South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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,.,4f':'-1l w if The T1 er ' i to .-.', f Q NR leadership in the Continental Army which, tho without supplies and munitions, was made up of men of spirit, determined to win their fight for freedom. '4Then we think of his election as the first president of the United States, and of how he, with such statesmanship and Wisdom, piloted the country thru its first eight difficult years, lastly we think of his retirement to his beautiful home at Mount Vernon. But the greatest and most important thing in regard to Washing- ton, is the sort of government that grew out of that which he helped to establishf' LECTURE ON PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Dr. Paul Doeltz, a graduate of South High, '95, recently returned from the Philippines, gave an illustrated lecture in the auditorium Monday, March 7. Dr. Doeltz was sent as a missionary to the Philippines by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. Besides his missionary work, he also teaches in school. '6The majority of the people in the United Statesf' said Dr. Doeltz, 'fthink that the people of the Philippine archipelago are an ignorant race, composed chiefly of savage, head-hunting tribes. There are only a few savage tribes on the islandsg the greater part of the people are an intelligent lot engaged chiefly in agricultural pursuits. 'They live in thatched huts raised about six or eight feet above the ground. Their chief food is rice and fruitg rice cooked in many ways, and a good deal of fish. Under Spanish rule, there were very few schools, and those that were did not amount to much. The pupils, chief studies then consisted of prayers and verses in a language that they did not understand. Under American rule the old schools have been cleaned and improved and new ones built, and the course of study enriched. G'American sports are also becoming popular in the Philippines. One baseball team has won the Ear Eastern championship several times. All track sports are popular, and there has recently been erected a fine athletic field near Manila. The girls started to take up basketball but found it a little too strenuous for them. BETTER ENGLISH WEEK The Program HE campaign for Better English began November eighth. The week opened by the circulation of a confidential letter written to every student by Vernon Swenson. Each day opened with a different slogan appearing on the walls of the different rooms. The first slogan was, Use No Weak English, this English Weekf, On Tuesday, orange tags were sold on which was printed in large, black letters, Good English is a habit, get the habitf' Wednesday brought, uHelp pull South High out of the mud of bad Englishf, On Thursday, '4What's your hurry? Think be- fore you speakf' appeared, and Friday brought, '4Be patriotic, don't murder the language of your country. Page 23

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t iff -F-'i ' 1... , . Q. , ,Q . lg lil' ,If z '- H Eff' . ll -, 4., V' - 1., -R ., , 11. . is ':..' . , . - ' The T1 er' aff r J,,,-SLT f 1 .mlgvgzyqi 'QM' X . Ls- - J ,. l Q 1 ' . Q-1 F i ' 'XQf+f f' - Q NX!-x. His speech in part follows: Which was the greater, Washington or Lincoln, is hard to tell, but in the fight for democracy Lincoln is the more conspicuous. That Washington, as rich land holder, should not have been affected more or less by his environment is impos- sible. Lincoln, from the backwoods, believed in people and stood for them, the plain people. In those words in his Gettysburg address, 'We here highly resolve that this nation, under God, may have a new birth of freedom, and that govern- ment of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth,' we find the thought of popular government, the cause of the common people, nearest to his heart. One of the most memorable, and characteristic utterances that ever came from Lincoln's lips is, 'All men are fooled, some are fooled all of the time, but all men cannot be fooled all the time., '4Emerson once said, 'Autocracy is like a trim ship that will sail well for a short time, while a democracy is more like a raft that floats upon a turbulent sea.' The raft will not sink. Neither will democracy sink. Democracy brings many con- fusions, many perplexities, but in providing for it there comes a great education, a training that brings out all the capacities of the human race. '6Popular government was not first announced by Lincoln, but was bravely tried three hundred years ago when a certain little ship containing one hundred and one young persons, Miles Standish, thirty-eight years old, one of the oldest, an- chored on our Eastern coast. The first written constitution of that gallant little company of liberty hunters and nation builders was the social compact made on the Mayflower, but it began two thousand years before that. Dr. Hosmer then traced the growth of the idea of popular government from its origin in Germany and England to the present time, and concluded by saying: 'LWe have a common religion, common speech, common freedom. I have never known a time when there was no turmoil. The present turmoil seems no greater than when I was a child. Turmoil is a condition of growth. In struggling with it our characters become enriched with the finest quality and we receive education we can receive in no other way. WASHINGTON? BIRTHDAY ADDRESS The student body was addressed by Judge Oscar M. Hallum, of the Minnesota Supreme Court, on February 21. His speech was in part as follows: A national holiday brings to our minds many things, chief among them, the significance of our great republic and the strong character of its founders. The principles of equality approved by Washington have cost us nothingg they are our inheritance. But they did cost our forefathers' blood, struggle and sacrifice, and they will cost us effort and vigilance. When we think of Washington, he continued, our first thoughts are prob- ably of his birth, youth and military exploits. Briefly reviewing the latter, we are reminded of his achievements in the French and Indian war, and of his splendid Page 27

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vs 'Zap 2 . , ,fig ' ,,A, l Q . , , X The T1 ev -X Q?-aw! O On Wednesday, a student program was given in the Auditorium, consisting of a morality play, The Rescue of Youth, in which the characters represented good speech and bad speech, written by Alice Anonsong a speech by Burton Beidelmann, warning South High against our enemy Bad English, and the presentation of the Schureman loving cup to the Juniors by Frances Curran, a Senior. On Friday, the last day of Better English Week, Mr. ,lohn Seaman Carns, of the McPhail School of Dramatic Art, gave a program of choice readings, which was much enjoyed by all. The following members of the faculty had charge of the campaign: Mrs. White, chairman, Misses Alice Smith, Jacobson, Blaisdell, Lucas, Fish, and Ferguson. ALMA ERATH. ITS IMPORTANCE The enthusiasm at South High during Better English Week should be as great as the enthusiasm during a football game. The Better English campaign is a much larger and important game than the battle between two football teams. South High's football team consists of only eleven players, but its Better English team is made up of every boy and girl attending the school. The opposing team is known as Bad English. The Bad English team is composed of many fierce, ragged, invisible personified characters known as: Slang, Vulgarity, Profanity, Grammat- ical Errors, Mispronunciation, Repetition, and Poor Sentence Structure. The pupils of South High will have to fight hard to win this fight. Without the co-operation of every student in the school, it will be impossible for South High to win. Many of us will have to fight more than one of our enemies at the same time, and if we are not on our guard all of the time, Bad English will overtake us and force South High to yield. Let us all join in the game with plenty of enthusiasm and unity, then we will surely win. After we have overthrown our opponent, South High will celebrate the victory as if we had slain a horrible dragon. The spoils will be divided proportionally as to the amount of fight put into the battle, by each in- dividual. The students who kill the most enemies during this fight shall be rewarded by receiving the greatest future benefit. The enemies that weiplay during Better English Week will bother us no more, and we shall be freed from them forever, but if each pupil does not kill each and every player on Bad English team, those that are left living will continue to molest us until they are beaten, therefore, spare none of your enemies, and South High will be victorious. Louis LABOVICH. Page 29