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The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1916-06-02
CONCERT.

Even the afternoon concert by the
high school orchestra was given as
scheduled, tho the elements con.
trived TO overture the music at the
wrong time OCCASIONALLY. The or.
chestra Was met at the close OF each
number by good applause.
Next year this organization will
miss the loyal support which they
have always received from Miss
Houck. She announces her plan not
to return. The orchestra will miss
her and so shall many, many others,
especially her friends, the entire high
school English department. She has
been an insplrational leader and
teacher. Future success 10 those
lines Will be measured largely by the
standards she has set up these two
brief years she has worked and lived
with US. The kind fairies accom- pany
her. whatever scene is favored with
her future action, and drop some
fragrant flowers 10 her path that she
may enjoy as her work and presence
here has been enjoyed.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1916-06-02
VALEDICTORY
By Emily Heitman

BY Emily Heitman
My subject means farewell. 1t has
been a custom, from time immemorial
among people of all races and climes,
when separating from each other to
give some formal expression of adieu.
In obedience to this universal custom
among all people and more especial
ly among civilized and refined
people, it devolves upon me, as
valedictorian of this class, to bid
farewell to the faculty and students
OF Rathdrum High School. And
not only are we saying goodbye to
our school associates, but to the
townspeople, to whom we also owe
much, for if our present plans are
materialized we will all leave this
town, our home for so many years,
for broader fields of action.
Only two members Of the gradual
ing class have gone thru the eight
years of grade school and the four
years of high school together. For
more than six years the members Of
the class haye worked together with
the idea of completing the full course
in view. During all these years we
have looked forward to this, our
commencement day. Encouraged
by hope and animated by desire to
do our duty, this day has often been
painted upon our minds. Crowds
will come to hear other classes, to
see other classes, but this day is ours
and its memory to us will be a Joy
forever.
The first among all to share our
happiness at reaching the desired
goal, and council with us in making
our plans for the future are our
parents, and to them before all
others, we will show our heartfelt
gratitude by striving to fulfill their
ambitions for us. In the Baccalau-
reate sermon, DR.. Devine said that
the people of this town, our parents
especially, were not content that we
should do and live as they. 1t is for
this, their great desire, to give us
some of the privileges they have
missed, that they have sacrificed
much to afford us the opportunities
we have already had and are willing
to do even more, to send us on to
finish our education that we might
be more efficiently prepared to meet
the tasks awaiting us.
And to the teachers we also wish
to express our appreciation for their
painstaking efforts. Our faculty is
entirely changed from what it was
when we entered high school, and
only one of our present instructors
was on the teaching staff when we
we're Sophomores. We wish we
could have all our former teachers
here tonight SO that we might in
some way show our gratitude to them
as we'll as to those who are present.
They have all worked hard and
faithfully with us, and some of them
have set examples that we would like
to follow.
And to you, fellow-students, who
will be the graduates of the next few
years, we would like to say, Keep
going, as we have often been told.
Some Of the lower classmen have
rather envied this years graduating
class. because they seemed to think
that Seniors had practically nothing
to do. True, we haven't carried as
heavy course, but that is because
the first three years were not easy.
CONTINUED ON LAST PAGE)
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1916-06-02
TRIzE AWARDS

At the close Of the Tercentenary
program for Shakespeare, the places
of honor OF ali contestants, grade and
high school, 10 the various contests
were announced. While The ceItifi-
c,tes are 10 themselves worthless they
rel resent an achievement which is
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1916-06-02
REWARDS.
WRITING.

