Ptge Two
HIGH LIFE
March 24, I93J
HIGH LIFE
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THE PURPOSE OF HIGH LIFE IS TO;
Qet and preserve the history of our school.
Y\old individuals together under high standards.
Separate the worthwhile from the worthless and promote
the highest interest of students, teachers, and school.
Hail Dispeller of Gloom
Tiny delicate green leaves are appearing on the trees. Flowers are be
ginning to perfume the balmy air. At last the whole world is putting on a
more cheerful attire. Spring, reviver of the seemingly dead, is arriving to
receive the scepter abandoned by Gloom. The season has as its co-worker
a man guiding the destiny of the nation who is a reviver of hope and confi
dence.
These will be no grieving for the banishment of Depression because all
realize that a dangerous enemy has been exiled and that a courageous leader
is at the helm. Everyone has caught the spirit of the moment. A calm
obedience, without questioning why, is the order of the day. After three
years of strained anxiety, we are relaxing our tense nerves of strained anxiety,
we are relaxing our tense nerves and realizing that we are at last emerging
from the darkness.
Prosperity is now in our midst, ushered in on the wings of the darkest
and longest days in our history.
Hail to our chief, the President of these United States, Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
Why Teachers Change
A teacher’s disposition often suffers great changes from fair to bad at
the end of the first nine weeks, from bad to worse, or, if possible, an angelic
turn of mind may appear.
All of these characteristic attitudes of mental adjustment may be going
on at once in the minds of as many different students dependent on the
grades they are getting. The marks are determined by the work done.
Hence, the kind of instructor you will have the balance of the semester
will be decided by your reaction to the grades you forced your teacher to
place on your report card.
Why not have the angelic type?
Beware of Moving Benches
The benches, made by the woodwork department, have proved a great
aid to students, who are burdened with books at lunch period and desire to
rest their we.iry arms.
The students, although they enjoy the comfort of the benches, abuse the
school property by moving the benches out of the grove where they have
been placed, on to the grass.
To preserve the property of the school, Mr. Phillips has requested that
the benches be left in the grove and not moved on the grass.
Students should co-operate and see that the benches are not moved.
Fred vs Bob
Two robust, young lads quite unthoughtful of their manners, uninten
tionally delinquent on the subject of etiquette, joined high school.
Fred, the more thoughtful of the two, soon came to realize that his
spontaneous blustering and thoughtless habit of speaking out of turn was
surely m.arking him an undesirable person. Fred joined the etiquette class.
Bob, his equally unmannered p.il, has never become conscious of his dis
agreeable personality. Today he is the same, pesky character while Fred,
through his readily assumed meekness has become quite a leader in political
as well as social activities. Fred is very grateful to the etiquette class and
for its service.
You can get the same service.
Attendance Record Low
During this semester Senior high has not won an attendance holiday.
Last semester it won only two. Some of the Junior highs have won a holiday
every month of this term.
The records show that more boys are absent than girls. Probably this
is due to the fact that girls ride, while most of the boys walk. If this is
the case, some way of getting the boys to school during bad weather should
be worked out.
SCIENCE ARTICLES
IN LIBRARY
An education for the scientifically
interested thinkers lies waiting In a
few magazines on the library's period
ical rack,
"Machines That Think,” an article in
The Scientific American, will take
quite a lot of human thinking to un
derstand, but it is worth the trouble.
Other scientific stories are: "The
Riddle of Mars,” what astronomers
know and do not know about that
’planet; in Popular Mechanics, “Back
to Babylon,” the history of a perma
nent concrete; and “Can We Control
the Weather,” in the same magazine
are Interesting.
If you want to knotv “What Is Tel
epathy?” and "The Truth About High
Altitude Flight" look in the Scientific
American.
“DEEP WATER’’
Here is a story truly delightful, as
well as educational. A boy of only
fifteen years sails on a skipper bound
for America. That was fifty years ago,
but the ship’s boy, now a retired cap
tain, still remembers the thrill of his
first ship. His own story of his years
at sea, up to the time he was made
captain, is a vivid narrative of places,
ships, and people that he actually
knew.
Captain Mitchell was born in Eng
land of a long line of seafaring ances
tors, many of them in the royal navy.
