Taft High School - Eagle Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Page 28 Taft Tribune API-il 1 Bringing Up Junior i--1---- By Angelo Mooney--------- The problem child has become somewhat of an American institution in the past few years, and the apparent answer to this problem has been the- let-mama's-little-darling-do-as-hewishes theory which in later years results in many innocent teachers' going stark raving mad. Now I advocate the spare-the-rod-spoil-the-child- theory, or as it is more modernly interpreted, southern - exposure- attack - for - greater - peace - and - quiet. For instance, when Johnnie brings home his report card with red spots beaming forth here and there, don't give out with the old Line of, When I was a boy, but take Johnnie aside and point out the unsuitability of that color scheme, and then proceed to duplicate the color scheme where he will be able to understand it best. If you are the type of father who believes in being a pal to his son, beware, for you are tread- 1- ing on thin ice. Take this jiive and jitterbug 5 stuff. Don't attempt to understand the latest 5 swing creations, as you will only antagonize your 5 offspring who doesn't understand them himself. And furthermore we advise you to steer clear of jitterbugging, no matter what kind of a rug you used to cut at the old barn dances. The sound of creaking bones will not harmonize with the blare of a hot trumpet. You will never be able to exert your authority if you insist on wearing a few of the outlandish concoctions your son admires as the current fad. If you parade down to breakfast with your shirt tails flap- ping in the breeze and your tie and socks looking like a Roman holiday, your son will probably look horrified and think to himself, The old boy'S off his nut. Allways remember no matter wha tyour son or daughter ad- mires as the current fashion, he prefers to think of you in the outdated attire. 4, six M, .0 '1': f'!i ff- in 4.1 ' I J, ff' 7' 1 'I' ff 5 if I' , I 1 Pl - . .fp 1 5 The Angelo Product FooL FooL Driblvle, Drool Hellol!! Who am I? I'm one of the two other guys that people always claim it must have been. April Fool!! You thought I would have to be somebody pretty important to get in the editorial column, didn't you? Well, there's method in my madness! It gets rather monotonous being blamed for just about everything that a civilized C?J human being can do. For example, you know very well that it wasn't I who put soap in your candy because if I had been that close to a box of candy I would have eaten it myself. And I know, too, that you told Susie that it must have been either my brother or I, whom she saw drinking that luscious pineapple soda with a redhead on the very night you told her you had trig to do. In fact, it couldn't have been we because we had dates with two other redheads. Fu1'thermore, we heard you tell Mr. Mooney that it was not you, but we two who cut thlird period English when you knew we had been ex- cused to see H100 Men and a Girl, both on the same ticket, ibut don't tell anyonej. And remember that last firedrill? You told Miss Maloney that it must have been we who walked the farthest away from school. It couldn't have been you! Oh no, you're no dummy, or are you? Do you recall the noise and confusion of the lunchroom as it used to be?So that was my brother and I, bub? Well, our mother brought us up right. S-he told us never to talk with our mouths full, and we're always so hungry that we eat straight through from the fifth to the end of the seventh without ever having time to indulge in conversation! Well, any- way, April Fool! I'm not really mad. Taft Tribune Published Bi-weekly by the Journalism Students of the WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT HIGH SCHOOL 5625 North Natoma Avenue, Chicago, Illlnols Publisher: Frank Mocks. Any sllnilarity to nletropolltan dailies ls purely coincidental. Super Snoopers Proclaim Dirt Is Where You Find It Seen while snoopin': Don Leutz washing Betty Lou's limousine . . . Mr. Kennard Seyller prevaricating in the seventh period lunch while the believing students listen innocently . . . Leroy Moore and Boots Mossong enjoying their school daze at Taft . . . John Ped- erson applying his artistlic talents to the noise factory Cpiano to youj during division . . . Bill Hagerup thrilling the fifth period journalism class with his Swedish interpreta- tion of Three Bears. . , . Miss Alice Maloney calmly announcing that half the men who sweep the floor are mothers and have families to take care of . . . Swede An- derson tripping over his yaller shirt . . . Bob Dale telling Miss Helen Lowes she'd be a good target for snowballs . . . Mary Jane Biers dropping a key out of the chem lab window . . . Fred Fassnacht looking mournfully at his course