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Lee Copple, Virginia Stone
Clyde McDowell
Kathleen Holt
Pauline Beaver
Edith Mauldin
Hazel Mauldin
Glenn Smith, Jean Lowder,
ISABELLE JORDAN, MaRV^^^ C^LL
3S MANAGERS
Bobbie Austin
Kenneth Brooks
Jack Castevens
..Thomas Hatley
Willie Ellerbe
ALBEMARLE, N. C., DECEMBER, 1937
handkerchiefs-socks^omp^^
bracelets-rings-perfume -bow
of fruit-candy and
coats-“Only 6 more shoppng
days”—Merry Christmas to all.
Fromthe’^stm^ Pack
°^^[earbHng me another^
headed girl
done me wrong and left me—ai
n^ost. Your lonely^fj^en^^^
Dear Santa Claus,
Please bring me some P°P
for Sadie. Also bring me what
takes to get Sadie
le boy—that's m
good boy just s
December, u ,
Tt’= me aeain! I’ll begin with—
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.rad?r“ Margaret, what has happened to the crooner? . . What^
fu between the perfect soph couple over Thanksgiving? n
the trouble bet Tucker) . . What popular senior girl hail
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To each and every one of you,
the staff of the Full Moon wishes
a very merry Christmas and a hap
py New Year.
Have you seen the new Venetian
blinds in the offices? If not, peep
in as you go by today and notice
the improvements they have made.
Be careful about shooting fire
works this year, students. So
many accidents that are avoidable
occur during the holiday season
because of the carelessness of
young people in their merry-mak-
ing. After all, isn’t Christmas an
inappropriate time to shoot fire
crackers? Why not wait until
Fourth of July for this type of cele
bration?
The Spirit of Giving
“Not what we give but what we
share.
For the gift without the giver is
bare.
Who gives himself with his alms
feeds three,
Himself, his hungering neighbor,
and Me.”
That is the message that Christ
gave to the poor man who shared
his last piece of bread with a fel-
low-sufferer. He had searched the
world over for the Spirit of Christ
and found it at last when he had
performed this deed of kindness.
This could be applied to the ap
proaching holidays. Christmas,
the most joyous season of the year,
is the time when we should all
think of those less fortunate than
we and endeavor to help them
some way. Many children will
have a bleak Christmas,
which cheer and gladness will not
enter. Why not look around and
find just one child whom you can
bring joy to in some way this
year?
The spirit of Christmas lies ii
the familiar quotation, “It is mori
blessed to give than to receive.’
It is not always the most expensive
gifts that are appreciated the most.
Many times it is some insignifi
cant present that brings the most
joy just because of the spirit in
which it is given. Don’t give be
cause it is a duty or a habit, but
do so because you really want to,
for only the gifts we give with a
feeling of cheerfulness really mean
anything. It has been said that
the true test of unselfishness lies
in giving to someone else the gift
that you want for yourself. But
how few of us do that!
This Christmas let us be more
liberal in our giving. Surely if we
can succeed in bringing gladness
into just one heart, our own holi
days will be much happier.
Support the Basketball
Teams
Let us recall the last football
game, the one between Barium
and Albemarle. Did you ever see
a peppier crowd of boosters? It
was undoubtedly the best cheer
ing we had during the entire sea
son. Why can’t we put that much
pep into our yelling at the basket
ball games? When the season be
gins, come out to all the games and
support the teams.
Last year, although the girls’
team didn’t win so many games,
they worked just as hard as the
boys did. The prospects for this
year look very bright, for there
many freshmen and sophomores
for practice, and most of the
girls that won letters last year
have returned. With Miss Holt as
coach and Mr. Hatley assistant,
they should have a very success
ful season.
Since Mr. Canipe can spend
ore time than ever before coach
ing the boys, they also should be
a stronger team this year. Many
of last year’s lettermen have
turned, and the places of those
lost are well filled.
Attend all the home games this
season, and yell, yell, yell for your
teams!
Dearest Santa,
I’ve got my hair cut so short
that Bill doesn’t like it anymore,
so you’d better bring me a wig
Also bring me a tricycle so that I
/>on get to school on time.
