The Tri-County Herald, Volume 75, Numbers 1-5

STAFF Editor ■— Jacqueline Morse Asst. Editor —- Muriel Samiran Reporters Jacqueline McClelland, R ob S h aw , Phyllis Spitz, Dot Shock, Bill Hayden, Mary Haw­ thorn, Barbara Reagan, Bob Ryan, and Betty Warburton, Staff advis­ er, V°ra K. Randall. FOR THE TIME BEING Hail to the New Year! How it came crashing upon us! Slashing and clashing, it bore down upon us. Swept us off our feet and carried us away. Defying the wind and storm,. shouting its strength to the stars, it raced by; laughing at fear and enemies, it roared its pleasure. Follow it, you who dare. Shunning, shunting, shoving ’41 aside, it flies by, fast and fleeting. Do as .it does. Thumbs up, -chin up, head up, eyes up! Look to the silver linings. Keep your head singing and your smile beaming. Say, ‘‘flail to the Future!” I THE ARTS Last Friday and Saturday four students represented our school in the all-state band at Columbus. This band, directed by Mr. Gor- enson from Jamestown, N ew York, played for the music teach­ ers of Ohio in order to help them select their contest music. The four students that went from Bath were Edythe Carlisle, drums; Richard Poorman, tuba; Albert Updike, bariton 3 sax; and Curias Sennet, tenor sax. . j The hand stayed at the Fort Hayes Hotel and played at the Hotel '■Chittenden in Columbus. ~~ POETRY j ODE TO THE BLIND They’cannot see material things As you and il can see, And yet a t times I do believe ‘They see more than we. We’re too blind to realize The facts before our very eyes! Oft times when we can’t see a thing, I t takes the blind to point it out. "When things seem very black to us, Remember their blackout. It’s very seldom they complain, And yet we cry in constant pain! It’s such a shame that we can’t see Conditions as they really are. Instead of complaining all the time, We should thank our lucky star That we were born with two good eyes "With which to see and realize. We are often heard to say When anything goes wrong, “I can’t see —*I just can’t see” — You know, the same old song. And yet llic blind man frequently Is heard to say, “Oh, yes, I see,” Here’s my prayer — a simple one. Is it too much to ask To do without any complaint Any single task? Next time you -complain, just pause And think of those who have just cause. —Jacqueline Morse ? WHY ? Why was she startled a t the sound of the seng “Tit-willow, tit-willow”? Why were there bars on the window? Why did Leonora Fiske leave without notice? Why was the hake oven b r i c k e d tip? Could It h e m*u-r-d-e-r? That4®for YOU _to find out. Come and see “Ladies in Retirement” on Feb­ ruary 4 and 5 in the school, auditorium, The public speak­ ing class promises you the thrill of a lifetime! TIMELY TOPICS Mai'y -Hawthorne and Bob Crone at map. v WE RESOLVE - With the turn of the old year, all thoughtful souls around Bath High School feci bound to make a score of resolutions that are ■quite virtuous and extremely re­ volutionary in nature. The at­ tempt serves as a conscience ap­ peaser despite the fact that few resolutions ever linger nficr their first appearances. Just the same, it’s fun to see what improve­ ments are sought fori Mary Alice Sharp, Frances Henderson and June Sizemore all hope to keep their tempers within bounds this year; and Wilma Gebhart goes so far as to say that .she’ll write 100 times, “I broke my resolution,” should she, fail. Very virtuous are Richard Cul- lumber, who is going to leave the girls alone, and the anony­ mous senior who refuses to go steady in 1942—she says. Roberta Davis and Dick Alex­ ander both hope to stick to their principle to make the best of: everything, while not very fari ibehind are Mary V. Coughonour, — behave and do homework! *—! and Flieda Gardner who will make all her had habits good and | her good habits better. Th& juniors’ are reforming, too: Adeline Linker1 is turning over a new leaf and' Bill Taggart is determined to pass English. . * Our prize is Muriel Samiran,, who has sworn not to swallow any more rubber bands or fall down on the ice for the rest of tho year. Teachers are not to be outdone, either. Watch Miss Randall, for she’s going to do the unexpected, during 1942. And please, students, -don’t