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Lillian Buss Humor •«-;. .Alton Anderson ^jLiterarjyv^**,* Marjorie Whiting ^Ijookin#f.'.,..v»>. • .Elizabeth Vogt Hu&ic ... ."; Mary McAndrews •<£.:.• NATURE, LAW AND GOD <*:An Address to Boy Scouts of America • .;•< "You are sailing tomorrow to repre- :• ipent your organization at aft interna- •'tional gathering of the Boy Scouts to; ing influence of faith in a divine power Ibe held in Copenhagen. As honorary! we could have little faith in ourselves. Pacfcgroiind 6? Americanism "That is the heritage of the American boy. It was an act of magnificent courage when our ancestors set up a nation wherein any boy may aspire to anything. That great achievement was not wrought without blood and acrifice. "Make firm your resolution to carry on nobly what has been so nobly beyrun. Let this nation, under your guidance, be a finer nation. Resolve that the sacrifices by which your great opportunities have been purchased will be matched by a sacrifice on your part that will give your children even a better chance. The Imperishable Beacaa "The third is a reverence for God. It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaintackle, sure did some real sensational tackling, assisted by his mate, Elmer Zuelsdorf. • Everyone played as they never had played before and under our coaches' strict training this week on interference we sure will beat Libertyville here next Saturday. Come on out and help your team beat Libertyville behind the high school next Saturday afternoon. Admission, 25c. We will show your some real football Saturday so don't miss it. See you Saturday at the high school field. PAPER NUMBER FIVE fcC,.. - ^s" r i president of your body, I desire to give fk>u a word of farewell and to express -fliiy hope that you may have a pleasant Jljnd successful journey, which will be «tf much good to yourselves and your associates. "There was no Boy Scout organization in my boyhood, but every boy who lias the privilege of growing up oh n farm learns instinctively "the three fundamentals of scouthood. Keystone of the Arch , "The first is a reverence for nature. Soys should never lose their love of the fields and the streams, the mountains and the plains, the open places «nd forests. That love will be a priceless possession as your years lengthen oat. "There is an instructive myth about Hie giant Antaeus. Whenever in a Contest he was thrown down he £rew fresh strength from his mother, the earth, and so was thought invincible. But Hercules lifted him away from the earth and so destroyed him. "There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our •yes. Remember that nature is your great restorer. The Second Great Essential "The second is a reverence for law. I remember the town meetings of my boyhood, when the citizens of our little town met to levy taxes on themselves and to choose from their own ijumber those who should be their officers. There is something in every We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love. "Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. "Faith is the great motive power; and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important and that his work, well done, is a part of an unending plan. "These are only some of the fundamentals of the teachings of the Boy Scouts; they are the fundamentals of our American institutions. "If you will take them with you, if you will be living examples for them abroad, you will make a great contribution toward a better understanding of our own country and receive in return a better understanding of other countries; for you will find in fore'gn lands, to a very large extent, exactly what you carry there yourselves. "I trust that you can show your foreign associates in the great scout movement that you have a deep reverence for the trifth and are determined to live by it; that you wish to protect and cherish your own country and contribute to the well being, right thinking and true living of the whole world." --Calvin Coolidge. FRESHMAN CLASS NOTES ' Earl Dowell sure looked like a dude Monday morning. We wonder Where he inherited that suit. We find Mr. Duker is a good teacher in Latin and English as well as algebra for he is taking Mr. Stringer's place. i Nine rahs for Joe Barbian. He has at last purchased some note book paper. Let's hope he came upon it honestly. Some of the stories we wrote must have been too much for Mr. Stringer for he hasn't been to school for the last few days. * We boys have been playing some wonderful games of football after school besides the disputes and quarrels, which take up most of the time. Mr. Koerner: "How does a ship prepare ocean water for drinking?" Anna;t answering hastily: "They fertilize it." (Meaning to say filter it). . Mi*. Stringer, in Eng. I: "On what days did the moon shine in 'The Midsummers night dream?' " Earl, misunderstanding: "I didn't think they had moonshine in those days* at the way our team played last Saturday. Crystal Lake had to play its best to win. Miss Miller has found out a number of new things from her modern history class. One of them