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BEREA GAZETTE
PUBLISHED SEMI-MONTHLY, lY THE BEREA HIGH SCHOOL
VOL. I.
BEREA.' N. C., N(VEMBER 23, 1923
OUR PAPER
This is our first attempt at writing
a newspaper. We—that have assign
ed parts—are doing our best to make
it pleasant and advantageous. We
need and must have the cooperation
of the pupils, teachers, and patrons
of the school in order to make a suc
cess; but we are sure of their wil
lingness and readiness to lend a help
ing hand as they have invariably
done in other beneficial achievements
of the school.
We want our paper to be a help and
not a hindrance to every boy and girl
in school. We are enabled to do this
only by producing the best material
encouraging athletic games, and help
ing each other in a brotherly and sis
terly way.
We hope that everyone will look
forward to the arrival of the “Berea
Gazette” with an eager and joyful
heart. Editor.
HOME
Did you ever fully realize what
“Home ” meant to you? If not allow
your mind to drift in that direction a
little bit once in awhile. It doesn’t
matter where you live, in the coun
try, in the town or city, or in the
backwoods if you have a place that
you can call “Home” you should be
very thankful. Just think of the lit
tle orphan children that have no
home, no father, or mother, or sis
ter, or brother to watch over and ad
vise them. How would you like to
trade places with them for just one
little week? Then think of being de
prived of these friends for fifteen or
twenty years. Yet some of us sel
dom think of what home really is.
Home is a place in which you can al
ways rest and be contented, and no
one has a right to run you away; al-
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heard lots of boys say, “I could make
my living lots and lots easier if I
didn’t have to stay with father.” Some
few try this and succeed, but most of
them come back with the old, old,
tune, “Be It Ever So Humble There’s
No Place Like Home.”
P. G.
THE PANAMA CANAL
Until gold was found near our west
coast, only trails and wagon roads led
across the Isthmus of Panama. Then
a railroad was built. But for many
years people thought how useful a
canal would be so that ships could
pass from one ocean to the other with
out going thousands of miles around
South America.
A French company tried to build a
canal, but the cost was too great, and
work was stopped. Then our nation
bought the right to build it. To build
this useful waterway, our country
bought from the little republic of
Panama a strip of land five miles
wide on each side of the Canal route.
This strip if land ten miles wide a-
cross the isthmus is called the Canal
Zone.
The Canal itself is a magnificent
public work. It is not dug down to
ocean level all the way, but in places
ships are lifted in locks near one side
and then let down in locks not far
from the other side. Some of these
locks are 110 feet wide and 1000 feet
long, arranged in pairs so as to pro
vide for vessels going in either direc
tion. The Canal passes through two
large artificial lakes, one of them over
thirty miles long, made by a dam a-
cross the Chagres River; and through
a tremendous cut in the hills at Gail-
lard. Its channel is broad and deep,
and from 300 to 500 feet wide at the
bottom.
One of the chief dilRculties encoun
tered in building the Canal was to
keep the workers free from sickness.
Sanitary measures enforced by the
United States made the Zone a health
ful place.
The Panama Canal saves much time
for ships going from one coast of our
country to the other, or from our west
coast to Europe. Ships can also go
from our east coast to the west coast
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China by the way of the Canal, and
thus avoid the old and much longer
route.
Helen Adcock.
PROCRASTINATION
The person that puts off till to-mor
row will never accomplish much in
this life nor in the life to come;
though we all delay more or less. It
seems to be our nature to put off
till to-morrow what should be done to
day. A great many farmers are
slothful in business. They will put
off till some other time. But on the
other hand a good many farmers do
not delay as others. They are seeking
riches for this life. It is our duty
to be industrious if we ever expect to
accomplish any thing in this life or in
the life to come. If we do not prepare
in this life for the life to come we
will be miserable throughout the end
less ages of Eternity. Forbid that
we who live in a land of Bibles should
delay to prepare for that important
day to which we all are hastening.
Walter Critcher.
AUTUMN
SCHOOL NOTES
Mrs. S. L. Vaughan and daughter.
Magnolia, motored to Durham last
Sunday night accompanied by Mr.
Moffett Hester.
Mr.. G. W. Slaughter, underwent an
operation at Watts Hospital and is
recovering rapidly.
The morning exercise was conduct
ed Wednesday morning by the High
School boys and girls to the delight
of every one.
Mr. Bud Day and Miss Lottie Gen
try were happily married Saturday,
Octorber 20th.
Miss Bettie Brooks received the
prize at the tacky party at Mrs. Gra
ham Tillison’s.
Mrs. Louis Thorp is having her
house remodeled.
Mr. Paul Thorp has gone to Dur
ham to spend the week.
Mr. S. L. Slaughter was in Durham,
Thursday, to see his brother, Mr. G.
W. Slaughter, who is recovering slow
ly from operation.
