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

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12 Now is the time for which we have been waiting since school began. Now is the time to work for new enlistments. If Eastern expects to stand any chance at all for the victory next June, she must get down to hard work and fill up her two com- panies. Eastern must have immediately at least thirty-five more men in the com- panies. Every member of Eastern High School should put all his energy into getting these men. Those who possibly can, should join and those who cannot, should use every effort to per- suade their friends to do so. This is where the girls may get in some good vork. The great influence which may be brought to bear by the girls on mem- bers of the opposite sex is at times ap- palling. Here is where such influence is greatly needed and any effort on the part of the feminine section of the stu- dent body will be highly appreciated by the cadet officers. There is every reason imaginable for joining the cadets at this time of the year. The real work will soon start. Bayonet exercises relieve the monotony at present and shortly, extended order will be taken up. The drilling so far has been rather preliminary and has been regarded as such by the cadets as February! the rest of the But now that the second half of the school year has begun, the com- panies must start the earn- est work of preparation for the final competition. — Another reason for men with former cadet experience is that two, and proba- bly three more corporals must soon be appointed. Corporals are appointed on their previous records and any experi- enced man has a chance of being an offi- cer. If any man wishes to re-enlist in the cadets, let him signify his intention of so doing as soon as possible and his record will be looked up and his name placed in line for a corporaley. And don’t get the idea that such an office is to be despised. To be sure, it is only a step higher than a private but in some cases, particularly in extended order and pattle formations, the corporal is of greater importance and has more respon- sibilities than a sergeant. The position is one to be desired even under its pres- ent importance, and it is hoped to make it a more responsible one this year. Here is the chance for the man with expe- rience. Don’t let that opportunity slip by. And for the man who has had no ex- perience, there are many choice positions in the ranks which he may win if he works hard enough. There will be two more squads added to Company G, with well as school.

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THE EASTERNER him so red in the face and made the pain in his foot so very annoying that he couldn't stay seated. And he never could sleep in any other window. The truth of the matter was, the Major was used to watching the bird-like figure of the little widow flutter around watering her plants and feeding her chickens, But, of course, he didn’t know it. Five days passed and the Major's rooster was still gone and the widow’s which had not received the sad fate, after all, still crowed joyously and proudly on the wood-stump in the widow's barn- yard. And the Major, because he couldn't sleep in his sunny bay window and couldn’t sleep any place else was enough to worry anybody's nerves. “He carried something in a sack of burlap” Late Saturday afternoon, old Sam Hawkins, the colored man who chopped wood for almost every family in Lacony. appeared at the rear door of Booth’s and asked for the Major. His eyes were al- most white, he was so badly scared. He seemed to be uncommonly nervous and agitated about something which he car- ried in a sack of burlap. This some- thing made queer little noises that sound- ed precisely as the Major's Dorking rooster would have made if it were shut up in a sack of burlap. The Major glared at him, in the very worst way. “Well?” he grunted. “Even, suh! Muh conshuns done tole me suh, it says, suh, deed it did, suh, “Now Sam’ Hawkins ain’t you-all done shamed yo’self?, You march that ‘ere rooster right back to Major Booth.’ An’ T’se done it, suh. Deed I has. I was 11 a-fattenin’ him foh muh wife’s birfday but I fot it was to purty foh to kill. Ah done hopes you-all ‘ll fohgive me, suh.” Old Sam, being an exceedingly wise old colored man, laid the sack on the steps and, while the Major was rejoicing over his returned Dorking, took French leave. “Well, I'll be blowed!” ejaculated the Major very much in earnest. “Well, I'll be blowed!’ Ahem!” And he blew his nose vigorously. “Well, I'll be blowed!” “Cock-a-doodle-doo !” crowed the Dorking as it flapped its bril- liant wings joyously. The Major put it under his arm and went off in search of Emily. But Emily had seen the whole performance from the pantry window and had taken such an excellent oppor- tunity to carry Mrs. Montgomery a piece of chocolate cake. “Oh, Danny!” she called across the low white fence lined with holly-hocks. Danny came running. He couldn't get there fast enough. Danny ate his share while Emily talked so he could tell her how delicious it was before he went in. When she finished “explaining,” he threw back his head and laughed, as though it were a joke. “Why, Em,” he said, “Mother has been dying to show off her new Dorking rooster to your father and compare the two. Uncle James sent it from Eng- land, and Mother is proud as Lucifer “Cock-a-doodle-doo!” he crowed laugh- ingly. “If a Dorking rooster had given you as much misery as it has me, you'd hate even a joke with a rooster in it,” pouted Emily. That night, while the young people were at the Leonard dance, the Major went over to talk to the widow about Dorking roosters, but he got side-tracked and found himself, much to his conster- nation, of course, talking about a thing he knew nothing about. You see, the Major was getting old and gouty and when Emily was gone he'd be needing someone to chase away the bothersome flies while he slept in the sunny bay win- dow where the sun-beams danced across his slippery head. The widow was the very one and—the Major knew it! Dorotay R. SHANER.

