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LOCK HAVBH. PKNNA.* FEBRUARY 13, 1928
Training School Physical
Education Festival
Who's Going
lo Win?
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Senior Class Dedicates Praeco
At the Senior class m e e t i n g held
T h u r s d a y , J a n u a r y 26, it w a s decid
Try-outs f o r Walter Hackett's
od that The 1928 P r a e c o will be ded
" C a p t a i n Applejack" a mystery play
icated to t h e flrst Senior class o.
to be p r e s e n t e d by t h e Senior class
this school.
on F r i d a y evening March 9, were
When we were very young, e x a m - IVIartha W a s h i n g t o n danced when he
W a l t e r Miller r e s i g n e d his oflice
held Monday afternoon, J a n u a r y 30 | inations
were
dreadful,
awful cut down t h e cherry-tree. When he
in S h a k e Hall, Miss Alber will d i r e c t ! things. F a i r y Queens hid in fear was older? Oh, well, a n y w a y . Health- as t r e a s u r e r for t h e Senior class a."
he is not classed a S e n i o r . R u t h Adthe practices t o r the play which is | w h e n ' X a m l n a t l o n s stalked into Land was fun.
ot an entirely different n a t u r e t h a n ' view. On t h e same day, each was a s
But still what of tairier a n d ex- a m s was elected in his place.
P r o g r a n i C o m m i t t e e s Appointed
those before presented here and far from t h e other as the two poles, a m i n a t i o n s ? H e r e It is. Of course
A r r a n g e m e n t s were m a d e for t h e
which requires an u n u s u a l l y l a r g e !
w h a t is all this? W h a t have fairy the d e a r souls never expected it, but
c a s t . Practices began W e d n e s d a y queens and examinations in com- all this work comprised in a large Senior d a n c e which will be held in
evening, F e b r u a r y 1.
mon? Come now, no foolishness, ' measure was their Physical Educa- t h e gym on S a t u r d a y , F e b r u a r y 18.
The c h a r a c t e r s and those selected w h a t is t h i s ?
i tion of the first s e m e s t e r — a n d they Committees were a p p o i n t e d which
for t h e p a r t s a r e as follows: Lush,
We k n o w they are now on speak- were being examined. This clever will t a k e charge of t h e a r r a n g e a typical English Butler—Victor Pet- ; :ng t e r m s . And being most gener- i idea was t h e work of two s t u d e n t s m e n t s .
e r s ; Poppy F a l r e , a quaint little o l d - | ous-hearted, we'll let you know.
who worked up t h b novel p r o j e c t —
T h e following will serve on t h e
fashioned person of 25 years a g o — '
Last Wednesday afternoon, J a n u - a fun examination, u n d e r t h e Su d e c o r a t i n g c o m m i t t e e : Lloyd BauJ o e Viering; Mrs. A g a t h a W h a t - | a r y 2',, tho Training School had a uervision of Miss Dixon. Liz Robb m a n , Louise Bowes, B e r t h a Wolfe.
combe, a handsome gray-hatred lady Festival, No ice-cream and cake, b u t was the sixth g r a d e t e a c h e r , and
of m i d d l e age, refined, a r i s t o c r a t i c , ' cvoiyone was served with a gener-I Maude Caldwell was the flrst grade I •'^^'"''^ Quigg, Mildred Beam, Ivan
F r i t z , Reba J o h n s o n , Russell B o h n .
fussy a n d easily a g i t a t e d — B e e Mok- ous slice ot fun and lots to see. I t teacher.
le; Ambrose Applejack, a m a n in ' was a Physical Educational Festival,
All the grades w e r e n ' t lost, of J o e Viering, Rosa Lee Hinkley, W a l his e a r l y forties who h a s settled if you had been there, you would course, so t h e remaining ones dram- t e r Miller, Dent Bowser, Sue T o m down, easy-going dispositSou, and have t a k e n on a "Visit to H e a l t h - atized The Toy Shop, helped by Hel- ko, Dorothy Bickel, Mowrie E b n e r ,
accustomed t o refined s u r r o u n d i n g s T .-nd." Can't you just see how ador- en Carden. And t h e r e were tumblers
Clarence Williams, C h a r l e s
Dale,
— C l a r e n c e W i l l i a m s ; Anna Valeska, able the little flrst g r a d e r was a s too, t r a i n e d by Elizabeth Bressler.
Helen Behrer, R u p e r t F i t z s i m m o n s .
a y o u n g woman of 25 or 30, quick, | F a i r y Queen, really the Sleep Queen Fun, fun, fun!
Impulsive and fiery—Reba J o h n s o n ; you know. On the same road to
There w e r e
specially
invited Max Fitzsimmons, R u t h McCall, Ger
Mrs. P e n g a r d , a tall domineering lTe:\lth-Land most all the little flrst guests, too, even m o r e grown up a l d i n e Conway, M a r g a r e t
Melvin,
w o m a n ot gushing m a n n e r — J o e g r a d e r s lost their way and kind than s i x t h g r a d e — M o t h e r s were Glenn Nolan. Dorothy Killen, K a t h Robinson; Mr. Pengard, a s a l l o w - ' F a i r y Sleep led them t h e r e . Very, there.
leen Spengler, Elizabeth Bressler,
faced m a n w i t h an air of mystery very simple. When one got t h e r e
S o t h e second and t h i r d and
Dorothy Bastian, Helen WeRteric;<
.ibout him—Lloyd B a u m a n ; Ivan one was e n t e r t a i n e d by grown-up ourth and fifth g r a d e r s , not to be
Rorolsky, a tall forceful m a n , so f,ixtli g r a d e r s , all dressed up. W h a t nitdone, had s o m e t h i n g on Friday a n d Josephine Robinson.
Storl Artley, Helen W e s t e r i c k and
pc:fectly dressed as to be polished fun! And what dancing! J u s t like mo:ning, u n d e r the supervision ot
- S t e r l Artley; Dennet, an officer of people way, way off, dance H u n g r y Eve Impress. The second g r a d e girls, Clarence Williams will t a k e c h a r g e
the l a w — R a y Z a n s r ; J o h n n y J a s o n , and D e n m a r k those dances come very zealous Indeed, insisted upcn of securing an o r c h e s t r a .
;i friend ot t h e family, refined, good- from. Awful funny names. Ho, h o . perl'otming t h e i r r h y t h m s — t o r the'v
Louise Bowes and H a r r i e t Kelley
matured and a sense of h u m o r — T e d | look at those c l o w n s — t h r e e of t h e m . own beneflt Wednesday m o r n i n g and
were
appointed to serve on t h e r e r : a y ; maid, typical English—Dot ! Mv sides ache from laughing. Now foi- the pupils Friday m o r n i n g . The
reshment
committee.
McCloskey; C h i n a m a n , secret, oily, • t h e Minuet, just as George and
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Other c o m m i t t e e s a p p o i n t e d w e r e
s l y — E m e r s o n P a c k a r d ; the cabin
b o y — L o u i s e Young. P e g 'Laird
Alpha Zeta Pi Held Banquet .orogram c o m m i t t e e — H e l e n B e h r e r
Praeco Progressing Nicely
doubled t h e p a r t of Anna in Act II
and Tom L a r k i n ; t h e play commitThe Alpha Zeta Pi club held its
The pirates a r e : Gordon McClosT h e 5 0 t h Anniversary P r a e c j
.ee—Lloyd B a u m a n , Reba J o h n s o n ,
key, Albert Hobba, Tim F e r g u s o n Yearbook is well on its way. The a r n u a l b a n q u e t at t h e New Fallon
Josephine Robinson, Dent B o w s e r
J a m e s Quigg, W a l t e r Miller, Glen 1928 Staff, with Sherman Francisco , Hoiel at 6:30 i>, IVI. on S a t u r d a y ,
and Jerry Conway; the insignia comNolan F r e d Barr, Charles Vonada. a s E d i t o r and Chief, is w o r k i n g ' J a n u a r y 28.
and E a r l Smith.
h a r d to p u t out an Annual t h a t will
Sterl Artley acted as t o a s t m a s t e r , mittee—Louise Young, Albert Hoband everyone shed a t e a r when he ba and Bee Mokle.
surpass any p u t out before.
A n u m b e r of new ideas a r e being called upon J a k e W a r d to speak.
Mental Telepathy or What?
Jake has left with his degree, ready
" R e d ' s the favorite color this win- Incorporated in this y e a r ' s P r a e c o ;
Magazines in Library
to s t a r t on In this wide world. We
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perhaps t h e most Important ot which 'wish him t h e g r e a t e s t success,.
