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HIGH LIFE
VOLUME :
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of 0. Henry
Learn the
Code of Ethics
Group Writes Code of Ethics
Entire Student Body Approves
Project of Social Standards
GREENSBORO HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N. C., MARCH 10, 1933
rrug Committee Was Composed
of Beverly Reaves, Helen
Crutchfield, Maurice Polk,
and Ruth Jones, Under Lead
ership of Mary Helen King.
For the first time in the history of
le school a Code of Ethics has been
Britten by a committee and approved
by the student body.
The committee composed of Bever-
, Reaves, Helen Crutchfield, Maurice
polk, and Ruth Jones under the lead-
of Mary Helen King, met and
composed the following code: As a
student in the Greensboro high school,
shall try always:
To be courteous to everybody.
To be honest in all my dealings.
To have respect for and do my best
) attain high scholarship.
To be obedient to those in authority.
To have respect both for myself and
)r others.
To be considerate of the property
and rights of others.
To give my best in support of school
ctivities.
To be a good follower if I cannot be
good leader.
To appreciate my opportimities and
show that appreciation through a wise
use of time.
To have the courage to follow the
ight even though I stand alone in so
oing.
On March 3 two codes were pre-
ented to the student council by the
halrman of the Social Standards com-
littee, Mary Helen King. The above
ode was approved and presented to
student body March 6 in assembly,
[here it was accepted.
This is a project of the Social
tandard Committee.
The code will be placed before the
ludents in various manners at fre-
uent intervals. Posters bearing the
are being placed on bulletin
oards in halls and also a copy is to
posted in each room. Pupils are
urged to memorize the code and live
to its precepts.
^ight School Ends
Spring Semester
Over 300 on Roll
40 Get Certificates Showing
Eighty Per Cent Attendance;
17 Classes Offered.
Senior high division of the Greens-
oro night school will close its spring
erm Wednesday evening, March 15,
fhen deposits will be refunded and
trtificates issued.
Out of about three hundred students
irolled, approximately one hundred
iDd forty who have attended eighty
er cent of the time since their start-
Dg will receive attendance cards from
:ljss instructors.
Teachers of the different groups are:
Bookkeeping, E. M. Peeler; commercial
kglish, O. W. Phillips; high school
kglish and high school mathematics,
Braswell; band and orchestra,
krl Slocum: shorthand, Miss Audrey
loyner; typing. Miss Bright Sedberry;
penmanship and business arithmetic,
Mrs. Lucile Andrews; salesmanship, W.
Andrews, Jr.; radio, J. S. Johnston;
trade dressmaking, Mrs. W. M. Todd;
ittto mechanics, J. R. Medlin; pattern
irafting, Mrs. J. Z. Thompson,
Senior Girl Scouts
To Sponsor Circus
i’ark Place Methodist Church
Scene of Carnival; 10 Cents
Admission; Proceeds to Beau
tify Troop Meeting Places.
STATE PRINCIPALS
ATTEND MEETING
C. W. Phillips left today for Win
ston-Salem to attend the annual
meeting of the Double A-l high
school principals over the state.
John W. Moore, principal of the
Winston-Salem high school, is to
have charge of the program.
Mr. Phillips’s talk will be made on
the subject, Developing better re
lations between the high school
communities. All of the thirty
principals are to participate by
making speeches and engaging in
discussions.
The main speaker of the meeting,
which will extend from Friday to
Saturday morning. Is president
Rondthaler, of Salem college.
There are a few outsiders attend
ing the convention, which has been
in existence for ten years.
The convention met at the Dur
ham high school last year and at
Greensboro high two years ago.
Debaters Hold
Preliminaries
Affirmative Meets High Point
Here and Negative Fights
Winston There.
Preliminaries for the state triangu
lar debates will be held Friday, March
The affirmative will meet High
Point here at a chapel program. The
negative side will go to Winston and
debate before their student body.
The query is, "Resolved: That North
Carolina should adopt the sales tax as
a feature of its state system.” The
school winning both sides will go to
Chapel Hill to compete for the Aycock
Memorial cup.
Mr. Farthing stated that he thought
Senior high had a fair chance of win
ning.
Tommy Miller and David Stafford
will uphold the affirmative, while
Howard King and A. C. Holt will argue
the negative side.
MID TERM CLASS
GIVES LIBRARY $15
The mid term graduating class of
1933 left to the Senior high school
library fifteen dollars to be used in
purchasing new books under Miss
Rebecca WaU's supervision. As no
suggestions have been offered, Miss
Wall has considered buying illus
trated copies of the classics and
placing them on a browsing shelf
where the students may look
through the books without taking
them from the library.
