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ALBEMARLE, N. C., OCTOBER, 1931
Dr. G. H. Rhodes, Lutheran Pastor, Supt. Beam Gives An
Addresses High School Student Body Address On Honesty
Chooses Theme Of Love
Based On Bible Story
Of Ruth.
Dr. G. H. Rhodes, pastor of the
First Lutheran church of this city,
made an address in the high school
auditorium on Friday, October
He chose for his subject The
Story of Ruth. He said that he
knew of no finer piece of literature
than the Book of Ruth.
In the land of Bethlehem-judah,
there lived a husband, a wife, Na
omi, and two boys. Discouraged by
being out of work, the father de
cided to go into the land of Moab
where he could provide for his fam
ily, although because he wanted to
rear his boys in his native land, he
ji_d not want to go. But he
son} prosperity in the land of Moab
nnf- j^cided to make his home thei
 tir
; the t
1 that
dau^l
tieni
be^’’^
'7d*a’
daugt
nth the children
lojjg both ^gj.e
preparing to marry two
Although the par
ents thougVt it was terrible for
their sons o marry among the
heathen, th y realized that it was
too late to interfere. Therefore,
Naomi yo only welcomed the for
eign vp^es into her home but even
into ner heart.
As time went on many disasters
the family, the first be
ing the de^th of the husband. The
daughter'-'n-’aw noticed the great
Naomi displayed, in
•ring her troubljes. Somewhat
■r bo*^h of h'^^sons diei,l. Naoiri,
SPEAKS
Supt. M. S. Beam met the stu
dent body for the first time on
September 21, during the chapel
period. He made one of the best
addresses that has been g
the high school auditorium,
esty was his topic. He chn^j
25:14-30, the “Parable o'^'
ents,” as a basis for hi
American Legion and Albemarle Higl
School Students To Present War PL,
Mr. Beam stated that the car
dinal principle of character is
honesty. There is no success with
out hones1)«r, neither is there any
such a thing as being partly hon-
:. A man is either honest or he
dishonest. Two questions were
brought out as food for thought:
Is there any difference between
stealing material for
“The Way to Make a
Friend,is to be a Friend’
Tjja* -f Chapel Talk
W in chapel, Prin. J.
I most interest-
dship.” The main
^out was that the
e friends we
autur>"
, “The public says, ‘Birds
feather flock together’, and ‘a
is known by the company he
keeps’.”
Did you ever stop to think of the
r^eaning of the word friend? The
other day I was in a store in a
neighboring town and the clerk
came up and asked me, “What can
11 do for you, friend?” That is
ink? Howl 4-v, i.
3 land, de-
;fSit thei
'^^inding her to th
a to return to he*- n
daughters-in-law wanted
but Naomi tried to persuade
them to remain in their
land and to remarry among their
own people. Finally Orpha said
good-bye to her mother-in-law and
turned back, but Ruth would
turn back. Then it was that Ruth
made that great confession-
fession of the love of one woman
to another—a decision to which she
ever remained true. Dr. Rhodes
compared the scene of this confes
sion in which Ruth quoted that
famous poetry as “spring clinging
to winter.”
Bethlehem was stirred
days later when Naomi and Ruth
arrived. Naomi had lost her place
in the community, and Ruth had
never had any. Ruth decided to
find work to support her aged
mother-in-law. She secured a place
to glean wheat in.the field of Boaz,
a rich, young, and vigorous Chris-
Ruth had a superior beauty that
shone out from the soul. It
this beauty of character that made
Boaz notice her in a field of numer
ous laborers, and seek conversation
with her. It certainly must have
been love at first sight, for Ruth
had a charming story to tell that
night to Naomi, who advised her.
Hazel Smith Is
Rotarian Guest
Hazel Smith, one of the most
popular boys the Senior class,
was the first boy to be chosen
the guest of the Rotary club for
the school year of ’31 and ’32. It
is quite an honor to be selected as
one of the nine boys who are chos
en. It will be remembered tha^the
Rotary club first invited mep^ers
of the Senior class in jL has
continued to do so s' *‘' /at time.
Every boy who att^> a, the lunch
eons has to make an impromptu
speech at the last of the year.
OR. G. H. RHODES
Sometime later Ruth and Boaz were
married.