tempt Miss Baver with goodies,* she is renouncing them altogether. (So far, she has only broken down once.) BATH PUTS UP BANS Surprise, Bath students! Dan Cupid was a busy fellow over the Christmas holidays! Who? Why our own Miss Borland, of course The lucky groom, Robert Koep- nick, is an instructor at the Day- ton Art Institute. Mr, and Mrs. Koepnick, after a honeymoon trip to New York, are residing at 240 North Clair Street in Dayton, It seems that once upon a time there lived a man named J. Cuth- bert Percival Aloysius Q. Penny- whistle, Jr. His friends just knew him as J, P, J. P. lived in Dry Run, Arizona, in the rip roaring days when men lived by the law of the six gun or men didn’t live. J- P, was the founder and president of the Society for ihe Protection of Lame Grasshoppers. His office was situated above the most no­ torious saloon in the West, Every day about a half dozen corpses would be carried out of this saloon and dumped in the back alley. All the cowboys that hung, and were later banged, around the saloon would jeer a t poor little J , P. when he climbed the Stairs to his miniature hospital. Ona day the whole town started boarding up windows and buying locks for doors. All the cattle and sheep were herded away from the town, and the sheriff stationed World affairs! Who hasn’t heard those words? Maybe some tribe in the bush country isn’t pondering ■over the war, but I can imagine that they, too, have their com­ munity problems. You've heard senators and statesmen give speeches.. You’ve hoard ihe arguments in the drug­ store, Uie court house, the office. You’ve seen newsreels. But all that is for the grown-ups, the eld­ ers, Where do the young people come in? If you walked into the history room in Bath High1Schodl, you would find on the wall in its ap­ pointed place a map of the world. It gives information and location of current events. This map en­ ables the student to grasp a broad­ er view, helps him understand the why and wherefore of military action and political intrigue. Each week the map is changed. Occasionally in the h i s t o r y classes a period is used* for dis­ cussion. Such interest has devel­ oped that tho day after war was declared, there was a crowd of pupils around the map pointing out and talking about places in the lime-light a t that particular mo­ ment, A Trolwood teacher, visiting our school, said that he was impressed by the information on current events students in this school have. He also liked the unbiased manner in which they expressed ihem- depulien behind every window and door, J, V, inquired of the saloon keeper the reason for all this ac­ tivity, and the saloon keeper re­ plied, “Decp’raic Dan, the Mur­ dering Man, is ridin* into town to- nig!>\ and you’d better board up your windows and hide under your bed pronto!” J. P. stood amazed and his mouth dropped wide open. Folding his hands in a very pious manner, he exclaimed, “Mercy, you don’t mean he would harm mo? After all, my work is purely humane and he wouldn’t want to iiarm those poor lame grasshoppers.” “Desp’rate Dan don't,care who he kills and he likes to eat grasshop­ pers. You’d better take my advice and steer clear of him!” replied the barkeeper. Just at this moment a fusillade of bullets went pounding through tho saloon’s boarded up door and crashed into a pile of glasses selves in regard to present day af­ fairs, This may well be the re­ sult of having the “World News of the Week” map for two years. The lower grades use it, too. Al­ though out of date by the time ‘it reaches them after it first passes from the American history class to hte World history class, then to the seventh and eighth grades, finally down to them, it still does not lose its usefulness. It is just as valuable to study about what happened in the past as it is to study what, is happening in s the present. Because of the helping hand that history has to offer, young people soon find them­ selves studying about it from books in school. Right now in the'Amer- ican history class they are study­ ing about the industrial revolution. No doubt there will again be an­ other revolution of this kind in industry because there are still many fields of power to be opened up. But, possibly at