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

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22 +■ Spring. Nineteen Thirty-two SUCCESS. “How did you acquire success?” asked the Sphinx. “Push,” said the button. “Do a driving business,” replied the hammer. “Find a good thing and stick to it,” said the glue. “Hold tight,” said the pin. “Hold your tongue,” answered the shoe. “Climb,” said the ladder. “Be on time,” responded the clock. “Run,” said the water. “Take panes,” said the window. “Keep cool,” said the ice. “Get hot,” replied the fire. —MO’K. CAD. THE COMING OF SPRING. I strolled through the meadow and longed for spring to be Some where in the country to play with me. Then upon my ears did fall, A strange, sweet call. I stood in silence and spoke not a word, I heard the strange music that no one else heard. Hark! ark! ark! ark! Hark! ark ! ark! Now I spied the gay meadow lark. Then wasn’t long, Until each heart was bursting with song. And back from the south came the robin, and jay, And never in our country, were people so gay. Old Mother Nature kept bathing the earth, Until it looked as if it had a new birth. Out of the clouds the rain she drew, And into each corner the water she threw. After their bathing from top to toe, Now the flowers, grass, and trees did grow. The dandelions the tulips did tease, As they nodded their beautiful heads in the breeze. This was found by Miss Tyler on one of the English II student’s papers: “I think a girl looks very attractive if she wears a red dress with blonde hair and blue eyes.” Wouldn’t you like to see this dress that has all these characteristics? Miss Oehmke: “George, make a sentence with ‘income’ in it.” George: “Income a cat.”

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Spring, Nineteen Thirty-two 21 ■---+ RESPECT TO OUR ELDERS. We as young people, owe to our parents, teachers, and friends— respect. It is the best tribute we can pay to them—that of regard and esteem. Being inexperienced and not so learned, we younger people should not ridicule or even wholly ignore the counsel of older people even though sometimes their advice seems mid-Victorian or foolish to us, because they have had years of experience in which they have probably tasted both adversity and prosperity, while we have been shielded from the cruelty of the world by them. It is our teachers, parents and friends that encourage our learning. Who is the quickest to praise a boy or girl who tries to make his own living ? A fellow contemporary ? No—an older and wiser person; one who sees in him the virtues needed to make a future leader of our country. The older people are the ones who comfort and encourage us when things seem to go wrong. They see good in those of us where others see only vice. The older people see in us the hope of the world, because we are the future leaders. The world has advanced in culture and civilization with every new generation, so each one has to be slightly superior to its predecessor. Consequently, they watch us mature and advance with eagerness. Each older generation sees the new adopt modern ideas -with a readiness unbelievable to them. So in order to make a more superior people of us than they are they give us all they have, making us both equal, and we must add a little originality, of course, to make us superior. Since we are their hopes they sacrifice everything for us to make us fulfill these hopes. And when we are successful should we give the credit to ourselves? No—some of the credit goes to our parents, teachers and friends that encourage us. Abraham Lincoln, one of America’s greatest men, did not give the credit of his success to himself. Instead he said, “All that I am or ever hope to be I owe to my mother.” Since such great gifts as these are from our elders, surely we cannot deprive them of our regard and esteem. It seems, instead, as if respect was rather a cheap price to pay in return for such valuables, but it is the highest we are capable of giving. —V. Burkey. JUNIOR MATINEE DANCE. The Juniors sponsored a matinee dance after school Friday, January 29. The affair proved to be quite successful owing to the fact that a large number of students attended. Ten cents admission w?as charged and the proceeds will be used for the Junior-Senior reception. The music was furnished by Paul Walker. Marjorie Newton and some girls were out on a hike wrhen all at once Marjorie stopped and picked up a chestnut burr. “Girls,” she cried, “come here! I’ve found a porcupine egg.”

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Spring, Nineteen Thirty-two 23 --------------------------------------------------------------.+ lEB®®Ik§ F®n° ©nnttsMe Meadim® -------------------------------------------------------------- BOOKS TO READ. You’ve been listening at doors—and behind trees—and down chimneys—or you couldn’t have known it!” “I haven’t indeed!” Alice said very gently. “It’s in a book.” When Mother and Dad go around the corner to a movie—one you’ve seen, and didn’t care to see again—and they leave you home alone, what do you do? Do you turn on the radio and listen to a .iazz orchestra, do you invite in all your pals and spend an evening at cards, or do you put on your bonnet and go somewhere? Anywhere—just so you won’t have to sit still? Or, are you one of those lucky individuals, who can curl up in a big leather chair, before an open wood fire—and read and dream? If you’re one of the latter you’re wealthier than a millionaire, even though you haven’t the price of a lead pencil in your purse. So, some night, why not try it! Give such an evening a chance. I’ll wager that if you spend one evening this way, you’ll spend many more the same way. Go farther than “Alice in Wonderland” and “Huckleberry Finn.” Read the “Talisman” and “Kenilworth.” I can hear you groan already. True, the first few pages may be dry, but the last four hundred and fifty! Oh, my! Read a biography or two, and find out that Hoover is president of the United States, and that Jane Addams is one of the greatest women yet. Read “A Man for the Ages,” and admire Lincoln some more. Read the articles along with the fiction—you’ll never regret it! Read some humor, read some satire, and don’t forget the poems. And above all read “The Royal Road to Romance,” and see in dreams that glorious old Taj Mahal. And—as you sit there before your fire, across the flames, you’ll see dancing along, Cinderella, hand in hand with Julius Caesar, Tess of the D’Urbervilles and her milk pails, Huck Finn with his fishing pole, Tam O’Shanter and his horse Meg, and many others; and like Alice you will say, “No, dear, I found them in books!” —Darline Fickling. SENIOR BOOK LIST, 1931-32 Adams —.........- The Health Master............. Addams, Jane Twenty Years at Hull House Second Twenty Years at Hull House. Allen The Cathedral Singer.......... Amundson ......................... South Pole (Two volumes)----- Antin, Mary The Promised Land----------- Babcock Soul of Anne Rutledge.......... Bangs A House Boat on the Styx----- Beebe Edge of the Jungle------------- Jungle Peace Boyd Drums 6 8 8 4 8 6 5 5 G 6 8