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Jubilee
Tom Tom
Dec. 12
DNCLE
3 Southern
California
Lightweight
Championship
VOL. XVI
PASADENA CALIFORNIA, DECEMBER 4, 1924
NO. ID
10 SHOW ME
FILM HERE TOM
This Afternoon at 3:30 You
' Will See the Strangest
Things in Pictures
EXPLORER IN PERSON
The Darkest Spot in Africa
Shown in a Series of Views
on Savage Life
Presenting, real live pygmies
African jungle dancers, a hippo¬
potamus and lion hunt, a para¬
mount film given under the aus¬
pices of the Faculty Fellowship
committee of P. H. S. will be
shown this afternoon in the audi¬
torium.
The picture will be accompanied
by Dr. Leonard J. Vandenbergh,
a world-wide traveler, who took
the pictures in Africa, and who
will explain them as they are
flashed on the screen.
Dr. Vandenbergh, missionary
and anthropologist, was born in
Holland. Coming to America he
won the degree ot Doctor of
Jurisprudence at the University of
California. As Dr. Vandenbergh
lived and studied in Africa
fi r about fifteen years he had
charge in 1919 of an expedition
financed by the Famous Players-
Lasky corporation. He took
36,000 feet of film and made num¬
erous anthropological observations.
He spent some time among the
Mambuti, a tribe of pygmies lo¬
cated in the Congo Forest. The
men and women of this tribe aver¬
age four feet tall, are black in col¬
or, and hitherto believed to be
mythical. The Doctor states that
this race is fast vanishing.
' This mysterious race of pygmies
are fond of salt and would only
pause for the camera when they
were given large quantities of it.
Despite the fact that they are
savages living in the heart of the
African jungle, the pygmies are
deeply religious, and with the aid
of a device resembling an ouija
board they daily converse with
the dead. That’s the statement
made by the explorer.
The savages kill a man eatimr
Hon, and hunt and slay a hippo¬
potamus in a river swarming with
the savage beasts. You will doubt¬
less see more facinating, and
amazing features in these films
than you have ever seen before.
PARTY FOR MEXICANS TO
BE HELD ON SIXTEENTH
The annual Christmas party for
Mexican children will be held in
assembly on the sixteenth, which is
the last day of school before the
Christmas vacation.
One hundred and sixty boys and
girls, besides the children of the
Fauclty, will be entertained at the
party, which is under the super¬
vision of Natalie Vincente, Com¬
missioner of girls welfare and Pres¬
ident of the girls’ League.
Books, toys, handkerchiefs, games
and neckties as well as nuts and
raisons for the Christmas stockings
will be needed. The Manual Train¬
ing department is making a few
toys but since these will be bring
insufficient, students are urged to
bring any toys which they or their
brothers and sisters have and no
longer use, next week. The exact
date will be announced later.
Last year the Christmas tree for
the party was one blown down in
a big wind storm. This year, not
so lucky, the girls’ league will go
halves on a tree with the Pasa- i
dena P. T. A.
Miss Blsa Richards, ’27, gave a
very interesting talk on Belgium,
Monday, December 1, to the first
period Caesar classes of Miss Fan¬
nie E. Henion and Mrs. Ruth
Brennan. Miss Richards lived in
Belgium for about 13 years, hav¬
ing gone to that country when she
was only a year old. Her talk |
was featured by vivid personal
experiences of the last war.
SAD FACT REVEALED
It is with the deepest regret
that it must be announced that
another vacation is coming very
soon. This news is being re¬
ceived with great sorrow by
both faculty and students.
School will let out on Tuesday,
December 16, and will not con¬
vene again until January 6, al¬
lowing a vacation of two weeks
and three days — woe is me!
During this time besides hang¬
ing up their stockings on the
evening of the twenty-fifth,
faculty members will meet for
Teachers’ Institute on the 16,
17, 18, and 19.
During this time the old
Alma Mater will be visited by
St. Nick who will install an
entire new heating system.
Pasadenans Go To
Girls' Convention
Three delegates from Pasadena.
Miss Nellie Greene Clarke, Dean
of Girls, Natalie Vincenti, Com¬
missioner of Girls’ Welfare, and
Lois Woodruff, Secretary of the
Girls’ League, attended the annual
fall convention of the Southern
California Girls’ League Federa¬
tion held in Pomona Friday eve¬
ning and Saturday morning, Nov¬
ember 21 and 22. Beside these
three official representatives four¬
teen other Pasadenans went to
Pomona Saturday morning in time
for the 9 o’clock discussion groups.
