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

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THE CARNATION Chadro spent days and nights in the forest and at last he conceived a br1ll1ant 1dea whereby he hoped to gam the secret One day mother Bunny left her lrttle ones for a short tlme and whnle she was gone Chadro managed cleverly to catch them ln a wrre net He fastened the net to the ground and then sat back and watched When poor mother Bunny came back she was very sad She walked round and round the net that enclosed her crylng httle ones Suddenly Bunny s face grew brrght and she ran away as qu1ck as the wmd Soon Bunnys lxthe body was seen commg cautxously toward the net In her mouth she carrxed a long blade of grass Chadro watchmg from behmd a tree smlled Hrs plan had been good Poor unfortunate Bunny' She came to the net dropped the blade of grass on that xron prnson and the next lnstant the w1re had broken 1nto a hundred blts and Bunny was klssmg her dear babes Chadro rushed to the scene and he looked for that blade of grass far lnto the mght I have heard people say that durxng some dark mghts they have seen an old man wlth a long whlte beard that hung to the ground hunt and hunt untxl the grey llght of mornlng frlghtened hmm away And so you see Chadro never won the pr1ze and was very cruelly pumshed The forest and the Fa1r1es and Bunny st1ll keep therr secret and that IS why the Fa1r1es can get 1nto your room when you are so weary and whxsper 1nto your ears and brmg you such beautiful dreams K Hutter CIVICS Perhaps the subject least thought of and least understood the sub ject 1n whlch fewest people are mterested the one whlch has the whole natlonal good for 1ts Held and because of xts scope the subject most drfhcult to grasp 1S C1v1cs CIVICS ln 1ts newer sense not the old 1dea of memory work const1tut1onal documents learned thoroughly but wxth no regard to thelr applrcatxon but the newer C1v1cs the Crvxcs of the locallty the natxon Community C1v1cs And what IS embodled ln the subject communrty CIVICS7 What xs 1ts Held 1ts pr1nc1ples 1ts purpose? Wlth what does It deal It deals prrmarxly wzth practxcal problems tts field IS not narrowed to a locallty though lt may center 1ts lnterest there but embraces the nation xts pur pose IS to make good and mtelllgent c1t1zens of students C1v1cs IS essentlally practrcal The fundamental prrncrples are learned only to make one understand the actual operatlon of them What could be more practical than a thorough understandmg of one s clty country or state government a knowledge of provxsrons for publlc welfare T nt wn 9 7 n y ' , . , . . . , . . . . . , , . . , , v ! , 9 ' ! , . v - I 7 ! 7 9 ! 7 9 1 - - 7 7 9 s ' . . , . 1 , .- we 5'-Sw ' i-

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THE CARNATION In snow txme I threw my newly acqulred d1gmty away and snow balled Very much to my surprxse there was none of the usual trouble They never threw when I had my glasses on they would come and ask me as a favor to wear a sweater and cap and zf I dxdn t there was no snow ballmg One day our prmcxpal got sxck and they pretty nearly drove the next teacher out In fact she went home the next day wxth some sort of a nervous attack and I had to watch the boys I was mor tally frlghtened because I was sure that mf they were so rude to a teacher as dignified as M1ss M they wouldnt do anythmg for me after my rompmg with them so I went out on the playground to stop thexr snow balllng the glrls fwho as It happened were darlng them to do lt, and they stopped collected around me lxstened to what I had to say and rephed Sure we ll take care of xt Aren t you gomg to play? I sa1d I had some work to do but knew they wouldn t need watching and the leading gangsters sa1d theyd keep the snow ballmg over to the1r own slde And they d1d It w1thout any more fuss They are consldered the worst ch1ldren 1n the county have been ralsed under terrlble condltlons and are all round bad lots I dont understand lt When I look at the letter I am mflzctmg on you I am ashamed of myself You know I always d1d tell you my experxences and puzzles and I m sure you understand Yours smcerely A L D The Fames Secret NCE upon a tlme ong long ago there l1ved a very 1nqu1s1t1ve 5 1stry Now It came to pass that a pr1ze was offered to the person who could ra1se a black tul1p wxthm a certam length of txme Chadro for that was th1s man s name determlned to get the pr1ze He worked earnestly untll he notlced that h1s nexghbor was also workmg for the pr1ze And now I m sorry to tell you a very wlcked xdea entered Chadro s mmd he would watch and walt and then steal the result of h1s nexgh bor s toll But to Chadro s disappomtment the bulb was kept ln a room the door of wh1ch was locked w1th such a compllcated lock that Chadro w1th all h1s cleverness could not manage to open It It occurred to hlm that he had often heard the story that the forest held a secret wh1ch none but the Falrles and Bunny knew There was a certam kmd of grass 1n the forest fso the story wentj wh1ch had the power to open any lock Any one that held a blade of lt could enter where he chose w1thout dlfhculty But the forest and the Falrles and Bunny kept thexr secret well and no mortal had yet been able to d1scover the mysterxous grass Tue t - , . . - 9 . . , ! Y 9 - , , s f ' 7 . . . , . '9 . . , . , . . I 9 ! ' dl l ' 9 ' 7, ' 9 1 - ' , . ! . . . , u . . Q 9 un , . 9 . U , ! ! . . , . , . . . . . s 1 9 7 man. He was a great student and knew all the mysteries of chem- j,l:llII!5, . . . lezrsswesl . . , . . I 7 ' , . . , . - . , . . u , . , . . . ' 7 9 ' ll y-Six

