Salem High School - Clarion Annual Yearbook (Salem, OR)

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8 THE CLARION egll5lefic $exzef2'f ?royram. Tuesday evening witnessed a crowded house at the high school, where the members of the Student Body presented a unique program consisting of choruses, readlngs, orchestra selections, piano selections, solos and pantomines. The entertainment was given for the purpose of paying a debt con- tracted by the Student Body as a re- sult of bad management of the stu' dent enterprises of last year my man- agers. Football and baseball made up the largest items of debt. The debt all told amounted to about $100. About $150 was received from the sale of tickets, thus leaving a balance of about $50 in the treasury for next year. glass ?lay. Wednesday evening the members of the Senior class presented Tenny- sonis iiThe Princess. The Assembly Room of the High School was packed to its utmost ca- pacity and standing room was at a premium. The estimated attendance was 1500. The characters were well sustained and the play was voted a success by those in attendance. Following is the cast of characters and a short synopsis of the play. The Senior class was assisted by members of the other three classes in the capacity of pupils. CAST OF CHARACTERS. Princess Ida .................. Marie Hutchins Lady Psyche .................. Bessie Harding Lady Blanche ................ Mabel Magness Melissa, daughter of Lady . Blanche ................ Marguerite Mers Vlolet, a pupil, daughter of Ipse .......................... Chrissie Clark The Pr1nce.-----.':.; ........ '...';--H'orace' Sykes Florian, his friend and brother .of Psyche ............ Perry Reigelman Cyril, friend of Prince and Florian .................... Harvey Slater Gama, King, father of Ida.-Rea Utter Ipse, Klngis attendant..--Alice Judson SYNOPSIS. Princess Ida, betrothed as a child to a northern prince, whom she has never seen, becomes, when grown, in- spired with Visionary plans for re- forming and regenerating woman- kind. She refuses to fuliill her wed- ding compact with the prince, re- tires to a secluded castle and estab- lishes a university for women, where no man may enter, except on iipain of death. Meanwhile, the prince, with a lock of Idais hair and a por- trait as inspiration, has fallen deep- ly in love with lady iibound to him by pre-contractfi determines to win her by stratagem. Accompanied by two friends, Cyril and Florian, he assumes womenis dress, and the three enter the university as students. The disguise is penetrated by Psyche, Florian,s sister, who would shield them and Melissa, daughter of Lady Blanche, rival to Lady Psyche, who is determined to expose them. While on an outdoor trip, the situ- ation is precipitated by a drunken song from Cyril, and the princess . scornfully orders .the . revealed princes and his companions cast from the university gates, abating, however, the sentence of death. Meanwhile, the king, father of the prince, fear- ing for the safety of his son, has laid siege to the university walls and re- tains as hostage, Gama, father of the Princess Ida. A combat ensues shortly between the prince With his fathers forces and the brothers of Ida, who have come to her rescue, a U w 3 e:

