Page Two
THE POINTER
Friday, January 12, 1940
THE POINTER
OF HIGH POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
High Point, N. C.
STAFF
Grady Morgan
Mavis Walker, Marie Snider, Irene Meekins
Gene Thacker
“Bus” Overcash
Asst. Sports Editor - — Bill Currie
Exchange Editor - Mildred Allen
Art Editor .... Gilbert Southern
Business Managers - Betty Warner, Julie Marsh
Circulation Manager - N. L. Garner
Editor-in-Chief
Asso. Editors
News Editor
Sports Editor
REPORTERS
R. Conrad, G. Griffin, A. Hayes, J. Terry, L. Whitt, D. Smith,
L. Welborn, G. Ilderton, B. Hall, G. Southern. B. Quigley,
C. Edwards, F. Taylor, M. Mellas, B. Currie, J. Marsh, B.
Warner, N. L. Garner, R. Bennett, T. Homey, J. Kennedy
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DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION
At the Social Standards Conference in Greensboro,
Superintendent of Greensboro schools, Ben L. Smith, spoke
to visiting students a few minutes on student government.
What stood out in the superintendent’s speech were two
words “citizenship training.”
These two words are the very rock foundation of stu
dent government, the foundation on which is built citizen
ship for the United States of America. The Greensboro
conference was ever conscious of the shadow of a question
hanging perilously over them—“will student government
work ?”
Will it work? From the depth of human necessity
how can it but work? What men have found necessary to
their health and happiness they have made work in spite
of the jeers and incredulousness of others. When H. P. H.
S. students graduate they receive diplomas signifying that
they have worked four years for units of credit in Eng
lish, history, geometry, and other subjects. What
school would send them out into the world to make
successes of themselves, without at least a smattering of
knowledge about these subjects? Yet every year students
are graduated and are expected from that moment to bloom
forth into the finest speciman of citizenship. The flower
in bad soil without water and food blooms forth beautifully.
Absurd! If we are expected to become good citizens of
our country we should have ample opportunity to train
ourselves for it, and, moreover, have plenty of practice. We
admit that experience has a lot of weight in determining
policies of school government but then experience is what
we are out to get.
But if the hard fight for student government is ended
in our favor with new officers to fill new offices the battle
is not won. Not until every citizen of our future miniature
democracy realizes that he is a part of it—that he is learn
ing good citizenship and how to be a good follower of a
good leader—and he is willing to put every ounce of his
strength into the fight for its endurance, will student gov
ernment succeed.
And not until student government succeeds will we
know that other persons have made good citizens of them
selves without the help of citizenship training, but the
majority have lost a great privilege. The majority of high
school pupils mu'it have a working knowledge of how to be
Hello, Kiddie, this New Year
1940, finds Us & Co., and we sin
cerely hope, you, feelin’ like a
coupla kids in spring. Yessir,
’cept when the teachers give us
that old I. Q. on “parlez-vous,
francais?” Speaking of tests,
how do you rate on the latest
“rag-chawin’ history? Huh?
Number the once, we wanta
know, will “Faces Evans still be
here when Bobbie Lindsay (Lib’s
sister) grows up ?
Has anyone heard about the
latest romance, “Butch” and
“Butch”? We have!!
Don’t you miss Wednesday,
Julie! Buss will be home soon!
Here’s a perfect match—Joe
and Pat. They’re specially train
ed. i
These people that listen to the [
Lux Radio Theatre instead of ‘
going to the movies! Ain’t the
ushers handsome ?
Jimmy Ellis does rate in Win
ston, we heard, specially with
Nancy Sue Gladstone.
Girls, it’s basketball season,
now, so, more power to the
players! If any of you dainty
damsels got lost in the race for
those letters, don’t weep, base
ball will be here ’fore long.
Who’ll deliver this to Furman
University? We want and de
mand that they take good care
of Brantley and that they send
us all choice gossip about that
dashing, han’some, twentieth
century cavalier, with that mil-
lion-dollar smile! Righto!
Somebody in the Personality
Parade this issue has bestowed
his Sea Scout pin on Margaret
Furr.
Have you watched Richard
Bennett’s eyes light up when you
mention a favorite popular song
of his ?
We thought girls had forgot
ten how to blush until we saw
Catherine Marshall when some
body mentioned Dyal Reece. So
help me, you could feel the heat
in the next room!
A swell girl—Irene Meekins—
the best to her!!
An’ now, children, comes the
time for all us honest people to
go back to the Ladies’ Sewing
(Rag-chawin’) Society meeting
and Eaves-droppers Club. So
until we meet again, it’s ’bye
for now.
a citizen. Not until then will
the low registration at the
polls increase. Not until stu
dents’ aloofness and con
tempt to cheaters and the
like is brought forth as a
link in the student govern
ment chain will crime de
crease in the community.
Very few students will tol
erate such mud fields in a
government they themselves
have part in. People used
not to have electric lights
and sewing machines. Is
there a reason why we
shouldn’t?
We ask you students of
H. P. H. S., the sophomores,
juniors, and seniors, to mus
ter up all your strength to
fight for student govern
ment and for its endurance.
