If you were to visit White Haven High School any morning about half-past eight o'clock you would see two crowded wagonettes arrive. These wagonettes accommodate about fifty children who live too far way to walk to school. The third wagonette is not furnished by the county, but is the property of one small boy whose purpose seems to be to add to his own happiness by lightening the burdens of others.
Sometimes the telephone rings just before school time and a voice asks, "Have you anything to take to school? If you have, leave it at the front gate." Very soon a nice little wagon drawn by a well-trained goat appears and we know who is driving it. Whatever there is to be taken is placed in the wagon and Will Hale, Jr. is off for school
- ONE BENEFITTED.
White Haven Pupils Win Honors
Two boys who have gone out from White Haven High School have won honors since our last issue of the Journal, and along very different lines.
Morrison Raines, who is a first-year student in Washington and Lee University, has been elected to a place on the Glee Club of that institution.
Joe Bishop McCorkle, who is a first-year student in the School of Agriculture in Jonesboro, Arkansas, won for himself a place in the stock-judging class. He won this distinction over a third-year student of good standing. This honor carried with it a free trip to Fort Worth, Texas, where a stock judging contest was held for a week. In this Joe Bishop won sixth place, which was even a greater honor than the first.
Many many more W.H.S. boys and girls do likewise!
Editorial
Officers:
| Editor-in-Chief: | Barry Newton Buford | |
| Assistant Editor: | Frank Dulaney | |
| Grade Editors: | Grace Hudgens, '13 Dora Vaughn '14 Martha Johnston, '15 Barney Mathis, '16 |
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| Girls' Athletic Manager: | Gertrude McDonald | |
| Boys' Athletic Manager: | Homer Pollard | |
| Advertising Manager | Anna Leigh McCorkle | |
| Exchange Editor: | Hattie Mae Davis | |
| Staff Artist: | Jessie Wayne Johnston | |
| Business Manager | Joe Clay Davis |
Very often you can hear the pessimist say that this age has no great orators. The ages preceding this had to have them; there was no other way of a man's making himself known. But the world has so advanced that one need not go hundreds of miles to hear a political speaker. In the circle of his family, he can read the words which were penned by the would-be speaker. No weather has to be braved to hear him. Yet this citizen complainingly says, "We have no great orators." Now men are too engrossed to spend their energies in this way. This is an age of invention. To perfect these labor-saving devices the inventor must use his mind and his constructive ability rather than his tongue. For us, away with pessimists.
Plain living and high thinking are developing the boys and girls of W.H.S. Yes, we realize that already modern methods of transportation and communication have opened up practically the whole world to the eye of the traveler, thus making it possible for us to advance.
The growth of our new building has been slow, but even now we see the lines being formed to move on into our mansion which has been built for us - not in the sky - but on the old school site.
Just one glance at our teachers, pupils, and quarters some windy morning when the stove pipes refuse to stay in place, will make it clear that these months of tent life have meant months of testing our dispositions and of sifting soot over us, but to all of these events there is an aftermath - that of finding ourselves dwelling in our new home. Our wish is up to such a standard that even now other wish to come to us. Just such convictions as these must have made Emerson write:
"If a man can build a better house, write a better book or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he makes his home in the wilderness, the world will make a beaten track to his front door."
Our White Haven High School which floats the Orange and Black is coming into her own, beaten tracks are being made to her door by those who desire to develop in the triple ways - mentally, physically, and spiritually into orators, lawyers, musicians, in fact some will be found in every walk of life.
Parent - Teacher Association
The ladies of the Parent-Teacher Association of White Haven High School conducted a rummage sale on March the sixth, seventh, and eighth, for the benefit of the library. The managers were the president, Mrs. N.F. Raines, and Mrs. McCorkle. Their efforts were very well repaid, as they realized sixty dollars to add to the library fund.
The next regular meeting of the Association will be held March the twenty-eighth.
Oratorical Contest
The election of representatives for the eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh grades to take part in the oratorical contests to be held in the last of May resulted in the following being chosen: Girls, Helen McDonald, Annie Laura Vaughn, Martha Johnston and Gertrude McDonald; boys, Jack Dulaney, Joe Munns, Barry Buford and Frank Delaney.
Another oratorical contest of a great deal of interest to us is the interscholastic contest to beheld at Vanderbilt University the ninth of May. Barry Buford has been unanimously chosen to represent W.H.S. on that occasion. We know Barry will be a credit to us and he has the hearty support of everyone interested in the school.
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