He now lives in California, where all
of his favorite pastimes is making ship
models.
"Deep Water,” Captain Mitchell’s
autobiography, is a most unusual pic
ture of sea-faring life.
“WITH HEARTS COURAGE”
Edna Kenton
This unusual book is the story of
the earliest explorers of the St. Law
rence and the Mississippi, and of those
daring countrymen who went to break
new trails into the New World. They
lived alone with savages in an un
charted wilderness. At night, tired
and hungry, they refused to rest until
they had worked out the map and
planned for the next day.
While reading this strange tale, you
can shut your eyes and see what the
picture of your own North America
looked like before it was touched by
civilization. You travel in a tiny
canoe into the very heart of the great
wilderness.
To the writer of this book the in
formation that she learned about the
primitive Indians was fascinating and
romantic, and will surely prove even
more so to the reader.
About seventy-five members of the
Central Band of Charlotte led the
North Carolina division in the inaug
ural parade of President Roosevelt in
Washington, D. C. The members of
the band campaigned to get one dollar
from each of the thousand Interested
individuals. ’The expenses of the
workers of the campaign were paid
by the organization, while the other
members divided the expenses.—The
Rambler, Charlotte.
Hi-Llfe, of the Fairmont, West Vir
ginia high school, reports the follow
ing incident as actually taking place.
A student at the University of Cali
fornia was contemplating a dance, so
the first thing he did was write one of
the nationally known orchestra leaders.
This is what he wrote:
Dear Mr. L:
Please notify me as to the number
of musicians I can have for a dance
paying them $300.
The reply he received was: “I can
let you have 3 sheets of music and one
piccolo player.
From the Green and Gold, Canton,
Georgia high school paper comes the
following joke: A village girl eloped
in her father’s clothes. The next day
he local paper came out with an ac
count of the elopement headed: “Flees
in Father's Pants.”
RAMBLING THOUGHTS
By Hardy Root
This is a funny old world. You
never can tell what people really want.
For instance: If a man makes a
strike playing baseball, the crowd boos
him; but if he makes a strike while
bowling, they slap him on the back
and say, “good boy.”
America will probably be forced to
have another war to furnish Holly
wood with material for pictures. The
last rumpus is growing a bit stale.
WEE BITS: Harry HiU thinks “The
Sign of the Cross” is a traffic light.
. . . America is now passing through
the greatest crisis in her history. Rath
er interesting too, I think. . . it looked
for a while if all dances would be
script. . . Harold Stem has the sweet
est dance music on the air. . . Every
funeral home in Greensboro is repre
sented at Senior high.. There’s Doris
Hanes, Walter Blue, and Jean Rack-
ley. . . According to size, there are
more murders in Memphis than in
Chicago.
Who the heck is Bill Jones? I
wonder if he lives up to his sugar
coated morals?
I read in the paper the other day
where an ice cream factory had ice
cream on hand two years old which
they couldn’t sell. That’s real frozen
assets.
I‘ll never consider myself too old
to read Tom Swift. However, a few
of the lines in these famous books are
so out of date that they are really
funny. For instance: “Tom pushed
with all his might on the accelerator,
and the car jumped forward at the
terrific speed of 25 miles per hour.’
Drat that Dan Baxter!
In my opinion, Paul Muni is the best
actor on the stage or screen. Lionel
Barrymore comes next.
A few minutes before the Titanic
sank, the ship's band played a fare
well song. I’ve often wondered If the
director would have gotten mad if his
musicians had played off key.
The other night I was awakened by
a noise in our garage. I stuck my
head out the window and saw a man
trying to syphon gas from the car.
Feeling jn a rather buoyant mood I
yelled, “Say, buddy, you’re wasting
your time, there’s no gas in that tank.”
I expected to see the man beat it, but
instead he scratched his head and said,
“Thanks, old boy, that saved me a lot
of trouble.’’ He picked up his can
and walked slowly away.
DO JIGGERS: Jack Benny is one
of the few real comedians . . . the
chief cook for our cafeteria studied
with a French chef ... 12 Greensboro
people are in “Who’s Who” ... the
acoustics in the Carolina theatre are
terrible ... Ed Cone reminds me of
the Blue Boy . . . Katherine Ellison
can ask more questions than anyone
I’ve ever known.
