Soldan High School - Scrip Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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b, x f ' yi 4- -NCIJ'- f 'i,' af?-1?' r 'i 7'-iv- -1: 425 : sf- 1 V ,V 1-fs ..s,-5, -Wil Hats OH 0 0 Hats off to thqfiag, boys! It needs your support. Two hundred and seventy boys five times a fortnight go through the regular army drill. Stooped shoulders already are becoming straight. Keep it up, boysg 'Soldan has need to be proud of you. But hats off to the girls, boys! For two years, now, have Soldan girls been drilling in the gyms. For two years have Miss Allison and Miss Varian been giving the commands, Company, to the rear, march ! Eyes front, Mr. Soldier-boy, or the girls will have the guns as well. During the first days of military training for the boys some ignorant one remarked that they marched like a bunch of girls, but as several Sol- dan girls happened to be present, the ignorant one was made wise. We girls certainly did have fun during the month of March, watching the raw recruits. We decided there are a great many boys in Soldan who had their left side where their right should be. But never mind, boys! We shall soon have you straightened out and your foot neatly mended when we girls have Red Cross training. It's fast, too. just think, boys, for every one of you there will be at least one special nurse and two for the oiiicers, with enough left over for the enemy. We have thought it might be necessary to limit the number, but as there will no doubt be a great many wounded among the enemy when our boys get in line, we shall need all girls who volunteer. Hats off, boys, to the fiag and to the Red Cross! -Ruth E. Cunlirf, 8. Our National Hymn Q s We hear much of patriotism these days. Any Soldan student, if asked whether his school is patriotic or not will indignantly reply, Well, I should say we are patriotic! We have a student battalion and all of us are loyal to the flag and what it stands for. All of which is perfectly true. But-do you remember that on April 2, when Congress reassembled to decide whether to declare war or not, Mr. Powell called the boys together for a patriotic rally? Do you remember that we started in to sing The Star-Spangled Banner with a great deal of enthusiasm? But when the second stanza came, only about twenty boys tried to sing it and, to use the technical term, boobed it up. The third verse was not even attempted. Ought this to be? Get the words of that song and learn 'em so well that you can sing 'em backward! -William Gentry, 8. Girls' Athletics 0 0 What is the trouble with the girls and their athletics? Why does the school not hear more of their athletic activ- ities? Why were the girls not awarded their S's at the same time the boys received theirs? Girls' athletics are not encouraged by the school. But wherein lies the blame? The coaches and basketball captains have great difficulty in getting the required number of girls for a team. Skating this year had to be vo

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A - - :A : 2 -f X. P 'B r-W r v. Spring Fever 0 0 The doctors say that there ain't no sich ani- mal , but we of Soldan know that there is no more dangerous or con- tagious malady. Our teacher gives us a long assignment for to-mor- row. Next morning we Hunk flat. Why? Spring fever! Yet if your teacher questions you as to the cause of your failure and you tell her that you are suffering a severe and apparently incurable attack of spring fever, she will be sure to think that you are fresh and you get in Dutch with her. It's a sad cruel world, isn't it? When the sun shines brightly in April and May and the trees turn green and the spring poet begins to look dreamy, can you study? We are proud of our school system, but it seems to be all wrong in the spring time. When the millennium arrives, then, ah then, there will be no more school after April! -William Gentry, 8. The McKinley High School Q 9 kindly loaned the Scrip the two engravings from which Mr. Blewett's pictures were presented in the March issue. Soldan Spirit 0 0 If you can't be a booster, then don't be a knocker, is an excellent maxim, but a certain amount of knocking is necessary to progress. So it may not be amiss to hammer a little be- tween blasts of your hornsg so here goes! We like to think of Soldan spirit as being unimpeachable and on the whole it isg but here and there improvement might be made. Are we giving the right support to the school activities? to the Scrip, base- ball, basketball, track, tennis, and debating teams? Why does the Scrip have to make special pleas to get one thousand subscribers out of twenty-three hundred students? Why does it have to urge you to get ads, to write jokes, stories, editorials and poems for it and get so little response? The Scrip is your paper and you should help to make it a success. Are you doing your part? Why do the basketball and baseball squads have so much difficulty in selling tickets and getting rooters to their games to help them win? Don't we want these activities? Assuredly so! But why don't we show it by supporting them properly? Why is it that the track, tennis and debating teams have to urge us so to attend their exhibitions, all of which are free? We cheer them loudly when they return with their trophies, but we are not on hand to help them win them. Our teams would be spurred on to greater deeds by your presence and would win more trophies with your help. Awake, and show your loyalty to the gold and brown by supporting its activities. Let's start a C. C. fCome Cheerj Campaign of our own and make Soldan spirit truly unimpeachable. -WHL H. Penaat, 8. es

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-.' gr ' ' Q' A X-g-J-H - -s - - - qg, 3- 1-J 1-- ' .fr 753, r , discontinued, because there was not enough response from the girls. A dancing class could not be formed, because there were not enough girls to make it worth while for the conductor. Is this not adequate proof that the girls have themselves to thank for lack of encouragement on the part of the school? - I tell you, girls, the spirit must come from within before it can ever come from without. When you realize the benefits to be derived from athletics, and when you enter whole-heartedly into some phase of the work, when girls' athletics shall stand for the athletics of the majority of Soldan girls, then, and not until then, will our athletics be a recog- nized factor in our school life. -Evelyn Strauss. Birds, Animals, Fish and Scenery v BOUT one hundred and twelve years ago the United States QMS-, 'ff' government sent an expedition to explore the Columbia Arg. river and the Oregon country, a part of the great Louisiana, I H Purchase. When they reached the plains they were ap- -, 1 palled at the sight of great herds of buEalo roaming over the 'Great Plains'. When they reached the continental di- vide they were astounded at the number of animals and birds seen. But times have changed and many people now believe that our wild life will be exterminated some time in the near future. These were the words with which Mr. William L. Finley of the Oregon Fish and Game Com- mission opened an illustrated lecture on Bird and Animal Life with the Camera in the Soldan auditorium on Saturday evening, April 7. W The first reel of pictures opened with the scenes at Crown Point when the Columbia highway was opened to the public. The views of the Columbia river country which followed showed several of the water- falls in the vicinity and a sunset on the Columbia. As we came nearer to the great mountains, we saw Mt. jefferson, the- Three Sisters, and lastly Mt. Hood, up whose steep sides we were invited to take a journey. When we arrived at the top we were surprised to Find a small cabin built on the highest part of the peak. We had a still greater surprise when we were informed that every timber in the cabin was hauled up the mountain on the backs of the forest rangers. This cabin is one of the forest-Ere lookout stations, and the ranger who lives in this cabin has saved many thousand feet of timber because' of his eternal vigilance and the loftiness of his station. When we returned from our trip up the mountain we were amused by the antics of a rock squirrel. This little fellow, no bigger than one's fist, is full of life and vigor. We fed him 71 g