Wells High School - Crimson and Gray Yearbook (Southbridge, MA)

Text from Pages 1 - 206 of the 1930 volume:

Jacob Edwards Library 236 Main St. Southbridge, MA 01550 I EDWARDS LIBRARY iilllllllllllllllilllllllilill 3 8136 0002 0169 7 Jacob Edwards Library 236 Main St. Southbridge, MA 01550 the crimson   « gray j m 1 novembev nineteen hundred and twenty nine Compliments of E. G. Walker Coal Co. Snell Manufacturing Co. Established 1790 Manufacturers of Ship Augers — Auger Bits — Carpenters ' Augers Car Bits — Machine Bits — Boring Machines, Etc. FISKDALE MASSACHUSETTS Factory: Fiskdale, Mass. ... - New York Office: 113 Chambers Street PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS IRENE F. RICHARDS BEAUTY SALON SPECIALIZING IN PERMANENT WAVES Room 27, Blanchard Bldg. For Appointmenas Call 181 Youjngr Men ' s Christian Association SUMMER SHOWERS Refreshing After Work-outs Cool Gym 25% Below Street Special Summer Terms Raymond M. Litchfield Give Your Photo For Christmas Portrait Photographer Commercial 10 Chapin Street Telephone 166-W Southbridge, Mass. 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EMC BENVENUTI HOWARD BINGLEY WILLIAM WHITNEY FREDERICK WAITE Treasurer ELIZABETH ST. ONGE Assitant Treasurer RITA HOUDE Suscription Manager KATHLEEN BURNS Assistants JOHN STEEN RITA EARLES CHARLES CLARKE Alumni Editor GWENDOLYN MONROE Assistant Alumni Editor . . . . . . . MARGARET WALKER Athletic Editor . MARY GABLE Assitant Athletic Editor WILLIAM fiLLYER E.xchange Editor . .WANDA KWARCIAK Assistant Exchange Editor DOROTHY LAMPHEAR Local Editor . . . : CATHERINE McKINSTRY Assistant Local Editor RUTH CLOUGH Art Editor ARTHUR PROULZ Joke Editor ROLAND UNDERWOOD Assistant Joke Editor GEORGE DARLING Typists IRENE DUCLOS BLANCHE L ' HEUREUX EDNA PINSONNEAULT TABLE OF CONTENTS Literature - 7 Book Review ---- ----14 Locals -- 16 Alumni Notes - ---18 Athletics 20 Exchanges 22 Jokes _ - _ _ 24 DAVID LENTI WALKOVER ARCH PRESERVER CRAWFORD SHOES FULL LINE OF HOSIERY— IN ALT. COLORS —SHOE REPAIRING— 11 ELM STREET 1 LITERAXUR THIS MATTER OF IMPRESSIONS One ' s first impression of something or of somebody is almost always the strong- est, the most important and the most last- ing. A first impression which is pleasant is strong enough to overcome many bad impressions which may follow. Is it not true that most people meeting others for the first time try to have their most pleas- ing expression, their most agreeable man- ner, their most becoming aspect in the face? This only serves to prove that the first impression is the most important one but it should be followed by others that are also good. The first impression of our high school is unmistakably very pleasant. Through many years of careful labor the ivy which has been planted from year to year by each graduating class has grown so that it covers all of the original high school building. If one were to travel through the surrounding towns in the county as various athletic teams have, one would discover high schools which are newer, which are of more modern equipment, and are of more pleasing architecture, but no- where would there be found a high school which has that mellow dignity imparted to our school by the ivy. It is now the care of the entire student body to see that this ivy is not destroyed. It is also the student ' s duty to see that this first pleasing impres- sion is followed by others which are also favorable. Perhaps you have noticed from time to time men from various business organi- zations visiting the high school. Almost without exception these men seem keenly interested in the passing of classes in the corridors and the manner by which it is manoged. Is it not likely that quiet and orderly passing of classes will create a good impression on these men who are re- presentatives of efficient business con- cerns and on all others who visit the high school? However, there good impressions will be formed by only a comparative few who visit the high school — -there are many others, who, although they are -interested in our school, rarely if ever visit it. It is just as important that a good impression of us be formed by them. The manner by which this may be brough about is by you yourselves and the school paper. The Crimson and Gray is the greatest advertising medium of the school except you — the student body — and you are the greatest advertising medium in the local community. It is, therefore, neces- sary that you give your support to the Crimson and Gray, not only by your sub- scriptions but also by your contributions, in order that we may create a favorable impression. The articles which are contri- buted from time to time are censored and THE CILMSON AND GRAY only those which are deemed worthy of the paper are put into it; nevertheless, we would like as many contributions as poss- ible in order that we may have a greater choice of the best. M. L. Clemence, ' 30. THE WAY OF THE DESERT In the cool, grey hours of early dawn, a long caravan wound slowly among the desert sand dunes. It belonged to a desert tribe who were searching for new camp- ing grounds. All that night, and for many nights, they had marched on without finding an oasis which fitted their needs. Although their quest had thus far been fruitless, they had been exceedingly fortunate, for they had encountered no warring tribes nor had they been troubled by sand storms. The sky was streaked with red and yel- low, giving promise of a hot, clear day, so the the leader stated. Slowly they con- tinued across the sands now gleaming crimson in the sun ' s early rays. Over the desert ' s rim the sun peeped, a living ball of fire. A hush fell over the Arabs who had halted for their morning prayer. The bronzed and bearded face of the old sheik gleamed in the bright sunshine as with sonorous voice he bade the clan prepare to camp until nightfall. The hush was broken by the babel of many clans- men as they hastened to dismount their beasts. Above the babel of voices rose another sound, wailing, roaring sound which stay- ed them in their places. Along the horizon there extended — to the north and south — a long, low, golden wall, a wall which bore down upon the little tribe and with a wail of wind a blinding shower of sand dashed upon the clan. Too late to erect tents, too late to do anything but strive to keep together and to breathe. The caravan slowly proceeded to get under way as the voice of the sheik rose above the soughing of the wind. The sun was obscured, yet the heat was sterrific. The tiny bits of dust clung to the cloaks of the clansmen, blinded them, stifled them in spite of cloaks under which they huddled. The swirling sand made it more and more difficult for the camels. Slower and slower the beasts wended their way and at last they sank to their knees, unable to further battle with the ever blowing sands. The sand continued t-to drift about the motionless figures. Im- possible to exist much longer the old sheik thought, when with a parting blast and wail the desert storm passed and the sun shone once more on the partly hidden figures. As the atmosphere cleared the old sheik — tried to rise. Having succeeded in shaking off the sand, which partly cover- ed him, he turned to aid his clan. Soon all was confusion as tents were set up and food prepared. All was well now and they could rejoice that all were present once more after the fearful storm. No, not all were present, the stranger who had joined several days ago, the stranger who because of his strange plight they had named the ' ' Lone One, had disappeared. Beyond the dunes in the wake of the tribe a lone camel and rider plodded thru the golden sand. The rider dozed in the saddle as the beast swayed to and fro. Above the sun rose higher and hotter in the sky. The tired camel sank to its knees in the shadow of a dune, but the rider slept on. The sun had set when the Lone One, awoke, for it was he, and gazed about him. He roused the camel, drank some of his precious supply of water, and set out to E ' .earch for the clan from which he had be- come separated in the sorm. Alone in the relentless desert with only a tiny canteen of water and with a weary, thirsty camel for a companion. The Lone One pondered on his plight. Guided by the stars and the Arab instinct for direc- tion he set out in the probable direction of the tribe and the oasis to which they were bound. All night he traveled and when dawn came without success he crouched by his weary camel and slept. With the coming of another night he drank the remainder THE CRIMSON AND GRAY of his water and set out. Slower and slower over the shining sands the weary- camel plodded. Towards dawn with a sigh the wornout beast sank to its knees, to rise no more. When the sun had once more sunk be- yond the desert ' s edge the Lone One plodded through the clinging sands. With- out wa ' ter, without food, the old man stag- gered up and down the drifting sands, hampered by the long cloak and clinging, shifting sands. Gathering new strength to climb each diT e v ith the thought that over the top of this one he would find relief. Up and down, on and on he staggered, growing even weaker. Darkness was giving way to the grey light preceding dawn when at last the weary old man reached a dune higher than all others. Surely beyond this there would be aid and his seamed face bright- ened at the thought. Up and up he dragged himself until he reached the top. Beyond lay — not an oasis — a towering dune still higher than that on which he stood. With a groan of despair and disappointment the helpless old man raised his arms to the eastern sky and then — he fell with a cry, sliding, roll- ing to the bottom of the dune. In the little oasis of M all was confusion and content as the inhabitants hastened to make the best of the cool morning hours. A white man, presumably English, emerged from a tent, gazed spec- ulatively about the little village, and slowly sauntered toward the oasis ' edge. Climbing the towering dune which mark- ed the edge of the oasis he purposed to watch the sun rise. Above the desert ' s rim the sun rose in a blaze of color. Its early beams revealed the man standing on the dune above the village, revealed also the body lying at the foot of the sand hill. With an exclamation the Englishman half ran, half slid, down the mound to the recumbent figure. Gently he grasped the body and turned it over. One glance at the aged face and the empty canteen tightly grasped in the stiffened hand told the story. Softly the Englishman rose and with bared head murmured So near to the precious water which you lacked. How in- explicable is the way of the desert. Dorothy M. Lanphear, ' 31 THE FIGHT The rat-tat-tat-a-tat-tat of a machine gun broke upon the still night; an answering machine gun opened farther down the line and then the staccato barks of rifles opened. The noise swelled in volume; a whistling scream from overhead, then a thunderous roar broke out all up and down the line — the cannons had started in — it would be a night of fight. Division 5 — was ordered out to reconnoit- er for a counter-attack. Captain O ' Neil or- dered Sergeant Duffy to take five picked men and go in front as scouts. The sergeant took John Hadjet, Fred Brown, Jack Dil- Tngs, Tom Kingley and George Fleming. John Hadjet, the first man chosen, was taken because of his great bravery. Although admitted that he was brave, nobody liked him because of his conceit and his boasting, for he was always boasting and was so con- ceited that he thought that he was a better man than General Pershing himself. It would not be so bad in his boasting but HE was always the hero; to hear him talk one would th ' nk that he had won all the wars that had ever been fought all by himself. The men went forward on their dangeronw errand. Every now and then a flare would go up and they would drop to the ground as if they had been shot through the heart. All of a sudden they stumbled upon a large machine gun nest, most likely the one that had opened up hostilities that night. There were three machine guns in it with three men to a gun and another man, pre- sumably, an officer, in charge of it all. One man saw Hadjet and with a shout, turned his machine gun on him, another grabbed a rifle. The first hail of bullets got Dillings and Fleming, wounded Sergeant Duffy; then the man with a rifle got King- ley. That was when Hadjet and Brown went to work. Hadjet jerked the safety pin from a hand-grenade and with a curse threw it at 10 THE CRIMSON AND GRAY the Huns, then he and Brown charged them. The grenade had disabled two guns and killed three soldiers but the remaining ma- chine gun killed Brown instantly and Hadjet felt a hot, searing pain in his arm and another in his shoulder. He shot a man with his rifle and stabbed another with his bayonet and then came to grips with a huge man. He struck wildly out with his closed fist, and he felt a solid thud which told him he had connected somewhere on the big man, then jerking his revolver fi-om his belt, he fired at two Huns and killed them. He felt a pain in his back and turning, hit a man with the barrel of his gun, breaking his jaw. He fired at a man and clowned him. The remaining men crying, Kamerad Kamerad! and thinking that the devil in- carnate was after them, threw down their arms. Hadjet forcing them ahead of him made them carry Sergeant Duffy back to the trenches. Imagine the surprise of Captain O ' Neil, who had given them up for dead, when he saw Hadjet with five Germans in front of him and the Germans carrying Sergeant Duffy. He ordered some soldiers to take the pri- soners away and then said, Private Had- jet, you have , but just then Hadjet dropped to the ground and the Captain cried, Why, he is hurt ! Take him to the hospital quickly! A man picked up Had jet ' s gun which had fallen to the ground and was looking at it, when of a sudden he cried, This gun is empty. Hadjet had marched his prisoners back at the point of an EMPTY gun. When Hadjet had recovered from his ill- ness, he learned that he had been wounded in seven places some of them being serious ones, and he also leai ' ned that the men who would have shouted with joy if he had been killed before, had been coming to the hospi- tal every day and inquiring how he was while one man had threatened to shoot the surgeon if Hadjet died and in so doing had expressed the opinion of the whole regiment. One day the surgeon said that he had a visitor and General Pershing came in. He f-poke a few words of praise and then pinned the War Cross on his chest and left. The day he left the hospital to join the regiment he was agreeably surprised. He walked out of the door and there in front of him was the whole regiment and they burst out cheering when they saw him, but they could not get him to make a speech or talk about his brave act. SIR NOLBODY HOLMES While I was visiting Sir Roger at his es- tate he introduced me to a most unusual character. This man was a country squire like Sir Roger but was very eccentric. He in- vited us to visit him in the next county on the next day. That night I asked Sir Roger about this man whom I saw was a most un- usual make, because among the many troubles the poor man had, he was cross- eyed, bow-legged and spoke in a high pitched voice that showed he had been an excitable character. Sir Roger said Sir Nolbody Holmes was supposed by most of the country folks to be a half-wit and they all made fun of him behind his back. He said that the towns-people near Sir Nolbody ' s estate taught their dogs to jump between their legs until the dogs got so that whenever anyone fixed their legs so that the dogs could jump through, they did so without being told. This, said Sir Roger, was very disconcerting to Sir Nolbody, who could not help but have his legs in such a position and whenever he went to town he always had the dogs jumping through his legs, which he did not in the least favor. When we arrived at his estate the next day, I at once noticed the thoroughness with which everything was done. The gardens were among the finest that I ever saw, the stables were clean and the horses were all thoroughbreds. I at once saw that Sir Nol- body Holmes was not a half-wit, but was, as are many men, very eccentric. As time passed on, I began to appreciate more and more his struggle with nature against the handicap with which he had Been born. On the way back to Sir Roger ' s that night, after a very enjoyable day, I thought to my- self, as Sir Roger prattled meaninglessly, THE CRIMSON AND GRAY 11 what a different place the world would be if everybody worked like Sir Nolbody Holmes. Buckley DISHES As every man is said to have a bogey dog- ging his footsteps, so every girl has one — dishes. To the average person this may not seem to be so bad — but anyone who has ever done dishes can understand it. Again, to the average person, dishes would seem to be easy to do, but to one who has done them, they certainly aren ' t easy. When girls are about four or five years old, and all their friends have gone back to Fchool, they find themselves without any- thing to do. At this time they decide, for lack of anything better to do, to help their mother do the dishes. About this time they earn the nsme Mama ' s little helper. But the novelty of doing dishes soon wears off, and they stop being Mama ' s little helper, then about four or five years pass, full years — when the little girl starts to school, and acquires new friends, and during these years she doesn ' t have to do dishes, — and is blissfully happy. But then comes a time when mother says that little sister must learn to do things for herself — and so begins an extensive training in the gentle art of dish washing. At first, the novelty of dish washing charms the little victim and she goes about her work with great vim and vigor. This sort of thing con- tinues for about a week, and then, as before, the novelty wears off and dishes become just plain drudgery. Of course, as the little girl ' s mind devel- ops, she begins to understand that if she can only think up an excuse which will sound fairly reasonable, she may be able to get out of the dishes for at least one night. Conse- quently she racks her small brain for a plausi ble excuse, and occasionally she has a brain wave which enables her to spend one even- ing without hearing the call to duty. She uses one excuse as long as she can and then discards it, and does her dishes do- cilely until the next brain-wave comes along. Gradually, howlever, these brain- waves become fewer and farther be- tween and the dish-washer becomes des- perate — wfth that desperation which prompts men to become criminals Occasionally, too, she will go and hide, dur- ing dish time, forgetting the consequences of this act. Why should she run from a task which she knows she will eventually have to do is a problem that the psychologists should study. Looking at it with a strictly unpre- judiced mind, it seems to me that the thing she should have done, was to have followed the line of least resistance, do the dishes and let it go at that. Certainly by this time, the girl is quite an expert — and it wouldn ' t take very much time to do the dishes, for to be an expert at dish- washing is quite an accomplishment, be- cause, to become an expert in this most com- monplace of household art, practice is re- quired — and lots of it. There are times when the dish-washer feels like bouncing all the dishes off a rock. And then there are other times, when she gets a very, very brilliant idea, and says very sweetly to her mother, Mother, don ' t you think it would be an awfully good thing if we used paper plates. Of course. Mother promptly crushes this young hopeful. But the idea recurs again and again, and the young dish-washer is crushed again and again. Gradually the dish-washer become re- signed to her task, and can juggle her plates with ease, and still have time to wonder how in the world she ' s going to find time to do that stack of homework, which has been as- signed to her. Rita Earls ' 31 A LETTER FROM A HIGH SCHOOL MOUSE. Red High School, Waterville, N. J. March 22, 1929 My Dear Joshua Whiskers : I happened to get some paper from the teacher ' s desk, and some ink and a pen from a student ' s desk and here I am writing you a letter from a corner of the Red High School. My other friends have gone to a ban- quet (a girl had left some unusually delici- ous cookies in her lunch box ' ) I must tell 12 THE CRIMSON AND GRAY you how I spent my time in this great building of knowledge. In the daytime I must hide my good looks, for the students nearly hypnotize me with their eyes. So I hasten through the corridors ever so quietly, passing through Miss Prim ' s Latin Class, to my music Hall. Sh! I hear that click,-click of the Typing Room. Under the radiator, I listen to it. Click, Click, tick- tick; a-n-d space, shift! R-r-ring! I sit there all day for I hate the other classes. The students seem to pick me right out. Queer, isn ' t it, that they can do so many things at once? Well, humans will be humans! In the afternoon, I usually make my meal downstairs where more than enough crumbs are left and even cheese sometimes. The day makes me a prisoner, so I wait until all are gone. In one desk I made a bed of scrap paper. All would be well if the paper did not tickle and irritate my skin. You know your- self how delicate I am. I am getting to be quite a reader now, must be the school atmosphere, and, in fact, most of my evening is spent in reading girls ' and boys ' notes. I can ' t get over the mushy stuff they write. Here ' s how one reads : — My Dearest Dolores : How about meeting me tonight at the corner of Prospect Street? Yours as ever : Now do you see any sense in that? The test papers are even worse. A good one was written in the five-week test— Shake- speare was born in the twentieth Century. That Count of Mont Crisco or Cristo is a great book, if you ask me; it contains over a thousand pages. Oh, dear! An explosion has just occurred in — Sincerely Mike Knowall P. S. Finish it some other time. Wanda Kwarciak, ' 31 ON BEARS Well ! If there isn ' t another of those dis- gusting old bears ! ! ! Woof ! Woof And its lazy old Patches at that! I ' ll teach him to nose around Master Mackid ' s store-house! Woof! Woof! Old Patches went lumbering off into the forest with complaining grunts and squeals when he heard the familiar bark of Bruce. All bears in that vicinity knew his bark and what it meant. They knew that if they didn ' t clear out of his territory, (which was his master ' s if it was anywhere near camp,) they would be minus a few inches of hide. Bruce thought bears were disgusting. Why, they were so lazy, they couldn ' t get their own food, but had to come nosing into Master Jackie ' s storehouse all the time. His job was to keep those huge bulks of nuis- ance away from the camp. Bruce was a huge Scotch collie. His long, wooly hair was a rich orange brown. He was white on his nose, all around his neck and on his great shaggy breast, on his legs and on the tip of his bushy tail. His little- velvety ears were usually pricked up, listening for the least little noise to inquire into, as Bruce was very inquisitive. Bruce took great pride in his tiny, silky, white front paws. Although small, they were very strong and were not easily tired on his long tramps in the forest. Bruce was staying with his mas- ter Jackie at a deserted lumber camp in Maine. Jackie and Bruce were great pals, and had many a tumbling match out on the grass together. One day as Bruce lay s prawled out before the cabin door, he was attracted by a queer little squealing noise which seemed to come from the forest. Bruce ' s curiosity was im- mediately aroused, and off he went. As he got deeper into the forest the noise became louder. Finally he came to a clearing. The noise seemed to come from a tree in the mid- dle of the clearing. On looking up, Bruce saw a little bear cub, whimpering and cry- ing on a branch. Heavens! Another of those bears! The ground all about the tree was mangled and torn. Bruce looked surprised and rather disgusted that he had come all this way just to see one of those bears. He turned around and trotted for home. But after a few steps he stopped and looked back with uncertainty. What! Did that beast actually have the nerve to follow him! He cocked his head to one side and seemed quite undecided what to do. The little cub had stopped squealing and THE CRIMSON AND GRAY 13 was watch ' ng Bruce a few yards away. With a very decided shalce of his head, Bruce started on, not looking back. He wasn ' t going to fool with cubs whose mother might be near. He had had experience enough not to. He arrived at the cabin and went to his step again, wishing he had never gotten up In Ihe first place. Well.of all things ! That bear had follow- ed him all the way ! Yes, there he sat, looking at Bruce with the saddest expression, as if to say, Can ' t I stay with you? Bruce was be- ginning to get worried for fear Master Jackie would come out and see him having anything to do with a bear, so he gave a sharp bark of warning to the cub. The cub just looked at Bruce, and then started right for him! Another look came into Bruce ' s face as the cub came on. He cocked his head on one side and wagged his tail ! He got up and went to meet the cub. He lapped its head and lay down beside it. The cub snuggled down beside Bruce and went to sleep with a contented little sigh. Jackie came out and was met by a growl of warning from Bruce. Jackie looked dum- founded at the queer spectacle, and then said, All right, old man. I won ' t disturb you. After that, Bruce and the cub were insep- arable. When the cub grew up, he saved Bruce ' s life many times in the forest, as Bruce had saved his when he was a cub. Margaret Walker. JOHN BROWN ' S BODY John Brown ' s Body by Stephen Vincent Benet, is a most interesting account of the Civil War. Although it is not a history, it gives the events of that terrible crisis in the history of our nation. Benet gives us more than pure facts; he gives us the feelings of the North, the South and the West, and the actions of men going to battle. The slave trader could not console him- self with the Bible ' s words that the sons of Ham should be bond-servants. He was haunted by the mass of praying, moaning blacks, who were crowded into the cabin of his ship, which was bound for America. The first step to enlighten these negroes was made by John Brown and his followers. It did not take long for this little band to be defeated and the men put to death, but John Brown, in his little escapade, had aroused the spirit in the heart of every northerner to fight against slavery. In the South, the negroes, lolling, at even- tide around the fire, tried to vision freedom — some, however, were too much afraid to even think of it. The men of the South left their planta- tions, wives and sweethearts to meet the men of the North, who had left their farms, factories and their wives at the hearth of their homes. The West sent pioneers, who, having killed animals, could not fathom the thought of shooting men. So the war raged on, the South continually gaining victories, but the spirit of John Brown drove the Nor- therners on, until they were victorious. What was the good of the Civil War? Among other things, its purpose was to free the slaves, but the question has often arisen and probably always will, whether or not the negroes ' position was bettered. In Spade, ' we have an example of the negro slave. He fled from the South of bond- age, in search of the land of liberty, told of in wonderous tales of the beautiful North. He crossed the river and in a little town so near his south, that he could hardly find food or shelter. When he gained his strength, he was put to work to build roads. Truly, he was paid, but half his pay went to buy his tools, for which he was made to pay twice their worth. To attempt to escape meant beatings more cruel than any southern slave owner ever dared to give. When the war was over. Spade reached the North a broken, tired, hungry old man, who had to plead with his deliverers to get work to pay for his living — a necessity entirely new in his life. The war went on until both sides grew tired of it and the eventf ul day of Lee ' s sur- render came. The negroes had been freed to a life, harder than they had ever known ; the South had gone from wealth to poverty and the THE CRIMSON AND GRAY 15 Norlhcni industries had been crippled for the lime being. Again the question is asked, Did the Civil War better America? The spirit of John Brown still hovers over our nation and we feel that Liberty for all was Avorth these sacrifices. Mary E. Gable, ' 30 THE CONVENTION OF GOING TO COLLEGE By WILLIAM I. NICHOLS (Atlantic Monthly— October, 1929) Our modern idea is to have a well- rounded education. Any college supposedly accomplishes this. One is expected to major in one subject and take several minor studies to broaden his knowledge. It seems neces- sary also, that one ' s body be trained, and physical t raining requirements completed as well as the courses of Latin or Mathematics. The result of this training is the Greek ideal of a healthy mind in a healthy body and the .student is A ell-rounded and ready for a com- fortable life. Some students, however, should not and cannot be rounded, but ought to be left with their own outstanding, irregular points of intei-e.st. Four classes seem to suffer most from the present mass methods — the schol- ars, the artisans, the adventurers and the artists. They arc often persuaded to attend college, and then find themselves in an unna- tural, unsympathetic environment. All college systems cannot fit individuals; even the best plan may be fatal to those not adapted to it. The interests and abilities of these four classes are not academic, and it ceems a wise plan to experiment a year be- fore actually deciding on a college. In this way one discovers his own interests and am- bitions and often useless college years may be avoided. Many have the idea that a college diploma is the only key to success and prosperity. College, if it is the proper one for an indivi- dual, is an opportunity for success, for many it is not. Some enter college to gain technical training for good positions ; others to make contacts which are believed helpful and nec- essary ; others to postpone for four years the proposition of work ; others to engage in ath letics and fraternities and other social ac- tivities; others because everyone is doing it and it is the proper thing; and still others who do it to please the family. The artisan, slow, apparently stupid in History or English, perhaps has secret am- bitions for machinery or forestry in which, if given the opportunity, he woul be success- ful. By attending college, his enthusiasm de- creases and the final result is a failure in col- lege and in his own interests. The activities and interests of the adven- turer call for courage and a brave heart, not an intellectual mind. He is naturally in- terested in a subject which arouses his im- agination and can see no connection between French verbs and flying a plane, or between the treaty of Utrecht and exploring the Vv ildernesses of Africa. College has no courses for creative art, and trains few artists, but often ruins them. One either has to give up his interests to comply with college rules or else he spends his time on artistic interests and finds him- self left out of social activities and fallen back in his studies. Boys are often sent to a college because a relative attended that school. Loyalty to col- lege may be a fine thing, but it seems unfair to send to college a boy who revels in ad- venture and travel, one who delights in sculp- ture and painting, or one who yearns to tin- ker with the mechanism of an aeroplane — merely because his father and grandfather were graduates of that college. Why do not more people consider their personal tastes and desires, instead of has- tily choosing or relying upon others ' deci- sions before spending four wasted years at a college which means nothing to their hopes and interests? This firticle expresses one ' s own case per- haps better than he himself could state it. It brings into consideration the advantages of other schools such as agricultural col- leges, conservatories of music, art schools, aviation schools arnd naval academies, com- pared to those of the regular standardized college. It represents many diflSculties which present themselves when one chooses a place of further education and those things which must necessarily be considered before defin- itely decided. Gwendolyn Monroe, ' 30. LOCALS There have been several changes in the faculty this year. Miss Margaret Burring- ton is teaching mathematics in place of Miss Janet Height, vs ho has gone to Wakeiield. In the Commercial Department, Miss Con- stance Coderre and Miss Esther Knowlton have taken over the vs ork of Miss Libby and Miss Kennedy. Wednesday Morning October second, Mary Vasil accompanied at the piano by Miss McGrath sang two de- lightful selections. On October ninth, an athletic trio, com- posed of James McKay, Ferdinand Volpini and Nestor Pontbriand, accompanied by Maurice Clemence, sang two popular selec- tions. October sixteenth, a novel one-act play, written by Edward Kazynski, ' 32, enter- tained the assembly. Those in the cast were : Edward Kazynski, James McKay, Arthur Proulx, Peter Chula and Emo Benvenuti. We certainly hope that our newly discovered playwright will continue in this vein and we may anticipate another one in the future. October twenty-third, The Hallowe ' en Scamper, a short play written by Claire McGrath, ' 33, was given. The members of the cast were Ruth Carpenter, Claire Mc- Grath, Lucy Romano, Louise Manthorn and Frances Manthorn. October thirtieth, under the direction of Miss Alice Oliff an entertaining dramatiza- tion of the Wedding of the Painted Doll, was presented. The cast were suitably dress- ed, representing various picturesque dolls. The cast included the following: Ellen Hea- ton, Mabel Sangren, Marjorie White, Wan- da Kwarciak, Beatrice Girouard, Ruth Snell, Dorothy Lamphear, Doris Hubbell, Dorothy Plimpton, Beatrice Mason, Pauline Paquette and Celia Pezetti. Doris Dubruiel was the accompanist. The various classes held their respective meetings early this month and the following officers were chosen: SENIORS President Maurice Clemence Vice-President Mary Gable Secretary Blanche L ' Heureux Treasurer Harold Grant Class Adviser Mr. Greene JUNIORS President E. William Tillyer Vice-President Doris Dubrueil Secretary Wanda Kwarciak Treasurer John Steen Class Advisers Miss Putnam, Miss Aucoin SOPHOMORES President Blanche Metivier Vice-President Edward Kwarciak Secretary Celia Pezetti Treasurer Philip Colognesi Class Adviser Miss Dube FRESHMEN President Honore Gauthier Vice-President Alice Werner Secretary Gertrude Wilkinson Treasurer Larned Whitney Class Adviser Miss Fitzgerald GLEE CLUB OFFICERS President Gwendolyn Monroe, ' 30 Vice-President James McKay, ' 30 Secretary-Treasurer Mary Gable, ' 30 Librarians Carolyn Fitzpatrick, ' 30 E. William Tillyer, ' 31 THE FRESHMAN RECEPTION On October fifth, the Junior Class wel- comed the incoming Freshmen at the annual reception given in the auditorium. The party proved to be a complete success due to the generous assistance of the class advisers, Miss Putnam and Miss Aucoin. The celebrities were as follows. Baby Girl, Isabel Sangren; Baby Boy, John Hooker; Class Shiek, Romeo Cantara; Boy, Joseph Sichol; Tallest Girl, Ida Bozzo; Tallest Boy, Ernest Lavallee. This year, a class beauty was omitted due to the inability of the committee to select one from such a THE CRIMSON AND GRAY 17 display of feminine pulchritude. The chairman of the committees were as follows : General arrangements, E. W. Tillyer ; En- tertainment, Priscilla Morris; Invitations, Wanda Kwarcak ; Refreshments, Nellie Misi- aszek; Decorations, Catherine McKinstry; Checking, John Steen; Music, Wilson Knight. M. Clemence SENIORS All A ' s Mary Gable All A ' s and B ' s K. Burns E. Paquette R. Houde E. Pinsonneault K. Manthue L. Skinner G. Monroe M. Schwartzberg E. St. Onge JUNIORS All A ' s and B ' s R. Earls G. Schwartzberg W. Kwarciak J. Steen C. McKinstry W. Tillyer SOPHOMORES All A ' s and B ' s E. Kasyznski B. Metevier LaFlamme M. Harney S. Janeczek R. Clough FRESHMEN All A ' s and B ' s R. Beauregard R. Dumais J. Calo G. Chioacca V. Czyzewski A. DeAngelis P. DeAngelis N. Lesnieuski C. McGrath L. Monroe J. Tobia R. Volpini ALUMNI NOTES Oswald Gregoire is employed at the American Optical Company. Helen Grant has enrolled at the Chand- ler School. Henry Martin is working at the Quine- baug Office. Betty Favreau is at home. Cynthia Darling is attending Boston University. Concetta DeGregorio is working in an insurance office in town. Estelle Benoit, Mary Beverage and Marion Ide are at home at present. Kenneth Farnsworth is continuing his studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Ellen Callahan, Mabel Haynes, and Mildred Sprague have accepted positions in the American Optical Company. Harmel Houde is employed at the Am- erican Optical Company. George Johnson is attending the Cole Trade School. Eunice Hubbell is now working in Bos- ton Walter Saletnik is employed at Indian Orchard. Margaret Earls is attending the Wor- cester Art School. Ralph Cole has entered the University of Syracuse where he has been elected the president of his class. Wanda Orzech, Alice Young, and Vel- lamo Jaakkola have positions at the Am- erican Optical Company. Nelson Lapointe and Henry Walker are at home. Flora Tait is taking a dietitian ' s course at Framinghan Normal School. Robert Kane is employed at the Am- erican Optical Company. Katherine Ohlwiler is in training at Deaconess Hospital. John Walsh has a position at a store in town. Louise Tillyer has entered New Jersey College for Women. Anna Misiaszek has enrolled at Fiich- burg Normal School. lola Morse has entered Gushing Aca- demJ Joseph Misiaszek is attending North Eastern University. Pearle Putnam is taking a dietitian ' s course at Simmons. Origene Paquette has a position at the Commercial Press office. Dorothy MacAllister is attending- Fram- ingham Normal School. Harold Morehouse is continuing his studies at Yale University where he re ceived a scholarship. Betty Higgins is at home at present. Those who are taking Post Graduate courses are Verna Petterson, Albert Sol- dani, and Phyllis Taylor, class of ' 27. Veronica Mannix is employed at the Strand Theatre. Irene Moore has accepted a position at the American Optical Company. Katherine Hubbard, Hilda Perry and Lucinda St. Martin are now at home. Unabel Tetreault has entered a convent in Canada. Viola Robidoux has accepted a posi- tion in an office in town. James Brew is employed at the Ameri- can Optical Company. Viola Carpenter has accepted a posi- tion in the Commercial Press. On August 31st Mildred Sprague was married to Gunner Peterson. Theodosia Laabs, class of ' 28, married Roland Smith on Sept. 2nd. Carol Bingley, ' 28, has been named editor-in-chief of the school paper, Th.T Dial at Framihgham Normal School. Robert McMaster, ' 28, and William Snell, ' 28, have been awarded scholar- THE CRIMSON AND GRAY 19 ships at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Stephen Haynes, class of ' 28, has enroll- ed at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Receritly there have been several re- quests made concerning the department devoted to Alumni in the Crimson and Gray. One of our former graduates has particularly urged the extensive devo- tion to the old Alumni news not only that of the classes of 1929, or 1927, but those of 1920, 1919 and back down the years. As he expresses it, This is very important and should not be overlooked. We agree with him and with the other advocates of this plan that it is indeed important and that it, the plan itself is important. The arguments for it are many. In the first place it would keep the classes more securely together and the gradu- ates in touch with chums and teachers of high school days again. It will give us un- dergraduates an idea of just what our predecessors are doing and what they have done. School spirit urges us to be proud of those who have made good and we want to hear about them. But it is just a bit difficult to arrange this. Unlike the college our graduate classes unfortunately have no definite representatives, and the graduates are scattered here and there. Of course many are still living in Southbridge or vicinity but of many others there remains no trace. It is diflficult to locate those of even two years ago to say nothing of ten or fifteen years ago. But we do want to hear from them. Some perhaps would express their feel- ings about that in this way, Oh, well I am all through at high school. I don ' t know a soul in the classes or a teacher. What would they care about hearing about me or my old friend Bill? That is all wrong. Everyone here in Mary E. Wells would like to know the alumni. Per- haps the Alumni themselves will help us solve this problem of hearing about them by telling us in their own way what they are doing, what they have seen or what they used to do at school. I should think the latter would be extremely interesting and amusing and above all instructive for surely those who have had experience in the intricate matters of getting out of do- ing home-work or getting A ' s in United States History or Latin ought to be able to be of great help to us. Seriously speak- ing they might tell us of the good times the had here, of their classmates and teachers. So come on Alumni. Let us hear from you! And by the way — how about the students now here? Probably they can tell us of older brothers, sisters, uncles or friends. If so don ' t keep it a secret fel- low classmates. Tell us all about it. An- other duty for you, circulate the news that we want to hear from the Alumni. Explain it to them. SOUTHBRIDGE 47 UXBRIDGE 7 The football team met Uxbridge in the first clash of the season. The Wells boys proved to be in fine shape and easily walked over the Uxbridge team. Touchdowns were in abundance, Volpini having scored four for the Crimson and Gray team, while Dugas made two and Pontbriand one other. How- ever, the team failed to keep Uxbridge from scoring. This game gave very promising prospects for the oncoming season. SOUTHBRIDGE WARE On October 12, Southbridge met the Ware team on the Hamilton field. Both teams were very evenly matched, each one playing a fine game. Many almost touchdowns ex- cited the spectators, but neither side was able to score. Better luck next time, boys ! SOUTHBRIDGE 13 EAST DOUGLAS The second game played at home was with East Douglas, from the beginning this proved to be a most exciting combat. In the first half, both sides managed to get the ball near their opponents ' goal but to no avail. In the third quarter the Wells team come on the field determined to win. Through of brilliant plays, Volpini was en- abled to carry the pigskin over the line. They failed however, to score the extra point.. In the fourth quarter, through a din of cheers, Captain Dugas made another touchdown and McKay scored the extra point. SOUTHBRIDGE 7 HOLDEN The game with Holden proved to be an- other victory for Southbridge. The ball was gained and lost by either side without scor- ing. Late in the game Volpini saved the day by running for a touchdown. SOUTHBRIDGE 20 NORTHBRIDGE Another victory was added to our list when our team met Northbridge. Early in the game a touchdown was scored following a pass from Dugas to Kaprowski. Pont- briand added six more welcomed points to the score and Blair, having received a pass from Kaprowski carried the pigskin over the line. Dugas and McKay scored the extra points after the touchdowns, making the score 20-0. Good team work! The football team has made the best rec- 16 THE CRIMSON AND GRAY ord this year for several seasons. So far, they have won four games and have tied one, which was with Ware. The first team has outscored their opponents, having made eighty-seven points to the latter ' s seven. Nine times out of thirteen, the team has been successful in scoring the extra point after a touchdown. Webster also has a no defeat record but the Bartlett team only defeated North- bridge with a score 12-6 while the Wells team defeated Northbridge 20-0. The boys have the very best chances of defeating Webster and a very bitter struggle is ex- pected on Thanksgiving between the two teams. We are very fortunate in having a sec- ond team to fall back on if our players are in- jured. Dugas was kept out of the Holden game due to a broken finger but his place was capably filled by Arpin. Early in the sea- son, Blair sprained a leg muscle but the team did not suffer as H. Kaprowski was there to take his place. We were glad to see Gatineau back in the hne-up in the game with Northbridge after having been kept out of the preceding games with a sprain- ed arm. The line-ups are: Tremblay, le; Gatineau and Weaver, It; Francazzi and Champlin, Ig; Blair and H. Kaprowski, c; Favreau and Tillyer, rt; Peloquin and Grant, re; Dugas and Arpin, qb; Pontbriand