Some day I hope to see a scene as
beautiful as the picture on the cal
endar in old Jim’s wienie stand on
Market street.
I’m writing this at 1:30 in the morn
ing. I can't sleep. A while ago I
heard a noise on the back porch. I
grabbed. my shotgun and went down
to see what it was. It wasn’t any
thing but my old hound dog scratch
ing his head. His hind leg made a
noise on the floor like a machine gun.
There’s a girl in Senior high wear
ing an engagement ring. She says it
means the real thing.
Which reminds me. The other day
I wrote a girl a note. (Yes, I’m that
kind of a boy). In the note I told her
I would give-her a ring that night.
Of course, I meant I’d give her tele
phone a ring, but, like most girls, she
took it the wrong way. She wrote me
back and said she didn’t feel that way
about me, and besides we were both
too young for marriage. Imagine that!
FINALE: Frances Rogers Is 20 min
utes older than her twin sister .
I wonder if Wilfred Schlosser thinks
those lunch period walks are a Payne
. . . there are six Yankees in Senior
high. I started to count Mr. Belding,
but he’s from way out west somewhars
. . . Ho, hum. The roosters are begin
ning to crow. I better get some sleep.
Goodnight all.
It’s So
If man invaded space on a race to
the sun, traveling at the rate of two
miles a minute, it would take him
88 1-2 years to get there; 46 1-2 years
to get to Mars: 83 years to get to the
Moon; 372 years to reach Jupiter; 755
years to reach Saturn; 1,610 years to
reach Uranus: 2,571 years to reach
Neptime; and millions of years to reach
the stars.
The big dipper cii’cles around the
Pole Star.
The largest diamond in the world,
discovered in Africa in 1905 and called
the "Star of Africa,” weighing over
3,000 carats or about a pound and a
third, was bought by the French gov
ernment for seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars and given to King
Edward VII on his birthday.
There is a sun-power plant near
vered glass mirrors which catch the
ered giass mirrors which catch the
sun rays and concentrate them on a
boiler, thus making heat enough to
create steam to run an engine.
, Washington, D. O.
My Dear Mr. Phillips:
Am remembering you among my
great and many friends with a card
from this most magnificent city in the
world (Washington, D. C.) I shall
never forget you, the pleasant recep
tion given me, and the thrill I got at
my appearance before your great and
enthusiastic boys and girls. Please
convey to them my kindest regards.
I arrived here to see it all start and
seems to have been going ever since.
Sincerely,
WILL LINDSEY.
Editor's note: This was from the old
negro man (one-man band) who play
ed so well for us last year.,
Dear Editor:
This semester will soon be half over,
students. If the question, “Do you like
the present schedule better than the
old?” were put before you, what would
be your answer?
Many students have said "I wish we
could get the did schedule back. We
have library work every day and I
need a study period.” Probably equal
ly as many are enjoying the forty-min
ute lunch period so much that they
fear a change would take that also.
We all can’t be satisfied so let’s make
the best of what we have, and try to
be contented.
A STUDENT.
Dear Editor:
I am sure quite a few pupils would
appreciate it if a provision could be
made for students who have no study
period and are taking five subjects. Of
course these pupils may study during
activities period, but most of this is
taken up with spelling test, assembly,
and activities.
I am one of these students and have
heard others with the same problem,
complain of this handicap. We would
like to bring this fact before the facul
ty and let them decide the question.
Exams will be on us before long and
we really need this time. Others have
it; why can’t we who need it most
have it too?
A STUDENT.
Birthday Greetings
March 25—Keith Felischmann, John
Bobbitt.
March 26—Teddy Tipton, Horace
Breazeale, Mary Elizabeth Champion.
March 27—Charles Garrett, Isabel
Weisner, Edna Bray.
March 28—Ruel Capel, Thurman All-
red, Garnet Byers.
March 29—Harry Cook, Harold Hin-
shaw.
March 30—Dorothy Darden, Roy
Greeson.
March 31—Walter Cope, Adelaide
Love, Joe Westbrook, Winston Davis.
April 1 — Ruth Harwell, Burton
'Thompson, Pauline Foy, Billy Womble.
April 2—James Holt, Edna Jenkins,
Phillip Kirkman.
