: To look up. and laugh, and lave, and lift. VIRGINIA ST. CLAIRE DONOVAN Ginger “Jinks One m wham energy and gentleness dwell together without destroying one another.” Pierian, Chairman Membership Committee 20. President '21; Art Club, Executive Committee T9. Vice-President 20. '21. President 20; Dramatic T9; Secretary Standing Committee '21. Mirror Board '21. Ambition: To remember something. JAMES LENOIR DRYER Slats Jimmie” She has a -voice of gladness And a smile and eloquence of beauty.” Pierian. Chairman Membership C mnnittee '20. Treasurer ‘20. Secretary '21 ; Mirn r B: ard ‘21. Ambition: To be what ought to be -when I am. Page Ninety-four RUTH BARKER EBERMART ”Bo” Little Bit Of gavety unconquerable and wise. Art Club Treasurer '19; Euterpean. Contest of Nations IS; Pierian Critic 21; Dramatic Club Treasurer '20; Art Club Critic '20 Ambition: lo look like Xorma Talmad e, dance like Irene Castle. smile like Vary Pick-fnrd. and be as sweet as Mary Carden. LOUISE KEXMQRE ELLIS Lou” Kind and fair spoken always. Aglaia. Membership Committee '20; Spanish. Treasurer ‘20; Dramatic: thletic Association; Dramatic 21 Ambition: To paddle my own canoe. ALLEN HILTY ENT.ELI IARDT “Foots” In the game and not a mere looker-on. Yancey, Standing Committee ’19. Treasurer M9, '20. Recording Secretary 20. I ‘resident ‘20; Mirror Beard. Business Manager 20; Shakes pear can Flay 20; Attorney of Court '20. '21. Head Marshal '20. Ambition; To do others as they have done me. MYRTICE MART EVERETT - “Myrt To be silent is a woman's greatest virtue Aglaia. Ambition To have a canoe of my own to paddle. Page Ninety-five GEORGE C FREEM AN There's a brave feUote, a man of pluck. K O. T. C, Corporal '20. First Sergeant ‘21. Sergeant Major 21. Second Lieutenant Adjutant. Camp Jackson, C. (). Sharpshooter. . I mbit ion: To be president of (Snodal!- Broxvn Dry Hoods Co. REM A FRANCES FRIEDMAN Do-re-mce Tiny uHers is beauty without guile. A-traca. Membership Committee ‘19. Corn -l� riding Secretary ’2(). Executive Committee ‘21; Euterpean. Operetta. Yokohama Maid”; Good Speech League '19, '20. Ambition: To find one. DOROTHY GARRY “Dot Dora Her crown is called content. A crown it is that seldom king's enjoy. Euterpean. Contest oi the Nations ; Commercial. Secretary '20. Executive Committee '20. Treasurer ’21. Ambition: To sec all, love all. eomjuer all. IRVIN WEIL GOLDBERG Slicker He hath a natural. wise sincerity, a simple truthfulness Ambition: To know somethin! about every- thing. Cage Sincty-six BERTHA IRENE GOLDXEk •'Bertie Kid Fruitful ami friendly for oil human hind. Clio. Press Committee ’21; Commercial, Treasurer T9. Recording Secretary '20. Corresponding Secretary '21; Dramatic 20. ’21: Euterpean T9; Contest of the Nations ; Good Speech League T8. Ambition To regain nty hundreds f lost diamond set hours, to hr placed in o crown of glory and reserved for my old age. CHESTER GOLDSTEIN Chet” He has the good intention that clothes itself in sudden power. Baseball T9. 20. 21: Basketball 21: Class Football 19. Ambition: To make a higher average than 5 in life. ERNESTINE COOPER GORDON Would that all the world burn such a spirit.' Clio. Executive Committee T9. Secretary '20: Lo Cercle Ernncias 20: Euterpean '18. Press Com mittec T9; Glee Club '18: Dramatic 19; Sponsor Hi-Y Ambition: To live happily ever after ROSA LEE GOULD “Rosie “Barth's noblest thing, a woman perfected. Clio. Membership Committee 19. Executive Committee 20: Euterpean T9. 20: ‘’Contest of the Nations”; “Fire Prince : Yokohama Maid . Ambition: To be on time just once without having to hurry, Page Ninety-seven ESTHER GRAVI.EE “’Ster She sniih's.—why there's a picture ready uwdc.” Clio: Dramatic; Euterpcan; Spanish, Recording Secretary '20. Ambition: P Y. C. BENJAMIN ARTHUR GREEN “Benzine “Ben” “Bag” “Careful not to fail in the little duties which lead to real achievement ” Hilliard, Treasurer '19, ’20. Vice-President '20; . Dramatic ’20. '21; Commencement Play '20; Christmas Play '20; Athletic Association, Cheer Leader ’20; Mirror Board '20. ’21; Business Manager '21. Ambition: To count the holes in a pound of Limberger. ALBERT DAVID GREENMAX Doc Parson” Should ought annoy him. lie refuses to be annoyed. Hilliard '17; Athletic Association '20. 21; Good Speech League '18: Student Government Body '20. Ambition: To succeed in whatever I undertake. CHARLES GROSS “Chicken” He represents, high-erected thoughts seated in a heart of courtesy Hilliard. Ambition: To be successful in anything I undertake. Page Ninety-eight MARY MINCER GUSSEX “Gibs' Mary Anne” “H-V cannot choose but trust In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill.” Clio. President ’21; Dramatic Club. Ambition-. To discover my ambition. ALMA BARR HALE ‘‘Monkey ‘'Gentle, full of noble device, of all sorts en-chantingly beloved. Astraea, Euterpean. Contest of Nations ; Eire Prince”: Yokohama Maid ; Athletic Association; Spanish Club. Ambition: To enter upon my second childhood in Central. GARDNER SEMMES HALE Farmer Dough A calm-browed lad.” Ambition: To increase the ability of electricity as man's greatest servant. DAVID HANCOCK. JR. Dave” “How high a pitch his resolution soars. Yancey; Athletic Association: Good Speech League. Ambition: To get to the top. Page Xindy-nine SARAH ELIZABETH HARK $ht hath a gift for friendship.”' Shawnee High School: N'oir Romani; Sophist; Conte: Central High School; Clio. I mbition: To he a missionary. ALLIE BESS HARPER “Eattic for she was just the t uict kind I Those nature never varies. Avtraca. el m hi lion: Xeve'r to take dictation front a man unless Tin a Stenographer. JOHN BILLUPS (“J It ) MASLAM Hilliard Literan Society '21: thlctic A'Xicia-lion 21: Hi-Y Club 21; Cadet C. II. S. Battalion '18. 19; Corporal Co. B. R. O. T. C.. '19; Sergeant Co. A, R. O. T. C. 20; Second Lieutenant Co. A. R. O. T C. 20: First Lieutenant Co. D. R. (). T. C. 20; Captain Co. E, R. O. T. C. 21. Ambition: To be as bio as Sergeant Crider merman hentschel “Hcnch” “Tights” if no does the best his circumstances allow, Poes well, acts nobly: angels could da no more ” Milliard: Commercial; Council Committee 19; Good Speech League 19. Ambition: To run a barber shop for ladies only. Page One Hundred CHLOE EUNICE HINTON Sin rty” Like—but oh! how different ” Ambition: To be what my mother would be most frond of. ANNIE LOUISE HICKMAN Hickman Peace she brings wherever she arrive .'' Aglaia '20, ’21 ; Commercial. Prc Committee ’19, Treasurer 20. Executive Ci mmittcc ’21 Ambition: To do one thing well. VENUS mu. Juno Becnic Goddess. excellently bright. Ambition: To be os shining o light to the world os the star whose mime I bear. EMMA VIRGINIA HILL “Jinks “Begonia “She ho shut within her the rare seed of learning. Astraea; Dramatic. Thanksgiving Elay T8; Eulcrpoan; Lc Ccrcle Krancais; Basket Ball Team '19. Ambition: To get o degree from Columbia or the University of Chicago. Page One Hundred and One ESSIE FLORENCE HOPPER “Sis No legacy is so rich as trust. Aglaia, Secretary 21, Custodian 20. Executive Committee '20, Pres Committee ’19; Athletic Association. Ambition: To find the golden hair-pin which unlocks the secret of success LEAH LUCILLE HOSKINS “Jack” “Lu-Lu” Cile” ‘'Attainment comes by diligence.” Aglaia; Dramatic; Commercial ’21, Membership Committee '21; Good Speech League '18. '20; Self-Government Board '19. Ambition: To be able to transcribe my oxen notes. AGNES KATHLEEN HOUGHTON Mode” The face is the index of a feeling mind.'' glaia. Secretary '20.; Second on Joint Debate 20; Dramatic; Good Speech League; Treasurer '20. '21. Ambition: To be a police woman in order to catch the male. ELIZABETH LUCY HOWLETT “Libby Cheerful at morn she wakes from short repose. Ilreafhes the keen air and carols as she goes. Aglaia. .habition: To go over Niagara Tails. Page One Hundred and Txvo EDWARD JOSEPH HUGENSCIIMIDT “Lank’’ Ed” Souphone” Nor could his ink flaw foster than his tv it. Hilliard, Press Committee ‘21; First Lieutenant Battalion Adjutant; R. (). T. C.; Mirror Board •20. 21; Hi V. Ambition : To be Major in the Salvation Army. CORNELIA COR INN E HUGHES “Shorts ' Of fair demeanor ami rare courtesy.” Pierian Membership Committee ‘19, Critic ’20; Dramatic Club; Athletic Association; Girls’ Oratorical Contest '20. Ambition: Not to be the inspiration of all misbehavior. CLIFFORD THOMAS INCUS “Hammer Man” Cliff M. M. T.” “Of genial bent, fly nature confident.” Yancey. Treasurer ’20. Press Committee '19. '20; Mirror Board 20. 21: Athletic Association Secretary ’20. ’21; Contest of Nations.” Ambition: To be able to entertain with song and dance and have my mellowest pipe dreams become realities. ELIZABETH 1ACKSON “Betty” In her silence eloquent. Aglaia. Girls’ Oratorical ’21. .Membership Committee; Dramatic; I.e Ccrcle Francois; Treasurer Council ’21 ; Auditorium Committee ’21. Ambition: To think wisely, to act wisely, to litre wisely. Page One Hundred and Three THOMAS EDWARD JARRELL Jarrell” EM” He makes it alary note to be a man. Hilliard: Basket Hall '21; Athletic Assoc in tun; Hrst Lieutenant K. (). T. C. .Ambition'. 