Our Grounds Are Just Beginning to Look Beautiful The Pointer Make Your Pride in Them Count for Something PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY THE HIGH POINT HIGH SCHOOL VoL. XIII, No. 28 High Point, N. C., Wednesday, April 24, 1929 Five Cents a Copy State Inspector of Schools Makes Talk Here Friday, Apr. 19 Explains Value of Scholarship, Conditions Upon Which It Can Be Arrived At. “Scholarship is the divine re ward of unremitting toil,” was the keynote of an address by Dr. J. Henry Highsmith, Inspector ot North Carolina schools, to the assembly Friday, April 19, on “Scholarship.” Nothing, he quali fied, is more useless or wearisome than the pursuit of scholarship merely for its own sake. If knowl edge does not benefit the student, he might as well not possess it. A favorite definition of a scholar, the speaker remarked is “a literary man who supports himself by writing. Look on any news-stand, requested the school inspector, “and you will find ample proof that the fact that a man writes for his living does not necessarily Indicate his being a scholar.” The popular notion of a scholar used to be a pale, wan, stoop-shouldered student of books, according to the visitor, but that Idea is also falla cious. “Scholarship comes from appli cation on the part of the individual over a considerable period of time, said Mr. Highsmith, emphasizing the fact that careless, haphazard studying does not get the desired (Continued on Page 3) miENDfflCE PER CENT SI EOR PUSI 564 Absences and 87 Tardies Made by School; Seniors Make Less Absences; Sopho mores Less Tardies. The seventh month of school has rolled by, leaving behind it a record of 97 per cent attendance. During those 20 days, there were 564 absences and 87 tardies. The number of absences according to classes was as follows: Senior, 83; Junior, 124; Freshman, 76; and Sophomore, 191. Several home rooms deserve honorable mention for making a low number of ab sences. Mr. Alston’s freshman class made only four. Miss Barker’s senior home room had five. A num ber of eight absences each was made by the rooms of Misses Tucker, Rogers and Hunter. Of the 87 tardies, the freshmen were responsible for 19;sophomores 18; Juniors, 20; and seniors, 30. Some credit should be given to a few home rooms of the high school that made a splendid tardy record. The home rooms of Miss Alcorn, Miss Esssle D. Hunter, Miss Tucker, Miss Meador, and Mrs. Sowers report no tardies at all. Those which made only one tardy were the classes of Mr. Andrews, Mr. Alston, Miss Louise Hunrer, Miss Shipman, Miss Rogers, Miss Bulwinkle, Miss Morton, and Mrs. Guthrie. E 10 DUAL DEBATE TEAM Debaters Are Working Every Day on New Material for Contest; Two Teachers Will Coach. Instead of having two speakers on each side of the dual debate, which is to be held between Greens boro and High Point May 3, there will be three speakers according to an announcement made by Mr. Earl Andrews, debate coach, last week. This change was provided for in the latest agreement made between the coaches of the two schools. Frances Douglas and Mar garet Andrews will be the two extra speakers for High Point. Frances will debate on the negative side of the query, together with Mayna Allen and Ralto Farlowe. The query is: Resolved, that the United States should cancel her inter allied war debts. The other new speaker will help the affirmative side when it meets Greensboro here. The negative team goes to the Gate City. Both of the added debaters are experienced public speakers. Mar garet debated on the negative side and Frances Douglas on the affirmative in the recent triangular debate. They have both been on debating teams which represented High Point before, besides taking part in numerous other forensic contests. The speakers together with their coaches, Mr. Earl Andrews and Mr. M. L. Patrick, are working every day on their speeches and are planning to administer Greensboro a good defeat next month. Mr. Johnston At Tuesday Meeting Mr. L. R. Johnston, principal, went to Salisbury yesterday where he attended a meeting of high school superintendents and princi pals of the larger cities in _ this section. The officials met to discus the athletic questions of the schools especially in relation to the boys sports. Some of the problems to be considered were: the state chani- pionships, district championships, inter-school games and other phases of the school athletics. The session lasted all day. Thomas Douglas and John dinard Attain N. C. Univer. Honor Two former students of High Point high school have made the University of North Carolina win ter quarter honor roll. These two boys were Thomas Douglas and John Cllnard. To be eligible for making the honor roll there, a student must attain the average grade of B, which is 90 to 95 per cent. The total attaining this honor was 270, 58 seniors, 68 juniors, 81 sophomores, and 63 freshmen. 