The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-11-16
CANON CITY HIGH
SCHOOL NOTES
(By MAX HARDY
A,sa-hIu

to the student DOdy curing Cndpel
period. He talked mostly about the
necessity of a good education. He
showed that the percent of great
men who had college education is
a big one. By means of different
statistics he showed that the untrain-
ed man reaches his greatest earning
capacity before the other man is out
of school and that college graduate
or even a high school man has bet
ter chance by a hundred percent to
get a good job and to make sue
cess than the man who has no school
ing or training.
This was a fine talk and it is hop.
ed that Mr.. Warner can come again
Military.
The commissioned officers who VIII
have charge of the two military COM
panies this year were announced last
Monday morning. The officers for a
company are Captain William Carl
son; First Lieutenant, VIII Beck
ham; and Second Lieutenant, Tim
Walsh. B Company-Captain, Will
bur Combs; First Lieutenant, Ira
Thomas, and Second Lieutenant Al
fred Sinden.
The staff officers are -Adjutant,
Franklin Little, and Quartermaster'
Howard Cooper.
The non-coommissioned officers
were also chosen, and real work be-
gan at once. In spite of rather late
start the work is progressing nicely
and all the lost time will soon be
made up.
Annual Board.
At a meeting of the Senior class
on Tuesday. the two head members
of the annual board were chosen.
They are: Editor-in-Chief, Theo EN-
merson, and Max Hardy as Business
Manager. These two people will !
choose assistants and the heads of
The different departments.
Forensic.
The regular meeting of the Foren-
sic league was held week ago Tues |
day night. At the beginning of the
meeting FIVE members were notified /
that they were to discuss articles
from different current magazines.
Each one read his article to the So
ciety and then discussed it. The five
to read these were: Jack Boucher,
Ira Thomas, Ed. Williams. Hunter
Palmer and Oscar Swanson.
After this four of the new mem
bers gave an extemporaneous humor-
ous debate. The question was: Re
solved, that the fashions of ten years
ago were more sensible than those OF
today" The affirmative was upheld
by William Carlson and Charles
Walker. They were opposed by Earl
Fulkerson and Finis Parks. The de-
cision was in favor of the fashions of
today.
After the regular meeting the ini-
tiation of WilbuJ Combs and Charles
Walker took place. After the victims
had suffered, a vote of thanks was
given to the committee who planned
the initiation, by the members, (not
the new ones) and the meeting was
adjourned.
The meeting for November Z. was
held on that date. The question de-
bated was: Resolved. that the
Adamson Eight Hour Law is Pub
lie Benefit" The affirmative team
consisted of Hunter Palmer and AL
fred Sinden- while Franklin Little
and Max Hardy upheld the negative.
The decision was in favor of the af-
firmative. Each debate is a little
the looks of things Canon will make
good showing in the outside de-
bates this year.
Defamation Contest.
The preliminaries to the declama-
ton contest were held a week ago.
There were over twenty entrants in
the three divisions (Orations, pa
thetic and humorous readings). From
each of these divisions three were TO
be chosen to compete in the final con-
test.
The pathetic readings were held in |
the afternoon and Ruth Ross, Ruth |
Goodrich, and Marian McFarlane |
were chosen as the best. The humor |
GUS selections were heard. All these |
were fine and the judges had hard
work to agree. They finally decid- |
ed to let four represent this division |
in the finals. These were Calista
Burns. Alden Eaton and Earl Fulker- |
son.
In the evening the orations were !
given. There were seven entered |
and every one was excellent. The |
three who were best were franklin |