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JUNIOR
EDITORIAL
CORNER
Junior Call, Market and Third streets,. San Francisco, April 2, 1910.
Good Morning, Juniors I
Just a few moments before I start for the office— and Saturday is always
my. busy day, especially now you're all begging for my picture on thebuttons,
but if I don't get a few moments' chat with the Juniors I feel that I've lost
something out of the week. . * -. ' ' . \u25a0
': V- Well,, "what do you think of the button? Mother says it makes me look a
little old; but then, mothers never realize that we have grown up. But
shVis awfully glad that we have a club at last, and most of all that we
haye 'a, button, i Perhaps some of you don't realize the importance of a
badge— some sign by which' all those who belong to the same society can
recognize each other. Mother and I do, because a badge once saved me
"from death. 'This was how it happened:
It? was in the days when I used, sometimes to get. a vacation that I
decided to spend a couple of months in Alaska. Mother didn't want me to.
go so far, but you 'know-how.- it is.. I was sure I could take care of myself,
-, and atlast she let ; me, have my way. ..;.\u25a0.: ' ; .
•^For the first few weeks everything^ went finely. I stopped at all the big
cities on my way^and' in every; one I 'met friends. .1 had fresh meat every
:; day for dinner, and; I didn't, see a single poundiwagon. VI. wrote, to mother.
;. "telling; all about '^the/funt he/' fun and. how foolish she had. been to worry. She was
; 'glad,'»but told me not to get too": adventurous and ,to come back as soon as
'. I could. '.\u25a0\u25a0.". )..-rVi : ;Cfv, '\u25a0'', ••.-\u25a0\u25a0
v Then I don't know-what got into my head, but I suddenly to
( h strike .off into' the wilderness after some real hunting. In two days! wa^,
- miles away from anywhere. . Nothing but snow, and ice and the liveliest thing
Jri' sight, a dead : fishY My, but it was cold!; Yousee/it was 'summer when I
,?- left home, so I hadn't brought 'my winter coat. The ;second. night L would
'.-, gla"dly^ have; sneaked ! ' back, only I; was ashamed. There -was , a little white
;V Spitz r T had. left in Sitka, and ] no man likes; to have to'own to aiwoman that
; he's wrong, so I just went on.- .\u25a0.-•'••, A— V- V: ' - •
•' " . But T thought I should' go crazy--' 1 There 'I 'wasn't }asouUto speak to.
Once I saw a- fox and Called to;him, but he'/couldn't understand my -bafk and
ran away frightened.; I thought .of every dog I had ever known and. would
- have given my tail to see any "one /of them,! even that, wretched that
•-"lives next to mother. -You don't know whatit is to be all alone. *,
\u25a0:\u25a0 \t last, on the fifth day, I couldn't; stand it any longer. 1 I didn t care
whether I* lived or -not.; I /simply couldn't go. another step.V I crawled along
: 'i-tili: morning, however, because I -didn't like the idea of dying at night, some
how. But as soon as I' could, see I began r to .scratch a : hole in the ice. It
tookme ihoursVand hours, but at last;l had a space big: enough to stick in
.my paw. Ugh; but it was cold! I worked on and at last I could get both
front paws underwater. „ - .'< '\u25a0\u25a0'.'.'\u25a0 ; V m, \u25a0 t -m ; 1 in
I-slipped in hind'.legsJirst, keeping my head out till the last, when all
-of afsudderi over the snow a real live dogicame;barking.to me to stop, and
"^ when 1 he got upclose I understood. Right over -his: left, eye he had the same
>'.; black spot that/ 1 wear, -the. badge of ray -lodge iat home, Boys.
S H e was the northern grand master, and I had * recbgmzed \u25a0 oour,r r , emblem yards
Maybe Iwasrit glad to see him!; He took-mesto his 'kennel and
,'cajrcd forme for three days. At the end,of; that, time I Started back home
-i^as' strong as ever. V» ' v .':';'•. •\u25a0'.."".\u25a0/ ' .•:••';\u25a0. x : , .- \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0'\u25a0\u25a0'
But never to my dying day will I forget -that experience. Just suppose
•I hadn't worn my black spot thatiday. Instead of being here with,-you
>| . Juniors I should be at the bottom of that frozen Alaskan: lake.
