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- Pasadena Chronicle, December 19, 1918
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Pasadena Chronicle, December 19, 1918
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MERRY CHRISTMAS
to all. Don't forget to
study and beware the
flu.
INIU
PATRONIZE
our advertisers. Their
goods are good. Save
money on shopping.
Vol VIII.— No. 3.
PASADENA HIGH SCHOOL, DECEMBER 19, 1918. PASADENA, CALIFORNIA.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
AT ML 8.
Military Training Will Be
Continued at High School,
Says Principal
KEEP OFFICERS’ CLASS
Definite Announcement Is
Made of Continuation of
Cadet Training
Despite the coming of peace and
the demobiliation of troops, military
training is a permanent thing at
Pasadena High School. It was thought
by many students that after the end¬
ing of the war that millitary training
would be dropped from the school
course, but all rumors were dispelled
when Mr. Wilson definitely announc¬
ed that military training will contin¬
ue to be a permanent requirement
at P. H. S.
According to Mr. Wilson, both mili¬
tary and officers’ training are here to
stay and will be permanent subjects.
Mr. Wilson said that the value of
military training in the school had
already been proved.
“Officers’ training will be one of
the most important subjects,” said
the P. H. S. principal, “since the
training camps are to be disbanded
and no similar training could be had
without entering the regular army
or possibly in a two weeks summer
course. An officers’ training course
is a valuable thing to the high school
and will certainly be continued at
Pasadena High” ,
— * - . t _ • *
Merry <3hristmas! Swat that flu bug!
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LEAGUE IS HH
AT W0HK DURING
Thanksgiving Baskets Sent
Out and Work Contin¬
ued on Quilts
In spite of the closing of school, the
Girls’ League has never quit work for
a minute. Thanksgiving baskets were
made up and given out, the work has
been continued on cutting squares tor
quilts, and as far as possible notes
were sent to the girl influenza vic¬
tims.
The Girls’ League had planned a
Christmas entertainment for the little
children similar to the one which was
given last year, but it had to be called
off. Everything was in readiness for
the entertainment, but the flu ban
made it impossible. It may be given
at Easter instead.
At Thanksgiving, forty baskets were
filled and distributed to the poor
through the Pasadena Welfare Bureau.
The work was done by having twenty
girls chairmen of committees. These
girls were responsible for furnishing
two baskets each and had other girls
to assist them.
Many of the girls have been con¬
tinuing the work started before school
closed, on quilts. The quilt pieces
will be four inches square, and the
linings, the size of the Saturday Eve¬
ning Post. The pieces may be white
or colored. So far, the work of cutting
squares is being done, although some
girls have started sewing them.
MISS BAUM OF THE MUSIC
DEPARTMENT GOES
TO SAN JOSE
Miss Baum, of the P. H. S. music
department, has left Pasadena High
to take up an excellent position at
San Jose High School. In the ab¬
sence of Miss Sabel, Miss Baum has
had complete charge of the music
department and has handled it in a
very efficient way. Her many .P H.
S. friends, both among the students
and faculty will be sorry to hear of
her departure from Pasadena as all
have enjoyed her work and the
pleasant association with her.
“ME FOR
01/
P. H. S”
WRITE STUDENTS IN THE
ARMY AND NAVY CAMPS
Many of the high school boys
who left school before graduat¬
ing to join the army or navy
have signified their intentions of
returning to P. H. S. as soon as
they get their discharges. Sev¬
eral P. H. S. students in the ser¬
vice have already secured their
discharges and will return to
school when it reopens.
P. H. S. is the place for me,
they all write. Eugene LaShelle,
stationed at New London, Con¬
necticut, says, “It’s Yours Truly
for the land of all-year sun and
good ol' P. H. S. as soon as I can
grab my discharge and bid the
colonel farewell. There are sev¬
eral Pasadena fellows here and
they are sure anxious to get back
to Southern California.”
Nearly all old students of P. H.
S. write back home in about the
same manner and many familiar
faces may be seen again when
the flu ban is lifted.
Merry Christmas! Over the top at
the flu bug!
GIRLS TO CO-OPERATE
WITH P.-T. A. IN WORK
ON CHRISTMAS BASKETS
The Girls’ League is preparing
to co-operate with the Parent-
Teacher Association in filling
Christmas baskets. The girls will
furnish the delicacies for the bas¬
kets, principally candy.
The splendid work of the League
in co-operating with the Welfare
Bureau at Christmas time won
hearty praise from those In charge
of the distribution of the baskets.