Dr. Rhodes explained that first
credit was due to Naomi because
responsible for Ruth. He
said that God means more to us
than Naomi did to Ruth, a,id that
he hoped we would be as true to
our confessions to God as Ruth W;is
to Naomi.
The_^ssons Jhat Dr IV-. des
broug-hi, fiom t.ie story were very
fitting . Often-times from troubles, |
under the guidance of God,
the greatesi- blessings. Naomi
learned the art of capitalizing her
calamities. She kept a firm grip
on God through all her troubles.
If she had not had trouble in her
younger days, she would never have
found Ruth. Ruth was a great
benefactor to all mankind.
the marriage of Ruth and
Boaz, a child was born to them. To
n another lad was born who
ined and repented—David—the
grandson of Ruth. Later, in Beth
lehem of Judea, another child
born who was Jesus, the Christ-
child, another of Ruth’s grand-
babies.
Having made the marriage of
Ruth and Boaz, Naomi, a woman
obscure and unknown, became the
one roadway through which the
Almighty walked to accomplish his
purpose—the saving of ms
Dishonesty in school makes dis
honesty in after-life.
There is no disgrace in failure if
you have tried, but on the other
hand there may be success in fail-
“An honest man is the noblest
work of God.” At no other time
the history of the world has
honesty been at such a premium.
Will-power when once broken is
easily broken again; therefore, it is
necessary that everyone should
trust his own ability and not rest
upon the shoulder of someone else.
In conclusion Mr. Beam said,
"Tomorrow you will assume the
citizenship of the citizens. Keep
your eye on the ball and hit the
lin-i hard,"
quaintance o
One of Our Best
Henry Harris, one of the most
popular boys in the senior class,
has been selected as “One of Our
” He has dark brown hair
and blue eyes. He is about five
feet and six inches tall and weighs
125 pounds.
Henry has been taking a
active part in the Journalistic club
during the past three years of his
high school career. For three
years he has been a member of the
Full Moon staff, and he has been
elected business manager for this
year. He is vice-president of the
Journalistic club, also.
Henry has attained many honors
high school. For three years he
has been president of the Home
Room club. Last year he was vice-
president of his junior class. He
1 honor student and was a
member of Student Council for two
is very interested in all
sports, but he says that football
and tennis are his favorites.
I Principal J. R. Hawkins
Talks On Championship
Mr. J. R. Hawkins, principal of
the high school, made a most im
pressive talk in chapel on October
9. He used for his topic “Cham
pionship,” giving Jesus Christ as
an example of the perfect cham-
“There are many champions. We
celebrate the birthdays of Christo
pher Columbus, the navigator and
:plorer; George Washington,
champion president and general;
and Abraham Lincoln, champion
emancipator. Not only are there
many champions of former days,
but there are innumerable cham
pions of the modern day. How
about Tex Rankin who made 131
consecutive loops; Thomas Edison,
the inventor; Red Grange, football
, Pepper Martin, St. Louis’
champion in the world series; Babe
Ruth, baseball swat king; Gene
Tunney and Jack Dempsey, fight-
; Helen Wills, tennis player;
Bobby Jones, golf champion; John
J. Perishing, general; and Henry
Stevens, who is champion Legi ^
‘What is meant by champic
means that one has excelled
3 particular thing or line of
Ivor. It means too that m
recognized. It may mean that
3 has seized an opportunity to
become great among his fellowmen.
It may mean that one got the
breaks. It may mean a number of
things beyond one’s control or
ower to determine.
“The greatest champion on earth
i, has been, and ever shall be
Jesus Christ. He has lived through
the ages. He is the same yester
day and today and forever. He is
the Prince among men.
‘Remember this: As you go
forth in search of championships,
keep in mind that a true champion
follower in someone else’s foot
steps, and to follow the Great
Champion is to follow the footsteps
the path which leads to eternal
‘Pionshj
Play To Be Presented In
H. S. Auditorium On
Evening^ Nov, 11.
The ^1^1^ ^ Legion and the
Albem^ . iJchool are sponsor-
'>n of “Claim*\llow-
-- 6 P. Parker. This un-
I will be presented in
■inj! auditorium on the
.—»oaiJ ember 11. .^d
ing the^
the casual
L a stranger.
Have you ever examined your
friends or have you just made
friends? In auditing a bill, in t
place where I had the pleasure
be last summer, it would go through
five or six checks before it would
go to the final business manager.