REWARDS.
WHITING.
| First Grade. lst place. Beth Helt-
man; 2n Edwin Bradbury, 3rd Bur
ton Ada ms.
Second Grade, lst Trula Frazier,
End, VlvIen Relnhart; 3rd, Emma
Monaco
Third Grade lst, Myrtle Frazier:
2nd, Harvey Edelblute; 3rd, Charles
Wickertshelmer.
Fourth Grade. lst, Ruth Gum;
2nd, Leaty Gibson; 3rd, Olive Ran
dali.
Fifth Grade. lst, Bonnie Slime;
2nd, Willie Boeck; 3rl, Glen Satch-
we'll.
Sixth Grade. lst. Frances White;
End, Sarah Heitman; 3rd, Addie
Martin.
Seventh b Grade. 1s', Pearl Aldrlch;
2nd, c "a Flemming; 3rI, Leonore
Klopf
Eighth Grade. LIST. Florence
Woutchik; End. Edith Gum; 3rd,
Willie Woolery.
CoMPo ITIJNs.
Fifth Grade. LIST, Irene Woutchik;
End, En- meline Adams; 3rd. Gina
Monaco.
Sixth Grade. lst, Lille Herring;
2nd, Irene Hurrell 3rd, Sarah Wenz.
Seventh Grade. lst, Hazel Me-
Cheyne; End, Pearl Aldrich; 3rd,
Merrill Williams.
Eighth Grade. lst. Willie Wooler.;
2nd. Florence Lathrop; 3rd, Florence
WoutchlA.
The grade school w. 9. =. u. con
test on Why Business Men Demand
Abstinence on the Part of Their
Employees" First, Florence Lath-
rop, eighth grade; 2nd, Lester Erns-
berger, eighth grade; 3rd, Pearl
Aldrich, seventh grade.
GRADE MANUAL TRAINING.
Fifth G rlde, lst, Glen Satchwell.
Sixth g rade. lst, Eddie Meyer; I'd
Gordon Adams.
Seventh Grade. 1st, Frank Slime;
2nd, Royal Bates; 3rd, Vernon North
way.
Eighth Grade. lst, Lester Erus-
berger; 2 hd, Henry HeItman; 3rd,
Robert Dyer.
CHICKENS.
! lst, Martha Wickertsheimer
RABBITS.
ist, RAJ leigh Hurrell.
RAFFIA.
lst. Everett Kirkpatrick; 2Dd,
Ruth Gum; 3rd, Ivan Smith.
BREAD MAKING.
Eighth Grade. lsf, Myrtle Erns-
berger; End, Florence Lathrop.
SEWING.
Sixth Grade. lst. Erma Monaco;
End, AddIe Martin; 3rd, Stella
Thompson.
Seventh Grade. lst, Laura Lath-
rop; 2n', Leonore Klorf; 3rd, Cora
Flemming.
Perhaps the most interesting OF all
the exhibi rs displayed 10 the various
rooms OF the school buildings was the
Art work done by Miss Hasness'
pupils; In fact there was SO much
good water color work that the Judges
found 1t impossible to choose The
three best, so first, second and third
was awarded In each OF six different
sets Of painting. Space forbijs print
Ing them all and impartiality ex.
cludes all, but justice demands very
hearty praise for all thDse winning in
any painting work, and also for the
instructor, Miss Pearl Hasness.
HIGH SCHOOL.
DOMESTIC SCIENCE
Freshmen Sewing: /, Hazel Wood;
2. Elma Tay lor; 3. Grace Hulsey.
Sophomore Sewing: /, Belle Wenz;
2, Carol Siernberg; 3, Marie Beach
Junior Sewing: !, Tbema Cad,; >,
(coNTlNUED ON "AGE Two.)
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1916-06-02
SHAKESPEARE RIAN
TERCENTENARY.

The largest audience OF Rathdrum
folk seen ON one occasion this year
gathered to hear and see the program
Tuesday night In the ii. S. gYmnasI-
um. Standing room was at premi.
um. Judging by the comments of
those present all were we'll pleased,
especially with the May day dances.
Miss Dorothy Taylor is to be con.
graduated for the success of the
evening, for to her fell the lot OF
dance coach and in fact all the
direction. of the program.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1916-06-02
EIGHTH GRADE DIPLOMAS

1t was a very important occasion TO
many school boys and girls. perhaps
most important to the ten eight b
graders, who received their state
grammar school certificates from the
local boar of education represented
by clerk, DR.. F. Wenz. May all these
diploma holders continue in their
school days and thereby insure a
larger, brighter, and therefore better
future.
At this point Miss Dora l. Dysart,
who so patiently worked and worried
with these people, should receive
public recognition as having done an
extremely hard task faithfully and
well. Miss Dysart thinks some of
leaving our little Rathdrum world In
which she has made all friends aud
no enemies, during these several
years OF faithful work here, to 20 to
larger field of action. We hope
that she will change her ,inind but
God speed" in what ever place she
may br, is our best wish.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1916-06-02
Closing Ev ents
Rathdrum School
May Day Festival and Winners
KeWards.---Picnics and Banquet.

