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VOLUME TWO Published in the Interest of the McHenry Community High School, McHenry, Illinois, Thursday, November 20, 1924 ^ g" . EDITORIAL STAFF 1ti Chief Richard Stengel -Assistant Editor... Frank Page .Sewing ....... / Athletic*.. v.... •Vv Science . ; , Commercial Senior .... Junior ....*, Sophomore Freshman . Girls' Athletic#...'.. Lillian Buss Humor ....:.,y.,.. Albin Anderson Literary Cooking the Merchant of Venice to us and for some reason or other the class has changed their opinion of the works of . Elizabeth Boger j Shakespeare. .Adrian Thomas Our class rings have arrived. Every Music • • .Adele Pufahl | one isvery much elated over them and .«.;!>•. .. .Ida Reynolds a certain young lady made it her busj- *V.«, William Nye ness to parade up and down the halls Monday morning asking every one if they'd seen the new class rings? After hearing Harold Jepson recite the first line of George Herbert's "Virtue" (Sweet day, so cool, so calm, .. . t,!Marjorie Whiting j so bright), we decided very definitely . .Elizabeth Vogt! that he ought to be a chemist. We Catherine Walsh .John Fay .Y..'.'. George Stenger r " •' Y ^ 11 a^ and express the hopes of its constituency. If you do not tell us what you and your friends are doing, it must go to press, made in the office of Em Se Ach Ess, and reflecting the opinions of the staff rather than the school. The Editor. COMMERCIAL NOTES Help Wanted: A young woman of pleasing personal appearance to take my place evenings in the social whire. Due to certain recent events, I firfe Ij have had no technical training to the efficient. j madge will give them some unknown Now this coarse isn't being offered ] metal. They will perform a test and for the benefit of the first mentioned j should then be able to tell what metal class of students. To the third class, j it is. stenography is the most vital subject they are carrying. It is THE accomplishment that is going to obtain for them their first position. Because of it, they expect to secure at least ten dollars a month more to start with, and many times that amount later on, than their classmates who Sure- The chemistry students were all very happy«when Mr. Tallmadge told them they did very well in the exam. Marie Powers. /-T> • ' m: Xi A MOTTO FOR THE DAY-v • "1 'believe in myself and in icy feltyywmen, in the work they are doing .f ' «ttd in the work I am trying to do. I . believe in hands that work, hearts # that love and in brains that think." „• Elbert Hubbard. DOMESTIC SCIENCE "" The question often comes to us "Is **? domestic science a fad?" Are the girls taught the things which may be applied only in the class room or are they learning things which are going to make them more efficient as home makers? There are added duties for Which we are held responsible, but nevertheless our home duties remain; • is' it a fad to learn to perform them well or to help others in performing them in the most efficient manner (feasible ? The complexity of the problems in "' the home has increased with other forms of vocation. There is a higher standard of efficiency as well as a higher and better standard of womanhood. Would any modern farmer or business man be content to do things exactly as His father or grandfather did them? He certainly would not. A farmer studies the needs of his stock and the rotation of his crops in order to get the best returns possible ftom his labors. A business man gaudies the needs and demands of his community. Is it a fad for women to wish to learn to manage their ,./;Mary McAndrews j only wish that everyone could have . Berteel Spencer heard it, for it had an uproarous effect on the English III class. Won't Paul please tell us what makes him so happy all the time? We're so "ctirious. This is an altogether new sort of illness. Not even the same old symptoms. We hope Paul doesn't misunderstand us, we mean he was just as frisky, "them rarny days" as he felt those days in *80. Class to Present Short Play A Junior class meeting was held on Thursday morning and it was decided that we would give'a short comedy sometime very soon, during a convocation period. Miss Miller has consented to coach us an(l, judging by the very effective way that she delivered her speech Armistice day, we believe it will be a success. We are setting a precedent for the school and hope that other classes will follow. We intend to have a comedy in which serious thought and humor are mingled. We want the support of the school in all our undertakings and if we get it we're bound to succeed. must^ devote my spare time to study-! 