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"Oh, I d u n n o ! W h a t m a k e s ya' .^ j j , ^ planning of the work along
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Eighteen different m a g a z i n e s have
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the lines of the 50th Anniversary. I to have some of our a l u n i n i club been newly bound in the library.
members w i t h us. T h e r e w a s Syl- A m o n g t h i s n u m b e r a r e seven t h a t
W e r e you at the dance S a t u r d a y ;
.light?"
since this is t h e 50th year t h a t t h e via Breth, of the class ot ' 2 3 , who have not been bound before includ" W h a t ' s t h a t got to do with wear- school h a s been In progress. New •s teaching In Clearfleld, a n d Jack ing: Childhood E d u c a t i o n , C u r r e n t
Follmer, '24, who Is principal ot one History, E d u c a t i o n a l A d m i n i s t r a t i o n
in' r e d ? "
j ideas a r e also being used In t h e fac" W e l l , I w a s just gonna finish—" ; u 1 t y and senior sections besides of t h e schools In Lewisburg, Pa., a n d SupervisIoB, L i t e r a r y Digest, Naand, by the way, still t h e s a m e jol- t u r e Magazine, J o u r n a l of E d u c a "Oh-h-h!!
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I m a n y o t h e r s which will m a k e t h e ly Jack: David Ulmer, '27, was also tiopal Research, and N o r m a l T i m e s .
here and reported t h a t he Is "crazy (Nov. 1 9 2 2 — A u g . 1925) T h e r e " T h e r e m u s t a been a b o u t forty-,
about his t e a c h i n g In Corry."
seven red dresses over t h e r e ! Every-1 """"^ " " ' l " « » " ^ a t t r a c t i v e .
m a i n d e r of t h e list Includes: Atlanl)odv t h a t had a red dress had it on ! "^^^ m e m b e r s of the staff hope
The dinner was a real success. tic Monthly, E l e m e n t a r y S c h o o l
S
a t u r d agreen
y night
t o p it
many
ones.and
The toonly
o t hoff,
e r s 1 t h a t they will have the cooperation After a few words from o u r alumni, J o u r n a l , English J o u r n a l , N a t i o n a l
tworn
h e r e were
must a bhave
beenor a two
l m o s t d a rask of every m e m b e r of the senior class our faithful faculty advisor, M r, Geographic, School Review, W o r l d ' s
o u t one
purchase of a n n u a l s . " T h e more orblues and a couple o' g r a y and besides t h e u n d e r g r a d u a t e s . In t h e T r e m b a t h , and J a k e W a r d , "gbod W o r k , Historical O u t l o o k , C e n t r a l
brown ones! And It w a s n ' t flre prjO- defs bboked, the better your book eats and lots of fun" was reported S t a t e Normal School Bulletin, Norby all.
mal Bulletin, and A n n u a l Catalogs.
vention *eek dr Christmas Eve either!" wiil be."
NUK.MAL TIMKS
Mary's Love Affair
1 d o n ' t know how they met, but
all of a sudden quite a case developed, a n d H e n r y called on Mary several t i m e s a week. Some n i g h t s
when he called, they would go out,
and o t h e r s they would stay h o m e ;
but one S a t u r d a y n i g h t when Henry
did w a n t to stay home, Mary insisted on going to t h e movies. "All
r i g h t , " she said, "it you won't t a k e
me, I'll go a l o n e ! " and g r a b b i n g
her h a t and coat she was gone, leavens H e n r y alone.
M£.ry did go to t h e movies. Of
course she did not expect H e n r y to
1)0 t h e r e when she got back. But she
opened t h e door a n d t h e r e he sat,
still playing t h a t c r a c k e d H a w a i i a n
record h e was playing when she left.
He seemed deep in t h o u g h t . Poor
Henry! How could s h e t r e a t him so?
"Mary, why did you run off t h a t
w a y ? " he asked.
" W e l l , you w o u l d n ' t t a k e me tu
the movies when I wanted to g o . "
site said.
For a few mljiutes they were sii(Ut, t h e n Henry told Mary t h a t he
wanted to t a l k ta h e r t h a t n i g h t ;
Ihat w a s t h e reason he wanted to
! tay h o m e . He w a n t e d to be with h e r
iilone. H e was tired of always going
v/hc:-e t h e r e were crowds.
Then H e n r y i roposed. Of c o u r s e ,
M i i y had never t h o u g h t ot m a r r y ing him. Of court^e she liked him,
hat s h e couldn't m a r r y him. W h y
I he h a d n ' t thonght of such a t h i n g !
It was e i t h e r m a i r y him or quit and
-Mary r e l u c t a n t l y chose the latter. I
l e v e r could flnd o u t j u s t why she
would not m a r r y him. W h e n I asked
her, all she said was, " H e was too
i e r i o u s , so we decided to quit. He
v,'a:-ted m e to m.irry him right •'iway
;.nd I couldn't see It "
They did f;uit. F o r a long t i m e
1 c i t h e r saw iinything of t h e other.
.Ma:y often mentioned h's name. She
icemed to long to see him again,
but she would not a s k him to come
luck.
MAPLE SYRUP
Sister Doing Her Lessons
(Continued from l a s t w e e k )
Oh, yes, now 1 see how to d o it.
I guess I will l e t t h e r e s t g o , I t h i n k
I'll have t i m e to flnish t h e m In
school t o m o r r o w .
Now, I can flnish in a few minutes. I've only my Gogerfy t o d o yet.
W h e i e is my book? W h o t o o k It? I
don't care. It was h e r e a m i n u t e ago
and now i t ' s gone, a n d oh, y e s — I
;o;got, here it is back of m e . Well.
I guess I know these. Maine, New
H a m p s h i r e — G e e ! M i s s L o n g wa.^
cross today In class, she gives m e a
p a i n ; she Is a l w a y s — o h . M o t h e r 1
w a s n ' t going to say a n y t h i n g about
her, I was only t e l l i n g — a l l r i g h t , I
w i n . W h e r e was I? Oh, yes. New
H a m p s h i r e , M a s s a c h u s e t t s , Connecti c u t — O h the t e l e p h o n e — H o p e its
for me.
of w e a l t h and luxury the steady,
satisfying drip of clear, sweet sap
conjured in our heads.
Within a few h o u r s enough sap
had oozed o u t to begin boiling. We
collected it in buckets, poured it into a large w h i t e preserving kettle
c u i a b l e of h o l d i n g four or tive gal.0..S, and set t h e k e t t l e on the kitchen stove.
U began to boil shortly, and as
fast as It boiled away we poured
iiiore s u g a r water in. B u t t h a t kettle could dispose of an unbelievable
a m o u n t ot sap. Gallon after gallon
went Into its ample interior. Clouds
of steam rose continually from its
wide m o u t h to collect on the window
rageous a n d I won't stand for i t ! " and roll in big drops down the pane.
"Hello, yes, goody! W a i t a minAnd she flounced indignantly out o;
After a few days t h e contents of
ute. Mother, Marg w a n t s m e to
t h e shop.
the t h i r s t y k e t t l e began to look
come over to help h e r m a k e fudge.
T h a t set me t h i n k i n g . In front ol muddy. More days and many more
May I? Oh, please Mother, my lesour house t h ; r o was a good sized gallons produced a m u d d i e r eft'ect.
sons are all done. W h y yes t h e y are.
forest containir.g a large stand o. Still more time and sap only tend1 .studied t o r a whole half h o u r uns u g a r maples. Ko lar a:: I knew, t h ? •H\ to m a k e the contents of t h e ket- til by head aches now. Well, then
precious fluid rising a n n u a l l y in tle still muddier.
if I get up in t h e m o r n i n g and study.
.4s t h e days passed and the thirst May I go? Hello, Peg, yes, I'll be
t h e i r stems ha 1 never been tapped.
A f o r t u n e , locke:! up in t r e e t r u n k s , i of fhe big k e t t l e seemed unquench- over in a jiffy. B y e . "
had been going to waste all t h e s e abe, our e n t h u s i a s m slowly waned.
Again t h e r a t t l e ot p a p e r s , and
y e a r s ! I resolved t h a t it should no After almost two weeks of steady
t h e banging of books. T h e n l i k e a
' boiling, a time came when o u r inlonger be wasted.
whirlwind, she is gone.
Accordingly I told a few of my ^ terest sank to t h e zero point and
W e n d s o f m y newly
concieved none of us carried any s u g a r water
P ' ^ " '*"'' ^^^ ^''* <" ^^''"'1^ e n t h u s i a s t h a t d a y . The stuff in the kettle \
Exchanges
t'-cally to secure the necessary ma- boiled down slowly. Towards the
I A h o o k exchange is being inend
it
began
to
thicken.
Finally
we
t ^ i i a l s . Our u n i t e d efforts produced
i stalled in t h e College Union, w h e r e '"" imposing arr::v of j a r s , buckets, \ took it off t h e s t o v e — a scant pint of
by t h e s t u d e n t s may get rid of their
sticky
syrup
flavored
with
a
fiy
or
P^"*^ ^^d pans with which to catch
two and bits ot bard, and bugs and . econd hand books and m a y likewise
s-op. The spouts—dozens of themi
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^Ider b r a n c h ; a - d . having secure:!
