EDITORIALS
The Full Moon fc
OME
TO THE
ARNIVAL
ALBEMARLE, N. C., FEBRUARY 16, 1939
BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ BASKETBALL TEAMS
—WITH ENGLISH 12
SINCE WE ARE OVER THE
V JAR that Cupid left, and are al-
' ready beginning to forget him, let
us find out a few facts about our
'• school and town. Did you know
J that:
r Two hundred new books have
been added to the library since
L school started?
The school uses three-fourths of
a ton of coal a day in the winter?
The school uses one thousand gal
lons of water a day?
The school raised nine dollars
' for the march of dimes on infantile
•’ paralysis?
The Stanly county jail is the
only jail in North Carolina to serve
three full meals a day?
r There is an average of sixteen
to eighteen prisoners in the jail
each month?
THE FOLLOWING POEM by
Dorothy Reid was written on Miss
Ellerbe’s board a few weeks ago:
I like men:
They stride about.
They reach in their pockets
And pull things out.
They look important,
They rock on their toes.
They lose all their buttons
Off their clothes.
They throw away pipes,
They find them again;
Men are queer creatures—
I like men.
. The next day another one ap-
peared beside it. The author, a lit
tle better known, was T. Carl
Brown. His poem was as follows:
I like women.
They powder and paint
I And really look pretty
When Lord knows they ain’t.
They smile and act dumb
!• To hide keen wits.
And look most admiringly
N, To string nit-wits.
They never have pockets,
” They hand things to men;
— Women are queer creatures—•
— I like women.
TO GET THE GENERAL IDEA
of what boys think of the fai:
,. sex, the following boys were ques
tioned on the subject:
Bill Hough—“That’s the last
thing I’d think about.”
^ Claude Shankle—“They’re 0. K.
sometimes, but sometimes they
worry me to death.”
Mr. Gibson—“I love them.”
Charles Castevens—“I would like
to marry them all.”
A. P. Hubbard—“They should
stay home sometimes.”
Bill Mann—“I like ’em.”
— "Buck” Mabry—“I think a
^ about ’em all the time.’
Max Fesperman—“I don’t think
they’re worth much.”
Mr. Hatley—“I change my mind
sometimes.”
; Robert Tucker — “There’s t
L many of ’em.”
T Lester Griffin—“I think they’
all right if you have the right one
John Kennedy—“They cost too
much.”
Calvin Doby—“They are
glue—too sticky.”
And the girls gave their opinions
of boys as follows:
Mary Ellen Youngblood—“Some
of them are all right; some are
As a general rule they’re not.
Pauline Beaver- “I don’t know
Vfi what to think.”
Ann Winecoff—“Depends c
who they are.”
Bonnie McCubbins — “They’:
my favorite subject.”
Peggy Efird—“Oh—oh—ooh—’
Lorene Melton — “They’re wo:
derful (in general), but they’:
alike—very queer.”
Margaret Bradley — “They’:
lousy and rotten.”
Maxine Cashatt — “They’re tl
wonderfulest things I ever saw.”
Irma Lowder—“They’re not ai
> good.”
I Marlene Holt—“Too broad a su
I ject in too little time.”
aod
Typing Students
To Enter Contest
Typing students will enter a na-
an-wide typing contest in March,
when medals will be awarded to the
one hundred students making the
highest average on a fifteen-min
ute test. A certificate will be pre
sented to all first-year students ex
ceeding forty words a minute and
second-year students exceeding fif-
ty-five words a minute.
Mai
IT Eligible.
Miss Cockerham states that al-
__3St all the students will be elig
ible for this contest. Thirteen first-
year students, with a requirement
of twenty-five words for passing,
are exceeding thirty-five words a
minute, while Margie Lipe, Sun
shine Underwood, and Alberta
Ragsdale are averaging forty-nine
words. With a requirement of
fifty words a minute, Iris Almond,
Sue Coble, and Jack Lowder, sec
ond-year students, have exceeded
sixty words.
Many students have recently
been drawing pictures with the
typewriters, using different keys to
give the desired effect. These pic
tures, now on bulletin board dis
play in the typing room, consist of
landscapes, flowers, and characters
like Orphan Annie, Jiggs, and
Charlie McCarthy.
Students in the second-year class
have arranged bulletin boards this
year illustrating various subjects;
as, St. Augustine, Florida, Sir
Joshua Reynolds’s paintings, music,
writers of North Carolina, birth
days in February, and Valentine.
English Class
Visits Observer
The twelfth grade English class
journeyed to Charlotte Friday
night, February 10, to see the Ob
server in the making.
Mr. John P. White, night sup
erintendent, showed the group
through the plant: the general
news department. Associated Press
room, sports department, where
Jake Wade sat at his desk, linotype
department, and press room, where
the machine was in operation.
Mr. White gave the following an
swers to questions asked by the vis
itors: Each cylindrical roll of pa
per used in making the Observer
weighs fifteen hundred pounds.
Eleven thousand copies of eight-
page papers can be made from each
roll. Seventy-five thousand copies
of the Observer are printed daily.
Twenty-five thousand pounds of
paper and five hundred pounds of
ink are used daily. The Sunday is
sue requires one hundred thousand
pounds of paper and one thousand
pounds of ink.
Installation of Sound
System Is Completed
Student Council
Makes Plans For
Spring Carnival
Homerooms Will_ Sponsor
Booths; Proceeds to Go
for Publications.