7o be official bole borer in ,j .Swiss Cheese factory. LAWRENCE MAGNUS JAYSAXE . ,. Laurie” “Insane ’™ honors are but here expressed. Ihlhard; French Club; R. O. T. C.; Athletic Association: Good Speech League; Program C mimittee ‘21. .Ambition: To measure infinity. MARY GRIEF IN JOHNS Griff” ■‘ i’R i gijts an, races eminently adorned. Pierian. President ’20; Dramatic j Athletic Association; Mirror Hoard T9. '20. . Imbition: To .play a good pome of tennis. fcM.Mfc.TT R. JOHNSON Muu •f °f Propbecy be mine, he ‘will not Ik e tn tmn. Athletic Association; Le Cerclc Francois ’20: R O. C. Band ’20. 21; High School Orchestra 21. .Imbition; To find the Equator” Page One Hundred and Pour HAZEL GLENN JONES Pinky “My nature is subdued To iv It at it works in. like the dyer's hand. Commercial Club. Ambition: To be successful in malting my dreams come true. NELLIE !• RAKER JONES “Shorty' Little Bit How well in thee appears the constant service of a faithful heart. Astraca; thletic Association 19. ’20. Ambition: To lire, to lore, to laugh. WILLIE MAE JONES “Bill “Site is gentle who d es gentle deeds” Aglaia: Commercial. Ambition: Xerer to be voiceless” and “tuneless.” MARN Jl’NGEMANN ■ Ree-rce Sis “Sever saw calm so deep.” Athletic Association. Ambition: “To see the w nders of the world” Page One Hundred and Five LILLIAN DOROTHY KERNER “Dot Lil” '‘Spoke so sweetly and so well.” Commercial '19, ’20. 21. Ambition: To acquire patience. MARY ELIZABETH KING Short ' “Baby” “Adding new life and sweetness.” Commercial Club, Ambition: To be a “big girl. FRANCES ELAINE KITCHENS “Peggy “In herself she dwelleth not. Although no house were half so fair.” Astrnca '19 Dramatic 20 Ambition : To learn to appreciate my “golden opportunities” before it is too lac. SARAH ROE L AT HEM •Bits ' And all that's best of dark and bright, Meet in her aspect and her eyes.” Dramatic; Astrnca. Ambition : Vt prosim.” Po o Qno Hundred and Six MARY ELIZABETH LAUMKR “Betty” Peggy” Fatty” “Elegant as simplicity and warm as ecstasy ' Pierian; Dramatic; Commercial. Ambition: To know why there's no “cottage' in 'cottage pudding.” MARY LOUISA LAUNEY “Bobb” ”The sea-king's daughter, as happy as fair Euterpean, Content of Nations ’IS: Art. Executive Committee ’20, Treasurer ’21; Pierian. Executive Committee ’21; l.e Cerdc Francais. Press Committee ’20. Executive Committee ’20. Ambition: To outswim the little fishes in the pond. VERNA ERLENE LAWLESS Bill “Linkic “Admirably schooled in every grace.” Aglaia. Ambition: To litre, lore and always be loved. AGNES MAMIE LAIRD “Sis” “Gyp-Commercial Club. Ambition: To be a stenographer. V Page One Hundred and Seven El.LA MAY LAW LEY “Fritz Of surpassing beauty. In the bloom of youth.” A strata '18; Commercial; Critic ’19; Chairman Committee '2(); Athletic Association '19, '20. '21; SjKmsor '20, '21; Maid of Honor. Company B 71. .I mbit ion: To acquire another hand. IRVING LEVY Babe Endowed with the grace of strength.” Curry: Ili-Y; Athletic Association; Baseball 18. 19. 20. 71. Ambition ; To be an ire salesman at the Xortlt Pole. FELIX WAYNE LEWIS lie who has a thousand friends and not a friend to spare.” F.uterpcan '17. '18; Glee Club 17. '18. Ambition: To invent a non-skid oyster. ELLA BELLE LYNN Ted Daughter” “Sugar “Of goodly grace and comely personage.” Aglnia: Dramatic; Commercial. Ambition: If my ambition you would know, Around the world I'd like to go. Page One Hundred ond Eight ALYVYX YORK MeCONXELL Mac ‘‘IVise to resolve, patient to perform.'' Hilliard; R. O. T. C. Sergeant 19, Second Lieutenant '21. First Lieutenant 21. Ambition To be like unto the sine of on angle; to rise from zero to infinity. JACK CLINTON McLARX Mac Sergeant Avoiding controversy, he goes his cheerful, self-reliant way.” Hilliard; Rand ’20; Camp Jackson ’20; Rat talion. First Sergeant; Headquarters Company Battalion; Sergeant Major ’20; Second Lieutenant Personnel Adjutant '21; Mirror Board 20. Ambition: To ascertain what my duties are, and to perform them to the best of my ability, without fear or favor. GARNER TERRY McXICE Mac .I manner blithe and debonair. Hilliard. Ambition: To make enough money to live on the interest. ETHEL MAGXESS Maggie” 'V courage to endure and to obey Clio. Ambition: To become rich in wisdom. Page One Hundred and Nine EARL STEPHENS MANN ”ManM “Tho modest, on his uncmbarassed brow nature has written gentleman.” Hilliard. Ambition: To find my place in life and play the part well. MINNIE MERLE MARTIN Changeful as the winds or seas, . Yet she never fails to please.” Pierian. Press Committee ‘19. Membership Committee ’20. Secretary ‘20; Dramatic President ’20; Lc Cercle Franca is, President ‘21; President Student Government ‘20: Good Speech League, Vice-President '20; Athletic Association; Mirror Hoard ’IS. T9. ’20; Thanksgiving Program ’20; Senior Play '21. AUGUSTA MASON “Gus” “Killdce” “Loving loveliness, she made More lovely all she gazed upon.” Pierian T7. ’18. T9; Good Speech League ’21. Ambition: To be the celebrated author of “How to be happy though shinny” MILDRED MAYS “Mike “Blue-eyed and bright of face.” Astraca ‘20. '21; Athletic Association ’20: Dramatic ‘20. ‘21 ; French '20. '21. Secretary; Eutcrpean T9. ‘20; “The Contest of Nations ; The Fire Prince : “The Yokohama Maid. Ambition: Togo U’-U-S-T! Page One Hundred and Ten LOUISE ANNA MELC1IER Miss Canoopce” I’ve wandered far J el never met a soul so like a star. Aglaia, Press Committee '19. Executive Committee 20; Commercial, Membership Committee 19, Vice-President 20, President 21; Dramatic ‘21: Orchestra; Mirror Hoard ‘20. '21. .I mbit ion: To learn how to call my “fiddle a ;io m. FELIX MENDEL “Feet Long Boy Lucky” Gifted with such a nature that success becomes him! Mirror Beard '20; Outa Luck Club ’IS. '19, ‘20. ’21. .hnbition; To be a little wonder. HARRY COLEMAN MILLER Coke Woodrow Thus in him is the peculiar grace That while living he learns to live. Hilliard, Press Committee ‘20, Treasurer ‘21. Recording Secretary ‘21; Cheer Leader ’21. .hnbition: To fly to the moon in the rocket 7 op Keller invents. CHARLES WILLIAM MI LUCAN “Bill How zealously he works in all his business Auditorium Committee ‘21; Athletic Association ’20; Baseball (reserve) ’19. .hnbition: To have a creative imagination. Page One Hundred and files cn CHAKI.ES jasper MII.I.S “Ponzic” '•Ruffin Courtesy is a science of the highest importance.” Marshal ’20: Wrestling Team 20. '21; Athletic Association ’it). '21. Ambition: To Ho everything well ami to be pleasant always. EVAN CALDWELL MIMS Professor “I )ummy •’or Ho not distinguish by the eye. but by the mini. Athletic Association '19. 20. '20. Ambition: To emerge from under the radical at the blowing of the whistle. LOUISE MONTGOMERY Tisc Her art. her soul, together are but one.” Pierian; Art Club, Executive Committee ’19. Vice-President 20; Dramatic Club; Pen and Ink Club, Membership ‘19. Vice-President ’20. President '21: Le Cerclc Frnncais: Mirror Board ’19. ’20. ’21 ; Joint Debate. Second, 21. A mbition: To be a portrait and landscape painter. ANNIE MOVITZ “Anita She with a natural instinct to discern. I That knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn.” Spanish Club '18: Commercial '20. Ambition: To be as good as my beloved Mother teas. Cage One Hundred and Twelve JUKI. X A I. LEY “Squaky IV Si Hirani” “Joe He has no detractors.” Ambition. To become Major General on a dog wagon. GEORGE IIEXRY NASON “Xason” ' lie possessed a peculiar talent of producing effect in whatever he said or did” Yancey. Ambition: To find a bottle of genuine anti-kink” THOMAS MILLS NESBITT, JR. ••Nesbitt” He is young, he is merry, lie is very, very wise” Yancey. Ambition; To find out why chewing gum does not wear out. MARJORIE ELIZABETH ORMOND “Margie ‘•Rargie” •‘ They that best know her do esteem her worth.” Clio. Membership C mmittcc ’20; Le Ccrcle Francais: I )ramatic. Ambition : To be a street car conductor on a submarine in the South Seas. Page One Hundred and Thirteen INEZ PATTON “Pat I know you have a gentle. noble temper, • soul us even as a culm. traea. Recording Secretary '20. President ’21 : Enterpean. “Contest of Nations 19; “l;irc Prince 20; Yokohama Maid '20; Matn’zelh-Taps’ '21; Lc Ccrelc I •'ran ca is: French Play, Rosalie”; Good Speech League TH, 19; Athletic Association ’20. 21. el mbit ion: To rise above the commonplace and to do something really worth while ISABELLA NOR VELLA PENN RUDDOCKE “Nonna” So calm, so still, with ryes so far away. Ast raca. . Imbition: To teach as well as have been taught. IDA VIRGINIA PERK INSOX “Spick Idella..rite Village Vamp Of manners generous, of affections mild. Commercial • I )ramatic. .Imbition: To I hr, learn and be happy. MARY LOVISE PERRY Ease” If ho lent you your mortal dower Of pensive thought and aspect calm? Clio: I.e Ccrcle Francais: n Club. .-Imbition: Always to Tray, work and sing! Page One Hundred and Fourteen MOLLIE PI EM •Polly ’ .? � • joins true profit with the best delight.” Clio: Dramatic 20. 21; Commercial. Press Committee ’19. Vice- President ’21; Enterpean 19: “Contest of Nations ; Mirr. r Board ’20. 