Wisconsin School for the Deaf - Tattler Yearbook (Delavan, WI)

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ttnuhlr when they cajole the laborers to strike. t'(immuni»t. are paid by representative of the Russimi government which is working against not only the United States, but England. France nnd other foreign countries. If the Russians had their way, there would he huge revolutions in all countries which differed from them, and Russia could then easily be a world ruler. Unemployment serves as u barometer to the •tate of financial conditions existing at the time. For instance, when the “Help Wanted” advertisements are numerous and a large demand for help is shown, that is indicative of Itood business. On the other hand, when the “Help Wanted” items urc few there in unemployment and the times are hard. Then you see a long list of Fituntion Wanted. The subject of chain stores and their effect on the community is much discussed now. Despite their dislike for them, people continue to patronize them and the stores stay, Chain stores grew from small chains of only two or three stores to (rrcut chains of a thousand or more. Small grocery chains by some reliable dealer ’ o o 0 ‘ 1st Scot: •Til bet ye n two pence I can stay under water lonirer than ye.” 2nd Scot: “All right. The next morning the police were still hunting for the bodies. An American officer was drilling a Russian regiment. He sneezed and three men answered, “Here. Question: “I suppose you've been through Algebra? Mark: Yes, but I went through at night and couldn't see the place. “I helieve this school is haunted. Why? They are always talking about the school spirit. Science teacher: Name a liquid that won’t freeze. who hM» been asked by his patrons to extend his service is all-right, but coast to coast chains or other large concerns are a menace to the community. They pay no taxes in that town nor even in that state, hut send all their proceeds to the center of the system. They ap the resources of the community. A city should prevent a chain store from building a branch in the city. Patronize only your home grocers, hardware dealers, dry goods stores, etc. What is higher in price is worth twice as much in quality. I have conceived of a different plan by which the government controls all industries, hanks, in fact, everything. The individual would have no money whatever, but would work in one of the government's business enterprises nit the time. In return, all the men or women too, would be furnished with a home, clothes and every necessity and luxury of the time. However, what obstacles might arise I do not know. In closing I might say that our present system will be satisfactory if such conditions ns unemployment, race prejudice, and jealousy, both between individuals and countries, might be eliminated. O Q O Student: “Hot water.” Lady Passenger: “Does thl car stop at the President Hotel? Conductor: No ma’am— wc leave it in the sheds at night. Prof: “Name six wild animals found in Africa. Beta: “Two lions nnd four tigers. Physics teacher (after lecture) “Are there any questions? Student: “Yes. sir. How do you calculate the horsepower of a donkey engine? The talking pictures have a never ending possibility, hut we shudder to think of « slow motion film of a man stuttering.

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OUR ECONOMIC SYSTEM By Curtis Reddings Although 1 am not a student of Economies. I should like to write on this interesting and important subject that deals with our nation's present plan of government in regard to business. employers, employees and banking. In America there are both large and small business establishments. Manufacturing, whole sale distributing and brokerage are some of our big businesses, Smaller business, such as retailing, i» us prosperous as the larger business house, but on a smaller scale. American business i- not affected by stock market crashes, with the exception of those which have their cupital in stocks. These enterprises depend on the value of the stocks. The buying and selling of stocks for profit is c ry foolish und usually results in financial disaster. The one that is always hardest hit is the small speculator who loses all his savings in one full swoop when the value of his stocks decreases only two or three points. There are however certain reputable stocks which have no connection with the stock market, stocks of sound business enterprises which have no fluctuation? in value, but grow with the business, American Business has spread to foreign countries and there in the language of the country in which they are, are branches of our Standard Oil Co., Ford Motor Car Co., and other well-known makes of motor cam. Even Russia will loon have our machines. The Ford Company is going to build a huge factory with Russian money and start mass production of cars. Another company is going to do the same with tractors. An American contracting company is planning to build a dam which will be the lurgest in the world for supplying electric power to a large part of Russia. The Germane evidently consider our Wright Whirlwind airplane motors better than the German motors, for recently they installed twelve of them in place of the original twelve on the famous flying boot, the huge Dornicr I). 0. X., in order to give it an additional nix hundred horsepower in its trans-Atlantic flight. However, foreign business has invaded the United States too. One example 1.- the Shell Gasoline Company which in a British company and Shell filling station)} are almost os numerous a Standard Oil stations. There are many other foreign business interests represented in our country, not only by establishing distribution, but by importation. By far the majority of products find u market in this country ns the needs of a population of nearly three hundred million people nre great. Fortunately, we have enough to supply them and n surplus, for sale in foreign countries. Our manufactured products are assured to be in a steady demand for a long time. Then there is the question of our natural product . There have been few fears and doubts expressed as to how much longer our crude oil and coal deposits will lust at the present enormous rate of consumption and wantage. All fears may now te pul at rest as the United States government has conducted an exhaustive survey of oil and coal land and has reported that there are billions of gallons of oil and tons und eoul left. Enough, in fact, to last for the next fifty thousand years. Despite all the evidence of general prosperity and good government, there is one condition existing that persists in causing trouble and for which a remedy must be found. This is unemployment. This Lh more pronounced in winter than in summer because of the absence of many of the occupations of the summer. The men unlaid off for the winter and are forced to find other work. Many of them fail to do so. Employment of unnaturalized aliens was a condition that kept many American born men out of work. Cities employed imigrunt- without troubling to investigate and see if they were naturalized. However, when this fuel came to light, cities hastened to correct their mistakes. Most of them acted thoughtfully and justly, by giving aliens a reasonable time in which to obtain their naturalization papers. Then if they failed to do so, the city was forced to dismiss them. One large mid-western city however threw all of Its three hundred or more aliens out of employment and put on Americans in their place. In-us-much us the poor uliens were not to blnme for being hired, this was very c ruel. Communists or radicals at work among the laborers, especially the unemployed, causa some

