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VOL. XIII
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, OCTOBER 28, 1921
No. 7
DR. GIFFORD SPEAKS
TD STUDENTS IN
ASSEMBLY
PITHY REMARKS IN DR.
GIFFORD’S ADDRESS
***** ****
* Congress is an incubator. If *
* You don’t like the laws, send bet- *
* ter eggs. If you don’t want your *
* your habits, be careful what hab- *
* its you have. We are responsible *
* for the city in which we live; we *
* are responsible for the nation in *
* which we live.
* Keep your room in order. *
* Spend less time on your hair, *
* and more on your brains. *
* Pull the beam out of your own *
* eye and maybe you’ll see that the *
* mote in your neighbor’s eye was *
* but the reflection of your beam. *
* * * * *****
Dr.
О.
P. Gifford, noted pastor
and lecturer, formerly of the East,
now of Pasadena, was speaker at
the main assembly yesterday
morning. In introducing Dr. Git-
ford, Mary Margaret Ambrose,
Commissioner of entertainment,
who presided, spoke of his long,
useful life in the ministry and his
successful career as pastor, both
■ in the East and in the West.
The address was epigramatic
and pleasant, combining solid ad¬
vice with humor in lighter vein.
Seeking a point of contact, was
Dr. Gifford’s theme. He devel¬
oped the idea with respect to the
own room, and the community
regulation of one’s own life, one’s
where one lives.
Esther McCann, a member of
the Sophomore class, gave several
piano solos, and the Girls’ “Glee”
gave a couple of selections.
Ted Novis presented a new
school song, which was received
with sustained applause. The as¬
sembly adjourned after singing
“The Red and White.”
WILL WE FIND
A POT OF GOLD
“The Pot of Gold at the. End of the
Rainbow” was the interesting subject
that Mrs. J. P. O’Mara chose to talk
on at the Junior Assembly Thursday.
Whether we ever reach that pot of
gold depends on the equipment we
take away from high school with us.
Before Mrs. O’Mara’s talk, a mus¬
ical program was given by Ruth
Goodrich, a student of the Music De¬
partment. Ted Novis, who sang the
new school song, composed by two
P. H. S. boys, and a few selections by
the Girls’ Glee Club.
Announcements were made by Don
Macfarlane and Charles Black about
the football game at L. A. High. ’Till
after Friday, everybody’s slogan must
be, “Pasadena, fight! Beat L. A.!”
PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCES
MUCH TARDINESS DUE TO
Although the little box in Room
4C, which contains the used tardy
slips issued, is full to overflowing,
this state of abundance does not nec¬
essarily indicate that P. H. S. stu¬
dents are “super-careless.” At times
whole classes are late when the teach¬
ers do not know of a shortened
period, or when the bells fail to ring;
and the P. E. cars are not at all re¬
liable, especially those from Sierra
Madre and outlying districts.
So the fact that there are a large
number of slips in the box hardly
means that there have been so very
many pupils tardy through, careless¬
ness in the past month.
However, the number of such cases
is too large by far, and Miss Hawes
and Miss Spaulding are endeavoring
to cut down the amount, which now
averages about 15 per day.
JOURNALISTS
VISIT LIBRARY
Thursday afternoon many of the
Journalism students visited the library
of the University of California, South¬
ern Branch, for the purpose of learn¬
ing the method of filing used there.
Later they joined the students on the
electrical excursion at the Los An¬
geles Chamber of Commerce Build¬
ing.
JUNIOR PLAYERS TO GIVE
"LORD FAUNTLEROY”
AT P. H. S.
!‘Little Lord Fauntleroy” will be
again presented in the P. H. S. Audi¬
torium by the Junior Community
Players, under the direction of Miss
Sibyl Jones.
The play was shown on Saturday,
October 22, to a very appreciative
audience.