In sober silence we strained the
" " * " « " • ^ ^ •'^t ""* ' " ™ake our
fortunes.
sickening stuff t h r o u g h numberous
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^"^ ^P'*® °^ '""• f'eemlngly Inex- salt bags; but r o a m o u n t of straini •^^"^"^'e supply ot utemslls we w e r e ing could remove t h e taint of the
| soon forced t o scour t h e neighbor- foreign m a t t e r t h a t had been in it.
W i l l he t h e m o s t
hood for lard t i n s and old buckets. By common consent it was put in a
v a l u e d ffift y o u
All available e l d e r of s u i t a b l e diam- j a r and r e l a g a t e d t o a dark shelf of
c a n give— —
e t e r was cut t o meet our needs. We •in old cupboard, w h e r e It remains
Y o n o n l y cnn izive
tapped all t h e maples we saw—So to this day, a m u t e witness of the
il.
m a n y t h a t w e never
a f t e r w a r d s disappointment which Invariably folcould flnd m o r e than half of t h e m . lows t h e bite of t h e get-rich-quick
In fact we d i d n ' t conflne ourselves bug.
to maples, wo even tapped an occaSugar water, I h a v e found, may
i sional c h e s t n u t and a beech or t w o . be had for t h e t a k n g , b u t maple syrBut these were small m i s t a k e s a n d up, to my mind, is worth its weight
Phone for an Appointment
no one can comprehend w h a t d r e a m s in gold!
One early March day, t h r e e y e a r s
ago, I chanced to o v e r h e a r a scrap
Ol c o n v e r s a u o n in a local d e p a r t m e n t store.
An i i u t e h o u s e k e e p e r was vigororously Lerat.iig an apologetic a n d
purspiring c l e r k . " I t ' s prepostero u s , " she e.-^claimed, " F o u r doUais
and twenty-live cents lor a gallon ot
o r d i n a r y maple syrap! I never h e a r a
of t h e like! I t ' s lobbeiy, t h a t ' s w h a t
il iS, d o w n r i g h t robbery! W h y , a.i
you have to uc to get all t h e syrup
you want, a b s c l u t i l y Iroe, is to h o l J
a bucket under a i i e e ; Ai.d t^ thl.ik
you have the n e r v e to b r m g it h e r e
and charge four dollars and t w e n t y five cents a gallon for it! I t ' s out-
Then one day she heard t h a t he
was engaged t.i a n o t h e r g i r l — H e n ry, who said thi.t no o t h e r girl could
mean a n y t h i n g to h i m ? Could it hi
t r u e ? How could he have lorgotte:;
her so soon? Secretly she did care,
Things became unbearable. She must
find out t h e t r u t h from him! She
stayed up late t h a t night, writing
him a letter. One after a n o t h e r she
lore up until she wrote one t h a t had ' L . H . K o h l , S l a t e
Studtntlo do. It r e a d : " D e a r Henry. I must
Secretary
of
Y.
M.
C. A.
It now t h e t r u t h from you. No, I
Tells of Life in Mexico
don't w a n t you to come back, but I
Mexico's need for t e a c h e r s who
do w a n t to know w h e t h e r you a r e
have built i n t o their lives a spiritengaged. Please answer, but please
ual reserve and d e t e r m i n a t i o n to
serve was t h e o u t s t a n d i n g thing in
T h e very next day Henry called. ;i, s h o r t chapel talk, given by Mr. L.
They had a long t a l k alone. She : li. Kohl, State Student-Secretary ot
never told me much about his vis- v M. C. A., W e d n e s d a y , J a n u a r y 25,
it. b u t when Henry left t h a t night,
Mr. Kohl s t a t e d t h a t Mexico is a
Mary looked like a new person. She , o u n t r y rich in n a t u r a l resources b u t
looked so happy. H e r eyes had lost ,,oor in spiritual s t a m n l a . Mexico,
t h a t I r n g i n g look. " H a v e you decld- too, is, in the l a r g e , a misjudged naed to go back t o g e t h e r ? " I asked,
tion, anxious t o learn and to devel" N o , " she answered. " W e have op.
(jult. b u t I j u s t had t o see him once | Mr. Kohl spent several days in
i - o r e : I just had to talk to h i m , "
t h e school.
The Swope Studio
Rev. Young Conducts
Chaptl Exercises
The y o u n g
R e v e r e n d Howard
Voung of t h e F i r s t Baptist Church
(!.• Loek Haven took charge of the
chapel exercises, W e d n e s d a y morning, F e b r u a r y 1. T h e scripture was
read by Rev. Young. T h e famous
evangelist, N a t h a n Lewis, who was
t h e n conducting a series of evangelistic services In t h e B a p t i s t Church,
gave a s h o r t but t o r c e t u l t a l k on
"blood and t h u n d e r " religion.
Rev. Young, his brother, J o h n ,
and Mr, Smart, s a n g two n u m b e r s
which were well received by the
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FEBKUARY
1.5.
1928
Alumni Mailsack
Dear Times:
Glad to see how you are improv;ng; you printed one of my articles
recently.
It is Friday evening and thankfulness br.stles from every hair on my
licad. We've made books this whole
lloomin' week, and if the kids are
not glad we're through, the teacher
i s , What w i t h relieving the art
iciicher of her duties in the matter
and making glue tracks on the floor,
world without end! But our books
iire made. We shall now have a lit• le more reading material.
Perhaps those books might interest a few readers oi Normal Times,
ll not, stop here.
In eighth grade, wc have taker
our most recent classic. Tales of a
Wayside Inn, and reported the most
interesting parts. Books made on
Ihese tales would, of course, furnish little new material. Some of us
however, have been reading Greek
myths, and the bug of inventior
crawled under our caps
One booklet. In particular, con
tains a thrilling stoiy ot How Apea
theas Won Fame. It is original ir
plot, but it shows clearly that Greek
is Greek, no matter how we dres
it up. Another book is a collection
of poetry belonging to the Civil War
period. This onf comes right in tho
nick of time for History, too.
Then, we have a stab or two at
original poetry which isn't bad if
you forget a lot about feet.
Sixth grade contents itself with
clippings from favorite magazines.
These stories will find space in our
regular reading period. An example
of group work on booklets Is our
Picture Study In eighth grade. We
have written o u r Impressions on
such pictures as the Angelus, Song
of the Lark, End ot the Trail, Boyhood ot Sir Walter Raleigh, Feeding
Her Birds, Shoeing the Horse, and
oeemed delighted to see me. His dry
hand felt like a piece of the leather with which he promised to fix my
shoes some six months before, as he
took my hand in a friendly grasp.
A Center of Attraction
Without saying a word he pulled
In spite of the combined efEorts of Mis.s Macdonald, Mi.ss Robinson His spectacles from his eyes, and.
and Helen Klepper, some s t u d e n t s still s t t m to have the mistaken turning his back to me, he looked
idea that the library is one of the social and recreational c t n t e i s o f t h e up and down h'.s three shelves oi
school. They still seem to think that the libiaiy is tht place for ti pleas- shoes tastened to a side wall. Witii
ant little chat; or the place where by moving books from one place to a movement of delight he hobbled
across the floor to the far end of the
another, scraping chairs back and forth, or strolling about among the
second shell and took down my
tables, they can get their daily dozen. T h e library is as good a place other shoe—mended exactly like tin
as any for g e t t i n g their fountain pens filled, for " b o r r o w i n g " a few one 1 had at home In my trunk o.
sheets of paper, or for g e t t i n g that assignmtiii that they d i d n ' i bother forgotten valuables.
to t a k e notes on.
His wry httle face gleamed "Wait
W a r n i n g ! to those s t u d e n t s w h o still have the above-mentioned till you hear," as he approached mc
with the shoe in his hand. He momistaken idea: there is safety in n u m b e r s , and to be on the safe side
tioned tne to come and sit by him
yovi had better join the r a n k s of those who go to the library to w o r k . on a sturdy looking brown bench, a
At present the latter are in the majority, and indications, and the tact j lighter sh.ide of brown than himself.
that history repeat* itself, show t h a t they always will be.
t He put his npcctxcles on his nose
j aga n al un nngle that would enable
: him to see either through them or
Personality
: Jver them without much effort, and
Do you do things just because the crowd does ? i)id you come here '.pat into the little stove near the
to school just because your best friend did ? Do yon study lor no rea- 'x-nch—he was chewing tobacco all
son at all, except that you might be culled upon for a recitation, or be- the time that I had been quietly ob
cause the family sees your m a r k s ? Are all your actions and decisions |.ierving liim, pnd now, with this r.-ief he began to ttik
governed by what someone else might do, or say, or think ? A slave of
(Contlnue.l on I'aAe 4)
public opinion is a wishy-washy soil of person, nnd needs to develop
his personality.