One bright morning in October
while on my way to school, I saw
lots of things to make one think of
the wonderful works of nature. As
I passed through the woods the birds
were flying from tree to tree chirping
and singing. This suggested to me
the thought that they were preparing
to spend their winter days in some
other climate. The trees were quiet
ly laying their carpet of brown upon
mother earth. The leaves which had
been so beautful in spring, and sum
mer had well finished their task, and
were falling never to rise again.
There is a lesson in an autumn
scene if we but stop to study it. Fall
always leaves a sad impression upon
us. We think of the things we might
have said to lighten some heavy heart,
and of the things we said or did that
could have been left unsaid or done.
Oh, that this could have been done,
we never think of the part at any
other time as at autumn. When the
birds bid us farewell, and deprive us
of their beautiful song, we feel as if
we had lost and old friend. All these
things would cast a lasting gloom
over us if it were not for the thought
of coming spring.
Crawford Knott.
THE MAGIC VINE
A fairy seed I planted.
So dry and white and old;
There sprang a vine enchanted
With a magic lesson of gold.
1 watched it, I tended it.
And truly, by and by
It bore a lesson of magic
Never tell a lie.
Mytrle Fuller.
The rule of might and tyranny of
thought have oppressed mankind
since the world began but light is
breaking and the sunlight of freedom
is good. Freedom permits many
abuses; strange ideas and theories
spring up, but eventually error is
bound to fall of its own weight.
HUIOR
Willie—“Pass m the butter.”
Mother (reproahfully^—“If what,
Willie?” ■' ’ll .
Willie—“If you ^an reach it.”
Jean—“Mrs. Peke, your daughter,
Bailey, has promi§d to become my
wife.”
Mrs. Peake—“Wll, don’t come to
me for sympathy you might have
known something would happen to
you, hanging aroud here five nights
a week.”
Lillian—“Did jou tell anybody
about my pies.” I
Coffee—‘Oh, yes,^'"-' I had to toll
the doctor what aW. m" ”
Mike—“I lost r:- dog, Pat, what
am I going to do?’
Pat—“Why don’- you advertise for
him?”
Mike—“Sure, mydog can’t read ad
vertisements.”
Any one having i Studebaker tour
ing car and contCnplating a trip to
Durham, see Moff*,. Hester..
Maffet just loves o take those trips
through the county, especially on a
Studebaker—Oh, Jy!
Teacher—“Jame;, tell me what are
the five senses.”
Absent-minded ipil—“A nicqle.”
Walter—“Do ye eat them there
clams ? ”
Teacher—“Yes, «r sho’ does.”
Teacher—“I nemr could play a
rag.”
Clarence—“Neitler could I, I’ve
always had to V!ar the dog-gone
things.”
Teacher—“All right, girls, I’m
ready for your Ecaomics.”
Pupil—“God knivs man!”
Pervis—“’I have i>en but one girl to
day that didn’t, hve rouge on her
face, guess -who s,e was.”
Crawford—“ An ngel from heaven,
I guess.”
Pervis—“No, it ’as Elsie Cole and
store.”
Mother—“Alwayi think twice be
fore you speak.”
Tommy—“ Gee, ma, if you think
twice before you soeak, you must do
some swift thinkhg when you get
after pa!”
Jannie—“Pervis, did your mother
raise much poultr last year?”
Pervis—“No, Jamie, she planted
some, but the chrkens scratched it
up.”
Paul’s time cami to read on class,
he came to the vord, “Grace,” and
could not pronoune it.
Teacher—“ Pau, you know that
w’ord.”
Paul—“N’am, I ion’t.”
Teacher—“Well, Paul, what was
the first thing you' father said at the
breakfast table ths morning.”
Paul (after thiiking a monent)—
“Kids, hit the butfcr low.”
Aleane—“Lizzie, why didn’t you go
with Clyde to Chirch Sunday?”
Lizzie—“Because I was afraid of
Miss Puller.”
Young Preache’—“Do you know,
Billy Sunday has preached the devil
out of more peope than any other
man on earth?”
Ford Owner—“Tiat’s nothing, John
Henry Ford has Dumped the devil
out of more peope than any other
man on earth.”
Miss Pauline H/bgood’s face pow
der gave out las; week so she is
visiting this week.
If anyone finds a Ford Coupe (li
cense No. 26-961) parked at Stovall
High School, pleas> go to Miss Crew’s
room and tell tha; bald-headed man
to come back to Iferea, we need him.
Thanks.
R.—“More ribboi is being worn in
Berea High Schod than any other
school in Granvilb. Wonder why?”
T.—“To play wth, I guess.”
Clarence (as D(dge truck emptied
its occupants)—“Vho is that strange
girl?”
Walter—“I don’t know, but she does
look queer.”
An approacher—“That is Lucy Mae.
She put her head out of the truck
window to see Mffitt as he passed,
and the rain wasted the rouge off
her face.”
SOME CHANGES DURING
LAST FIFTY YEARS
Let us stop and look back fifty
years or more ago. When we think
of what we have now, we wonder how
it was that the people of that day
lived with any less than we have.
If you would only investigate, you
would be astonished at the marvelous
changes that have been made in our
immediate town and country.
