West High School - Occident Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

Text from Pages 1 - 56 of the 1915 volume:

GUSSINS 54 DRAPER Dry Goods and Notions SHOES, LADIES ma GENTS FURNISHINGS 1 McCALLS PATTERNS Phone, Hllltop 550 2361-63 W. BroadSt. F. L. SULZBERG ER, Jeweler Diamonds and Precious Stones Expert Watch Repairing With Cussins 8c Draper Dept. Store and Fraternity Work. Bell H. T. 550 2361-63 W. Broad ' 'Th old 'e B b ?Vl:l?lcil?1SOl1 Barber , 'sm' '3's 'T': .r S h ' 0 p .,GhlIdren's Halroutt- 2350 W. Bl'08d SIL. Ing a Bpeclalty MILLIISEILEIEXNBROS. STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES FRESH AND SALT MEATSf FRUITS, VEGETABLES AND PRODUCE Phone Hilltop 479 2422 W. Broad Street The Hilltop Dry Goods and Shoe Store Everything up-to-date in our line. We carry a full line of Pictoral Review Patterns L. M. SEILLER Pl'l0lC Hilltop 2012 4 2404-8 WEST BRUAD STREET W. L. MILLIKIN, Pres. L. M. SEILLER, Treas. E. L. INGLE, Sec'y The Hilltop Undertaking Company cmum Phone Ivssz m0 dffll 'fllllffal nl NCFOYS Bell Phone Hilltop 2787 E. I.. Inoue. am. Mgr. . zssz wes'r snow swear AuTo FuNER.u.s LADY Assxsram' AMBULANCE snxzvxcn P. H. U BENHAUR 51553 'ETE- emu... nm.. 9891 W. L' BellPl:ono nnnopsn A Hardware, Tools, Sltdsxegf Ilrianges, Gas Fixtures Paints, Oils, Varnishes and Glass Builders' Hardware a Specialty 2420 W. Broad Street En filling Alma DI. mirth this inane in reapntfullg hrhiraivh THE OCCIDENT GOODMAN BROTHERS JEWELERS No 96 NORTH HIGH ST I' f. 10.1 Rad l S Neil Avenue Academy, 647 Neil Ave. Phones: Citizen: 4431 Main 6189 ss' ADVANCE CLASSES-Monday evening. List introduction. i .Q ASSEMBLY NIGHT, for the Advanced-Thursdays. lix l wx NEIL AVE. PAVILION open Friday and Saturday evenings. Q n ew Oak Jtreet Academy, 827 Oak Jt. 1353 A strictly private place for club dances. Smith's Dancing Pavillion DANCING EVERY TUESDAY AND QQ FRIDAY EVENINGS--Pavillion Plan 3 SATURDAY NIGHTS-25c. ADMISSION. The one place where Dancing is conducted as it should be. Q?Corner Northwood Avenue and Fourth Street:-cfm 0 I1 OIG E GUT F LOW E R S--REMEMBER WE GROW OUR OWN FLOWERS AND YOU CAN ALWAYS DEPEND ON THEIR QUALITY BEING RIGHT. The Fifth Avenue Floral Go. STORE GREEN HOUSES 44 North High Street 518 West Fifth Avenue Bell, Main 2439 Citizens 60851PHONESZBell, North 278 Citizens 16052 Remember UCCIDENT oqdfverfisers WHEN YOU BUY. THE CCCIDENT sw til ll!! XMW at se' stil 'abs .ea large' cr. Eff f ' -arf all lv' Il' . 'nh E n ill ' 5 I a mllill ui lluml Z R 1' r Q W SF l Time spccfls his cmllcss way, ' ',, jg His .stops no one can strr.1f,' All in his zrulfe must follow, 'Ami ull his Inirlrling rio. 1. No, he didnt alm- scond with it. Eleventh Hour obser- vations on What would happen if Ada Birch would Hunk. Someone would crack a new joke. Mr. Kiehl shoulrl lose his specks. Wayne R i t t e n h ouse should continue to grow. Tracy got his own Math. I ill X X' f f'gYg R- 5 li KIAW-Senior Music fizzle. Harper suffers from Acute Egotism. 'W' initiation. 1-T-Snyder feels effects of 'W' initiation, and eats beans off mantle. 2-F-And we hiked to Springfield. Almost! 4-S-Eugene Hensel takes collection in church. I t 9-F-Arbor Day. Purdum, Clime, and others do manual a mor. 12-Occident out. Juniors on warpath. Junior Ed. takes to the woods. 14-W-Lincoln assassinated. 118655 15-T-Rhea Todd objects to the absence of her name in the OCCIDENT. 143-F-Cat hairs discovered on Clarence Baird. Indications l of loneliness. 19-M-Smokers club meets. Room twelve. 20-T-Aquinas 21, West 3. Shame. 24+S-We do not hike. Rittenhouse has engagement with the parlor rug. 26-M-Instigation for coatless brigade. 27-T-Germans annex victory. South 19, W. 8. -1-T-Helen Waterman takes pity on Clarence Baird's loneliness. 5-W-Orlin Snyder pays first installment on English book. li-T-Yip Owens appears in a hat. 7-F-May Party. Bruck Fleming tries to enter Hades, but they close the door. 9-S- Jimmie Simpson appears in town. Many girls out. 16-S-Uncle Ernie 'tPurdumJ stays home with his nephew. I 18-T-Staff picture taken. Grace C. sick in bed. oi 21-F-Eugene Hensel hands in bi-monthly resignation. 2 24-M-E. H. reassumes editorial duties. 1. l, if I T .KnA.ilii:.m.u. .-, flxmis. ' ' , 11 ' Z E - I 5 ii - ' -E ,,, ig ,. JZ! -511 : ng : fc z if? :?i7Q?f E' 5221? ' T ff 1 1' '- ga awe-Y' 'Mi-e M 1,?a,1-Q-' WEST HKHiSCHOOL,COLUMBUS,0HIO Vol. V COMMENCEMENT, 1915 Eluhlr nf Qlnntvntn Calendar-- .--- - . Faculty Picture . .... ....... . 2. ...... - - - Senior Pictures ....................... . - . A - -- -- The Class of 1915-By Alice johnson, '15 ..... Reading the Cards-Newton Thatcher, '15 .--- Class Day Program- - ,. ........ .... ..... . - - - Class Will-Carolyn Brown, '15 ClassPlay ..... ....., ClassOfHcers .,.. .... Junior Class Picture . .... . ........ .... .... - - - What Next? CArticleJ-H. S. Ballard- ...... U H The Gold Maker, 1Storyl-Bruck Fleming, '16- Vicar and His Wife--Marie Ojenbacher, '15, - PAGE 3 6 7-15 16 17 19 20 21 21 22 23 24 31 The State House Invaded-Eugene Hensel, '15.--- - - 32 Camp Fire Girls, fPictureJ ...... . ..... , - .... - , -- c - 34 Camp Fire Girls- Tegeske ,................. -- - - 35 School Orchestra, 4PictureD - .... , ..... ..... 4 --- 4 - 37 Dissertation on a Needleshewton Thatcher ..... -- 38 L Society, CPictureb . .H... ..........., ..... - . . 39 History A La Mode -Newton Thatcher ....., - - 40 School Notes --.--.- ---- -.---.-- -- 41 Alumni .... - .. 4 ..., - ..... f .......... . - - - 43 The Stai Picture. ...- . .- ....c.. . - -- 44 Editorials ....... - ...A .... .... .............. . - - ,. 45 Rumor, Wirgil TranslationJeRuth Ernfnitt .... . . 46 Snap Shots ................ . ............... -, 47 Round About West .--- -, 48 Athletics . ....... ........ .,,. , - 51 Jokes .... ................. . - - - , - , 53 West Movies-Harold Sperry ..... 61 THE OCCIDENT FI HE. OCCIDENT . H' EUGENE HENSEL Senior President l Editor Occident HL!! F Valedictory Class Play Of all the arts in which the wise excel. Na,ture's chief masterpiece is writing well. MARTHA HATFIELD l ULU Class Prophecy Local Editor Occident Here comes the lady! O, so light CL f00t.' 7 RALPH HOFF President L Society Class Play - How to occasions height he rose. HAZEL LINVILLE ISL!! Young in limbs, in judgment old. LAVERN FARSHLER Treasurer Business Manager Occident Get money,' still get mmzey, boy. MILLICENT DOWDELL g As sweet and musical i As bright Apollo's lute, strtmig with his l hai r. n I! r if ei THE OCCIDENT fav NEWTON THATCHER ' Class Play Prophecy Contributing Editor Occident HL!! Sergeant-at-arms He was a scholar aucl a ripe and good one. MAGDALENE BAINTER HL!! 'tShe keeps a sunny mood. LEONARD HARTSOOK 'tHe was wont to speak plain and to the purpose. i ANITA THOMAS CCL!! i Class Play When you do fiance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that. EARL GRABER L Society Occident Artist Who says in art what others say in prose. I DOROTHY HOLMES HL!! As merry as the day is long. THE OCCIDENT ,Q Q Ross TODD 2 Secretary W Association My strength is as the strength of ten.' Y ETHEL Gucx' The mirror of all courtesy. FRANK DAVIS Class Play Up, up, my friends, and quit your books, u Why all this toil ancl trouble. RUTH EMMITT l HL!! Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat, Ancl therefore let's be merry. MARK RUHL HL!! Wisely and slowg they stumble who run fast. y GRACE SMITH The quiet mind by quiet cleed is known. THE OCCIDENT g l .Il l CAROLYN BROWN I uLsa Class Will I have no other but a woman's reason GRACE ROBBINS HL!! My heart is true as steel. 5 BLANCHE WILLIAMS 'l Thou hast no sorrow in thy song. No winter in thy year. DOROTHY LUCKHAUPT HL!! I Class Day A merry heart goes all the day. HAZEL RYERSON She hath a gentle, timid air. RHEA TODD HL!! Forgive and forget! I think him so, because I think him so.' THE OCCIDENT STARLING HUTT . And then the school-boy, with his Satchel And shining niorning face, creeping like a . snail ' Unwillingly to school. JOSEPHINE BROWN HL!! She is ever severe, calm, and self-p0s- sessedf' MARIE RENNER HL!! AiM0ll9'l'QtI.07l, the noblest gift of Heaven. RAYMOND KIPP I ani the very pink of courtesy. MARIE OFFENBACHER UL!! X The fair, the chaste, the incxpressire l she. ELMA ROBINSON Did ine discourse, I will enchant thine ear. TI-IE fi? l OCCIDEN T EARL TALHELM W Association Class Play Everything comes if a man will only wait. HELEN MILLER ULU Class Play A sweet girl graduate in her golflen hair. HAYDEN JONES Class Play Just good-natarecl-that's all. GERTRUDE BUCHANAN A rosy cheek anal a broad smile. HAROLD LINK ULN Class Day Class Play Then he will talk-ye gods! how he will talkin GRACE CURRAN HLH I'll speak in a monstrous little voice. THE. OCCIDENT W CHESTER SPRINGER W Association President Vice-President Junior and Senior Classes - Blushing is the color of virtue. GERALDINE HoLT A good disposition is more valuable than gold. ALVIN LILES W Association He speaks in CL language of music. LOSHA GAIN Sometimes her temper rzdeth, sometimes she, Nou' sunlight, now at showeof' 1 is W DANIEL RUSSEL Faint heart 1ze'er won fair lady. 1 WILLO HECKER All I ask is to be let alone. THE OC CIDENT - HARRY JOHNSON Circulation Manager Occident Brief let ine be. GLENNA EVANS Short but sweet. PAUL KERSHAW ISL!! He was a quiet but a learned lad. NAOMI PLANT But I am constant as the Northern Star. FOWLER HARPER Class Play W Association In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, i For e'en tho vanquished, he could argue still. li MINNIE HUSTON Truth hath a quiet breast. THE OCCIDENT ALICE JOHNSON Class Historian Treasurer J unlor Class HL!! SinflpIieity's rare charm is hers. MATILDA STUART CCL!! A thing that is worth doing at all is worth doing well. CARMEN STOCKLIN Senior and Junior Class Secretary Class Play HL!! Those dark eyes, so clark and so deep. URCIL JONES We cannot all of us do everything. HENRY GINSBERG HL!! True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun. , f.. . lg :,ll1,! Ll, K 5 . ':-r- f ,:wg,3'g r ya' .'-f-' V , jp: I , .O lvl.. ,..,i . ,- -n,,-uw .1 , . O . ,l--,L :Z V 4, , .M Q Vi I .: 15.1-,Q ,,,ff- ,fn ..,1 5fxi:,f,,g1f., vm. - :,,' 1 'T-um A. Y gn 4 :- 5 'I4Jl'4?.'re 'nv db leaf -zz' 'iv' , -if' . 'fi '04 - 1 rqrf 'ff A4 53 ll is - D 4 , .' K-Vi-31' A Quotations for these pictures were selected by Ruth Emmitt. and Dorothy Holmes. 16 THE OCCIDENT Uhr Gllana nf '15 ALICE JOHNSON, '15 Our class, for various arts renowned, Long exercised in studies, Muse! re- sound, Which, having gained the victory by toils O'er many books, and searched their in- most thots, Stands ready now to go into the world, Ideals high and perseverance strong. On stormy seas unnumbered toils we bore, Safe with our mates, to gain our longed- for shore : A few, the gods, it seems, have failed to guide, fAh mates unblessedlb this quest was not for thee. Now to the close of our last term we've come, Fifty, the studies, our last years sur- vived, And overcame the perils of Our World. Our battle has been one of twelve long years, A bloodless battle, fot by some, with tears, With others all the way Athene's gone, By them the highest honors have been won. At Freshmen, Zeus, himself, did seem to frown, And hurled his thunderbolts in anger down, Until our number Hve times five and twenty', To nine and ninety was reduced by him. The gods, to Sophomores, more kindly grown, From out our number took but twenty- one, As Juniors, we the smiles of Wisdom gained, And lost out of our midst but seventeen. The crowning glory of our whole career, To us, as Seniors came, our final year. Success, on us attended, from the first, We chose, and wisely, one to lead our class Whom Wisdom did but merely point the Way, And gladly did he follow, gladly learn. The others, who did safely guide us on, Were tried and trusty members of our class. Integrity, Proficiency, Fraternity, Have looked at us from folds of Green and Pearl, And seemed to call us, so we could not fail. The Olympian Council oft our souls dis- mayed, With symbols weirdly strange, and ominous, We learned the ones to fear, the ones to shun, By shocks, most rude, and sometimes terrifying. But now, to us, the circling years dis- close The day, predestined to reward our woes. Our twelve years' task is finished in the schools, We now commence upon another course, Where yet new labors our arrival wait. May we attended be in all our tasks, By Wisdom ever guarded on our way, Until our work complete, it may be said, A Bloodless Battle have they fought thru life. -1- 14.-I-',w.' Y-7' l ' 31212-Af. 31 372515 ., I -,JAM f I . TEL 553 f 1 I 04.---1-. ' ' I Gs, 6 Q Ju ,io f l I ' P- l .l. . .' Aff . A ll 1 :YD arf W 1 E1 I fo 1 I 9 -. ., ' ll .Civ ,Q fb f GX 'f ' 4,9 fl 1 lx ,I 3 QQ 33 ' QQ ia, , Q 1 -' ' 4' 3.2 I fl -f A I A 'QI NE . I - Ii N ' . .P 5 A ' - , 'Wil Mun . , if . 