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PROCONIAN
Thursday, March 8, 1945
PROCONIAN
REBEKAH HUGGINS Honorary Editor
Barbara Cash ion 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
STAFF REPORTERS
Bob Cornwell
David Sharpe
Preston Carroll
Harold Cannon
John Egbert
Charles Bartlett
George Cummins
Johnny Gobbell
Rodney Waters
Ardie Hamilton
A Thought For All
In the midst of this total war, the common
people, and the higher-ups alike, are think
ing about freedom and independence in the
post-war world. We, in America particu
larly, are thinking about our democracy and
the freedom it offers. But in no democracy,
perfect or otherwise, can anyone, at any
time, be completely free and without re
sponsibility and obligations to other people.
In our school life we are apt to let our
homework and the other “unimportant” fac
tors of education slide. True, that ten or
fifteen years from now we won’t care or even
remember that yesterday’s assignment
wasn’t done, but if we practice carelessness
and laziness, we will surely become fixed in
the habit. Habits are hard to break.
Also, when we neglect the responsibility of
having assignments prepared, and on time,
we can hardly expect to be trusted with more
important things.
It would be a poor sort of “freedom” in
our school if nobody accepted, nor shared re
sponsibility with anybody. Our assignments,
our reports, and outside work are responsi
bilities, not to our teachers, but to ourselves.
We are obligated, we owe it to ourselves,
to learn as much as possible and to lay the
foundation for our future lives while we are
in high school.
If this foundation is made up of neglected
homework and unfinished assignments, will
not our complete structure be a poor one?
Transportation Problem
As everyone knows, the boys’ and girls’
basketball teams have been doing a swell job
representing C. H. H. S. at the different
schools away from home. Without the kind
help of the parents of both teams, transpor
tation would present quite a problem.
In the first place, there’s gas rationing.
Both teams are allowed enough gas to per
mit four cars to make the trip—two cars
for each team.
But after this headache is solved, up jumps
the question of cars. This has been taken
over by the parents, who offer to take the
SILO —“Full of Corn’
ADDED NOTES:
The latest dope: George Cummins ... In
the Spring a young man’s fancy turns to
thoughts of how in is he ever going to
graduate . . . According to latest reports just
received, Roosevelt’s chief problem at the
Yalta conference was not deciding where to
open the new front, but how to keep Eleanor
out of the cross-fire . . . Quoth the Raven:
Holy Cow! . . .
NURSERY RHYMES:
Old Mother Hubbard
Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get her old dog a bone.
But when she got there
The cupboard was bare
And the Proconian got blamed for it.
Little Boy Blue
Little Boy Blue
Come blow your horn.
For anything is better
Than Silo Full of Corn.
Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill
Went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down
And broke his crown.
Boy, was he slipping!
Hickory Dickory Dock
Hickory Dickory Dock,
Two mice ran up the clock.
The clock strikes one.
And down they run.
For they know the school’s on short
schedule.
Little Miss Muffet
Little Miss Muffet
Sat on her tuffet (or at least that’s
what some people call it).
Eating her pie one night.
When along came a spider
And sat down beside her.
Ye gads! A pre-flight.
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
Mary, Mary, quite contrary.
What are you doing tonight?
Said Mary, Mary, quite contrary:
“I’m sorry, but I don’t drink.”
team members in their own cars—provided
they are supplied with gas.
To these parents Mr. Honeycutt, the
coaches, and the team members express sin
cere thanks.
CAROLINA THEATRE
SUNDAY and MONDAY
Margaret O’Brien Jose Iturbi
Jimmy Durante June Allyson
in
“MUSIC FOR MILLIONS”
This is the “Nation-Wide Police Report”
program, brought to you by the Keyhole
members of America.
. . . Car 169 reports that Leonard A. (for
Anthony) Smith and Wilda Andrews are
back on the active list.
. . . Hilda, Jimmy “Bustin’ ” Blake and
the Earl of Bush are getting along fine. But
remember: three’s a crowd. The sophomores
wish that Hilda would pick one of them,
because they’re getting tired of Blake’s
talking about Hilda all the time.
. . . “Sergeant” Egbert has been dishonor
ably discharged from the force because ^of
his actions the night he escorted the Chapel
Hill basketball team to Durham.
. . . Mr. Lineberger, who has been run
ning around town yelling about Dot Hogan,
Jean Cashion, Meg Curry, and Tootsie
Brewer, has just told a group o'f reporters
that he has chosen his one and only. Get
this: Dot Hogan!
. . . Sammy Lou Ross says he doesn’t want
to be in the Keyhole, so we won’t put him
in with Mary Lou Barnes.
. . . Charles Bartlett was very interested
in Biology class the other day. He was read
ing the lesson with a certain anonymous girl
that we will name Peggy Wilkerson.
. . . Billy Basnight, an honorary Captain
in the Police Force, was quite satisfied with
the hospitality he received at Durham. That
was a cute blonde you were with, Basnight!
. . . Just a minute, ladies and gentlemen;
a flash is coming in over the wire—BECKA
HUGGINS HAS JUST BEEN SEEN AT
THE HOSPITAL TRYING TO GET A NEW
FACE. With her face, I would too.
. . . Houston Teague has the habit of
throwing things when he is in love. Gee,
that kid has really been bitten.
. . . All girls of C. H. H. S. are looking
forward to the return of Bud “The Champ”
Stanbach in Chapel Hill.
. . . Car 55 on Franklin Street reports a
suspicious character entering the Cone
House wearing a brown hat . . . That is
all . . .
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