'y it ought net to be necessary for a ing. 0, Mildred Ahrens. j teacher to decry their indifference day The bookkeeping department re-j after day. Surely they ought to have cently learned to make out financial their own interests sufficiently at heart statements and we are therefore now to go ahead and put every spare molisting herein our outstanding assets j ment they have on their shorthand. SOPHOMORE CLASS NOTES Wanted: High grades in history. Sophomore class. - Mamie KeggV favorite saying: "Great cats, ask otti- sewing teacher, she knows." . Mr. Duker says that if he had graded our papers as he planned to we would have some grades below zero. Miss O'Sullivan informednfus that hpmes in the same manner and to casti our reading list book reports are lipide the more primitive method*! ready. That meant We have more * Wfren better methods may be applied? \ work to do. The great industrial changes of the, The sewing cfass donated Mr. .last century and a half have brought) Koerner a little cellehrd doll. We are ®§rrespond ingly great changes in the! sure Mr. Koerner enjoys this plaything problems of the home. Women are no j very much. longer the chief producers. Much of | Lost, strayed or stolen: One bag their work has gone to the factory, which contained three pieces of candy. Household duties Which used to take Finder may keep bag, but must rehours or days of labor may now be! turn candy to Dick Overton. tone in the corresponding number ofj A little harmony might be better. Minutes with the sewing machine, j Miss Oates says that her session modern appliances of heat in cooking j hall is the noisest room in school. Rayand electrical apparatus for the home, j mond Baer said that was because we The increase in the complexity of liv- j all make a different noise. talg has taken away from womn her! Miss O'Sullivan has a new plan for former responsibility without giving j keeping her English II pupils from her anything to take, its place. Where- j putting their arms around each other as women were formerly producers of j during class. She says she never almost all the necessities of life, they knew the boys were so affectionate r*4jt*e consumers as well. ! and so she has changed their seats. *1 Another thing which heme econom- a.Mr. Koerner told the physiology and liabilities. „: >; \ Assets Current assets '•-> Ida's giggle ... >•>. ,.-i10.00 Chuck Ferwerda's blush ..... 80.00 TiUie's stacomb ,....;,:iVi^<|».00 Torchie's silenef »».......... * 2.00 Gus, as Valentin* 10.00 George's ambition 140.00 Adele's Hp stick ... .y.J ... .60 Berteel's hose • • • 8.00 Clyde's sense of humor:.. .2000.00 Deferred charges Miss Oates 160.00 Fixed assets - Abe Lincoln ».i*i..,. fl.00 Liability Fixed liabilities Rosalie's lovesickness ........ 90.00 Helen W.'s abilies 70.00 Ruth Whiting's doraiae^,j, 8.00 B a s h f u l D o r o t h y . . . l ( , . . . . < - l o Sebre's dimmeness ....... ».w .60 Hilda's coquettishness *.. •0.00 Bernard's pep .% * 7 . 0 3 Current liabilities Flunkers the hours spent now will mean dollars in the years to cotae. I^iere is no M wweess, you know. Caryl Oates. . How to Raise Good Poppy Corn Miss Miller: "I have heard it said that wh<yi the people of eastern Kentucky wishes to plant corn on a hillside they took it to a hillside on the opposite side of the valley and shot the kernels across the valley with a ffun." . . Harold P.: "When it gifew Hp it must have been popcorn." • r. • Kenneth Granger. How many caps to make a capture? How -many sums to make a summer ? How many plums to make a plumber? How many nicks to make a nickel? How many picks to make a pickle? How many tapes to make a taper? How many capes to make a caper? How many tons to make a tonnel ? And hoW much fun to make a funnel? Central High, -X - ! • - Miss Stockebrand claims that she never saw so many different ways in marking off a square for patching as she did in watching our c'ass. Miss Stockebrand brought piece* of small checked material cut in two different siz^s for us to patch. We nearly went blind trying to match the stripes. We each had to bring something to patch last Wednesday. Those who didn't bring anything have to hand in 4 garment which they patched hefoce the end of the quarter. "" ' SEWING Marion Wegener caused quite a bit of excitement in class last Friday. She leaned back in her chair to throw something into the wast£ basket and | fell over. Fortunately Marioii wasn't 1.99 j injured in any way. Ask Charles Ferwerda if it pays to! Rosalie: "There isn't anything at erase in one's books. | home that