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THRIFT
Campaign still going
strong. Freshmen, don’t
weaken!
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SENIOR
Play on May 1st. Don’t
miss this big event.
VOL. VII— NO. 9.
PASADENA HIGH SCHOOL, APRIL 17, 1918, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
TRACKtU SHOW
UP WELL IN
BI6 MEET
Charley Paddock Cleans Up
Open Hundred in A. A. U.
Championships
ATKINSON WINS 880
Local Track Demons Win
More Points Than Any
Other Prep School
The Pasadena squad of record¬
wrecking athletes, clad in their light¬
est of lighter-than-air track unies,
visited Bovard Field in Los Angeles
last Saturday afternoon and partook
of the annual festivities of the A. A.
U. Championships, winning sixth
place in the meet against the best
college men in the south and bring¬
ing home more of the elusive points
than any other prep school entered.
To begin with, friend Charley Pad-
dock gave a demonstration of how to
scatter cinders over a crew of strug¬
gling sprinters by running away with
first place in the open hundred yard
AGRICULTURISTS
GROW BIG
CROPS
Pasadena High School War-
Farm Project Is Now
a Producer
LEATHER TO BE
OBJECT OF THIRD
SALVAGE DRIVE
Since last January the student farm¬
ers have been busy on their farms
getting the soil ready for planting and
now most of the crops are in and a
few of them have sprouted. There |
are twelve acres under cultivation and
these are divided into small plots
which are in charge of nine boys. The
largest plot is being cultivated by Har¬
old Pierson. He has one half an acre
of onions, one half an acre of lima
beans, one half an acre of white beans,
and a half an acre in truck garden.
Olen Hindman has half an acre de¬
voted entirely to irish potatoes. Rob¬
ert Kennan is growing sweet corn, j
Irish potatoes and tomatoes. Karl'
Baugh has an acre of sweet corn and
potatoes. Paul Pierce has one and a
half acre of lima beans, small white
beans, and truck garden. Earl Burns
Merwin Collins is also raising a truck
truck garden, beans and sweet corn.
Merwin Collins is alsor aising a truck
garden, corn and beans. Clifford Gal¬
braith has an acre of corn beans and
'The third of Pasadena’s big sal¬
vage drives is expected to accu¬
mulate a mountain of old shoes.
The day will be Thursday and in
this drive first Lieutenants have
the chance of getting to be Cap¬
tains. Besides shoes, gloves are
needed, which are used in lining
aviator’s jackets; and leather
scraps sudh as chamois. Shoes
are especially wanted as they will
be used in relief work.
Volunteers are wanted in the
sorting rooms. All those who vol¬
unteer to sort will make ten points
for doing each half hour’s work.
These points will be added to the
list in their respective first period
classes.
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PASADENANS TO
WEAR UNIFORM
ALL NEXT YEAR
SALVAGE DRIVE BRINGS
IN LARGE SUN
OF MONEY
Over $70 Realized From Sale
of Junk in Form of Mag¬
azines and Papers
Books in Great Numbers to
Find Way to Camps as
Result of Drive
FRESHMEN STILL
AHEAD IN P.H.S.
THRIFT CAMPAIGN
Grand Total Now Well Over $4000 In Drive for Thrift;
Class Competition Grows Keener As
Drive Progresses
dash. A report has been given out
that Charles has worn callouses on i truck garden. Douglas Rose is raising
his , chest from breaking so1 many
tapes at the end of the hundred.
Cook, of San Bernardino, and
Broadwell, of Throop, both fast men,
who it was thought before the race
beans, corn and Irish potatoes.
It is a little early for the beans and
so they are not in yet but all the
other crops are in and are coming
along fine. Everything is being planted
would make the Pasadenan run his j in succession insuring a continuous
head off, failed to even crowd Mr. j supply all through the summer.
Paddock and he finished with four There is an experiment being tried
yards to spare. Owing to a stiff wind ; 01lt which }S expected to turn out
the time was not the usual 10 flat | very wel] and that is a half an acre
but was 10:1, which in the face of : of peanuts. Mellons of various kinds
the breeze, was stepping right along. : jla ve keen planted and will be sold
The 880 added two more points to wjth. the rest on the produce in the
Paddock’s five when Kenny Saunders
romped home with third place against
a field of fast college men. The time
of Atkinson, , the winner, was 1. 57:1,
which is about as slow as a snowslide
down the Alps. Saunders ran a beau¬
tiful race and surprised many by
beating out several long winded col¬
lege experts.
The budding speed demonds from
the prep schools showed their elders
the fine points of running the sprints
by winning both the open 100 and
200. The collegians cleaned up the
distances and all of the field events
♦with the exception of the high jump.
The high wind preserved the rec¬
ords from being smashed, for the
trackmen with their warm weather
togs found the breeze too stiff to
make any exceptional marks.