5 17' :Aux L ruli- Q fr f f lilllnl V 'Y' J as . . I A 7 83' THE OCCIDENT I7 Benning Uhr Clarita NEWTON THATCHER, '15 Ladies and Gentlemen : Do you know how many cards there are in a deck? There are fifty-three, including the joker. Just as many as there are members of the Senior class, including the joker. With such a coincidence the foretelling of the future proved a very easy matter with the able assistance of Miss Hatfield in reading the cards and of Graber and Sperry in making them. It seems strange how a person's mind will wander from one thought to another. While I was thinking of myself as a Senior-you know we all like to think of ourselves once in a while-my mind went back to the days before school- days, when I first learned to say A, B, C3 and immediately every Senior came before me in alphabetical order appear- ing as he will twenty years from now. First came fpicture lj Magdalene Bainter, a high school teacher. In the picture she is saying to a pupil in her German class, Entweder setzen Sie sich, oder verlas- sen Sie die Stubef' Which means in English, Sit down or leave the room. The picture represents also Carmen Stocklin saying, Hasseyez-vous, ou quittez la salle, which means the same as the German. Alice Johnson is saying the same in Latin-sede aut descede, e ludo. Geraldine Holt is saying, Allow yourself to assume your original posture before you lose your equilibrium, meaning in English, Squat, kid, before your head gets dizzy. fPictureJ Carolyn and Josephine Brown and Marie Renner's activities since they used to come in so late at W. H. S. have finally resulted in the changing of the Arlington car schedule, which gives the villagers a ten minute service. fPictureJ Showing our Sisters of Charity, Gertrude Buchanan and Dorothy Luckhaupt. ' fPictureJ Grace Curran isn't a Sister Susie sewing shirts for soldiers, but is simply starting a star stitch. Grace, as you know, can sew anything under the sun, so so. fPicture 21 The Queen of Hearts, in black and white, can represent both Millicent Dowdell and Losha Gain. Un- fortunately the winning kings belong to another deck and can not be shown here. Yes, Losha still plays the piano in concerts and Ernie Howard, or Mr. Losha Gain, as he is better known, tags around after her tuning up the thing. CPicture 35 Mark Ruhl, present-day Speed King, got in the habit from riding around corners on two wheels with Frank Davis. By the way, Frank is a doctor now and uses a horse and buggy. fPictureJ Here we have a glimpse of either Glenna Evans, Hazel Linville, or Grace Robbins, as they appear after a rush hour at the Busy Bee. I8 .9 ' 8 . 'sf 8 . If is Q:- H s as. Q as ss.. Alfa 13-Qi -j 'O X 3' 1 m x A ww.. fi? iii? w I 1 - ' -91 x W ' 1 ,, 5252. f ' lg? 1 I 9 mg--fl THE OCCIDENT Ruth Emmitt no longer amuses herself and worries others by swallowing pins and surgeon's tools. Instead fI9icture 41 she is proving herself a perfect Irish lady. This picture was taken at the time she kissed the Blarney stone. fPicture 51 Poor Farshler is in an awful muddle. He canit decide which he likes best-girls or dollars. CPicture 141 Earl Graber's monkey has succeeded Polly and Her Pals as a laugh producer and money maker. Henry Ginsburg furnishes a surprise. He never buys books now simply because he has read them all. fPic- ture.1 Instead he writes his own books on the Art of Con- versation and Oral Endomebiasisv and in his spare mo- ments plays baseball. .QPicture1 eMinnie Huston, Hazel Ryerson, and Elma Robinson, all normal school graduates, are striking for higher pay for teachers. fPicture 61 Dorothy Holmes is chief of the Hello girls. She got our number long ago. fPicture1 Fowler Harper is on the stage with a rapid- fire act of piano and trombone playing, with a little preach- ing on the side. Somewhat on the Sunday style. Every deck has its joker, QPicture 71 so has this one. And Leonard Hartsook hasn't forgotten the part. CPicture 81 Dr. Hoff is in the business for money alone. He admits it. And- fPicture 91 Wow, that looks suspicious with Hutt, the undertaker, following right along after him. That's serious business. While we are talking about doctors I must tell you that Willo Hecker is still studying medicine. Urcil Jones is demonstrating ten cent music at Wool- worth's. fPicture.1 iPicture 101 Harry Johnson got tired stringing tele- graph wires, so he is now an electrical engineer, telling oth- ers how to do it. fPicture1 Hayden Jones, farmer, sings while he Works. You can see him singing a Welsh song. However, you won't mind that as much as hearing him. CBlank1 Here you see Raymond Kipp appearing to you as he ever did. Ethel Glick writes poetry in a modest way. She has refused to let us show her, so we pass on to CPic- ture 111 Paul Kershaw, who is a Quaker preacher. He never spoke till the spirit moved him. Matilda Stuart is his very able assistant. Harold Link graduated from O. S. U. with a farmer's degree fpicture1, but here his natural ability led him out of the furrow. He is now a dictionary demonstrator pro- nouncing forty heterogeneous, homogeneous, intermingled, anthropophagus words a minute. fPicture 121 Liles quit catching professional ball to finish playing his violin. CPicture1 Helen Miller raised a good he'ad of hair for herself and is now employed doing hair-raising stunts for the movies. 1 iv I If , , 8 THE OCCIDENT I9 I CPictureJ Offenbacher and Smith, society dancers de uxe. They say fpicturej that Naomi Plant makes an excel- lent Sunday School teacher. Daniel Russell, chemist. fpicturel is engaged in trying to discover the formula for talking a blue streak. CPictureJ Chester Springer still works in a drug store with Earl Talhelm's pool room in connection. Ross Todd took the four year course in manual train- ing at Athens. Here he is shown fPicture 131 practicing his vocation. His sister, Rhea, has long since graduated from Vassar, Wellesley, and Bryn Mawr. Anita Thomas fphotoj smiling upon you as she did upon the teachers. Blanche Williams was always fond of children. She is managing several of them now fpicturej as a kindergarten teacher. CPicture 159 Eugene Hensel looks like an editor or journalist of some sort, but appearances are false. He is a book agent. Now last of all QPicture 163 is the site of the proposed new West High School on t'1c bank of the Scioto where it winds through its newly-made course-both things of beauty and joy forever. Gllaaa Bag lirngram Chorus- Little Brown Bird..Dorothy Forster O Peaceful Night .... Edward German Millicent Dgwdell Gypsy Life ............,,,,., R. Schumann Tho Class 5. Reading the S Martha Hatfield Cards ............. I Newton Thatcher Oration ............ ....,,. H arold Link Newton Thatcher R9Cit3fi0I1- 6. Class Will .........,...... Carolyn Brown To a Dandelion ..........,.,.,,,.,.,. Lowell The Admi1'21'S Ghost -------------. NOYGS 7. Self-Reliance ......,,..., Eugene Hensel Dorothy Luckhaupt 8 Chorus- Songs- Class Song .... Words by Ethel Glick Rose In the Bud .... Dorothy Forster Bridal Chorus .......................... Cowen 20 THE OCCIDENT Flhe East will anh Elvatament nf Qllami 1915 Whereas the Class of 1915 is about to dissolve partnership and fall sep- arately and individually into the hands of a receiver, and whereas it has learned from a close study of the lives of great men like J. D. Rockefeller, O. H. Magly and J. D. Roney that under such distressing circumstances it is cus- tomary to dispose of all unconcealable assets to one's friends and next of kin, so that creditors may not have to ac- cept more than two Q23 cents on the ilollar, we devise our collateral as fol- ows: I. Mark Ruhl's Napoleonic attitude to Lovell Rohr to use when making speeches. fMark had an invitation from Mr. Baker to act as model but Mark answered him in his character- istic way, I can't do that. I don't care for notoriety, anyhow. J II. Anita Thomas's ready made smiles to Frank Shugert. fThis smile has won Anita a Senior- Junior bid, a paragraf in Round About West and a G in History, now added to Frank's usual sweet ex- pression-well, what will happen ?J III. To Stuart Watson, Hazel Lin- ville's sense of the eternal fitness of things. fNo, Stuart doesn't need it. He has a developed appreciation of the suit- able all his own, but we just had to leave him somethingmj IV. Henry Ginsberg's flowery elo- quence to Adele. fHenry has too much, Adele too lit- tle.J V. Carmen Stocklin's new, strictly scientific method of falling downstairs, guaranteed to give at least one black eye, to Vontel Haines Willard. fCarmen never did believe in Safety First. J VI. Ruth Emmitt's ear-piercing shrieks to the Columbus, London and Springfield Company to be used any- where along the line except as the cars round the corner of Town and Central. VII. Starling Hutt's 'floating sen- tences, never known to reach earth or period, to Wright Bros. CStarling's recitations always re- minded us of the high cost of living.J VIII. Marie Renner's galvanized, guaranteed-to-take excuses to Glen Owen. f She has only seventeen varieties.J IX. Harry Johnson's canoe to the Camp Fire Girls. fWe hope, though, that they won't imitate Harry and ride on Monday in- stead of Sunday. The wages of sin, you know,-Harry fell into the water and they might toolj X. To Miss Earnest all notes, mu- sical and promissory, and also Hazel Ryerson's motto, Be natural, never be Hat, but always be sharp. fThat's good-you know Miss Earn- est is too easy. That's her one fault- she just can't be sharp.J XI. The Senior Class Colors to St. Patrick with a large portion of the green to the Freshmen. fThe Freshmen in this school, you know, aren't the least bit verdant.J XII. The near-graduates to the City Refuse Department. f The flunkers don't mind-they know that they belong on the dump heap.J XIII. Mr. Kiehl's recitation cards, by which we learned to recite so effect ively, to the Junior Class. fWoe unto them, though, when he changes the order.J XIV. To the Literary Society the privilege of inviting all former mem- bers of the L to Miss Blair's delight- ful spreads. XV. Our musical ears, used only once in the study of Physics, to Mr. Kiehl. XVI. To our parents and teach- ers, who have helped us, to our school- mates, who have encouraged us, to all those interested in West High School we give our love, our thanks, and our best wishes. CAROLYN BROWN, '15. THE OCCIDENT 21 Uhr 612155 Iilug The class oi' nineteen hundred and Hfteen selected 'tThe Adventure of Lady Ursula, a clean comedy by Anthony Hope, for the annual class play. It was originally planned to pre- sent it on Friday evening, June 11, but owing to the fact that the house was sold the first day of the ticket sale it was decided to give two performances, the first being on Thursday, June 10. This was West High's first attempt at a two night stand and such was its suc- cess that the near future may see our Seniors presenting their plays from the Hartman or Southern stages. Com- ment on the individual work done will be postponed to the October issue as both time and space are lacking. THE CAST Earl of Hassenden ...r.... Eugene Hensel Sir George Sylvester ...... Fowler Harper The Rev. Mr. Blimboe ,rYr.,. Earl Talhelm Mr, Dent ,.,......,.,,...e,,,,i,,...,.. Frank Davis Mr. Castleton ....,.r.r ,.,....,.,.... R alph Hoff Mr. Devereux rr.,rr.. ..,..,. R aymond Kipp Quilton .....,..,r..rr.r. rr,r,,..,.., H ayden Jones Mills ,i,i,,,,,,,,,,r ......,., N ewton Thatcher Servant ,,,.,,.......... ,.r...,...,.,.. H arold Link Mrs. Fenton ...........r,rrr...... Anita Thomas Dorothy Fenton .,.i..,.,.,.....r. Helen Miller The Lady Ursula Bar- rington .ere.,........,... Carmen Stocklin ACT I--The Earl of Hassenden's Home. ACT II-The Manor of Sir George Sylvester. ACT III-Hassenden's Quarters. ACT IV-The Manor of Sir George Sylvester. SYNoPs1s OF THE PLAY Sir George Sylvester, having been tricked by an unscrupulous woman into killing his best friend in a duel, retires in disgust to his Manor, where he re- fuses to permit any one of the opposite sex to cross his threshold, swearing that never again will he speak to a lady or cross swords on the field of honor. Lady Ursula Barrington, his young and beautiful neighbor, wagers that she will succeed in entering his home. Her attempt to win the wager and its re- sults are the theme of this most ex- cellent comedy. Lady Ursula's im- personation of her brother and the great duel scene, coupled with a sprightly romance and a happy ending form a combination that for years has charmed those familiar with the very best produced on the Amnrican stage. Arkunmlrhgmrnt All of the furniture used in the class play, The Adventure of Ladv Ursula was furnished gratis by the F. G. KL A. Howald Company. The Senior Class wishes to express, thru the columns of THE CCCIDENT, its keen appreciation of the courtesy extended to them by Mr. Howald. -Eugenc Hensel. - EUGENE HENSEL, Age 6 Historian R. A. W. THE. OCCIDENT THE. OCCIDENT 23 what HENRY S. This month there will go out from the high schools of the United States many thousands of graduates, and the question that each will be called upon to answer is What Next? Each graduate has spent about twelve years in the public schools, where he has had the counsel and guidance of his teach- ers and has had little if any personal responsibility for the course he has been pursuing. With graduation, quite a change occurs and tne individual graduate faces the problem of his fu- ture career. What shall it be? This question he must answer primarily for himself, altho he may be aided by his parents, teachers, and