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Page 1' wo THE POINTER Wednesday, Jan. 30, 1929 THE POINTER Published Every Wednesday by HIGH POINT HIGH SCHOOL ^barter STAFF OFFICERS HARLLEE Editor-in-Chief Associate Editor vij'a 'cT'' Associate Editor FRANCIS I)0T,GLAS _ _ Associate FmTnn carpenter. ,..V.V.V.V.W.VAssociateTditor i/ior>i^^'ta^ w'tCV. Boys’ Athletic Editor Girls’ .Athletic Editor carl cMIIH Business Manager ; Club Editor Exhange Editor IJARRY COBLE. Humor Editor GAIjr irmr ' Assistant Advertising Manager r^T Assistant Advertising Manager COPYHOLDE R MAJNA ALLEN Proofreader Circulation Manager Jv^J'AR WSIDF^. Assistant Circulation Manager M derrick Faculty Manager M. I„ PATRICK Faculty Business Manager Honesty is one of the special privileges that all humanity may enjoy. Anyone, no matter how rich or poor he may be, may enjoy the ; good conscience and splendid re sults that come from being honest. : In school, especially, there is an extensive field in which honesty may be practiced. One of these is lesson preparation. In preparing his home work a student should Honesty tiie Besi CHARACTERS Harold Hubbard. Charles W'illiams. i''Iiss Thomas, the teacher. Act 1 Scene 1 (Harold and Charles are on their way to school.) Charles: Have you got your not rely too much upon the help i „ of others, but should try to study , ” ^ 8®*- stun, out his own problems by himself. 1^1® you. , i i i -u i If he does this, he will have a; yharles: Yes, I think 1 will be better knowledge of the work. P^ss the test that we will Another field is in taking monthly '■ oave today■ ^ tests. Many times a person is! Harold: I don t care whether I tempted to glance at someone ! 85^ ^ tust hate Aliss else’s paper, but by cultivating and history, too. If the saying that we profit by mistakes is true, then there may be some good to come out of those exams after all. If there are very many faults in this issue, please spare your un- cornphmentary remarks and remember that the staff wrote the material during exams. one’s will power one can avoid this temptation. Fight your own battles! Let your honesty be your shield on semester examinations, for then is a good time to show whether you are honest or not. Just think of Abraham Lincoln and the fame he received as a result of his truth and honesty. If it is hard for you to resist temptation, pattern after some honest person and try to follow him closely. “Llonesty is the best and only good policy,” as we have seen proved in many instances. Ths honest gets much more out of life than a dishonest person. “There is no terror in your threats: For I am arm’d so strong with Honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind. Which I re spect not.”—Shakespeare. —Irene Seward Now that we are at the beginning of a new semester we are also at the beginning of a clean slate. Whatever you failed in last semester IS behind you. Try to make the next five months the fullest and most successful of the year. Advice (especially to the seniors who still have poems to write): Better get busy, for the annual rush of extra-curricular spring acti vities such as the operetta, the music contest in Greensboro, the Ashe ville contest, the dramatic club plays, and the triangular debate will soon be on. Remember that! Why is it that at each basketball game lately there have been some who Insisted on making noise when our opponents were shooting foul goals? Repeated pleas for showing good sportmanship at such times have been made, yet they seem to be of no avail. They should be un necessary. 5ers The purple shadows soft around them fall. And voices clearly sweet through twilight call; And far away the evening bell Peals softly out across the quiet field Where these men have their life, their woe and weal; Dusk sinks; and all is well. As quiet calm upon the village fell Came clear upon the air the vesper bell When all was still; To worship place they come from near and far. While up above in deep-blue sky, a star Peeps o’er the silent hill. Now, but won t there be a lot of writing done from here, with all the new stationery! This stationery has proved very popular in other schools, and those In charge hope that it will be a successful project here. It may be called a fad,” yet it is a worthy one and an excellent means of advertising our school near and far. High the '‘THEY ALSO SERVE ...” Fifty-five students of the school were recently awarded letters for participation in athletics. These fifty-five boys