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&~~ewsl VOL. I, NO. 15 Publiahtd Ulftlcll/ bv tht tchool chddrm ol Wilmette und~t aupttuiaion of Wilm~tte Plaflground and RltrtariotJ Board. JUNIOR LIFE WILMETTE. ILL:.~ Told· by the Pupils = OIS. APRIL 27, 1928 Glee Clubs Enjoy Party at Howard: ··nap" Gets There Tbe party which the Girls' Glee club of Howard had been planning wu hel4 Wednesday, April 18. The Boys' Glee club and other boys were Invited. It beaaJl at '1 :30 o'clock with a grand march led by Lucy Murdlson and George Jones, we then began to dance. An excellent three-piece orchestra was obtaJned featuring Jean Paddock, Bill Terhune, and Jimmy Edmonds. Several teachers attended namely, Mrs. Jones, lin. Stalling, Mrs. Groves, "Hap'~ Gathereoal and Mlu Scheidler. lllu Scheidler Is the head of the Girls' Glee club and attended to .the "eats." MJiap," who Is the boys' gymnasium lnlltructor at Howard, was afraid he would -.t be able to at tend as he had a date wtth Mlu Mildred Barr. Mr. Gathercoal found he could bring Miss Barr to die party and we were all very glad to laave 1088 Barr and ..Hap" with us. Another march led by Isabel Basking aDd Lawrence McHale finished up with the boys 11ervlng their partners with re~hments. There were a couple of knees afterward and then the parents IN!can callfng for us. -Lauretta Anderson, SA Howard. THE INQUIBIYG BEPOBTEB Question: -what Is your favorite subJect In school and why? Mary Tbaleg, 8B : Arithmetic. Miss Wyman favorite teacher. is my I Ra;lroads George Quinlan, 8B : . Gymnasium. Because there s no work except baseball and that's not bard. Arnold Sobel, 8B : Arithmetic. Because I like to figure. June Anderson, 8C : Grammar. Because groceries. I know . my Henry Crawford, BB: Mathematics. -Bob Hess, 8B Stolp Home Run Wins Game for Stolo 88 Over St. Francis Last Friday, 8 B of the Stolp school played the eighth grade of the St. Francis school. Tbe full seven innings were played in a slow rain. The 8B team is as follows: C., Sobel ; P., Hess ; . Howard, 1st; Crawford, 2nd; Williams, 3rd : Zipperich, R. F. ; McLean, C. F. ; Quinlan, L. F. ; Young, L. C. F.; Vore, R. C. F. The game was even and the teama were well matched. At the end of the ftrst half of the sev~nth inning the score was 6 to f In St. Francis' favor. But 88 had the "upe" again. Two outs were m~t-'A and one run. A man on third antl a hitter "up." He llamme4 a "home~ and 8R won 7-6. 8B bas a game Thursday afternoon at Stolp and Is sure she Is going to win. -Bob Hess, Stolp 8B LIXE XABI FI8BBB Last Saturday, Bud 'Howard, Bob Hen, Vance Soule and Steven Hopkins went to the Norsbore theater on tickets furnished for the Jumoa LIFE statr by Balaban and Katz. We arrived just In time for the stage performance. Upon the absence of AI Kvale, Mark Fisher leads an entirely different orchestra. I believe that Mark was liked as wen as AI. The drummer played a xylophone. We found out later that be was once the beet xylophone player In the country. Tben came the Coo Coo club. Prizes were given to the children who lived the fartberest. -Bob Heu, 8B Stolp. Circus Sideabowa Hold Margaret's Attention On April 16, 1928, I went to the circus. We got there a little too early. So we walked around a little while. When . we came back there was an Immense crowd. They finally opened the doors. We went and looked at the animals. We were looking at the side-shows before we had seen half of the · animals. There was a little man or woman, we could not teJI, but we thought It was a IDAn. They called him Coo Coo. Then there were the two fattest twin sisters Ill the world and they boxed. There was a woman without arms. Sbe could aew with her feet and write with · her feet. Then we went to the real circus. It la8ted from around 2 o·clock to around I o'clock. We had a wonderful time. -Margaret 1\fcCUnton, 5B Central. Centni-Laurel P. T. A. Meeta at Stolp April 17 Tuesday evening. April 17, the CentralLaurel P. T. A. had a meeting In the Stolp gymna~lum. About ftfty parents attended. The program was In charge of the Sehool Beautiful committ-e ·and the Pubtie School Art League. The speaker waa Lena MacCauley. Art Critic for the Chi~o Evening Post. At the meetf.,'!'. the Art Leae-ue oreeented to the Wilmette Public schools, a mcture, "AcroRs the Valley" by James t'c)ppin~C" a~ memorial to :&fiAR Vtoln CaRwell who was for many years Art Dlrecmr In the Mehool.