rhb; M. Kaprowski and Steen, Ihb; Volpini and LeClair, fb. This year the students and Coach Mc- Mahon have formed an Athletic Association. Such an organization has existed in the school before this year, but it was inactive. All students can become members of this as- sociation by paying $.10. This money is to insure a steady backing for the team as the games are sometimes poorly attended and not enough money is received to pay for their equipment. The Athletic Association is governed by the council at the head of which is Mr. Mc- Mahon. Each class is represented in the council by two delegates except the Senior Class, which has three representatives. The managers and captains of the various teams are also members of the council. Officers were elected for the years 1929-30. Councilmen — Seniors: Bertha Love, Alma Lemoine and Elzear Cormier. Councilmen— Juniors : Nellie Misiaszek and Raymond Gatineau. Councilmen — Sophomores : Ruth Clough and Harry Kaprowski. Councilmen — Freshmen : Lucille Munroe and Bernard Fox. Cheer Leaders — Doris Claflin and Edward Paquette. Assistants — Priscilla Morris and Doris Du- brueil, E. W. Tillyer. Managers ; Football — Maurice Clemence, As- f istants, George Page, Thaddeus Kosakowski. Girls ' Basketball — Susan Carion, Assistants, Wanda Kwarciak, Wilhelmina Kania. Boys ' Basketball — Elzear Cormier, Assistants, Clarence Peloquin, Wilson Knight. Buttons have been bought and given to the members of the association. Many stu- dents have their buttons but there are still some who have not joined the A. A. Don ' t be slackers ! ! ! ! SUPPORT your teams ! Every afternoon, the basketball court, built last spring, has been the scene of ac- tive encounters. Already the boys and girls are practicing in that sport. If practice makes perfect, Southbridge should have Class A basketball teams THIS YEAR. We have begun our Exchange Year with a collection of papers and magazines from eight states. Would it not be great to have the list grow so that the forty-eight states will be represented. Please help ! PASADENA CHRONICLE, Pasadena, Calif. The Freshman number, tinted in green, Was the most attractive paper ever seen. I ' m sure the Poor Freshmen would never be scared. With all the schedules, programs, and maps fully aired; One sees that athletics hold the first place. But what of the stories, is it to you a maze? The editorials, too, seem to hide from the light, A few more jokes would add a great might. Among Those Present, ' by Larry, is worthy of praise ; And Woman: The Invincible, ' should lead, one says. THE LOUDSPEAKER, Onondago Valley Academy, Syracuse, N. Y. Perhaps it would be loud if you had more to say, A few more pages would not spoil your lay. The cover, especially, portraying your State Is jolly in colors and thought that relate. The Art Editor .should receive great credit, She certainly seems to be right at it. Your miscellaneous columns are fun to read, And should be placed in your book in the lead. THE UXBRIDGE HIGH SPOTLIGHT, Uxbridge, Mass. Laugh and the world laughs with you, ' is a good say; Do not be serious too much, I, dare, mny. Where are your poems, and jokes, and stories. To chase away teardrops and all sorts of worries ? The exchanges, too, must have taken fright No matter how you looked, they wouldn ' t come in sight; And, yet, the worst has some good So try again and change your mood. THE MILACHI, Milacha, Minnesota. Little of every thing makes one great thing, That is why your paper ranks high with everything. A poem specks the page, an editorial or two. News from the school and stories quite a few. The jokes make one giggle, and the Chin- Chins still more ; A paper worth reading — hope another is in store. THE FRANKFORD HIGH WAY, Phila- delphia, Pa. A newsy paper that is worth reading ; THE CRIMSON AND GRAY 23 Above all, she is leading. One gets everything about your actions, And feels quite at home with your functions. The Dummy Depot ' brings nevs s galore. And Sport Flashes add some more; The editorials are all worth reading; The poems, too, need no extra feeding — Still a story or tvs o would help a great deal To lead the Frankford High Way to obtain a seal. THE SCOTLAND COURIER, Scotland, Pa., A well-written paper worthy of its name Every bi-weekly edition is not the same; The Alumni Page holds quite a place, The Questions and Answers pucker one ' s face Tn a snicker that burst into a roar When the Dormotoryettes rush in the door. But there is something lacking, quite evi- dent, too. Where are your ads ? — You need quite a few. THE WAXA BEACON, Waxachachie, Texas An attractive heading makes one realize That there is something worth reading, though small be its size. The editorials are great and so are the ads. Enough rooting is given the Football lads ; The Society Columns are different, indeed. The Art Editors have talent and are in the lead. But still, though not eager, we must say A few stories should be written without delay. THE HIGH SCHOOL HERALD, Westfield, Mass. Some book, I ' ll say! Why it ' s just great! Holds one with its contents till one is late! The play, Glimpses at the National Pas- time, deserves praise, It is so natural you think you own a place In one of its characters. Your artists, too, Are hard to be rivalled even by a few. Well divided it is, and proud you should be. Another exchange we ' ll be glad to see . THE SCROLL, Toledo, Ohio Quite an interest is taken in your Alumnae, Of their past and present and future to be. The cover of the Scroll is hard to express — How well it is done, — everyone says; But a variety of stories would please the ear ; The exchanges are great, there is nothing to fear. THE HILLTOP, Warren, Mass. Your book, certainly, rates above all. And what is surprising your group is so small. Shakespeare, himself, might well had worries If your poets and novelists wrote then their stories. The photographer must have a Croesus ' s mine. For taking all the pictures in your book, by this time. Great work, friends, try and keep it so. You ' ll always reach the top, no matter how slow. a| p _W ' - --?? p : ■:v ;j p l g With The Jokesters Nitt — Say, where are you going all dressed up? Witt — I ' m going to the fair. Nitt — Fair! There isn ' t any fair today. Witt — Sure, the paper says fair today and tomorrow. We wonder if Scotchmen have filled their pens at Post Offices enough to equal the ink we have used on them. One Father — Does your son believe in the hereafter? A ditto — I should say so, I jus t asked him how his money was holding out, and he said, That ' s what I ' m hereafter. ' Guide: We are now passing the site of a former Aztec palace, which is now in ruins. Tourist: (to fellow passenger) : When did they move it? WHAT IS MODERN? A famous novelist has searched the world thoroughly for the modern girl with no suc- HEARD IN HISTORY Student — And after his flight the country became air-minded. Teacher — I think it must have affected this class, you are so light-headed. The three fold plan of the British depend- ed on Burgoyne, St. Leger and Howe. Minister: (meeting a little boy smoking) : My dear boy, do you know where little boys who smoke go? Boy: Yessir, down behind the woodshed. There is a man that never does a thing that is not right. His wife knows just where he is at morning, noon, and night. HE ' S DEAD Wise — Say! Are you kind to dumb animals? Cracked— Sure ! Why? Wise — Then give the monkey back his face. She: I ' m so tired after pushing a pencil around all day. He: Huh! That ' s nothing, I ' ve been pushing my brains around all day. She: You can ' t be very tired then. Fish: Say, wait a minute, I ' ve changed my mind. Soup : Well, I hope its better than your other We wonder what the garage men would spill their oil on if there were no fenders ! ! Just because you can kid gloves and ' = ' :ring beans, don ' t think you can fool a toothache. Husband: Did you ever see a seven dollar bill? Wife: A seven dollar bill? Husband : Yes, a seven dollar bill. Wife, Why, no, never saw a seven dollar bill. Husband : Well, look at this one I got from the Electric company. Waiter: Are you the fellows who are com- plaining about the food? Ralph : Yes, what are you going to make of it? Waiter: Well, we ' ll probably serve it for hash, tomorrow. R. Underwood G. Gregoire Son Archfitter Shoes for Women Nunn Bush Shoes for Men A Complete Line of Men ' s Furnishings 35 Years Experience in Shoe Repairing Tel. 442-J 15 Hamilton St. H. O. Desaulniers Wholesale and Retail Federal Tires and Tubes Auto Accessories Gulf Gasoline and Motor Oils and Greases 145 Mechanic St. Tel. 601-J Southbridge Fruit Co. O. Micheli, Prop. Fruits Candy Tobacco Corner Main and Hamilton Streets Telephone Connection — 15-W Free Delivery J. C. Gabree Auto Accessories Paints and Oils Toys Hardware and Crockery Distributor of OLDSMOBILES J. E. BENOIT First Class Groceries, Meats and Fish We roast our own Coffee. A trial will convince you of the quality. 69 Central Street. Tel. Connection William S. Hofstra Plumbing, Steam and Hot Water Heating, Sheet Metal Work 173 Sayles Street Tel. Connection VALUABLES DESTROYED BY FIRE are never recovered and stolen property very seldom. We can offer you the best of Safe Deposit and .Storage Accommo- dations. Peoples National Bank Southbridge, Mass. Compliments Arthur Langlais Groceries, Meat, Canned Goods Ice Cream, Fruits and Tobacco 161 Worcester St. Tel. 530 195 PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS Waiard llr; SERVICE STATION We Repair, Rebuild and Recharge Any Make of STORAGE BATTERIES Lewis Battery Ignition 411 Main St. Tel. 381-W Through Service We Grow Compliments of Thimblin ' s Barber Shop 280 Main St Southbridge Coal Co. Dealers in COAL AND WOOD W. M. Edwards Grace Flower Shop FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS 63 Central Street Telephone 980 CLOCKS — WATCHES — JEWELRY C. G. SMALL SILVERWARE — CUT GLASS — STATIONARY — Gendreau ' s Market Local Agent for Office: 335 Main St. Tel. 161-J Yard: Railroad Ave. Tel. 252-W E. F. Dakin Co. CANDY— CIGARS— ICE CREAM SODA S. S. Pierce Co., Specialties Sperry and Barnes ' Hams and Bacon and a Full Line of Hatchet Brand Canned Goods NEWS-STAND 307 Main Street Telephone 452-M Buy From a First Class Fruit Store METRO BROS. FIRST CLASS ICE CREAM PARLOR CIGARETTES, CIGARS, TOBACCO A Wonderful Assortment of Candies Dealers in Kolster, Amrad, Philco and Crosley Radio Sets and Equipment PHONE 210-W PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS Clarence H. Knight, Inc. CHEVROLET SALES and SERVICE The Bigger and Better Chevrolet now on sale : Telephone 10 373 Main Street Compliments of F. A. BOUVIER Shoes and Shoe Repairing LEONA.CARON ALBERT N. McGRATH CARON McGRATH All Forms of INSURANCE 24 Blanchard BIdg. Tel. 1122-W Headquarters for Sporting Goods E. D. STONE 27 Hamilton Street Telephone 291-M 1 ! Hartwell The Druggist McKINSTRY ICE CO. Dealers in ICE, COAL AND WOOD PRICE — QUALITY SERVICE 6 DUPAUL ST. TEL. 519-R Compliments of THE BOSTON STORE J. 0. Berthiaume, Prop. Kennedy Electrical Co. John T. Kennedy, Mgr. Electrical Contractors Electrical Supplies and Fixtures 15 Central St. Telephone 410 36 Hamilton St. Southbridge, Mass. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS ' W W . I Gaumond ' s Taxi Service For Funerals, Weddings, Parties, Worcester Trips, Orchestra Accomodations DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE Packard Limousine — Studebaker Sedan RES. TEL. 19 SOUTHBRIDGE, MASS. GUILLETS MUSIC STORE Sheet Music, Records and Rolls 347 Main Street Southbridge, Mass. Allan H. Faxon . . . FLORIST . . . 33 Edwards St. Telephone Say It With Flowers We Grow Them For You Lynn-Brockton Shoe Repair We Go Far to Get a Customer — But We Go Farther to Keep Him. 40 Hamilton St. Southbridge, Mass. Tel. 524 Southbridge Savings Bank RESOURCES $4,973,694.99 INTEREST 4 3-4 p.c. FOR PAST YEAR PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS COMPLIMENTS OF WELD BECK Eugene E. Gabree REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE 298 Main Street Southbridge, Mass. Locki Tailoring Co. We Use New Prosperity Method in DRY CLEANING AND PRESSING Custom Tailors Room 25 Blanchard Bldg. Geo. C. Shepard Co. C. E. Hanson, Reg. Pharm. SOUTHBRIDGE, MASS. Compliments of GOODWIN BROS. E. D. DESROSIER CO. INSURANCE Cor. Main and Hamilton Sts. Southbridge, Mass. 1 PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS I SERLETO MOTOR SUPPLY CO. AUTOMOBILE SUPPLIES RADIOS 42 Central St. Telephone 266 MARQUETTE 6UICK G.M.C. TRUCKS GENERAL ELECTRIC REFRIGERATORS SOUTHBRIDGE, MASS. COMPLIMENTS OF Southbridge National Bank PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS Bake Delicious Waffles THE WESTINGHOUSE KENMORE WAFFLE IRON Will make a fine Christmas present for mother. The whole fam- ily will enjoy using it for many years. Delicious Recipes Regular Price $12.50 Waff le-ized NOW ON sale at A booklet with many new %7,% — $1.95 Down wafflle recipes included free. $2.00 A MONTH Webster and Southbridge Gas and Electric Company «S Wear-Ever H Roasters GRAYBAR EDISON A. C. RADIO A. C. RADIO SPORTING GOODS HARDWARE PLUMBING AND HEATING G. G. WINTER GO. 344 Main and 10 Hamilton Streets PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS Compliments of Southbridge Finishing Company PRINTERS — of— FAST COLOR PRINTS FINE COTTON GOODS Fire Prevention Advice T HE assistance we can render property owners in controlling and reducing fire hazards is as impor- tant as any other part of our property protection service. We shall be glad to inspect your property and to offer every practical suggestion for added safety, without cost or obligation to you. R. M. Burnham PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS • re you getting ' • tP in ' Patience I Centuries are sometimes required to develop an oak tree. But when the job is done, a giant of the forest has been made. You in the Mary E. Wells High School are now engaged in the process of growing mentally. It takes time and patience to gain an education. There is no short cut to real learning. Here at the American Optical Company, 3000 men and women are patiently ami ihoroughly designing and manufacturing remarkably precise diagnosiic insiru ments, ophthalmic lenses and other optical necessities thai bring eye comfort to millions of people. Our success in producing optic-il products, renowned for their high quality, is the result of pain - taking endeavor that dates back more than 75 years. AHERICAnr OPTICAL C01fiPAi¥V Compliments of E. G. Walker Coal Co. Snell Manufacturing Co. EtUblitbed 1790 Manufacturers of Ship Augers — Auger Bits — Carpenters ' Augers Car Bits — Machine Bits — Boring Machines, Etc. FISKDALE Factory: Fukdalc, Mat MASSACHUSETTS Nfw York Office: 113 diambem Street PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS SERLETO MOTOR SUPPLY CO. AUTOMOBILE SUPPUES RADIOS 42 Central St. Telephone 266 MARQUETTE BUICK G.M.C. TRUCKS GENERAL ELECTRIC REFRIGERATORS SOtJTHBRIDGE, MASS. COMPLIMENTS OF Southbridge National Bank PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS Hundreds of Southbridge Homes are suffering from the wastefulness and efficiency of obsolete cockingr equipment. It ' s time to change. Your home can have the same convenient mod- ern features that are found on the GLENWOOD INSULATED GAS RANGE used by the cooking classes of the Mary E. Wells High School. These features are available in ranges of all sizes to fit every home. We pay you $20.00 for your old range. Webster and Southbridge Gas and Electric Company « ' X ' ' Pyrex Glass Ware EDISON RADIO RADIOLAS SPORTING GOODS HARDWARE PLUMBING HEATING G. C. WINTER CO. 344 Main and 10 Hamilton Streets PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS IRENE F. RICHARDS BEAUTY SALON SPECIALIZING IN PERMANENT WAVES Room 27, Blanchard Bldg. For Appointmenas Call 181 HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS In years to come you will value the group picl;tures of Plays, Athletic Teams, Etc., showing your fellow stu- dents. Get them now to preserve. R. M. LITCHFIELD PHOTOGRAPHER 10 Chapin Street Phone 166-W SOUTHBRIDGE Y. M. C. A. Health not money is your chief means of support. Keep your body in tone through regular exercise. Keep clean by using our shower baths. Fine Fellowship. Convenient Rates. Clemence Company LUMBER DEALERS Manufacturers of DOORS - WINDOWS - FRAMES - MOULDINGS and FINISH Dealers In WALL BOARD, PREPARED ROOFING, CEMENT DUFAULT ' S CORNER The new clothing store in the Y. M. C. A. Building with up-to-the-minute styles in Young Men ' s Clothing and Furnishings. HENRY R. DUFAULT COMMERCIAL PRESS. INC. Southbridge, Mass. Office, Factory and Loose-Leaf Forms, Corona Typewriters and Adding Machines, Shaw-Walker Line of Office Equipment. 248 Elm Street Phone 68 PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS . iJ-:-.,U ms i ' W ' W G. Gregoire Son Archfitter Shoes for Women J. C. Gabree Auto Accessories Paints and Oils Toys Hardware and Crockery Distributor of OLDSMOBILES Nunn Bush Shoes for Men A Complete Line of Men ' s Furnishings 35 Years Experience in Shoe Repairing Tel. 442-J 15 Hamilton St. H. 0. Desaulniers William S. Hofstra Plumbing, Steam and Hot Water Heating, Sheet Metal Work 173 Sayles Street Tel. Connection Wholesale and Retail Federal Tires and Tubes Auto Accessories Gulf Gasoline and Motor Oils and Greases 145 Mechanic St. Tel. 601-J COMPLIMENTS OF PEOPLES STORE VALUABLES ! DESIROYED BY FIRE are never recovered and stolen property very seldom. We can offer you the best of Safe Deposit and Storage Accommo- dations. Peoples National Bank Southbridge, Mass. Compliments of Dr. I. Celeste Keenan Compliments Arthur T. anglais Groceries, Meat, Canned Goods Ice Cream, Fruits and Tobacco 161 Worcester St. Tel. 530 195 PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS THE UNITED LENS CO. Machine Work of All Kinds 259 Worcester St. Southbridge, Mass. Telephone 668 Grace Flower Shop FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS 63 Central Street Telephone 980 DUFAULT CO. CLOTHES Hamilton Street Carrying a High Grade Line of MEN ' S BOYS ' FURNISHINGS The Edwards Company Clothes for Young Men Middishade Blue Suits $37.50 Kuppenheimer In Extra Pant Suits From $25.00 to $37.50 Knox Hats $7.50 - $8.50 Lamson Hubbard Hats $5 - $6 - $7 High Grade Furnishings and Shoes. Regal She s $6.60 PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS Compliments of DANI SOLDANI Compliments of THE SOUTHBRIDGE NEWS Compliments of Hyde Manufacturing Company . . . CUTLERY . . . A.L.MONAHAN —GROCERIES- SWIFT ' S PREMIUM BACON HAM PORK CHOPS Brookfield Cheese and Butter N. LEGAULT CUSTOMS TAILOR — Phelps Building — ERNEST LIPPE MeatS) Groceries and Fresh Fish 200 MECHANIC STREET TELEPHONE 802.M PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS PUBLIS HED QUARTERLY BY THE STUDENTS OP THE MARY E. WELLS HIGH SCHOOL, SOUTHBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS Volume XIII MARCH, 1930. Number 2 Poar of Mtes Editor-in-Chlef |.i MAURICE CLEMENCE Assistant Editor-in-Chief DORIS CLAFLIN Business Manager HOWARD BINGLEY Assistants EMO BENVENUTI MAURICE MARTIN WILLIAM WHITNEY FREDERICK WAITE CHARLES THIMBLIN Treasurer ELIZABETH ST. ONGE Assitant Treasurer RITA HOUDE Suscription Manager . . . . . . ' . KATHLEEN BURNS Assistants JOHN STEEN RITA EARLES CHARLES CLARKE Alumni Editor GWENDOLYN MONROE Assistant Alumni Editor MARGARET WALKER Athletic Editor MARY GABLE Assitant Athletic Editor WILLIAM TILLYER Exchange Editor WANDA KWARCIAK Assistant Exchange Editor DOROTHY LAMPHEAR Local Editor CATHERINE McKINSTRY Assistant Local Editor RUTH CLOUGH Art Editor ARTHUR PROULX Joke Editor ROLAND UNDERWOOD Assistant Joke Editor GEORGE DARLING Typists IRENE DUCLOS BLANCHE L ' HEUREUX EDNA PINSONNEAULT TABLE OF CONTENTS Literature 8 Locals --._• 19 Alumni Notes --- 20 Athletics _ _ . . _ _ _ _ 23 Exchanges - ---18 Jokes 26 DAVID LENTI WALKOVER ARCH PRESERVER CRAW FORD SHOES SHOES NEATLY REBUILT FULL LINE OF HOSIERY SPECIAl FOR SCHOOL — FOR WORK HAVE YOU TRIED OUD $1.19 HOSE— IN ALL THE NEWEST SHADES 11 ELM STREET J. E. BENOIT First Class Groceries, Meats and Fish We roast our own Coffee. A trial will convince you of the quality. Central Street. Tel. Connection E. F. Dakin Co. CANDY— CIGARS— ICE CREAM SODA NEWS-STAND 307 Main Street Telephone 452-M LITERATUR AMBITION Graduation is drawing near, and seniors are beginning to weigh their prospective am- bitions. The world is a wonderful place to live in, but what are you going to do in it? You live in a small town, perhaps, and have not seen much of the world beyond, yet every road that leads to fame begins at your school. Some boy or girl who walks out today may become executive or mistress of the White House. Who knows? Nothing can keep you back if you mean to go forward and although the ambitious roads may be rough, it leads upward. If you think that life holds nothing but strug- gles for you, if you doubt whether what you read and hear about success is true, try to sum up the qualities a student needs most on his or her way through the world. Second, decide what work you would like to do best, for definite purpose and aim is absolutely es- sential. Be ambitious to succeed, and do not believe those who say it is wrong to concen- trate on pushing ahead. , In order to have real success you must choose good books, good companions, healthy amusements, and cultivate a fixed idea of what you mean to be, and what you are bound to make of yourself. Nearly all failure can be traced to closing one ' s eyes to opportunity and allowing slug- gishness or indifference to master will. Op- portunity is no mean thing. Seize it and hold it fast as you would a rare flower lest there come a day when you search in vain for even the scattered petals. EDNA C. PINSONNEAULT, ' 30 BOOSTING OUR MARKS Studies are like music lessons to most of us — just plain drudgery. And what we get out of them can be compared to music les- sons. The musician practices a piece ; at first it ' s just practicing notes and chords, then it begins to take form, and finally he has mas- tered the piece. What pleasure there is in knowing how to play a piece well ! Many peo- ple wish they could, but it was more fun to do other things instead of practicing and later on they regret the oportunity which they failed to take advantage of, when of- fered. High school is likt that; if we finish a course we take pleasure in having done it ; if we drop out, we regret it later. Thus we can see we owe it to ourselves to get as much out of high school as we can. But we owe it to others. First there is our duty to our parents. They take pride in what we do well. Furthermore they have to work to keep us in high school ; if they do that for us, is it not a sporting proposition that we should give the best in us for their efforts? Next, it might be added that members of the faculty are sincerely interested in their pu- THE CRIMSON AND GRAY pils. If they do well they take pride in it. And now is the time when we should be able to best boost our marks. For those who have been engaged in dramatics, a lull is coming during the Lenten season. For the Seniors it is the last opportunity before the hurry and flurry of graduation and com- mencement. Also, we should try to raise our marks before spring arrives, as most of us are susceptible to that dread disease spring fever. The ways of raising one ' s marks are com- paratively easy. For most it means a little more preparation. For others it means con- centration. A lot of work can be done in a little while if one ' s whole attention is cen- tred on his work, and that work is good work. Attention in class is necessary; one member of the faculty claims that a mark of B can be earned in her class by merely paying strict attention. If we better our marks it should go with- out saying that we better the school. We rank among the best high schools in the state; efforts are being made all the time to maintain our high standard by those con- nected with the school. They are always in- creasing our opportunities. It remains only for us to take advantage of them. MAURICE CLEMENCE, ' 30 THE MONROE SCHOLARSHIP It was one of those days in September which are so hot and stuffy that we can ' t do a thing. Everything seemed liefless even the flowers and plants appeared to droop in the terrific heat. Not a sound was heard then suddenly a train whistle cut the air like a knife and a train drew up to the station in the little city of Winchester. Winchester was a small city situated on the Connecticut River. It had once been noted for its manufacturing but business had failed until Winchester was no longer noted. Now its only mark of importance was Sanford University, where the fall term was about to open. As the train came in there was much cheering and shouting and hardly before it stopped, fellows were piling out and push- ing the ones in front. Everyone seemed hap- py and shouted cheery welcome to their friends. After the confusion had died down and almost everyone had gone, a rather tall young man, with a light gray felt hat pulled down over his eyes, and a light gray suit might have been seen. He looked a few mo- ments with wonder at the scene. This was a new experience for Jack Rea- gin. He had never been away from home be- fore and he wondered whether he would be homesick or not. He wondered whether he would ever greet or be greeted by fellows like this. However, he turned his thoughts to where he should go. He saw the fellows going in a southerly direction, so he follow- ed along. Soon he beheld the college before him. Its great buildings seemed to be so proud and haughty. He saw a sign Register Here, and he did. He was assigned to Dormitory C, room 7. He soon found the building and discovered that his room was on the second floor. As he opened the door the greatest disorder and confusion greeted him, clothes were strewn everywhere. As he walked in he heard a cheery voice. Hello there. I judge that you are to be my roomate. I guess that ' s right, answered Jack. My name is Jones, Tom Jones, I ' m a Freshie here and I suppose you ' re one too. Yes, replied Jack, I am. My name is Jack Reagin. Well, now that we know each other ' s history I guess I ' d better get to work. I ' m sorry things look like this but I ' ll get them cleared up as soon as possible. I hat fixing up things. That ' s OK, replied Jack. I ' m going down to see about my trunk. I ' ll be back in a minute. As the days passed on Jack and Tom grew more friendly until they were inseparable. Say Jack, asked Tom one evening when they were studying, Are you going out for the Frosh football team? I saw a notice on the bulletin for all those interested in fresh- 1 en football to report at the gym at three ( lock. I think I will. T don ' t know, replied Jack, I ' m pret j. :;y with my studies. Did you ever play in high school, in- o lired Tom. Oh, a little. jy 10 THE CRIMSON AND GRAY Well, I guess I ' ll be getting to bed. Com- ing? No I want to finish this, answered Jack. Soon Tom was dead to the world and Jack began to think of his high school days. How happy everything had been at first for he had everything he wanted, with no worry about finances. And then a curtain was hung over all this, for his father died and left no- thing for the support of the family. Jack was forced to work but had managed to stay in school. He had saved enough money to pay for part of his college career. But he must get the Monroe Scholarship or else he would have to leave, and he would hate to. He had learned to love this school as his father did before him. But he must win that scholorship, if he went out for football, the game he loved best he might fall down in his studies and then all would be lost. And so Jack went to bed that night still undecided as to whether he should go out for the team or not. However, the next day the same subject came up again. When Jack still appeared a little doubtful, Tom began to question him and soon Jack told the whole story. As soon as Tom heard this he felt sori-y for Jack and did not say anything about football again. But that afternoon Jack was among the candidates for the team. For weeks they practiced hard and both were rewarded by gaining positions on the team. The big game of the year was drawing near but examinations came just before. Jack feared greatly that he was down in Mathematics or at least low in it. The test would make or break him. He stayed up into the early hours of the morning studying for this exam, since mathematics stood be- tween him and staying in college. The next day found Jack very nervous as he entered the Math room. He took the test and answered all the questions. He knew he had done well but somehow he felt afraid. The marks would not be given until the next day. It seemed as if it never would come. Finally the great hour arrived. When he met the professor his heart missed a beat. He looked at him and it seemed as if it was written all over. Reagin, you failed, were the words of the professor. Jack heard no more. Everything went black. He walked in a daze, on and on he went, seeing no one. On he walked saying to himself, I ' ve failed. When Tom had not seen Jack at noon he grew worried. He hunted everywhere but there were no signs of Jack. Finally he vis- ited the professor. As he went in to the prof ' s office, the professor asked him Have you seen Reagin? I ' ve made a terrible mis- take. I gave him the wrong marks. He had the highest marks in the class. Tom waited to hear no more but rushed out asking every fellow he met if he had seen Jack but no one had. Finally he heard he had gone out to the old bridge. With all his strength behind him, Tom fairly flew there. On and on he ran until he found Jack. It ' s a mistake you ' ve passed, he cried, the highest mark in class. You ' re saved. Jack did a little dance while Tom tried to catch his breath. He hadn ' t failed after all. He could stay. Needless to say Sanford freshmen won their game and none other than Jack Reagin made the winning touchdown while Tom led him across the line. JOHN STEEN, ' 31 THE JESTER PRINCE There was once a very rich king named Cedric, who had but one daughter named Mary, who was the most beautiful of all princesses. When she was born, a sage was called in to tell the king his daughter ' s future. The sage said, When your daughter grows up she will be wooed by a jester of a neighboring king and when he has gained her love they will disappear in a cloud. Im- mediately a hedge will spring up around your castle and out of the sky will come a gladia- tor to guard outside your castle and although it may be a hundred years before someone slay the gladiator all those inside shall not grow old. They won ' t sleep, but stay awake and their food will never give out. After the sage said this the king said, What have I done that that should hap- pen? The sage answered, In your youth the Witch with One Eye said, ' When this boy grows up he !- ' hMl m- ' v, v h :i mer girl who will wreck his kingdom, ' your father con- THE CRIMSON AND GRAY 11 tinued the sage quickly married you to a lovely princess as soon as you were old enough and so broke the spell. Now the Witch with One Eye who is yet alive said she would not be thwarted again so now she will take your spell and your daughter ' s spell and put th em together by marrying your daugh- ter to a jester and putting a hedge around your castle so as to wreck your kingdom. A neighboring prince named William heard this and told his father all the sage had said. He then asked his father to make a visit to King Cedric. William said that he would go as his father ' s jester and after he had gained Mary ' s love and disappeared in a cloud, with this disguise, he would come back and fight the gladiator and free them all. After a long time the King said Yes so they made ready. They took with them gold and silver for presents to the princess ' fa- ther. When they arrived at the castle, William ' s father asked to see Mary but Cedric seeing the jester said No. But the prince ' s father said the jester was out of his head so at last Cedric agreed to let the jester in court. But everything went as the sage predicted. Will- iam gained Mary ' s love and they disappeared in a cloud. As soon as the prince was out he took Mary and rushed to his father ' s castle. He put on his armor but no sword as he wanted one kept by the Witch with One Eye. Prince William did not know that it was the witch who had put the spell on King Cedric and his daughter. However when the young prince asked for the sword she would not give it to him as she knew who he was. He saw the sword hanging on the wall. He made a grab for it and got it. The minute he had it in his hand he ran out. The Witch was frightened be- cause that was the last spell she could throw and when the prince killed the gladiator she, too, would die, because she knew that in the gladiator was all her power. The prince fought the gladiator for a long time. Towards the third day the gladiator began to fail. As he failed the hedge around the castle grew smaller, the witch slowly was dying and the spell breaking. Soon the prince killed the gladiator, With his de?ith the spell broke and Prince William married Princess Mary. JOHN BINGLEY, ' 33 BLANK CARTRIDGES The weary traveler urged his horse on- ward toward the town in the distance. On approaching the outskirts of this Texan vil- lage he slackened his pace and rode slowly down the principal street cradled between rows of sun-baked buildings glaring white in the intense heat of the afternoon sun. Looking about he was surprised to notice the apparent desertion for there was only a lazy Mexican in sight lolling comfortably back in his chair on the hotel veranda seem- ingly asleep. Soon however amidst a cloud of dust he saw four or five figures riding swiftly to- wards the town. Evidently the Mexican had seen them also for he suddenly plunged through the swinging doors of the hotel. Meanwhile the riders approached while the stranger behind the corner of the hotel be- came alarmed at the sight of their coarse appearance and their belts bulging with sin- ister guns. Now the town suddenly waked from its stupor as a group of men from the hotel charged at the intruders amidst the crack and roar of pistols. The hidden stranger between cautious peeks at the fighters trembled uncomfort- ably at the recollection of the lurid tales of western outlawry for to his eye they seemed to be engaged in a bloody contest such as Bud Young in his Wild West wrote about. Now cringing behind the wall he realized that after all those blood-curdling tales were only too true. Then just as suddenly as it started; it ceased while a single unarmed man garbed in a conventional American sport suit emerged from a nearby building. The smear- 1 desperadoes gathered about him silent id shame-faced. Doubtless he was the ' eriff thought the timid onlooker as the . rds of the peacemaker reached his r - 1 lished ears. My dear gentlemen, this isn ' t a tea party hut a fight. Show more spirit! This old 1 -clies sev ' ing circle is going to end. Starjt 12 THE CnmSON AND GRAY it over again. I want action and plenty of it! We ' ve already wasted over two hundred feet of film. Now, action! Camera! The parched stranger overwhelmed by the strain of being an onlooker in this bloody battle of blank cartridge shots dropped down in the dust unnoticed. CATHERINE MCKINSTRY A SCHOOL-GIRL ' S PROBLEM The big clock on the landing stood exactly ten minutes of two as Priscilla Crawford and Marie Barnard went sauntering down the staircase at Millden Private School. Lunch was just over, and afternoon classes would not begin until half-past, therefore there was no need of hurry and plenty of time to discuss matters in general. Their talk turned upon the coming election of a president of the school club and the chances of the various canddates. The pupils of the school managed the tennis tournaments, the hockey matches, the magazine, the library, the dramatic club and the annual entertain- ments. To be chosen president was the height of any girl ' s ambition, and even the vice-presidency was a much desired honor. There ' s no doubt Beatrice will get it, said Marie. She ' s more popular than any- body at present, seeing she was tennis champion this summer and she ' s a perfect actor. Besides she ' s so jolly and funny, every one likes her. Yes the younger group adore her quite as much as Lucy, I think, if not more, ad- mitted Priscilla. I wonder who ' ll be elected vice-president? Lucy has a perfect chance. You ' ve a splendid chance yourself, Pris, and I would back you up for the presidency if I was positive you wouldn ' t go and do any- thing stupid, returned Marie. You ' ve such a blunt, downright way of stating facts that the girls are affected. Beatrice has a way of having the girls flock to her at any time of the day. Let ' s go to the living room and talk things over wth Beatrice, she ' ll be glad to have you for her Vice. Most of the girls who had lunch at the school were sitting around the fireplace. At that moment Sally Chandler rushed in the room. Girls! gasped Sally, have you heard? Oh! It ' s an absolute shame. Lindbergh is arriving this afternoon at three o ' clock and Miss Cameron wU not give us a half -holiday. I asked her and she said ' No ' point blank We ' re not going to miss seeing Lindbergh arrive ! She must be asked again! Well get up a deputation. Who ' ll head it? I will said Lucy, swallowing a whole tnarshmallow. The sooner its done the bet- ter. Priscilla will come of course, won ' t you. Prissy, and those on the student council will be enough. Imagine us sitting writing exercises while Lindbergh arrives. The arrival of this great hero in North- ampton the home of the ex-President was a great event to the townspeople. It had been announced for Saturday, so the news that he was to arrive Friday instead caused the ut- most excitement, especially among the younger generation. All the youngsters were anxious to have a first sght of the great aviator and to join in the welcome to be accorded him. The girls at the Private School were no exception. They had been looking forward to this occasion as they were planning to go with their parents, but on this day Miss Cameron had control over them till 4 o ' clock. At the study door of Miss Cameron ' s room Beatrice ' s courage failed her a little and be- fore she knocked on the door she said Re- member I depend on you Priscilla. Well ! what do you want girls ? in quir- ed Miss Cameron as they presented them- selves. The girls told her what they wanted but Miss Cameron would not consent, and the discomforted deputation stumped down- stairs to tell the terrible news to their friends, who were eagerly waiting for them. Let ' s have a general meeting to protest, said Marie, and have Beatrice say what she thinks of it. Everyone was willing to come with rec- ord speed and when Beatrice mounted her box everyone was only too eager to listen. Ladies and Gentlemen! she began, or perhaps I had better say girls! as there are no gentlemen present. You all know why we have come here. It is to protest against not THE CRIMSON AND GRAY 13 being allowed to go to see Lindbergh ar- rive. I ask you one and all who has a greater authority over us our fathers and mothers or our head-mistress? Our fathers and mothers agreed every- one. Then I vote that we, instead of going to classes as usual, put on our hats and coats and walk out into the town and welcome dear old Lindy. Priscilla had been listening and had dis- approved of everyone playing truant and Marie urged her to go up and say something in favor of their going to town as this would be good chance to gain votes for the Vice- Presidency. With a white face she mounted the box for it isn ' t a pleasant task to run counter to the wishes of the majority. Girls ! she began, I know it ' s disgusting not to see Lindbergh but Miss Cameron is quite right and I make a proposal that we all go to classes as usual. I cannot support Bea- trice and I am going to go to class. A chorus of hisses came from the girls and only a few approved. Beatrice again asked how many girls would come and counted them. As the ma- jority was willing to go, preparations were made to go at once so they would not be late. As Marie walked out of the school she said to Priscilla, You needn ' t expect to have me back you up for Vice, you lost your chance among the girls. Priscilla walked up to her classroom in the lowest of spirits. When Miss Cameron enter- ed the classroom she looked justly surprised at the rows of empty seats and asked Pris- cilla who was the oldest what the meaning was. I believe they ' ve all gone to town, she stammered unwillingly. Miss Cameron did not reply but marked those who were present and began class. It was a terril:)le afternoon sitting there trying to write a French exercise and all the while thinking of what the other girls were doing and eve7i vhen iNJits Cameron was c-i1 ' jd to the telephone the girls did not speak. Girls! she announced as she came back. I have just had a call from Mrs. C. who in- vites the whole school to be preseeni; at the City hall and seats will be held so we will be able to see Lindbergh closely and then we can shake hands with iiim. If we hurry and cut through Green Lane we can get there before they arrive for Mrs. C. said they were ex- pected at four o clock The girls made a hasty toilet and arrived at ten minutes to four to find their seats were waiting for them. They felt very grown up as tea and delicious cakes were brought to them and Mrs. C. and the girls spoke to them and asked them if they were comfortable. When the cheering could be heard every- one was excited and as Lindbergh passed in his car and stopped before Mrs. C. and the girls waved to him and as he smiled to them they felt as if they had been greatly honored. On Monday morning the girls who had not played truant were very happy but the others who had gone out to the town had the disagreeable necessity of facing Miss Cam- eron, besides Lucy lost her pocketbook and Beatrice found that her watch was missing. Many of the girls found that their mothers disapproved of their action on Friday after- noon. Priscilla always stands up for her prin- ciples, remarked Lucy. She ' s good in every thing and we know all the societies would be splendidly managed if she was at the head. Let ' s vote for her among our group. When election day arrived, Priscilla, to her amazement came out ahead of Beatrice winning by ten points. So you are President, and I ' m only Vice, said Beatrice to Priscilla. I must say I ' m a bit surprised, because I thought I ' d win. But it was a perfectly fair ballot and I don ' t hold a grudge against you and I ' ll do my best to back you up in everything. NELLIE MISIASZEK, ' 31 AIR WAYS Jimmy Ward had just come home from his air training course to his home in the little town about ten miles from the Canadian bor- der. Jimmy thought that as soon as he was gra- duated from air school he could find a good job, with money enough to get a small com- mercial plane, which he wanted during his whole course. He soon found out that an avia- tor with but twenty-seven solo hours to his THE CRIMSON AND GRAY credit cannot find a job easily. Three months went by, it was nearing summer and Jimmy was beginning to be really disappointed. He advertised in a local newspaper and waited three days without result. On the fourth day a magni ficent car stop- ped in front of Jimmy ' s house and two rich- ly dressed business like men stepped out, went up to the door and asked to see Jimmy. They told Jimmy they were executives of a large steel firm who were thinking of open- ing a new mill in Canada a few miles over the border and wanted to keep the Anacon- da Steel Mills, their rivals from knowing about it till work was started. In order to do this many important papers must be secretly and quickly brought across the border to be signed, returned and ap- proved every day. The Company owned three Lockheed-Vegg low wing monoplanes of the most powerful and speediest type commer- cially manfactured but, at present, had no pilot to work for them. Jimmy ' s advertise- ment in the newspaper attracted the atten- tion of Mr. Way, the president who was an- xious to secure a capable pilot. Jimmy soon agreed to work for them as long as there was nothing wrong with the work and he was paid. They agreed, and told Jimmy that he would start work at ten o ' clock at night and be through at midnight if not before, depending on the weather. On May twenty-first Jimmy got a call which informed him that he would start work that night. About two o ' clock in the after- noon a roadster drove up to Jimmy ' s door and someone inquired for him. It was a man to drive Jimmy to work. He got into the car and the man introducted himself as Joe Swagger, who was to be general-manager of the new Canadian plant when it started operations. Jimmy soon found out that the municipal airport was not to be used as the Anaconda Steel works had a plane there, but, instead Jimmy was to use a field a few miles out of town. Joe ' s roadster which was a powerful eight cylinder car was soon eating up the road, the