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Page Two HIGH LIFE • September 16, 1932 smb HIGH LIFE Member of Naiional Presi Aj5ociation, Columbia Scholastic Press Association, Southern Inicrscholascic Press Association Published Bi-monthly by the Students of Senior Hi«h School from September to June, excluding holidays. Printed by W. H. Fisher Company, 110 East Gaston Street FOUNDED BY CLASS OF ’21 Entered as Second-Class Matter at the Postoffice at Greensboro, N. C. CHARTER MEMBER Ib MARCH 1925 EDITORIAL BOARD Carl Jeffress - EJilor-in-Chief Frances Sowell - — Editor Filmorc Wilson AaiiUnt Editor Paige Holder and Edwin Gambroll — Sportt Editors Sherman Hines - —Typing Editor Warren Brandt and Howell Overton -Art Editors Beverliy Burgess, Elston Fife and Alan Brooks - Literary Editors Faye Flolder Assistant SPorts Editor Hardy Root . Humor Editor Paul Curtis . Business Manager ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS Mary Jane Clarrida, Edward Cone, Rosemary Kuhn, Everyn Kernodle, Martha Coons, Mary Margaret Bates, S. B. Marley and Phillis Hagedorn REPORTERS Jack Barnes, Harvey Hodgin, Virginia Hammon and Rucl Capel TYPISTS John Coleman, Lile Mae Ginnis, Jack Wachter BUSINESS BOARD Robert Baker, Billy Womble, Frances Sutton, Ruth Jones, Georg Underwood, Edwin Jeffress and Tommy Miller • FACULTY ADVISERS Mrs. Alma G. Coltrane - Literary Mr. W, H. Hamilton Business Subscription Price 50c a Year—Students 25c a Year Thv days rebuked me, saying: "Honor and praUr Wisdom and high endeavor, fame at"! yT -s^harles Hanson Towne. Make It a Big Year This is going to be the greatest nine months in the history of G. H. S.! We’re off on a good start. Now is the time to plan for two semesters and more of good, hearty, efficient co-operation among students, and between students and faculty that will make the citizens of Greensboro take notice. We are going to make educational history, and that doesn’t mean just getting knowledge out of text books. In music, athletics, dramatics, debating, and every other phase of activity, Senior high is going to show a clean pair of heels to every other school in Greensboro, or, rather, to every school in the state. Give the old school a big boost, and let’s show the world what Senior high can do! Yes, Sir! Hello, there, new recruits, how do you like our school? We know you can’t quite understand all the ropes yet, but we will do our best in 'ne\p'iTig you catch on. Hope you liavc your schedule arranged so you can start to work quite hard. We just can’t stand the flunkies. Do your best. Make the honor roll. Know that we arc proud of you. Remember the traffic rules, which are very few, and do not anger the "cops,” for they have orders to take you to the, court (student council) if you offend them too many times. Ask anyone for help you need and follow good advice. Patronize our supply shop, support our publications and our athletics, and yell for G. H. S. Wc want you to help us make this a better Senior high than ever before, Per Instructions It’s a strange but true fact that very many people are afraid of work. Not actually physically afraid, of course, but, whenever they are confronted with a task, they dread "digging in” and seeing that it is successfully com pleted. This seems all the more strange when we reflect that work is one of m-n’s greatest blessings. There are probably a good many members of G. 11. S. who will disagree with this statement. This, very probably, is because they have never experienced the satisfaction of completing a task well, and "as per instructions.” It’s not merely the pleasure of being praised, or receiving rewards. It’s the knowledge that you are actually of some use, that you fill a niche in the world, and that your loss would be noticed and regretted. That's the ultimate and not inconsiderable reward for work. This applies to everyone, especially high school students. Good grades give a person a mighty nice feeling, but your own estimation of your worth adds more to your self respect and gives you more confidence than another’s evaluation of your merit. Don’t be afraid to work hard. After you’ve once started, the rest is easy. Get started now, and don’t stop until you’ve reached your goal. RAMBLING THOUGHTS Hardy Root Why are we so anxious to return to school after vacation, and after the third day we begin counting the days till the Christmas holidays? I wonder if the rest of the bad boys have noticed that when Principal Phil lips is giving them down the country, he appears to have a smile on his face? Well, not always. The following is one of our dear biology teacher’s pet quizzes: 1. What •of the— is—? 