is. that Quebeck was an English general that defeated Wolfe. Willie had a little girl, Her face was white as snfl^ --7. And everywhere that Willie wefit, His girl was sure to go. So the people in this high school realize that this paper canont be run by only a few students. We must have the help of the rest of the school or else we cannot succeed. If you hear, see or think of anything, please write it down and hand it in. • future. They are wasting time by waiting to plan their work later. ATHLETICS McHenry again went down to defeat at Crystal Lake Saturday after a very hard struggle. The M. C. H. S. eleven played real football last Saturday for the first time, but still they could not hold the •|ich meeting, in every election, that j heavy Crystal Lakers any better than . approaches very near to the sublime. | they did. Crystal Lake scored their "I am thrilled at the thought of my audience tonight, for I never address boys without thinking that among them may be a boy who will sit in this white house. Somewhere there ,«re boys who will be presidents of our , railroads, president of colleges, of bbnks, owners of splendid farms and tifeeful industries, members of congress, representatives of our people in foreign lands. first touch down after about three minutes of the game had been played on a very neat end run made by their, full back, Boomer. McHenry did not succeed in scoring until the second quarter was nearly over, when "Ding' Newman, McHenry's right half back, took a nice forward pass from Whiting and ran fifty yards for our only touch down. Everyone played good football and LeRoy Conway, our right SOPHOMORE CLASS NOTES Miss O'Sullivan has changed her name to "Be Consistant." Dick Overton still manages to reach the schoolhouse about a half a minute before the bell rings. Most people like to see their name in the paper, but the editor of these notes has found one girl that doesn't. The zoology class hereby takes this opportunity to thank Mr. Tallmadge for making our quiz easier. Whenever anyone limps up and down the hall way we just come to the conclusion that he was playing football. We miss Mr. Stringer a great deal. We hope he will soon be well so that we may see his smiling face once more. The freshmen are sure taking our party seriously. We find some of them praying for the. Lord to protect them. Elmer Freund, at Miss Oates' request, is now starting on a theme which he hopes to complete by the end of the week. Crystal Lake was certainly surprised JUNIOR CLASS NOTES^ We are only sorry that there were not more of us to cheer for our boys at the Crystal Lake game. We predict that Dick Overton is gO' ing to be a great scientist some day. He always likes to do new experiments, but how about the old ones? Mr. Duker: "Let's -see, ah-h-h-h did you say you were from St. Joe, Missouri?" Miss Miller:.. "No, Mr. Duker, I'm from the United States." We never realized that there was so much talent in Eng. Ill class until we began to read that heart rendering, awe inspiring Shakespearian novel, "Macbeth." Can you imagine:-- ' "'tf Mr. Duker with a pompadour1?"1!.' Mr. Tallmadge without a smiWt John Fay with black hair? Confidential Correspondence Dear Dr. Tallmadge: I have often been troubled with nervous tremors. They usually come on me in my chemistry class. It is often necessary that I cling to the chairs aside of me for support. Can you suggest a remedy for me? Sincerely yours, Lenore Cobb. Dear Miss Cobb: I recommend that you try studying your lesson and see if the malady re occurs. I think it will not. Yours very truly, ;"*c: J. I. Tallmadge. SENIOR CLASS NOTES The other day one of the girls tried to open her locker with a Ford key. The school was well represented down at the Grove last Saturday night. > Seniors ought to be privileged characters in shorthand. The idea of a senior having to make 90. We wonder why it is the typewriting room is always occupied mornings, noons, nights and even on Saturdays. It seems that the students are very studious, or is that the reason? Mr. Stringer has been absent for the last few days on account of a slight illness. Mr. Duker is taking his place at present, but we are hoping that Mr. Stringer will be able to return in a day or two. (We wonder what Harold means). In the grade school last week a girl was removing a picture from its frame and under the picture she found a diploma that was "To certify that the McHenry school had been awarded this testimonial for the second best high school exhibit by the McHenry county agricultural board, given at Woodstock, 111., this 1st day of September, 1896." Quite a relic. can it a YES Be sure to procure, mark and deposit in ballot box the small ballot like this Specimen. Road Improvement Ballot. 