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PAGE TWO W. L. H. S. APLIFIER THE AMPLIFIER Published semi-monthly by the student body of West Linn Union High School. STAFF Editor ............................ .Norma Matthews Ass’t Editor ........... ...Cleo Hinds Girls’ Sports .............. Wanda Davidson Boys’ Sports.............. Kenneth McLarty Organizations ..................Roma Confer Seen-?Said-Surmised... .Bus McDonald, Jack Chambers Jokes ..................................... Alice Charow Features ..................................... Joy Smith, Martha Jane Hottel Exchanges ............ ................. Opal Hinds, Charlotte Blount, Anna Mae Shinkle Manager ......................... ..Jack Bollinger Ass’t. Managers............ Jack Chambers, Gladys Davis, Kathleen Worthington, Marvin Ingrahm. REPORTERS Barbara MacDuffie Marjorie La Salle Gordon Swope Beth Humphreys' Jo Burkhardt Violet Warren Ursula Vinson Ruthalys Lawerence Gretchen Thompson Cora Boeckman Marjorie Ranger Marie Shultz Margaret Swope EDITORIALS THE USE OF TIME How do you spend or use your spare time? Do you use your spare moments to a good advantage or do you waste them? It is surprising how much can be accomplished by the good use of our spare time. Do you loiter in the halls between classes? Those two minutes between classes may be used to good advantage. It takes only a few seconds to change classes. Hurry to your next period class and use the other minute to meditate and look over your lesson. At noon do not stand around the halls eating candy and throwing the wrappers on the floor. Make your spare time work for you, and benefit you. Benjamin Franklin was a miser of time. To him the loss of a single minute was a loss as extravagant as that of money. Divide your time between work and play and a more bene- fieiAL.disi.uiYHitian of leisurc-would. be brought about. t__. The man who has no time for study was probably bom tired, and has never recovered. Use the same zest in your work that you use in play. Push your work. Don’t let your work push you. The fact that Poe wrote “The Gold Bug” is no sign that he was a millionaire. Thanksgiving is over. The holidays have proved a wonder ful success. Now we are face to face with our second six weeks exams. These exams will be taken the 4 and 5 of this month. This is the last set of exams to be taken before the finals for the first semester which will be in January. This is the last chance of redemption for those students who received failing grades last six weeks. Are we students prepared for these examinations? Following is the report of the health clinic for the month of Sep tember, as issued by Mrs. Emily Elsey, health director. A total of 1036 students have undergone phy sical examinations while 35 teach ers have been examined by the school physician, Doctor L. Phillips. The R. A. F. C. physical examina tion reached the 476 mark, 1106 students repected from training, were re-examined by Doctor Phil lips and as a result, 37 were sent back to light exercise, and 69 to rest and nutrition classes. Seven teen students were put in rest classes by their home doctors. • A grand total of 192 boys are in the rest classes.—The Pinion. And then there’s the sheepherder who went to Arabia and graduated, to Camels. A couple of wayfarers stood for an hour or more in front of a mar ket, watching employees clean fish. “Ain’t that the limit?” exclaimed one. “Can you think of anything worse than a job like that?” “Sure I can,” the other replied. “That ain’t half as bad as scaling the Alps.” John: “I hope I didn’t see you smiling at that creature who just passed. “I hope you didn’t either, m’dedr.” “Yes, I was a great player in my day,” said Jones. “Made a goal from the kick off. Can any of you beat that?” “I’ve done the same, you bloom in’ liar!” replied Brown. LOCALS LOCALS Mary Whisler left school during the past week because of sickness in her home. Barbara MacDuffee spent Wed nesday night, November 19 visiting with Gretchen Thompson. Ervin Lange a graduate in the class of ’29 visited school several days during the past week. Ervin is now a Sophomore at Willam ette University. Alice Charow was the guest of Martha Jane Hottel, Friday night, November 21. Genevieve Jones was sent home from school with the mumps dur ing the past week. Several other cases have also been reported. Zena Donis was the guest of Gretchen Thompson at her home in Ashdale, Friday night, November 21. Avis and Hazle Perkins were hostesses at a party held at their home Saturday evening, November 22.