Willard Middle School - Target Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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THE TARGET When the shadow children find that they are free they join with the sun- shine children in the merry dance. Ellen wakes up and begs the audi- ence to help her make the dream come true. MARGARET KING. RASTUS AND THE GHOST. This is the story as it was told to us boys by Rastus, who trembled even to think of it. It seems that Rastus was coming home late at night from a “colored celebration.” He was riding the old horse he owned, along a very dark road, the only one he could take near his place. Rastus was thinking of the ghost stotries he had heard. All of a sudden his horse stopped and began to tremble. Rastus, very much frightened, looked about but could feel rather than see someone. The thing seemed to be holding the horse’s bridle and Rastus was dumb with fright. Then the horse was given a resounding whack from behind, and off he started, racing dawn the road at a gallop. At one of the horse’s lurches Rastus was sent flying into the air. He found his way home, how, he doesn’t know. His horse, he found eating in front of his shack. We could hardly keep from laugh- ing outright, for it was we who played the trick on Rastus. One of us stooped down and grabbed the bridle, and the other hit the horse in back. We hope Rastus won’t find out, for then we will no doubt have a long race up the road. EDWIN ISAACS. Francis Howe in H. 9 Algebra: “I saw a graph showing the amount of pig you could buy.” 31 TRADE- RATS. Among the gold fields of Nevada, two young enthusiastic miners were seeking their fortunes. They lived in a cabin situated over a shallow shaft, which they used as a cellar. Extending from the bottom of the shaft, about ten or fifteen feet into the earth, was a drift, which they had never taken the trouble to ex- plore. Each morning, when the miners went down into their improvised cel- lar to get eggs for breakfast, they were extremely perplexed at finding one or two missing. The peculiar fact about this was that for every egg gone, was found a small stick. Not only eggs disappeared, but knives, forks and teaspoons, as well. But always in place of the missing article was found— a stick. So numerous were the articles missing, and so mysterious seemed their disappearance, that finally one of the boys conceived the idea of ex- ploring the old drift. By the light of a candle he proceeded slowly and cautiously into its depths. On near- ing the end there was heard a scam- pering of many rats. To his utter amazement, there lay all the lost articles, without even an egg being broken. These rats proved to be trade-rats, a breed peculiar to the desert. They have a keen desire for accumulating and trading, always leaving some- thing in place of what they take, thereby deriving their name. VIRGINIA MITCHELL. Albert Becker to Mr. Hughson: “Have you any clamps to glue my top up with?” Mr. Hughson: busy.” “No, they are all

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30 THE TARGET PAGEANT PEOPLE A PAGEANT. On Thursday, May eleventh, pupils of the Seventh Grade gave a pageant called “Sunshine and Shadow.” It was composed by Constance D’Arcy, Mackay, and was written for the Na- tional Child Labor Committee. The story begins by the appearance of Ellen and Jane, her nurse. El- len has a picture in her hand of a little girl in a North Carolina mill. She explains to Jane that someone sent it to her father from New York, and that it’s something about little girls working. Jane asks her to stay in the park while she does her work. Ellen remains and falls asleep. She dreams about the sunshine and shadow children. The first part of the dream is the appearance of Joy. She invites the sunshine children to come and dance with her. When they finish the dance, Play and Knowledge ap- pear. Knowledge explains about a golden key she is wearing, that opens any door in the halls of life, and that if the doors are hard to open Aspiration, her sister (who then appears on the stage), will come and help. The sunshine children begin to dance again but are interrupted by a band of tired and ragged children led by Jack and Jill and accompanied by Fatigue and Ignorance. These children work in factories and mills. Jack asks Knowledge to give them a chance, but as he is asking, Greed steps in and forbids more speaking. Greed defies all the good spirits, but finally Knowledge awakens Pub- lic Opinion, who calls in Legis- lation, and breaks the fetters that bind him. The moment Greed sees that Legislation is unbound from his fetters he flees with his two com- panions.

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3 2 THE TARGET Every successful business organi- zation takes an inventory once a year and renders to its stockholders a re- port on the amount and character of the business transacted. Our own intermediate school is a branch of an immense business or- ganization, in which the people are the stockholders. It is fitting there- fore that at the close of our first year we consider this question. Do the results of our year’s work repre- sent an adequate return to the tax- payers for the money they have in- vested for our benefit? If our tally sheet (office record card) shows a large accumulation of third and fourth sections, with mar- ginal notes referring to poor conduct, we are not justified in expecting the public to continue investing money in elaborate school buildings and equipment; any more than the stockholders of other business or- ganizations are expected to coiv tinue their contributions when the inventory shows a low rate of in- terest on the investment. Let each one of us therefore, as we inspect our tally sheet, resolve that the coming year shall show a high record of achievement. The public has availed itself of the opportunity several times during the past year to become acquainted with some of the phases of our work that have been manifested in the pro- grams for the benefit of the cur- tain fund, the Latin play, the English plays, the concert of the musical or- ganizations; and our excellent ex- hibits of the work of the manual training, drawing and domestic art departments. The expressions of appreciation by our patrons on these occasions for what the faculty is doing for the pu- pils, as well as for what the pupils are doing for themselves; also the words of commendation from those who have visited the less spectacular but equally important work of the