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VOL. 4,
HIGH POINT, N. C., DECEMBER 15, 1924
No. 10
MERRY CHRISTMAS
SPIRIT OF COME-CLEAN WEEK
SHOWN IN HIGH SCHOOL THURSDAY
Preparing the way for the speakers
from Chapel Hill, the Hi-Y club,
which is sponsoring the “Come Clean
Week” put on an enthusiastic program
in chapel Thursday morning Decem
ber 11.
Dick White, president of the Hi-Y,
led the devotional exercise and fol
lowed by a short talk which keyed
the students with expectation of what
was to follow. He told the things
which were to be stressed in the pro
gram and many others which we
could come clean on. The four topics
which were stressed were; clean
speech, clean habits, clean scholarship,
and clean atheletics. Semmie Herman
the first speaker spoke on clean
speech. She gave an illustration from
her own life where a busy store keep
er asked who gave him the money to
be changed. The gir 1 answered; “It
was I.’’ The busy store keeper stop
ped, with his store full of customers,
and commended her by saying that
she was the first to use, “It was I.”
Semmie told how she would have
given anything to have had him say
that about her. She made a great
talk against slang and profant lan
guage.
Charle.s Salsbury, the second speak
er u.sed for his topic, “Clean habits.”
He gave the proverb;
Sow an act.
Reap a habit.
Sow a habit.
Reap a character.
Sow a character.
And reap destiny.
He followed it with the statement
that if no habits are started there are
none to stop.. That the American peo
ple are the strongest willed in the
world and for this reason should be
able to avoid bad bad habits or to
wipe them out was another statement.
Toney Antonakas spoke on clean
scholarship. In this he stressed intel
lectual honesty, that the students
should study thoroughly and not de
pend on their neighbor for help.
Slim Dallas, captain of the football
team, made a talk on clean atheletics
He asked that all members of trie
teams play clean. That if the refree
makes a mistake in a decision he ask
ed them not to get mad but to keep
1heir heads and fight that much hard
er.
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NOTICE!
All books must be returned to
the library on or before Thurs
day noon, December 18, 1924.
Regardless of date when book
wa staken the books are due at
this time. It was also announc
ed by the librarian that no book
may be taken from the library
after Tuesday, Dec. 16.
A POINT OF VIEW
Industrial education is gen
erally accepted as an integral
part of the school’s work.
Whether all of us believe it or
not, the fact still remains that
it is in our ‘.chool. Since that
is true, it is the interest of
every one who feels a genuine
affection for the development of
our institution that the policies
and courses of study pertaining
to this department shall be of
real value. Modern high schools
are striving to offer curricula
including activities in -wihich
boys and girls of different
tastes may find expression, joy,
and happiness. This is a posi
tive fact. Yet no one would
think that the creation of these
elective courses are designed to
encourage laziness and to cre
ate deliberately a different
standard of working units. A
boy or girl who does not put
his or her body and soul into
the playing of a game or into
the learning of music, whether
he or she wills it or not, they
will very soon be cast out. This
same law applies to any other
activity, but most especially to
manual activities. It is, we be
lieve, a great wr^ng to encour
age a boy or girl to take some
of these elective courses just
because he or she is not doing
well in the subjects of the tra
ditional curriculum because it
is easy—an injustice for which
sooner or later all must account.
Let all working for the common
good have due regard for each
and every activity of the school
which is as necessary for a
natural and gradual develop
ment of the pupils, as are the
different members of our bedies
in the functioning of the whole.
—H. L. A.
CARNIVAL IS
SUCCESS
SENIORS CLEAR ABOUT
$300 FOR THEIR GIFT
A spectacular canival was held in
the high school Friday night at 8
o’clock by the senior class. The great
crowd which jammed in the hallways
and took in all the shows was esti-
maj«d to number over a thousand.
About ?300 was cleared for the sen
ior project.
The carnival, entertaining in every
detail and presented with marvelous
completeness, was a representation
of the old time carnival on a small
scale.
As usual there were booths offer
ing notions, candy, popcorn, ice cream
and hot dogs.
Fortune tellers from India foretcid
the future, while side shows of all
kinds beckoned the less adventurous
ones.
The center of attraction among the
side shows was that containing the
babies. Two fat young male seniors
were the babies while two girls were
the little tot in the kiddie koop and
the child on the kiddie kar.
The freak show contained many
well-known freaks, all of whom were
high school students. The smallest
dwarf in the world, a part of the
freak show was adjudged by many
to be the best thing exhibited.
The den of horror, to traverse
which was a hair-raising experience,
offered thrills for the bolder ones. On
entering the den the spectator step
ped on bed springs which greatly en-
dangered his equilibrium. Advancing,
he was greeted in different places
with detached parts of the human
anatomy. A skull beamed down upon
them with deabolical glee. Farther
on, he was confronted with Blue
beard’s eight wives hanging on the
wall.
The hall of fame showed many his
toric thinjjs being very cleverly got
ten up.
The magician. Professor Majicks,
performed a number of slight of hand
tricks for an admiring audience.
The minstrel gave three perfor-i-
ances, playing before approximately
500 people. In this show Skinny
White, although he was not white
that night, played the part of lead
ing man and did it pery creditably.
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