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PAGE 2 THE BLACKBIRD, ROCKY MOUNT HIGH SCHOOL TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1951 THE BLACKBIRD Official Publication of Rocky Mount High School Member of Che Columbia Scbolastic Press Aasoclatioii EDITORIAL STAFF ikiitor-in-Chief Alva Wallace Assistant Editor Fred Patton News Editor Janet Mellor Sports Editors Johnnie Shelton, James Johnson Feature Editor Carolyn Ellis Literary Editor Margaret Eason Exchange Editor Velna Motley P. T. S. A. Reporter Virginia Gray Columnist Jean Cooper BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Emily Baker Circulation Manager Tam Holliday Advertising Manager Shirley Robbins Assistant Advertising Manager Sue Franks T3T3ists Second Year Typing Class FACULTY ADVISER MiES. T. D. YOUNG Published fourteen times during the year by the Journalism Class of Rocky Mount High School. Subscription Rate $1.00 Who Is The Most Courteous? To find and recognize the !most courteous student in Rocky Mount high school, the Future Homemakers of A’merica is sponsoring a contest. The winner of this very desirable title will receive a book of Emily Post. Courtesy should mean much to each student. Like honor, it pa vs r.ll ways. One courteous work which every one remembers and which has come down through the ages concerns Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth. One day when it had recently rained, the queen caHne upon a puddle in the street and Sir Walter Raleigh, being the gentleman he w^as, took off his cloak, threw it over the puddle and helped the queen across. This incident just goes to show that a courteous person is remembered long after he’s gone. Of course, in our day and time, such a thing would not be expected of a man, but there are other things which are just important to be re membered. A little courtesy goes a long way. It ■would pay to dust off and polish up your manners. To win the title of “The most courteous person of R M H S” is a goal worthy to be set for every student. Support Your Cafeteria Services of the cafeteria were discontinued a few weeks ago. Meals that were extremely moderately priced and that were also very good will not be served any more this year. And why? Because the students didn’t support it. They would rather eat down town and pay the same price if not more for meals that were not nearly so good Mrs. Pierce, the supervisor of the cafeteria, knows her p’s and q’s so to speak. Always there was a variety of de licious, well cooked food. The students failed to take ad- vanta'ge of a good thing and so the cafeteria was closec and in its place the Lunch Bar was put in, which, although it serves good food, is nothing like the cafeteria. Now because most of the students didn’t eat there those that did will literally be thrown out of one of the best eating places in town. If a cafeteria is offered next year, let your slogan be “Support your Cafeteria.” By so doing you will have rea' economy as well as good nourishing food. The ‘Glory Of Easter’ Inspires As the lights grow dim in the huge Radio City Music Hall, the largest auditorium in the world, thousands of people look in awe at the ‘‘Glory of Easter,” the opening pageant of the program.' In the last eighteen years the Radio City Music Hal has presented at every Easter season a pageant which has become its most popular and widely famed production. The spectacular twelve-iminute show called “Glory of Easter’ is enacted before an Imposing Gothic altar, giving theater goers the illusion of a Cathedral. Organ and orchestra music written by Anton Rubin stein fills the air and on either side of the stage are two women, one a soloist who sings “Come Unto Me.” Arounc half of the auditorium on the loges men and women dressed as priests and choir members with candles, join in with the soloist. Dressed as nuns, the precision Rockettes enter the stage with armfuls of white Easter lilies. As they walk they make various designs. At the end of this superb performance with the entire Music Hall ensemble participating, the Rockettes make a living cross with only the white lilies showing, making a truly impressive sight. Will You? If someone turned against you And you knew you’d have to die To save your enemies from their sins. Would you do it without a sigh? Would you? If you had to wear a crown of thorns. And have a heavy cross to bear. Would you die, knowing you could save yourself And could live forever without Care? Would you? I And if you had to die upon An old, “Rugged Cross” With rusty nails pierced through your hands. Would you pay the expensive cost? Would you? 1 I As Easter comes around this year. Remember the reason why He died upon the rugged cross. And in your hearts not pass him by. Will you? The Magic Glow Every year when spring comes ’round. And all the flowers peep through the ground. Folks get lazy; birds won’t fly; Thoughts get hazy; so do I. Trees get leafy; grass turns green, Prettiest sight you’ve ever seen. Whipped up clouds drift slowly by; Oh, for a chateau in the sky! ( Boy meets girl; girl meets boy, Cupid