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HIGH LIFE
March 21, 1930
HIGH LIFE
Published Weekly, Except Holidays, by the Students of the Greensboro
High School, Greensboro, N. C.
Founded by the Class of ’21
Chaeteb
Meubeb
Mabch
1925
Entered as Second-Class Matter at the Post Office, Greensboro, N. C.
STAFF
Managing Editor Frances Grantham
Assistant Managing Editor Frances'Kernodle
Editor Christine Shepherd
Business Manager Charles Shaffer
Circulation Manager Elizabeth Buhmann
1 SPECIAL EDITORS
Assignment Editor Billy Edgerton
Typing Editor Mary Phillips
Art Editor Charles Baxter
Sports Editor Otis Phillips, Jr.
ASSISTANT EDITORS
Manie Leake Parsons Ellen Douglas Bush
Evelyn Garrett Har^y Clendenin
Frank Abernethy . Elizabeth Benbow
TYPISTS
John Dunivant John Gunter Susanne Ketchum
Anna Wills Sarah Scott Moore
REPORTERS
Leslie Lane George Taylor Elizabeth Benbow
Katherine Maddox Ernest Stadium Frances Jones
Manie Leake Parsons Alma Taylor Rigdon Dees, Jr.
Clary Holt Jennie Harrison John Ademy’
Katherine Wrenn
ADVISERS
Miss Julia Searcy Miss Virginia McClamroek Miss Nell Chilton
Congratulations, Music Department
For the past four weeks, Greensboro High School, particularly the
music department, has been interested in the coming opera, “The Yeo
men of the Guards,” by Gilbert and Sullivan. Members of the music
department have worked diligently and faithfully, with the view in
mind of making this opera the best which has ever been presented by
Greensboro High School students. We offer them congratulations and
wish them the best of success.
They are also working on the state music contest which will be held
in Greensboro during the week of May 5-9. This contest is one of the
most outstanding features during the year for the high school music
students. The Greensboro music students, under the direction of H.
Grady Miller, have led all Class A schools in North Carolina for two
successive years. We are hoping they will do it the third time. They
can! Come on, music department. Do your best. We are backing you
in it.
SPRING IS HERE
This is the time of year when the
poets cease their hibernating, hastily
snatch a pencil and some paper, dash
out into the woods with entire disregard
' for the feelings of the person with whom
they may, and usually do, collide. The
Spring fever, instead of disrupting their
entire mental processes as it does with
scholars, seems to spur them on into
the realm of greater poetic ability, for
upon their arrival in the kingdom of
Madam Spring, they immediately scrib
ble various words upon a scrap of paper.
While they are doing this they gaze
around them with the lackluster gleam
of artistic fervor beaming wildly in
their eyes. They behold a robin pick
ing industriously at some worm, near
him, a dainty little flojver pushing her
way through .Winter’s carpet of somber
brown. Immediately a poetic descrip
tion of the charm of the woodland birds
and flowers comes forth upon the sur
face of the paper. A minute bud dis
closes itself upon a branch ,and simul
taneously an ode blossoms from the fer
tile mind of the budding poet. Other
poets, young men of course, turn their
thoughts lightly to love. Girl, boy, love,
dove, heaven, humble cottage, stars,
moon, flower, and other words together
with several tra’s, a great, a great num
ber of la’s, some rhymes and a couple
of iambic pentameter’s are put in a hat
and shaken up. When they are removed
the poetical genius signs his name dec
orously at the bottom of the resulting
poem and sends it and an envelope with
a stamp and a return address (for the
check of course) to the editor of the
daily paper. The next morning he lights
a fire with his poem and the pink slip
which comes back with it.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN.
“The Yeomen of the
Guard”
Is This Not True?
At different times during the school year we hear the calls of sup
port that are sounded by our many organizations. This paper is con.
stantly asking for your contributions and comments. Homespun usually
voices this same appeal. And is not your school spirit questioned when
you do not respond promptly ? Is this not true ?