-. The Lo~an-Howard P. T. A. was lnYited to ioln with the Central-Laurel In thl· mPPtln~. The SA and 8B Stolo tied for attendance, there being 11 parents present from -.ch room. -Emma Bickham, SA Stolp TEACHER HOST AT CIRC1"8 Vy Sunday school teacher Ia very alee and told us that he wanted to taki! · to the clrcu1 and pay half of the fstre. We went. Carlos got In his car and so tid I. We had a long ride before gettlnJl' tllere but when we go there we parked tiM car and KOt the tickets. Tbey were 11.10 each. We went In and saw the cir,... It was trood and the clowns wt>re funny. They did trapese work and a lot of other things. Our Sunday school tKeher offered to treat us to an Ice eream cone. 1.'hey were good. After It wu an over we piled In the car and went home. -Donald Houghton, 5B Central. TELLS OF MUSIC MEETING lira. Clark, muelc appreciation· teach· at the Byron Stolp school. was ab~t from her work last Wednesday, Tllunday, and Friday. lin. Clark was atea41q the lfusic Supervlslors' Conteatloa In Chicago. When abe returned ehe laa4 much to tell us of the wonderAll 81nclng and playing she had heard. -Jane Anderson, 8C Stolp. THE XAN MUST PAY Friday, April 13, :Mr. Stone's car was parked outside of the Central avenuf' buiJding. 1\fr. Stone's car was bit by another car. Mr. Stone's car bad some dents In Its fender and the running board was all smashed. The other car had some dents and a busted wheel. While that was going on 5C was playIng 5A In a baseball game. As soon as we got through playing we ran over to see what happened. There was a wreckIng truck, a policeman and some people. The man who bumped into Mr. Stone's car will have to pay the damages, David Weinstock, 5C Central. SEE CIRCUS, liOVIES Frank McCabe and I went to the circus, Monday, April 18, at the Collaeam. We got there just In time for the circus. Our seats were In the first row 1n the balcony right above where the animals came out. When It was over we went to Frank's dad's office. We had dinner and then saw "'Old Ironsides" at the Norshore theater and then came home happy. -David M~ller. 5B Central. CAMP IN FOREST PRE8BBVB Frank HooJ)('r and Donald and Junior Anderson hiked to the Foreat Pruern. When we got to the trestle we started to go over it but when we got to the top Junior and Frank went down and Donald Wf'nt over. We went to the river and found a place to eat. We made a LIKES NEW UNIFORll8 ftre and ate our lunch. After lunch we The new "'Girl Scout" uniforms are out. looked for birds and hiked h'>me. good Last Tuesday one of our Scouts had a and tired and were good and stltr the new uniform. I think they are very next day. nice. -Donald Anderson, 5B Central -Ruth Sanderson. 6A Central _----------------By Hugh Boyd, SD Stolp Though many people think tha~ their responsibilities are ;;reat, few reallze the responslbillties which confront a railroad company. lt would be difficult to name all these disadvantages but, nevertheless, here are a tew of the most common ones. First of all In the organization of a railroad, civil eugineers must be hired to survey and report on the conditions of the land on wnlch the tracks are to be laid. These engmeers must know whether at a ce rtain lJOint a tunnel should be made, whether at another. point there should be a grade crossing, what kind of a bed must De laid for the road, and many other perplexing problems. Wnen the civU engineers have finished their job, a very ditticult one, thousa~ds oi men must be employed to· laY the t1es and rails. When this has been completed, the road is finished but, that is not all. The railroad must employ many more men to butld the locomotives, diners, sleepers, observation cars, day coaches, ireight cars and all the rest of the cars, whole trains of which are built by the hundreds. Let's take a glimpse into one of these railroad shops where whole trains are manufactured and reconditioned. The work is finished. The travelling crane swings the huge locomotive to the tracks. Another giant engine is ready. Tough metal has been wrought into a mighty machine. Yet in the nt:xt room is a scale so sensistive tha't it will record the weight added to a slip of paper by a pencilled signature. In these vast shops brute power works at the side of exact scientific precision. Here behind the scen~s is the source from which trains come. Here is fashioned comfort for the tra v~ller. Here is built the machinery which makes possible safe speed. Here equipment is kept up to exacting standards. In these luxurious days we like a little comfort with our travel. Such being the case, luxury, as well as the safe, punctual, swift movement of the trains is the aim shared by the shop men with their companions who operate those trains. The road Is now complete. Tracks, trains, signals, warning gates, stations and all. Time, speed and safety are three principal factors. Up ahead In the cab, hand on the throttle of 200 tons of power, eyes on the unfolding miles of track, a thousand and one glimmering lights, signal~ switches and crossings, is the locomotive engineer, a keyman in the railroad whose aim Is your comfort, safety and security. Throttle and brakes, steam lines and gauges, over them all the engineers keep unceasing ,·tgil. Despite wet, slippery rails, despite the tremendous "pull" necessary to start a resting train, their skill and experience cut the jolts and jars of travel to the minimum. Almost as sensitive in their hands as an Instrument of precision are the giant locomotives which they control. Another added responsibility of the railroad staff is that they select a vigilant train crew. lfen who can be responsible. Men who are strong, calm and completely efficient, Is it any wonder that they are the object of the shy, mute devotion of countless American boys and of the respect of every man? I.ook up when next you pass the pantinJ: locomotive at the end of your journey -look up and see a man in whom the spirit of the railroad lives. Then. too. the transcontinental trains need water on their way. The Iron Hor8e ~coop!'