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The Traffic Patrol 2, The Traffic Patrol v/hich has been organized for the benefit of the student body has thus far proved to be a great success. With few exceptions the students by their splendid behavior in the halls have shown their willingness to cooperate vath the faculty and the patrol. The patrolmen are officers of the Glasses, and as the student body has placed them in those posi tions, they have in most instances shovTnthem the highest respect as patro]jiicn* It is desired Pud expected that this cooperation will be continued v/ithout the application of force. The whole plan, which is the efficient, courteous handling of traffic in the halls by the students, is an experiment* If the students shov/ that they v/ant the patrol, it will be con tinued^ and ^may^ be the beginning of a larger measure of student participation in tho school. Almost every school the size of A* H.^S# has some successful plan whereby students handle the traffic problem end many other phases of school life. The faculty and patrol wish to express their appreciation for the way in v/hich the student body has aided them in carrying out this plan and ask for its continued cooperation. - Ned Ritchie ♦ ♦ SK STUDENT PARTICIPATION ^ Every intelligent, thinking student is interested in the thing \/e call^’'student government”. You have heard the term of ten. Other high schools, you hear, have ^student government”. All the colleges operate under some form of it. It is a magic expression. Why, you ask, can’t we have it? Now, to begin v/ith, there is no such thing as ”student govern ment’ , just as there isn’t any Santa Claus. It is impossible for this reason. Government implies responsibility. The man on whose shoulders you place^the authority must bo also prepared to take the blame If something goes \7rong. If the operation of the school v/ere turned over to the students, and the roof blow off the following week, who do you think v/ould get it in the neck? Not tho stu- ti-irned the school upside-down, although they v/ere the guilty ones. The citizens have entrusted tho operation of the school to Mr. Arnold, and it is he v/ho would be pounding the P(uyoments in search of another job. He is responsible for every thing that goes on in the high school, whether he knows it happened or not. Since he stmds to take the rap if things go wrong, then he must be given the ultimate authority. You will recognize tho absolute fairness of this. It certainly is not just^for me to call you up and say to you, "There has been cheat ing in this^room, I have no reason to suspect you, but somebody has been cribbing. You probably aren’t guilty, but get your books r-nd go home anywayThat would be unjust because I would be calling on you to trice the responsibility for another^s act.
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