friends. What- ever decision the graduate may make as to his future, perhaps a few obser- vations may not be amiss but it is hoped may prove helpful. With this thot in mind, permit me to suggest: First: Come to some definite con- clusion as to what you desire your fu- ture to be. Whether you are to follow the practice of some profession, manu- facturing or commercial business, agri- culture or home-making, do not decide hastily or without proper considera- tion. Look yourself squarely in the face. Take stock of your attainments and abilities and then determine what you are best suited to do. Having done this, do your bestg for with most of us our best is none too good. Again, having made your decision, aim high. Hitch your wagon to a star, said Emerson, and altho you may not reach lofty heights, yet when your course is run, you will be higher than if you had kept your eyes fastened upon the earth. Cultivate endurance and the power to surmount obstacles. When General Grant assumed command of the army of the Potomac he said: I intend to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer. The surrender of Lee at Ap- pomattox was the result. Do not become impatient if you do not immediately achieve success. Neither Next BALLARD Rome nor the Panama Canal was built in a day, yet both changed the history of the world. No success was ever at- tained without some disappointments and defeats, and every defeat honor- ably sustained should be but an im- petus to further and better efforts. Do not become discouraged because you may make mistakes. Bob Ingersoll once wrote a book about the mistakes of Moses, and yet history records Moses as one of the greatest law-givers the world has ever seen. Of course you will make mistakes, but never make the same mistake twice. Reparation for damage caused by mistakes gives but added power for further efforts. Make the most of your opportunities, however limited they may be. Most people fail, not because of lack of op- portunities but because of failure to embrace them. One of the most suc- cessful teachers I ever knew went bare- foot until he was fourteen years old, learned to read and write when he was seventeen, and yet, at twenty-five he was a teacher in a high school. Be practical, and yet cultivate an im- agination. The greatest artists, sculp- tors, inventors and business men were those with the greatest imaginations, but they cultivated their imaginations so that something practical resulted. Have an honest enthusiasm for the thing which you are called upon to do. Like begets like is an old adage and yet true. If you are interested in the thing which you are doing, others will become interested in you. Don't drift. Some years ago two young men were spending their vaca- tion at Niagara Falls and, securing a boat, put forth a few miles above the Falls. Allowing the boat to drift along with the slow moving current, without warning they were carried to a point in the stream where, despite all efforts made by them, they were unable to bring their boat to the shore and both boat and occupants were dashed to de- 24 THE OCCIDENT struction over the Falls. They had temporarily lost control. Do your own thinking. Think for thyself, for one thot, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from iields by others sown. Make your own decisions, and having made them adhere to them. Learn that your own ideas are just as good as those of another unless the other convinces you that you are wrong. ' Do not, however, cultivate material success exclusively at the cost of the better things of life. Help your fellow- man, for in helping him you but aid yourself. Cultivate a cheerful disposi- tion and, as the poet scout has said: When a bit of sunshine hits you after passin' of a cloud, When a fit of laughter gits you and yer spine's a feelin' proud, Don't forgit to up and sling it at some soul that's feelin' blue For the minute that you sling it, it's a boomerang to you. M Q M Uhr CEn1h illlakrr BRUCK FLEMING, '16 There is a monotony about blazing sunshine and cypress groves in Florida that inclines a man to bloodshed, and I had escaped from the boredom of a yachting party to wander into the in- terior with a gasoline launch, tired with the ambition to murder alligators. Tho a professor of biology, I had no im- mediate use for alligatorsg but since it was correct to go after them in the dark with a torch, and shoot at the glint of their eyes, their assassination seemed more of a sporting proposition than the meaningless slaughter with which men fight ennui. I did not in fact kill any alligators, because I met Rollins. The sound of a vigorously wielded ax attracted me to his clearing, in the hope of a cup of coffee and a rest in the shade. There was little or nothing of the old Rollins, '10, of the New York College of Science, in the man who swung the ax, and the face he turned to me was heavily bearded. Hello. there! I shouted. Well! he cried. If it isn't Car- ney'. And we engaged in a bout of hand- shaking and a line of talk about the smallness of the earth's surface that the occasion naturally suggested. I told him how I happened there. Alligators, man! said Rollins, in a great voice that bore only the faintest resemblance to the boyish falsetto of college days. Why, there isn't the tail of one within a hundred miles of here, and at that it's in a glass case in a gro- cery store. But come inside. I've got something a hundred times better than alligatorsf' He was in a state of suppressed ex- citement, and as he bent to pull the ax out of the tree I saw the muscles quiver under his shirt. Inside the shack-it was little more-he had a stove, a camp bed, and two or three chairs. The rest of the interior was mainly laboratory, with the big electric furnace and its at- tendant lamps as a centerpiece. On shelves along the wall there was ar- ranged an infinite number of bottles and jars. 'tYou know, it would be funny if it weren't so splendid, I said when he had made some coffee. You of all the peo- ple on earth, to be living in this spot. The doomed consumptive, that his friends despaired of blowing out of Manhattan with anything less than dynamite. And now you look like an Apollo. Who on earth taught you to wield a two handed ax that way ? Florida's the answer to it all, he replied, laughing. I've been down THE. OCCIDENT 25 here for two years, and I've got more than just looks. It was an inspiration in the college lab that made me make up my mind to go on living. I thot this was the best place to pull off my little stunt. What do you think of this joker? He stretched a long arm to a shelf above his head, and tossed over a small bright object that fell into my hand with astonishing weight for its bulk. It proved to be a tiny ingot of yellow metal. I weighed it wonderingly in my palm. It might be gold, I said. There's nothing else just that weight and color. He grinned. Remarkably like gold, isn't it? Take the acids and test it for yourself. There are the balances on the floor behind you. You know enuf to get the specific gravity. Cut it up, beat it out to a tissue, anything you please. Then ask yourself, if it isn't gold, what in the name of miracles it is. Wait a minute and I'll show you what Uncle Sam has to say about it. He reached for a small valise near the camp bed, and presently handed me a sealed document. It was a certificate of the United States Assay Office to the effect that certain ingots, nuggets, and metallic dust submitted to its experts by Harry Rollins, of Cedar Lake, Flor- ida, were found to consist of pure gold, with only the slightest traces of copper and barium. Fancy finding gold in Florida! I exclaimed. Why, the place is nothing but a burning sandpit except where it's swamps. I didn't find it, answered Rollins, quietly. I made it. He stood there grinning in utter sat- isfaction at the finished exposition of gaping incredulity that I doubtless gave him. Oh, I'm quite Well, he said. You shall watch me make some more before you begin to question my sanity. In fact I never felt better in my life. This clearing's pretty good for a consump- tive. It's larger than I wanted it, but I just keep on yanking stumps from the pure joy of living. But to say that you make gold- I began. Rollins only laughed and waved aside all argument with a sweep of his hand. You shall see. And then you'll cease to wonder why I came out into this wilderness. Of course at first-it was horrible. I'm all alone except when a colored man brings my supplies from the settlement, about once a week. As it happens, you're the first white man I've seen in six weeks. I held out the bar of gold toward him, but he waved it away contemptu- ously. Keep it. There's plenty more where I got that. Have it made into a brace- let for some girl, or hang it on your watch chain. Artificial gold! It'll have a certain historic value some day, he said whimsically. You could lend it to the Museum of Natural Science, for instance. 'Kindly lent by Professor Theodore Carney,' eh? Ready made im- portance for you. But, I can't take it, you know, I protested. The thing must be worth a couple of hundred dollars-if it is gold. Bet your life it is, he replied laugh- ing. Better than a certified check. But, if it were the last thing I had in the world, I'd have given it to see a friendly face. Of course there's my man, Janvrin, but, as I said, he comes only once a week. The rest of the time I'm alone with poor Buster here. He went again to the corner by the bed, and for the first time, I noticed a dog lying on a bed of grass. Rollins patted the dog's head affectionately, but it did not stir in response. Poor old pal. he's got distemper, hasn't he? said Rollins with a note of tenderness in his voice. I've tied him up so he won't forget himself and run out into the sun. He's only a yellow pup, but at that he can guard gold better than most human beings. And he believes in me. Don't you, old boy ? The creature's tail quivered in reply. I reverted to the subject of the ingot. Of course, I said, if I were sure that you could make some more when- ever you pleased- Hang it, man, haven't I said so? But-I'm going to make some more to- night and I'll let you turn on the cur- rent. Then perhaps you'll be more 26 THE OCCIDEN T willing to accept the result as a me- menco-you blessed Missourian! Mean- while, I want you to lunch with me. I'm expecting Janvrin any minute with big supplies. We let it go at that. I gave him back the bar of metal, which he care- lessly tossed onto the shelf. While he Iousied himself about the place, I cast a glance around the room. It certainly had a business-like appearance. The electric furnace was clearly of special design. The four highly polished lamps about it resembled the apparatus used to generate Finsen light in the hospi- tals. I tried to recall what I had heard as to the effect of ultra-violet rays. But it appeared that it was not a question of rays. Those lamps must give off powerful rays, I said. Certainly, Rollins replied. But what matters is a thing very much like Beta radiations. How I get it electric- ally is my secret. So is the exact mix- ture I put in the furnace. I don't mind telling you, however, that I put nothing into it that cost over a dollar a pound. And I get quite a lot of it out as gold. But what are you going to do with it? I asked. Sell it, of course. I'm going to build a factory as soon as I've perfected the apparatus, and I'll train a bunch of these natives to help. I don't trust Whites. They're too intelligent and in- quisitive. No patents, either. I'm go- ing to put it over right here in this clearing. And I'm going to be rich. And right away, too-no long drawn out agony of waiting. I don't blame you, I said, thinking of my own meager income as professor of biology, and mentally comparing it with that of the maker of gold. But you'll have to be mighty careful, you know. To hide the source of all my wealth, you mean? Yes, I've puzzled a good deal over that question. It would be like the end of the world if it got out that someone was making gold in a lab- oratory. Gold would lose its commer- cial value. You follow me? Then the people would sit and gape and wonder what was going to happen. But, oh my! When they woke up! There would be special legislation. The big industries would start to investigate and they would make it pretty Warm for me, eh? Illifit manufacture, prosecution, finally Jal 1-ar He shrugged his shoulders humor- ously. Ferhap worse, he continued. How do I know but what the money trusts would discreetly have me found dead? I'm not saying it wouldn't be in self defense. I thot of this idea in amazed silence. But I'm safe, went on Rollins, as long as I don't publish the process. N 0- body will believe that I make the stuff on the premises. Even now you don't believe it yourself. I'm trying hard enuf,', I apologized. N ever mind. I can get rich without damaging your poor little gold standard perceptibly. I Judge money only by the need of it. I've got my plans. There's a woman in them some- where, I ventured. He stood up and stretched himself and his magnificent bulk made the room seem small in comparison. What do you think of