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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.