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Senior High Citizens:
What Now?
HIGH LIFE
‘Give Them a Chance,"
Advises Editor
From the Gate City of the South and the Birthplace of O. Henry
VOLUME XVIII
GREENSBORO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, GREENSBORO, N, C., MAY 1.5, 1!)43
WARNER SWEEPS TO VICTORY IN ELECTIONS
Yice-Prestdanc^ Soes
To Charles Wagner;
Alexander Tops Holf
l>nnging to a close wliat school of
ficials termed one of the most success
ful of all student body elections in the
lii.«itory of the institution, Senior high
school students went to the polls yes
terday and chose Tim ‘Warner and
riuiiies Wagner to serve as president
uiul vice-president of the student gov
ernment association for the coming
year.
First public announcement of the re
sults, as revealed by Mrs. Estelle Le
(iwin, adviser for the association, ap
pears in this issue of High Life.
A\'aruer, member of Torchlight and
cMiididate for the 10-i2-43 Whirlwind
grid squad, edged out Martha Weidler,
popular member of the rising senior
class, for the highest executive ofllce
which Senior high school offers to its
student leaders. Both Warner and
Weidler received the privilege of run
ning in the elections bj' securing the
largest number of votes in the school’s
ilr.tit nominating convention, which was
held Tuesday morning.
Wagner Defeats Strandberg
The otHce of vice-president of the
'tiident council, one of the most impor
tant Jobs in the school, will be filled
by Charles Wagner, who captured the
position by defeating Charles Strand-
berg, local athlete and radio fan, in
a close battle. Wagner came to Senior
high last year from 'Tennessee, where
he was an active member of the stu
dent government and member of the
football squad. Both Wagner and
Sfrandberg ran on a ticket which prom-
i>;ed better assembly programs, more
school social activities and increased
I'iicilities for athletic contests.
'I'o the position of president of the
rising senior class, junior class voters
chose Mell Alexander, fashion editor
for High Life and member of the
school's regulations planning commit
tee. Mell ousted Betsy Holt, member
of the school band and active leader
in Uirl Heserve work.
Curran Viee-Presicleiit
George Curran was named vice-px'esi-
dent of the senior class and will assist
Mell Alexander, the new president, in
(Continued on Page Bight)
Major EHol Reveals
War Syrvey Answers
Itesnlts of the war opinion question
naire presented to the students of Sen-
ii r high school April 28 by Miss Ida
Belle Moore, faculty member, and edit
ed liy ilajor George Fielding Eliot, mil
itary analyst, were revealed today by
^liss ;\loore.
The questions proved that GO 2-3 per
cent of the pupils are cheerful about
file war, the rest being discouraged.
Aluuit 00 per cent of the pupils have
faith in our government, 09 per cent
in our armed forces, and 56 per cent
in our allies. Most of the students not
confident in our allies accused England
of not doing her share in the war ef
fort, while a few did not trust Russia.
Confident of Government
-Approximately 02 per cent of the
Voters were contident of Rooseveltos ad
ministration : however, the remaining
~ per cent thought that the adminis
tration should crack down on labor
more than it has done at present. Ap
proximately 00 per cent are willing to
accept more sacrifices, and SO per cent
wanted to be told more definitely what
to do.
Of the student voters, 10 per cent
want less censorship, 40 per cent seek
moi’e censorship, and 50 per cent are
satisfied with the status quo of the
press.
Patriotic Students Buy
$300 In War Stamps
“Although at Senior high there
is no eonspieuous flag waving, the
number of dollars worth of defense
stamps sold in the looal supply
.shop, $300 in about 30 weeks, amply
.shows that the students are ‘dig
ging in’ for the defense effort,”
commented Stanley Johnson, man
ager of the store, May 8.
Showing that the hoys and girls
are really carrying on an extensive
correspondence, approximately half
of the outgoing mail being sent to
soldiers, this school store has dis
tributed $10 worth of postage
stamps a week since the semester
began, Johnson concluded.
'High Lifs' Delegates
Attend Press Clinic
“The high school newspapers of
Xoi-th Carolina are facing a crisis due
to conditions brought about by the war.
Next year will test the capabilities of
each high school journalist,” emphati
cally declared Fred C. Kendrick, spe
cial guest, at the recent annual meet
ing of the North Carolina Scholastic
Press Institute last Friday and Satur
day at Chapel Hill. I'lie obj’ect of the
meeting was to promote relations be
tween Noi’th Carolina’s various school
newspapers, mimeographed and printed,
•elect new officers, discuss the numerous
problems facing the staff of a high
.school newspaper and criticize the va
rious publications..
Delegates Attend Party
AVhen the delegates arrived on Fri
day, a meeting was arranged at 5 p.m.