The entertaining features of the
convention, a banquet and a play,
took place Friday evening at the
High School, after which the 168
delegates were taken to the var¬
ious homes of the Pomona girls.
The following morning the girls
again assembled at the High
School where they separated from
the advisers and divided into two
groups according to the enroll¬
ment of schools, those above 800
meeting in one place and those
below 800 meeting in another.
Both groups discussed the topic,
“The service of the Girls’ League
in regard to other girls, to the
school in general, and to the com¬
munity.” This discussion proved
of value to Pasadena especially in
regard to the social functions of
the League, by supplying many
valuable suggestions.
At 11:30 a mass meeting was
held in the auditorium and during
the ensuing hour the general busi¬
ness of the year was taken up.
Polytechnic High of Los Angeles
was elected as the hostess of the
convention next fall therefore au¬
tomatically becoming the President
j of the Convention for the coming
year. Citrus Union High School
was elected hostess of the spring
convention therefore automatically
| becoming second vice-President for
the coming year. The other offi¬
cers are, first vice-President, Po¬
mona; secretary, Santa Monica;
; treasurer, Anaheim.
The Pasadena representatives
who attended the business meeting
Saturday morning, besides the de-
legates who went Friday after¬
noon, were elected from depart¬
ments of the Girls’ League as fol¬
lows: Norma Opsanl and Sarah
Schwartz from the program de¬
partment; Elinor Wilson and Fran¬
ces Cole, Social Service depart¬
ment; Mildred Morrison, Hospi¬
tality department; Elizabeth Gras-
sie and Beatrice Cross, Civic Ac¬
tivities department; Portia Wal¬
lace and Evelyn Edwards, Girls’
League Cabinet. Besides these,
Eunice Macy went from the Uni¬
form board, Gloria Gartz from the
Cabinet who were appointed, Hol¬
ly Halstead and Frances Scoville,
Girls’ League officers, and Miss
Lewis, adviser.
Sixty girls of the Home Eco¬
nomics classes made their annual
excursion to the Crown City Dairy
Company last week. After going
through the plant and studying the
sanitary methods empl
о у
e d,
they were all treated by the man¬
agement to as much ice cream as
they could eat.
BULLDOG LIGHTWEIGHTS WILL
MEET GLENDALE IN FINALS
OF SO. CALIFORNIA PLAY-OFF
DYNAMITERS HAVE WON ALL GAMES THIS
SEASON; HUNTINGTON PARK ONLY ELEVEN
TO CROSS THEIR GOAL LINE FOR SCORE
When the whistle sounds for
the initial kick-off of the Pasa-
dena-Glendale game tomorrow
afternoon, two of the classiest
lightweight teams in the south
will clash to decide the Class
В
championship of Southern Califor¬
nia. Although the Bulldogs will
be forced to travel to Glendale and
play on a field with which they
are unfamiliar', Pasadena hopes to
stop the Dynamiters’ winning
streak. Both teams have fast,
hard hitting elevens but the Bull¬
dogs are given the edge on speed.
'The dope shows the teams to be
evenly matched. In their regular
! league contests the Glendale out¬
fit did not have its goal line
crossed. This is quit a record
for a lightweight team. How¬
ever, in the play off games Pasa¬
dena has been showing her real
offense. In the two play off con¬
tests the Bullpups rang up a to¬
tal of 143 points to the 0 of their
opponents. Last week Pasadena
swept the Anaheim team off its
feet and when the dust cleared
away the score board showed Pas¬
adena to be the winner by a 68 to
0 score.
Yet Glendale is a much better
team than any that the Bulldogs
have met this season and if Pas¬
adena hopes to win the whole
team must be going full force.
The line and speedy backfield
showed their power last week
when they defeated the strong
Huntington Park team 10 to 7 in
the semi-finals of the Southern
California play-offs.
However, Pasadwia has a
strong forward wall as was dem¬
onstrated by the ease in which
»they downed the Anaheim stars
for big losses. In Borden and
Spellman, tackles, lies the strength
of the Bulldogs’ line. Both may be
depended upon to throw Glendale
for heavy losses. Little Dick
Mulvin at center and Rady and
Turner at ends also strengthen
the line.
