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The Lexhipep
Published by the Students of Lexington High School
VOL, I
LEXINGTON, N. C., MARCH 26, 1923
No. 12
History of the Rise And
Progress of Penmanship
WHAT IS A TRUE FRIEND?
Writing is the art of expressing
ideas by visible signs or characters
on some material. The origin of
this art is not positively known. The
Egyptians ascribed it to Goth, the
Greeks to Mercury, and the Scandi
navians to Odin.
The first step toward writing was
probably the rude pictorial represen
tation of objects, without any indica
tion of the accessories of time or
place. Pictures, abbreviated for con
venience, gradually became conven
tional signs, and these signs were
made to stand for the sound of
spoken language.
The various systems of writing of
the ancient world had probably at
least three different sources, the Egyp-
tion, the Assyrian and the Chinese
systems, all of which were originally
hieroglyphic.
Roman letters were used in Italy
until the latter part of the sixth cen
tury ,when the Lombardic style was
introduced; this continued in use un
til the thirteenth century.
The Visigothic style, carried into
Spain by the Visigoths, was legally
abolished in 1901, and Latin letters
were adopted for all public instru
ments. In France, the Merovingian
style prevailed from the close of the
sixth century to the end of the eighth.
Charlemagne introduced the Caro
line, which, having degenerated be
fore the close of the tenth century,
was restored by Hugh Capet, and was
subsequently called Capetian. It was
in use in England, France and Ger
many till the middle of the twelfth
century, when the modern Gothic
spread all over Europe. The present
German alphabet is a modification of
this.
The modern Gothic dates in Eng
land from the twelfth century, the
old English from the middle of the
Fifteenth. The English court had
a barbarous corruption of Norman,
which was contrived by the lawyers
A friend may be a boy or girl. If
he is a real friend he will do what
he can for you at all times. In
short, he will stick with you through
thick and thin, help you in your
troubles, and not because of any gain
to himself. “A friend in need is a
friend indeed.” This means that if
you are in need, and he helps you
he is a real friend. If you are going
to be a friend of some one, help him
at all times. If you can’t say some
thing nice about him, say nothing.
If your buddy does or says some
thing that you don’t like, keep it to
yourself.
Don’t stop at trying to be a friend
to several. Be a friend of everyone,
of all classes. The best rule given
us for friendship is “As ye would
that men should do unto you,
do ye even so unto them.” Keep
this in mind and pr^jtice it. That
is the rule of our fore-fathers. The
ma.xim of today is, “Do others before
they do you.” A fellow who prac
tices this will have very few friends,
and will miss some of the greatest
joys of life.
HAZEL LANCASTER, ’2 5.
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The Boy Scout Movement
Its Aims and Purposes
of. the tenth century, and lasted till
the reign of George II, when it was
abolished by law.
The utmost diversity exists among
dilferent nations in the manner or
direction of writing, but in general,
the Semitic races wrote from right
to left, and the Aryan from left to
right. CLARA TAYLOE, ’25.
The Boy Scouts were organized in
America on February 8, 1908, so they
are now thirteen years old.
The organization was formed by
Mr. Powell, of England, and now the
Scout organizations have spread all
over the world.
There are five hundred and twenty-
four thousand Boy Scouts in America,
more than there are men in the navy
and army combined. . Nobody under
the age of twelve can become a mem
ber.
The Scout’s motto is “Be prepared.”
If you are prepared, you will suc
ceed in life. The Scouts do a good
turn daily, that is, they help some
body, each day. The Scout oath is,
“On my honor, I will do my duty, to
God and my country, and to obey,
the Scout’s laws, to help other people
at all times, to keep myself physicial-
ly strong, mentally awake, and moral
ly straight.”
The Scout laws are, that a scout
must be trustworthy, loyal, helpful,
friendly, courteous kind, obedient,
cheerful thrifty, brave, clean and rev
erent.
A troop is composed of thirty-two
members, one scout master, an assist
ant scout master, and a senior patrol
leader.
The Scouts have a meeting once a
week and after the meetings they
play games and take exercise. Scouts
go- on hikes, and camping trips.
The Scouts were formed to train
boys to be better men, both physicial-
ly and mentally, and the boys are
trained to live healthful lives in the
out of doors.
Lexington has at present two troops
of Boy Scouts, and each scout is try
ing hard to be worthy of the name.
We hope that we may be able to
prove that we are not scouts in name
only, but that we live up to our pledg
es and are developing into good and
useful citizens.
NAT HUNT, ’26.