Your old friend,
“BUCK” MABRY
Dearest Santa Claus,
Will you please bring me t
real guns this year? The stopper-
guns you brought me last year
Thoughts on Christmas
Holidays
No school!—cold crisp morn
ings—good old sleep—late break
fasts—college friends coming
home—that happy excited feeling
—parties—starry nights—and eyes
-moonlight—glow of open fires
en through curtained windows
- Christmas-tree lights — holly
wreaths — bright-colored lights
strung along Main street—smell of
cakes baking—mince-meat pies—
turkey and cranberry sauce—
spicy fruit cakes—^aroma of coffee
late at night—crowded stores—
bustling and hustling of last-min-
ute shoppers—tinsel and red rib
bon—rustle of silver and tissue pa
per—taste of glue on Red Cross
seals—smell of the cedar tree in
the living room—red candles—
strains of “Silent Night” on radio
—solemn stillness of the church
when the words, “And there were
the same country shepherds
abiding in the field, keeping watch
their flock by night,” are being
read—Christmas carols—excited
chatter—relatives—crowded bus-
es—the tinkle of bells—mysterious
looking packages—expectant faces
leaning across drug store tables—
crowded cars parked at P. D. lunch
—picture shows—trips to Char
lotte—Santa Claus standing on the
street corner surrounded by groups
of excited children—bulging stock
ings hanging from the mantel
Christmas morning—new ties
Dear Santa,
If it is not too much trouble,
will you please pick Badin up and
)ve it next door to me? It is
hard to get there now-a-days so
. can see my Romeo three times a
day and after supper until mamma
calls bed-time on us.
Yours hopefully,
“KNOTTSIE”
Dear Santa, my pal.
Please bring me something to
keep the other boys away from
Jeanette. I prefer some “Stay-
Away Powders” advertised by Ho
mer Briar-hopper. If you will do
this for me, old man, I will work
for you when I get out of school—
if I ever do.
Yours devotedly,
KENNETH MILLER
Dear Santa, old boy.
When you come around my
house, please bring me a pink
mustache to play with because I
keep my upper lip sore all the
time playing with it. Then, too, I
expect you had better throw in a
couple of scarfs so I can do the
scarf dance in chapel.
A very good little boy,
(Ask Miss Watson)
“PRUNIE” DOBY.
Dear Santa Claus,
I would like for you to bring
; a bottle of color-back to put
my hair. “Dinkie” doesn’t 1;
red-heads any more. Is there any
thing else you have that will help
— get her back?
A color-back patron,
BILL MANN
Jane hasl
on-you guess . . . Bobby A. and W. . • .Douglas had to,
so he and Lorene called it oflf. Nice going, H. H,
Harwood prefers “Sunshine” to rain . . . Ellsworth andji
Httle freshman. “Baby” M. just passed, and Ellsworth yelkj
and There: William and Inez at parties togetl* I
w^ine notes to Jack Gaddy and beginning them “Hello, Tood I
Whom does “Ace” like to sit by in chapel? ... We wonder ho? |
JirliM cut John Lisk’s picture out of the paper.
Bu the By : Whom did “Skimp” Efird date Sunday ni., -
Joe Harwood is looking for another heart-beat at present J«,| I
wp see vou writing a note to Jane A. Turner tether day. . ,.i *
L has a crush on Estelle W. . . . Isabelle and Estelle havet
mirer in a certain very popular senior ...
