Toulon Township High School - Tolo Yearbook (Toulon, IL)

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4 March, Nineteen Thirty TEN COMMANDMENTS. How would you like to have Ten Commandments for school children? We hear of the Ten Commandments of the Bible and Ten Commandments for husbands and wives, so why not for school children ? If we did have our own Ten Commandments, would you obey them or would you disobey them as you do the traffic cop rules which should be regarded as commandments? Czechoslovakia has adopted the “Ten Commandments for School Children.” They may be seen on the bulletin boards in many schools. They are as follows: 1. Love your schoolmates; they will be your companions for life and work. 2. Love instruction, the food of the spirit. Be thankful to your teachers as to your own parents. 3. Consecrate every day by one good useful deed of kindness. 4. Honor all honest people; esteem men but humble yourself before no man. 5. Suppress all hatred and beware of insulting your neighbor; be not revengeful but protect your own rights and those of others. Love justice and bear pain and misfortune courageously. 6. Observe carefully and reflect well in order to get at truth. Deceive not yourself or others and beware of lying, for lies destroy the heart, the soul, and the character. 7. Consider that animals also have a right to your sympathy and do not harm or tease them. 8. Think that all good is the result of work; he who enjoys without working is stealing bread from the mouth of the worker. 9. Call no man a patriot who hates or has contempt for other nations, or who wishes and approves wars. War is the remains of barbarism. 10. Love your country and your nation but be co-workers in the high task that shall make all men live together like brothers in peace and happiness. —Eleanor Rist. “OUR SCHOOL.” Toulon High is a wonderful school, For work and lots of fun, Then we get into work as deep as a pool, And find our grades are none. We then quiet down and do our best To learn the things we should know; And our teachers with patience always suggest, “Please make good grades instead of so low.” A short time will end our school days, Only leave us with thoughts of the past; Each of us will go on our way With success as our goai to the last. —Anice Carlisle.

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57 e TOLO QUARTERLY VOL. V. MARCH, 1930 NUMBER 2 THE STAFF. Editor-in-chief.......................................Elizabeth Tomlinson Assistant Editor-in-chief...............................Robert Griffith Business Manager..............................................Eleanor Rist Art..........................................................Virginia Davis Athletics.....................................................Woodrow Dillon Humor..........................................Philip Pyle, Dorothy Puckett Associate Editors.................................................... .............Norma Gleason, Dorothy Aby, Mildred Ham, Margaret Nye Faculty Advisor.................................................Jewel Tyler Typists.........................Doris Malone, Olive Montooth, Brady Ham TO PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS. Our High School is one of the best in this part of the state, and is fully accredited by the North Central Association. We offer four different courses of study: College Preparatory, Scientific, Manual Training, and Home Economics. Freshmen are required to take English I and Algebra I. Four subjects are customary, and the other two are selected from the following: General Science, Latin I, Ancient History, Manual Training I, and Domestic Science I. It has always been dominant here that the upper classmen and faculty take personal interest in the Freshmen. Elsewhere in this issue you will find a write-up of the faculty giving the qualifications of each member to teach those subjects. Toulon Township High School is ideally situated and built for social events of this kind. It has many advantages which are a great help in bringing a crowd. The pavement borders two sides of the building, and there is pavement from the school to the business district. This makes it easy to reach the school if the roads are bad. The gym is a very good place for social affairs, a play or anything of that kind, and it has a very good dance floor. There are also many rooms in the building which are convenient for carnival stunts or booths of any kind. —Robert Griffith. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, “Thou must,” The youth replies, “I can.” —Emerson.

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March, Nineteen Thirty 6 ■ ■ i Him ■ i hi ■ i i i i i mu i ii mi i i i i i i i mu iiiiiiiiiiii mu i i i i i i i a mi i i i i i Lntleirsiry i i i i ii ■■ i i i mi ■: ■ 11 ■ 1111 i 111111111111111111 iii i mint ■ ■: 11 hi nmiini i i iiiiiiiiiiniiii iiiiniiiiiiiiiiiii i i i mi MY NARROW ESCAPE. As I was walking down a street in Paris with my friend she suggested that we go to Versailles, the seat of France’s government from about 1685 to 1791. I knew this was a very beautiful place which Louis XIV had built, so we went to Versailles. A guide stood before us to show us about. When we arrived at the palace of the king, we entered. Just as he introduced us to the royal Louis XVI, lo, the guide disappeared and my friend also. I didn’t know what to do at that moment, but the king took the lead. “Oh, Marie Antoinette, where have you been ? I have been looking all over for you, or rather I had my servants do it.” When I looked down at myself, I was surprised for I had the most beautiful clothes on. My long dress with a full skirt had spangles that sparkled. I was very much surprised to find that my hat was set on the top of my head. I also had a four-strand pearl necklace. My shoes were very dainty. They were white pumps with diamonds glittering on them. I very innocently said, “Why, Louis XVI, didn’t you say I could buy some new clothes to wear today?” “Oh, yes. That doesn’t matter. Weil just tax the poor people more to pay for them.” Before I go on with the story, I must tell you about the king. His countenance slightly resembled that of Columbus. His long robe had a very royal-like appearance. It was trimmed with ermine. He held a hat that was big and stiff. It was decorated with bright colored plumes. “I am afraid that we will have to leave this beautiful place, Honorable Queen,” said the King. “But you know that we can’t,” I objected. “Yes, but if we must, we must,” he said. “It was only just yesterday that they stormed the Bastille where I imprison people.” I lived at the beautiful palace with Louis XVI for about three months. It was a very beautiful place. There was no reason why it shouldn’t be, because the time required to build it was about twenty-five years. As I said before, Louis XIV had built it. All of the workers worked according to his directions. Every artist and architect in Europe helped with it. The interior was decorated with gold, marble and mirrors. The grounds around it were pretty, too. Statues and fountains were everywhere. In October, the poor people were suffering from hunger so a crowd of women flocked to the palace ready for battle. Those maddened women broke open the gates and came into the palace. Finally they broke into my room which distressed me and I rushed into the King’s room. We had to go out on the balcony, and Louis XVI promised the women food. They