21. Ambition: To know when to let well enough alone. JOHN E. PORTER “Jade “Buddal. “ «• is great whir never reminds us of others Marshal '19; Auditorium Committee ‘20: th-letic Association T9. '20. ’21. Ambition: To scan one line of I.atin cor- rectly. JAMES OWEN POSEY He has always acted well his fart Commercial. Ambition: To learn Kittredge and Turley's English Grammar. ROBERT KELLEY POSEN “Nap And thus he bore without abuse The grand old name of gentleman Non-Commissioned Officer in R. O. T C. Ambition: To be able to think and keep silent while doing it. Page One Hundred and T if‘.ecu MARY POVV Pcachie “Little May “To be merry most becomes her. Aglaia ; Commercial. Ambition: To net whut I want when I want it. HELEN' ESTELLE POWELL ‘‘Coddles Sister Clear-headed friend, whose joyful scorn, lldyed with sharp laughter, cuts a twain V he knots that tangle human creed ' Aglaia Secretary ’19: Girls’ Oratorical '20 Athletic Association ’IS, ’19. ‘20; Dramatic Club. Senior Play; Mirror Hoard 20. Ambition; Always to float happily down the placid lake of anticipation, and never drown in the calm sea of realisation. OLGA JEANETTE PRICKETT Cricket sweet. attractive grace. Aglaia; Dramatic; Eutcrpean; Operetta ’19. '20; Lc Ccrclc Fraticais. Ambition: To find out why “65 is more popular than 90 in C. H. S. ANNIE LOITSE RANDLE “Ransom Country So smiling, so tender, so fresh and so fair. Ambition: To find out what country I represent. Page One Hundred and Sixteen ORVILLE ALFRED REED ••Bill “Awful” “If hero means a sincere mini, is he not i hero R. O. T. C. ‘20, '21; Corporal '20; Sergeant 21; Good Speech League 'IV; thletic Association '20. Ambition; To discover hots• they make lemonade and butter in the lunch room. LUTHER EDW ARD REYNOLDS Cupid Luke “Rompers “Whatc'er hr did was done with so much rase. In him alone 'twas natural to please.” Yancey. Vice-President 20. President 21; Mirror Board Kditnr-in-Chief '20. '21; Glee Club, Vice-President '20. ‘21: Euterpean. Treasurer ’21: Contest of Nations 'IV; Mam'zellc Taps 21; Good Speech League. President '19; Dramatic Club. Treasurer '21: Shakespearean Play ’20; Athletic Association; Scrub Football ’20; Senior Play '21. Ambition: A ever to hr “bitter. cold or sick at heart.” WALTER WILLARD REYNOLDS Jess JikrK ” “A mass of strength, a pool of thought. Yet blended by his Soul into a man. Euterpean Club; C ntest of Nations : “Fire Prince”; Y« k hama Maid ; Glee Club IV. '20. ’21; President Glee Club ’20: Secretary Athletic Association ‘IV; Baseball 18. IV: Football TV. 20; Manager Basketball T9. '20. '21. Ambition: To discover a hair tonic which will make a billiard ball look like a chestnut burr. HELEN ELIZABETH RICH ARDS Beth “Her lovely fancies come from far Beneath the silver evening star. And yet her heart is ever near.” Art Club. Membership TV. Press 20. Critic ‘21 ; I.e Cerclc Francais. Treasurer '20. '21: Mirror Board '20. '21: A-traea. Social '20: Treasurer and Social '21. Ambition: To be a surgeon. Page One Hundred and Seventeen JACK SAKS “Budda Titles of honor odd not to his worth. II ho is hints,df an honor to his titles.” Yancey: Athletic Association; Winner of Junior I'Yuir Minute Speech 17. Ambition . To attain the hn hest Possible goal in lifer MORRIS SAI.ZMAN “I lamlet” “Professor” t. both tvise and hardy.” t Milliard: Dramatic Club; Shakespearean Play ’20; Ili-Y: LcCcrcIc Franc ias. Ambition: To 'lease as do.” FREDERICK CARL SCHATZ “Fete” “Lignite'’ “Dutch” He says but little, but says that little well.” Hilliard; thlctic Association ‘20: Editor Ili-Y News '21: Auditorium Committee ’I . 19; Council 'IS; Good Speech League ‘20: Delegate to Rotan Club, Boys Week Program ’ Ambition: To make a truce with necessity. ANNIE LOUISE SCHOENHERR “Site lives in peace, within herself content.” Aglaia: Dramatic: La Sociedad Castcllana. Ambition: To succeed in my worthy under- takings. Page One Hundred and Eighteen JOHN JAMES SI! NVON ’Jack“ “A loyal, just and upright gentleman, Yancey : Football ’20: Goml Speech League ‘1 Athletic Association '20, 21. Ambition To live happy and hove good times and marry the dame who has the dimes BLUM IE SH ( GERMAN Minnie” Shngerhnly Vo anger found in thee, but thought and truth Spanish. Membership Committee ‘IK; Coin-mercial. Vice-President '20, Membership Coin mittee '20. Executive Committee '21 ; Clio 21 Ambition: To live and learn. MARY ROSE SI CARD Rosebud” All made of faith and sendee! Clio; Mirror Board '20. Ambition : To be a model wife. F.LLIE EARLE SIDES ”ET And thus she works, when others long are done Ambition: To sneered in anything I undertake Page One Hundred and 'me:re IRVING MILTON SILVERFIELD Boots Jail Bird” “Xo coziard soul is his. Curry ’17. '18. 19; Class Foctball 19: Class Baskrtliall '20. Ambition: To be Miss Thornton's pet ANNE LOUSE SMITH “Shorty As lightsome and gay. As gold finch stringing on a thistle top. Clio. IVes Committee '19. Treasurer 20; Dramatic; Mirror Board ‘19: Athletic Association 20. Ambition: To teach oral English in a deaf and dumb school. ROBERT SNELL “Bob He gaze the people of his best turn. Third Mendier Standing Committee 21; R. O T C; Auditorium Committee. Ambition; To be an engineer. CHARLES J SNOOK 'Taw re” “Snookie “Kid” ‘ Forward and frolic, g ee teas there. The trill to do. the sand to dire? HtQiard: R O T. C, Sergeant 21 Ambition: To sail like Charlie Chaplin be : looting is IT ill Rogers. T :ge One Hundred and Twenty _ MARY ELIZABETH SOUTHGATE “Red Shorty” She excels all teamen in the magic of Iter locks. Pierian; Athletic Yssociation. Ambition: To go ice skating on the equator ROMAN lfEO SPIEGLE “Speedy” A wise ami valiant Roman Football '20; Hand 'IS. '19. '20. '21; Glee Club ’21; Elite rpcan ‘21; “Matn’xdle Taps” '21; Athletic Association 18, '19. '20. '21; French Club '21. Ambition: To know myself as others knozc me. EMMA MAE STEIN “Cap uWith gentle usage ami demeanor mild. Commercial Club; Dramatic; Athletic Association. .Imbition: To obtain an M. R. S. Degree an CLIFTON STEPHENSON Clift” Steve He is truly great, that maketh no account of y height of honors. Hilliard; Athletic Association. Ambition: To chop logs in a match factory. Rage One Hundred and Twenty-one ANNIE RAYMOND STEWART Ann” better maid can never hope to be.” Ambition: To hear lemons peel” JEWELL STEWART Judy 7Ziv modesty is second only to thv merit” Lc Ccrcft Franca is. Ambition: To play my part in the name of life, and play it tcell. RICHARD STOCKHAM ‘‘Rich” ’'Stockham those abaa him from him shall learn the perfect ways of honor.” miliard. Critic 21: E O. T. C.; Captain 20. 21; Mirror Hoard '17. '21. Ambition: To learn Chemistry from '‘Tap.” DOROTHY LOUSE STRADFORD I ..i” She touches noth in fj that she doth not adorn:' Aglaia, Executive Committee '20. Custodian ‘21: Spanish. Vice-President ‘20; Dramatic 20; th-Ictie Association '20. ‘21 Ambition: Always to make a truce with necessity. Page One Hundred and Twenty-two WILLIAM HOWARD STUBBS “Toby” ‘•Mule Such skill, matched with such courage. Class Basketball '17; Varsity Basketball MS. '19. ’20: Varshv Football 19. 20 .Imbition: 'la do as much kicking as I can at the right time and reform the laws of Birmingham. JOHNT ALLEN STUBINGER Jack “Tubby” In him is worth. .‘Imhition: To graduate in mathematics. LOUISE BALES TAYLOR “A trusty hand, a merry heart and true. Dramatic; Art Club; Kuterpean, Secretary '29; ‘'Contest of Nations 19; Fire Prince’5 ’20; Yokohama Maid ‘20: ManTzolle Taps” ‘21 : Auditorium Committee, A A. Ambition: To be u line man for a wireless company. TERRY HODGES TEAGUE Teels” Professor” Tour fame is fair. In mouths of wisest censure. Hilliard; Hi-Y Club 21 Ambition: To learn how to pronounce Ecthlipsis.” Page One Hundred and Twenty-three ABE BKRTE TEX EX BAUM ••Jimmy “Irish “He uttereth piercing eloquence ' Hilliard, Thir l MciiiIkt Standing Committee ’20. Treasurer ’21: Mirror Board T9; Good Speech League T9: Dramatic Club ‘21; Hi-Y; Boy’s Oratorical '21; Joint Debate ’21; Senior Play ’21. Ambition: To do any thing—mostly nothing— and he something. HUG K NT A THOMPSON “Mariah” Gene “Doing good. Disinterested good, is her trade.” Clio. . hnbition; To he a social sendee worker. FLORENCE LUCILE THARP “Cilc Jimmie Single and true and eke unfeigned sweet.” Commercial Club 20. Ambition: To make life worth while. CLARENCE SIMPSON THOMAS '•Mindful of others above himself.” Curry. .Imhition: To do something that is extraordinary but not peculiar. Page One Hundred and Twenty-four MIRIAM THORNTON “Mem fiifh manners wondrous winning.” Clio. Secretary '21 ; Dramatic; Athletic Association 20. ’21. Ambition; To bore and to hold. CORIN'NE ODELLE TRAVIS Sis Tim iVo star e’er rose which could bedim the lustre of her eyes.’’ . Astraca; F.utcrpcan: Contest of the Nations ; Fire Prince ; Yokohama Mtutl ; Lc Ccrcle Fmncais; Dramatic Club; Athletic Association; Thanksgiving Program; Girls Oratorical 21; Senior Play 21. Ambition: To d great deeds by proxy. GEORGE HOPPING VAIL “Skipper Thy spirit. Independence, let me share ' Yancey; Dramatic Club 20. ‘21; Athletic Association '20. 21; Mirror Hoard 20. 