speedometer registering between sixty and sivty-five all the way. At about twenty minutes to three Joe turned to the right into a small dirt road which had on the corner a sign pointing in reading Coldspring Lake. About three miles down they came to the lake and a small cot- tage which he learned was to be his head- quarters. Jimmy was introducted to the other fel- lows, who were all older than himself, and they told him of his work. He was shown one of the three low wing monoplanes he was to use, it was kept in a pine grove that was be- ing utilized as a hangar. The field was about one hundred fifty yards long and half as wide. After asking questions for about half an hour he was told how to find his route and stay on it. He was to take off about nine-thirty, circle the field twice and head directly west ten miles till he came to the U. S. Emergency landing field number 642 being careful he was at a low altitude and not directly over the field — then he was to veer directly north heading for Canada. The route which he followed was marked by red horse shoe shaped lights of the noen- tube type which one could see even in foggy weather. He was to follow these lights about fifty minutes till he saw three lights in a row, then he was to turn east about fifteen miles until he saw four powerful landing lights in a perfect rectangle, this is where he was to land and instructions would be given for his return trip. Before dark Jimmy took up the plane for a trial spin, never before had he had such a thrill, for he took off in fifty yards or less with such ease and speed as he had never felt. He looked at the speed indicator, 145 miles an hour an ' d the plane wasn ' t opened up. He circled for about fifteen minutes re- turned and made a perfect three point land- ing without stopping dead, then rolled it into the pine grove hangar. He went back to the house, ate supper and read till eight-thirty when he decided it was time to get ready. He donned leather breeches sheepskin-lined highcuts, leather coat, flying gloves, helmet and goggles. He was assisted by Joe to start the plane, and at eight-fifty five he roared down the field and took off on his first air work. He soon came to the airport, turned north following the lights closely. At ten minutes to ten he came over the Canadian field circled and landed. He was greeted by four strangers THE CRIMSON AND GRAY who introduced themselves and gave him hot coffee and sandwiches. Jimmy was shown the two other planes, one of which was started and ready to leave. Jimmy piled in at ten fifteen, was handed a small sealed leather case and started. After an uneventful ride home and landing Jimmy handed the bag to Joe who had charge of it and Jimmy was off duty. Jimmy felt sleepy so he went to bed but could not sleep when he got there on account of the coffee he had benn given on the oth- er side of the line, he sat near the window looking out at the plane, it was twelve thirty. Suddenly Joe ' s roadster was started and it headed for the state road with lights out. The other fellows were soon in bed and asleep as was Joe by one o ' clock. Jimmy ' s work was fairly steady, he made twenty four flights in June and seven in July. On the eve of the thirty first of July another fiight for Jimmy was ordered and he was soon winging towards the Canadian field. A strange clear shaven fellow was with the usual bunch and they seemed unusually quiet. He was handed his papers and left. The plane seemed unusuually light-tailed to- night and was easy to handle. Jimmy was early and before ten-thirty he was circling the lake preparatory to landing which was quickly and neatly done. He climbed out with his satchel and in- stead of being met by Joe, was met by two men who clamped handcuffs on him, put him in a car and brought him to a jail. The next morning the trial came up, and Jim was told by the Court that he had been smuggling high-class watches into Canada and high- grade silks and laces back into the United States in a secret compartment in the fuse- lage of the plane behind the cock-pit. During the trial Jimmy told all he knew and was acquitted with Joe ' s aid, while Joe and the rest got different sentences ranging from one to ten years. Jimmy ' s pay had amounted to nearly sev- en hundred dollars most of which he had de- posited in a nearby bank. The Federal government had confiscated the planes and Joe ' s roadster which were put up for sale at the auction block to pay for the expenses of running the smugglers down. Jimmy was there and for one hundred and fifty dollars he bought Joe ' s roadster, and for three hundred fifty more, one of the planes he had used, swearing that neither would be used for smuggling. When Joe got out of jail after his year and a day sentence his roadster was waiting for his, as a present from Jim. WILLIAM POWER, ' 31 GYPSIES Gypsies are the wildest things. Dancing in the dusk. Mingling with the starlit skies. Tamarisk and musk. Oh, gypsies are the weirdest things, Whirling on the breeze. Dancing by the tinkling flames, Glories there one sees. Oh, gypsies are the freest things, Happy, joyous one! Wandering far o ' er hill and dale, Till the day is done. Wildest, weirdest, freest. Glorious these three! Oh, won ' t you be a vagabond And come gypsying with me ? Lucille Monroe, ' 33. HOOF-BEATS AT NIGHT A small Colonial maiden lay In olden Concord town Upon a large four-posted bed With ruffles all around. Asleep was she; the moon-beams fell Upon her upturned face. The night wind blew and gently stirred Her nightcap bound with lace. The night was late when suddenly A horse ' s hoofs were heard Full galloping, but — quick drawn rein- Revere ' s voice spoke the word. 16 THE CRIMSON AND GRAY As he dismounted with great haste And knocked upon the door To arms! The regulars are here, Full thousand strong or more. He mounted then and still rode on But all the family stirred ; And each remembered till he died Those footsteps and that word. Lucille Monroe, 33. AN ANNOUNCEMENT Four thousand dollars in cash awards will be paid during this year to students and schools producing the best creative work. These awards, known as The Nat- ional High School Awards are sponsored by The Magazine World, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper ' s The Forum, The Book- man, Saturday Review of Literature, World ' s Work, Current Literature, World News, and Current Events. There are twelve divisions — short story, essay, autobiography, one-act play, poetry, sports story, book review, editorial, maga- zine review, science article, who ' s who in current events, and magazine cover art — all covered in this one big contest. In each division about fifty prizes will be awarded, ranging from $50 to $5. In addition, two silver cups will be presented; one to the school represented by the first prize win- ner, and one to the school represented by the second prize winner, in each division. The purpose of this big scholarship project is to give recognition to the excel- lent work produced in our high schools and to put the best material in permanent form for the information of the general public. Instead of throwing into the waste bas- ket the work done in English, every stu- dent in this high school is invited to submit his best for these awards. Manuscripts must be sent in by the teacher. Henry Goddard Leach, editor of The Forum; Henry Seidel Canby, editor of the Saturday Review of Literature ; Russell Doubleday, editor of World ' s Work; Thomas B. Costain, associate etitor of the Saturday Evening Post ; W. J. de Grouchy, fiction editor of Ladies ' Home Journal; Frederick L. Allen, editor of Harper ' s, have agreed to serve as judges for The National High School Awards. Students are urged to send in contribu- tions as early in the year as possible, for meritorious work will be published month- ly in The Magazine World and in World News. An additional collection will be published at the close of the year in book form under the title, Literary Leaves by Tomorrow ' s Writers. All manuscript must be postmarked not later than March 15, 1930. Detailed information regarding these awards can be found in the November is- sue of the Magazine World, or can be se- cured, upon request, from Awards Editor, American Education Press, Inc., 40 S. Third Street, Columbus, Ohio. THE NEW CENTURY This is an age of speed. Hourly editions of newspapers, weekly periodicals, month- ly magazines thrust themselves upon us before we have scarcely had time to read their predecessors. We read them quickly, as we do all things, pausing but a moment to reflect. We cannot go back to a slower age and would not wish to do so even if such a thing were possible. It has been the fate of the modern generation to put time above all else, and the generation is eager to reach its destination, whatever it may be. However, if we cannot lessen the pace of the age itself, we can at least gain some leisure time for ourselves, when we can give due consideration to literature. This cannot be obtained thru monthly maga- zines, whose field is already crowded with competent editions, but editions which nat- urally lack the broader viewpoint of a quarterly magazine, which secures its ma- terial throughout a wider spac of time.. This is exemplified in the Quarterly Comment in the autumn edition of the Century which is its first quarterly num- THE CRIMSON AND GRAY 17 ber. The Quarterly Comment contains essays of Henry Hazlitt, similar to those of the Spectator, in which Hazlitt has chos- en subjects of interest to all and has writ- ten of them with a sympathetic under- standing and a wide knowledge of his sub- jects. It is because of such articles as this, which necessarily require a longer period of time for preparation than is afforded by the monthly magazines, that the staff of the Century a monthly magazine, has become the staff of the the Century a popular quarterly. The staff hopes, as a result of this change, that its readers may have more time to read and reflect upon its articles, and that they may forget, for the time at least, that their aim is to break the speed limit. Doris A. Claflin, ' 30 THE ART OF THINKING The Art of Thinking by Ernest Dim- net is one of the most popular of books and yet it is not fiction nor does it treat of a subject supposedly of interest in the world. However, the book fascinates and Dimnet holds his readers. He approaches and deals with his ma- terial in much the same manner as a doctor examines a patient. The doctor. Abbe Dim- net, first of all explains what real thinking is, and, he reveals what quality of thought the reader possesses by a most informal conversation with him. The author points out the real thinker and his characteris- tics of independence and leadership. Then he paints a word picture of the causes why children after ten years of age turn away from real thought. Up to that age children can and do think because they see for themselves. Education and imitation of adults change all this. At this stage the disease being defined the remedies appear. The reader by this time finds that he is suffering from just such a malady and becomes eager for the cure. The helps to thought are many : Liv- ing one ' s life, living on a higher plane, reading only what gives pleasure and pre- serving one ' s thoughts are some mention- ed. Any one of these suggestions contains part of the greatest power in the book. They all create enthusiasm, for before the reader is half way through, he is maki ng resolutions. The statement The millions know nothing except the thick lava of hab- it and repetition. A small section of the people tells them what to think and they think it brings a guilty pang of remem- brance to the readers ' mind of the many times he has said to himself That ' s the way it always has been done so I had bet- ter do it the same way or when he said to the world, Yes, I think so too, when he jhad had original ideas but lacked the cour- age to display them to the convention rid- den world. At the end you close the book with a half wistful sigh for deep down you seem to know that the high ambitions to be a thinker and not a repeater and never more to listen or indulge in petits de- tails and to follow the excellent methods for saving time — all these fine resolutions will probably very soon fall from their Olympic Heights. But you can ' t forget the book and it should prove a help to anyone. Above all, images, the things, that Abbe Dimnet describes as being the beginning of thought fill our mind : the picture of the Ifttle girl in black reading Julius Caesar or the old man in his common environment hating the commoness and obviousness around him or Cicero appearing suddenly in New York. Abbe Dimnet is a witty writer and a keen observer. His ideas of education in America and France are illuminating. The picture of the undeveloped body of the average French student with his brilliant mind with the modem American boy. Dim- net ' s vocabulary is so varied and interest- ing that it adds much to the pleasure of the book while his comments and anecdotes shows his familiarity with English and French authors. He seems to illustrate his own advice for being a thinker is being one ' s self at all costs for above all else-he is himself. And in that he explains, is the secret of all things. Kathleen Bums, ' 30. WE REMEMBER The Hilltop — Otterville, Missouri for 1. Its appropriate cover. 2. Placing jokes on the first page. 3. The staring black cuts. 4. Lack of Shakespearean minds. Charlton High School High Lights— Charl- ton, Massachusetts, for 1. Looking at the bright side of life. 2. Picking on their Freshmen. 3. Decorating their magazine with empty- spaces (to use our imagination?) The Breeze — Ashburn, Massachusetts, for 1. The thickness of the book. 2. Completeness and system in the gra- duating programs. 3. A photograph studio. Students ' Review — Northampton, Massachu- setts, for 1. Articles: Book Reviews a. The Scarlet Letter. A Harvard athlete tells how he won his athletic award. b. The Return of the Native. Mayor Walker at home. c. Oliver Twist. Gilda Gray ' s latest book on dancing. d. The Ring and the Book. Imper- fections of the telephone system. e. So Big. Mussolini ' s autobiogra- phy. 2. Good material in so little space. The Red and White — Norwich, Connecticut, for 1. Such a small number of subscribers. 2. The article The Eternal City. 3. Perfect ballad meter verse. Don ' t worry if your work is hard And your A ' s are few, Remember that the mighty oak Was once a ' nut ' like you. The Philomath — Framingham, Massachu- setts, for 1. Its Editorials and attractive cover. The Echo— Winthrop, Massachusetts, for 1. Articles entitled Juniors. 2. Not entertaining us with stories. Baker Junior News — Denver, Colorado, for 1. The distance it traveled to us. 2. Interest in writing about haunted houses. 3. Teacher — If Mr. Jones, Mrs. Jones and Baby Jones were here, how many would there be? Pupil — 2 and 1 to carry. Scotland Courier — Scotland, Pennsylvania, for 1. The number of copies we have re- ceived. 2. The interesting Dormytoryettes. 3. Worth while Alumni letters in the Alumni page. The second term of the school year has been filled with social activities. Parties, plays, the Glee Club operetta and basket ball games have kept us all in a state of constant activity and despite all these the school has been able to show a slight in- crease in the general average of its marks over the average of the first ten weeks. On November 20th the teachers held a bridge and whist party in the Town Hall to raise money for the Scholarship Fur.d. While the scores were being counted, en- tertainment was furnished by members of the high school. The hall was very prettily decorated under the direction of Miss Oliff. On Thanksgiving evening the Senior Class held a dance in the high school au- ditorium to celebrate the victory of our football team over Webster. This has been the only entertainment held in honor of the team which defeated Webster for us for the first time in almost a decade. SENIOR CLASS PLAY Thursday night, December 10th, the Senior Class presented the play The Whole Town ' s Talking. Mr. Henry Simmons endeavors to marry off his daughter Ethel to his business part- ner, Chester Binney. The last named has not sowed any wild oats so Simmons sows some for him and spends the rest of his time in anxiety lest his oat field be de- stroyed. Simmons also tries to take danc- ing lessons from Sadie Bloom and not re- veal it, with the result that he is placed in several perilous situations. However, finally all obstacles are removed and the play ends amidst swishes and cavorts. The members of the cast included; Henry Simmons, Maurice Clemence; his wife, Hattie, Alfreda Sichol; Ethel, his daughter, Gwendolyn Monroe; Chester Binney, Simmon ' s partner, Arthur Proulx; Roger Shields, from Chicago and Paris, Edward Paquette ; Letty Lythe, a movie actress, Bertha Love; Donald Swift, her director and fiancee,also an ex-pugilist, James McKay; Sadie Bloom, Simmon ' s dancing teacher, Leona Raiche ; Annie, the maid, Stefanie Kozyra; the taxi driver, Sylvester Barbierri; Lila Wilson and Sally Otis, friends of Ethel, Mary Gable and Blanche L ' Heureux; girls, Elizabeth St. Onge and Louise Skinner. The cast was selected on November 13 and rehearsals started on November 17th and yet the curtain went up exactly at 8 o ' clock on a richly furnished living room. The stage was prepared by a group of Senior boys under the direction of Arthur Proulx. The Senior Class wishes to extend its thanks to Miss Dempsey for the time she gave up and the interest which she took in coaching the play; also, to Miss Bur- rington who made up the characters and to all others who helped to make the play GLEE CLUB OPERETTA The second dramatic production of the school year was given by the Glee Club when the popular operetta Riding Down the Sky was presented on Thursday night, January 23rd, in the Town Hall be- fore a full house. The operetta was a big success in every way. There were almost one hundred in the cast of the operetta. The leading charac- ters were : Ben Baker, a young American aviator, Ferdinand Volpini; George J. Mc- Donald, a mining expert, Valentine Wil- son ; Joshua Scroggins, a deck-hand on the airplane, Edgar Tillyer; Don Jose De Gar- 20 THE CRIMSON AND GRAY vanza, the President of Santa Delmonica, John Steen; Carmelfta, his young and charming daughter, Ruth Clough; Rosa Escondido, a matronly duenna, Blanche L ' Heureux ; Don Jose Del Molino, an elder- ly suitor, Nestor Pontbriand; Francisco Bandino, a revolutionary conspirator, James McKay; Marie Bandino, his wife, Mary Gable ; Sgt. Timothy Riley, of the U. S. Marines, Maurice Clemence; Fernando Gonzoles, the President ' s bodyguard, Christo Thomas. The operetta was directed by Miss Mc- Grath, musical director; she was assisted by Miss Fitzgerald who coached the speaking parts, and Miss Troy, the accom- panying pianist. The stage settings were prepared under the direction of Miss Oliff, and the lighting arrangements under Mr. Earle Davis. Much credit and praise is due to these people as well as to others who helped to make Riding Down the Sky the great success that it was. WEDNESDAY MORNING ENTERTAINMENTS November 6 — The senior History Class presented a decidedly novel program this morning. Mary Gable, Kathleen Burns and Edward Paquette delivered excellent speeches on topics of historical interest. November 12 — Alice Jacques and Wanda Kwarciak entertained with several mandolin selections with Doris Dubreuil as an accom- panist. November 17 — Mr. Green introducted two of his friends who kindly entertained us with vocal selections and recitations. We would like to thank them for their delightful pro- gram. November 21 — Roxanne Pinsonneault, a member of the Freshman Class, sang sever- al selections. November 28 — Dorothy Labelle, the origi- nator of Dot ' s Collegians produced a clev- er revue far beyond the range of the ordi- nary amateur. The cast included the follow- ing: Dorothy Labelle, Wanda Kwarciak, Alice Jacques, Gertrude Wilkinson, Antoin- ette Roy, Jane Burnham and Annette Ma- thieu. Unfortunately the local talent seemed to have waned somewhat and several Wednes- day mornings passed without the cheering entertainments. This was probably due to the rehearsals for the Operetta. December 12 — Muriel Price and Mabel Sandgren played several piano selections. January 9 — Herbert Wilkinson and Van- gel Themistocles played many popular selec- tions on harmonicas. February 5 — Edward Kaszynski, a mem- ber of the Sophomore Class produced a short play. Ruth Clough, Beth Wilkinson, Bernice Hunt, Peter Chula, Charles Clark and Edward Kaszynski comprised the cast. HONOR ROLL M. E. W. H. S. 2ND QUAR- TER SCHOOL YEAR 1929-30 SENIORS All A ' s and B ' s Rita Houde Kathleen Burns Katena Manthue Maurice Clemence Gwendolyn Monroe Mary Gable Mary Schwartzberg JUNIORS All A ' s Catharine McKinstry All A ' s and B ' s Dora Martin John Steen Gertrude , Wilhelminia Kania SchwartzbergWanda Kwarkiak SOPHOMORES All A ' s and B ' s John Buckley Ruth Clough Mary Harney Sophie Janeczek Anita Lariviere Blanche Metivier Celia Pezzeti THE CRIMSON AND GRAY 21 FRESHMEN All A ' s and B ' s Philippina DeAnglis Nellie Jura Rubia Beauregard Vera Krasowsky Ruth Billings Margot Kuehn Jennie Calo Carrie Labelle Victoria Czyzewski Rodolph Leduc Alfred DeAnglis Rita Livernois Romeo Dumais Claire McGrath Bernard Fox Lucille Monroe Edna Toye Iphn Tobia Honorat Gauthier Renato Volpini Gertrude Wilkinson For the first half-year ' s work. 47 Seniors received 290 marks above 80% 61 Juniors received 301 marks above 80% 90 Sophomores received 487 marks above 80% 54 Freshmen received 585 marks above 80% 252 received 1663 marke above 80% The average of all Freshmen in all subjects 78.064 The average of all Sophomores in all sub- jects 77.428 The average of all Juniors in all subjects 75.480 The average of all Seniors in all subjects 77.342 The average of all pupils in all subjects — 77.0785 is 18.58% above necessary passing mark. -yf ALUMNI NOTES ' Many of our former athletes are distin- guishing themselves at higher schools and, through their activities are bringing honor to our high school. It seems notevs orthy that boys w ho are considered good athletes in high school should continue their fine records in college in competition with many of the best. It may not be to our credit that these players have such outstanding ability, but certainly some of their reflected glory touches our school. Among the most prominent is Jake Ed- wards, 1928, a student at Worcester Acad- emy who is a highlight of the Academy bas- ketball team. He has played with remarkable ability this year, and is considered one of the best forward of eastern prep schools. Ed- wards also shone in baseball last season, playing in the outfield, and during the sum- mer playing in the Blackstone Valley League. Eugene (Red) Desautels, 1926, a catcher on the Holy Cross baseball team also played in this league and showed his capability for good baseball. He is a member of the present Holy Cross basket ball team and has showed up well at forward. Donald Fitzgerald, 1926, the Holy Cross tackle of wonderful physique is now showing his ability as center on the basketball team. He is playing exceedingly well this season and his game is being watched with great interest. We should also remember other athletes who represent our high school at college — boys who have made the Freshman or sec- ond teams. We should appreciate their ef- forts and realize that these are the future first string-players. Apart from athletics, some of our students are honored in other ways. Cynthia Darling 1929, has been elected to the Pi Beta Phi at Boston University. Dorothy MacAllister, 1929, had a leading part in the operetta pre- sented by the Glee Club of Framingham Nor- mal School. These are both honors seldom accorded to Freshmen. Robert Snell, class Of 1925, is how teach ' ing biology at Rutgers. Robert Montague, 1925, graduated from Brown University 1929, is attending Har- vard Law School. Charles Hanson 1925, also a graduate of Brown 1929, is a student at Tufts Medical School. ONWARD Four years or more Since yonder door Was closed, and closed behind us. We went our way, with laughter gay. No cares, nor ties to bind us. Glory and fame By any name — Just let us try — We ' d win it! We ' d conquer all Within our call. Our very souls were in it. The highest star In heaven afar; We ' d hitched our wagon to it. The world to win Our creed had been ; It must be done, we ' d do it! Thus Twenty-Five Eager, alive. Began its task of living; Learning each day Through work and play; Sharing, receiving, giving. Four years or more Since yonder door Was closed, and closed behind us. Of treasures won. Of life begun It ever shall remind us. SYLVIA L. CLAFLIN, ' 25 Clinton— 13 Wells— The Wells football team was defeated only once and then by Clinton. Although they played a good game the Clinton men had the advantage in weight over our men and suc- ceeded in scoring two touchdowns and a goal. Killingly— Wells— 20 The game with Killingly was another vic- tory for the Wells eleven. In this game the entire second team was enabled to play half the game and during their half scored a touchdown for Southbridge. This game was a proof for the statement previously made that if some player was hurt, an equally good substitute was available. Tuesday evening November, 25, a rally was held in the school auditorium to pep up the townspeople and the students for the Thanksgiving game. Donald Fitzgerald and Red Desautels, both members of our alumni, and Hank Gar- rity of Holy Cross gave speeches in which all kinds of success was wished to the team. Then Mr. Cervini, a coach at Holy Cross, told us how we could do our share towards winning the game. The following half hour was one of continu ous cheers and songs. We all wish to thank Bill Henry for writing the songs which did so much, on that glorious day, to urge our team on to victory. Webster —0 Southbridge— 6 On Thanksgiving morning many a groan was heard lest the bad weather would cause the postponement of the much looked for- ward to game when Wells was to meet Bart- lett on the gridiron. Our boys were not to be daunted by a few snow flurries nor were the townspeople. Several thousand turned out and mingled their voices in the lusty cheers lead by our leaders to urge on our team. In the first quarter Southbridge ' s hopes sank when gain after gain was made by the enemy until they were almost on the goal line. Hold that line was the unending cry, and how our boys did heed it! Shoulder to shoulder they formed an iron walll through which the slightest particle of green could not trespass. The defense was superb but it was not to last long. A good punt from behind the goal line took the ball away from the danger line. Again, Webster in the second quarter drove deep into our territory until it seemed that our boys could not possibly hold them. Once they had first do vn and goal to go but 24 THE CRIMSON AND GRAY the team held and with the final unsuccess- ful effort Webster ' s hopes faded. Here was a fighting team that would not be beaten. In the third quarter the tide changed. Our team was playing entirely on the offen- sive. Plays clicked, the ball was adavnced steadily toward the goal line until, finally on the twenty yard line the team went into a huddle as usual — came out, and Dugas called the signals. No sooner was the last number heard when a streak of red went down the field and Volpini crossed the line ! After this Bartlett began to show signs of weariness but put up a gallant fight. Time after time they tried to tie us by forward passes, but all failed to accomplish their purpose. Too much praise cannot be given to the team. Each player was on his toes and did more than his share. Praise is also due to the Bartlett players. Their team put up a plucky fight but they were outclassed in every way. After seven years of defeat our boys met with success. Good work team ; may you have twice as many years of victory The coveted W was awarded to twenty two boys for their good work in football: McKay, Dugas, Gatineau, Tremblay, Fav- reau, Peloquin, Tillyer, Steen, Grant, Wil- kinson, Arpin, Blair, M. Koprowski, H. Ko- prowski, Volpini, Pontbriand, Francazzi, Schardschmidt, Champlin, Weaver, Chula, Leclair, and Clemence, manager of the team. The letter winners met one afternoon and selected Joe Gatineau, Captain of the 1930 football squad. Although kept from the early games because of a sprained arm, he made up for his absence in the following ones, al- ways playing a steady game and often mak- ing brilliant day-saving tackles. BASKETBALL Ware— 43 Southbridge— 12 On January 3, while the boys were defeat- ing the Warren team, the girls took a beat- ing from the Ware team who captured the game with the score, 4312. Priscilla Morris and Stef were the chief scorers for our team. East Douglas— 18 Wells— 16 East Douglas sent over a very strong team and as our team hadn ' t been fully molded together, they defeated us by a slight mar- gin. Alumni— 15 Wells— 10 Girls— 18 Girls— 18 The old team of Mary E. Wells consisting of fast stars from our school was able to win over our team of coming stars. The girls however held their own to a tie. Warren— 11 Wells— 24 In our first out of town game the boys were able to show themselves worthy by de- feating a good team on its own floor. Tourtellotte— 17 Wells— 24 Girls— 31 Girls— 9 Another victory for our team. Tourtel- lotte a good team was handed an easy de-. feat by our team. Stefanie Kozyra was high scorer for our girl ' s team which won easily as usual. Spencer— 7 Wells— 10 Girls— 23 Girl— 25 In Spencer both games were close, how- ever both girls ' and boys ' teams were able to win. Again for the girls ' team Stef was high scorer. Spencer— 30 Wells— 27 Girls— 14 Girls— 20 The boys after a close game were not vic- torious but the girls, with their usual for- tune won their game handily. Webster— 39 Southbridge— 13 East Douglas (girls)— 16 (girls) — 16 January 17, Southbridge went to Web- ster. Our team put up a stiff fight but the Webster quintet proved to be the stronger and faster aggregation. The night was not entirely hoo-dooed for the girls tied the East Douglas team in a snappy game. Tourtellotte— 39 Wells— 38 (girls)— 20 (girls)— 27 On the twenty-first the teams traveled to Tourtellotte High for a return game. Orice again the Wells girls saved the evening from entire calamity by scoring 27 points to their opponents 20. THE CRIMSON AND GRAY 25 North Brookfield— 20 Wells— 34 East Douglas ( girls ) —16 ( girls ) —33 Two teams visited Southbridge on the twenty-fourth. The north Brookfield boys came to match their strength against the Wells varsity. Just before the Crimson and Gray quintet downed their opponents, the Wells girls beat East Douglas, making the evening most successful. Clinton— 27 Wells— 22 (girls)— 20 (girls)— 19 January 28, was one of our black days. In the beginning both the Wells girls and boys seemed superior to the Clinton players. How- ever, luck was against our teams and though they fought hard the Clinton players return- ed home with a double victory. Better luck next time teams! With The Jokesters HE WASN ' T SCOTCH Honk — So your brother ' s an inventor. Konk — Yes, and he ' s some inventor! Honk — What is his latest invention? Konk — He ' s invented a patent collection box where the quarters and half drop on velvet while the nickels and pennies drop on a Chi- nese drum. Fond Father — I ' m wondering what to get my son for his birthday. Friend — Does he go to school? Father— Yes. Friend — Why don ' t you buy him an ency- clopedia? Father — I guess not, I had to walk to school and I guess he can. She — Corporal punishment never did any good ; I was never spanked but once in my life and that was for being good. He — Well, it certainly cured you. Old Lady — My poor man, I suppose you have had many trials in your life. Tramp — Yes ma ' am, but only one conviction. Nitt — Say are you trying to make a fool out of me? Witt — I ' m too late — nature beat me to it. Hi — What ' s all the confusion in the barber- shop? Ball — The Barber was shaving himself. Hi— Well ! What ' s that got to do about it? Ball — He was trying to talk himself into get- ting a hair-cut and shampoo. Central — Number please? Freshman — Number? Woman, I put in my nickel and I want my chewing gum. 1st Freshman Do you see that Junior over there, he hasn ' t been doing anything all morning ! 2nd Ditto — How do you know? 1st Freshman — I ' ve been watching him. Teacher — What are the Hampden Roads made of? Sleepy Stude — Concrete. Note: Freshmen please take note. Nitt — I ' m going to a wedding tomorrow. Witt — Are you going in a tuxedo? Nitt — No ! I ' m going to walk. Missionary -Yes, Miss Smith, so remote was our position that for two years the only white face I saw was my own. Miss Smith — Oh ! poor thing ! Unfortunately, afterthoughts come last. LIFE AS WE SEE IT Henry Ford says, Happiness in life is usu- ally found by the man who is looking for something else. Watch your hundred dollar bills! are counterfeits in circulation. There And then there ' s the poor fellow who got a shine and then remembered he had his room- mate ' s shoes on. Joe — I despise hypocrites. Take French, for example, he ' s the biggest hypocrite on earth. Bill — But you appear to be his best friend. Joe — Oh ! yes, I try to appear friendly to- ward him. It pays better in the end. THE CRIMSON AND GRAY 27 She — How ' d you get the grease on your face? He — Well, you see, our car broke down and I had to fix it She — Since when do you grease your car with red grease. Student — When I left my last boarding house, the landlady wept. Landlady — Well, I won ' t. I always collect in advance. Chem. Prof. — A catalyst is something that aids in the completion of a reaction ' but takes no active part in it. Can you illustrate? Student — A glass egg. What have you in the shape of tomatoes this morning? asked the customer of the new grocery clerk. Nothing but apples, ma ' am, came the re- ply. A friend of ours — a beginner at golf — when asked how he came out on the first day on the links, replied that he made it in eighty. Eighty, ejaculated Buck, that ' s really re- markable. Most old timers would envy that score. You ' ll surely be an enthusiast from now on. Yes,, said the novice, condescending. I ' m going back tomorrow and try the second hole. SERVICE STATION We Repair, Rebuild and Recharge Any IVlake of STORAGE BATTERIES Lewis Battery Ignition 411 Main St. Tel. 381-W Through Service We Grow Compliments of F. A. BOUVIER Shoes and Shoe Repairing Compliments of Thimblin ' s Barber Shop 280 Main St . Headtiuarters for Sporting Goods E. D. STONE 27 Hamilton Street Telephone 291-M Southbridge Coal Co. Dealers in COAL AND WOOD W. M. Edwards Office: 315 Main St. Yard: Railroad Ave. Tel. 161-J Tel. 252-W Gendreau ' s Market Local Agent for S. S. Pierce Co., Specialties Sperry and Barnes ' Hams and Bacon and a Full Line of Hatchet Brand Canned Goods McKINSTRY ICE CO. Dealers In ICE, COAL AND WOOD PRICE — QUALITY SERVICE 6 DUPAUL ST. TEL. 519-R Buy From a First Class Fruit Store METRO BROS. 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Here at the American Optical Company, nearly 8,000 men and wo- men of Southbridge, Fiskdale, Sturbridge and Charlton are daily striving to achieve summa cum laude in opti- cal manufacture. They try not merely to make optica I products as good MS others, but to make them as perfect as human skill and ingenuity will permit. This ideals carried on for nearly 100 years, has brought summa cum laude to the Ameri- can Optica] Company in producing ophthalmic lenses, snpctacles and diagnostic in trum,ents. . This is AO ' s greatest contribution to the progress and prosperity of Sontlilui hr . AMERICAN OPTICAL COMPANY The CRIMSON and GRAY May, Nineteen Hundred And Thirty MARY E. WELLS HIGH SCHOOL Compliments of E. G. Walker Coal Co, Snell Manufacturing Co. Established 1790 Manufacturers of Ship Augers — Auger Bits — Carpenters ' Augers Car Bits — Machine Bits — Boring Machines, Etc. FISKDALE MASSACHUSETTS Factory: Fiskdale, Mass. .... 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Building with up-to-the-minute styles in Young Men ' s Clothing and Furnishings. HENRY R. DUFAULT COMMERCIAL PRESS, INC. Southbridge, Mass. Office, Factory and Loose-Leaf Forms, Corona Typewriters and Adding Machines, Shaw-Walker Line of Office Equipment. 248 Elm Street Phone 68 PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS The Crimson and Gray THE CONTENTS FOR MAY 1930 Cover Design Th« Future Progress of Aviation Dogs Autograph Please! Methods of Foretelling the Future thru the Ages The Glory of the Common Place A Senior ' s Thought The Way of the North Nanny O ' Neil Alias The Bum The Stowaway A Real Sport Tippy Wrecking Company Christopher, The First Pluck The Inheritance Harbors of Memory Grandmother Brown ' s One Hundred Years . The Edward J. O ' Brien Stories for 1929 . . . Where From, Crimson and Gray? .... Adventures of a Freshman Alumni Department Exchanges Locals Honor Roll Jokes ' . . Athletics Prospects of a Gymnasium Arthur P. Proulx Narcisse Leclair, ' 30 Bertha Love, ' 30 , Arthur P. Proulx, ' 30 Mary Schwartzberg, ' 30 Louise Skinner, ' 30 Maurice Clemence, ' 30 Dorothy Lanphear, ' 31 Ralph Billings, ' 32 Earle Thompson, ' 32 . . Andrew Tully, ' 32 . Margaret Walker, ' 32 . Vincent Walsh, ' 32 Elizabeth Wilkinson, ' 32 John Wilson, ' 32 Lucille Monroe, ' 33 Rita Earles, ' 31 Catherine McKinstry, ' 31 Walter A. Lindell, ' 18 Harold E. Morehouse, ' 29 11 14 16 18 19 21 22 23 24 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 35 36 36 37 38 39 40 41 The Future Progress of Aviation By NARCISSE LECLAIR, 1930 Aviation is awlays going forward and is here-to stay. Today in the United States there are over 600 aviation companies carrying passengers, mail, or express freight, also ' 4000 landing fields in oper- ation and 7300 miles of lighted airways under construction. This is but a part of the world ' s progress in aviation, since Europe is also keeping abreast with avia- tion and trying to solve its problems. The transoceanic flights of Lindbergh, Mailjland and Hegenberger, Costes and Lebrix, Byrd, Baron Von Huenfield, Bert Hinkler, the round the world flights of the United States army flyers and the Graf Zepplin, and many others, have shown the public the comparative safety of this new, delightful and quicker mode of travel. Valuable prizes are offered to companies from all parts of the world and also to in- ventors for safety devices to be used in aviation. A Landing Field ! What comfort these words bring to a pilot, especially, when the engine is not functioning properly. If a forced landing is inevitable and there are no fields within gliding distance, a crackup is unavoidable, unless the plane is built strongly and the pilot has luck in bringing the ship to earth. If the pilot runs out of fuel and makes a forced landing, he may be miles away from a landing field, where he could refuel, thereby wasting valuable time; it is, therefore, very im- portant that the number of landing fields be increased on land as well as sea, in America as well as in Europe and Asia. How can there be ocean landing fields and why, since planes can be fitted with pon- toons? Both questions can be readily an- swered. An airplane can stay but a few hours afloat at best and therefore ocean landing fields are needed also for emer- gencies. In the future, one will most probably see ocean landing fields designed some- what like the E. R. Armstrong Seadrome, which is practically immobile, regardless of the motion of the sea even in severe storms. lis dimensions are 800 feet by 200 feet with a spacious hangar and repair shop and magnificient hotel. Weather is another important factor which must be taken into consideration. Fog, thunderstorms and icy wings are the greatest of these perils. Beacons in the future, will be able to penetrate fog for | ' i, distance of 15 miles and there will also ' be radio beacons which will tell the pilot whether he is on his course or not. Chemicals or heating devices will take yfl the ice on the wings of a ship. Shipfe will also be able to attain such high alti- udes that they will be able to climb over ;the storm area without any ice forming on ;the wings. Airplanes or airships of the future will be equipped with one or more safety de- vices. The slotted wing, which prevents tailspins is installed on some airplanes now. Other inventions which may come into use are a big parachute, which will bring the plane down cafely to earth if the motor fails, and a device for releasing the motor and understructure, leaving the pilot to control and bring to earth his passeng- ers in a motorless airplane or glider, with- out discomfort or danger to the passengers Other devices will be parachutes for each passenger and brakes to be used especial- ly when making a fast landing in a small field. The Autogiro is another safety plane that one will, most probably, see in the future. It is fitted with horizontal rotat- ing vanes which enable it to take off more quickly and to make it land within a twenty foot circle if necessary. The plane is at all times kept horizontal and kept from stalling. It the motor fails, the plane floats gently to earth by the lifting power of these rotating vanes. Aviation ' s future progress is practically boundless; there is room for improvement in every direction. Automobiles ten years ■ ' SO were not what they are today in rid- ii ' g comfort, smoothness of performance THE CRIMSON AND GRAY and speed. Aviation is progressing so rap- idly that one reads of new inventions, high speed records, maneuver-ability and safe- ty devices every day. The Diesel engine, for example, vi ill find some use in the fu- ture because of the removal of the fire haz- ard, extremely lovi fuel costs, non-inter- ference with radio reception, and the com- parative reliability of the engine itself. Speed is the object in manufacturing airplanes as well- as in manufacturing automobiles. The record for commercial planes right now is 228 miles an hour on a straight-away course and 194 miles per hour on an inclosed course made by the new Travelair mystery ship. The present world ' s speed record was made on Sept. 12, 1929 by Maj. Orlebor at the rate of 357.70 miles per hour or about 6 miles per minute. Speed is not the only thing that is want- ed but also safety, because without safety speed pilots and other persons would not live to tell of their experiences. Airplan- es, airships, or rocketships, whatever avia- tion turns to, will be controlled, in the years to come, by radio or mechanical pi- lots. The most outstanding of these in- ventions is one invented by Prof. A. A. Merill of the California Institute of Tech- nology. A plane fitted with this invention took off without the pilot touching the controls and landed in the same manner. The plane was very stable in a gust of wind, there was hardly a chance of stal- ling and the plane made a landing with a dead motor in a space about 40 feet square. The most radical innovation is his method of tilting the wing by a crank operated from the cockpit. When tlje wings are tilted upward the plane climbs while the fuselage remains level. The pilot can set his wings for a climb, level flight, or de- scent, then he can give his entire attention to directing the plane, as in a motor car. Max Valier, a young German inventor and astronomer, is from many reports read, the first man to turn his attention to rockets for propulsion. Valier proposes a rocket ship that could shoot straight up for fifty miles, flatten out and put on full speed without danger of burning up the ship like a metor. Valier believes a ship like this could go from New York to Paris in 90 minutes and he also said, it might be capable of leaving the earth altogether and explore other planets. Another man who has done much for rocket ships is Dr. Goddard, a professor at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. He has invent- ed a new kind of liquid fuel for the pro- pulsion of rockets. In the next decade, aviation ' s progress will startle the world. Dogs BERTHA LOVE, 1930 Dog is descended directly from the wolf, jackal, and dingo, and has been in use by man Tor time immemorial. As far back as We can trace man we find evidences that man has had the dog for a pet or as a hunter. Prehistoric man probably had as much pride in his front yard (the entrance to his cave) as we have today in ours. Since he did not have any garbage can, he threw his scraps to the wolves or jack- als that lurked beyond the light of the fire. In this manner they became more bold and had affection and trust for the one who bestowed delicacies upon him. There are also proofs from Egyptian drawings that that ancient race appreciated the dog. However, prehistoric man, and it has been found to be true today, had another use for the dog besides as a pet and hunter. In time of famine, what could taste bet-, ter than the tender muscle of a puppy? The more intelligent older dogs were sav- ed while the younger ones