Any suggestions from the students
would be appreciated, or if you de
sire any particular book, write the
name and author on a slip of paper
and give it to the librarian.
Student Views
Inauguration
Greeted By Governor Ehring-
haus; Charlotte, N. C. Band
Parades.
Nature Students
Make Field Trips
To Observe Birds
Class to Begin Study of Trees
and Flowers; Pupils Hear Lec
tures on Natural Science.
There are going to be clowns, and
gypsies, and animals. And a big
parade!
Is the circus coming to town, you
ask? Yes. The Senior girl scouts, to
gether with troop 10 are giving a car-
•lival tomorrow night at 7:30 in the
Park Place Methodist church that will
put to shame all circuses venturing to
Greensboro.
The fun will begin with a big parade
followed by dances and acrobatics.
There will be a fat lady, a magician, a
fortune teller, a crazy house, and a
tattooed lady. Cold drinks and hot
^ will be sold at stands.
General admission to the public is
ten cents. Proceeds will be used to
beautify the meeting places of the two
troops. Emily White wUl be ringmas
ter for Troop 10 and Jessie Douglas
4or the Senior troop.
The nature study class is progress
ing nicely with their study of birds.
They are making field trips every day
that the weather permits. The class
hopes soon to finish up the study of
birds and begin its study of flowers
and trees. Mrs. Nellie • D. Blackburn
stated that she has eighteen pupils in
her class, and that each of them will
be expected to observe and report on
twenty-five birds, fifty wild flowers,
and fifty native trees.
Several speakers have addressed the
class this semester. J. Paul Givler,
head of science at W. C. of U. N. C.,
spoke to them on hobbies. Besides R.
Douglas’s talk on birds, they were
shown one hundred different lantern
pictures of birds by Lacy McAlister.
On the night of February 23, the
class went over to W. C., and listened
to Earl Hall speak on astronomy. Last
Friday after Joe Armfield, assistant
postmaster, came over and talked on
bird, e^s, and nests.
Each student is keeping a nature
calendar. Mrs. Blackburn says that so
far indications point toward a later
spring than last year. However, she
says that when we see the service ber
ry in bloom, we may know that spring
is just around the corner.
By JOSEPHINE ANDOE
I was on the very front row of the
crowd on the Capitol Plaza on March
4 to witness the inauguration of Roose
velt. Several times I thought the cable
would break, the strain on it was so
great. I deserved a front seat, for I
had been standing right there for two
hours before anything happened. I ar
rived at 8:10 and stood in practically
the same place until 5:15.
When Governor Ehringhaus came
around, I determined that he should
notice me. I waved my hand, smiled
for all I was worth, and to my great
delight, he smiled and lifted his hat.
The Charlotte, N. C„ band was there.
The boy that marched in front and
carried the placard had a hard strug
gle, as there was such a high wind. At
times he would almost fall in an effort
to hold the banner.
The Electoral College filled 250 cars,
all same make and models, Fords.
James Cagney, Bebe Daniels, Joan
Blondell, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and
Loretta Young were extended a per
sonal invitation from the president
elect to participate in the parade. They
were on the Warner Brothers float,
but many did not recognize them.
The ‘‘Happy Warrior" stole the show.
He received a tremendous ovation.
Tammany Hall was there in great
numbers. All the members wore con
ventional morning suits with silk hats,
and all had white boutennieres.
An elaborate display of fireworks be
gan at eight o'clock Saturday night
and lasted imtil nine o’clock. The
display was witnessed by hundreds of
thousands. I was among them.
The climax of this colorful show
came when the words “Happy Days
Are Here Again” and the likenesses of
Roosevelt, Gamer, and the Statue of
Liberty blazed against the deep, velvety
blue of the night.
Play (iroup
Drills on 'Peg’
Upon Stage
J. H. Johnson Finishes Choosing
Cast; Both First and Second
Acts Practiced.
SCENE IS IN ENGLAND
To Be Presented Last of March;
Is Riot of Laughs.
Work on the play, “Peg o' My
Heart’’ is prc^essing. Both the first
and second acts have been put on the
stage. J. H. Johnson, director, says it
will be presented the latter part of
March.
The entire cast is as follows: Peg,
Doris Hanes; Jerry, Prank Pittman;
Ethel, Beth Ranson; Brent, Charlie
Hinkle: Mrs. Chichester, Elizabeth Da
vis; Alaric, Edward Cone; Jarvis, John
Durham: maid. Ruth Hill; Hawks, L.
H. Dunlvant.
The Chichester family, composed of
Mrs. Chichester, Alaris, and Ethel, Is a
highbrow sophisticated English family,
who, in the beginning lose their for
tune. As a last resort they agree to
care for Peg, an uncouth, country Irish
girl, and receive one thousand pounds
a year for it.
