Pasadena Chronicle, February 14, 1917

ANNIVERSARY of Chronicle this week. The triumvirate speak. Stop, look, listen! ONtCt-E FACULTY Ball Game Tonight. “Keenie at the bat.” Don’t miss it! VOL. V— NO. 1 PASADENA HIGH SCHOOL, FEBRUARY 14, 1917, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA PRICE 5 CENTS CHRONICLE HUS ““ ™ Second Year of Weekly Sheet Reached by Big Annual Issue TRIUMVIRATE GIVE VIEWS Sheet Has Increased Size More Than Double; Better Class of Work All Around By EUGENE ONG Yes, I remember the birth of the Chronicle, and that great event came to pass just two years ago today. How many surprising events have come before our eyes through the Chronicle and how' ignorant we would still be except for the hidden know¬ ledge in those uninteresting books, if it were not for the eagerly looked for issues of the pages which true to its name chronicles the many functions and activities of the P. H. S. And who are we to thank for it all? First those who conceived the idea of a Chronicle, and again they who had the aggressiveness to mould that idea into a reality; and again those who had the stick-to-itiveness to hold on throughout the year though we issued our last issue last year with only three hundred subscribers and the paper with an enormous debt shad¬ ing its name. Second, we have to thank the whole student body for the immediate support that has been givdn the paper this year, for the Chronicle had reached a crisis that without this support it would now be remembered only as a dismal failure by reason of the student body not measuring up to its present high standard. There is still one duty that remains for “each and every one of us.” Little attention was given the advertise- Wonderful Symphony Orches¬ tra Produces Strains Which Please Last Wednesday the members of Miss Sabel’s music classes went over to the Trinity Auditorium in Los An¬ geles t° hear the world famous Minne¬ apolis Symphony Orchestra under the leadership of Emil Oberhoffer, one of the most noted conductors in the United States. It is not often that high school pupils have the opportunity to listen to such a programme as that rendered by this famous organization and it was only through the efforts of Miss Sabel that the students were able to eujoy the following programme: I Symphony No. 2 in E Minor Op. 27 . Rachmaninoff Largo — Allegro Moderato Allegro, molto Adagio Allegro vivace IlSymphony Espagnole for violin and orchestra . Lalo Allegro ma non troppo Andante Ronds — allegre III Overtude, “Springtime of Love” . Schumann IV Fireworks, a fantasie for or¬ chestra . Stravinsky ENGINEERS’ CLUB HAS INTERESTING TALK E City Engineer Orbison Gives Exceptional Talk on Important Problem -EDITOR TELLS OF ROPES OF STAFF Kenneth Fuessle Remembers Anxious Scene as First Issue Appeared By Kenneth Fuessle Shirley Owen came staggering down the hall with his arms full of papers. A dozen eager members of the staff met him at the door of the office and relieved him of sundry- copies. Wild whoops of joy, mutter- ings, giggles, groans — all these, as different embryo scribes saw their first attempt. This was all two years ago, in Feb¬ ruary, 1915, when the first copy of the little P. H. S. Chronicle, broke into High School circles. There has been changes since that time. The paper is larger, the staff more experienced. But never since that first year have there been such wild moments as when the great Number One, Volume One, was distributed. One by one, members of the origi¬ nal staff have graduated and found bigger jobs in the great world Out¬ side. Some are attending universi¬ ties, others have already commenced their life work. And of the whole number, but three are attending Pasa¬ dena High School this year. The Pasadena Chronicle is still here. As time goes on, instead of dwindling away, it has been ever growing stronger. It stands among the three best papers in California and ranks with college publications. But this will all be told elsewhere in the paper. This is an anniversary edition, and I want to put in a word of appreciation for those who have worked on the paper this year. Pope- noe has succeeded in carrying out the policies established in past years, and with a new staff has made wonderful improvements in many ways. Here’s hoping he’ll be able to keep up the good work. Completing his talk on sewage dis¬ posal begun the week before, City En¬ gineer Orbison explained to the Engi- ments of the Chronicle until the con-lneers Club on February 5, the details Ifinry П1 U П Г11 ГГ) 1ТГП test for misspelled words began. Now; of the construction and operation of ДЧЧгШ|К| Y пг|УгПн1г1 that we have some reason to give a a number of sewage disposal plants nUULIllULI U L!l LI 1П I LU glance at the ads let us try our best which he and Commissioner Allin vis- to patronize them for it is not as easy ited last summer. About fifty stere- to convince a merchant of Pasadena , opticon pictures illustrated his talk, of the real value of entering an ad in j The Engineer’s Club is now plan- the Chronicle as one may think. Let ; ning an excursion to the Southern Pa- us also try to use in some way the J cific Shops, the exact date to be an- free coupons and use them not just 1 nounced later. Another excursion because it’s a free offer but because j taking in the Pacific Light and Power we appreciate the interest that the ! Company’s generating plant at Re¬ merchants take in our school. May J dondo and the factory of the Union the Chronicle continue to prosper in j Tool Company at Torrance is also be- the years to come until it is distrib- ing planned, but the final arrange- MUCH PEP FOR DEBATE Big Debate and Class Carnival Combination Ticket Scheme Ably Expounded uted to and read by every individual pupil of the Pasadena High School Shirley Owen, first editor of the Pasadena Chronicle, is in San Fran- applied science, and ments have not yet been made. Stirring up enough enthusiasm to last four days to come, the speakers in assembly last Friday morning The officers of the club are doing i urged everyone to attend the track their best to arrange programs includ- ! carnival in the afternoon and the de- ing all branches of engineering and I bate in the evening. therefore any cisco with the Standard Oil Company. | suggestion in this regard is always He is still interested in the weekly ' welcome. There is still opportunity paper, and has sent the following! to join the Engineer’s Club until a. night letter from the northern part j week before the next excursion, but of the State: Kenneth Fuessle, Commissioner of Publications: Just remembered that this week was the old Chronicle’s anniver¬ sary, a kind of second birthday. Say hello to the staff for me and give ’em all kinds of congrats on the big paper. It sure is a differ¬ ent sheet from our first crude attempt two years ago, but re¬ member, great oaks from little acorns grow. Keep up the good work. Owen, ’15. j anyone so desiring must act quickly. By BARBARA LOOMIS It is a pleasure to me to add my mite to the Third Anniversary Num¬ ber of the Chronicle. I believe that the Chronicle during the past three years has become a necessity to every active, wide-awake student in the school and is sought by many of the alumni. Of course, the Chronicle is knocked by some, for High School students are too ready to laugh. They look for the faults rather than the good points and as there are few finished writers of high school age, their writings are not perfect. If P. H. S. students would - only realize how (ungrateful PAPER MAKING IS THEME OF LECTURE BY MAN FROM ZELLERBACH Mr. Richard Hecht Explains Fine Points of Manufac¬ ture of Product The entire process of papermaking, from the rags or pulp to the finished product, was most interestingly ex¬ plained last Wednesday in an assem- [ middle name is Heine, and as Heine bly held under the auspices of the ! is German and German means ef- A deep dark mystery surrounded one of the speakers, the said speaker being Mr. Burgin and the said mys¬ tery as follows: It seems that Mr. Burgin was urged to speak and then when he accepted, he was threatened with violent treat¬ ment if he said anything that anyone else had planned to orate upon. In order to extricate, himself from this harrowing predicament, he spoke for five minutes about the remarkable of¬ ficials who were to do the honors in the afternoon. Clarence King then used his per¬ suasive ability to urge everyone to' ,be present and pack the Y. M. C. A. audi¬ torium that evening. After Mr. Carson had commended the team and the squad as a whole for their hard work, Lyle Hance arose and made a rather startling revela¬ tion. It seems that Mr. Carson’s Commercial Club. Mr. Richard Hecht of the Zeller- bach Paper Company, who gave the talk, spoke of the present time as the Age of Paper. In support of this, he cited some of the almost innumerable uses of paper. Then followed a number of stereop- CONFLAGRATION IS EXCITING AT PASADENA HICH *«-!№ CARNIVAL Four bells! Fire drill| Perfect¬ ly self-possessed and calm the school filed out last Thursday leaving three buildings empty within three minutes atfer the first signal. It was only after the buildings were cleared and, after several minutes of waiting, no re¬ turn signal was sounded that people began to get restless. The delay seemed unaccountable. Two or three ventured back into the building. Then the fire engines came clanging down the street and it was realized that there was a fire. There were wild hoops of excite¬ ment as the engine stopped at entrance of the Horace Mann Building. Several venturesome spirits essayed to examine the machine at close range and re¬ ceived a generous squirting from the hose. Even when the smoke was rising from near the library dome and the firemen dashed up the front steps dragging the hose, many thought it was only a rea¬ listic fire drill. In the registration office, how¬ ever, the affair was received more seriously. Miss Case, Miss McMurdo, and Miss Clark were selecting valuable documents among them the files containing the grades for many years, and putting them in the safe. And through it all no one but the firemen knew where the fire was, and they did not tell. Miss Clark after seeing her pupils to safety, took her life in her two brave hands and went boldly back to the Latin office to see what she could rescue. She had seen the flames while going down stairs and knew it was no fake. Arrived at her office, “I looked around to see what could not be replaced by money,” she said. “These books now can be replaced, and these examination papers can be rewritten, but this,” and she picked up a Pompeian spoon, "is invaluable.” She looked around once more. Her eye lighted on the fourth