I can find to patch." ^ •Misrf Oates has finally decided that! Miss Stockebrand: "Perhaps you the penalty for forgetting to bring1 will tear your dress before the quarone's material to class is twenty min-; ter is over and then you can patch utes after school. Many were the heads which hid behind the desk when Miss Oates made the statement that the penalty for chewing gum was to be dismissed from class for a week. Ask Gus Freund if she keeps her work. From now t»n if any of the typethat." RosalUt "I neve tear my drain." HKJffEST IN EXAMS The following people won the highest grades in examinations over the first quarter's work. In evei*y «Hse the marks are the reward of sernus effort. We congratulate the students on their good work. Mr. Koerner: Physiology, Marion Wegener, 91. General science, James Frisby, 90. Physiology, Carl ThoraeU. Mr. Stringer: Latin I, Raymond Bair< Spanish I, Albin Anderson. Algebra, Wm. Nye, Harold Bacon. Latin II, Albin Andersoo,. , English I, Verona AmaMu' , 4 Mr. Tallinadge: Chemistry, Violet Vycital, l60. Physics, Harold Bacon. 88. Zoology, Lucy Hughes, 100; Lyman Mueller, 100. Miss Stockebrand; Cooking, Ella Harrison, 92. Sewing, Rosalie Stilling, 96. Miss Oates: Stenography II, Rosalie Stilling, 99. Typing II, Olive Vasey, 92. Typing I, Berteel Spencer, 96. Stenography I, Ida Reynolds. Miss O'Sullivan: English IV, Ella Harrison, 95; Elisabeth Vogt, 95; Fern Bacon, 95; Angela Petesch, 95. English II, Lorena Jepson. English in, Violet Vycital,. 96; Al- THE INQUIRING REPORTER Every time we think about it, the Em Se Ach Ess offers a prize! of nine sheets of school paper for the best question sent in for the inquiring reporter. As only one question was sent in, by Florence Kinsala, she wins the prize. •' '• / The question: . What is Jhe most foolish thing yod ever didf Where asked: Middle of main h*U» first floor. Richard Overton: I studied my lesson hnd wasn't called on. Ida Reynolds: I tried for two years to get thru in Latin. James Fay: Once I tried to act dignified. John Fajr^ I paid ten. bucks for an airplane ride. : Joe Barbiian: I tried to toad a yell once. We are glad to see the original work coming in. This shows that the students' interest in their paper is growing. The following poem is original, therefore we value JtJwch more than the others: How Wc Feel To dream of exams is a terrible thing • And to think you have fajled When the class bell r'ngs. * To start on another la very much worse, You have lost all your pep, And are ready to curse, But now we should worry Till the next ones come, Wh n we'll all have to study, Till the clock strikes, one. MUSIC Our orchestra is practicing with the Crystal Lake orchestra on Tuesday evenings and Thursday afternoons. | bin Anderson, 95;^arie Powers, 95. There can't be many more practices' Mr. Duker: because the date is set for the pro- . Algebra, Alfred Blake, 100; Howard writing students are caught looking at! gram to be in the Crystal Lake high\Ensign, 100; James Frisby, 100. their key board they are to be blind school auditorium, Dec. 11, and in our! Geometry, James Fay, 98; Byron PAPER NUMBER NINE .Question: "Why does.a ?tork stand on one leg?" r Answer: "Because tf ha raised them both he'd fall down." Prof.: "My talk today is going ft be on liars. How many of you rend the tenth chapter of the lesson?" Every student raised his hand. Prof.: "Good! You are the very » group to whom I wish to speak. There is no tenth chapter."* v ^ Bill: "Why were the Middle A*M ^ known as the dark ages?" Lill: "Because there w^ere so many knights." Guest at hotel, bearing knock door: "What is it?" '• >'"'j' Negro boy: "Telegram, boea.** « Guest: "Well, shove it under IM % door." Negro, not to be fooled out of hia tijk " I can't, boss, if a on a trny* ^ 1 "Jessie, I have told you again and again not to speak when older persons are talking, but to wait until they stop." "I've tried that already, but they never do stop." -iV." Chairman: "Do you want the mittee chosen from the floor?" A voice: "No. choose it from members attending." Insure-In Snre-Ii»r;nre -- wn H -- W m. G. Schreiner *.$ Auctioneering: OFFICE AT RESIDEKCS Rhone M-R McHENRY, fUL. folded and made write the A. B. C. for the rest of their typing period. "fes is doing for women is to make the home work an interesting activity f|ther than the dull, monotonous type ' of work which it used to be. It brings to her not only the importance of efficiency in her own home, but also tile value of direct relation and influence on other homes in her community. -R. C.