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Publiahed wnkly bu the school chtldren of . W ilmttte undtr auperviaion of Wilmette Plauaround and Recreation Board. VOL I NO 42 WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, NOVEMBER 23, 1928 INQUIRING REPORTER Question : If you had your choice would you rather ride in an airplane or In a dirigible. Mrs. StalJing, English Teacher: An airplane. Because it goes faster. Mrs. Groves, Social Science Teacher; An airplane. Like Winnie Winkle. Mrs. Jones. Arithmetic: Haven't "figured" it out yet. Come back later and I'll have the "answer." Miss Madsen, English Teacher: A dirigible. I have been up in an airplane. I think the wind would sweep the dirigible more. -Alfred Bartnick, 8B Howard Glass Blower Does A mazing Stunts for Howard School Group Tuesday, November 13, the Howard school was entertained by Mr. Howell and his brother, glass blowers. All the work done was by hand. The only Instrument used to shape the glass was a three-cornered file. The glass he used was a very fine grade. It came from New Jersey, Mr. Howell said that he has· been blowing glass for twenty-two years and for nine generations his family have been glass blowers. They are Bohemians. To be a glass blower you have to have steady nerves and good lungs. The first thing Mr. Howell did was to show us how to blow a glass bubble. He said it is easy to blow one (if you know how). It takes nearly a year to learn how to blow a perfect bubble. The next thing he did was . to silver a glass bubble, by taking Into it silver amalgam and then allowing It to run out. He also made a magnifying glass by putting water Into a glass bubble. Once Mr. Howell took a tube of glass and heated only the end of it. Then blowing down into the tube which made the glass shoot out in a peculiar mann~r. the great pressure in the Inside of the tube made It explode. The second time he heated the end of a tube also, a blowing in for only a certain time, then sucking out the air made it collapse. Another time he took a tube that was rather small over a fire, the air being forced out caused It to make a humming noise. He also made a swan and a Dutch pipe out of glass. The last thing he demonstrated was putting the tip of a tube of glass that was rpelted on a wheel of wood, then turning this wheel quite . fast made the glass stretch and the · stretching of the glass made it fine soft and flexible. ' As we were going out of the auditorium he _ gave us a souvenir which was a . glass pen.-Muriel Meyer, SA Howard First Thanksgiving It was Thanksgiving Day in the fall of 1621. .T he sun was just shooting it's golden rays beyond the distant hills. The colony was already stirr:ing. . From within the cabins could be heard the hustle and bustle of the housewives preparing the noon feasts. The children were standing around discussing the interesting topic of what they were going to eat. Among them were John and William Haywood, their mouths watering at the thought of the goodies to come. There were going to be puddings, pies, fowls, vegetables, and many other things to make a boy's stomach leap with joy. The men were busy setting up tables under the red and gold trees. As John and William turned to assist them, their eyes wandered to a distant hill. There outlined against the g;rey October sky were the figures of Squanto and his Indians also ready to enjoy the feast. Soon the tables were filled with the steaming dishes. The people were seated and John Winthrop arose and thanked God for his bountiful !;"OOdness. Before long thl:' boys were making good head way with the occupation of clearing their dishes. They soon found that their eyes were bigger than their stomachs. The sun was sinking in the we~t. drawing in it's las t rays for a muen-ne~ued rest. The boys were sitting by the hearth thinking of what a wonderful day they had had. .John's stomach ached at the thought of the feast. Thus by the thankful Pilgrims our National Thanksgiving day was form ed.Eleanor Moulding, Stolp SA. Chester Takes Us Back Stage to See Vitaphone at Work Very few people realize how a v.itaphone picture wqrks. The vitaphone IS a modern combinatiQn of the the phonograph radio and a mo_ving picture machine,. operated by a moving picture machine. The mechanism of the machine was demonstrated to two ·Junior Lifereporters, Chester Hanson and Lawrence Buckmaster, by Mr. Burris, assistant manager of the Norshore theater, and one of his assistants. Below the moving picture projecting machine there is a revolving disc which turns at the same speed as the moving picture machine. The "Talkie" pictures come with a regular large phonograph record which is placed on the revolving disc and is played by a fine needle absolutely free from defects. The sound goes to a ffl.dio with four very large