that? You know what I was at college-poor and weak. Well, these last two years have put me in the running. .Happy be the man with a sound pair of bellows. I'll be going back North soon and claim what I've been cheated out of, so far. She sure is a peach, too. I murmured sympathy. He certainly was a different man from the one who had graduated in my class at college. And I even began to waver in my con- victions about his experiments. I had heard enuf about transmutation by ra- dium emanations to know that his proc- ess was theoretically possible. It was sunset and the sudden tropical nightfall had come like the dropping of a curtain, when we heard a sound in the clearing. That's Janvrin, splashing thru the mud in his buggy, he said. Gee, but it's fine to talk to a human being who can understand. I've had some of that news bottled up for about two years, and it sure is a relief to get it out of my system. The colored man appeared in the doorway with both arms full of canned THE OCCIDENT 27 goods. He started on seeing me and dropped a number of them. Ma goodness, but you skeered me l he said and laughed nervously. Rollins got up and lit the lamp. Janvrin is always a bit leery about coming near the apparatus, he ex- plained. At first he wouldn't come near until he had half filled his shoes with salt and pepper, so that I couldn't put the hokus-pokus on him. He thinks I'm a pretty respectable sort of hoodoo man now. We went outside and smoked while the negro cleaned up and prepared sup- per. The grove was bathed in a dark purple and a musical breeze rustled thru the trees and seemed to be whispering of the many things it had passed dur- ing the day. Probably it was the dreaminess of the night which caused Rollins to reopen the subject of the girl up North. It was one look she gave me, he remarked, that fixed itself in my mem- ory more than anything else about her. I had a fit of coughing and I looked up suddenly after the paroxysm was over to find her standing there. You can't :imagine the pity that was in those eyes. ,And I think there was something else. But that was not for a penniless lunger like me. Now! Why man, I feel younger and better than I did when I was going to college. And I've got -plenty of money, with the means to make more. And I don't look as if I 'needed a doctor, do I? My! What a -difference. I thrust my hand out impulsively. Good luck, old man. I said. And I'll offer my congratulations in ad- Vance. He clasped my hand warmly and said, The man who can win the love of a girl like Hilda Templeton is luckier than the man who can make gold. It was the first time that he had men- tioned her name and as he did so, I remembered her. She was one of those girls who are different. Golden-brown hair and blue eyes, not very tall but just full of lifeg never a hard word for anybody, always a smile. And when she smiled you just felt glad and you'd think that the world might be fit to live in after all. We sat and ate in silence and after the meal the man Janvrin went out to the shed and I soon heard the nervous put-put of a gasoline engine followed by the steady whir of a dynamo. For the next ten minutes Rollins and the colored man were busy mixing up some substances from the array of bottles that lined the shelf. I took up my sta- tion near the switch on the wall to turn he had suggested. at intervals about on the current as Rollins still talked ions and atoms and what he considered a proven fact, that all substances were composed of the same base, only differ- ing in their complex arrangement of particles. I listened without in the least com- prehending what he was talking about, when the idiotic idea came into my head that if I turned on the current I should kill Rollins. He stepped away from the furnace and the negro scampered over near the door. Let her go, said Rollins, and I pushed up on the big switch. There was an instant sputtering in the fur- nace and the metals in the track of the arc became white hot, melted, and finally started to vaporize. Rollins then turned the four big lamps on the furnace and they began their fierce bombardment of Beta emanations. I remarked a queer pattering on the floor that sounded like rain. Only spiders and things, said Rol- lins. We sweep up a handful of them every time we turn on this laboratory chafing dish. The metals in the furnace fumed and sputtered and a strange, intense green light filled the cabin. Just changing the pattern, chuckled Rollins. We're the first to see it done since the atoms were swept together and made into a world. He came toward me and turned off the current. The greenish glare died rapidly and we were again in the dim lamplight, waiting for our eyes to get used to the change. The metal in the furnace now gleamed with the yellow luster of pure gold. Fo' de land sake, gasped the col- ored man near the door, what am de matter wid dat dawg? Rollins uttered a sharp exclamation. 28 Tl-IE I followed his eyes and saw that the dog, despite its utter exhaustion of the afternoon, was up on all feet, stretch- ing and straining at the rope, which strangled it cruelly. Its eyes were as large as dollars and foam flecked its mouth. It bit at the rope and snapped at the furniture around it and as Rol- lins drew near, it failed to distinguish him in its agony, slashing about indis- criminately. Get out of the way there and open the door, commanded Rollins. I can't see the poor beast choke to death. I'm going to cut the rope. Look out that he don't get you, I warned. That's not distemper, you know. That's rabies. Rabies nothing! Can't you see he's holding his head right over a pan of water? It was so. But if it was not rabies, what in the name of common sense was it? I gave Rollins a wide berth as he dragged his tortured beast from the room. His negro J anvrin followed him to the outhouse. When Rollins returned he said that the beast apparently suf- fered no longer. I don't know what was wrong, un- less he was afraid, he said. But what was he afraid of? He's seen the same thing a dozen times. And yet he's no coward. Once he came mighty near burning his inquisitive nose against the furnace. Outside in the shed J anvrin shut off the motor and its chug-chugging ceased abruptly. More slowly the whir of the dynamo died away, to leave us in the silence of the swampland. Then the negro came back after some water and food for the dog, and proceeded to the outhouse to make the creature com- fortable. We scraped off and collected several ounces of gold from the hot mouth of the furnace-and Rollins declared it was gold of the purest composition. After a brief visit to the outhouse he returned reassured and became talkative once more. He ran his fingers through the glittering mass on the table and I noticed that he trembled occasionally with suppressed emotion. Glorious stuff, he exclaimed. Those old fellows who have been pre- OCCIDEN T tending all down the ages to despise gold were really philosophical because they couldn't be rich. Or if they were rich, what they were despising was not gold, but life itself. For gold is the breath of life, Carney. There lies all existence-liberty, health, friendship, love, security, and all the ardent devel- opment of manhood-all wrapped up in this magic pile. It's the passport to joyous activity, enterprise, society, knowledge, and service. Is there any- thing so pitiful as a penniless lover? His materialism gave me an odd feeling. You couldn't have bought a sound pair of lungs, you know, I reminded him. But that's precisely what I did. A never-to-be-suificiently-blessed relative died and left me-what amounted to a. double handful of gold, Carney. Or I should be coughing my last cough in Brooklyn by this time. Now, how about it '? He chuckled boyishly at my discom- fort. 'Better than silver or gold. ' he quoted. There was a big leak in old Solomon's philosophy when he said that. Gold is freedom and power. And what else is life? Come, Mister Biolo- gist! I'll cast this stuff into an ingot since you saw it made. The one you re- fused will make a nice ring and things for Hilda. I was not in sympathy with his phil- osophy and I suppose the incident of the dog had rasped me a little for this last idea irritated me beyond my pa-- tience. He seemed so self-confident. sitting there on the edge of the table piling up the gold. What I might have said I don't know, for at that moment the man J anvrin burst into the room. Bustah, boss, he gabbled. Dat dawg, suh, he done died. He-all done- turn red an' die, boss. We trooped around to the outhouse, and it was as the colored man had said. What remained of Rollins's companion was not pleasant to contemplate. The colored man muttered snatches of prayer, and the lamp shook in his hand, as he held it over the animal. 'Tain't nachrul, he repeated per- sistently. He done been conjured, THE OCCIDENT 29 boss. Yassuh, boss, he done been con- jured. He just swole up an' die. He was trembling so violently that we had to take the lamp from him, and Rollins just got possession of it in time. Even as his hand closed over it, the un-- happy Janvrin collapsed over the dog and lay motionless on his face. We dragged him around to the cabin and dosed him with the usual antidote, but it soon became obvious that his trouble was not malaria. Rollins grabbed the pillows from his own bed, and put them under J anvrin's head, and for a time we stood looking at him, unable to explain the semi-coma into which he had fallen. Only the fellow's eyes moved, and they were distended with fear. Suddenly Rollins had an idea and after thrashing about in some trash in the corner he lugged out a microscope case. You're a bacteriologist, he said. Perhaps you can throw some light on this. Something queer about that dog, you know-watch Janvrin till I come back. I heard him stride around to the out- house, and presently he returned with a glass slide in his hand, and on it was some thin, serous fluid. Breathlessly we fixed up the instrument and clipped the glass under the objective. You look, he said. I did so, but saw nothing. Touch it up with some iodine, I su ested gg - While I hung in suspense over the eyepiece, he hunted on the shelves, and all at once under my gaze the field of the microscope rushed up a brilliant yellow-and in it were countless mi- crobes. Rabies '? jerked out Rollins. I-I don't know, I stammered. I never saw anything like it in my life. It's certainly not rabies. And it's too globular for the fevers ..... It looks like strings of beads. Here, look at the things! Good Heavens! exclaimed Rollins after a single glance. He left the instru- ment to gaze on Janvrin in a kind of sick wonder. The man was quite still and remained an inert mass of suffer- ing. I don't know what's the matter with him, Rollins kept repeating. It's the same thing that got the dog. He turned away abruptly and made an effort to speak calmly. We've got to identify it, he said. It may be I don't know all the possi- bilities of those lamps of mine. Things have been happening right along that I can't explain. Are you sure you don't know the things ? Never before saw the germ, I as- sured him. You were rather a microbe shark, eh! That must mean tnat it's some- thing outside scientific experience. I should say it was. He became thoughtful. You remember, he said, there was that woman in Paris, I forget her name. She was a pupil of Pasteur. She used ultra-violet rays on the anthrax germs, and changed them into an entirely new germ, producing a new disease. The new bacillus didn't look like anthrax, and when they inoculated some guinea pigs with the stuff, it didn't give them anthrax. They died of something else. You mean Madame Labardere? when a light broke upon me. That sounds like it. It was all in one of the magazines. No doubt 1 should have screened those rays. I've always had-doubts. The colored man stirred jerkily, and all at once he was on his feet, pointing at Rollins with a queer contorted ges- ture. His eyes were starting from their sockets, and he mumbled mean- ingless sounds. Pretty soon he reeled toward the door. You stav here. Janvrin. com- manded Rollins. You've got nothing but a dog bite. The man lurched toward the door and waved his hand vaguely. He never, he said thickly. Bus- tah ain't bite me. You-all conjured me. I ain't gwine stay wid you-all no longer. And he set off across the clearing, running and staggering, until the darkness swallowed him. It will pass, said Rollins. He'll be all right in the morning and then he'll come back. But I could see that he was striving to reassure himself against his fears. 