The Tribune Is indebted &c Sup't
Davis and members of the teaching
force for the following information:
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1916-06-02
7 IIGH SCHOOL.
ID, DMBsTIc SCIENCE

DWDIboIIO DCIENOE
Freshmeh Sewing: /, Hazel Wood;
2. Elma TaJ lor; 3. Grace Hulsey.
Sophomore Sewing: /, Belle Wenz;
2. Carol Siernberg; 3, Marie Beach.
Junior Sewing: !, Thema Cad,: >,
CONTINUED ON "AGE Two.)
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-31
CAPTAIN STATIONS Fancy

Oh, some are fond of red wine, and some are
fond of white,
And some are all for dancing By the pale
moonlight;
But rum alone's the tlpple, and the hearts
delight
OF the old bold mate Of Henry Morgan.
Oh, some are fond Of Spanish wine, and
some are fond Of French,
And some'l swallow tay and stuff ht only
for wench
But I'm for right Jamaica till I roll beneath
the bench.
Says the old bold mate Of Henry Morgan.
Oh, some are for the lily, and some are for
the rose,
But ] am for the sugar-cane that in Jamaica
grows;
For it's that that makes the bonny drink to
warm my copper nose,
Says the old bold mate of Henry Morgan.
Oh, some are fond Of fiddes and song well
sung,
And some are all for music for the lit upon
the tongue;
But mouths were made for tankards, and for
sucking at the bung,
Says the old bold mate Of Henry Morgan.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-31
Hospital Sunday

In another place on this page The
Tribune prints the appeal Of the execu-
tive committee Of the United Hospital
Fund for contributions. That appeal The
Tribune earnestly Endorses. The hospitals
of this city do splendid work in treat
ing thousands on thousands Of sick per
sons who cannot pay for the care they
receive. If it were not for this generosity
on the part of the private hospitals great
suffering and hardship would result, for
the municipal hospitals cannot possibly
serve all who must have free care, If
they are to have any.
1t is therefore, as Mayor Mitchell has
well put it, "a matter of good citizenship"
to contribute TO the hospital fund, since
the public thus has opportunity to assume
obligations rightfully resting on it. This
has been year Of great prosperity. 1t
happens TO have been year Of heavy
demands on the hospitals. The Hospital
Sunday contributions to-day should be
heavy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-31
SALT WATER BALLADS
By John Maseheld
A Ballad of John Silver

We were schooner-riFged and rakish, with q
long and lissome hull,
And We few the pretty colors or the cross
bones and the skull;
We'd big black jolly Roger tapping grimly
at the fore.
And we sailed the Spanish Water in the
happy days Of yore.
We'd long brass gun amdshps, like we'll
conducted ship;
We had each brace Of pistols and cutlass
az the hip:
It's point which tells against US, and fact
to be deplored
But We chased the goodly merchantmen and
laid their ships aboard.
Then the dead men fouled the scuppers and
the wounded filled the chains,
And the paint-work all was spatter-dashe
with other peoples brains.
She was boarded, she was looted. she was
scuttled till she sank,
And the pale survivors left US by the medium
Of the plank.
On. then it was while standing by the tafrail
on the poop
We could hear the drowning folk lament the
absent chicken-coop;
Then, having washed the blood away, we'd
little else TO do
Than to dance a quiet hornppe as the old
salts taught US to.
Oh, the fiddle on the fo'cs'le, and the slapping
naked soleS,
And the genial Down the middle, Jake, and
curtesy when she rolls
with the silver seas around US and the pale
moon overhead,
And the lookout not a-lookng and his pipe
bowl glowing red.
All. the pig-tailed pudding pirates and the
pretty pranks we played,
All have since been put a stop to by the
naughty Board of Trade;
The schooners and the merry crews are laid
away 10 rest,
4 little south the sunset in the Islands of the
Blest.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-31