99 For the State Hard Road Bond Issue , November 4th Bliall an Act of the General At- •emi>)y of Illinois, entitled 'An Act io relation to the construction by the State of Illinois, of durable hard •nrfared roadn upon public highways of the State along designated routes, and the provision of meuDK for the payment of the cost thereof by an Issue of bowis of the State of Illiuois.' which. In substance, pro- vi> es for the construction by the State acting thru Its department of Public Works and Buildings, subject tf> the Governor's approval, of a State-wide svstem of h;ird roads, on mutes described; for control and maintenance, and for conditional compensation for roads already pav. ed; elves such department full po^er to execute such Act; authorizes State to contract a debt for such purpose and to Issue *100.000.000 of serial bond*, bearing interest at not to exceed four percent: appropriates said •urn to said department; levies a tax *11 .V'en* fcald interest as it • hall accrue, and to pay off &atd • bonds within .i0 years from issuance but provloes that such payments tnay be made from other sources of revenue and requires moneys in the Motor \ ehicle Law 'Koad Fund' to be first used for such payments (subject to Its use for payments of principal and interest of prior State road bonds) and such direct tax to be omitted In any year in ifrhich sufflclent money front othtr sources of k"18 l,etJn appropriated to mt(t such payment for such yearprovides for publication and fo? sub', mission to the People; makes the provisions for payment of such in- ... ^®rest and bonds Irrepealable: and pledges faith of state to the making andUef?«E??ment8: *° ,nto "rce YESI NO Paid by Auto Fees No Direct Tax Make Illinois First in Good Roads Improved highways decrease the hauling cost of every load hauled over them and increase^the value of land wherever they penetrate. This bond issue will insure the completion of the 9,800 mile State highway system, which will reach practically every community and will carry at least 95 per cent of the State's highway traffic. Failure to Vote is a Vote Against m |TH1S~AD IS PAID FOR BY POPULAR ^SUBSCRIPTION FROM FRIENDS OF THE MEASURE, R T COOKING A study of potatoes was made one day last week. Potatoes were cooked in five different ways, that is, with the skins, without the skins and with part of the skin cut off. The potatoes were started in cold water and some in hot. Those started to cook in cold water were found to be soggy, while those put on in hot water were mealy. If cooked in the skins the potatoes were not as creamy or as white as those cooked without skins. The potatoes were then mashed and fixed in an appetizing way. Creamed celery and scalloped onions and cabbage were prepared. These dishes took up the methods of preparing white sauces. Sauces were found to be thin, medium, thick and very thick. The celery was used to experiment on cooking . sweet juice vegetables. Onions and cabbage are known as strong juice vegetables. It was found that in cooking strong juice vegetables by cooking in a large amount of water and by leaving uncovered the strong flavor is taken out of the vegetable. The nutrients in food are summed up into five groups called food principles, or food stuffs: Water, mineral matter, proteins, carbohydrates and fats. On Monday the class baked apples. The apples were filled with various things, as cinnamon, sugar and butter, cocoanut and marshmallows, dates and raisins, jelly and nuts. It was found that apples should be baked in a hot oven with the skins on, but slit so as to allow the steam to escape. Lenore seems to have taken a great delight in cleaning sinks. This is her second weeks and she still has another week ahead. We wonder why?, '-SCIENCE We wonder who Martha Miller has on the string. Mr. Koerner asked the physiology class if they ever talked over a telephone and Martha said she gets a call every night. We wonder Who it is that calls. Mr. Koerner was telling the physiology class that some people had a good muscle for throwing things. For instance, he says he has a sister that has a good muscle for throwing the dish rag. The : oology class has a new pet Art Patzke caught a young screetc.i owl and now we're trying to find out what it will eat. We've tried mud turtles and gophers and now we're going to try fruit and vegetables. We think that perhaps it's because he's homesick that he won't eat.f Perhaps" being such a wise bird he likes company in McHenry. Did you ever know that an owl cannot turn his eyes in his head, but must turn his head around? At present our owl is kept in the green house. He is so blind in the day time that if he is taken out of his dark corner under the plants he scarcely find his way back. The physiology class is studying the structure and functions of the nervous system. Briefly, we may state a few facts of general interest and importance. The brain and spinal cord are the seat of the serve impulses. The will is the principal governor of our acts, yet many of our movements are not a direct result of the action of the will. Examples of this may be seen in drawing the finger hurriedly away from a hot object or in the winking of the eye to avoid some apparent danger. These are known as reflex acts, taking place without the direction of the will. A large majority of the daily body movements are a direct result of the will sending stimuli out thru the nerves. The nerves stimulate the muscle and thus we