Editorials
Bill Sweet Drops Us a Line
Uiil Sweet, who was forced to drop
out ot school at mid-years because
Kock's Farui ot ill-health writes trom Geisinger
May 20. Memorial Hosp-tal:
"Here is a news bulletin. The lelDear Y—:
You must heal how the story o. lows all told me to write and let
my mended shoe ended. I'm sure you Ithem know how I got along, hut
cannot have torgotten the lunny old since I was Just wheeled in from th
brown shoemaker in Cherry Run ope.ating room this afternoon I don\
who has been mending and making feel like writing more than one letooots the sixty years of his life in ter,
"They pulled a few of my upper.-,
the Kttle shop his father built before him. And you remember how he 1and cut a chunk out of my lower
offered to put soles and heels on my ' jaw bone where two teeth had been
boots which would stand the weai pulled before, and the dentist had
-ind tear cf those mountains that failed to remove the abscess. My
^eem to protect Cherry Run trom the lips and tongue have been seemingly
rest 01 the wo.Id. I suppose it wa inflated about three times. But perold John's age that made him think haps it won't be funny when the anI'd bring my left shoe to be mend- asthetic wears oft.
ed when he couldn't find it'.-i mat
"They used everything from pileto return to me.
drivers and chfsels to butcher-knives
Well early this May I decided tha and augers in this job."
Us and Others
I should like to see Cherry Run In
Sal W!lso;:'s mother vis'ted her
Ihe Spring. Those autumn days we
T. S. Physical Jiducation
:^unday, February 5.
I :pent there together were beautiful.
Doris Mattern was fortunate in j but Y—, you should see Spring Ir
Festival
(C;ontinued from Page 1)
having her parents here to visit her II h a t valley. The jolly reds and
'b;owns which you saw cove, iig .h second grade boys made scrap-books
"n Sunday.
Kathryn Shipman «pent the week- , hillsides were all changed to th —Hygiene o n e s . Amelia Vincent
: dainties of yellows and greens. .And hel;ed them The third giade had a
end at her home in Altoona.
'the trees that rol eked meiiily in ii'cus ttitli animals and tumbiin.:^;
Margaret Beeson and Reba John- the October winds wtre .sh.;wiufe no, no peanuts, but there were eleoon entertained g u e s t s Saturday their pride by swaying graciou.^ly In phants. Geraldine Taylor maniiged
the low breezes, 'ihe new grasses t h e menage. T h e fourth grade
evening,
Lena Helsel visited at her home not yet old enough to talk, sat up marched just like soldiers, parading
I meekly where the tall ones had w t h drums a n d everything with
in Altoona,
stood and whispeied winter warn Kate Warfel as first Bandmaster.
ings to the trees. The sign'flcance The fifth gi ade had a peachy time
Teller of Tall Tales
ot new H e in that country could playing all sorts of games, which
There had been a terrible rain, never be expressed and adequately Thelma Livingston directed.
and windstorm. Ihe following day in our language, but the purple vioAnd would you believe it? Not a
Bill had driven into town. He en- lets that grow along the run and single animal had to be sent to the
gaged a carpenter to stop In some- the snow white cherry blossoms over hospital, no departation of feriners.
time; the wind, he said, had blown their heads can tell it beautifully. no absent performers, no slackers,
his summer house flve Inches off its
1 stopped In to see old John, and no ACCIDENTS—in the ranks.
foundation. Knowing him too well even he seemed to look a little less
Yes, times have changed sine* we
brown. He knew me instantly and were very young.
{Continued on Page 4)
.he Appeal to the Great Spirit. The
best ot these have lound the.i way
lUto a class book, and the class artist has completed the cover design.
No, the seventh grade isn't in it.
Iiidividually, the members of this
class have collected post cards and
snapshots of Renovc a; d Sout;i Rtn
ovo for a Civics book. These have
been pasted upon notebook papar
and accounts and explanations have
been written beneath each picture.
As yet, we have not attempted to
bind our efforts here. We await another set of flve tfays.
Now, just to let you know there
is an end to everything, I shall shovel this into an envelope.
With the best of intentions.
Another Old Maid
A Letter
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Teller of Tall Tales
was ' tainly standing the wear and braska. The student observes the
"No one actually writes by thinkthe 1 r of the mountains. He went class he is to teach later, learns the ing how to write sentences and parto believe this, the carpenter wait- on, l..,>.king first at the shoe, then problems of the group and is allowed agraphs: a m a n writes well by
ed until he happened to be passing at me, and then through the wln- to teach when he is able to handle
thinking well ot the thing to be writand then dropped in. Bill was not d o w that opened on the spring the work.
Antelope ten."
at home, but he met him on the way brightness, and then at the shoe and
then at me, and again through the
"To teach how to write when
back to town.
G. G. Reed, President of Interna- there is nothing useful to say is the
"Well, I was up to your place," window until he had flnished a fanhe .said, "but I didn't see anything ciful tale. He told me in his squeeky tional College at Smyrna, Turkey, eighth deadly sin."
voice how a man who had lived and spoke to the class at Fresno on the
wrong."
"Expression is the transmission of
"Oh, the wind came the other labored in Cherry Run all his life subject of Turkey. He has been
wny and blew it back again, "Bill with no other aim than to visit his L h e r e flfteen years and declares the automobile; it is worthless withbiithplaco in England, had come in- America has played an important out dynamic ideas behind it."
answered calmly.
to his shop not long after I had in pal t iu introducing modern customs.
October w i t h some shoes to be
A Letter
The Collegian
mended. He was preparing against
(Contlnuel from Page 3)
the time when he should achieve his
"Now that's a dread funny thing lile's ambition. Whether my shoes j
L. A. L. Has Lunch and
nbout that shoe." I did not inter- were so very large or that old John [
Let us help you select youi
Card Party
rupt him to tell him that the other was so busy finding out the Run '
particular needs in the ToilThe L. A. L. society put on a
ette Goods line. We undergossip when he wrapped up the
farewell lunch and card party in the
stand the Beauty Value of
man's slioes is a question. But the
dayrdom, Friday evening, January
man who went to England took my
our various creams, powders.
27, for two of its members who grad•WO^-LONsffLnE
shoe with him.
Rouges, etc., and can recuated a t mid-semester, Catherine
commend the best for your
That this man is honest as all .•\iiller and Emily Johnson.
particular style of Beauty.
men in Cherry Run are, is evident,
Lunch was served at flve-thirty by
Krasny
lor he sent that shoe back to old a committee headed by Sue Tomko.
Coty
Houbigant
John from way across the sea, only
After lunch bridge and flve hundHudunt
Woodworth
a month aliter he landed. Lut per- red were played. High and low prize
hai)s you wonder why he did not ,v liners at bridge were Grace Mack
Colgate
Luxor
send it sooner. Well, only because an:l Peggy Creighton; at five bundArmand
Cheramy
he had no occasion before to use | ,.£,1 they were "Willie" Cummings
Creams
his own mended ones, which were i j^,](2 Ethel Dechant,
Powders
packed In his trunk just as old John | Both Miss Ammon and Miss RearRouges
had w rapped them.
j jci^^ faculty members of the society.
Lip Sticks
Old John parted with that shoe j ^yero present,
BTllllantes
with reluctance, but would not have | Hazel Myers, '27, an alumna L. A.
Eye Brow Pencils
it fcr his own as I wished him to do, | L, member was also a guest.
Beauty Spots
"Now, those stories are best just
Hair Tonics
remembered; and it's right for you
Shampoos
to know it," he said and because I
Better Writing
Manicure Sets
agreed with him, I have almost out(Henry S, Canby)
Everything Jn Drugs
worn the soles that were to stand
'Good writing is perhaps as ditDr. A. Prieson Co
the wear and tear ot Cherry Run ^^^.^^ ^s good playing on the piano,
mountains hiking over the brown more difficult than good cooking,
Robert L. Myers, . D.
SUCCESSOR TO
roads in back of our own little town. less difiicult than good living, but to
100 East Main Street
Perhaps next fall, we shall take know how to do it is no great sef rrljt'H Wtrnmaa g'linp
If It's New We Have It
another pair of shoes to old John cret,"
LOCK HAVEN
and see again those flaming hills of
Cherry Run In the October evening
"Thinking hard never brings an
sunlight.
idea with any certainty, but ideas
never come except after brooding,
ainty Service
Expert
reflection, and thought in a brain
Exc^angps
elicious
Candies
that is working with full power."
(Continued on Page 2)
elightful Sundaes
"There should be an intelligence
b u y second-hand hooks at a large test through which all ideas, big and
saving. Good Idea! It does away with little, simple and subtle, would have
the bulletin board method of buy- to pass before writers are allowed to
write."
ing and selling them.
The Collegian
'The first preparation tor writing
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. . is. . . . education, as m u c h as
Student Teaching Is being hand' led a new way at Kearney, Ne- you can get of It."
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Training School Physical
Education Festival
Who's Going
lo Win?
Pii.
