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THE FULL MOON
March, 1925.
THE FULL MOON
Published monthly by the students
of the Albemarle High School, Albe
marle, North Carolina.
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STAFF j
Edj±or-in-Chief....Arthur L. Patterson |
Class ’25
^Kft^iiresS’MEmager Ernest Whitley
" Class ’26
Sport Editor Wilson Horton
Class ’26
Society Editor Ann Harris
Class ’27
“Pepper and Spice” Editor—
Inice Smith, Class ’26
Literary Editor Dolletta Bost
Class ’25
School News Editors ....Virginia Efird
Class ’27
Ista Elder, Class ’28
Exchange Editor ..Creelman Rowland
Class ’25
Per Copy ....5c
The Albemarle High School paper
is now in the midst of its third year.
Each copy has been better than the
preceding one but each issue is got
ten out by the same few. This paper
is for you and it represents the
morals of your school. What we
want is a live school paper full of
live school news. So help your school
by he’ping yourse'f. Write articles
for the Full Moon.
HOW A NATION HELPS TO SAVE. '
In the past few years people have !
become aware that unless we go to
saving, we are likely to become a
poor nation. The government has
taken this up, and is doing many
things and urging the people to save.
Not very long ago the Russel Sage.
Foundation gave $225,000 to buy a
refuge for birds. This seemed
strange to some people but the birds
are very helpful to the farmers. The
government bought 85,000 of land
on the Louisiana coast of the Gulf
of Mexico. In the winter birds go
south and this land is kept in good
condition for the birds when they
arrive.
It seems useless of spending so
much money for birds. The govern
ment has found out that insects cost
this country $400,000,000 by ruin
ing fruit, grain, cotton and vege
tables, and birds help destroy these
insects. Perhaps you will think,
“Well, that is not much to me,” but
it is. In this way our food does
not cost as much as it would other
wise.
Birds not only eat insects but they
also feed on weed seeds. It was es
timated that one year in Iowa, the
sparrows ate 1,750,000 pounds of
need seed. It is less expensive to let
them keep down the weeds than for
the farmers to plough them up.
You may not realize that a coun
try must be as saving and thrifty as
families have to be. When this
country was first settled it abounded
in forests, mineral wealth, and fer
tile soil. Our fore-fathers wer^e very
extravagant with our- natusalv; re
sources. Only forty years ago intel
ligent people spoke of the country’s |
forests resources unexhaustible. But |
today the shorter growing of wood is |
beginning to be one of the economic :
problems which the present genera- ■
tion of Americans must solve. I
We have destroyed our timber i
three times as fast as it grows, and
now more than one-half of it has |
been cut and used. This has alarm- |
ed the people so that the government |
has taken the matter up, and created |
a national forests department. ;
The national forests offer oppor-1
tunities for ourdoor life and enjoy
ment to the camper, sportsman, and
seekers after health. Farm forestry |
pays also. Valuab’e and useful trees
on a farm are a sort of savings bank
account. Trees scattered about a
farm increases the value of the farm
In winters farmers find employment
in cutting the trees. Trees a’so make
waste land profitable. They improve
and build up the soil.
The national forests also protects
the range and this keeps the live
stock business going. Here is also
a protection of the public against
monopoly control.
Not only is our government trying
to make the peop’e keep from wast
ing the soil, trees and other natural
resources, but it is spending large
sums of money in studying how to
change swamps and deserts into fer
tile land, and how to make every
part of the country prosperous. It
pays one man ten thousand dollars a
year just to make experiments with
our fruits and vegetables, who tries
to produce kinds that will grow eith
er in cold or hot climates. He has
grown a potato that can be raised
anywhere in the United States and
has added over a million dollars to
the wealth of the country.
When we look into the future we
can find no better motto for our gov
ernment, our state and ourselves
i than, “Waste not,”—Judie Bur’ey-
i son.
EDUCATION.
Education has always been a neces
sary thing but it is even more so to
day. In almost every vocation there
is a call for educated people. The
activities of the world depend largely
upon the educated people. The peo
ple of today who have wealth, unless
it is inherited property, are the ones
who go forth to seek an education
and then make use of it. It has been
proven by statistics taken from 192
boys in New York who had an ele
mentary education that it was worth
$15,000 capital for each boy. They
are now thirty years old and their
salary will be greatly increased in
coming .years.
It is now easier for people to ob
tain an education than in former
days. One could not go to school
unless they paid tuition for anyone
who went to a free school was called
a pauper. Today at least one per
son in every five in the United States
is attending a free school. The en
rollment in North Carolina in 1923-
24 to public schools was 793 046 and
the average attendance daily was
571,359. So the time of being called
paupers for attending a free school
has passed, and the public schools in
the United States are something of
which to be proud.
One of the most valuable ways to
invest is to put what you can in an
education for it has been proven that
every day spent in school is worth
$9.02 to the pupil. At the age of 14
and 16 years many children have a
desire to quit school and go to work
so they can earn money for them
selves. Many are allowed to so do.
This is an unwise idea for they are
losing if they work for less than
$9.00 a day. Statistics prove that
out of every hundred pupils who en
ter public school only fifteen get
through high school. And of the
fifteen who graduate from high
school only three finish college.
$825,000,000 is lost in the United
States each year by accidents and
inefficiency, this is caused from il
literacy. If this sum of money could
be spent to educate the illiterate peo
ple there would be a less cost from
accidents and the people would be
happier. There is only $760,000,000
spent for the public schools of the
United States. So there would be
more than twice as many educated
people in the United States if acci
dents and unefficiency didn’t cost so
much and this money would be spent
for educational purposes.
I., A high school education is the
foundation for success. A boy or
girl who does not have a high school
education cannot enter col’ege. He
cannot, in most cases, enter a first
I class training school. He has to take
a position where there are few op
portunities for advancement. Without
a high school education he is handi
capped. It pays to graduate.
The aim of the public schools is
for the good of the child and the
nation. During the high school
character is being built. Habits of
conduct are being formed and