Pasadena Chronicle, November 18, 1927

VOL. XIX PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1927 NO. 9 BONFIRE TO FEATURE BIG NIGHTRALLY ■ -a ifesa* aa«alwaf^wa&»SBmsi8! Traditional Flame to Blaze After Four Years of Darkness PADDOCK FIELD, AT 7:30 Serpentine About Ground Will Precede Assembly in Bleachers A tradition that has been listed among the missing for the last four years will regain its lost prestige tonight at 7:30, when a rally bonfire is held on Paddock field in Tournament park. Not since 1923 have the P. H. S. stu¬ dents had a bonfire because of the damage caused on that occasion. Serpentines through town have been the substitute, but even they can’t arouse the spirit like a huge mass of burning wood. Four truck loads of wood will be the maximum amount to be used, but this will make plenty of flame, according to those in charge. Boys and girls will enter the field from different sides and ser¬ pentine' about the grounds. After this they will go into the bleachers and the huge pile of wood in the center of the field will be lighted. Coaches Milholin, Hippier and Me- Auley will give short talks, and also the three* captains, Mallory and acting captains for the light¬ weights and midgets. The P. H. S. band will go into action and fur¬ nish pep-raising music. H. B. Landreth, member of Pas¬ adena’s state championship foot¬ ball team of 1915, is to be the main speaker of the rally and will give a snappy talk in an endeavor to raise school spirit to its zenith. He is a good speaker and will have something interesting to say to all those present. Other speakers of the evening will be: Will Dunn, Cecil Martin, Miss Elizabeth Jensen, “Pop” Hunter, John Harbeson and “Pat” O’Mara. Bob Carney, former stu¬ dent of P. H. S., will be master of ceremonies. The boys’ league has pledged to do its best in maintaining order during the rally and will not con¬ duct a serpentine through town afterwards. Perseverance of some of the stu¬ dents has been responsible for this year’s fire since the policy of the school officials has been not to have it because of the danger. Assur¬ ance of both police and fire pro¬ tection has made it possible to have the fire again. Future rallies depend upon the conduct of this one. If the rally can instill enough pep and spirit to beat the Long Beach teams, it will serve its pur¬ pose, as three championships will be hanging in the balance tomor¬ row. Girls’ Leagues Meet No v . 18, / д Fall Convention Will Be Attended by P. H. S. League Secretary Speaking on the subject of “The Outstanding Accomplish¬ ments of Women During the Past Twenty-five Y ears", Geraldine Anderson, secretary of the girls’ league will address the delegates at one of the sessions of the girls’ league fall convention which is being held today and tomorrow, November 18 and 19, at San Bernardino. TALK FEST TONIGHT AT INGLEWOOD P. H. S. Team Takes Negative in League Debate After Two Years WILL PROVIDE CARS Transportation Will Be Arranged for Students Desiring to Attend Opening the debating season with Inglewood, the Pasadena hig-h Delegates from high ! school team, composed of Howard schools all over Southern California ! Packard and Gertrude Hengerer, will journey to that city tonight at eight o’clock for the first argu- Forty Attend Press Meeting Will Visit Star-News and Photo-Engravers on Way to Convention are being sent. The purpose of the convention is to discuss ways of promoting girls’ league work in high schools of Southern Cal¬ ifornia. Other delegates from P. H. S. who are attending he convention are: Dorothy Secrest, president; Mary Jenkins, vice-president; and Miss Nellie G. Clarke. With the appiontment by the girls’ league cabinet of Pauline Fuller as' chairman of the captains of the Thanksgiving baskets, final giving charity, are now complete, plans for the girls’ league Thanks- Each captain has a group of ten girls and each group is expected to fill one basket. Tuesday morning, November 22, before and during the first period each girl should take her donation to her captain, who in turn when the basket is filled, will take it to 200c. The girls league cabinet hopes that each girl will remember to bring her donation. Thrift at P. H. S. Gains Impetus as Days Pass Another week has rolled by, which is not unusual, and another thrift day has dawned and waned, and the saving percentage shows an increase over previous weeks. Every thrift day has resulted in improvement. This week 25 advisories turned in perfection. The treasurers of these advisories are: H. Smith, Marjorie Secrest, Helen