were sacrificed and in so doing, eliminated the less hardy and less intelligent. Nature, Jikewise had an elimination process. Wolves ran in packs, each pack hated every other, but each wolf had to be extremely selfish in order to live. When they had succeeded in killing another animal they fought over it, the strongest procuring for himself the besi, while the weaker ones did not get any or little. The result would be starva- tion. In theory, therefore, our dogs should be ideal in respect to strength and intelli- gence. But man did much to hinder as well as help the development of dogs. When one sees a Pommeranian, one ex- claims, My! What a darling dog! Isn ' t he cute! There is as much substance in back of these words as there is to the dog rtself. He is the product of man ' s intelli- gence, a puny, selfish, little brat, little more than a mere doll on legs. Again we shall look about at cur pres- ent array of dogs. The collie, one of the finest examples of an intelligent dog and certainly he is beautiful! His be auty is npi in his white and golden coat, but it is the. strength and gracefulness of limb thait could never be hidden by so much fur. Then there is the children ' s dog, the St. Bernard. His very character is written in his face, and what are more kindly, more dependable than the eyes of a St. Ber- nard? With these two examples of domesticat- ed dog in mind, man ' s lapdog, and man ' s watchdog, let up have an idea of the wild undomesticated father of these two. The wolf comes first to mind. We see a large animal with a healthy, but shaggy coat. He is not beautiful in our idea of beauty, but one cannot help but admire the supei-b strength of the creature. Nature has made every muscle as hard as steel, and there is the beauty in the creature. Intelligent? Why go into that when we know that he lived by his strength combined with his brain. There are, of course, exceptions, but for the most part his intelligence was such that it instilled great fear into the animals of the same size and even larger. Dogs do many peculiar things that are so common to us that we do not even stop to wonder at them. It is necessary to look back to his ancesters did this to tramp down coarse jungle grass for a comfortable bed and to frighten away deadly insects and reptiles. A dog rarely runs with his tail held high, it is usually between his legs. This has been explained by the fact that when a wolf was being pursued, he had the fear that part of his precious tail would be nipped off. It is a rather ridicu- lous explanation, however, and one may be sure that no other animal would particu- larly enjoy a mouthful of coarse hair and gristle. How utterly provoking it is in the middle of a comfortable sound sleep to be awak- ened by the terrific clamor of barking dogs. Why can ' t they wait till morning and what have we done to the dear animals that they should wish to torture us so, are 10 THE CRIMSON AND GRAY the thoughts that run uppermost in our minds. The scene changes and we see a lone wolf on a hilltop. It is dark and there is a full moon. Far off we hear a distant howl. It is immediately answered by the lone wolf. He disappears — all is silent. He has received a signal from one of his pack mates that ' there is danger at hand, or that he has found a fresh track at hand. Thus it is when our watchdog hears the neigh- bor ' s dog bark, he immediately answers. Then too, he is lonely, and the sound of his own voice cheers him up immensely. Tha ' c a dog is the most intelligent of animals goes without dispute. That is per- haps the reason why man has adopted for hisclosest friend the dog, rather than the cat, which is very stupid. It takes only a short time and a little patience to teach a dog numberless tricks. He learns equal- ly rapidly what he should or should not do, and how to obey. A dog dislikes very much ' to have anyone pet him, save his master, but he stands patiently because he has learned that man takes a great delight in it. What animal other than the dog has a keener sense of smell or hearing? And what animal puts them to better use? He has likewise an instinct that few animals posses, the homing instinct. He may be taken hundreds of miles over mountain ranges, across large rivers and still return to his former home. It has happened num- berless times, otherwise it would be hard to believe. A dog can detect the mood of his mas ' ier by his tone of voice and usual- ly steers clear of him when he is angry but he is just as quick in expressing his joy on seeing his master happy. Dogs sulTer more than we Know from misunderstanding of their nature. A child takes great delight in pulling their sensi- tive ears, and he will patiently allow it, yet let a grown person try it, and it won ' t be long before a low growl of warning is ut- tered. Then too it is very amusing indeed, to play certain notes on the piano or vio- lin Ihat bring, forth whines of pain from the dog. But when all is said and done man is the best friend that dog has. Autograph Please BY ARTHUR P. PROULX, The collect ' iig of autographs is a hobby which has its followers, young and old, in probably every civilized country in the world. The technical term of it is holograph. Apparently there is nothing in which one ' s personality i •, so inherent as in his handwrit- ing, for the law recognizes the fact that one person cannot successfully counterfeit an- other ' s autograph. This is prabobly the rea- son why the accumulation of autographs of famous men has been one of the favorite pursuits of collectors from the most ancient times. It is recorded that an English Pharaoh paid high prices to Greeks for the autographs o! ' Sophocles and Euripides. The Greeks and Romans were also voracious collectors of such souvenirs, one Roman even having, in lis enormous collection, the autographs of ( hine-e students. The origin of collecting seems to be un- cerla ' n. Some say that autograph collecting originated in Germany chiefly among stu- dent- and other members of universities. These students had albums called alba ami- coi-um, a considerable number of which liave survived. A fair collection is in the British museum and we find an entry by the famous poet, John Milton. The fate of these autographs, especially of the literary men, is an interest- ing study and we find that the autographs of Shakespeare, with its fluency of lines, are mly six in number. The series of original documents which were gathered in such a library as that of Sir Robert Cotton, now in the British Mu- seum, found their way to that place on ac- count of their literary or historic interest. T1 ' most valuable collection of American aulu -aphs is in the New York Public Li- bra y and includes the signers of the consti- Uitic , among which is the autograph of I ' .utton Gwinnett which once brought the ] rice of twenty two-thousand five hundred ( ' ollars at a sale. One of the more recent collections is that 01 the late Mr. Alfred Morrison which is Avell known by means of a suptuous cata- logue, with its many facsimiles comiled by the owner. At present there are hundreds of collections. Edward Bok, the late philanthro- pist, had over three thousands signatures in his collection. The buying and selling of signatures has become an international industry, in which many experts command very high salaries. Calvin Coolidge autographed over three thousands of his auto-biographies in one day to be sold at six dollars each. Sir Ar- thur Conan Doyle uses autograph collectors as a means of bestowing an endowment to the Psychic Book Shop at London, by de- manding one dollar for every autographed executed. I received Sir Arthur ' s autograph together with the dollar — I wonder why? John alsworthy requests that five dollars be sent to the Author ' s Pension Fund for his. In the beginning of such a hobby the ama- teur collector has many problems to face, the most important being money and time. At present everything must be impression- istic to reach an individual, especially peo- ple of fame. All of the stationery of the col- lection is printed to match. In order to impress peole we must flatter them, this seems to be evident from my ob- ' .ervations. If I think a script letter would be more welcomed than one typewritten I make it a point to do so. One must be very careful not to show evidences of commercial- izing autograph requests althoug I infringed on the rule by having copies of requests to all the governors mimeographed in order to receive them all back before writing this essay. Return postage in foreign countries is an- other problem which is difficult to solve. En- glish stamps were bought for letters to Eng- land and her possessions. David Lloyd George in answering was very kind to replace my American stamp with an English one. An American stamp was used in that case to try to show thoughtfulness. People, no matter who they be, are flat- tered if asked their opinion on some matter. James Montgomery Flagg, famed illustrator, 12 THE CRIMSON AND GRAY ;ind Chiirles Dana Gibson, originator of the Gibson Girl, have been kind enough to re- ply to a little request on art, which I greatly appreciated. Tony Sarg drew an illustrating sketch together with his autograph. I shall use this same means on George B ernard Shaw only on a subject of English or the people of England if he forgets my request. Musicians and composers have to be great- ly flattered or a request will be of no avail. A letter written very elaborately containing word:-, which only a composer would dare to use was tent to a composer. He immedi- ately granted the request. Two letters to conductors of Symphony Orchestras were written in a plain fashion and brought no results. I shall endeavor to give brief accounts of some of my autographs taking them in the following order statesmen, governors, au- thors, poets, singers and musicians, sports people in every field, artists, cartoonists, and others in a miscellaneous group. My first request, happily, was granted the quickest of any. This seemed to be the incen- tive moment — it made me want to continue collecting. This was Calvin Coolidge ' s. Next [ .-- ent for men of national and int ernational fame, these were: Herbert Hoover, William Howard Taft, Charles Evans Hughes, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Curtis, Elihu Root SiK Esme Howard, Alfred E. Smith, Sir Ronald Lindsay, Her Majesty Queen Marie ol Roumania, W. Wakatsuki, Frank B. Kel- logg, Dino Grandi, Walter F. Brown, Rich- W. Childs, James J. Davis, Patrick Hurley, Andrew Mellon, Nicholas Longworth, Dr. Ju- lius Klein, Sec ' y Adams, Charles Dawes. Her Majesty Queen Marie signed her name just Marie on a gilt edge card. The autographs of Mrs. Edith Roosevelt Mrs. Edith Wilson, Mrs. Francis Cleveland Preston, Mrs. Grace Coolidge were recently received. Mrs. Preston has offered to send Mr. Grover Cleveland ' s signature from a can- celled check, as soon as she returns from Florida. Mrs. Edith Roosevelt has kindly sent the signature of Theo. Roosevelt from a cancelled check. Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Roose- velt, Alice Longworth, Theo. Jr., and Kermit Roosevelt represent the Roosevelt family. The matter of finding out who the present governors are was quite a difficult one. Most of the addresses of my autographees are tak- en from Who ' s Who in America and from reading articles about them in the newspa- pers. Incidently, an autograph collection is a great thing because it makes the collector read up on his autographees. The request of the governor of Porto Rico was sent back with the autograph of the former governor — Horace Mann Towner, saying that the pres- ent governor was Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. No refusals from governors have so far bee?! received. Rudyard Kipling, Andre Maurois, Christo- pher Morley, Thornton Wilder, Hugh Wal- pole, Irwin S. Cobb, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Payson Terhune, Beta Ibn Kindai LoBagola, Temple Bailey, Louis Bromfield, Edwin A Robinson, Zane Grey, Edgar Guest, Wm. Long , Bernarr McFadden, Thornton Burgess represents the authors in my collection. Mc- Fadden represents the light reading Burgess, the children ' s reading; Guest and Robinson, the poems. Long, history of English Litera- ture ; Grey, western stories and other novels. Zane Grey, signed the cards in purple ink, perhaps to remind us of his novel, The Riders of the Purple Sage. It has been my good fortune to include as singers and musicians such people as : Percy Grainger, Beniamino Gigli, Nathaniel Shil- kret, Rosa and Carmela Ponselle, Yehudi Menuhin, Amelita Galli-Gurci, Vladimir Horowitz, Mischa Levitski, Lawrence Tibbett Geraldine Farrar, Marion Talley, S. Rachma- ninoff, Efrem Zimbalfst, Alma Gluck Zimbal- ist, Efrem, Jr., Walter Damrosch, Milton J. Cross, (bariton and Diction Prize winner for announcing,) Edwin Franko Goldman, John Philip Sousa, George Gershwin, Car- rie Jacobs Bond, Vincent Lopez, Rudy Vallee, and Edwin J. McEnelly. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. has been kind enough to get his mother ' s and father ' s autographs for me, he is at- tending the Fay School at Southborough,, Massachusetts. In the organists ' section Lew White, Jesse Crawford, Mrs. Jesse Crawford, Pat Gillick, Fred Feibel, Chandler Goldthwaite. Bob West and Arthur Martel have been in- cluded. Jesse Crawford sent his autograph together with a very pleasing letter allow- THE CRIMSON AND GRAY 13 ing me any request. On Feb. 9th he played lor me the extremely difficult Rhapsody in Blues. A cartoonists ' section has been started this brightens the collection up as it contains many sketches. Harold Gray, originator of the Comis strip, Little Orphan Annie, sent me a cartoon of Annie and her dog Sandy, with Annie saying, Yessir, Arthur Proulx has asked for our picture whaddya think o ' that, Sandy? Sandy simply repHes, Arf. Harold Webster drew a sketch of Casper Milquetoast, alias The Timid Soul ; Gaar Williams of Mort Green Carl Ed of Lil- lums and Harold Teen, and Gluyas Will- iams of his hero. Sir Harry Lauder, the fa- mous singer of Scotch songs, sent me three cartoons of himself. I believe that stage and screen stars are about the most welcoming to autograph re- quests as any. Eddie Cantor, Clark and Mc- Cullough of Ger hwin ' s Strike up the Band, ' ' Kreutzberg and Georgi, dancers of interna- tional fame, Maurice Chevalier, Helen Mor- gan of Show Boat, Evelyn Laye, Lily Da- mita. Jack Donahue, Douglas Fairbanks, Walter Woolf, Marx Brothers, Dennis King Leatrice Joy, Roxy, William Fox, Morris Gest, Fred Stone and his musically talented family, Morton Downey, Viola Dana. The players are Glenn Hunter, Alfred Lunt, De- Wolf Hopper, Wm. Gillett, Ruth Draper, Walter Draper, Walter Hampden, Fritz Leiber, Lynn Fontanne, Judith Anderson, Otis Skinner, and Cornelia Otis Skinner. Helen Morgan, Carmcla and Rosa Ponselle, and Evelyn Laye have also sent autographed portraits. Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey, James J. Corbett, Vittorio Campolo, and Ernie Schaaf represent the boxers ; Bobby Jones and Glen- na Collett, the golf players; Helen Wills Moody, the tennis players Connie Mack, Judge K. Landis, Lou Gehrig, Wm. Wrigley, Jr., and Babe Ruth, baseball; Kaye Don, the auto racers; Gar Wood, Speed boat racers; Sir Thomas Lipton, the sail-boat racers; and Gus Sonnenberg, Ed Strangler Lewis Count Zarynoflf, the wrestlers. Julius Rosenwald, Otto Kahn, Adolph Ochs, and Charles Schwab have started the Philanthropists ' section. Some of the inven- tors and explorers are: Orville Wright, Dr. Hugo Eckener, Hubert Wilkins, Dr. Freder- ick Cook, Lee de Forest, John Hays Ham- mond, Jr., Clyde Tombaugh, and Prof. God- dard. The Misses Mary Butler, Jeannette Austin, Louis Schmidt, Marry Pattison, and Betty Beaury, class beauties of Wellesley College this year, are included. The radio section includes the autographs of Gosden and Correll, better known as Amos ' n Andy. The Majestic Radio Com- pany has sent me the autographs of their stars appearing on their programs. The Ra- dio stars are : Milton J. Cross, Redfern Hol- linshead, Mriel LaFrance, Lee Seymore, Ar- nold Johnson, and Quin Ryan. When my request for the King of Italy ' s autograph was received in Rome they wrote to the Royal Consular-General in Boston, telling him to interview me. At his request I visited him and told him about my collec- tion, he replied that the issuing of autographs was not a custom in Italy for royalty, but before I left his offices he had promised me ihe autographs and photograph of King Vic- tor together with about twenty others of les- eer power — I felt like one of the much talked ol ' high-powered salesmen. Methods of Foretelling the Future Thru the Ages MARY SCHWARTZBERG, 1930 What does the future hold for you? What did it hold for people in past ages? What does it hold for future generations? No one knows but as the Romans would say the goddess Fortuna. Since the Bible grea ' test of all works to our modern clair- voyants and psychic readers methods of foretelling the future have been in con- stant use. The Prophet in the Old Testament was a man of vision who received a message from God and delivered the message to ' rhe people. There were two distinct per- iods of Old Testament prophecy common- ly consulted as to the course of future events. One extends from Samuel and Elisha and the other from Amos to Mala- chi. In both Testaments we have one pre- diction which coincides and probably the most familiar. It was prophesized (that) : The Jews will be led into all nations and Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles. So it happened that it is so. There are a great many more prophecies but since both words and space are limit- ed no mention can be made of them. The Greeks consulted the Oracle of Del- phi where there was a temple of Parian marble. On the chasm in the ' temple stood a tripod on which the priestess Pythia, took her seat whenever the oracle was to be consulted. The words which she uttei ' ed after exhaling a vapour were believed to contain the revelations of Apollo. They were written down by the priests and af- terwards communicated in hexameter verse to the persons who consulted the oracle. There are many treasures donated by kings and individuals who received fav- orable replies from the oracle. The Romans consulted the soothsayers as is portrayed in Shakespeare ' s Julius Ceaesar, certain divinities as Fortuna and Minerva and had belief in signs and omens. The history of palmistry is uncertain, it developed in connection with the ambi- tions and uncritical pursuits of the Middle Ages which attained their most elaborate development toward the end of the six- teenth century. At the end of the eighteerith century a almist foretold the downfall of Napo- leon and the ancient practice renewed its I ' old on the credulous, because of the frrea ' cness of the French Emporer, the hav- oc wrought by his wars and the ultimate fulfillment of the prophecy. Palmistry be- lievers didn ' t admit that the palmist might have been a shrewd guesser. He foretold a momentous event and credit was given ■ to he so-called science. Our own American Indians practiced rhe art of fortune telling. The medicine men whose colored bodies and faces were smeaied with various paints, head-dress of Toftthers, wampum, and tomahawks danc- ec ' rround the fire and foretold the days to (.ome producing a hideous picture. When the word fortune telling is men- tioned to anyone, the automatic response is Gypsies. Gypsy women with their liHudy colored dresses, spike heels, stock- i n - of different colors associated with fihh and dirt, gypsy women sitting near the entrance of tents or stores, beckoning yon to come and hear your fortune told You finally decide to enter and all that you see is a black covered table on which is a l)ack of cards or a crystal sometimes, the fur-fishings include two small chairs. The gypsy tells your fortune by her own method of which palmistry is the most popular although the other two methods are used frequently. The gypsy is so shrewd that she ex- tracts all knowledge she desires in such a fascinating way that you are unaware of it. Then to your surprise she tells you your family history or biography, then she comes to the climax when she tells you to cross her palm with a sum of money and if you aren ' t careful you are apt to be minup a certain amount of it. You finally yield and pay the demand- ed sum. Finally the prediction is complete THE CRIMSON AND GRAY 15 and you leave in a state of bewilderment. They use the same shrewdness and slyness in the other methods. This is one of their greatest means of earning their livelihood. If you open a newspaper to the classi- fied ads, the ads that will probably attract your eye are the numerous ads of psychic- readers and clairvoyants. At certain hours you can find them at home. I suppose they are out earning their real living. They take ' this as a side way of earning money. Al- though they tell fortunes by the same means as the gypsies they aren ' t as skill- ful nor as clever. We can readily beTeve that Virgil be- lieved in prophecies. Scott and Shakes- peare used ri ophecies in their writings but we do not know of their own personal opinions. Virgil ' s Aeneid refers to the Oracle of Delphi. There are some very interesting signs and omens in the Aeneid : 111 fortune was predicted when the famous Trojan horse stumbled on Troy ' s threshold. Cali- chas a soothsayer, was taken to interpret the happenings by the Greeks. Macbeth was influenced by prophecies of the Weird Sisters throughout the entire play. At a critical moment during Mac- beth ' s career, he consults the Weird Sis- ters about his future. Scott uses prophecy in the Lady of the Lake when he predicted the downfall of Rhoderick Dhu ' s Clan in the following words : Who spills the foremost foreman ' s life That party conquers in the strife. The happenings in these writings prov- ed true to the prophecies. Down through the centuries people still have faint belief in prophecies. The Bib- ilic period plus the ancient Greek and Roman periods were probiably the ages when the belief was the strongest. Fam- ous literary men were not the only ones who were interested in it but even the philosophers, Plato and Aristotle. The modern tendency is to denounce the iirndif ' tion of the future although many nonple visit the Clairvoyants, psychic- ■ o: rlers and Gypsies. Methods of foretelling the future have existed in various forms but all lead to the j-ame road. Fortune telling h ' as steadily been declining but it will not fade away a ' A long as there is the seed of life in it, v hich there probably will be as long as people believe in it. ' mm The Glory of the Common Place LOUISE SKINNER, 1930 We are living in an age of invention and machinery of one sort or another plays an important part in our lives. So import- ant is the part played ' that most of us for- get that nature holds many pleasant sur- prises in store for us. How many of us rise early enough to see the sun come up over the hill! The gray sky begins to s ' treak with pink and the sun itself bursts forth from its hiding place. Slovi ly it wends its way across the sky casting many weird shadows o ' er hill and dale. As it slowly begins to sink it be- comes a huge ball of fire and the sky is painted with pink, blue and gold. It has finally reached its resting place in the west and in the east appears the pale gold- en moon. While the sun wends its way across the sky, the sky itself is ever painting pictures. The clouds roll together into strange, odd shapes. The pictures are continually changing and never are two pictures the same. No earthly artist could paint these pictures, for us and yet we do not appre- ciate those given to us by nature. The woods hold a charm and mystery about them. Some of the tall stately trees have been standing through the ages and many of our grandfathers and great grandfathers spent many happy days in these same woods. The bright green of the foliage and the brilliant colors of the various wildflowers lend to the enchant- ment. The fragrant odor of pine needles is wafted to us by the slight breeze which gently stirs the leaves. If we go further into the woods we happen upon a brook- let gently babbling along winding its way to the sea. It seems almost to be telling a story as, it goes murmuring along. The small woodland animals are scampering a- bout gathering their winter ' s store. The tiny grey squirrels filling their cheeks with nuts while the red squirrel saucily sits near and scolds. The birds gayly sing their sweetest songs for soon they will be goinj ' to their homes in a warmer clime. The different seasons come and go, each bringing with them their own peculiar characteristics. Spring comes bringing its warm breeze and calls the leaves to ven- ture out and see the world. The tiny green buds peek out and discover they like this world and gradually they come out farther and farther, until all the leaves appear on the trees and bushes. The first flowers ap- pear and the world seems to have waked from a long sleep. With spring comes April showers which are so cool and refreshing and give the earth such a clean appear- ance. Following spring comes summer bringing the heat and flowers. Soon the flowers begin to fade and the leaves take on a red and orange hue. The mountains are lined with this coat of many colors for a few weeks and then the leaves begin to fall. Again the earth takes on a new ap- pearance, this time no color to be seen . Everything is gray and barren but one morning we wake to find the earth robed in a cloak of pure white velvet while the trees wear jewelry of crystal. All of these things nature has given us and yet we do not appreciate them. If more interest were taken in nature and its wonders there would be less discontent. Too great has been the influence of modern ern invention. Machinery does all our work and leaves more time for pleasure. The radio, automobile and talking pictures are the sources of entertainment. The radio conects us with places far and wide and we do not have to travel to see and hear the various other types of enter- tainment. If the people are not staying home listening to the radio then they must hop into their cai ' s and go, regardless of where as long as they are travelling. Billboards line the way and detract from the appearance of the roadside. SPEED! From one place to another. Never does the things inspire them. Talking pictui ' es are another invention that influence the people, desire for simpler and more beautiful Although occasionally there are nature THE CRIMSON AND GRAY 17 scenes the majority of t hem are not, and they do not give the people the inspiration that is needed to make them realize the real beauty in natur. Although people have summer homes at lakes, in the mountains, at the sea shore, it is not so much for the beauty they choose these places but the convenience these places offer. These are good roads and not far from towns where dancing, pict- ures, plays and all the modern pleasure giving places are located. These are the ways that time is spent and often times a more quiet means of entertamment would lead to greater happiness and con- tent. Why can ' t we enjoy that which is given us to enjoy, without always desir- ing more and better things. If only we would realize the beauty and wonders a- bout us. J The progress of the flowers, watching the small birds first in the nest then as they try their wings a soon after they learn to fly they leave their homes. When as soon as it becomes cool they leave their northern homes to go to a warmer one yet at the first sign of spi ' ing back they come singing louder and sweet- er than ever. Each season with the different flowers Spring brings the crocus, and the daffodil while summer brings many varieties with their bright color and sweet perfumes . Fall brings the golden rod with its bright yellow and the deep purple of the astor, the last flowers before winter sets in. All of these wonders has our Creator given us and little do we realize the won- der of His work until we enjoy and appre- ciate these things surrounding us on all sides in the glory of the commonplace. A Senior ' s Thought MAURICE CLEMENCE ' 30 Spring and the nearing of the end of school bring many thoughts and remin- iscences to a Senior. His mind wanders, from one thing to another, and often a- way from school, work, and the daily rout- ine on these warm warm sunny days. But at other times it wanders over what he has accomplished and what he had hoped to do when entering high school, so a Senior would like to chart his wanderings on such occasions. First, as ever, are those tyrants the teachers. At times they seem to be merci- less ogres driving exhausted students onto still more work. At o ' ther times they seem to be distinctly human beings when given an opportunity to shed their pedagogical covering which they wear in school hours. Their job is many times a thankless one, yet someone has ' to drive us at the expense of their popularity and they are the ones chosen to do it. All are interested in their pupils and never yet has a teacher been found who would grudgingly give up his or her time to help those in need of help, but it is done with all the kindness and sincerity of what they are capable. From the faculty, along the same line, the Senior wanders into and wonders a- bout his marks. The high school has a percentage in marks which is almost-not quite-good. The number of all A students is increasing from the number of other years. The number of Honor Students re- remains about the same except that Fresh- man have more than usual. Also notice- able about the Freshmen and the Honor Roll is that they are composed mostly of those who are direc ' ily or not distantly des- cended from parents of foreign birth. Leaving the marks but in the scholastic field is the Crimson and Gray. We have found always plenty of material . Each and every department deserves praise for the unusual way in which occasionally nov- el facts have been presented. Also the staff would like to thank their advertisers for their patient and heavy cooperation. Next in ' this course of a Senior ' s wan- derings is the field of dramatics. The Senior Class (hear the Senior brag!) pre- sented a P y which compa red with and even well above all others that have been presented by other classes. The same is true of the Glee Club opere ' tta. We hope that the Juniors maintain the high stand- ard set during this year. We have also i ad many Wednesday morning plays. The one presented by students of Miss Fitzgerald ' s classes being the most unusual and well executed play we have seen on Wednesday mornings. Now to the opposite of dramatics-ath- letics. Sliding over a poor basketball sea- son, ' the Senior and the rest of his class, the whole school, and even the whole town can rave about the football team ' s epic victory over Webster last Thanksgiving. We are sure that the boys appreciate all the honors that have been heaped upon them since that struggle ! But still a greater accomplishment is in sight — a new gymnasium or, at least bet- ter athletic quarters. It is greatly needed and although the present Senior Class may never enjoy its benefits it fully realizes that too great emphasis can not be laid upon the need of some new and better equipped establishment for athletics. The struggles to obtain a gymnasium and perhaps sometime student-government are what the present Senior Class leaves to the coming Senior Classes to attain and accomplish. So this having wandered over a diver- sity of subjects the Senior returns having left many things untouched — but laziness or perhaps Spring Fever prevents him from writing or desiring to write more. The Way of the North BY DOROTHY M. LANPHEAR, ' 31 The chief, Great Bear, of the little Indian Village in the Valley of Singing Waters was troubled. He stood in front of his tepee, arms folded, grimly watching the departure of his white Brother. Because he knew and all Indians knew that the land North of their village was the Hunting Ground of all Evil Spirits, he feared that this white, who had won the old chief ' s admiration, would be harmed. Jim Macleod was a trapper by trade and a dreamer by nature. In his boyhood days in Scotland he had learned to love the moors because there he could dream without inter- ruption. He shunnned association with his comrades and lived among his ideals and dreams of adventure. As he grew older he wanted to find adven- ture in some far distant land and so he left his home. In Western Canada, for he came to America, he became acquainted with an old trapper and soon grew to like the work and still more the solitude of the forests. He became more and more aloof as the years passed. He preferred rather the soci- ety of Indians to that of his own race and the companionship of his dogs to that of Indians. In seeking those places where he need not come in contact with his fellow men he penetrated farther into the North- land. At the Indian villages he was welcomed because of his reticence, which pleased the red men. He had, in search of lonely regions, reach- ed an Indian village beyond which no white man had been known to penetrate. This wilderness was said by the members of the tribe to be filled with Evil Spirits. Sitting about their fires the old warriors told many a tale of braves who had ventured into that land never to return. But they also told of the many game animals which they had seen from the mountain pass, which terminated the northern end of their valley. Jim Macleod was interested. He remained several years in this village gathering all he could of the lore of this land. When he could learn no more he returned to the fron- tier town which he had called home. When again he returned to the village he brought with him supplies for a long trip. The In- dians were frightened when they were told that he was going into that region which they so feared. In vain they retold weird tales, warned, threatened, and pleaded with him. He was determined. Now he had started and it was he whom the Indians watched. Slowly, impeded by his heavy pack, he climbed up to the mountain pass. His sledge dogs scampered about him and he guided two burros on which his sup- pi es were laden. At the pass he paused and looked back. The faint farewells of the In- dians were wafted to him on the gentle breeze then he went onward. As he plunged into the unmapped wilder- ness, he reveled in the spruce forest and the stillness about him. Two days he continued northward through the forests and now he paused on the brink of a low mountain. Be- low cradled among snow capped mountain crags, nestling among fir trees in profusion, was a tiny valley. A diminutive lake sparkled blue in a golden meadow and he decided at once that this would be his headquarters. All week the sound of his ax echoed in the quiet valley. His new home was a small ca- bin built at the foot of two gret fir trees. The little knoll was a splendid outlook. He had packed his supplies and his burros were freed to return whence they had come. Winter came with a snowstorm which covered the valley with a blanket of fluffy white. Jim hunted for weeks putting aside his supply of meat for the long months ahead. His traps were set and already his little pile of furs Wcis growing rapidly. Weeks passed and storm followed storm. The many traps which he had set had long been covered by snow. Hunting was impos- sible because of the great depth of the snowy covering and he was forced to remain in the cabin. Confinement in the tiny room was tiring and as the days passed slowly he became ever conscious of the loneliness and quiet of the valley. He longed to have the wind blow but then the moaning in the tree- tops made silence once more desirable. THE CRiMSON AND GRAY Flach day he allowed the dogs to go out for a short time and took great pleasure in see- ing them gambol about in front of the ca- bin. Even their snarls when he fed them be- came better than the ever present calm. One night when he called, the dogs did not return. Then it stormed and the cold became in- tense. The dogs had not returned and it was not until he heard the howling of a wolf pack that he could account for the absence oi ' his half wild friends. Ills food was almost consumed and the cold did not decrease. He dared not go out for he feared to be blinded by the dazzling brightness of the snow. Each day the wolves came nearer the cabin and sometimes he saw his dogs among them. He began to wel- come the appearance of the pack for their snarls as they prowled about his cabin door were a relief from the dreadful quiet. The silence became unbearable, he wanted ,to call out, he longed for the wind to blow or the coming of the wolves, but the stillness remained unbroken. Again he tried to call and staggered to the window. Outside he saw the wolves crowded about the cabin, si- lently, watching, why didn ' t they growl as was their custom ?It was maddening. He screamed but the wolves made no sign, he screamed again but no sound was forthcom- ing. Wildly he tottered to the door and clutched the latch. He could not open it. The awful quiet seemed to be closing in about him, he was suffocating, it grew dark, he reeled and fell. Outside the wolf pack howled to the rising moon, his dogs wailed with them for they knew the door would never open. Nanny O ' Neit Alias The Bum ' ' BY RALPH BILLINGS, ' 32 Five stepped from an automobile in front of a railway station on the Central Pacific lines. All five y ere masked and rough look- ing hombres as the station agent put it. They vi alked into the station and covered Ihe occupants with guns. Among these peo- ;i e was a regular bum. On sighting him the leaders ordered him out. One suggested killing him but the leader objected. He told them to hit him over the head and throw him in the gulley as he wasn ' t worth wast- ing a bullet on. This was done immediately. The bum was Nanny O ' Niel, former engineer oi ' the same railroad company. The men were intending to holdup the Indian, No. One, engine which was due at any minute. On hearing the whistle one man remain- c I ctjvcr.ng the occupants while the others went out and stopped the train forcing the Engineer and Fireman into the station with ' ' s. Ther leaving the same man to cover them the bandits went out to rob the ' rain of $20,000 which was in a safe in the Caboose. Nfmny O ' Niel roused from unconscious- ness fifteen minutes after he had been thrown there. Staggering to his feet he walked to- ward a ' tre;im near him and refreshed him- self with water. He then turned to the scene nf the hold-up. No one was near. He made his way cautiously toward the engine. If he could only reach it without being seen he ' d • ' how them what a bum that wasn ' t worth wasting a bullet on could do. He made his way slowly till he reached the engine. No one had seen him. He grabbed the safety bar and was soon inside. His eyes roamed over the familiar objects. There at the right was the throttle and safety valve. If he could reach the next station he could save the ■ ' O.OOO which belonged to the company. He drew back the throttle and the engine gave a familiar chug. These were repeated in ra- pid succession. On hearing the chug of the engine the bandit inside ran for the door and made his way rapidly toward the moving engine. After the bandit left the occupants they ran toward the train. One man reached the Caboose in which the bandits were. As the doors locked on the outside he quickly locked them. Then he jumped to the ground leaving the bandits prisoners in the Caboose. While this was occuring Nanny spied the bandit running toward the engine and siez- ing a shovel he stood waiting for him as he knew he would soon reach the engine. The bandit did just this and siezing the safety bar pulled himself on to the steps. Nanny swung at him with the shovel but missed. The bandit fired as Nanny swung again and again. One of the bullets struck Nanny in the side. He staggered and swung again this time driving him under the wheels of the oncoming train. Nanny looked at the en- gine which was now full under way. He was very low in steam and this meant he would have to shovel some coal. He tried to lift a shovelful but he felt awful weak. His shirt stuck to his body. He tossed the shovel aside and threw the coal in piece by piece. Finally he had enough and sat down and looked at the rails with already failing eyes. He saw dimly in the distance a group of houses and knew he was approaching the next town. He drew back the throttle and the train began to slow down and soon stop- ped in front of the station. The sheriff and four deputies jumped in to see Nanny still looking at the rails but with sightless eyes for Nanny O ' Niel, Alias the Bum was dead. But he had saved the railroad at the cost of his life. A faint smile could be seen on his lips. The Stoivaway BY EARLE THOMPSON, ' 32 James Grey was a young man about eigh- teen years old. He was very poor and worked around the docks in New York Harbor. The job that Jim had was not what you would call a job, but he managed to earn enough money to live. One day Jim decided that he would get on a ship secretly and go to Eu- rope. That night he took his clothes and his other belongings and started out for the har- bor. As he approached the ship he wondered how he would board it without being seen and how he would get out to it. Jim knew of a man who rented small row boats for fishing, so he went over to this ])lace and took a boat and rowed to the ship. It was very dark and he could not see any- thing against the black hull of the ship, but he groped his way along until he got up to the ship ' s landing.. He got on to the landing and giving the boat a shove so he would not be suspected on board he started to go up on the deck of the ship. Jim was fairly well acquainted with steamships and fortunately he knew the way to the hold of the ship where he was going to hide. He had to hide behind some boxes several times to avoid being seen by several sailors who passed by, but he was not seen and he finally gained the entrance in the hold of the ship. He found a good hiding place where he could recline very comfortable when he was tired. In a little while after he had boarded the ship he went to sleep. The next morning when he woke up he discovered that the ship had set out to sea. That day seemed one of the longest days that went on in the ship, which did not make he had ever known of, but he had to ren ain in his hiding place. He listened to the things it seem so drear. He did not have a watch with him but he went to sleep about five o ' clock and when he awoke about half past eleven he was very hungry so he crept out of his hiding place and he went out into a very long hallway. At the end of the hall he found a kitchen. He went into the kitch- en and he found plenty to eat. He ate and drank all he could, and then filling his pock- ets with food he started back to his hiding place. On his way back as he approached a room he noticed that the door was open and the light was low. He moved cautiously toward the open door and he thought he heard some- body tcream which sounded like a woman. Coming closer to the room he looked in and saw a man hunting in the drawer in the room ;md a lady with a gag around her mouth and her hands tied. Jim drew back away from the door a little and looked around for a club, but seeing nothing around he V ent back to the room again. The man bad taken all he could find he started toward the door, but it was too late. Jim sprang forward at the man, who reached for a gun at his side, Jim saw the hand go down and he grabbed for the arm just before the man could get hold of his gun. When Jim hit the man he fell backward, in a second J ' m leaped on him again, the man was now trying desperately to reach his gun but Jim grabbed his arm and threw the gun away, for a while they grappled together but Jim, who was a very strong boy proved to be su- yierior to the man and he soon had the man ' -0 he could not move. Someone who had heard the noise came ' nto the room. It was the captain. The Cap- tain released the woman and locked the ban- dit up. The lady was a very rich woman from Lisbon who was very friendly with the cap- tain. They found out that Jim was not sup- nosed to be on board but the A ' oman whom he had rescued paid his fare and discover- ' ng his financial difficulties she gave him a job as chauffeur for her in L ' bon. Jim got along fine and he rl-o met a girl whom he later married. He was always thank ful that he had once been a stoway. A Real Sport BY ANDREW TULLY, ' 32 It was one week before the annual track meet between Oakdale High and Chester High which was to be held in Winchester about seven miles from each town and there- fore neutral ground. It was eleven-thirty and the boys were coming home from school and Art Shires was speaking, Sure, I ' ll win the mile, there is ' nt anyone in either Oakdale or Chester who could keep up with me half the way. Oh yeah, but how about Latin? You bet- ter start praying right now that Miss Brown will take pity on you and pass