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Page Two GOLDSBORO HI NEWS April 5, 1935 G©ldsb©ir© Hi IMewj Published eight times a year by the Journalism Students Goldsboro, N. C., High School VOLUME VIII INTERNATIONAL NUMBER 6 EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Ghief Norwood Middleton, '35 Managing Editor Thomas Pearson, '35 Editorial Board— Marie Ellis, '34; Wliitmel Gurley, ’35; Maurice Edwards, 35; Anna Bset, '35 Feature Writers Anna Best, ’35; Willis A. Denmark, ’35; James Bizzelle, ’35 Reporters Members of Journalism Class Sports Writers—Norwood Middleton,’35; Ozello Woodward,’37; Henry Kennedy,’37 Make-up Editors Maurice Edwards, ’35; 'Thomas Pearson, ’35 Cartoonist Betsy Parks, ’36 Faculty Adviser Miss Ida Gordner BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager James Wharton, '35 Assistant Business Manager Billy Moye, ’36 Circulation Manager John Gay Britt, ’36 Advertising Managers Hal Armentrout, ’35; Nellie Williams, ’35 Assistant Advertising Manager Arline Robertson, ’35 Sallye B. Privette, ’35; Louise Spruill, ’36; Colleen McClenny, ’37; Margaret Denmark, ’35; Ozello Woodward, ’37; G. T. Holloman, ’36; Powell Bland, '36; Ruth Slocumb, ’37; Marjorie Harrell, ’36; Virginia Ginn, ’37; Hazel Shaver, ’37; Mary Baddour, ’37 Typists Members first year typing class and staff Faculty Adviser Mr, Burt P. Johnson $ ewspaper J/tSSOOK Member) Subscription, 50 Cents a Year. Advertising rates; 35 cents per column inch for a single-issue ad; special rates on ad contracts. Entered as second class matter October 26, 1931, at the PostofiSce at Goldsboro, North Carolina, under the act of March 3, 1879 It's a Student Drive For a Supplement The student movement in G. H. S. for a supplement to the state-sup ported school term of eight months is the outgrowth of a long period of smoldering indignation on the part of the students. The students of this school have watched in silence the steady lowering of the standards and are now in peaceful rebellion for an adequate edu cation—a need which every child in the nation is entitled to receive and which many in other states have. Unfortunately, however, this is not the situation in G. H. S. and other JSTorth Carolina schools. To those who are ignorant of the deplorable conditions of our school, a few of our reasons will convince you of the need of a supplement; An eight months’ school is far too short to accomplish all the work to be done; since G. H. S. has been dropped from the list of A schools, its students will be compelled to take college entrance examinations; in winter the building is not sufficiently heated to keep the pupils comfortable; the school library is far below the requirements of a good library; the school has lost its athletics; the teachers’ salaries are pitifully small; school rooms are overcrowded; and, as a result of the school losing its A rank ing, no student of G. H. S. may be elected to the ISTational Honor Society, In view of these facts the people of Goldsboro District should heed the earnest pleas of the youth of this section and vote for a supplement to remedy these conditions—a move that will be appreciated from the depths of our hearts and at the same time will be of small cost to the people of the Goldsboro District. opposiTio^;r unsound Naturally, though, all persons do not take this attitude. Many argue that we should not have a supplement unless all other schools have one. They seem to forget that_ all communities are at liberty to vote for a supplement if they so desire. A supplement for our school would not hurt anyone else; it would only help us. Nothing can advance on a solid front; leaders are necessary. It is therefore absurd for us to sit back waiting for the others. Opponents of our plan are stirred in wrath when we want to advance ahead of poorer communities, yet sit in silence as they watch the other states leave North Carolina far in the rear. We are not going against Charles B. Aycock’s idea of uniform educa tion. We are trying to raise it to the highest point possible as he often dreamed of. Aycock believed in uniform—not restricted—education. Citizens of North Carolina are not told that they may be so healthy and no healthier, or that they may keep their houses so clean and no cleaner; yet they are told that their children may have so much edu cational opportunity and no more. Instead of setting up minimum stand ards below which no community may fall, our present system sets up maximum standards above which no community may rise. Still other people say we should accept the schools as they are, taking the attitude that the Legislature knew what it was doing in this matter. The sad truth is that the Legislature made a terrible blunder. After spending most of the money on roads and other less important causes, it had only a small amount left for schools, the greatest asset of a democ racy. It is a disgrace to the Old North State to have one of the best highways in the country when its schools are near the bo^^oir of the national list. ^ We urge every G. H. S.'^tudent to present the supplement plan in de tail to his parents, and we trust that the good people of this district will lend a hand to their children on the troubled educational waters by fully supporting and voting for a supplement for the schools of Goldsboro District. Congratulations, Debaters! Hats Off to You! You have given us two winning decisions and kept our record high, just as we expected you to. G. H. S. is proud of you, for you have brought an honor to your school. n ti c We hope your success will continue at Chapel Hill and let G. H. b. again be the possessor of the Aycock Cup._ supporting you wholeheartedly. This is the first time since 193 ^ that both teams have won. It is also the first time in this school generation that this has hap pened and we grow more enthusiastic as April 11 an ^ 2 approach. This time we will await the returns still more anxiously than ever be fore. Good luck to you! TOMORROW'S SCHOOLS The kind of education that was sufficient for yesterday is not the kind that will be needed by the chil dren who have to face the issues of life tomorrow, declared Mr. G. B. Phillij)s, superintendent of the Greensboro City Schools, in an ar ticle published in the October North Carolina Education. Dr. Willis A. Sutton, superintend ent of the Atlanta schools, has said on a number of occasions that the schools that are merely up-to-date are twenty years behind, for the child we are teaching today will