21; R. O. T. C. GRAVES HARRIS WEAVER. JR. “Cemetery Gravy Trench Digger “7 never thrust my nose into other's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine. livery man for himself and Hod for us all.” Yancey. Press Committee 20, Recording Secretary ’21 ; Dramatic. Membership Committee '20, ’21; Junior Drama League; Athletic Association: R. O. T. C.. Corporal ’19. Line Sergeant '20. Color Sergeant ’21 ; Hoys’ Oratorical ’21; Christmas in the Quarters’’ ’20; Senior Play '21. Ambition: To invent a machine that will think. Page One Hundred and Tzventy-fivc FLOYD WEED “Professor Dam' Yankee If fit'll he says. 7 will do this', it is performed!' Yancey: President of Council: President of History and English Classes. . habition: To review Col. Nolan’s Dummy Squad. LOUISA TYLEE WHEELER “Wieja Wceycr 41 The fairest garden in her looks. .hid iii her mind the wisest books!’ Pierian: Dramatic: Athletic Association; “Contest of Nations ; Mirror Board '20. Ambition: To eome up smiling. MARY LINDA WILDER “Hal” “Let me hear her laughter, I would hear her ever!’ Aglaja: Athletic Association: C mmercial. Ambition: To be happy eternally. ETHEL VIRGINIA WILLIAMSON As welcome as sunshine in ezery place!’ Aglaia; Dramatic: Spanish, Secretary 18. Vice-President T9. Ambition: To climb higher than the sphery chime.” Page One Hundred and Twenty-six WILTON WISE Socrates” ”Hvcr active in behalf of the common good. Curry, President ’21 : ( ratorical Contest '20. Ambition: To be a teacher. GRAHAM PAI L WILLOUGHBY Dimples” I is mirth the world required; he bathed it in smiles of glee.” Hilliard ‘17. IS: Mirror Board ‘21. Ambition: To compile an index to the dic- tionary. MAMIE WHITE WILLOUGHBY Monkey” Midget Till what seem.” Lc Ccrcle Frauen is: Euterpean Club; Athletic Association ’20. '21. Contest of the Nations”; “The Fire Prince ; “The Yokohama Maid.” Ambition: To acquire a poetic soul over- flowing with Milton. MARY LOUISE WILSON “They look into the beauty of thy mind and that, forsooth, they measure by the deeds.” Commercial. Ambition; To hove the right to think. S Page One Hundred and Twenty-seven Josephine worn. ‘•Tot” “Jo” (treat charm she hath ami with it we can find. The inquiring spirit and the studious mind. Clio, Meml crship Committee ‘20, Vice-President ‘20; Dramatic Club ’20; Lc Cerelc Francias ’20; Athletic Association '20. Ambition: To receive the fulfillment of all the It pcs and wishes in my ijrad-book PAUL CARPENTER WOLFE A quiet thinker. Hilliard, Press Committee ‘21; High School Court ‘19; Good Speech League ’20. Ambition: To learn to think and in connection with it to discover the fundamental underlying principle. SARA EL E A NOR WOO I) Salemima Sore” “Say 'll hose powers shed round her in the common strife. Or mild concerns of ordinary life. A constant influence, a peculiar grace. Mirror Board ‘20; Pierian. Vice-President; Dramatic; Art Club, Secretary: Auditorium Committee, President; Eutcrpean, Fire Prince ; Contest of Nations ; thlctic Association '20. Ambition: To do what want to. when J want to. T1IEOLEXE WOODRUFF “Slim-Princes “Manners so kind, yet stately. Pierian: Dramatic Club; Xtblctic Association 19. ’20; Shakespearean Plav ‘20: Mirror Board ‘20. 21. Ambition: To be ii newspaper reporter. EUGENE MORRIS ZEIDMAN “Gene” A noisy man is always in the right. Ambition To scan at least one line of Tirgil and have Miss Thornton say. “Right. Rage One Hundred and Tiventy-cight THE RESPONSIBILITY OF LEADERSHIP Classmates: Some four or more years ago we drifted down the sluggishly flowing Grammar School stream into the more brisk current of High School life. Some of us have used our oars, gaining distance thereby; others of us have rested on our oar locks, drifting with the current, while still others have encountered obstacles in the stream, which retarded their progress. We regret to leave the more unfortunate behind, for it makes our class slightly imperfect and we would like to have had them all with us. But we who are left, will, in the course of a few days, be precipitated headlong into the restless sea of life, some of us without chart or compass to guide our little skiffs. However, we do have our diplomas which signify that we are comparatively good seamen. When we have reached this “beginning of things” we shall board sturdier crafts built to stand the tempests and storms. Many will charter the ocean liners. “The University,” “The Financial,” “The Commercial,” “The Fine Arts,...Hie Educational,” “The Professional,” and “The Domestic.” Even in these great sea-going cruisers, we shall still be buffeted about by storms of flattery, criticism, egotism, and adversity. To cope with all these elements, we must have good, substantial and fitting ideals to meet the situations. Ideals do not exist until there is something needed to be done or to be proved, and the occasion gives rise to the forming and stating of an ideal. The successful endeavor to realize an ideal, iufills it. As you see, there are ideals that come and go as the occasion demands, but there are still other ideals or values, as we shall term them hereafter, that arc cosmopolitan, absolute, and eternal. These absolute values exist for every man and every woman. We may say that these values are four in number and we will call them. Religious, Aesthetic, Ethical, and Social. We will omit any consideration of the religious value. It is a matter too personal, too sacred, too much dependent on the individual soul and its attitude toward life, for 11s to attempt here an examination or dissection of that eternal value. Suffice it to say that it is one of the eternal values. The general attitude for you and me to assume is to accept it wholly without reservation. The second of these great groups is the Aesthetic, composed of Unity and Beauty. Unity or agreement, finds itself in nature through harmony; in human beings through love; and in man’s inmost self through happiness. Harmony is that peculiar agreement in nature, of color, outline and form, which, if existing even in the humblest of creatures, may raise that creature to the heights of the beautiful or perhaps still higher .the sublime. Man has naught to do with the creation of this harmony. Neither has he to do Page One Hundred and Twenty-nine with love, for “love is the harmony of souls that sounds through friendship and unselfishness and forgiveness and human brotherhood, and passion and peace.” From this harmony comes happiness. Happiness, however, is not that satisfaction gained front all those single wishes which usually enter into human happiness—such as wishes for success and fame and beauty and wealth and power; but happiness is the complete harmony and inner agreement of all our acts of willing or choosing. Closely related to Unity is Beauty. So closely are they related in fact that the alue of Beauty grows out of the values of Unity, and we see that the “beautiful agreement of nature is not held back in check waiting for eyes that appreciate, but soars aloft on its own wings, desiring to do nothing but live. Knowing this truth we cannot but agree with Emerson that “beauty is its own excuse for being. The subsidiary values of Beauty are: fine arts, literature, and music fine arts in nature, literature in man, and music in man’s inner self. The third great group is the Ethical, which includes Development and chievemvnt. To achieve we must keep ever before us the unrelenting values of industry, of law, and of morality. For development we must guard our ideals of growth; we must make progress in the right way and be self-developed. Finally, we come to the fourth great value—the Social value. It is here that the world is most at sea, is beginning to doubt and struggle. It is here that the “young intellectual of America is beginning to turn around and go in the opposite direction from that taken by his forefathers. But the notion entertained by many people that these young revoltes revolt merely for the sake of personal indulgence, and because they find moral discipline irksome, is one of the most serious blunders of all. Nothing could be more grotesque. “They revolt simply at the hollowness and hypocrisy of the standards they are supposed to worship. They revolt not to avoid discipline, but in order to take the first step toward a real discipline, i. e., a discipline based as far as may be on the truth.” It is here that youth needs leadership. All our education, all our training but prepares us to meet the responsibilities of culture. By culture we mean that state of breeding that raises man nearer to the infinite than any other form of life. The responsibility of the nobility is far greater than that of the middle class, for the nobility are responsible for the extremes in the social world. It is they who develop new ideas and institute new customs, and it is they who set the pace for the lower class who but mimic the upper class, going to the same extremes. In fact, the two go hand-in-hand—though in different spheres—and are only held back by the middle class, who alone retain their equilibrium in spite of the giddy whirlings of the other two classes. It was the nobility who started the state of affairs that sent Greece to her doom, who caused Rome to fall, who are creating the undertow in France today, and it will be the nobility of America who will cause the light of Liberty to grow dim. and even ex- Paste One Hundred and Thirty tinguish it, if they lo not realize their responsibility and assume it. However, it is the responsibility and duty of each of us to select only those leaders who have passed