University High School - Flickertail Yearbook (Grand Forks, ND)

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OLD TIN SIDES Ay, tear her tattered gears apart, Long have they run on high, And many a man has tried to crank, That flivver with a sigh. Beneath it rattled nuts and bolts, And burst the cutout's roar, The owner of this car shall open, Her gas-tank's cap no more. Her hood oft opened up to let, The owner fix a part, If the engine gave a threatening knock, Or the thing refused to start. No more shall hear a sinful oath, Or feel a vengeful kick, I guess that only Henry Ford, Knows a ilivver's every trick. O, better that this old tin can, Should eifervesce in smokey Her rattled scared all passers by, S0 let the blamed thing croak. . Fill her gas tank full of T. N. T. Put cup-grease in her tires, And gives her to the God of Flamesg And everlasting fires. -OTTO HORN MILTON'S BIOGRAPHY Once as a timid Freshman I studied all the time, I had my lessons up to date, To flunk then was a crime. Then as a haughty Sohpomore, I blossomed forth and gazed, Down on the little Freshmen In pity unamazed. Then I became a Junior And studied less and less, If teachers asked me to recite, And I didn't know, I'd guess. But now I'm a mighty Senior Midget editor of our school, I merely nod to Juniors, In a manner strangely cool.

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EDITORIAL THE VALUE OF A SMILE One of the greatest things in business, yes, in all walks of life, is a real, pleasant smile. You Will note that smile upon the faces of all the big, successful men, you will see it upon the countenance of the eiiicient execu- tive, you will look for it upon the faces of all those folks whom you like best. When that pleasing smile is absent, you feel at once that something is decidedly wrong. You find it a pleasure to do business with the happy, smiling storekeep- er, and you will form the habit of visiting his shop at frequent intervals. The smiling salesman who calls upon you from time to time is always wel- come, and you don't mind saving orders for him, even when he slips up on a regular call. You are fond of a great motion picture star because of his Wonderful smile, and the traffic officer near your place of business is on your list of friends for the reason that he always wears a friendly smile. And, why is it that you enjoy telling a certain little newsboy to keep the change '? The foreman in a mill or factory who understands the utility of a pleas- ant smile, gets things done with no trouble at all, while the foreman with the face of a mummy is continually losing men, and is in wrong even with the apprentice boys. The foreman who knows how to use a pleasant smile to good advantage in the work-rooms is a wise man indeed. His men actually delight in co-operating with his orders to the fullest extent. The thing that goes the farthest Towards making life worth while, That costs the least and does the most, Is just a pleasant smile. It's full of worth and goodness, too, With genial kindness blentg It's Worth a million dollars, T And doesn't cost a cent.

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TRUANTS Pat-'en, Al-'en, Bonlie went out walking under the Tree near the Green- berg in Stead of going to class. They went past the gate where they saw QOJ Urdahl smoking Campbell cigarette Butts and blowing smoke Ringisl . I can't Stenmo, said Mr. Kazda as he saw them walking toward the Wold, so he sent some Kinder after them to tell them to come back, but they went down the Coufljee Valleflly and escaped in a Black Strutz automobile. As they drove along the Roosevelt highway, they saw some Lyons chasing a Lambe. Soon they came to a Bush in a Grovan feeling hungry, ate some lunch. After their stomachs were Fuller than Keck they started out in Earnest. Johnson came along just then chasing a Hart and a Jack rabbit, but as they were too Wild, he sat down and began to Moen. The roads now were very rough, and after traveling for several Miles over Humps and Stones, they ran into a Walland broke their car. They then took a Gamble across the Field where they found a Schmidt who fixed their car. Being then too late to go to classes, they decided to drive to Towne, and being very Sand flj ie, went to a Miller to get some Ryan Wheat. They then went to the show at the Strand where they saw many great Americans in the pictures, as Harding, Milton, Arnold, and Wallace. The next morning when they came to school, they were called into the oiiice, Forseth Mr. Kazda if this is not to become a Fad-den you must get the Dickins-'n by Gallagher I will send for the thirty-nine Ensch LaMeter from Miss Colvin's room, and give you a good Whaling and then you can go to class, Heller somewhere else. ANY ONE WILL D0 A maiden once of certain age, To catch a husband did engage 3 But, having passed the prime of life In striving to become a wife Without success, she thought it time To mend the follies of her prime. Departing from the usual course Of paint and powder for resource, With all her might this ancient maid Beneath an oak tree knelt and prayedg Unconscious that a grave old owl Was perched above-The naughty fowl. Oh, give! a husband give! she cried, While yet I may become a bride, Soon will my day of grace be o'erg And then, like many maids before, I'll die without an early love, And none to meet me there above! Oh, 'tis a fate too hard to bear! Then answer this my humble prayer, And oh, a husband give to me! Just then the owl from in the tree In deep bass tones cried, who-who-who ? Who Lord? And dost Thou ask me who? Why, any one good Lord, will do.