have to live tomorrow. One of the most difficult things we older peo ple have to do is to keep from living our children’s lives for them. In spite of public protestations to the contrary, most of us think pretty well of ourselves, and we are very much inclined to the opinion that if our children do as well as we have done that will make for a fair ly successful life. But we forget that the world today is vastly different from what it was when our parents were training us. The function of the school is to project, if possible, its thought about child training in to the long tomorrow and prepare these children for the kind of a world they will face in the future. (Editor’s note: Summary of this article was taken from North Caro lina Education, October, 1934.) SIXTY SECONDS—A TREASURE HOUSE Time is our most valuable posses sion. For the next six weeks, time should mean more to students of G. H. S. than any material wealth. We must budget our days and make each minute count—“something ac complished; something done.” Just what is ahead of us? First of all there is a school term to be finished. We have six more weeks in the term, while some schools in the state are having ten. So in thirty days we must do the work of fifty days. Second, there are courses to be completed. Have you finished your history book? Will you be able to discuss the last chapter in biology? Or will you, along with the geom etry class, have to come to summer school in order to get a full college •equirement unit for your earnest endeavor these two terms? Third, there are plans to be made. Especially will the senior class be burdened in preparing commence ment exercises due to lack of time. Fourth, there are examinations to be taken and graded. How long do you think our teachers can spend in review? Two weeks? One week? Two days? No! Probably one short hour. Then can we waste a single sec ond? It’s ahead of us. We’ll have to rough it. Perhaps we better not read that light novel tonight. Guess we ought to make up some work, ill right. Six short weeks to waste or to use. We have our chance. A good chance it is, too. Let’s show G. H. S. that we, its students, know how to cooperate, how to work, and, best of all, to use our time. THE CRISIS 3>0N T WASTE TIME W ISAKB WORJ^VINq-. I^OUU UP yoOR SUEtVES akd bend to TWe Loau WHATS WHAT OVERHEARD I was talking to Dot this morn ing, and she said that Colleen told her that she wasn’t there, but she saw Virginia, and she knew some body that was there, and that that person overheard Tommy telling someone that—We need a supple ment. Do you know— That each 16^ feet of new con crete highway in 1931 cost North Carolina $35.36? That each school child costs the State of North Carolina only $35.10 for one year ? That the nation spent $71.20 on the average for each child in school for one year? That the 33-ceut tax reduction se cured on county tax rates for this year throughout the state was entire ly on the school rate? That the tax rate for other pur poses than schools remained the same ? That the average promotion for the state is 68 per cent which means that 32 of every 100 children fail each year largely because of im proper facilities?—The North Caro lina Education. ASSEMBLY NOTES We have overtaxed our children, our school teachers, our civilization; the time has come—marked by ob vious signs of economic recovery— to tax ourselves.—The News and Ob server. ■ If the “old school” produced the kind of folks that got the world in its present mess, the products of that old school” have little argument against any educational change that can be made.—North Carolina Edu cation. THE FACULTY ENTERTAINS March 12—The musical directors of the faculty. Miss Mary Brockwell and Lewis Bullock, entertained with a few numbers. Accompanied by Miss Lillian Stroud, Miss Brockwell gave two selections, “xVh, Sweet Mystery of Life,” by Victor Herbert and “The Cane Brake,” by Samuel Gardner. Mr. Bullock sang “Life,” “With out a Song,” and “The American Lullaby.” He was accompanied by Mrs. J. C. Pate. Not that I have anything against Dora, but she thinks that Duke El lington is the brother to the Prince of Wales. Driving a car ig like one’s age; after you get above sixty-five you are close to death. 3izz’s Buzzes. No people can long thrive with out effort, and no citizen of North Carolina, white or colored, is en titled to sympathy -v7ho is asked to contribute, in proportion to his abili ty, to the cause of public education. A. D. MacLean, Assistant Solicitor General of the United States. ELECTRICITY IS ONLY TAPPED March 19—Electricity, its history and usage, was explained in the an nual physics program. “Before man was I. Before the Dinosaur was I. Before the earth and the sun and stars, I was. Man has now only touched upon my mys teries. What secrets will I next re veal to him?” predicted the Spirit of Electricity, Billy Raney. Tommy Pearson demonstrated how like charges of electricity repel and unlike attract. Eugene Norris explained how a condenser is made. A two-cell battery which would burn a flash light bulb was made by Harry Hundley. James Barden told of the acci dental discovery that wires carrying current have magnetism. Elbridge Rose made an electro-magnet with the use of an iron core and coils of wire. Robert Harrington explained the make-uj) of a generator and its use. Clarence Beery showed the use of a transformer in changing volt age. He constructed a simple trans former and used it to run an elec tric train. Two thousand school teachers have left the school rooms of North Caro lina within the last two years. They have not wantonly deserted—they have been lashed out of their pro fessions by the state’s scourging whip of false economy. And there will be others to follow unless the point of leakage is adequately taken care of.—Charlotte Observer. PRISONS NEED IMPROVEMENT March 26—Mr. Eugene L. Rob erts condemned the prison officials and our philosophy of the treatment of prisoners for the terrible prison conditions existing today. He used O’Henry’s story of “The Retrieved Reformation,”^ in which a safe cracker, in time of emergency, opened a safe and won his freedom. Mr. Roberts referred to the con ditions in the Mecklenburg prison camps, which brought about the am putation of the feet of two Negroes. He urged that as the students be gan to have a voice in the govern ment they should enact laws and pro vide prisons which will help rather than hurt prisoners.
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