35 out of this group made A on every course. Thomas John is a versity. is a sophomore, and freshman at the Unl- -O— MIXED CHORUS EROM NEGRO HIGH SCHOOL ENEERTWSI Impersonations of Famous Ac tor Hit of Morning—Miss Beard In Charge of Program. H.P. PHYSICAL DIRECTOR ACTIVE IN COLLEGE IN ATHLETICS AND CLUBS There are not many members of the high school faculty who have a “college and coaching” record that can equal the one Mr. Charles E. Spencer, head of the boys’ physical education department, holds. Mr. Spencer has heretofore been very modest about all his accomplish ments in high school, college, and since leaving college, but a reporter for The Pointer finally persuaded him that the readers would be glad to know about some of the offices he held and some of the activities he participated In while in school. He says that he was graduated from the Roanoke Rapids high school in 1920, although his home was in Lawrenceville, Va. Prom school he entered the University of North Carolina, from which he re ceived his diploma. While in college Mr. , Spencer took part in a number of school activities. As for clubs, he was president of both the Cosmopolitan club, and the Halifax county club, and a member of the monogram club. He also belonged to the Chi Phi fraternity. Debating seems also to have been a hobby of Mr. Spencer. He was a commencement speaker his third year, and was winner of the Bing ham medal for debating. Besides this, he was on the debate council, and was both speaker pro tern and speaker in successive years. Needless to say, the High Point (Continued on Page 3) Possible Candidates for President Appear Before Student Body u CAST IS AT WORK ON SENIOR PLAY The negro mixed chorus of the William Penn high school enter tained the junior class with a number of negro spirituals Wed nesday morning, April 17. Before the program Thomas Carpenter told the meaning of the negro spiritual. He said that it was originated in the heart of the southern slave. The sad spirituals were sung by negroes who were driven by cruel masters. Professor Klrkwright, the prin cipal, outlined the history of the negro high school from the time it was a private school until the present time. There are nine voices in the chorus—three soprano, two alto, two tenor, and two bass. The first number, “Lest We Eorget” was sung by the mixed chorus. “I’m So Glad Troubles Don’t Last Al ways” was sung by the Girls’ Chorus. “Go Down Moses,” and “Swing, Low, Sweet Chariot” were next rendered by the entire chorus. “Absent” and “Study War” were sung by the male quartet. The hit of the morning was an impersona tion of Bert Williams by Harold Williams. His number was “No body.” O Math Contest Draws Twenty-Two Pupils Number of High Point Students to Enter in State-Wide Com petition Here Friday. Friday morning will find twenty- two High Point high school pupils hard at work on the state math contest which will be conducted all over the state at that time. This contest is the last of the series of tests conducted during the winter by the University of North Caro lina extension department. The French competition was held last month and the Spanish. Mr. Earl Andrews is in charge of the coming contest here, as he is the head of the school math de partment. He announced last week that the contest will consist of three types of mathematics: plain arlthemtic, algebra and geometry. Those who will take the test and are hoping to “bring home the bacon” in true fashion are as fol lows: Robert Hubbard, Alfred Moffitt, Mildred Payne, Thelma Scott, Mary Holley, Nell McMul- lan, Burgess Leonard, Anna Gert rude Douglas, Mildred Le Grande, William Taylor, David Parsons, Charles Welch, Irene Seward, Elo- ise Best, Margaret Andrews, Katie Sue Stanfield, Raymond Ritchie, Logan Porter, Eustace Smoak, Wilbur Hutchins, William Coble and Carl Smith. Three-Act Comedy Said To Be Filled With Mystery and Laughs; Players Named, Eleven members of the senior class with Mr. Stookey, who is coaching them, are hard at work on the play which will be presented May 10 here. The play, as an nounced last week. Is “Oh, Kay,” and It is said to be “chock-full” of mystery, thrills and laughter. In the cast there are five girls and six boys. Several of these parts are leading ones, and the students who are taking them have been having intensive training since the first of last week. The main role in the play, that of Kay MIllIs, Is to be played by Dot Rankin, and the part of Art who “considers his thoughts and decisions as the last word in wisdom” by Robert Davis. Art Is