3U THE OCCIDENT The dog didn't recover, I said doubtfully. It was coma, then frenzy, you know-then the end. Don't you think we ought to catch that fellow and do something for him? There's a medi- cine chest on the yacht that's pretty complete. But, objected Rollins, the trouble is, what to do? Formaldehyde, I suggested. We might spray him, and the cabin, too. It would be safer. , He's a mile away by this time, Rollins replied, dully. s But even as he spoke there came across the clearing such sounds of raging agony as I hope never to hear again. Rollins rushed to the door, and stared out into the night. The noise seemed to come from several points at once. Finally the terrible cries became fainter and died away in the distance among the cypresses. Rollins turned to me, his face twisted with horror. That's it! he said. It's the rays from those lamps. They've changed whatever microbe was in the air into something that attacks man. Good Heavens! I've been transmuting germs as well as metals, Carney. I sat down and stared at him, the fear of the unknown upon both cl' us. He wiped his forehead with a hand that trembled. I never dreamed-, he began, and stopped short. There was an abrupt change in his manner and a curious glint in his eyes. After all, he said, Hit will settle one thing. I asked what he meant. Didn't you hear what Janvrin said? The dog never bit him. It means that the accursed bacillus is air borne. It means that the cabin is full of them. It means that we're breath- ing countless millions of the-spores at this minute. The formaldehyde, I cried, and leaped to my feet in blind haste. The next moment I was sprawling on the cabin floor. He had been watching for the move and had cleverly thrown me when I tried to rush past him. When I regained my feet, he had the shotgun from the corner and was covering me. There's only one of us for that for- maldehyde, he said, when I cursed him. Get back there or I'll blow your roof off. There was a look in his eyes that told me he would do it, too. I sat down and swore at him foolishly, tried to argue, and cursed some more. I was com- pletely unstrung and the sense of that invisible foe permeating the cabin, that slew so swiftly and cruelly, finished me by depriving me of the power of speech. I said it would be a fight, whis- pered Rollins tersely. We'll stay here and see who's the stronger. The best man wins. His face was ghastly in its pallor. Huge beads of perspiration trickled down his forehead, and the muzzle of the gun wavered. But every time I stirred it ceased abruptly to waver, and I saw that at that distance he could not miss. He breathed in quick gasps. Was it imagination that made my throat burn and my own breath come tight and fast? Rollins laughed, a ter- rible, crackling laugh. I win, Carney, he cried hoarsely. It's got you. I can see it in your face. And I can stand it longer than you can. We waited, greedily watching each other for signs of weakness. Soon the trembling in his limbs compelled him to sit down, but he still covered me, resting the gun on the table. With a thrill of hope, I realized that he trem- bled more than I did. But I was afraid if he noticed it, he might shoot anyway. He was crazy enough. The blood was singing in my ears, and it was not diflicult to appear worse than I was. I simulated the tremors of the negro, and Rollins cried in triumph. I win! he cried again. He was suffering under the strain and I achieved further contortions in which I strove to imitate those of the wretched Janvrin. Rollins fell into the trap. He rose unsteadily, and in order to wipe his brow he laid the gun on the table. He snatched clumsily at it the next mo- ment, but before he could reach the door I had carried the wire screen away with me, and had gained the other side of the clearing. He swore at me horribly, clutching THE. OCCIDENT 3 I at the doorpost for support. You were blufiingf' he shrieked, you- you?-H The gun dropped from his hand, and I called to him to follow me to the launch. But he only muttered incoher- ent sounds, and finally fell prone across the threshold. It was the first stage of the myste- rious death. I had taken several steps toward the cabin when the recollection of the frenzy that followed brought me to a quick stop. I was a badly scared man and I felt that I could be of no service worth the risk. I wanted to help and yet I burned with resentment against Rollins. I fought a battle with myself and my worse self won. The simple facts of the case are that I turned my back on Rollins and his cabin, and stumbled through the swamps toward the launch. In a short time I felt my pulse re- turning to something near the normal. My breathing become more regular and the assurance that my symptoms were nothing more than the effects of fear filled me with joy. But half way to the river my foot struck something softer than palmetto root. One straining glance and I leaped aside and fied madly from the prostrate form of Rol- lins's man Janvrin. It might have been two minutes or two hours later that I went back to the cabin, thoroughly drenched in the blessed formaldehyde. The light still burned in the cabin, but Rollins had gone, and his gun with him. ,F 'lf PF HF I have recentlv revisited the place after an interval of several months. Except that it is inhabited by wild life, Rollins's cabin has not been disturbed, and it is evident that he did not return. The idea is inevitable that in the agony of his last hours he retained will power enough to shoot himselfg but I have had the vicinity searched without results and it will probably never be known in which brown pool he sought release. Neither have I succeeded in obtain- ing a culture ofthe strange bacillus. They were probably called into brief existence by the ultra-violet rays and died when the rays had ceased. At all events the presence of wild creatures in the cabin would seem to show that it was no longer dangerous. The strangest thing of the whole case, however, is that I found no gold. I found ingots and scraps of a dull gray metal that was very heavy. What it was when it was yellow and glitter- ing, or what it is in its present state I don't presume to say. But it answers every chemical test for lead. MQW Uhr Hiram' sinh Biz wife MARIE OFFENBACHER, '15 In the Vicar of Wakefield Gold- smith has depicted a very entertaining picture of domestic life. The vicar and his wife, the chief characters, are very much alike. Each thot himself superior to everyone else, but in a different way. The pride of the vicar was spiritual, and because of this, he accomplished very little in his parish. His wife thot herself superior to others in a material way. She dressed herself and her daughters better than the people of the surrounding country and in every way endeavored to live beyond the means of the family. But this did not last long. They lost their fortune and became so involved that finally the vicar was com- mitted to the debtor's prison. Thus, the family lost its social position but the vicar, shorn of his self-righteousness and his family of their false pride, be- came an influence they never had been in the days of prosperity. 32 Tl-IE. OCCIDENT Elie Stair ihnuar Zlnuahrh EUGENE HENSEL Human nature is peculiar. Oh yes- we realize that this statement is as old as the hills and we are not expressing it as original information but as a preface to an adventure we intend to relate. The fact that man after having discovered a theory, always wishes to see it in practice, nas been attributed by scientists to human nature, since no other reason has been forthcoming. To this motive, then, it is safe to ascribe the sudden and unprecedented desire of the members of the Senior Class of West High to visit the State House. Previously to the budding of this de- sire in their young and gullible minds, the class had been groping about in the darkness cast upon them by their civics text books in a vain search for a gleam of understanding on the subject. Then, when at last the clouds of bewilderment rolled away and disclosed the Theory of Political Government in all its majesty and grandeur to their delighted souls, it is not strange that they should im- mediately wish to look upon the Prac- tice of Political Government. Accordingly, on one gloomy February afternoon, about forty members of the class under the delighted chaperonage of Miss Maltby, set out from the school for the large and imposing sandstone structure, located on the corner of Broad and High streets, wherein is en- closed the machinery of the state gov- ernment. Just as the little band stood before the huge gates of this temple of politics, several of the boys, actuated by an insane impulse, purchased some forty cents' worth of chewing gum, which they distributed among their eager fellow students, who began im- mediately to assimilate the same. As may be expected, this bovine display aroused greatest alarm on the part of Miss Maltby, who forthwith earnestly harrangued with them that gum chew- ing was uncivilized, silly, uncouth, pro- saic, etc., etc. fThe etc. covers a multi- tude of sins.J Doubtless she would have come off victorious in time had not the fact, that the erratic legislature might at any moment adjourn, com- pelled her to permit her wards to con- tinue their vulgar practice, though she added as a Parthian shot, that if any one mistook them for savage barba- rians it was not her fault. Once within the great portals, the first object which greeted the sight of the seekers for knowledge was a cuspi- dor. This would scarce be worthy of passing notice had not they afterwards found that this was but one of the many masculine ornaments which adorned the halls, landings, rooms and ante- rooms of the state's .Sanctum sanctorum. As they advanced, brass cuspidors to the right of them, to the left of them, to the front of them, shined and glist- ened. From such data, the Seniors log- ically reasoned that the state officials must be past masters in the art of ex- pectorating if not in the making of laws. though for the life of them they couldn't remember having read of any such qualification in their text-books. The next point of interest to them was the Law Library, in which are kept thousands of very unromantic and unimpassioned works of literature on the intricacies of law and government. A very polite gentleman attempted to explain the features of the department to the young seekers after knowledge, but in view of the fact that he had to keep one eye on Dorothy Holmes, who insisted on turning on all the lights in the room, and the other eye on Ruth Emmitt, who succeeded in emptying all the drinking water from the Water cooler in the corner, his attempt was somewhat of a failure. It was after- ward reported that this courteous Knight of the Library suffered a ner- vous breakdown the next day. We made no attempt to verify this report but we can see how such a thing might have been possible. From the library Miss Maltby led her brood to the Supreme Court room where five sedate jurists clad in black silk robes closely resembling kimonas, THE OCCIDENT 33 were engaged in deep and scholarly thought. As it was about 4:30 p. m., the judges had pitchers and cups upon their desks, which led the Seniors to believe that they were on the verge of taking afternoon refreshments but the class was not permitted to linger long enough to witness this interesting cere- mony as one of the girls began to wink at the chief justice to see if he really could smile, whereupon Maltby speed- ily conducted them to the House of Representatives. Here an astounding surprise was in store for them. Surely the author of their text book had never seen a real House of Representatives. How differ- ent was this scene from the orderly and dignified one which the book had pic- tured. They had expected to see a tall impressive man of the Daniel Webster type thunder forth in Daniel Webster manner a noble argument in favor of some great and vital subject such as the initiative and referendum, while all the other representatives leaned for- ward, spell-bound by the magic of the address. Such was the theory which the civics book advanced. In reality the vision which met their eyes was that of a short wizened man who spoke in an almost inaudible piping tremulo in be- half of a bill to protect humming birds or something else of equal importance to the welfare of the commonwealth. The other members of the House were not spellbound at all. Far from it. Some were reading the evening papers and current magazines. Some were eating apples or confections, while still others slumbered soundly and noisilv. What a revelation to the souls of the Seniors was this practical law-making. From hence they went to the Senate Chamber. , The boys went into the men's gallery and the girls into the ladies' with the exception of Farshler, who started up with the girls. Of 'course the doorkeeper stopped him but Vern produced a letter received by him the day previous and addressed to Miss LaVern Farshler. Then the keeper was truly in doubt for by letter Vern was decidedly feminine but by form he was as decidedly masculine. However, after a look at Vern's face and another squint at the letter, he ad- mitted him to the ladies' gallery. In the pit of the great chamber only a hand- ful of energetic Senators were scattered about, all closely wrapped in the arms of Morpheus with the exception of one who was chanting with rhythmical and metrical cadence from a huge book. The Seniors waited some time for him to finish but when they were informed by a page that the gentleman had al- ready read for two weeks and was scheduled to read for a week and a half to come, they decided to seek diversion elsewhere. It might be well to here add that the Lieutenant-Governor of the state was