2. The sperm cell Is and—7 3. A tree Is — years old when — ? 4, The — of a leaf Is that way because —, —? 5. ? —If you can’t answer these you're a sorry tightrope walker. I wonder if anyone else has the same weird feeling I do when a train whistle blows In the distance late at night? Why can't I get a sun-tan like everyone else? I lay on the beach for hours without getting a trace of tan, while some of you get a glorious bronze without half trying—. Why did these hard times have to come during the depression? 1 can hardly wait for the first snow, for that’s the day Buster Rucker and I on our annual rabbit hunt. Last year I mistook Buster's dog for a rab bit. He's-got a bigger dog now. I have a hunch that Senior high will win the state championship in football this year—^yes, I sometimes have queer hunches. 'Whoopsl many of our boy graduates are going to N. C. C. W. this year. Now Isn't that just too cute? Life may be “just a bowl of cher ries," but if we eat too many we'U get the tummy ache. John Ademy Is going to Peabody Conservatory to study music—keep an eye on that boy, for some day he’s go ing to make a noise in this world— Which of course means we won't have John back this year for the opera, but, then, there's L. H. Dunivant—rcy how time fli-rs, oiJy i3y more days till Clu istmas—Ho-hum. Open Forum September 8, 1932. To the Students of Greensboro High School: There is a great deal of work that has to be done about the first of Sep tember, but I assure you that it is a genuine delight to come back year after year and find a fine group of students anxious to go to work. I have been very much pleased this year already with the serious purpose that the group as a whole has exhibited. May I suggest that this is a very critical year. It may mean much or little in your life. I make the strong est appeal I know to you to make it piean much. Dig in and stand for what you think you ought to do, then I won’t fear for results. C. W. PHILLIPS. Dear Students: It gives me great pleasure to wel come all of you and the faculty mem bers to our school for the coming year. We, the Goodwill Student Council, do sincerely hope for a very pleasant ad ministration, and we feel that with your backing we can accomplish much. We have every possibility for success. If you will be tolerant with us we are willing to go all the way to help you, and once we get started we won't be stopped! I was chosen by the majority of you to be your president. I have taken my oath of office, and I fully intend to carry out your trust to the very best of my abiltiy. I don’t want you to feel that I am tryl-'o' to dictate to you. 1 don’t want you to feel that the Coun cil is a monarchy. We are not! We are governing you by your own will. Please try to understand it that way. That you do this is to our mutual benefit. Be tolerant. We are all willing to work; we want to help YOU, so let’s get our work synchronized and create in our school a greater spirit than has ever before prevailed, WHAT DOES THE SCHOOL LIBRARY MEAN TO YOU? Upon entering the school library, has its true value and exact meaning in relation to your studies ever occupied a large space in your mind? Perhaps not, for it was only after careful con sideration that your author was able to sense the weight of this question. To the average student, this depart ment means very little. Generally the period during which the pupil is al lowed the use of this storeroom of knowledge is used to find new methods of passing an hour or so in idleness. There is little need in listing the sometimes novel, but often wornout trick of the trade of loafing in the library, for no doubt the greater num ber of us have indulged in them. The reading room contains several thousand volumes, that are selected from such a wide range of literature that readers of every type will be sat isfied if they will only give the libra rian a chance to furnish them proof of this fact. One entire section of the room is given to reference work. ■Qn the extreme right of the libra rian's desk will be found a small com partment used for the ancient and present history collection. PRANK PITTMAN. A Great Opportunity To get along successfully in the world, people must learn to take advantage of their opportunities. As a rule, high school students seem to know a good thing when they see it. However, we have one opportunity which doesn’t seem to be receiving much attention. This opportunity is in the form of one of the best equipped high school libraries in ilic state. Front it we can obtain books of all kinds, and by almost every noted author the