Evening star., 1918-03-24
IN THE SCHOOLS.

A spirited campaign to sell war saw
ings and thrift stamps will be begun at
Business High School tomorrow morn
| ing. In connection with the mavement
it is planned to train several speakers
for use in future campaigns in public
| speaking. Tomorrow morning at 9
| o'clock all the sections will write es-
says on the subject: why We Should
Buy War Savings Stamps" Tuesday
| morning these essays will be read.
wednesday morning speakers will be
tried out by the semester committees
| and will report suitable candidates for
! speakers in the campaign to DR.. A L.
Howard, in charge of the school bank.
Thursday the final public contest will
be held in the assembly hall of the
school and the eight best speakers on
the subject selected.
Bill" Patcheil. graduate of Business
High School and former captain in the
cadet corps, paid a visit to the school
last Tuesday. "Bill'' is enrolled at the
officers training camp at Fort Douglas.
Ariz., and has been furloughed home for
two weeks, following a severe illness.
Coaching on the spring play at Busi-
ness had a lapse last week, owing to the
illness of Miss Baker. who is in charge
of the play. The student members OF
| the cast, however, rehearsed their parts
| under their own direction.
The first call for candidates for the
| base ball team sounded last Tuesday
by E. Dorman. athletic director at Bust-
ness. brought out twenty men. wed
to Gallaudet and played the Gallaudet
College team and Business was on the
| short end of a sd score. I'VE played
like a bunch of greenhorns." said q
member of the Business team.
The boys out for the base ball team at
last week over the advisory marks.
which will determine whether they will
| be allowed to play. The advisory marks
| went into the hands of the principal
| known tomorrow. Instead of being
| marked with the various grades as
heretofore. a check will be put after the
name of a student who passes and the
designation "P" will be pSsced after
those who fail.
Business High School students have
responded to the call for books sent out
by the American Library Association.
A total of 24S books was received at the
school during the past week and sixty
| four books came in Thursday.
Letters from many boys "over there"
and in training camps here. former stu
fdents Of Business. have been received at
current issue of the Balance Sheet, which
| came out Thursday afternoon. Buck"
Wise, former star athlete at Business,
one to ths With ann and Sx ING
time you get this 1 will have made my
| first hop. The first hop is taking the
| machine off the ground for the first
time by yourself. This is about where
! the real flying starts. because from then
on we fly by ourselves. making short
tours and attitudes and voyages until
we have put in our twenty-five hours
| When we take our voyages we go from
one town to another. land. and return
| home. Quite a few get lost on these
| voyages. but return fw days later"
your comfort kit this morning. 1t came
| in the first mail our squadron received
| in France. The stationery came in very
| handy, for there are no Y. NJ. G AS
here. Am at present in an old church.
formerly used by Napoleon's troops. 1t
able"
First Lieut. Edwin H Johnson, a
graduate Of Business. says: Tonight
| finds me in my office in big French
throws out heat all over the room, and.
believe me, 1 am glad to be indoors, as
it is biting cold outside
Miss Violet Ripple has been appoint
ed president of the Business High
| School Bank. following the resignation
| of Waldo Tastet- Miss Elizabeth Simp-
son has been appointed vice president
| Leroy ]. Mccarthy. captain of Com
| pany G, cadet corps. at Business in
1915, has qualified for the Aviation
Corps and will shortly leave for train
| ing school.
| Paul Cromelin. a Business graduate,
has received commission in the Avta-
tion Corps.
| John L. Cronie, former Business
| High School student, writes from
France of other Business men now in
France. He says: II went today where
| eat and sat down at the table. hap
pened to look up and saw Samuel
| Mooers. I have also seen a fellow
| named Sprinkler. whose brother Joe
went to Business. He told me that he
had been to bathhouse in Paris and
while there a man on the other side
| of the locker asked for a match. This
| man happened to be Bob Tracy. active
! ly associated with the Business High
! School alumni in former years"
| Every one under the roof at Eastern
High School has bought war savings
stamps. The Central Bulletin comments
| on this record and urges all Central stu
dents to follow the example. =.
All but sixteen boys Of tho school are in
the cadet corps at Eastern High School.