The part of Cedric Errol or “Little
Lord Fauntleroy” was taken very
well by Veda Klingman. Jean Tomp¬
kins played the rather difficult part
of “Mrs. Errol” or “Dearest” in a
way that endeared her to the hearts
of all. The rest of the cast was as
follows: “The Earl of Dorincourt,
David Weissbruch; “Mr. Havisham,”
the Earl’s lawyer, Edwin Sweeting;
“Mr. Hobbs,” the grocer, Robert
Snyder; “Dick,” the bootblack, Gus¬
tave Ciliax; “Mr. Higgins,” a tenant,
Donald Novis; “Mary,” the maid,
Mary Novis; “Minna,” the villain,
Jaclntha Wright.
An audience even larger is expect¬
ed next Saturday, October 29.
DOMESTIC CHEMISTRY TO
HAVE INTERESTING
EXHIBIT
Pupils from Miss A. O. Stoddard’s
Domestic Chemistry classes were seen
about the premises of the Science
building last Saturday where they
dyed curtains for Miss Katherine Mc-
Gorry after working for several
weeks to obtain the right shades of
dye.
The classes found the process of
dyeing and experimenting with the
different colors and combining differ¬
ent colors so interesting that they
have decided to give an exhibit of
samples they have dyed. Some of the
girls are also trying to obtain the
satne shades of certain colors with
different makes of dyes.
This promises to be an interesting
exhibit but as yet no time has been
set when it will start.
HOUSE -PLANNING TAUGHT
BY EXCURSIONS
In order to study House Planning
in a concrete manner, the Household
Management classes are going on a
number of excursions to well-planned
houses.
They are chiefly 1 interested in the
arrangement of rooms, in “built-in”
cupboards and furniture, and in the
locations of houses as regards front¬
ages and lots.
These excursions were held on
Monday, Wednesday and Friday of
this week.
On the trips in this neighborhood
the, students will walk, but the far¬
ther ones will be made by automo¬
bile.
C. S. YERGE HURT
WHEN GUN BACK-FIRES
i
While watching the rifle team
which was having target practice,
Clyde S. Yerge, member of the math¬
ematics department, was injured
when a rifle back-fired, thrusting part
of a shell into his eye.
A physician removed the piece of
shell which had enterfed the eyeball.
Although it was a small piece it can
cause much trouble. It is not known
whether the accident is a serious one
or not, but his many friends are hop¬
ing that his condition is not serious.
This has been the first accident to
occur in the R.
О.
T. C.
NEXT TEACHERS’ MEETING
TO BE NOVEMBER 10
That the next meeting of the
Teacher’s Association is to be held
In the Auditorium November 10th, is
the announcement made by Miss Nel¬
lie Green Clark, president of the
High School Society.
Miss Clark is sure that the pro¬
gram, which is under the supervision
of the principals of the city, will be
very interesting.
The Teacher’s Association is per¬
haps the most important of all the
faculty organizations, as it is intend¬
ed to include every teacher in all of
the city schools. Almost all of the
450 Pasadena teachers are members,
and they hope that the Association
will become a useful, successful or¬
ganization.
VISIT ARCADIA
By means of a trip through the
Balloon School at Arcadia Saturday
thirty-two boys, members of the R. O.
T. C. unit, got an insight into the
advantage offered a young man by the
lighter than air division of the U. S.
Air Service.
They left from in front of the High
School at 8:30 a.m. in various ma¬
chines led by Col. Ball’s speedster.
On arriving at Ross Field Col. Ball
and his pupils were taken to the
school of instruction where they
learned that within a few years Ross
Field will be the big airship and
balloon school of the country.
The school is now training reserve
officers in free ballooning and all ob¬
servation and map plotting in con¬
nection with ballooning. This course
Is open to ,men who have had high
school education or equivalent and
can pass a very high standard phys¬
ical examination only.
After seeing the model balloons
and field radio set the boys went to
see the balloons.
On the way across the grounds they
stopped at the pigeon shed and saw
some veterans of the world war. One
veteran had only one wing. They also
stopped at the repair station where
a parachute was being folded.
The mechanisms of the balloon and
the pony blimp we often see flying
over Pasadena were explained as a
climax and the boys wended home¬
ward.