The girls have done a remarkable
thing in being able to both fur¬
nish such fine baskets and to co¬
operate so efficiently with other
organizations so that all of the
worthy poor were well supplied.
Although the work on the
Christmas baskets will not be in
furnishing them completely, the
supplying of delicacies for them
is no Small task and the girls,
under Bernice Bldwell, vice-presi¬
dent of the League, are already
at work on their latest task.
Merry Christmas! Swat that flu bug!
MEMBER OF THE JAPANESE
EMBASSY VISITS
HIGH SCHOOL
Miss Case Becomes Committee of One
to Show Mr. Motoichi Mizufaki
Around P. H. S.
On a six months tour to investigate
the schools of America, Motoichi Mi¬
zufaki of the University of Kyoto,
Japan, visited Pasadena High School
a week ago Saturday. He landed at
P. H. S. at 10 a. m. Saturday and it
is thought that he only got inside the
main building by climbing through
a widow.
Miss Case immediately appointed
herself a committee of one to show
the distinguished Japanese through
the buildings, and all points of inter¬
est at P. H. S. were pointed out and
explained. Miss Case explained the
various systems in use at Pasadena
High, and Mr. Mizufaki expressed sur¬
prise at the remarkable machine-like
efficiency by which the school is run.
Merry Christmas! Hit that flu bug
hard!
“FLU” BAN KEEPS ARCADIA
BOYS FROM ATTENDING
NIGHT SCHOOL
Because of the influenza ban, the
Army Balloon Camp has been unable
to take up the offer of the high school
to attend night school. Many of the
boys at Arcadia were anxious to at¬
tend the evening sessions of P. H, S.
and a large number signed up. Lan¬
guages and shop were the most popu¬
lar studies. At present no arrange¬
ments have been made 'for the boys
to come to night school after the lift¬
ing of the flu ban.
COMMISSIONERS MEET
DESPITE “FLUEY”
Select Body Recovers From
Flu; Dean Ireland
Yell Leader
A1 Wesson Appointed Ed¬
itor of 1918-19 Chron¬
icle Annual
As the regular Friday meeting of
the Student Body Commission before
the close of school was postponed on
account of the “flueyenza,” a special
meeting was called on Friday morning,
November 15th. Only four members
were present, Bennett Uuterbaugh
being in other parts engaged in the
low hut useful occupation of pursuing
the wily shekel by means of manual
labor.
Dean Ireland was appointed head
yell leader with instructions to get
two assistants approved by the com¬
mission. It was decided to have three
leaders at every football game, the
head leader to receive an eight-inch
“P” with a bulldog head.
The application of Harry Richman
for the position of head usher was
presented and he was given that job
for the school year.
A1 Wesson, Editor of the Chronicle,
was elected to edit the 1918-19 Chroni¬
cle Annual. Acting upon a motion of
Miss Brown, the commission appoint¬
ed the editor early in the year to
avoid any possible delay or late publi¬
cation as was the case last year.
The regular meeting had been poat-
paned as only Bennett Puterbaugh
survived the flu epidemic. A1 Wesson
was the first victim and was just start¬
ing a month’s sojourn in bed. He was
critically ill with influenza-pneu¬
monia. Loren Ryder was next and
modestly retired with a case of the
flu. Esther Brown had a cold, and
parental fright made Louis Minskey
wander homeward.
Merry Christmas! Swat that flu bug!
HIGH SCHOOL FLOORS
ARE GIVEN BALLROOM
SHINE BY MR. HUNTER
When P. H. S. students return to
school, they will find all buildings
thoroughly cleaned and renovated.
A great deal of time has been spent
In the cleaning of the floors. All
floors, both linoleum and concrete,
have been scrubbed by a new electric
scrubbing machine, and then covered
with minwax, a new mineral wax
used in preserving floors.
According to Mr. Hunter, czar of
the floorsweepers and king of all jan¬
itors, the minwax will add two hun¬
dred per cent to the wearing proper¬
ties of the floors. The wax fills the
pours of the floors and makes them
become waterproof, stain proof, and
acid proof after a certain length of
time. It also keeps down the dust.
As the price of linoleum has more
than doubled since it was last bought
by the high school, the value of sav¬
ing the floors can be readily seen.
At present the floors of P. H. S.
resemble highly polished dance floors
and there is great danger of skidding
unless one wanders through them
with swanlike grace at the speed of a
snail. However, Mr. Hunter will sup¬
ply chains to ail those with slippery
soles if the floors are not dry by the
time school opens.
