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Full Moon , EDITORS: Chief iistant Editor-m-Chief rys’ Sport Editor yls’ Sport Editor iterary Editor Jxchange Editor F(«rum Editor News Editor ,Toke Editor Alumnae Edi . Dorothy Tudok Mary E. Morrow Sam Milton Beth Lentz Mary Hill . Spencer Crisco George Copple Erlene Kirk Ralph Whb^tley Pauline Ribsxin NKSS MANAGERS: Henry Harris’ Guy Colby Business Mana Subscripti Member PARAGRAPHICS THE FULL MOON FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE A. R. C. Seventy-two years ago Henri Dunant of Switzer land conceived the idea of the Red Cross, and in the years that followed the vision spread to other lands. Clara Barton, in America, saw the great need for such an organization during the Civil War—and in 1881 succeeded in founding the society, with fifty distinguished members. This year brings the fiftieth annual roll cell, from November the eleventh to November the twenty-sixth, of the American Red Cross—now an organization of four million members, with three thousand five hun dred ^chapters in as many communities, covering states, and serving humanity with great- ^nd expanded services in a vastly dif-' peacetime program than FORUM I Have this yea We a The old A. H. S. isn’t lonesome any mor the 340 are back again and ready to begin year. May it bring success to each one and contain happy hours than ever before. Have you noticed that the freshmen are as “green’ this year as you were in your freshman days? glad to see many new faces among the ■ulty and student body, but we also miss those that Williams is getting along as well with ;hirt;|;-six children at the Oxford Orphanage IKr day. We just can’t get used to her ^after four years of faithful work, j^phell, Mr. Fox, and Mr. Blackman have lade their places in our school life. We them and hope they will^ like us as much ike them. jtball started off with a “bang,” but it evident- .ed up a great deal by the time the Kannapolis ived, but we hope for better luck next time. We wish to congratulate the Glee club on its privilege of holding a meeting every week. We want good music, girls. It’s hard to get used to the coaching periods, but maybe they will be an inducement to study. Still, it must be hard on the teachers. We were proud of the splendid exhibit the Home Economics girls gave the Parent-Teachers’ associa tion. The canned foods looked good. The noble seniors of last year are gone, and we expect great things from those who take their Are you doing your part to support the athletic associations? If not, then hurry and get busy, for we’re depending on you. Armistice Day promises to be a big event ii school. The American Legion, aided by the sch is presenting the program. Since Home Room clubs have been discont this year, we’ll have to find another wa^' school parties. Aren’t we glad that Halloween comes at the end of the week! It will be heavenly to sleep as long the older peo- WITH BRIEF THANKSGIVING” It will be a sad day in the history of this nation when its people no longer find, on every hand a cause for thanksgiving. At this Thanksgiving of 1931, we know there are many in whose hearts are bitterness and resentment against a seemingly blind destiny. We have gotten away from the simple things of life, and it is hard to bring ourselves to return to them. We stop being grateful for the blessings God has poured upon this country. This is not good. It by this very proudness that we bring upon our selves times of trial—times that test us. be tested but we will come through it and be a better nation for it. And we shall find more and different things for thanksgiving than did Swinburne when he said: “From too much love of living. From hope and sorrow set free. We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives forever; That dead men ri^ ijp Dear Forum Editor: We, the student body of the Al bemarle High School, desire to stand very high in athletics. Can this be done without a team? No. Can it be done without organized cheering? Again the answer is and just as important a “no”, it has been said that many games are won from the sidelines. Our school elects a cheer leader each year and after a few yells in chapel the end arrives. Perhaps he she attempts to lead some yells a game but is faced with failure. Why? Because the students have >t been encouraged to take part. Interest could be aroused at on among the students by calling a pep meeting and electing a cheer lead er from each class. These four leaders should then get together, decide on costumes and choose a variety of yells. Each leader should train his own group and when all are put together what a difference there would be. Instead le frantic cheer leader and a pitiful wail there will be four con fident leaders and an organized student-body which will give forth a lusty yell and spur the fainting en on to victory. Cheering is a good way to get rid of that extra vim and show your school spirit. What do you say we get together? Cheerily yours, —A Student. That n the wish r Winds somewhere safe t the s WHAT IS YOUR IDEAL? What is your Ideal? In the heart of every man is an ideal. He un consciously tends toward it even in his most reck less moment. Hopes, joys, pleasures, passions, in spirations, happiness, illness, pain, agony—all con spire to goad him on. To stand still or accept present conditions means stagnation, rush of cell, enfeeblement of tissue, sad- deness of soul, and dormancy of mind, but even f means ceaselessly on. It is impossible to tell a person what one’s ideal because one does not fully know or understand himself what it is, though it is but dimly kenned. To gain an ideal, will must conjoin with desire and imagination. There is no more goodness ir soul realm than in the physical; no attainment