A carnival sponsored by the ad
visory council will be held in the
armonry, March 2, in order to help
defray the expenses of the school
publications, the Full Moon and
Al-Hi-Script, and to offer enter
tainment for the high school stu-
Although the carnival will be
under the management of the ad
visory council, each home room will
lave the responsibility of one of the
twenty booths. Several clubs have
also volunteered to sponsor booths.
Music will be furnished by Ned
Betts and his orchastra. Other en
tertaining features, such as stunts,
will be presented by diferent
groups o students. Mystery prizes
are being planned, along with a
floor show.
The armory will be gaily decor
ated in carnival style, with varied
booths in which can be found for
tune tellers, oddities, a ghost house,
a photograph gallery, games such
as bingo, ball, ring, and bean
throwing, and candy lemonade, and
popcorn stands.
The general admission fee will
be five cents, while the entrance
price to the booths will not exceed
three cents.
National Honor
Society Chapter
To Be Organized
A chapter of the National
Honor Society of Secondary
schooU is to be organized in
Albemarle high school.
Members will be chosen by
faculty,
by c
will depend i
1 pupi
Mer
Boys To Compete
At Greensboro
_ Fry, will represent the
high school at the Annual Music
contest in Greensboro in April. The
group is composed of a glee club,
consisting of twenty-four members;
a quartet, made up of C. B. Efird,
Claude Shankle, Max Morton, and
Bill Mann; bass, baritone and ten
or soloists.
In the piano division Miss Wor
sham will take Samuel Andrew to
represent the senior high school
and Betty Jean Wolf, the junior
high.
Mr. Fry stated, “This experience
will be very educational and will be
enjoyed. I’m sure, by everyone at
tending.”
The group will stay in Greens
boro either two or three days to
hear the music which will be pre
sented by other schools.
Students Plan For
Triangular Debate
Many students have planned to
enter the triangular debate prelim
inaries to be held February 17.
The subject for discussion is “Re
solved, That the United States
should establish an alliance with
Great Britain.” Albemarle will de
bate the question with Kannapolis
and Thomasville this year.
Lee Copple and Mary Katherine
East, who have been on the debat
ing team for two years, will be
among the entrants.
Clubs and Classes Plan Pro
grams for Broadcasts; Au
ditorium Is Amplified.
The installation of the new
Stromberg-Carlson sound system
has been completed and is now be
ing used daily for location of per
sons for messages and conferences,
for fire drills, and for supervision
of the rooms when a teacher is ab-
In the classroom the sound sys-
m gives the students an oppor
tunity to present and hear reports
and radio programs in science, lit
erature, history, and current
events.
In school activities the various
clubs, such as the dramatic club,
I an opportunity to present ra
dio plays, written, perhaps, by
members of the creative writing
class. Music for noon hour recrea
tion and for the cafeteria can be
broadcast. The system can be used
carry programs from the audi
torium to other rooms or to the
gymnasium. It also aids in carrying
sound to the back of the auditorium
during chapel periods.
The list price of the system is
$1500, but since so few schools have
sound systems, the cost was reduc
ed to $900. The total cost, includ
ing installation, amounted to over
$1,000.
This system is to be used for
demonstration purposes, and Albe
marle high school will receive $25
for each sale resulting from a dem
onstration made for school repre
sentatives. Peace college and sever
al other schools plan to send repre
sentatives.
Mary K. East To
Represent School
Mary Katherine East has been
chosen to represent the high school
in the annual Good Citizenship con
test, sponsored by the Daughters
of the American Revolution, and
will attend the state convention in
Statesville, March 8.
The selection, made by the stu
dents and the faculty, is based on
scholarship, popularity, and lead-
Mary Katherine has prepared a
scrapbook about her school activi
ties, emphasizing scholarship, char
acter references, dramatics, debat
ing and music. The owner of the
best scrapbook submitted will be
awarded, as state winner, a trip to
Washington.
Twelfth Grade
Has Five Highest
Honor Students
In scholarship the twelfth grade
led for the first semester with five
girls on the highest honor roll. The
tenth grade came second, with four
A students.
Those making the highest honor
rolls were: twelfth grade—Iris Al
mond, Sue Coble, Geraldine Crisco,
Mary Katherine East and Edith
Holt; tenth grade—Ted Wallace,
Willie Frances Efird, Evelyn Cur-
lee and Hoyle Whitley; ninth grade
—Alfred Morton and Rubye Cald
well; eleventh grade—Sara Doby
and Margie Lipe.
Recently the names of all those
who made the honor roll appeared
in the Stanly News and Press.
SCHOOL JOINS BUREAU
Albemarle high school has be
come a member of the Charles K.
Taylor Vocational Bureau, located
in Carmel, N. Y.
This bureau operates under the
guidance of several leading uni
versities. It furnishes students with
vocational analysis tests. After
these are taken, a vocation for
which the student is apparently
recommended.
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Questions For
The Month
2. Where was Abraham Lin
coln born?
3. Who is the United States
Secretary of Commerce?
4. What is Clyde R. Hoey’s
middle name?
5. What kind of work did
George Washington do before
taking part in politics?
rsity
the United
7. Who was the last foreig
ig to visit the United States
8. Give one word that de
-ibes these four books Mat
iw, Mark, Luke, and John.
9. Which of these words i
sspelled: all right, unecet
ry, development?
10. What is Little Abner’