GIRL ROOTER TAMS ARE
NEW P. H. S. ATTRACTION
Demonstrated in the Girls’ assem¬
bly Friday by Margaret Seares and
Margaree Tefft, the red and white
tarns for girl rooters are expected to
become very popular. The tarns dis¬
play a great deal of school color, be¬
ing red with a circular white hand
just above the headband. The head-
band is also red and an especially
attractive feature is the strip of elas¬
tic at the back which is entirely in¬
visible and yet which makes the same
size tam easily adjustable for any
girl.
About five hundred tarns are ex¬
pected for the coming L. A. game Fri¬
day and as the price is only ninety
cents it is hoped that many girls will
possess one and add the needed con¬
trast with the small red and white
skull caps of the boys.
It may be possible that a small red
block letter “P” may be added to the
white band of the tarns but as this
would make the tarns more expensive
no definite understanding has yet
been reached.
"VOCATION OF GIRLS DAY”
E ENT FOR NEXT
FRIDAY
Of interest to many girls will be
the “Vocation of Girls Day.” A meet¬
ing will be held at P. H. S. on Novem¬
ber 4 from 9:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in¬
viting all of the vice principals and
deans of girls in the high schools and
colleges in Southern California.
The purpose of this meeting is to
confer upon the subject, “Vocations
for Girls.”
Plans have been made to have a
number of out-of-town speakers,
among whom will be Mrs. Dorsey,
Mrs. Dole, Mrs. Bayhanna of Los An¬
geles, Mrs. Jane Fox of Long Beach,
and others.
During the advisory period on that
day, one of the guests will publicly
address the girls.
After the meeting the Girls’ League
will furnish and serve the luncheon
for the guests in the cafeteria.
TRYOUTS FOR M.&M. PLAY
AND MEMBERSHIP HELD
The Mask and Mirror will present
two one-act plays on Wednesday aft¬
ernoon, November 9, for the benefit
of the Going-to-College Club, and to
buy stage equipment that Pasadena
High School needs.
Try-outs both for the plays and for
membership in the M. & M. were held
at 3:15 in the auditorium last Tues¬
day and Wednesday.
CONTRIBUTIONS OF SHORT!
STORIES DESIRED FOR l
COMING ITEM
That another prize winning contest
has been started was recently an¬
nounced by Miss Holloway, head of
the English Department.
This time it is a case of writing
short and snappy stories for the Item
which is to he issued in November.
The stories for the magazine are not
to exceed 3000 words.
The students submitting the best
three stories will be awarded cash
prizes besides having the honor of a
place in the Item. This contest closes
November 4, a week from today, and
all students are urged to capture the
first prize of $5, the second prize of
$3 and the third prize of ?2.
COMMITTEE FOR RAYMOND
LUNCH ANNOUNCE FOUR
NEW BOXES
“An extra sandwich, an apple, or a
slice of cake placed in the box for the
Raymond Lunch,” is the plea of the
Girls’ League committee in charge of
this work. “The Mexican children
often attend school in a deplorable
state, sometimes without their break¬
fasts and with but scanty prospects
for any lunch.”
Helen Taylor, as chairman of this
committee, has recommended that
whole and appetizing food only be
placed in the boxes.
As a result of having but one box
for the Raymond Lunch the commit¬
tee believes many sandwiches or oth¬
er food that might have fed some
small boy or girl have been thrown
away. Helen Taylor announces the
future establishing of four boxes for
the Raymond Lunch.
One box will be placed In the Per¬
gola for the boys opposite the one
now used by the girls. Between the
Jane Addams and Horace Mann
buildings will be placed another. The
fourth will be located somewhere be¬
tween the Science and main build¬
ings. The fifth box will be conven¬
iently situated near the southeast en¬
trance of the cafeteria.
FORMER STUDENT OF P.H.S.
MARRIED
Miss Isabelle Daniels, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. George A. Daniels of
916 Herkimer street, was married
Sunday afternoon at the home of her
parents, to Robert Loren Griffis of
San Francisco.
city superintendent, asking the names
and a graduate of Pasadena High
School and formerly attended Throop
Polytechnic Institute and is a recent
graduate of the University of Cali-
fornit in Chemical engineering.
