Eastern High School - Punch and Judy Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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The Easterner 7 who ought to be knocked hard for not coming out to play, but at the same time the majority of those who played deserve the greatéSt of credit, for look at the odds they went up against. They knew when they started that they had to play heavy teams, with no chance of winning, but, yet, they worked hard and played just to keep old Eastern in athletics. Of course, all of us see and com- mend the school spirit at the feeds, but how many think of the three or four who actually do the work? Few realize the work done in getting up a feed, but at the same time there are those who are always on hand to be grumbling about something. The girls and boys who planned the feed certainly do deserve thanks for their hard work. Recently two cadets in Company F had occasion to show their school spirit. Fred Sanderson showed his school spirit when he waived his claim to the first sergeantcy in order to remain right guide of the company. The other ca- det is Dan Roper. On account of his size, and, also, to remain corporal of the last squad in the company, he waived his claim to fifth sergeant. Surely, if all of the boys in the company worked with such spirit, there would be no doubt about F winning the flag next May. In order to make the Christmas tree a success many of the students dropped their studies entirely, knowing at the time that they would have to be made up. If we look arcund we can see many examples of school spirit to be emulated by those who earnestly desire the suc- cess of the school in all its attainments. Rip Van Winkle in 1930 Rip returned from his long snoozle looking like a lawn that has just been watered. He made his way to the barber shop in the drill hall, kept by the Physiology Class, not only because it was shave-time for him, but also be- cause he wanted to get a line 6n the monkey shines of the last twenty years. After he had been neatly tucked away in the chair, and the tonsorial specialist had begun to run the miniature lawn mower across his cheek bone, he pre- pared to have a nice long gossip. Has that 1909 Thanksgiving number of Tue EAstERNER come out yet?” he asked. “Gets here to-morrow,” barber. “Anybody graduated since I've been gone?” “Nope.” “Does Pete Dailey get his hair cut here now?” “Nope; he’s bald-headed now.” “Ts Sanderson still fat?” “Nope; he’s getting quite thin.” “Ts Fischer as handsome as ever?” “Yep.” “Does McCaffrey still stick to his original intention of studying for the ministry 2” “Sure.” : “Tas the team won any games yet?” “Not yet, but we're going to put it on ‘em all this year.” “Has Leland passed off his flunks replied the yet?” “Didn't know he ever flunked.” “Ts poker still popular with the Seniors ?” “Sure, and they've raised the limit to 10 cents.” “Has Gravy gotten rid of his freckles yet?” “No; why you wouldn’t recognize him now, he’s so covered with them.” “Has Whitney learned how to pitch yet?” “Nope.” “Does Harrison still brand of rouge?” “You bet, and powder, too.” “Does Ed still go to see Dot?” “Ha! Ha! They're married.” “Did Schwartz ever get an introduc- tion to Elsie King?” “Sure, and, goodness! now you'd think they had known each other all their lives, but, sh! Genevieve is jeal- ous.” use the same

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Although Eastern is the smallest high school in Washington in quantity, still it is by no means the smallest in quality. Eastern does not turn out championship football or baseball teams, for there quantity is needed, but she has always maintained one of the highest ranks in the high schools in debating and in ob- taining scholarships, for there quality is demanded. In one respect we have never followed the example of the other schools; that is, in the organization of an orchestra. That we have the material was quite evi- dent at the company feed. We know that Mr. Bradley, 12, would be more than glad to undertake to start an or- chestra this year if the musical students would help him. Now the time is ripe for you musicians to show where the quality in Eastern lies and help organ- ize an orchestra. Football [Extract from Tuft's Weekly.] There is a fatal notion about the coun- try that to be a man you must beat your neighbor. The Frenchman makes dia- bolo an art, the Englishman and Ameri- can, their game a battle. Who was it who said: “When three men stand to- gether the kingdoms are less by three.” Football and baseball ought to be made to include more players. I mean there ought to be more teams and more men playing. Football is not brutal because men are sometimes injured, and now and then a man is killed. It is brutal because it is an entertainment for the public. “Oh, lug him off,” I heard a man Say at a game—a cry in which the spirit is not different from that of Span- ish women at a bull fight, calling for I think it unlikely that a football game ever brutalized a man more horses. who played it. But it may brutalize thousands of men to whom it is nothing but a spectacle. Our public morals, which are