you. Oh pipe down Ed what would she want to flunk me for? Why the team would be no S ' ood then. Gee you gimme a pain. Why I bet Joe will run you so ragged you ' ll need an am- Ijulance to get back. Joe King, pooh if that ' s the only opposi- lon I have I ' m sure to win. Well I don ' t care who wins as long as good old Oakdale is way ahead at the end. So long. The next day was report card day and horrors!. Art Shires had flunked in Latin. The next day Coach McLaughlin called Joe King into his office and after a few pl i- santries began to speak seriously. What did you get in Latin Joe? ' A ' , Sir, it ' s my best study. Well here ' s my proposition Joe, Miss Brown says that if a certain chapter is made up by Friday she ' ll pass Art for the good of the school. I want you to help him make it up. Will you Joe? A lump came into Joe ' s throat but he said, Yes sir, when will I start? Tonight and thank you, Joe. Goodbye. Goodbye Coach. Well as he closed the door, There goes my dream of glory. Art will surely beat me and no one will even think of me but as long as Oakdale wins I ' ll be happier ' n a dog with a piece of steak. Joe did help Art and Art passed and in the miler Art beat Peters ©f Chester by six yards and Joe came in four yards behind Peters. Coach, said Joe a day later, Art and I have made up and are going to New York to see the Yanks play the Athletics. Oh boy what a game it will be. Tippy Wrecking Company MARGARET WALKER, 1932 Singing in the bathtub, happy as can be! Watching all my tr . A thundering voice from down stairs recalled Mary Bar- stow back to the world again. Hey Mary, quit the comedy for a sec- ond, cried Bob Barstow. Uncle John said we can take his yacht today. Let ' s call up the gang and take it out. Righto! issued a tiny voice amid loud splashings. What time? Let ' s start around eleven and take our lunch. Uncle said we don ' t have to be back early because he won ' t be using it today. Mary rushed madly laround the house, rescuing her bathing-suit and yachting- jacket from the depths of her closet, and dumping them into a basket together with a lot of other things and ran into the kit- chen to pack some lunch. The terrified maid was shood out, and Mary was cross- ing Ihe doorway with an armful of ginger- ale bottles when Bob came running in and collided with Mary plus the bottles, all except one of which escaped fatal injur- ies. Mary was just about to explode when Bob said hurriedly to avert the storm, Oh can it Mary and hurry up. We ' re going to meet the rest at the wharf. Shall I pack these beans? Silly, we ' re not going into housekeep- ing and cook all day! We ' ll just pile in some sandwiches and things. They dash- ed around hunting for their yachting cloth- es in the most likely places, namely, under beds, in closets, and up on the chande- liers. Oh, heck! issued a stormy voice from the depths of a closet Where under the sun did I throw my pants last time? Oh Bob! called Mary. If you ' re look- ing for your pants, they ' re under Tippy! Remove your carcass, you hyena! warned Bob as he dashed over and dump- ed Tippy unceremoniously onto the floor. Say, I can go into the mattress business now! he mourned as he picked off hair after hair. After much loud language he was ready and they started down to the wharf. Oh Bob! exclaimed Mary. We for- got Tippy. We ' ve got to take him along! She ran back and emerged from the house carrying a huge grey cat, the one who lov- ed yachting pants. Bob gave a groan and kept his distance. Let ' s call the roll, suggested Harry when they had reached the wharf. Ted- dy, Evelyn, Betty, John, Rufus and Bob and Mary. And Tippy, added Mary. Is that old veteran coming too? asked Teddy. You bet he is! Mary exclaimed. They all clambered aboard and put their things in the cabin. I hope I can manage this boat all right , said Harry. We may have a swim before we ' re finished! He got the motor going and off they started. It was a warm day and only a slight breeze was blowing. Now that we ' re started, where are we headed for? Betty inquired. Let ' s head out where it ' s rougher, suggested Evelyn. I want a little excite- ment! They all agreed and the Bluebell was headed out. Tippy was pattering aily up and down the deck as if he he had been born on the sea. He always went on these trips with Mary and enjoyed himself exceedingly because of the fact that suspicious pieces of lunch were usually missing when the time came to ' eat them ! The sea began to get rougher, but the waves were long and oily and rolled lazily along, showing that even out there there wasn ' t much wind. Betty started the vie and they danced out on deck, amid the bemoaning of Harry, who couldn ' t leave the wheel. Everyone was feeling gay, and there was more than one spill when the boat lurched suddenly to one side. John persuaded Harry to let him steer a little while, but such was the result that none was left standing, and ' fkE CRIMSON AND GRAY 25 they nearly shipped a broadside, and John was speedily kicked out. (Not from the ship but the wheel.) Tippy decided to have a little fun him- self, and proceeded to climb up the rigging. He reached the crow ' s nest before any- one noticed him. Ruth happened to glance up at the rigging, and saw Tippy having the time of his life with a slack rope. Mary went into a frenzy and started up after him, but Bob told her to stay down while they called him. Every time the ship lur- ched, Tippy went out over the water, still plaving with the rope. Caesar ' s ghost! cried Harry. He ' s gotten hold of the main rope which holds the rigging! Look out, everybody, there it goes! With a crash the rigging fell on- to the deck. Everyone rushed over to see whether Tippy was hurt, but the hero emerged from the wreckage with nothing more than some slack rope around his neck. He had landed on the sail which broke his fall. Tippy, you little devil ! exclaimed Teddy. How in the world could he have done all this! Oh boy! this is the last we ' ll see of this yacht! cried Bob. Come on fellows, we ' ll have to clear up this wreckage, cried John. Good-bye, vie, mourned Ruth. It ' s all smashed to pieces. Let ' s haye lunch now, suggested Mary. Tie the wheel and we ' ll drift with the wind, Harry. I think it ' s blowing to- ward shore. They trooped into the cabin and proceeded to vent their hunger on gin- ger-ale and sandwiches. Now for the cake, said Evelyn. She gave an e clamation of surprise and brought out the cake-basket for inspection. There was Tippy snuggled into a ball with the ruins of the cake all around him. Well, we ' ll have to go without cake, but you don ' t get your dinner Tippy, scolded Mary. All of a sudden the motor stopped with a jerk. Harry ran out to see what was the matter and came back looking worried The gas tank was pierced by the wreck- age and all the gas has leaked out, he announced. Heavens! exclaimed Betty. Of course we would forget to take any extra along! I guess we ' ll be all right, because the wind is blowing in-shore, said John. But gosh, it ' s getting dark as Hades out! Looks like a gale rising, said Harry. Br-r-r-r! shivered Ruth. It ' s getting colder. Let ' s go inside and wait our fate where we can at least see each other. They went in and hunted around for the oil, but didn ' t succeed in finding any. . Oh gosh! exclaimed Bob. I just re- member that Sandy said there wasn ' t any left on the boat, and I forgot to get any! It got blacker and rougher and every- body Tjumped and jostled against each other. Baskets and cans rolled around and their contents fell out, and the place was havoc. How in the world are we going to know where we are headed for? asked Mary, It ' s getting terribly foggy out. E-ee-ee-eeow! screamed Ruth. Some- thing just jumped on me! Why it ' s Tippy! I had forgotten all about him. He ' s scared half out of his wits! Just then Tippy took a flying leap from Ruth ' s lap onto Teddy ' s head, and from there out the door which had blown open, as if waiting for him to come. Oh Tippy! Heavens, he ' s gone out! cried Mary. I ' m going out after him. He may be washed overboard! Everyone lov- ed Tippy and they all rushed out on deck to rescue him. The waves were crashing over the deck, and the wreckage had been washed overboard. It was all they could do to keep on their feet. How could poor Tippy ever be saved! Ruth lost her hold on a coil of rope and was swept up against the rail. Here he is! she exclaim- ed, crawling towards the cabin with him. Once inside the cabin Tippy calmed down a little. I found him clinging onto a coil of rope which was caught on the rail, ex- plained Ruth. My poor little Tippy! cried Mary, holding the little wet ball which was all that was left, of Tippy in her arms. Deb, bring that towel over and we ' ll wipe him off, she said. 26 THE CRIMSON AND GRAY Everyone was so busy getting dry that they didn ' t hear the omninous booming of surf just ahead. They were all in their bathing .suits when everyone stopped talk- ing all of a sudden, and looked at each other in terror. Gosh, rocks! yelled Teddy. What ' ll we do! wailed everyone. Look! exclaimed Harry peering out of a poit-hole. We ' re in a little harbor! The storm was decreasing and they went out on deck. The Bluebell was in a little bay with reefs all ai ' ound it. I see what happened, said John. We drifted in be- tween those two reefs. There must be a current which flows in there. The gods were wfth us! whooped Bob historically. Say, we should have brought a moving-picture camera along. We would get enough money to buy another yacht. Something tells me that Uncle won ' t be in a merry mood when we return. Whispering sunfish ! called Teddy. I know where we are! rt isn ' t so romantic after all because we ' re only about two miles from home ! I think this is Gulliver ' s Cove. Dad and I came here once. By the way, said Bob. How are we going to get the Bluebell out of here without gas? We ' ll have to row home in the punt if il ' s still with us said John. Yes, it ' s here, and at the present mo- ment contains half the ocean plus Tippy! Tippy! exclaimed Mary. What are you doing, taking your bath? They res- cued poor Tippy and emptied the ocean back where it belonged. Well, the sooner I see home the bet- ter! exclaimed Betty. They piled into the punt and the boys rowed off. The sea was so heavy that Mary and Tippy, way up in front would be way down one second, and sitting up in the air the next. As they neared their harbor, shouts and calls could be heard from the shore. When they had landed, parents, relatives and friends crowded close and asked what had hap- pened. Oh, we just took a ride and had to walk back! wise-cracked Teddy. Meet Admiral Tippy who caused most of the damage ! Shake hands Tippy,, exclaimed Eve- lyn. I certainly got my excitement! Christopher? The First BY VINCENT WALSH, ' 32 Many people think that Christopher Columbus discovered America. They are wrong, I discovered America one year before Chris set sail with three ships for that long voyage across uncharted waters. It all start- ed when the Roman News offered a price of 50,000 pesos to the first ship that safely cross- ed the Atlantic. Many people set sail but few were ever heard of. Those that did return told of giant monsters of the sea that knocked over the ships and then swallowed them, of . ' :eas serpents miles in length that had a great liking for the canvas sails, (the men .-aid the serpents would reach up from the water eat the sails and then glide away in . ' earch of more canvas sails.) Of great winds they also told, winds with force enough to blow the King ' s stone palace to Africa. The men said one ship was carried over the edge of the sea and was never heard from again. All this bad news scared the Roman people so, that they gave up the idea of ever reach- ing the continent across the Atlantic, the continent of gold and fine silks that would br ' ng a good price even in Shylock ' s store. Taking all these things into consideration I started plans on a new type of ship that would be impossible for the sea monsters to touch and the winds to do any damage to a phip of the air. All my friends said I was crazy when I told them my idea and when I asked sev- eral important men of the city to give me financial help they ordered me out of their offices and said if I bothered them again they would have me arrested. Finally I met a man who said he would back me if I would make a map of the seas and give it to him when I returned. I promis- ed to do so and we went to my workshop where I showed him the plans for my ship. He returned with the money the next day and we bought the necessary material anc started to put it together. The building of the ship required great care but in a .few months it was ready for the trip. After many weeks of waiting for favorable weather I set sail. The ship somewhat re- sembled the shape of a sausage; the upper part, called the bag, was filled with helium gas while the lower part was where I would sleep, cook my meals, and steer the ship. There was only room for one person in the ship so I had to make the best of it. After four days of continual sailing I sighted land. The problem now, was to land. In the excitement of making the plans and putting the ship together I hadn ' t thought of how I would get down. While I was think- ing about it I was carried over the land and poon a big tree loomed up in front of me. There was no way of turning the ship so I took out my parachute, fastened it around me, and jumped. I heard the ship crash just as I reached the ground, and, running over to the bottom of the ship I searched around in the fallen debris, the first thing I picked up was the map. Thinking of my promise to Chris, I sent one of my flying pigeon mes- sengers out over the sea with the map tied to his neck. Just then a group of Indians ran up and falling on their knees began to bow to me. They thought I was a God from the heavens because I came from the sky. They had seen the crash and they had also seen the parachute jump I made. The took me to their camp and I stayed there for quite a while, living in comfort. One day a ship was sighted and as it drew near I noticed the Indians becoming fright- ened and taking me they ran away from the village. I am still with the Indians. They have made me their king and I live in per- fect contentment. Pluck BY ELIZABETH WILKINSON, ' 32 Joan sat on the wharf looking into the deep blue sea. She wore a bright green bath- ing suit and her blonde hair, which fell over her shoulders, shone in the sunshine. Every day Joan would go running down from her Uncle ' s house, her blue eyes sparkling but at the sight of the water the sparkle would leave her bright blue eyes and she woul d grow very sad. Every day she would sit on ' he wharf trying to get courage to dive in, but each time she failed. On this hot July day her mind turned back to three years ago and this is what she saw: Three years ago she had been a light- hearted girl. She was returning home from a happy trip in Europe with her parents, and anticipated, happily, the reunion with all her friends in America. Two days before the boat reached shore there was a large dance on the boat. Everyone attended. Ev- eryone was happy and having a good time but in the midst of the good time the boat V as shattered to pieces by trouble in the ca- bin below. People were burned to death and only a few were saved. Both Joan ' s parents were killed but fortunately Joan was saved he did not remember how. She could remem- ber, however, th e water closing over her head, fee, after she had the outline of the burning ship and women shrieking and men crying helplessly. After the death of her parents, Joan was taken care of by her Uncle Jack, or Mr. Peters, who was a very rich man and, al- though Joan enjoyed staying with her uncle the sight of water always made a funny feel- ing run over her. So it was of all this that Joan thought as she sat looking at the water. Her Uncle Jack lived on a small island not very far from the mainland. There were only three houses on the island, the house o.f Joan ' s uncle being the largest. Every day Joan ran down to the wharf and tried to get courage to dive in, for she knew that if she got in once she would forget the feel- ing because s ie had always been an excel- lent sw ' nlmer and before the accident she had always loved the water. Joan nov rose and walked slowly toward the house. She went to her room, a sweet little orchid room, and here she dressed for dinner. As she walked down the stairs, her uncle met her. He noticed her white face, and when he asked the trouble she answered v I ' ve failed again Uncle Jack. I ' m afraid it ' s no use. I can ' t do it. Day after day she strolled down to the wharf ; day after day the same fear clutched her heart and sent her back to her room trembling. One morning she left the house her bath- ing suit under her arm and she walked down and jumped into her bathing suit. She stood on the rocks ready to dive but, as she heard the waves slap against the rocks, it reminded her of the waves against the boat and again she failed. A day later her uncle called her to his room and told her that he must leave the island and go across the bay on a business trip. I am sorry, he said, that I must leave you but the servants will help you and I will return in three days. Joan started to leave the room but sharp- ly she turned back and said boldly, Uncle Jack, I shall go with you. With that she left the room. So Uncle Jack left and, surprised but hap- py, found Joan with him. This was a starter. She was on a boat; she surely would have courage to go in the water but as she seem- ed afraid he did not urge her. He told Joan that his business on the mainland had been to buy a house away from the water so that Joan could spent the rest of her life in hap- piness. He also told her that night they would not go ashore but spend the night ' on the boat. This would be, he though, the last time tor Joan to show her courage or her fear. He saw her fear, but wanted to see her cour- age. That night Joan went to bed trembling. In the middle of the night she thought she heard moans from her uncle ' s cabin. Softly she arose walked along and looked in. Her uncle was tossing and turning but swiftly she went to him and heard him say Get me a doctor— quick my heart is—, but that was THE CRIMSON AND GRAY 29 all Joan heard. She fairly flew back to her cabin jumped into her bathing suit. She went to the edge of the boat took one look, closed her eyes and then dove into the water. Joan liad gone in ! Quickly she swam to the main- land and there got a doctor. Swiftly she swam back while the doctor came in back of her in a rowboat rowing as fast as possible. In less than ten minutes they were bend- ing over the uncle and the doctor was say- ing, You ' ve been overdoing yourself, Mr. Peters, your heart is not as strong as it used to be. A few minutes later Joan ' s uncle noticed her wet clothes, Joan, he cried, you have been in the water? Yes, she answered softly. Two months later we see Joan swimming around in the deep blue sea while her smil- ing Uncle Jack sits watching her. The Inheritance BY JOHN WILSON, ' 32 There stands on a high hill in the center of Ireland a celebrated castle. This castle is surrounded by a moat which is so deep that no one can see the bottom. The only en- trance to the castle is by a drawbridge across the moat. This drawbridge is so heavy that it takes four men to raise it. At the head of the marble stairway on the first landing inside the castle is a stained glass window whose designs tell a strange story. There are two boys in two row boats, one is a short distance ahead of the other. There is a human hand under a tree on the edge of the shore. The story is told of two brothers whose father owned a large estate. These boys were forced to go to war to fight for Ireland. The father told them before they started off that he would give the bulk of the estate to the one making the best military record during his time of enlistment. The two boys had es- tablished fine records but only one of them returned at the end of the war. The oldest son who returned told his father that the younger one was among the missing, so he naturally would claim the property. After sometime, he took over the estate and made it to suit his purpose. He believed that he was entitled to a castle so he made the nec- essary improvements. Years afterwards the younger son came back not suspecting what had happened. He looked for his father and brother. He found his brother who had ex- plained that the father had died leaving the estate to him as the oldest. The boys quarreled for some time until they decided to settle it in a fair manner. They explained that they would take two boats and race across the river adjoining the castle. The first to reach land would take over the estate. When they were half way across the younger boy saw that his brother was a short distance ahead of him. So in his determination to reach land he cut off his right hand by the wrist and threw it on shore. When they reached the end of their course he claimed the estate with the under- standing that part of his body was the first to reach the shore. Harbors of Memory BY LUCILLE MONROE, ' 33 Oh, just to launch a jaunty ship of Dreams that Used-to-be, And straitway go asailing on the sea of Memory; To swiftly run before the breeze and Bound the white-capped waves, All wrapt in crystal spray and incense From the mermaid ' s caves. Then inward toward the misty shores To gayly skim along, Into the mystic harbor where the wealth Of Dreams belong. The kind of thought that Rlint and soar Like dewdrops in the sun. And sparkle first on nodd ' iig buds, then Vanish one-by-one. Along the shores of Memory are many Secret coves, Where often times in day or night A world-sick spirit roves. The peaceful waters twirl and swish And tell their thoughts so free, And slender birches round-about all. Rustle merrily. Someday somebody else will know. Your ship will carry two. Thus bolder thoughts do sing, then cease But to begin anew. Oh, sing heigh-ho, dear heart! then two Can gayly skim along. And in those wondrous harbors share The dreams that there belong. ' Grandmother Brown ' s One Hundred Years BY RITA EARLS, ' 31 A thrilling, vital story if there ever was one! A tale of the trials and triumphs of a pioneer woman — A woman with a love for the beautiful — yet focred to on, day after day, living and working in an atmosphere which was far-removed from the beautiful. A woman who came before the days of the ncandescent lamp and the radio, and yet who lived to enjoy and love them. This is not a story of any great or unusual personage — on the contrary, it is an epic of the typical pioneer woman — who loved, and worked for her family, and asked nothing in return but love. Maria Brown lived, or at least, was in her prime, in the dark days before the Civil War. She did not believe that women should vote, she believed that man was, both liter- ally and figuratively, the head of the house, and so since Dan ' l was by nature and train- ing a Whig and an abolitionist, she followed in his footsteps. She says is was not uncom- mon occurrence to see runaway slaves on their way to freedom by means of the under- ground railway, and that Dan ' l often help- ed them to gain admittance to the much sought after Canada. But, on the whole, the various wars through which she lived did not afTect grand- mother Brown ' s immediate family: Dur- ing the times of the Civil, the Spanish, and the World Wars, either her children, (or grandchildren, as the case might be) were too young, or they were too old. She longed for more education than she was ever able to get, and a standing bone of contention between herself and Dan ' l was that Dan ' l believed in letting the children shift for themselves, and if they wished more thari a very elementary education, they could work first. She tells us that later in life Dan ' l realized his error, and wished to re- medy it, but too late ! She Was a descendant of sturdy New Eng- land stock, and it is with a great deal of pride that she tells of more or less mythical ancestors who were the forbears of her great-grandfather, Ebenezer Foster, a stafunch friend of General Putnam. So she came rigidly by her thriftiness and orderli- ness, in matters of household, and others. The story is told charmingly : it is conver- sation between grandmother Brown and baby boy Herbie ' s wife, who was dearly loved by grandmother. The language used is very simple — the plain speaking of the west the manner in which it is told is almost naive, in its simplicity; the story itself, is divided into three parts ; Youth, Middle Age and Old Age — and tells of the habits and modes of the Northwest Territory; really, though there is hardly any difference be- tween Maria Brown in her youth, and Maria Brown in her old age: — her spirit goes on forever, and she was one of the last personal and vital links between the pioneer West of the 1800 hundreds, and the conqueror West of today. ■P The Edimrd J. O ' Brien Stories for 1929 BY CATHERINNE McKINSTRY, ' 31 Edward J. O ' Brien has published his fif- leenth annual collection of short stories se- lected from the better American magazines of the past year. These stories are truly re- jiresentative of the general American taste in lighter literature. The strict requirements of substance and artistic conception which the O ' Brien collec- tion exacts assures the reader of delightful morsels which he himself probably might spend months to find and which now collect- ed in one volume require but a few minutes. The wide range of subjects both imagina- tive and realistic written with originality, j:est and humor supplies a fine variety of subjects which appeal to every individual. For example, in Hounds from Heaven of the Forum the reader derives enjoyment from the ludicrous fortunes of a vulgar New York mongrel who suddenly finds himself in heaven amidst an exclusive Literary Society of dogs and is harrassed by the condescen- sion of these celebrities because his master was not a man such as their own former masters Lord Byron, Dr. Johnson and Dick- ens. The Red Peril in which caterpillar racing is featured is astonishing in the humorous style and subject matter. Also there are sev- eral stories of everyday American Ifie which however are worthy of their distinction in this collection for the manner in which the authors have contrived to instill originality and interesting psychological studies. Mani- cure from Harpers, Fame for Mr. Beatty from the Tanager and several others fall into this group for in them one is accutely aware of the struggles of ordinary men in their un- eventful paths of life due to the authors abil- ity to receive and convey his impi-essions skillfully. Then again for the more conservative there are stories of a powerful and almost melan- cholic nature. The Country Doctor from Transition and Power ef the Horizon from the Dial are the most outstanding stories of this group. There is a certain dignified gran- deur in the compelling force of the Power of the Horizon which impresses one intense- ly and the Country Doctor portraying the death of a broken woman midst the sordid atmosphere of her home is almost philoso- phical. Where From, ' ' Crimson and Gray? ' WALTER A. LINDELL, 1918. It is interesting to note that the follow- ing articles are written respectively by the first and last editors of the Crimson and Gray. Mr. Walter Lindell, ' 18, was editor-in-chief of the school publication in the year in which it was formed. Harold E. Morehouse was editor-in-chief in 1929. Without question, many things happen- ed in the main room of old Southbridge High when it was part of the old Town Hall. Not the least of which, were the many events which transpired, some plea- sant and some not so pleasant (and how!) during the four year ' s incumbency of the writer. P ' or three years, two young men were habitual occupants of seats very near to- gether, in this great main room . Things were constantly happening during those years, not the least among which was the classical presentation during the regular rhetorical period of Casey at the Bat which was rendered to the chagrin of the teacher and Mr. Bosworth but to the rap- turous delight of the entire school body. There were baseball and basketball games with our old rival Webster, in those days and one fine Spring day is very vivid in my mind even now. A saddened hush fell over the entire school when it was learned that one of these now famous and illustrious alumni, must make a perfect recitation in Caesar that afternoon in order to participate in the annual baseball classic — Webster vs. Southbridge. There was no lunch that noon for the young man in question and with the aid of good old Stanley Prof Bromley the cur- rent lesson and the review was learned word for word. But construction! Help! At last the hour arrived. A sickening silence engulfed the room. Finally, Con- struction? One question only. Answer — correct. 100%. Hurrah! Good old Mr. Bos- worth, a real sport and a good scout. The baseball game at Brimfield and who has the ball? The eagle that flew over the back seat of the auto in which rode Red Tully, catcher extraordinary. Fond memories of days long gone by. These two young men, Henry F. Bill Coderre and Walter A. Walt Lindell bore the brunt of many accusations, when things went wrong in the main room, with Miss Magoon or Miss Newt, (God bless her, who ' ll ever forget her). How deserving were many of the pun- ishments meted out but alas, how chagrin- ed were we as the recipients of many on general principles. When a young man ' s fancy turns to love and school — but it was the origin of the Crimson and Gray of which I was com- missioned to write. It was in our Junior year that the first paper was published. It was originally in- tended as a booster for the athletic teams and editorially to stimulate school spirit which was decidingly lacking. It gradu- ally noised about that a paper was about to be printed (ft was written in long hand,) when an offer was received from one of the girls to make a few cartoons while still another offered to edit a style page. The idea of a paper took , crude as it was, and interest; increased rapidly. Before me is the original copy entitled The Peerless with two sub-headings — Quality, Not Quantity and Boost a Booster . It gives me a big laugh now because of its crudeness, but in those days it was noth- ing to laugh about and interest ran high. The paper was published every Tuesday. Looking backward now, without doubt more time was devoted to the paper by a few of us, than could be afforded in light of our studies. But then, in those days 60% was passing. The original staff as given on the front page of the first issue included: Editors-in-chief Cartoonist Social Editor B ashion Editor City Editor Science Editor 34 THE CRIMSON AND GRAY Comic Editor Sports Editor Boy Scout Editor Editorial Henry F. Coderre Walter A. Lindell Emery Lavallee Muriel Weatherhead Stanley W. Bromley Albert Simmons Henry F. Coderre Robert Gordon Georgia Rutherford Walter A. Lindell Helen A. French The following year, our Senior year, the scene of action was moved to the new School, the Mary E. Wells High School. During the Fall there was considerable agitation for a real paper. The general opinion was that we should capitalize on the crude though interesting results of the previo is year. Finally, the talk was transformed into action and a staff elected with Walter A. Lindell as Editor-in-chief and a score of as- sociates. Due to the heavy load that the newly elected editor was carrying along other school lines and in the YMCA, he was forced to resign the position and Rob- ert Gordon was elected to succeed him. The first paper was issued in April under the title of The Megaphone. K was to be published monthly. The cover picture, if memory serves me rightly, was drawn by Emry Lavallee and was blue-printed. Only a few copies were issued since each copy was typewritten by students of the Commercial Course. The original copy of this new effort is before me on my desk. It contains twelve pages neatly typewritten. Space does not permit me to copy the original editorial which was devoted to the birth of the paper and what should be done to con- tinue it. One page is devoted to a list of those men who entered the Service from our High School in the World War. There is some poetry together with two articles, one on Love ' s Sacrifice and the other en- titled The Electrocution. Hot stuff, both of them! Sporting articles, notices and three pages devoted to Phuloglee com- prise the remainder of this first publica- tioT in its new dress and form. From this humble beginning, in the short space of a very few years, has grown the fine publication that now appears reg- ularly in the name of our Alma Mater. To you who are doing the work now, all honor and glory. Is it not true that almost everything of any worth or note has its origin in a very humble beginning and it not the Crimson and Gray proof of this philosophy. Backward, turn backward, Oh, time in thy flight; Bring back old memories again Just for tonight. The writer hasn ' t covered anywhere near the many interesting details and events of those glorious days because of space and time. They were great years, those four years in High School. Probably as happy a four years as the writer will ever experience. Believe it or not. Adventures of A Freshman HAROLD E. MOREHOUSE, JR. 1929. Contrary to a good many preconceived ideas of college, there was no reception equipped with brass band and flivvers waiting at New Haven station to greet the incoming Yale freshmen. In fact, there was no sign of collegiate pranks or any similar thing. After being misdirected several times, I reached the office of the Dean of Fresh- men, where I secured the key to my dormi- tory room after which I set about finding the latter. After having climbed to the top floor of one building. I finally discovered my room on the top floor of the next build- ing. At least I was coming up inthe world ! Soon, the whole dormitory was full, and we went around to each others ' rooms get- ting acquainted, discovering acquaintances of mutual friends, and collecting pedigrees in general. Not long after, the rush of emboyd salesmen or heelers, as they are called, started. They had everything to offer from ties to banners, and from furniture to text- . books. Another misconception was dispel- led when no one tried to sell us the city hall or the town pump (if there is one), but I have since been told that five or six years ago a very green frosh paid twenty dollars for the care of his radiator for the year. A few days after we arrived, the entire freshman class was assembled in Battell Chapel, and formally welcomed by the President of the University and the Dean of Freshmen. We were then assigned our schedules of classes and told to report to our counselors. The counselor system, which is used in the Freshmen Year, provides for each counselor to have about ten men to whom he acts as advisor and confidant. These counselors are generally the more youthful of the instructors, who can readily sympa- thize with any difficulties their counselees encounter. Before very long we were embarked up- on our college career. We found it quite a change from the High School curriculum. A six-day school week is longer than a five-day one, we find. We also find that English and History can be made much harder than they are in High School, par- ticularly thru the medium of outside read- ing. We have not found ourselves hampered by such registration as compulsory chapel, and having to be in the dormitory by a certain time at night. We are left entirely upon our own and, consequently take great pride in our self-reliance. However, there are many time-honored customs with which freshmen must com- ply. Chief among these is cultivating the habit of wearing a hat all the time — out of doors, of course. Another seems to be a love of shouting Fire! every time a representative of the fairer sex makes an appearance near the freshman dormitor- ies. We feel that, now the end of the Fresh- man Year approaches, we have not exact- ly wasted our time. We have learned that Rudy Vallee, though a Yale graduate, should not be praised; that the Back-to- New Haven Movement is not one of the latest dance steps; that the House Plan is not a measure proposed by the House in Congress; that Yale, Harvard, and Princeton agree at least as regards the 18th amendment; and finally that accord- ing to a Harvard man, the watchword For God, For Country and For Yale is the most perfect example of anti-climax in the English language. Alumni Department Donald Simonds, ' 26, who will graduate from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in June, has been asked to remain as teach- er of Aeronautics and other subjects. Such an honor is rarely granted to so young a man, and Mary E. Wells should be proud of him. He has taken a course in aviation and has made several flights. He expects to attend Langley flying-field school this summer. While at Worcester Tech, Sim- onds was a member of the Signa Xi, an honor pupil, and also earned several schol- arships. He expects to take up his new position in September. Pearle R. Putnam, ' 29, took part in the Simmons, Boston University Glee Club concert given in Jacob Sleeper hall in Bos- ton, April 11. This is the first of a series which the Simmons College Glee Club giv- es with other colleges. Jacob Edwards, ' 28, who will graduate from Worcester Academy in June, has been certified for Dartmouth College. On March 16, Jean Maclean, ' 28, was married to Charles Christensen, by Rev- erend Kenyon. Exchanges Time, 8:30 Station MEW speaking to: Station BJN (Baker Junior News, Denver, Colorado. ) We must say that your paper is improving especially in volume. Your arti-.ts, certainly, want the world to see their sketches, but just a few stories dare to peek from between the pages (very timid stories.) We k; ' .ow you can do better in the literary line. Station SC (Scotland Courier, Scotland, Pennsylvania.) Here we are agin, rather you are with us again. Your paper is very much the same, no new inducive columns, although your Alumni Page shall always stand out as a novelty. The exchanges of March 13, 1930 were unsually clever. Station TRAW (The Red and White, Nor- wich, Connecticut.) Another copy from you renewed our friendship and awakened us to criticize. It seems that the Staff is very ambitious but what of the students? Some jokes wouW be greatly appreciated by all (we are sure) al- though your Fraternity and Sorority Doings make up for the lack of them. Station TM (The Milacki, Milaca, Minne- sota. ) We are glad to have you with us again and we greet you with praises and some caustic remarks. You have poems, jokes, school news but not one (not even an attempt) narrative. There are more advertisements than written talent of the students and the Exchange Notes could be greatly improved. Station TB (The Breeze, Gushing Academy, •Ashburnham, Massachusetts.) A neat and well worth reading magazine with unusually good articles. The Crystal Ball is a very clever piece of poetry. But there is a mar in the magazine though not seen — Too much empty space that could be easily filled. Station MEW Singing off. Locals Ten more weeks have come and gone with the wheels of our life rolling steadily along despite the rough passages of Caesar and Cicero so mourned by the poor harassed un- derclassmen. Yet time erases the sharpest edges of plays including Barrie ' s Shall we join the Ladies given by the Sophomore English Class under Miss Fitzgerald ' s direction ; also two plays given by the Biology Class and the Freshman English Class coached this time by Miss Phinney. The talent which has been discovered in these casts insure a de- lightful store of lays in the future. The sub- ject of plays reminds me of the annual Jun- ior Play which is rehearsing for its presen- tation in May. However I should not deviate too much from my assigned topic — Wednesday Morn- ing Programs. The Hi.ffh School orchestra has entertained once while a feminine in- strumental creation including saxophones, mandolins, violins, drums, and a piano were particularly enjoyable for although only five in number each member was able to play two different instruments. In addition we have innumerable piano sok)s and duets from various colleagues in- cluding Irene Duclos, Jane Desrosiers, Lu- cille Monroe, Doris Dubreuil, oJhn Cooper, Jane and Alma Lemoine. Still more variety was introduced when Ruth Clough and Carrie LaBelle entertained with vocal selections. The willingness to participate in these pro- grams is especially gratifying for one feels that somewhere in this heap one may dis- cover a Sarah Bernhadt — who knows? Last in line but not least, Lucille and Dorothy Monroe garbed in quaint costumes danced a stately minuette. Thus every Wednesday assembly has given us a more extensive glimpse of the versatili- ty of our friends. Two other interesting as- semblies were called in which Mr. Kingsbury representing the Royal Typewriting Com- pany demonstrated the esssentials of the typewriting and a series of speed tests which gave one an inferiority complex. Mr. Rudman from Bryant and Stratton ' s delivered a lecture on Opportunity which was highly enjoyable in spite of the bitter truth. --A1. Honor Roll SENIORS All A ' s B ' s Kathleen Burns Maurice Clemence Mary Gable Rita Houde Bertha Love Gwendolyn Monroe Edna Pinsonneault Mary Schwartzberg Elizabeth St. Onge JUNIORS All A ' s Catherine McKinstry All A ' s B ' s Wilhemina Kania Wanda Kwarciak Gertrude Schwartzberg John Steen SOPHOMORES All A ' s Edward Kaszinski All A ' s B ' s John Buckley Ruth Clough Mary Harney Sophie Janeczek Blanch Metivier FRESHMEN All A ' s Romeo Dumais All A ' s B ' s Bertha Bourdeau Jennie Calo Jerome Caplovich Victoria Czyzewski Alfred DeAngelis Philippina DeAngelis Bernard Fox Honorat Gauthier Rudolph Leduc Nellie A. Lesniewski Claire McGrath Lucille Monroe Lucy Romano Adele Sawicki Edna Toye Gertrude Wilkinson For three-fourth ' s of the years work 50 Seniors received 435 marks above 80 % 65 Juniors received 417 marks above 80 % 91 Sophomores received 681 marks above 80% 102 Freshmen received 984 marks above 80% 308 Pupils received 2517 marks above 80 % The average of all Freshmen in all subjects 78.60 The average of all Sophomores in all subjects 76.93 The average of all Juniors in all subjects 74.71 The average of all Seniors in all subjects 77.62 The average ot air pupils ' n all subjects 76.47; is 18.41 ' passing mark. above the necessary Jokes She : You used to call me sweetheart uei ore we were married, now you don ' t call me any- thing, lie: That shows my .self-control. Diner: My bill, waiter. Waiter: What did you have? ' ' Diner: I don ' t know. Waiter: Hash, forty cents. Judge: What is your occupation. Prisonei ' : I haven ' t any. I just circulate about. judge: to desk clerk) Please see that ihi.s gentleman is retired from circulation for 30 days. Nut: I owe all I have to one woman. Ditto: Your mother? Nut: No — my landlady. She: Women are fools to marry. He: Yes, but what else is there to marry? Lecture: You missed my class yesterday? day? Student: Not in the least, sir, not in the least. He: I wonder how long I could live with- out brains? She : Time will tell. Tightwad: (after purchasing newspaper) See here, boy, what ' s all this your yelling about — Big Swindle-160 victims? I don ' t (•■ee anything about it in this paper. Newsboy: Paper! Read all about the big swindle — 161 victims. There had been an auto wreck. One driver climbed out in a fit of rage, and strode up to a_ man standing on the sidewalk, thinking him to be the other driver. Say, where the devil ' s your tail light? he roared. The inno- cent bystander looked up at him. What do you think I am, a lighting bug? Wise: I don ' t know which girl to take to the show. Cracker: Why not toss up? Wise: 1 did but it didn ' t come out right. He: I see you ' ve just had a hair-cut. Haw: No, I just had my ears moved down a couple of inches. Cracked:, Were there any big men born in this city? Wise: No, they were all babies. Left : Fraternities are the most undemocra- tic, conceited, high-hatted, collection of mor- ons, sponges, parasites — Right: Yes, I didn ' t make one either. Angry Father: What! and now you want more money? Didn ' t I set your husband up in business? Married Co-ed: Yes, D addy, but now he wants you to buy him out. At the Navy Parley London Stenog to Amer. Stenog: Do you expect to find a husband while here? American Stenog: No, I hear the Prince of Wales is out of town. Here ' s Life Prof. Baker Brownell of the Northwestern University would take the back ache out of education. He told a class in modern life and letters he would like morris chairs, up- holstered window seats and plenty of cush- ions for them. One kiss contains a whole volume of af- fection, states one writer. Most modern young people seem to be collecting a fairly extensive library. College is the place where one spends sev- eral thousand dollars for an education and then prays for a holiday to come on a school day. Athletics Oxford-27 Southbridge-25 (GirLs-39) (Girls-18) February 1 proved to be an off day for the Crimson and Gray teams. The Oxford players went right down the floor, winning both Northbridge-32 (girls) Southbridge-17 Warren-15 (boys) Southbridge-42 The Northbridge girls took home an easy victory from our girls on February4. How- ever, the varsity quintet raised our colors again by defeating the Warren five. Holden-17 Southbridge-24 (Girls-26) (Girls-15) On February 7, the girls bowed their heads to the Holden effeminates. Once again the boys saved the day by wiping up the Holden vaivsity in a swift, well fought game. Oxford-21 Southbridge-21 (Gii-ls-21) (Girls-26) Dame foitune smiled on the Crimson and Gray teams on February 12. The girls down- ed their opponents in true Wells fashion The evening reached its climax with the varsity score 21 to 21 due to Oxford ' s refus- al to play an extra period, the game was awarded to Southbridge. Northbridge-31 Southbridge-12 East Douglas-22 (boys) Southbridge-9 On February 14, the girls and boys teams traveled to Northbridge and East Douglas respectively, but it is evident from the scores that they traveled beyond the range of their lucky star. , North Brookfield-31 Southbridge-12 Millbury-20 (girls) Southbridge-13 The Millbur-y lassies proved themselves to be too swift for our girls. Although the North Brookfield boys were also victorious, they only proved their prowess over the Wells varsity by two points after two over- time periods. Holden-18 Southbridge-15 (Cxirls-9) (Girls-15) On February 25, the tables were changed ■ jr the gii-ls cari ' ied off the honors by defeat- ing Holden. The boys also played well, but could not double the honor for Wells. Webster-42 Southbridge-15 Ware-24 (girls) Southbridge-13 February 28 was another fatal day for Southbridge. While the Webster varsity were unmercifully trouncing our team, the girls suffered defeat at the hands of the Ware girls who are now the champions of the state. Millbury (girls) -14 Southbridge (girls) -11 The Millbury team came to Southbridge on March 6, and although they succeeded in defeating our girls, the score was more- even than that of the former game. Clinton-45 Southbridge-20 (Girls-14) (Girls-12) March 7 marked the end of an unfortunate basket ball season for once again both teams went down in defeat. However, throughout the season, the teams have played hard and well and although they did not always win, we admire their grit and spirit. This year the regular Class Basket ball tournament has been somewhat changed from that of former years. Instead of having interclass games, all students interested in playing have been divided into groups ac- cording to height and weight. This .system enables the small students who were here- tofore bari-ed from games, due to each class ' s desires to put forward a winning team, so engage in the tournament and to play with students their own size. Many spirited games have taken place in the past few weeks and many more are anticipated. BASEBALL Coach McMahon called out the baseball candidates on Monday April 7th. Since there are many veterans from the team which have shown ability at practice it looks as though we would be represented by a winning team. There are only six league contests this year since Warren and North Brookfield dropped out, leaving only Spencer, Oxford and Web- ster in the league. There are also other non-league games scheduled. Prospects of A Gymnasium All the students of the school are very much enthused over the prosepects of hav- ing a gymnasium. The Athletic Staff wish- es take this opportunity to thank, on be- half of the entire student body, the Rotary Club and all other residents of South- bridge who have shown any interest in developing the project. It is hoped that the students will be giv- en this opportunity for phisical develop- ment — not only for each one ' s individual benefit, but for the honor and glory of the High School and Town. It is only through giving our teams the training and oppor- tunities given to other High School teams that we will be able to meet them on their own ground and come out of the fray victorious ! DAVID LENTI THE HOME OF FINE FOOTWEAR INVITES YOU TO COME IN AND SEE OUR NEW LINE OF SPORTS FOR THE SUMMER H.95 to $8.50 SHOES NEATLY REBUILT FULL LINE OF HOSIERY 11 ELM STREET J. E. BENOIT First Class Groceries, Meats and Fish We roast our own Coffee. A trial will convince you of the quality. E. F. Dakin Co. CANDY— CIGARS— ICE CREAM SODA NEWS-STAND 69 Central Street. Tel. Connection U 307 Main Street Telephone 452-M Is It Any {bnder that the Cleanliness Store Is Crowded? No popularity has been more sen- sationally won than that of gas- heated water. And little wonder! Its helpfulness is universal. Every family member uses it ... at aU hours ... in countless ways. RUUD-AUTOHOT is no part-time friend. It works for you 24 hours a day. It ' s automatic. A turn of the faucet finds it ready; you ' ll never catch it napping. Hot water is yours when you want it. Thereat a place for you in the front row at the Clean- Imen Store tchere new RUVD-AVTOBOT modeU are bmiaf demonstroCa Special indueemeaU, to o a ll LEAMOWE BASEBALL GOLF FISHM JACKLE HARBWARE GARDEN TOOLS SEEBS G. C. WINTER GO. 344 Main and 10 Hamilton Streets ' - PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS COMPLIMENTS OF WELD BECK Eugene E. 