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Vol. I—FRIDAY, JAN. 12, 1917.~N0. 1
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Editor-in-chief........Janic Matthews
Associate Editor.... Glover McArthur
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—STAFF—
Athletic S........... Mabry Kennedy
Exchange .. vvvvae... Alice Whipple
Personals ........... Sarah Strozier
Who's Who ........ Frances Winfree
Business Manager ...... Clyde Smith
-_—_—
FORMAL BOW.
In making this, our formal bow, to
the school and to the patrons of the
school, we do so with great misgivings
and fearful forebodings lest we fail
to measure up to the expectation of
our associates, Nevertheless, we are
not unmindful of the honors of the
posttion of Chief Editor of our school
page, and we will try to acquit our
eslves in such a manner so as not to
bring discredit to it.
While not experienced writers, we
will try to write upon those topics,
from time to time, which will help
to bring our school and its patrons
into a more intimate acquaintance
with each other and give them a het
ter understanding of the work the
gchool is trying to do. It is our de
sire to bring to their attention every
line of work undertaken by the teach
ers and pupils of every depariment,
in order that we may the more thor
oughly enlist their sympathy and sup
port.
The citizens of this town have al
ways shown an interest in the school
work, which has not only helped the
teachers but has inspired the pupils
to do better work. Some fathers and
mothers do not seem to ihink that
their presence at the schocl af some
time was greatly desired. They have
heard the Superintendent speak ol how |
much good it would do if they would
only come to the school during school
hours, just once in a while, but some‘
how or other they think it is not
worth their while to do so.
It is not only our purpose as a body
of students to master the few text
books assigned in the school roem for
study but to take that as a foundation
or beginning, from which to build an
ideal citizenship in the community
and state, by developing those latent
forces of character which, if left dom
inant would leave us very poorly epuip
ped for life, we would have only Hmtl
mental equipment which we would be
able to acquire from bhooks.
We are fully aware that the position
of Chief Editor of a High Schcol page
is not an easy one to fill, and it is |
only undertaken with the :\ss,ur:m(-u{
of the cooperation of the student body !
as well as that of the teachers, for
we shall, at all times, need their ad
vice and help.
We hope that with the cooperation
of the staff we will be able to give the
public the best particulars concern
ing the school and school life every
week. JANIE MATTHEWS.
LOYALTY.
Loyalty originally was that fidelity
which one owes according to law. but
we use it to mean faithfulness in any
thing. Today we hear much of pa
triotism, ov loyalty to our country. A
man withoat a country is in a terri
ble condition. No doubt you have
heard the story of the man who was
taken away from his native land and
never allowed to see or hear anything
about it. That was a terrible calami
ty. . There is something vitally wrong
with the man who has never felt with
the poet when he said: .
“Breathes there a man with soul so
dead
Who never to simself hath said,
This is my own, my native land?”
And just as we are loyal to our
country, so ought we to be to our
school, our teachers, and our class
mates. It is as much our school as
any one else's; indeed, it is more! We
should take an interest in everything
that will help our school to grow,
for we nearly always get as much out
of a thing as we put into it. and as
the school grows we, also, will grow.
Let us show how much we appreciate
the advantages given us by making
.the most of them; we cannot make
fie most of them without taking an
‘interest in other things besides our
regular school work.
Do not misunderstand me. [ do not
mean that we should neglect our les
sons for the other things, but I do
mean that we should be willing to do
our part in all departments; as, so
ciety work, basketball, track, and
many other things too numerous to
HicH ScHOOL NEWS
:mention. But we need not neglect
:our lessons in order to do those
jihiugs; for, if you will notice, it is
inearly always the one who takes the
| highest interest in his lessons, who
| takes most interest in other things.
} If we take a greater interest in
| those things we will take more inter
gest and be more loyal to our lessons.
