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
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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.
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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-
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.