and girls were no doubt exceedingly worthy of this type of recognition. They have worked hard for this honor, so they wear the “H.P.” with pride. Yet, on the morn ing that the monograms were presented, how many students were in the audience who would have felt just as much pride in getting to wear this mark of H. P. H. S. as did those who got them—and, are, perhaps, deserving also? The large blue or white H.P. is a symbol of the school. Yet, today it is confined to athletics. Is it not possible that one student may work just as hard in one field of endeavor as another student may in ath letics? He may take a great pride in the fact that he is a member of this student body, and through his efforts a good deal of commendation may come to his school. In spite of this, he has to yield his place to the athletic winner, who is, worthily enough, awarded the honor. Often boys and girls are barred from taking part in sports by physical incapacity. But does a weak athletic heart mean a weak heart in school spirit? Certainly not! For this reason or simply because his interest is more m another direction, does he seek another field for his work. Colleges and universities seem to be growing more conscious of this truth all the time, and now many present letters not only to athletic stars hut also to those who may win them in several fields as dramatics, debating, etc. Necessarily, the winning of these marks of honor must be placed on a high basis, so that the students would be encouraged to work harder for them. They would have to mean the same things in other fields as they would in athletics—hard work, obedience to rules, sport manship, and citizenship. But with this standard, who wouldn’t be proud to wear one? It has recently been ruled here that no one who does not win his monogram may wear one. The advisability of this rule is unquestioned. When one carries forth honor for something he has not won, it cheapens the genuine article. Yet when you face the thing squarely, how many more students wing an “H.P.” who never get one? What do you think about It? wings of air their voices ring As hymns of praise to their own God they sing— These simple folk— Their lowly peace-filled homes are all alight For through all days that may be dark or light They bear their yoke. And up above the simple lowly throng God hears their prayers and humble song; He spreads His hands O’er all the little village nestled there. Among the mountains looming bare And high above the lands. He guards their quiet town as still they praise Their God for bounteous fruitful days. Till o’er them darkness falls; And as they wend their way to cheery home Through winding paths in deep- n’ng twilight gloam The vesper bell still clearly calls. —Frances Douglas Let us always keep in mind That honest work’s our own; Let us make our highest aim To squarely work alone. Let us carry as an aid For daily work and tests, A motto which will aid our school “Clean scholarship is best.” J. T. McGhee. Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true; To think without confusion clearly. To love his fellowmen sincerely. To trust m God and heaven secu rely. —Henry Van Dyke Charles: Why, Harry, I like Miss Thomas and though I don’t espe cially care for history, I try to get it ;ust to please her. Harold: You can afford to talk, Charlie Williams. If she would be as good to me as she is to you, maybe I’d like her too. Charles: If you would study a little more— Harold: Oh, shut up. I can’t get it however hard I try, so I’m going to stop trying. Charles: Oh well, come on, or we will be late. Harold: I don’t care if I am. Charles: Allright, I’m going on, though. I don’t want to be late. Goodbye. Scene 2—The Schoolroom (The teacher is calling the role). Aliss Thomas; Is ev^erybody here today? No, Harold isn’t. Does anyone know anything about him? I hope he isn’t sick. Charles: He is on his way, I think Miss Thomas. (At that mo- ment Harold walks in.) Miss Thomas; Good morning, Harold. (Harold doesn’t answer.) Miss Thomas: Good morning, Harold. (Harold mumbles out something, that, perhaps is supposed to mean good morning.) Miss Thomas (addressing the class) : Allright, class. We will have the history test first. Please put away everything except pencil and paper. (She goes to the blackboard. Harold sits directly behind Charles. He is copying the questions oft the board and the answers oft Charles’ paper. His conscience is hurting him terribly.) Charles : Are you through, Harry? Harold: Almost. Charles: Well, I hope you passed. Act 11—Scene 1 (The schoolroom the next day.) Miss Thomas (standing before the class with the history papers in hand): I’m very glad to say that nearly everybody made good grades on this test, but one strange thing happened. Charles, why did you hand in two papers, both with the same answers and the words slightly changed on one. Charles: Why—why Miss Tho mas—I-I Harold (interrupting): I know. Miss Thomas. Charlie knows noth ing about it. Yesterday, before coming to school I hadn’t studied for the test, so when the time to have it came I copied his paper, changing the words a little. When you asked me to collect the papers I had no time to take the paper out, so I just signed Charlie’s name to it as it really was his work. My conscience was disturbing me and I ;ust couldn’t write my own name on it. (He sits down.) Miss Thomas: Well, Harold, I’m glad you thought honesty to be the best policy. I hope you all do. I'm glad to have such a pupil in my class. Scene 2 (On the way home from school.) Harold: Charlie, Miss Thomas IS a peach! I never knew I liked her, but I do. No wonder you talked about her so much. Charles: I know that after this you’ll always love and respect her, and do anything for her that you can. And I’m glad you learned that honesty is the best policy. —Martha Taylor Fine Yarns, from Gastonia, N. C., has an interesting column. Hall of Fame. A clever description and a life history of Individual seniors is made, and the name and a story of another senior of the opposite sex Is given In the next issue. The January 18 Issue of the High Life is especialy good. The front page make-up shows wonderful balance. Greensboro high school has a mid-year graduating class. The commencement exercises will be held around February 1. The Sagebrush is published monthly by the Neihardt Literary Society of Carlin high school, Car lin, Neavada. It is a very good paper, though small. The Mirror comes to us from Elgin, Illinois. The front page make up is good. The Bookworm’s Nook, which always has good book re views, is a good column. The January 17 issue of the Shrapnel from Western Military Academy, Alton, 111., is unusually good. The front page is newsy. Miss Lena Strawbridge, who was the Girl Reserve secretary here several years ago, is now doing Y. W. C. A. work in Greensboro. The Homespun, a magazine pub lished by the students of Greens boro high school, was one of the three high school publications in the United States to be awarded All-American Honor rating by the National Scholastic Press Associa tion of the University of Minne sota. “Gooseville News,” published by the Creative English class of Greensboro high school, made its first publication ina Christmas issue. This publication, made up of editorial and sport pages, society and ad columns, features Mother Goose rhymes. The Echo, from Tenafly, New Jersey, Is sponsoring a short story contest. The judges will be com posed of students only, and the award will be the winners choice of modern fiction. The students of Albemarle high school are compling a hrl ojjx. This will be their first volume. The senior class of Kernersville write their own plays. The two, which are just begun, will be pro duced in the spring. ^ LIBRARY HAS RECEIVED INTERESTING NEW BOOKS Miss Foster has received many new books which are now on the shelves. Following is the list in alphabetical order: Berry, Erick—Girls in Africa— Fiction. Du Challen—Wild Life Under the Equator—Fiction. Dickens, Charles — Christmas Carol—Fiction. Conde, Bertha—The Business of Being a Friend—170—C. Earhart, Amelia—Twenty Hours, Forty Minutes—629.1—E. Frost, Robert—Selected Poems —811-F. Lagerlof, Selma—Christmas Le gends—Fiction. Lee, Robert E.—Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee. Gift of High Point Chapter U. D. C.— B.L. Parsons, Geoffrey—The Stream of History—909-P. Schauftler, Robert—Christmas— 808.8-H-S. Sprague, Curtis—How to Make Linoleum Blocks 760-S. Stevenson, R. L.—The Black Arrow—Fiction. Toderoff, Alexande —What is What m Groceries—641.4. Woodring and Sanford—Teach- in of Mathematics in the High School—510.7-W. These new books will be on the borrowing shelves very shortly for the use of the students. blow sharp the print of remem brance is.—Tempest. He who rises late never does a good day’s work. A joke’s a very serious thing.— Churchill. Put not your trust in princes.- Psalms 146:3.
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