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Senior Class Dedicates Praeco
At the Senior class m e e t i n g held
T h u r s d a y , J a n u a r y 26, it w a s decid
Try-outs f o r Walter Hackett's
od that The 1928 P r a e c o will be ded
" C a p t a i n Applejack" a mystery play
icated to t h e flrst Senior class o.
to be p r e s e n t e d by t h e Senior class
this school.
on F r i d a y evening March 9, were
When we were very young, e x a m - IVIartha W a s h i n g t o n danced when he
W a l t e r Miller r e s i g n e d his oflice
held Monday afternoon, J a n u a r y 30 | inations
were
dreadful,
awful cut down t h e cherry-tree. When he
in S h a k e Hall, Miss Alber will d i r e c t ! things. F a i r y Queens hid in fear was older? Oh, well, a n y w a y . Health- as t r e a s u r e r for t h e Senior class a."
he is not classed a S e n i o r . R u t h Adthe practices t o r the play which is | w h e n ' X a m l n a t l o n s stalked into Land was fun.
ot an entirely different n a t u r e t h a n ' view. On t h e same day, each was a s
But still what of tairier a n d ex- a m s was elected in his place.
P r o g r a n i C o m m i t t e e s Appointed
those before presented here and far from t h e other as the two poles, a m i n a t i o n s ? H e r e It is. Of course
A r r a n g e m e n t s were m a d e for t h e
which requires an u n u s u a l l y l a r g e !
w h a t is all this? W h a t have fairy the d e a r souls never expected it, but
c a s t . Practices began W e d n e s d a y queens and examinations in com- all this work comprised in a large Senior d a n c e which will be held in
evening, F e b r u a r y 1.
mon? Come now, no foolishness, ' measure was their Physical Educa- t h e gym on S a t u r d a y , F e b r u a r y 18.
The c h a r a c t e r s and those selected w h a t is t h i s ?
i tion of the first s e m e s t e r — a n d they Committees were a p p o i n t e d which
for t h e p a r t s a r e as follows: Lush,
We k n o w they are now on speak- were being examined. This clever will t a k e charge of t h e a r r a n g e a typical English Butler—Victor Pet- ; :ng t e r m s . And being most gener- i idea was t h e work of two s t u d e n t s m e n t s .
e r s ; Poppy F a l r e , a quaint little o l d - | ous-hearted, we'll let you know.
who worked up t h b novel p r o j e c t —
T h e following will serve on t h e
fashioned person of 25 years a g o — '
Last Wednesday afternoon, J a n u - a fun examination, u n d e r t h e Su d e c o r a t i n g c o m m i t t e e : Lloyd BauJ o e Viering; Mrs. A g a t h a W h a t - | a r y 2',, tho Training School had a uervision of Miss Dixon. Liz Robb m a n , Louise Bowes, B e r t h a Wolfe.
combe, a handsome gray-hatred lady Festival, No ice-cream and cake, b u t was the sixth g r a d e t e a c h e r , and
of m i d d l e age, refined, a r i s t o c r a t i c , ' cvoiyone was served with a gener-I Maude Caldwell was the flrst grade I •'^^'"''^ Quigg, Mildred Beam, Ivan
F r i t z , Reba J o h n s o n , Russell B o h n .
fussy a n d easily a g i t a t e d — B e e Mok- ous slice ot fun and lots to see. I t teacher.
le; Ambrose Applejack, a m a n in ' was a Physical Educational Festival,
All the grades w e r e n ' t lost, of J o e Viering, Rosa Lee Hinkley, W a l his e a r l y forties who h a s settled if you had been there, you would course, so t h e remaining ones dram- t e r Miller, Dent Bowser, Sue T o m down, easy-going dispositSou, and have t a k e n on a "Visit to H e a l t h - atized The Toy Shop, helped by Hel- ko, Dorothy Bickel, Mowrie E b n e r ,
accustomed t o refined s u r r o u n d i n g s T .-nd." Can't you just see how ador- en Carden. And t h e r e were tumblers
Clarence Williams, C h a r l e s
Dale,
— C l a r e n c e W i l l i a m s ; Anna Valeska, able the little flrst g r a d e r was a s too, t r a i n e d by Elizabeth Bressler.
Helen Behrer, R u p e r t F i t z s i m m o n s .
a y o u n g woman of 25 or 30, quick, | F a i r y Queen, really the Sleep Queen Fun, fun, fun!
Impulsive and fiery—Reba J o h n s o n ; you know. On the same road to
There w e r e
specially
invited Max Fitzsimmons, R u t h McCall, Ger
Mrs. P e n g a r d , a tall domineering lTe:\lth-Land most all the little flrst guests, too, even m o r e grown up a l d i n e Conway, M a r g a r e t
Melvin,
w o m a n ot gushing m a n n e r — J o e g r a d e r s lost their way and kind than s i x t h g r a d e — M o t h e r s were Glenn Nolan. Dorothy Killen, K a t h Robinson; Mr. Pengard, a s a l l o w - ' F a i r y Sleep led them t h e r e . Very, there.
leen Spengler, Elizabeth Bressler,
faced m a n w i t h an air of mystery very simple. When one got t h e r e
S o t h e second and t h i r d and
Dorothy Bastian, Helen WeRteric;<
.ibout him—Lloyd B a u m a n ; Ivan one was e n t e r t a i n e d by grown-up ourth and fifth g r a d e r s , not to be
Rorolsky, a tall forceful m a n , so f,ixtli g r a d e r s , all dressed up. W h a t nitdone, had s o m e t h i n g on Friday a n d Josephine Robinson.
Storl Artley, Helen W e s t e r i c k and
pc:fectly dressed as to be polished fun! And what dancing! J u s t like mo:ning, u n d e r the supervision ot
- S t e r l Artley; Dennet, an officer of people way, way off, dance H u n g r y Eve Impress. The second g r a d e girls, Clarence Williams will t a k e c h a r g e
the l a w — R a y Z a n s r ; J o h n n y J a s o n , and D e n m a r k those dances come very zealous Indeed, insisted upcn of securing an o r c h e s t r a .
;i friend ot t h e family, refined, good- from. Awful funny names. Ho, h o . perl'otming t h e i r r h y t h m s — t o r the'v
Louise Bowes and H a r r i e t Kelley
matured and a sense of h u m o r — T e d | look at those c l o w n s — t h r e e of t h e m . own beneflt Wednesday m o r n i n g and
were
appointed to serve on t h e r e r : a y ; maid, typical English—Dot ! Mv sides ache from laughing. Now foi- the pupils Friday m o r n i n g . The
reshment
committee.
McCloskey; C h i n a m a n , secret, oily, • t h e Minuet, just as George and
(Continued on Page 3)
Other c o m m i t t e e s a p p o i n t e d w e r e
s l y — E m e r s o n P a c k a r d ; the cabin
b o y — L o u i s e Young. P e g 'Laird
Alpha Zeta Pi Held Banquet .orogram c o m m i t t e e — H e l e n B e h r e r
Praeco Progressing Nicely
doubled t h e p a r t of Anna in Act II
and Tom L a r k i n ; t h e play commitThe Alpha Zeta Pi club held its
The pirates a r e : Gordon McClosT h e 5 0 t h Anniversary P r a e c j
.ee—Lloyd B a u m a n , Reba J o h n s o n ,
key, Albert Hobba, Tim F e r g u s o n Yearbook is well on its way. The a r n u a l b a n q u e t at t h e New Fallon
Josephine Robinson, Dent B o w s e r
J a m e s Quigg, W a l t e r Miller, Glen 1928 Staff, with Sherman Francisco , Hoiel at 6:30 i>, IVI. on S a t u r d a y ,
and Jerry Conway; the insignia comNolan F r e d Barr, Charles Vonada. a s E d i t o r and Chief, is w o r k i n g ' J a n u a r y 28.
and E a r l Smith.
h a r d to p u t out an Annual t h a t will
Sterl Artley acted as t o a s t m a s t e r , mittee—Louise Young, Albert Hoband everyone shed a t e a r when he ba and Bee Mokle.
surpass any p u t out before.
A n u m b e r of new ideas a r e being called upon J a k e W a r d to speak.
Mental Telepathy or What?
Jake has left with his degree, ready
" R e d ' s the favorite color this win- Incorporated in this y e a r ' s P r a e c o ;
Magazines in Library
to s t a r t on In this wide world. We
ter, d ' y a ' know I t ? "
perhaps t h e most Important ot which 'wish him t h e g r e a t e s t success,.
Newly Bound
"Oh, I d u n n o ! W h a t m a k e s ya' .^ j j , ^ planning of the work along
[ It was q u i t e a pleasure tor all of
Eighteen different m a g a z i n e s have
t tiink so?