.so the delegates could “become ac-
(luainted.” At seven o'clock the mem
bers heard Mr. Kendrick, of Greenville,
South Carolina, deliver an entertaining,
informative address at which the dele
gates were invited to visit the offices of
fhe Pailn Tar Ifccl, N. C. University’s
.'itudont publication, attend May Pay
seiM-ices and a party sponsored for
fheni.
Saturday the teachers and students
again met in order to discuss the prob
lems facing the staff of a high school
publication. Speakers of the program
were Charles IMarkliam, Durham; .Tack
Edwards, Greenville; and Bobby Lloyd,
Greensboro. At 4 p.m. the various rep
resentatives again met and elected
Fred Flagler of High Point high
school, general chairman and Jean
Cooper of Burlington, vice chairman,
an office which Bobby Lloyd, Greens
boro, competed for.
Tames T. Polk, associate editor of
the (Irccnshoro Dailg Acir.?, spoke and
winners of the feature writing contest
were announced when the group con
vened at Lenoir Hall for a bamiuet.”
Greensboro was represented by Bob
by Lloyd and M. C. Anderson, who ac-
cempanied Mrs. Olive IM. Betts, High
Life adviser, to Chapel Hill.
Four Local Stores Presen!
School Fashion Show
Featuring fhe latest in high school
boys and girls fashions. Meyer’s and
Ellis Stone's Department stores and
Younts DeBoe and Tohnson. Cornatzer
and Aulbert presented a style show of
sports, afternocn and evening clothes
in a 'sixecial assembly program, con
ducted by A. S. Proctor, D. E. instimc-
tor, Friday, May 8.
From a white arch, decorated with
pink net and flanked by tall, green
palms, the models emerged to display
the costumes which were described by
yir. Proctor.
President and Vice-President
TIM WAHNER, newly elected. Senior hi-gli pre.sident, and Charles
Wagner, vice-president.
Senior Facytty Issues
Gasoline Ration Cards
Gasoline rationing took place at Sen
ior T'uesday, Wednesday, and 'Thursday
of Ibis week. 'The faculty, assisted by
members of 'rorcbliglit, national honor
society, issued to all automobile own
ers one of the five types of ration
cards, the type depending on the aver
age mileage he drives daily in going to
and from work,
'I’lie non-essential motorists will be
allotted an average of three gallons of
gasoline a week after today. All auto
mobile owners who need their automo
biles in connection with their work will
f)e given additional rations, depending
on individual need.
A motorst may use his allowance of
gasoline as he i)leases, adhering to the
average weekly figure or spending the
entire amount for the 4T-day period
within a few days of vacationing; how
ever, dealers ma.v not bo able to supjily
a motorist with his full allotment at
one time.
How About A
Picture—
Pm Working Mg Way-
“IIow do you do, lady. I’m from
Blank department store and I want
to show you a beautiful, gorgeous, nat
ural, life-like photograph which you
can now get for a limited time only—”
Any rcsemhlance between the above
and any sales talk ever concocted by
a glib-tonguod peddler is purely coinci
dental. 'This spiel represents the loud
flow of words which greets the inno-
C(‘ut householder who opens his, or,
usually, her, door to And a hot, weary
and footsore high school student laden
with photograph.s and coupon books.
Now an old hand at the game, the
two-week salesman takes a deep breath
and I)ogins, hi.s words roll forth with
.speed and ease acquired only by much
practice and the happy sound of jingl
ing coins. Catching his breath, the
flushed student gji])es at prospective
customer as lie hears the unhappy
words “I'm sorry, but I just bouglrt
one yesterday!'’
Original Verses Written by O. Henry
App ear for First Time in High Life
'Poday High Tafe publishes for the
first time, and throngli Harold Carpen
ter, a member of its reportorial staff’.
Uk' fcUowiiig original verses, written by
G. Henry, (he famous short story
writer, who eorresiionded regularly
with one rf his friends, Dr. M'illiam P.
Beall, after he left tlroensboro. 'ITiose
letters were sent to Dr. Beall, tlio
grandfather of Carpenter, before O.
IltMiry became fanujus as a writer and
have never been pui)lislied. 'ITie poems
are still in the possi'ssion of the Car
penter family.
One of the descriptions shows a man.
'Torn Sloan, chasing another man up
the street. 'J'ho verse roads;
“A eharmiiig coinp.aiiiou was Sloan
And able at least to talk some,
But the grangiu’s dil fly
■\Vhen he did come by
For they said lie could make his paw
hum.'’
It is evident that O. Henry, at least,
thought that 'Pom Sloan could talk.
O. Henry wrote tills verse about Dr.
Beall:
•■A good natured young Dr. named
Beall,
M’as (piite pleased wJioii his patients
got well
When they didn’t do so
He would lilame the drug-sto’
And .say ‘drugs is now made for to
sell'.’’