If you let it slip by, you will
let other things in life slip
by until a smarter and
shrewder generation fights
your battles for you. Hitler
was a smart fellow. He
started training the German
youth from the cradle. We,
to whom democracy is every
thing, must prepare for it
while the clay is soft.
—S. I. M.
Not inti-oducing, just present
ing Miss May Meador, an out
standing mem-
»ber of the social
1^ science depart
ment of our
school.
A real teacher
we have here.
Why ? Well, the
chief reason is
that she has
that painless
method of teach
ing “down pat.” You hardly rea
lize you’re learning, so naturally
you can’t resist quite so hard.
Miss Meador shows a deep,
genuine interest in her classes,
and she seems really concerned
about each pupil. We all ap
preciate this.
In addition to her classes in
history and economics. Miss
Meador has charge of the school
store.
A pleasing personality, a fine
sense of humor, a loyal friend,
and a good teacher—that’s Miss
Meador.
An eye and an ear full—that
sophomore genius, Rebecca Con
rad. You all
know her, thi
cute little bru
nette with thosi
b i g, expressivi
gray eyes.
Rebecca is to
be seen here
there, and all
around every-
where, as she is
a member of al
most every club and school or
ganization.
Besides her exceptional supply
in the upper story, she has a
lot in the way of personality.
There is quite a long list of
males who will agree with this.
Rebecca has proved that she
“has what it takes” by her out
standing scholastic achievements,
and she has all the qualifica
tions for climbing high. Keep
on, Rebecca, and maybe you
can knock some of the shine off
of your “Senior Sis.”
A big feather for our cap
and here it is—Cecil Prince.
This “Prince
of a fellow” is
just about the
best president a
good school
ever had. He
has really taken
our school
places this year,
and it’s our bet
that he hasn’t
^ climax
yet. He seems
always to have a better card up
his sleeve.
Cecil is not only a good pres
ident, but he’s a good everyday
guy and he’s everyone’s friend.
We all are pleased with that
deep mellow voice of his whether
we hear it in the class room,
over the amplifier, or from the
stage. He could probably con
vince us that even 8th periods
are enjoyable.
We’re all proud of you, Cecil,
and we’re backing you one hun
dred percent.
Like a page out of a minstrel’s
history is Charles Varner, who
may some day
join the long line
of famous stor
tellers, for h
has power t(
hold his listener
spellbound. Per
haps it is thi
same talent tha
seems to weav
a spell on hi
girl, who seems
to think he’s awfully good look
ing. A bit on the serious side,
but not too much, and apparent
ly quite ambitious, Charles has
great promise of leadership
which we hope he will fulfill. He
appears to possess depth of
thought and imagination, quali
ties that can help him render-
service of the finest to his
school.
BEATIN’ IT OUT
WITH BENNETT
Well, hello chums! Here we
are again, back from our Christ
mas holidays, and did we have
a lot of fun! Hope you did, too,
incidentally.
Say, have you ever heard
Bobby Byrne’s orchestra? It’s
one of the youngest bands in
the business. Led by twenty-
one-year-old trombone-p laying
Bobby and with vocalists Jimmy
Di Palma, only twenty years
old, and nineteen-year-old Doro
thy Claire. You’ll be hearing lots
more from this crew in the off
ing.
Another one of the newer
bands is the one piloted by
George Auld. When Artie Shaw
left his fine band, the members
of the deserted ork got togeth
er and elected twenty-one-year-
old Georgie, tenor sax player,
their front man. Only two men
are gone from Shaw’s renovated
crew. These are Tony Pastor,
who is forming a band of his
own, and the bass player, Kay
Foster, blond singer with Good
man, has joined Auld’s band.
Helen Forrest, vet chirper with
the Shaw group, went over to
Goodman.
Remember Johnny Long’s or
chestra, hailing from Duke,
which played at several dances
around in this vicinity a couple
of years ago ? Well, he is now
playing at the Number One
night club in Pittsburgh.
About the most popular band
down at Carolina now is the one
fronted by Charley Wood. T’hey
fContinued On Page Four)
Alumni Notes
Mrs. S. S. Coe, nee Miss Verta
Idol, graduated with the class of
1906. Mrs. Coe said that there
was no student council when she
attended High Point High School.
One year she was secretary of
her class. At the present time,
Mrs. Coe is principal of Brent
wood school.
Dr. D. B. Carrick graduated
from High Point High School in
1905. While in high school he
was outstanding in baseball, for
which he was awarded a scholar
ship. After graduation he at
tended Wake Forest College and
Cornell University. Dr. Carrick
stated that to him high school
was as necessary a part of his
routine as was eating breakfast
or taking medicine. He is now
a bulb specialist and experiments
with daffodils and other flowers
at his garden on Montlieu Avenue.
Mrs. Harold Bennett, the for
mer Miss Nellie Muse, graduated
r,-oTn our high school in 1916.
Before her marriage she taught
for a while in the city schools-
Mrs. Bennett has a daughter,
Nancy, in the sophomore class.
All In the Technique
Mammy: “Daughter, your hair
is all mussed up. Did that guy
try to kiss you against your
will?”
Daughter: “He thinks he did,
mother.”
—The Glen Bard
Middle age is somewhere be
tween a night club and a golf
club.
—The Blue and White