this moment, we can learn from that era of change the amazing effect that rad­ ical an.d startling ideas and inven­ tions had upon this country. In the World history class, pupils are studying about the ref­ ormation period. Again the lesson strikes home. Then it was tyranny in the church; now it is within governments. A solution was evolved in the past; a solution will be found today, even as this na­ tion goes to war. stacked on the bar. Gus, the bar­ keeper, dived beneath the bar while J. P. just stood there in a daze. A loud voice bellowed, “Open dis here door!” "I'm terribly sorry, my good man, but you may not enter here,” retorted J. P. The voice again thundered, “Dat’s what you tink, mug!” and in walked Desp’rate Dan—right through the boarded up wall. (To bo continued) Our assistant editor, usually a level-headed lass, has a little diffi­ culty in staying on her two feet these slippery days, so we hear. Jackie Morse, our editor, must have had quite a gala time in li’l Ole New York during the holiday Season. We miss June Van Tuyl around school these days. Shs went “a - visjting” but will be with us again soon, we hops. i— — i ...........................— i n f i » i i , i i— —■■■ ii MW ' O. B. And Flyers ToClash Friday Eve The Flyers will battle with Olive Branch'Friday night, Jan. 9, in a game that promises to be plenty exciting. In last year’s game the ' two teams were pretty evenly matched; both teams had the same number of field goals, eight in number; but Olive Branch won the game by accuracy in foul shots. The Flyers will be on their toes and trying hard to chalk up a vic­ tory, It looks like the Flyers may have a tough job ahead of them. Against one opponent this year Olive Branch scored 65 points. Flyer fans can help by standing behind tlieir players and remem­ bering that it’s very difficult to make points when there is a lot of confusion. Good luck, Flyers! Scandle Light By Melody Roast Yes, Christmas is over, and in a way Pm glad ’cause it’s always such a strain to drop a lot of hints around, and then Santa seems to leave the wrong things. , . . Vaca­ tion certainly was welcome this year, and if Santa had been around, the “day after” would he have been surprised! . . . Yep! Most of the “kids” were sprawling all over the house eating Christmas candy. How do I know so much? Well, I was doing just that and I know human nature. . . . As for sprawl­ ing, someone should ask Miss H. Reynolds what she was doing on Saturday Eve sitting in the middle of Central Ave. She’ll probably say that she slipped, but I happen to know that she plays a wicked game of tiddly-winks. . .. I’ll bet that a lot of you have seen a young man that holds a position in May­ or’s establishment, and if you have not, you have probably heard of him—’cause he’s full of blarney, but a nice guy. To go on with my story — this fellow has very much interested a young lady, and if you have the time why don’t you ask him to show you some of the love letters that she writes so beati- fu lly ., . . I’ve been told that noth­ ing is the truth until it is proven, and here is the problem; Do the flowers on the wall paper smell? Well, one young lady, and she’s an authority, seems to think so; and it’s rumored that she will publish proof sometime in the near future. , . . Here’s one for the hooks. Can you imagine taking a bath on New Year's Eve? I guess it's quite fun and at least it’s different. . . « My! Guess what happened to ona absent-minded teacher in our school. AH of her Christmas card* came back. No-o-o, they were all right, but she had forgotten to put correct postage on thorn. Well, at least she will have plenty for next year, eh Miss R.? . , . Now, t have something that I’d like to say. We’re losing a nice girl and a fine student. Wo wish good luck to Mies Jane Shanahan, and the school that she will attend In Mo­ bile, Alabama, is certainly lucky. Goodbye, Jane. All in fun, , , , M. R, And to Dick Alexander goes the cake for being “the most heavily clad” boy in the senior class these cold days. He has a long way to walk, you know. Des'prate Dan Meets His Match —. G. B, Shaw — Mystery* Cut Throats! The best cereal Chills! Desperados! since Wheatles! Thrills! Six Shooters Galore!