Meadville Area High School - Red and Black Yearbook (Meadville, PA)

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Page twenty-tive HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA

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High Srhunl fmrrhvatra Mary Louise Bond, Direetress. Catherine Hendershot John Henrietta Edgar Hiligeendorf Robert Hintz Robert Jacobs James Melllkfaine Harold Morton Paul Morton Lois Powell Mary Josephine Webb Mabel Cunningham Agnes Davidson Wallace Davis Stanley DeVille Robert Dollison flillizabeth Ellis Francis Forbes Lawrence Gilvair V Page twenty-four

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iiilitnrial He who tries to do something and fails is vastly superior to him who does rwthing at all and beautifully succeeds. The great trouble is in our high school is the at- titude of the fellow who does nothing and fails. 5113955 Public sentiment. goes a long way toward the success of any measure but the puwblic sentinient that sneers at anothers effort will certainly not cause much of that effort to be put forth. 'We send out this issue of the Red and Black as the best we could produce. It represents many hours work on the part of every member of the staff. We have done our best, we are proud off this issue. We think it sp-eaks for itself as an issue Larger, Better, On Time, with More lllus- trations than any heretofore published. The new members on 'our Staff are very enthusiastic and expect the school to applaud our efforts but we know better. We have served on High School papers before. We now see tl1e sneers of some of our shouldsbe boosters, the sarcastic remarks of the critics and that 'tkno-w-it-all air of the High School people who have in no way helped us and never offered any assistance. Many movements in the hig-h school have failed for the same reason-lack of support, not allways inancial lsupport, but school spirit. We need it and we need it badly. Don 'tv be one of those people who do nothing beautifully and succeed. M. H. S. may not appreciate you if you try to do something and fail but you will get the halbit and you will not always fail. Success comes to the fellow who can the most endure. 56 SF ,Xi We wisfh to state that the girl's Basket Ball team cleared over eighty dollars in the season. The Athletic Associa- tion refused to sponsor the movement, although Pgihlpiirg as many girls paid a quarter to join this Assoc- fnr iation as boys and the girls get no return for Girlz their quarters. Our girl's Basket Ball team furnished all their own equipment. They ran all their iinancial affairs, and yet they paid their bills, put out a good team, and imade money. The Athletic Association are surely a wiser organiza- tion when this goes to press and also a polo-rer organization by eighty dollars. The girls were willing at the beginning of 'the season to run their affairs under the Association's management, but the Association feared they would go in debt. Some times it pays to take a chance. S? Pl? 3? The High School of Columbus, Ohio took a vote in their student body and by an overwhelming majority decided in favor of sensible dress for girls. At St. Paul, Minn., in one High School the girls decided to w-ear uniforms consisting of blue skirts and mid- En-gg dies. Many of the High in New York have adopted the slogan: No More Rouge. Give your skin a chance to heal. Get color and a. good: comiplexion by ex- ercise, right living, plenty of air, good food. VVe have quoted the above as samples of what other high schoo-ls have done. Why not ours? There are some girls in our high school who, to quote 'tDavid Harumtt do not wear clot'hes enough to wad a gun. Their skirts are too short and their stockings rolled down. Really if they lived in the slum districts of New York the Associated Charities would take up col-lections to dress the t'Poor Suffering Childrenf' Are they respectable? We say yes. Respected? NVe doubt it. It does not add anything to a girl of high school age to dress like a '9Scotch Kiltie and surely it is no add for M. H. S. Rouge must be purchased by the quart by some of the students and powder would be cheaper if bought by the ton. Remember good exercise, as right living, plenty of fresh air will do more for the complexion than all the cosometics known. We trust that another year will find the girls of M. H. S. a year older, a year wiser, and on the way ta' sensible dress. This applies to onlyi a few. 'Page twenty-six