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THE CLARION 7 and all of these the soul maye-finally musteturn away with its sense of longing unsatisfied. We say it must be so, and it is a sign of hope that it is so. Immortal man is too great to be hnally and forever satisfied with the toys of his babyhood, or even With the best that can. be done or said or thought in the most progres- sive age. iiThou hast made us for thyself, said Augustine, iiand we are restless till we find our rest in Thee? The real desires of our hearts, our deeper hearts, are not for iithings -for mere trappings and external condi- tions. The living heart must find a living heart. You want a companion, a friend, a lover, a mutual Sharer of your weal and woe, some one to love who can with love respond. You want the Father whose heart is the fountain of all love, the Father whose own best name is Love. It is a want, not merely a whimea real want, not a fictitious one. It is a want that must be satisfied if I am to remain or ever come to be in any high, true sense a man. Without it I take my place with the beast of the field and with every creeping thing. Now, I am not here to say that the Father responds to these desires in human hearts. But I am here to say that these desires are respon- ses to the original desire in the Fatherls own heart. Fifteen hundred years before the birth of our Lord a far-seeing wise man gave expres- sion to this thought: Job, 14:15, iiThou shalt call, and I will answer thee; thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands? How can it be otherwise? Man is more than a creature of God. He is a child of God. Can the Infinite Father regard his own children as the dust of his chariot wheels? It cannot be so. In some wayein the highest and best way-the Father must delight in his own children. Surely, then, His heart is ever 'open to all who delight in Him. As a spiritual being manls natural place is with the Father, in the Father. Having once learned how to iideliqht thyself in the Lord? thou shalt fini all true delight to be included in that. My own unrest is a mystery to me until I lind it at once explained and quieted in that glorious presence where every longing is satisfied and every question is answered. To my mind this is a wonderful thought, the most exalted and exalt- ing thought that we can have con- cerning ourselves: The possibilities of, our nature are so great that we can be satisfied with nothing less than God. Not simply some a belief in God, some View of Him, some creed or dogma touching his nature; not some general sense of his for- bearance, forgiveness and Love, but God himself. We must find our de- light, and through that iithe desires of our hearts, in a joyful, fruitful, constant oneness with the Father. SIMILES. Silently flows the deep river, Little brooks babble and fret. The Lord as a deep river moveth, And I as the brooklet; and yet, The brooklet flows down to the river And finds a calm rest in its flood; And I, when my; journey is ended, May rest on the bosom of God. The sun shines in splendor forever, The dim candle glows for a night; The Lord lives in glory eternal, My life is a span in his sight. Yet the sun loaned his light to the candle, And He gave to me this brief flame; The candle gives back what it bor- rowed, My spirit returns whence it came. It is well: let the brook seek the river, And both find their home in thesea; It is well: they were set to deliver. A message to you and to me. It is well that the flame of the candle Die out in the blaze of the sun; All is well if our lives rise immortal When this little journey is done. Many valuable lessons were re- ceived from his sermon, which was the work of an artist, to say the least, and was rendered in the earn- est and pleasing manner characteris- tic of Rev. Knight. When the congregation left the church at the close of the services, they took with them many wholesome and hopeful thoughts.

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:1,- 'I In, I .l. V ! t? THE CLARION 9 in which the prince and his followers are vanquished and the prince him- self is reported slain. Then comes the relenting of Ida through her af- fection for Psyche and her command to fling open the gates to Victor and am vanquished alike. The climax is reached with the 'sudden reappear- ance of the prince, unharmed, and although conquered, suitor still, and the surrender of Ida to his wooing. 81088 $ay. Class Day was observed by holding a class party in the evening at the home of Harvey M. Slater, presidents of the class. It was an informal party, the kind dear to the hearts of the Seniors. Games of various kinds were in- dulged in until a late hour, when light refreshments were served, after which Miss Bertha Duncan and Miss Marie Hutchins presented each mem- ber of the class with a felt pennant of burnt orange With the letters i06 in black upon it.. The happy company then departed to their homes to dream of receiving the much desired scrolls on the mor- row. gradualixzy gzercises. Friday evening June 15, at 8 p. m., the graduating exercises of the first graduating class of the Salem High Schol were held in the Assem- bly Hall of the High School. By 8:15 an audience of about nine hundred had arrived and to sweet strains of music furnished by the High School Orchestra the class marched in at one entrance and the speaker of the evening, Supt. of Pub- lic Instruction Ackerman, Supt. Pow- ers and the members of the Board of Directors marched in at the opposite entrance and took their places upon the rostrum. ' The following program was suc- cessfully rendered: 1. High School Orchestra;Selected. 2. Invocation, Rev. Errett. 3. Male Quartette, itPlaying by the Old Mill Streamh - Messrs. Schramm, McIntire, Perkins and Mott. 4. Address to the GraduatFJ. H. Ackerman, State Superintend- ent Public Instruction. 5. Vocal Solo-Miss Edna Savage. Remarks by Supt. J. M. Powers. 6. Presentation of Diplomas-A. O. Condit. 7. Orchestra-Selected. ALLITERATION IN S FLAT. She sings a soft, sweet song, a seraphis soulful sorrow, sending strains of somber, solemn melody that gloat and float, dark and dreary, deep in doleful depths of a downcast, deathlike, dreading, half-human, sub- tle satanic heart. Slater has a certain picture of a certain girl placed upon the table in a conspicuous place. We wonder the reason why. He looks at it occasion- ally, t00. He says it makes him homesick to look at it. Who could doubt it? High School pillow tops at the Variety Store. ;