* Eleanor Himler spent the week end in Gresham recently visiting with friends. Cora Boeckman spent Friday • night, November 21, visiting in Willamette at the home of Dorothy La Lone. Reva Smith spent Saturday, Nov ember 22 visiting with relatives in Oreogn City. Miss Helen Frost, a former stud ent of West Linn, visited among friends in Gladstone last Sunday . She visited at the home of her grandmother where she formerly stayed. Among others visited were Miss Cleo Hinds, and Norma Mat thews. LETTERS OF A CANDIDATE TO HIS SWEETHEART Jun 8teen Deer Alis: Wei i hav arived at the sitisens miliery camp and it shur is fine. We cum up too the bilding wear they take owr name, then we went over too the hospitl and got wayd to see haw much we cud eet. They tuk off our close and lukt us over too see if we wuz wize enuf too obay the ofisers. Then we went to mess. I didn’t see any mes unles it had bin strat- ened up. al 1 saw was dinner. After we got thru eteing it was sure a. mess tho. Next we got our uniforms and giv a guw owr soots (in the army, alis, they call a fellas reglar close ‘cits.’ i guess that is becuz yu can only ware them when yu go too the city). We put on owr new (at one time) uniforms and went up too owr tents wear they giv us a big rifl wich is used wen yu git yore pitcher tok and a bayonet wich is a big rifle wich is a grate ade in getting fellas out of bed in the morning and also good to toss at tree sto see if yu can make it stick, after getting owr arms wich‘ htye cal lowr rifl and bayonet i don’t no why we went to owr beds wich they hav five in a tent only they ain’t cald beds, theyr cald bunks. But i don’t see nothing bunky abowt them xsept the pillo which is harder then a brik. wella lis i’l hev to quit now cuz the bugler is blowing tatoo and i’l have to go out and wach him as i always did wander how it was dun. if i can git hiin to do it, i am go ing to hev the bugler tatoo a Span ish lady on my arm like pete murfy w_ho. used.to bee in.^he .navy, back, home. Yoes til later. Steve. Jun 20fift. Dere Alis: well yesturday i wuz on k. p. The Vancouver High School was wich means kitchen police and it among the schools which won first was grate stuf. the k. p’s are 5 boys chosen to class honors in the creative writing contests sponsored last spring by watch the rest of the company eet Quill and Scroll. and ofer advis as to how two eat The Castlemont High of Oakland, there fude. also they see that the California has added horseshoe to dishes are washed wich is eesy as the list of activities in which num their is only 140 fellas wich eat each mele. we only wirk a little bit erals may be earned. and habe the rest of the day to The Pinion, Honolulu, Hawaii— rest, slepe or anything. McKinley High’s cafeteria believes There a gy in this company in advertising their good things to wich is is awful and is almost eat. A menu for the coming week always aslepe. lazy sometimes he gets is printed in the paper. up before the others and when The Konah, Missoula, Montana.— they get back from sawing ‘hear’ The West Linn students hate to at revaly, he is just puttong his spend money for rings and pins shoes. He is in my squad and i have but listen to this. At Missoula to kepe my eyes open cuz i mite High Montana, the class rings are: fal over him wen he stops and fals silver $4.00 and gold $8.50. too slepe. Football shoes are unknown in we hav been hear a weak alredy Hawaii, according to a clipping re and i feel like a soljer. I hpe yu ceived by Mr. Kendall from Sally fele the same. Brown, who attended McKinley in Steve 1929. This clipping is a copywrit- ten sports feature, entitled “Brush After the services were over, one ing Up Sports.” It is by Laufer. of the congregation turned to his The clipping shows a drawing of wife and said: Bert Itoga kicking with one shoe “On my way to church I picked removed. Besides this is the state ment, “Bert Itoga, halfback of the up a button and put it in my University of Kansas, drop kicks change pocket, where I had a quar and place kicks barefooted. He ter.” “Gracious, my dear!” exclaimed learned the game in his native Ha waii, where football shoes are un his wife, very much horrified. known.” It seems that Laufer took “And you dropped it into the col too much for granted; as everyone lection basket by mistake?” “No, confound it!” replied her knows, football shoes are extensive husband. “I put in the quarter.” ly used in Hawaii.—The Pinion.
