-SQ.Yember IL^ IQ/,1 BAILEY BUGLE BAILEY BUGLE Published Monthly ,.{iy iBAILEY HIGH SCHOOL Bailey, ITorth Carolina ME1.IBER COLUlvIBIA SCHOLASTIC PHESS ASSO. Editorial Staff Editor-in-chief Marie Morgan Asso, Editor,«, .Sarah Morgan Earnier Feature Editor Horace Meacomes Sports Editor Maebello. Bissette Business Staff Business Manager Hildred Ruffin Assistant,,Hollis Haskins Production Manager...Josephine Lamm Assistant., Jack Farmer Reporters ..Sidney Jones Christine Turnagej , ^ Martin Liles} Artists.. Christine Finch} Marks Underwood Advisers,,,,,,,,,Mrs, Howard Farmer Mrs, Laurine Lassiter V 3F Sjc JEage h AMERICA'S THANKSGIVING In a few days, boys and girls sll over America will be seated with their parents at their Thanks giving tables. The father will probably give thanks for the pros perous year and the blessings the family have received during the year. Although the prayer ‘will be echoed through America, how many Americans stop to think what it really means? Each morning American children go to schools where the principles of democracy, not the views of the government leaders, are taught. Here, where everyone has freedom of speech, press, and religion, there expressing personal beliefs and opinions. In Thanks- prayers this year• America has not only peace and 'Droopority to be thankful for but the greatest thing of all—^FREEDOM I thirty-five to forty people. It is obvious that the trip is individu ally less expensive when the total expense of the bus is divided araong a greater number of people. last time that the seniors at planned a trip to ViTashington the entire class was enthusiastic about going, but when the time came to leave for the trip only ten stu dents were ready to go. When it was left up to only ten students to finance a bus, the price was so un- reasonable that nobody could make the trip* effort to avoid recurrence of this situation, a suggestion has u06n jsiade that Gnothsr grade be in— vited to accompany the eleventh grade on a trip to V/ashington this year. The Bailey Seniors, refusing to do themselves a favor and save themselves some money, rejected the plan and refused to invite either the tenth^or twelfth grades. The action of the senior class indicates one of three conditions; 1. that the class is wealthy enough to pay for one-half of an unoccu pied bus, or 2, that they pi^cfer the company of perfect strangers to that of their fellow students, or 3. ^hat they believe themselves to be the only students in Bailey who deserve a trin to llfeshington, ARE GRADES ALL? SENIORS USE MISJUDGEMENT V/ashington, D.C, offers to the tourist a wealth of education en tertainment, and recreation. ’ Students may arrange tours on chartered buses accommodating from Students who wouldn’t think of I cheating fail to realize that bor- is the snme principle. The lender is as p:uiltv as the borrower. Though it is hard to refuse a friend, lending papers encourages the lazy student to de pend on some one else for his work o1talnea!° honestly there are students who think thfno- Si*ades are the important thing--no matter how received. They boast of how they have fooled the teacher with their "stolen A*sV They ve fooled no one but them- selyes by believing that the game S can^be thus played. The cold fact IS they have cheated themselves only*