have taction. There are two general sets of nerves, the fibers, leaving the ventral side of the spinal cord, known as ventral nerve roots, and the fibers leaving the dorsal nerve roots. The ventral nerve roots carry messages only from the brain and spinal column to the various parts of the body. The dorsal nerve roots carry messages toward the brain and spinal column from the various parts of the body. The girls are astonished at the fact that the human body is such a complex mechanism. We marvel the discoveries in science and admire men for inventions such as the adding machine and aeroplane, but none of these compare in any degree whatsoever with the structure and working of the hiimAn body. • 8* Bog«r. We have come to the most difficult part of our bookkeeping at last. It is quite hard to get some things thru the heads of some of our bookkeeping students. If we dont have more school spirit backing our school paper we will never make our paper a success. I guess Lisle Bassett found out that Miss Oates meant business when rtie told him to write a theme. A number of students have been aem out of the typewriter room because they are lacking control of their mouths. We have learned that the type writing students cannot count when it eomes to counting the mistakes they have on their assignments for type writing. Ida Reynolds* ADS BOY--To carry books between periods. Must .be talkative and bright. No experience needed. Apply to Alvena Freund. WANTED--Key to Carl Thoraell's heart. Apply to Mary Brefeld. Automatic student silencer. Apply to Miss O'Sullivan. Fast working marcel waver< Apply to Bernard Newman. One complete set of higher grades. Apply to Bernard Freund. WHAT IS YOUR AMBITIOHf ? • There are very few pupils in high school that know what they are going to do when they have graduated, think that students had ought to know what they are best fitted for by the time they are juniors and seniors in high school. If by this time they do not kmr what they want to take up in the future, I don't think they ever will. Some students go to colleges without the slightest idea of what course they should take that will be of future use to them. I think they should plan these things all out while they are in high school and know what they are going to do is the MUSIC Ernest Barbian is always getting bawled out when he plays slow movements. Perhaps he thinks so fast that he can't play slowly. Rapid progress is being made in preparing the selections which are to be played by the two orchestras. It is very interesting to listen to the first violinist defending himself. He suggests that if Mr. Sears doesn't like the way he holds the first chair down to place an empty one ahead of him. A member of our orchestra says that he was once asked to play the piccolo in a German traveling band. The selection to be played was "The Elephant and the Fly." When the audience was seated and the music going nicely the piccolo player representing a fly set sail on a long and fast passage. It fell down terribly. Someone in the audience called out, "Say, who's that dumbkopf ?" The band director stopped the performance, turned to the audience and said: "Our piccolo player is doing the best he can. We will not have him insulted. Until I find out who called my piccolo player a dumbkopf we will not go on with the music." Receiving no answer from the audience the director grew more and more angry and furiously said: "If I do not find out who it was that insulted my player I will hit him with by baton." Finally someone called out from the back of the room, "Say, Mr. Director, we don't care who called him a dumbkopf, what we want to know is who called that dumbkopf a piccolo play- I , Mary McAndrews. EXCHANGE COLUMN The West Chicago community high school is sponsoring a lyceum course. No school for West Chicago Armistice day. They are going to have a mammoth celebration, a parade, floats, bands, prizes an' everything. Friday the members of the commercial, geography, chemistry and physics departments of the Crystal Lake com munity high school journeyed to Argo, 111., to inspect the Corn Products Refining company's plant. The What Not column of Hie Crystal Lake school paper is a very good piece of high school humor. Woodstock's school orchestra has twenty members. _ The science club of Woodstock community high visited the Yerkes observatory last Monday. We wish to compliment the editors of these papers on their good work. All of the papers show good manage- -• •<-- <. r .1 : ~ - M in verse form and we believe he *«* right: • .v ' ,;v COLUMN 6 - You Can If You Think Yo« Caal*^ "f~ If you think you are beaten, yon aft; ^ If you think yon dare not, you don*tj If you like to win, but you think yon can't, It is almost certain you wont. ' If you think youll lose, then yoa For out of the world we find. Success begins with the fellow's It is all in the state of mind. If you think you're outclassed, yilp^: are; You've got to think to rise; s 4 YouVb got .to be rare of yourself fore • You ever win the prize, Life's battles dont always g«£.j To the strongest or fast&st man; But soon or late the man who wins, U th^ «af |vho thinks he -- .:-.v .. HUMOR "Jimmy, spell stadium." "Aw, why dont they call it bowLWi.