' We will be more liked by our fellow
! students than if we were a book-worm
;an(l we will get more credit for what
' we do.
| We should also be loyal to our
:frimnls, for “a friends should hear a
gfriem]s infirmities.” If you have ever
had a true friend you know that:
“Kind hearts are more than coronets
And simple faith than Norman blood.”
i Our friends have everything to do
‘ with shaping our destinies. They, to
'a certain degree, decide our futures
i for us, for true, warm friendship can
imakr-. a man that will stand the test.
And what after all is religion ex
}cept loyalty to our God?
. Last, but not least, we chould be
i loyal to ourselves and if we believe a
‘ thing to be true, stick to it. Have a
‘n:ind of our own and as Shakespere
-has it:
o« & % * 4o thine own self be true
l And it must follow as the night the
| day,
Thou canst not then be falce to any
man.”
| GLOVER McARTHUR.
PERSONALS.
By Sarah Strozier.
There's so much bad in the best of us
And so much good in the worst of us,
That it hardly behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of us. :
The two Literary Societies of the
11igh school met Friday morning, Jan.
sth, to elect officers, The Laniers
clected: Mabry Kennedy, President;
Tom Markert, Vice President; Audrey
Dekle, Secretary; Lee MCA'rthur, Crit
ic: Jewell Bulloch, Effie Wilson, How
ard Comer, Program Comiittee.
After a close contest the Stfzvonians
elected the following: Willie Bell
Tedd, President; Hiram Williams,
Vice President; Faustelle Wildams,
Secretary; Frances Winfree, Janie
Matthews, and Max Boniske, Program
(‘ommittee.
A member of our senior class, Flor
ence Allen, who has been sick, is at
school again.
Miss Frances Winfree spent the
Christmas holidays very pleasantly in
Jacksonville, Fla.
Miss Mattie Emma Hardley spent
the week end with Miss Morse.
It grieves us very much to hear that
AMiss Maude Woodward, cur former
English teacher, is very ill in a hoS
pital in Meridian, Miss. ‘
Frances Winfree will spend the
veek end at her home in Hamilton,
Ga.
The Righth Grade B, has three new
pupils added to its list: Annel Smith,
Clifford Brown and Roman Speible.
Miss Lena McDonald was absent
Wednesday on account of illness.
We are glad to state that Mr. Nich
olson's father, who has been ‘quite ill,
is improving.
Miss Ogburn spent the week end
very pleasantly in Griffin,
Attendance record: 8 A., 96 per
cent; 8 B, 92 per cent; 9 A, 96 per
cent: 9 B, 89 per cent; 10th, 92 per
cent; 11th, 86 per cent; total, 90 per
cent.
Record tardies: S A, 8; 8 B, 8; 94,
7.9 825. 10th; 1; 11th.0.
Following is a chart containing the
dates of society meetings and the
teachers who are to assist the program
commitice in getting up the program.
Jan. 19: Stevonian, Mr. Duncan,
Miss Morse; Lanier, Mr. Nicholson,
Miss Ogburn. 2
Feb. 2.: Stevonian, Mr. Nicholson,
Miss Ogburn; Lanier, Mr. Duncan,
Miss Morse.
Feb. 16.: Stevonian, Mr. Reynolds,
Miss Moore; Lanier, Mr. Duncan, Miss
Morse.
March 16: Mr. Duncan, Miss Morse;
Lanier, Mr. Reynolds, Miss Moore.
April 27: Stevonian, Mr. Reynolds,
Miss Moore; Lanier, Mr. Nicholson,
Miss Ogburn. ‘
May 11: Spelling match. |
High School Henor Roll. 1‘
Eleventh Grade: Janie Matthews. |
Tenth Grade: Ruth Scandrett. ;
Ninth A: Myrtis Wilcox. l
Eighth A: Lee McArthur, Carrie |
Scandrett. ’
ATHLETICS. l
By Mabry Kennedy.
The High school basket ball leaml
PUEBLISHED
WEEKLY
BY
THE
PUPILS
OF
THE
CORDELE
HIGH
SCHOOL
has made a very good showing the
past season, and we hope to make an
even better one the coming season.