Of tune is Mr.. Direcks reference to an
East Indian as "colored gentleman OF
which Mr.. Wells makes much. The e.
phemism is worth jeering at; but TO Jeer
with effect you must know that 1t Is good
American only for negro. This incident
is quite as hard to explain in the conduct
Of the very much educated Mr.. Direck As
his exclaiming "Wa-a-a-l" a few pages
further on.
The climax Of oddly is that Mr.. Direck's
psychology is as right as his speech Is
wrong. Mr. Wells gets the American MIND
the American point Of view, with delicious
success. Mr.. Direck is amazed at exactly
the points in English country life that
should amaze him. The whole induction
Of Mr.. Direck to the life of comfortable
good natured British week end, with ITS
tea and hockey and perpetual casualneSs' Is
one Of Weiss happiest and subtlest bits
Why does Mr.. Wells accomplish such a
difficult miracle Of Characterization with
ease and tumble so obvious and simple
thing rs dialect? Goodness knows. Mr..
Wells visited US a number OF years ago
and wrote us down very ably and fairy
He surely could write correct Americanese
If he wished TO. The best explanation we
can suggest is that an alien dialect Is
matter not of fact but of convention. When
we wish 10 put an English earl into mu
steal comedy we make him use the exact
expression that Mr.. Wells treats as IN
eFahlv American-"My word!' Very likely
English earls no more say "My word "
than do plain Americans. But our con-
vention says that they do, and unless
musical comedy earl says "My world" no
body can believe in him for a moment
We seem to feel Mr.. Wells constructing his
American speech along similar lines. lie
is not writing actual American speech, but
the kind of language that Britishers take
to be American speech Mr.. Direck talks
not his native tongue, but Mr.. Britling's
idea of that native tongue.
If there is any other hypothesis that
squares with Mr. Weiss vast genius for
observation we should be glad TO hear it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-31

EQUALLY violent antagonisms revealed, Tor
instance. in the autobiography Of Ben
venuto Cellini, is there not something ra-
Their distant. shy, cold, even calculating
in the friendships Of modern society,"
In this age when it is bad form for peo-
ME TO reveal their natures to one another
nuite candidly. when men everywhere are
sacrificing the personal and human side
Of life to the ends of economic efficiency
when even fraternities are often used Tor
purposes Of personal ambition and social
clubs are strongly favored with political
and business interests, is friendship as
an end in itself becoming lost art; POS
siblv not: hut our civilization is certainly
producing great changes in all our rela-
tons with one another, and so far as
these changes affect friendship we need
more light than is to be had by the re-
discovery Of old sex prejudices which had
become antiquated even in George Nee
dith's time.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-31
Sea-Feyer

I must down 10 the seas again, to the lonely
sea and the sky,
And all | ask is a tall ship and a star 70
steer her by,
And the wheels kick and the winds song
and the white sails shaking,
And gray mist on the seas face and a gray
dawn breaking.
must down to the seas again, for the call of
the running tide
Is a wild call and clear call that may not
be denied.
And all ask is a windy day with the white
clouds flying.
And the flung spray and the blown spume,
and the seagulls cry ing.
must down to the seas again TO the vagran'
gypsy life.
To the gulls way and the whales way, where
the winds like whetted knife;
And all I ask is merry yarn from laugh
ing fellow rover,
And quiet sleep and sweet dream when the
long tricks over.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-31
Increasing Street Fatalities