But how many of us ever make an effort to show our advertisers
that we appreciate their help! They form the backbone of our paper;
without them our school publications would find “the going” exceed
ingly hard, if not almost impossible. These concerns have expressed
their interest and faith in us by this method of aid, and certainly they
should receive something in return. We are asking our readers and
friends to give our advertisers this helping hand by patronizing them
and boosting their products. They deserve it.
Choose Your Road
The Ides of March to Caesar meant death. To us it should mean
new life, the rejuvenation of old hopes, the strengthening of newer
aspirations. March is just the midpoint between the start and the
finish of another sciiool semester. The results of this semester depend
upon every individual. It lies within the student’s power to mold
these few months into something which will add value-to the years yet
to come.
If past work is low in merit—pull it up while there is yet time.
It’s not how much you have fallen, but whether you got up. The mid
point between success or failure—March—is here. Which way will
YOU take(? The straight road—success? The bended road —eiirves-
Then what?
Hurrah for the Publications!
For five years High Life has been a charter member of the Colum
bia Scholastic Press Association. The paper’s success has been due to
the successful superintendence of the managing editors and staff. The
paper, winning the same distinction of second place for two consecutive
years, took the same place in 1929,
Homespun’s achievements have been outstanding since it was first
published in 1925. That year the magazine won first place at the
Columbia Convention.
If the students of G. H. S. are willing to eo-operate, willing to work
and learn the mechanics of journalism and literary writing, the paper
and magazine will finally reach the top-most goal.
The following is a synopsis of the
opera, “The Yeomen of the Guard,”
which the music department, under the
direction of Mr. H. Grady Miller, is to
present this spring.
The scene of the opera is laid around
the prison tower (Tower Green) where
Colonel Fairfax is imprisoned under sen
tence of death. He has been accused
of sorcery, which at the time of the
opera was a capital, offense. The colonel
is in reality an alchemist, and it is from
his experiments that Poltwhistle, his
enemy, is able to get evidence to con
vict him of this crime of dealing with
the devil. Wilfred, the jailkeeper,
watches Fairfax closely to prevent his
escape. Phoebe, who is the village flirt,
is very much interested in Fairfax, and
cares nothing for Wilfred. Wilfred
loves her passionately and is jealous of
Fairfax. Sergeant Meryl, Phoebe’s
father, has sent for a reprieve for
Colonel Fairfax, and they await the ar
rival of Leonard, who is to bring it.
He comes but without the reprieve.
^11 hope of the colonel’s escaping
death is gone, when Meryl suddenly
thinks of a scheme whereby he may-save
the colonel. Since Leonard has come
to join the Yeomen of the Guard, Meryl
conceives the idea of sending him away
again; Phoebe is to get the prison key
from Wilfred, and release Fairfax^ who
is to dress in Leonard’s uniform and
take his place among the Yeomen of the
Guard. These plans are successfully
carried out. In the meantime all are
still hoping for the arrival of the re
prieve; but Fairfax, ^tishing to prepare
for the worst, asks his friend, the lieu
tenant, to secure a bride for him, in
order that he may thwart Paltwhistle,
who will receive all his wealth if he dies
unmarried. It so happens that the lieu
tenant sees two strolling performers,
Elsie Maynard and Jack Point at a
street show, and he gets an idea for
the Colonel’s bride. He asks Elsie to
marry Fairfax for one crown and as
sures her that she -will soon be free
again as Fairfax is soon to be beheaded.
Jack Pointy who is in love with Elsie,
at first objects; but upon being assured
of her becoming a widow, he agrees to
the marriage. Elsie is blindfolded and
married to Fairfax.
When everything is ready for the exe
cution, Fairfax’s escape is discovered.
This leaves Elsie in a terrible state as
OPEN FORUM
Dear Editor:
This is written mainly for the mem
bers of the band and orchestra, but it
wouldn’t hurt you other students to take
heed, for you know “A word to the wise
is sufficient.”
It is generally taken for granted that
all large organizations, such as the band,
orchestra, and glee clubs are going to
have their trials and tribulations in
bringing order out of chaos at their
respeetive meetings. This fact is espe
cially true in our band and orchestra.
Why not have a change—change for a
new and better regime!
