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GOLDSBORO HI NEWS
February 12, 193!
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A Monthly Publication by the Journalism Class
Goldsboro High School
VOLUME
INTERNATIONAL
NUMBER -k
EDITORIAL STAFF
EdHor-in-CMef Dorothy Hooks
Assistants - Florence Baker, Dorothy Langston
Make-up Editors Edgar Pearson, Sammy Carr
News Editor Katherine Liles
Literary Editor Lillian Edg^ton
Sports Editors Ralph Casey, Thelma Ginn
Associate Editors:
Feature Isabell Baddour, Robert Piland
Alumni Clarence Wilkins
Qlubg Martha Peacock
jyjusic ’ Ruth Smith
ExchangeZ’Z Frances Bass
Society Barbara Best
Scout Column ^^oy Liles
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager Emmett Williams
Assistant Fred Smith, Jr.
Circulation Manager Clarence Wilkins
Advertising Manager Wyatt Exum
Assistant Nora Lancaster
REPORTERS
Corine Manly, Mildred Pelt, Lois McManus
TYPISTS
Lucille Summerlin, Florence Brooks, Lillian Gordon
Mary E. Kelly, Virginia Crow, Sara Lee Best
FACULTY ADVISERS
Miss Gordner Mr. Wilson
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Subscription—45c a Year
Entered as second class matter October 26, 1931, at the PostofRce at
Goldsboro. North Carolina, under the act of March 3, 1879
CAN YOU SPEAK ENGLISH?
Do you ever try to increase your
vocabulary? Or you content to let
it remain as it is? You are not, I
dare say, content to yet your educa
tion along other lines remain as it
is, any more than the business men
are content to let their wealth, or
lack of wealth, remain as it is. This
whole world is pushing upward—
and upward, to gain the desired per
fection, but it seems as though in
all the masses of billions and billions
of people there is not more than a
mere handful who are interested in
increasing their vocabulary.
Could you read the following para
graph without the above one ? They
are identical in meaning:
Do you incessantly endeavor to
supplement the augmentation of your
verbal lexicon? Or does it requite
your conformity to the dictates of
equity to sanction the sojourn of the
aforesaid augmentation? You will
not, I venture to assume, be liberated
from a vibratory oscillation if you
relinquish the essay of ameliorating
your indoctrination, as the men who
emit intellectual puissance to operate
efficaciously for procuring subsist
ence are expiated to concede their
opulence, or deficiency of opulence,
to tarry unsupplemented. This com
plete universe is conveying itself to
interminable elevation, to amass the
coveted consummate stipulation, but
it strikes my apprehension that in the
duration of the aggregation of ra
tional beings, there is not at all a
superfluity of these rational beings
instigated to augment this verbal:
exicon.
Ideals
As you think, you travel; and as you love, you attract. You are today
where your thoughts have brought you. You will be tommorrow wheie
your thoughts take you. You can not escape the results of your thoughts;
but you can endure and learn, you can accept and be glad. You will realize
the vision (not the idle wish) of your heart, be it base or beautiful, oi a
mixture of both, for you will always gravitate towards that which you
secretly most love. In your hands will be placed the exact results of your
thoughts; you will receive that which you earn; no more, no less. ^ What
ever your present environment may be you will fall, remain, oi use with
your thoughts, your wisdom, your ideal. You will become as small as your
controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.—James .A^llan.
Aftee 200 Years _ I
Has George Washington been placed upon a pedestal in your mind so
high that you sometimes feel that it is useless to accept him as one of
your ideals—one of those whom you strive to become like? If so, then
accept the fact that he and his cousin are said to have put a tack m a
teacher’s chair once and regard him as a “regular fellow” long enough to
see that it was his excellent qualities, together with his leadership, that
cause you to j)lace him upon a pedestal of any kind.
Have you ever considered the fact that the same quality in a person
can make you respect, or dislike him? That quality is a keen sense of
right and wrong and the backbone to stand up for the right. The quality
in itself is one of the finest to be imagined; however, an attractive per
sonality that turns a person with this quality into a leader must accompany
the quality in order for the person to acquire the respect of others rather
than the dislike.
Fortunately, Washington had both the quality and the personality and
for this reason we celebrate his two hundredth birthday on the twenty-
second of February.
