THE POINTER
BE A GOOD SPORT
We call ourselves good sports and
consider that play fair in all our
dealings. If anyone told us we had
deported ourselves in an unmannerly
way we would be indignant.
But do you call it sportsmanlike to
take advantage of a substitute teach
er as some of us have been doing ? Do
you call it fair to roam around the
room and talk in a loud voice when,
you have a period under a substitute
■teacher?
We have been given some nice bou
quets recently about our school spirit.
Remember what Mr. Marr said in
chapel about the students showing
more school spirit this year than ever
before. Do not spoil your good record.
You can show your .school spirit by
being ladies and gentlemen in the
school room just as well as you can
show it by backing up athletics.
There is always a smart aleck in
every room. We have been cursed
with them and always will be, but if
instead of following this animal’s lead
we would show him that his brand of
humor did not appeal to us he would
.soon cea.se to inflict it upon us and
the teacher.'
Hereafter let us sho-y our boasted
school spirit. Let us be ladies and
gentlemen and show the. substitute
teachers that we appreciate their
coming to help us.
—Eloice Hutchens.
STAY IN SCHOOL
After the Christmas holidays are
oyer it will be a hard task for most
of us to come back to school and
enter heartily into school activities.
The, thoughts of it will be so dreaded
by .some that they may make the
terrible mistake of not coming«.back
at all. .
I am sure that if they would only
tliink awhile as to what this mistake
would mean to their future career
that unless it was absolutely neces
sary for them to do so they would
not drop out of school.
According to the figures given in
one of the previous issues of the
Pointer a day in school is worth in
dollars and cents to each individual
just nine dollars and two cents. What
pupil in the eighth or ninth grade—
for it is from these two grades that
the greatest number of pupils usually
drop—can earn one half this amount ?
Not one of them. Therefor, they are
taking a very unwise step and are
actually robbing themselves if they
do not continue in school.
Ignorance is the cause of much of
the turmoil in the'world today. While
some of the boys and girls are not
able to go to college a great many
more than do could finish the high
school if they would only take the op-
portunitq. This would eliminate to a
great extent the ignorance of our
nation.
Take our own city of High PoinL
If every boy, and girl of the high
school age who had the opportunity of
continuing through high school had
taken it how much that would have
helped towards making our city more
indu.strifdly large and socially ideal”
than it already is.
DON’T BE A KNOCKER
' I think we need more support in this
high school from the boys and girls.
When there is a ball game why not
everyone be there and give their full
.Support to the hoy^l Make a little
noi.se in order that it will not seem so
quiet, even if we are losing the game.
Yell and let the team know we are
still back of them.
When you are asked to contribute
to a needy cause in the school, be eager
to help that cause. D? not go about,
knocking it and saying you do not be
lieve in it, and you are not willing to
help it. It will never help you to crit
icize anything.
Support your class and stand back
of it and your teacher.-
Girls in different rooms are trying to
win . a sweater by .selling tickets for
the athletic association. Help the girl
from your class who is selling _ the
tickets by buying from her or ’help
her sell tickets. You cannot expect
anyone to win in a contest or any
thing else unless everyone gives his
support to him or her. No one can
win when they try to work alone, they
wdn when they *are given support by
everyone.
You are not to be envied when you
go around criticising your school, you
are to be pitied. You will never
amount to anything In this w-orld if-
you knock every movement which is
put on to improve anything. ‘ Do not
be the one that is to be criticised be
cause you do not support the move
ment. , Stand back, of it and do your
dead-level be.st to put it through.
—Mary Elizabeth Long.
STARTING A NEW YEAR
“Such a way to start the New
Year,” grumbled Madeljme Hamplin,
“Never before have I had—”
“Madelyne,” interrupted a sweet
voice from the kitchen, “have you
time before school to take these cook
ies to Aunt Mary? She is so fond
of them.”
“Oh, I guess .so,” was the answer.
With a few books under her arm she
started t leave the house.
“Madelyne,” called her- mother
again, “don’t forget your overshoes.”
“Oh, mother, I really don’t need
them and it’s getting late,” said
Madelyne.
With a bang of the door she was
gone. As she was walking along on
her way to Aunt Mary’s she won
dered if she hadn’t heard her mother
sigh as she shut the door. “Poor
Mother, I must be an awful lot of
trouble,” she said aloud. Her thoughts
wandered and she soon found herself
“at Aunt Mary’s gate. She gave the
old delighted woman the basket, and
^ith a look at her watch she hurried
to .school.
On the way .she met Ruth Simpson.
“Isi^’t it perfectful awful we have
to conie to school on New Year’s?”
said Madelyne.
“Oh ,not at all,” replied Ruth, “I
think it’s a perfectly lovely day. It’s
too nice to miss school. It would sim
ply kill me to have to stay shut up
at home.”
“Hey,” interrupted a voice, which
proved to be Fred Lanes. “Glad to
see you all again. A good way to
celebrate. All the boys and girls can
make good resolutions together.”
^ ttiink so,” grumbled
Madelyne.
Fred and Ruth looked at each other.
Madelyne always had been “fussy.”
Nothing seemed to ever suit her, and
now she was ruining a perfectly lovely
New Tears. Fred tried to change the
subject. ^
“We have a peachy math teacher
now haven’t we ? I hated to lose Mr.
Amstroflg, but Mr. Grier is a dandy.”
“Oh, I think he has a perfectly hor
rible way of staring at you,” said
Madelyne. “I never learn a .single
thing in his class.”
The ringing of the first bell inter
rupted this, and they hastened their
steps toward their rooms. Ruth and
Madelyne were both in Miss Spencer’s
room, while Fred was in Miss Carr’s.
After the first class Miss Spencer
sent Madelyne to get a book from
Miss Carr.
“Oh, gee!” muttered Madelyne. Miss
Spencer looked hurt>ut said nothing.
As Madelyne was crossing the hall
she saw two boys. One of whom was
Fred.
“I’ll _ .say. Bill, wouldn’t* ‘Maddy’
Hamplin be some girl if she wasn’t
so fussy?”
“You bet she would,” was Bill’s an
swer. “I heard Professor Sears say
that she was the smartest girl in
school, but her dispo.sition ruined her ”
Madelynee didn’t .stay to hear any
more, but it 'was all she could do to
keep the tears back.
An assembly was called in chapel.
Boys and girl.s,” began. Professor
Sears, “I couldn’t resist the opportu-