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GOLDSBORO HI NEWS
April 22, 1938
Published eight times a year by the Journalism
Students, Goldsboro^ N. C., High School
Volume XI
INTERNATIONAL
Number 6
JUNIOR EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief Mayre Best
Managing Editor Addison Hawley
Editorial Writer Edith Jones
Feature Editor Hugh Dortch
Sports Editors Jack Smith, Charles Liles
Staff Writers and Make-up Editors: Carolyn Langston, R. T.
Cozart, Billy McClure, Olivia Ferguson, Hartwell Graham,
Gabe Holmes, Legh Scott, Dorothy Turlington.
Staff Artists Berta Parks, Frances Yelverton
Adviser Ida Gordner
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Entered as second-class matter October 26, 1931, at the postoffice
at Goldsboro, North Carolina, under the act of March 3, 1879
Junior Class symbols:
Color: Crimson and Silver
Motto: Forward
Flower: Red Rose
Juniors, We Are Challenged
So far, we, the Junior Class, have thrived, although
not too successfully under the competent leadership
of the upperclassmen. But in a little more than a
month the Seniors will have stepped aside to do bigger
and better things. Then it will be up to us, the Jun
iors, to accept the responsibilities of their positions.
We will be holding the important offices of the Stu
dent Association and other organizations, as well as
j2eingJ;heJea(Ler^_jvf_ tL-.JuniorS; Sophomores, and
Freshmen,
Do we realize this grave step which we are about
to take ? Are we going to lead the underclassmen to a
victory they will be proud to proclaim? Yes, we
should realize the opportunities we are going to have
and be determined to do our very best. Certainly it,
will take the hard work and the determination of
every single one to make a ‘‘go” of it. For no under
taking can be successful with the leadership of only
a few people who do not have the cooperation of
everyone.
I^ext year when we are asked to hold offices, serve
on committees, give opinions, or do anything for our
school, let’s do it cheerfully wath a willingness and
ambition to lead the underclassmen and set an exam
ple for them to follow as they take over our posi
tions in the future. We can do nothing without unity;
M'e must have cooperation!
So; to the next year’s Senior Class there is flung
out a challenge! Will the banner drag the ground,
or will it soar in the clouds ?
An Invitation
‘‘Have you heard the latest ?”
“N”o, wiiat is it?”
“We’re not going to have a School Fair this year;
instead we’re going to have an Open House for our
parents and other interested people.”
‘‘An Open House? What’s that?”
It’s a new way of letting our parents see what we
really accomplish in our school.
For the past two years we have had a School Fair
that has been an excellent demonstration of the kind
of things we do. It was interesting and everybody
seemed to enjoy it.
But —
Some of our parents inquired, “Is that all you
children do? Just make posters and draw and have a
good time ?”
No, we don’t just play around and waste our time
as this question implied. And we understand that it is
natural to want real evidence that something is being
accomplished. So, we are extending a special invi
tation to our parents and interested friends to come
out to school during a school day and witness us ac
tually working.
We want them to go into the various classrooms,
listen to the class discussions, notice the creative work
on display and get a real picture of the Goldsboro
Schools at work.
Use a Bright Red String
Have you ever made someone that
is depending on you a solemn prom
ise? Did you keep it or didn’t you?
Surely you kept it if you had any
pride, character, or sense of respon
sibility.
Are you one of those many who
pledged faithfully to pay five, ten
cents, or some other small sum each
week or month to the Free Lunch
Fund? If you are, you should be
proud that you really and truly help
someone in need. But are you paying
your pledge? Are you forgetting to
bring it, or is it that you just can’t
bear to think of missing that daily
chocolate ice- cream soda ?
When you made your pledge it
was a serious thing and fifteen peo
ple depend on it for their lunch five
days out of the week. This may not
faze you but it really means some
thing to those who are depending on
you.
Let’s all tie bright red strings on
our fingers to remember our money
or either try missing that chocolate
soda and take off a few excess
pounds, for we have made a solemn
promise and it is up to us to keep it
and pay our pledges!