! a drink at nearly a mile a minute. The locomotives of theSf> trains must take the water on the fly from long tanks bE:tWE>en the tracks. Let's take a ~lance at the Inside of the cab of one of the!i!e locomotives. lTp ahead the trough appears, a long slender 11lot between th~> tra<'k!'!. growing swiftly larger. In the cab an alert hand tl~htens on a lf'ver. The trou~h draws near more swiftly, rushes under the locomotive as thouJ'!h stung into a final burst of speed. The hand jerks sharply. I Monday, April 16, I went to the circus. Mrs. Humphreys, who was selllng the tickets took my sister and me. I had a friend who was going, the same afternoon that I was. She was going to slt In the balcony and so was I. I told her I would wave to her If I saw her. Then she said: ··wouldn't It ,be nice If we should sit right together. so when I got to the circus, I waited for her to come and sit next to me. When she didn't come I began to look around for her and finally found her. . The lion-tamer had a hard time wtth the lions and we thought he w?uld have to use his gun. There were ttght rope walkers and clowns, horse-back riders, and people who hung on the_ trapeze. There was the queen of the ctrcus, the fat lady, the thin man, the girl without arms who wrote and sewed with her toes ~nd the man who walked on swords. We had pink lemonade and peanuts as we watched the clowns and altogetht!r we had a delightful day. -Carol Linn, Fifth Grade, Central. Lion-Tamer Hu Tou1b Job, Says Litde Carol Virginia Snorf Visitor · at Historical Society On l\Ionday, .April 16, I went to the Chicago Historical society. It is ~ very interesting place. Then we went mto a room where we saw a tire engine that had hE-en through the Chicago fire. We 8aw other things that had been through the fire such as sih·.::rware and a spool of thre;.,d. Then we went into another room where we saw wax figures, representing great Chicago w<>men. 'Ve went to the basement where w ~ saw the table that General Grant and General Le6 signed a paper on saying that they were going to ha\·e the ~orth and S<?uth together. Then we went up :;tatrs and saw a lot of things on Washmgton and Lincoln. 'Ve saw the flag that was carried o\·er Lincoln'!'= coffin. 'Ve ·had a Yery nice time. -Virginia Ann Snorf, ~itth Grade, Central Why All the Kidding 'Bout June's Shoes? Well if vou like them so I'll tell you how I' got· them. .Just try it out yo.ur~elf. Fir~t of all you must get an arttcle in the JUNIOR LIFE, good enough to win a ticket to the Norshore. Then, after your father has had an especially good dinner you go up and put your arms around him and tell him just how wonder-ful he is. You tell him how good you are and how you won a ticket. Then vou tell just how much you need some new shoes. that you simply have to h~~e new shoes to see AI Kvale in. If you 'e put this little act o~ ju~t righ! ther~ ought to be a new paJr of shoes m yom closet shortly ! A d SC -.Tune n erson, RANGERS SEEK liEJrBERS . The Boy Rangers of America need a few more members. We meet in the Presbyterian church on Saturday mornIngs at 10 o'clock. It's for boys from eight to twelve years of age. There are regular tests to be passed such as the Brave Hunter and Warrior. If leadership is shown there are officers for those boys. We have a hike every other Saturday. The uniform required is a khaki ~hirt a first aid kit and a rope ftve feet long.' Our scoutmaster Is Mr. Reynolds. -Billy Bowen, 6C Central. AT :MUSIC CONVENTION l\Ir. Agnes Clark, teacher of music at Stolp, was· absent from school two days. Thursday and Friday, In order to atte.nd the music convention · held In Chicago. Teachers from all parts of the United States were present and during this conYentlon every evening an Interesting program was glyen by well·known .artists. -Eleanor Culver, SA Stolp. . ..I ·· I { BUYS CIRCUS ANiliAL Monday and Tuesday, April 16 and 17, were Wilmette days at the Sells-Fioto circus. Many children, men and women enjoyed watching it. I bought a chameleon which is like a lizard. If you put it on your dress or suit it turns that ~olor. Mine is very active and runs all over the house. The thing I liked best were the flying wards. Ev~lyn Youn~qulst, 5B Central.