In the high jump, Allan Lee put on
his aviating togs and after some neat
work, he pulled down a second place
giving Pasadena High a total of ten
points. Lee showed much better form j _
than in the Southern Cal. and beat
out Draper, the san Berdoo star who Freshman National Color Is
finished second in the big Tribune
school market which Is being built !
on the corner of Colorado and Hill j
avenue. The larger crops and any sur- J
plus vegetables which cannot be sold j
at the market will he taken care of
by a Los Angeles produce house the
arrangements having already been
made.
Eggs, poultry and dairy products j -
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will also be sold at the stand by the . j- __ _
members of the poultry and dairy
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DAY ID BE
classes so when any kind of produce j
is needed in your family come out and I
patronize your fellow students.
No, boys, you won’t be able to
tell them apart.
Indeed this will be the case next
year, but it will affect the boys
as well as the girls, for the whole
school will be attired in a uni¬
form dress. The boys are to have
a special uniform similar to that
of the other schools in Southern
California.
As to the girls, all their sugges¬
tions in respect to fashion, mode,
or style, will be considered, but
one never can tell anything about
the girls so any impossible crea¬
tion will be debarred.
Up to this time all the details
are not yet decided upon as to
the standardized garb and mili¬
tary training and it is not yet
known as to the extent of assis¬
tance as will be rendered by the
state and government. However
the board of education plans to
give the students cloth for their
uniforms at wholesale cost and ar¬
rangements to that end will be
made with some dealer. At any
rate quite an item of expense will
be saved to the students and all
will take their hats off to the new
idea.
HELD AGAIN THIS
COMING THURSDAY
GREEN AND WHITE
TO BE FROSH
meet.
Fouche was entered in the 16
pound shot put and. discus throw, but
owing to the excess supply of beef
displayed by the college athletes, he
failed to place. Bob Shlaudeman got
in the finals of the hop, step and
jump but did not place. The marks
set by the collegiate Hercules’ in the
broad jump and pole vault were too
much for the high school experts and
Bob failed to place in either of them.
However, he got some good practice
and as a result will be in better con¬
dition to clean up his events in the
state meet,
The half-mile school relay proved
to be a big surprise to Manual, when
for the first time- since Charles Pad-
dock began collecting Jmedals, the
Toiler relay wonders went down to
defeat. The speedy San Bernardino
team beat out Manual with room to
spare, and had not a Lincoln man
dropped the baton, the Rail-Splitters
would have probably finished second.
Pasadena did not enter anyone in
the high school events. The open
events were the only ones that gave
points in the final score, and the Pas¬
adena entrees made an excellent
showing in every thing they went
into.
The final standing of the teams is
as follows:
TX. S. C . 26
Redlands TJ . 24
L. A. A. C . 17
Pomona C . 17
Oxy . 11
Combined With Purity
at Class Banner
One of the livliest of the class ;
meetings held last Monday was that j
of the Freshmen, who were so carried
away with pep and enthusiasm by :
their success in the Thrift Stamp
drive that it was with difficulty that
order was maintained, After Harold
Minskey, the treasurer, had made a
report of the results of the thrift
campaign up to date and had urged
all his fellow classmen to keep up
the good work. The weighty matter
of choosing class colors was taken
up. After much discussion and de¬
liberation, green and white were se¬
lected to designate the class of 1921.
As green, according to tradition and
art stands for freshness and vigor
as well as efficiency, it is a very ap¬
propriate color for this class, for the
freshmen have certainly proved
themselves lively and efficient mor¬
tals since they have entered the halls
of P. H. S.
Old friend Jope Pluvius is again
to appear in print. It didn’t ex¬
actly “Pleuvoir” last Friday but
the sky took on a rather “Pluviac”
appearance which was rather dis¬
couraging to the would-be D. W.
Griffiths, incidentally several thou¬
sand rolls of valuale films were
wasted. (This is about twice the
amount that is wasted when a
Chaplin “pie-thriller” is made.)
And in view of all the trouble
and waste caused by Old Man
Jupe the powers that rule have
decided to rehold "Kodak Day”
next Thursday which will be to¬
morrow.
That’s all. Thank you.
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Pasadena H. S . 10
Naval Reserves . 9
Unattached . 8
Chaffee H. S . 7
San Bernardino H. S . 6,
Poly H. S. . . 6
Throop C . 4
L. A. H. S. . 3
Harvard . S
M. A. H. S . 8
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INTERCLASS AFFAIR
Inter-class rivalry seems to be
quite the thing of late, what with
thrift stamp and salvage drives and
the inter-class swimming meet. The
next affair of this kind will he the
interclass debates. These exhibitions
of oratory will probably take place in
the auditorium in the near future. Of
course each class expects to he the
winner and as there are a good many
representatives from each class try¬
ing out for the teams, there is sure
to be a good team to uphold the hon¬
or of each class, from the aspiring
freshies to the intellectual seniors.