world has produced, but, sad to say, most of us are famiti.tr with the contents of conip.iratively few of them. Books are our best friends, but only if wc read and remember them. 1 listory, fiction, science, philosophy all arc in our library, and each has something valuable for us. The fiction wc read gives us entertainment and a knowledge of tlie world. History makes it possible for us to profit by the mistakes of men and nations of the past. The science library can give us a store of knowledge about the things that govern the physical side of our lives. The works of the great pliilosophers open the way to clear thinking and teach us how to take stock of ourselves and the people and circumstances whicl) surround us. All these, and more, we have at our fingertips. Wouldn't it be r.tther foolish not to take adv.tntagc of them? Jack Norman is attending the Uni versity of Texas. John deButts left Sunday for "V. M. I. Arlindo Cates is the president of the senior class at the University of North Carolina. W. S. Paris, Holt Knight and Ed Spence plan to attend W. C. of U. N. C. Miss Eda Walters, Pat Knight and Elizabeth Yates are planning to enter W. C. of U. N. C. Dick Cann left Monday to enter Da vidson college. Harris Mitchell, who won so many honors at Culver, visited G. H. 8. Wed nesday. Ed Hartsook Is attending the Uni versity of Tulsa, Tulsa, Okla. Elizabeth Craven is leaving the last part of this month for Pude’s Crossing, Massachusetts, where she will be in school at Kendall Hall. Mary Leigh Scales is leaving for Spartanburg, South Carolina, the last of the month, where she will be a stu dent at Converse college. The city wide tennis tournament during vacation claimed the attention of many past and present Senior high students. One of these fought a win ning battle against Edwin Garrett, an alumnus. Who was it, you say? Why, Douglas Cartland, class of '31. In high school Douglas was not sat isfied with doing anything good. He wanted to do a little better than good. He won the junior championship of the city and now Is trying for a berth In the list of champions In the Sedge- field tournament. Red Paris, famous for football and opera in our school, who graduated a few semesters ago is roaming around the halls, casting a wistful eye towards the glee club room. Allen Stanley, another of Senior high’s graduates, who was well known for his singing ability, paid our school a visit the other day. Every summer at least one of our classmates gets married. This year Katherine Neister kept the ball rolling. Charlie Root, an alumnus of Senior high, and brother of the famous Hardy, won a hundred dollars this .summer in the Old Gold contest. The funny part of it is he doesn't smoke. While walking down the main stairs of G. H. S.. it was the great pleasure that ye writer spied Joe Dees, late member of the student body of G. H. S., approaching. After much hand shaking and a great deal of wasted effort on both parties to become mas ter of the conversation your corre spondent was able to turn the flow of speech in a more scholarly direction. With the use of a bit of diplomacy It was found that young Dees Intends to spend the winter at Davidson, where it is hoped he will follow in the foot steps of his older brother. Dear Editor: Most of the girls of G. H. S. want an advanced home economics class. The school has added other advanced studies, and it seems as if it could add this course within another year's time. MARY DIXON KING. Dear Editor: We heard Frank Pittman’s talk in Chapel about traffic duty at G. H. S. By the way the traffic rules have been arranged, I think everyone will be able to go up and down the right stairs if they will lift up their eyes and no tice the signs “up” and -“down" that have been put up on all stairsteps in G. H. S. Here is hoping that old G. H. S. will have a better traffic system this year. MAE MARTIN, Dear Editor: Does the whole student body eat lunch at the fourth period? I'm sure it has that appearance to an outsider. Every day both lunch lines run all the way back to the doors. Also the tables are so crowded, one doesn’t have el bow room. I think it would meet with the approval of the fourth period lunchers to be changed to the fifth period lunch if It can be arranged. DORIS GAMBRELL. Dear Editor: The incoming classes to Greensboro high school look forward keenly to the first issue of "High Life." We have heard so much about this prize-win ning publication that we anticipate a wonderful school paper. We wish you the best of luck in the pub lishing of an even better paper than that of last year. GEORGE JONES. Dear Editor: This is my first