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

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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'

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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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TI-IE. CARINATION half school weeks passed and all my hopes of contlnumg day hngh chool vamshed But fortunately I met an old frlend of mme who told me of a cer tam factory 1n wh1ch students of un1vers1t1es were employed after school hours As soon as I heard thxs I made arrangements to speak tc the manager of that concern To my surprrse I was gxven a posltlon my work begmnmg the very next day I re entered school at once My workmg hours were from 5 30 p m to ro 30 p m The flrst week I earned S3 37 And the h1ghest amount that I earned the frrst year was S5 47 per week My total 1n come durmg that year was S140 68 Of thls money I gave SIIG 77 to my mother and the balance I kept for my schoolmg Then the next questxon was how to get my home work My wrltten home work was done between the close of school and gomg to work whxle the work wh1ch requlred no wrrtmg I dld on the street car go1ng back and forth to work At one t1me I had a Job makmg concentrated filaments on a machme lathe Each one of these filaments requxred from two to four mmutes contxnuous collmg Then whlle the machme was run mng It d1d not requlre much attentlon and I took advantage of these few mmutes to read or study lessons In this way I managed to com plete my second year of hlgh school successfully that IS wrthout a failure 1n any subject During the followmg vacatlon I was able to save up a l1ttle money whxch made me feel qulte confident that I could return to school IH September Thxs t1me I returned to school wrthout a days delay I agam worked after school but thls t1me at an average week s mcome of S7 ZQ I-Iavlng completed the two years of language wh1ch was requxred my course I recelved five more study per1ods a week Thls enabled me to do conslderable home work durmg school hours My servlces rendered ln the factory seemed very satlsfactory smce durmg the entlre t1me no complamt was made agamst me Thls very fact made me feel the more certam that after all I mlght eventually have the chance to graduate from McKinley My hours of work then were from 3 untxl IO p m and many tlmes until 2 a m Fortunately enough I have been able to keep thls job up to the present t1me and I also expect to keep lt for the future My present hours are from 5 p m untrl II 30 p m Thus up to the present t1me havxng always passed m all my sub jects wxth an entlre average of G have I almost worked my way through hxgh school and I hope to graduate this commg june Another questlon IS to whom do I owe my educat1on9 Accordmg T nt One v ' 9 S ' . , - . ' v . . , . , . ! . , . . . . . Y 7 3 l . . . , . . . , . , . . In , . 3 7 7 . ., . . . , . 1 v ' ' ' ' nt U! 9 , , , , . we y-