chewing gum, at the sight of which Miss Maltby gasped and nearly fainted. However, this little human touch won for him a warm place in the hearts of the Seniors. Gum chewing is an indication of sociability with them. They discovered another so-called human touch in government ofiicials when they visited the governor's office, where on his table, instead of great piles of state papers, they found two boxes of chocolate bon-bons. In the absence of the governor in Dayton, these were a source of temptation to the girls, but happily for them their fear of law was greater than their desire for the sweets. The Seniors expressed their deepest regrets to the governor's secretary at his absence, but they added by way of consolation that the execu- tive needn't worry at not being there to receive them as they would drop in on him again sometime. As night was fast falling and every one was becoming extremely hungry, a motion was made for adjournment and unanimously carried. All of the Se- niors, well saturated with the subject of Practical Political Government, re- turned to their various homes to medi- tate upon the evils of false theory and to wonder if their civics author were not dreaming of an Utopian government when he wrote their book. 6 A 0 FM QU? GIRLS THE. OCCIDENT 35 Uhr Clamp illirr Girlz TEGESHE Who are the Camp Fire Girls? What is the good of their organization? Is it all play or is it actually helpful? These questions have been asked again and again and each time the heart of a Camp Fire Girl leaps to affirm the joy, the intense pleasure that lightens even the most difiicult task, and the sincerity, thotfulness, and love for her companions that inspires every one of her sisters. Four years ago the Camp Fire was organized with the intention of doing for girls what the Boy Scouts do for boys. It is a means of organizing a girl's daily life. Thru it she learns that beauty, romance, and adventure are to be found on every hand and in whole- some waysg that the petty round of irritating concerns and duties may be glorified, and that life can thus be rich and full of joy. In these four years the organization has spread all over the world. To live according to the laws of our camp is the aim of each one of us. Seek beauty. Give service. Pursue knowledge. Be trustworthy. Hold on to health. Glorify work. Be happy. Every division of this law is related to our daily life, both in work and play. Until our eyes are opened in obedi- ence to the law seek beauty, how blind we are to the wonders in the com- monest plant, the smallest insect. There is beauty in the golden dandelion and the fragrant clover, growing every- where about us, and trampled under foot. And some need even to be told of the beauty of the shady nook of the stream that slips under overhanging green, of the miracle in the blush of the rose and the pallor of the lily. We do not forget that this law may be interpreted another way-to seek beauty in our hearts and make our acts and even our thots be an expression of that beauty which is Severe tempelraifzce and purity, mod- esty and humility, A gracious temper, and calmness of spirit. The second division of our law, give service, comes into our mind when we are asked to perform a little task, and many, many times it keeps back the words, I don't want to-I haven't time. Everyone has the desire to pursue knowledge. We want to grow and we know we must never stop, for in a life- time we cannot know all the wonders of this world. Be trustworthy is the fourth of our mottoes. You may wonder why these words should form part of the lawg surely one stained with dishonor could not be a member, no one who could lie or steal would want to be where truth and purity prevails. Perhaps not. But tho we may not lie or steal, we may not be absolutely trustworthy in the seem- ingly little things. How many of us hold Truth back of everything we say or do? Are we entirely honest about our school work? Simple tho it seems, this law requires constant vigilance. II unhappily it is broken, the kind forgiv- ing sisterhood does not cast the weak one out, but holds her closer in the circle, there to start anew. A false pride is overcome by our fifth motto, glorify work. Let it be kept in mind that no work, however humble, when done well and honest, is other than a glory. In order to hold on to health we give proper rest and nourishment to our body and at the same time enjoy the wonderful out-door world in long tramps. To be happy is not always easy in spite of all our pleasures. We must learn to be contented with our lot, how- ever small. With these mottoes ever before us, the Camp Fire is a place where we shall grow into strong and useful women, 36 THE. OCCIDENT among sisters kind and true, and under a mother always watchful. We set our house in order, we do not dwell in air castles that are bound to tumble. Can you now understand the Camp Fire spirit and why we call ourselves Aokiya, which means bound together for a purpose ? Can you guess what we are striving for when we sing Wohelo for Work and Health and Love? what the Qlamp Ellire Means in a Ellrm nf 3115 fllllemhrrz The Camp Fire has helped me in many ways. It has made me more thotful of others and has made me more happy.-Annemeeke. Since I have entered the Camp Fine my views of sisterhood have been broadened. I have learned to be hap- pier and to look for the silver linings in black clouds of doubt. I have come into closer friendship with girls whom I scarcely knew. It has glorified work and has made me seek for Nature's beauty more than ever before.-Kip penoquah. The very biggest and best thing I have learned from the Camp Fire is Courtesy, both to my friends and teach- ers. Next I think comes Trustworthi- ness. I must be trusted by anybody at any time. My thots, views, and ideas have been broadened by closer relation- ship with my Camp Fire sisters.- Walcmusuda. The Camp Fire has done all for me that could be done to make me a better girl. It has made me more generous, more polite, more ready to do, and less selfish with the things that have been afforded me and of which others have been deprived.-Nokomis. The Camp Fire has developed in me a great love for out-door life and sports. It has made my work seem lighter as I now delight in it instead of disliking it. -Opeechee. The Camp Fire has helped me to gain more friends than I should otherwise have had and has given me better health.-Wanaka. The Camp Fire has made me stay at home more to help mother, and has also made me take more out-door exercise. -Minnetoslca. The Camp Fire has taught me to be more courteous.-Nawadahah. The Camp Fire has taught me help- fulness to others.-Minnehaha. The Camp Fire has helped me to study harder and to be more patient and quiet.-Tywasee. The Camp Fire has taught me to en- joy the things outside of books.- Owaissa. The Camp Fire has given me very many pleasures. It has taught me to be unselfish and happy. It has given me a higher aim especially in school work.-Wenonah. The Camp Fire has taught me to think of others before speaking, to be unselfish, and to strive for a pure, clean womanhood.-Ponemah. The Camp Fire has taught me to be kind, thotful, and unselfish, and to help others when in need.-Lexsie. Sfrhnnl Obrrhraira Members of West High Orchestra Douglas, Beatrice Yeager, Ralph Wal- whose picture appears on another ters, Alvin Liles. THIRD ROW-Clar- page. TOP ROW-Robert Hughes, Ed- ence Vanmeter. George Briggs, Hector ward Morrison, Fowler Harper, Will- iam Garrett, Lovell Rohr, Dain Aiken. Aiken, Losha Gain, Willo Hecter, Mary White, Merrill Young. FRONT Row- SECOND ROW - Amanda Hoffman, Anna Wilcox, Gladys Deffenbaugh. Charles Rufiing, Fred Clark, Arthur 0 as ,fx 5 .r . if 'wit f N C , ml: . Q , 1 x L 41-Q1 A' A w 1 , Wx W .w'b '-'-.1706 - ' L?i5'?i??f . N wk -gn 38 THE OCCIDENT Bizzrrlatinn nn the Neville NEWTON THATCHER, '15 Needles are the product of civiliza- tion, and were originated chiefly to be lost in haystacks and furnish employ- ment to near-beggars. We may classify the various kinds of needles according to their usefulness as sewing, darning, crocheting, knitting and phonograph. The sewing needle is a rather short and very narrow, in other words. skinny, piece of steel, armed at one end with a point. In mathematical circles a point is a thing which is not, but nevertheless if it should be applied to any portion of the person, it would soon convince the doubter of the power of naught. The other end of this won- derful little instrument seems to be a rather maltreated piece of metal, not being considered perfect until it has an eye punched out. Almost as important a member of the family is the hat-pin, an elongated needle with a hat over its eye. When used properly it can be made to keep liats on and robbers off. ln the homes of the middle class only are the darning needles to be found-in those homes where Holeproof is un- known or where the terrier pup is just beginning to cut his teeth. It may be all very well to urge the use of mend'- ing tissue in such cases, yet the old- time darner with its criss-cross trail of yarn is the rock of ages in the patch- world. Let it be taken for granted that both the former kinds are of some use to mankind, still it will be seen that the crocheting needle belongs exclusively to womankind. Who else but a woman could take that long steel with an ab- breviated fish-hook on the end and grab strings with it till a table cover takes form? Most certainly man, who can't even handle a small size fish-hook with- out sticking himself, can never operate this needle successfully. Can you im- agine a man, accustomed to fastening M-inch grasshoppers to his line, pull- ing and twisting a M-millimeter rope with a hook not much larger, until he has a recognizable pillow cover de- signed? If you can, you would better take up literature as a profession. The knitting needle is somewhat on the order of the crocheting needle, but much more clumsily handled. Two needles are required for knitting and as a consequence each one constantly interrupts the work of the other. Pos- sibly it is this feature of retaliation that proves so attractive to modern-day soldiery'. Phonograph needles need no intro- duction. They come a muckle for a nickel and introduce themselves. Con- trary to Bon Ami advertisements, they always scratch. If a record scratches a little more than usual it is a poor record, there is nothing at all Wrong with the needle. Unlike others the phonograph needle has no eye. In- stead it is fastened to a sensitive plate Just as mylady's earings are fastened on, a little cranking and hurray, here comes the band. In order to quiet as much as possible the constant quarrel- ing and scratching between the needle and the record, a wooden needle is now in vogue, whose usefulness consists in its ability to wear off when the rec- ord gets harsh. The German HaarnadeZ is a double-pointed tack greatly magnified. Its principal duty is to grasp and hold together loose locks of hair, hence the name hair-needle. The hair pin has proven itself useful in other ways also, chiefly as a collar-button hook, and in cases of real need as a lockpick. If accidentally straightened the hair pin is well adapted to cleaning clogged noz- zles and drain pipes or as a binder for cut flowers. Needles and pins, needles and pins- With or without 'em, our trouble begins. L I D my--Q Wa If ' u .f ' yf3'g.s5f' . 1 -. 