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December 15
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THE FULL MOON
^Eunice Smith
Editor Pocahontas Meigs,
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VIRGINIA Morgan, Mildred Crayton^^ honeycttt,
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Adviser
Christmas Thoughts
What does Christmas mean to you?
Christmas comes but once a year. Does that mean taking
every dance, party, and all other forms of entertainment?
Of course, a certain amount of gaity and fun is expected,
»d church, se.d gr«.i»gs
and gifts to our friends and relatives, but who on Christmas eve turns
his thoughts to the scene which took place years and years ago in a
manger in Bethlehem? ———==
Christmas and Its Strange Customs
Christmas Day - December twenty-fifth — what wonderful
thoughts this brings to the mind! Yet, once upon a time there wasn t
any such day as Christmas Day and December twenty-fifth was just
like any other cold winter day. Did you ever stop to think of the
origin of Christmas Day and about the customs that we still carry
*°Traition says that Christmas was first celebrated in A.D. 98.
It was ordered to be held as a solemn feast by Pope Telesphorus in
4 D. 137. About A.D. 340, St. Cyrill made careful investigation as
to the date of Christ’s birth and reported December 25 as the most
probably correct date. Pope Julius accepted this and established the
festival at Rome on this date, which was accepted by every nation
in Christendom.
The custom of giving presents was a feature of the Romans during
their winter festival, the Saturnalia. The early Christians made pres
ents to their children on Christmas morning under the pretense that
they were the gift of the Christ Child. There is no country in the
civilized world that has not in some form or another the custom of
civing presents either at Christmas or around the Christmas season,
and this age-old custom can be traced to the dawn of history.
A pretty German legend in connection with Christmas giving is
the following: One Christmas eve, long, long ago, a peasant set out
to steal some cabbages from a neighbor’s garden. As he filled his
basket, the Christ Child appeared on a white horse and said to him:
“Because thou hast stolen on the holy night instead of giving, thou
shalt sit in the moon with thy basket of cabbage,” which the peasant
did immediately and is doing to this day.
The practice of singing Christmas carols appears to be almost as
old as the celebration of the day itself. In the first days of the
Church, the bishops sang carols on Christmas Day. They recall the
songs sung by the angel at the birth of Christ.
The first real Christmas cards appear to have been printed in
London in 1846. Almost one thousand copies were printed, and that
was considered a very large sale. It was not until about 1860 that
the custom of using cards to convey Christmas greetings became
popular, and has gained in strength ever since, until now Christmas
cards are produced by the millions. Cards with pictures of the
Nativity, the Madonnas, Wise Men and Camels, or Shepherds are
ideal and should be preferred. They convey a finer spiritual feeling
than pictures of Santa Claus, holly, poinsettias, ships, etc.
It was in 1904 that the Christmas seal originated in Copenhagen,
Denmark. A children’s hospital was needed in that city and Elinor
Holboell, a postal clerk, conceived the idea that stamps especially
designed to decorate Christmas letters and packages would and could
be made to finance the cost of the building. The idea was endorsed
by the Danish royal family and the first Christmas seal was designed
and placed on sale in the post office of that country. The citizens of
Denmark purchased enough to insure medical care for the sick children.
Jacob Riis, in America, who was interested in social service, received
a letter from his mother country bearing one of the bright stamps and
inquired about its purpose. The possibilities of its use in the United
States impressed him and he wrote an article describing what the
stamp had achieved in Denmark, which article was published in the
Outlook. Inspired by that article. Miss Emily 0. Bissell, of Wilming
ton, Delaware, organized the first sale of Christmas seals in the United
States, and as a result a $3,000 tuberculosis pavilion was built. In
1908, Miss Bissell induced the American Red Cross authorities to
undertake a nation-wide sale of Christmas stamps, and from then until
1920, the Red Cross conducted the sale of seals. The National Tuber
culosis Association had been organizing from 1907 to 1910, with little
funds. To strengthen the organization the American Red Cross joined
Christmas seals. This partnership lasted until
1920, when it w^ dissolved, and since then only the double-barred
CTOss emblem of the tuberculosis movement has appeared on Christmas
According to an ancient legend, when Christ was born, three trees
M olive tree, a date palm, and a pine tree, stood about the manrer’
To honor the new born King, the olive gave its fruit and the palm its
dates as an offering, but the pine tree had nothing to give Some
stars seeing this from above, gently descended from the Lavens and
rested taelves upon its boughs as an offering. This pleased the
Chnst Child greatly and was the origin of the first Christmas tree.
rwHO’S WHO
REMBERT ROGERS
CAROLYN STONE
cheers for the Bulldogs. | ^ A book on
ing cheerleader i:
need, "
So consider carefuiir
Identification bra«w,
ehie can tell them^'
Twins.
Joke book—Coolidn 1;,
Shakespeare's
Tucker. ■
Growing Tonic-Bobkt
A trip somewhere-Bi,'
Sportsmanship tropl:;
and Hoochie.
Soldier doll—Eris C'i-
Free tickets for Stanl,,;
Laura Rose Moose.
Shrinking tablets
Hamburgers—Dick Let
Alarm clock—Carljlt)(.
Piano strings—Sam Ar.ii
More library feej fc;
books—Gladys Eotertia.
Errorless typewritiTs-
students.
A car that can take I-
Starling.
Aprons and cook boob-
training students Trb u;
economics.
One-way ticket* to X-i
Carolyn is not only a:
H. S., but
member of the Na
tional Honor society. She was mc-
retary of student council in the 9th
grade, and president of the Junior
Dramatic club in the tenth grade.
