WE WANT
A SUPPLEMENT
D
WE WANT
A SUPPLEMENT
VOLUME VIII, NUMBER 6
GOLDSBORO, N. C., APRIL 5, 1935
50 CENTS A YEAR
LAUNCH SUPBbEMENT DRIVE
Debaters to Enter Semi-Finals] Students Finish
\ I Campaign Plans
Without Faculty
Goldsboro Teams
Defeat New Bern,
Kinston Orators
Both Teams, Accompanied By Their
Coach, Miss Beasley, Will Go to
Chapel Hill to Compete
For Aycock Cup
Kext Thursday, April 11^ the two
victorious G. H. S. debating teams
will go to Chapel Hill to participate
in the semi-final contest for the Ay
cock Memorial Debating Trophy.
This is possible because the teams on
March 22 were victorious over ISTew
Bern and Kinston, thus upholding
the unusually good record which G.
H. S. has maintained since 1928.
Goldsboro’s affirmative, Maurice
Edwards and Powell Bland, won
over Harvey Tyndall and Harry
Stallings, in l^ew Bern. Annie E.
Cow^ard and Dick Helms, Golds
boro’s negative team, defeated ISTew
Bern’s affirmative, Mary Turner
Willis and Eugene McSorley, in
Kinston.
This year the query for all the
triangular debates in jSTorth Caro
lina was resolved: That the United
States should adopt the policy of ex
tending federal aid to public educa
tion.
Goldsboro’s affirmative, in thought
provoking speeches, painted a vivid
picture of the deplorable conditions
of the schools and gave many good
examples and comparisons. They
then presented a seemingly air tight
plan of how Federal Aid can be ad
ministered. They took a 3-0 deci
sion.
Goldsboro’s negative, in interest
ing and oratorical fashion, proved
that rederal aid is unwise, unjust,
and contrary to the ideals of Ameri
can people. They also proved that
Federal aid to general public educa
tion would lead to Federal control
with all its evils. The judge’s de
cision was 2-1.
The visitors that debated in Golds
boro were Julia Bishop Smallwood
and Tommy Hargett, IN^ew Bern’s
negative, and Minetta Bartlett and
Marion Parrot, Kinston’s affirma
tive. Kinston was triumphant. Of
ficers for the Kinston-JSTew Bern de
bate in Goldsboro were: James
Davis, chairman ; Anna Best, secre
tary; and Annie Laurie Howell,
timekeeper.
The teams were accompanied by
Miss Antoinette Beasley, who has
been coaching debating in G. H. S.
since 1928, Miss Miriam Koch,
Home Economics teacher, Billy
Griffin and two reporters for the Hi
News—Thomas W. Pearson and W.
Lonnie Wiggins.
LEADING CITIZENS
EXPRESS OPINION
FOR SUPPLEMENT
Now Or Never
My opinion is that school districts
like Goldsboro should provide as
quickly as possible for increase in
teachers’ salaries, library facilities,
length of term, and reduction in
teacher load at least so as to restore
the standards set up by the national
preparatory school associations. The
only practical way to do this within
time to serve the needs of the present
school generations is by having and
exercising the right to vote local sup
plements. Uniform state wide school
standards, if sufficiently high, are
fine as an idealistic system, and
democracy in education can well
have such as a goal, but under present
conditions communities that are able
and willing should be allowed to
maintain educational standards suit
able to the needs of their children.
Sections and districts which can and
will provide more adequately for the
school needs of their children should
not be held back until the whole state
can rise to the efficient and approved
level.
Moratoriums may be declared for
the payment of debts without serious
injury to the future of business, but
no moratorium can be safely declared
for the education of our children.
They can’t wait. It is now or never
wdth them.
W. A. Dees,
Chairman of School Board.
Trophy Cabinet Is
Made By Manual
Training Students
Built With Funds Given By P.-T. A.;
Twelve Cups Are Placed
On Display
WE, THE STUDENTS
OF GOLDSBORO HI
DO RESOLVE .
