Lincoln High School - Lincolnian Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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Editorial Support the Annual If a daily newspaper is to succeed, its territory must support it. The community must be thor- oughly interested. A newspaper needs the support of the business, professional, and social worlds. Ads must be secured, news, educational and social contributions are necessary constituents and when the paper is published it must be bought. The success of a paper is measured largely by its circulation. The Lincolnian is a community production and should be published once a month and not once a year. But due to the lack of interest displayed by the community (student body included) the Lin- colnian has had to cease making its appearance more than once a year. You, Mr. Business Man, want the patronage and co-operation of the community. One of the best channels through which you may advertise your business is the school paper. The school is the com- munity’s best representative. Home and school are closely related. The aforesaid may also be applied to those in the professional world. You want our patronage; we want yours. “A fair exchange is no robbery”. The Lincolnian belongs to the school because it is a school paper, not a class paper. Forgetting all previous issues of the Lincolnian and remembering only the annual of ’24, the student body has failed to support it, as to material. A staff can’t put a paper “over” alone. The paper is yours. Why have you neglected it? You showed excellent spirit throughout the foot ball and basket ball seasons. Did your sense of honor and duty and your school spirit and school loyalty pass with those seasons? The Annual is usually dedicated to the Seniors and they are held responsible for that particular issue. Yet, here again the demon, lack of interest, crept in with impassive face and folded arms. The failure on the part of the Senior class or any other class to put this and any future paper over the top surely means that the school, as well as the community, has failed. Then, without ques- tion, if the school is only seventy-five per cent, let us say, the community can’t be more. On the other hand, if we strive to hit the mark but do not have the support of the community the mark has again been missed. Community, give the school the best you have and the best will come to you. School, you can only expect the best when you give the best. ESTHER DAVIS, ’24. Wholesome Pleasure Wholesome pleasure is that which adds to rather than subtracts from one’s personality, character or life in general. Whenever in doubt as to whether the pleasure you are about to indulge in is wholesome or not, you might ask yourself many questions. The following are suggestive: Is it intellectual? Does it make me want to play square? Will it cause anyone else to be misled? Do I feel alert and refreshed or dull and dissipated on awaking after spending the night before in a particular kind of pleasure? Does it make me reach for the highest or crave the other extreme? If you can answer these and similar questions favorably, you can assure yourself that the diversion is one from which you will gain some benefit and lose nothing. ESTHER DAVIS, ’24. “ Dignified ” Seniors It seems that the term “dignified”, when applied to Seniors, has a meaning not found in any pres- ent day dictionary. Talking as loud as possible in the halls and on the streets, continuous whispering in all assemblies, screaming at any inappropriate time, running and pushing through the halls, com- plete disorder in classrooms whenever the teacher chances to be out, are some of the applications made by a few good Seniors of the term “dignified”. Is this a new dignity or the same dignity which Mr. Webster defined dressed up in twentieth century garb? ESTHER DAVIS, ’24.

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Lincolnian Staff