shoots, then jumps for joy. The atmosphere is sugar sweet When two young eligibles chance to meet. I Among the benches in the park The couples stroll and carve the bark; John loves Mary; Jack loves Belle. The old oak tree is there to tell. With these few lines I beg to leave,. And hope that you will still be lieve The magic glow of spring remains Like Autumn flowers and sum mer rains. —By Velna Motley and Alva Wallace. I Made A ‘B’ While I sat in assembly watch ing the impressive National Honor Society tapping, I thought, “How wonderful the people being tapped must feel!” Some were my very best friends, others casual acquain tances. But I was sure that all of them were thoroughly overcome by a mixture of honor and supreme happiness, and I was glad for them. Yet in a way I envied them. I guess almost everyone di^ As I thought back over my high school days, I realized that al though I had averaged a B, I could have made A’s with a little more effort. I could have joined more clubs and been more helpful to my teachers. I could have shown a little more leadership; perhaps I had more than I realized. Last of all, I could have followed an honor policy of my own and refrained from any kind of cheat ing. Maybe if I remember these things. I’ll have a better chance to bo tapped next time. B& J/tf Voices! Listen! Quiet! Listen! Do you hear them? Those voices? They seem to come from everywhere. Hear them whispering in the March wind, “We challenge you.” Hear them above the shrill of the factory whistle, “We challenge you.” Hear them keep time with the clackety- clack of the train wheels, “We challenge you. We challenge you, We challenge you.” From every direction they come—north, south, east, west. “We challenge you.” You can’t hear them, you say? But you must hear them; they’re a part of you. “If it weren’t for us you would not live in free America today. We left our homeland to make this dream world a reality. We lived and died for you and yet we live on. Our dreams were often shattered but we gathered the i-emnants and started over ever pushing forward, forward. We left our footprints in the sands of time. Will you stand by and let them be overrun with the tightening vines of Communism, or will you as an American citizen place your foot firmly in our footprints so the impression will be a lasting one?” Spring Is Wonderful Spring is a wonderful season cf the year with the green leaves coming on the trees, the flowers budding and the birds singing. Spring not only renews and dresses up all nature, but it makes the heart feel gay. Lovers stroll the lane together watching the heaven ly breeze blow and the birds sing ing in the treetops. Spring makes young girls feel as if they have found the right boy. Laziness sometimes comes in the spring when that “ole” spring fever hits and the feeling of pure content ment of just doing nothing moves over you. Tho air becomes fresh and clean smelling. Yes, when spring hits the ah-, everything seems better for every one. Spring is wonderful! Let’s Glean Up In view of the Sanitation Inspec tion plan recently adopted by the high school, it is a challenge to the students to give their help and support to this plan. The pur poses of this plan are to make the school cleaner and to produce a stimulated awareness of sani tations on an individual level. If all the students cooperate to the best of their ability, this sani tation plan will go over with a “bang.” Inspection will be made each Friday afternoon after school by students on the Sanitation Committee, and every high school student will be expected to report all unsanitary conditions to a member of the committee. If RMHS promotes this plan, nationwide recognition may be gained by the school as one of the first in the US in which the plan has worked successfully. A Letter Of Songs “Dear” “Cecilia,” “I Know” I should “Never Trust A Woman” but “I’m a- Tellin’ You,” “Cecilia,” “It Wouldn’t Be The Same Without You.” After that “Last Letter” “There’s Gonna’ Be Some Changes Made Around Here.” “Everybody Loves My Baby” but “I’ve got You Under My Skin.” “Who Cares What People Say,” “I Have But One Heart’ and “I’ll Always Be I^ Love With You.” So “Be My Love,” “Say That We’re Sweethearts Again.” After All, “A Good Man is Hard To Find.” “Baby Won’t You Please Come Home.” We’ll Have “An Apple Blossom Wedding” and an “Aba Daba Honeymoon.” “Billy Boy” KILROY WHO? “Knock, knock.” “Who’s there?” “Kilroy” “Kilroy who?” “Kill Roy McCarter. I am Billy I Gray." A Girl’s Essay On Boys Boys are men that have not got as big as their papas and girls are women that will be ladies by and by. Man was made before woman. When God looked at Adam, he said to Himself: “Well, I think I can do better if I try again.” Well, he made Eve. God liked Eve so much better than Adam that there have been more women than men. Boys are a trouble. They wear out everything but soap. If I had my way, half the world would be girls and the rest dolls. My papa is so nice that I think he must have been a little girl when he was a little boy.
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