book humming, There'1l Be Some Changes Made . . . Bill Kevan tossing a piece of candy ,into a girl's typewriter in his typing class . . . Earle Karlsen and Bobby Schaefer whizzing by on their little two Wheelers . . . Jeannette Behrens spouting bright remarks in her English class . . . Jean Cullen get- ting spanked on her birthday . . . Lucia Lucenko telling the har- rowing tale of the time she fell through the living room ceiling . . . Evan Olsen, 1B, on the third floor looking for the staircase going up . . . Richard Bergsund, 1B, trying to join the GAA . . . Violet Roohad- ze and Helen Douglas lin the swim- ming pool as usual . . . Barbara Ellis philosophizing in the gym of- fice . . . Betty Winkelhaus pushing Loretta Mentzal under the shower with her clothes on . . . Charlotte Henrikson declaring that her name never gets in the paper . . . Shir- ley Korman worrying about her homework . . . All the Tri-Hi-Y girls wondering what fellas they'll take to the spning dance . . . Lio- nel Louthan blowing things up in his chem 'class . . . Rod Velde sporting green shoes at the Sham- rock Shag. These escaped the censors: While discussing copper and zinc electrodes in Mr. C. Vestal's phys.ics class, someone asked, What goes with copper? Bill Bessemer shat- tered the silence with, A motor- cycle and siren! It's a wonder Wayne Klebe, 3A, doesn't become the genius of the shorthand classes with that bevy of girls always on hand to give him the translations. The students are taking a collec- tion for one of the less fortunate Taftites, namely Hank Green. The poor chap his sadly in need of Don't Be a For Attend This Dar A dance to display a nonsense is offered this noon by the Student co The music will be sup! those super-colossal mu the Topha.tters . The bo girls' gym will both be u the girls' gym there will array of booths in whic sense will reign. The 4 will take place in the boy All this may be had i dime. Come and get it. ,..1. a fountain pen. Any little bution will be greatly appi That's a mighty cute littl thing Ed Jarvis is crochet' it a bundle for Britain-01 bundle? QWe bet he darns sockll Mr. John Piuppo has hee taining hlis biology classe tales of when he was the the football team. 'tln thos declares that mighty mass cles, they didn't pick 'em l size, but by their brawn. Carl English has decided his homework to the Quiz I they can answer it, he'll the teacher next day, and can't-he'll be 25 dollars History repeats -itself, and these Taftites. Here are z their Famous last words: Nancy Grey: Cobina! a I Betty Craft: 'fOu la la! . . Janis: I'm in love! . . . C Frank: I'1l see you in cl tl1e windows are washed! S1nooch Erickson: Nov have I done? . . . Jean Yipe! . . . Charleton Bar! back of me hand for you mouth! . . . George Hanl the world's a stage, and actor! . . . Mary Jane Don't call me Red! . . . I Voorhee . . . That I will! Funk: That's hardly white . . . Ben Trapanni: quote unquote. QHe's the strong typel . .. Red Croston: just talking to Mr. Teusche Biill Hedges: He's a quee: Maryalice Youmans: Giv1 Smith. Betty Cameron: I'll stick ting! . . . Marge Mann: Y kiddin! . . . Phyllis Dolan: did it! . . . Tom Craft: Simp! . . . Lee Brinkwc quietly fainted . . . Bill C: I still say Benny Goodma Norman Esserman: Listen! never stayed awake long er hear the restj . . . Elaine ren: Do you wanta hear a , Janet Stone: Ye gads ar fishes! . . . Lucy Muskat: C looks good! . . . Gertrude ski: Gol-ly! . . . Howard Jz I've gotta wash the car . Nowakowska: Yippe!

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il 1, 1941 Taft Tribune fusfher Breaks Which of Your High School Classes Have You H ecle,' Attempts F Rescue Futile e boys' gym was a bloody, looking, horrible sight today Mr. L. T. Teuscher, assistant ipal, in an attempt to avert er danger in an already seri- accident incurred by several oers of the baseball team, who valiantly attempting some plays for the baseball season 1 begins April 16 at Taft with Steuben, who are dangerous etitors for any team in any s league and hold a long d of unbroken defeats, broke teck of the bottle of mercuro- ne with which he wanted to fect their scratches. zempts to repair the bottle gigloo were futile. hainions Expressed U I Ama Krank is little work of art is done one other than I. Ama Krank, is myself. I am thoroughly .need that this idea of publi- g all the smart people at Taft the bunk. Give me news about da Goon one of those lifers fellas who have 10 or more 'esD. r instance, there's Cliff Smith who still insists that he can a sax and George Wise, who lling to contend that the Top- rs are a dance band. These ant pieces of mass misinfor- Jn are only supported by con- ,us publicity. ain there is Mr. Mooney, who to tell everyone that an en- is a punishment when all 's know it's a rest