1> \u25a0 -:~:? So ; take the lesson from me, ' boys and** girls. "Wear your buttons all
|I: the' time, an^^wear them where, they, can be SEEN. Perhaps you don't
!\u25a0 V 'actually need them now, but you can't tell when the day may come that
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, \u25a0\u25a0 ' _ Yours as ever, ALONZO.
SHORT BARKS FROM ALONZO
. . _*' ' . '' ' Poodles was'a'Frcnchman,
• When mother read that to me" the other night I cried and cried. Poor
Poodles always dressed so well, and now—poor, poor Poodles!
I suppose you are all glad to get back to school. When I was young I
hated vacation. You see, I was an only puppy and there wasn't a soul at
\ home to fight with. I did loVe school when I was little.
Thank the powers that be that April Fool's day is over. Any other day
in the year, if you don't believe what a man tells you, he calls you a fool, but
on that day he calls you one if you do. How is a dog to know?
Don't wear your heart on your sleeve where every one can see if. That's
V the place for the Junior button.
Next week is boy week, so I am organizing all my kind into a cleaning
brigade. When we get through there won't be a tin can in sight. It' 3
..always well, to be prepared beforehand, and no dog on earth can foresee what
those boys will think isfun. '-'M
• Mother and J are going to entertain the boy mayor at luncheon next
Monday. Mother »s making great batches of dog biscuits and 1 tell you
no one need invite him to supper.
\u25a0THE SAX FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY. Ainm^^j^j^^n^
GOT A JUNIOR BUTTON ?? ?
Have YOU your Junior Call button?
If not, then get it immediately.
Thousands of boys and girls all over California who read the announce
ment 4ast Saturday that the buttons were to be given away took steps at
once/to obtain theirs, and today they are wearing them proudly.
Other thousands of boys and girls who read The Junior have been slow
about- getting the buttons. They must wake up and attend to business.
The Junior Call club button is the handsome official badge which every
'! reader of The Junior Call is entitled to receive for the asking, and which
he or she will find pleasant to wear. .
The Junior Call has received many congratulations from its young
people on account of the beauty of this button. It is orange colored, with
black lettering. - f- t ...
Thole who have not yet received their buttons may obtain them in the
following manner: , : , r »rv.
If, you live in San Francisco, come to the main business office of The
Call at Market and Third streets, in the corner of the building on the
ground floor, or to the branch office of The Call at 1651 Fillmore street
between Geary and Post. „
;'(> If you live on the Oakland side of the bay, apply for your button at
the Oakland office of The Call in the Bacon block in Eleventh* street near
Broadway.
; If you live outside of San Francisco or Oakland, or if for any reason
you can not come after your button, inclose ,your name and address and a
2 cent. stamp in an envelope and mail it to The Junior Call. The stamp is
to pay postage on the button, which will be sent you by mail.
A few Letters Out of Hundreds
Santa Crnz, Cal., 30S Pendcgast avenue,
. ' \u25a0 - • .-.\u25a0\u25a0• March. 2B, 1910.
Dear Sir: I would like a Junior Call
club button and will be proud to wear
It I send the stamp fqr postage. Yours
respectfully,* •••"\u25a0•; \u25a0 . '
BERTHA E. .TQRNISR.
San Francisco, Ca1.,#1664 Larkln street,
- \u25a0'•-. - r :&\u25a0*; March 26, 1910.
Junior Call: Inclosed find one 2 cent
stamp to pay*postage on the Junior Call
club 'pin. which I would like to have
very much. I just'love the Junior Call
and would enjoy becoming a member of
the new club. Please mail me a button
before they are gone. Also giye my
best regards to Alonzo, the far famed
Junior Call dog, and ask him (If he's
; not too busy) why he don't take a, trip
to Europe on a vacation. I'm sur^e he
would enjoy himself.; To be more mod
ern he could fly across the continent
•and the ocean in an aeroplane" Instead
of traveling in a train and «a steamer.
Ask him and see If ho won't like If.
Yours sincerely, v '
•v DOROTHY FRIEDENTHATi
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Eden Vale. Cal.. box 120.
March 27, 1910.
Editor Junior Call: Please find in
closed 2 cents in atampa, for which send
me your Junior Call button. I am very
much interested in the Junior and shall
be proud to wear the button. Yours. •
* HOWARD PECKHAM.
