Conneaut High School - Tattler Yearbook (Conneaut, OH)

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C. ,J. FREW, The Florist, State St, Focal Phone 281 3 the purpose. The plan seems to work very satisfactorily. This plan has never been attempted in C. H. S., and doubtless will not be for some time to come. Yet if it should be attempted on a small scale, we think that it would meet with great success. Many of our students would live up to rules, which today they are violating, if these rules were made by themselves. We have in our schools young men and women who are capable of making rules that 'would govern our student body, and keep it under excellent control. C. H. S. LITERARY CONTEST. The four literary societies composed of Senior, Junior and Sophomores will have a literary contest on the evening of March 22nd, in the Auditorium. The principal feature of the contest will be a debate: “Resolved, That the Monroe doctrine should continue to be a part of the permanent foreign policy of the United States.” Two boys from Varsity and one girl from their sister society, the An Fait, will debate against two boys from Smith Society and one girl from their sister society, Der Zeit Geist. The societies have chosen their representatives and they are working hard for the contest. It promises to be one of the hardest fights our school has known for some years. The other contests will be in oratory, essays, original stories and monologues. EXCHANGES. We acknowledge the receipt of the following exchanges, but owing to the fact that we have had no previous experience in criticizing and will have none in the future, we refrain from criticizing any of them: Borden- town “Skirmisher,” Otaknum, Rapid Soo, Echo, Dart, and Allegheny Literary Monthly. TO OUR ADVERTISERS. We wish to take this opportunity of expressing our appreciation of the patronage of those who advertise in these columns. We bespeak the su'pport of the student body for these people.

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 STAFF. Editor in Chief, Associate Editor, Society Editor, Sporting Editor, Art Editor, -Business Manager, Circulating Manager Advertising Department, Comic Editor Treasurer - Fred L. Green Norman Dunn Walter Dunn James Davis - Frank Good Hugh Buchanan Olin Doffort Kenneth Buss, George Brown Robert Halliday Clifford Childs NOTE. This edition of the C. H. S. “Tattler” was put out entirely by the boys of the Smith Literary Society. At no time did we find it necessary to ask aid of any of the other societies of the school. STUDENT GOVERNMENT. The problem of student government has been facing the American educators for many years. It has never been developed to a very great extent, but where it has been attempted it seems to have worked satisfactorily. The youth is best governed by rules that he has some share in making. Nations are best governed when the citizens have some share in making the laws. Students are the same as citizens, notwithstanding the fact that they yield, though reluctantly, to rules laid down by their superiors. In the George Junior Republic, and other similar successful experiments, it is being shown that even the most lawless may be controlled bv self-government. In many of our colleges and universities the honor system, wihich is really a form of student government, has long been in successful operation. In one of our successful business schools, students found guilty of misconduct are fined by a committee of students elected for

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4 THE TATTLE It LINCOLN AS PRESIDENT. The Republicans of the United States had decided to .have their convention on the 16th of May, 1860, so the Illinois Republicans assembled at Decatur on the 9th and 10th and determined to present Abraham Lincoln as their candidate for President. When the convention at Chicago opened on the 16th the candidates for President were: Chase, Cameron. Bates, Seward, and Lincoln. The first ballot gave Seward a large plurality, the second gave him a smaller one; but the third gave Lincoln an overwhelming majority. Meanwhile Lincoln had loitered about in the office of the Journal and when he heard of his nomination he departed to hi6 wife. He was elected to the office of president. On the morning of the 11th of February, 1861, Lincoln bade a kind farewell to his neighbors and friends who were gathered in front of the little station at Springfield. Then the Presidential train departed on its journey to Washington. Great precautions were taken from Harrisburg to Washington because it was reported that Lincoln would never get through Baltimore, but by changing the schedule everything went well. He arrived at Washington a few days before the inauguration. On the morning of the 4th of March, accompanied by President Buchanan, he went to the capitol building in a carriage. Justice Taney administered the oath of office. After this he delivered an address. While staying in the Minnesota Block Lincoln remarked that before the end of the war every church in Washington would be a hospital and that that building would be a place for the wounded, and before the war closed this prophecy became true. For his cabinet Lincoln appointed as follows: William K. Seward, secretary of state; Simon Cameron, secretary of war; Salmon P. Chase, secretary of treasury; Gideon Wells, secretary of navy; Caleb Smith, secretary of interior; Montgomery Blair, postmaster general, and Edward Bates, attorney general. A little of Buchanan’s administration must be told in order to be able to see the situation of affairs. No wonder that Buchanan did not make good for his cabinet was composed of disloyal men and outside of the cabinet there were many of the same ilk. Soon after it was known that Lincoln was elected seven states with South Carolina at the head seceded and four others soon followed.