Shank, F. A. Ellis, George Macrory, Louise Tillie, Frayser, Helen Macklin, Moses Widess, Lane Prior, Francis Staughton, Helen Blick, Dick Moorhouse, Percival Will, Douglas Farnsworth, Ed¬ ward Casso, Edith Angus, June Kindel, Robert McGregor, Nelson Dodge, Willard Stone, Ewing Kon- old, Frances Ravin, Thomas Long and William von Hounten. Many of the advisories averaged around the eighties and nineties, and all but a few of the rooms were above the 50% mark. The average made last Monday was about 60%, a mark creditable for any high school. ment of thie year. The debate, which is the first in two years, is on the subject: “Resolved: That the United States Has Been Un¬ justified in Its Interpretations of the Monroe Doctrine Since 1890.” Pasadena is upholding the nega¬ tive side of the question. According to Mrs. Helen M. Stone, debating coach, chances for winning the Southern California Debating and Oratorical League chapionship this year are good as a large class and many experienc¬ ed debators are out for the team. Pasadena was not represented in the league last year, but won the league championship in 1921. This is the only debating honor the school has won so far, but it is hoped that this year may bring another championship. Three Debates Held Only three regular league de¬ bates are held in each school in addition to the championship round between the two leading teams, although a number of practice return contests are gener¬ ally conducted. On November 22, at Pasadena, a return debate, the affirmative of the same question being upheld by Glenn Reed and Nelson Dodge, will be held. Last year the championship was won by Alhambra and much op¬ position is expected from the Moor team this year. Although a large number of activities are scheduled for tonight, it is urged that a large crowd turn out to support the debaters in their initial en¬ gagement. All those going to the debate sign up on the bulletin board opposite the student body office. Place a cross after your name if you have not a way to get there so that transportation can be provid¬ ed for you. Seeing a large newspaper in the making and attending the High School Press association meeting in South Pasadena, more than forty members of the journalism class are enjoying an excursion to¬ day. Stopping first at the Pasadena Star-News, the group will see the many processes of publishing a metropolitan newspaper. They will be shown through the plant in de¬ tail. Next the photo-engravers, where newspaper “cuts” are made, will be visited. The students will reach the' South Pasadena high school at 10 o’clock and take part in the High School Press convention. However, only the four delegates, Clarence Vetterli, Willies Lang, Glenn Reed, and Harriette Settel, representing the “Chronicle” and “Annual” will be allowed to vote. The purpose of the convention is to stimulate interest for better high school publications. A contest will be held and medals will be awarded to publications taking first place on the following phases of journalism: News story, editor¬ ial, feature story, and front page make-up. Marc C-oodnow, head of the de- partment of journalism at U.S.C., and Burton L. Smith, state editor of the oLs Angeles Times, will be the speakers of the day. Traditional Battle Looms as Jackrabbits, Bulldogs Get Set for Championship Grid Test Odds Are Even for Victory for Either Team; Long Beach Is Undefeated, While Locals Have Lost One Game GAME IS ANNUAL AFFAIR BETWEEN SCHOOLS Both Varsity Teams Are in Good Condition for Tussle on Jackrabbit Gridiron Tomorrow Mighty Tears of Rivalry Precede Encounter With Lono; Beach The first Pasadena-Long Beach football game was played October 28, 1905, on Bulldog territory. The home team proved its superiority by defeating the visitors, 10 to 5. The old P. H. S. graduates will re¬ call the great work of Blick, Hotal- ing and Gibbs. No games in 1906 and 1907, but in 1908 the team went to Long Beach and ran up a score of 16 to 0. Siefert and Loughery were the stars. Tournament park was the scene of the Bulldog victory in 1909, the final score reading 6 to 0. In 1910 the Jackrabbits won a 17-to-0 victory on their own field. Chambers, Siefert, McDowell and Taverner starred for P. H. S. The following year the local team went into the game seeking revenge, and was not disappointed.