1 1-1 4 psi K . i 7 Q M, v Q Lyon .W 1' I va gg.. ri g 4 . .,,. M5 'ST 'fi' SOCIETY vs ML 40 THE OCCIDENT igiaturg A Ea Qllnhr N. A. THATCHER, '15 Ugle wah. Wuggle uh. That's the way the old town folks used to talkg at least I suppose they did. I can't say for sure that that was their way, not having been very well ac- quainted with the Indians who used to roam the woods, which the city of Co- lumbus has displaced. You know, I have often wondered how the first in- habitants of this city felt with nothing but an acre of cleared ground and a cabin to tell them that they were on Rich street near the site of the sturdy old Rich street bridge. If their feelings were anything like mine when I stood looking for a sign of the State street bridge, they would have died of brain fever. I've been going to school in- stead. Well, no matter how they felt, there was one gentleman, Weary Willie by name-if that is what such people were called in the year 1812-who was very anxious to get to Columbus. And he had a reason, for he had heard not long before that the capital of Ohio was to be changed from Chillicothe to Columbus. Certainly the state capital life would be a blessing. So, not in the least bothered by the necessity of waiting for a train, he started his walk-even the good society folks used to walk then-and arrived at length in the chubby and prosperous city of Franklinton. Inquiries brot forth no information as to the location of the future capital. No one had heard of such a thing. So it was plainly up to Willie to divulge the glad tidings. He did and the next morning he was escorted out of town with as much ceremony as the Standard Oil Co. escorts a rival from the oil field, for even Franklinton would hate to have a rival on the opposite bank of the Scioto. Weary Willie went with wings, whereupon he soon came to his destina- tion. Columbus, and found himself lost in the woods. Thots of soft footed Indians and quick-footed wolves impelled him to get out and get out quick. When he stopped getting out he was going in the back door of Chillicothe. But where was everybody? Strange to say, they were all going to Columbus, the Wonderful city. Hard times followed for him till, five years later, he turned with the res: and came home to roost. Then wonder of wonders, instead of the old oak trees was a city of some seven hundred living, active souls. What a life he could live! Here was sustenance for years in the market house in the middle of High streetg fire- wood aplenty from the stumps in all the streets. If he Wanted anything more, here were Dr. Edmiston, Lawyer David Smith, Jeweler Platt, a school, a tavern, two stores, and a saw mill, to help him out. In 1818 Mrs. David W. Deshler wrote to her brother, We have a very neat home, and furniture, good and plain, with a handsome green yard before the doorli' Weary Willie could not boast as muc . The best wheat Hour sells for 52.50 per hundred, eggs at six and seven cents per dozen, and beef, uncommonly high, at six and seven cents per pound. A little work and a lot of play would keep him there for many a day. There has been more sickness this season than has ever been known since the settlement of Franklin county. if 'I' if The most healthy, robust and vigorous persons are liable to be taken off with bilious fever, the prevailing sickness of the western city. Sickness didn't bother Willie. ' His chief concern was that there were hardly enough healthy people to keep the place going. But Weary Willie wouldn't stay, Why he wouldn't, he didn't say. He just got up and left the town He had no money, but had renown. fContinued on Page 521 THE OCCIDENT 4l V Y , ' A G T W., I l X l r 1 P G ir' ill li i', it iw' ' A -,X Q:-ujii1T ii i ' ,. l 1 i ya A ul W ' 'V -A g:.'f:..., ,Y During the months of March and April, our calls to the Auditorium were more frequent than usual. Surprises of various sorts were sprung on us by Mr. Magly. Probably the best of all came during the last of March: it was the day Mr. Wager dropped in upon us and gave us such a touching speech, then to add to the enjoyment of that day, Mr. Edison had sent to us one of his representatives to demonstrate The Diamond Disk Phonograph. An- other treat was Mr. N. K. Dha1wani's lecture on India. Being a Hindu, he was capable of giving us information that could come from no other source. One of the good lectures was that of Mr. Krafts, on the essentials of manli- ness. Altho it was not as well ap- preciated by the student body as it might have been, it undoubtedly gave some of us an insight, as to what we have to do in order to become manly men and womanly women. Another expenditure has been made out of the Decoration Fund of the 1914 May Party. This time it was a picture that was added. This picture has been placed in the upstairs study room. It represents a scene at the court of King Arthur. Since the last term of school opened, two new students have entered school in the class of sixteen. Geneva and Marion Westlake, students we refer to, formerly attended Marysville High School. The following members of the Class of '16 were elected to the L society at a recent meeting: Willard Clime Edwin Decker Oliver Matheny Wayne Rittenhouse Ralph Walters Ada Birch Marguerite Carter Grace Cowling Marie Davis Gladys Deffenbaugh Bernetta Faehnle Esther Faehnle Leta Galpin Ruth Hill Hilda Howard Adele Magly Pauline Richards tSpecialJ Earl Graber Arbor day passed off this year as usual. A little sixteen celebration was held on the south lawn, when the tree was planted in the honor of the class. The officials of the class re- ' r if- I f':' l...l 57 sim 4Z THE OCCIDENT signed their dignified positions long enough to spread the mother earth around the roots and for our photog- rapher to get them in these laborious poses. Some attempts have been made to organize a Walking Club. As yet no permanent organization has been made. Next year, however, it is possible that such an organization may be effected- if some one will take hold and push the thing thru. The efforts of hikers this spring amounted to a trip to Spring- field for the girls, the boys sticking out only to West Jefferson. Another trip was planned to Georgesville, Grove City, etc., but owing to the headaches of two and a parlor rug engagement of another, it was called off. The promis- ing hikers are: Helen Waterman, Bertha and Verna Berlew, Grace Cowl- ing, Adele Magly, Ralph Walters, Harold Sperry, Bruck Fleming, Wayne Rittenhouse and Harry Judy. The Nineteen-fifteen May Party has been an entire success. Everything was well patronized and everything contributed to the success. The dis- tribution of the balance, after all ex- penses have been paid will be decided upon later. Advance sale of tickets ...... 3228.90 Cash Receipts .................... 128.77 Total ............. ....... 55 357.67 Expenses ....... ....... 1 48.63 Profit ............................ 3219.04 The picture in the next column is of the four principal characters in the farce, A Country Newspaper, which was presented by the OCCIDENT staff at the May Party, May 7th. x, xx ..fIf5W0l.Igg. 5 K inn. gf . ga fm 1' A lipgi gg., e A a ,fs ajft N ,kr ,Q ci' . up 5 wh 'J' lib :..- ln it K v . V 'X 5? gg! X5 liz! f f H ,NT 'Iv' . f-m y -. . vv-.L 1, . , - -2 THE OCCIDENT 43 W A' - Eg. 1 ' A P, .: 1 7 6 - 2. E gl 4, ' ll r fl X- ' 'GJ F' x ' I f f T ' it ff - U WP vw if my sei . e i, 1..- - it Wtiffg V ' I , . g -4 I fi' ' jill A iii 1? Wt- A y West High School may from now feel Qiroud of the fact that they have mem- uers in the Alumni Association of the Dhio State University. The following receive degrees from the University this June: Edward Gerish-B.A. Bertha Hatch-B.A. Glen Durflinger-B.A. Frank Randall-B.A. and M.A. Gwilym Evans-B.C.E. Russel Sperry-D.V.M. We may add that the first member from our school to become an Ohio State Alumnus was Ed. Cline QEX '13J. He was graduated from the College of Agriculture in 1914. As to the future of the above six we cannot throw much light upon. We hear that Frank Randall will stand be- fore a congregation in Eastern Ohio, and that Russel Sperry may enter his services with the government. What- ever they decide upon, even tho it be marriage, we bid them success and a prosperous future. ,.ll.l-il-. Four business meetings among the Alumni committees have been held to plan for the banquet: One at the home of Herbert Deems, one at the home of Edgar Furgeson, and two at West High School. Reports from all of the com- mittees .point towards a successful re- ception for the new members. The accompanying photograph will be recognized as two of our members. They are at present on the Ohio State Lantern staff. .'tGot their start with the West Hi Occidentf' As members of an organization of which you are soon to join, we consider it an honor to welcome such a class as is completing their High School edu- cation this year. With each new class come many new ideas. With the classes which have graduated so far there was the common idea of a strong Alumni Association. With this year's class we see the same hope. Up to the present date it has been scarcely realized. We cannot complain of material, nor even the lack of eagerness for such an asso- ciation. It is just the lack of push, or we might say the slowness with which the few scattered members have I C:-1ffif.1u rl on fry .Wil Ellie 0Brr1h rut Published Five Times a Year in the Interest of Students of West High School ugene Hensel, '15 ........................ Editor-in-Chief ewton Thatcher, 'l5.. ........ Contributing Editor ,alph Walters, '16 ..,.................. Associate Editor lartha Hatfield, '15 ..... ,................... L ocal Editor race Cowling, '16 ..l....,., ........ E xchange Editor ruck Fleming, '16 ........ ............ S cience Editor lr. Leahy ..................... ,.......... A thletic Editor ubscriptionRate .-- . .. . Earl Graber, '15 ............., ..................... S taff Artist Harold Sperry, '16 ......... .,........l.. A ssistant Artist La Vern Farshler, '15 ....,.,...... Business Manager Williard Clime, '16 ........ Asst. Business Manager Harry Johnson, '15 ....l......... Circulation Manager Oliver Matheney, '16 .l...... Asst. Circulation Mgr. Leland Birch, '13 .........,..l..............., Alumni Editor , .. . ...Per School Year, 75cg Single Copies, 15c Entered as second-class mail matter, December nder Act of March ff, 1879. 15, 1914, at the post oflice at Columbus, Ohio, One of the most progressive L steps in the history of West SOCIETY' High School was taken this year in the organization of Lhe L Society. This has filled a long- Felt need in the school. It has afforded :he students an invaluable training. As membership can only be secured by iigh scholarship, it has placed a pre- nium on good grades. Certainly no nember of the society will go forth from the school who does not feel that ie has been considerably broadened along spiritual and intellectual lines. In the formal and informal debates, dis- :ussions and orations topics of vital im- portance have been brought before the attention of the members and thoroly discussed by them. Were they left to their own resources, it is safe to assert, that many of the people would never have given these subjects even passing notice, for they had never as yet realized that a discussion of modern events is not a dry affair. It has been indeed a most interesting experience. Here permit us to express our keen appreciation, and we feel sure that it is the sentiment of the whole school, of the untiring efforts of Miss Burns. The success of the society is due in a great measure to her. Her kind assistance and ever ready suggestions have been of invaluable worth to the members. It has been an honor and a pleasure to belong to the L Society and we sincerely trust that this organization shall grow to be a vital force in the life at West High. ......l..l. . With the publication of this issue, the good ship OC- CIDENT drops anchor in the port for which she has been over the seas of Literary En- ever since last September. As we feared and predicted, the voyage has not been a smooth one. In the calm of non-support the craft has warped and seamedg the shoals of no response have threatened its safety: the reefs of in- difference have been avoided with dif- ficulty. But the most deadly peril on this sea of Literary Endeavor has been the torpedo of Destructive Criticism, which nearly sent the vessel to the bot- tom, but happily the air tight com- partments furnished by the breezy staff, have succeeded in keeping it afloat. So. with seams agap, sails torn, and masts crippled, she limps into harbor. The oiiicers and crew may enjoy their vacation now with a certain degree of satisfaction in having brought the ship safely to anchor. However, whether our cargo, Good Material, is in ship- shape condition, and unimpaired by the vicissitudes of the long voyage, is not for us but the landsmen, the Student Body, to judge. We hope it will meet with their satisfaction and thus give cheer to the hearts of the mariners who will man the old craft for the 1915-16 voyage. IN PORT. headed deavor 46 THE OCCIDENT The OCCIDENT staff takes great MISS pleasure in dedicating this WIRTH banner issue of the paper to Miss Wirth, as a token of our appreciation for her unfailing services in supervising the work of the staff. The paper has been under her super- vision during its entire existence of five years. Without complaint she has given of her time and talent to help make the OCCIDENT a success. It has grown and thrived under her vigilant care. Not only has she offered many timely suggestions for the make-up of the magazine but she has carefully cen- sored every scrap of material that has gone in it during the past five years, with the exception, of course, of this appreciation. We, the staff, are only too glad to acknowledge our deep i debtedness to Miss Wirth for her kil services in our behalf. . We wish to call the attentic of our readers, and mo especially those who are gral uating, to the article, Wh: Next, by Mr. H. S. Ballard, who Assistant Attorney General of Ohil In this public position as well as othei which he has held, Mr. Ballard has bee able to see the essentials for success i the business world. His article is clea practical, and tested, so that it is sul to contain some valuable points fc those who are about to enter a bus ness career. WHAT NEXT? flinmnr THE AENEID Book IV, Lines 173-188 The loud report thru Libyan cities goes, Rumor, a menace great, from small be- ginning grows, Swift from the first, and ev'ry moment brings New vigor to her flight, new pinions to her wings, Soon grows the pigmy to gigantic size 5 Her feet on earth, her forehead in the skies. Enraged against the gods, revengeful earth To her the last of Titans did give birth. Swift is her walk, more swift her winged haste, A monstrous phantom, horrible and vast. many plumes as raise her lofty flight, So many piercing eyes enlarge her sight, As Millions of list'ning ears to her belong And many mouths, each furnished witl a tongue. She fills the peaceful universe witl cries g slumbers ever close her wakefu eyes, No By day, from lofty towers her head sh' shows, And spreads thru trembling crowds dis astrous news, With court informers' haunts, and roya spies, Things done relates, not done, shl feigns, and mingles truth with lies Talk is her business and her chief de light To tell of prodigies and cause affright RUTH EMMITT, '15 V385 95 :ff riV E Q.. X 'N- lrgpuy V, . ... t f l .