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THE EASTERNER 18 six pivots to be filled and you might be one of the six lucky men. And then, too, if you expect to join the cadets at all don’t wait until September. You are just ruining your chances. Promotion is based on record and record means service. If you don’t now you are merely throwing away a possible fifteen points. Join now and win as many of those fifteen as possible. When the time to get a commission comes, you will wish you had—if you do you will thank us for this advice. if The above reasons are sufficient cause for most people, but if they are any to whom they do not appeal, to those per- sons we wish to address the following: We do not say that the companies would like to have thirty-five more men or that it would be greatly appreciated if a few more would enlist. Eastern must have at least thirty-five more men. It is a positive necessity. We do not speculate on what will happen if the de- sired number is not forthcoming. There is no alternative. The ranks must be filled. Therefore they will be. —— The Brigade A school is now being conducted at the Franklin for officers of the two regiments every Friday and Saturday night. Here the officers study tactics and work out military problems on a large map provided for this purpose. The would-be tacticians sometimes term their work “Scrap on the map.” Those who have attended these lectures have found the work interesting as well as instructive. This training is prepara- tory to an inter-scholastic contest in this work to be held during the month of February. Groups of officers from each school will compete and each officer of the winning group will receive as a re- ward a ribbon made on the style of reg- ulation campaign ribbons. This is a much sought for honor and the competi- tion in these matches is expected to be keen. In these preliminaries Eastern has been matched with Central twice, losing the first event but winning the second. There were but four of Eastern’s offi- cers present ,and were, on this account, placed at a disadvantage. We therefore take it upon ourselves to urge all of Eastern’s officers to attend regularly and attentively and when the finals come off bring the ribbons home. We need them. Rifle Notes The members of the club have been doing some very encouraging work this year. The older members and the best shots of last year are doing much bet- ter shooting than ever before, and the new members, whom we did not expect to do very well, are steadily climbing toward that coveted title “Proficient Shot.” The most encouraging thing about this year’s shooting is the consis- tancy of the scores. That is, does not shoot a very high score one day and a very low one the next. The tally is either about the same as that of the preceding practice or a little better. This is as it should be, and indicates that with steady practice we may hope to turn out some good teams in the inter-high meets. Mr. Schwartz has been informed by Mr. Kramer that the club will soon be provided with four more rifles, making six in all. This will make the organi- zation more like a club, and therefore increase the interest of the members. More men can shoot at the same time and thus more practice will be insured. Instead of shooting only once a week as at present, each member will be able to shoot twice and maybe three times. As practice makes for perfection, it will readily be seen that a great improvement may be expected in the scores after the new rifles arrive. On the trips to Winthrop, Md., spoken of in the last number of the EAsSTERNER, several members of our club won the Junior Marksman Outdoor Medal. Most of these had already received the medal for 1915 and so were ineligible to re- ceive a second one, a man