January 1941
Pago 3
Newspaper Staff
Editor-in-chief Sidney Jones
Assistant Editor Kenneth Farmer
Reporters Maria Morgan
Maebelle Bissette
Business Manager Rachel Bissette
Artists Norman Patterson
Marks Underwood
Isabelle Vick
Production Mana Ter--Josephine Larain
Asst.Production Mgr.-Christine Pinch
Typist Mildred Ruffin
ARE YOU INTERESTED?
The high school students of the
State should he vitally interested
in the present seas ion of the Stete
legislature, for within the next
sixty days the funds for the oper
ation of the schools for the naxt
two years will have boen appropri
ated. Whether the schools are to
have sufficient funds to meet the
present emergency is largely a
matter for the parents to decidoJf
they demand larger appropriations
for schools, the legislature w.lll
meet the demands. If they demand a
more flexible program, the legis
lature will adopt one. If they
remain Indif "'oront to the needs of
the schools, the legislature will
be likewise indifferent.
Governor Broughton told the gradu
ating class of last year at Rock
'Ridge January 27, 1941, that ho
'favored a great increase in the vo
cational education program,Tho re
commendation of the Adviaory Bud
get Commission for this purpose is
not sufficient to add a single de
partment in any school of the Stabe.
Here in Nash County alone wo should
have at least five departments add
ed this year.
Most girls would like to have
four years of home economics. The
Federal Government has already pro
vided funds for a great many ad—
ditional departments in this State,
The counties are ready and willing
to pay part of the expense. The
only hold-up is State funds. Get
your parents interested enough to
urge such action on the part of
Nash County members of the State
legislature.
OUR SCHOOL’S PROGRESS
T^oo fow of the samo parents ard
students support our school atits
entortainnents, P.T.A, meetings,
and athletic games. Often we have
activities of this type that are
nearly a failure,not from lack of
practice or advertisement,but frcm
lack of support, V/hilo wo ap:jTo-
eiate the prv.;sence of those regu
lar attondantr, wh:.'.t wo desire for
the spring months is the interest
of every parent and student. Our
school will advance in proportion
to the interoat shov;n. There is no
better time to start making 1941
the be;3t year in the school’s his
tory than now.
LOOKING AHEAD
As 1941 rolls aroimd, none of us
know v/hat it holds in storo
the nation or for each individual.
In the next twelve months -thoro
may be quite a number of important
questions of the day ansv;ered,Mtl>-
out a douUt the most important of
these questions is Will the Unitod
States become involved in the 'iluro-
pean and Asiatic Wars?
If this qjieation i:-^ to bo an —
sv/ored in the near future, every
ture American must be prepared a'r4
v/illing to meet whatever problems
arise from the outcome.
Time and time agtiln it lias boon
proved that education in its broad
est aspect—development of self —
control, health habit3,rlght't'Mnk-
ing, respect and revoronco--ic one
of the main factors in releasing
tonsioiji in times of vlnrost,
ICnowing this every high school
student should appreciate more
fully thv. wonderful opportunity he
has and endeavor to mako the most
of this opportunity.