Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-08
BRADY IS CHOSEN
EDITOR OF BRECKY
Central Names Other Officers
for Year Book AIso-GirI
DebaterS Lose.

Parke Brady, associate editor of the
Central High School Bulletin, was
elected editorin- chief of the Brecky,
the schools year book, last week.
Brady also is a major in the Central
cadet regiment.
Associate editors OF the Brecky fol-
low: Geraldine Shock, Marjorie Rice.
Margaret Moreland. Robert Caffee.
Winifred Fallon, Helen Kuhn, Mabel
Brown and Harriet Edelen. Miss c. I.
Orr is the faculty adviser for the
book. Work on the Brecky will be-
gin as soon as the midyear reorgani-
cation of the schools completed.
Centrars girls debating team, up
holding the negative of the question,
Resolved. That the child labor amend
ment will be ratified by the States"
was defeated by vote of to o. in
a debate recently with the West Phil
adelphia High School. This debate
has been regarded at Central for years
as the annual interhigh school de-
ia ting classic. Centrafs team was
composed of Polly Belts. Audrey
Carol and Wiona Won Ammon. with
Christine Williams as alternate.
short story Contest Planned.
The Review, CenttaTs monthly
magazine last Wednesday conducted
a chapel for the purpose of inaugural
ing and Introducing to the school
short story contest. ALA Rogers, edi
tor of the Review, was the presiding
officer, and obtained all the talent for
the various numbers from the pub
lica ton staffs. A Publications Band
demonstrated the musical powers of
the schools journalists. Miss Rogers
outlined the rules of the story con-
test, and then announced a play en-
titled The Review Staff Mediums
Trance" which was a clever dramati-
cation of the desired progress of the
contest A ''ukulele chorus from the
Publications Band. sang a song COM
posed by member of the staff of the
Review, giving in rhyme the contest
conditions, the words of which were
thrown on the screen. One novel
feature of the contest is that every
contestant is to receive prize
The interest which is shown yearly
by Central students toward the Spring
play, is once more in evidence. Thus
far, an air of mystery has pervaded
the annual production, for the name
has not been announced to the stu
dent body. But it is known that the
play will be a modern, melodramatic
farce, on the order of Seven Keys to
Baldpate." the well remembered
Spring play of 1922.
That IS is not an unlucky number
has been proved by the automobile
class. which claims that number of
students. The course teaches how to
dismantle a machine, explain its con-
struction and reassemble it, thus
giving those in the class a complete
and helpful knowledge of how to re-
pair their machines. as well as how
to keep them in good running order
|. The Masks" the honorary society
of the Central Dramatic Association.
will present a program Tuesday. at 8
p. m.,' in the auditorium. 1t promises
to he as unusual in interest as the
previous programs have been.
boys glee club has been organ
lied at Central. The officers elected
are: Edward Arliss, president; Paul
Mcneil secretary; Allan Lutz, treas
urer, and Franklin Clark, librarian. A
constitution has been drawn up, and
sent to the Board of Education for
approval
new class in elementary statistics
has been started at Central by Miss
Wilson, teacher of mathematics. This
class, which appears on the subject
list of Central for the first time this
February, is based on the statement
of Taussig, the great economist, that
the future of all economic value lies
in statistics. The mathematical basis
of the course is SO sound that it has
been accepted in lieu of intermediate
algebra at Johns Hopkins and is Civ
en- college entrance credit at George
Washington.
A farewell chapel was held by the
school in honor of the February
graduates. Principal Alvin w. Miller
paid tribute to the class in a short
address, which was followed nv
speeches by Robert Harper and Percy
RUSSELL February and June class
presidents, respectively. The Dramatic
Association presented a short pro-
gram, and the graduates closed the
chapel by singing AUD Lang Syne"
and Tenax Propositi," the school
songs.