Iowa Wesleyan College - Croaker Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, IA)

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THE 1919 CROAKER WHY THE CROAKER STAFF SITS UP NIGHTS “Did you get a good picture of me?” “When will the Croaker be out?” “Will I get a discount if I pay for my Croaker after March 15th?” “I know a good joke on somebody, but I won’t tell it.” “If you put anything in about me, I won’t buy one.” “The Croaker should have lots of humor but nothing that will hurt one’s feelings.” “Don’t tell any jokes on the Faculty.” The Mill Boy of the Sloshes Taken While Yet a Boy and Before lie Had Gained IIts Rep. Little Croaker ADVERTISEMENTS Pull the Dough PHI MU We also are a Fraternity and “Frances is with us yet”. You know in picking material, you should take many different types, in order to balance the organization, and we have no duplicates. We can’t keep everybody from knowing that we arc not the oldest fraternity in the country. Wc have an idea that there are some bad boys in school besides the Phi Delts. Our standing is good in the Pan-Hellenic Council, and they listen to what ye say. Most of us are interested in the soldier boys. Wc have two new brothers-in-law this year. Outside of all this, wc don’t have much to say, except maybe—but wc promised not to say anything about her talking so much.

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THE 1919 CROAKER FAVORITE SONGS Lives of editors all remind us 'I'hat their lives are not sublime: For they have to Work like thunder To get this copy out on time. Even then, Moomaw and Holiday say we are slow as the dickens. A sorority pin may cover a multitude of sins, but it never made a homely woman beautiful, neither did it ever metropolitanize a corn-fed. Little Croaker ADVERTISEMENTS For Service PI KAPPA DELTA A Sort of a Camouflage to Cover the Workings of a Choice Hunch of Windjammers Official Organ: Mouth Organ Official Song: Tune—Blest be the tire that finds itself chuck full of air. Words: Secret Anyone can get into this organization provided he will follow the rules. Many a man has gone clear through school without getting in because he didn’t abide by the rules. You may have the best line in the state but you have to abide by the rules. Is that plain? Once you have made the organization, you need never take part in oratory again. Your future is all done up in a package and made the past—so you should worry. Many good men have belonged—but you better not say anything to them—it will make them sore. Earl White—Moonlight Bay Frances Jamison—Khaki Bill Orville Dean—Sister Susie’s Sewing Shirts for Soldiers Fae Hunter—Keep the Home Fires Burning Rii.ea Doe—Lily of the Valley (A Nut Song) Ernest Newquist—Long Boy Gladys Weaver—There’s a Long, Long 'Frail Ellen Gardner—He's a Devil in His Own Home Town Freddy Walker—Oh, Boy! Lucile Robertson—Over There Frances Toothacre—Just to be Near You

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THE 1919 CROAKER Big Prize Given for Best Title for This Picture SAME OLD LINE Douds (in Psychology) : “Dr. Rauch, if you were stranded on a desert island, and you could have only-one book, what one would you choose?” Dr. Rauch: “The Bible, of course. What one would you want?” Douds: “O, something on dry farming, I guess.” Snider, the janitor, Snider, the singer, Snider, the roughneck, Sure is a dinger. Little Croaker ADVERTISEMENTS None Better PHI DELTA THETA Motto: I want a good girl, and I want her bad. Office: Craig Building. Open all hours. For fear your eyes arc poor, our pledge pin is big. We rely on Peterson and Heller for our brains. The rest of us are athletes. They say smoking is bad for the voice. That’s why we can’t make the glee club. Our saints—Harshbarger, Schaffncr, Haseltinc, and Dean. Our sinners—The rest of us. If one of us has our lesson, that is enough. The rest can copy his. To lend: Safety Razors—Phi Delt House on Initiation Week. For sale: Our dress suits. For rent: Our frat pins. For further information, sec Hall girls.