vacuum tubes. Through this radio the sound is carried back stage where there is a · large tower made of wood. On this · tower are five horns through which the sound goes to the audience. The changes in tone are regulated from a large dial up in the projecting room. In the pr~ecting room are the projecting machines which are run by a powerful 130-watt lamp. The change of reels is made by using a different ~a chine which has the next film in it. The light which is tl)rown on the actors on the stage is made by a machine with a single 130-watt lamp in it. This light can be thrown on the actors wherever they are by a simple device which swi!lgs the machine around. Mr. Burris' assistant said that the vitaphone could be made for any film if they were both being made at the same time. The screen used for the vitaphone is a transparent piece of canvas. It must be transparent because the picture and sound waves both have to go through it. The curtain for the stage has to have two men to draw it up because of its great weight. The back stage section is a mass of ropes which are used to draw up the various curtains. There is one steel cable which draws down the fire curtain. This curtain can be lowered or raised in thirt¥ seconds. The lights on the stage can be bright ened or dimmed by a slight twist of a wheel, about the size of a steering wheel. The different colored lights are produced by long rqds extended out over a long switchboard. The operator has only to push the rods up or down and the lights work accordingly.-chester Hanson, 8B Stolp. · Tells a Scotch Story That Grew in Wilmette November 13~ the teacher, treasurer, president, and two innocent bystanders, James Kraft and George Yoeman of 8~, Howard, went to Hlavacek, florist on Ridge avenue for a fern. Mrs. Stalling told the florist that we wanted a good fern. Billy, the treasurer says, "A cheap one." Mrs. Stalllng said she got one here last year for $1.25. Billy says, "Knock off the Quarter." The florist showed us some nice $2 ferns. Mrs. Stalllng thought that too high. But Billy nothing daunted starts in. After much hand and arm movement and language, we walk out with a $2 fern for $1. The moral is, smaller and tighter Scqtchmen make bigger and better treasurers.-Lee Blaylock, 8B Howard. Thurcday, November 15, after school, the seventh grades had their badge test. To pass your "badge" test you have to walk on a balancing beam forward and backward and when you get to the center rto a deep knee bend. Next you either get to throw a basketball across the room From Sweden we took a ferry to or hit on the wall with a baseball with Germany. It was very large. On the two out of five turns. After that you get choice of throwing two baskets out of lower deck, there were twenty coaches a five turns or stand on base and throw a and four automobiles. On the upper deck baseball to a person on every base withthere were a large dining room, a sitting out a miss. You also have to run 50 room, a smoking room, a music room yards in seven seconds.-Phyllis Carleton, and a library. It took · us four hours t<; 7A Stolp. cross. We landed on an island off Germany. The city was called Sasnitz. We took our car and rode on for a couple of hours and took another ferryIt took us twenty minutes to cross. w~ passed many miles of wheat, barley and oat _ fields. In one field I counted twelve The old Egyptians didn't have any steel teams of h_orses, four horses for each pens like ours of today. They had a team. The road grew beUer and better quill and wrote on a wax smeared tablet. before we arrived ln Berlfn.-Helen But today we write on a lined piece of Peterson, fifth grade, Central. paper with a fine pointed steel pen. The .rrwdern way of making a pen is: first, they take a steel plate and cut out the blanks, next they put in the slit to hold the_lnk, then they bring it to the grinding desk where it is edge,d off until perThursday, November 15, the ~igh feet. Then the finishing touches are put school Etudents were back visiting. We on such as varnishing the point and shinlike to have them back but they surely ing it and the pen is ready for use.are disturbing when you w&nt to think. Jack Davis, SC Stolp. I supp~e we all wish we could be big INDIAN ENTERTAINS enough tp come around, sit down or Thursday, November 1, a man by the leave the 'room as you please. They can sit in the 1front of the room and talk on name of Mr . . Lori_ l}g came to the Byron but not get called down by the teacher. C. Stolp school and performed for us. I suppose we all have our days so it He brought one of his Indian friends won't oo long until we get that privilege. with him. The Indian's name was Ever-James Kraft, SB Howard . Green Tree, Mr. Loring showed us a tom-tom. Then Ever-Green Tree came out on the stage and danced a dance SCOLDED FOB TARDINESS Mrs. Jones, eighth grade teacher at which the Indians did when an Indian Howard, says she is tired of scolding of their tribe died. Ever-Green Tree also people who are tardy. Four people have did a dance that the Indians used when been tardy already in November. Th,~y they were in love. He sang songs and are: Carl Anderson, Virginia Maine, danced for us some more. All Ever-Green Jean Dunning, Allee Nord. Mrs. Jones Tree's songs were accompanied by Mr. says that she thinks that we don't care. Loring and also all of the dances.