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FLORIST . . . 33 Edwards St. Telephone Say It With Flowers Bedding Plants For Your Flowers Lynn-Brockton Shoe Repair We Go Far to Get a Customer | —But We Go Farther to Keep Him. 40 Hamilton St. Southbridge, Mass. Tel. 524 Southbridge Savings Bank RESOURCES 5,075,832.36 Deposits draw nterest from the first day of every month PATRONIZE OUR AD VERTISERS AUTO RADIATOR REPAIRING A SPECIALTY Also A Complete Stock Of New Radiators Consult Us About The New Or Repaired Metal Work On Your Home. SOUTHBRIDGE SHEET METAL WORKS R. G. BRUS CON, Prop. Tel. 323- J 131 Elm Street Kennedy Electrical Co. John T. Kennedy, Mgr. Electrical Contractors Electrical Supplies and Fixtures 15 Central St. Telephone 410 We wish to thank our advertisers for their co-operation in making this a successful i. sue for the Crimson and Gray. THE STAFF Compliments of THE BOSTON STORE J. 0. Berthiaume, Prop. Southbridge Fruit Co. 0. Micheli, Prop. Fruits Candy Tobacco Corner Main and Hamilton Streets Telephone Connection— 15-W Free Delivery 36 Hamilton St. Southbridge, Mass. Hartwell The Druggist LEON A. CARON ALBERT N. McGRATH CARON McGRATH All Forms of INSURANCE 24 Blanchard BIdg. Tel. 1122-W PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS fl Compliments of Southbridge Finishing Company PRINTERS — of— FAST COLOR PRINTS — on — FINE COTTON GOODS Fire Prevention Advice THE assistance we can render property owners in controlling and reducing fire hazards is as impor- tant as any other part of our property protection service. We shall be glad to inspect your property and to offer every practical suggestion for added safety, without cost or obligation to you. R. M. Burnham PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS IF A mAM MAHE A BETTER HOUI E TRAP . . . ' ' If a man write a better book, or make a better mouse trap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. — Emerson JD or nearly a century, American Optical Company has been trying to make better mousetraps in the production of ophthalmic lenses, optical machinery, and diagnostic instruments used by eye, ear and nose special- ists. When it came to producing better ophthalmic lenses, for example, A O Co. spent twelve years in developing the modern, wide-angle Tillyer Lens. But A O hasn ' t been content to wait for a beaten path to its door. It has developed its distribution facilities until today A O products are available to eyeglass wearers the world over. A O ' s high reputation in the optical field results from the efforts of near- ly 3000 workers from Southbridge, Charlton, Fiskdale and Sturbridge. Thus these people, and the company itself, contribute to the prosperity of these communities. AMERICAN OPTICAL, COHPAMY Tke CRIMSON anJ GRAY MARY E. WELLS HIGH SCHOOL Commencement Numb« er JUNE. NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY Compliments of SOUTHBRIDGE FINISHING COMPANY PRINTERS OF FAST COLOR PRINTS ON FINE COTTON GOODS Is Your Insurance In Step? The march of property values steadily increases your investment. New and finer furnishings are accumulated. Replacement values mount higher. Have you considered all this when thinking about your insurance? Or have you thought about it recently? Why not think it over with us? R. M. BURNHAM Ilje OprittiBon ani O rag PUE ' LISHED QUARTERLY BY THE STUDENTS OF THE MARY E. WELLS HIGH SCHOOL, SOUTHBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS VOLUiA TE XIII JUNE, 1930 NUMBER 4 laat of EliitarH Editor-iu-ChieE Assistant E ditor-in-Chisf Business Manager Assistants Treasurer Assistant Treasurer Subscription Manager Assistants Aluinni Editor Assistant Alumni Editor Athletic Editor Assistant Athletic Editor Exchange Editor Assistant Exchange Editor Local Editor Assistant Local Editor Art Editor Joke Editor Assistant Joke Editor Typists MAURICE CLEMENCE DORIS CLAFLIN HOWARD BINGLEY MAURICE MARTIN WILLIAM WHITNEY FREDERICK WAITE CHARLES THIMBLIN ELIZABETH ST. ONGE RITA HOUDE KATHLEEN BURNS JOHN STEBN RITA BARLES CHARLES CLARKE GWENDOLYN MONROE MARGARET WALKER MARY GABLE WILLIAM TILLYER WANDA KWARCIAK DOROTHY LAMPHEAR CATHERINE McKINSTRY RUTH CLOUGH ARTHUR PROULX ROLAND UNDERWOOD GEORGE DARLING IRENE DUCLOS BLANCHE L ' HEUREUX EDNA PINSONNEAULT QlnntBnts Board of Editors .... 1 Table of Contents . . . . .2 Principal ..... 3 In Memoriam . . . . .4 Skits . . . • . 5 Literature . . . . .20 Autograghs . . . .31 Commencement . . • . .33 Cartoons . . . ■ .41 Locals . . . . . .43 Alumni ..... 45 Exchanges . . . . . 46 Athletics . . - • • 47 Jokes . . ■ • • -50 in Mcmnnam 1 i Virginia ffittclificlb THE CRIMSON AND GRAY MAURICE CLEMENCE For such we are made of, such we be. Maurice is our class president and rides down to us each moining from Sturbridge, He has worked diH- gently in his role as president in his serious way. Maurice is interested in athletics both playing and man- aging. We hear he has plans for entering Brown in the fall, and we know he will get along splendidly. Class President ' 30, Editor-in-Chief of Crimson and Gray, Honor Roll, Class Song, Latin Play, Football Team ' 27- ' 30, Traffic Squad, Operetta, Glee Club, Athletic Association and A. A. Council. The Bride Breezes In, The Whole Town ' s Talking. MARY GABLE With glasses perched upon her nose She seems to have a critic ' s pose. JMar}- came to us from Philadelphia in the beginning of our third year. She is very fond of athletics, and proved an asset to the girls ' basketball team. We do not knovv just where Mary plans to go after high school days are over but wherever it is, lots of good luck, Mary. We shall miss your accent and tales of Camp Life in Pennsylvania. Crimson and Gray Staff, Honor Roll, Vice President ' 29- ' 30, Latin Play, Prophecy, Athletic Association ' 28- ' 30. The Whole Town ' s Talking. HAROLD GRANT A small body often harbors much ability. Tlie Aphorism so often cjuoted, Good goods come in small packages seems to fit this young man very well. Dues please? Ah, that ' s Harold ' s m.elodious voice taking us to task for lack of payment of class dues. But for all his taking ways he ' s a good sport and a fine athlete and in intelligence tests Harold just simply glories although at some other times he keeps his ability well concealed. Class Treasurer, Traffic Scjuad, Baseball ' 30, Bas- ketball ' 28- ' 30, Football ' 30, Riding Down the Sky. BLANCHE L ' HEUREUX Red The beauty of her hair bewilders me. Just look at her picture and judge for yourself. Then imagine how dift ' icult it is to write in a small space so few nice things about such a worthy girl. Blanche ' s characteristics arc unselfishness and amiability. U ' hat we en y in her outward attraction is her beautiful golden red hair. Among all the losses that Mary E. Wells will sustain in the retreat of 1930, Red will be a heavy one. Senior Pla} ' , Crimson and Gray Staff, Secretary and Treasurer of Athletic Association, Secretary of Senior Class, Bells uf Beaujolais, Riding Down the Sky, Glee Clul). Typewriting Clul), Athletic Association. THE CRIMSON AND GRAY IRENE ABRAHAMSON Gentle mind by gentle deed is known. A good sport and a good friend is Irene. She has l()ts of school spirit and is always one of the first to get a season ticket to all the games. Irene is a quiet commercial student and a hard worker. She has cap- tured several typewriting awards and expects to make business her profession. Typing Club, Welliads, Arts and Craft Club, Athletic Association ' 26- ' 30. ROBERT ARPIN Bub Silence is golden Speech is silver. Bob is a quiet sort of a chap, who is extremely shy. He has proved himself always ready and willing to help out with his car Avhenever he could. We all like Bob and know he ' s a good sport. He starred on the football team of 1928 showing his grit and valor. Football ' 27- ' 28- ' 29. ELIZABETH BARBIERRI Betty Good nature and good sense are hers, Virtues oft desired. Betty is very quiet and thoughtful but she always has a ready comeback for anything you say. She often sur- prises us with an outburst of glee and energy. Betty has captured her share of typewriting awards. We wish her luck in Avhate •er she undertakes. Typing Club, Welliads. SYLVESTER BARBIERRI Syl Cars may come, cars may go, but mine goes on forever. Syl showed us what a real up to date taxi driver was like in the Senior Play. No wonder he could do it to perfection, he is so used to accommodating everyone with a ride on rainy day . A good worker is Syl and oh, he loves his Graham Paige. Athletic Association ' 28- ' 30, Glee Club, Riding Down the Sky, Senior Play ' 30, Traflfic Squad ' 29. THE CRIMSON AND GRAY EMO BENVENUTI Ben The only way to have a friend is to be one. Benvenuti is one of our popular boys and is every- body ' s friend. He proved to be a very efficient actor in the Junior Play. Surely with these admirable quali- fications he is ably equipped to gain for himself a dis- tinctive place in whatever vocation he may choose for his life ' s work. Glee Club ' 28- ' 30, The Bride Breezes In, Athletic Association ' 28- ' 30. HOWARD BINGLEY Bing Could we ev er have too much of a good thing? Say, did you do this one? is the greetmg otten ex- tended to Bing immediately after entering school. The reason for this is easily seen in Bing ' s mathe- matical ability. Bing ' s very quietness has drawn to him many friends, all of whom respect his character and scholastic prowess. Glee Club ' 27- ' 30, Athletic Association ' 28- ' 30, Operetta, Crimson and Gray. IRENE BLAKELY Rene I have never regretted my silence. Irene makes less noise than nothing except when she giggles. She never troubles the teachers with her wdiis- pering, and is the model of Room 4. Irene has enter- tained us with her dancing on several occasions. You ' ll find Rene an excellent saleslady in one of our Red Front Stores. Welliads ' 26- ' 27, Arts and Crafts Club ' 26- ' 27, Typing Club ' 28- ' 30, Athletic Association ' 28- ' 30, Oh! Teacher ' 30. LEO BONNETTE Studious as well as companionable. Here is the boy who is always ready with a smile and who helps to make your school associations with him more memorable and impressive. His willingness to lend a helping hand, and his reputation for reliability have won for him the admiration of his fellow students. Athletic Association ' 28- ' 30. THE CRIMSON AND GRAY SIMONNE BREAULT Be silent and safe, Silence never betrays you. Sinionne is one of the quiet memljers of our class as well as tiny. She is seldom heard and seen but is al- ways to be found hard at work. We don ' t know what she plans to do but we wish her luck in whatever she attempts. We know that her merry disposition will win her a high position. Welliads, Athletic Association, Typing Club. MARY KATHLEEN BURNS Kathleen Constantly striving to make ii er best, better. Take one look! Petite and sweet is she not? Yes, that ' s Kathleen our dramatic star, a favorite both with her teachers and classmates. Her name can always be found on the Honor Roll. She represented us in the (Jratorical Contest in Worcester and proved herself a speaker of ability. Inward charm and outward jollity have endeared her to us and at Radcliflfe and in life the Class of ' 30 will always travel along with her in Memory ' s lane. Crimson and Gray, Athletic Association ' 26- ' 30, Bride Breezes In, Bells of Beaujolais, Latin Play, Skit Committee, Honor Roll, Oratorical Contest, Motto Committee, Welliads. RUDOLPH BRZEIS Breezle Life is just what vte make it. Hear the burst of laughter ! See a crowd ! Behold ! CJur vivacious Rudolph is the source of the commotion. As a gloom chaser, he is a marvel. He has keen sense of humor, a sunny disposition, and an optimistic outlook. Rudolph is also musically inclined. He has charmed us playing his drum on Wednesday mornings. The best VN ' ishes of the class are yours, Rudolph. yVthletic Association, Glee Club, Riding Down the Sky, Bells of Beaujolais, Skit Committee. SUSANNE CARION Susie A quiet, even temperament, and in her work she ' s quite content. Susie is quiet and studious, and should be an ex- ample to the other Senior girls ! However, she is a good sport, and has made a place for herself in our hearts. Sue made a fine basketball manager. She is a good worker and always has an explosive little giggle ready to cheer you up with when you ' re blue. Susie plans to take up dietetics and we know she will be suc- cessful. Girls ' Basketball Manager ' 30, Librarian, Athletic Association, Welliads, Skit Committee, Athletic Council. THE CKIMSON AND GRAY ARTHUR RICHARDS CHAMPLIN Champ You come late, yet you come? (Juiet and sober, but a good sport. However, it is rumored that Champ has l:ieen seen entering the Ijack door of Room 4. He has been a wilHng worker and has helped to make our parties a success. We wonder who will be Miss Putnam ' s chauffeur next 3 ' ear? His greatest difficulty seems to be in sliding into his seat a split second before ihe bell. Football ' 29- ' 30, Class Treasurer ' 26, Traffic Squad, Glee Club, Athletic Association. DORIS ALTHEA CLAFLIN Doss A girl light-hearted and content. Our versatile, vivacious cheer-leader and class poet. Doss is a clever writer and has contributed several articles to the Crimson and Gray. Her pep and witty remarks are the bane of Miss Putnam ' s Virgil class. Doss will attend Framingham next fall, where we wish her all success. Crimson and Gray Staff, Cheer Leader, Patin Play, Glee Club, Athletic Association ' 26- ' 30. ELZEAR ADELARD CORMIER Zack Men delight me little. But women — well — ■ Twinkling eyes, a winning way — that ' s Zack. He is a sure cure for the blues and has brightened many a dull hour by his merry wit. Zack is one of the best athletes turned out of the High School in many a year. Zack is ' uncertain which road he will pursue but we feel sure, however, that success will be his in whatever he undertakes. May others treasure him as we have. Basketball, Football, Baseball, Member of Cham- pionship Basketball Team, Manager Basketball Team ' 30, y thletic Association ' 26- ' 30, Athletic Council, Prophecy Committee. IRENE DUCLOS We have been friends together In sunshine and shade. Click ! Click ! Click ! The typewriter responds to the swift fingers of this demure and accurate typist who lias collected all possible typing awards during her four years in High School. Whether in Typewriting ur Stenography, Irene ' s answers are e er ready and worth while. Dignity finds in her its most gracious expres- sion and she will carry from M. E. W. a rich heritage of scholarship and the warm friendship of her class- mates. Skit Committee, President Tvping Clul) ' .1O, Treas- urer ' 29, Athletic Association ' 26 30, Class Song. State Champion Typist 1930. THE CRIMSON AND GRAY GEORGE DUGAS A man that blushes is not quite a brute. George is admired by all his friends and classmates l ecause he does not keep the alabaster box of love and tenderness sealed up until his friends are dead. He speaks approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them. George is one of our star athletes. He was football captain during the past year. In the future we expect to see George, with his famous blush, captain of Holy Cross Football Team. Football ' 27- ' 30, Captain ' 30, Baseball ' 28- ' 30, Basketball ' 29- ' 30, Class Treasurer ' 29, Athletic Association Council ' 30, Athletic Association 26- ' 30. DOROTHY DUMAS Dot Optimism is gloom ' s dust brush. Enter Dot — exit gloom. Dot has always been a favor- ite among us, for if bubbling laughter is heard, one can be sure that Dot is near. Dot is, as yet, uncertain about her plans for the future, but we all know that wherever she goes or Avhatever she attempts, she will be successful and will prove an honor to Mary E. Wells High School. Athletic Association ' 26- ' 30, Typing Club ' 28- ' 30, GERTRUDE FARLAND Gert A sweet attractive kind of grace. The class of ' 30 is very proud to introduce this lady as its Gertrude. Her sweet and gracious demeanor has won the respect and admiration of the school. Her favorite studies are bookkeeping and typewriting. We ' re not telling any secrets, but we imagine she will be in the number of those who pursue a career in the busi- ness world. Gertrude has been a model of quietness to us all. Athletic Association ' 26- ' 30, Typing Club. CAROLYN ALICE FITZPATRICK Cal Never a trouble, never a frown. Cal is peppy and happy-go-lucky, and studying bothers her little. She is rather quiet in classes but has a contagious laugh. Did you ever hear Cal tell about how much she didn ' t like Chemistry? She has served on many committees and has contributed to the success of our class activities. Cal ' s favorite pastime is visiting Webster v diere she has many friends — of the male sex. Glee Club ' 26- ' 30, Librarian of Glee Club ' 29- ' 30, Athletic Association ' 26- ' 30, Riding Down the Sky, Welliads, Arts and Crafts Club. THE CRIMSON AND GRAY RITA HOUDE Shall I compare thee to a summer day. We all admire Rita for her calm and amiable disposi- tion and for her superior ability. Rita appears quiet and is, mostly always but some times — that ' s a different ftory. However, Mr. Greene must have found Rita such a consolation for she never loiters in the corridors before school. We congratulate her future employer for he will have a very efficient stenographer. Bon voyage on a calm sea, Rita. Typing Club, Welliads, Athletic Association. MITCHEL KOPROWSKI Mike His thoughts within are deap without. Alike is well-liked by all his classmates. He is a diligent worker, dividing his time between class work and all athletics. Mike is a good student and a fellow who makes g ' ood in all he does. He plans to continue studving in some middle-west college. Baseball ' 28- ' 30, Football 28- ' 30. HENRY KOSAKOWSKI Henry Life, I know not what thou art. Throughout his whole school life Henry has made for himself a record in baseball which is irreproachable. He is one of those jolly good-natured fellows of the class, free from care and anxiety. He plans to go into busi- ness in the near future. So good-bye Henry, you go out into the world with our best wishes behind you. Baseball ' 27- ' 30, Basketball ' 30, Athletic Association: STEFANIE KOZYRA Stej Sports have their place and studies too; Neither should be neglected. Stef shines in basketball. If you ever saw a snappy forward who never failed to score, that ' s Stef. No matter what tiine she devoted to athletics, Stef main- tained a fine scholastic record, being one of our Honor students. She is planning to attend Fitchburg Normal School. A fine teacher she ' ll make — don ' t flirt with your pupils too much, Stef. Basketball ' 26- 30, Athletic Association ■26- ' 30, Glee Club ' 26- ' 27, The Bride Breezes In, The Whole Town ' s Talking. L THE CRIMSON AND GRAY MABEL LABELLE Mabs Life ' s just what we make it. IMabel is known for her pleasant disposition. She lias been prominent in school activities and especially in the Typing Club Plays. , She was also a faithful mem- ber of the Glee Club. She intends to make business her profession. Glee Club, Athletic Association, Typing Club, Welliads, Bells of Beaujolais, Riding Down the Sky, Oh ! Teacher. NARCISSE LECLAIR Pete Believe nothing. Pete is one of our football players, who has the rep of having beaten Webster in the memorable Thanks- giving Day Game. He occupies a front seat in Room 4, we wonder why? Pete is our champion questioner. He has a question ready at all times. Pete expects to go to prep school next fall and then college. Football ' 28- ' 29, Class Basketball, Glee Club ' 26- ' 30, Athletic Association ' 28- ' 30, Trafific Squad ' 29. Rid- ing Down the Sky. ALMA LEMOINE Top Though she pursues a scliolarly way, She finds much pleasure day by day. Top is a peppy girl and a good worker. She has been in charge of the supply room for the last two years and was always on the job distributing pads and pencils on time. Top has more than captured her share of the typewriting awards. She has not yet decided on her future work but she has all our good wishes. Typing Club, Welliads, Athletic Association ' 26- ' 30. BERTHA LOVE Bert On with the dance; let my feet be unconfined. AVhen it comes to dancing, Bert ' s right on the job. Her fine work in liasketball has distinguished her all through school. Bert left us for a year but as magnet draws the steel, back came Bertha into our midst. Her attraction for the opposite sex has aroused conjectures in all those who are interested in the same subject. She has the best wishes of all who know her. Glee Club ' 29- ' 30, The Whole Town ' s Talking, Craft Club ' 26- ' 27, Basketball ' 26- ' 30, Athletic Council, Athletic Association ■26- ' 30, Librarian. THE CRIMSON AND GRAY KATENA MANTHUE Kay Work should never be disliked, But one need not love it. Kay is one of the hardest workers in our class. She always does everything to perfection. She is very eifi- cient in shorthand as well as winning several typewrit- ing awards. If anyone wants to learn how to operate the mimeograph machine — all thej have to do — is ask Kay. Typing Club, Welliads, Athletic Association ' 26- ' 30. MAURICE MARTIN Maurice Good sense and quietness requisites are in a gentleman. Something would Ije noticeably lacking in our class of ' 30 if we did not have Maurice with his drj ' humor and his cjuestion mark smile. It is said that Maurice is inclined to fall asleep in French class but he surely can keep awake at the Soda Fountain in Dakin ' s — and mix a mean drink. Maurice will leave soon for the Great West but we ' re sure he won ' t get lost. Crimson and Gray, Traffic Squad, Glee Club, Athletic Association. TAMES McKAY Jimmy Come trip the light fantastic toe. One of our class sheiks : Nobody has ever been known to stay in his compan}-- for over one minute without having to laugh at one of his jokes. Even Miss Putnam is seen siniling when Jimmy tells his latest. Jimmy is good at dramatics and oh how he dances, besides he belongs to all the athletic teams. Jimmy is often seen in Room 6 — we wonder why? Bride Breezes In, Riding Down the Sky, The Whole Town ' s Talking, Athletic Association ' 26- ' 30. Glee Club ' 26- ' 30, Football, Basketball ' 26- ' 30. GWENDOLYN MONROE Gwen Fun is seen in her dancing eyes. Gwen ' brings sunshine and cheer wherever she goes. She has a fascinating personality which has endeared her to the hearts of her classmates. Although her time is not wholly lost in study, her marks show that she does not neglect them. There are rumors that Gwen intends to further her education at Wheaton. Crimson and Gray Staff, Senior Play, Glee Club ' 26- ' 30, President of Glee Club ' 30, Orchestra ' 26- ' 30, Vice President ' 28. Welliads, Craft Clulj, Basketball ' 28- ' 30, Librarian, Skits, Class Song. THE CRIMSON AND GRAY EDWARD JOSEPH PAQUETTE Eddie Not too serious, not too gay, but altogether a jolly good fellow. Our peppy, collegiate cheer-leader. Eddie is abso- lutely irrepressible and the trial of the teachers. He is cheery and carefree — generally the cause of anj dis- turbance in class. We all admire his fine work in both our class plays. Eddie is undecided what he will take up, but go to it Eddie with your usualpep. Cheer Leader, Bride Breezes In, ' ' The Whole Town ' s Talking, Bells of Beaujolais, Glee Club ' 26- ' 30, Riding Down the Sky, Will, Traffic Squad. EDNA PINSONNEAULT Pin She hath a way. Perhaps no other poem could better describe Pin than Shakespeare ' s quaint verse She hath a way. Pin certainly hath a way and we all know it well. She is the lucky possessor of a personality that has made her the delight of her class. Besides all this she has an excellent scholastic record being an honor pupil and proved her ability more than once. We think Pin has overlooked her talent for when it came to writing skits she was a real authoress. Class President ' 28, Vice President ' 29, Typing Club, Athletic Association, Welliads, Arts and Craft Club, Skit Committee, Crimson and Gray Staff, Cheer Leader at Thanksgiving Game. RUTH PLIMPTON The more we know, the more we know we don ' t know. Ruth is one of our quiet girls, but although she ap- pears tall and dignified she ' s not always so sedate. Ruth is one of the most accommodating girls in our class. She is always willing to help. She has been a popular commercial student and has several typing awards to her credit. Whatever Ruth decides to do she will be successful. Typing Club, Welliads. ANDREA PROULX Andy Plump, jolly and studious. A petite mademoiselle is Andy, and oh, how we love her. She cherishes the final hope of growing up some day. We might suggest Andy, that it would help your growing up to walk a little more often to schooL Her kindness and lovable manner have gained her a deep niche in the hearts of everyone at M. E. W. What- ever may be her future, the ladder of success will not lie too high for our beloved classmate to mount. Prophecy, Typing Club, ■ Bells of Beaujolais, Welliads, Class Secretary ' 28- ' 29, Oh! Teacher. THE CRIMSON AND GRAY ARTHUR PHILIP PROULX In lines and dashes nicely sketched a thought is oft portrayed. We always looked to Arthur when we needed a good chairman for our committees. He was stage manager for our class plays and we admire his good work in that line. Vrthur also made a good hero in our Senior play. Ke will attend Yale School of Fine Arts and we expect to see a masterpiece by Arthur hanging in the Louvre some day. Glee Club, Crimson and Gray Staff, Riding Down the Sk}--, Bride Breezes In, The AVhoIe Town ' s Talking, Traffic Squad, Athletic Association ' 26- ' 30. CLAUDIA QUEVILLON A little nonsense now and forever, Is the best companion in the worst of weather. Look at Claude ' s big black eyes. Claude can be very quiet, but mostl} ' isn ' t; and when she giggles we all join in on the chorus. Her ambition is to be a nurse and we all wish her the best of luck. If Claude looks at her patients with those big eyes, they will never want to leave the hospital. Typing Club, Welliads, Arts and Craft Club, Athletic Association. LEONA RAICHE Lee A little bit of heaven fell from the sky one day. That is just what happened seventeen years ago when our own little Lee opened her eyes in this mundane sphere.. During her four years at M. E. W. she won the reputation of a loving friend, a perfect little woman, and a keen student. Her cheerful countenance beams like the morning sun and warms us with its cheery rays. That success will follow her and that her life will be one grand, sweet song is our chorus to you. Glee Club ' 26- ' 30. Welliads ' 26-27, Typing Club ' 28- ' 30, Secretary of Typing Club ' 30, Bells of Beau- jolais, The Whole Town ' s Talking, Oh! Teacher, Athletic Association ' 29- ' 30. ERNEST OVIDE RENAUD Renaud Thy modesty ' s a candle to thy merit. Ernest is a quiet, unobtrusive l)oy who never bothers the teachers — a pattern for certain boys of Room 4! However, he is studious and a good worker. He is clever at drawing and music, although he is too modest to show his talent. We wish him heaps of luck in whatever he does. Latin Play, Riding Down the Sky, Athletic Association. THE CRIMSON AND GRAY IRENE RENAUD Continual comfort in her face. Irene ranks among- our high mark commercial girls, who has the hearty good will of her classmates. Her long, long way smile and her readiness in class inter- ests prove her loyalty and love for M. E. W. In her quiet and unassuming manner, she misses nothing of the enjoyment and pleasant things that are going on and contributes much to the happiness of others. Bride Breezes In, Typing Club, Athletic Associ- ation ' 26-o0, Welliads. TEANNETTE SAVARIA Jos Laugli and the class laughs with you. Our Jeannette is a welcoine comer in any group for sunshine enters with her. She really is making the world a sweeter place to live in. Besides possessing this lovable disposition, she is also an efficient student. If heaven had not pronounced it wrong, we should be envious of our beloved classmate. Typing Club, Welliads, Athletic Association. MARY SCHWARTZBERG The not lest mind the best contentment has. Mary is the ever willing, ever ready kind. When you haven ' t done your lesson consult Mary, she ' ll know. Lessons come first and foremost with Mary. She is always good natured and smiling especially after a good mark in English. We all have wondered what the at- traction is in Worcester. Mary expects to go to Normal and in her life there and out in the world we have every reason to believe that she will be successful. Athletic Association ' 26- ' 30, Latin Play. ALFREDA MARY SICHOL Freda To hear her speak and sweetly smile, You were in Paradise the while. Freda has been with us only one year, coming trom liitchcock Academy, but she is one of our most popular girls. She is a teacher ' s model in class, but has a cheer- ful, likeable personality. She played her part in the Senior play excellently. Athletic Association, Class Will, The Whole Town ' s Talking. THE CRIMSON AND GRAY LOUISE SKINNER Skinner Her giggles are but the suncapped waves That play o ' er the deeps of tho ' t. Louise ' s hobby is athletics. She has shown marked aljility on the basketl all floor as has been proved by her being chosen captain this last year. She has not decided on her future work but it has been rumored that the nursing profession attracts her. A noble am- bition — work hard and you are certain to succeed Louise. Arts and Craft Club ' 26, Basketball ' 26- ' 30, Captain ' 29- ' 30, Athletic Council, Athletic Association ' 26- ' 30, Librarian ' 30, The Whole Town ' s Talking. ELIZABETH ST. ONGE Liz A smile v ill go a long, long way. Those of us who have learned the sterling worth of Liz know that her future can hold nothing but success. No one need ever doubt this, for she is rarely seen wast- ing a moment which might be profitably spent. We always know that when we meet her we are going to get a smile. Keep on smiling Liz. Typing Club ' 28- ' 30, Crimson and Gray Stafif ' 28- ' 30, Wefliads, ' 26- ' 27, Motto, Skit Committee, The Whole Town ' s Talking. CHARLES THIMBLIN Charlie He was a man, take him all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. A man who knows boys well says of Charlie he is to be a man of the world; he will succeed. Of that fact we feel sure, for Charlie has a remarkable ability for making friends. His athletic prowess was evidenced by his good work on the baseball team. He has a great consideration for others and this wins him a place in the hearts of all who know him and we bid him farewell with heaps of good wishes. I3asketball, Baseball, Traffic Squad, I- ' resident of the Class Sophomore and Junior Years, Crimson and Gray, Glee Club, Bells of Beaujolais, Athletic Association ' 26- ' 30. CHRISTOPHER THOMAS Son ' Tis easier to make a reputation, than to keep it. Thomas is another of our speedsters. He can e en push Mr. Greene ' s Chewy along the road. Can he sing? Sure, remember the Spanish hero in Riding Down the Sky. Lessons however are the least of Thomas ' s wor- ries but he ' s always smiling — maybe that ' s the reason. Athletic Association ' 28- ' 29, Football Team ' 29, Traffic Squad ' 29- ' 30, Glee Club ' 26- ' 30, Riding Down the Sky. THE CRIMSON AND GRAY JOHN EDWARD TRUE Jack Good nature is a great asset. Jack is a fine worker and has shown his class spirit by attending all the class parties and games. Although he is not renowned for his love of study we all admire and envy his brilliancy in Math. Perhaps some day we will see him devising some complicated theory for the further abuse of Trig students! Latin Play, Athletic Association ' 26- ' 30. ROLAND UNDERWOOD Undie Unhand me, gentlemen; By heaven, I ' ll make a ghost of him that lets me. Underwood hails from the land where men are men — Sturbridge, and he always comes rain or shine. You are sure to see L ' ndie at all the parties. We won- der if he is always as quiet as he is in school. Ma ' be he ' s in training for his future job as a detective and detecting all he can at the parties. Athletic Association ' 28- ' 30, Glee Club, Football. MARY VASIL Bess It ' s the song she sings and the smile she wears That ' s a making the sunshine everywhere. Mary sings like a lark and most of us envy her ability. She is a hard working commercial student. Business is her goal and we know that some day she ' ll be some one ' s secretary, and a mighty efficient one she ' ll make as she did for Mr. Greene the past year. Glee Club ' 26- ' 30, Riding Down the Sky, Bells of Beaujolais, Typing Club ' 28- ' 30, Welliads. BEATRICE VINTON Bee Let the world ebb, let the world flow, A fig for a care, a fig for a woe. A steady whisperer that ' s Bee, she leads us all. Her ability to chew gum is enviable. But let ' s forget it; Bee is quite a law student and can give us the final decision on any case problem. If you are ever in trouble ask Judge Vinton toj smooth the difficulty. Vthletic Association ' 29- ' 30, Typing Club ' 29. THE CRIMSON AND GRAY NETTIE YOUNG Net A merry heart, a happy smile. Net is- a peppy girl and a good athlete. Did you ever notice Net ' s dimples, and then they wonder why she ' s always out of town? Her smile is constant and noth- ing worries her, not even her History assignment. Net can take a joke with a smile and we are sure of her success if she continues. Athletic Association ' 29- ' 30, Typing Club, Welliads. LITERATURE ' ' OUR PRESENT MILITARY PREPAREDNESS The United States has ne er entered a war fully prepared; jxt each time we ha -e cume out victorious either through our own good fortune or I33 ' the will of God. Today we are in, the midst of nations who are rivalling their preparations of the pre-World War days. Our wealth makes us the most enviable nation on earth, and since wars caused by jealousy have been waged since time immemorial we are ever liable to be attacked. Would we, in an emergency be able to defend ourselves? Adequate is the favorite word applied to our defenses by the presidents of the last decade. Militarists -will argue that we are open to attacl , from any side. Pacifists will assume the opposite side in claiming that we la) ' too great stress on preparedness. Have we found the medium between the two ex- tremes? The third point to be considered is what weapon of defense should we most develop : the airplane, the battleship, the armed soldier, or what ? In preparing for another war, which every- one will tell you must not occur but which no one seems to dare hope will never take place, the nations of the world are entering upon the most complete methods of prepara- tion imaginable. France, for example, plans to mobilize not only her men, but women and even children into a great war unit. The United States is not going to such an extreme; the go ' ,-ernment has, however, made and has in operation plans for the most complete mobilization of our industries, in case of war, that we h,ne ever known. When we entered the World War we had t i have contracts fulfilled in a hurry. Natu- rally since these were carried out in great haste little care was taken, the grade of goods was often poor, and there were opportunities for graft. The War Department learned a lesson from this; today it has contracts made with companies manufacturing war supplies for a specified amount of goods to be delivered almost instantaneousl} ' after the opening of hostilities. Since they must always be ready to fulfill their contracts the industries will not be caught unprepared for war in the future. But although the industries will be ready in the future, it is doubtful if we will be any better prepared than in the past to mobilize our man power. The great cantonments built during the last war were cheap and not per- manent ; they have fallen in ruin to such an extent that a housing bill for the army had to be enacted. They will be of still less use as time goes on. This much experience was derived from the last war ; that men can be drafted without causing a furore in the na- tion, and that conscription is the most effec- tive method known of mobilizing a war force. The navy is our first line of defense; all aggression must come from across the seas. Our military strategists intend that the in- vading forces shall be held at bay by the nav}- and backed by the air force while we train a land force. Our naval strength is not eciual to that of England ' s ; although we are sup- posedl}- on a parity with her. We have also failed to keep the five to three ratio with Japan in regard to cruiser strength. Like- wise we are lagging in the construction of airplane carriers. But here our weakness ends because our submarine fleet is equal to, that of any other nation and our number of destroyers by far surpasses that of any other country. Briefly our navy consists of the following: eighteen battleships, of which three are to be THE CRIMSON AND GRAY scrapped, eig-hteen cruisers, fifty-eigiht sub- marines, two aircraft carriers, two hundred se enty-six destroyers and many second class and auxiliary vessels. At present there are ninety-three thousand officers and men man- ning our ships. Also there is a large naval reserve. As it is our navy is adequate. Because of our dependence on the nav}- to repel aggression we have never developed a large ami)- in peace times. Provisions were made in 1920 for a standing army of 280,000 men ; this act has never been fulfilled. Our army is now little more than a national police force. The small army is supported by the National Guard and Organized Reserves, There are many others, in addition, who are receiving military training. A few figures will help to bear out this statement. The Regular Army numbers 135,- 000 men and officers ; the National Guard 180,000; the Organized Reserves 115,000; the Reserve Officer ' s Training Corps 125,000 and those attending- Citizens ' Military Training Camps 35,000. The total sum of all these is approximately 500,000 men, certainly an ad- equate nun ber. In addition there is the Marine Corps which always helps to keep the situation well in hand. The last field to be entered upon is the airplane. This weapon of defense is still very far from being developed to its greatest poten- tialities. Experiments have been conducted and still military officers are not convinced of its value. We have, however, an airfleet which compares favorably with that of any other nation. This is mostly due to ex-Major General Mitchell, one time head of the army air force, who by his stormy declarations lost his position but awoke the nation to its lack of defense in the air several years ago. During the World War the airplane was hastily developed as a war weapon. Aircraft was used, however, mostly for scouting and reconnoitei-ing purposes and for keeping the enemy from performing the same function. Occasional raids were made by planes and dirigibles but they did not deal ' out destruc- tion on a large scale. Whether or not the airship has advanced be- yond that stage to such an extent as to change our entire method of waging war, we do not yet know and perhaps would not like to know. But within the past decade it has been clearly demonstrated that a plane can easily drop bombs capable of sinking a battleship. It is also logical to suppose that an air fleet could inflict great damage wherever the population tends to congregate. In all, it is a terrible weapon, the friend of man in peace, it be- comes a feared foe in war. At present we are in the middle of a five year aircraft construction program which will make our airfleet not only equal to coping with any hostile fleet that could be brought near our shores, but even strong enough to assume the offensive ; two poAverful aircraft conviens enable us to do the latter. The submarine and its death dealing de- structiveness was demonstrated by Germany in the last war; in fact, that almost won the war by its use. We