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PROCONIAN
Thursday, January 25, 1945
PROCONIAN
Barbara Cashion Editor-in-Chief
Bill Carmichael Associate Editor
Rebekah Huggins Business Manager
Houston Teague Sports Editor
E. C. Smith, Jr Circulation Manager
Harold Cheek Exchange Editor
Frances Ellinger Feature Editor
Sam Ross Publicity Editor
Robert Brooks Staff Photographer
Venitah Sanders Entertainment Chairman
Miss Manci Advisor
Published each Thursday by the students of
Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill, North
Carolina. Subscription by Student Activities
Ticket or by mail, one dollar a year, payable
in advance.
STAFF REPORTERS
Bob Cornwell
Ardie Hamilton
Bill Browne
Betty Sparrow
Preston Carroll
Leonard Smith
Jimmy Blake
Bill Foister
Johnny Egbert
Phyllis Ferguson
Rodney Waters
Elizabeth Lyons
David Sharpe
Stanley Cohen
Erwin Danziger
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor:
Dr. Plemmons’ talk in the last assembly
on college entrance was enjoyable and help
ful to many. We are hoping that this plan
of using outside speakers will be extended
to include other fields.
For example, we could be benefitted by
Dr. Albert Coates, who is an authority on
Student Government, come and speak to us.
Mr. Rush has a number of good books in the
library that he would be delighted to come
and talk to us about. A real treat would be
to have someone from the Music Department
visit us and speak on one of the popular
operas, bringing recordings of the selections
from the opera. The Art Department might
send a professor to lecture on some out
standing painting, giving its history and
helping us appreciate it.
We have here in Chapel Hill the first na
tional archivist, Mr. R. D. W. Connor, who
is an authority on North Carolina History
and Mr. H. D. Meyer, Southern Regional Di
rector of Recreation, both of whom would
enjoy the opportunity of visiting the Chapel
Hill schools.
These are just a few simple suggestions
of the many opportunities which we have in
Chapel Hill of which we should take ad
vantage.
The other day we happened to wonder
exactly how the Keyhole ever originated and
so in search of the exact truth we set out
toward the Proconian office. Upon our ar
rival there, we were happy to find Editor
Cashion, trowel in hand, digging through the
week’s dirt. We greeted her with our famil
iar, “Hi, Stinky,” and went on about our
business. Investigation proved the follow
ing:
The origin of the Keyhole dates back many
years. It seems that it was first used dur
ing the time of Helen of Troy and made a
name for itself because it revealed how
Helen’s boy friend used to get drunk (for
further historical information on the sub
ject look in any good reference book under
the “Plaster of Paris”). It next appears in
history in the time of the ancient Romans.
It is said that Brutus stabbed Caesar be
cause the latter told the former, “I’m going
to put you in the Keyhole, that girl and you,
Brutus. There was no w'ay to write the word
Keyhole in Latin, so Shakespeare just short
ened the phrase to “Et tu, Brute” or “and
you, Brutus.” Macbeth was a strong believer
in the Keyhole and several times consulted
its editors. (Hamilton and Huggins disguised
as witches. What do they need the disguises
for ?) Peary at the Battle of Lake Erie held
a small paper that several Keyhole reporters
were trying to get and it can be remem
bered that at the height of the battle his
dying words were, “Don’t Give Up the
Slip!” Farragut at Mobile Bay shouted his
answer to the Keyhole readers who were
mad because the war had cut off the flow
of good gossip, when he said, “D— the sore
readers, full speed ahead.”
Lincoln was probably thinking of the Key
hole when he said, “. . . of the people, by the
people, for the people, that shall not perish
from the earth.” John Paul Jones was one of
the most famous Keyhole reporters of all
time. It will be remembered that Jones, when
asked if he had finished the Weekly Keyhole
replied, “I have not yet begun to write.”
Winston Churchill wrote a book about the
Keyhole entitled “Blood, Sweat, and Tears,”
and Coolidge, another famous Keyhole re
porter, was made famous by his statement,
“I’d rather write than be President.”
What a great history the Keyhole has! All
through the ages traces of it can be found.
But as people come and go it still lives on.
No wonder the world’s in such a helluva
mess.
ANDREWS-HENNINGER
Shopping Center
for
All the Family
There was a hot time in the old gym
t’other night. Gyms are right in style since
the coming of basketball season, and so is
dating.
Rating first in our roster of vets who
know all the plays, we give you “Pig” Perry
and Betty Ward Sparrow.
Making headway down the court of ro
mance, we have two couples who are really
ringing up the score. Of course you know
it’s those Egbert boys and our senior cheer
leaders.
Bootsy Taylor and Corny Carmichael were
really making their passes click! (What are
we saying ?)
Cheer, boys, cheer, for they are on the
ball. We mean, of course, the way those
cheerleaders, Bill and Dot, have been pep
ping it up recently.
We are little lily whiters! But does that
apply to that famous foursome, Ellinger,
Phillips, Waters, and Sharpe, respectively?
(Who’s Respective?)
That forward, Nita Saunders, was “guard
ed,” (heh, heh!) by one of those college ter
mites (shades of Efiand).
A lot of Frank Fearrington’s time (outs)
has been centered in Wilda Andrews. This
promising pair is our bet for the loving cup.
Promenade on down.” Mary Lou Barnes
and Milo Crawford are getting quite adept
at this. Guess those freshmen aren’t so dumb
after all.
Having changed our middle name to Ter
mite we’ve bored you along to Hilda Shar
key and Earl Bush. Need we say more? As
we hear a multitude of voices shouting NO,
we hastily steal our garments and fold away.
Oh, yes, by the way, we won, 32-26.
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