^|/ Our idea of wasted energy is a meit*;; tal picture we have of Adam singi% There's Nobody Else AH You* fl Eve. % -.wi®s-:. ' vh ys - '-"'-•Is . " i •!§*«»?•. wu * ^: W 'M' -1 • Willie: l^llie: in!' "May I ask where you are f*".-. "Yes, near the lake, She wm': p«» m mm* ' ' drifted. / .-v . \ - iV#-? Economics professor: wrong. You have put the liabiliti# under assets." Student: 'jfe left Handed." He: "Yes, I took th« stand lasl week in the Fisher case." She: "I thought that you didn't know anything about it." , He: "I didn't. But under the o^sfj dinary procedure it tookjlhree to bring it out." . • Conductor: "Say, young man, yon cant go to New York on this ticket. It's marked 'New York to New Hav- * Young man: "That's all right, I'll; ride backwards." Four thousand non-skid tires couljfl have been made from the amount A student's average monthly savings amounts to $100 in confederate money• . -"HiT?"1 /*- '• • , . . " ••••• •*» * " • She (strcasttefy while dtrt Want ing) : "This reminds me Robertf i Louis Stevenson's 'Travels with ghV Donkey.'" He: "Year I do fed like an author tonig-ht." ^ CONVOCATION In convocation on Friday of last | of chewing gum made in the United week Mr. Duker illustrated our "Lib-1 States in 1920. erty," with a story. The story is as follows: A man was once walking down the street, swinging his arms around promiscuously, when one of them col lided with another man's nose. As a result of the collision the man was knocked into the gutter. Upon rising the injured man said angerly to his assailant: "This is a free country and I can swing my arms if I want to." fhe other man then replied: "Your liberty extends to where my nose be gins." Mr. Duker also said in convocation that there would be no more chewing gum in school. In fact, tbpre would be no more chewing at all. Mr. Koerner innocently asked if we could not even chew the rag. Tuesday Angela Petesch, Mr. Tallmadge and Mr. Koerner gave us some fine musical numbers from the opera, "Martha," and gave a short synopsis of the story which the lyceum players m- - - PROVERBS - mat is the most important lesson in all history? Rome, Greece, Egypt and Persia-- all the great empires of antiquity are no more. They perished when they ceased to grow. China built a wall about herself and stood still for a thousand years. Today she is the football of the powers. The most important lesson in, all history is, "To cease to grow, to stand still, is to perish." An old Swedish proverb, a little different from the rest. When you play, play hard; When you work, dont play at all. HERE'S HOW HIT HAPPENED Helen Hansen, habitually haggard, held her horsewhip high. Her heart hurt; her head hung. She hit her hungry horse. Humbled, hostility held her. Why had her husband hesitated ? Had her humor hurt him ? Helen hated hypocracy. Hollow hauteur hurt her. Her husband's hairsplitting haggling had haggered her. Hardships had hindered her happiness. Having hunted healthful happiness, her heinous husband, hopelessly hidebound, had hoodwinked her. Her horsewhip hissed. Her hard heart hurt, she hit his helpful horse. She hurt her horse who's harrowed hills, who'd harmed no hair of her. Her husband, harsh, haranguing, helped heave the horse's harness, healed his hurts, heaped high his healthful hay. How high he has held his happy head. Helen hit her hungry horse, her husband heaped his hay. COMMERCIAL NOTES The typewriters are still being used considerably after sehotl. POETS' CORNEE ^Everyone has a motto; some are good, some fair. This poet thought flat his motto was good enough to pot BOY SCOUT NOTES All of our boys seem to have thi • scout spirit. This is a good thin$p for much can be done when the boyiPi want to co-operate with their scoot master. Almost forget about the big foot* ball game last Sunday. Twenty-tw||~v' scouts showed up. Sides were chosefe^- and a hot game ensued. At the enf vV of the game the score was Bojt •Scouts, 12, Boy Scouts, 19. The Boy i :§3couts won. We had a great meeting last Monday night. Everyone was there. We met at our usual meeting place and then marched to the grade school ^ gymnasium, where we had loads of: fun. The new neckerchiefs werlfe^i given out and badges were also given to those who had earned them. Mr\ Koerner urged the boys to advance to higher ranks. Many tenderfeet havf been satisfied to stay where they aret but after Mr. Koerner gets finishe<(|f' with them, the rank of Eagle scoutfl will not be high enough for them£ r *> After the meeting some more new . scouts were initiated and after that . refreshments were served. GROW We keep tab on the pub- , lie taste, and you will always find at our store jL3he groceries most in demand by discriminat- : , ing consumers. - jWe find it pays us to v beep just what our customers demand, so we _ nev^r try to sell you *•1 "something just as good.'* -Our years of experience 'are at your service and c - ready to cater to your wants. M. M. Niesen NcHnrjr Pbon* M asr«ip