Mr. Griffis is a native of this city
home after November first in San
Francsico.
LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT
SUBSCRIBES TO SOME
FOREIGN PAPERS
By subscribing to some interesting
Spanish and French periodicals, the
modern language department is stim¬
ulating added interest among the stu¬
dents who study these languages.
The journals are read and dis¬
cussed with much interest by the ad¬
vanced classes and serve to bring the
pupils In closer touch with the cus¬
toms, manners and ideals of the peo¬
ple whose language they are study¬
ing.
The French papers received are
“L’lllustration,” which is one of the
leading publications of France, and
“Le Figaro,” the Paris daily news¬
paper. The most important Spanish
magazine is the “Revista del Mundo”
(Review of the World). French is
spoken considerably, as well as Span¬
ish, in this part of the country. This
Is evidenced by the fact that in Los
Angeles there is published every week
a French paper named “L’Union Nou-
velle.”
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CITY LEAGUE
AVERAGE
*
*
W.
L.
Tied
Pet.
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L. A. High..
. 2
0
0
1000
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Pasadena ..
. 2
1
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667
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Jefferson ....
. 2
1
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667
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Manual Arts
. 1
1
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500
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Hollywood ..
. 1
2
0
333
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Polytechnic
. 0
1
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Lincoln .
. 0
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Fifty Letters Are Sent To
City Superintendent
Of Schools
REPLIES COMING IN
Chronicle Will Have Large
Exchange Circulation
Because of the irregularity in the
exchange circulation of the P. H. S.
CHRONICLE in the past, fifty letters
were sent out to as many city super¬
intendents of schools all over the
country to obtain the names of the
high schools publishing the best
weekly papers.
When replies from these letters
came in a copy of the CHRONICLE
was sent to each school and the name
of the school will be added to the
CHRONICLE exchange list upon the
receipt of the paper.
This system of covering the coun¬
try was made possible by the World’s
Almanac. A list of fifty cities having
a population of over 200,000 inhab¬
itants was compiled from the Alma¬
nac. Then a letter was sent to each
was sent to each school, and the name
of the best High School papers, in that
city. The first reply came from, the
Kansas City High School. To date
almost 100 schools have been heard
from. A number of superintendents
stated that they read the copy mailed
them with great interest. Only one,
a superintendent of a great automo¬
bile metropolis, said he had been too
busy to read it but would make it a
point to do so as soon as he could
find time.
The next step will be the mailing
of CHRONICLES to certain cities of
moderate size having one large high
school like Pasadena.
Classification
All exchanges are classified into
three groups —
А, В,
C. Into “A”
group are put the papers which show
good make-up, form and technique.
These usually show that they are ed¬
ited by journalism classes. In group
В
are put the papers which are fairly
good. Most papers in group C are
just poor excuses for a publication.
With every issue of the CHRONICLE
between 200 and 300 copies are
mailed out as exchanges.
EASTER LILY OR ONION?
Can you tell the difference between
an Easter Lily bulb and an onion?
Of course, it sounds simple, but it
might not be as easy as you think.
During the bulb drive a member
of Miss Merrill’s Botany class picked
up a bag neatly labeled “Easter
Lilies.” There were three, and as
each counted 20 points, they were
gladly received. Still they didn’t look
just as Easter lilies usually do. No
one in the class knew what they really
were.
At last they were taken up to Miss
Merrill and she solved the question
by the simple process of smelling.
They were onions!
DEBATE SCHEDULED FOR
N0Y. 18 WITH L. A.
If the eight debaters now out for
the squad prove unsatisfactory oth¬
ers will be put In their places, is the
substance of an announcement by
Helen Jackson, commissioner of De¬
bating.
The Pasadena squad has received
some material for the affirmative side
of the coming debate with the Los
Angeles High School.
Resolved, That involuntary unem¬
ployment can be abolished in the
United States, is the subject that
L. A. has chosen for November 18th.
The local team will have an eager
opponent in L. A., for they have the
very best material in their squad be¬
cause they want to take home the
champion cup that P. H. S. took from
them last year.