Newport High School - Blunita Yearbook (Newport, PA)

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T: BLUE A1'!L V HITE Editorial In the sumer you scorned us, Yi: ile you • zero merry -id gay, And now------ H, ve mercy I interrupted the poor grasshopper. And nor, continr d the queen, Take up your mandolin and plv 1 The rasshopper rnr quite please with the generosity of the queen of ant, and he sun , Ch, I owe the v;orld a living I This is the theme of tie latest Mr It Lioney animated cartoon Jo doubt uuny have seen the quaint musical extrava-ganze entitled The Three Little Figs 7ell, The Grasshopper and the Ants v ill prove just as tntertainin?' and will teach a yr moral lesson besides. h.-ny pupil 5 cf Lev,-port Hi h Gchool at one time or ether, think th t the :orld ores them a livin;, but they find out, just a. the grasshopper diu, that it is they who ore the world : livin.- . —-Norman Yv. ight In the :7a, cf Suggestion Children, oaid Professor M e, re shell have i foine play here tomorry I rant thet ye shouldst liked it Cr-rie the darn. .Ccme the pi y. Came the chi1dr?n. Children, snid Lac, hew’d y- loike it? Phooey, came from the little darlinks •Yell, well, 1 11 be a chiuperty wither, exclaimed the poor professor Vva'Il heve another piny tc,merry• Tell me bor’d ye loike it. Came the children again. '. ell, hov’d ye loike, ’ queried the prefessor • Phooey and a couple o’ phooeys, came vehemently from the children. Well, if ye din’t loike the tone, vdiathe youee allee v;ante- thenee? put in the poor, puzzled professor. Hey, yeuso louse, why don’t ye git a poll tew tell rhut re rant, proclsimud the son of a poor protostaat.

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THE BLUE ALL 7 IiITE 5 Issues. monthly By students of N. H. S Price per yecr 40 P r oopy 100 Member, C. S. P. a. Editorial Staff Business Staff Editor-in-Chief—Plathryn Campbell Local Editor—Margaret Smith Literary Editor—Madeline Smi th Associate Editor—Jeanette Scott Athletic Et.it or—Jean Clark Art Editor—Charles Ramp Business Manager--Singer Miller Printing Manager—Blair Paden Circulation Manager——Russel Horting Advertising Manager—Leslie Shade Typists Pearl Hiller Helen Gibney Creta Wright Belva Rightnour Oh, the world owes me n living I. Come and dance and sing and play. Be merry all the livelong day. Qh, the world owes .e a living. So sang the thoughtless grasshopper to' the busy ants who were gatherin' food for the winter months Put the queen of the ants overheard his joyfull song and replied, You’ll change your tune when winter comes i Too-hoo-oo, too-hoo-oo, said the fierce winter wind and we now see the once merry grasshopper trudging, ha-lf frozen, througn the snow. He arrives at the small home of the busy ants who take him in and warm his icy bones. When the queen of the ants sees the grasshopper she says,

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TIC.; BLUE A1IL V'HITh 7 That will he foine, readily replied the professor, ''f3 11 dev: it tew-norrow. Bring in yuh’re selektions Enco, encore, and couple o huzzas, assented the grou; of {.entile kic. ie3. We’ll briny em i.i tew-morry.” But, tv?c '■ev.C'1 later’. I’, i Children, r.eremcorily came f.-ou the professor, I sa •, her there are t -o plays presented and you pronounced theta—to u e your vernacular—lousy It is quite perturbable, quite. For one of your members suggested the use of a poll to determine the inclinations of the group, as a whole, too rds ssa ibly programs. T is war very fitting and proper, but you students were rather dilatory and not one vote was cast. So how. can your ishes be expressed? It’s like the man who v oits for his ship to come in. The nan’s ship never c aes in, and neither will you be wholly satisfied or pleased T ith the a senbl;, programs, if your mandates ere not put before the assembly program co. :ittee. You can get nothing more out, than you put in. Small school activities cooperation between various units of the whole is necessary; end in these sundry avocations it is mcreso evident than in any other branch. So now, students, cast your votes; ask other cl sses what they like; cooperate and benefi . b. the whole school being more and more closely bound. Instead of a small minority being pampered, let the great majority be pleased. Geez de perfessor’s ri it. Tree cheers fer de perfessorV Isn’t that rather applicable in 21. k. .. too? And by the by, you remember the last issue of the Blue and V Iiite had I something about casting votes to decide'what the student body liked in the ay of assembly programs? T7e 7 onder If Cyrus h’right sent two valentines. If Fern Clouser has eate. any hard .are lately. If Edith Toomey has been to Bloomfield lately If Glenn Steckley has a girlfriend. If Pete” Schlomer walks a mile a day. If Clifford Raffensberger curls his hair. How Mr. lean likes dry oatmeal for breakfast. If Madeline Smith has gotten permission to let a bey put his arm about her. 7 hy Vainer Hoke was late for French class the other day. Youth calls to youth, -hie poet says, And it's a good thing, too. If youth did not, the telephones would bring less revenue.