Coplay High School - Coplayite Yearbook (Coplay, PA)

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 STUDENT COUNCIL esident Vice President Secretary Seniors Juniors Evelyn Peters James Peters Margaret George George Miller Freshmen 8th Grade Dorothy Mertz Lewis Schaadt Samuel Lauser Dorothea George (Deceased) 7th Grade Charles Johnson Helen Rubasky

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GLEE CLUB Mrs. Amy Do Groot Elda and Evelyn Peters Accompanists Ileloise Miller Kathryn Farney Louise Horn Adele Trankley Anna Miller Leah Lindenmuth Ida Rogers Alice Trankley Evelyn Stewart Grace Lane Eva Moser Hilda Artinger Evelyn Peters Elda Peters Burnetta Beltz Evelyn Miller Ethel Ward Ruth Knerr Matilda Rubasky Dorothy Mertz Pauline Apft'el Margaret Stef any Margaret George Ethel Stump Helen Fisher President Louise Horn Secretary Ileloise Miller Treasurer Helen Fisher SF= I DRAMATIC CLUB Two plays “The Kleptomaniac” and “Just a Little Mistake” were presented by members of the Dramatic Club on June 12. Raymond Rogers Mary Balliet Margaret George Dorothy Mertz Kenneth Kunkle Elda Peters Lewis Schaadt Alice Trankley Evelyn Peters Anna Miller Charles Rogers Helen Fisher George Miller Ruth Knerr Kathryn Farney Ethel Ward

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LITERARY Hilda Artinger, Editor ’24. The following: are the speeches which were given at the Commencement Exercises held in the Pastime Theatre on June 5. CORRUPTION IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS Evelyn Miller CORRUPTION in public offices is not a new subject, but has forcibly been brought to the minds of the people through the recent Oil scandal, which is but an isolated case involving many officials of the government and revealing conditions of graft of which the people have little or perhaps no conception. Looking back over the previous administrations we find that corruption was especially noticeable during Grant’s administration, for the unsettled conditions of the country furnished a great opportunity for dishonesty. At this time, our state legislatures and municipal governments fell into the hands of “corrupt” rings. The notorious “Boss” Tweed robbed the city of New York of millions of dollars before he closed his career in the Ludlow Street jail in 1878. Secretary of War, Belknap, resigned in order to escape impeachment for sharing the graft from the dishonest management of army posts in the West. The president’s private secretary, Babcock, was implicated in frauds which robbed the government of its revenue tax in whiskey. Western stagecoach lines, in league with corrupt post-office officials, made false returns of the amount of business done along their routes, and secured large appropriations from congress for carrying the mails. Some of these “pet routes” cost the government thousands of dollars annually. Members of Congress even so far lost their sense of official propriety so as to accept large amounts of railroad stock as “a present” from men who wanted legislative favors for their roads. Corruption has been found to be present at all places, at all times, in kingdoms, empires and republics, more prevalent, however, in republics. The most important thing about the recent Scandal is the revelation of that heretofore intangible thing called by Theodore Roosevelt “invisible” government and by Woodrow Wilson, the “invisible” empire.