-S. SENIOR CLAgS NOTES Many went hunting, but few returned in time. ^ • - Gus certainly knows how to express 'himself in physicist's terms in relation to a great'amount of force. ' We are very sorry to say that we t Jjiave lost one member of the Honorable "tin or body. Here is good r|jDu, Lewis. I It has been proposed by several of! &e seniors to throw a party on orl §bout Thanksgiv'ng. We will knowi more about it later. | Some very good five minute talks! class a story: (This is supposed to pertain to physiology). Little Arthur had had a very big dinner and after eating his pie asked for another piece. His mother said: "If I give you another piece you'll burst." . "Well," Arthur said, "give me the pie and get out of the way." < Dick Does Stay After School Now that Mark Twain's book of "Huckleberry Finn" has received so much approval we think that somebody ought to write a book entitled "Dick Overton's Schooldays" or "His Nights After School With Teachers." FRESHMAN CLASS NOTES f|hat kind of juice will make a luck to | chargei; go ? Ask Earl. Hooray! Hooray! The freshmen say,; cial department THIS SHORTHAND PROPOSITION There comes to all teachers so much wailing and moaning over the undue amount of time--from the students' standpoint--that is required by their courses that I believe it would be well to devote the space accorded me this week to a short discussion of the subject in my own courses. Now to these wailett I have three statements to make: 1. If the McHenry high school is to remaift on the accredited list, its stenography students must attain a certain efficiency and only a given amount of credit can be granted for this specified amount of work. . 2. You were told the first day of school not to enroll in this department merely for the sake of obtaining a credit, so you have no reason now to complain. 3. In this course, as in all other courses, the fretting and grumbling is done by the inefficient--the mental and physical indolent, and those pupils for whom the day in school is an annoying interlude to the evening's social activities. If there has been any fallacy rent assunder in the past few years, it is the one that the high school commeris a good dumping auditorium on the 7.. The pieces to be played are: Bridal Rose overture, Poet and Peasant, Repass band, Northwind, Dancing Moonbeams, National Emblem march and Beneath Thy Window. The money taken in is to be used to buy some of the deep instruments for the orchestra, such as the base viol, cello or base horns. Mr. Tallmadge will play the piccolo. We must then have someone to play these instruments. Anyone in the high school may volunteer, but freshmen are preferred because they will be in school longer. The orchestra wishes to give Earl Conway great praise for learniiig to play the trombone so well in so short a time. He started taking lessons from Mr. Sears a year ago last month and, as a trombone is a very hard instrument to play, he has done very well. Mr. Tallmadge, Mr. Koerner and Mary McAndrews gave a short musical program, consisting of two duets entitled "Two Friends" and "Alita;" a flute solo, "Offertoire," and a cornet solo, "The Water Witch." Mr. Koerner spoke a few words in which he said that the object of the program was to interest the children in music, for the success of the future high school orchestra depends on them. Hitchens, 98. POETS' CORNER EVERYDAY SONGS * By Edgar A. Guest The Purpose of Knowledge He "dbes not have to work and yet he strives To serve a dream of qplendor which survives. Beyond the need and Urge for toil he Students' Message to the PdbTic With Dec. 5 comes the first basket ball gam& of the season and the first game in the ne& gymnasium. We students are determined to have a large crowd, not only at that game, but at every other game that is played here this season. We students alone cannot begin to pack it, for it will hold almost four hundred people. So that means that more townpeople will have to come to the games. Friday we are going to start a drive- to sell season tickets. They j will only be two dollars and will be f good for nine games, averaging 22 j cents a game. Whereas, if you want-i ed to see a game without a season ticket it would cost you 35 cents. If stands student approaches you to sell you And seeks to keep th% skill of younger i a season ticket, don't turn him down hands. off hand, he may have something to One goal he knoWs, wHVRi once seemed i say that will interest you. But far away, whether you buy a season ticket or Now once more distant beckons him; not, remember that our main purpose We shall not worry another day. Exams are