April 2, 1954
High Life
Page Seven
Death Chamber Also
Man's Home Casfte,
A man’s home may be his castle,
but according to the National Safe
ty Council, it is also his death
chamber. Last year 28,000 lives
were claimed by accidents in the
American home.
An even greater number of 110,-
000 people were permanently dis
abled by mishaps ranging from
falls to poisoning. Because of this
apparent danger in the home, the
Home Economics Department at
GHS decided to devote a few weeks
to the study of the causes of these
accidents.
Most accidents were in the 65
and over age group last year, and
falls by far were the greatest
cause. The next largest group in
volved in home accidents was chil
dren from 5 to 14 years of age.
In their study home economics
students found that the kitchen
was a perfect place in which ac
cidents could occur. Short cir
cuits, fires, and explosions were
discovered to be the most frequent
causes for mishaps. Little things
such as wearing flappy aprons can
lead easily to accidents, as a hot
stove is always hungry for some
thing to burn.
Safeguards against these acci
dents were discovered to be the
checking of all circuits, careful
storage of poisons, top-notch con
ditions of stoves, and a general
awareness of all other possible
causes of accidents.
D. O.-D. E,
Held M Meose Club
A new face is now being placed
on GHS by a crew of industrious
painters.
Hisplaced Arlicles
Caused By Painters
THEATRES
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Rifles”
in CinemaScone
Technicolor
Regardless of popular opinion
there is a logical explanation to
why French guillotines and Span
ish ships are found in geometry
classes, and human skeletons have
of late been found, not in their
natural habitat of the Science De
partment, but in an English class
room.
Starts Sunday
SHELLEY WINTERS
DEWEY MARTIN
KEENAN WYNN
“Tennessee Champ”
in Color
This general chaos was caused
by five quiet, hard-working gen
tlemen who are painters by trade
To date they have painted every
school in the city of Greensboro
These gentlemen arrived at GHS
two months ago, and now, 451^
gallons of paint later, the interior
of GHS shows much evidence of
their handy work.
Aside from the omnipresent odor
of paint and turpentine, the evi
dence of their presence is in the
form of sea green halls and class
rooms, whose colors vary from
Irish , green and cascade blue to
creole beige.
Pink paint, in any shade, shock
ing or otherwise, will not be used,
for acording to Miss Louise Smith
pink has a very definite psycholog
ical effect. Pink, it seems, is con
ducive to argumentary attitudes.
Although the painters average
three to four rooms a day in the
business of lifting the face of,GHS,
they plan to remain here for an
other two months.
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(Continued from Page One)
es representing 57 places of em
ployment stood to be recognized.
Special guests included were Mr.
Arthur Kirkman, Republican mem
ber of the State Senate: Mr. John
Foster, member of the school
board; Mr. and Mrs. Dave Brown,
the latter being on the school
board; Superintendent and Mrs.
Ben L. Smith; Assistant Superin
tendent and Mrs. Philip Weaver;
and Miss Lucille Brown, director
of guidence in the Greensboro
schools.
“Wishing Can Make It So” was
the theme .of several skits present
ed on the stage. Joyce Owen and
Jerry Sherrill, again in their role
of fairy and elf, introduced the
“wishes,” portrayed by the. fol
lowing: Joyce Cummings and Pen
ny Starnes, skit and song; Joan
Heath, piano solo; Jean Robbins
and Jerry Stanley, vocal duet; Pat
sy Lewey and Carolyn Lowder-
milk, dance; Greta Lucas, solo;
and Don Heath and Jerry Varner;
guitar and vocal duet.
Gail Wilson gave a take-off on
“What It Was, Was Football” in
her interpretation of a salesgirl
in a department store. A skit on
the right and wrong ways to apply
for a job was presented by Lucille
Childress, Betty Caviness, Vivian
Lindsay, and Shirley Moon.
After the entertainment, guests
were bade good-bye with a song
from their D.O.-D.E. hosts.
Mrs. Hodden’s classes were re
sponsible for the decorations carry
ing out the wishing well theme.
Entertainment was provided by Mr.
Racster’s classes, and programs
were furnished by Mrs. McEntire’s
classes
New Blue Hall Passes To Display
Latest Work Of Would-Be Printers
Have you noticed the ne,w hall
passes? They are among the latest
work put out by GHS’s own
printing shop in the vocational
building.