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MODES OF DRESS THROUGH THE AGES By Marian Schauer .lust when dress wiu first worn is not known. Our first ancestors, no doubt, lived in a warm country where dress was not needed os a protective covering. Later as their descendants indurated to colder climates the necessity of clothing become apparent. So in the first place, man needed clothing for warmth. Later, his pride and vanity led him to kill birds and animals and use their plumage and parts of their skins for ornament. The dress of the cave-man was very simple. It was merely the skin of some animals thrown over the shoulders, reaching to the middle of the lower limb or sometimes lower. Crude clasps of bone held it together at the shoulders and waist. They very rarely used caps or hats ns we do now. Their matted hair was protection enough for them. In Sumerian days men and women wore fringed garments of wool or feathers and both wore their hair equally long. Dress became the fashion but fur. wool and feather were not comfortable in a hot climate, so people came to wear aprons of unplnitcd grass and reeds, loiter the fibres were woven into u fabric and the weaving showed improvement after improvement as the centuries passed until we have the finely woven fabrics of cotton, linen, silk and wool of today. In the ancient days of the Greek and Romans, the people wore n tunic or shift. Among the Romans the tunic wan often ornamented. The cloak which they wore over the tunic varied much at different times and places. Among the Greeks, it usually took the form of a large oblong cloth wrapped about the body so a to envelope one from the neck to the ankles. The Romans used a similar garment, known as the pallium. The Roman cloak was the toga, a large cloth in the form of a segment of a circle worn with the straight side upperward. One end came forward over the left shoulder reaching nearly to the ground. The garment was then passed mound the back, over the right arm and across the front with the other end being thrown over the left shoulder and allowed to fall behind the back. At the time of the Norman Conquest of England men and women wore a couple of tunics mid a loose cloak. The tight Chauases” or hose enveloping the legs was the chief innovation. From the two tunics were evolved the jackets, jerkins and doublets of later times, and from the short cloaks the various over garment . The initials and devices which were seen in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were for the most part of embroidery. Men. in order to have more freedom in his labors, in the chase and in war, discarded the toga and changed to a garment resembling the present day trousers. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries women’s shkirt were full and bodices were laced in front, sometimes with an embroidered stomacher. Cocked hat-brims developed at the end of the century into the three cornered hat. In the seventeenth century both men and women carried muffs. The muff continued in u»e by women until recently. At the beginning of the eighteenth century the skirts of men's coats had become fuller and the sleeves had wide cuffs. The sleeved waist coot was shortened and sometimes richly embroidered. During the course of the century, the skirts of the coat and the corners of the waist-cout were cut away in front, reducing the form more nearly to that of the coat of the present day. Embroidery was used for ladies' dress, especially for the underskirts, rendered visible by the open front of the dross. Silk brocades and bright colors were used. Toward the middle of the century skirts became very ample, being supported by very wide hoops. The sack or sacquc, or a loose dress falling straight from the shoulders, continued in use during the greater part of the century. By the nineteenth century the change in men’s clothing had swept away much of the finery of the past. Knee breeches were lengthened into the modern trousers. The cocked hat of the eighteenth century was replaced by the top hat. Meanwhile women's dress was marked by a graceful simplicity, with high waist and low neck. A lower waist and puffed sleeves followed. Fringes, trimmings, flounces and long trains were in use during the latter part of the century. In 1900 women's skirts were so long they