- The final score read: Pasadena 14, Long Beach 0. Nineteen twelve saw the first Thanksgiving Day struggle at Car- melita. This game resulted in a 14-to-9 victory for the Red and White. The Green and Gold came through wit hthe biggest share of the 6-2 score in 1913. Hollinger, MAlpine and Horrell played excep¬ tionally well for Pasadena, while Marshall, Curry, Wilcox and Wright did splendid work for Long Beach. Only one tie game between the two schools has been played to date. This was in 1914 on the Pas¬ adena field. Dropkicks seemed to be the order of the day, with Tuffy Conn doing the work for the Bulldogs. A score of 9 to 9 was the result. The Red and White jerseys won the following year with a 6-to-0 (Continued on Page 3) Kentucky Backwoods Described by Triple' S’ The work of the Caney Creek Community Center in giving ed¬ ucation, training, and culture to the children of the backwoods mountain territory, of Knott county in Kentucky was described in -Tuesday’s assembly by the three Hall brothers who come directly from that institution. In describing the conditions it was brought out that there are about 14,000 people living in the county of which only seven have automobiles. The average family in that country has fifteen children living in a one-room cabin. The schools are extremely crude, many of them even without an American flag, and are taught by teachers with sixth or eighth grade educa¬ tions. However perseverance on the part of Mrs. Alice Spencer Lloyd, a graduate of Radcliffe college, to¬ gether with the efforts of the people of Caney Creek, has won for them a class“A”high school which might well be envied by, wealthier districts. The school has 150 stu¬ dents and about 1000 are on the waiting list. It is in every way modern, having a library of 16,000 books. The program was given through the efforts of the Triple“S”Club Night School Athletes Perform for Visitors Presenting the most entertain¬ ing athletic feature at the boys’ gym, last night, the members of the night school athletic classes of this high school put over a varied progTam of entertaining stunts for the benefit of a large public and student audience. Boxing and wrestling started out the program, the boxing bouts being of two - two minute rounds each, and the wrestling bouts con¬ sisting of two minutes’ duration apiece. Following the competition sports, 3 attractions were presented by the gym team, which included tumb¬ ling, parallel bar feats, and pyra¬ mid performance was put on by the whole team in general. The parallel bar attraction was of the most interesting and difficult nature, those performing having worked a great deal to perfect them, not only those presented but other stunts equally difficult on different pieces of apparatus. According to Dobschutz, the ap¬ paratus workers have been inter¬ ested in higher gymnastics for a number of years, but did not have a chance to display their wide range of ability due to the lack of time given in the program. The other students who participated in the parallel exhibition were, “Gib” Gause, John Berguin, Thirlan Heidner, and Gilloon, former Pasa¬ dena high school teacher. Many interesting features com¬ posing the nights entertainment which followed were: Men’s Cal¬ isthenics Exercises (Monday and Wednesday Classes) Ladies’ Bas¬ ketball Game (Monday and Wed¬ nesday Classes -vs- Tuesday and Thursday Classes) Swedish Gym¬ nastic (Ladies’ Tuesday and Thursday Class) Mens’ Basket ball Game (Pasadena Hawks- vs - Richfield Oil Co.) Ladies’ Baseball Game (Monday and Wednesday Class-vs-Tuesday and Thursday Class) Medicine Ball Games (Mens’ Monday and Wednesday Class) Ladies’ Relay Races and Folk Dance (Monday and Wed¬ nesday Class). The Playground Community Service of Pasadena supervised the program. The instructors of the various night school classes are: R.F. Ba¬ ker, C.W. Hippier, E,F. Niday, and is the first of a series of club programs to be presented this I Mrs R.F. Baker, Miss Edna Noble, semester. Miss Regmor Andre, pianist. Who’s going- to win the Long Beach game? That is the question that is holding the interest of the students of the two leaders in Coast league football circles. Today t, h e lightweight teams of the two schools will tangle on Horrell field, with the locasl favored to win by virtue of their showings made throughout the season. Tomorrow’s combat, to take place on the Jackrabbit field, presents an enigma that is hard to figure. In the opinion of many, the teams will go on the field with just about even odds. Out for Blood Both schools will be out for blood, with the locals smarting defeat at the hands of the Saints, and with the Long Beachers ready for ven¬ geance for their 9-to-7 defeat in the Rose Bowl last season. Long Beach and Pasadena both want the championship of the