over, over and past, - But wait till next qharter, ala%^ alas. Advertisements * Excellent diagrams for general §|iv current topics were had in Ameri- j science drawn at various prices. In- / 4fcn history. One was especially inter- quire of Joseph. Barbian & Co. Opting, give by Jesse. Will work your algebra in quick r .. The exams nlust have been to much time. Prices according to amount of ,,||>r wn Lam Beth, as it required the \ work. Answers guaranteed. Inquire ' "jpest of the week for him to recuperate of L. J. Mueller. - lifter s'.tch a hard strain on his intel-j Will help pupils in English I. Have " tact. had much experience and are very Some fif the students who have been' skilled in the work. Inquire of Thenground for the above class. On the contrary, no other department in school demands such intellectual alertness, pep and ambition. Altho stenography has a real mental disciplinarian value, the majority are not pursuing it for that purpose. You are taking it for its practical value. You expect, by next year, to be able to take average subject matter at well over one hundred words per minute. Many of you are studying stenography because you wish to go to college and have learned from your Orthorhombicpyramidaltruneafetl We study chemistry. . r ' Native crystals of sulfur are of the orthorhombia systym,^ pyramid in habit.and often with truncated ends. They are a transparent, yellow. Tillie. Huffing their way thru school for the nes, Freund A Co. j»st ton yearr. certainly have the egoj Since the first snow has fallen the j predecessors what a wonderful savtaken out of them in shorthand, school will have to be very careful of After they have stood up at that little their windows. Wc have some very front board for half an hour there isn't good snow ball throwers this year. SCIENCE An article appeared in last Wednesday which was of very much interest to the chemistry students. This article stated the Prof. Miethe of Berlin had accidentally discovered that gold can be made from mercury. Using a quartz lamp and mercuric vapor he was trying to deing of time an<l energy stenography; termine the effect of violet electric is to the college student. Not only rays upon the vapor. After-two hunthat, but many gnd many a boy and ( dred hours of operation the machine today. "Rest you," the idlers whispered in his ear, "Your purse is filled, your future safe and clear! "You do not have to work, put care away, Enjoy life's hours of pleasure while you may I" . "Now you have learned to toil," his spirit cries, . "Was it to idle that you grew so wise? "Did you seek skill and knowledge day by day Merely at last to fling them both away? . "Has not the world wherein you found your skill The right to hope that you will use it still? "Was it for money only that yon learned ? Were you not otherwise with life concerned? "You who have done §0 well for profiit's take, Surely should work a better world to make." the papers "Keep on, keep on!" the voice of conscience pleads, "One triumph to a grantor' triumph leads. "Happy the world whan wise men watch its fires, . And much is lost, when skill grown rich, retires." PERSONALS Adale Pufahl and William Beth were ^>uch bluff left in them. . Wanted--Some good detectives'to j girl has paid part of his university j became clogged. He took it apart and absent from school Friday. There is a lack of chairs in the; help find Joe's algebra. expenses thru his ability to do short- discovered its tubes were filled v :th Mr. Tallmadge: "How l<mg^doea a Senior session hall and we wonder! •' hand and typewriting, and many more solid gold. The theory which is used mosquito live after it's dead?" #hat has become of them. The other! , WANTED • j will do so in the future. as proof for this theory is that there; Tillie: "If everyone would sit in 4a y Jesse, who v n sitting next toUi«fe^f#nal Wcrk from Stodeot* | Many of you must earn your own'are eighty elections in mercury and I the assembly until everyone elseleft, Harold, very politely got up and gave | g0 far oniy three original poems living upon graduation and to you this: only seventy-nine in gold. The rays there woulwi t sue a his chair to Rosalie as she could find J an(| about the same' number of news j shorthand, proposition is a serious one. j of the quartz lamp are strong enough | doors. ,«o vacant seat. Harold aald wearticles have been contributed to the j You expect your stenography to be; to knock the <>ther election off from1 Ihould get more chairs. -1] A.ch Ess by students who dolour stock in trade when you attempt the mercury and solid gold