‘‘Thus ’mid the wreck of thrones shall live
Unmarred, undimmed, our hero’s fame,
And years succeeding years shall give
Increase of honors to his name.”
A Compliment
Having long since learned that a word of congratulations from our
esteemed principal is a thing to be taken as a high compliment, we
can truly appreciate his comments upon the mid-term exams. Mr. Wilson
says that from the standpoint of conduct and order on the part of the
students, the exams were indeed superior to last year’s—less dishonesty
and confusion. He also feels that the teachers gave well-prepared exams
and obtained good results, as a whole.
Heke's Your Chance
The scholarships that are being offered this year are the most valuable
ones ever offered to high school students. Under the present financial
conditions persons with real ability are often forced to abandon hopes
for a college education. During this particular year college enrollment
has grown, but the number of students working their way through is
correspondingly greater. We thoroughly approve of one working his
way through, but if something is offered that would relieve this tension
the student should grasp this opportunity.
Agnes Scott College is offering a splendid scholarship for girls. Here’s
your chance, girls. Don’t wait! Applications must be filed before April 15.
Boys are offered a scholarship to Culver Military Academy and four
to Washington and Lee University. Applications must be filed for these
scholarships by March 1, and April 12, respectively.
If you have any scholastic ability you are urged to try for at least one
of these scholarships. Opportunity knocks but once. Don’t let it find
you asleep; mail your application for one of these scholarships at once.
To win one of these means that you are outstanding in both ‘character
and scholastic records. That in itself is real achievement.
Seeigusly Speaking
The delay of this issue of the Hi News was due to bank failure. Over
a hundred dollars being lost, the staff deemed it best to wait till more
money was in sight. However, (and we trust this will be good news), it is
practically certain now that we shall be able to complete all previous plans.
WHAT IS A 3-?
Just what a 3-? To some it is a
passing grade; to some, discourage
ment ; to some, an argument at home
with their parents—saying they
could do no better; to some, a sign
that they must work harder next
month or fail.
A 3- on algebra or English in high
school does not indicate that you
know it. It usually indicates a four
in College algebra or English. A
study of the grades of former stu
dents shows that the grade of 3- does
not indicate success.
Here’s what a 3- really is. It is
a grade staring you in the face and
saying, ‘‘You studied some; you
didn’t try to learn anything though*;
you may know a little bit now, but
you won’t know it long.”
Is that what a 3- said to you at
mid-term ? If it didn’t and you made
a 3-, that is what it should have said.
Should
!! toow !!
1. !N^o lunch is to be taken from
the lunchroom in paper bags or
wrappings.
2. Only seniors taking five subjects
may use the library at the second
period.
3. Walking to the left or running
in the halls is against the rules of
the school.
4. To support means to help to
win.
5. No history books are to be taken
from Miss Beasley’s room before the
end of school and without signing for
the book.
6. To take a book from the library
with the card in it is an act of dis
honesty.
7. Goldsboro High School is
praised for having the best kept
school building in Eastern N. C.
Keep it up!
8. The Giddens Debating Trophy
is given to the class winning in inter
class debates.
9. A senior has lost the privilege
of going to the library for the re
mainder of the year because he failed
to use the proper consideration for
property in the library. Take care
lest this happen to you.
To be seventy years young is some-
t’mes far more cheerful and hopeful
than to be forty years old.—Oliver
Holmes.
ANOTHER PLAN
The new inter-class debating plan
has a decided advantage over last
year’s plan. Under the old plan each
student “had to debate.” They de
bated because they wanted a grade,
not because they wanted to debate.
After each student debated he had
no home work assigments and nothing
to do in class except listen to debate
after debate, which became exceed
ingly tiresome.
This year a new plan has been
adopted. Four students in each
class give one good debate on an in
teresting subject. You will ask per
haps what the other students are go
ing to do. The answer is that the
group as a whole assists in gathering
material. The debate in each section
has become a cooperative undertak
ing with each student making a con
tribution to the side of the question
that he favors. The new plan “in a
nutshell” is to have one good debate
in each class with each student work
ing on an interesting subject.
We like this new plan!
JUST A MINUTE!
Does your subscription to the
Womans Home Companion, Col
liers, American Magazine, or the
Country Home expire soon? Would
you like to renew it or perhaps sub
scribe to one or all of these maga
zines? You will be given that op
portunity through some G. H. S.
student during the campaign which
begins February 26 and the proceeds
of which will be added to the $160
made last year in a similar campaign.