Our present team is exceedingly light,
but equally as fast. We cannot hope
to cope with the larger teams. In fact
we have had a sufficiency of lively
combat with this kind of a team.
We marched out in grand array on
the Ashburn court and were greeted
by a bunch of husky young giants
who looked down at us and laughed.
They had a reason for this after the
game as our team made one goal and
two fouls, and the Ashburn bunch
made twenty points in all. We were
not expecting much better though.
When we got one look at those big
fellows our last hope fled. But you
just let our team meet one its own
gize and see what we will do for
them.
We played Hawkinsville two games
and just wolloped them good. We
have been authorized by our captain
to eat “grits and gravy” and grow
some so that in the future we will be
better fitted to cope with the ‘“Ash
burns.”
We have games scheduled with Al
bany and Fitzgerald to occur some
time in the near future. We hope
these teams will be nearer cur own
size.
There are some two or three new
contestants 1'0( places on the team
which, in my opinion, will prove of
great help to our present team.
i(?uptain Taylor, did you sayw?
. Well, Taylor is the man; .
Before every game you hear him say,
\ « “We will, we must, we can!”
Ernest Taylor, better known as Tay
lor, entered school about four years,
in the eighth grade. He made the
basket ball team the fi&t year, and
has continued to do so ever since. Ile
iis a credit as a captain and a player.
1!1, grieves the school as a whole to
jlhink that this is his last year. Tay
loy has won a name at goal shooting.
tie also is a good guard. This husky
country youth has more grit than sev
en of us city bred chaps. In every
game he picks out the largest man on
the opposing team to guard, and what
[ am trying to tell you, he does it.
When we march out on an opposing
team’s court you can see little squads
of students from the opposing towns
standing around talking and now and
then you can catch the word Taylor
given out with a scowl. The only
fault we find with Taylor is that he is
so fast he doesn’t give the rest of us
a chance to star. He just plays to
win, and if evenly matched, will win.
EXCHANGE.
By Alice Whipple.
New Western Type of School Building
The one-story type of schocl build
ing now has been in use for two
vears in Portland, Oregon, aud has
proved eminently satistactory. The
one-story building has the advantage
of being safer from fire, more easily
supervised and uieter, besides being
much less expensive. Ample space for
playground purposes is provided for
all elementary schools, except in the
case of a few buildings in congested
districts. The streets are roped off
during play hours in these instances.
Domestic science centers have been
established in 51 elementary school
buildings. Hot lunches are served in
six schools at a cost of 6 cents for
each child. A report of the United
States Commissioner of Education
shows the high school attendance in
Portland, Oregon, to be the largest in
proportion to the number of children
of high school age of any city in the
United States. In 1906 there was one
high school in Portland, with an en
rollment of 1,226. In December, 1916,
there are six regular high schools and;
two schools of trades, with a total en
roliment of 6,559. |
J. L. Mcßrien, School Extonsion!
Agent of the Bureau of Education, in
a circular letter to the schoels of this
country, says:
“The three states ranking highest in
percentage of daily attendance in the
rurg! scheools are as follows: Cregon,
60.6; Connecticut, 88.4; Massachus
setts, 86. Oregon has found 9.4 a suf
ficient allowance for all reasonable
absences. What Oregon has done
every other state in the Union can
do if it will.—The Morning Or‘egonian.,
Can Find Time tc Do Things. ‘
It is the idle who complain they;
cannot find time to do that which |
they fancy they wish. In truth, peo- |
ple can generally make time for what I
they chose to do; it is not really the%
time, but the will that is wanting.— |
THE CORDELE DISPATCH, CORDELE, GEORGIA.
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Method, Too, Modern.
A new bhoy came to a city school.
He had been attending a little country
schbol where the methods of discipline
were primitive. In his new school
he saw some electricians at work.
“What are those men doing?” he
asked.
“Putting in an electric switch.”
The hoy started up in alarm. “I'm
going back,” he exclaimed. “I won't
stay in any school where they do the
gswitching by machinery.”—Current
Events.
Marked Too High.
