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HIGH LIFE
Thursdaij, March 26, 1925
HigK Life
Published Bi-Weekly by the Students of
The GREEis'SBORO High School
Greensboro, N. C.
Founded by the Class of ’21
EXECUTIVE STAFF
Editor-m-Chief Lois Dorsett
Associate Editor Elizabeth Stone
Associate Editor Alfred Dixon
Junior Associate Editor . ^ Helen Felder
Junior Associate Editor Georgia Stewart
Jr. Assoc. Editor Charlotte Van Noppen
Athletic Editor Virginia Jackson
Athletic Editor Elizabeth Darling
Athletic Editor Clarence Stone
Alumni Editor Virginia McClamroch
Literary Editor Martha Broadhurst
Exchange Editor Virginia Jackson
Assignment Editor Helen Forbis
Assignment Editor Moyer Sink
Scoop Editor J. D. McNairy
Typist Editor Virginia Bain
Typist Editor Bernice Henley
Typist Editor Walter Smalley
Typist Editor Beatrice Williams
Business Manager Byron Sharpe
Asst. Business Mgr P. B. Whittington
Circidation Manager Martha Broadhurst
Faculty Head Miss Inabelle Coleman
Faculty Adviser Mr. W. R. Wunsch
Faculty Adviser Miss Geraldine Kelly
Faculty Adviser Miss Mary Wheeler
JOLLY JUNIORS
Today we are Jolly Juniors; or at least
some of us are joyous—notably Ed Lash-
ley, who found a quarter in a pocketbook
which he had bought second-hand for a
dime, and John Mebane, who got out of
standing quizzes for a whole week when
he knocked the skin off a place on his
finger about the size of a pin head, tied
it up, and claimed he couldn’t write be
cause he had cut the end of his finger off.
But we must eat, drink, and be merry,
for tomorrow (i e., next year, unless the
heart of some one of our teachers be
comes petrified or something like that
and Ave are flunked, in which case it may
be two or three years later) we shall be
Solemn Seniors.
When that glorious (or maybe sorrow
ful) day comes it must find us, the class
of ’26, with a clean record of class
achievements as Juniors behind us, so
that we may take over with light hearts
and confident hands the greater respon
sibilities and opportunities which will
come to us as Seniors.
While as a class we have performed
no wonders during the current semester
and the one preceding it, we have been
fairly successful; but we should not toss
any bouquets at ourselves on account of
this, as our success has been due in a
very large degree to the untiring efforts
of our faculty advisors, who luckily for
us are the very best that the school af
fords.
All that we are now and that we may
hope to be in the future depends on
one thing, however. That thing is the
kind of spirit by which the class is moti
vated. If we all pull together, work to
gether as one harmonious unit, then there
is no limit to the heights which we may
scale. But if some members of the class
are forever pulling backward, holding
the rest of the class back, we may hope
for nothing more than utter, dismal fail
ure.
Therefore, members of the class of ’26,
it is evident that the future of our class
depends on every last one of us doing
his part and contributing to the accom
plishments of his class to the uttermost
limit of his ability. If that is achieved,
there ivill be no heights to which it can
not ascend and nothing which it is not
able to accomplish. The deeds of the
class of ’26 may form a chapter in the
history of G. H. S. which would never be
surpassed and which would be a source
of pride to every student of the school.
Glexx Holder.
continue to do it, though we could cheer-
fully “kill” the one who passes us. If Ave
Avish this courtesy from others, Avhy not
shoAv it ourselA’es? Remember, “Do unto
others as ye Avould that they should do
unto us.’'
If Ave did not forget to remember, Ave
Avould realize that tbe school bell is not
announcing a fire or a circus every time
it rings, as one might think from the mad
rush. We forget ourselves, our class
mates and our teachers as Ave flee from
the rooms. Our slogan seems to be,
“Down one Avith every step.” The halls
are not race tracks and Ave are supposed
to be ladies and gentlemen. Let’s not
forget it.
Our teachers! Do Ave remember that
they are human beings and deserve as
much consideration as Ave do? Do Ave
shoAV them this consideration? Are Ave
kind, thoughtful, obedient, and respect
ful? Do Ave try to do tbe little helpful
things that mean so much to them?
Would our parents be proud of the Avay
Ave behave? Let’s remember to act as
they Avould have us act toward our teach
ers.
Our studies! Do aax rely on our sis
ter’s or brother’s reputation to take us
through High School? Do Ave think that
if Ave are good in athletics Ave may pass
Avithout Avorking? Are Ave trying to pass
or to learn? Are Ave Avorking or dream
ing? Remember, “The man Avho Avins
is the man Avho works.”
