Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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Paxton High School Reflector. 27 happen in the representation of any state in the senate, the executive authority of such state shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, that the leg'slature of any stfcte may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appo’nt-ments until the people fill the vacan ci s by election as the legislature may direct. f SENIOR NiCKS 1 == =J Swede Squire S. O. S. (wirelsss call for help) in American History. Less zeros in Miss Hanford’s grade book.—Puck. A couch.—C. Radeke. Some one to talk to.—Mary Cole. Something to giggle at.—Nellie H. Maximum silencer.—Ray S. Somebody to bluff for him.—Lester P. Something to laugh at.—Agnes A. More lessons.—Ruth F. Another visitor—Beth L. Mora solitude.—Edna H. My seat changed.—Leslie E. More 9’s.—Nora C. More Story books.—Carl C. Better grades.—Mary P. Some one else to play the goat.— Robert C. More nerve.—Blanche B. An Inspiration. After studying long upon what an inspiration is, and searching much for one, I have reached the conclusion that an inspiration is a “thing,”1 know not what, which is far more elusive than a butterfly, more useful than gold, more rare than diamonds, and more to be desired by English IV. stu dents than any other thing. —Marion Sleezer. KoOk Fi Ft Nell Jim ANn PEte DocTor BEth MaymE Noorah Happy PUck CarlsoN ED KRake PEdagogv RaDeke BarneS Auric DuX TooTs BarnEy WyliE ReNie

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26 Paxton High School Rcjleclor. SOME FACTS FOR THE CLASS IN CIVICS, CONCERNING OUR GOV ERNMENT AT WASHINGTON. President, Woodrow Wilson, New Jersey. Salary, $75,000 and allowances for traveling expenses $25,000 extra; $50,000 a year Is the sum usually appropriated for the care of the White House and stables. Vice President, Thomas R. Marshall, Indiana. Salary $12,000. Speaker of the House of Representa. tives, Champ Clark, Missouri. Salary, $12,000. Senators and Representatives: % senators and 435 Representatives. Salary, $7,500 each, with mileage extra at 20 cents a mile each way between their homes and Washington; $125 is allowed each member for newspapers, stationery, etc., and a clerk is provided at the Nation's expense. The Cabinet: Secretary of State, Robert Lansing, N. Y.; Sec. of Treasury, William J. McAdoo, N. Y.; Sec. of War, Lindley M. Garrison, N. J.; Sec. of Navy, Josephus Daniels, N. C.; Postmaster General, A. S. Burleson, Texas; Attorney General, Thomas W. Gregory, Texas; Sec. of Interior, Franklin K. Lane, Cal.; Sec. of Agriculture, David F Houston, Mo.; Sec. of Commerce, William C. Redfield, N. Y.; Sec. of Labor, William B. Wilson, Penn. Salary of each $12,000. The Supreme Court—-Chief Justice, Edward D. White, La.' Salary $15,000. Associate Justices—Joseph R. La mar (deceased, vacancy not yet filled); Joseph McKenna, Cal.; Oliver W. Holmes, Mass.; William R. Day, Ohio; Charles E. Hughes, N. Y.; Willis Van Devanter, Wyoming; Mali Ion Pitney, N. J.; James C. McReynolds,1 Tenn. Salaries of the Associate Justices, $14,500. The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments to the Constitution. In the year 1913, two amendments were added to the constitution of the United State of America. From the “Reconstruction Period’’ immediately following the Civil War—a period of nearly a half century—no amendmt nts were made until the year named above. On February 25th, 1913, Secretary of State, Philander C. Knox, signed a proclamation announcing the adoption of the Sixteenth Amendment, commonly referred to as “the income tax amendment,” as a part of the constitution of the United States. A little later, on May 31st of the same year, the new Secretary of S;ate, Will am Jennings Bryan, signed a like proclamation announcing the adoption of the Seventeenth Amendment. This amendment provides for the popular elect on of U. S. Senators instead of their election by the State legisla tures. In words and form these amend ments are as follows: XVI.—The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever sources derived, without apportionment among the several states and without regard to any census or enumeration. XV'n.—The Senate of the Un'ted States shall be composed of two senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years and each senator shall have one vote. The elec tors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislatures. When vacancies

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28 Paxton High School Rejlcclor. Official Visit of the County Superintendent. On Thursday of last week, a committee of the Board of Education met with the County Superintendent of Schools at the East Side school building, for the purpose of complying with the new “school sanitation law,’’which requires an official inspection of all school property to determine whether the standards and requirements fixed by recent legislative enactments are being met. Careful inquiry was made as to all those physical conditions which have to do with the comfort and health, or with the moral and intellectual welfare of the students of the high school, as well as of the children in the grades. These physical conditions include everything pertaining to the capacity of rooms, the seating, the amount of light, the efficiency of the heating and ventilating systems, etc. The law requires the county superintendent to report his find ngs to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and also to the Board of Education. YOUNG MEN’S Hart Schaffner Marx AND Clothcraft Spring Suits Now on display V. Larson Company