'Phe most amusing of these carica
ture's which ('ai'penter possesses shows
a group of ni(>ii in a tight huddle and
a thermometer ri'gisti'riiig at 30 de
grees. '.Pile explaiiialion say;
M'e cannot see the stove, but must
rc'ason by a Syllogism.—Premise major
—'Pile crowd we can see didn’t come
in to buy drugs and appears to con
verge to a central point—Premise min
or—We can see a stove pipe and know
(hat till' tlu'rniometer indicates a low
((•niperature — (’onclusion — 'i'hc're is a
stove although unaiiproachahle by the
proju'U'tors. Pinkney lamlso.v, the pro
scription clerk, customers or poor lialf-
fi'ozen doctor. Logic can establish the
fact of is existi'iice, but can not stop
till' flow of discordant jokes and hnss-
lauglis, or warm (be clerks’ feet. Sci
ence' and strategy alike recoil from the
(ask. Friends of the clerks are re-
ipu'sted to bring flowers. By special
reejuest the tire-company will join the
procession.’’
('olonel Tim Morehead, a member of
the prominent Morehead family, ap-
pc'ars ill O. Ileiiry'.s drawing as a very
(‘legantly dre.«sed man with a mous
tache and a goatee. Hf him, D. Henry
states:
“A promiiH'iit lawyer naiiK'd Tim
Could have been Gov'ner as easy as
swim,
But he never had tried,
For his eminent pride
Made the effort distasteful to Iiini.’’
McHairy To Announce
Characters In Pageant
In Senior Assembly
With the entire list of characters to
bo read in a special senior assembly
-Aloiulay morning, work on the annual
pageant is nearing (he acting stage,
commented Jliss Dorothy McNairy,
senior adviser, recently.
On ilay 22, rehearsals will begin
with practice proceeding until each
scone is as nearly perfect as possible.
'Phe schedule includes the following
dates: Monday, !May 22, 0 a. m. to 12
noon: Tuesday, Jlay 23, 0 a. m. until
the entire play is practiced, 1 p. m.
dress rehearsal; Wednesday, IMay 24,
pageant presented for student body in
assembly; Thursday. May 25, 8 p. m..
final performance for the senior parents.
Since the trend this year is definitely
toward patriotism and national de
fense, (he pageant will depict the fol
lowing parts: (1) the heritages of
American citizens in the past and the
reasons for defending (hem so ardently ;
(2) the attack on Pearl Harbor ; (3)the
various things which education, civilian
life and the government are doing to
protect the country and our traditional
ideals; (4) the role of the nation:
(5) (lie conclusion which relates young
America’s “eye to the future’’ hopes.
Seawell Hi-Y Gives
Party At Nawakwa
Boat riding, blister^^, picnic suppers
and dancing—all combined to make the
annual Seawi'll Ili-Y week-end party a
succes.s, according to Ed Alexander,
lire.'^ident. The event took place at
Gamp Nawakwa last week-end.
Five chaperons, Mr. and Mrs. 0. Cur
tis, Clarence Jx'iiz, Frank York and
Miss Marian Davis, helped entertain
the group, which arrived in time to go
l)oat i-iding before a supiX'r at seven
o'clock. Later the crowd attendi'd a
dance.
Sunday’s activities started with flag
raising about seven o'clock, an event
followed l)y breakfast at nine. Services
wen' iK'ld next with Ben Perry in
cliarge. .Martha'Ann Curi-ent made a
short talk on Mother's Day.
Al'tc'V church services, the members
and dates again wc'iit boat riding, after
which lunch was served. A cifllection
was talveii up for tlie i-oolc for his coii-
triluition to the occasion.
Lee Edwards High Secures
French Conies! Top Honors
Scoring a total of 2,L5!> points nut
of a i)ossil)le 2,400. Asheville's Lee Ed
wards liigli school took first place hon
ors in the ninth annual French contest
sponsored by tin* Alliance' I'rancaisi' of
North Garoliim. May 2. Miss Estelle
Mitchell, head of (he local French do-
parfinent. announced this we>k.
A silver loving cnp. awarded for
outstanding work in French, was pre
sented to Ashevilh', whih' Gurry high
school, second place' winiH'r, was awarel-
(■el a colle*e-lion eif illn.strafe'd peisters
representing French landse'a])(*s anel
se-enes.
Individual Piizcs .Vwarded
Inelividiial jirizes in the e-i(y high
sedmol greiup were coppeel by Betty
Highsmitli. Gnrry, first, witli a total
eif 450 out of a peissihle iioints;
Gliristiiu' ^Masters. Ta'o Eelwards. sec-
einel: 'riieimas R. Me'llarel. L(‘e Edwards,
third: Tane S(r>e‘t. Gurry, feiurth: Nell
Meioely. Lee* Eelwarels. fifth. Heniorahle
me'Ution edteel !\rargare>t Tleifl’man,
Greensboro si'iiior high ; Victor .T. Me'lt.s.
Gurry: Ile-len Me-Gann. Lee Eelwards;
and B«*t Patterson, Re'.vnulels high
school.