Everyone treats Peg cruelly except
Jerry, a college friend of Alaric's who
befriends her from the beginning,
the end, however. Peg has improved
and is well liked by everyone.
One of the most humorous spots in
the play comes in the second act when
both Alaric and Hawks, the lawyer,
propose to Peg, because they know that
when she is of age she will inherit a
large sum of money.
Secondary to the plot concerning Peg
and Jerry is a plot concerning Ethel,
a disillusioned, hard young girl, and
Brent, who is married and who con
tinually makes love to Ethel. Peg
stops Ethel from eloping with Brent,
and Ethel afterwards is deeply grate
ful to her.
High Hats Win in Drive
Of Subscription Contest
Edward Cone to Represent Homespun
At C. S. P, A. Convention in New York
Edward Cone, a member of the
Homespun staff, is attending the
ninth annual convention and con
test of the Columbia Scholastic
Press association in New York
City.
The convention opened Thurs
day, March 9, at 1:30 with an as
sembly meeting at the McMillin
Theatre and will close at 2:30 Sat
urday, March 11th, with a 'Var
sity show. This show Is considered
one of the features of the conven
tion, It is to be held in the “new
est and most magnificent hotel in
New York City if not in the whole
country."
The Columbia Spectator, the
daily newspaper of Columbia Uni
versity, will be published by the
delegates from the staffs of the
prize-winning newspapers and
magazines.
Last year Carl Jeffress, manag
ing editor of High Life, was a
member of the staff for this special
Issue.
Thursday afternoon the critics
commented on and criticized the
publications of contesting schools.
Saturday morning has been set
aside for group meetings led by
students and faculty advisers to
discuss the problems Incident to
student publications.
181 Sales Made
Netting School
Profit of $121
Room 300 Has Best Percentage;
Miss Laura Tillett Gets Prize;
Room 203, Miss Mary Harrell,
Teacher. Has Largest Num
ber.
BARBARA PAINE LEADER
College Day
Here April 7
Open Forum Discussion to Take
Place In Chapel; Booths to Be
Erected on Campus.
Three New Courses
Begin During March
State P. T. A. Meet
Will Be Held Here
C. W. Phillips to Talk. Mrs. J.
J. Andoe, Local Chairman, Is
Making Arrangements.
Plans are being made for the State
Parent Teacher meeting to be held
here April 19, 20, 21. Their headquar
ters are to be at the O. Henry hotel.
Mrs. C. O. Burton, the state chairman,
will preside over the meetings. Mrs. J.
J. Andoe, local chairman, is in charge
of all arrangements.
Among the programs to be given,
Senior high will present one concern
ing its Social Standards Conference.
C. W. Phillips has been asked to talk,
and he intends to be accompanied by
two G. H. S. students. One of these
is Mary Helen King, president of
Torchlight.
Nominating Group
Of P. T. A. Selects
New Candidates
Committee Chooses Officers For
All Positions; Program Plan
ned For Last Meeting on
April 4.
A meeting of the nominating com
mittee of the Greensboro Parent-
Teacher association was recently held
at Senior high. Members of the com
mittee present were Mrs. W. W. 'Wha
ley, chairman; Mrs. F. O. Chrysler,
present in an unofficial capacity: Mrs.
O. Lindeman, Miss Fannie Starr
Mitchell and C. W. Phillips. Mrs. C.
E. Stone was absent.
Nominees were chosen for all posi
tions, and April 4 was set for the next
meeting which is to be held at Senior
high. The program planned for that
time will be given by G. H. S. stu
dents. Tea will be served by the home
economics class and the program will
probably take the form of a resume
of the different school activities such
as Torchlight, student council and
others.
This will be the last meeting of the
Senior P. T. A. this year.
College Day will be presented to the
high school students by Martha Fry
and her committee April 7. Hill Hun
ter and Katherine Ellison are on this
committee.
Invitations have been sent to sev
eral colleges in the state and in the
south. Many colleges have answered,
accepting this invitation and are send
ing representatives to this school.
These delegates will be in the library,
and there will be booths situated on
the grounds during the day where the
students may go and talk about the
respective colleges.
A chapel program is being planned
in which several of these delegates will
talk about their colleges and answer
questions that may be of Interest to
the students.
Lunch will be served to all the dele
gates free. This will be served after
the last lunch period in order that
the delegates may talk and see the stu
dents at the other lunch periods.
Some sponsors that have accepted
the invitation are: Professor J. L.