April 3—Bernard Wall, Boyd Talley,
A. C. Holt, Earl Hedrick.
April 4—Robert Baker, Ruby Watson.
April 5—Elizabeth Albright, Louise
Hendrix, Mary Hinton.
April 6—Louise Greene, Nell Benton,
Reba Ingram, Robert Williams.
April 7—^Robert Varnon, Juanita Cox.
THE GARDEN OF LARIOT
Wrapt in a garment of quivering light,
Lariot’s garden lies magic tonight,
Shadows, like phantoms are haunting
the grove.
Fairies of silver dance down by the
cove.
There is the band of the small fairy
forms.
Morning in laughter of elfinish storms.
Creatures of night and beautiful of
race.
Perfect of figures and lovely of face.
Yonder, the ghosts are ascending the
hiU,
Silent their' voices, their feet never
stiU;
Yonder the fountain that freezes the
heart;
Drink of its waters and life must de
part.
Haunted hy shadows, so weird and so
dim.
Haunted by fairies and phantoms so
trim,
Wrapt in a garment of quivering light
Lariot’s Garden is magic tonight.
MARY KATHERINE BRADLEY.
If a man worked a 31-day month,
making one cent the first day his sal
ary for the day before was doubled
each day he would have made over 10
million dollars at the end of the
month.
Raphael Combines Best Traits
Of Many Artists in Paintings
In the paintings of Raphael Sanzio
there are found Michaelangelo’s sim
plicity and strength of outline, the
grace of expression and composition of
Leonard da Vinci, Fra Bartolommeo’s
subtle deepth of coloring, and a broad
treatment of drapery and dramatic ef
fects from Mosaccio.
Principally becau« of his two Ma
donnas Raphael has been known for
four centiu-ies as the greatest of all
painters. It is said of his “Madonna
of the Chair,” “Her eyes look straight
forward in a wistful, womanly way.
The child’s face is burdened, as if a
forecast of his life as a ‘Man of Sor
rows’ already weighs heavily.” His
“Sistine Madonna” draws this com
ment, “The Madonna’s large awe
stricken eyes and modest, serious,
lovely face are the highest expression
of womanly purity and the solemn joy
of young motherhood.”
Raphael was born at Urbino, Italy,
March 28, 1483. His father, Giovanni
Sanzio, a merited painter of that time,
began teaching Raphael his trade at an
early age.
At twelve Raphael began studying
under Perugino, a celebrated artist. His
first independent work was on the
cathedral at Sienna. At 21 he painted
three outstanding pictures. He was
asked to help with the architectural
designing and paintings for the Vati
can.
Raphael is an exception among
artists in that instead of seeking soli
tude he delighted Co work with many
students aroimd him. At his death he
left one unfinished picture. One of
his students was able to complete this
because Raphael had trained him so
well.
At thirty-seven he died of a violent
fever. He was buried wiht pomp and
fever. He was buried with pomp and
the world scores of paintings, any one
of which is a masterpiece. His fellow
countrymen call him “the Divine.”
For why should I shiver
’Neath winter’s' blanket
And sorrow ’neath the darkened sky
To mourn of the bitter chill
When spring is nigh?
For why should dreams
Be they disturbed
By the raging storm and whining
breeze
When comes the time that robin’s nest
Be built in the budding trees?
'The wintry snows are melt
And sc^ged within earth’s breast;
So the sorrow of life is sped.
And carefree of human toil
Mirth imparts its share to the illbred.
JACK BARNES.
When I sit me down to study.
Trying hard to concentrate.
The music on the radio
Is coming through just great.
The rag-time jazz of night clubs;
Rudy’s soft appealing croon.
Tear my thoughts from boring studies.
While I marvel at the moon.
I dream dreams of girlish fancy.
Problems I forget of math
I can vision moon-lit gardens.
With a sweet, rose-scented path.
“Auld Lang Syne,” I envy deeply,
I remember, “Old Black Joe,”
I’m “In Hills of Old Kentucky,”
Listening to the radio.
Oh for “Bonnie Annie Laurie, ”
I would lay me down and die,
And “The Harvest Moon Keeps Shin
ing.”
When I’m “Coming Thru the Rye.”
