East High School - Exodus Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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28 EAST HIGH SCHOOL sang. Mr. Davis gave a farewell speech and Katherine Ryan acted as cheer-leader. Gertrude Jones entertained the crowd with some very witty poems and songs. Another feature on the program was a toast written by Lois Steiner to Mr. Davis. After a Very pleasant social time, the following girls were elected for next year's officers in the Glee Club: Presi- dent, Eudora Krauseg Vice Presi- dent, Eleanor Hansong Secretary. and Treasurer, Ruth Mitchellg and Sibyl Esterly was appointed Librarian. This closed one of the best spreads ever held in East High. V. M. G. 'l8. HAVE YOU BEEN GUILTY? On several occasions during the Third Liberty Loan campaign, orchestras played the i'Marseillaise. At restaur- ants and movie theaters especially, the or- chestras played the anthem, but not once did tl1e audience rise instantly and with- out hesitation. If a man in the service arose, others followed not without seine hesitancy. At times people even con- tinued their eonversation, They did not realize that the Marseillaise is every bit as sacred as our Star Spangled Benner. It is unnecessary to recall how deeply we are indebted to France. But it is necessary to remind the American pub- lie that because of thoughtlessness, it has often been guilty of rudeness which it would not consciously permit. It is as rude to remain sitting during the playing of t11e 4'Marseillaise as to remain seated while The Star Spangled Banner is be- ing played. You constitute a unit of the great American public. Are you going to show France the courtesy due her? E. M. Fl lf yOU Wallt yOllI' Cannon booming at the front, ' You must keep your Business booming at home. FOR GOOD SHOES Goto SURAD'S SHOE STORE 1589 Addison Road B. S. IVIEIL DRY GOODS 8134 WADE PARK

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TI-IE BLUE AND GOLD 27 A NEW FABLE IN SLANG. By K. Hurd. With Apologies to George Ade. The -Fable of a. Boy that Slumbered Until It Was Too Late. There was once a Mother 's-Only-Boy of the kind that wore his iirst Long Pants when he graduated from Grannnar School. His First Mile Stone had been passed and the eight Laps had been run. And now, as he was about to start. on the iirst of the four Laps that he must ru11 to pass his Second Mile Stone, an Idea struck him. If he took the first three Laps easily, he would have wind enough to finish the fourth Lap with a. Spurt. So his first three years in High School were run, and in every Event he just qualified for the Finale. TllEVJlldg6S thought him foolish and advised hi1n to start his training for the Big Drive early. But he knew betterg why. he was going Stale now. but our Motherls-Only-Boy didn't know the dif- ference between not enough Studying. enough Studying. and too much Studying, although the Judges had explained all that to him. One day when he was out showing off in front of a group of Spectators, he was noticed by a well-known Man-About- School, with the result that he was asked to a Frat meeting. Of course he didn't get in-he was still only a Junior-but his friend introduced him to a few of the choice Girls i11 school, and before longithey had found out that his Hair was brown and was parted in the cent.er and that he wasn't a bad Da.ncer. That was the beginning of his Downfall. He is a Senior now, and our Mother's- Gnly-Boy has become a Sport. for he can blow Rings from an Inhale, play pool and swear. He cuts his Training in the Big Drive for Dances and has learned how to Stall in Recitations. The Judges catch him breaking the Rules of the Contest, and he gets out of one trouble into An- other, but he is perfectly happy. for he thinks the NVorld is laughing with him, rest and cut corners on the last Lap, he still has one more Lap to do, and so has to stay in High School another year. .llnraih I f you'-rc asleep donft wal-it until y0uf're aa Senior to 'wake up. FINAL PAGEANT PERFORMANCE. An invitation for another performance of The Pageant from Mrs. A. D. Baldwin of Mentor. Ohio, was unanimously ac- cepted by the pupils. Special arrangements were made by Mrs. Baldwin for t.he conveyance of the members of The Pageant. A rehearsal was planned for the morning, picnic luncheon. tennis and baseball before the afternoon performance. The proceeds are for the benefit of the Mentor Red Cross. All the members of the original cast were present with the exception of Ronald Brown and Louis Kohn, whose patriotism, we regret to say, did not hold out to the end of the year. f GIRLS' GLEE CLUB. If you happened to be leaving school late on Tuesday. you no doubt heard strains of music issuing from the lunch room. VVell, that is what I am going to explain to you. It was the Girls' Glee Club, and whatls more they were having a spread. All of the girls gathered in the lunch room and enjoyed one of the best feasts that ever existed. But I am leaving out where the music came from. Norma Baker supplied the instrumental part with her ukulele and the rest of us

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v. W. I Ye: else e-V.. . - THE BLUE AND GOLD 29 CLASS HISTORY, JUNE, 1918. By Melville M. Greig. .Perhaps it was my hard day's work that put me to sleep. Anyway it was un- doubtedly my wife's welsh rarebit that made me dream. Visions danced before me in orderly disorder, and once again the past fantastically played upon my mind. Ah! what a dream. Now, as I have already stated. the visions coming to me were somewhat er- ratic-befitting, of course, the dignity of a welsh rarebit .... It was a class I was now attending. Yes, to be sure, History. There in the front sat Beman. George, I heard him say, 'tTell all you know about the Flat-Sophomore war. George rises slowly to his scat. The Freshman-Sophomore war -er-e, next to the civil war, was the greatest of all conflicts between people of the same race. On the morning of September 14th, 1914. serimmages occurred at an early hour on the entire front, from the first to the third floors. IVar, however, was not officially declared until 8:30 of that morning. At this hour Freshmen forces mobilized in the auditorium, presumedly for a mass attack, but for strategic rea- sons a retreat was made 'into rooms on the first floor. The war lasted for some five months. The Sophomores' chief weapon was gas. After this the scene faded from my view and another took its place. There was a roaring in my ears, a big 'ral1. 'rah, 'rah, East, and the picture of our Hrst football rally was cast. upon the SCPEC11 of my mind. How clearly it all comes back to me again, one of those good old fashioned rallies such as come before the first game of the sea.son. One of our number, at present held in high esteem by all. in a wild scramble for auditorium seats, climbed over the back of his chair. But alas, for that youth, Mr. Lothman espied the deed. Did that boy ever climb over the back of an auditorium chair again? No, the boy did not. Then events appeared to pass rapidly. VVe all looked forward to February, at which time we could properly assume the dignity and respectability of a high school student. By some venturesome girls, hair ribbons were discarded, while some of the more daring of the boys tackled the manipulation of longer trou- sers. Their efforts to look unconcerned failed. Now it was about this same time that calamity almost overtook the classy for the picture that now comes to me is no other than that of the Freshman recep! tion. Not that I would speak disrespect- fully of such a grand and august event, but at the same time slurs were cast upon this social gathering by the Seniors and upper classmen which were the cause of great agony and mental suffering to us first year pupils. However, most of our alarm was needlessg for on the whole, our teachers acted really very nice, consider- ing the temptations they were facing. Besides the time was most profitably spentg for did we not learn to wear rub- bers on a rainy day, and at all costs to bring a good, wholesome lunch from home? February came at last and with it a batch of incubator Flats. W'e derived great pleasure in directing them about the building and, in fact, extending to them all the courtesies due to new pupils. Having now attended high school for some six months, many of us had found the knack of success without study.