Six
High Life
November 22, 19^
The Exchange Desk
BY BECKY REES
Young people are not blobs.
Teenagers all over the country are
thinking deeply. Deeply.
Young people are thinking about
their mothers: “A male freshman
is looking for a girl like his moth
er; an upperclassman looks for a
girl like his mother also, if his
mother looks like Liz Taylor.”
(The Appalachian, Appalachian
State Teacher’s College, Boone.)
Young people are thinking about
perserverance: “If at first you
don’t succeed, try, try again. Then
stop; no use acting silly.” (Bow
and Arrow, West Mecklenburg
High School, Charlotte.”
Young People are thinking about
hygiene: “Did you hear about the
girl with the gleam in her eye?
Somebody bumped her elbow while
she was brushing her teeth.”
(Scribbler, Spartanburg High,
Spartanburg.)
Young people are thinking about
faith: “Customs change. Once it
was the fashion to take a hath
weekly and religion daily.” (Bow
and Arrow again.)
Young people are thinking about
marriage:
“Chinese Poetry
Nice night
in June
Stars shine
Big moon
In Park
On bench
With girl
In clinch
Me say
Me love
She coo
Like dove
Me Smart
Me fast
Never let
Chance pass
Me say
Get hitched
She say
Okay
Wedding bells
Ring ring
Honeymoon
Everything
Settle down
Married life
Happy man
Happy wife
Another night
In June
Stars shine
Big moon
Ain’t happy
No more
Carry baby
Walk floor
Wife mad
She fuss
Me mad
Me cuss
Life one
Big spat
Nagging wife
Bawling brat
Realize
At last
Me court
Too fast.”
(The Royal Dan, Dan River High,
Ringgold, Va.)
Young people are thinking about
young people. “There has been a
strange social upheaval in Ameri
ca during the last few decades.
Formerly the American culture
was based on the tastes of mature
adults. Now it is based on the
tastes of an insecure group of
human beings who are no longer
children but are not yet adults . . .
“Teenagers are given control of
millions of dollars to spend every
year; therefore, industry caters to
their every desire. ‘Their’ records,
clothes, food, and dances encom
pass the country. Parents are be
coming so afraid of their own chil-
dren that they cannot say *no’ to
sixteen and seventeen year old
half-adults who want to get mar
ried without even thinking of what
they will do after the ceremony is
over. . . . The majority are be
ing rushed into adulthood so rap
idly that they mature only par
tially, and an important part of
their youth has been forever lost.
Perhaps this is why teen-agers
flock together at the same old
place; looking alike, talking alike,
thinking alike. Perhaps this is
why they listen to records with
nothing to recommend them but a
series of grunts, screeches, whis
tles, and screams. (Appalachian
High-Life, Appalachian High,
Boone.)
Finally, the youth of America
are searching, searching — for
Communists:
“Song of a Modern Vigilante
I sometimes fancy as I spy
That I excel the F. B. I.
Right now I’m making little lists
Of folks I think are Communists.
I have no proof of anyone
And yet the lists are loads of fun.
All friends of foreign aid, I think,
Must be set down as rather pink.
A little pinker, not far off,
I list perforce the college prof.
And pinker yet the college crowd
That lauds the Bill of Rights
aloud.
MORE BULL
U. N. supporters, as I’ve said,
Are also ipso facto red.
And redder yet on my red lists
Are all the integrationists.
Thus, I rejoice that loyalty
Resides alone in you and me;
Although before my list is through
You may, good friends, be listed
too.”
A merchant in Dallas, Texas,
asked the police to help him de
cipher the almost unreadable sig
nature on a worthless check. The
police did. It was “U.R. Stuck.”
Judge: “Your impudence forces
me to increase your fine $10.
What do you think about that?”
Ed: “I think that’s extra fine!”
lamp post in front of your
house.”
Donna: “Oh please don’t do that.
You know father doesn’t want
you hanging around here.”
(The Appalachian.)
You are not a blob. You are a
young person. What are you think
ing?
Benn: “I should have been a com
poser — I have a squeaking
shoe.”
Pill: “What has your squeaking
shoe got to do with being a
composer?”
Benn: ‘I’ve got music in my sole.”
Basil: “Don’t you think I’m rather
good looking?”
Ann: “In a way.”
Basil: “What kind of a way?”
Ann: “Away off.”
Coach: Just remember, Larry, old
quarterbacks never die, they
just pass away.
Tom: “If you don’t marry me, I’m
going to hang myself from that
After this array, the Bull will
probably be expunned from school.
Ann Slanders
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embarrassed because he makes me
ride in the trunk of the car as he
pays to get in so he will only have
to buy one ticket. Then he lets me
out of the trunk in front of every
body, anj^I think I’m going to cry
just thinking about it. Can you
think of a solution to my problem.
Ann?
Financially Embarrassed
Dear Financially:
It appears to me that your Mr.
Scrooge has a mistaken sense of
values. Furthermore, I would tell
the old skinflint that you better
not see him any more if he thinks
vou are going to be such a burden
money-wise.
A high Soviet commissar named
Rudolf Mozoltoff was walking
down a Moscow street with two
friends, a man and his wife, when
a drop of moisture settled on his
head.
“It’s raining,” announced Ru
dolf through his beard.
“You are wrong,” said the wife,
“it’s snowing.”
“Oh, no,” insisted the husband,
“Rudolf the Red, knows rain,
dear.”
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