Houtzdale High School - Jack O Lantern Yearbook (Houtzdale, PA)

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THE' JACK o' LANTERN EXCHANGE NOTES Y It was a rainy day in April. A large group of carefreeboys and girls were gathered in the Reading Room of the High School. As I entered the room I met a lot of my old friends. They were Birdseye, lV1Unite, Gleam, Orange and Black and The Lore. I soon per- ceived that there were some strangers in our midst. I was very much pleased to meet The Argus,'i' Crimson and Gold, also many others. After chatting a bit about school news Miss Crimson and Gold suggested that we have a stunt party. This suggestion was greeted with hilarious enthusiam, but no one wanted to start. At last The Gleam was induced to set the ball rolling, and it delighted the company with the following poem. Another Gleam is coming And our news is on the blink Somebody's got to come across Or our Gleam will surely sink Bravo cried all the papers at once. Johnson High is not alone said The Spokesman timidlyf' I guess we all have a time finding news and jokes. Yes, I said, we all could do better if we had more support, but it seems so hard to get the students interested. However I think the G1eam is a fine paper and has such snappy jokes. Orange and Black was the next on the program and sang several songs. The last one Crosword Puzzle Blues delighted all and led 'Thilipsburg School News to retaliate by making us all work Cross Word Puzzles. The Lore was next on the program. It is distinguished in telling stories. After naming different stories such as A Tragedy, His Reputation and If I had been a Cave Man, His Reputation was selected by the party as its best. In another section of the room, The Knight, The Gleam, and The Lotus were discussing the story, each in turn giving their criticism on the story. When my turn came I said Indeed 1 certainly think that the Lore has a very good Literary Department. The next feature which helped to make the party a success was a monologue by Miss Birdseyef' It was indeed very good. Like Mr. Fine Uone 1 certainly think The Birdseye has a fine exchange column. You can be proud of it. Another old time friend of ours The Knight delighted the party with different jokes and some amended soliloquies. Hamlet's received the most applause: To be or not to beg some question, I'll say. Why, its got the League of Nations beat forty ways, What's the answer? Search me, My names Hamlet, not Ouija. -51.-

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THE JACK O' LANTERN 1' T, . W - ' ' r 4 if A 'V ZW. TW . ' 'V Q ,L , A ! N ,gg ',A Qii ml ff f a g ff? K HQ , ,gf 'd ' fx ' . ,gf jfirilff. f J f-' 4' , f 'H-4 H-12? J 4' g Z lw:J,,Z'J W The Jack O'Lantern of the Houtzdale High School wishes to thank the various High Schools, who have been kind enough to wish to ex- change school papers. We deeply appreciate this opportunity of com- munication with neighboring schools. We know that we received much inspiration and help through the knowledge of their activities and triumphs. One advantage which results from an exchange with other schools is that it promotes a feeling of friendship, which always accompanies an exchange of ideas. We cannot all visit other schools, or know personally the students of the schools, but we can become acquainted with them by reading in the different school papers of their activities. Another value received from an exchange of papers, and one that is very important is the inspiration to improve our publications, to make them more extensive and more worthy of the combined efforts of our students. We want to be proud of our paper, to send it to their schools with the feeling that we have produced a publication equally as good as others, which we have received. This result of exchange is stimulation. In enumerating the value of exchanges we must not forget to mention the help received, when we read of the new experiments and plans tried by other schools. We often receive new ideas and are eager to try the same for the betterment of our school. We in our turn, are ready to pass on to others the results of our experiences in new fields and so the interchange of new ideas and plans is mutually help- ful. In conclusion, we appreciate exchanging papers with you. We are now exchange friends. May our friendship continue to grow larger and better through the future years. - 50--

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H N run .Lick o' LANTERN But take it from me, when a guys got a conscience its nix on the haii-kaii. Safety irst-that's me all over. ' How clever said The Peptimistf' Then someone cried a penny for Your thoughts Miss Jack O' Lantern But I was really thinking how 1 could voice my praise for their highly developed Nonsense Depart- men . ' L Une of our newly acquired friends The Red and Black gave an account of their doings of the year. This was interesting, and once again 1 versed my opinion, that I was indeed glad to see an interest taken in Class Notes as most High Schools pay more attention to developing their other departments. The following number was a play given by The Anvil. It was a great success and was enjoyed by all those present. I certainly think the Anvil has a very good Dramatic Club. Don't you brother and sister Exchanges? f'The Peptimist gave us quite a treat and we soon became acquaint ed' with the Juniors, Sophmores and Freshman of Mauch Chunk, Town- ship School. I think your article entitled- All About Us is exception- y good. Crimson and Gold, favored us with their splendid story- Ann's Lesson. I heard some of the girls passing remarks on the t'Crimson and Gold? The xGleam said, more stories would add greatly to the Literary Department of the Crimson and Gold. But we can not all have a perfect paper. To me Crimson and Gold School Notes are a suf- ficient compensation for the lack of stories. We were all wondering who would make the move to provide i'irt er amusements. Our friend the MUnite rendered a fine talk on Training a Team, which was appropriate as much of our attention is attracted to athletics. MUnite always has fine Editorials. . We looked wonderingly at each other as a young lady appeared dressed in garnet and white. Why its the Garnet and White, said the Argus Our new acquaintance enchanted us witha tale of The Lands of A's How unique, exclaimed several vioces. Yes, I agreed, Garnet and VVhite's Literary Department has the most cleverly writ- ten articlesf' The Pennant introduced a program given by their Shakespearean Literary Society. ,The monotony of excessive humor was related by a debate presented by the Tattler and the Brown and White. This pleased the company very much and turned our minds to more serious things. The program was concluded with a discussion of School Spirit which we would do well to take to heart. As it was already growing late, our guests were forced to leave, lamenting the necessity of departing and promising to return soon. pw