Least We Can Do
In view of the leading position
that the Goldsboro Schools have
taken in the past, it seems the least
that we can do at this time to keep
our school at the standard of effici
ency set by the ]^ational Association
of Secondary Schools. All citizens of
Goldsboro should heartily cooperate
with the High School students in a
common effort to give to our boys
and girls the best opportunities for
a thorough education. In memory
of Mr. Julius Bonitz, who was large
ly responsible for the beginning of
our public school, Mr. S. P. Moses,
Mr. P. P. Claxton, Dr. E. A. Alder
man, Mr. J. Y. Joyner, Mr. S. 0.
Brooks, and others of our school
superintendents and teachers, we
can not fail.
Gertrude Weil.
G. H. S. is now the proud posses
sor of a beautiful trophy cabinet con
structed by the Manual Training
students with money presented to the
school by the Parent-Teachers’ As
sociation. Mrs. R. Jack Smith,
president of the P.-T. A., presented it
to the school at a recent chapel pro
gram.
The 12 cups .that the students of
G. H. S. have won are placed in the
cabinet, which occupies a prominent
place in the downstairs hall near the
principal’s office.
The cabinet, which is made of
white oak and sandpapered and
varnished to a brilliant lustre, has
two shelves, is 6 feet, 3 inches high;
5 feet, 22 inches long; and 281^
inches wide. Three sides are of
glass with the opening, which is of
wood, in the back.
The trophies on display in the
cabinet ^ are for athletics, debating,
di amatics and scholarship. These
were won by G. H. S. students from
1920 until the present time.
In the center of the top shelf is
the Aycock Memorial Cup, which
was won for two consecutive years in
debating and is now a permanent
possession of G. H. S.
The Giddens’ debating Trophy,
which was presented in 1928 to
promote interest in debating, is in
the center of the bottom shelf. The
Sophomores and Seniors have each
won the cup four times.
Cups and trophies won for ath
letics are; the relay cup won by the
mile relay team, consisting of John
Graham, James Davis, Griff Porter,
and Clifton James in 1934 in a state
wide meet in Chapel Hill; a trophy
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The following resolution was
adopted at the student mass meeting
yesterday:
Whereas, W''e, the students of Golds
boro High School, believe that the
eight-months’ state supported school
term is inadequate; and
Whereas, W'^e find crowded classes,
lack of supplies, an inadequately
equipped library, and orerburdened
teachers a great hindrance to our i)ro-
gress; and
Whereas, We believe that the citizens
of Goldsboro are able and willing to
gi>e their children more than a mini
mum opportunity in education;
We, in regular assembly on April 4,
1935, by concerted action do hereby
resolve to ask the citizens of Goldsboro
to seek an opportunity to cast their
vote to provide supplementary funds
by which conditions in onr school can
be substantially improved.
WILL HOLD MASS MEETING
Students Rally to Cause As Student
Leaders Review Conditions in
Schools, Urging These Facts
Be Made Known
JUNIOR PLAY TO BE
PRESENTED APRIL 24
April 24 has been set as the date
for the presentation of the Junior
Play and, with the completion of the
cast, rehearsals are in full swing.
Prices are being kept down to 25
cents for a student and 35 cents for
an adult. A group of two hundred
seats will be reserved at an addition
al cost of 10 cents each.
A tempting set of prizes is being
arranged to induce ticket selling.
Full details concerning the cast
and particulars about the play will
be announced in the Junior Edition
of the Hi JTews, April 23.
Answers to Your Questions
Music Concert To Raise
Funds Given Last Night
A concert given by 300 students
from the Girls’ and Boys’ Glee Clubs,
the Band and the Grammar Grades,
was presented last night in the High
School Auditorium,
Although the Glee Clubs have pre
sented various entertainments for
the benefit of different organizations,
this was the first time that they have
attempted to raise funds which will
aid the High School Music Depart-
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Five Main Reasons
You ask me if I am in favor of
the movement on the part of G. H. S.
students to get the citizens of our
school district to vote a special tax
upon purselves to extend our school
term to niiio moi^ths and what are
^ reasons for the stand I take.
What are my reasons for favoring
this special tax?
First: It will be worth more than
it costs, paying dividends far into
the future.
Second: We can’t do tomorrow for
our children of today what ought to
be done for them. They will be the
men and women of tomorrow. To
cripple them educationally will put
a mortgage on their future.