the supreme test. We must be led by no false prophets—no Pecksniffs and hypocrites in the social and political worlds. In the words of one of our most eminent philosophers. “As knowledge determines the means of our action and decides our success, we subordinate ourselves to truth, and by this subordination we conquer the world.” Classmates, this but proves our own class motto: “Truth conquers all things.” During times of peace we are wont to fall into a state of mind more or less unpatriotic. Hut patriotism is as essential in peace as in war! To keep the United States in her newly gained place, to keep America where she belongs as leader of Nations, and to keep the eagle soaring aloft in the realms where none but he must go, we must keep ever before us the principles of Democracy. We even have a tendency to become materialistic and selfish when guns are inactive and bombs are not raining destruction on the world. But there is a lesson that has been left us from the horrors and destruction of the World War, a lesson not of “all for self'' but of “self for all. We learned that when we all worked together with one accord, with but one motive, but one end in view, we accomplished the unbelievable and impossible. Those same tactics hold good in peace as in war. And if that great statesman who spoke for liberty and union in ’T( were here today, he would say again and with the same fervor, “United we stand, divided we fall. This time it is not a union of states but a union of people! Education is the preparation of the individual for service to the community. Now our community extends over the whole world. The League of Nations is no more than the first project of union, exemplary only in its insufficiencies and dangers, destined to be superseded by something closer and completer as were the Articles of Confederation by the Federal Constitution of the United States. What the world needs is no such league as this nor even a mere league of peoples, but a tvorld league of men. Stir: nv U. Patton. “l r resident. Page One Hundred and Thirty one HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1921 The history of the Class of 1921 is not only of great interest and significance to us by reason of its personal appeal; our history is vital to every student of Central High School because each pupil can live all history in his own life. And, if as is commonly believed, the genius and creative principle of all eras can be found in one mind, how great must be the results of the combined effort of a large group of people working together for the same goal. The activities of this class have been such that its history, besides being the record of years spent in school, brings to us the memory of various worthy achievements obtained through combined effort. In all nature there is an inevitable dualism by which law each thing is a half and suggests some other thing to complete it. Parallel to action and reaction we find a plan of equalization in every part of nature; a plan of action and reaction in the mental world—impression by sensation, expression through ideas. By impressions arc meant the experiences of our senses, by ideas are meant the remembered copies of these, which, when put into action, becomes our expressions. Since, in our first days of school, we were concerned chiefly with our own immediate interests, it followed that our activities were limited because they sprang from impressions concretely narrow. Then we worked directly with our tools—our pencils and books; for we were not then able to project our ideas beyond the immediate present. In books we saw pictures of boys and girls playing games which we joyously imitated—acting new roles of strange and picturesque characters. But perhaps what was better than all else was the quaint costume in which to play the part of a Pilgrim; the warlike dress in which to play the part of an Indian; for to our indiscriminate judgment, ferocity was valor. Action thrilled us because the figures were moving. Each day we received impressions and these in turn found expression through imitation and by repetition. In grammar school we simply “said” speeches, written by others, but wc lived more broadly because we indulged in these imagined experiences beyond our little world. In each succeeding year we received new impressions as our course of study became more varied and more extensive, so that when we entered Central wc had the material for imagination and the impulse for originality which wc expressed in our own productions. How strange were our imaginings. often ludicrously constructed new wholes—not sane rearrangements of old data! Often in this illogical way, we imagined new Math formulas, so idealistic that they would not work; we originated new declensions and conjugations for a language already set in form; all of which were promptly rejected. Whereupon we turned again to logical sequences and approved patterns. Later, from truth (not error), we projected truth as necessity forced us. And we have noted in the rapidly unfolding history of our class that Page One Hundred and Thirty-two we attained manhood and womanhood only when we “made a truce with necessity.” In the proportion that we were accurate did we grow strong and subtle. In our maturity, books afforded us fuller pleasure, for they gave 11s thought for reflection. We then lived not only within and among ourselves but reached out and beyond to a larger world. Recognizing that the home is the heart of a nation’s civilization we have a large number of girls studying cooking and decoration as ideal home arts. Many boys are smiths at the forge utilizing the fire that Prometheus stole, wielding and forging iron that makes the crude product the servant of man. In things wrought of iron and in articles made of wood they are adept and skilled. The boy's furniture is artistic, the electrolier and floor lamp giving an illumination (much to the boys taste)—a light not gotten from books. Nor must we forget how important acquiring knowledge of business has been in the history of our class. Many of our members have studied commercial arithmetic, stenography and bookkeeping. (What a pity that we did not all take bookkeeping in the first semester ; then we would not have had so much trouble keeping up with our vagrant books that have so loved to stray.) To return to seriousness, on the basis of business integrity, good citizenship has been developed. We have held forums for the discussions of civic questions, elected and impeached commissioners. On the whole, while learning city government we have maintained self-government, although there has occasionally been too much emphasis on self with too little emphasis on government. But as a class, we have not lived by the practical alone; there has been a glow of the creative and the ambitious in our work, and a showing of valor “that would not down.” We have often invoked the Muses when they would not respond. Consequently countless themes have had their origin in Limbo. But with all the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” we have kept good cheer and persistence. Although while struggling with the fates wc have been forced to “outwatch the Bear,” our hearts have always been made light by the genial and fresh humor of the Gas Jet. In a happy mood we have worked together. Long before wc were ever asked to “co-operate right promptly please.” we voluntarily began working as an organized body. Thrift Stamps and War Savings Stamps are now an old cry, but we aided our country and learned a fine lesson in conservation by buying hundreds of them. “Not all that glitters is gold” and not all that glistens is silver, but after four years of saving tinfoil we realize its value. As a class, wc have not even wasted old magazines, but have brought them to school to be sold. And as a reward for our conservation, each morning Old Glory waves over Central. In our Senior year we answered the Third Red Cross Roll Call as gladly as the first, and in the purchase of Health Bonds we have been equally diligent. Wishing to honor the memory of a former student of Central and realizing the “liberalizing power” of books, we have contributed to the Orville Coston Alcove of the school library. Page One Hundred and Thirty-three I his. the Class of 192.1, is notable for the appearance of a multitude men on the stage ’ Our class can boast of a unified spirit—a unity in diversity. So varied have our activities been that our work began before school. often there has been hardly a quorum present for session room roll calls. Such diversity of talent have we. that we have worked from 8:30 in tin-morning to 3:15 in the afternoons and often longer and later in Room 2. In looking over this group we rejoice not only in our celebrities, but in a great number of people rich in talents—Olympian athletes who have won for us the Birmingham News Championship Trophy; scientists who may rival Archimedes or Madame Curie; writers who, like Faustus, may shake the world; and a group of poets, actors, orators and singers who are neither voiceless nor tuneless. And now, friends, after four years of study, striving and friendship, as we leave Central, let us go with our