Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1905-04-28
Our Schools

Meeting of high school debating club
postponed until next week.
The zoology class has finished birds and
is taking up the study OF fishes.
Miss Gertrude Postal, of Evart, Wis
tied the seventh grade Monday morning.
Florence Church has left school and
expects 10 take mp commercial course
in Big Rapids.
Miss Doty had the seventh and.eighth
grades out for short time Tuesday,
studying nature.
Miss Clark, the teacher of languages,
and Miss McClaren, the sixth grade
teacher, were i'll Monday and Tuesday,
during which time Theo Amsbury con-
Quoted some of the classes.
A very interestingly meeting of the
senior class was held last Wednesday
night, the most interesting part being
the locking of the doors by some youth
full desperate, and for a while they ex-
pected TO spend the night in the school
house.
DEBATING CLUB
On account of misunderstanding the
regular meeting of the Debating Club
was postponed until next week, conse-
quently we missed the usual weekly
clash and clang of our word wars, which
sometimes makes the hair rise on the
heads of some of our more peaceable
members. We are all waiting with in
tense interest the next great battle i'll
the tournament, which, il is expected,
will overshadow all others in the history
of the society.
THE Renaissance
Last Monday morning in Chapel Paul
Delavan gave All interesting Grafton en-
titled "The Renaissance. He traced
the rise of civilization and art from the
Dark Ages The Renaissance may be
compared 10 volcano; the eruption
is but the elimination of years of in
ternal preparation. So it was with the
Renaissance The causes and effects Of
this interesting period of history were
skillfully narrated.
The English History class, taught by
Miss Dunlap, had an interesting recita-
ton Wednesday afternoon. The class
studying about the abolition of slavery
by the English governments brought up
the question of our own Rebellion, its
cause and results, and what ought TO
have been done with the negroes. The
question was discussed in detail, bring
ing out the Judgment and opinions of
the several members of the class. AL
though some of the ideas were briefly
stated. they showed the beginning Of
the power to form original conclusions,
and TO not only absorb political philos-
ophy, but TO give some-o out as well. Let
the good work go on.
Last Monday morning i'll Chapel
Verne Eyer gave his essay on Thomas
Lawson. the author of "Frenzied FL
nance" He said i'll part; 1t is very
interesting to know how Lawson made
his money. a few years of his life was
spent with gamblers and horse jockeys.
When he was twenty-five years of age
he managed bucket shop for William
Waldron at Providence, Rhode Island.
for a SPECTATORS life, and six months
after he went there TO work Mr. Valid
ron was bankrupt and had fallen 1920
i'll debt 1t is thought that Lawson
profited by this, as he was betting large
money on horse races in a few days. At
this period he made the acquaintance of
noted gambler named lack Roack,
who is his right-hand man in all fraudu-
lent plans today Such is the early his
tory of Lawson's life as told by Dennis
Donohue. This may no the true but il is
very probable that Mr. Donohue is re-
ceiving a good sum from the trusts for
writing his articles to degrade Mr., Law
son in the eyes Of the people. The
trusts fear Mr.. Lawson and his articles
and not only try to prove him fraud,
but have gone so far a. TO pronounce him
insane. DR.. Hamilton, of Boston, has
by the aid of few thousand dollars
from the trusts examined Lawson's case,
and says he is suffering from acute pan
orioa or over ambition. II Lawson had
not mentioned the trusts III his articles
they would very sensibly have left him
alone. Why did they not inform the
public that he was a fraud at the time
he committed his deeds? Because he
was doing them no injury. If he had
mentioned anything they could have
proven untrue he would have been ar
rested for SANDER But we have no
reason 10 believe Lawson, as he has told
SO many falseoods and his memory is
not great enough TO remember them,
and SO he often cOntradicts himself