Merry Christmas! Hit that flu bug
hard! *
MR. WILSON GIVES
MESSAGE TO HIGH
SCHOOL STUDENTS
Principal Wilson had the fol¬
lowing message to give the stu¬
dents of Pasadena High:
“A great loss has been suffered
by the students in the closing of
school, but the great events which
have happened of late outweigh
our temporary setback. We now
face before us a future of oppor¬
tunity without the fear of having
a future of defeat which had to be
reckoned with before the coming
of peace.
“Christmas this year will bring
a true ‘peace on earth, good will
to men,’ and I believe it will be
the happiest the world has ever
known.”
PLAN OF TEACHING
STUDENTS BY MAIL
IS NOW UNDER WAY
Students to Do Assignments by Mail Until School Re-;
opens; School Probably Not to Start
Until After New Year’s
HIGH SCHOOL NOT TO
HAVE FLOAT IN NEW
YEAR’S DAY PARADE
Unless school opens suddenly
before Christmas, a thing that
seems highly improbable at pres- 4
ent, Pasadena High will have no
representation in the Tourna¬
ment of Roses Parade on New
Years. It has been the custom
for many years for the high
school to enter a big float, but
owing to the closing of school, it
has been found Impossible to do
this year.
Members of the High School
Junior Board of Trade and the
P. H. S. Commission will not
ride In a machine as has been
customary in preceding years.
i
erry Christmas! Don’t get the flu!
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I TELL YOUR FRIENDS
If you know anyone who did not
receive the Chronicle this week, no¬
tify Dean Herrick, Managing Editor,
40 Oakland Ave., or Colo. 5320, and
one will be sent. If you want an extra
copy, send your address and five cents
and one will be mailed.
The new plan of teaching high school students by corre¬
spondence is now well under way and all difficulties in the sup¬
plying of school books and other problems of the new system are
being rapidly straightened out. The plan was announced in the
Star-NeVs of last Wednesday, and the work of sending out
assignments of lessons in all subjects which were possible to
prepare by mail was begun at once.
The. plan of mailing assignments had been prepared and ap¬
proved three times previous to test Wednesday’s announcement,
but was abandoned each time because the health authorities said
that school would be reopened the following Monday. As much
valuable time has been lost, the faculty wishes to urge the stu¬
dents to take this work as seriously as their regular work in
school and asks their co-operation in making the new system
successful.
Although the school board wishes
to open school as soon as possible, the
members of it want to wait until the
safety of reopening is assured. De¬
spite the fact that there have been
reports given out that the height of
the influenza epidemic has been past,
the number of cases reported daily
shows that it w(juld be foolish to re¬
open schools at present.
A reopening of school was at¬
tempted two weeks ago in Los An¬
geles, but all schools; were forced to
shut down again as the attendance
which started low dropped daily and
the disease seemed to start up afresh.
Los Angeles has no\\( also adopted
the correspondence method of teach¬
ing school until gafe to open
MEN OF FACULTY WEAR
BLISTERS ON HANDS
FOR RED CROSS
The men of the P. H. S. faculty
demonstrated ytheir patriotism in a
concrete manner during the present
enforced vacation by completing 150
Red Cross bedside tables for the
Pasadena Red Cross.
When school was closed by the flu,
the material for making these tables
was in i.he shop department and they
were to be made by the boys in shop
work. Several men of the faculty
de-^g'4
№еИк>гк
,wh<c)4 the
boys were prohibited from doing, and
after several long hard weeks of la¬
bor, the work was finished. The
making of the tables was done as
part of the Junior Red Cross work of
Pasadena High.
Merry Christmas! Don’t get the flu!
'schools ,
The importance of ' the doing the
school work by correspondence can
be readily realized when it is known
that schools may not open again for
some time. It is practically certain
from present reports that there will
be no school until after the first of
the year and after then a reopen¬
ing will depend upon the situation.
FLU BUG CLUB TO BE
ORGANIZED FOR POOR
FLUEYENZA VICTIMS
Flu Victim Lets Out Secrets of New Organization; Be in
Style, Entertain the Senor Spanish Influenza,
and Join the Flu Club
BY 1-HOOZ-HADDEM
Have you had the “flueyenza?” If
you have not, you are as out of style
as the straw hat and might as well
get it now and join your fellow man
rather than sit unsneezingly aloof
from the rest of the world. For the
fluey victims have threatened to form
a secret society and all those who
have not been visited by El Senor
Don Influenza Espanola will be left
out.
The following chant has been writ¬
ten for prospective members to learn.