period. ne people try to tell us we a newspaper: why let me tell that's the worst scandal sheet ever burned up! fs treat the freshles rougherg s what puts hair on their s and makes them grow. :ld-entally these seniors aren't .ed up like they're supposed to quiet and brainy? Baloney! W for the modern girls. Yes, truly said that a person who behind a glrl's skirt today is , coward but a magician. The line styles of today are posi- ' saddening, and their faces lastered with clay and arsenic: have bracelets made from f bars, pins, birthday candles, tlmost any old trash. z boys, yipe! They wear color asts which make a hobo's ed clothes look like a full suit. Their shirt-tails are outside, and no ties! What's World coming to? the Found Most Enjoyable Did the spirit and enthusiasm of your fellow classmates help make the class seem ideal? Was the subject of the course one which appealed to you? Do the personality or methods used by the teacher influence your choice? Write your answer plainly on one side of the paper in not more than 200 words. Name, semester grade in school, and division number must accompany your manuscript. No letter will be re- turned. A competent committee will judge the answers. Year in school will be taken into consideration in the judging. The writer of the best letter will receive one dollar in activity tickets tto athletic games, dances, movies, and entertainmentsl: the second best will receive 50 cents worth of activity ticketsg the third, 25 cents worth. The best letter will be published on this page in the May 9 issue. Hand in your manuscript to your English teacher, who will forward it to the Tribune office, no later than Friday, April 18. Shaeffer, Bostwick Will Head Seniors Last minute campaign speeches and buttonholing attempts by the three candidates for the president of the senior class made this hotly contested election culminate in an unpredictable situation as the final counting of balllots began. At last the results were posted. It was Bob Schaeffer way out in the lead for president with 146 out of a possible 255 ballots cast. Jean Bostwick captured the vice- presidency with 114 votesg Evelyn Haas was elected secretary having 117 votesg and 178 votes gave Tom Fllynn the treasurership. Schaeffer was opposed by Charle- ton Bard and Charles Trick in the presidential race, while Bostwick faced Eileen Anderson and Eleanor Vana. June Pemble, Betty Soren- son, and Evelyn Haas ran for the secretarial position and Tom Fllynn, Dan Zachary, George Wise all competed for the treasurer's offlice. ,.H..-H..l--i Gardenias to Cfor selling 40 or more copies of the last issue of the Tribjz Marion Pittatsis, Seyller. Jean Siegler, 3B, Amelia Tyndorf, 3A, 108 a. m., a. m., Hansen. 4A, 113 a. m., Grant. Bill BoBlek, 4A, 213 a. m., Her shenhouse. Arlene Schmzidt, 3A, 207 a. m., Beaver. Olive Horst, 3A, 211 a. m., Kiley. Eleanor Vana, 4A, 214 a. m., Carleton. Lois Swanson, 3A, 217 a. m., Lewis. Gertrude Billings, 3B, 306 a. m., Fink. Ruth Richmond, 2A, 308 a.m., McConville. Margaret Pekara, 4B, 311 a. m., Devenish. Lost, Found Dep't Sends SOS CalL' Superman' Wanted Things have been accumulating in 320 so that is is necessary to clean house. Among other things there is a lost freshie that the residents wish somebody would claimg he's really quite a dust-catcher. A pair of shoes is also thereg keep your eyes open for a barefoot boy with cheek of tan. The Taft Lost and Found is proud to announce that it has found the Lost Chord. It must be there: somebody turned in a piano keyboard. There is also a world atlas, 2 feet by 2 feet, that must have slipped out of someone's pocket. Lionel Louthan is looking for his brain and offers a reward for its return. He needs magnifying glass. Another boy lost his temper, and several lost their memories around exam time. The type of educational U3 liter- ature that is being absorbed by the students is revealed by the numer- ous comic books that are turned in. Will somebody please lose the next issue so that the student assistants in 320 can find out what happened lo Superman ? Milicent Sadlier, 3A, 316 a. m., Grosser. Walter Schalk, 4A, 317 a.m., Rogers. Ruth Wahlberg, 4B, 321 a. m., Halverson. Anna Mae MacDonald, 2B, 301 p. m., Lino. Marilyn Ellinger, 1B, 307 p.m., Kelly. Skunk Cabbages to ffor not even hitting 255: 210, 212, 307, 310, 319 a. m.: 107, 108, 113, 117, 207, 208, 209, 214, 216, 217, 221, 308, 317, 319 p. m. Page 21 1B Walks Away With Honors In Essay Bout Marilyn Ellinger, English 1, stw dent of Mrs. Dorothea Wlinter, wi find no difficulty in attendir school functions for a while, fr she is the winner of first prix fone dollar in activity ticketsj c the question, What Qualities A: Important for Success, subject I the regular contest announced 1 the February 28 