In spite Of safety first campaigns IN
snite of n crusade by the more intelligent
automobile owners 20 promote care III
driving. in spite OF the best work the
police can do in regulating traffic, street
accidents resulting fatally are increasing
at an appalling rate. According to the
records Of the Health Department, 765 per-
sons were killed in the eleven months Of
this wear ending November 30. In the
same period last year the fatalities num-
bered 626. or these deaths 359 were
caused by automobiles, while in all last
wear only 2S3 deaths were due to automo-
biles.
This increase is bad enough, but Police
Commissioner Woods's opinion of 1t is
worse. He insists that New York has act
ually outgrown her streets. He says that
with three important Northumberland
avenues almost useless because Of subway
work. and with street traffic tremendously
augmented through war prosperity and
stock market profits invested in motor
cars anO purchases hHlNh NtAi"iiH N<NN-'
delivery trucks, the police have reached
the limit Of their ability to prevent acct
dents.
This may be true, but the limit OF pun
ishment for reckless and criminal drivers
of motor cars has not yet been reached,
nor has the limit Of regulation Of those
who drive them, so long as owners do not
have TO be licensed as do chaufeurs at
present Nor has the limit of education
for the fool public been reached by long
distance. There is considerable merit IN
the suggestion Of Mr.. Woods that 1t may
become necessary to empower the police
to regulate pedestrian traffic as they now
do that which goes on wheels.
The fatality is not always due to the
driver of the vehicle. And there is always
hone that those New Workers not beyond
early middle age may live long enough to
see the streets now given over to subway
contractors restored to their normal uses.
Then the death rate may drop.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-31
Hospital Sunday

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t is wholly beyond the power OF the
city 20 provide, with It's present hospital
equipment, all the free service needed in
New York.
The work the city can do is being supple
mented by the forty-siN private hospitals
associated in the United Hospital Fund, for
merly called the Hospital Saturday and Sum
day Association. It cares without charge
and regardless Of race or creed for hun
dreds Of thousands Of cases every year.
Saturday and Sunday, December 3oth and
3lst, have been set aside by the syna-
gogues and churches of New York for the
thrty-eighth annual hosoitsl collection in
behalf OF support for this work.
There is no doubt in any quarter of the
real need and worth Of this service. The
public is using the hospital more and more
every year as knowledge Of its advantages
becomes more general. The hospital habit"
is growing. especially among people who
have not the means TO pay for private treat
ment and who formerly went without any
The demand for more funds is imperative
II the needs are 10 be even partly met
The money is collected by the United
Hospital Fund. but it is distributed 20 the
various hospitals through committee Of
which the Mayor OF New York is ex-offcio
chairman.
The hospitals receive this assistance In
proportion TO the free work they DO. Here
there is an opportunity to further hne
service in full knowledge that IL is under
competent and responsible direction Charles
LAnier. Of 80 Cedar Street, is treasurer We
feel sure your great paper viii lend us It's
support as Il has done IN former years.
GEORGE BLUMESTBBL.
HENRY J. FISHER
HENRY H. KUNHARDT
IVY l.. LEE.
ROBERT OLYPHANT.
! II OUTERBRlDGE
JAMES SPEYER,
CORNELIUS W WlCKERSHAM,
ARNOLD WOOD,
Executive Committee.
New York, Dee. rs, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-31
Ancient Man in America

From The Phiiddelphin LedDtT)
Reports from Florida that bones Of human
beings have been found mixed with those oil
long extinct animals, indicating that they
lived 10000 years ago, is not IN the least
surprising The figures are rather less than
many snthropologists give for the first ap-
pearance Of the genus homo. what seems 10
surprise most people is that indications so
old are found in this country.
1t may help little to give the views Of
scientists as TO the successive stages OF CIV
ilzation. We live IN the Iron Age so called
because Of the use Of iron in various pur-
suits. This did not become common IN hu-
rope until within a thousand years before
the Christian era. Homer speaks oil ron as
a curiosity. This was preceded by the Bronze
Age. VIXEN men used tools of this material
probably for nearly three thousand years be-
fore iron was discovered. Before that time
men used only stone or wooden or clay i'm
plements and vessels.
The Neolithic, or New Stone Age, is COM
monty supposed 70 have lasted forty thousand
wears. This was the era when men had
learned to fashion stone implements with
considerable skill spear and arrow heads,
knives. etc. mostly out Of flint. Before that
was the Paleolithic Age, Of an indefinite
length, when the weapons were exceedingly
crude, and some anthropologists consider
that before this there was an EoIith.c Age
Probably there are remains Of man -s far
back as 100000 years ago, although this IS
largely speculation based on geological data
Of slight validity. 1t may be that man was
hall million years in bringing about our
present state Of civilization, which in some
respects isn't much above that Of the Stone