Westport High School - Herald Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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r I ,jfwrign EXQAWX -E.-...EN -..W .....-. ,, '-.1 .fl-9-Tiiim-T? i 1 ,W ,N V fi., . . gy, . S i l l I l l t t P l tl yt t i , l l I I I 5 l 1 i 4 I I 3 l l I i t 5 it li l .1 it i I lt V ll lt 11 tv t I li t I! V. I 16 THE wEsTPoRT HIGH SCHQOL HERALD. patriotic he 1nay have been, would he have served his country so well as he has? The inevitable answer is emphatically negative. Now, ardent Westporters, are you giving Westport the best you have when you hope, and talk, and yell for her? Westport is grate' ful for that, but would you not serve her better by coming out for basket-ball, track, or tennis, or by trying for essay contests, debates, and plays? Let's try, and look forward to West- port as an ever-victorious high school when she has found this true school spirit! ..l.1i.i,. GIRLS DEBATING At last it has arrived! Girls debating in Kansas City's high schools. After years of agitation, it has been accomplished 3 and has it been wo-rth the effort? Undoubtedly! The work of the girl debaters this year compared very favorably with that of the boys, in fact, some people declare that it was superior to the boys' debating. Let us hope that it will con- tinue to thrive and prosper as it deserves. This is one line of high school activity where Kansas City is leading the other great cities of America. But there are many new activities which Kansas City is installing now, far ahead of the other educational centers, and there are many in which Westport is taking the lead over Kansas City's other high schools. Among these activities is Westport's Student Aid Fund. The purpose of this fund is to assist needy students with small loans, and the business is conducted much as Aid Funds in large colleges and universities are controlled. Westport is the Hrst high school in this vicin- ity to establish a student aid fund, and the success of the project is certain. SENIOR RECEPTION Imagine it! a Senior-Faculty reception, and everybody had a perfectly delightful time. This may seem richly imaginative to the underclass- men, awestricken with our austere Faculty, but nevertheless- The reception held on April 29th was the manifestatio-n of a desire on the part of the Faculty to become better acquainted with the student body. It only reached the Seniors this time, but it more than accomplished its purpose. We hear rumo-rs of receptions for the under- classmen next year. We hope so-. lla-i-.-K,-. ASSEMBLY DEBATING The plan of holding the Interscholastic De- bates in the auditoriums of the various high schools attheirregularassemblyhour has proved a great success. Those who remember the small but choice crowds who used to turn out to hear the debates in the evening, are heartily in sympathy with the new plan. The only op- position to this scheme was that the debating would have to be done before partial audiences. This was partly done away with by holding the contests in supposedly neutral schools. Al- though some of the schools were anything but neutral, Westport is to be congratulated upon her absolute squareness. Another example of Westport's superiority in school spirit. It I Kansz begini prosp opene trader Street first, was r a brid occasi tion i begini Static meml: sas C Tw merci that 1 Men ceive, with great and tt our 1

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L 4' ' -. - Q... ,W , V V-ar, .vs Q K ' ,L K,-an - 'Ti' ,,..,,W -I at j i., - ,H Y A -Y A N ' Y. - . - - '.,, T ' U fi an D-:L ' - i I '12, I f fa'-it f ii T 'Tha Mn. i Wi il A It if . L I CRIER WAND MID-YEAR HERALD Explanatory to the fact that there was no exchange of lXTID-YEAR HERRXLDJS with other high schools, we desire to call the attention of our out-of-town readers to the establishment in Westport High School, of a class in journal- ism. This is rather an experiment for high schools, but the experiment has been very suc- cessful. The class has published a bi-weekly newspaper The Crier, and because of its pub- lication, it was thought there was no occasion for a MID--YEAR HERALD. For the same reason, the staff of THE HERALD has deter- mined t-o publish the ANNUAL HERALD as a Senior's Annual, and toward that end we have bent our efforts. We deeply regret any dis- appointment which may have been caused by the discontinuation of the MID-YEAR HERALD, and we sincerely hope that the change will be satisfactory to our readers. SCHOOL SPIRIT It has been said that school spirit is that intangible, indefinite, loyal support which bears the same relation to the school which patriot- ism bears to the nation. At various times in Westport's history, her school spirit has been lamented, and praised, but this year it has been possible to refer to Westport's loyalty only with glowing and enthusiastic admiration. The ardent support given VVestport's own rep- resentatives in debates, plays, and athletics has been most praiseworthy, and the courtesy ex- tended to visiting teams has far surpassed that of any other Kansas City- high school. And yet-has the Westport student body yet found real school spirit? School spirit is manifested in two different ways-by fighting for Vlfestport on the basket- ball Hoor or the debate platform, and by cheer- ing NVestport's representatives -on to their best efforts. Who really serves his school better, the fellow who struggles for Westport in a personal contest, or the fellow who sits on the front row and pours his scho-ol spirit through his vocal chords? This is easily answered. Westport could continue to win contests with- out the cheer-leader, but without the contestant she could do nothing. There are many who now c-online their efforts to cheering, but who should themselves be entered in the contest. Without realizing it, you may be a better bas- ket-ball player, a better tennis player, o-r a better debater than any in the Interscholastic League. If Maurice McLaughlin had held himself in obscurity, who would to-day be ten- nis champion of the world? If Woodrow Wilson had not struggled for- ward, if he had lived a private life, however

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this vicin- d, and the I eption, and time. This underclass- iaculty, but th was the part of the fd with the Seniors this its purpose. the underf JG iolastic De- arious high ' has proved ,er the small :urn out to are heartily the only op- he debating ml audiences. holding the hools. Al- tnything but ulated upon example of irit. l X K V Z Z s xrf - if ' I 1 . JL iferafure HA PE Kansas City, the Product of Industry tThis essay won first prize in the Manufacturers' Parade Essay Contestj It may well be said that the opening of Kansas Cityys new Union Station marks the beginning of a new epoch in her career of prosperity. The first period of her history opened with the settlement, in 180-8, of a fur trader on the bluffs north of the Eighth Street tunnel. The cityis growth was slow at first, but in 1869 the Town of Kansasl' was raised to a new class by the building of a bridge. The dawn of the third great era was occasioned by the erection of the Union Sta- tion in l877. But the greatest epoch is'now beginning with the opening of our new Union Station, and Qctober 30, l9l4, will be re- membered as the most important day in Kan- sas City history up to this time. Twenty-five years ago, an official of a coni- mercial organization in Kansas City declared that the city could never claim the name, Metropolis of the Vtfestw until she could re- ceive, and properly dispose of, the minerals with which the adjacent territory is rich, the great quantities of wheat, corn, sorghum, flax, and tobacco grown in every state traversed by our railroads, and the wool, hides, horns, bones, and bristles of the vast herds of cattle, sheep, and hogs raised on the surrounding prairies and hills. He asserted that Kansas City could not profess to be the Gateway to the VVest until she could make the brick, lime, cement, nails, oils, white lead, woolen goods, leather goods, rope and tobacco that are needed in the markets of the Southwest, the Vtfest, and the Northwest. It seems that he anticipated Kansas City in l9l4 when he made this statement, and if he saw the Manufacturers' Parade on Qctober thirtieth, he realized that the condition he niade in l887 is fulfilled, and that Kansas City has earned her position of supremacy inthe Trans-Mississippi district. Together with the rest of Kansas Cityls proud citizens he may have witnessed on that day the fruit of his cityis labors. The miniature steel structures, the steel smoke houses and poultry houses, and the other manufactured articles would have convinced him that Kansas City can now efficiently handle the raw material from near- by minesg the exhibits of candy, cakes, pickles, Hours, and other foods would have shown him