with out labor; striving to become, seeking earnestly after. Perhaps after ages of effort, hungerings, aspirings, ' lings, fallings—yes, reincarnations and I—one eventually becomes that which Keep your t keep up the very center tain his ideal the characte career prefigures another, and life proclaims the trend of the next, life takes coloring from precessional life, and from all, until character is wrought and stamped indelibly, individualistically, and thus does om ventually, “Made in the image and likeness of Each is architect of his own being, career, destiny! The famous verse: “Life is a mirror for king and slave ’Tis just what you are and do. Then give to the world the best you have And the best will come back to you.” ■ill surely hold true in high ideals because the higher ideal the greater will be one’s reward in li“ |The ideal of the child is absurd to the adult. The youth is soon absorbed in riper experience shows the banality of early fancies. The ideal will be displaced in turn by nobler concep- for with widened comprehension comes nobler We appreciate the exchange pa pers that we received from the various schools during the first month of school. The names are follows: “The Spot Light”, Oxford, N. C. “The Pine Whispers”, R. J. Rey nolds Hi, Winston-Salem, N. C. ‘The Glen Echo”, Cordorus Hi, Glenville, Pa. ‘The Pioneer”, Catawba College, Salisbury, N. C. ‘The Star of the North”, Vir ginia, Minn. ‘The Hi Times”, Santa Clara, California. ‘The Trail”, Sidney Hi, Sidney, Central What Is Your Purpose of a H. S. Ed? We have in the school this year numbers of students whose sole purpose in going to high school get their diplomas. They have ..„ ambition to learn anything, partii^pate in any^of our > act ties; they just want to get their 'Sheepskin and leave.” Such an ambition is detrimental both tc discipline and knowledge. It de stroys the real purpose of public education. It creates “education on sheepskin” rather than education 1 the head. It is from this class of pupils who have this ambition that most of the dishonest school work in high-school comes. To have as the only ambition of your school life “to get by” terrible mistake. Do not think for a minute that diplomas mean ^ e are dozens of factors which mean jobs quicker than di plomas. Honesty, common si and loyalty are all job getters. If your sole purpose is to get £ ploma, better steal one and get to doing something worth-while. Diplomas are only symbols of achievement. Diplomas can be n ’ placed or stolen. Knowledge is destructible. The diploma has value in itself; it is a symbol knowledge. When knowledge ing, when one has just “gotten when cheating is done, real value of the high school edu cation is gone. The diploma is then a “tinkling brass and a sound ing cymbol.” Neb. ‘The Rambler”, Charlotte. ‘High News”, Greenville Hi, Greenville, S. C. ‘Old Gold and Black”, Forest, N. C. ‘The Times”, San Antoi^o^ The Brackety Cuk”, " College, Salem, Va. An Interview ^ A Negro 1 (By Moate Lanl During the summer I^ interesting i unusual character. He w scientist, a professor, George M ington Carver, of Tuskegee N and Industrial Institute. . unique in ^hat he ii not working for the money that h' Work Done by School Appreciated by Staff The Staff wishes to thank the students who responded to the sub scription campaign. The only thing it wishes is that more had sub scribed. This year it will try only to write articles that students will enjoy reading but will try to record the important events _ of the school year. The StafT would appreciate very much any article sent in by students not be longing to the Journalistic club, be cause The Full Moon is a school paper and not a club paper. It contains the talent oi our school and is an index to the type of work that we do. Thus, it should be representative of our school as ^exchange!^ ditco nefit o lanity. obtained rubber from both th^ and the sweet potato, dition to rubber he has made o 200 different products from the peanut and 117 from the sweet po tato. He has made a paint and a powder from every different type of soil in Macon county, where the school is located. He has made several medicines that are widely known throughout the south. Prof. Carver does not go over the country to find material to work with. He works with the common things that we see every day such as the sweet potato, peanuts, fungi, rocks, and soil. Prof. Carver took the remnants of oil left in the crank ars and made from it a solid resembling a rock, but very much harder, which has many dif ferent uses. He carries on work many different lines at one time. After he finishes a product he turns it over to a manufacturer and lets him have most of the profit derived om the sale of the product. Prof. Carver was very different from what I expected him to be. I had pictured him as a proud negro who would not even take time to speak to visitors. Instead, he was very cordial in greeting me. He was dressed poorly and was using a flour sack for an apron while he was cuutting into an old piece of wood searching for wood borers. He answered my questions willingly and showed me about his laboratory. He showed me the museum of which the school is very proud, the museum where curiosi ties of all kinds were kept. He is not personally acquainted with Thomas Edison, has been cor- jpeSponding with him for many years. He has an autographed pic ture of Edison hanging in his of fice. Prof. Carver has traveled all over the United States and has met many famous people. He has made maW talks in big universities and befo%|^^^nown scientific socie ties. i^0W^arver teaches all the science cTr.ises at the school in ad dition to carrying on his experi ments. He is now 67 years old.
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