Memory from Wake Forest; from W.
of U. N. C., will come Miss Laura
H. Coit. Mary Bailey Williams, and
Ernestine Halyburton. D. R. Ander
son, president of Wesleyan College,
will be here. Prom Flora Macdonald
College will come Genevieve MaxMil-
Ian. A delegate will represent Ran
dolph Macon also. Miss Anne Preston
will come from Salem College. Presi
dent S. B. Turrentine, of Greensboro
College will be here; Dean Milner will
be here from Guilford College. Mr.
F. W. Heneveld will be here from Da
vidson. Other colleges have not yet
stated whether they will be represent
ed or not.
Girls to Give Operetta
The home economics department is
giving a fashion operetta, “The Su-
sanne Shop," the last of April. Miss
Margaret Fuller has charge of it and
is planning to get J. H. Johnson to
help her.
The operetta Is for the parents of
the home economics students and there
is to be a reception afterwards. The
home economics students not taking
part in the operetta will do the cook
ing and serving.
Blanche Calloway
To Play at Dance
Buccaneers to Present Sister of
Famous Cab at Next Social
Event.
Red hot music will vibrate through
the halls of the Winter Garden or
March 16 when Blanche Calloway, sis
ter of the famous Cab, brings her band
to Greensboro to play for the next
Buccaneer dance.
The Buccaneer club is formed of a
group of Senior high and college boys,
and many good dances have been the
result of their management.
CANTOR COMING
TO GREENSBORO
Eddie Cantor will bring his show
of fun-makers to Greensboro in the
near future.
Cantor has been on tour for the
past few weeks, and only a short
while ago played in Raleigh on his
way to Florida. It is believed that
he will fill an engagement here on
has way back to New York.
School Club
Submits Work
Quill and Scroll Creative Work
Entered In National Scholas
tic Awards Contest.
Winston. Competing With Gate
City. Leads by 431 Margin;
Theatre Ticket Given Each
Student Making One Sale.
Quill and Scroll is planning to enter
its five best pieces of creative work in
the National Scholastic awards to be
held this month.
Any student having had published
any of the following types of articles
may enter them: News stories, fea
ture stories, interviews, sports stories,
columns, poetry, essays, short stories,
literary articles, historical articles, cur-
ent events, sketches, and one-act plays.
A Royal Signet typewi’iter will be
awarded to each type of article In the
journalistic field. Prizes in the other
groups range from $50.00 on down.
Phyllis Hagedorn, Ruel Capel, and
Mary Margaret Bates have been ap
pointed to collect and judge the ma
terial.
At a recent meeting the Quill and
Scroll society changed its name from
the Laura A. Tillett chapter to the
O. Henry chapter, since Miss Tillett
wished it.
Candldate-s for membership are now
being considered. After selections
have been made, the club will sponsor
a chapel program at which they will
present the new members.
They are also planning to put on
radio programs in which Quill and
Scroll members will participate.
A committee composed of Paul Cur
tis, Edward Cone, and Kendrick 'Vestal
is writing a constitution.
The High Hats won the subscription
drive with a lead of 27 sales over the
Sombreros. The High Hats sold 104
subscriptions, and the Sombreros 77,
making a total of 181.
There was turned in $243.25, netting
approximately $121.62 for the school.
This will be divided among the publi
cations and the student council.
Barbai'a Paine sold seven subscrip
tions which was the highest record
made. A pen and pencil set will be
presented to Miss Laura Tillett be
cause her Session Room 300 led all the
session rooms judging by percentage
with thirteen subscriptions. Room
203, whose teacher is Miss Mary Har
rell. made seventeen sales, which was
the largest number.
Winston, with whom Senior high
agreed to compete, beat Greensboro
badly with a score 612 to 181.
Senior high was organized as a large
business firm for the drive with Hill
Hunter as president. Mary Elizabeth
Moore, head of the Sombreros and
Irma Lee Graves, head of the High
Hats, were vice-presidents. Jimmy
Bishop, Kathrine Ellison, and George
Fincke had charge of the publicity.
The renewal manager was Tommy
Miller.
A theatre ticket was presented to
every person making at least one sale.
Other awards were given ranging in
values according to the number of
sales.
The sales by session rooms were as
follows: Room 2, 4 sales; Room 3, 4
sales; Room 4. 6 sales; Room 6, 4 sales;
Room 7, 8 sales; Room 8, 5 sales; Room
10, 5 sales; Room 14, 7 sales; Room 16,
2 sales: Room 24. 4 sales; Room 25. 2
sales; Room 100, 3 sales; Room 102.