The freshment have made up in
quantity for whatever they may lack
in quality by reason of their youth
for they have had the largest number
trying out for a place on the team.
The sophomores have several among
them who have had previous train¬
ing in debating, so they will prob¬
ably make a good showing. The Jun¬
iors with Louis Minsky, Loren Ryder
Salvage days last Thursday was
certainly a great success, it even sur¬
passed the bottle drive, for days be¬
fore Thursday, machines were seen
coming in the driveways filled with
newspapers, books and old maga¬
zines, There were some disadvan¬
tages though to this drive as many
people had more papers than they
could carry, and as many machines
were not available to collect all the
salvage possible. Nevertheless P. H.
S. can he very proud of the splendid
way in which these drives have suc¬
ceeded. The very minimum estimate
is all that can be given as many
articles were handed in before or
after first period Thursday and as
these were not counted on the lists
many things were turned in which
were not added to the grand total.
The lowest figures then, are: 1351
good books for the Army and Navy
libraries. 745 dozen good magazines
for reading matter for the soldiers.
At least 100 of these were National
Geographies and all of the good tech¬
nical and joke magazines were sav¬
ed. 89 junk books. Almost 500 feet of
news papers and a great many old
magazines, making a grand total of
approximately six and a! half tons
of junk. Miss Skinner will sort out
the books f^o see that no hook will
stray in unawares which might cor¬
rupt the morals of the men in the
service. Those who deserve credit for
this work are Marie Blick, the chair¬
man of the Girl’s League War Work,
Katheryn Lewis, the chairman of the
salvage comimttee, Elma Thompson,
the comamnder of the day, and
Charles Prickett, who helped in the
finishing up.
As the sorting of the salvage is al¬
most as important as the collecting
this work has been organized in such
a way that credit may be obtained
at the rate of 10 points a half hour.
Whenever there is a need for people
to sort, those working in that way
may put the credit which they earn
on their class record.
The money gained from this sal¬
vage is put in the P. H. S. hank under
the title of P. H. S. war work fund.
This fund may then he drawn upon
for materials to carry on the student
war activities.
The hoys have certainly shown
the right spirit in these drives and
the Girls’ League surely appreciate it.
Out of 6 first lieutenants 5 are hoys
and out of the eight second lieuten¬
ants seven are hoys. The boys have
also worked well in the sorting the
salvage.
The winning classes this week are:
First Lieutenants.
( Helen Davis, 132C; Harry McCarn
ent, 237C; Frank Von Mohr, 129C;
Arthur Picket, 127C; Chas. Prickett,
239C; Eliott Rhodes, 202C;
Second Lieutenants'.
Esther Olsen, 220C; William Ol¬
son, 223C; Leroy Watson, 209C; Jack
Hollister, 103A.
Seniors Juniors Soph* Freshmen
Tuesday, Apr. 10 . $ 30.73 $153.41 $ 30.17 $100.13
Wed. Apr. 11 . 102.85 83.37 41.82 176.4*
Thu. Apr. 11 . 198.06 34.47 48.79 108.83
Friday, Apr. 12 . 70.15 47.51 55.76 46.90
Monday, Apr. 15 . 245.58 203.33 99.74 237.67
Total to date . $953.09 $860.36 $488.22 $1227.13
Grand total of Thrift Stamp Sales at Pasadena $4344.03.
At the end of the second week of Pasadena High School’s big Thrift
Stamp campaign the school has gone “over” to the extent of $4000, a new
record for Southern California High Schools. During the week the class
competition has been unusually keen with both Seniors and Juniors chas¬
ing the flying Freshmen. Pp to the present time the Freshmen are holding
a lead of almost $300 over their nearest competitor and appear to be safe
for several days to come. The Seniors have been gradually pulling up dur¬
ing the last three or four days but will have to gain faster in order to pass
the Freshmen before the $2500 mark is reached. The Juniors dropped back
into third the beginning of the week hut have been coming strong. They
are in a position to strike for first at any time. The Sophomore class appears
to be hopelessly out of' the race. However a class meeting has been held
and a spurt of sales may he forthcoming.
On the whole the Thrift Drive is proving a great and unexpected surprise
in the results obtained. More interest has been aroused than ever before
and the universal effort of the entire school has been the greatest feature.
If the campaign does not flag the grand total should reach $10,000 within
the next few weeks.
The results filtering in from other department no students will be al-
schools show Pasadena High School j lowed to sell Thrift stamps at any
... 1 other place than the High School,
well up. m the van of Thrift Stamp;
sellers. The Pasadena total exceeds
Much of he large result for the last
three or four dhys has been due to
practically all those from other j active campaigning around the town,
schools that are available hut as the j At the present time class squad re¬
results from outside are probably In suits for the Seniors only are avail-
most cases two or three weeks old j able. The' Senior squad totals are as
the comparisons must not he made | follows:
on too strict a basis. Polytechnic
High School of Los Angeles is known
to be one school that is in the lead.
