The San Carlos news

Title

The San Carlos news

Year

1940

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THE YOUNG CITIZEN NofJemler, 1940 THE SAN CARLOS NEWS By ELEUTERIA SANTOS ONE MORNING Miss Mercader said ·to her pupils in San Carlos Barrio School, "How would you like to have a newspaper, boys and girls?" "Oh! that would be splendid!" said Ramon. "A newspaper would be lovely!" said Simplicia. "How- c,an we have a newspaper?" asked Tomas. "When may we have our newspaper?" Ciriaco wanted to know. "Listen, boys and girls, and I will tell you," said Miss Mercader. "We shall start our ·newspaper right now if you · wish. We shall write it twice each week on the blackboard. Would you like to db this?" "Yes, indeed," said everyone. "W.h.at shall we.call our newspaper?" asked Miss Mercailer. Everyone thought hard for a little while. Then Jesusa suggested the name The San Carlos News. "That is an excellent name," said their teacher. "Tomas, you can write well. Come to the blackboard, and. you may write the things which we decid,e to put in our news pa per .11 So Tamas went to the blackboard and in his nicest handwriting wrote at the top the name of the new paper; T Ju Sa11 Carlos News. "Now each one m3.y write one news item ·on a slip of paper ·and I will choose some of the best items," said Miss Mercader. Soon each pupil wrote a news item and gave it to Miss Mercader. She chose some items and gave· them to Tomas, who copied them in the "newspaper" on the blackboard. When Tomas had finished writing them on the blackboard, one of the pupils read the news aloud to ' the class. This is what was written in their first "newspaper": The San Carlo; [" ews By the Pupils of San Carlos Barrio School Today is Friday, November 1, 1940. This is a rainy day. ' Vl/e have fifteen girls in our room. 'Vl/e have twenty-one boys in our room. One girl is absent. No boys are absent. No one was tardy. This morning we learned a new song. It is a song about books. We shall sing it at our program for Book \Veek. Thanksgiving Day comes this month. (Please turn lo page 436.) THE YOUNG CITIZEN November, 1940 NORBERTO TOOK CARE BOOKMAKING SAN CARLOS NEWS (Continued from page 417) (Conti~ued from page 425) (Continued form page 412) that evening, he stood under were copies of Greek and We shall have a program them and looked up at their Latin classics, as well as on Thanksgiving Day. bright colors. They had Bibles and other church We will all be thankful. never looked more beauti- books written in Latin. On We all want to ~e good ful. He took them down, page 424 is shown a picture citizens. and put them carefully into of one of these old "illumin- We are going to do our the box. ated" books. very best each day. When Norberto's father In ·the I Ith century, pa- We are always glad to came home the next day, he per made from linen rags have visitors.· brought two new· flags, an began to find its way into Welcome, .everyone! American flag and a Fili- Europe from the Orient. After the pupils had read pino flag.· He gave them to The use of such paper in~ the first "issue" of The San Norberto. er.eased rapidly after the Carlos News, Miss Merca"You may present these invention of printing, for it der said, "I think that is a to your school, my son,'' said was cheap and could be splendid beginning, . boys his father. · used easily on the printing and girls. .We shall have Norberto was very proud presses. . . our 'newspaper' each Tuesof the new flags, and he and Before the invention of day and · Friday mornthe other. boy scouts took printing from movable ing." good care of them.' types, small religious books That is the way Thi San "By taking good care of were sometimes printed Carlos News was started in the school flags and hoisting from solid blocks of wood. the S an C a r Io s Barrio and lowering them proper- These blocks of wood were· School. ly,'' said Norberto to the the size of t~e page, and Every boy and girl in other scouts, "we are ren- consisted mostly of pictures, that room thinks it is a very dering a service to oilr with perhaps a small good "newspaper." country. My father said amount of lettering en- Perhaps· you can have a so." graved at the bottom. "newspaper" in yout room. I think what Norberto's The method of printing if you will ask your teac.her; father said is true. Don't from movable types is----------you? called typo9raph. The first signed beautiful types and book printed from movable printed exquisite books, WHAT WOULD YOU DO type is supposed to have with elaborate coverings of I. If you were to raise the flags at sunrise? 2. If you were to lower the flags at sunset? 3. If you saw the flags had been forgotten on . the flag-poles at night? 4. If you saw the flags up during a rain? been a Bible which ap- vellum, silk, velvet, or other peared about 1453. beautiful materials, such as Early in the 16th century ivory and precious stones. the books became smaller The most famous artists in size, thinner paper was of the day made the illus-· used· for the pages, and the trations, using not only wooden boards of the cover woodcuts, but copper enwere replaced by paste- gravings, The titles of those board. Artist-printers de- (Please turn to page 439.)

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