conceptions enlarged to the circle of our duties and our ideas extended over the whole of the vast field in which we arc called to act. Rose Kathleen YVheelock, ’s i. ( lass Historian. STATISTICS OF THE SENIOR CLASS ’21 Friends, I cra e ycur indulgence for a few idle moments. I have the stupendous task of putting before you the statistics of one of the most epi-curious conglomerations of masses that has ever completed the prescribed course offered by this institution of learning. Observe our wonderful air of intelligence. With our graduation expressions we would be able to rival Trotsky's Communistic Council under the new regime of Bullsheviki Russia. When I was elected statistician I began to make inquiries as to what I had become. Xo person knew, so I turned to books for information. In this search 1 have read an army of newspapers, IT dictionaries, 13 encyclopedias and the fly leaves of 113 high school song books. By compiling all this information 1 have obtained the following definition: A statistician is a cough mention or a malt' amaticn that appears to the human optical as a stcreopti-cal stencographical ignorantly educated cerebrum depository, which etymologists term the compiler of facts pertaining to the predicament of the people, their economy, their properties and their resources. Now as to our predicament. We are facing the realities of Life—W'ork Love and Flay. Work is nothing but one hard thing after another, and love is just two foolish things after each other. Play is a peculiar phenomenon which has never been known to visit Central High School. Let me give you an example: Paijr One Hundred mid Thirty-four A nice “quiet study class. Teacher leaves the room. A pin drop could be heard. “Lank” Hugensehmidt looks up from book. Lowers eyes, and continues to study. Teacher returns from long detour. Chorus of class: “Why, teacher, we thought you were sitting in the back of the room !” Cows n ay conic. And cows may go, Hut the “brook” runs on forever. Previous classes have been graded and classified accordingly, but in lieu of these new “fangdangled’ ideas of applying the educational vard-stick. we have been weighed, measured and stacked away like so many sacks of flour. If you don't believe we are intelligent let me give you a few answers to questions given on the annual intelligence test: Q. What papers do you read? A. The “Gas Jet.” Q. Why? A. Because Gas is so illuminating. Q. What is a circle? A. A circle is a long detour made to avoid a teacher or the officer of the day. Q. If an irresistible force were to meet an immovable object, what do you think would happen? A. We’ve been taught not to think! Nonsense! And now before I start, 1 want to say something. It is indeed a tragic tale 1 wish to relate. It opens many family closets, reveals deep dire secrets and in general everything that this most noble class wishes to keep from the gleaming eyes of the discriminating public. As it is stated in the above definition. it is my duty as a compiler of facts, and I have sworn by the River Styx to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. So here goes. The sun was shining brightly as Poe Reynolds, the Porter, took his Patton medicine thru a Reed. Xes-bit his lip when he thought about it and the Mann went to the Mills with his Saks, saying Oh! Hale. A fellow named Green, altho he is not a Grccnman, made Adair to “Lank that he would not take the Baker’s daughter to the Wells and then Carter back. But herein lies the tale. Do n the BroAn, Barron way to the Wells thru the South a e hich had seen seven Winters. “Lank led the girl. As he passed the Castle he spoke to the King, who told him to Hewlett, so he continued to march. Later on he met two Johns, one of which said he was a Stewart on a boat. The other informed him that he could not Carter but he could Wlice er back. Taking a piece of Blackwood which he had burned to an Ash with the Cole which the Coleman had brought, lie served her a Dewberry. When she had eaten the Best part she handed him the Paurn part. He proclaimed this as a Gross insult. But just at this time a Wolfe a i pea red. Pane One Hundred and Thirty-five accompanied by a Crabbe. “Lank” started to run and she called him a Cowart, but he said he was a Freeman and could do as he pleased. He absconded the animals with six Schatz. They continued down the Vail and entered one of the Bowers, where the Baker's daughter told him how her Mother And-cr-son had been slain. She also said there was no fish in her lakes and he said that he would Stockham with Beavers. They made their way over the Silverfield and “Lank” Stubbed his toe on a Weed. Very Wisc-ly he remained Dryer by not crossing the river Shannon. “I-ank then carried her back to own An-drew the Beavers. Climbing the Hill they aw some country Jiicks, one of which looked like a grass-Ilopper. On the whole they were a Lawless looking bunch and looked as tho they might enter the Kitchen with a thievish intent. Leaving the girl, 'l � nk” went to the Minter to get some money and then to the Taylor. Then he went on a long. long journey to some place this side of Montgomery, where he spent the rest of this eventful day. Keep jour seats! That’s all of that. You may come up for air now, but get a good breath because you are going under again. For convenience, let us liken this graduating class to one large family. There are 214 children. One-third are human, the rest are only girls. In our most progressive day they are attempting to make a scale of all the economic processes of the human race. (Pardon me, girls, but that leaves you out.! What scale shall we call the colorful part of our personnel? Ah! I have it! We’ll call it the chromatic scale. (If you don’t know what the chromatic scale is. don't “skin” your ignorance by asking your neighbor.) Eyet! Did you say eves? Just look at them—cross eyes, pop-eyes, squint eves, brown eyes, blue eyes, grey eves, black eyes, green eyes and 3t of the 42K arc a compound of rarefied silicon trioxide tglass . If all our eyes were put together we would l� e able to interpret Carlyle, distinguish the sine of an angle from the Binomial theorem and even rival Robt. B. Mantell in his mi understandmg of Shakespeare. If all our weight and muscular energy were to be welded into one mass, I honestly believe we would be able to draw Wm. Jennings Bryan away from his bottle of grape juice. Next in order come our resources. Do we look resourceful? Our personal appearance certainly belies that fact. W e really have a few resources that are not discernible to the eyes ot the protelctariat. The past four years have been the happiest of our lives. We might compare our life during these years to a ship 1 earing the harbor. Some have ridden triumphantly on the mastheads. Some have been below scrubbing the decks, while still others have had the misfortune to fall over-hoard. But most of us have reached the mouth of the harbor and arc eagerly looking out upon the ocean. We are leaving the harbor now. One by one the tugs are leaving us Soon we will be akme oo our war across the uncertain “sea of life.” In our cargo we will carry the sweetest memories of our school days. We take with us a love for our principal and teachers, and Pupe Our Humdrti mud Thirty-six a lasting picture of “Old Central High School. Wc shall always look hack with reverence to those who toiled so diligently in order that we might be “four square” men and women and be safe from all the winds of adversity. Ralph YVei.pord Wells, '21. Statistician. THE NATIVE AMERICAN Sweet child of the forest and prairie. Say, where have thy dusky tribe gone? Have they silently passed as the shadows That flit ’ncath the cloud-veiled moon? After years without recognition, the “child of the forest and prairie.' who was once regarded merely as a fighting red than, has been discovered. Not as an idyllic child of nature, not as scalp-dancing, war-whooping savage, not as a hideous totem-pole sort of creature, nor yet as a show-piece of heads, feathers and paint, has he “come into his own.” but as a valiant warrior, poet, and hero of the great, wild west, where issues stand out clear and unclouded. and men go forth to meet them with the venturesome courage and self-reliant confidence of the pioneer spirit which would “conquer the elements, if need be. That very will to do or die. and the freedom of the big out-of-doors were the essence of the character of Indian sachems who, not only because of their power and influence, but also their friendliness toward the pale-face have become famous as the forerunners of a nation that has surpassed their own in its degree of civilization, but in natural war-like vigor, and innate artistic talent—never! The old chief, Powhatan, the father of the heoric maid. Pocahontas, will long be remembered for his protection of Captain John Smith, of the early Virginia settlement. Stories of the warlike Rain-in-thc-I:ace. and the equally belligerent Sitting Bull, ami even the aged Tuscaloosa, have found their way into every typically American primer. Each small boy. even if he cannot read or write, has visions of various big chiefs when he recites the familiar nursery rhyme: “I.ittlc Indian. Sioux