Then I visit “Yankee Doodle, ’
And the dear “Old Folks at Home.’
I’m in “Dixie,” land of cotton,
With my baby walking home.
Then I reach this quaint conclusion,
Standing “Where the Shannon
Flows”:
I’ll bet children got their lessons
When there were no radios.
—IRMA LEE GRAVES.
THE COLLEGE CALL
In this good day, professors say
Our minds should thirst for knowl
edge.
They think it’s great to graduate
And then go off to college.
Oh, we’ll agree, good things you’ll see
In good books, if you’ll read them.
But books of lore are a perfect bore
When you know you’ll never need
them.
How many boys who are mothers’ joys
Would, on lessons fret and bother;
They’d live in ease, do things they
please.
Send good reports to father.
But parties wild urge on the child.
Who’s tired of boresome study.
'Then off they go to make a sh6w
With some bad and reckless buddy.
They wilder grow as on they go.
In their driving, dancing, drinking.
While coming up in the social cup
In grades, they are surely sinking.
And pa back home is heard to groan
When letters come from sonny.
He knows full well that they will tell
A new demand for money.
A hard rough road with a heavy load
You must tread for an education.
You must have real grit to stick to it
For to reach your destination.
This, you should know before you go
In search of treasured knowledge.
Consult you: dice, think more than
twice,
• And thrn go off to college.
—IRMA LEE GRAVES.
A1 Avery left Monday for West Jef
ferson to take a position with the Blue
Ridge Oil company.
Amelia Block and Carolyn Weill
spent the week-end with Virginia Rein-
heimer in Raleigh.
Marshall Gardner, who graduated
from Greensboro high school in 1931,
now a student at State college, sings
in the State college quartet.
Since U. N. C. doesn’t have any
spring holidays this year, this week
end found many former G. H. S. stu
dents at home. Among these were Ed
Broadhurst, “Shorty” Shaffer, Mack
Heath, Charles Edwards, and Sher
wood Hedgepeth. But poor “Shep,” he
didn’t get much from his week-end. he
had to stay in bed—just a cold.
Katherine Ginsberg paid the pub
lication room a visit Friday. Come
again, Katherine.
In San Francisco a plane took off
from the top of an auto which was
speeding forty-five miles an hour.
With loudspeakers on his wings a
pilot can be heard for a mile from his
speeding plane if he speaks in a low
voice.
At a few feet from the ground De
Angeli, an expert Italian airman, has
zoomed his powerful monoplane to an
angle of forty-five degrees. This can
only be accomplished by piloting of
the highest type.
Gliders with ten pound engines are
expected to fill the air in a few years.
If the inventor from Connecticut
succeeds, he will live a bat’s life. He
has constructed a winged machine
which he expects to propel through the
air by his own muscular power His
legs would operate the tall. In the
air his body would be horizontal. The
wings have a twenty-foot spread. The
complete machine weighs forty pounds.
Flares which will help the pilot in
landing are being perfected. They are
shot out horizontally from the plane.
The autogiro turned upside down, or
something of that sort, has been found
useful in taking air photc^aphs,
sprinkling insect powder, and especial
ly for Arctic exploration. The motor
is mounted beneath the fuselage in
stead of above.
One of those streamlined planes with
reduced weight and increased capacity
for cargo and passengers has hinged
wings so that it may be stored in a
garage.
In the forthcoming wars, if there
are any, airplanes will play a big part.
The infantry will be transported by
planes capable of carrying 200 men
each.
There will be some planes which will
carry as many as a dozen machine
guns. Single gunners will have trans
parent, revolving cages from which to
shoot.
The protection that this gives from
the wind will mean that very careful
aim can be taken. Other gunners will
have a new type of crow’s nest perch
ed below the fusilage and facing to
the back. This enables no surprise at
tack to be given from the rear.
Planes traveling at night or in fog
can not be surprised. They will be
equipped with electric rocket bombs
which launched automatically at the
approach of other planes. The bomb
is very sensitive and catches the sound
of the plane to hit it with the great
est accuracy.
Airports in the middle of the ocean
will be made of ice in the future,
things Dr. A. Gerke, of Germany. He
states that this will be cheaper than
other proposel island airports.
The World War treaty was not sign
ed at five o’clock Eastern Standard
time.