7 sales; Room 106, 14 sales; Room 200,
16 sales; Room 201, 16 sales; Room
202, 8 sales; Room 203, 17 sales; Room
5 sales; Room 300, 13 sales; Room
3 sales; Room 302, 2 sales; Room
303, 6 sales; Room 304, 6 sales; Room
306, 9 sales; Room 313, 8 sales; Room
315, 2 sales and Room 317, 10 sales.
Teachers To Speak
H. Grady Miller and Charles L.
Mills Will Address School
Masters Club at Meeting In
Winston-Salem.
Three new courses began the second
day of March, namely, home nursing
by one of the Greensboro city nurses:
etiquette taught by Miss lone Gro
gan, and a course concerning social
problems which C. W. Phillips will
have charge of provided enough are
interested in taking the course. At
present Mr. PhUlips says that the
courses will be taught during activi
ties period.
Mr. Phillips stated that his course
will be concerning the topics of indi
vidualism, socialization, idea of change,
unequal places in our democracy, be
ing bom well, and faith and a square
life.
Florence Austral Is Wonderful Housewife
Noted Singer Finds Americans Appreciative
Florence Austral, noted singer, who
appeared in Greensboro last week is
declared by her husband to be a won
derful cook; he says cooking is one of
her hobbles. He says that his favorite
dish is braized steak which Madame
cooks remarkably well.
He also stated that she could handle
a needle with some degree of skill,
making of her own clothes, and those
of her friends and her friend's chil
dren, and also making silk pajamas
for him.
Madame Austral finds the American
audiences most enthusiastic and most
appreciative of any she has met, and
she has toured the world.
She and John Amadlo, her flutist,
have been married eight years. Theirs
has been a very happy marriage, each
of them being musically inclined.
Mr. Nelson, Madame Austral's ac
companist, is quite an accomplished
pianist. These three toured the world
not long ago. They gave forty con
certs In Australia. When she returned
for her concert was the first time that
she had returned to her native coun
try since as a young girl she had left
it to study.
She has been engaged to sing the
role of Brunnhildi from “Nibelung's
Ring,” in Covenant Gardens in Lon
don next May.
In choosing a nom de theatre, she
wanted to select something suggestive
of her native country. The director of
the Covent Gardens, the late Mr. Wig
gins, suggested the name Austral which
she accepted. ,
According to the New York Herald
Tribune, she possesses “A soprano
voice, volume, range, and ease of pro
duction probably without a superior
anywhere in the world today." Hers is
a rich low voice of rare beauty.
H. Grady Miller and Charles L, Mills,
members of the faculty, will address
the school masters at their monthly
meeting to be held in Winston-Salem
on March 15. ,
There are four others to appear on
the program with speeches to last ap
proximately five minutes each. These
speeches will be on departmental work.
Two speakers will be from Winston,
one from High Point and one from the
county schools.
The topics for discussion are: Mu
sic, commercial education, physical ed
ucation, vocation, agriculture and home
economics.
M. E. Yont from Graham is presi
dent of the School Masters.
Senior High Extremes
Here is the long and short of Senior
high school. A first semester sopho
more, who is four feet and seven and
one half inches tall, is fourteen years
old, weighs 64 pounds and Is the midget
of the school.
Ike Fesmire, star basketball player, is
six feet four inches. Ike is nineteen
years old, weighs 190 pounds, belongs
to semester six, and is the giant.
Wooters Organizes
Boys’ Makeup Class
North Carolina Dramatics Stu
dent to Tutor Eight Boys;
Jay C. Lane to Teach Girls.
Bill Wooters, a student here who has
studied dramatics under many well
known dramatists of North Carolina
for over six years, will teach boys the
art of stage make-up. Almost all of
the six years study was in Charlotte,
North Carolina, under Professor
George Forrlngton, Linda Smith, Mar
garet Newland, and Miss Rea. In Dur
ham he studied under Miss Nix at the
high school there.
This class is organized for the pur
pose of making up characters for plays
produced by Senior high school. In
this way quite a bit of responsibility
wlll.be taken off of J. H. Johnson,
dramatics adviser.
The students will receive actual ex
perience in juvenile and character
make-up. Due to the cost of materials,
the class will be limited to eight pu
pils. These will be selected from the
student body. The class will meet dur
ing activity period once a week. Boys
particularly interested may see Bill
Wooters and girls, Jay C. Lane. Mrs.
Scott will supervise.
I.alin Department Submits
Three Papers for Contest
Jane Clegg, Jasper Seabolt, and
Phyllis Hagedorn submitted the best
Latin papers of all the juniors and
seniors. Cicero and Vergil students of
G. H. S. have forwarded their papers
to the judging committee of the state
examination under the auspices of the
extension department of U. N. C.