Here President Roosevelt, in an address in the assembly room, spoke in words of warmest praise concerning the institution. Later he chatted informally to fifteen hundred enthusiastic students. By a felicitous reference to the High School’s football victory of the day before he won his way straight to the heart of his delighted auditors. Amid volleys of the school yell, given with the precision of a discharge of musketry, and the waving of crimson and gold banners, the colors of the school, President Roosevelt left the building.

Manual was practically out of the game after the first five minutes. It was High School here, there and everywhere. No matter how hard the Red and Black struggled to stop the plunging backs it was useless, and as the game progressed it was simply a case of how many touchdowns High could score before the final half was ended.

I earnestly believe in each of you having as good a time as possible, but making it come second to doing the best kind of work possible. In your studies, as in your sports here in school and afterward in life in doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow this rule, a rule that I heard preached once on the football field: “Don’t flinch, don’t foul, and hit the line hard.”

Lester is, among other things, one of the world’s leading authorities on the Beatles.

“This is not show biz talk,” he said, “but I love them like brothers. I’d rather spend a day with any one, or all of them, than anybody else I know.

“They’re original and lively and interesting. They’re four winners in a world of losers. They complement one another perfectly, they’re the sum of one another’s parts.

“John is the most immediately intelligent. He has the quickest mind. If there is a leader among them, John is it.

“Paul is the most classically attractive. Ringo is probably the most appealing and George is enduring.

“To know him better is to like him better. They’re all originals.”

Gene Steratore, an all-’round star at Washington (Pa.) High School, is headed for Pitt.

The 185-pound footballer, who can play either right or left half, personally selected PItt for several good reasons, so he says. He added:

“I picked Pitt because I think the Panthers under Coach Red Dawson are on the way back to the top in football and because I want to get a good education.”

Some 30 colleges, including Ohio State, Duke, North Carolina, Princeton and three other Ivy League schools, and both service academies, Army and Navy, made inviting offers to the Washington ace.

Gene, who was All-Washington County back for two straight years, will enroll at Pitt in September. He was a guard on the basketball team and played first base on the baseball club.

John has just finished two years of study in Moscow, Russia, where he took lessons for one year in sketching under the instruction of a private teacher. He spent the second year in a studio learning more advanced phases of portrait painting. John’s ambition is to be a great portait artist.

These murals, located directly over the bank of our 8th Street elevators, are more than an addition to the charm and distinction of our own beautiful Street Floor. We think, in their own way, they help add to the beauty of this city. They were painted by John Kucera, the brilliant young Philadelphia artist whose original sketches were selected nearly a year ago in a competition judged by a committee of authorities on art, and to which eighty-six well-known Philadelphia artists submitted entries. The unveiling today at 11 o’clock will proceed with a minimum of pomp and ceremony. We think the murals speak for themselves. In their spirited colorings, in their graceful figures, in their noble and epic proportions, they form, in a way, an acknowlegement of our debt to women for the progress this store has made and a public appreciation by industry of the importance of the artist in the modern world. They suggest to this community and to the women who made it what it is today, the great destinies that lie ahead.

I have never seen a greater demonstration of real charity or self-sacrifice than has been given by the Sisters in their nursing of the sick, irrespective of the creed or color of the victims, wherever the nuns were sent. I look upon the services rendered by the Archbishop and the nuns as one of the most potent aids in making the headway we have toward getting control of the epidemic.

It has been my pleasure to personally express to the Archbishop my grateful appreciation for the splendid services rendered.

When the Most Reverend Archbishop, responding instantly and whole-heartedly to the appeal of the municipal authorities for aid, granted permission for all uncloistered Sisters to serve as nurses, the first word was written of one of the most beautiful chapters on Christian charity in the annals of this country. A parallel may be found elsewhere in the ages that illumine the work of the Church in other lands and other climes, but not in this diocese, according to unbiased testimony. From the Chief Executive of the municipality, from the Director of Public Health and Charities, from City Councils, eminent physicians, non-Catholic clergymen, from members of sects outside the Church, down to the lowly poor and the humble laborer, come words of lavish praise for those angels of mercy, capable, sympathetic, unselfish, almost superhuman, engaged in a labor of love for a distressed citizenry and for the greater honor of God and the salvation of souls.

When the doorbell rings at the Marino home in Oakland these days, the callers always wear smiles.

They wear smiles because frowns are not a fit means of enticing a young man who is reputed to be one of the most special football talents in the country. The coaches and phone calls and letters come from everywhere to Dan Marino, the Central Catholic quarterback extraordinaire.

“It’s exciting to know this is all happening to my son,” Mrs. Marino said. “I think what he has is something God gave to him. I just pray to God he stays the nice kid he is all his life.”

Joe Swanson, Perry lawyer, is the outstanding sports character in Taylor County. Whenever or wherever the Bulldogs are playing, he can usually be found on the sidelines giving support in every way possible. Although Joe didn’t attend school in Perry, he will be remembered by many North Florida sports fans as a member of Perry’s town baseball team of other years. He was also a star athlete at the University of Florida, playing end on the football team.

But boys, all that is in the past; we need not regret it, for we have built up a name for ourselves. The future is still before us; and next Saturday, we once more run up against our old rivals. Shall we spring a surprise on them as we did the first time that we played them? The team which we have this year is one of the best that we have ever had. They will go into that game with the same fight that our team showed two years ago and every ounce of their power and energy will be expected in the attempt to “bring home the bacon.” Our coach has succeeded in building up a machine which will be hard to stop as well as a stone wall on the defense. He has worked faithfully and earnestly to give Old Florida the best team in her history, and the result of his efforts can be seen in this, our first game.

Auburn shifted in a bunch of fresh backs and their relentless pounding soon put the ball in dangerous proximity to the Florida goal. Swanson made connections with a forward pass and raced ninety yards before Ted Arnold pulled him down from the rear. It was a brilliant piece of work for both participants. The ball was on Auburn’s half-yard line. With only a few seconds to play Florida tried a forward pass and it failed.

Mrs. Swanson received a telegram from her son, Joe Swanson, announcing his marriage to Miss Isabelle Bieza, in Key West, last Monday. The news was quite a surprise to Mrs. Swanson, coming so soon after Joe’s departure for Miami to attend to some business matters there, but did not cause any shock as she had known of his intentions to commit matrimony at the earliest possible date after his discharge from the service.