Waite High School - Warrior Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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CDNTEIXITS Friendly Reformers ..... Reform Element .... Vice Crusaders ................ They Toot Their Own Horns ..... Plenty of Strings to Pull ........ The Voice of the People . . . . Campaign Fund Collectors ........ Painting Rosy Campaign Promises. Nein Out of Ten Cast Votes for Us. Si, Si . . . No Connection with the C. C. C.. . .. . Oui, Oui . . . The People Want ........... .. . We Consider Vox Pop .......... . New Political Machinery ....... . No Cooked-up Schemes for Us .... . Political Ward-Healers ......... . Rough-and-Tumble Tactics. . . . . Strong Arm Tactics ............................. Learning How to Side-Step an Issue. ............. . We Don't Throw Mud -We Play Ball, We Do .... Another View of the Political Training Camp ...... Something of a Toss-Up, Eh? .......,............ Training School for Mud Slingers ................ Candidates in the Field . . . Running against Long Odds ............... ..................... Political Kickers. . . . . Mud Slingers ..................... . . Jottings from a Politician's Diary .... .... Petitioners ....................... .... Finis for the Politicians .... . 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102-103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112-113 114-115 116-117 118-119 120-121 122-123 124-125 126 127 128-138 139-143 144

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ABLE Ballotomania . . . a foreword. .. Administration and Oflice Force .... Political Headquarters ......................... The Inquiring Reporter Interviews the Faculty. . . . . Campaign Technique in the Classroom ....... The Pee-pul ............... Waite's Brain Trusters ...... Class Distinctions in a Democracy 1 Seniors ................................... Ballot-scratchers and vote-snatchers . . . torrid- orators . . . perspiring aspirants . . . presidents and press-agents . . . the elite of the electorate . . . perambulating politicians . . . committeemen- talities . . . rear-platform hangers-on Juniors ....... ............ Sophomores .... Freshmen ..... Party Activities Secret Workshop of Club Caucuses. ..... . Our Intelligentsia -The Honor Society. . . Court Agitation Stirs Congress .......... Campaign Ghost Writers ...... Political Press-ure Group .... Petticoat Government .............. A General Motors Job - A Po-dor .......... Bigger and Better WS, urge the Pericleans Politics? We're For-um .................... Keepers of the Peace. . . Lively Lobbyists ..... 8-17 18-19 20-21 22-25 26-33 34-35 36-37 38-53 54-59 64-69 70-75 76-77 78-79 80-81 82-83 82-83 84-85 86-87 88-89 90-91 92-93 94

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ALLCDT-CD-MANIA. .BALLOT NINETEEN THIRTY-six. election fever grips the nation, the epidemic spreads in ever- widening coils. Nineteen thirty-seven . . .Waite is racked in the throes of the dread disease. No more is it a staid fount of learning, replete with eager scholars. Rather, an asylum-filled with madmen . . . We are crazy. We are insane. We are distracted. We are cockeyed. We are politicians . . . We want to run everything. . . Maddest of all are the clubs. In an eager frenzy each has gathered up its banners, leaflets, election platforms, and petitions. Each has propagated a hoard of impetuous candidates. Each believes that it should be leader . . . that it is best able to rule . . . to run the school . . . Elect our man. Elect me. Elect me . . . Promise everybody everything. Promise anything. Dazzle your audience. Fas- cinate the fools. Get elected. . . I-Iear our politicians exude their oratory . . . Peace, peace . . . peace and quiet for the office workers, say I. I-Iarassed as they have been by con- stant interruptions, isolation from public disturbance is their crying need. As your representative, I shall take immediate steps to end this abuse of office workers' time. In elevated strata far away from tedious interruptions, their increased efficiency will do credit to the efficiency of the Whiffenpoof administration. . . . And the faculty. A new deal for them is imperative. No more papers to grade, I demand! A waste of eyesight - a prodi- gal waste, my friends! I shall even be so radi- cal in my reform as to plant tire-bearing trees in the teachers' parking lot-the kind that bear Good-year tires of the puncture-proof non-skid variety . . Another is clamoring for attention . . . An end to horse-and-buggy methods, I say. If I am elected, I guarantee free transportation to and from school by way of flying school buses, luxuriously furnished, operating on a quick and efficient schedule. Passengers will embark and debark from the roof- tops by means of rope ladders . . . and the trip will be made through heated air-hot air. One club is anxiously supplicating the other organizations . . . Do you realize, fellow stu- dents, what the former administration has done for you-and to you? You have a roast and go home with a slight disorder in the dilated portion of your alimentary canal beyond the esophagus-hungry. The overwatchful chaperone is still with you. I, Mortimer Gooch, l-4'