constitu¬ tion of the Federation of the Girls’ League and hastily she grasped it. It would be too dreadful to have to write it over a fifth time.” In spite of the high hopes of many, the return gong sounded in about twenty minutes and the excited students filed back to their classes. It was found out later that a pile of papers collected for the Red Cross, that was lying near the furnace had caught fire, whether from a carelessly thrown match or from spontaneous com¬ bustion it is not known. And Mr. Cross was absent! For three and a half years Mr. Cross has been staying around the buildings waiting for some¬ thing to turn up and when the fire did happen, he was at John Muir. Mr. Cross was very much put out about it. “Who put him out?” some one asks. Certainly not the fire hose! Hard Work Principal Topic of “Oldest Living Inhabit¬ ant’’ on Sheet By RALPH HOSLER The days of chocolate eclairs, fig newtons, Saturday morning soirees, and late afternoon sessions seem like dim recollections — ancient history as it were. Some time during those memorable days, to be specific, two years ago today, the Pasadena Chron¬ icle came into existence, with Shirley W. Owen as editor. Great and many were the labors to produce that first sheet. To the staff it seems ludic¬ rous now, but to those members of the staff in “them’ days, it was a masterpiece, something to be proud of, for they had created for Pasa¬ dena High school a newspaper. Of the three members of the staff that labored to produce that puny sheet, there are left only Kenny Fuessle, Herbert Popenoe, and my¬ self. Two years are a long time to work on a school paper, but person¬ ally, I would not trade my experience on the P. H. S. Chronicle for all the book knowledge I have obtained from Latin, Math or Zoology. I have come Seniors Come Through With. Victory and Other Classes Follow in Order PADDOCK BREAKS RECORD Times Very Good for Early Season Work; Reeves Steps Off Mile in 4:56 By J. HOWELL SMITH In the most exciting and snappiest Interclass Track Meet ever held at P. H. S, the Senors, last Friday after¬ noon, pulled down the enormous score of 138 points out of a possible 269. From start to finish they were mas¬ ters of the situation and at no time in danger of their reputation. In sev¬ eral events they were hotly contested by both the Juniors and the Sopho¬ mores, the former piling up a score of 70 and the latter 44 points. Royal Wilkie, a member of the Sen¬ ior aggregation, and Captain Jaco- mini of the same team, were easily the stars of the meet. Paddock made in closer touch with the students, I. _ .. ... . ,, . . , . , , , „ | some sensational time in the sprints have been at the very pulse of Student 1 life since I first began on this paper. It has given me a better and broader idea of high school life, an idea of what we, the coming generation, will have to contend with in later life. If you can secure a job on this paper, by all means to do. It is fas¬ cinating work, interesting to the ex¬ treme. LAW CLASSES VISIT ANGELES JAIL LOS Mr. Lewis sends his law class to jail. This sounds starting but the oc¬ casion was the annual excursion of those classes to the jail at Los An¬ geles. This excursion outdid all previous efforts along this line, for the stud¬ ents heard a criminal trial, a civil trial, a divorce suit, saw a young forger’s finger prints taken, went through the city jail, where they were all locked in, and ended with a trip to the bull pen. As soon as they got | out of jail, they went over to the j treasury department of the city of jLos Angeles and inspected some six j millions in cold cash, all neatly done | up in bags. The students in these classes first 1 study law from a book, then go over and Whit Reeves finished the mile run in remarkably fast time, consider¬ ing that his nearest rival finished nearly a hundred yards to the rear. The whole meet was run off with a snap and something doing all thje time. First the 50 yard dash was called. Two heats were necessary, Wilkie winning the first at 5:3-5, Pad- dock the second in 5:2-5. The finals came soon after and the execution of this event was even more sensational than either of the heats. Paddock stepped it off in 5 : 1-5, about 3-5 of a second under the world’s prep record. Wilkie was set back a yard for a jump but finished a close second. Paddock’s ^et-away is some better this season and Wilkie hasn’t deter¬ iorated much since gridiron practice broke off. “Eight hundred eighty yard men in their holes,” came from Announcer Hostler and some six or more wind artists stepped forth. Saunders, a Junior, from the pistol’s bark took the lead and held it till the finash. On the back stretch of the second lap, Harschler, the new man from South Pasadena, attempted to pass and for a moment it looked like the whole last quarter of the race was to be a sprint. They ran neck and neck for a hundred yards and then the lanky I to Los Angeles to see this law" exe- ! cuted. The value of this cannot be Saunders began to pull away from his 'under-estimated for no person should be without a knowledge of the work- lings of the law department of the j city. BULLETIN Pasadena won the league debate in Glendale last Glendale last Friday by a score of 2- to 1. Hambrook and ! Coleman also won the practice de- | bate with Huntington Park by a like (score. The debate in the Y. M. C. A. I