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

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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

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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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ff rr' r - '--f ----E.- I ,g K 'i:3AfX!-I-Ii wi s . 18 THE WESTPORT HIGH SCHQQL HERALD. that we can care for all the farm products, and the displays of nuts and bolts, barrels, keys, artihcial limbs, Hue linings, overalls, window casements, mattresses, trunks, harness, enve- lopes, and plumbing supplies would have borne witness that Kansas City is well able to supply such articles to all the markets of her tributary territory. ' Manufacture and commerce make the city, and Kansas City owes her remarkable develop- ment to these institutions. Kansas City and all of the manufacturing cities of the United States, feel the hardship of dull business in dry goods and real estate much less than do the other American cities, for their factories form a system of home production and consumption. The employee receives his wage from the manufacturer. He -spends it with the local retailer, who returns it to the factory in pay- ment for his goods. The money is earned and spent in Kansas City, and we are comparatively who patronize home industry, as they do not buy silks and satins, and imported shoes and hats, but the more substantial goods made at home. Regarding this factory as a unit, how much patronage of home industry is due to the manufacturer? Manufacturing, furthermore, develops the natural resources, and creates a cash retail mar- ket for products of the soil. Kansas City's 1,200 factories employ 40,000 persons who sup- port 100,000 people and buy Kansas City food and clothing. Is it a mere supposition that a large proportion of Kansas City's increase in the last ten years has been due to her factories? In twenty-seven years, Kansas City factories have realized for Kansas City what was a magnificent ideal. Wliat ideal will we now find worthy of our effort? The commercial and geographical center of the Trans-Missis- sippi territory, with convenient traffic lines by independent of big business and stock gamble- dom. For a concrete example, let us consider a factory which employs one hundred men, each of whom receive 31.50 per day. This factory then pays il545,0'00.00 annually to men rail and water, and best of all, with an ardent push Kansas City spirit, what shall we ex- pect in the dawn -of the next period of Kansas City prosperity? MARION D. WALTNER, 'l5. The Wager I'll bet, ended jimmy Wainwright, con- clusively, that you don't dare! f'What'll you bet P queried Reid, lazily, wiggling deeper into the huge pile of cushi-ons abo-ut him. What'll I bet ? repeated jimmy, de-risively - what'll I bet that Robert Edward Reid grave, dignified, celebrated college professorj with only the blot of riches on an otherwise stainless name, won't march boldly up to the front door of a perfectly strange house and inquire for Miss Mary? Heavens, man, Ild take a chance like that any time! I'll bet that Irish setter pup of mine you're so crazy about to two bits that you don't. Send him around, commanded Reid. He's worth the price. Besides-I don't see anything so terrifying in that. When they say there isn't any 'Miss Mary' there, I'll just make my apologies and back away politely. All right, grinned jimmy, you've ac- CePl?ed the Wager-you can't back out now-Oo b OH, Old man, and show your courage. And SH'-HY, BObby-boy, you haven't -Jimmy had gljabbed his cap and was cautionsly nearing t d irc . e oor exactly decided what to do in case ss Mary,' have you ? .The door slammed shut just in time tio re- ceive the impact of a nice, plump cushion, and from the hall came a tunef there should be a 'Mi ul Farewell-l, my own-n jimmy Aloi Reid s f'Dam1 Reid, there canopy bet? Illl rer sometl batty learnir consid and nl runt cc of con For at his soft sr windo' smootl and 5 thougl He his usi he ren a carel million named vieves, afcnit town l' Thrf his wa, to drix to leac roofed He hai spied i at him shady glad o among verand its red