-3, W ,. Am x 'lJ'L1' 1 A :H 'wi W'2,.l'. N 48 THE OCCIDEINT ,.-vga. , Q ,Nm f ,' 48 db ,fill '-. Q ,I l ' I--' L, 155: ffiii' -C C Ar ' - eaaqg, -gfggliiiil ,f,5'E,gj,f U f S -5 Q k , .,'syi:reE:-53-f,1,4,y, ' W, ,..1j'P 2 ' X N, '-ui ffisfsfnrrqi v ' g:s:5:Ef:5::,1La1w.: .411 xi S ,, '-2-51:-J:f!:::g-A4 ' 935 , gg, 5 ....'::'::: :Q J ix IX V at l-251525551-f ? 2 X' ol ,Lf While delivering his interesting lec- ture on Graphic Projection of Plers- tocene Oscillations to the Senior Phys- ics class the other afternoon, Mr. Kiehl noted, in his usual quick way, that the attention of the class, instead of being fixed on his fascinating topic, was glued on another center of attraction no less, if not more, fascinating, which he soon ascertained to be nothing more than Newton Thatcher, our willowy and rath- er abbreviated contributing editor, who was beguiling the tedium of Ohm's Law, in his characteristically childish way, by operating a small toy, consisting of two green tin snakes which ran forward and backward, fore and aft, and from stern to stem on a magnetg whereupon Mr. Keihl suggested, in an off-hand manner, just as if it were a parenthetical remark in his lecture, though somewhat icily to be sure, that more of the class could see Newt if he brought his apparatus down on the lecture table, upon which suggestion the youth immediately acted, under the impression that Kiehl ment what he said, while all the budding young physicists, deciding to let Euclid rest and Archimedes pause, crowded round about to drink in, metaphorically speaking, the wonders of the toy. While they were thus profitably engaged, a tiny and inoffensive mouse, thinking as any mouse naturally would think under such circumstances, that the tramping of many feet signified the per- iod was over and that the seniors had retired, ventured forth from his den, cave, lair, or whatever the domicilium of a rodent may be scientifically termed, into the close proximity of Ruth Emmitt, CContinued on page 609 An interesting entry in the too-much- pie contest has been made by Newton Thatcher, Martha Hatfield, Harold Sperry, and Eugene Hensel, prominent literary lights of this Center of Educa- tion, who during the course of the action of the near-farce, A Country Newspa- per, were compelled to assimilate and masticate no less than five venerable and time-honored Busy Bee pies in their en- tirety for the amusement of the de- lighted and appreciative audiences. All was clear sailing, so to speak, during the consumption of the pastry but it was not until the moon had reached her position in the middle course of the heavens that a sudden and keen pang of titanic strength gripped upon the souls, minds, and bodies, so it seemed, of the quar- tette, and each would have willingly welcomed the oblivion of the tomb to escape excruciating pains caused by the pies, had not their several mater fami- lflases treated them individually with paregoric and camphor and threatened to exile them from the paternal roof if they ever again even so much as men- tioned a farce. , Another event wherein was mani- fested the malice of inanimate objects occurred on the National Pike recently, involving Alvin Liles, our expert violin manipulator, and Ralph Hoff, our em- bryo Edwin Boothg both of whom, it seems, while returning home from the May Circus in Alv's gasoline shay, after having spent a most distressingly ardu- ous day in posing as King Arthur and other miscellaneous statuary of the 6th century, were quite overcome by the in- sistent invitation of the gently blowing THE OCCIDENT - 9 western zephyrs to take a little spin, as it is called in high automobile circles. Accordingly, having gained the consent of their admiring Rosalinds, which will be recognized as an abstraction, they turned the prow of the land craft west- ward, scudding along at a five knot rate until the twinkling lights of the little hamlet of West Jefferson flashed into view, which concludes the pleasant part of the narrative as far as Ralph and Alvin were concerned, for at the same and identical moment that they ported helm in the public square of the little village preparatory to returning to the metropolis, the clutch of the automobile broke, which, as every one knows, is as fatal to a machine as appendicitis is to man. Whereupon the skippers engaged in a war council and pow-wow as to what course of action to pursue in such an emergency, at the conclusion of which they would fain have sat them down in despair to await the arrival of chance succor had not the militant Rosa- linds, with mounting wrath and a firm determination to get home at all haz- ards, icily declared that they would not await the coming of rosy fingered dawn in that place even if they fthe boysj had to push the machine, acting upon sn-. I which almost spoken suggestion the boys, placing their manly and stalwart shoulders against the stern of the craft, began a slow and painful voyage home- ward while the girls sang It's A Long Way To Columbus. The first beams of light were dispelling the night mists when the torpedoed vessel, propelled by pedal power, hove into port, where the mariners swore in feeble gasps never again to put faith in the old saw that the shortest way home is the longest way round. Recently while haranguing the Senior Class on how to dress, act, speak during the trying ordeal of Commencement in order to appear highly educated and pol- ished, Mr. Magly, with a sweeping ges- ture that included the masculine and feminine element of the class, exclaimed with feeling, Now let all of us come to the Commencement in white dresses, which startling exhortation cast the class into uncontrollable fits of merry laughter, from which they recovered scarce in time to hear the president in- quire how many girls would consent to help decorate the stage for Class Day, with foliage green and flowers of diverse shades and hues, whereupon Chester Springer and Ross Todd, tho thoroly masculine to every outward ap- pearance, raised aloft their digits. Taking these two consecutive events and adding them together in our logical way, we conclude that as sure as one and one makes two, that the rapidly spreading feminist movement has struck our Senior Class, inflicting more than ordinary damage, tho we cannot help but think what a graceful and dignified appearance all those young swains with clouted shoon, ham-like hands and close cropped heads, would make on the stage. After having endured for two weeks, with Spartan fortitude, the patient re- proof and mild displays of disapproba- tion of sweet tempered Coach Leahy, at her unsuccessful attempts to imitate the masculine manner of treading upon the stage in the recent Senior dramatic out- burst, which masqueraded under the name of Class Play, Carmen Stocklin, our accomplished melodramatic sob-sis- ter tragedienne, decided, in a decisive manner, that she would show that Mr. Leahy that she could master the mascu- line stride if it took every solitary sec- ond of her time, even at the expense of flunking her beloved history. Thus re- solved, she retired to the privacy and quiet retreat of her home where she be- gan a tedious series of marches and counter marches, first pacing off the dis- 50 THE. OCCIDENT tance from the North corner of the room to the south, thence to the west, thence to the east, returning over the same route, until, at precisely the same time that the first bare spots were peeping thru the carpet, the open basement door- way cunningly and slyly slipped in her line of march, which dastardly trick Carmen noted all too late, for the mo- mentum gained in her extended hike, plunged her, all her struggles to save herself notwithstanding, into the yawn- ing cavern of the doorway, with the nat- ural result that the young and aspiring actress tobogganed rapidly down the steps at a rate of speed that would im- press even the most unobserving with the fact that her descent was forced rather than voluntary, coming to a rest against a cement wall that gently in- truded itself in the course of her tri- umphal slide. Upon attempting to arise, Carmen guessed, with rare intuition, that she had sustained a few minor bruises and cuts but it was not until the doctor arrived that she learned her facial expression had been considerably marred and her pedal and manual ex- tremities disabled. Thus adorned, she sought out Coach Leahy, who briefly and emphatically, in words that needed no translation, expressed his opinion of people who seek diversion sliding down cellar steps, and added, as an ironicai afterthot, that the young Maude Adams bore a close resemblance to Pugilist Pauline of Tin Can Alley. At last the sad and melancholy hour, or minute rather, is come when the His- torian of Round About West must per- force lay down for the last time the weighty pen with which he has been accustomed for the past three years to transcribe in the archives of this Tem- responded to our activities. We do not present these facts as the dark side of our association, because it appears that the slowness to grasp a new proposition is, even at the present day, quite an ad- visable thing. The time for contemplat- ing has passed, the question of a good Alumni Association is growing mature. We hope now to present ourselves in such a degree of advancement as to strike you as worth while. ple of Learning the events transpiring in this immedite territory, always ad- hering as nearly as possible tothe truth- ful relation of facts, tho, We must ad- mit, at times violating the laws of pro- portion and perspective, but we feel sure that we deserve the pardon of all who have suiered any mental anguish by reason of these Violations, when we offer as our defense for these deviations from the truth, that they were not prompted by malice but are merely am- ple proof of the fact that the Historian, being a poor student of Math and Art, never fully mastered the subjects of per- spective and proportion. We fully real- ize that we pass from the public ken not with the salvos of artillery or with the blare of trumpets but as the great sun sinking slowly and majestically below the hills of Commencement, casting a few bright reflected beams upon the heavens, even after passing from view, which beams we fondly trust will kin- dle an inspiration and desire in the heart of some young Greely to raise our neglected pen and to perpetuate the glory and renown of this column by tending the homely author's slighted trade and strictly meditating the thank- less muse. But now, fellow Disciples of Learning, time passes, and we salute you with the mournful and tear-induc- ing words Salve, Vale, as we crave your kind indulgence while we inscribe the following sad dirge in memoriam to ourselves: Anonymous he came, anonymous he lived, anonymous he went, The one whom universal nature doth lament. From all the Temple rises the mournful hum . Of many voices fondly murmuring, pax secum. Heretofore the graduating classes have issued from West High School in numbers scarcely exceeding thirty, but at this present date there is to be a class of possibly fifty. Let us see with this large increase in numbers a corre- spondingly large increase in Alumni supporters. You will have a privilege of showing your lovalty bv attending the Alumni banouet at West High School, June 18. Please be present. DON'T FOR- 1359 W. B d GET THE Schumacher 81, Barcus Hilltop 82? THE NEW GROCERY CO. for your Noon-day Lunch, ioin the push and come along. I always appreciate your visits jar. s. snnzrrxnni DRY GOODS, SHOES AND MEN'S FURNISHINGS PICTORIAL PATTERNS l254--l256 W. BROAD NT. HILLTOP 246 BARNES' DRUG STORE CORNER W. BROAD STREET AND WEST PARK AVE. J- BOTH PHONES Headquarters for PHOTO SUPPLIES and REACH BASEBALL GOODS L . W . I O H N S O N , CONFECTIONERY 2277 W. Broad St ICE CREAN--SODA TryOurSpecialDOPES EASTIAN EROS. GO. -IVIANUFALTURERS UF- O e Class Emblems, Rrngs, Fobs, Athletrc Medals Wedding: and Commencement Invitations and Announcements, Dance Orderl, Programs, Menus. Visiting Cards, Etc. Samples and estimates furnished upon request. 640 BASTIAN BUILDING ROCHESTER, N. Y. WHEN BUYING C H 0 c 0 LAT E S Bnpeley Shoe Mfg. Gu. Do not overlook the W. B. Drug Store 2215 West Broad St' ORIGINAL AGGRETTI GlLBl2RT'S BARTONAPPOLLO Manufacturers and Repairs Three-All High Grade. We Deliver. Every Saturday and Sunday we sell a 609 box fo' 295' Tfv thfsc' 9' 4' Custom VVork Given Prompt Atrentio Wendt-Bristol Co. D 47 S. High St. Directly Opp. McKinley Memorial BELL PHONE HILLTOP 2091 GEO.EWALD, The Taylor Phone Hilltop 906 Wo Broad St' Res. 53 Mohler Ave. mf rqwllfw:'gf? 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