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HIGH LIFE
May 2, 1940
HIGH LIFE
PiiblisiH'd Seiiii-iVIonthly'^^^^^
by the Stmlenls of
I^I•pell.sb(l^o Senior High
School
(ireensboro, N. C.
Founded by Class of 1921
Uc‘viv‘d l)y the Sjiriitg Journalism
‘Ciass of 19;?7
KiUon'd iis s(‘foiir]--l!iss malter March 30,
19)0, at, llie post otiice at Creenslioro, X. C.,
und(o; tli(> Act of Mareii O, 1S7!).
KDri’CKIAL STAFF
J'Jdftor-hi-Chirf Alleeiu! Darby
ANxveiatc Kditor . - - Ueginald Starr
Mii1;i‘-Up Fjditor .. Ibirbaru Bentley
h'.rch(ai(ie Editor and Chief Typint
Jane Winfrey
Mahv-XJp of Paiji; Four
Kleanor Dare Taylor
Feature Editor - Betty Hayes
Sporty Editor ... Lewis 'I'liornlow
Proofreader - Aundiu Dunstau
Alumni (Jorrexpondent Jean Trimble
Vij'culat'ion Munaner Janet Cox
AxHixtant J'ypixt - .. laicitle Uoseberry
Fluff Photoyrupliei ....... Solomon Kennedy
Photoyrapherx - Paul iinuing.s,
Purnell Kennedy
IIFPOHTFKS
Janet (!o.y, Aurelia Diinslan, Pat Fordham,
Sue Hall, Cloria llogewood, James Hop
kins, Martlia IIt)niaday, Beverly Ann
Monc'y, Annie Loiii.sc? Patterson, Keginald
Starr, Fletuior Dan? Taylor. Hope 'I'liorn-
hurg, Jean TrinilJi-, Frances Winslow,
Ii'ina Kstes, Kaciiael Whiteside.
BUSINLSS STAFF
JiuHhiexx Muiiuyrr Irma Estes
Adi'crtixin!/ Manwjer . . Kacbael 'Whiteside
AD\'EUT1SI.\(1 AGFXTS
SiK! Hall, I'lila Mae .Vonnan, Jane Sloan,
Arlcme Wliitener, .Janet (Jox, Keginald
Starr. Betty Hay-s. Eleanor Dare Taylor,
Barbara Bentley.
FACni/l'V .VDVISEUS
Editorial . Mrs. Betls, Miss Pike
Einunoial . Mr. Ilucks
and preserve the history of
f our school.
H
old individuals together under
high standards.
S eparate the worthwhile from
the worthless and promote
the highest interest of stu
dents, teachers, and school.
Days or Daze?
Kvery tiay scein.s to be a special “day” at
Senior iiigli school this year. .For example
Itiere is College Day, Careers l.)ay, May Day,
Student-Faculty Day, and Social Standards
Day. Tt is true tliat these events are most
lielprul .for tile .scliool; indeed only a short
sighted jxirst)!! would deny this statement.
However, if loo many days are set aside for
one, event or tinotlier, as many students are
repitvsling, the novolly will be lo.st. As a re
sult, the student body, instead of Iteing
helped, will end in a ■■ondition seriou.sly re
sembling a diizf*'.
it:
Lend a Helping Hand
Today is Studeiit-Faeult.v day! Make
1011 t break it ! Make, it by lending every
o|)erative elToi-t possible to join Hie fun and
lo help everyone liave a good time.
Principal Reason for the Record Number of F’s—Noise
0)>cn Letter to “X Wise Boy in Semester 8.”
Dear WLse Boy;
III flic Aju-ii 4 issue of ye olde .loiiriialistlc
she‘t, .vou seem to have covered the ground
very Ihoroughly as io your opinion on the
“girl for student body president” idea.
Von first said it would be impossilile for a
girl lo assume the duties of a president.
Why? Women semn (o liave done all right in
Ollier fields,—jiolitics, labor, and industry.
You said iiex:, ‘Tt fakes a smart person to
lie president of the student body.” If that
is the ca.se. it. would lie much more desirable
to have a girl for pi'esident. Did not one of
our own (J, II, S, femmes score 100% on the
state Frencli contest? You then declared
. . no girl is smart enough to get elected,
much less he able to do the job if they got
in.” Fnless soiiuHine's memoiy has gone on a
“lunge,” liaven’t i«ite a few of our “dweat,
big, strong lie-men” presidents had girls for
campaign managers?
As to doing the job. . . . After all, the
ability of a person li{‘s in his mind and ae-
lions—XOT in his sexi You also stated that
“boys would refused to be governed by a
femme.” 'Way liaek in history, almost an
cient, there wus a femme who led the entire
army of France—a little girl named Joan—
Joan of Are.