Preparations for
Social Living
(Editor’s note: The following has
been prepared by a committee of
teachers as the preface for the Open
House programs.)
The time is past when mere skill
in the tool subjects—reading, writ
ing, and arithmetic—makes an edu
cated man. Proficiency in these sub
jects is as necessary as ever, but
they should never take more than
their rightful place in any curricu
lum. This proficiency is progressive
and the tools function only as the
■need arises for their use. This need
varies with different individuals at
different levels of growth. The three
“R’s” are the tools with which an
individual gains information but un
less they function they are useless.
They are not the sole aim of educa
tion.
The complicated life of our coun
try calls for better trained citizens
who can judge fairly, who can con
sider the rights of others for a fuller
life, who can, without prejudice,
make the self-adjustments necessary
for the best of all, and citizens who
can see and accept their responsi
bilities. This is real social living
which can be accomplished success
fully only when the individual is
given experiences calling for these
adjustments from birth throughout
life. It is the place of parents and
the schools to provide such experi
ences.
The school and the home can no
longer be successful in their re
spective tasks if either disregards the
other and fails to consider, as a
common meeting point, the growth
of the child.
In order that parents and friends
may understand more clearly the
work of our schools, we are present
ing the children of Goldsboro
Schools in the environment in which
we believe it is possible for them to
learn the fundamentals of good citi
zenship, cooperation, consideration
for others, acceptance of responsi
bility, self-control and exercise of
judgment through discussions; ap
preciation of the arts; health con
sciousness; manual work; creative
writing; and orderly habits of
thought and systematic handling of
possessions as well as skills in the
use of the three “R’s.”
We believe that in participating in
these learning experiences from the
first grade through the high school,
the child’s whole life within the
school and life outside will be an ex
perience in real social living.
Huck And His Friends
By Frances Yelverton
I never thought that I’d
ever go in for hero worship
but after interviewing Huck
of the Junior Play cast my
high ideals have been forgot
ten. He is the most captivat
ing and human person I’ve
ever met and he’s a real boy
from his sore toe to the
freckles on his nose.
/aAKY
Mary Jane is the second
member of the Junior Play
cast I met, and there never
was a more likable kid. She’s
a mischievous and vivacious
brat, 16 years old, but acts
much younger. Her lines,
“Something a w f u 1 ’ s hap
pened! But I just can’t tell
you what,” are rare. Watch
for her. She’s a Holy Terror.
Tom Sawyer is the cutest
boy I ever saw. His murder
of the English language is a
perfect crime, and he is for-,
ever getting somebody into
michief. Because he has the
coveted title of Grand Exalt
ed Ruler of the Pirates’
League, he is Mary Jane’s
hero, Huckle’s envy, and
Clara’s pet hate.
A^VY
iVnd now Amy enters the
picture. She’s a lovely 18-
year-old girl, but she is al
ways dressed as if she is
about 10 to make Clara seem
younger. Amy has a way of
bringing things up that inva
riably gets Clara in Dutch.
She goes about it by saying:
“Why Clara, don’t you re
member that?”
Fred Raymond is certainly
a nice young man. He is very
shy around the girls but so
very charming in his own
unique way. Although his shy
ness does cause him to make
many blunders, he is so hand
some that I don’t see how
Ruth could help but fall in
love with him. Time will tell.
fiurn
I think that I
meanest man in ten states
when I met John Finn. He’s
not only mean but he’s the
hungriest one that I ever saw
too. His favorite pastime
seems to be beating on Huck,
They tell that every person
has a good streak in him but
seeing is believing.
Ruth Watson is one real
beauty who has brains. The
])rettiest girl in Missouri, she
knows how to handle every
body she knows even to Clara
Woppinger. She’s so sincere
and charming that it is hard
to see just why Fred would be
shy around her but he is, so
don’t miss his proposal,
met the
fiONT POLL Y
Clara Woppinger is the
most despicable person that I
have ever come in contact
with. I think she must be the
original sour puss. In her mad
scramble to win the affections
of Reverend Jones she disre
gards the feelings of anyone
who happens to interfere with
her plans. She usually takes
it out on Amy.