In the backfield the Bulldogs
look the better. Notre Dame
hasn’t anything on Pasadena when
it comes to horsemen. Slick and
Mulvey run the opposing ends I
ragged while Caines is no slouch
when it comes to stepping off
yards. Capt. Iliff hits the line
hard and low and is probably the
most consistent player in the
backfield.
Phil Ramsay, who has been out
for the last two weeks with an in¬
jured leg, is expected to start
the game Friday. Phil is the
most dangerous obstacle in the
way of a Glendale championship.
However, the Bulldog rooter
should not expect an easy game,
for any team that can go through
its regular schedule without hav¬
ing its goal line crossed, will not
be defeated by a one-sided score
in the play-off game.
It has not been decided yet
whether the winner of this game
will be allowed to meet a northern
representative for the State
Championship.
The game will begin at 2:30.
If Pasadena should win it will be
the second lightweight Southern
California Championship to be won
in the four years in which light¬
weight football has been played
by this school. It is also to be
remembered that in the other
two years one league champion
team has been produced.
Lt. Colonel George Davis of the Salvation Army welcomed by
Principal Ewing. The others from right to left are Kenneth Kerans,
member of the Social Science department who introduced the speaker,
Captain Vernon and Adjutant Naton.
Salvation Army Officers at P. H. S.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL GEORGE DAVIS SPEAKS IN
SALVATION ARMY ASSEMBLY; SAYS THAT
LEADERS NEEDED IN WORLD TODAY
“The greatest need of the world
today is leaders,” said Lieuten¬
ant Colonel George Davis, of the
Salvation Army, in a force¬
ful talk to both assemblies on
Tuesday, November 24.
Besides speaking on “Leader¬
ship” the Colonel told of his work
over seas during the war. He
described the journey across the
Atlantic where there was always
a danger of submarines.
Colonel Davis was introduced to
the Student Body by Kenneth
Kerans, member of the Social
Science department.
Accompanying the Colonel were
Captain Vernon and Adjutant
Naton, both of the Salvation
Army. Colonel Davis is stationed
in San Francisco.
All the visitors were guests at
luncheon and afterwards had their
pictures taken.
To Give Assembly
The high school orchestra under
the direction of Hubert H. Park¬
er, head of the Band and Orches¬
tra department, is to present an
assembly in the near future.
Students have returned eighteen
keys to the key room and they are
still uncalled for. There are also
twelve keys for which the fifty
cent deposit has been made and the
depositors have not yet called for
them.
CLUB MEMBERSHIP UP
No excuse for not being a
member of some organization
in P. H. • S. will be left after
assembly tomorrow which will
clear up all obstacles of mis¬
understanding that -the stu¬
dents may have in regard to
the membership requirements
and the purposes of the var¬
ious clubs.
In the assembly the presi¬
dents of all organizations will
give short talks on the admis¬
sion requirements and the work
which their respective organi¬
zations carry on. The rather
poor average of students be¬
longing to clubs now is thought
to be due to their ignorance of
the existence of such clubs in
which they might be interested.
Defeat Handed Team
in Year’s First Debate
Misfortune indeed attended the
first inter-scholastic debate with
Hollywood, for .a two to one de¬
cision was handed down by the
judges in favor of Hollywood.
The P. H. S. team, com¬
posed of John Ackley and Eliza¬
beth Bixby, upheld the affirmative
side of the question, “Resolved:
That a two-thirds vote of the Su¬
preme Court be required to make
an act of Congress unconstitu¬
tional.” As the burden of proof
rested with the affirmative, Holl- '
wood, upholding the negative, had
a slight advantage over our team.
Nevertheless, unanswerable argu¬
ments were presented by Elizabeth
Bixby, first speaker of the affir¬
mative.
In the opinion of our coaches,
the victory was won by the
strength of the delivery of the
Hollywood team alone. In fact
very unsatisfactory rebuttals were
given constantly. Nevertheless,
“John Ackley and Elizabeth Bixby
have worked faithfully and suc¬
cessfully, finding all possible ma¬
terial defending the affiramtive,
and are two of the best working
debaters that I have ever had the
privilege of coaching and there is
no necssity for any sorrowful feel¬
ing among either debaters or those
interested,” says the new debate |
coach, R. W. Canfield.