You further reminded ever.voiie Unit the
girls wouldn't stick togetlier in electing a
girl, and llmt even if they did elect her,
they wouldn't mmtinne to support her lic-
enu.se of jealousy, 'ITils is another ease where
the sex of an individual has no hearing on
lh(‘ meril.s of the ease. Perhaps it all boils
down to (he prejndiee existing against a
woman holding piililic ofTice. It’s what a
person dorx—and ix that counts! Man is just
as apt to he jealous of hi.s superior a.s a
wonuiu I
You concluded your epistle with this
prophecy, "XO (4IRL will over be president
of the iiigh school.” Well, J'e scribe would
lieg to ilisagree with ,vou. Wise Boy. We de
clare that wlu'u all of G. H. S. liccoines
broadminded enough to put aside all these
ancient prejudices ami to realize that it is
no longer a .Man’s world, hut that a woniiiu
has a dellnite place in il, a girl will be
elected president. She will lie elected, not
merely because she is a girl, not because of
tradition, not even because student voters
have learned to exercise better judgment,
but liecause the students of Senior high will
have h'arued to make a choice on fhe Inisie
of merit alone.
They Should Have An
“Academy Award”
l*('rluij)s thp greatest single elunige ttiat
1ms taken jtlaee in tlii‘ average student’s cam
pus (lutlook tliis year Jiiis been Itrought about
by tlie jiroposed changes in the .school con
stitution. wliicli are to be ratified or rejected
by the student iiody at a mass meeting next
Tuesday.
For some timle iliere 1ms been considerable
criticism leveled at the (dd constitution. There
is no great oeeasimi to wonder at this, a
healthy sign, as there have been no additions
niado to it since ITIG. and certain present
conditions, not exi.sting in the school at an
early date, have reipured a dra.stic change.
it therefore appears to this organ that
every wide-awake, up-to-the-minute student
will wish to put his stamp of approval on
■the new document by casting liis vote in favor
•of it. Iluiii Lipe wi.shes to go on record as
being in iavor of it and endorsing its pro
visions without reserve.
Congratulations, Winners !
TUFV Imve ui)held the honor
of (J, 11. S. by putting it “on the map” in
many fields of competition, High Life wishes
to congratulate Harriet Sink of French con-
lost fame; Tx'wis AVilson, the only student
making a perfect score in the state phy.sies
i-ontest; Barbara Dentley. the national 'Quill
3iml Scroll victor; and Senior higli’.s musi
cians, both vocal and instr\imental. Not only
is Hioii Life proud of you, winners, but the
('lit ire student body ami faculty coi-jxs join
and say — (FlNGWATrLATlONS, \V1N-
NFKS!
Columiiia's recdi'ding bumls appareiilly
have siii'ing fever eomiiiereil. Mo.st of them
are !u the midst of loenlion changes and
theater eugageimuils, (Irriii Tucker and
Bdiiitie Baker opened at the Waldorf-.Vstorla
in Xew York and Tommy Tucker took his
orcliestru into the Fiesta Daiiceterin the
same night.
Eddie Duchlii moved into the swank Per
sian room at I he ITaza, lieside.s douliling at
the Xew York Striuul theater. Goimt Basie
starled a string of theater date's by opening
at the State, ami (ieno Krupa arrived in the
metropolis for an engagement at Xew York
Paramount, hegiiming April 24.
Sweet ’N” Swing
Drnmmer.s are floeking to get the new
Cui) (’ulloway reeord of “Parndiddle.” fea-
luring (kizy Cole on the hides, “Pnnuliddle"
is a rudimenliil drum-heat, which is being
used more and more iu popular dance-work.
Cole takes more than thr(H?-(iuartors of the
dise IIS n solo, with unusual bass drum and
cymbal olYects.
Anyone sending ]»reseiits abroad might do
worse than mail Benny Goodman's Colum
bia disc of '‘Peace, Bi-other.”
l‘>ee! Derca Kw'onls!
Free! Hear that children? Something
Fiw, Yes, Ye Record Shop is giving away
Deccii reeord.s. All one has to do is to follow
the direetious for the contest iu the Record
Shop ad In this issue of High Dife.
Cln.ssicii! Uei'onliiigs
One of the newer elussieal recordings i.s
Faiitii.xiii and Ftiyiic in O Minor, played by
Sehiweifzer on the organ, Issued under Co-
lumliia set 270.
i'icnnese Mimic by the three Strausses, a
Victor di.se, is a choral arrangement of
waltzes, operetta songs, ii polka, a march,
amazingly chirruped by Vienna’s touring
youngsters, (he Viomni choir boys.