Aunt Polly is really a swell
old girl (I guess I shouldn’t
have said old because she’s
only 35), Even though she
tries to be stern and gruff, she
just can’t be. After love comes
into her life (it can, you
know, even after you’re 35),
her metamorphosis is amaz
ing. But she is so nervous.
^SSIo^^
CLfiRn
UNO
Jenny Lind is a genuine,
grade A, and bona fide “nig
ger.” She is only 16 and acts
just like Topsy. Since she is
named for one of the greatest
singers of her day, she thinks
that she has inherited her tal
ents as well as her name, but
Clara says she sounds like a
baby Threshing Machine,
Our Mark Twain
A large man, dressed carelessly in
perpetual white flannels, standing
erect, lazily watching a sunset; an
eternally young-old man with long
bushy white hair; penetrating eyes,
yet kind; bushy eyebrows; large mus
tache ; softly lined face, etched with
sorrow; his huge veined hands hang
ing loosely at his side; carefree; light
hearted, yet somewhat sorrowful;
sympathetic; a hater of injustice
and a lover of the underdog. . . .
This is Mark Twain, “a genius
and America’s greatest humorist.”
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, “Our
Mark Twain,” was during his child
hood the very character of Tom Saw
yer or Huckleberry Finn, Avhom he
made real to us in his writings many
years later. Of course, all the boys
on the Mississippi River were loaded
down with superstitions, and so were
“Huck” and “Tom,”
For one instance, one day “Huck”
told “Tom” that if he would carry a
dead cat into a grave yard at mid
night and bury the cat in a stump
hole that all of his warts Avould
come off. In spite of the fact that
“Tom” did exactly what he was told,
he still had warts by the dozens.
ISTevertheless he continued to have
hundreds of sacred superstitions as
we today have hundreds of them.
Listed below are “Huck’s,” “Tom’s,”
and our superstitions:
Good Luck Superstitions
Finding a dead rat; seeing the
new moon through the trees; seeing
a pin pointed toward you; keeping
a rabbit’s foot; and breaking a
broomstick the day that you are
moving into a new house.
Bad Luck Superstitions
Seeing a black cat in front of
you; leaving your socks in your
shoes; seeing a bat in your house at
night; crossing bats at a baseball
game; crawling over a person in
bed; opening an umbrella in the
house; and moving on Friday.
Other Superstitions
Frogs make warts; burying a dead
cat in a graveyard at midnight will
cure all ills; washing your hands in
rain water caught in a hollow stump
will cure warts; sleep under a new
quilt and you will dream of the per
son you will marry; if two people
dry their hands on different ends of
a towel there will be a quarrel; if a
bird flies in the house through an
open window it is a warning of
death; if your nose itches you are
going to have company; wood cut
during full moon won’t dry out; if
you walk in another person’s tracks
you will have a headache; if a pic
ture falls in your house a relative
will die; if the sun shines while it is
raining it will rain the next day; a
person who kills a frog will stump
his toe; if the sun sets clear the fol
lowing day will be clear; to feel a
sensation of a ringing in the ears
means that someone will die; make
a Avish and punch a doodle bug, and
if he jumps the way you hoped he
would, the wish will come true; and
if you forget something, don’t go
back for it unless you sit and wait
five minutes.
A sneeze on Monday is a sneeze
for danger.
If you sneeze on Tuesday you will
kiss a stranger,
Sneezing on Wednesday will get a
letter,
A sneeze on Thursday means some
thing better.
If you sneeze on Friday you had
better beware.
And a sneeze on Saturday and you
will see your sweetheart Sunday.
Twain’s humor was characterized
in one of his posters on a lecture he
was going to give o^ the Hawaiian
Islands: Doors open at 7:00 o’clock.
Trouble begins at 8 :00 o’clock.
Absent-minded Mark would al-
w^ays applaud when his name was
mentioned out in public, delighting
his companions.