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the lines of the 50th Anniversary. I to have some of our a l u n i n i club been newly bound in the library.
members w i t h us. T h e r e w a s Syl- A m o n g t h i s n u m b e r a r e seven t h a t
W e r e you at the dance S a t u r d a y ;
.light?"
since this is t h e 50th year t h a t t h e via Breth, of the class ot ' 2 3 , who have not been bound before includ" W h a t ' s t h a t got to do with wear- school h a s been In progress. New •s teaching In Clearfleld, a n d Jack ing: Childhood E d u c a t i o n , C u r r e n t
Follmer, '24, who Is principal ot one History, E d u c a t i o n a l A d m i n i s t r a t i o n
in' r e d ? "
j ideas a r e also being used In t h e fac" W e l l , I w a s just gonna finish—" ; u 1 t y and senior sections besides of t h e schools In Lewisburg, Pa., a n d SupervisIoB, L i t e r a r y Digest, Naand, by the way, still t h e s a m e jol- t u r e Magazine, J o u r n a l of E d u c a "Oh-h-h!!
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I m a n y o t h e r s which will m a k e t h e ly Jack: David Ulmer, '27, was also tiopal Research, and N o r m a l T i m e s .
here and reported t h a t he Is "crazy (Nov. 1 9 2 2 — A u g . 1925) T h e r e " T h e r e m u s t a been a b o u t forty-,
about his t e a c h i n g In Corry."
seven red dresses over t h e r e ! Every-1 """"^ " " ' l " « » " ^ a t t r a c t i v e .
m a i n d e r of t h e list Includes: Atlanl)odv t h a t had a red dress had it on ! "^^^ m e m b e r s of the staff hope
The dinner was a real success. tic Monthly, E l e m e n t a r y S c h o o l
S
a t u r d agreen
y night
t o p it
many
ones.and
The toonly
o t hoff,
e r s 1 t h a t they will have the cooperation After a few words from o u r alumni, J o u r n a l , English J o u r n a l , N a t i o n a l
tworn
h e r e were
must a bhave
beenor a two
l m o s t d a rask of every m e m b e r of the senior class our faithful faculty advisor, M r, Geographic, School Review, W o r l d ' s
o u t one
purchase of a n n u a l s . " T h e more orblues and a couple o' g r a y and besides t h e u n d e r g r a d u a t e s . In t h e T r e m b a t h , and J a k e W a r d , "gbod W o r k , Historical O u t l o o k , C e n t r a l
brown ones! And It w a s n ' t flre prjO- defs bboked, the better your book eats and lots of fun" was reported S t a t e Normal School Bulletin, Norby all.
mal Bulletin, and A n n u a l Catalogs.
vention *eek dr Christmas Eve either!" wiil be."
NUK.MAL TIMKS
Mary's Love Affair
1 d o n ' t know how they met, but
all of a sudden quite a case developed, a n d H e n r y called on Mary several t i m e s a week. Some n i g h t s
when he called, they would go out,
and o t h e r s they would stay h o m e ;
but one S a t u r d a y n i g h t when Henry
did w a n t to stay home, Mary insisted on going to t h e movies. "All
r i g h t , " she said, "it you won't t a k e
me, I'll go a l o n e ! " and g r a b b i n g
her h a t and coat she was gone, leavens H e n r y alone.
M£.ry did go to t h e movies. Of
course she did not expect H e n r y to
1)0 t h e r e when she got back. But she
opened t h e door a n d t h e r e he sat,
still playing t h a t c r a c k e d H a w a i i a n
record h e was playing when she left.
He seemed deep in t h o u g h t . Poor
Henry! How could s h e t r e a t him so?
"Mary, why did you run off t h a t
w a y ? " he asked.
" W e l l , you w o u l d n ' t t a k e me tu
the movies when I wanted to g o . "
site said.
For a few mljiutes they were sii(Ut, t h e n Henry told Mary t h a t he
wanted to t a l k ta h e r t h a t n i g h t ;
Ihat w a s t h e reason he wanted to
! tay h o m e . He w a n t e d to be with h e r
iilone. H e was tired of always going
v/hc:-e t h e r e were crowds.
Then H e n r y i roposed. Of c o u r s e ,
M i i y had never t h o u g h t ot m a r r y ing him. Of court^e she liked him,
hat s h e couldn't m a r r y him. W h y
I he h a d n ' t thonght of such a t h i n g !
It was e i t h e r m a i r y him or quit and
-Mary r e l u c t a n t l y chose the latter. I
l e v e r could flnd o u t j u s t why she
would not m a r r y him. W h e n I asked
her, all she said was, " H e was too
i e r i o u s , so we decided to quit. He
v,'a:-ted m e to m.irry him right •'iway
;.nd I couldn't see It "
They did f;uit. F o r a long t i m e
1 c i t h e r saw iinything of t h e other.
.Ma:y often mentioned h's name. She
icemed to long to see him again,
but she would not a s k him to come
luck.
MAPLE SYRUP
Sister Doing Her Lessons
(Continued from l a s t w e e k )
Oh, yes, now 1 see how to d o it.
I guess I will l e t t h e r e s t g o , I t h i n k
I'll have t i m e to flnish t h e m In
school t o m o r r o w .
Now, I can flnish in a few minutes. I've only my Gogerfy t o d o yet.
W h e i e is my book? W h o t o o k It? I
don't care. It was h e r e a m i n u t e ago
and now i t ' s gone, a n d oh, y e s — I
;o;got, here it is back of m e . Well.
I guess I know these. Maine, New
H a m p s h i r e — G e e ! M i s s L o n g wa.^
cross today In class, she gives m e a
p a i n ; she Is a l w a y s — o h . M o t h e r 1
w a s n ' t going to say a n y t h i n g about
her, I was only t e l l i n g — a l l r i g h t , I
w i n . W h e r e was I? Oh, yes. New
H a m p s h i r e , M a s s a c h u s e t t s , Connecti c u t — O h the t e l e p h o n e — H o p e its
for me.
of w e a l t h and luxury the steady,
satisfying drip of clear, sweet sap
conjured in our heads.
Within a few h o u r s enough sap
had oozed o u t to begin boiling. We
collected it in buckets, poured it into a large w h i t e preserving kettle
c u i a b l e of h o l d i n g four or tive gal.0..S, and set t h e k e t t l e on the kitchen stove.
U began to boil shortly, and as
fast as It boiled away we poured
iiiore s u g a r water in. B u t t h a t kettle could dispose of an unbelievable
a m o u n t ot sap. Gallon after gallon
went Into its ample interior. Clouds
of steam rose continually from its
wide m o u t h to collect on the window
rageous a n d I won't stand for i t ! " and roll in big drops down the pane.
"Hello, yes, goody! W a i t a minAnd she flounced indignantly out o;
After a few days t h e contents of
ute. Mother, Marg w a n t s m e to
t h e shop.
the t h i r s t y k e t t l e began to look
come over to help h e r m a k e fudge.
T h a t set me t h i n k i n g . In front ol muddy. More days and many more
May I? Oh, please Mother, my lesour house t h ; r o was a good sized gallons produced a m u d d i e r eft'ect.
sons are all done. W h y yes t h e y are.
forest containir.g a large stand o. Still more time and sap only tend1 .studied t o r a whole half h o u r uns u g a r maples. Ko lar a:: I knew, t h ? •H\ to m a k e the contents of t h e ket- til by head aches now. Well, then
precious fluid rising a n n u a l l y in tle still muddier.
if I get up in t h e m o r n i n g and study.
.4s t h e days passed and the thirst May I go? Hello, Peg, yes, I'll be
t h e i r stems ha 1 never been tapped.
A f o r t u n e , locke:! up in t r e e t r u n k s , i of fhe big k e t t l e seemed unquench- over in a jiffy. B y e . "
had been going to waste all t h e s e abe, our e n t h u s i a s m slowly waned.
Again t h e r a t t l e ot p a p e r s , and
y e a r s ! I resolved t h a t it should no After almost two weeks of steady
t h e banging of books. T h e n l i k e a
' boiling, a time came when o u r inlonger be wasted.
whirlwind, she is gone.
Accordingly I told a few of my ^ terest sank to t h e zero point and
W e n d s o f m y newly
concieved none of us carried any s u g a r water
P ' ^ " '*"'' ^^^ ^''* <" ^^''"'1^ e n t h u s i a s t h a t d a y . The stuff in the kettle \
Exchanges
t'-cally to secure the necessary ma- boiled down slowly. Towards the
I A h o o k exchange is being inend
it
began
to
thicken.
Finally
we
t ^ i i a l s . Our u n i t e d efforts produced
i stalled in t h e College Union, w h e r e '"" imposing arr::v of j a r s , buckets, \ took it off t h e s t o v e — a scant pint of
by t h e s t u d e n t s may get rid of their
sticky
syrup
flavored
with
a
fiy
or
P^"*^ ^^d pans with which to catch
two and bits ot bard, and bugs and . econd hand books and m a y likewise
s-op. The spouts—dozens of themi
(Cdiitinnf d (in fsjif •))
'^^ '"'^''^ f"^" ' ' ' ^ always useful leaves, all t h a t g r e a t volume of sug
a
r
w
a
t
e
r
.
^Ider b r a n c h ; a - d . having secure:!