Another new Victor recording. No. 14r>82,
is .1/1/ Font lx Athirxt, traiiserihed by T-t'O-
pold Stokowski and the rhihulelphia or-
elu'sira. Stokowski lias also made C Minor
I^imxaraylia and Fiiytic for Victor 14u8d,
tAlso Volume M401).
'HOW CAN I GET INTO RADIO!'
“How can I get into radio?” I.s the (pies-
fion (‘Very young hopeful asks, and the
question that, every author doe.s not answer.
But iu her hook. “Stand By for the Ladies,”
Kutli Adams Knight, in an easy, informa
tive, .vet humorous style, takes the reader
to file distaff side of radio and answor.s that
and numerous other queries,
Miss Knight who has been managing editor
for a radio syndicate, has written daily
serial programs, and bus been responsible
for some of the air’s groute.st programs, in
cluding fhe “Calvaeade of America,” She
thinks radio is n mad house but wouldn’t
bo out of it; however, lier descriptions are
uuhiased, ami .she teil.s the “ups” as well as
“dowii.s” of a radio career.
\Vhether the prospective radio profes
sional is anticipating the work of a scenario
writer, actrc'ss, or director, she will find fhe
necessary information to aid her in her
plans. Or if she is merely inquisitive, she
will find enterfainment in “Stand By for
the Ladles.”
On Your Toes!
A “Minute” View of
World Affairs
By Sue Hall
Explanations of Hltler'.s invasion of Xor-
wny. Denmark, and as many believe, inovit-
alily Sweden, have hetui few. The most
pliUisilite of these, excluding Hitler's lust for
imwer. seems to he found in the natural
richiK'.ss of these Scandinavian countries in
iron (ire, the ever-imporfant food for Ger
man munltioiis plants. Also, this marching
in Xorway was undoubtedly done in view
of the fact that Italy as the one important
European neutral. Ls open to suggestion, and
this display of German power will weigh
coiisideralily in influencing the Fascists.
And, with England only an hour, the way
I he Reich air force flies, away from Xorway,
in what better positions could Germany
have anchored lu'r air force?
Italy Shivers Behiiiil tiie Blockade
Italian facforii's, munition plants, etc., are
suffering from malnulrilioii, nialnulrifion
due to Iiu4v of coal. With tlie English block
ade eultiug oil' n vital supply, Italy turned
to Gi'rmany. who promised to send the need
ed coal over fhe rails eoimecting the two
countries, lint with an urgent market for
coal at lioine, and with the inability to ship
llie coal even lo towns in Germany, the
Reich has been unable to keep this promise.
Tims Italy lias been left high and dry
willi a serious coal shortage problem.
Building Kace vvitli I'. S.
Because Japan is allegedly luiilding eight
iK'w battleships, ‘which would bring the
.iapuiiese il(>et to a total of twenty-si.x hatfle-
ships, Chief of Xaval Operators. Harold R.
Stark is urging the Senate Appropriations
committee to boo.st other Xaval appropria
tions and hurry nlong the building of, eight
new r, S, battleships, which would bring
th(> ITiUed States fleet to a total of twenty-
two heavy ships. Thus, if necessity invites,
the TTiited States.will have an equal chance
to hold the Paciiic against. Japan.
In the Future?
Coiifenipliiting the- future, people are won
dering how many other small nations will
Could It Be Old Man Weather
Who Selects Student Food!
Cold days, hot days, and the menus of
G, IL S. invariably change with the weather,
for who wants to add heat with boiling soup
wlien the sim is already .scorching them?
IJkewi.se, a freakish cold atmo.sphere does
not inspire ice cream.
Proving these stiitements, Miss Cleone
Boyd, cafeteria manager, declares that when
old man weather howls forth with icy blasts,
the wretched student body eagerly drinks
five gallons of .soup, while it ordinarily con
sumes only three gallons.
Ice Cream Aids Scorcliiiig Days
M’hen the local ractebrologist J/redicts a
hot day, the management might as well stock
up with ice cream, as reports show that the
looking-for-relief pupils greedily devour CO
dozen ice cream items.
Peanuts .seem to satisfy one most on warm
(la.vs—the statistics show that the “discipili”
prt'fer them in warmer weather. It is, inci
dentally, the members of the weaker sex
who crave their salty flavor.
THE srXSET
The sky was tropic blue chitfon
With a flash
- Of hibiscus red.
The sea a fabulous crinoline
In white lace,
Rustling on a golden carpet
Of satin-quilted sand.
But then I felt the wind
On my cheeks,
And Icnew a drop of
Fragrant perfume
Had spilled from the bottle
Of the twilight.
—.Janet Co.x.
profit 'from Xorway’s and Denmark’s ex
perience and clean out all suspicion of that
Xazl iinside work which was at work in
Xorway and Denmark months before the
actual invasion took place.
if»m
Spring fever seems t) liave caught several
students iu tlie general region of the apiien-
dix. Anridia Dunstau is ivcuperating at
houu', as nice little girls should, but Carlyle
Groome is back haunting the office. . . .