The other unofficial totals follow:
East High School, Columbus O, *4015 i No.
Captain Total
No. 1 Ruth Dorn . $38.25
No. 2 Waldon Moore . $47.81
| No. 3 Pauline Stanton . $70.93
No.
No.
Hutchinson Central, Buffalo,
Lincoln High, 'Lincolln, Neb. $2313
Richmond High, Richmond Ind. $1973
San Diego High, San Diego Cal. $2050
Santa Ana High $1300 1 No,
Helena High, Helena, Mont. $ 261 1 No,
By next week it is hoped that some
totals on the competition for the
4 Jack Brown . $110.07
$4625 j No. 5 Helen Larkins . $45.78
6 William Hawks . $122.45
7 Kathryn Kilmer . $23.98
No. 8 Julian Woodward .... $105.30
9 Francis Dillon . $20.39
10 Sterling Mueller . $63.81
The Freshmen are now more than
half way to “Berlin”. The results will
BULLETIN
The results of yesterday’s
sales In the Thrift Campaign are
as follows:
Seniors . $210.60
Juniors . $157.52
Sophomores . $108.88
Freshmen . 63.44
The total of each class to date
is as follows:
Seniors . $1163.69
Juniors . 1017.88
Sophomores . 597.10
Freshmen . 1290.57
Total sale up to date $4884.47
Southern California Stamp banner continue to he posted daily in the
will be available for publication. | main hall.
One new factor has been injected j chase” as
into the Thrift campaign which will [ have already discovered but there is
materially reduce totals in the com- 1 likely to hes ome excitement before
ing weeks. By edict of the Finance I the week is out.
“A stern chase is a long
the Seniors and Juniors
CAST OF SENIOR PLAY T
IS WORKING
fEACHER LEAVES
FOR U. S. SERVICE
an£ several others expect to give the
seniors a hard race for the champion¬
ship.
There is probably no one in Pasa¬
dena High school, even the most be¬
nighted Freshmen, who has not
heard, about the “Servant in the
House.” To many, however, it is only
a name, or at the most a play which
sounds perhaps a trifle “high-brow.”
There should be no misunderstanding
on this point. “The Servant in the
House” is a “high-class” play, a real¬
ly worth-while drama, but it is neith¬
er dry nor difficult to comprehend
There is a decided love interest more
than one in fact, so that the sent!- |
mentally inclined will not be disap- j
pointed. There are likewise many hu¬
morous and some extremely clever
character delineations which the ac¬
tors can he depended upon to make
the most of.
Speaking of actors, a most trying i
incident has arisen. Messrs. Frank
Blauvelt And Frederick Cohn, leading
men in the aforesaid play, have
agreed in the interests of art and
dramatic appreciation, to remain un¬
shaven and unshorn for the space of
one month, so that they may appear
be-whiskered and bedecked with flow¬
ing curls on the evening of the pre¬
mier performance.
The mystery is now fully explain¬
ed and various fair damsels who have
been exchanging whispered com¬
ments on “those slovenly boys,” are
expecte to come forward and retract
their slurring statements.
The cast has been working very
: hard learning their parts and per-
jfecting themselves in stage presence
! and voice control. With praise-worthy
i fortitude they are observing strict
j training rules as regards sweets and
I childhood bedtime rules. The rehear
р.
H. S. has given several of her
faculty members to the government
service in the last year, but the lat¬
est is Mr.
С.
T. Thing of the Chemis¬
try department .Mr. Thing will leave
Friday for the east to join the Gas
Regiment of the Chemical Service in
the United States Army.
Mr. Thing came to Pasadena High
last October, taking the place of Mr.
Owen in the Chemistry department.
He recently passed the examinations
for the work in which he is about to
enter, but did not expect to be called
into service until next June. He will
be engaged in the making of poison¬
ous gases.
sals are progressing beautifully and
Miss Sterling in a recent, interview
staed that “she was more than pleas¬
ed with the quality of talent display¬
ed and that she was really agreeably
surprised at the way the cast was
settling down to steady energetic
work.”
The cast has realied that the time
is very short and in consequence
they are redoubling their exertions.
The rest of the High School should
realize it too, and begin to save'
their pennies. The fame of this play
has already penetrated as far as the
Arroyo and even to the uttermost
boundaries of Lamanda Park. There
is sure to be a vastc rowd of anxious
ticket seekers but it is definitely stat¬
ed that the High School, especially
the Seniors will be given first chance
at the choice seats.
Remember the successes of former
years and rest assured that Miss
Sterling who has so elevated the
drama in Pasadena iHgh School, will
make this play a signal triumph that
will never be forgotten.