Pendleton High School - Wakeipa Yearbook (Pendleton, OR)

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The lantern HE LANTERN, Pendleton High Schoolls newspaper, began its career iu 1916. This paper grew out of lllakawan, a paper that had been only a partial success. Harold Young, commercial instructor, was the founder of the Lantern and it is he who has put it on the present successful basis. The first editor of the Lantern was Harlan Fell. As the official organ of the Student Body of Pendleton High School, the Lantern is one of the prominent activities of the school. The Junior class is the news staff, while the editorial staff, which is composed of Seniors, comprises an editor and assistant, a business manager and assistant and cartoonist. The editor and business manager are elected by the Student Body. The Lantern is a money making activity, as the advertisements given by the business men of Pendleton pay for the printing of the two issues a month. Thus, the money obtained from the subscriptions is an asset of the Student Body. Each year, the Lantern staff offers a Lantern cup to the best all around student in the Senior class of that year. It would be of greatest advantage to the Lantern and a further source of financial profit to the Student Body if the high school possessed its own printing press and could save the large amount of money spent each month for printing the paper. The Lantern hopes that this will be the next step in making the paper what it should be-a publication thoroughly representative of the school and altogether the work of the students. The Lantern has increased progressively in scope and quality from year to year and receives many favorable comments from exchanges. It is one of the few high school papers of this part of the country which has a literary department, and this is a feature which is generally complimented. Considering the success of the Lantern so far, it is certain that the official paper of the Pendleton High School will become always more success- ful as the years go by. l78l

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e Qihiturc E HIGH SCHOOL EDITOR sat in his non-swivel chair pondering deeply. Ink bottles, pen wipers, paper and paste were strewn about and over him in profusion. A typewriter stood at one e11d of the long table, its keys still smoking gently in the close atmosphere. Great drops of ink fell unheeded from his poised pen, onthe sheets of paper beneath. Sweat poured from his every pore. Night began to fall. After it had ceased falling, the editor looked at his watch, sighed, and slowly ate a fried egg he had 'thoughtfully saved from his breakfast. Resuming work, he again put his feet on the table and sank into thought. After two or three hours elapsed, an inspiration struck him. Recoiling from the impact he wrote deliriously for several minutes. Ink spattered all over the room, so great was his outburst of energy. Reaching out one hand he drew his typewriter to him. Inserting several sheets of paper hurriedly, he started writing feverishly, pausing only now and then to pour cold water over the glowing machine. The town clock struck eleven times. HIt must be about half past nine, he muttered, half to himself and half to somebody else. Casting aside his typewriter he resumed his distracted air. The ink in the ink bottles slowly dried up, but at last he resumed writing, this time carefully choosing his words from -the dictionary which stood at his elbow. His task completed he set to work gathering up the material. First, in his orderly way, he went carefully around the room, working in concentric circles toward the center, gathering up the papers as he went. Arranging them in a. neat pile, he carefully thumbed them through with his thumb. The poems he accurately measured with his metre stick, afterwards changing the result to feet by'a simple problem in calculus. The jokes he was unable to correct. as he became suffocated with laughter at each attempt to read them. The other material he corrected carefully, pausing to insert a comma here, lift out a period there, or remove a paragraph. Having completed the entire task, including the attachments of heads with pins specially prepared for the purpose by the Walla Walla Baby Supply Company, he rose to his full height, carefully straightening his back as he did so. Slowly and with long strides he left the room. JOHN BECKWITH. I S0 l