“There must be some mistake in my
examination markings,” complained
the student. “I don’t think I deserve
to be marked zero.”
“I don’t think so either,” agreed the
teacher, “but it is the lowest mark I
can give.”—Current Events.
Belitting works that others do
lWill gain no praise or prize for you.
! —Youth’s Companion.
!Boy‘s High Graduates Making Good
| Records.
I The students of Oglethorre Univer
sity who are graduates of the Boys’
llligh School of Atlanta, arc making
‘o most enviable record. The regis
trar's report shows that there are
eight or nine men who graduated at
the Boys’ High in Atlanta and who
entered the freshman class of the ac
edemic department of the university
last fall. The recent winter examina
tions have shown up the gquality of in
struction of these men. It is a re
markable fact that of the enfire num
ber not a single one failed to make a
passng mark of seventy or more in
every study which they pursue. At
least ones of the boys made ninety or
more in every study. |
This is a most unusual tribute to
the quality of the work by the local |
high school. The Cglethorpe boys
from the Atlanta High school have or
ganized a special Boys' High Club and
have set their goal the attainment of
just such records as the above.—The
Atlanta Journal.
Did You?
Did you ever study Geography,
About the land and sea?
Did you ever study 'Rithmetic,
. What four times three will be?
i Did you ever study Grammar, i
i About adjectives and verbs? °
' Did vou ever try any Algebra,
With its different squares and thirds?
Did you ever study History,
. The date 1492?
Did you ever study spelling,
Say the vowels a-e-i-o-u?
Did you ever study Literature,
:\ About men and all their books?
Did you ever study Domestic Science,
And learn to be good cooks?
Did you ever study Latin,
Conjugating all the verbs?
Did you ever study reading Caesar,
Gaul's divided into thirds?
Or maybe you read Virgil,
Aneas’ adventure and escape?
Did you ever get excited,
' When you delivered a debate?
ll}id yvou ever study Geometry,
Triangles and perfect squares?
Did you ever study Chemistry,
‘ And do experiments 'way up-stars?
'Did you ever stay in after school,
‘ To make up lessons that you miss?
'lf you did, then you can understand
} The school-kid’s joy and bliss.
| —FLORENCE ALLEN.
WHO'S WHO. .
By Frances Winfree.
ERNEST TAYLOR.
1 do not remember, nor can I find
any one who does remember the time
when this young man entered school
here. From all appearances, he has
been here about as long as the insti
tution itself.
If ignorance is bliss then he is to be
envied. He isn't especially devoted to
any of his studies and he can’t under
stand “what good geometry does you,”
notwithstanding the fact that Mr.
Brewer and Miss Ogburn have dis
cussed at length, the wonderful pos
sibilities, the scope for imagination,
and the extensive development of the
mental faculties, derived from study
of geometry, yet—“ Taylor convinced
against his will, is of the same opin
ion still.” =
He possesses great oratorical talent
and is therefore quite a s!tar in our
society debates. The only thing thatl
can cheat him cut of the last word in
a debate is an ecifo. .
One of his chief characteristics is
a high temper, which he occasionally
displays at an out of town basketball
game, and quite frequently at school,
for instance: When Jani¢ Matthews
defeated his candidate in the recent
Stevonian ‘election.
Possibly Taylor’s most marked fea
ture is his mouth, which he displays
fo quite an extent—especially when
bored.
He turned over a new leaf at the
beginning of the New Year and has
been to church twice Possibly the
senior members have been working
on him. How could he be otherwise
tharn changed, living in such an en
vironment?
All told, he is a pessimist. He looks
at the world through a smoked glass
and sees: only the hole in the dough
nut. But they say that “every cloud
has a silver lining,” and we belieye
that on @er Alma Mata is lo'okifi
eagerly forward to a beautiful May
day in ’l7 when she can send Ernest
Taylor forth into the world ‘hugging
a dip.
IN MEMORIAM OF CORA LOU
SOLOMON. .
A Tribute. .
She was a pure wee thing, !
