Lancaster High School - Mirage Yearbook (Lancaster, OH)

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D E Fi R I S. 25 EDITORIAL VIEWS. D E B R I S. BOARD OF EDITORS: Bess llammack, '09...... Kdiior-in-Cln'ef Harry Jackson. '00...............Assistant Associat»:: Miss Mabel E. Curtiss.... Magazine Editor Miss Anna Davidson.................Aluinni Dkpartmbxt Editors: Mabel Barr.‘09................. Literary Harry Jackson. i9 ............ Athletics Charles Brashares. ‘09............Exchange Assistants: Dorothy Durain. ’ 9............ Literary Earl Bcnaduni. 'b9............. Athletics Business Manacrmbnt: Russell Hunter. 9......Business Manager Fred Musscr, '09............... Assistant Published Annually by the Senior Class ol the Lancaster High School. Devoted to the Interests of Lancaster High School. Address all matters submitted for publication to the Editor-In-Chief. Lancaster High School, and all business communications to the Busi- ness Manager at the same address. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Single Copy.........-...............15c Subscriptions should be paid to any one of the Business Staff. We arc always looking out for the good things in life, the things that benefit us most. But they are not so easy to find. Nevertheless, if you stop to think, you will finally decide that the High School Annual is very beneficial, both to the reader, and to those who use their efforts and their influence In its publication. It is full of snap, fun and common sense combined, and it shows to the outside world what we really are and what we accomplish here in our school work. It shows also how well we arc united as a school and how good-naturedly we are able to take a seasonable joke. It arouses the inter- est of the students, and spurs them on to produce something which is worth reading, and enables them fo fit themselves to produce something worth while. Indirectly It Is an aid to athletics, in that it publishes every good thing which has happended during the year, and by doing so. causes our athletes fo try harder each year that they may be the ones who will be praised and crowned with laurels. And how does it help the mana- gers? Docs it help them in any way to prepare themselves for a higher and more responsible management? Yes, to a very great extent. It teach- es them how to handle financial af- fairs. to economize, and to be able to get something good for the least pos- sible expenditure. And anyone who has ever been connected with the management of this paper, I am sure. Is very thankful that he was fortu- nate enough to have that golden op- portunity. Fellow students! If you have any managing ability about you, do not hide it, but allow your classmates to find out what you are that you may have the oppor- tunity to experience yourself in that line. That may be your life work: who knows? The management of some large firm or corporation may be yours. But even if you never as- cend to that high degree of manage- ment, you are almost certain to have to manage your own personal affairs, however small they may be. and ex- perience is the best teacher of all. And since we have in our school many artists and poets, we give plen- ty of space to them to display their talents. The last of those benefited by the paper are the editors. They learn to appreciate many things which they perhaps would never have appreciat- ed. Time, for instance, is more prec- ious to an editor than to probably anv one else. And. the collecting and re- vising of material, which often must be read and re-read furnishes valua- ble experience. To be able to con- sider an article fairly and squarely before accepting or refusing it. makes one observant. Yes. there are many ways in which a student editor is benefited. But they are almost too numerous to mention here. And I presume that the editors to come will not forget what I have said in regard to time. Therefore, my dear editors of the future. I wish to impart to you this one little word of advice and that is. Hustle.” Do not lag in the collection of your ma- terial. and be sure to remember that there is coming, as fast as if 'twere on the wings of the wind, that rare day In June, when you will give up all claims an an editor, and resume your daily routine as a common ordi- nary personage. But will you be sor- ry that you once bore that title? No, No. a thousand times, no! tv »’ r It falls to the lot of the Senior Class each year to have control of. and lo publish what Is known as the L. H. S. Annual, and with this end In view, that of making this year's annual the best and most widely read of any an- nual yet put out by the Lancaster High School, the editor, staff and managers have worked. They have written and written until by this time their thoughts are few and far be- tween. The editor and staff have put their most loyal support into the is- sue of this paper and each individual of the L. If. S. can sincerely thank them for a large part of the success this paper will bring. As for tho managers, Nuf Sod. And now the officers of the Debris wish to thank those who have lent their assistance. First, a word to tho Student body concerning our adver- tisers. Don't forget them. It is they who make this Issue a possibility. They have necessities to meet just as we have in issuing this paper. I-et us help them by patronizing them. We therefore take this means of letting the public know how we appreciate the many advertisements; and we hope our advertisers will see fit each year to place an ad in the L. H. S. Annual. Fellow students, it would not hurt for you when you step into a store as a purchaser to mention the fact that you noticed their ad in the Annual. It will not only help the managers of '10 to obtain ads. but each class has its turn coming in pub- lishing an L. H. S. Annual. There- fore. Freshmen, boost the paper, as your turn will come, even if it is as yet in the hazy mist of future years. Second, we wish to thank those of the student body who have contribut- ed. As we cannot thank each individ- ual. we take this opportunity of re- minding you that your help as well as others', is necessary to make our paper a success. I say our paper. for is it not yours as well as the Sen- iors? Some get the idea that the pa- per belongs to the Seniors. But the Seniors are a small factor. It de- pends on you—on every individual in old L. H. S. It is true each year con- tributions grow, yet each staff says there is not enough work among tho students. Third. How about the Faculty? Do they help? We have one of them as legal adviser to cur staff, and she is not to he compared with in giving us suggestions, while the others are all loyal, giving their hearty support to a cause which needs it. Is It neces- sary to say that we thank them? Fourth, we thank those of the Sen- ior class who have stood their ground and not run every time they saw a member of the staff for fear they would he called upon to write some- thing. There are a few in the class who have stood square and said they would try when asked to write on some subject. We appreciate their willingness. Thus the Annual each year depends not on a se’ect few. but upon every Individual fn the school as well as o.ir advertisers.