(J(‘()rge Estover had to promise his mother
not to borrow money for the Glenn Miller
dunce, but don’t treat him too badly—he
wasn’t the only one that got through the
window.
IViiat two femiuiiie inemhers of the Eng.
lisJi department are liecomiiig ardent level's
of nature-iu-the-raw? Sh' the Misses Ilarbi-
son and Sledgi' for further information.
. . . Dancing the ^■irgillia Reel has made
quite gallant cavaliers out of DoForrest
Miiness and O.scar Petree. They like to admit
they soak tlu'ir feet in the Gable manner,
Bauds ami glee clubs and filling station
dances ktqit most of Grei'iisboro .jitter-lnigs
busy during tlie week of .Vpril 16-19, In
cidentally. Miss Moser -mis kept busy by
loads of those little pink things—with ink
scratchings on them.
Speaking of the Music contest, the G. IT. S.
musical geniuses should adopt “Three o’Clock
in the Morning’’ as their theme song. . . .
Homer Groome, of the rosy checks and baby
stare, gets in the show for a dime. Envy,
envy!
Who should have ever thought of it Bar
bara, that shy, pink-and-wliite-and-gold Bar
bara Bentley, winning a gold key in the
Quill and Scroll contest! It only goes to
show, never judge a journalism student by
her looks!
(juote, “Funniest Sight of the Week,” im-
(luote: “Panky'’ Winslow rolling a peanut
along the floor with her nose, in the Quill
and Scroll initiation. Said “Panky,” “Sea-
hiscuit by a nose!”
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MXY STAXDS FOR POLES—May poles
and election poles. Duck days (you know the
days it rains and your hair turns “DOWN”).
. . . Cramming for the last exams. . . .
ALBERT SITOWFETY innocently inquired,
iu a typing class how long the ten-minute
test would be.
It’s getting pretty bad when they start
shaving teacher’s heads! Well, maybe it
isn’t that bad, but have you noticed Miss
MeXairy’s nice new haircut?
When Buonaparte heat Europe up.
And was flic supreme ruler,
They knocked him from his lofty mare
To St. Helen's cooler—
A'Oir, with Europe’s jumhled map,
Herr Hitler starts to tinker.
Let’s hope that just like Buonaparte,
He ends up in fhe elinkcr.
—-1. Thornton.
After a year’s stay in Ilollywosd, PAUL
BEIIRMAX is coming back to Greensboro
—and are some folks glad!
■We see now where Gene Gottsehalk, the
pitcher, gets his power,
Glenn Miller dance,
No Mini,
Tlirougli tiio window,
More Fun.
—E. D. T.
By stufliiiig pillows in the window to keep
it up, TEE McCORMiCK thought it would
be easy to sneak in from the Glenn Miller
dance at four o’clock instead of two—but her
mother was a girl once herself and was
familiar witli all such tricks, so TEE came
ill at t\yo.
Say—wonder why Miss Wren’s favorite
song is “OH, .TOTIXXY”? Well, the writer
wouldn't be knowing, but suggests you ask
her.
CAP1>Y CARTER and DEE DARDEX are
so much alike tluit even their hair comes
down on the same day.
Peppy girl.
Goes on jag;
Comes tlie dawn.
Sea liag.
—R. W.
TO KEEP from having a DEAD time,
G. II. S. students started riding through
graveyards!
If you think the fellow that sits next to
you in geometry is dumb, you should peep in
on Miss Wall’s drama class sometime. Why,
those students even talk with their hands
(they do sometimes—when they do pan-
tomiue.)
Jack Shelton caused a lot of Washington
hotel giu'sts to get excited last week-end.
IIow did he know the button he pushed
would set oft a tire alarm?
Feelings Mutual
Every body agrees that the best dime ever
spent at G. IL S. was the one invested at the
Civltan track meet last Friday,
Tlioiights About People on tlie Campus
OPAL COKE—belies her name because
she’s fair, not dark.
JAMES SHOPFXER—they say, has a
double by the same name in Danville, Va.
VERGIL SCHEXCK—could easily be an
actor or an artist—with a head of hair like
that.
ALICE SPARGER—^speaking of acting,
this girl has the air of a tradegienne.
ARTHUR BACHMAX—his Pennsylvanian
accent distinguishes him in the group of
school traffic officers.
“MAXIXE AXD EVELEEX”—certainly
the rhyming duo of the school.
MODERN ST. GEORGE?
In days of long ag(), St. George,
The fearful dragon slew.
Let’s liope today tliat England soon
Will soon slay the dragon too.