Mondovi High School - Mirror Yearbook (Mondovi, WI)

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THE VOYAGE OF PRINCE HENRY. By Lincoln Henry Ford he had a dream, A wondrous vision before him beamed, He saw the maddened nations fighting In hideous conquest, eacli other blighting. An Angel down from Heaven came. And led him to a path of Fame, “Go yonder, brave Henry,” the Angel cried, “And see how many souls have died. Quarberg. “Take with thee all thv lustrous gold. And to the warring nations you unfold A plan of Peace, and use thy might To put the world in better light. “I’ll do my best,” was Henry’s reply, “I’ll launch my ship and ‘do or die’ ” The Angel shook his band and vanished. And Henry thought more of poor souls famished. 24

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 fascinating indeed, the candidates, especially the Republicans will be advanced from all parts of the country, and in the smoke of it all, it is said Roosevelt will walk in and cop the nomination. Such issues are intensely interesting to follow and every student should become versed in the issues of the day. Before many years a large number of us will have become voters and the success of your judgment and ability in choosing your ballot will depend in no small measure on how vou prepare yourselves now, and what you read. No me is denied access to a newspaper and it is part of your education that you read the practical and present-day topics as well as the history of the past. When you become interested in a subject look it up farther. If it is a dominant issue you can easily find some good articles on it in any of the leading magazines of the day. Education consists not only of the learning gleaned from vour text-books but of live present-day topics as well. Let us keep more in touch with national issues the coming year, they are bound to be interesting; let us make the newspapers a part of our daily study, say at least a half hour each day. ing of all, these self-same students can summon up enough fortitude to kick the Exchange Editor or the Editor-in-Chief for the absense of exchanges on the shelves Students, if you desire the privilege of reading an interesting and varied collection of exchanges it rests with your own care of the privilege. If you abuse your opportunity you make it bad for yourself and your fellow students. CARE OF THE EXCHANGES. Our Exchange list is constantly growing, every day’s mail brings us one or morf exchanges. They are interesting to read and are absorbed with interest bv the students. But the method of handling the Exchanges is deplorable. Instead of returning the copy in its proper place in the racks, it is left on the desk or inside the desk of some selfish student who desires a monopoly on every Exchange on the list, or by some student who is too lazy to return it after he has strolled over and gotten it. Other students persist in tearing off the covers, defacing the pages with writing and throwing them about. The worst offenders of the latter are the Freshmen but the former pertains to all classes. If has become so that no matter what number of Exchanges are placed on the Exchange shelves, hardly a dozen can ever Ire found when school is closed, the other remaining hundred or more arc scattered all over the entire room. Then, most gall- OUR NEXT ISSUE. Judging from the tone of the editorials just preceding this, our readers are apt to conclude that we were “peeved” when we wrote the above, and that if the issue were rightly named it would be that “Knockers Number” hinted at when we first took up our duties at the beginning of the year. But we feel much better now, in fact are very happy, especially when we view the very near future before us. By the time the next issue of the “Mirror” is issued, we hope to have swept all of our rival schools with victory for us, 6oth on the Forum and the basketball floor. Five debates are scheduled, the majority of these will have been played and we believe, won; the basketball championship will lie almost clinched and the “Mirror” will have gone through over a half years publication after having established a larger paper than all precedents; and on the whole we are very optimistic. Really, what more could we wish for? The cooperation of the students is admirable. (Some students are kicked on in our outbursts above but as mentioned before, they are only a chosen few, and an insignificant and purely imitational class, not representing the big majority of our true students.) The spirit is great. Half the victories are won already because of the encouraging support the students are lending. With this outlook before us this “Mirror’’ reaches you. When you receive the next issue, may it be one full of emulation and rejoicing over a successful outcome of our interscholastie contests. The next issue is picked for an interscholastic number, and students, let’s make it a good one. 23

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“I must do my duty” was the heros thought, “Such a lovely message the Angel has brought,” He rose up from his peaceful dream, The world in Peace to him did seem. lie on the ocean waves does sail, While many a critic says, “Henry, you’ll fail. Your millions now are spent for nought, A dollar's not much when Peace is sought.” But Henry, brave, is determined more,— He’ll sail ’til he reaches that far-olf shore. But. the night before Christmas he fell asleep, And dreamt of a palace on a mountain, steep. The rulers of the warring nations were there. And Henry was given the foremost chair The frivolous, carefree and jovial crown-heads, Were singing and dancing, while the Sultan led. In merry carousal they all danced ’round. Singing. “Peace on earth to the world expound” While the King of Hungary and of England too Were drinking champagne and were out for a stew. The Czar on his feet was like a feather, He and the Kaiser danced together. Then the Czar cried out to his friend the Kaiser, •‘Iajt’s drink some more of that old ‘Bud-weiser’ ” They drank and were merry, but our biave Henry Ford Was busy counting the gentlemens swords, Which all had laid down and promised to leave, And assured our Henry that Peace he had achieved. The brave German Band played all the while, American tunes were played bv the mile. But when the Teutons “Im Vaterland” played, To the pile of swords the monarchs did raid. They slashed and cursed at each other in hate, Henry thought the Kaiser would sure meet his fate, In fear Henry ran to his ship in the Bay. He pulled out from the harbor without much delay. When Henry woke up lie wondered again Where the Angel of Peace all this time had been. “If the Angel of Peace has turned in” he said, “This boat of mine will go back in its shed.” 25