Hamilton High School - Hamiltonian Yearbook (South Hamilton, MA)

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THE HAMILTONIAN 7 such difficult knots, that it was impos- sible for the tired owner to untie them, thus forcing her to seek refuge with an- other companion. Finally, during the early morning hours, the great white house grew quiet. The next day tired but happy girls packed their bags, and boarded trains for their respective homes, after a very much enjoyed vacation. — D. H. B., ’26. JUST LUCK RENNAN was a small town on the coast of Maine. It was a very sleepy little village, there being only two or three days in the year on which it broke its usual calm. Hallowe’en was one of these days. From dusk to past mid- night noise and confusion reigned su- preme in the little place. Great truck loads of people, dressed in grotesque costumes would ride through the streets and surrounding country breaking the stillness with laughter and shouts. Finally, at one or two in the morning the noise would cease and all would be quiet again. It was on one of these nights that two men met secretly on a lonely road, a mile from the village. One could guess by their actions that their affairs were not for the ears of all. Drawing back into the shadows of a large tree, they whis- pered earnestly for a few minutes, then made off toward town. About a minute after they left, the leaves of the tree rustled, a slim dark figure dropped silently to the ground and crept stealth- ily after them. Late that night an enormous truck rumbled through the town. It was thronged with people, some on the roof, some sitting on the hay, and others on boxes on the floor. Everyone seemed to be thoroughly enjoying themself with whistles and tin horns. Passing out from town, it proceeded for a mile or two more, its noisy passen- gers startling the quiet farmers. Sud- denly the truck’s powerful headlights shone full upon another truck stalled in the middle of the road and the driver of the truck jammed on the brakes just in time to stop barely six inches from the rear of the vehicle ahead! Almost simultaneously a fusillade of shots rang out and a number of blue- coated figures sprang on the truck, over- powered the driver and quickly emptied it of its passengers. The hay and boxes soon followed. A week later a little group was gath- ered before the desk of the judge of the local court. Among them was a boy of sixteen years who seemed to be the cen- ter of attraction, and one might have recognized the driver of the truck, and the two men of the lonely road. “It was certainly a clever scheme,” the boy was saying, and it was just by luck I happened to have lost my cap up that tree. When I went for it that night I heard these two men talking underneath me. They were saying something about a big load coming on tonight on a truck disguised as taking out a pleasure party. They described it and after they went I came out and told you. I guess you got it all right.” “We certainly did, Ken,” one of the officers replied, “five hundred quarts of whiskey and rum. Not a bad night’s haul and all due to you, Ken. We’ll see that you get your share of the reward.” — Wayne Hobbs, ’ 27.

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6 THE HAMILTONIAN A HALLOWE’EN HOUSE PARTY LARA and Marguerite could not help but feel excited and full of anticipation as they prepared to depart for their first house party, Florence and Vir- ginia Simpson had been their room- mates at boarding school, and had invited them, along with a number of other girls, to spend the week with them at their country residence in the next state — so it was arranged, for Clara and Marguerite to make the trip with their mother by rail. All during the journey, both girls wondered what surprises were in store for them, as Hallowe’en came during the week of the party, and they felt it would be a banner day. Several older people on the train smiled as they watched the two girls trying to repress their excite- ment. Finally, the train pulled into the sta- tion of Nashville. As they alighted, there were all the other guests to meet them, and a happy, laughing, crowd of girls, arms around each other, left the station to begin a glorious vacation. Since it was still two days before Hallowe’en, the guests amused them- selves in various ways ; they ent riding in the morning and either played golf or tennis in the afternoon. The weather man, blessing their stay, sent unusually warm weather for October, so many of the girls had an opportunity for a row on the lake. The evenings, too, furnished their delights, with moonlig ' ht hikes, and sings around a camp fire. The girls found this very enjoyable, especially when they returned late to find a mid- night feast awaiting them. At last the eventful night of Hal- lowe’en arrived ! The dinner was to be a costume party. The rooms were all dimly lighted and decorated in the Hal- lowe’en colors — orange and black — with cornstalks covering the mahogany panels. At dinner each girl received some sort of a prize, which she was re- quested to make use of in some way; some received snakes which wriggled along on the floor and furnished great delight to its possessor when it fright- ened her dinner partner by climbing up the back of her chair. Others re- ceived tin horns which they blew con- stantly, making a weird screeching noise. After dinner, the programme de- manded that each girl walk around the house alone. This brought all sorts of cries from them and a great deal of laughter. First they jnet a black goblin which led them down to the gold fish pond, and pushed them into the water. After pulling themselves out of this, the girls proceeded around the house. At the next abrupt turn of the building a soft substance was forced into their mouths, which tasted very much like soap; then something soft was wiped over their faces. At the next corner, the girls were compelled to ' climb a ladder, and slide down a chute on the other side, which landed them in a box of raw cotton which clung to their cloth- ing. Immediately, each girl was picked up by a ghost who led her to the ball- room, and she found it to be her partner for the dance. As the guests retired that night, the fun was not yet over, for of course everybody had played some sort of a trick upon the others. Some of the girls found combs and brushes in their beds, while others found the sheets tied in

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EDITORIAL THE SECOND YEAR The Hamiltonian starts its second year with this Hal- I lowe’en number. To continue the career of the Hamilton- ian which was so admirably commenced last year, we must have the co-opera- tion of the entire school body. This co- operation has been well shown in the recent drive for subscriptions in which each and every member of the school worked zealously for his team. We ask, however, that your co-opera- tion does not end with the financial side of our school paper. To be successful the staff must have your help in the procuring of material for its pages. We hope that all the students will feel it a duty to get at least one article published during the year, and if your first effort fails, “try, try again.” As an incentive to inspire our young authors, a prize consisting of a two and a half dollar gold piece is offered for the best story published in the Hamilton- ian during the year. It will be awarded in June. There is a box in the main corridor for the purpose of receiving contribu- tions, and it would be very pleasing to open this and find a large number of stories, jokes or some kind of material, which would help toward the success of our paper. Here’s to a banner year for the Ham- iltonian ! It takes more than a college education to teach a man how to remove the card- board disk from a bottle of milk with- out taking a milk bath. REFERENDUM NUMBER 7 In writing this editorial I do not wish to make the Hamiltonian appear as a political agency, but at the same time I feel that I should like to express through the columns of this paper, edited by students, the way Referendum No. 7 appears from a student’s view point. As you probably know, should the proposed amendment to the Constitu- tion of the United States be passed, power would be given into the hands of Congress to regulate, limit and prohibit the laboring of all boys and girls eight- een years of age and under. The ma- jority of boys and girls, graduates of high school whose ambitions center on a college education, find it necessary, during vacation at least, to look for posi- tions calling for long hours to defray the many expenses that college entails. Should this bill be passed, and should Congress see fit to set labor laws stricter than they now stand, that boy and girl would find it difficult to realize his ambitions, for this amendment gives Congress full power over the labor con- ditions of our youth. It is easily seen what condition would be brought about and that these enterprising youth would perhaps be derived of higher education. I hope that I have made my point clear and that you, the voters, will give the students of your country a thought on Next November 4th. — Raymond Saulnier. Help us make the Hamiltonian grow : send in material.