She was a tho’tful wee thing,
She was a bonnie wee thing,
Was this sweet wee class mate of
ours.
We never saw a fairer,
We never loved a dearer, .
And in our hearts we’ll keep her mem
ory
For fear it be lost to us.
She was a modest wee thing,
She was a model wee thing,
She was a dutiful wee thing,
EVas this dear wee chum cf ours.
worldly Saints called her hither,
Heavenly Saints received her thither
And O Almighty God, as she dwells
with Thee,
She, our works and deeds can see.
Whereas, the All Wise Father has'
seen fit in the working out of His Di-|
vine Purpose to enter into our midst'
and gather home to His heaven];‘ym
MULES! [t | MULES!
e GLORIES s
~ ONE CAR LOAD OF
Your faithful servant, B. H. Palmer, who has
heen serving Crisp county people for eighteen
years, has just returned from the markets,
where he picked them out. |
THE PALMER-JONES COMPANY
who were never known to servea bad egg, wapt
you to have oneof these nice Mules. Youwon’t
swell up with indigestion, or bust your boiler
when you swallow our prices. They are worth
the money,
We have also added to our line repair parts for
Fords. Get this— -
—--REPAIR PARTS FOR FORD CARS--
~ If you won’t buy a Mule, or haven’t a Flivaer
Car, come around and chew the rag with us
anyway, when in Cordele. We will be glad to
see you.
Palmer-Jones Company
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTISTS AND MULEOLOGISTS
realm her, whom we considered most
dear as a friend and classmater, and
Whereas, she held the highest of
fice that our class can bestow, and
was the youngest, yet not least es:
teemed, of our number, and
Whereas, we bclieve, however sad
dened and desolated our hearts may
e by this great loss that there was
a Purpose back of the Divins Will in
placing this bereavement upcn us, for
do <we mortals wait until the rose is
shattered and its fragrance gone to
pluck it and wear it upon our besom?
Then why should the Immortal Fath
er wait until this dear, swe.et maiden
had lost the bloom-~of her youth to
call her home to adorn His kingdom?
and,
Whereas, when we consider the life
of man, how his days are so few and
full of trouble, how buffeted he is by
the storm of responsibility, disap
pointments and tribulations, and how
calmly and surely death doth release
him of them all,
Be it resolved, therefore, -That we,
the members of the Senior Class of
the Cordele High School, patiently,
yet sorrowfully, submit to the omnip
otent will of the Almighty Ruler—He
knoweth best.
Be it resolved that we heartily ex
tend to the loving mother and father
of this our class mate, our keenest
sympathy in this dark hour of sorrow.
SARA HYDE, Vice President.
WILLIE BELLE TODD, Secty.
January 9, 1917.
When You're Thinking of Movinge
Or need heavy hauling or transfer g
work of any kind, get us. We can §
' give you quick service. g
William H. Thornton Dray Line 3
WE EAT TOO MUCH MEAT WHICH
CLOGS KIDNEYS, THEN THE
BACK HURTS.
Most folks forget that the kidneys,
I'le the bowels, get sluggish and clgg
cod and need a flushing occasiona%#
clse we have backache and dullvmis
ery in the kidney region, severe head
aches, rheumatic twinges, torpid liver,
acid stomach, sleeplessness and all
sorts of bladder disorder.
You simply must keep your kidneys
active and clean, and the moment you
feel an ache or pain in the kidney re
gion, get about four ounces of Jad
Salts from any good drug store here,
take a tablespoonful in a glass of w’x
ter before breakfast for a few dayes,
and your kidneys will then act firfie.
This famous salts is made from the
acid of grapes and lemon juice, com
bined with lithia, and is harmelss to
flush clogged kidneys and stimulate
them to normal activity. It also neu
tralizes the acids in the urine so it
no longer irritates, thus ending blad
der disorders.
Jad Salts is harmless; inexpensive;
makes a delightful effervescent lithia
water drink which everybody should
take now and then to keep their kid
neys clean, thus avoiding serious com
plications.