remains. I not belong to the staff. The only j to se'l you services for dollars and' Of course everything that appears in JUNIOR CLASS NOTES i va'ue that this paper has comes from i cents. The ability to take dictation | the papers is not true, but we believe Our old classmate, Harold Miller, its presentation of original and imme- rapidly and transcribe your notes ac-j that this is true, because it was.taken visited school Friday. diate material. If news notes are not'eurately represents the difference be-(from the Scientific American and also line v. We wonder if the teachers think' supplied by those for whom the paper j-tween fifteen dollars a week and thir we're human encyclopeadias. When, is published it will be a dead issue.; ty dollars a week three or four years '"Se saw our exam questions we wished | We might as well bring out our barrel j from now. bat we were. Miss O'Sullivan: "All the because it is to be tried in a laboratory in New York. It may mean the differ-, Mr. Tallmadge last Friday told the I of lastyear's issues and send them toience between a bread-and-milk lunch! chemistry class that when they are to it?" poems! the press to be reprinted one a week.' and a chicken dinner two years from; thru school they will want to be able; Clyde we've read so far were love poems." j The object of any newspaper is to tell j now. In no field of endeavor is the Torchy: "And then you wonder j one-half of the world what the other competition so strong a§ in the sten Geometry A circle is a round straight with a hole in the middle. Parallel line^ are the same distance all the way and cannot meet unless you bend them. Clyde: "Do you get that third problem in the test?" Dick O.: " "No; how near w«pe you "Three seats away." %hy we're such a lovable class." « Miss O'Sullivan has finished reading ./ half is doing. It must relate thejographic field. On the other hand, events at the daj, to voice the ideals no profession offers greater rewards to distinguish between the different j metals. This is to be our new lab-| oratory work. Two of the students i HOW MANY How many wram to- make-* ftpwill work together and Mr. Tall-; ture? is to keep the gym filled. So try to come to as many games as possible so that you can help us boost our team, which you and we wiph ha eee win* • _;-AVe keep lab on the pub- .Hc taste, at d you will always find at our store . the groceries most in Remand by discriminating consumers. We find it pays us to Steep-just what our customers demand, so we never try * lo sell you • *V>methingjustasgood." Slur years of experience are at your service and ready to cater Jo your wants. M. M. Niesen McHenry Phone 4# * m M DUMBBELL POEMS dedicated to Helen There Is a girl in cooking I Who none of us should seorn, She had just loads of fun Trying to pop her corn. The following poem carries with it * fine thought and is a lesson to some people: As to Yon Did you give him a lift? He% a brother of man, And bearing about all the load that he can. Did you give him a smile? He was downcast and blue, And the smile would have .helped him to battle it thru. Did you give him your hand ? He was! slipping down hill, And the world, so I fancied, was using him ill. Did you give him a word? Did you show him the road? . Or did you just let him go on with his load ? Don't you know it's the part of a brother of man T\> find what the grief b and help if you can? Did you stop when he asked yon to give him a lift? Or were y6u so busy you left him to shift ? Oh! I know what you meant! What] you say may be true! But the test of .your manhood is--; What did you do? Did you reach out a hand ?' Did you find him the road? Or did you just let him go by with his load ? „' ' Anonymous. • , HUMOR BiU 'eellector (to waiter)t **lay, where'^ the manager of this restaurant?" Waiter: "Sorry, sir. flirt on* to lonch." - Co-ed: loud." Fresh: "Your new coat is rather 4It's all right on the muffler." Give The Kiddie Real Comfort This Winter-- Youll be amazed to nee how much Radiant fire heat will mean to your entire family in comfort, health and convenience. When youngsters come in chilled and shivering or with wet feet, it will warm and dry them in one minute. On bleak winter morniags, they can dress in comfort before it> cheery glow. And think of the enjoyment you will get from this beautiful open fire on chilly fall and winter evenings. See for yourself what a wonderful improvement this is over any heating device you have ^j'er seen before. , ' Western ~TJHircir bis and Electric Company C. E. Cot tin*. District Met., date. IB. "I is M m. •PL • .i".