El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-16
FRANKLIN SCHOOL CHILDREN GIVE
TEACHERS DAILY PROBLEM To SOLVE
Coming From Many Lands, and Many of Them of the
Very Poor They Prove Excellent Pupils But Have
to Be Handled in Peculiar Way to Get the Best
Out of Them; Chinese Are Among Them

ing the attention of the public speaking
class. All the students eXeeptlhg tite
debaters were required to hand IN out
lines of speeches upon Richard CROKER
and Boss Murphy of Tammany nan
Preparing for Glass Dances
At the Senior class meeting, II was
decided to invite representatives, from
all of the classes at the High school
to the senior Halloween dance, IN
stead of keeping II a class aIIalr, as
was first planned Besides the class
representatives the members of the
faculty and the football team will be
the guests of the class. A committee
on invitations was appointed by the
president, Miss Katherine Glenn On
the cemittee are: Earl Weisiger, Bes-
sic Routledge and Eunice Anderson
Arrangements for the Junior dance
to be given in honor of the seniors
Saturday night, were completed at the
Junior class meeting Wednesday The
invitations were delivered Wednesday
to the faculty, the Seniors and the
football team.
The Sophomore class had a program
instead of a class meeting. James
Biggs and Will Race sang a duet
about the adventures OF Harry helly,
Rebe Elliott gave a recitation. Carroll
Roman sang, and Harold Ceidwell
read a poem.
Class Motto Adopted.
"Spectemur agendo" was adopted as
the class motto of the Freshman class
of the High school at their class meet
ing Wednesday morning. The Englsh
of the motto is We are known by
our deeds" Royal blue and white were
selected for the class colOrs. The class
party on the afternoon of Halloween
was the subject of much plan making
and the following committees were ap-
pointed to prepare for the frolic I'm
tertainment Merle Hoffecker, George
Leighton and Mabel Polvado; decor
ations, Harold DePeW, Elliott Chess
and Winifred Jackman; refreshments,
Kathleen Kelley, Marguerite Harvey
and Mary Noble.
First Parent Teachers Meeting.
Sunset schools Parent Teachers as
ISOLATION viii hold its first meeting
for this season Friday, October "a K,
J. Tighe, the superintendent, will give
a talk on the aims and purposes of the
association. Rev. J. z. Abbott viii
deliver the invocation. The most
important business of the afternoon
will be election of officers for the
coming year. A special chorus will
be arranged for the afternoon by the
boys of the high and low seventh
grade.
In the latest fire drill which is held
twice a month, the Sunset school
seconds Two seconds less than the
Lamar school. There is much interest
and competition among the ehHdren
of the different schools in the fire drill
work.
The school season has been started
long enough now for the tests to be
given in the different school subjects.
A new ruling has been established in
papers home for their parents sigma
lures, and then correct the mistakes
made in the tests.
High School Orchestra Elects.
There will be music and plenty of 1t
at the high school this year. The or
chestra has organized and elected the
following officers: Marjory Liyesley.
president; Ida Hunter, vice president;
Erin Middleton, secretary and treas
urer; Harry WelSch. reporter, and Err
line Vowell music librarian. The first
viii be held Tuesday afternoon,
under the leadership of Mrs. Leila
orchestra, played by Elgie Means, Mar
Jory Livesley, Erin Middleton and Ellis
WlnSo. Vincent Loose plays second vi
o!in; Claude Smith, trombone; A. Jen-
klns, cornet; Walton Sorrells. clarinet;
Paquita Clemens, flute. and Russell
Koch, snare drum. Ida Hunter George
Newell and Erline Vowel are the pian-
lists.
PreIiminaries Postponed.
A special meeting of the Sam Hous-
ton Debating society was held Wednes-
day afternoon after school, and it was
decided TO postpone the preliminaries
for the debate until October "a The
program for the next meeting of Fri
DAY, October IT, will be opened with
uecldIHdtlOn Dy Harry GlnSDurg. The
debate, Resolved, that congress should
take immediate steps to establish peace
in Mexico" will have Walter PopsfOrd
and Eugene Thurston on the affirma-
tive side and Perry Ross and Frank
Peach on the negative side
Debate Mexican Question.
Debates seem to have the popular
fty corner at the high school in all the
societies. and at the meeting of the
Louisiana club, held Wednesday night
a debate was the principal feature of
the evenings program. Resolved, that
the United States should intervene in
Mexico was the subject upon which
the Louisianans turned loose their ora
tory: The affirmative side was taken
by Ralph OQuinn and Harry Gins
burg, with Telly Mcknight and Gas
ton Faialdo supporting the negative.
The affirmative side came off Yietors.
Other numbers on the program were a
speech by Walter Williams and
defamation by Ralph O'Quinn
A business meeting was held follow
ing the program and it was decided to
hold meetings only on Wednesday night
instead of twice a week The meeting
was held at the home of Harry Gins
burg, at 511 Nevada street.
See ESThe Glow Worm at the Grecian