Noav one more thing to remember be
sides all the others: We are the young
citizens of this city. Let’s prepare our
selves by learning to remember not to
forget.
Margaret Fergusox.
High Lights On “Hi’
By Mary Tilly
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:alk.
Trudging onxcard dorc'n the
Gaily having a little talk.
When all of a sudden you feel a jar,
And hardly know where you are;
Your books all scatter on the ground.
And your notes fly all around.
While in the hurry and the noise
You dodge among the girls and boys.
And thank heaven that, at last.
You finally land on time to class!
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Some teachers aren’t worth a “Farthing,”
Others as “Green” as grass,
While some are “Frank” and open
And worshipped by the class;
Some are “Dry” and “Sapp”-less,
Others refreshing like “Wine,”
Still those like a “COLE-man” heater
On a winter’s day are fine;
Some are cute and little—
Believe in fun and mirth—
But the prize among the teachers
Is a “Killingsworth” by birth.
If Marguerite got lost Avould Harriss
Hunter?
It Avas reported by a keen observer
that much overguarding Avas done in the
game betAveen the boys and girls the
other night.
REMEMBER
Remember! We almost hate the word,
for since babyhood we have heard it first
in the morning and last in the evening.
“Why need we hear it so much?” we
wonder. The answer is: “You forget to
remember.”
Yes, we forget to remember. If this
were not true we would know now, after
hearing at least a million times, that
pushing ahead in the cafeteria is very,
very rude as well as very unfair. We
SLACKERS
You cannot'get more out of a thing
than you put in it. That’s a proven fact,
folks. You can’t get aAvay from it. You
Avill get out of G. H. S. exactly what you
contribute to it.
There is a small percentage of the stu
dents of Greensboro High School who
seem to have lost sight of this truth.
They evidently think that they can get
all the benefits from the school Avithout
contributing one bit of effort on their
part toAvard its progress. The student
Avho goes through his high school career
obeying the rules, upholding the ideals
of the school, striving to the best of his
ability to add to its fame, putting in a
reasonable amount of time and study on
his subjects, will get infinitely more of
real value to himself from it than will
the slacker who skins through by the
breadth of his chin Avhiskers.
There are two big classes of students:
those Avho come to school to get an edu
cation, and those Avho come to get out
of going to work or to take some part
in athletics or the like. The last group
will get little out of going to G. H. S.,
and the school will get less from them.
They might as well be out in the battle
of life following the great and ever-grow
ing profession of bootlegging or some
other means of getting a livelihood.
It’s a serious business, this getting an
education. It is one of the greatest tasks
any of us will ever undertake. A good
education means hard Avork and plenty
of it. Although we may not realize it,
these days as G. H. S. are going to have
a mighty effect upon our Avhole lives.
Habits of good sportsmanship and obe
dience to recognized authority, or the
reverse, formed iioav Avill last to the last
heart-beat of this life.
G. H. S. has had high ideals, great
honors and fame in the past. It is our
duty, the duty of every member of the
student body, to further these ideals;
to bring greater honors and undying
fame to our school in the future. We
have good buildings and the best faculty
to be found anywhere, but all this is of
little value unless the student body is
moved by right principles. If you do
your part, give your best to school activi
ties, the benefits to you will be far great
er than the work required. Make G.
H. S. a better place for your having
gone through it. Do your best for G.
H. S. and G. H. S. will do its best for
you.
Glenx Holder.
ANOTHER CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
Some bills put in their appearance at
the first of every month to devil the life
out of poor men. Others are sharp and
cruel, tearing to pieces their oavii felloAV-
men. Some are dipped into all affairs
but their oavii—and yet there are four
Bills over at G. H. S.—Avell, er, just
adorable! Figure it out for yourself.
Mr. Aycock: “Tell about the Reign of
Terror.”
M. Garner: “Who Avas he?”
What’s all the excitement about? Nor
man’s back, of course!
Why does Mary Wheel-er round the
room boys and girls Avho knoAV Iioav to
Avalk?
Ask P. B. hoAv it feels to get locked
up in the “Follies”—I mean almost lock
ed up.
Sinful Peck
This is a story of the sea such as is
seldom seen or read. It grips the inner
most part of you Avith a savage tenacity
and makes you Avant to read on. There
is Avit and humor streAvn about the pages
of the book, though each is in its proper
place. The excitement contained in the
book keeps you on your toes, and you
Avait for something, you knoAV not Avhat.