and other nations are now building submarines with great cruising radii and carrying guns as large as those on small cruisers. The use of chemicals and the predictions thereof awes one with their tremendous pow- er to wipe out almost all of humanity. We have a very efficient Chemical Warfare Ser- vice which is doing its part in making our defenses adequate. The cost of all these preparations is over $700,000,000 yearly, and the amount of pen- sions disbursed yearly to those who have in some way ' or other been connected with the war forces brings the total up to a billion dollars. Other nations have to endure an ac- cordingly high expense. Such is the Inirden that the world has to bear because the so- called civilized nations are not yet civilized. Maurice Clemence. TOWER Man, when barred from the Garden of Eden, was condemned to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow. Ancient history says that all labor was done by man-power only. We are told that each one of the pyramids, those buildings which have always been the source of great wonder and delight, is the result of the labor of an army of slaves for several decades. His- tory also tells of man sowing, harvesting and grinding his grain by hand. Man, however, having been given a brain which has proved superior to that of all other THE CRIMSON AND GRAY animals, gradually devised a means of elimin- ating, to a great extent, the manual labor then in vogue. Since he is of higher intelligence, he automatically learned to utilize and de- velop the power of the lower animals, that is, the ox, the donkey and the horse. Having used the horse to plow his fields, he eventual- ly found a way of using the wind as a force to grind his grain. Thus, probably the first luxuries of the human race were developed. This style of power, which even today is utilized in more primitive sections, was hand- ed down through the ages by our forefathers, until the development of the steam engine in 1714 by Newcomen. The steam engine, as originally developed was undoubtedly the first strictly artificial power unit ever formed by man, for it did not rely on either the strength of animals or the gravity of water. In 1763, James Watt, while repairing a model of Newcomen ' s invention, was struck by the waste of power in the engine. He saw that this could be remedied by keeping the cylinder as hot as the steam which en- tered it. Watt worked over the engine mak- ing several changes until it proved to be sat- isfactory and produced power economically. Enormously important as Watt ' s first pat- tern was, it resulted for a time in the produc- tion of nothing more than a greatly improved power engine of the Newcomen type. It was much less wasteful of fuel and was able to make faster strokes, but it was still only suit- able for pumping. Other inventors worked over the engine, gradually perfecting it until a high pressure engine was effected in England by Trevithick who applied the power thus formed to propel carriages and roads. To Trevithick belongs the distinguished honor of being the first to use a steam carriage and a railway, for in 1804 he built a small locomotive to run through Wales. Although his engine was very crude, the devices he used to get suffi- cient power to pull the train, were those which Stephenson modified twenty-five years later to put the locomotive well on the way to its present efficiency. This steam-power which man made and de- veloped has unquestionably been a greater basic boom to our present civilization than can possibly ])e conceived. Through progres- sive stages, the power of the one-time almost insignificant steam-engine has been developed more sufficiently and economically. From its power, one machine so run has produced prac- tically a hundred fold. From it has developed the steam-boat, high-speed locomotives, ocean going liners and the power for manufactur- ing of endless description. Probably the most important invention to which a development of the steam-engine has been applied and vhich has been most bene- ficial to man is the power-press. In former times, when it was necessary to print and transcribe books by hand, volumes were very scarce and those which existed were so cost- ly as to ])e beyond the means of all but a few selected and extremely wealthy people. The power-press has brought within the means of the entire masses not only the daily news- papers but an endless variety of educational books, which have and will further educate a great number of people, and thereby guar- antee an even greater development in the use of power for the general benefit of mankind. From this steam power, man eventually de- veloped the dynamo which in tu rn enabled him not only to light up entire communities including his house, but also to cook his meals, wash his clothes and run his whole household in general. The dynamo also made it possible for man to communicate with his fellow-men thousands of miles away by means of the telegraph, telephone, wire- less telegraphy and last but most marvelous of all, the radio ! Although the previous citations mentioned are the result of the power created by man, we must not forget the most important power unit which controls all others and that is the God-given power of man ' s mind and Ijrain, which has the ability to plan, the will to carry on and the determination to succeed. It was man ' s mind which took the forces of the wind, water and finally steam and con- verted it into energy to make for us the neces- sities of life and to give us the conveniences for transportation and communication which are nothing short of being miracles. The world is constantly growing and as we graduate and go forth into it, it will be our duty to use the minds given to us to create, develop and utiHze still more power to meet the ever-increasing demands of the world. Mary Gable ' 30. THE CRIMSON AND GRAY WOMEN IN BUSINESS ' Have you ever chanced to see the employees of a large concern — you have seen them at the American Optical Company, I am sure — as they leave the plant for the noon recess? Have you noticed the great number of women that work in these factories? There was a time, not so very long ago when women were not in business. It has been only about eighty years since her en- trance into a field of occupation so vastly different from that of her ancestors. I ' rom the beginning of time women have only taken care of the home, from hut to castle, making things comfortable and agree- able to the family. The nineteenth century, however, saw a change in this plan. The ever-increasing number of inventions with their ever-increas- ing speed and efficiency have commercialized the tasks that kept our great-grandmothers busy from dawn till night. Today anything from food to clothing can be bought ready for use. Thus women found themselves with considerable leisure at their disposal. Being of an active frame of mind, they turned to a field of great activity and opportunity though as yet unfrequented by women — the work-a- day world. Of course, there were a few women w-orking here and there in the mills and shops but they were the exceptions, the poorer class, perhaps foreigners with large families whose honor prompted them to do what the wealthier class regarded as degrad- ing — working women. People were shocked at this change in woman ' s scene of activity. To them a woman was a lady whose career was one of devotion to the home and family. A woman in a dingy, old office, a noisy filthy mill, mingling with men on an equal footing, treating them and being treated as their equal; why, that was revolution. Women, however, went on re- gardless of comments and made the acquaint- ance of a world, not as their mothers knew it, but as it really is, a world where oppor- tunities fall on every side but also a world whose requirements are exacting. This fact was no drawback. Statistics show a steady increase in the number of women workers. The same world that was shocked because women worked outside of the home now mar- velled at their speedy adjustment to the ex- igencies of their new positions. One author states: It is interesting and helpful to the woman who makes her way in the world by means of daily work, faithfully and skillfully performed, to find ample proof in the pages of biography that all the women whom the world delights to honor have been great workers. Today they are everywhere but the commer- cial world interests me most of all. While women were thus adjusting them- selves to their new positions, there had come a progressive era in the business world. High- er schools and colleges were opened where men learned the art of business. Someone thought , Why not do the same for women? The same was done for women and they are now learning stenography, salesmanship, economics, banking, — anything, and every- thing that only man took up a few years ago. One item I have not mentioned is the operat- ing of the various machines used in every mo- dern office. That and stenography employs the largest number of women. With the free ed- ucation of today a girl can learn stenography and general ofi ' ice work and consequently ob- tain a position that enables her to pay her expenses and yet cause no detriment to her health. Women have come into business but will they stay? What have the} ' done up to the present day? What will they accomplish in the future ? Undoubtedly you will answer positively to the question — Will they stay in business? That is my opinion, too. The home does not take up all a woman ' s time. To fill the long hours of the afternoon she joins a club, welfare or otherwise. Many women, however, prefer to have some de- finite occupation that calls them each morn- ing. Florence Nightingale was one of these. Although of a rich family, she gave unlimited time and toil to the care of soldiers and to the founding of hospitals. Yes, women will stay in business because they want the activity they find there. What have women done? The success of women cannot be measured by their attain- ment of high executive positions, as a general rule. Nevertheless, woman ' s contribution has been definite and greatly beneficial to society as well as to business. The presence of women in laisiness is responsible to a large extent for the betterment of labor conditions such as the eight-hour working day and the twentieth century sanitation everywhere in industry. At first men were inclined to be THE CRIMSON AND GRAY sentiniciUal and dared not send women oiit in bad weather or to keep them after dark, but it was soon realized that women intent on earning a living or reaching a goal had as few fears as men. Women, however, cannot work in disorderly or cramped office rooms; dirt revolts them. Their love of beautj ' and order fo ' luAvs them into the business world. The iron street has been humanized by woman ' s presence and the grim market-place seems more colorful and enticing. These creature comforts have been granted to women perhaps because they were women, but men have greatly benefited by them. Women are in business, but what will they accomplish? Will they ever reach man ' s height? These are points of interest today. As a general group the 9,000,000 women of the LInited States now in all branches of industry have shtiwn marked improvement but it is onl} ' the few who have achieved success and made a name for themselves. The great ma- jority are content with their first job; they do Hc t crave tO ' climb above the others. They only think of a position that pays well and is not too hard to fill. There is a lack of stim- ulating ambition to reach a definite goal. However, more women are every year doing work that was regarded formerly as man ' s work. Jn the commercial world there are saleswomen, dealers, executives, insurance agents, lawyers. In other fields there are countless women — politicians, preachers, judges, architects, designers, mathematicians and experts in every line. I am more con- cerned with stenographers because it is the field 1 have chosen. I read an account of a }oung woman who became secretary to the Chairman of the Board of Directors of a great exchange in New York. She had attained a place many of us will never reach but she was not satisfied with this. She worked inces- santly to better herself in that position. Such ought to be our conduct. Our present occu- pation should be a stepping-stone to a better one. Of course, a stenographer has quite a hard time with some employers but Alice Foote MacDougall says, Don ' t look for the perfect job. There isn ' t any. There are many more Avomen worthy of mention who have found a place where they wanted to work and whose success is an en- couragement to beginners. Elizabeth St. Onge. HERO WORSHIP ' Fenimore Cooper has defined Hero Wor- ship as the instinctive tendency in men to look at any other man that has become dis- tinguished. Thomas Carlyle goes further and speaks of it as the inborn, sincere love of Great Men ; the veneration which is peren- nial in the nature of man. He attributes to this indestructible, primarj ' creed of mankind varied origins and manifold results. Have You Got A Hero? Do you practice the Art of Hero Worshipping? These ques- tions addressed to a group of typically mod- ern men and women met with superior smiles and even more superior negative answers. Only one admitted that she possessed a hero. Most of them said How can you worship Fleroes today? We have learned the truth about Heroes. It is certainly true that the so-called Debunking Process has succeeded very v ell in its attempt at tearing away the last shreds of faith in human heroism. The biographers take their specimen, no other word applies to their manner, and subject it to the strongest chemicals, seek out everv de- tail, every weakness and then with fiendish glee tell us that Robert E. Lee was queer to the point of being eccentric, and that George Washington gambled and swore. Then they end up with the cry that all credit is realh- not due to the Flero himself but to the occa- sion and the environment — in short to the op- portunity. Opportunity comes from the Latin words meaning ofif or opposite the bay or port. The fleet is opposite the bay ready to come in at the right moment and win the battle but how seldom has the fleet in the guise of the hero been ready to come in at the right time and win the cause? How many times has history waited for a saviour only to realize, too late, that none was coming. Indeed the Debunkers are in errpr. Even if the hero has his weaknesses, his peculiari- ties, there may be, beyond these, ample grand- eur to worship. For it isn ' t as the unsuccess- ful tanner or inefficient President that we think of Grant but as the Grant at Appomatox, nor is it the vain Elizabeth who pictured her- self a fair maiden that we admire but the THE CRIMSON AND GRAY Elizabeth whose reign was the Golden Age of English literature. We are all Hero Worshippers. Whether we know it or whether we admit it. One man who had been most vehement in his denial of having a hero had added, I do admire and respect a former teacher of mine. I admire him for his marvelous self control but he isn ' t a hero for I haven ' t one. He was uncon- sciously proving just what he was denying. Noah Webster has defined worship as sin- cere admiration that is without limit. This man had never ceased to admire his college professor and in his own character proved that, for in keeping that admiration before him, he had acquired just what he admired. Philip Brooks says No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure and good without the world being better for it, without someone being helped and com- forted by the very existence of that goodness. Down through the ages Heroes have been worshipped. In the most fundamental mean- ing we first have the term in Mythology, in those dim ages when Juno, Diana, Jupiter were venerated and worshipped and such heroes as Aeneas and Hercules were deified. Then came the period of idolatry when in- animate objects as rocks, trees, and the Moon and Sun were worshipped as Gods. Ancestor Worship ran throughout these two periods. Then came Christianity and the highest form of Hero Worship. Carlyle asks us that Hero Worship, heartfelt prostate admiration, sub- mission, burning boundless for a noblest god- like form of man — is not that the germ of Christianity itself. All religions rest on it as on a foundation. In history we have many notable examples of Hero Worship. Boswell has venerated his hero, Johnson. Carlyle has exhibited his doc- trine of Hero Worship to the highest degree to the world and has pronounced the h istory of the World as being the biography of Great Men. These examples are all in relation to Great Men, to the Heroes the world knows but ever since the world began we have had heroes that the World didn ' t call by that name. Men and women who were Heroes and Heroines to only a few. The life of a man can be ' di- vided into five stages in regard to Hero Wor- ship. The Small Boy has his hero. It may be the blue clad police officer at the busy corner down town or the engineer that goes roaring l)y in his cab. As a youth in high school he is worshipping the star football player of the season, he has his Carrideo, or Elder or DonT cheness or perhaps he has his Babe Ruth or Commander Byrd. Then after a period of doubts and unbeliefs he reaches his third stage as the young man starting out in business. The lure of colorful action has faded a bit. He is beginning to recognize the inevitable mixture of good and bad in human nature. Openly, he no longer professes hero worship but secretly he admires deeply the man at the top of his profession. Then he reaches middle age. Here he is at the stage when he denies himself of a hero worshipper but unknown to himself he still clings to some admiration acquired m youth. The old man falls back on the past. There were giants in those days, he says. He puts a glamour around Napoleon or Lincoln or Cromwell. The heroic is always with us. The old man finds it in the past because he looks for it there. But why go back when it is around us at all limes. The simplest form of heroism is the willingness to endure discomfort and to brave dangers. Look around — i sn ' t there a neighbor braving all sorts of burdens and still smiling and perhaps all unknown to you the girl who works next to you may be going through discomforts and never speaking of it? We have our heroine in the form of the brave telephone girls who stick to duty when everyone else gives up ; the nurses whose bravery is unequalled. No, heroes haven ' t gone out and they never will. They are the magnets around which the world clusters. If we think of the best in everyone all the De- bunkers in the world can not change our faith in heroes. Alore than all this, isn ' t it better to search for divinity in man than to look for the blot and the blur? Some cynics will still say, Oh I of course that sounds very pleasant but really in this materialistic age there isn ' t much time for that sor t of thing. Stop a moment ! Isn ' t that sort of thing the impetus of so- ciety? Without hero worship where would our ambition, our respectability even the es- sence of this age, namely our money making powers be if we didn ' t hero worship enough to go out and do as well if not better than the man we admire. Hero Worship is the mainspring of Religion, Business, Loyalties and even Politics. It is so eas} to Hero Worship and so help- ful. Heroism is everywhere. It is a hard taskmaster however, for it keeps you burning with fervor to reach up toward the Hero. It 26 THE CRIMSON AND GRAY fills you with the zest of life — enthusiasm. No matter what the heroic motive is it must be right. Heroism is mighty — to possess that might a man must first of all learn to love it. And there are so many heroes that it is eas} ' to do that. Great Heroes or Little Known heroes the) ' are all around most of them wear- ing the white flower of a l lameless life or nearly so. If you haven ' t already got a hero and you can ' t find one around just go back to where the : Heroes On Fame ' s Eternal Camping Ground Their silent tents are spread Where glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead. Kathleen Burns, 1930. ENFORCE PROHIBITION Prohibition is not a ciuestion — it is an an- swer. It is the best answer so far to the liquor problem. The tendency to ignore the real problem and attribute its evil to prohibi- tion is one of the chief reasons for much con- fused thinking and unsound argumentation. The evils charged again prohil:)ition are in- variably evils of alcohol. Ignoring this, the wets complain that prohibition is responsible for present conditions; if they were sincere in wanting to wipe out these conditions, they would see that the true cause of existing evils is not prohibition but non-observance of the law and laxity of enforcement. We must not be misled, therefore, when the wets tell us that the remedy is nullification or repeal of the law. On the contrary, the penalties provided by the Jones Law, by the Volstead Act, by state and local enforcement meas- ures, should be imposed promptly and with the greatest possible degree of certainty. The punishment inflicted should be severe enough to prevent repetition of the oflfense by the persons convicted and severe enough to deter others from similar offenses. At this point it is well to recall one simple fact which is often overlooked — that if there were no liquor traffic there would be no need of prohibition laws. The terrible results of the manufacture, sale, and use of intoxicat- ing liquors made some remedy necessary. Ac- cordingly, after a century of experimentation with every method ever proposed to decrease alcoholism and promote abstinence, we find that prohibition is the law of the land — regu- larly adopted, upheld by the courts, and sup- ported i)y a decisi e popular majority. Every chief executive of the L-nited States from Washington to Hoover has emphasized the necessity of enforcement of the laws if our government is to endure. What confu- sion would exist, what disorder would result if we attempted to operate on the theory that any law may be ignored at the discretion of any citizen or public official. Prohibition should be enforced thoroughl}-, vigorously, and continuously not only be- cause it is a law, but, because it has behind it the unmistakable and repeatedly expressed will of the American people. Thirty-three states were dry before the Eighteenth Amend- ment went into effect. Of these, twenty- three went dry by direct vote of the people, with average majorities of almost fifty thou- sand; the remaining became dry by legisla- ti e enactment. Before national prohibition, the fifteen states which were still partially wet contained large areas of dry territory un- der local option laws. The Eighteenth Amendment was approved in the Senate by a vote of 65 to 20, and in the House by a vote of 282 to 128. It was then submitted to the legislatures of every state in the Union and was approved by all but two of them — Connecticut and Rhode Island. The latest test of the comparative wet and dry strength in Congress came with a roil call on the Jones-Stalker Bill, which passed the House by a vote of 284 to 90, and the Senate by a vote of 65 to IS. The vote in the House reflects very clearly the present state of public sentiment on tbt prohibition question. Every vote from twenty-six states was dry, while twelve others famished more drjr votes than wet. Two states divided their votes equally, and only five states furnished more wet than dry. This analysis is the best possible assurance that the people of the united States favor the enforcement of the liquor problem. The Eighteenth Amendment and the laws for its enforcement have been upheld by the LInited States Supreme Court in over fifty cases since national prohibition was adopted, and also in countless local, state, and federal courts decisions as a sound, legal and consti- tutional method of procedure against the THE CRIMSON AND GRAY evils of alcoholism. If then, prohibition stands the test of pop- ular approval and sanction by the courts it is also pertinent to inquire whether it stands the final test on moral grounds. This ques- tion uncovers the strongest of all reasons for vigorous enforcement, because it is a good law. The purpose of prohibition is good; it is directed against the beverage use of alco- hol — a narcotic drug, whose use is not only unnecessary, but is both harmful and danger- ous to individual. Prohibition has placed a ban on this kind of poisoning, and already the good results are manifest. Vigorous enforcement will increase sobri- ety, for drinking naturally decreases as it be- comes more difficullt to secure intoxicants. The assertion, frequently heard, that prohi- bition has increased the amount of drinking is not supported either by general observa- tion or by common sense. Prohibition has already transformed the ordinary environment in which youth lives, moves, learns, and earns. It is now necessary for yoiiUg people to go out of their way to secure liquor; formerly they had to go out of their way to avoid it. More vigorous en- forcement will give the younger generation even greater protection against the worst enemy of physical and intellectual develop- ment. Nor can we forget the serious menace of alcohol to life and property in a highly mech- anized civilization such as ours. The human brain is the most important factor in the con- trol of powerful, high-speed machinery on the highway and in the workshop ; and it is an established medical fact that alcohol slows down the human being ' s responses to stimuli, so that alcoholized minds fail both in routine duties and critical emergencies. In the in- terests of greater security for life and prop- erty, we are justified in demanding the strict- est possible enforcement of prohibition. Prohibition has closed the licensed saloons. It has destroyed the dominant influence of liquor in politics. It has taken from liquor the support of legitimate industry. It has aided prosperity by diminishing the wasteful consumption of liquor which lowered the pro- ductivity of labor. Should the Eighteenth Amendment be nul- lified because it cannot be repealed? Non- sense I The procedure for amending the con- stitution has not been changed. The prohibi- tion amendment can be repealed in exactly the same way that it was adopted. But it will stay in the Constitution because it will merit the continued support of the people. No sensible person can deny that condi- tions are better now than they ever were un- der the license system. Does prohibition destroy the charter of our liberties — the framework of our govern- ment? Quite on the contrary; it springs from them. Prohibition came because the framework of our government permitted the people to achieve their will in the fight against evils of alcohol. America is the freest na- tion, ard therefore the driest nation. Will prohibition fail because juries will not convict? Time alone can answer that; but if we can judge the future by the past, juries composed of average American citizens will uniformly declare violators guilty when the evidence proves them to be guilty. Is prohibition folly and failure? On the contrary, it represents common sense and the greatest success ever tried against liquor. Is it true that prohibition is not enforced and cannot be? The plain, simple truth is that prohilaition can be enforced and is being enforced. The evils of liquor have not been entirely prevented, but they have been im- measurably decreased. So long as our regu- lar processes of law and order can be carried on, prohibition can be enforced. So long as violators are apprehended, convicted, and punished, the law is be ing enforced. At the present time a small group of people seem bent upon opposing it with every means in their power. Realizing that they are a minority, they try to compensate for what they lack in numbers by the increasing loud- ness of their voices. And what do they ofifer as a substitute for prohibition? Nothing con- structive- -only surrender on the part of the majority, nullification, the complete undoing of all the good that has been accomplished. Nullification or repeal would settle nothing and leave the nation helpless in the grip of the liquor. Nullification or repeal would not correct the pernicious alcohol habit nor sup- press the criminal trafific in alcohol but would reduce resistance to both. Therefore noth- ing would be gained by failure to enforce the law, nothing can be lost by vigorous en- forcement, for that is returned in fines and penalties. Not surrender, then, but rigid enforcement is the remedy for the liquid evil, the answer to the alcohol problem. Take away every legal prop; remove all cooperation by lawful THE CRIMSON AND GRAY trade, commerce, and industry; place the stig-ma of illegality upon social drinking; ed- ucate youth to know the truth about alcohol ; encourage law observance by patriotic citi- zens — and then enforce the law vigoroush% consistently, and continuously against the criminal minority of violators who will not obey it. I ' hen the minority of weak or de- fiant drinkers will gradually decrease, and . merica will progress unhampered and un- hindered by beverage alcohol — the greatest -common enemy of the individual and the greatest handicap to the state. Edna C. Pinsonneault, ' oO. THE SEA The sea is one of Nature ' s most wonderful creations, and the one best loved. Even the most humble follower of the sea recognizes its great beauties and sees its glories through the eyes of an artist. One who sees the ocean for the first time is greatly impressed and at- tracted by its charm ; it is loved and under- stood by all those lovers of the beautiful who can see the glory of Nature in all her forms. It is the one of her works through which she speaks to us most clearly, and the one from which man can best learn. The sea in its many moods is created for the pleasure of man. tlie purifying of his heart, and as a medium of realization of the divine power. It affords thousands of the noblest scenes of the earth, continually presenting new scenes, pictures and glories — yet Nature ' s greatest works are frequently forgotten or cease to be felt when we see them each day. The glamour of the greatest mysteries of creation ceases to attract us when they become every-day com- panions. Primitive man saw in the various moods of the sea only signs of heavenly wrath or omens of impending disaster. As we look upon the ocean, does it ever occur to us that it is ex- pressive of the beautiful? We say the tide is rising, or that there is a storm at sea — not appreciating the splendors of the might) force. Sometimes gentle, sometimes fearful, sometimes capricious, but always eternal, per- petual ; continually changing its mood like a human being; scenes ever varying, never re- peated, yet always to be found — the sea in its infinity is almost divine, almost human in its passions and tenderness. Where better could man find solace for worldly disappointments, a soothing of his heart? If one could under- stand the infinite beauties of the sea and there seek the word of God, he would find the com- fort always attendant upon realization of the divine presence. The sea can almost be considered a human being having emotion — moments of passion and of calm, -hose voice, at times sweet and harmonious, can be thundering, menacing; whose surface rises and falls as if it gently breathed. It is expressive of everything glo- rious, from the glassy blue of the calm to the seething, turbulent waves which threaten to devour our shores. How many unimagina- tive people see the ocean merely as a mass of blue, or at best, blue-green ! Few see the myriad hues of gems blended into one spark- ling veb of sun-woven fabric — the iridescent fires of an opal, gold of the topaz, rosy glints of the diamond, purple of the amethyst and blue of the sapphire — all the mingled hues of an Oriental stone. What artist can portray the mad billows chasing one another far, far out to sea; the waves leaping ecstatically to the stars ; or the scarlet reflection of a cloud mirrored on the calm aquamarine ! But not onl} ' is it the sense of sight ■hich responds to these beauties. The sea has a voice which can be musical, softly whispering, or again terrifying in its animal-like roaring. Sometimes we hear it gayly singing as the billows pla) ' about. In a more melancholy mood we hear it moan among the reeds ; again it is heard ai¥ectionately lapping against the rocks held in its embrace or gently lisping upon the sand. A musician gained the mspi- ration for his masterpiece b}- listening to the tender whispering of the waves. It is a most enjoyable pleasure for one to climb the rugged clif? to the crag overhang- ing the restless sea, and to watch the varied pictures which are painted throughout the day. Watch the first ray of a sunbeam strike the cold, calm waters of the morning, warm- ing it until tiny flecks of bright color fall everywhere, and scattering the light film of mist hovering fearfully over the pearly sur- face. Gradually as the east grows from vio- let to shades of blue, barred with bands of scarlet and gold, the waters change chame- leon-like from dark blue to lilac and silver. As the morning advances the turquoise man- THE CRIMSON AND GRAY tie becomes emerald green, and the rays of the sun cause the waves to sparkle with fires of sapphire and diamond. The transparent depths seem to conceal mysteries never to be penetrated, and the jewelled waves seem al- ways to be folding, guarding unknown treas- ures. -As the airy breezes grow to wild winds the dome of heaven grows darker, and the floor of lapis-lazuli becomes a field of angry waves. Incited by the frowning skies and rough winds, the sea becomes a seething, passionate mass, becoming always more ominous. The storm-lashed waves creep upon the shore and the battle has begun. Inspired with fear at the tremendous force, we wonder how long this fierce battle has been waging, how long the shores have been resisting the frenzied attacks of the ocean. Sureh- the ceaseless march of the waves must conquer — but at this moment when the waves most frantically beat upon the sands, a ray of light pierces the cloud, the winds die down, the waves re- treat. The passionate spell has passed and a more calm mood possesses the sea. The smouldering sun bursts forth in all its glory, spreading a great canopy of color over the ocean. Now, when the vault of heaven is transparent and azure, the sea is attired in a thousand sparkling fires, as it was black and sombre when thick clouds hid the rays of the sun. The rainbow hues are blended in its surface and every color is fused to flame, each sparkling wave flecked with amber foam, misty-soft. The splendors of Nature are all gathered into one glorious sunset upon a boundless sea. And now as the phantom shadows of clouds lightly steal across the path of the opalescent moon, the sea becomes one vast liquid desert of stillness, crossed with but a pale path of crystal clearness. And as we see the gentle calm after the tempest, we realize how ex- pressive it is of life and our own experiences. We go on our way peacefully, knowing the glory and love of God ; and it is from the sea that we have received His message. Gwendolvn Monroe. ' .30. EVOLUTION OF BUSINESS ' There is a bit of Chinese philosophy that says : The legs of the stork are long ; the legs of the duck are short. We cannot make the legs of the stock short, nor the legs of the duck long. Why worry? Yet we do worry, but instead of trying to make the legs of the stork short, we want to make them longer. We cannot help that. Human be- ings are always restless trying to do more and more every day. Where would we have been today if we had not tried to make the stork ' s legs longer? W ' e probably would have been as our great, great ancestors were years ago, but even they wished to progress. We are toda}- passing through one of these periods of man ' s greatest progress and man ' s powers are being increased in every possible way. Let us look back and see how business was performed in the ancient days. About 10,000 years ago, men got what they wanted by such means as they could, whether it was by barter, blackmail, or robbery by violence. The trade that was going on in the ancient world before the sixth or seventh century B. C. was entirely barter trade. They did not have scales to weigh their goods as we have today, but measures of capacity seemed to have been first obtained from nat- ural objects of uniform size. Thus the He- brews had the hen ' s egg. as their unit ; the Malays had cocoanuts, and the Chinese used joints of bamboo. The ordinary standard of value with the early Aryans was cattle. Other legal tender was tobacco. There was very little coin money and absolutelj- no credit, — how many of our business transactions today are done on a credit basis? Over one-half. — It was not until about 900 B. C. that credit, monetary security and coined money began to develop. The Egj-ptians had small pieces of gold — cow gold ' — each of which was the value of a full grown cow. The use of money as me- dium of exchange led naturally to a system of banking. Those banks recei ed money on deposit and loaned it not unlike our modern banks toda}-, only their safes were great earth- enware jars. Our great corporations today are not a dis- cover}- of the last century but of the last thousand years B. C. The first merchants in the woild were shipowners w-ho carried and traded goods as they wandered between (_ ne area of primitive civilization and another. The Semitic Armaneans became a distinct THE CRIMSON AND GRAY factor in the life of the primitive men. They formed large households of their own and they became the important traders of that day for the small retailer was ignored then as much as he is tried to be today. Monopoly then as today was a much talked of subject. These large houses were able to shut out competitors and to enjoy a strict monopoly of their profitable trade. At first there was very little manufacturing. Each farm produced everything needed in the way of clothing, tools, and implements. — simply picture a modern young lady today wearing a thick, coarse, home-spun gown. As wealth and population increased it became impossible for men to devote themselves to other occupations besides agriculture. •• A ' lany industries today were well known in Ancient Egypt and Babylonia. The black- smith, carpenters, stonecutters, weavers, glass blowers, and workers in ivory were all heard of in the ancient world. In the year 445 B. C. Athens was probably one of the most progressive business cities. At first it was considered a crime for a person to engage directly in either trade or industry. A free-born Greek considered it dishonorable to spend all one ' s time and energy in money- making — if this was the case today, how many of us would be dishonorable? Practi- cally all, for what person today is not striving for personal gain? ' So the world went on developing little by little every day up to the eighteenth century. The manufacturing that day was exceedingly simple. No such things as factories existed in the medieval ages. The work was simply carried on where the manufacturer lived. No men worked for him, no huge machinery filled his shop, nor anything that exists today in our manufacturing plants. People then did not work for wages. If a man wanted a helper he would offer to teach his trade to some one else and that person worked without wages. The knowleclge he received was his Avages. Very few goods were sold out of town and even out of the country. Most of the produc- tion was sold among the neighbors at the town market. Matters could not go on as the}- were for- e er. Things must reach a crisis and this crisis was the great Industrial Revolultion, which first started in England. This Industrial Revolution transformed a people with peasant occupations and local markets into a world-wide market. This period de eloped banks, insurance companies, steam- power, coal, corporations and textile inills. Before textile industries passed into the factory, spinning and weaving were done in the worker ' s homes. The Britannica said in one of the articles on the Industrial Revolu- tion : Two centuries ago, no one person in a 1000 wore stockings, one century ago, not one person in 500 wore them. Now. not one , person in a 1000 is without them. An outstanding characteristic of this period was the rapid expansion of the market. The orthodox system of marketing- was greatly strengthened. In other words the manufac- turer simply made the goods ; he sold them to a wholesale dealer, the wholesale dealer to the retailer, and he in turn to the consumer. All this while no one thought about the cost of the goods ; as long as the manufac- turer made goods rapidly enough, the con- sumer would buy at any reasonable price. We cannot say that the Industrial Revolu- tion ended for it is still going on. What was then a land of forests and farms is now a land of factories and cities. Corporations and Trusts were organized with amazing rapidit}- and on an enormous scale. The pro- cesses used in our modern industries are ex- tremely complex due to the various inven- tions which make the cost of goods enor- mously low compared to what they would have cost in the earlier days. As time goes on, more and more of our manufacturing is done in large establish- ments. About 20% of our plants turned out more than 9-10 of the total product. These manufacturing plants must record their work, and hence, we have our great offices. The ancients probably recorded their transactions on the walls of their abode, — a cave. Modern industry is tremendously special- ized. The time was when ail processes of manufacturing were done in one room. To- day separate factories are likely to be set up for each process. Business once conducted simply to secure means of living comfortably is now done on a large scale to secure not only enough to live comfortably, but to make a gain. Business has grown to the greatest extent and is still growing. No one of us knows how much more it will grow. Some of us ma}- still live to see — but here I must break off with an interrogation, for the stork ' s leg will probably be pulled out longer and longer l-)y each generation. Katena Manthue. Aut0gi:apl|0 Name Address Happy Thoughts Autngi:apl|0 Name Address Happy Thoughis COMMENCEMENT Class of 1930 THE CRIMSON AND GRAY CLASS HISTORY Timers ! Captains ! Ready ! The whistle has blown and one hundred and twentA ' -six fresh- men stand ready to play the game. The ball is thrust into their hands as they are to be initiated into the ways of the mysterious game. Education. Soon the game continues smoothly as the freshmen learn the differ- ence between the rooms and the significance of the powerful words Room Four at three o ' clock. The whistle sounds and the freshmen hold a class meeting-. Miss Thecla Fitzgerald is selected as coach for our freshman year. Off ' icers are elected and once more the game goes smoothly on its way. Again all con- tinues smoothly until the freshmen surprise the other teams with their skill in presenting a party themselves. Play is resumed. A pause comes in our game when one of our beloved members. Virginia Litchfield, left us forever. Always our members play the game fairl}- and so we reach the end of the first quarter. Eighty-five players return to play the game during the second quarter. Our first play was to hold a class meeting and elect our coach, captains and manager. Miss Dube was elected coach. Our team played success- fully and we ga e another party which was deemed a success by all visiting teams. Our games were refereed b) ' our dearly loved principal, John T. Gibbons, who left to teach in Brighton. And thus draws to an end our second quarter. The whistle sounds and seventy Juniors re- turn to play the game. Each hoped to play the game to an end. Our first move was a class meeting where we elected oft ' icers and Miss Kathryn Finnegan as our coach. AUyn T. Furber was our new referee and the game continued smoothly. Our team received the freshmen into the game instructing them in the rules. The score was increased again when the Junior team presented the play The Bride Breezes In. A break comes in our game when we learn of the departure of our friend and ref- eree, Mr. Furber. The play is resumed when Channing Greene takes the position of ref- eree. Once more the Junio r team plays the part of host this time to the Seniors by giv- ing the Prom. The shrill sound of the whistle brings our third quarter to an end. When the whistle sounds onl} ' fifty-four Seniors answer the call. A class meeting is held and ofl ' icers are elected. Mr. Channing Greene is our coach. Our first play is the dance on the evening of the never to be for- gotten Thanksgiving when our boys defeated Bartlett. The Senior Team is indeed proud of its athletes. The play, the Whole Town Is Talking, is gi ' en and enjoyed by all who attended. One of the most astonishing by-pla3-s is the essays written b} the Senior Team. A cheer rings out from the side when the