In sober silence we strained the
" " * " « " • ^ ^ •'^t ""* ' " ™ake our
fortunes.
sickening stuff t h r o u g h numberous
Your Photograph
^"^ ^P'*® °^ '""• f'eemlngly Inex- salt bags; but r o a m o u n t of straini •^^"^"^'e supply ot utemslls we w e r e ing could remove t h e taint of the
| soon forced t o scour t h e neighbor- foreign m a t t e r t h a t had been in it.
W i l l he t h e m o s t
hood for lard t i n s and old buckets. By common consent it was put in a
v a l u e d ffift y o u
All available e l d e r of s u i t a b l e diam- j a r and r e l a g a t e d t o a dark shelf of
c a n give— —
e t e r was cut t o meet our needs. We •in old cupboard, w h e r e It remains
Y o n o n l y cnn izive
tapped all t h e maples we saw—So to this day, a m u t e witness of the
il.
m a n y t h a t w e never
a f t e r w a r d s disappointment which Invariably folcould flnd m o r e than half of t h e m . lows t h e bite of t h e get-rich-quick
In fact we d i d n ' t conflne ourselves bug.
to maples, wo even tapped an occaSugar water, I h a v e found, may
i sional c h e s t n u t and a beech or t w o . be had for t h e t a k n g , b u t maple syrBut these were small m i s t a k e s a n d up, to my mind, is worth its weight
Phone for an Appointment
no one can comprehend w h a t d r e a m s in gold!
One early March day, t h r e e y e a r s
ago, I chanced to o v e r h e a r a scrap
Ol c o n v e r s a u o n in a local d e p a r t m e n t store.
An i i u t e h o u s e k e e p e r was vigororously Lerat.iig an apologetic a n d
purspiring c l e r k . " I t ' s prepostero u s , " she e.-^claimed, " F o u r doUais
and twenty-live cents lor a gallon ot
o r d i n a r y maple syrap! I never h e a r a
of t h e like! I t ' s lobbeiy, t h a t ' s w h a t
il iS, d o w n r i g h t robbery! W h y , a.i
you have to uc to get all t h e syrup
you want, a b s c l u t i l y Iroe, is to h o l J
a bucket under a i i e e ; Ai.d t^ thl.ik
you have the n e r v e to b r m g it h e r e
and charge four dollars and t w e n t y five cents a gallon for it! I t ' s out-
Then one day she heard t h a t he
was engaged t.i a n o t h e r g i r l — H e n ry, who said thi.t no o t h e r girl could
mean a n y t h i n g to h i m ? Could it hi
t r u e ? How could he have lorgotte:;
her so soon? Secretly she did care,
Things became unbearable. She must
find out t h e t r u t h from him! She
stayed up late t h a t night, writing
him a letter. One after a n o t h e r she
lore up until she wrote one t h a t had ' L . H . K o h l , S l a t e
Studtntlo do. It r e a d : " D e a r Henry. I must
Secretary
of
Y.
M.
C. A.
It now t h e t r u t h from you. No, I
Tells of Life in Mexico
don't w a n t you to come back, but I
Mexico's need for t e a c h e r s who
do w a n t to know w h e t h e r you a r e
have built i n t o their lives a spiritengaged. Please answer, but please
ual reserve and d e t e r m i n a t i o n to
serve was t h e o u t s t a n d i n g thing in
T h e very next day Henry called. ;i, s h o r t chapel talk, given by Mr. L.
They had a long t a l k alone. She : li. Kohl, State Student-Secretary ot
never told me much about his vis- v M. C. A., W e d n e s d a y , J a n u a r y 25,
it. b u t when Henry left t h a t night,
Mr. Kohl s t a t e d t h a t Mexico is a
Mary looked like a new person. She , o u n t r y rich in n a t u r a l resources b u t
looked so happy. H e r eyes had lost ,,oor in spiritual s t a m n l a . Mexico,
t h a t I r n g i n g look. " H a v e you decld- too, is, in the l a r g e , a misjudged naed to go back t o g e t h e r ? " I asked,
tion, anxious t o learn and to devel" N o , " she answered. " W e have op.
(jult. b u t I j u s t had t o see him once | Mr. Kohl spent several days in
i - o r e : I just had to talk to h i m , "
t h e school.
The Swope Studio
Rev. Young Conducts
Chaptl Exercises
The y o u n g
R e v e r e n d Howard
Voung of t h e F i r s t Baptist Church
(!.• Loek Haven took charge of the
chapel exercises, W e d n e s d a y morning, F e b r u a r y 1. T h e scripture was
read by Rev. Young. T h e famous
evangelist, N a t h a n Lewis, who was
t h e n conducting a series of evangelistic services In t h e B a p t i s t Church,
gave a s h o r t but t o r c e t u l t a l k on
"blood and t h u n d e r " religion.
Rev. Young, his brother, J o h n ,
and Mr, Smart, s a n g two n u m b e r s
which were well received by the
s t u d e n t body.
NOTICE!
W e h a v e for y o u r
a t t e n t i o n a full a s s o r t m e n t of a t t r a c t i v e
valentines.
Jarboe's
1 3 1 E. Main Street
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FEBKUARY
1.5.
1928
Alumni Mailsack
Dear Times:
Glad to see how you are improv;ng; you printed one of my articles
recently.
It is Friday evening and thankfulness br.stles from every hair on my
licad. We've made books this whole
lloomin' week, and if the kids are
not glad we're through, the teacher
i s , What w i t h relieving the art
iciicher of her duties in the matter
and making glue tracks on the floor,
world without end! But our books
iire made. We shall now have a lit• le more reading material.
Perhaps those books might interest a few readers oi Normal Times,
ll not, stop here.
In eighth grade, wc have taker
our most recent classic. Tales of a
Wayside Inn, and reported the most
interesting parts. Books made on
Ihese tales would, of course, furnish little new material. Some of us
however, have been reading Greek
myths, and the bug of inventior
crawled under our caps
One booklet. In particular, con
tains a thrilling stoiy ot How Apea
theas Won Fame. It is original ir
plot, but it shows clearly that Greek
is Greek, no matter how we dres
it up. Another book is a collection
of poetry belonging to the Civil War
period. This onf comes right in tho
nick of time for History, too.
Then, we have a stab or two at
original poetry which isn't bad if
you forget a lot about feet.
Sixth grade contents itself with
clippings from favorite magazines.
These stories will find space in our
regular reading period. An example
of group work on booklets Is our
Picture Study In eighth grade. We
have written o u r Impressions on
such pictures as the Angelus, Song
of the Lark, End ot the Trail, Boyhood ot Sir Walter Raleigh, Feeding
Her Birds, Shoeing the Horse, and
oeemed delighted to see me. His dry
hand felt like a piece of the leather with which he promised to fix my
shoes some six months before, as he
took my hand in a friendly grasp.
A Center of Attraction
Without saying a word he pulled
In spite of the combined efEorts of Mis.s Macdonald, Mi.ss Robinson His spectacles from his eyes, and.
and Helen Klepper, some s t u d e n t s still s t t m to have the mistaken turning his back to me, he looked
idea that the library is one of the social and recreational c t n t e i s o f t h e up and down h'.s three shelves oi
school. They still seem to think that the libiaiy is tht place for ti pleas- shoes tastened to a side wall. Witii
ant little chat; or the place where by moving books from one place to a movement of delight he hobbled
across the floor to the far end of the
another, scraping chairs back and forth, or strolling about among the
second shell and took down my
tables, they can get their daily dozen. T h e library is as good a place other shoe—mended exactly like tin
as any for g e t t i n g their fountain pens filled, for " b o r r o w i n g " a few one 1 had at home In my trunk o.
sheets of paper, or for g e t t i n g that assignmtiii that they d i d n ' i bother forgotten valuables.
to t a k e notes on.
His wry httle face gleamed "Wait
W a r n i n g ! to those s t u d e n t s w h o still have the above-mentioned till you hear," as he approached mc
with the shoe in his hand. He momistaken idea: there is safety in n u m b e r s , and to be on the safe side
tioned tne to come and sit by him
yovi had better join the r a n k s of those who go to the library to w o r k . on a sturdy looking brown bench, a
At present the latter are in the majority, and indications, and the tact j lighter sh.ide of brown than himself.
that history repeat* itself, show t h a t they always will be.
t He put his npcctxcles on his nose
j aga n al un nngle that would enable
: him to see either through them or
Personality
: Jver them without much effort, and
Do you do things just because the crowd does ? i)id you come here '.pat into the little stove near the
to school just because your best friend did ? Do yon study lor no rea- 'x-nch—he was chewing tobacco all
son at all, except that you might be culled upon for a recitation, or be- the time that I had been quietly ob
cause the family sees your m a r k s ? Are all your actions and decisions |.ierving liim, pnd now, with this r.-ief he began to ttik
governed by what someone else might do, or say, or think ? A slave of
(Contlnue.l on I'aAe 4)
public opinion is a wishy-washy soil of person, nnd needs to develop
his personality.