league, and the one that grabs this game will just above have the pen¬ nant cinched for the trophy depart¬ ment. If Pasadena wins, the Bull¬ dogs will still have the Glendale Dynamiters to contend with, but a victory on the morrow would as¬ sure the necessary impetus for next week’s contest. Tied for First Place Long Beach, while it has the same average as Pasadena insofar a.s percentages are concerned, has the distinction of not having been defeated once this season, while Pasadena has suffered one defeat. Long Beach tied in two games, making their average the same as Pasadena, 800 percent. Long Beach’s biggest threat will be Captain Bill Middlestedt, three- year man. Whenever the Beach- siders get set to score, Bill gets the ball and over he goes, just like that. At open field running the Jackrabbit captain is very adept. During the Long Beach-South Pas¬ adena game of two weeks ago, the dashing pilot was given the ball five times, and’ of those, he made four tochdowns. Dick Wilson, a team mate of the doughty Middlestedt, is a wonder at smashing the line to bits for little consistent gains of four or five yards. Gains such as Wilson can be depended upon to make are just the kind that may win the ‘Go to School’ Is Parent Slogan That parents may become better acquainted with the school work and teachers of P. H. S., tonight, November 18, has been designated by the High School P.-T. A. as “Go to School” night. At 7:30 the parents will meet in the auditorium, where a musical program has been arranged under the direction of Miss Lulu C. Parm- Est week’s ley, head of the music department. Short talks will be given by John W. Harbeson, principal; James P. O’Mara, vice-principal ; W. A. Newlin, dean of the junior college, and Nellie G. Clarke, dean of women. After the entertainment, which will last about an hour, each parent will be givsn a duplicate of the school program of his son or daughter, with the room numbers and teachers’ names listed. There will be six ten-minute periods during which the parents will have time to meet tha teachers and get a general idea of the term’s work. A membership drive is now be¬ ing conducted from November 16 to 23, inclusive. It is the hope of the officers of the P.-T. A. that the present membership of nearly four hundred can be raised to one thou¬ sand members. The Boys’ and Girls’ Glee clubs will sing for the parents and teach¬ ers Friday night, November 18. The clubs have been practicing for this night, as it is to be a special “Go to School” night, and Mr. Car¬ penter and Miss Parmelee, the in¬ structors, are anxious to have the classes perform well for their par¬ ents and friends. Scholarship Federation Meets at San Diego Soon The 1927 student meeting of the California Scholarship Federation will be held at the San Diego high school on Saturday, December 10. A business session will open the convention at 10' o’clock Saturday morning. The round table discus¬ sions will be held in the afternoon. Student representatives for P. H. S. have not been definitely chosen; the advisers going are Miss Sarah A. Talbot and Miss Kathleen B. Loly. The P. H. S. Honor Scroll will be presented at the meeting and a its purpose explained. Students ande advisers unable to make the trip in one day will be entertained by the student body of San Diego high school on Friday night, December 9. The convention last year was held at Fresno with Jack Snyder, Marion Schrooer and Miss Loly going as delegates from P. H. S. ( Continued on Page U ) Teachers March in Uniform Real patriotism was shown by Miss Elizabeth Keppie of the dra¬ matics department and Miss Mil¬ dred F. Roberts of the language department, both members of the Pasadena Unit of Women’s Over¬ seas Service League of America when they marched in uniform un¬ der direction of the American Le¬ gion in the Armistice Parade. Scandalous Exposures to Be Made Wednesday What do the commissioners do on Saturday nights? Why did Morey Smith disguise himself as dumbwaiter and perch on the flag pole? What brand of tobacco does the Smoking Committee use? What’s the inside story of the grub raise? Why does Pack Art, our debate commissioner, blush when he walks with a certain maiden? All about Pop Hunter’s ill-fated expedition, passionate loves of commissioners, and Tom Mallory’s double life. The “Wednesday Wash” tells all it knows and more, to boot! For one nickel, five cents, a twentieth of a dollar, anyone can get more scandal than a year’s subscription to the Police Gazette. Bring a nickel on Wednesday and get an appetizer for Thanks¬ giving.