Mount Vernon High School - Forum Yearbook (Mount Vernon, OH)

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22 THE Cincinnati, O., Dart, Ashtabula, O., Echo, Clay City, Ind., Echo, Portsmouth, O., Fram, Sandusky, O., Houghten Star, Houghten, N. Y., Kingfisher, Kingfisher, Oklahoma, Lesbian Herald, Frederick, Md., Owl, Fredericktown, O., Optic, Co- lumbus, O., Pine Breezes, Placerville, Cal., Sealrchlight, Westerville, Oi., So- dalian, Wilberforce, O., Somerset Idea, Somerset, Ky., Student C2J, Detroit, Mich., Tech Monthly, Scranton, Pa. The Echo, Portsmouth, O., is a neat and well arranged paper with a very attractive cover design. What you say in your criti- cism on our paper is indeed true, but it was not lack of energy on the part of the staif, as you supposed it to be, that caused us to use the vacant advertising space-we had a sufficient amount of ad- vertising matter and it was with a definite object in view that those pages were in- serted. An excellent literary department is to be found in the Dart, Ashtabula, O. The Five Shakespearean Lectures in the literary department of the Somerset Idea, Somerset, Ky., are very interesting. The Owl, Fredericktown, O., is a well- balanced paper with a good literary de partment and a well-edited exchange col- umn. The cover design of the Student, De- troit, Mich., is very attractive. This com- bined with the ability of the varous edi- tors and the quantity and quality of the material makes yours an excellent paper. The appearance -of the High School Echo, Clay City, Ind., would be greatly improved by a cover design and more at- tractive colors. Your arrangement is poor and your exchange column rather weak in comparison with what it could be FORUM with the number of exchanges you have. However, your material is good and your departments are all well-edited. A very instructive feature and also one that is not generally used by the high school maga- zine is found in your Educational dc- partment. Although the look of sameness is re- tained in the fast color and unchange- able design of the cover of the Tech Monthly, Scranton, Pa., the material is good and is always neatly and attractively arranged. 4 The Athletic Number of the Fram, San- dusky, O., contains two well-Written stories. We received a few days ago an excel- lent, entertaining, and especially attract- ive magazine-Pine Breezes-from Placer- ville, Cal. This paper is published an- nually and hence contains a great deal of valuable material, the product of a care- ful preparation. It abounds in splendid cuts and half tones and in addition to well written stories and poems there are sev- eral special departments that are very in- teresting. i.. -O Value of Education. It has long been a recognized fact that the educated man is of greater value to the world than the uneducated man, but we seldom realize in dollars and cents just how much he is worth. Take, for instance, a course in our own city schools. We have about twenty days in each school month, there are nine months in each school year, and twelve years is a school course. By simple multiplication we find that there are 2160 days in the twelve years. By the present system there are five and one-fourth hours in each school day, or 11,340 hours in the com- plete course. The average day laborer

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THE FORUM 21 X 'Il l . -0 'YU ,. W WCW X22 l .451 Wal' ill r ' 4 - .fwvy if K ,mf X., K P I-1 r , V -vs, .QTY Charles West, Editor ITH this issue of the Forum Q W are finished the efforts of the 5, ,V Exchange editor, but ,with B' L the natural feeling of glad- ness and relief which is ex- perienced at this particular time of the year comes a sigh of regret -regret that our pleasant task is over. For indeed it has been a great pleasure for us to read and criticize the papers that have come before us and receive in return such advice and compli- ments as they have bestowed upon us in the Exchanges Great benefit has been derived from the use of this column, for in this way we were able to profit by the suggestions given by other papers to aid our correcting mistakes and overcoming ditiiculties which they themselves had at some time before experienced. We in turn have sought to render a fair and just opinion of all the papers that we have re- ceived and to help them and offer sug- gestions when it was in our power to do SO. We wish to thank our exchanges for the favors we have received and also for the many papers that have been sent to us this year. We also congratulate the edi- tors of these for their excellent produc- tions and wish them success and prosper- ity in the future. In conclusion, students, let us urge you to support The Forum faithfully and give whatever aid you can to those directly connected with it so that they can produce such a paper that you can with pride point to the fact that The Forum repre- sents your school, The Mt. Vernon High School. We acknowledge with thanks the re- ceipt of the following: Advance, Hiram, O., Budget, Lawrence, O., Comus, Zanesville, O., Courier f2j,

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THE FORUM 23 receives about S500 per year, the average educated man receives a thousand more dollars per year. Counting the average period of service of a man as twenty-five years, the educated man would receive 325,000 more than the day laborer. Di- vide 825,000 by 12,340, the number of hours in twelve years' schooling, and we have more than two dollars for every hour spent in school. Education does pay from a financial standpoint.-Dart. Breaking it Gently. A Southern planter, on his return from an European trip, was met at the station by his old colored servant. Well John, said the planter during the drive to his home, what's happened since I've been away? Jes' can 't think o' nothin', Boss, re- plied the old servant, slowly scratching his head, 'ceptin' dat de dog daid. That 's not very startling, though I'm sorry of course. But he was getting quite old. What did he die of? I don' know, just positive, but I's an idea dat he done eat too much roas' hoss flesh. Iudeed! And where did he get the roast horse flesh? Well, you see, Boss, de ole gray mare done got roasted to def. You donlt say so, John! How did that happen? Well, Boss she war in de barn when de barn burned down. You don't mean to tell me that my barn has burned down? How did it catch tire? Don' know 'zactly, but we sort of specks it ketched from de house when de house burned down. Oh that's awful news! How in the world did the house catch ire? Why, Boss dat's de mystery, deed it is. But I do heah' em say as how some candles upset from round de corpse an' set fire to de de house. Corpse! did you say, John? What corpse? Has anybody died? 'Deed dey has, sah, yo' mudder-in- law has died. Oh this is terrible. What did she die of? Well, sah, we couldn 't see dat any- thing was de matter, but I heah' 'em say dat she died of shock. Died of shock? For heaven 's sake man what could have shocked her? Why, Boss, I spec' twas on account 0' yo' wife runnin' away wif the coachmanf' -Ex. Cl li How's yer wheat? First rate. Pigs doin' well? Fine. ll That puny colt come round alright? He sure did. Glad to hear things is so likely, Bill, How's yer wife? if If Mr. Jones had recently become the father of triplets. Meeting him on the street the minister congratulated him. Well, Jones, he said, I heard the Lord has smiled on you. Smiled on me? repeated Jones. He laughed out loud at me. laughed out loud at me. -Ex. Minister- Johny, do you know whe-re little boys go that fish on Sunday? Johnny- Sure, follow me an' I'll show you. -Ex. Class Stones. Freshman-Emerald. Sophomore-Blarney Stone. J unior-Grindstone. Senior-Tombstone. The Forum, Mt. Vernon, O., is a neatly arranged paper. Your stories are a trifle short.