auditorium was postponed because (Santa Ana sent up their negative in¬ stead of their affirmative team, and will be held Thursday in assembly. HONOR SYSTEM TO BE IN- Pasadena still leads the major divis- STALLED AT UNIVER- | ion of the league. SITY OF S. C. SENIOR CLASS PLAY IS SUCCESS - j POLY HIGH. “The Man Who Mar- Dean Porter States that Sys- ried a Dumb Wife,” that delightful tem Has Been Long De¬ sired by All ficieney, it is not to be wondered where Mr. Carson’s ability comes from. There were several mathematicians presents, the most conspicuous ones being Howard Coggshall and Law¬ rence Platt, but unfortuantely their mathetmatical information did not ticon pictures showing how paper is ! agree on the amount of money saved made at the Strathmore Paper Com- 1 by attending both the track meet and pany’s mill, one of the largest in the (the debate. United tSates. This company makes j Mr. Cross concluded the assembly only the finest grades of paper, using , by giving a little end of the semester rags instead of wood pulp. At the ; advice and showing that it was not they appear, they would be more care¬ ful to refrain from knocking and a [ ci0se of the assembly, much enthus- only absolutely necessary that every- greater bond of sympathy would unite subscribers and editorial staff. Many think that working on a high school paper is an idle diversion of time. Quite the contrary, it means long hours after school and constant hustliA. But §here are none of us iasm was aroused by throwing on the one attend both the events but that screen the pictures of the debating , there should be -many more students team. out for the different activities. U. S. C. — The Senor Class of the law school will soon install, in all ! probability the honor system in ex¬ aminations for their class. Negotiations are now under way between Channing Follette, president of the Senior Class, and Dean Porter, whereby a resolution incorporating the honor system is to be submitted to the Seniors for their approval. Dean Porter stated in an dddress to the class recently that It has been his desire for years to have the stu- 1 dents of the College of Law take up j the matter of student control. comedy by Anatole France, will long be remembered my the Poly students who viewed its presentation by the Senior Class two weeks ago. The j humor and human appeal of the play were irresistible, while the original¬ ity and beautiful color harmony of the scenery and costumes, and the talena and clever acting of the cast made it one of the most successful ! plays ever given by the students of i Polytechnic. j The play ran smoothly from start I to finish. The actors did not forget ! a single line, and ■ altogether | Man Who Married a Dumb Wife” was one grand, glorious success. man and kept on pulling till the fin¬ ish. The race was run in the good time of 2:11:3-5. About this time friend “Hippo” Bagnard began to call the weight men and several “strong-arms” started to heave the shot and discus. Dick Mit¬ chell, star weight man of the Junior squad, sailed the plate out about 105 feet which gave him a good two yards over his nearest rival, Fouche, who is also of the Juniors. Dick’s luck didn’t hold for the shot put and H. Butterworth won first place for the Seniors with a heave of 37 ft. 9 in. “Butter,” so Bagnard says, and he ought to know, showed more promising stuff in the shot put than any man out and it is a bit of tough luck for the Bulldogs that he is in¬ eligible to compete in intersholastic meets. Mitchell placed the pellet about four inches behind Butter- worth’s mark, but found his limit there. More dashes were called and Pad- dock again was in the limelight. The century was run in 10 flat, as fast time as he has ever made on the cin- edrpath. Wilkie pushe him to the finish and was not more than three yards behind when Paddock hit the tape. The 440 was one of the closest and | most exciting in the whole list of Tlle j afternoon’s events. Bedall, Souli, and Saunders, Junior, were in dispute for the title during the entire race. At the bang of the starter’s gun Shorty but feel that the practical experience I There are now 1730 students en- we have gained has been of as much : rolled in Pasadena High School for value to us as many of our studies. the new semester. BULLETIN The Dean’s idea is to have the Sen- ! Pasadena will meet Alhambra in I jumped ahead and took the pole for iors elect a board of control, the mem- ! a baseball game Friday night on Poly ]the turn- Saunders was at his heels bers to be elected from the three sec- [Field. [and passed him and led for a short - - = — - — - : - - 1 distance on the back straight away. FOR RENT — Strictly modern 5-room . . , ... ...... bungalow, sleeping porch, cellar 4 gar- 1 Shorty sprinted up a bit and took the When they runded the turn into the last stretch it looked tions of the class. If any member of the class is seen cheating, or other¬ wise engaged in misconduct, he is to j be reported to the board of control, which shall have full uower to deal lwifii the matter as it shall see fit. age; 2 blocks from High School, is* i N. Bonnie Ave. See Mr. Lewis or POie again, phone Colo. 2998. ПШ FOR SALE — Pair of 16 inch, mountain boots. Price reasonable. Waterproof; size 7. Owner cannot use them. Apply Chronicle Office. like Shorty’s race sure, but Saunders (Continued on Page 4)