You members of the band and orches
tra, stop and think a minute. Consider
yourself in the role of director for
few minutes. Imagine seventy or more
supposedly musically inclined students
gathered before the foot of your plat
form squeaking, and squawking, and
blasting as if their ^lives depended on
making all the noise possible. The class
bell has rung and you wish their at
tention. The tap-tap of your director’s
baton is unheard, your scream for atten
tion lost in the din of musical (!) in
struments, the plea on your face un
seen.
Would it not seem that their enthusi
asm and love for the organizations
would be drowned in utter disgust of
our conduct? No! They are ever on
the job because of tho^e who arfe in
earnest.
Fellow students, it seems to me that
it should be a matter of honor to our
selves and respect to our very competent
directors, Mr. Miller and Mr. Slocum to
show them our appreciation for their
services by giving them our respectful
attention at all times. They are ex
perts in their vocation and know where
of they speak.
All that they ask is a little co-oper
ation on the part of' their pupils, and
they’ll bring home the results. Just let
them know that you’re for them heart
and soul, and then. State Music Con
tests—Watch Out! "RIGDON DEES, JR.
she realizes she is married to an escaped
convict, and Point is also terrified as he
sees his chance of marrying her gone.
Meanwhile, Fairfax who is a^eoman
of the Guard, becomes acquainted with
Elsie, and falls very much in love with
her. Imagine it! A man wooing his own
wife!
Finally a wedding is prepared for
Fairfax, the supposed Leonard, and
Elsie. In the midst of the ceremony the
reprieve arrives and Fairfax reveals him
self to Elsie as her wedded husband.
They are both happy with the change of
affairs; but alas, poor Point, who has
lost his Elsie, falls prostrate. In the
qourse of time Phoebe, seeing that hope
of getting Fairfax is gone, learns to love
Wilfred and they are wed. At the same
time Sergeant Meryl and Dame Caru-
thers, an elderly lady, are also mar
ried. Everything ends well for every
one, but Point dies of a broken heart.
Students:
Citizenship is a rather • over-talked
and under-worked topic, especially, it is
to be feared, in the life of the average
public school student. Though it may
become a slightly horning subject of
discussion, the fact remains that it is an
essential part of our life. In any com
munity, where a number of persons are
gathered to live together, a conscientious
respect for the rights of others and the
rules and regulations of all is a neces
sity. A school, and more especially a
high school, is no exception. Everyone
naturally has his own bit of egotism,
and feels that his case is unusual and
he should be allowed to do as he pleases.
He approves heartily of the theory of
citizenship, indorses it as a necessity
to peaceful and harmonious living, and
expects everyone else to do his part.
His own world, however, is a thing quite
apart, and besides, he really isn’t both
ering anyone. The very things that
sometimes annoy him seem entirely un
disturbing when he is the perpetrator. ^
Then there is the other kind of in
dividual who, to use another familiar
expression, just doesn’t think. In mo
ments of serious consideration, he agrees
that everyone should have th#right at
titude and spirit of co-operation, but as
soon as the discussion is ended, he goes
whooping down the hall, yelling to his
friends, and have a rip-roaring good
time generally. He means nothing by
it, but—just doesn’t think!
Which one of these are you! No mat
ter which one, you are all wrong. Cit
izenship in school means you! What do
you say! MAMIE'LEAKE PARSONS.
A JUNIOR’S WAY
A solemn Junior deep in thought
Was pondering over “French.”
“I just can’t work this stuff,” he said,
“It surely ain’t no cinch.”
He asked his teacher if she would help
And show him how to do it. •
She did, and showed the Junior that
“There wasn’t nothin’ to it.”
So after that 'v^hen he got stuck
On “French,” or any lesson,
He’d concentrate and analyze
Instead of merely guessin’.
—Henrjr Bagley.
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SONGS OF GRIEF
Your Songs—
So soft and sad and low—
The songs you sing
Of grief and woe and need—
Have shown me
That your heart is light
And free from cares;
For,
They do not sing of tears
Who have wept long;
And those who have seen
Their dreams crushed.
Their hopes lost.
Their life’s work crumbling down—
They sing of love and joy—
Of anything but sorrow.’.