Brother Billy isn’t doing badly, either . . . You 11 see hint
bunch of gals in front of the school every morning, noon, andpugg
night—(not at school, however) . . Beaufort ^n at
Jenkins’s locker every now and then . . - Why can t big Bob hr
on any girl his size? . . . We saw Pattie C. tossing him a noteir
days ago . . . Will Jack ever grow up (we’re talking about ther.cu
chap who runs around with a red-headed soph). . . . Claude S.-be
ways be found in front of the building at lunch with the Horali d,
Which one is it, Claude? . . . Is M. F. trying to beat Jack J: fie
time’ . . . Jack Lowder and Walsie Bell haven’t had a quami yc
their freshman year . . . Ruth Lee Austin writes to whom? S’t w;
the writing stage are Paul Shaver and Agnes H., a soph . ..iye
Haire dates which graduate of ’37? . . . Max F. gives notes fclvi
former constant companion, but she still draws little hearts witki jn
and R. C. in them . . . Lester G. is carrying a torch for la ul
Wilma H. is seen oh so often walking in the hall with Pai se
. Can’t Martha E. make up her mind between Clyde and Jof!' to
she does seem to prefer green cars!) . . . Who is Iris Almoufi
heart-throb? . . . What about Mary 0. Splude and Floyd E» ti
James? . . . Johnny Lou’s getting letters from “Red” W'hitley.. sf
ought to be a lot happening during the holidays, and there’s t” m
spend that time snoopin’ ’round to find plenty to report to« m
first thing in 1938, and that’s M
Ye Olde Owl. si
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THE JOKER
POETS’ CORMtc
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Christmas c(
( By Mary Hill)
I Again comes the Christra* I
[spreading joy far and r;.
The shoppers gayly go the;:
With mirth and gladness i
day.
Exchanges
They parted at the comer;
She whispered with a sigh—
“I’ll be at home tomorrow night.
He answered, “So will I.”
—The Student Press.
On a school bus a boy gave his
seat to a girl. She fainted. When
she recovered, she thanked him.
Then he fainted.
—The Sandspur.
RAMBLING ’ROUND ABOUT
OTHER SCHOOLS
New Hanover high school in
Wilmin^on is the only public high
school in North Carolina to have
1 accredited R. 0. T. C. unit.
The students at Chapel
publish the only college daily ua-
"Tei‘"
The Chatterbox, Danville high
school paper, announced that
Before they can receive a high
school diploma, the boys in tL
Chicago high schools have to pas«
in automobile driv-
English students at Russel Sage
w1 through
with written examinations. Thev
stand up to a microphone and
“™er examination questions
English teacher: “I want you
write an essay of about 500
words on the subject you like—
your father’s bicycle, or some
everyday thing like that.”
The next day the teacher receiv
ed this essay from a freshman—
My father has a bicycle,” she
read. “He went for a ride on it
yesterday. That’s about thirty
words—Father said the other four
hundred and seventy carrying the
bicycle home.”
What a queer bird the frog are.
When he sit he stand—almost.
When he hop he fly—almost. He
ain’t got no sense—hardly. He
ain’t got no tail hardly either. He
sit on what he ain’t got—almost.
■Selected.
Doctor: “I will examine you
r ten dollars.”
Patient: “Go ahead. If you
find it. I’ll give you half.”
The story of the Chri* b
birth ti
heard throughout th( e
earth. r
A Christmas Thouf j
( By Sadie Pickier) ^
With Christmas comes theo t
^ t
“The chief has hay
Oofwoof:
Oagwoog: “J
We told him not
widow.”
“So you don’t want the green
dress?” asked the clerk.
“No, ma’am,” replied the large
woman of dark complexion, “Ah
suttingly don’t. Honey, ad’d look
too much like a ton of coal in
lettuce patch.”
Miss Laws (asking question i
French): “Etes-vous un garco
ou une fille? (Are you a boy or
girl?) ^
H. M. Austin: “Je suis ur
garcon.”
Of gladness
The chiming bells now
For born this day was Cm
King.
Son: “Pop, I need an encyclo
pedia for school.”
Father: “Encyclopedia noth-
?5„ ‘0 school as I
Rich kings brought gifc I
lands afar ’
While guided by that Easter i
And wi.se men came, leoI
light, . '
As shepherds watched th® I
by night. ‘
The story of this lowly bi™ |
Again brings joy to all j
Autumn
(By Carolyn Eamh«* j
Bare trees, *
Lonely and brown; '
Glistening leaves, '
Drifting down; 1
Falling snow,
So soft and white; |
Freezing ice.
Forming at night;
Gray squirrels.
Scampering around; '
Big round nuts.
On the ground;
Whistling winds, ^
With their eerie so"'
Autumn.
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