(This $160 has not been lost in a
bank either). Everybody hopes that
the sum will be equivalent to the cost
of a “tin can.” Of the two follow
ing requests, at least one will apply
to every reader of this article:
1. Get as many renewals as pos
sible.
2. Give your renewals or subscrip
tions to a representative of G. H. S.
THIS MODERN AGE
Oh my gosh!
What’s that brilliant thing ahead ?
A spot light?
No, just fingernails—and red!
For pity sake!
Look at all those waves so fair.
An ocean ’r sea?
No, just a permanent in the hair.
Of all things!
Glance at that long dress—and
hat!
An old fashioned maid?
No, just another modern Matt!
My lands above!
Regard those long, bright flashes.
Silk’r satin ?
No, just some more painted lashes!
Merciful heavens!
Peep under that yellow—has it
been dyed?
Really a blonde?
No, just another peroxide!
For crying out loud!
Observe those trousers worn by
’mams.
Turned to men?
No, just some more new pajams!
For the love o’ Mike!
See those cannibals walking here.
African jungles?
No, just gems and jewels on the
ear.
—Lois McManus, ’33.
POETRY COLUMN
Since hearing Lieut. Griffin’s talk,
a great many of the freshmen are
planning to be future generals in the
Philippines or Hawaiian Islands.
Ed Konetchy, former big league
first baseman, owns a beauty shop in
Fort Wayne, Texas.
— t
Never leave that till tomorrow
which you can do today.—Franklin.
THAT BOY!
I can’t go near, or even touch
That grouchy boy very much,
’Cause if I do, he’ll surely say
“Stop it, now,” or “go away.”
And when he’s sitting by himself,
I’d like to put him on a shelf
That’s high enough to keep his woe'
And where I couldn’t muss hi
clothes.
iVnd when I got him ’way from me
I’d have some fun, you’d surely sei
I wouldn’t hear him forever saying-1
“You’re eternally slow, always di
laying.”
Why can’t he be like other folks ? c
I tell him that he just provokes. \
And I could like him—Oh, a lot! ]
But will he let me ? He will not!
■—Florence Baker, ’3; (
STUDENT’S NIGHTMARE 1
When I awaken in the night.
And feel things pulling left and rigb ^
I know the cause of all my fright— [
I haven’t studied! ^
I tell myself it’s just a dream, ^
But anyway I almost scream j
To think that I, a girl sixteen, ^
Haven’t studied!
And back to sleep I cannot go. |
I think of all that I should know
And then the cause of this—my w ,
I haven’t studied!
Tomorrow I’ll so gladly do ^
The work I know that I ought to
I won’t need to say, I promise yoU'
“I haven’t studied.” '
—Florence Baker, ’3
He jests at scars that never felt a
wound.—Shakespeare.
Great spenders are bad lenders.—
Franklin.
FRENCH RESEMBLES GREE
French is such a difficult subject.
It is very hard to speak,
Although I’ve prayed for unde
standing,
To me it still resembles Greek.
I tried to learn the nasal sounds,
And the ups and downs of po
Remi.
It is such a complex subject,
Why they teach it I can’t see.
I labored hard on this subject,
Until it tore away my brain.
It has made me weak and feeble.
Now I sport a walking cane.
I want to be an aviator,
And span the ocean wide,
I wonder if they do speak French,
Over on the other side.
I want to live outside the city.
And do stunts on sycamore bougl
I want to live a farmer’s life.
And try my hand at milking cov
I want to live in Africa’s jungles,
Where they don’t speak ai
French.
What I’m telling is not a joke.
Young French students, it’s
cinch.
I want to be a savage there,
And gnaw a human bone.
Use the mud tracked by animals '
For a double-deck ice-cream coi
In the French class I was lost.
And was continually on the ben^
Before long I’ll be in heaven,
Where I’m sure there’ll be ■
French.
On my tomb I want engraved, ■
On Blue Ridge Mountain’s high*
peak, I
“A soul that died without und
standing
Why French so closely resembl
Greek.”
—Robert Piland,
We are pleased to hear that [
Dramatic Club is going to present ■
original play at the first program'
the new auditorium. Don’t y
know it will be good ?