Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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THE PAXTON HIGH SCHOOL REFLECTRO construed to mean two-thirds of the members actually present and voting. Speaker Clark ruled that a two-thirds vote of all the membership was not necessary. The protest declares that even If the proposed amendment should be ratified by three-fourths of the states it would not be valid since there was a flaw in its inception. If this objection should be conceded by the present Congress, or sustained by the Supreme Court, in the event that body should be called upon to determine the question, other amend- ments might le invalidated. It has been suggested, that this is the real :motive of the Georgia legislature; for. both the 14th and 15th amendments are charged with some similar weak- ness, and these amendments which resulted from conditions relating to the civil war, its causes and results, have not always been accepted by the South as desirable. The class in Civics should keep track of this question during the next fe- r months, and see how it termin- ates. FOR THE CIVICS CLASS Ten Pledges That the New President and the 63rd and 64th Congresses are Expected to Keep. 1. Speedy reduction in the tarifT. 2. Financial reform and ample cre- dit under government control. 3. Civil prosecutions against trusts and criminal proceedings against trust organizers. 4. Two amendments to the consti- tution—one providing for the popular election of U. S. Senators, and the oth- er providing for a federal income tax. 5. Congres-ional action limiting the 5° president of the U. S. to a single term. C. Economy in government expen- ses. 7. Free use of Panama Canal Dy American coast-wise vessels. 8. Efficient supervision and rate regulation of rail roads, express, tel- egraph and telephone lines.” 9. Conservation of resources for tue benefit of the people. 10. Prohibition of corporations from contributing to campaign funds. The above is a brief statement of the leading pledges of the Democratic platform on which Woodrow Wilson was elected president of the United States. The new democratic members of the 63rd Congress are bound by the same pledges; and as the Democratic party will soon be in control of both the legislative and executive machin- ery of the Nation, we may reasonably expect all of these pledges, both in principle and spirit, to be faithfully kept. THE SEVEN MODERN WONDERS OF THE WORLD. Recently 700 European and Ameri- can scientists were asked by Popular Mechanics to name what they consid- er the seven wonders of the modern world. The following were selected: Wireless, Telephone, Aeroplane, Rad- ium. Anticeptics and Antitoxines, and the X-Ray. It may be interesting to compare and contrast these with the seven wonders of the ancient world, which were the Pyramids of Egypt, Pharos (lighthouse) of Alexandria, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Temple of Diana, Statue of Jupiter by Phidias, Mauso- leum of Artemisia, and the Colossus of Rhodes.

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49 THE PAXTON HIGH SCHOOL REFLECTOR subject, shall be excused from taking the examination in that subject l.i which his grade is the highest,provid- ed suoh grade is not lower tha» 75 per oent. Rule VII.—All high school students who fall below 95% in spelling will he required to take an examination in that subject at the close of each se- mester. Supplementary Rules. (1) . The maximum daily average shall not be higher than 95% in any subject except spelling. (2) . All examination papers shall be graded on a scale of 100%. (3.) The semester grades in spelling shall be averaged with the semester grades in English in such a way as to count one-fifth. Thus, if a semester grade in English is 75%, and the se- mester grade in spelling is 85%, the recorded grade in English will be 77%. (4.) For each absence from class, one per cent will be deducted from the average daily grade, provided that satisfactory evidence is not given to the teacher within two weeks that the work missed has been “made up.’’ (5.) Sudents who are absent from examinations without satisfactory ex- cuses, or who, fail to hand in their manuscripts, will.be marked zero and credit shall be withheld. (6.) In computing the final semes- ter grades, daily grades shall be coun- ted as two points and the examination grades as one point. (7). Students who make an aver- age grade of 75% in any subject will be given credit for the semester’s work in that subject. (8.) Students making 65% and less than 75% will be conditioned, and a second examination may be taken witbin one month. Will the Congressional Resolution Submitting the 16th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States be Ratified by Three-fourths of the States? On May 13, 1912, the Sixty-second Congress of the United States passed, by a two-thirds vote, a joint resolu- tion providing for what will be known as the ICth Amendment to the Con- stitution when it is ratified by three- fourths of the states. Several states have already ratified the proposed amendment, and since nearly three-fourths of the states, pri- or to the passing of the Congression- al resolution, declared in favor of the general principle, in one form or an- other, there has been little question that the amendment would in due course receive the required number of ratifications (thirty-i )) to make it binding upon all. » Rut now it appears that a serious objection has been raised unexpected- ly by the legislature of Georgia. That august body has refused to ratify the amendment on the ground that it was not sanctioned by the constitutional two-thirds vote of both houses of con- gress. The constitution says that two-thirds of bo h houses” must sanction a proposed amendment be- fore it can Le submitted to the state for ratification. In the protest which the Georgia legislature has submitted to the G2nd Congress now in session, it is stated that the vote by which the amendment was approved by the house was only two-thirds of those present and voting, and not a full two- thirds of the total membership. It is a question of the meaning of the con- stitutional phrase “two-thirds of l oth houses”. The expression has usually been

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THE PAXTON HIGH SCHOOL REFLECTOR J» ,1 HGH SCHOOL CALENDER Dec. 16—Nothin’ doin’. Dec. 17—The faculty and one Jun- ior girl held a lengthy session in the office after four p. m. Dec. 18—The Freshman number of the “Reflector was issued. Dec. 19—The students discovered they had a musical genius in their midst. For particulars ask Marian S. Dec. 20—One Senior boy could stand it no longer, so he took the afternoon off and jurneyed to Gilman to meet “her”. Dec. 23—Ethel W. lost her equilib- rium on the front stairway. Dec. 24—Mr. Rogers gave the chem- istry class their Christmas gift, in the form of a quiz. Jan. 2—Everybody is back at hard work after a much needed vacation. Jan. 3—This broke all records as visitors’ day.”. v Jan. 6—Mr. Papineau flooded the school yard. He took so much delight in doing it, that we can not decide whether he did it for his own pleas- ure. or the students’. Jan. 7— C’mon and slide—‘Every- body’s doin’ It.’ ” Jan. 8—Still slidin.’ Jan. 9—Nothing but grind on our lessons. Jan. 10—Too bad. Sophies, that the rain spoiled your bob-sled party. Jan. 13—The thirteenth and a Mon- day at that. Jan. 14—Clithroe made a social call. Jan. 15—Clithroe called again. Jan. 16—Mrs. Daniels of Greenville, 111., gave the high school students a short talk on Household Science.” Spelling exam. Jan. 17—E. J. did not have his alge- bra. H. A.'s paper failed to reach him. Jan. 20—Call is issued to Sopho- mores and Seniors for their report cards. The girls lunched” at school on account of bad weather. Menu: banan- as and cheese-straws. (Continued on page 55.) THEMES SELECTED FROM THE RHETORIC CLASS. An Unpleasant Experience. (By Marie Newman, T5.) Charles Lyons was making his way rapidly down the street, whistling as if his life depended upon it. A block or so ahead of him, he saw the sign of the commercial bank, his destina- tion. In his pocket he had a roll or bills which a neighbor had asked him to deposit in the bank for her. At first he had thought it might be well to hold the money in his hand to guard against losing it, but some of his friends had kindly presented him their greetings in form of snow balls, and he could not resist the temptation to “fire” one back. So hastily putting the money in his pocket, he fired several back, and hurried on. On reaching the bank, he was re- lieved to find that it had not been closed. He went in, and. drawing off his mitten, reached into his pocket for the money. Why, he must have put it in another pocket! No, it wasn't there either! Finally, after a thorough search, his first awful dreads were now actual facts. The money was lost. What should he do? Go back and tell the neighbor that he had lost the money or got and look for it. He de-' cided upon the latter course. He re- traced his steps to the place where he had stopped to make snow-balls, but no trace of the lost money could be found. By this time it had grown quite dirk, ‘o (here was no use in