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THE CARNATION pure food and water supply health and samtary condltlons, transporta tlon fac1l1t1es, care of the dependent people? Smce one comes m con tact wmth the local government da1ly, were It not well to become acqua1nted with 1ts work? Since the success of a government depends largely on the 0fflClalS dlrectmg lt, were xt not well to choose able oHic1alsP All these questlons and many more are embodled ln com mumty c1v1cs Our newspapers and magazmes take on new mterest after a course in CIVICS, words and phrases prevlously obscure are explamed we read artlcles whxch before seemed uninteresting, and our field of readmg has been broadened, llkewxse, our reasonmg powers are strengthened, we are able to weigh arguments carefully to look on both sides of a question before arriving at a dec1s1on Wxth th1s new conception of C1v1cs, lt becomes not a dry fiat sub ject, but one wide awake, mterestmg and really entertammg a truly lxve subject' gf, 5, mf. The Best Shall Serve the'State CCIVII Servlce J HE first six Presidents of the Unlted States were tramed statesmen of wide experlence and broad vlews who trled dlsmterestedly to serve the lnterests of all classes The seventh, Andrew ackson, was a hard lighter 1n prlvate as well as polltlcal life, and a bltter partlsan He mtroduced the spolls system To the vlctor belong the spolls Thls was the pI'1I'1ClplC of anclent and medlaeval tlmes when a soldler fought for the booty he mlght take from h1s captlves Many d1s honest and 1ncompetent men were placed 1n the government servlce men who showed extraordxnary sk1ll IH concealmg any fitness for the oilices rhey held They were not afrald to spend money freely on electlons, for they hoped thereby to get thelr own or the1r frxends hands 1nto the natlons pocketbook From Washmgtons admlmstra non to Jacksons scarcely anyone had been removed from oflice be cause of h1s pOl1t1Cal creed nn Jackson s iirst term many thousands of trimed publlc servants who had been appomted by Washlngton or Jefferson were dlscharged to make room for Jackson s adherents The 1n1ust1ce to the faithful and efliclent men thus thrown out of employ ment was not the greatest part of the catastrophe The business of the government was badly dernorallzed Why? Because offices all over the country were filled wlth men entrrely new to the work and often s1gnally uniit for the1r posxtlons It seems dxflicult to the modern hcusewlfe to tram even one new mald but at that t1me there were thou sands of government servants to learn thelr routme many of whom vc-re less teachable than the average mald and were concerned chlefiy itx lmgx , - 1 1 . . . . . . U 1 . ,, . . . . . ' 1 . F i. . ' , . A t , . . . L, . . ,, . . . . . . - 1 U . . . . . 11 - . . . . , . . , . , . . .- , 7 . . . . . , 1 1 ' 1 , - ' ' 1 ' . . ' 1 Tww-y I - 5' -1 1