-Lucy -Dick Steen, SA Howard Anna Jonas, 7B Stolp. Seventh Grade Girls in Takes a Look at Chicago Tests for Badge Awards From Straus Building Tower This is a story of my trip up in the Straus building. First I took an elevator and went up thirty stories high. Then I took an elevator the other six floors. When I got up to the top I found a French lunch room where I enjoyed a nice luncheon. The top floor is surrounded by a wiredin porch to make it saf~ There are field gla_ 1:1_ses her.e. To the east I looked over the lake. The boats looked very small. Down on Michigan avenue the cars seemed as small as flies. To the · northwest and south I looked over buildings. They looked very queer, quite different than they looked from the street. It was :m int~resting, excursion.-Rollo Gullickson, Miss Fox s room. Helen T ella of Joumey From Sweden to Germany Jack Davis Tells About M anuf acture of SteeI Pens Jane Makes Report on Mee t·mg 0 f t'he p . T . A. Senior Orchestra Soon The P. T. A. had a meeting Tuesday November 13, in the Howard gymnasium: to Give Performances Out of 8B Howarq twelve parents and one teacher showed up. The program was: Mr. C. Roelin Smith of the Baptist church gil-ve a talk which was very satisfactory, Mr. C. Roelin Smith, accompanied by Mrs. Smith, sang two numbers. The prize for attendance was won by the mothers of Miss Sloan's room.-Jane Carol Sundlof, 8B Howard The Senior orchestra, under the direc tion of Catherine Grandquist, is getting along very well now. It has fourteen violins, four cellos, one flute, three clarinets, one French horn, three trum pets, and two trombones. We have three pieces to play now and we hope to play in public very soon. We meet every Tuesday and Friday mornings at 7 :45 o'clock in the Howard gymnasium. Any one is welcome w.,bo can play an lnstru ment.-Frank Christy, 7B Howard WANT A MEGAPHONE At one or two class meetings we dis cussed the matter of a megaphone for the room. Some boys looked up prices which seemed to be too much for us Our president, Lee Blaylock, bought a little "two .bY four" megaphone which now hangs on a ship in the room. Hav ing bought a fern, we will have to walt for the money in the treasury to grow before we get a real one.-J ames Kraft 8B Howard. ( James Ia a Bit Envious of High School Visitors HALLOWE'EN P AR'l1Y On Hallowe'en, October 31, Miss Perring let us have a Hallowe'en party. Those who told stories were Courtney White, and Lucy Jonas, and Iris White. For refreshments we had Pop-Corn Balls, which Mary Hvid contributed to us. It was a very pleasant party. We also had our fortunes told by La Verne Pop-,2, and she was dressed as a Gypsy. Ins and Courtney White told stories which were not true, but I told one which was true.· -I:.ucy Anna Jonas, 7B Stolp. .. CANDY SALE SUCCESS The Girls' Glee club of the Byron Stolp echool had a candy sale Thursday, November 15, in the lower ball of the sobool. The eighth grade girls sold in the morning and the seventh grade girl~ sold fn the afternoon. They made $19.05 which will be used to pay an accompanh;t to accompany them when they go out to Ping.-Eleanor Ricks, -Stolp 7A GIVE FRUIT SHOWER Friday, November 16, the 7B class, END FOOTBALL SEASON Rtolp, gave a fruit shower for Miss PerThe Wilmette Lightweights have com ring. We gave it during· our club period. pleted an unsuccessful season in foot OBGANIZE AT ASSEMBLY The children from the second to tht:! We gave her a yell and then piled the ball. We have laid down our armor sixth grades of Central school held an fruit on her desk.-Ruth Solomon. 7B hoping next year we may win. The last assembly November 13 at Stolp gym- Stolp. game was Friday and we lost the game nasium. The president of each room to Boltwood of Evanston. The score gave a littl.e speech, telling who the ofPASS BADGE TEST was 6 to 0. The last time we played ficers were and the members e~f th~ The Central sixth grade girls had their rthem they beat us 18 to 0. That shows various committees. Miss Moore read badge test Monday. It was a great suc- we did a little better our last game. us some poems about books.-Mary .J--~lla cess. Quite a few ~a ssed the whole thing. George Fackt, SA Stolp 1 Waldner, 6B Central ,.-Florence Read, 6A Central. -- ·· ·- _ (Continued on Page 65)