In the testing of rubber products,
the Goodyear Rubber manufactur
ers will make shoe heels, give them
to their employees and tell them to
wear them until they are worn out,
then report to the company how
long they lasted.
Lindbergh has his plane tested
before every flight, or it might
cause many d«nth;=
He also wanted , ’
you selected your friends with
:are? In a town near here, a clerk
of a hotel came to work. He had a
talk with his employer. After the*
talk he went out of the room and
began discussing it with several
cronies. H“ said tho employer tried
to tell him whom he could go with,
where he could go, and what he
could do. The clerk resented this,
saying it wasn’t any of the em
ployer’s business. But it was. He
trying to help the man out.
What you do may not be anybody’s
business, but it is somebody’s busi-
!Ss, and anybody’s business is
erybody’s business.”
His last point was just to re
member that the best way to make
a friend is to be a friend, by being
kind, thoughtful, honest, consider
ate, and in all ways worthy of be
ing called a friend.
.J“ineet the crisis
struggle in the ' jj,,
capitalist-money or
furnishes an interest
the plot. Pathos an; jg nr’^
have a part to play in r^ „he
emotions of the fifteen ci.T.acters
' e cast includes. S
The four acts of the play include
four scenes—a living room in New
York, a German-American home in
Colorado, a hospital in France, and
a hotel room in Paris. The change
of scenes afford attractive settings
for the action of the play.
The cast with the exception qf
Steuben Austin, a senior of ’31.^' '
a New York capitalist, in ’
only the high school pupils.
Smith, as Neb, a negro, fui
delightful and highly
comedy throughout th^play.
interesting German ch^K
are played by Mary C.
Ernest Misenheimer. "
bers of the cast "X)r
Sikes, Mary E
Alice Dunlap.
r -Mar
P.-T. A. Has Its
ond Meeting
tily meeting of
•• Association
to "^iningr here
Steve
Efird. ^ ,
A select orchestra^^ %
tween acts and vocal se '''
be rendered by local talent.
With the American Leg'-
publicity committee and te.f-
school as production commit^
excellent and dramatic play
be one of the best ever preP’.-v
in the city.
The play is being coached by
Miss Elizabeth Scarborough, head
of high school dramatics, and Mrs.
M. S. Beam.
Honor Roll for First
Six Weeks This Year
8-1. Louise Leonard, Hazel Lef-
ler, Jean Morrow, Katheryn Mc
Intosh, Robbie Pickier, Mamie
Katherine Ritchie, Nellie Strother,
Helen Tucker and Robert East.
8-II. Harold Lorch, Houston
Turner, Mary Julian Brooks, and
Virginia Curry.
8-III. Ella Maie Blake, Agnes
Napier, Gatewood Russell, Clyde
Russell, Clyde Austin, Alexander
Dennis, and John Hatley.
9-1. Louise Bigler, Louise Ever
Forre’st, Reba Frye,
music and I McManus, Roberta Wolfe,
coming year.
Miss Eleanor Mann sang a vocal
solo and after the talk by Mr. W.
M. Fields, Mrs. J. T. Fox and
Mrs. J. D. Bivins played a piano
duet, “Poet and Peasant.’'
Mr. Fields in his talk discussed
the P.-T. A. in other
said that parents should
too much of the te^rt nothin’
pointed out that ee!
should have at '
a member. nothin’
The presid. e I ain’t)
row, announ.
play, “Moll;“ complaint; *
• 0loom don’t touch :
.uld havies ain’t blue:
dren. Th-H keep smilm’
P.-T. A. on with you.
i-II. Gladys Austin, Mary Cau-
ble, Violet Lewder, Charlie Lowder,
Charlie Morgan, Broadus Morris,
and Ruby Morton.
9-III. Verdie Holt and Crowell
Talbert. ^
10-I. Glad? . Bogle, Irene Fink,
Marianne Mann, Jeanette Martin-
■ Mary E. Morrow. Pauline Ribe-,
Try a little ^mrrt?i7-
Sing a little, bring a little
Happiness to earth.
Pray a little, play a little.
Be a little glad;
Rest a little, just a little.
If the heart is sad;
Spend a little, sei
To another’s
I Give a little, livi_.,.
Love a little