com- mittees are selected to write the Senior Song, History, Will and Prophecy. Our game is quickly drawing to an end and the commence- ment acti vities are approaching. The final whistle Avill be sounded when the last strains of the orchestra fade away the night of the prom. Louise Skinner, ' 30. THE CRIMSON AND GRAY CLASS WILL ' We the Class of 1930 of Mary E. Wells High School, being of sound mind and body ordain this as our last will and testament: To Mr. Greene, we leave this sign (I am reading this morning a few verses from the psalms) to assist him in conducting Wednes- day morning assemblies. To Miss Aucoin, we leave our good will. To Miss Burrington, we leave another class with our high mathematical genius. To Miss Coderre, we leave a few yeast cakes to make her rise. To Miss Corbin, we leave a recipe for a new cake that will not make the traffic offi- cers sick. To Miss Dempsey, we leave a class who without much trouble, will be able to answer her perplexing questions. To Miss Drake, we leave a class which can at least get a D in her exams. To Miss Finnegan, we leave a pair of rubber heels which we believe, will be quite a novelty to her. To Miss Fitzgerald, we leave a class who will appreciate her sweet personality. To Miss Knowlton, we leave our envy of her beautiful natural sun-tan. To Mr. McMahon, we leave new football teams to conquer. To Miss McGrath, we leave a taxi to take her to and from school. To Miss Oliff, we leave a new traffic regu- lation pamphlet. To Miss Phinney, we leave a pool for all of the donations of fish and frogs. To Miss Putnam, we leave a pencil with a rubber eraser on the end so that she will not scratch or mar the top of her desk when she attempts to get order in the room. To Miss Troy, we leave our approval of introducing in the High School the fashions for 1931. To Miss Dube, we leave new hearts to win, something she has succeeded in doing in the past. To the Freshman Class, we leave discre- tion. To the Sophomore Class, we leave a referee to settle the arguments among the students. To the Juniors, we leave the success of Seniors. Harold Grant leaves to Wilson Knight his delicate blush. Simonne Brault leaves her height to Eddie Kazinski. Let ' s hope Eddie does not shrink. Maurice Clemence leaves his faithfulness to the same girl for two whole years to Freddie Volpini. Edna Pinsonneault leaves her pep to VVil- helmina Kania. Arthur Proulx leaves his drawing aljilit} ' to Joe Sichol. John True leaves his womanly manners to Harry Abbott. Mary Schwartzberg leaves her ability to make faces before the history class to Cather- ine McKinstry. Rudolph Brzeis leaves his ability to play the drum to Lucille Monroe who on a certain Wednesday morning made a rash attempt to belittle Brzeis. Doris Claflin leaves her extra 150 lbs. to Isabelie Sangren. Gwen Monroe leaves her crutches to the unfortunate member of next year ' s football squad. Maurice Martin leaves his dimples and ex- pression of blankness to Tillyer. Sil and Elizabeth Barbierri leave their brother and sisterly love respectively to Bil- lings, Incorporated. Mary Gable leaves her ability to vamp the lower class men to John Steen. Irene Duclos leaves her typewriting genius to Nestor Pontbriand. Arthur Champlin leaves ability to get to school at 29 minutes and 59 seconds past eight o ' clock each morning without being tardy to Meryl Benoit. Katena Manthue leaves her position in Nick ' s candy shop to someone who doesn ' t indulge in sodas, candies, and confection- eries. Emo Benvenuti leaves nothing to Schard- schmidt provided that he takes good care of it. Irene Abrahamson leaves her reputation as an ideal Scout Girl to Eleanor Laabs. Christo Thomas leaves his characteristic ballroom dancing ability to Vinny Walsh. Ernest Renaud leaves those baby blue eyes to Lincoln Blair. Suzanne Carion leaves her willingness to mak;e delicious cocoa for the athletes to Ruth Snell. THE CRIMSON AND GRAY Stephanie Kozyra leaves her crushes to someone who wants a thrill, Gert Wilkin- son. Roland Underwood leaves his love for sleep to Ernest Collette. Carolyn Fitzpatrick leaves her ability of winning the hearts of out of town football stars to Pet Price. Rita Iloude leaves her cuteness to Nellie Misiaszek. Andrea Proulx leaves her Pepsodent smile to Maggie Walker. Claudia Quevillion leaves her curls to Lil- lian Howard. Leona Raiche leaves her humor and op- timism to Marjorie Edmondson. Bertha Love leaves her famous giggle to Nellie tleaton. Mary Vasil leaves her melodies of song and sentiment to Roxanne Pinsonneault. McKay leaves his pseudo originality in English class to George Page. Howard Bingley leaves his knowledge of the opposite sex to John Cooper. Zack Cormier leaves his wide shoulders to White. Kaprowski leaves his bashfulness to Clar- ence Peloquin. Gertrude Farland leaves her book of de- portment to Dot Monroe. Louise Skinner leaves her freckles — Now don ' t rush, AVilliam Whitney has an option on them. Beatrice A inton leaves her daily routine about town to Marion Chapdelaine. Leo Bonnette leaves his four days a week schedule to Frank Buckley. Hereafter and after that Frank may go to school four days a week and sleep the fifth. Dorothy I ' Jumas leaves her talking ability to Lorraine Gabree. Charles Thimblin leaves his popularity to John Harmon. Nettie Young leaves her laissez-faire at- titude to Stanley Haynes. Mabel Labelle leaves her boyish bob to Louise Kershaw. Ivan Narcisse LeClair leaves his royal and majestic air to Chula. KosakoAvski leaves his serious expression to Beatrice Girouard. George Dugas leaves his techniciue at comb- ing his hair so that it stays combed to John Buckley. Blanche LTIeureux leaves her red hair to Francazzi. Kathleen Burns leaves her place as an en- tertainer to Rita Earls. Elizabeth St. Onge leaves her wise crack- ing ability to Herbert Wilkinson. Edward Paquette leaves his enormous sup- ply of young women to George Darling. Alfreda Sichol leaves her graceful figure to Dorothy Lamphear. Alma Lemoine leaves her shorthand ability to Marjorie White so that our school will re- main in t he lime-light next year. Irene Blakeley leaves her charming ways to Jane Burnham. Ruth Plimpton leaves her gold teeth to Dorothy Beck. Robert Arpin leaves his love to Dot Labelle. Witnessed by, Amos and Andy The King Fish The Shaad The Battle Axe Ruby Taylor Jackson, Jackson, Jackson, Jackson and Jackson, Appointed Execvttors of the W ill. Alfreda Sichol Edward Paquette Chairman CLASS PROPHECY I am a traveler over the earth. I do not say over the face of this orb. I haxe traveled far ab(i e it, in it, and beneath it. In fact, I have traveled quite in the manner of a Baron Mun- chausen. In short, I have traveled marvel- ousl)- and well. All the above is a necessary prologue to the statement that I was in England, having just arrived from the moon. But where in Eng- I? Ah, dear reader, that was the Where was I? As soon as I had gained full control of my faculties, I gazed about me. The grass was here, the grass was there, but never a blade to eat, far oft in the land was question. THE CRIMSON AND GRAY close, distance was a big roaring, ramping bull. I say close distance advisedly, for the distance was quickly becoming so short that I began to wonder whether or not I should stay at the spot. I decided that I had better not and dropped into that hasty stride which had been so useful to Mr. Corbin. Ah ! Mr. Corbin! Where was he? And Mr. Greene? And all that faculty? I decided that I needed them, and so broke into a run, followed by a leap over a fence, just in time to miss the onslaught of the bull. A short distance away a villa was cozily placed at the foot of one of those beautiful Surrey hills. I hurried toward this human habitation, hoping to find there food, aid and sleep. I rang the bell and asked for the mas- ter of the house. Imagine my astonishment, and his astonishment on seeing me, when Zack Cormier came forward, patting a huge Palmation Hound. In fact, he was so aston- ished that he asked, Where did you drop from, the moon? (Of course, you know that I had?) An explanation followed and he said that he would be glad to put me up. So he called his aunt, who arranged rooms for me. Being very tired, I begged to be ex- cused (how like school!) and went to bed. The next morning I was up and about early. After breakfast we got to talking about our mutual friends and schoolmates. It was then that I learned that the bull which at- tacked me- belonged to Eddie Paquette, who was now importing those fierce animals from Sandersdale to his English estate. Well, Zack, said I, what have you been doing since college? Oh, a good many things, Andy. I have been in England for quite a while and have been studying art in London for about a year, said he. Have you met any of our classmates? I remember that some of them said that they were going to Europe. Oh, yes! I have met c|uite a few. Why, about a month ago I met Red L ' Heureux and Top Lemoine. They had come from Paris. By the way, you may be interested to know that they are coming to dinner soon along with Maurice Martin, Ernest Renaud. I ' ll have to be there. It wouldn ' t do for me to miss seeing Red. That ' s a hint for an invitation. ' ' Well, you shall have it. Here we wandered off into a discussion of Arthur Proulx ' s Confession of an Interior Decorator and then as had been our custom in the past, to other topics of literary interest. At tea I had a brilliant idea. Sometime or other in Zack ' s travels, or in my own jour- neyings, we had met all of our former class- mates. Why not write now the prophecy which we had been supposed to write in 1930? It would be true, and would necessitate no stupid jumping into the future ideas. We decided that this was a good idea, and that when this work should be finished if ever, it should be sent to the Crimson and Gray which would print it as the prophecy of the Class of 1930. (And so it happened, for you are reading it now, aren ' t you?) But now I must explain how it happened that this prophecy had not been printed at the proper time. It had been written and sent to the printer. We prophets awaited with dread the forthcoming Crimson and Gray which would contain the prophecy, for it was only mediocre stufl: ' . You see there was no practicable plan of presenting future events in the present except by concocting some evil hash of witch, or magician, or sleeping powder, or something which would either project one into the future or enable one to see it in a dream. Luckily the printing house got on fire somehow, and presto ! change ! our prophecy was but a bit of ash which had been the about-to-be- Commencement Num- ber until now — many, many years after. After we had decided to carry out my plan, Zack thrust responsibility at me by saj ' ing, Go on. You begin. So I began. The last time that I was in America was in 1949. My line was the Champlin Line, which owns some of the finest steamships in the world. Arthur Champlin, the owner, was on board. So was Jeannette Savaria. She was returning from a vacation to the, as she called them, arduous duties of keeping house. ' ' We made up a party and inspected the ship on our second day out. We found Emo Benvenuti in the kitchen. He had been driv- en to the culinary art by Claudia Quevillion, the nineteenth of his wives. His French evi- dently helped him to be a good cook, for we had fine meals. Now it ' s your turn. ' ' Speaking of Charleston recalls Kathleen Burns to my mind, said Zack. I saw some of her etchings in a print shop owned by Ruth Plimpton in the Montmartre. Of all the squalid, dirty holes that was the worst. I cfuite ruined a new pair of shoes that I had had Mike Kaprowski send me from his shop on THE CRIMSON AND GRAY Fifth Avenue. However, it is Bohemian to live in a dirty place. Ruth ' s shop is rather fashionable. I met Beatrice Vinton and Net- tie Young there. They had dropped in to talk over old times. Now then, Andy, speak your little piece. Already? I groaned. There sure is a bunch of Wellsites in Europe. The last time that I was in Paris I stayed with Leona Raiche. She was then preparing for a re- cital. Elizabeth St. Onge, she told me, was studying in Berlin under Leo Bonnette. I had an amusing adventure while I was there, I continued. Leona took me to the meeting of the Tenth Internationale. It seems that she haunts their meetings because Har- old Grant is the Chairman. That wasn ' t the amusing part, however. It was amusing to watch Harold quell those fiery radicals with a calm look and a quotation from some poet. He told me that John True and Gertrude Farland are doing Red Cross work in Vladi- vostok. They are — here I paused, for Zack ' s aunt had entered with a paper and some let- ters. I asked if I might have the paper and then settled myself comfortably in a corner to read it while Zack perused his letters. Well, for the love of Pete, look at what George Dugas is up to now ! I exclaimed. Here, let me read this to you. It is on the advertis)i;ng sheet of ' The News. ' ' Georg ' e Dugas announces the production of his lat- est musical-comedy hit, Wells ' Scandals. Among the attractions are : Miss Irene Abra- hamson, famous radio entertainer; Miss Dor- othy Dumas, famous toe dancer ; Miss Irene Renaud, who will do her latest dance, There ' s a Kick in It; Robert Arpin, tap dancer. This gorgeous array of talent will appear at the Underwood and Leclair Theatre at 42nd and Broadway. ' Well, what do you think of that? That ' s a show I wouldn ' t miss for any- thing, Zack answered. Very well, then, we ' ll go. It ' s next Mon- day, so if we take the air-line on Saturday we ' ll have plenty of time. We can take Red L ' Heureux, Top Lemoine and Maurice Mar- tin with us. I ' ll wire for reservation at Bing- ley and McKay ' s Hotel tonight. Let us see the paper now, please, said Zack. He read for about five minutes in silence, then burst out with You missed something. Kay Manthue has been elected governor of Wisconsin on the women ticket. It says here, Miss Katena Manthue today won, the guber- natorial office over Henry Kosakowski, who ran on the men ticket. Oh, here ' s some more ! ' Mary Schwartzberg has been appointed Commissioner of Police in Southbridge. She is considered one of the best women to clear up the traffic danger there. She succeeds Simonne Breault, who is retiring. It is rumored that Mary ' s right hand man will be Mr. Thomas who has dis- tinguished himself recently in the Rita Houde Emerald case. ' That ' s all. There is no more. Were you ever in Egypt, Zack? I asked. Edna Pinsonneault has become one of the most adept and famous of the Nailed dancers. She combines with the rhythm and sensu- ousness of the Southerner; the coldness of the Northerner. She has been a great suc- cess. Is that so? I didn ' t know that, said Zack. I was in Egypt about six years ago. I met Suzanne Carion and Carolyn Fitzpatrick They told me that they were having a vaca- tion from their feministic work in the States. They were then the most militant of femin- ists. But now, I suppose, they are the most home-loving of wives. Well, they ' re not, broke in a new voice. Lo ! and behold ! It was the two insepar- ables Gwenny Monroe and Maurice Clem- ence. Of course, excitement reigned for a while, but at last we were all comfortably seated. What were you saying about the femin- ists, Gwen? asked Zack. Why, they are still feminists. Their fol- lowing among Wells girls has increased, too. Only a short time ago Elizabeth Barbierri was appointed Secretary of the Interior — and others are doing just as well in politics. Oh, well ! They ' re Southbridge girls, you know, said I. Yes indeed, said Maurice, they are do- ing well. So we chatted on until the wee hours of the morning. We asked Maurice and Gwen to join our party and go to New York with us on Saturday. Needless to say they ac- cepted v ith pleasure. The performance of George ' s musical com- edy was a whooping success. The second night in New York was spent in listening to Irene Duclos ' new composition, which had been adapted to the stage by Mabel Labelle and Bertha Love. Mary Vasil had the leading role and sang it to perfec- tion. There were many wonderful lighting eiTects which were staged by Barbierri — THE CRIMSON AND GRAY 39 whom you will remember was so successful with the stage settings in the Senior Play. The stage settings had been planned by Mary Gable. The next morning we took the first train to Southbridge. How splendid it was to get back to our homes and our Alma Mater ! In- deed it was very changed but there were a few familiar faces in the school for Louise Skinner and Stefanie Kozyra were coaching the girls ' basketball team and Brzeis was coaching the football team. They told us that Doris Claflin was the head dietitian in the Kimball House in Springfield, and that they often saw Alfreda Sichol who was doing- social settlement work. We got our friends to adjourn with us to Dakin ' s as had been our practice in the past. Only it was no longer Dakin ' s but a tea-room under the direction of Irene Blakely. I ' hat night we held a farewell party. We who had been schoolmates and friends to- gether were once again schoolmates and closer friends than ever. Everywhere Wellsites have left traces of their ability. And among these foremost and leading, have been the members of the class of June, 1930. Good friends, loyal classmates and true Wellsites have we been! Now we are better friends, more loyal classmates and truer Wellsites. Andrea Proulx Zack Cormier Mary Gable Prop hets. CLASS SONG Dear Southbridge High, we leave you now Our bonds Ave break apart. For it is time to follow The calling of our heart. This calling leads us onward To follow paths now new. But ever shall we try to keep Ideals we learned from you. Now at the gate of life we stand With hearts of high endeavor; Dear Alma Mater, ever true, With high resolve we ' ll follow truth Where ' er our pathway lie And evermore we ' ll gladly sing The praise of Southbridge High. Words by Gwendolyn Monroe. Music by Maurice Clemence, Irene Duclos. PUPILS GRADUATING FROM THE MARY E. WELLS HIGH SCHOOL 1930 ACADEMIC COURSE Benvenuti, Emo James Brzeis, Rudolph Joseph Burns, Mary Kathleen Champlin, Arthur Richards Jr. Claflin, Doris Althea CIemence, Maurice Dugas, George Joseph Fitzpatrick, Carolyn Alice Gable, Mary Ellen Kozyra, Stefanie LeClair, Ivan Narcisse ' • ' Love, Bertha Louise Monroe, Gwendolyn Paquette, Edward Joseph Proulx, Arthur Philip Schwartzberg, Mary Ella Skinner, Alice Louise True, John Edward GENERAL COURSE Barbierri, Silvest Arthur Bingley, Howard Olsen Bonnette, Leo Henry Brault, Simonne Carion, Suzanne Cormier, Elzear Adelard Grant, Harold Leslie Koprowski, Mitchel Joseph IMartin, Maurice Roger McKay, James Henry Renaud, Ernest Ovide Savaria, Marie-Antoinette Jeannette Sichol, Alfreda Mary Thomas, Christopher Gregory Underwood, Roland Gerald Vinton, Beatrice Maria Young, Nettie Freeda STENOGRAPHIC COURSE Abrahamson, Irene Lillian Barbierri, Elizabeth Clara Blakely, Irene Duclos, Irene Houde, Rita Lillian Labelle, Mabel Alice THE CRIMSON AND GRAY ' ' Lemoine, Alma Clara L ' Heureux, Blanche Marie Manthue, Katena Dorothy Plimpton, Ruth Eleanor • Proulx, Andrea Marion Ouevillion, Estelle Claudia Raiche, Leona Marie Renaud, Irene Emma i St. Onge, Elizabeth Vasil, Mary Edith BUSINESS COURSE Dumas, Dorothy Farland, Gertrude Tinsonneault, Edna Claude Honor Graduates GRADUATION PROGRAM Class Motto — Umquam alitor Class Colors — Green and White Class Flower — White Rose BACCALAUREATE SERVICE The Baccalaureate Service was held in the Universalist Church, Sunday, June 22. An appropriate sermon was delivered by Rev. Harold W. ilaynes. Music was furnished by the Church Choir. CLASS DAY PROGRAM On Wednesday, June 25, the Class Day ex- ercises were held in the auditorium. The program was as follows : Address of Welcome Maurice Clemence Class History Louise Skinner Class Will Edward Paquette Class Prophecy Andrea Proulx Class Song Gwendolyn Monroe Maurice Clemence Irene Duclos Awarding of Letters Penn Targett Speaks Prayer Rev. Leigh T. Urban Overture Orchestra Address, Power Mary Gable Selection, The Lamp Lit Hour Girls ' Glee Club Address, Women in Business Elizabeth St. Onge Selections : A Night in June Mandalay Mixed Glee Club Address, A Tercentenary Message Kathleen Burns Selection, Hymn to America— 1930 Gulesian Mixed Glee Club Address, Our Present Military Preparedness Maurice Clemence Address Mr. F. W. Wright Special Awards Presentation of Diplomas Chairman of School Committee Benediction March Orchestra SENIOR RECEPTION The Senior reception was given by the Junior Class in the Town Hall, Friday evening, June 27. The hall was attractively decorated in the class colors, green and white. Music for the reception was furnished by the WORC Vagabonds. r y.Mc.M. t pi.ssC LOCALS Miss Kathleen Burns, a member of the Senior Class, represented our school in the National Oratorical Conjtest held in North High Auditorium, Worcester. The prepared speech was on the Origin of the Constitution and extemporaneous on the Explanation of the Bill of Rights and What it Does. The judges awarded Miss Burns honorable men- tion. Unfortunately however, Miss Burns A as unable to compete in the finals due to a severe cold. BASKETBALL LUNCHEONS The Varsity Basketball teams were tend- ered two delightful luncheons by the Fresh- man Domestic Science class under the direc- tion of Miss Corbin. The first was held April 24 for the girls ' team and those members of the faculty connected with it, including Miss Finnegan, Miss Dempsey, Mr. Corbin, Mr. Greene, and Mr. McMahon. The second was given on May 16 for the boys ' team, their coach, Mr. McMahon, and Mr. Corbin, the honor guest. The tables Avere especially at- tractive with gay flowers carrying out the color scheme, while the menu itself proved to be most delightful. THE FRESHMAN PARTY The Freshman Class held a party May 23 in the Auditorium for the faculty and all mem- bers of the student body. The entertainment consisted of comedy burlesque from the Merchant of Venice with various members of the class in the follow- ing roles : Duke of Venice Alfred De Angelis Prince of Morocco Rudolph Le Due The Prince of Arragon John Bingley Antonio Bernard Fox Gratiano Harrison Clough Lorenzo Larned Whitney Shylock Renalto Volpini Portia Lucille Monroe Nerissa Carrie LaBelle Jessica Alice Werner Dancing followed the entertainment with music furnished by Leo ' s Ginger Boys. The matrons were as follows: Mrs. Gau- thier, Mrs. Werner, Mrs. Wilkinson, Mrs. Whitney, Mrs. Corbin, and Mrs. Greene. The committees in charge were the follow- ing: Orchestra Renalto Volpini Entertainment Lucille Monroe Refreshments Albina Savage Decorations ■ Charles Tremblay Invitations Edna Toye Under the supervision of Miss Fitzgerald, the class adviser, assisted by Miss Troy, the party was a success. TEA TOPPER TAVERN THE JUNIOR CLASS PLAY On May sixteenth the annual Junior Play was presented in the Town Hall under the direction of J. B. Lanza. The play was a success in all respects which was in a great measure due to the cast comprised of the following members : Dorothy Lamphear as Marion Day, the none too canny chaperone. Rita Earls as Rosamond Reid, just out of college. Marion Chapdelaine, Ann Anesley, a social service fiend. Beatrice Girouard as Sally Lee Dixon, a southerner. Nellie Misiaszek as Harriet Annesley, a tolerable younger sister of high school age. Wilhelmina Kania, Ann ' s protegee from the village. W ' anda Kwarciak as Gloria Sherwood Je- rome, a fascinating widow. Lottie Peloquin, Celeste, her French maid. Frank Buckley as Dallas Thorne, the owner of the tavern and at one time the victim of the wily widow. John Steen, John Sedgwick, an admirer of Miss Day. THE CRIMSON AND GRAY Nestor Pontbriand, as a young lawyer, Brian Pierpont. Eugene Scharschmidt as Reverend Archi- bald Perry, the village pastor. William Tillyer as Barry Reid, a typical college freshman. T. Kosakowski as Mike Ryan, a susceptible Irish policeman. Immediately after the play dancing was en- joyed with music furnished by the Roseland Orchestra. The business arrangements were in charge of the following: Business Manager Nestor Pontbriand Music Raymond Gatineau Candy Lorraine Gabree Programs and Tickets Gertrude Schwartzberg Student Coach Catherine McKinstry Faculty Advisers Miss E. F. Putnam Miss A. Aucoin Helena Kathleen Burns Medicus Maurice Clemence Octavia, mater Victoria Louise Skinner Cornelia, amica Helenae Doris Claflin Maria, serra Mary Gable Julia, amica Helenae. .. .Mary Schwartzberg Carolus, frater Helenae John True Marcus, amicus Caroli Ernest Renaud MEDICUS, A LATIN PLAY One of the most entertaining of all Wed- nesday morning programs was given on April 23, when Medicus was presented by the Sen- ior Latin Class. Miss Putnam not only awakened interest in Latin but even suc- ceeded in flavoring it with a moral lesson. The play written by Miss Putnam dealt with the misfortunes that befell Helena, a Latin student, who on the pretense of illness remained at home rather than face the horrors of an unprepared Latin lesson. In doing this she submitted to the doctor ' s care and bitter prescription only to find that her friends that day at school were given a holiday. Her pun- ishment was even more unbearable when un- der her mother ' s vigilant eyes she was al- lowed neither to dance nor to enjoy candy. Thus she realized the folly of her way and of course she vowed never to attempt such a thing again. The cast included the following: The winning of two portable typewriters in a week is the record of Miss Irene Duclos, member of the Senior Class and expert typist of the school. On May 23 came a telegram from the New York office of the Remington Rand Business Service Inc. stating that Miss Duclos was en- titled to the special Remington Portable award, for her excellent record (that of typing 72 net words for fifteen consecutive minutes without a single error) in a test given by the manager of the Worcester district of the Remington Company. Saturday, May 24, at the fourth annual Massachusetts typewriting contest held at the High School of Commerce at Worcester, Miss Duclos again demonstrated her ability and took first honor by making a record of 83 net words per minute for 15 minutes with an accuracy percentage of 99.4. She also was awarded a Royal Portable machine by the Royal Typewriter Company for being the speediest typist among the 155 contestants from the 36 schools represented at the contest. Honor also goes to Miss Alma Lemoine of the Senior Class for obtaining second place in Class A with a speed of 65 net words per minute and an accuracy percentage of 99.3. The winning of first and second prizes re- spectively made it possible for the girls to gain both the accuracy and the speed cups for the school. No small honor and credit go to these two girls and to their teacher. Miss Frances Troy. ALUMNI Betty Iliggins entered Northfield Univer- sity this spring and is finishing this year suc- cessfully. Dorothy MacAUister has been elected President of the Music Corps of Framing- ham Normal, a great honor to be awarded a Freshman. This Musical Corps includes all the musical branches of the school. On June 21st, Lawrence Clarke ' 23 was married to Miss Catherine Vaage in Philadel- phia. Evelyn Schumacher expects to g ' raduate from Dana Hall this June. Richard Tillyer will be graduated from Rutgers University this June. According to a letter recently received here from the dean of Syracuse University, Ralph E. Cole ' 29 is among the highest standing men in his class. Cole made a fine record in high school and was a member of the Honor group of ' 29. We are glad to see him doing so well at Syracuse. John J. ' O ' Shaughnessy ' 28, a member of the class of ' 32 of Brown University, has been elected to the Brown Key Society, honorary Junior organization, for the next year. He too, had a good scholastic record at Mary E. Wells and was certified for Brown. Pearle R. Putnam ' 29 is a member of the regular choir of the first Church of Boston, Unitarian. From a group of Simmons girls who have been singing in a special choir for Lenten services Miss Putnam alone was chosen. Jacob Edwards ' 28, has been elected cap- tain of the Worcester Academy varsity base- ball nine. He plays in the outfield and is a strong hitter. Jake has starred in all the Academy meets this year, and his game is greatly admired. He played on the varsity basketball team during his two years at Wor- cester Academy, and much of the success of the team was due to him. While attending high school, Edwards was a three-letter man, and he is doing exc eptionally well at the Academy. Edwards is not only making athletic history at Worcester Academy, but is achieving scholastic honors as well. He has been elected a member of the Honorary Scholarship Society of the Academy, and will be initiated into the organization this month. The ceremony will take place in the Academy chapel, and the address is to be given Ijy the President of Brown University. EXCHANGES The Hilltop — Otterville, Missouri An unpleasant catalog aspect of the whole magazine. Why the barriers between the four classes. The Avorks on the whole are either odes from the Seniors to the Fresh- men or the latter ' s attempt to climb Byronic heights in answering their kind tormentors. Milachi — Milaca, Minnesota Pleasing to see the able cooperation of your merchants with you. But why sur- round your hidden talent with advertise- ments? Students ' Review — Northampton, Massachu- setts An unpretentious magazine with surpris- ing ability on entering its literary domain. No outside support with advertisements? The Uxbridge High Spotlight — Uxbridge, Massachusetts So much seriousness in so little space, Spotlight. Why not throw some of your beams on the bright side of things? The Frankford High Way — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The outstanding feature is An Athlete ' s Prayer (With apologies to Twenty-third Psalm) The coach is my terror, I shall not survive. He maketh me to practice long hours, lie j-elleth at me and mj ' fellow sufferers, He guideth me in the cold and muddy prac- tice field, Yea, if I look at my girl on the sidelines — My end will dra v nigh. His nod and his staff, they whack at me, He prepareth a lecture for me in the pres- ence of my fellowmen, Surely ignorance and clumsiness shall follow uie all the days of my life. And I shall dwell in the scrub team iore ev. Pasadena Chronicle — Pasadena, California The only paper from sunny California. Your Campus Clatter and Bull dog Broadsides are unusually witty 3-et true. Philomath — Framingham High School Such mysterious long stories ! Introduced by an Editorial and bounded by Athletes. More variety will prove an asset. Scotland Courier — Scotland, Pennsylvania A novel Alumni Page ; sudden improvement in literary line ; the unfailing presence of paper in our school. Breeze — Ashburnham, Massachusetts The best and most attractive magazine of our collection — complete, profuse with pho- tographs, and the encyclopedian thickness of it. HOLDEX 7 SOUTHBRIDGE 6 0 er in Holden, our gallant team was de- feated b)- a close score. The pitching of La- vallee, a freshman, was promising. No one played a spectacular game but team work was essentially present. ST. LOUIS 2 SOUTHBRIDGE 16 St. Louis High School of Webster was our first victim. The Wells nine literally ran away with them, so quickly did they pile up the score. Koprowski made a homer which made him tie with Dugas for the star title. Volpini also did well by getting to base six times on hits. CLINTON 11 SOUTHBRIDGE 4 Clinton, our next conquerors, had as Clin- ton usually has, a very good team. Blair and Lavallee again vere on the mound. Both pitched well but the team failed to give them the proper support. OXFORD SOUTHBRIDGE 15 Our first home game was with Oxford and our boys surely showed what they could do on their own field. An errorless game was played in which Bruno, as pitcher, struck out ten men. SPENCER 14 SOUTHBRIDGE 11 In Spencer a very fast game was played. However our opponents won by three runs. Dugas some-what rattled the Spencer pitch- er for he hit two home runs and two doubles in the lour times he was at bat. SPENCER 4 SOUTHBRIDGE 5 The best game this season was played on the home field with the Spencer team. Errors were few on either side and only a few men got around the bases. At the end of the ninth inning the score was 4-4. An extra inning was played in which Grant made the winning run. BOYS ' BASKETBALL TEAM GIRLS ' BASKETBALL TEAM JOKES Husband : If a man steals — no matter what — he will live to regret it. Wife (sweetly) : You used to steal kisses from me before we were married. Husband : Well, you heard Avhat I said. Johnny — Say, Dad, remember the story } ' ou told me about the time you were expelled from school? Dad — Yes. Johnny — Well, isn ' t it funny how history repeats itself. Hubby — It ' s queer, but the biggest idiots seem to marry the prettiest women. Wifey — Now, you ' re trying to flatter me. Wrecked Motorist (opening eyes) : I liad the right of way didn ' t I? Bystander: Sure, but the other fellow had a truck. Salesman: (Showing customer some sport stockings). Just the thing for you. Worth double the money. Latest pattern, fast col- ors, holeproof, won ' t shrink and its a good yarn. Customer (politely) : Yes, and nicely told, too. Interviewer : i re you one of those girls who watch the clock? Applicant (with dignity): No, sir! I have a wrist watch. Inspector: Got away has he? Did you guard all the exits? Country Constable : Yes but we think he must have left by one of the entrances. She : The world is full of rascals, this morning the milkman gave me a counterfeit half-dollar. He: Where is it? She: Oh, I ' ve already got rid of it — luck- ily the butcher took it. U. S. Moderns — The modern girl is a mas- terpiece, says a well known artist. Often hand painted. In days of yore, if anyone missed a stage- coach, he was content to wait two or three days for the next one. Now he complains if he misses one section of a revolving door. Compliments of The Lawyers of Southbridge William W. Buckley Raymond H. Favreau, S. H. S., ' 19 Henry B. Montague Joseph E. O ' Shaughnessy, S. H. S., ' 08 Louis O. Rieutord Albert Q St Onge, S. H. S., ' 13 Henry J. Tetrault, S. H. S, ' 00 PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS We wish to thank our advertisers for their co-opera- tion in making this a successful year for the Crimson and Gray. The Staff F. E. NICHOLS J rfindscape Gardener Contractor Estimates on Request 124 High Street Tel. 648-R Flowers for All Occasions W. N. Estabrook Southbridge ' s Popular Florist Phelps Building Roger S. Tessier, Mgr. Tel. 1315 Stores in Worcester and Webster, Mass. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS DAVID LENTI The Home of Fine Footwear invites you to Come in and See Our New Line of Sports for the Summer $4,95 to $8.50 Shoes Neatl}- Rebuilt Full Line of Hosier) ' - 11 ELM STREET GUILLET ' S MUSIC Gaumond ' s Taxi Service STORE For Funerals, Weddings, Parties, Worcester Trips SHEET MUSIC, RECORDS Orchestra Accommodations and ROLLS DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE 347 Main Street Packard Limousine — Studebaker Sedan Southbridge Mass. Res. Phone 19 Good Wishes For Class 1 930 SOUTHBRIDGE SAVINGS BANK Southbridge, Mass. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS IRENE F. RICH ARDS Beauty Salon Specializing in Permanent Waves Room 27, Blanchard Buildir For Appointments Call 181 L E. 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No will be welcome, your questions cleaning out of clogged drainpipes. will gladly be answered. Time payments can he arranged if desired. Webster and Southbridge Gas and Electric Co. — ELECTRIC — Chafing Dishes — Table Stoves — Irons — Curling Irons — Percolators Flashlights, Wrist Watches, Pocket Watches, Gillette Razors, Buxton Key Containers, Thermos Bottles Silverware — Nickel Plated Ware Spalding, Draper and Maynard Sporting Goods G C. WINTER CO. 344 Main and Hamilton Streets Telephone Connection PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS Misses ' Graduation Dresses $9.95 to $19.50 Young Men ' s Blue Serge Suits For Graduation With Two Pair Trousers $22.50 to $29.50 Double Breasted and Single Breasted R. ROBBINS 323 Main Street Hamilton Woolen Company ' s Dress Goods and Remnants McCall ' s Patterns Gent ' s Furnishings GLOBE DEPARTMENT STORE 784-786 Main Street J. A. LEWIS HARDWARE D. AI. Sporting Goods Sherwin-Williams Paints 8 Mill Street Tel. 863-M Compliments of COLUMBIA HOTEL Compliments of FLORIDA M. BRENNAN Beauty Parlor Compliments of DR. W. Q LUNAN DENTIST PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS The United Lens Co. Machine Work of All Kinds 259 Worcester St. Southbridge, Mass. Telephone 668 M. D. Morrill l Sons Memorial Craftsmen M. T. MORRILL Tel. Con. Southbridge, Mass. THE EDWARDS COMPANY Clothes For Young Men Middishade Blue Suits $37.50 Kuppenheimer in Extra Pant Suits from $25.00 to $37.50 Knox Hats $7.50 — $8.50 Lamson Hubbard Hats $5 _ $6 — $7 High Grade Furnishings and Shoes Regal Shoes $6.60 PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS Waiard I ' SZ SERVICE STATION We Repair, Rebuild and Recharge Any Make of STORAGE BATTERIES Lewis Battery Ignition 411 Main Street Tel. 381-W Through Service We Grow Grace Flower Shop FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS 63 Central Street Telephone 980 Compliments of Thimblin ' s Barber Shop 280 Main Street Gendreau ' s Market Local Agent for S. S, Pierce Co., Specialties Sperry and Barnes ' Hams and Bacon and a Full Line of Hatchet Brand Canned Goods Southbridge Coal Co. Dealers in Coal and Wood W. M. Edwards Office: 315 Main St. Yard: Railroad Ave. Tel. 161-J Tel. 252-W Buy From a First Class Fruit Store METRO BROS. First Class Ice Cream Parlor Cigarettes, Cigars, Tobacco A Wonderful Assortment of Candies Dealers in Kolster, Philco and Crosley Radio Sets and Equipment Phone 210-W E. R Dakin Co. CANDY— CIGARS— ICE CREAM SODA NEWS-STAND 307 Main Street Telephone 452-M Compliments of Berkeley Textile Co. 19 Hamilton Street SILKS — WOOLENS — COTTONS PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS A. GIRARD SON PAINTERS Dealers in Paints — Varnishes — Wall Paper Sign Painters A. PINEL THE CUSTOM TAILOR Ladies ' and Men ' s Clothing Cleaned, D)-ed, Repaired and Pressed All Work Guaranteed First Class Gregoire ' s New Block 5 Hamilton St. Upstairs Furniture and Piano Moving Padded Vans Freighting, Rigging and Teaming Dump Trucks Southbridge Trucking Co. Established 1905 119 West Street Tel. 382- A ' Southbridge, Mass. Picture Frames Made to Order PICTURE FRAMING S. PETIT 290 Hamilton Street Under Peloquin ' s Drug Store Coriipliments of ]. O. LEMOINE Furniture Cash and Installment Plan 98-102 North Street A. L. MONAHAN Groceries FRO-JOY ICE CREAM Watch For Our Week-End Specials BEAUTY SHOP AIISS M. J. DANDRIDGE 321 Main Street Subscribe for all your MAGAZINES from Donald G. Buckley 299 South Street Southliridge, Mass. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS AUTO RADIATOR REPAIRING A SPECIALTY Also a Complete Stock of Xew Radiators Consult Us About the Xew or Repaired Metal A ' ork on Your Home Southbridge Sheet Metal Works R. G. BRUSCOX, Prop. Tel. 323-] 131 Elm Street It Surely Pays To Climb the Stairs Kalin ' s Fashion Slioppe Blanchard Building Dufault ' s Corner The new clothing store in the Y. ' Si. C. A. Building with up-to-the-minute styles in Young Glen ' s Clothing and Furnishings. Henry R. Dufault EULOGY ox THE DOG By U. S. Senator Vest of ilissouri Gentlemen of the Jury — The best friend a man has in this vorId may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has reared Avith loving- care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us. those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name, may become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has he may lose. It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it most. A man ' s reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor when suc- cess is with us may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads. The one absolute, unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. Gentlemen of the Jury, a man ' s dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he can be near his master ' s side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer. he will lick the wounds and sores thai come in encounter with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. AVhen all other friends desert he remains. When riches take wings and reputation falls to piects he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens. If for- tune drives the master forth an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no hig-her privilege than that of accompany- ing- hira to guard against danger, to fight against his enemies, and when the last scene of all comes, and death takes the master in its embrace and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no mat- ter if a,l other fi-iends pursue their way, there by his graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eves sad bu t open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even to death. Dr. W. C. Van Tassell r Bryant-Stratton College of Business Admini stration Founded 1863 Pro ' idence, R. I. {A Business and Student Center) First coUege of business adminis- tration in America, chartered by a State to confer bachelor degrees for two-year courses in Busi- ness Administration-Accountancy, Economics, Finance, Executive- Secretarial, Teacher- Training. Co-ed. Social Activities, Athletics, Dormitory accommodations. Expert Placement Service. Over 1200 calls a year from leading business men. Graduates earn preferred positions. 68lh Yearbook on request . ddress Direelor of . dmission9 Bryant - Stratton College Providence, R. 1. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS Our Best Wishes For Your Future Success HAMILTON WOOLEN COMPANY PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS Compliments of WELD BECK EUGENE E. GABREE LOCKI TAILORING CO. We Use New Prosperity Method in REAL ESTATE AND Dry Cleaning and Pressing INSURANCE CUSTOM TAILORS 298 Main Street Southbridge, Mass. Room 25 Blanchard Building GEO, C SHEPARD CO. Compliments of C. E. Hanson, Reg. Pharm. Harrington Cutlery Co. Southbridge, Mass. Southbridge, Mass. E. D. DESROSIER CO. INSUE NCE Cor. Main and Hamilton Streets Southbridge, Mass. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS 1875 1930 ]. J. Delehanty Co. COMPLETE HOME FURNISHERS Beddings of all Kinds, Curtains, Stoves, Linoleums, Carpets, Pictures and Frames, Window Glass. 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Faculty of Specialists Excellent Facilities Free Placement Bureau Summer Term Begins July 14 Forty-fourth Fall Term Begins September 2. Send For Catalogue BECKER COLLEGE of Business Administration and Secretarial Science Founded 1887 98 Front Street Worcester Worcester ' s Oldest Institution of Business Training PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS Lynn-Brockton Shoe Repair We Go Far to Get a Customer — But We Go Farther to Keep Him. 40 Hamilton Street Southbridge, Mass. Tel. 524 Compliments of F. A. BOUVIER Boots, Shoes and Rubbers People ' s National Bank Southbridge, Mass. Established 1919 Deposits $1,144,860.41 SECURITY AND SERVICE Headquarters for Sporting Goods E. D. STONE 27 Hamilton Street Telephone 291-M HARTWELL The Druggist McKINSTRY ICE CO. Dealers in ICE, COAL AND WOOD Price — Quality — Service 6 Dupaul Street Tel. 519-R Compliments of THE BOSTON STORE J. O. Berthiaume, Prop. 36 Hamilton Street Southbridge, Mass. Kennedy Electrical Co. John T. Kennedy, Mgr. 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Hartwell Street Boots — Shoes — Rubbers Southbridge Massachusetts __ ERNEST LIPPE Meats, Groceries and Fresh Fish 200 Mechanic Street Telephone 802-M PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS Compliments of E G. WALKER COAL CO. SNELL MANUFACTURING CO. Established 1790 Manufacturers of Ship Augers — Auger Bits — Carpenters ' Augers Car Bits — Machine Bits — Boring Machines, Etc. FISKDALE MASSACHUSETTS Factory: Fiskdale, Mass. New York Office: 113 Chambers Street THERE IS NO ROYAL ROAD TO ACHIEVEMENT It is said that there is no royal road to learn- ing. You who are students know that the only way to learn is to study. We of the American Optical Company know, too, that nothing but con- stant application will result in world-wide renown in Optical manufacture. Since 1833, American Optical Company has been patiently and steadily making what it con- siders the best products for better vision. Ours is not a royal road to success . . . but there are 2500 people of Southbridge, Charlton, Sturbridge and Fiskdale whose shoulders are to the wheel to keep the quality of AO products at the highest point and to help Southbridge toward greater prosperity. AMERICAN OPTICAL COMPANY COMMERCIAL PRESS INC. I Jacob Edwards Library 236 Main St. Soutlibridge, MA 01550 m§L.... Jacob Edwards Library 236 Main St. Southbridge, IVIA 01550