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24 DEBRIS. 537 N. Columbus St. W. F. WACKER, Grocer, Give us a ring: or come and see us. Goods delivered to all parts of the city. Either Phone 65. ALPINE SOLDIERS. VVvvv-.- UK Alps mountains are i •:•■{• often called tlie back- bone of Europe, be- ❖■ ++++++ cause they extend such ++ + + + a distance throuKh Central Europe and form parts of several very important countries. In fact. Switzerland, the little republic which has been in ex- istence so many centuries, may well be called a country of ups and downs, because so much of it consists of high mountain peaks. Some of the vil- lages of Switzerland are located thou- sands of feet above the level of the sea. and the flocks and herds which the shepherds attend may be above the line of snow for at least a portion of the year, when they can graze in some upper valley on fresh mountain herbage. You can walk but a very short dis- tance in Switzerland without going up or down a mountain and the na- tives of this little country are fam- ous for their ability to climb steep mountain-sides. .Many of the roads wind about the mountains like spiral Htairways, so that one must keep climbing for hours before he roaches the top; but all this has been done since p.-op'.e began living among the mountains and they take it as a mat- ter of course. Some of the peaks of the Alps are so high that they are never bare of snow or Ice. and snowstorms are fr: - (|uent even in summer. The high- ways across Switzerland and. espec- ially those into France and Italy, pas through some of the highest chains of mountains and there are passes which may be drifted full of snow at any day of the year, so high are thay from the rest of the world. This is why the soldiers of the Swiss army as well as the famous guides who lead tourists here and there are noted for their expertness in scaling the rocky mountain-sides. The army is drilled, in what are called mountain tactics, and has become so skilled that a company of troops will go up moun- tain-sides where it would seem one could ascend only by the aid of a rope. They are often burdened by their guns, knapsacks, and other things, which they must carry when in the army, but such is their strength that they pull themselves up by their hands where they cannot walk, and are adept as sheep and goats in these performances. There is not only the infantry sol- dier who carries the rifle as his prin- cipal weapon, but actually artillery companies in the Swiss service. These are perhaps more expert than infant- ry. for the reason that they have more difficult duties to perform. The cannon which are provided for the Swiss army are principally what are called mountain guns, which can ic taken off their trucks, and thus taken up high peaks. These troops are so drilled that one man may take the wheel of a truck on his back, another a different piece of the truck.» nd it is an actual fact that some o', these cannoneers are so powerful tha. they can lift these parts when they are strapped on their backs. Thus it is. that an entire battery or section of artillery can be carried up a hill-side without the use of horses. It is lit- erally taken to pieces When the summit is reached, the men are so deft that they can put the trucks to- gether. fasten or mount the cannon on them, and. If they were in battle, they would discharge the weapons at once, as they always have ammunition along with them. You sit comfortably in your hot l and look up toward the white sum- mit of Mount Blanc towering in aw- ful majesty nearly three miles into the clouds. With the naked eye you see what looks like a colony of small, black ants, clinging precariously to the side of the mountain, more than half-way to its invisible top. looking through the hotel telescope, you make out that the ants are men, traveling in regular order and at surprising speed over a field of apparently fresh- ly-fallen snow. •‘It’s a company of our Alpine troops. explains our land- lord. They are out on skees dri;l- :ng. There are also other compan- ies out on the mountains and the game is to see which shall get com- mand of the pass. On skees, which are a kind of snow-shoe we use. and in deep snow, they can make their thirty or forty miles a day. Our chil- dren are familiar with the long, slen- der. wooden skees. from the time they are able to walk. It seems surprising that there are so many soldiers in Switzerland, for it is only a tiny republic compared with the United States and some oth- er countries. It contains only 16.000 square miles, being about one-third the size of our state of New York. Yet in time of war it would have 275,- 000 men. It is considered an honor for a man to be a soldier in Switzer- land. and as soon ns a boy has grown up he usually volunteers. His term of service may be but three or four ears. but during that time he is drilled so that he becomes an expert in military work not only in the sum- mer. but in the dead of winter. Real- ly. the Swiss soldiers are among the best in Europe, but fortunately the little republic has been at peace with Its neighbors for a great many years, owing, partly to the skill and courage of its mountaineers, all of whom would be ready to come to the defense of their little country at a moment's notice. FLOSSIE BARR. ’12. I €