Third: Our textbooks, college en
trance requirements and teacher
training are all based upon the nine
months term and an eight months
school means expensive confusion
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1. W^hat is the cause of the pres
ent school situation?
The program of retrenchment be
gun in the 1929 legislature and con
tinued in 1933, when the state sup
ported eight months school term was
adopted and Goldsboro lost a month.
2. Will a supplement remedy
this situation?
The theory of a state supported
school term is ideal, but when the
state cannot provide educational
facilities which will enable the
schools to the
Association of Accredited Secondary
Schools, local aid is necessary in
order to reach this level.
3. How can a supplement be
secured ?
A request for the special election
is first presented to the Board of
Trustees. Upon their approval and
endorsement that request is then sent
to the County Commissioners, who
approve it and endorse it. The next
step, the application for a local elec
tion must be presented to the State
School Commission for approval.
The County Commissioners then
call an election giving the time and
appointing the various election offi
cials. A notice of the election must
appear for three consecutive times
in a local paper. These notices must
give the amount to be voted upon and
the date. This special election will
require a new registration within the
district. The election must not be
held under thirty days from the
time of the first notice.
4. How.many must vote for the
supplement ?
A simple majority, at least one
more than half, of all people regis
tering must vote in favor of it. If
one thousand register, 501 must
vote for a supplement before it can
be obtained.
5. What will a supplement give
the schools?
If a supplement is voted, the
Goldsboro teachers will be paid a
more nearly decent salary; addition
al teachers will be employed to re
lieve the overcrowded conditions of
the classroom; a ninth month will be
added to the state supported eight
month term.
6. What other towns have a sup
plement ?
Eight towns have provided a sup
plement for their schools. These are:
Rocky Mount, Chapel Hill, ISTorth
Wilkesboro, Roanoke Rapids, Le
noir, Durham, Southern Pines, and
Charlotte.
The students of Goldsboro High
School, having come to the realiza
tion that if anything is to be done
concerning the educational situation
in the Goldsboro School District
they must do it themselves, have
launched whole-heartedly into a cam
paign to arouse citizens into imme
diate action for a supplement of one
month to the state supported eight
months’ term.
A complete program, planned by
student leaders in a student assem
bly yesterday at w^hich no teacher
was present, includes a street dem
onstration by students, led by the
G. H. S. band on Tuesday night,
and a mass meeting of citizens of
Goldsboro School District in the
Court House to be held at the con
clusion of the street parade.
In the meeting Thursday the
president of each class appealed to
the students for support; the presi
dent of the Federation of Clubs told
of the needs of the Federation and
hoAv the Federation’s Avork had been
affected oy the shortened school
term; an outline of the campaign was
presented; and a committee of ten
students composed of the president
of each class, president of the Fed
eration, and one member of each
class chosen by the president and
one member of the Federation chosen
by the Federation president, was
selected to make plans for the street
demonstration and mass meeting.
The students of G. H. S. have long
been aware of the inadequacies of
their scliool j)lant as compared with
the elaborate furnishings and equip
ment of larger city schools and city
schools in other states and have ac
cepted without loss of enthusiasm,
initiative, or loyalty to school activi
ties, the conditions imposed upon
them by the 1933 legislature. But
not until Goldsboro Hi lost its proud
est possession, that last straw that
enabled them to cling to their pres
tige among schools in Korth Caro
lina -membership in the Southern.
Association of Accredited Secondary
School did they become so aroused
that they demanded of themselves
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Spring Calendar Features
Six Eventful 'Last' Weeks
The calendar for the remainder of
spring term is., fifed with vSy'
importai^t dat^^_
April 11, 12—Triangular Debates
at Chapel Hill.
April 12—State track meet at
Chapel Hill.
April 24—Wednesday 8:30, Jun
ior Play.
April 25,26—Girls’ Glee Club and
Band will enter the State Music
Festival at Greensboro.
May 3, FridjByi—Junior-Senior
Banquet.
May 12 Baccalaureate Sermon.
May 16—10:30 Class Day Ex
ercises.
May 17—2 :00 Students will as
semble to receive report cards.
May 17—8:30 Graduation Exer
cises.