semester at this big school, and I like it flhe. On registration day I was roaming the hall and didn’t have the slightest idea of where to go when a smiling young girl came to my rescue. “Are you a new pupil?" she asked. “Yes," I answered. “Well, you may go into the audi torium and sit down, for that is where the others will go," she said. Pi-om that minute until this I have liked the school and its folk. I hope I will continue to like it and some day give other newcomers the welcome that I received. MARY ELLEN GIBBS. Dear Editew: Last semester “High Life" was cer tainly a fine publication. All the articles were up to par and the edi torials were wonderful. I am sure the whole school appreciated this excel lent publication to the utmost extent. This semester, if you keep up the good work, I am sure that the old stu dents plus the new sophomores will enjoy and appreciate “High Life" and uphold it to the “last ditch." A READER. - _ fafl TWENTY-FIVE SIGN FOR LIBRARY COURSE ’I'he library course has been cwo-nged this year. In past years the only training received was through work done in the library, but, in the future. Miss Rebecca Wall plans to conduct classes at least monthly at activities period or before school In the morn ing. Mending books, keeping the desk, straightening the shelves, keeping books in order, and helping pupils find material are among the duties of stu dent assistants. Twenty-five people have signed up for the course. One- fourth credit will be given. Owing to lack of funds there will be only one copy of the “Greensboro Daily News" in the library each day. Stu dents are asked to be considerate in the use of the papr and not to keep it longer than is necessary. EYEBROWS!! I have been told that to tell a per son's character you should look at his hands. Well, that may be one way, and it works very well, but perhaps some of you, like me, are tired of look ing at hands. Now since men never, I hope there are none of them sissy enough to. trouble with their eye brows, we can’t consider them. But never mind that. The stronger sex are usually interested in women, and women are interested in other women because the men are so, let us stop and look at woman's eyebrows. I have seen many different shapes and sizes in my young life and they seem to me to be a very good index of character. For instance, take the woman who goes in for that pseudo sophistication so disagreeable to some of us. Her eyebrows are plucked into a thin, questioning line, and seem to be perenially raised. The true sophistocate, on the other hand, has her brows neatly arched in their natural line, which is most be coming and follows her usual good taste. The very bookish person, who studies hard, and seems to have no outside interests except studying, as a general rule lets her eyebrows run to rack and ruin, with shaggy bushes shadowing her horn-rims. But she doesn’t care, so we will not give her another thought, unless she wakes up and finds herself growing old without someone to love her and proceeds to beautify herself. Let's hope she does it before it is too late! Now this woman is the hardest of all to classify because her eyebrows as sume so many different shapes that she might be any of the aforemen tioned. She is the eccentric type. She may look at the world from beneath level brows, or she may have little in verted sickles for her forehead decora tion. Then, there are those eyebrows known as winged. They start in an upward direction from the nose and never come down again. However, there are very few of that kind, and we can be truly thankful, because they are very seldom becoming. Dixie Barber Shop 107 N. Greene Pender. the Old Reliable Barber ^ Hotel King Cotton ^ Barber Shop J5c — Children’s Hair Cut — 25c LABOR DAY Labor day originally conceived by the Knights of Labor, represents primarily the work of the great mass of people even as it did when first adopted by the early labor or ganization. Today this mass is largely despondent and weary with search for work in spite of the fact that Labor Day, 1932, finds a slight increase in business, a hopeful out look for the future and with a promise of a job to many. Although over eleven million are out of work, mills and other busi ness establishments put many old employees back to work, raised sal aries, and added time on Labor Day. It seems fitting that Labor Day should witness the restoration of healthy industry. It should be a new pledge to labor for the right to happiness. Book Reviews “BLUE RIDGE BREEZES ’ By Rev. 3. M. Rowland The Blue Ridge breezes blow over the setting for this story and bring with them