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26 D E B R I S. This Is an age of progress. Prog- ress in every line of thought and acti- vity. Notice what strides in advan- cement have been made during the last half century. Study the character of the people, who make up our great nation, and there you will discover the secret of this progress. The strongest factor in the devel- opment of a |K ople is education. This moulder of character is based on the great public school system. This is wherein our government looks after the governed. It sends into each home in the land—even the humblest —the chance to become educated. It gives it freely, because it fully real- izes that only an educated people is capable of maintaining a republic. Thus the opportunity Is given to each one to lit himself for any line of work he may choose. In the early history of our country was formed the greatest union the world has ever known. Having thus acquired the habit. unions of all kinds, religious, social, educational etc., have been formed since then. In 1853 the first commencement of Lancaster High school was held.— •Miss Mattie Connell being the only graduate. The classes steadily in- creased in numbers, so that by the year 1889. there were over two hun- dred graduates. A few ardent and enthusiastic souls, being fired with zeal, called a meeting of these worth- ies; and. on a warm spring night, amid the shrill notes of the mosqui- toes and the base notes of the June bugs, on an upper floor of the North school building, was organized the il- lustrious Alumna! Association of the I» II. S. This Association struggled along through various vicissitudes for sev- eral years: but. having bequeathed Its debt to the retiring treasurer, it now rears its head proudly, financial- ly as well ns Intellectually. Twenty years ago a class of eleven vras con- sidered large: but. as the years have passed, the classes have increased in size, until this year not less than for- ty will have their names inscribed in- delibly on the roll of honor for 1909. This indicates plainly the strong but quiet influence of the Alumni. Hundreds have completed the High school course, and once a year their thoughts turn to the old school, and fond memory recalls with pleasure their school days. Most gladly many meet at this reunion for one evening’s renewal of old friendships. Cordial greetings are exchanged: old scenes recalled; old jokes re-told; and al- ways. There's rosemary, that's for remembrance.” No one lives to himself alone. Each educated man influences the thought and actions of those with whom he comes in contact. Quite a number of our graduates are obeying the serin- tural injunction. Co ye into all lands, etc. India. Japan, and the Philip- pines are being helited by them. Then. too. our international marriages are good for the other nations, at any rate. The educational movement in England is being more or less af- fected. right now. through the influ- ence of the American wife of a prom- inent Englishman; said wife is a graduate of Lancaster High school. In our own country our graduates are prominent in all circles. They bear their full share in the affairs of state. To be sure, we have not had a President of the United States yet. but that is a mere oversight. No tell- ing how soon we may. Hurry up. boys, and get in line. France hns her Legion of Honor; England confers her titles; Germany bestows her medals. The Hoard of Education of Lancaster. Ohio, grants a diploma, which makes the recipient eligible to membership in the ILan- caster Alumnal Association. In each case the honor conferred is a recog- nition of achievement on the part of the individual. During the last fifty years the L. H. S. has been contributing her quota of capable men and women to the world’s efficient workers. At the Alumnal meeting parents with their sons and daughters come together, having completed their early educa- tion in the same halls of learning. This creates the double tie of associa- tion and devotion to the L. H. S. Over six hundred have passed through her doors with honor.—well started on the road to success. May the number of her representa- tives ever be on the increase. May she keep all her old friends and win many new’ ones. ANNA DAVIDSON. Mrs. Tulia Heck Fromlet. ‘65. will spend the summer of 1909 in a tour through Europe. Fannie Miller. ’05. a teacher in the l-ancaster schools, secured a year’s leave of absence and has been attend- ing Du Paw University. Mrs. Celia Creed Grau. 'S5. of Haiti- more. Md.. recently visited I .ancestor, having made the trip from the East in a touring car. Hazel Heck, '07. is now employed as a teacher in the fourth grade of the South school building, in Lancas- ter. David Sites. '93. some time ago re- ceived a flattering appointment n connection with the codifying com- mission in Columbus. Mrs. Helle Cox Snider. '97. makes occasional visits to Lancaster from her home in Dayton. Madge McCoy. '9S. is principal f the High school in Beverly. Ohio. The marriage of Harry K. Beck. 'S5. and Amelia Klein. '04. took place in October. 1908.