Personal and business letter
heads and cards with printed en
velopes have been turned out by
the boys of the class. Mr. Edwin
G. Cooper, printing instructor, ex
plained, “This practice helps the
boys in that they will do the layout
of the job, and in layout work
they will get experience in various
kinds of type. In the layout work
on paper they learn how to de
termine margins, the sizes of type,
and how to produce neat appearing
work. Then they set up copy into
type and do the actual printing.
They follow it all the way through
themselves.
Students also learn many facts
in class about printing, paper, de
sign of jobs, and proofreading.
Aside from the 4000 hall passes,
the print shop also made 1600
tickets for the Torchlight talent
show, printed the tickets for the
one-act plays, and did several jobs
for Whirligig and the P. T. A.
Mr. Cooper is very interested in
philosphy. He took several se
mesters of it along with other
academic courses while in college.
So it follows that he tries to mix
that in with the regular industrial
arts’ course. To do this he and the
boys are planning a booklet sim
ilar in content, but slightly larger
than the “Golden Treasury—,”
which was issued earlier this year
by another group.
In the booklet will be excerpts
of sayings and writings from noted
people as well as from less promi
nent ones. It will include the phi
losophies of people in all walks
of life.
The booklet will be designed to
point out some helpful thoughts
in the art of living.
This year under Mr. Cooper the
print shop has progressed greatly.
They received some new type
which helped, but Mr. Cooper
says that they are still lacking in
printing supplies. Plans are being
made to add new equipment, which
will go a long way toward making
the printing shop an even greater
success.
SOPHOMORE SALES REPRE-
sentatives have begun the second
phase of their monogrammed school
stationery sale; it was announced
by Mrs. Mary Madlin, class ad
viser.
The stationery will be sold dur
ing the homeroom period by rep
resentatives of the Sophomore
Class.
Homespun Deadline
Set
March 9 has been set as the
deadline for any creative work
to be published in HOME-
SPUN.
Poems, essays, short-stories,
and sketches should be typed
and submitted in the box in
the main hall or given to any
Quill and Scroll member.
You Take The High Road—111 Stay In Bed
BY JERRY FARBER
I was calmly sitting in class the
other day with two of my perfectly
abnormal classmates when out of
a clear black eye someone cleverly
disguised as a human being taps
me on the back and says, “Hey
Farber, have you heard the latest?
Russia is giving the world twenty-
four hours to get outi After paus
ing a moment for my glands to
depercolate, I questioned that
statement. Then it hits me like a
Diesel—I was the victim of an
April Fool joke, of which there
are many distributed on April 1.
No sooner than you’ve recovered
from spring fever nostalgia than
you have to face April Food neu
ralgia. “Enjoy yourself. Eat, drink,
and be merry, for tomorrow we
may all be radioactive,” the say
ing goes. That expression was made
for all April foolsters, and boy,
on April 1 those fools made the
best of the situation.
Some people performed as real
comics when telling an April story;
but when ever I tried to crack a
joke, I always managed to get
myself misunderstood. Congress
doesn’t know how lucky it is that
I’m not a member because if the
outcome of the war depended on
my so much as rising to second
a motion, Georgi and his boys
would be watching television from
the east wing of the White House.
As to understanding and trying to
think of a clever backfired answer
to an April joke, as most of us
like to do, I felt* like Mortimer
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Snerd arguing relativity with Ein
stein. Everyone gets a laugh but
me. Everyone has a field day on
“April First,” whether .or not he
has an inferiority complex or, like
me, is just inferior. But my jokes
went over about as well as an ele
phant dangling over a cliff with
its tail tied to a daisy.
Typical of an anecdote distrib
uted on April 1 is one like this—
adolescent, perhaps, but aren’t we
all? “Hey, buddy, what has three
hands, foams at the mouth, and
has 24 heads?”
“I dunno,” is the well-thought-
out reply.
“I dunno, either, but you’d bet
ter get it off your neck.”
And another one just about as
popular is, “Head for tjie hills,
boys; the Martians have landed!”
Nonsense! Martians landing here
in our little metropolis! Foolish
ness, bosh. Mars! Why, no, it can’t
be! Stop! Don’t touch me! You’re
just a bird—no, agghhh, you’re a
plane—no, you’re Superman. Mer
cy, Percy, you’re from Mars—go
back—I’ll call Gomer —no—no-—
agghh!
(Ha-ha, April fool).
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