the sorrows and joys of the mountain people. Thus the book called “Blue Ridge Breezes” tells of the humorous and sad experiences of a group of people in a certain moun tain section. Every word rings true to life because it is a mixture of humor, sorrow, romance and every Inch of life itself. "iiACK SlUEET" By Fanny Hurst This story, by the ever brilliant Fan- Hurst, is one of the best of the re cent novels. The story is that of a young woman, Ray Schmidt, who was up against that barrier conscience that some people cannot overcome. Liv ing a life which is controlled by the one superb love of her whole existence, she is never able to overcome that in her which rebels at common display of emotion. She lives the life of a “Sunday’s child," kindness and consid eration of others, which allows her to be imposed upon. This book of a girl who must always live on the back streets of a man's life, is really fas cinating. SUMMERS GONE BY Summer reminiscences— A cottage rented at the beach, A pebble picked up on the shore— An ancient cave discovered To be filled with mystery lore! jy a Iiss« ecte ion i Summer reminiscences— Days of tennis, golf, and swimming, Nights of carefree joyous laughter— Vivid—brief—yet seeming endless Romance—thrills remembered after! ROSEMARY KUHN. ;w ny S jet Toug Last THE SAME OLD STORY (The First 'Week) Smiling faces, screaming . voices— Each and everyone rejoices. Everyone seems glad at last That vacation time Is past. (The Second 'Week) The same old thing every day Is beginning to wear the joy away; The smiling faces, the joyful voices Have gone. No one now rejoices. iamdii ■ Pui the a^r g sea; : give; •ms, 9 ng(d' led a Coac (The Third Week) Monotony now reigns supreme. The joy at first was but a dream; Every study is aggravation; We all are waiting for the next vaca tion. HARDY ROOT. i by ^ed {KBdUi forth SEA VILLAGE I used to know a village by the sea Ine I The tob fi |he 11 With weather-beaten homes upon the beach, With tattered blinds and funny little steps, And always salty winds within their reach. of thi periei team accor I alrea “NEW WORLDS TO CONQUER" In this latest book of Halliburton’s, his adventures are described much more vividly than the ones described in his other writings. In this latest adventure of his, he is of course equipped with experience and that makes the book much more in teresting. He seems to have so many more thrilling and Interesting experi ences than he did in his other books; his stories seem more like fiction than truth because of his incessant appear ance in hair-raising deeds. His adventures begin at Mexico, of which he gives some very vivid de scriptions. His dive into the Well of Death which is in the heart of the Yucatan where there once dwelled a very prosperous and well educated Maya Tribe is very interesting. He then journeys to many places of interest until he comes to those little islands in the Caribbean Sea, Devil’s Island and her two companions. Here on these dreaded islands he lives as a convict and endures the hardships and tribulations of the convicts. This description of Devil’s Island is per haps one of the best because he goes inside the prison walls and really finds out what a convict on Devil’s Island has to endure. After his experiences at Devil’s Island he journeys on and winds up at a little island not very far from Trinidad, Spain, called Tobago. This is the most humorous section of the book which describes his experiences a second Robinson Crusoe although he called himself “Richard Crusoe" and his man Friday, who was nothing more than an island farmer, was called Tuesday. After some time of this “gruelling" experience as “Richard Crusoe," he gives up in desperation and returns home to the good ol’ United States. All kinds of furs repaired, remodeled and relined at low cost by skilled furrier, formerly with B. Altman’s, New York. PUCyDAS 226 1-2 W. Market St. (Above Mecca Cafe) Tailor Made Clothes $16.50—$18.50—§22.50 Krahnke Tailoring Go. 116 E. Gaston St Phone 6854 And down upon the wharf at early dawn A mumbling of the fisherman would dwell, And always there, a smell of fresh sea fish, ' Of shrimp and oysters and large crab to sell. On year are 1 ters Hesti ;^es ■ Bill And every little house upon the sands Was being cleaned, until each win dow-pane Was smiling in the golden, slant-wise sun Like asphalt streets that glimmer in the rain. I been -jlhard They tell me, that in wrath, one night the sea Came dashing with great waves upon the shore: And every little thing that I had loved Had vanished to the sea—forever more. 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