It is a,story of seamen; their brutali
ties and their faithfulness. It tells of
mutiny on board a ship out at sea, and
of storms such as haA^e never been heard
of; the daring of a little man named
Sinful Peck and his great initiative and
ready good humor. Hoav to make good
a bet he goes and joins a ship as a com
mon man before the mast. And aboAm
all his taking of his thirteen comrades,
all rich business men, Avith him on a Avild
journey across the sea, and his keeping
them in spite of all their protestations
to the captain.
This book also has an educational Ami
ne. It shoAvs that the author knoAvs the
sea, and knoAvs Iioav men ship before the
mast and their conditions.
The author is Morgan Robertson, and
into this book he inserts all of his origi
nality and ingeniousness. The character.
Sinful Peck, makes you laugh and makes
tears appear in your eyes, Avhile at the
same time you are grateful to him for
affording you .Avholesome amusement. The
book itself is so real that you become
one of tbe prisoners of Sinful Peck. Too
much praise cannot be gRen the author
for his magnificent story.
Bill Fife.
STAFF OF THIS ISSUE
Editor-In-Chief Glenn Holder
Associate Editor Charles Forsyth
Associate Editor John Thornton
Associate Editor Luna Byrd
Athletic Editor EdAvin Lasliley
Athletic Editor Mary Tilley
Athletic Editor Willard Watson
Assignment Editor Glenn BoA'd McLeod
Assignment Editor Marguerite Mason
Scoop Editors The Rockwell TavIhs
Alumni Editor Marguerite Harrison •
Alumni Editor Martha Garner
Literary Editor Margaret Ferguson
Exchange Editor Kate StcAiairt
Business Manager P. B. Whittington
.Assistant Manager Ernest Williams
Typist Editor Roj' Smith
Typist Editor Hazel BroAvn
Typist Editor Annie Yount
Typist Editor Pauline Medearis
Typist Editor Cordia Durham
Typist Editor Helen Dai’is
Faculty Advisor Miss Julia Glenn
Faculty Advisor Miss Mary Wheeler
Ask Virginia which is the SAveeter—
Chimes of St. Patrick or the bells in the
Automat?
During the finals of “Seventeen,” an
N. C. C. W. flapper was heard to Avhis-
per, “Gee, I Avish I was his mother 1”
A boy in the library tbe other day
asked Miss Sapp who Avrote “Roosevelt’s
Letters to His Son.”
THE WISEACRE
Head bowed, with not a glance aside.
He passes by, stern-faced, unwinking.
What keeps him so preoccupied?
He thinks he makes you think he’s think
ing.
Worth Ferree got stuck on something
in the library t’other day. A girl? No,
a piece of cheAving gum!
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Edited by Kate Steavart
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Brackenbridge Times, San Antonio, Tex.
Your paper is very interesting and
cleAmr, with a nicely balanced front page
to make it look more attractive. We
greatly enjoyed your “Froth” column.
Fine Yarns, Gastonia, N. C.
We enjoyed your paper so much. Your
departments are well organized and the
general appearance of your paper is at
tractive. We are glad to have your pa
per on our exchange list.
Pine Whispers, Winston-Salem, N. C.
You have an attractive name, but how
about organizing a literary section to
improve your paper?
Aggie Pep, Charleston, Miss.
Yours is a nice newsy little paper Avith
a good joke column to make it more in
teresting. Why not organize an exchange
column?
The Technician, Raleigh, N. C.
We like your publication and its well
written-up sport page is one of its best
features.
Manual Arts Weekly, I^os Angeles, Calif.
Your editorials are fine and the amus
ing cartoon on “Exams” adds greatly to
your paper.
The Connecticut Yankee
Mark Twain
This story sIioavs Mark TAvain at his
best in plot and bunior.
It is a story of a Yankee avIio is laid
out by a croAvbar in a fight and upon
aAvakening finds himself in King Arthur’s
court. He is arrested and is sentenced
to die by Sir Kay on the 21st, but Avord
is forced that he is a magician and by
the aid of a sun eclipse proves it.
He becomes the king’s minister and
brings in many reforms, such as trains,
telephones, and motorcycles.
He engages in many tournaments and
comes out victorious. “The Boss,” as the
Yankee is iioav called, becomes the great
est man in the kingdom, and after many
humorous adventures and the making of
Arthur’s court into a 12th century king
dom, aAvakens and finds himself in his
OAvn house just recoA^ering from a seri
ous operation caused by a fractured
skull.