tissue. The judges were Miss Dorotl Allen and Miss Maybelle Capron 1 the English department. Winners of second prize C50 cen in activity ticketsj and third pri: C25 cents in activity ticketsl az respectively Ann Majercik, Engli: 4 student of Mrs. Gladys Hanse and Daniel Gojkovfich, English student of Mrs. Adelaide Holte hoff. Marilyn's essay follows: The Character of a Successfu Person In this day of great talkii about character education we nen to know just what we mean I character. It is reasonable to e pect people interested in vario1 fields of work to need various quz ities of character. A doctor needs a more thoroug understanding of human natu than a bricklayer. But they bo1 must have perserverance in ordl to succeed. A bricklayer would fa if he were to stop in the middle a wall, and a doctor would be a ce tain failure if he sent patien away uncured. Of those who are successful v expect honesty of several kind: moral, spiritual, and intellectuz Abraham Lincoln became a gre: character because of his absolu honesty with himself and with tho: with whom he came in contact. The genius is not always su cessful: many intellectual gian are complete failures in life. Vl need the qualities which enable 1 to get along with our companion our superiors, and our inferior This means in a democracy a decel respect for the individual rights 1 each person and for the collectiw rights of society as a whole. ..H-it Taft Posters Given Honol The Committee on Communil Service, conductors of the Clea: -up, Paint-up, Light-up, P1a,nt-u campaign Poster contest, recentl announced the contest winners. Those from Taft who won hol orable mention are Ernestin Greschner and Norma Flasch, 3B'. who ran in the third eliminatiol and Dorothy Erickson, 4B, who ra in the first and second eliminatim

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Page 30 In the Sleep of the Remember way back when: You could get into the lunehroom without being wrung through the afeteria. entrance. We could keep ourselves awake y chewing gum? lrowding the hero bench: I dfidn't pull a single boner when he North Central representatives 'alked in. Ludden thoughts: Why not modernize Shakespeare 'ith jive lingo ? His stories are ep, but he talks like an icky. The Juke-Boa: Kid. Veather report: Fine today, cooler tomorrow, aid the judge when I was caught peeding. vumbell pome: Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November: So's my uncle Louie for walking Into a bank after it closed. vumbell Pome: 'Tis spring, The boid is on the wing How absoid! The wing is on the bofid. Vorst Joke I Ever Heard: Cop: Where's the fire, bud? Speeder: Why, officer, my brakes re bad and I'm hurrying home be are I kill someone. Incyclopedia Americana: Forbids-50c. Grammar-momma's poppa. Palm olive-life boy's girl friend. Vatif? Watif Ruth, 3A, w-ere sunny in- tead of Mooney? Watif Shirley, 4A, were raw in- tead of Wheldon? Watif. Margery, IB, and Barbara, A, were smaller instead of Bigler? Watif Florence, ZA, were last in- :ead of Firszt? Watif Robert, 3A, were a hill in- :ead of a Dale? Watif Raymond, 3A, were a Noose instead of a Swan? Watif Jean, ALA, were peachy in- Lead of Perry? Watif Betty, 1A, were a biscuit lstead of a Kriecker? Watif Bob, 4A, were an Ever- iarp instead of a Schaefer? Watif Marjorie, IA, were a reaser instead of a Soper? Watif Saul were nearer instead F Farber? Watif Helen, 3A, were a Jersey lstead of a Guernsey? Watif Eleanor, 2B, were a singer lstead of a Wisler? Watif Olive, 3A, were a cow in- ead of a Horst? Taft Tribune April 155' Oxie Tells Pal How It's Done By Right People Now take this here case of the Taft lunehroom, said our street corner sage, young Oxie Oberg. 42- ,321 1' ff , f Q' of C I G NUI Q 5 if , f ' ' X? I p. N -, l I Winnie and Oxie It's a sad state of affairs when them there seniors don't know enough to crook the little finger while guzzling a bottle of pop. Yeh, replies Wlinnie the Pooh Wahlstrum, chairman of the Save Our Lunchroom in This Here ,Crisis League. It's a doity shame the way them kids have been slingin' rubbish around. Say, it sure ain't got nuttin on the city dump! Well, that's exaggeratin' it to de extreme, Winnie, says Oxie. But the noise is enough to put the toughest guy ln the nut house. Miniature War of Movies Yeh, that's another thing all right, Winnie says. You know this Hitler guy and his war of the noives could take a lesson or two from them Taft kids. Why I betcha if he was to go around England a bangin' them chairs and a clatter- in' them trays, he'd win that war afore you could say William How- ard Taft. Well, that is what is referred to as debatable, Winnie my boy, but one thing certain it's more than us refined and cultured guys can put up With, retorted Oxie. It's like dying a slow death to stay here