McKinley High School - Nugget Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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T HE CARWATICDN huntmg for the stone became a mmor object To study the elements and compounds became the prlmary a1m Then alchemy faded mto the hazy past and chemlstry began From that t1me on many new dlscoverxes were made unt1l now the chemlsts are struggllng wxth radlum the wlreless and many other prob lems of the age Thus sclence and humanxty progress Perhaps ln the far dlstant future the men of that t1me w1ll look upon the work of our cherrusts as we look upon the work of the alchemxsts Who can tell? Harry Barth Interscholasuc Debatmg League Towards the close of the last term the Assembly and the L1terary Socxety pet1t1oned Mr Mlller to make arrangements for the forrnatlon of a hlgh school debatxng league Accordmgly a faculty representatlve and a student from each one of the several high schools met at Central tI1gh School and drew up the constrtutlon and by laws of the organlza t1cn The name of the league IS the St Louls C1ty Hlgh School Debatmg 1 vague and the membershlp IS llmlted to publrc hxgh schools The pox ermng body of thls orgamzatlon IS the Debatmg Board whxch con rsts of a faculty and a student representatlve from each school Thls ssxgns the sldes to be taken by them The school whxch wms the cxty champxonshlp w1ll be awarded a 1lver cup and 1f It wlns the champlonshlp three trmes the cup w1ll pass nfto xts permanent possesslon The constltutlon further provxdes that the members of the debatlng ieams be awarded the 1ns1gn1a of their respectlve schools On Saturday evenmg May 6 1916 McK1nley contested wxth Central on the followmg questlon Resolved that lmmlgratlon 1nto the Un1ted ttates should be further restrlcted by a lrteracy test McK1nley upheld the affirmatlve Central the negatlve The followlng composed the teams McK1nley Central Israel Trelman Robert Pllcher Louls Klem Alfred Norrrsh Bernard von Hoffman Edgar E Flory Alternates Harrls Rossen Herbert Everly McK1nley based 1ts argument on the ground that the proposed lltcracy test would do more good than harm Israel TFCIFDBU the first N11 l 3 D ' D 9 l . 9 1 9 v ' ! . , Q A , . . . . . . , V . A . . . . . . - .A V S. A . . . board determines the question which the schools shall debate, and also 2. 'g . ' 9 ' 7 1 9 - . . . U ,, .... . ' v . . . ,, . LW' . , . ' Y .W 'lvl'-'-TX

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THE CARNATION The H1StOfy of Chem1stry OLD that sparkling glxttermg eluslve metal which has always ttracted the mhabltants of the earth was perhaps the chief cause 53 of the begmmng of chemistry What made San Francisco and the rush of people to Callforma in 497 What was the cause of the d1SCOVCI'J of Amer1ca the deeds of the buccaneers and the p1rates9 Gold If gold had not been discovered 1n California would thousands of people have braved the horrors of the crossing of the Rocky Mountalns and of lighting the Indians ln order to get there? ban Francisco would not be the twelfth c1ty ln the Union but for gold Vvhen Columbus sa11ed on h1s memorable voyage he hoped to reach India But would he have wished to reach India 1f India were not sup posed to be the home of gold? Would Isabella have given h1m money if she nad not felt that lf he discovered a new route to Ind1a she would recelve great wealth? As It was Wlth Columbus and the forty n1ners so was It with the ancients Thousands of years ago in the northern part of Greece there uved a man called Hermes the father of alchemy wh1ch was to chem stry as legend 1S to history One day as he was tak1ng his usual stroll he fell to wonder1ng how he could increase his hoard of yellow lngots Suddenly a thought struck him Perhaps he could get It from iron ments with all the metals he knew of Hermes discovered new thmgs whl h he had never dreamed exlsted His 1dea spread all over the c1v1l1zed world Hermes and many other men held the theory that 1f a certam compound could be gotten the mere eatmg of it would make one young and if it was placed near certam metals it would change them into gold or silver This rock wh1ch even moderns would like to possess was called the philosopher s stone It was evidently akin to Ponce de Leon s Fountam of Youth From th1s time on everyone w1th a sclentliic mstmct tr1ed his hand at this new science called alchemy From Greece the idea spread to all parts of the Mediterranean world But after 4oo A D the interest 1n xt decreased owmg to the spread of Chr1st1an1ty Fmally the science was forgotten But at the t1me of the Renaissance old Greek writings were d1scovered wh1ch again created lnterest in it Even Kings and Prmces became alchemists But about 1600 the alchemlsts d1v1ded into two classes One class was made up of sw1ndlers robbers and pretenders who abounded in those days Th1s class was gradually wiped out The other class was composed of those who really tr1ed to get the stone by scientific means and these stud1ed and mvestlgated phenomena of nature Gradually I lic , y . , , . . . a , ' F -v ,AA . ' . , . . . , f ' , 7 . . - . , . . ' ' y v Q - 9 n ' or some other base metal. He hurried to his house and tried experi- Y 7 . . . , . . y 7 ' ! , . ' V y . . . . . ' Q ! 7 , . . 3 Zig: -Q-n

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THE CARNATION speaker for the ailirmatwe emphasxzed thls pomt besxdes showxng the economlc condltlons that necessltated a l1teracy test The debaters from Central attempted to show that unrestrxcted 1m mxgrauon was necessary on account of the shortage of labor m thls country It was on thxs polnt that the teams d1sagreed both quotmff authorltles to substantlate the1r statements Durmg the course of the debate the negatlve made the statement that mf there had been a lxteracy test 1n prev1ous years the Un1ted Smates would have lost a large number of great men g1v1ng Llncoln as an example McK1nley however overcame th1s argument by cltmg me case of Booker T Washmgton HIS parents had come over to thxs country as slaves and the allirmatlve usmg the same reasonlng as thelr coponents sald that slavery ought to have been contmued rn order to et such men The debate was lost to the afhrmatwe by the negatxve when they .luoted Dlllmgham a proposer of the literacy test as saylng that there was no better law known thereby admlttmg that the law was dCS1f able lnasmuch as lt was the best one known The McK1nley debaters showed unusual sk1ll mn oratory and out be t speaker for the negatlve whlle Bernard von Hoffman d1d splen d cl work for the aflirmattve The Judges were judge Selden F Spencer Rev Alfred Grant VValton and Mr W Flewellyn Saunders Harrls Rossen Workmg Through School URING the year IQIZ I had the good fortune to be glven a chance to attend McK1nley High School and I had the oppor tun1ty to really get acqua1nted w1th th1s 1nst1tut1on I also began to reallze ln that year the reat lmportance of gettmg all the educatlon that I could pOSS1bly attam My schoollng soon came to a close and I regretted that I could not attend any longer When vacatlon came I succeeded ln gettmg employment Wlth a cloak company Here I worked all summer on the mcome of S6 a week September came agaln and I hmted to my parents that I would lrke very much to return to school The Hnancmal condltlons however were such that I had to contrlbute my share toward the support of the home A week before the begxnnmg of school ln September 1913 I put an advertlsement ln the Post Dlspatch askmg for a pos1t1on after school hours I repeated thls three times but wlthout success Two and a 'lx nl , , . . I . y . 5 . . . , . A , . . . A ' . , y . . . . , . v . . . A , . . . KT ,J . l . . , . , . v s , . .- , . classed their opponents in this factor. Edgar Flory was by far the Q . . . - 5 7 i ' . . , . U . I y - . . U . . b , . . . . . , . . b . ' 9 . , . 7 7 'rv 3'