The debate held Friday evening,
November 21, in the Hollywood
Memorial Auditorium, was attend¬
ed by a large crowd of P. H. S.
rooters, along with the Hollywood
supporters.
JUBILEE TOM TOM TO BE
PRESENTED DECEMBER 12 1
The much heralded Jubilee Tom
Tom, the first entertainment to be
given this year under the auspi¬
ces of the Commissioners, will
take place December 12, ih the
auditorium. The performance will
begin at 8 P. M.
Dwight Culver, Commissioner
of Entertainment, has had com¬
plete charge of preparing the pro¬
gram for the entertainment.
Dwight states that at least five
good acts of vaudeville have been
obtained and also a good picture.
Efforts are being made to secure
the presence of the well known
negro comedian, George Dewey
Washington. Although this is
his busy season, Mr. Washington
is endeavoring to arrange his
schedule so as to be here on the
twelfth.
The prices are to be twenty-five
and thirty-five cent-. The money
derived will go to the Student
Body Fund unless special action
is taken by the Commission to ap¬
propriate it to some other use. A
large crowd is expected to turn
out as commission entertainments
have always proved popular in the
past.
The main building of P. H. S.
has an attic or air space in which
there are numerous electric wires
that connect the bells, telephones,
clocks, and electric lights.
Second Childhood and Santa
Claus to Featare m Class
Party of Year. December 17
WILL WEAR
КТО
CLOTHES
American Legit® Otab House
In South Pasadena to be
The Scene of First Revelry-
Seniors tali and seniors small
will be unceremoniously stripped
of their dignity on tbo evening of
December 17, when the class of
’25 will celebrate their first party
of the year at thr South Pasa¬
dena Legion Club House, In par¬
ody of the position of solemnity
usually associated with a graduat¬
ing class, all seniors are to don
“kid” clothes on this night and
the party will be known as the
“kid” party. This costume is par¬
ticularly fitting at this time of
the year when all "children” are
anxiously awaiting the coming of
Santa Claus. It is needless to say
that he will probably make one
of the earliest debuts at the sen¬
ior party.
A sizable committee under the
leadership of Doris Clewett has
been working out the details of
the party for several weeks. They
have completed the plans for an
event which it is rumored will be
very different from the average
class party. Elocution, fancy
dancers, clever plays and the like
have been carefully avoided. The
exact details of the party are not
to be published. However, it is
intimated by Lois Ewing, chair¬
man of the refreshments commit¬
tee, that refreshments will follow
along Christmas and juvenile
lines.
As the real purpose of the party
is to promote a larger spirit of
friendship among the class itself,
only seniors wiB be admitted.
Senior class membership cards are
necessary for admission..
Jack Hosford, class president,
has asked that all seniors as a
matter of common courtesy re¬
frain from giving parties on the
seventeenth.
The party will begin at eight
thirty and will terminate some¬
time after ten. Every senior is
urged to forget his station for
this one night. Prizes will prob¬
ably be given for the most child¬
ish costumes.
This will be the. first of several
parties to be giver by and for the
hopeful grads of ’25 throughout
the year. Later in the year a
more formal event will be given.
Further details concerning this
party will appear in next week’s
Chronicle and will also be an¬
nounced ir. a senior class meeting.
“K” CLUB ELECTS ITS
OFFICERS FOR SEMESTER
For the purpose of electing their
semester officers, the “K” Club, or
The Home Nursing Club, held a
meeting Tuesday, November 25.
Those elected were Agnes Gar¬
rett, president; Bernice Oleson,
vice-president; Helen Lawson, sec¬
retary; and Lois Ewing, treasurer.
Gertrude Fraser was elected chair¬
man of the pin committee.
Miss Mabel S. Kay, club adviser,
urges all girls who secured their
Red Cross certificates to join the
“K” Club as this is the only re¬
quirement for admission,
“Let’s see some more girls out
for this peppy club, for we’re go¬
ing strong, and are already plan¬
ning an entertainment for our
members,” says Miss Kay.
AUTO PARKING WARNING
Soon the parking system at
the high school will swing around
so the cars will face north and
south instead of. east and west as
at present. Let all those interest¬
ed prepare mentally for the
change.
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