Its best effect is felt If sung solemnly
at midnight under the old pepper
tree, the singer to dress In hot appli¬
cations with a flu mask around his
neck. The dirge follows:
The floo-oo-o, the floo-oo-o
The Spanish floo-oo-o,
It lays you out
And tortur-rr-res yoo-oo-o!
Bewar-r-re, my cee-ild-d
’Twill get you, too-oo-oo!
Various names for the new society
have been mentioned, among them
The P. H. S. Flueyenzas, the Order
of the Fluitis Bugus Bitem, and The
Merry Christmas! Over the top at
the flu bug!
Merry Christmas Edition of Chronicle
This issue of the Chronicle is being put out and mailed to every
subscriber as a “Merry Christmas” edition. It has been published for
four reasons: (1) To let the students know what is going on in and
about and regarding the deserted halls of P. H. S.; (2) to bid the stu¬
dents of Pasadena High a fond “Merry Christmas;” (3) to give the staff
some work to keep it out of trouble; (4) and lastly, to show nonsub¬
scribers what they are missing.
The Chronicle staff has had a perfectly lovely time trying to
gather interesting material whichhad not already been used by the
Star-n^ws, its worthy rival and struggling competitor, but has finally
succeeded in getting enough news, near news, not-quite news, and bum
news to fill its many pages. The staff hopes you will survive its at¬
tempts and get over the flu. Again, it wishes you a “Merry Christmas.”
“ , THE EDITOR.
Grand Society of the Ancient and
Sacred Flu Bug. It is rumored that
meetings will be held regularly when
members will be able to discuss their
sundry and divers back, neck, head,
etc. aches and pains. It is also rum¬
ored that at these meetings members
will be allowed to discourse at length
to a sympathetic audience upon the
wobbliness from the knees down upon
their arising from bed, upon the wooz¬
iness and jazzless feeling after an at¬
tack, and upon every li’l thing.
Again it is rumored that new mem¬
bers will he admitted after proving
that they were in bed for a week with
the flu and after having the Sacred
Flu Bug of the society bite them
thrice on the left cheek.
Members (again a rumor) will
know each other by the peculiar flu¬
eyenza waver of the knees. Upon
passing each other on the street or
any public place, members will sa¬
lute each other (again rumor) by
sneezing three times over the left
shoulder at an angle of sixty-seven
and one-half degrees and waving a
sterilized flu mask under their right
ear meanwhile coming to the posi¬
tion of a full knee bend to show how
well and strong they are.
The president and other officers of
this aristocratic organization have
not yet been elected and it is probable
that they will be chosen according to
the severity of their cases. For ex¬
ample: the member of the society
who had the first case, was the long¬
est in bed, and given up for lost by
the most doctors will undoubtedly be
made president. There will he other
offices, according to rumor, such as
Keeper of the Sacred Bug, (Chief Ap-
plier of the Hot Applications to the
President’s Neck, etc.
Anyone who has not yet made the
(Continued on page 2)
II “OilfFT
SEA! IN ACTION
AljRONI
Popular Ex-Football Coach
in Fierce Fighting at
Battle of Argonne
A cablegram has recently been re¬
ceived from Lieutenant W. D. "Duffy’’
Seay of Pasadena, former football
coach and one of the most popular fac*
ulty members of P. H. S., that after
the signing of the armistice he is safe
and well.
Lieut. Seay was recently in the
fierce fighting of the Battle of the
Argonne and in other engagements in
Belgium. He was still in action at the
time hostilities were stopped “Duffy”
as he was known to his many friends
at the high school, belonged to the
“Wild Westerners,” the 9iit Division
which won such a wonderful name for
itself in the Argonne fight. His regi¬
ment received a citation for its won¬
derful bravery and unconquerable
spirit in remaining under terrible
hardships in the front line with no
relief.
Lieut. Seay was in three battles and
luckily came out of all without a
scratch. In a letter from the front, he
describes some of the hardships and
dangers the men lived through. He
writes as follows of the Battle of the
Argonne in which he led a platoon:
“We were the luckiest outfit in the
scrap as far as casualties were con¬
cerned and we saw some of the hard¬
est fighting. Every man — including
myself — wonders and marvels at the
fact that he is living, for the Duthmen
certainly have devious ways of taking
life with neatness and dispatch. We
literally lived in a shower of high
explosive and shrapnel shells for sev¬
eral days and I never knew before
that one could be shot at so continu¬
ally — and missed. I have had the
force of their explosion jar. my helmet
loose from my head and shower me
with roqks and dirt, but I came out of
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