ATHLETICS AT PACIFIC HEIGHTS SCHOOL
By E. RAMSAY MOHAN nnd EDWARD
. 11. WAGENKII
So far as the term has progressed
Pacific Heights has been fairly success
ful In basket ball,' halving had both
boys' teams «nter the semifinal games
and the girls' team hopes, to down
Franklin in the second and third games
of the series of three for the champion
ship, having been defeated in the first.
Our 95 pound team bested Washing
ton in its first game* by a score of 21
to 9, but met their Waterloo In Everett,
being defeated, 35 to 11.
Our 125 pound team was more suc
cessful. In the ilrst game the second
half ended 15 up. In an extra 10 min
utes of play Pacific heights threw a
penalty goal, while Everett succeeded
in throwing a field goal, making the
final score 17 to 16 In their favor.
Owing to tho close score we were given
another chance for The Call trophy and
made good use of it, defeating John
Bwett, 20 to 16. In the semifinal games
we again played our rivals from Ever
ett and in a very exciting game de
feated them, 2'J to 19. Vlie first half
euded 12 up, but the second hulf was
marked by fast playing and clever goal
throwing on the part of Pacific Heights.
In the game with Fairmont we played
in hard luck, moat of oar players being
in poor condition und Lloyd Hpencer,
Santa ' Clara, Cal., box i 3.
.March 27. 1910.
: Dear Sir: Please send me a Junior
Call club pin. becauseM want to let all
the boys at school know that I am in
, .tedl. r Cal.^Vomg^
. Elmhurst. Cal.. box 2.
T am very fond of your Junior Call.
I read it every Saturday. I love, lt so
much I would like to have a badge to
show I am one of RK^
Orovllle, Cal., 920 Spencer avenue.
March 28. 1910.
Editor Junior \Call — Dear Sir: In
closed find 2 cents in stamps, for which
please send me one of your buttons de
scribed March 1 26 in the Junior Call, as
1 want to let peopla know I read a good
Papei -. VY ° UrS >Bßis T. STROEVER.
Volta, Cal., March 2S, 1910.
Editor of The Junior Call,
Sir> Inclosed you will find a two
cent stamp (2c), for which kindly semi
me by mail a button (Junior s badge),
"i take great interest and pleasure
in reading all the stories every week,
especially Alonzo's short barks. .._
I think it is very kind of you to
giv% such a nice gift. I should bo
very careful and wear it with pride if
I only. could have one. Also to think
that I would then be a member of. the
Juniors' CaU ) C^b. iiNE DAREn^ ES
L,onoak, Cal., March 28, 1910.
Editor of The Junior Call: 1 saw
in The' Junior Call where you are civ
ing away badges to all the
who care to apply for one. I would
like very' much for you. to send me ft
budge I would like It very njuch nnd
be very proud -to wear one bearing
the name of The Junior Call.
\u25a0 Your devoted reader.
MARIE GERTRUDE GRIFFIN.
Santa Cruz, Cal., 570 Sequel avenue,
March; 26, 1910..
Dear Sir: While reading the Junior
Call today I saw about the new Junior
Call button and am very anxious about,
having one; .therefore. Inclosed find a
2 cent stamp to pay postage, for whicli
send me one Junior Call button. Wish-
Ing you and Alonzo every success in
your new enterprise I remain as ever,
yours, • BRIAN BYRNE.
our «tar forward, having Just recovered
from a week's Illness, only played In
the last half. Under the conditions wo
put up a hard game, but were finally
downed, 18 to 12.
In its first game our" girls' team suc
ceeded in winning from. Richmond, now
the Roosevelt school, by a score of 13
to 8, putting up an excellent and faut
game. We earned our right to com
pete with Franklin for the champion
ship of the city by defeating Hearst,
27 to. lß. Miss Dorothy Allen was tho
particular star, making 1« of tho 27
points. In the first of the series of the
three games for the championship,
Franklin was victorious by a score of
21 to 16. It was Franklin's superior
team work that gave them the victory,
as they put up a game of which any
team would be proud, Miss Prances
McCloughry played the best game, mak.
ing 13 of the 16 points.
Wo hope to have a good representa
tion In "tli« coming truck meet, espe
chilly in the 80 and 95 pound classes, as
relay races p re run every morning by
the boys in the grades up to the sixth.
A dual track meet was held last month
at tho stadium between the two oIasHCH
of the high eighth grade, in which good
records were made.
We hope to enter a strong team in
the swimming niwt and the bast-ball
tournament.