our customs, and to be distinguished from personal ethics, regard with sever- est condemnation the bull fight of the Spaniard, and the more ancient gladia- torial combat of the Roman, but their ethics will not long remain distinct from the ethics of the football game, if foot- ball continues to supply increasing amusement for a sporting” public. a agree with President Hamilton in his statement in the Sunday Herald, that football cultivates self-reliance and makes habits of quickness of thought and action. It does all this and more for the player, but not for the spectator. The game to-day exists for thousands more who do not play it and never have played it, than who do. At a school I know very well in England, St. Dun- stan’s, southeast of London, the head- master will allow no boy to watch a game in which he is not playing, or has played the same day. Less football? No; more football, but no spectators ; all play, nobody allowed to look on. If the game has value it will last. School Spirit Each year there are generally one or more editorials in Tue EAsTERNER knocking the school spirit at Eastern, but they seldom attempt to point out concrete examples of school spirit. What we propose to do is to show, in brief, where school spirit has recently been working. We can see it in the work of the foot- ball players. It is true that there are boys

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8 The Easterner “That reminds me; has Pie still got an auto?” lak “Oh, most of it. eee “What ever became of Patsy Smith? “Why he’s the lightweight champion of the world.” “Did Unger ever get to be Pope? “No, poor fellow, but he’s secretary of the Treasury, though.” : “Well, say, has anything really im- portant happened here since 1910?” “Only one thing as I know of, and that is, Miss Gardner passed everybody in English.” Silence for a few moments. The bar- ber is now tickling Rip’s upper lip and he does not consider it the psychological moment to gather any more information. At last he asked, “Say, would it be too much trouble for you to tell me whether Joe Herbert cleans his eyeglasses as often as ever?” ae “No, poor fellow; he was standing in front of his mirror one day when it suddenly broké and some flying glass totally blinded him.” “Mr. Barber,’ sighed Rip. “You needn’t shave the other side of my face; I'm going back to the hills.” Lord Royall’s Speech in House of Lords on the Budget (With Apologies to Burke.) Sir: I arise with great trepidation to address the House on this most moment- ous question. I hope, sir, that the fact that I have only recently been made a member of this honorable body will not incline you to treat my proposition lightly, and that you will judge it on its merits alone. During the past decade I have viewed with alarm the ever increasing expenses of the government, and the fact that the revenue has not increased in like pro- portion. I need not dwell upon the fact that to-day we are confronted with a deficit of $78,000,000. From your. ac- tion in the past few days I am sure that you appreciate this fact and are willing to view the question from every point before taking any action. I have given the subject careful con- sideration and have come to the conely- sion that there are only three ways of meeting this emergency. Fif€t, you can reduce the expenditures of the govern. ment and remoye the cause. Second, you can increase the tariff and thus raise enough money to pay the deficit. Third, you can raise revenue by levying taxes on corporations, wealthy land Owners, tobacco, liquor and similar articles. The first of these plans, to decrease the expenditures of the government, | think is most like a systematic proceed- ing, but it is attended with great diffi- culties, some of them little short, as [ conceive, of impossibilities. These will appear on a close examination of the plan. : The competition with Germany for the naval supremacy of the world is evidently the greatest source of expen- diture. To lessen this expenditure ma- terially would leave us a prey to the am- bition of Germany. Therefore, to all patriotic Englishmen this plan is impos- sible. True, we may decrease the expendi- tures in other quarters, but it can be seen by blunter discernments than yours that it is impracticable to decrease it enough to remove the deficit. Since the first plan is unsatisfactory, let us examine the second, to make up for the deficit by increasing the tariff. Our main source of revenue at pres- ent is the taxes levied on the working class of people. If we adopt this plan it will greatly increase the cost of grain, meat and other foods, and will virtually double the taxes on the people who are now paying the greater part of the gov- ernment’s expenses. Such a course is manifestly unfair, and I feel will be abandoned by the gentlemen who pro- posed it, when they consider the spirit of resistance which arises in all English- men when they are unjustly taxed. If, then, the removal of the causes of the deficit is impracticable, if a higher tariff be unjust and to the highest de- gree inexpedient, what way yet remains? No way is open but the third and last,