very long. These here kids ain't got no respect for the delicate feelings of one who I will refer to as the honorable assistant princi- pal, Mr. Leonard Teuscher. Why, do you know, Winnie, I saw him weeping big salty tears of utter anguish, which in plain hocus pocus means the guy was takin' it to heart. Upliftin' For the Soul Yeh, I seen 'em too, Oxie, but don't you think he would a been uplifted if he'd a stuck around until the seventh period? Oh, you mean the classy enter- tainment that Ernie Kowalski put on as a take-off of 'The Man On The Street'? Yeh, that would a pepped 'im up. An did you notice, Oxie, that And How to Ruin It YOUR HEALTH I - By Dr. Ebeneezer I. Fixem 1 The daily lecture for today is on capitists. This class of human be- ings takes business from the little guy like me. Now take Mr. Dum- opolis, the fruit store owner tyou take him, I don't want him eitherb. He sells apples at unconstitutionally low prices. People then partake of these unholy bargains. It isn't bad enough that they buy 'em, but they eat 'em too. So they don't get sick and I don't get any business. My friends, I hate apples. Take the advice of a fireside stool pigeon's chat and staw away from this fruit. Now to answer your health ques- tions. wk ae ar S.A.P. writes that he is suffering from Bilateral Pes Planus, common- ly called flat feet. He Wants to know what to do? My Dear S. A. P., I truly sym- pathize wlith you. My advice is to stay out of a draft 'cause Uncle Sam doesn't want a flat foot floogie anyway. O. A. O. writes that every time she attends a Tyrone Power movie, she suffers a heart attack. How can she cure this strange malady? Dear O. A. O., I suggest that in- stead of seeing a Tyrone Power flick, you see a Donald Duck com- edy. If this doesn't work, you can web my feet and call me Ducky . Ik Uk if N. U. T. writes to say that he is afraid his hearing is becoming de- fective. A few days ago someone called while he was out and asked to be called at 9959. Since then, no matter what exchange he has dialed with this number, all he hears is a buzzing sound. Dear N. U. T., No, it's not bees in your bonnet. It's just an April Fool's joke. 9959 dialed with any exchange is the perpetual busy signal. Your thought for the day Quoted from Roy Otwell: It's not the cough that carries you off, it's the coffin they carry you off in. Ernie come up faster than Bob Hope on them ad libs or whatever you call them there wisecracks that you stick in on your own! You're right, Winnie, and may- be them kids'll get wise some one of these days and realize that they ain't never goin' to get to hob nob with Emily Postmortem and that mob eif they don't stop stickin' their elbows in their spaghetti. Yeah, and don't forget you gotta crook the little finger when you're guzzling pop. Which goes also for any bev- erage, says Oxie. V rl f HOW TO FR' And Cook Your Gb ...-By Prudence Benny?- J Norma Light, 4A, has decie learn how to cook so as to fil way to her boy friends through his stomach. Bein acquainted with her new ra few weeks ago she accide tuned in a famous cooking 1 and a fashion expert at the time when she decided toilltr her culinary knowledge. ' This is the recipe she 1 down: ' Combine one cup of sugar two eggs in a new 011611 f0sS Bl Beat until the mixture isf of aquamarine color and tihen some more. Sk Pls Pk ' Melt one patent leather ha in pan and add to first mi Sift together two cups of flou' box of Madame Iustre ,face 1 and one half teaspoon of salt to sugar' mixture alternately one and one-half cups of Cuta nail polish. Continuea beatin 10 minutes or until thfz batter like a seersucker dress with skirt and attractive bustle. Pour batter 'into ar greased padour hat and cover with yards of vefing in the smart and red color combination. Ba one pair of nylon hosiery f minutes. 214 Dk Sk When the cake is done, rem from the pans. You will nc ready to frost and decorate delectable bit of pastery. To an icing which will be enjoy everyone, combine one-thlird shortening with two Kate I slips for stouter women an: dram of Night in the Livery E perfume. Continue beating fol minutes and then slowly ade red woolen babuskka. When the frosting assunc smooth feminine shoulder line ready to be applied to the Spread on the top and sides one pair of four-button length on gloves. Decorate your wo art with gobs of veils, rit flowers, and berries. The D00r young thing has in vain for three weeks to pl this cake. However, she has given up and resigned herse the life of an old maid. THE STING-'ER SEWI MACHINE'S new model fluid drive. It's so easy to that wishing will make it s if ik It STOP AND .SOCK AT THE OLDMODE I-IOSIl SHOP!! Our stockings are grand walking, but positively will run. If you do get a rlu some peculiar twist of fate, only words arw Darn itlll