several years older than his sister, Edith, an attractive girl who likes to write stories. Virginia Diffee will be Edith. The comedy parts of the play are carried by Marlon Shipman and Woodrow Brooks, who are both well known in school for their ability to keep the audience in an uproar. Marion will appear as Gram, who is “fussy old lady with a sharp tongue,” and who Is convinced that she is as ill and feeble as one ever gets. Gramp, her husband who says that he is just as young as he ever was, will be portrayed by Woodrow Brooks. The remaining members of this interesting family are Captain (Continued on Page 3) Speak on Subjects Pertaining to Everyday High School Life; Abilities Charted. Thirty seconds after the student body was fairly settled in the audi torium Tuesday, April 16, it made an unconditional surrender to the sharpshooters on the platform, who maintained a heavy fire of statistics for three-quarters of an hour. This was, more seriously, the program by means of which the student council and its advisers hope to start some thinking among the students In regard for their next president. The most promising of the stu dents eligible for office had been allowed to choose subjects from those of Interest to their school mates and present them in brief talks. Each of the assembly pos sessed a “grading sheet” upon which he marked the good and bad points displayed by the speaker. By this plan the advisers hope to make the coming election as fair, as accurate," and as discerning as a campaign can be made. Rip Tabb spoke on “A Few Facts About North Carolina High Schools,” Herman Stevens on “The Taxpayer’s Dollar in High Point,” Thomas Ellis on “Locks from the Administrative Point of View,” Franklin Surrat on “Locks from (Continued on Page 3) CHEMIsWilUDENTS STUDY NEW PROIECTS Classes Visit American Bakery and H. P. Creamery; Are Given Demonstration and Treat. OE HISEORX SIHOENIS HERE IN EHIS SCHOOL Junior and Senior Classes Make Posters, Booklets and Car toons for Their Study. Although junior history has not made rebels of those who are study ing it at present, it has evidently incited in them a desire to go into the subject of revolution more closely. This conclusion is drawn from the large number of extra work projects, dealing with the revolutions of European history, which are seen around the junior rooms. In Miss Cllnard’s classes some of the students have drawn cartoons dealing with the French revolution. They have also made booklets, drawings and cartoons showing the steps in the unification of Germany and of Italy. The Industrial revolution fur nished the subject for booklets in Miss Alcorn’s classes. These show the development In the revolution, and draw a contrast between the modern methods of working and the old ways of working by hand. Posters showing the inventions of the period of the French revolu tion have been made by Miss Singer’s pupils. One of the stu dents drew what was considered an unusually good pen sketch of President Hoover. In the senior history classes the pupils are taking up the period from about 1880 through 1916. In these chapters are considered the rise and fall of the value of money (Continued on Page 3) Probably more of the student body will be Interested in the acti vities of “chemistry-ites” when they hear about all the soirees enjoyed by these scholars. For the past two weeks the juniors and seniors who are taking chemistry under Miss Tucker have been studying several new projects. They have taken up the chemistry of making bread, the Babcock milk tests, the principle of freezing, and the manufacture of ice. The stu dents have handed in papers on these subjects, and have gone Into detailed research work. After discussions and experi ments in class, the pupils visited the American Bakery and the High Point Creamery. At each of these places an entire demonstration was given. At the creamery, the stu dents were shown an actual demon stration of the Babcock milk test. And here hangeth the tale! At the creamery every one was served Dixie Cups and at the bakery, the entire body was fed cake to its heart’s content. And it didn’t take much persuasion either. Miss Tucker said that everybody had a mighty good time. SENIOR CLUB PLANS GIRLS WEEK PROGRAM Plans are being formulated for the annual Girls’ Week which will be May 6-13. For the first time, the entire program will be under the supervision of the girl reserves. They will sponsor all the various features, and have a different pro gram for each day of the week. Both advisers and members of the Senior Girl Reserves Club are working with Miss Carrier and Y. W. C. A. officials to make this year’s Girl Week a better and more entertaining one than the pre vious ones have been.