The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-04-28
BITTERNESS HAS
RISEN FROM HIGH
SCHOOL CONTEST
South Side Board Sharply De-
mands Return of Silk Ban
ner---Is Charged With
UnfaIrneSs
PRINCIPAL KELLER'S STATEMENT
Accuses Mr.. Luehr's Students OF Pro-
voking Attack BY Unruiness
Also OF Taking North Side
Banner Before


The contest bet ween the high schools
OF this city and Two Rivers was not
without its tinge OF sectional bitterness
and jealousy. At the close Of the con
test the large silk orange and black ban
ner belonging to the South Side High
School was spirited away by certain
members Of the North Side High School.
This caused rather sharp letter to be
sent the next day by the South Side
School Board to Principal Keller Of the
North Side requesting the return of the
banner. On top OF this the members
and the faculty Of the North Side
School accused the South Siders of hav-
ing, in turn, taken n banner from the
North Siders at basket ball game some
time ago. The North Siders further ac-
cuse the South Siders Of unfarness in
the recent contest in that one Of the
South Side contestants spoke piece up
on which she had been trained especial
ly by II professional The North
Siders also accuse the South Side
of first breaking the regulations regard
ing the cheering and of provoking the
thief: of the banner by their insoent
actions.
The letter by the South Side High
School Board to Principal Keller il ~
follows:
Manitowoc, Wis, April 93 1904.
Prin. Paul g. w. Keller,
City.
Dear Sir
Owing to the disgraceful actions
of u number OF Your larger boys in tax
ing away II large silk banner as we'll rs
n banner Of orange bunting, belonging
to our school. we. the undersigned, feel
constrained to ask you to request your
boys to return the same, undamaged.
within three days, or make reparation
otherwise satisfactory to us. In case
| this be not done, we shall take such ac-
ton az will make the guilty parties
realize that something more is involved
than mere students frolic. We believe
| that students on such occasions as that
of last evening, should be accorded some
liberties in showing their loyalty to their
schools but we will stand for no rowdy-
ism or vandalism.
Please do not interpret this rs in any
sense desirous OF holding You officially
responsible for the outrage We address
this communication to you solely for the
purpose Of having the matter laid before
yonr boys, SO that they may make suit
able reparation. Respectfully yours,
Albert II Schmidt,
Emil Ttitgen, Treas,
f. &. Buerstatte, Clerk
w ii. Luehr, Prin.
Mr.. Keller has made n statement for
publication, setting forth the position Of
the North Side on the matter. The
statement il ~ follows
Anent The Declamatory Contest
In order that over-enthusiastic and
prejudiced statements regarding the re-
cent contest should not hide from view
the real purpose OF the organization of
the Manitowoc Two Rivers League, it
seems necessary that u statement OF the
real motive in organizing be made, and
II few suggestions made as to how the
purpose OF the league may be realized.
or, at least, not defeated. Since the
North Side school took the initiative in
organizing the league, it evidently de
wolves upon us to state the case.
At the out4et it should be clearly un-
derstood that the purpose is not to en-
gender an unpleasant spirit among the
schools. A spirit Of pleasant rivalry is
an excellent thing and it has been the
aim OF the management in this contest
to eliminate any other. II is not possible
to do this ut once. However, if the
press and the public will help to develop
this spirit Of fairness and insist on it, the
goal ia not far off Neither is it the aim
to train few stars for each contest es-
pecially It these are trained by peop ople
outside OF the regular school faculties;
in other words, professionalism is to be
discouraged and professional training is
to be entirely forbidden. The object Is
to develop an interest in public speak
ing. The contest shall be stimulus.
but there shall result systematic work
along this line in all the schools for all
the students.
Out of fairness to all concerned we
feel constrained to make : statement re-
gardlng the recent contest with refer
ence to the way in which the spirit of
this aim was carried out. If the North
Side school had organized the league
from purely stlush motlVe-thht OF
winning the contest simply for the sake
of winning the league likely would not
have been organized The work is
practically new in our school. while pro
fessional training along this line WAS
given to students in the South Side
schools for some time. In fact both
the speakers who represented the South
Side were trained by teacher from the
Cumnock School OF Oratory, They
were not the product of the regular
work in rhetoricals Even though we
realized we were handicapped in this,
we were willing the South Side school
should come into the league Their
speakers did their work we'll and we do
not harbor any uukindly feeling because
they won. We congratulate them and
Two Rivers, rs well, on the good show
ing made, these two schools having won
first and second places. We concede to
you. South Side and Two Rivers, the
point in defamation until next year
Out Of fairness, however, il should be
understood that the South Side school
did not play quite fair in regard TO tho
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