Editorials
Bill Sweet Drops Us a Line
Uiil Sweet, who was forced to drop
out ot school at mid-years because
Kock's Farui ot ill-health writes trom Geisinger
May 20. Memorial Hosp-tal:
"Here is a news bulletin. The lelDear Y—:
You must heal how the story o. lows all told me to write and let
my mended shoe ended. I'm sure you Ithem know how I got along, hut
cannot have torgotten the lunny old since I was Just wheeled in from th
brown shoemaker in Cherry Run ope.ating room this afternoon I don\
who has been mending and making feel like writing more than one letooots the sixty years of his life in ter,
"They pulled a few of my upper.-,
the Kttle shop his father built before him. And you remember how he 1and cut a chunk out of my lower
offered to put soles and heels on my ' jaw bone where two teeth had been
boots which would stand the weai pulled before, and the dentist had
-ind tear cf those mountains that failed to remove the abscess. My
^eem to protect Cherry Run trom the lips and tongue have been seemingly
rest 01 the wo.Id. I suppose it wa inflated about three times. But perold John's age that made him think haps it won't be funny when the anI'd bring my left shoe to be mend- asthetic wears oft.
ed when he couldn't find it'.-i mat
"They used everything from pileto return to me.
drivers and chfsels to butcher-knives
Well early this May I decided tha and augers in this job."
Us and Others
I should like to see Cherry Run In
Sal W!lso;:'s mother vis'ted her
Ihe Spring. Those autumn days we
T. S. Physical Jiducation
:^unday, February 5.
I :pent there together were beautiful.
Doris Mattern was fortunate in j but Y—, you should see Spring Ir
Festival
(C;ontinued from Page 1)
having her parents here to visit her II h a t valley. The jolly reds and
'b;owns which you saw cove, iig .h second grade boys made scrap-books
"n Sunday.
Kathryn Shipman «pent the week- , hillsides were all changed to th —Hygiene o n e s . Amelia Vincent
: dainties of yellows and greens. .And hel;ed them The third giade had a
end at her home in Altoona.
'the trees that rol eked meiiily in ii'cus ttitli animals and tumbiin.:^;
Margaret Beeson and Reba John- the October winds wtre .sh.;wiufe no, no peanuts, but there were eleoon entertained g u e s t s Saturday their pride by swaying graciou.^ly In phants. Geraldine Taylor maniiged
the low breezes, 'ihe new grasses t h e menage. T h e fourth grade
evening,
Lena Helsel visited at her home not yet old enough to talk, sat up marched just like soldiers, parading
I meekly where the tall ones had w t h drums a n d everything with
in Altoona,
stood and whispeied winter warn Kate Warfel as first Bandmaster.
ings to the trees. The sign'flcance The fifth gi ade had a peachy time
Teller of Tall Tales
ot new H e in that country could playing all sorts of games, which
There had been a terrible rain, never be expressed and adequately Thelma Livingston directed.
and windstorm. Ihe following day in our language, but the purple vioAnd would you believe it? Not a
Bill had driven into town. He en- lets that grow along the run and single animal had to be sent to the
gaged a carpenter to stop In some- the snow white cherry blossoms over hospital, no departation of feriners.
time; the wind, he said, had blown their heads can tell it beautifully. no absent performers, no slackers,
his summer house flve Inches off its
1 stopped In to see old John, and no ACCIDENTS—in the ranks.
foundation. Knowing him too well even he seemed to look a little less
Yes, times have changed sine* we
brown. He knew me instantly and were very young.
{Continued on Page 4)
.he Appeal to the Great Spirit. The
best ot these have lound the.i way
lUto a class book, and the class artist has completed the cover design.
No, the seventh grade isn't in it.
Iiidividually, the members of this
class have collected post cards and
snapshots of Renovc a; d Sout;i Rtn
ovo for a Civics book. These have
been pasted upon notebook papar
and accounts and explanations have
been written beneath each picture.
As yet, we have not attempted to
bind our efforts here. We await another set of flve tfays.
Now, just to let you know there
is an end to everything, I shall shovel this into an envelope.
With the best of intentions.
Another Old Maid
A Letter
NORMAL TIMES
Teller of Tall Tales
was ' tainly standing the wear and braska. The student observes the
"No one actually writes by thinkthe 1 r of the mountains. He went class he is to teach later, learns the ing how to write sentences and parto believe this, the carpenter wait- on, l..,>.king first at the shoe, then problems of the group and is allowed agraphs: a m a n writes well by
ed until he happened to be passing at me, and then through the wln- to teach when he is able to handle
thinking well ot the thing to be writand then dropped in. Bill was not d o w that opened on the spring the work.
Antelope ten."
at home, but he met him on the way brightness, and then at the shoe and
then at me, and again through the
"To teach how to write when
back to town.
G. G. Reed, President of Interna- there is nothing useful to say is the
"Well, I was up to your place," window until he had flnished a fanhe .said, "but I didn't see anything ciful tale. He told me in his squeeky tional College at Smyrna, Turkey, eighth deadly sin."
voice how a man who had lived and spoke to the class at Fresno on the
wrong."
"Expression is the transmission of
"Oh, the wind came the other labored in Cherry Run all his life subject of Turkey. He has been
wny and blew it back again, "Bill with no other aim than to visit his L h e r e flfteen years and declares the automobile; it is worthless withbiithplaco in England, had come in- America has played an important out dynamic ideas behind it."
answered calmly.
to his shop not long after I had in pal t iu introducing modern customs.
October w i t h some shoes to be
A Letter
The Collegian
mended. He was preparing against
(Contlnuel from Page 3)
the time when he should achieve his
"Now that's a dread funny thing lile's ambition. Whether my shoes j
L. A. L. Has Lunch and
nbout that shoe." I did not inter- were so very large or that old John [
Let us help you select youi
Card Party
rupt him to tell him that the other was so busy finding out the Run '
particular needs in the ToilThe L. A. L. society put on a
ette Goods line. We undergossip when he wrapped up the
farewell lunch and card party in the
stand the Beauty Value of
man's slioes is a question. But the
dayrdom, Friday evening, January
man who went to England took my
our various creams, powders.
27, for two of its members who grad•WO^-LONsffLnE
shoe with him.
Rouges, etc., and can recuated a t mid-semester, Catherine
commend the best for your
That this man is honest as all .•\iiller and Emily Johnson.
particular style of Beauty.
men in Cherry Run are, is evident,
Lunch was served at flve-thirty by
Krasny
lor he sent that shoe back to old a committee headed by Sue Tomko.
Coty
Houbigant
John from way across the sea, only
After lunch bridge and flve hundHudunt
Woodworth
a month aliter he landed. Lut per- red were played. High and low prize
hai)s you wonder why he did not ,v liners at bridge were Grace Mack
Colgate
Luxor
send it sooner. Well, only because an:l Peggy Creighton; at five bundArmand
Cheramy
he had no occasion before to use | ,.£,1 they were "Willie" Cummings
Creams
his own mended ones, which were i j^,](2 Ethel Dechant,
Powders
packed In his trunk just as old John | Both Miss Ammon and Miss RearRouges
had w rapped them.
j jci^^ faculty members of the society.
Lip Sticks
Old John parted with that shoe j ^yero present,
BTllllantes
with reluctance, but would not have | Hazel Myers, '27, an alumna L. A.
Eye Brow Pencils
it fcr his own as I wished him to do, | L, member was also a guest.
Beauty Spots
"Now, those stories are best just
Hair Tonics
remembered; and it's right for you
Shampoos
to know it," he said and because I
Better Writing
Manicure Sets
agreed with him, I have almost out(Henry S, Canby)
Everything Jn Drugs
worn the soles that were to stand
'Good writing is perhaps as ditDr. A. Prieson Co
the wear and tear ot Cherry Run ^^^.^^ ^s good playing on the piano,
mountains hiking over the brown more difficult than good cooking,
Robert L. Myers, . D.
SUCCESSOR TO
roads in back of our own little town. less difiicult than good living, but to
100 East Main Street
Perhaps next fall, we shall take know how to do it is no great sef rrljt'H Wtrnmaa g'linp
If It's New We Have It
another pair of shoes to old John cret,"
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and see again those flaming hills of
Cherry Run In the October evening
"Thinking hard never brings an
sunlight.
idea with any certainty, but ideas
never come except after brooding,
ainty Service
Expert
reflection, and thought in a brain
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elicious
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that is working with full power."
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elightful Sundaes
"There should be an intelligence
b u y second-hand hooks at a large test through which all ideas, big and
saving. Good Idea! It does away with little, simple and subtle, would have
the bulletin board method of buy- to pass before writers are allowed to
write."
ing and selling them.
The Collegian
'The first preparation tor writing
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. . is. . . . education, as m u c h as
Student Teaching Is being hand' led a new way at Kearney, Ne- you can get of It."
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