Slie has been a commencement mar
shal every year, and a member of
the Booster’s club. She also served
on the “Full Moon” staff in the
eighth and ninth grades.
‘Hey-0!” is her favorite expres-
n and “Be Honest With Me” is
her favorite song. The thing she
gets the biggest kick out of is see
ing a big crowd out at the ball
^ Her ideal of a dream boy is one
who is a good athlete, preferably
in swimming and football, blonde,
height 5’ 11”, blue eyes, excellent
dancer, and friendly and optimistic.
(And he must not raid your ice
box when he comes to see you!)
Her leisure time is spent in
catching up work which should
have been done ages ago or read
ing, eating, and listening to a good
musical program on the radio—all
at the same time.
Carolyn plans to graduate
'43. She is considering home 
nomics. Girl Scout work, or ni
IS a vocation after she gradu-
from college.
be broken ii
Norman Trexler—ett|l
vitamins to keep me fc
Jewell Rogers—T . k-
in privacy so the whole.-'
know^ it.
Sherrill Cranford-,
mountain dew.
Hoyle Boger—To
two subjects.
Ruby Anderson—C*>:
three days in succejsia
Dwight Waller —Lirfl
Rembert is president of the Hi-Y
club and is on the Varsity football : RESOLVE:
squad. When he was in the ninth i
grade, he produced the play, “Cor-
Grocery,” which was a big hit
... A. H. S. He has also received
two letters during high school, one
football and one in tennis.
“Sure I like to travel,” he con
fessed. “In fact, my ambition is
see the world. I’ve been to Tex-
and Mexico, and all over North
Carolina. I’ve had this ambition
ever since I was knee high to a
grasshopper,” he laughed.
Since his favorite sport is foot-
ball, he gets a big kick out of see
ing college games. He likes any
kind of food he can get and just
adores good shows and pretty
girls!
Rembert’s pet expression is “By
George,” and he likes chorus better
than any subject in school. He is
nuts about black-headed girls, al
though he exclaimed that Mary
Beth Hughes was an exception. As
for actors. Laurel and Hardy are
his favorites.
Rembert’s plans after gradua
tion are not definite, since he has
n’t decided on the college that he
will attend.
few re
Would-Be-Santas, Please Omit ^ ^ ^
Japs From Christmas Socks FeaturinglS
John Little—Quit 1ft
kiss me on my shirts.
"Hoochie” Morgan-^
the good side of my tail
Bill Cooper—I hetihi
find the one.
Hal Peck—To find IB
to Mt. Gilead.
Red Bennett^To nmi
city limits, and quit i
thumb.
Mildred Crayton-lp
out late at night.
Charles Kincaid-M
good.
Coolidge Almond-T»i
my heart is content wi
Rembert Rogers-M
the basketball squad toti
A I. Napier-Keepi
hill-billy music.
“No Japs for me,” “Anything ex
cept a Japanese,” “I don’t want
” and other similar answers
the quick replies given by stu
dents of A. H. S. to the foolish
[uestion, “What do you not want
or Christmas?”
As Christmas creeps up us we
go about that dreadful Christmas
shopping. Here are a few tips of
what we are tired of getting,
le, or just don’t want.
Girls, please don’t give the boys
socks, ties or handkerchiefs. They
tired of receiving them al
though they can use them, but they
don’t want any this year.
Boys, beware of perfume, socks,
handkerchiefs, bath salts and sa
chet bags. The girls report that
they still have a large supply left
from last Christmas.
replied, “This dern ’ole war.” May
be she had a reason for all this,
uce the question was popped to
T on the day war was declared.
A book of “Lelawala” will not be
accepted in any form by Coolidge
Almond, alias Lord Tatler; Sam
my Boone doesn’t want anything
that will create loneliness for him;
and Carolyn Stone, most of all,
doesn’t want a hangover. (Does she
from school or from the
Christmas holidays????)
Craig Eury musically put.s it:
‘ " iet the world on
Many of the girls agree that
their idea of Chri.stmas presents
i.s not clothes. Jo Morton says,
“Anything that i.sn’t something to
wear,” and i:. echoed by Loui
Shankle’s, “I don’t want clothe.-
Jeanne Lentz doesn’t like choco- ^
late candy, but don’t worry if you I T Morgan and Frank
have already bought it, because want a girl—well,
Jewel Rogers dropped a hint that I Christmas time,
she rather have candy than any-1 ^^^ord one.
thing else—especially if it is choc-' “Ninky” Sanders must be wor-
olate covered cherries. ried — just so she doesn’t get
Glenn Almond, along with Hilda
Honeycutt, Betty Cooper, Gayzelle
Poplin, Mary Lou Byrd and Mary
Jackson Lefler, beg the teachers
not to give them a gift at all if it
must be in the form of assignments
for the holidays.
Uis Underwood, not acting or
World s No. 1 ’ frown on her face.
switches‘on Christm'as'’Eve night
she’ll be satisfied.
, Hoyle Boger isn’t particular; he
just hopes that dear Santa will get
as far as New London this year,
he forgot him last year.
0. K., boys and girls, we’ve tried
to help you decide what not to give,
so now we leave the rest up to you.
GOOD LUCK!
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loud speaker?”
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that are heard every «
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University, has been
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it’s prepared^ »•
anything. But IB
fond of celery,’
asked about his
In the sports worl4J
ketball,
very fond of
Wayne King’s orc^
vorite, while he hM
calist or
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daughter, MiWr^ «
in Oakboro, his ntw