Southampton High School - Sea Spray Yearbook (Southampton, NY)

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THE TALLY 11 may be used to destroy the very freedom and prosperity they were created to preserve. To act the part of good American citizens and loyal supporters of the Constitution we must be educated and we must educate the new-comers to our shores in the principles of right thinking and right speaking that have made the United States the greatest nation and the purest democracy in the world. HALL DOWNEY. 1. 2. B. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. CHECK Keep Your Undershirt On.................................Sidney H. Hot Notes.....................................Jack Sabine’s Trombone Ich Liebe Dich...........................................Albie to Cawie Sing You Sinners...................................Miss MacCormack Have a Little Faith In Me.............A Harrison to all the teachers Tall, Dark and Handsome..................................James Scholtz I’d Fall in Love With Me................................Midge to Behler Some of These Days...................Tom and Butch may pass algebra My Fate Is in Your Hands.......................Seniors before Regents So Sympathetic..................................... Not Miss Blythe Red Hot and Blue Rhythm.......................................Orchestra Yodeling Cowboy..........................................Henry de Groot I Still Remember......................Seniors about Freshman year Old Love Letters..................Geometry slips from Miss Blythe Snake Hip Dance..................................................Bertha Nugent Duke Steps Out........................ (Duke) McL. (Junior dance) Gee, Ain’t I Good?................................................James Scholtz You Can’t Believe.................................................. Tim I May Be Wrong..........................................Not Mel Absent.............................................................Dave Overton Keepin’ Myself for You......................................Sis to Gren Strike Up the Band......................................Rita M. Left My Gal in the Mountains........................................Gus Harmonica Harry...................................................Albie Through........................................................ Seniors Happy Days.....................................................Vacation Worrying Over You.........................................Ruth to Butch We Love Us..........................................Mel and Chas H. Bashful Baby...............................................No Freshman All I’m Asking Is Sympathy...........................................A. Harrison Great Big Man From the South......................... Gus I’m On a Diet of Love...................................Miss Gray How Am I to Know (anything).............................Tom McL. Dream Lovers..................................Miss Delkin’s boy friends My Love Parade..................................................Orville Behler A Man of My Own..........................................Ruth Crutchley Gay Love............................................................The Freshies Junior........................................What Tom McL. won’t be My First Love, My Last Love.............................Bob About Urs Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder for Somebody Else..............Rita The One I Love Can’t Be Bothered With Me................Tim about Sam Plain Dirt...........................................Margaret and Ruth First Love..............................................Pussy and Jean You Want Lovin’.............................................Tim to Mutt Boop Boop a Doop.................................................Bertha Pretty, Petite and Sweet............................Mel and Billy B.

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10 THE TALLY Freedom of Speech and Press; Its Scope and Limitations When the Constitution of the United States was being formulated, the scrupulous Democrats of that day, fearing that the houses of Congress would develop into an oligarchy, demanded among other fundamental rights, freedom of speech and press. These the Constitution grants in Article I of the first ten amendments, knowm as the “Bill of Rights.' : “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for redress of grievances.” These rights were just and necessary then as they are just and neces- sary now. The thing that has made this clause of the Constitution seem too liberal is the perversions to which these rights have been put by those un- acquainted with the true principles of American democracy and viciously seeking to undermine the foundations of our glorious republic. The City of New York today is in the grasp of communist rioters, in- cited by “soap-box oratory” on the street corners, shouting the principles of anarchy and waving the red flag of bolshevism. Can these people be supporting a great and noble cause when they put their women and children in the first ranks that they may be injured and excite compassion? Can they better conditions for the working man by training their women to fall down in front of the police and scream that they have been beaten or in- sulted? Have you heard that the Russian government has spent one million dollars to further the cause of communism in America? To the furtherance of such irrational aims has our Constitution of the United States been perverted. I commend and heartily endorse the policemen who showed these rioters the error of their ways with the business end of a nightstick. The fathers of our country inserted the “Bill of Rights” into our Con- stitution to protect the citizens from being infringed upon, to allow them to voice their opinion in an orderly and dignified manner, not to rouse crowds of rioters and vandals, not to enable the yellow press to stir the fires of anarchism with destructive criticism of our government and its institutions. Wise and justified restraint has been put upon these rights in times of national stress. During the World War, President Wilson found it neces- sary to silence propagandists to protect the government and its citizens from the influences of grotesquely biased reports of the allied policy in Europe. There is, however, another side to this story. The people of our country have not always allowed the exercise of these rights in causes that were just and commendable. In 1835, William Lloyd Garrison narrowly escaped death at the hands of a mob in the most conservative city of Boston for advocating the emancipation of the negro slaves. June 14, 1798, the Federalist party passed the Sedition Act providing that, “anyone writing or publishing false, scandalous, and malicious writings against the government, either House of Congress, o’r the President” or “exciting against them the hatred of the good people of the United States to stir up sedition” should be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars and by imprison- ment not exceeding two years. This was an unfair measure, clearly uncon- stitutional and designed expressly to curtail the newspapers of the opposing Republican party, not as a measure for protecting the government. It caused the downfall of the Federalist party and became inactive March 3, 1804. Free speech and free press are at the same time glorious privileges echoing the quintessence of American democracy and lethal weapons which

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12 THE TALLY NANCY ANN HERRICK “Nan” “Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; Nothing’s so hard but search will find it out.” Dependable, thorough, sympathetic are some of the adjectives with which we might attempt a word picture of our president. Possessing an unusual intellect, a pleasing personality, and a fine sense of the moral and beautiful, she embodies all the attri- butes which have made her the perfect classmate which she has been during our four years association with her. Parrish Speaking Contest, '30; Oratori- cal Contest, ’30; Basketball, ’30; Track Manager, ’30; Soccer, ’29; Glee Club, ’26, ’27, ’28; Senior President; Red and White Staff, ’30. WALTER JOHN MANSBERGER “Eva” “Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.” “Eva,” alias “Al,” makes a welcome ad- dition to any company with his ready wit and infallible good humor. Perhaps the most popular male student of our class, he is dear to us all both as a fellow student and as an all-around “good guy.” Basketball, ’27, ’28, ’29, ’30; Football, ’29; Red and White Staff, ’28, ’29, ’30; Sports Editor of the Year Book.