or Crow. Littc frosty Eskimo, You have curious things to eat. But I am fed on proper meat. The Indian warrior, with his undaunted courage, has been the hero of many a weird tale whose setting is the impenetrable forests of American western lands. As a matter of fact, some of the most popular work, if not Page One Hundred and Thirty-seven the greatest, claimed by American writers, has treated of the native red man, whose daring deeds and venturesome nature have comprised the tales of numbers of novelist-historians. Janies Fennimoore Cooper, the author of our first recognized fiction, who is known to the liberty-loving youths of this country as the creator of valiant Chingachgook and his roving companions, has pictured the Indian in the wilderness of the west, from which there issued the startling and exhilirating experiences of vigorous, elemental manhood. The favorite, Chingachgook, will live forever as the immortal representative of a fast vanishing race. tribute to that vanished life that will never he seen here again remains t day. not only as a memorial of the peculiar, picturesque nature of the Indian, hut as the truest representation of what the early American poet might have accomplished, had he continued to produce poetry as rare as “Indian I Jurying Ground.” The spirit of youthful vehemence, intermingled with native child-like confidence, has furnished the poet Longfellow with a theme for our only epic poem, “Hiawatha, which was designed to he an America Edda, a repository for the pleasing and queer legends found among the Indian tribes. It is exuberant with the primitive beliefs, musical names, and fascinating lore of the Ojibway Indians. The hoy, Hiawatha, was sent by Githe Monito to clear the forests and rivers and to inculcate in the hearts of naturally war-like men a love of peace and gentle virtues—a commentary on the mission of “the most dreaming of dreamers, the least real among romanticists.” who, in the words of Lafcadio Hearn, came to America as a teacher of new beauties, new values, new ideas.” The Indian's tranquil departure to the Happy Hunting Ground, “from whose bourn no traveler returns,” is not unlike the leave-taking of the poet himself: ‘Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the beloved. In the glory of the sunset. In the purple mists of evening, To the region of the home-wind. Of the northwest Wind Keewaydcn, To the islands of the blessed. To the K'ngdom of Poncmah, To the Land of the Hereafter.” The “Kingdom of l’onemah” and the “Land of the Hereafter” and the belief :n the Great Spirit Sowanna, found picturesque expression in the poem of Whittier’s: “O. mighty Sowanna. The gateways unfold From the wigwam of Sunset, Lift curtains of Gold! Take home the poor spirit whose journey is o’er; Mat wonk keena—nianee—we sec her no more.” Page One Hundred and Thirty-eight The hazardous adventures of the native American lore instilled in many novelists a desire to keep alive the old faith in the vanquished Indian’s primitive belief, boundless strength, and rugged, sterling worth. Many have even dared to plead the cause of the oppressed race against the onrushing civilization of the white man, that tends to destroy everything that smacks of a primordial nature, and equally many have passed out of sight, never to he read again. There is something especially appealing in the story “San-ema,” a novel of reform, into which a great and generous soul poured forth its gathered strength. Though it is instinct with a passionate purpose, intensely alive, invoking the reader in its movement, it contains none the less an idyl of singular loveliness, and a sense of poetic beauty, poetic insight, and the artistic distinction of being one of the most charming romances of Indian life. The Indian has not even failed of influencing American dramatists in employing the adventure of his roving life as a suitable subject for numerous works of dramatic art. One of the best of these written during the nineteenth century was that of Barker, the “Indian Princess,” which began a series of Pocahontas plays. The greatest was written by George V. Curtis, and entitled “Pocahontas, or the Early Settlers of Virginia.” Its most sustaining feature probably is the author’s self-restraint in not allowing the Indian maid to speak blank verse as other dramatists were prone to do. The American native has for ages past been idolized in poetry, fiction, and legend of the white man’s making, yet he has created an art and liter aturc of his own, which (if one use Macaulay’s method of poetic criticism) should be some of the most spontaneous written by the American. The discovery of poetry in the soul of the nation casts a wholly new light on the depth and dignity of the Indian—that strange charm—the charm of a vanished older world of Indian poetry. The brilliant imagery of the verses, the impressionistic poetry of the song words, with their haunting verbal tones arc immeasurably appealing; hut it must be remembered that each poetic expression is indissulahly a part of a certain mood and time, and that it will necessarily lose a great deal of its effect in the translating: “Blue butterflies, With pollen painted faces, Chasing one another in brilliant throng. Over the blossoming virgin corn.” The soft crooning of Indian lullabies, even now. is very soothing to little folk: “The hear is very bad, so they say; Long time ago he was very bad. so they say— The bear did so and so—they say.” In legend, the red man has shown the unlimited power of his imagination and creative talent. One scarcely is able to realize that some of our Page One Hundred and Thirty-nine most charming folk-lore kas once a part of the legends of Indian tribes. The story of “Rabbit and the Tar Wolf,” better known as the delightful tale of Uncle Remus’, ‘■Brer’ Rabbit and the Tar Baby,” came from Indian slaves working in the fields in the early days, through the negro slaves working beside them, to the children of the white man. It seems a great pity that so much of their legendary history has vanished. Exquisite in color and poetical feeling, these legends of the sun, moon and stars, and the myriad of others that tell of the wild beasts that dwell in dense forests, where they will frighten the little “papoose,” and a great longing to know the “how and why of life”—all these are found only in fragments. A short legend of “Meteors” is a pretty representation of the Indian’s poetic optimism: “When a star falls from the sky it leaves a fiery trail. It does not die. Its shade goes back to its own place to shine again. The Indians sometimes find the small stars when they have fallen in the grass, so they say.” It is in his art that the Indian finds his most individual and remarkable expression of feeling and thought. The Indian girl artist, Angel de Cora (woman coming in glory on the clouds) as she is called, has paid a pretty tribute to those who preceded us as the makers of America: “I am an Indian: the Indian woman, from prehistoric time, has been an artist. The work of her hand, the product of her thought, has been enshrined in the white man’s museums throughout the world. Each basket, each pottery urn shaped by the Indian woman, is an individual art expression, created by its maker. The imagination that prompts the beauty and symmetry of pattern, and the dexterity that gives the skill of perfect workmanship arc inherent in every Indian. We are a race of designers, and I look for the time when our art may be generally recognized as that of the Japanese, and when America will be proud to have her Indians make beautiful things for all the world. There must have been a difference between this girl who said “The only difference between me and the women on the reservations is that I have chosen to apply my native gift in the white man’s world,” and the others of her race. In her work she showed such perfection and beauty of design that after some training tinder the white man’s supervision, she was made instructor of art in the Carlisle School for Indians. There she taught her pupils the individual expression of their talents—a revolt against the conventionalism that was tending to overwhelm them. Once, when she gave the boys a task to perform, their native genius prompted them to paint the school wagon in such brilliancy of design that it startled the Quaker inhabitants of a small town as the boys rode by. Undoubtedly, it demanded a great amount of patience on the part of Angel dc Cora to see her pupils apply their art in such a fashion. It is that very characteristic of patience and painstaking labor that produces the original designing of baskets and robes of such a rare and quaint beauty that they could never be equalled by the most dexterous fingers of American women. Although the native American is disappearing, never to return, he will always he esteemed by those who appreciate the intrinsic worth of genius, and by those Page One Hundred and Forty “Who have faith in God and nature. Who believe that, in all ages, Every human breast is human, That, in even savage bosoms. There are longings, yearnings, strivings For the Lord they comprehend not.’’ Mary Hamilton Morton, ’21 Bss OUR SHIPS Xo mystic Muse from legends grey with age Comes skimming on the transient wings of Time To show one how, this flitful life to gauge, And cast into mellifluence sublime;— Experience, a stranger still to me, Whose counsel none but age can understand, Has not yet come and shown me how to sec The trails of Life that stretch o'er trodden sand. But this I know: As night precedes the dawn So have we labored thru the fleeting years, And in each heart a joyousness is born That overwhelms the truculence of tears;— A joyousness, of knowing we have done Each day the task that lay before us bare. Seems to culminate in pleasures wc have won From the hours when to hope was to despair. Not long ago, it seems, a forest grim Across our path, a blot beneath the sky; We did not know the reach of every limb That blocked out passing swiftly by;— But we were told to fell the clumsy trees. And urged until with fancied fears We turned to build in answer to decrees— A bark, in which to stem the flood of years! So we toiled—sometimes, we thought, immured.— And stronger grew with each succeeding day Until the art of work we had procured Which turned our labor into play. At length we saw the flashes from the sand That borders on the surging Sea of Life. And hazily began to understand The need of building true when time is rife. Page Otic Hundred and Forty-one And now wc sec mure clearly than before The lowness of the height we have attained,— The vastness of the earth wc should ignore Had not ourselves by work been first ordained! So today, into the Sea of Life We launch our ship, to sail thru storm and lull, And stand the weathering of Time and Strife,— Our ship,—a well built, though unfinished hull! J. M RT1N Smith, 21. Poet. POTTER AND CLAY Turn, turn my wheel! Turn round and round, Without a pause, without a sound— So spins the flying world away! This clay well mixed with marl and sand. Follows the motion of my hand. For some must follow and some command. Though all are made of clay. In this portion of his “Keramos,” Longfellow truly gives a vivid idea of the potter and his work. Picture the potter at work in his shop, surrounded by all the things that are used in his craft, lie takes his mixed clay, and putting in the proper amount of sand, places the mixture on the wheel. Molded by his skillful fingers, the clay assumes the shape of a cylinder. Now the work of beautifying begins. The crude cylinder is molded into the form which the potter desires, and the finished bowl or vase is polished and placed upon the drying table. The work of the potter requires strenuous apprenticeship as well as a natural dexterity. We, too, have been going through an apprenticeship; we have been taught those things that arc essential in the world today. Others have endeavored to train us in the task of making our lives stand the test of the world. For some, the end of their apprenticeship has come, yet others shall continue their period of training; but all of us can get a vision from the potter’s work. Each of us is a potter who will shape the clay of his life according to his design. It is within his power to mix tin clay, choosing the materials with honesty and diligence. The first thing to be placed in the mixture is self-control, the regulation of our desires so that no harmful trait will dominate use. Self-control should be aided by faithfulness and sincerity. As every potter takes out the bad qualities in the clay, we must rid Payt One Hundred and forty-two our lives of those things that do not tend toward making a perfect life. Avarice, wastefulness, laziness, and greed should give way to sympathy, thoughtfulness and love of accomplishment, before any real work of fashioning a worthy life is begun. This clay well mixed with marl and sand. Follows the motion of my hand.” 'Truly the potter forms his work as he chooses, and the finished vessel is simply an expression of his own ideals. Even with the best of materials, the work will be marred if the potter forgets his responsibility. If he wishes his work to be fair and well-proportioned, he must watch carefully for any ilaws, he must keep the sides well rounded and see to it that they arc carefully finished. Modern man tends to develop himself to fit the business world, and that alone; he believes that if he attains success in business, other things will take care of themselves. The way to make a vesscll with perfect symmetry and exactness is to have it well-proportioned and the way to make lite symmetric is to develop equally along business, political, social and spiritual lines. We shall do well to have always before us that great ideal of perfection, a life without stain or blemish. I.ct us not be satisfied merely with the good; the good is sometimes enemy to the best. Now. today, we can look forward to attaining the highest and best thing in life—perfection in our task, working as ever in our great 'Task-Master’s eve. ' Harry Bryan, ’21. 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Hopson Sons Milled By Bernet, Craft Kauffman Milling Company St. Louis We ask that you discriminate. I I ❖ Erckert’s Sanitary Barber Shop 106 North 20th Street Phone Main 2327 i i ! TOM JONES SAYS ! At Your Service - I Phone Main 2474 “Expert Operators’’ For Ladies Only Empire Beauty Parlor Marinello Preparations Entrance Greene Drug Co. and Empire Building Lobby Under New Management BASEMENT GREENE DRUG CO. Birmingham. Alabama He Makes Suits to Measure He Makes Alterations of All ! Kinds He Cleans Clothes He Presses Suits While You Wait He Cleans and Blocks Hats 220 North 21st Street Birmingham. Alabama i Page One Hundred and Fifty-three I A New Sporting Goods Shop In Birmingham l'p on the fourth floor of Love-man, Joseph Loch. A complete line of Goldsmith Guaranteed baseball goods and everything for the Golfer and Tennis player. | Boys, give this new shop a chance to supply your needs and make your spending money go farther. Loveman, Joseph Loeb M. II. Wilson Lula Tyus | “Makers of the Best Photographs STEPHENSON STUDIO 110 North 2oth Street Phone Main I0:it Birmingham Serve our advertisers, the MIRROR and yourself all in one. “MUTT AND JEFF CONEY SHOP” i I Coneys, Sandwiches, Pies, I Cold Drinks, Milk. Etc. j I See “Mutt and Jeff in Action j I —At— | ! I j 2216 Second Avenue—Phone M. 4086 | “Know the Trail Like a Dog. j I I I i i Page One Hundred and Fifty-four WEBB’S BOOK STORE 2014 Second Avenue (Just 4 doors west of old stand) Is ready to serve you better than ever. “Graduate” Books. Fountain Pens, Fine Stationery, Bibles. Late Books, and all other books suitable for gifts. School Books and Supplies always on hand. See Us In Our NEW HOME I MAKE MIRROR ADS MEAN MONEY MAKERS. THE IDEAL J The sign of everything best in girls’ wear j IDEAL MILLINERY, I ! CLOAK AND SUIT J STORE Corner 1st and 19th ) • JACK TAR TOGS | | HERE ONLY I I “Rub ’em. Tub 'em, Scrub ’em; they come up smiling MIDDIES DRESSES SKIRTS Try these guaranteed all season togs. They’re best for the high school miss. i LOEB j LOVEMAN. JOSEPH j HAVE YOU VISITED OUR NEW STORE? AT 2014 FIRST AVE. School Supplies—Office Supplies Office Furniture Engineers and Architect Supplies Come to See t s DEWBERRY AND MONTGOMERY Page One Hundred and Fifty-five j EDUCATION IS A GREATER ASSET THAN YOU MAY NOW REALIZE I hose of you who graduate this year are to be congratulated. An education is an asset to anyone who lias his way to make in the I world. In addition it will help you to progress, if you realize it is not how much you know, or what you are able to do. or how much ability you have— I | BUT IT IS WHAT YOU ACCOMPLISH OR PRODUCE WITH YOUR KNOWLEDGE THAT WILL DETERMINE YOUR REWARD The true foundation for a successful career is CHARACTER, and remember that your employer gives first consideration always to those in the organization that are loyal to him at all times, not only in word but in thought and deed. | CLEAN LIVING MEANS A HEALTHY BODY AND AN I ALERT MIND I j Young men will find when looking for work that employers pre- !.fer men who do not smoke cigarettes. t John Wanamaker. the great Philadelphia merchant, says: “The j use of cigarettes by boys is creating a race of feeble-minded, un-healthy and valueless citizens. The offspring of such will be handicapped in life, and liable to be a charge upon the benevolent and tax-! pavers.” j .. Thus. A. Edison, the famous inventor, says: “Acrolein in the smoke of the cigarette has a violent action on the nerve centers, pro-• ducing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid I among the boys. Unlike most narcotics this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.” We Wish You All Success STOCKHAM PIPE FITTINGS CO. BIRMINGHAM Page One Hundred and Fifty-six : Porter's is Go u i Headnuarlers Wt Sn 8®n� � tmi e as wa?T rj � T � k:' fn‘ :K. la r fcth..t i� • fe 53. ah ? «■ jf ta ffe$okl£3 tA mmSvSftkfcf umlaft infinite' ti'M tt «s ifce;0Vu X4 in -or ydftJt • -n retire .............. vv V..M start t cgw lheaf u 1 HfflK vNjh- , a .JP ■ i,.- � -« %,-vPjiw. 4 • jn:.� « ■'r .5© EVERYTHING WEN. BOYS WEAK L f; Porter Clothing Co. ?iNr the heart or three big cm os NnihviUc Binntnfch nj Jacks nnvi lie JCoi £th'and Church 1922-24 3 1 Avc. Cor. B y and Laura M i m«-m