The daily worker., 1926-07-24
CHAPTER V
THE REVELATION


no longer to be little oil gnome and devote his to learn
ing to make money he going to be boy like other boys
and have good time and athletic at
football games and be part great Eaton had
been spurred to last suicidal effort and had patched
spots in the mental equipment of his charge
passed some examinations and duly enrolled pupil
Beach City High School.
This school occupied blocks on the outskirts of town
and consisted OF several buildings arranged three sides
square, elaborate and buildings great pride to the city
S strain upon lts purse Inc school was Free and to
came the and daughters Of that part population
which did not have to go to work before the of eighteen
twenty This meant all the moderately wetodo people, and
the boys and girls thus constituting stratum pro
ceeded to arrange themselves in subaa upon prn
cpe Their secre societies forbidden by the teachers
but fourished the ess the basis being wealth
and the pleasant things which wealth buyswenourshed
bodies and fashionable clothing easy manners and play
ful attitude towards life. -
The young people collected into small herds and shed
ABOUT from room to ROOM where culture handed
in properly measured doses enormous
tory and the parents had paid for the best possible equipment but
some process Impossible to explain was gradually being
taken from the teachers to the pupils
Every year the young people seemed be less work
and more absorbed in what activiesthe
athletic field the courts the big swimming
pool and the dancing floor The boys girls making for
themselves separate world having standards its own
secret life They pins badges had passwords and
grips with esotec Significance they had elaborated codes hav
ing to do with the wearing flowers color of your neck
m or the ribbon on your hat the angle which you affixed
postage stamp to an envelope.
lie based in part upon monev-prezt,vs HE
the life OF the adults and in part athletic prowess
sisted in rushing about from to another mass
Pea ne powers OF your team against those Of
other team and the ability of your louder than the
the teams reheased the battles which you to shout
1t was all practice for the real gors of college
and university where the financially more power
u students would be taken fraternites and
would perform their social and athletic skill and
grace made perfect
Bunny we know possessed the requirements of fraEe
nifty career he had Angoaxon features and plenty Of hg
sweaters ana he drove to school in that years model
was taken up by exclusive society," demand for
whatever going He enormously interested in every
thing he had imagined there Young peone
in the world before and he them all He raced
about with them from thing another watched with
open eyes and listened with everything came
from either the teachers or the pupils But all the was
something which set him apart from the sober
and old fashioned and queer 1t came doubt from his
knowing so much about the oil business was right in her
cruel remark that he had oil stains under his nger-nas
would never share the idea dangs of luxury that
money grows rees he knew comes by hard and
dangerous work Also, Bunny had situation at
nome Whch he understood quite clearly his father
sure that high school the best place boy and was
watching and listening all the time what of ideas
Sunny was getting So the boy always comparing the
kind OF education with Dads kind which was really
right? w "'
Before starting out his Bunny received what
parents know serious talk; curious and
puzzng First Dad going give there must
De rules about It, He must give his exceed the
speed limit whether in the city certainly
curious case OF the double standard met
frankly he mature and could Judge speeds more
over ne mad important business for his Bunny was
10 start Tor school early and the would he
driving for pleasure He might his car but
money to run free garage for high fraternity and il
would be convenient for Bunny be able say for all
tnat MS rather had laid down the law in that
ITO be coninued)