Mark Twain evidently bad this story
Avell planned years before the actual
Avriting of it. It is rated as one of his
best stories and stands at the peak of
humorous literature. Twain leads us
into this story in a manner that sIioavs
his skill in holding one’s interest until
the plot is fully developed.
Charles Forsytii.
ALUMNI NEWS
G. H. S. has seven girls at St. Mary’s
this year. From last year’s graduating
class Ave have Margaret Perkins, Jennie
Trotter and Elizabeth Thornton. They
are doing good Avork and like St. Mary’s
fine.
Jack Causey is doing as Avell at River
side as he did at G. H. S. We are proud
to learn that Jack’s name appears on the
honor roll regularly.
“Chicora is a good old college,” Avrites
t*’nances Garner. “Grand girls ’n’ every
thing !”
What’s all the fuss at Carolina about?
Of course over Charlie Causey. All the
fraternities Avanted Charlie for theirs,
but IIOAV he is a D. K. E. Oh, boy! Aren’t
Ave proud?
“HIGH LIFE” AWARDED SHIELD
AT SCHOLASTIC PRESS MEETING
(Continued from page one)
and C groups. In the A group fell all
schools having an enrollment of more
than 1,000 pupils; schools having an en
rollment betAveen 500 and 1,000 Avere
classed as B schools, and those carrying
the enrollment of less than 500 Avere C
class. Greensboro High School auto
matically fell in the B class. Points con
sidered in judging these classes Avere:
(1) general appearance as to impression
it gives of school; (2) makeup of head
lines and front page; (3) breadth and
field of material; (4) neAvs stories; (5)
literary quality; (6) editorials; (7) fea
tures; (8) humor; (9) quality and style
of Avriting, and (10) advertising. All
through the convention rang the note
opposing advertising in a high school pa
per. “No real business man Avill adver-
BOOK ADS
Queed
If you were all alone in the Avorld,
didn’t knoAV your right name, and you
went to a strange place and fell in love
with a girl, and everything that the girl
wanted was what you couldn’t give her,
and your father found you, and he was
a crook avIio had beat the girl you loved
out of everything she had, what Avould
you do?
Read the book, “Queed,”’ by H. S.
Harrison, and see Avhat little Dr. Queed
did under those circumstances.
Weldox Beachaih.
Read this most remarkable story by
Jack London. It tells of the adventures
of a wonderful dog and is interesting
and exciting from cover to cover.
“The Call of the Wild” may be ob
tained for .$2 at any good bookstore.
Ted Smith.
If you like football and college life,
read the famous story of a young fresh
man who climbed to fame and leader
ship. “Tom Brown’s School Days,” by
Hughes. George Gregory.
Buy a book of Poe’s short stories, and
enjoy the thrill of Hallowe’en more thor
oughly. Leox Wells.
tise in a school paper as a business in
vestment,” declared Miss Edith Penny,
of Horace Mann School. “They usually
do it because they think they are helping
a good cause and Avhat is that but char
ity? Then Avhen Ave let our boys and
girls accept ads from the Avorld .Ave are
encouraging their being subjects of char
ity.” It Avas in this field that High Life
lost a chance at first place, since High
Life carries about eleven columns of ads.
Noav the editors are planning and hoping
to Avork out some means by Avhich they
may edit their paper next year Avithout
having any advertising.
From the schools having delegates at
the convention, representatives from the
10 best Avere chosen to edit the March 14
copy of the Columbia Spectator. Mar
tha Broadhurst represented High Life.
The convention was Avell planned and
furnished much Amluable information as
Avell as real entertainment for the dele
gates. Meetings featuring every phase
of journalism, banquet, and conferences
Avere included. A trip from the top to
the bottom of the NeAV York T'imes Avhile
the Sunday edition Avas being printed
was a valuable experience.
Some of the places of interest visited
by the group were the Metropolitan Mu
seum, Museum of Natural History,
Bronx Park, Little Church Around the
Corner, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, St.
John’s Cathedral, Trinity, St. Paul’s,
Central Park, and a complete tour of
the city taking in Riverside Drive, East
Side, Chinatown, the BoAvery, Wall street,
Greenwich Village, Broadway, Fifth ave
nue, and other interesting places.
TFIE BUSY EXECUTIVE
“MJiat you doing now. Bill?”
“I’m plant manager for old Skidrox.”
“Plant manager! What do you have to
do?”
“Water the geraniums.”