Many of the people even of the
country now have modern conven
iences, such as lights and water work",
where thosi^f the rown did !■
then^
Scnools are located now ■where they
were never dreamed of being, and
every child that will, has an oppor
tunity to go to school. The men
and women of our country are begin
ning to see the need of an education,
therefore, they are giving more atten
tion to building more and better
schools. The Berea High School for
example, gives every child in this
section of the county a better oppor
tunity to get an education than the
smaller school did a few years ago.
Because we have better means of get
ting to and from school, better teach
ers, better equipment, such as electric
lights, and water works. In the
smaller schools, we had nothing but
a few lamps, and lanterns that we
could get in the neighborhood for
lighting up the rooms.
The means of traveling and trans-
poration years ago were very crude
compared with those of today. Then
only the wealthier people had a bug
gy even, now both rich, and poor have
an automobile. Children who had to
walk four or five miles a few years
ago have only a little way to walk to
get to the trucks which bring them
right to the school house door.
Railroads have been laid almost all
over the world and most people have
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telegraph, and wireless are among
many things we enjoy now that most
people then had never heard of.
NO. I
BEREA GAZETTE
Published Semi-monthly by the Berea
High School
STAFF
Elsie Cole Editor-in-Chief
Alene Slaughter Associate Editor
Clarence Williford Athletic Editor
Lucy Mae Knott Humor
Magnolia Vaughan School News
Walter Critcher Circulation Mgr.
Lenward Mize, Asso. Circulation Mgr.
Crawford Knott Bussiness Mgr.
Albert Sherman, Asso. Business Mgr.
EDUCAJIONAL OBLIGA-
- TI^NS OF A COUNTY
A THUNDERSTROM
One hot afternoon in August all the
family were sitting on the porch
laughing and talking when suddenly
we noticed that the clouds were get
ting dark and everything seemed as
still as death. We knew that storm
was coming up, so we all rushed into
the house to close the windows and
doors, but before we had gone more
than half way a sudden glimmer of
lightning flashed across the heavens,
followed immediately by a loud clash
and roar of thunder.
The clouds, within a short while
had gathered over all the sky, and
hung so heavily that it looked as if
they would drop in one solid mass
upon the earth.
The wind began to blow so hard
that great limbs from the trees were
wrung off like twigs, and the rain
descended in torrents.
ATHLETIC NEWS
We are preparing the grounds for
basketball, football, volley ball and
baseball. We hope to have them in
perfect condition in a short time. The
boys seem to highly interested in
getting ready for playing.
The girls are very much interested
in the play grounds, also.
We expect to challenge some of the
other schools just as soon as we boys
get our breath to working sufficient
ly. Ath. Editor.
MY PONY
Once upon a time I had a pony and
he ran away and I could not catch
him, but I could let my Papa catch
him for me. Every day I ride on
my pony’s back and ride him to Ed’s
home and play with him till nearly
night and come and put him in the
stable and feed him three ears of
corn and one bunch of fodder. That’s
as much as he can eat.
Sam Daniel, 2nd grade, 7 years old.
The field work being done by Mr.
George Howard, Jr., of the State De
partment of Education is of singular
interest and value. To him as State
Director of School Organization falls
the task, when called upon, of making
an adequate survey of school condi
tions in a county that proposes to
adopt a county-wide plan of school
organization and development. This
work, as explained by Mr. Howard,
and illustrated by blueprints before
the county superintendent’s district
associations, forms a highly interest
ing and enlightening feature of such
meetings that no county superinten
dent should miss.
The foregoig is only preliminary
to calling attention to the four great
educational obligations of a county to
its children, as outlined by Mr. How
ard to the county superintendents a*:
their recent meeting in Raleigh. A
county owes to its boys and girls,
says Mr. Howard, to provide:
1. A standard elementary educa-
tion for every boy and girl hi the
county. This includes—
a. An eight months’ school term
b. A competent teacher, teaching
only one grade.
c. Adequate teaching equipment.
able to every boy and girl in the coun
ty. This calls for—
a. A four-year course of study.
b. An eight months’ school term
c. Four whole-time teachers, one
of whom may be a teacher of voca
tional subjects.
d. Recitation periods of at least
forty-five minutes in length.
e. Fifteen units for graduation.
f. Laboratory facilities for teach
ing science.
g. A school library of not fewer
than 300 volumes.
3. A comfortable, sanitary build
ing for every hoy and girl in the
county.
HALLOW’EEN
Now for the fearful night of Hal-
low’een.
With all its witches and ghosts to
be seen
Roaming and wandering through val
ley and dale.
With every timid person to assail.
The red devils slyly come along,
The witches and ghosts to enthrong.
Then up or down, far or near.
Where e’er it be they are there
Ready to scare, jump or run
If ever there is a chase begun.
So hark! be watchful as .you journey,
be quick!
As not to be entrapped by any of
their tricks.
Mr. Rounder (at police s''‘ation)
—“Can I see the burglar who was ar
rested for breaking into my house
last night?”
Chief (hesitatingly)—“WeT, I
don’t know. What do you want to
see him about?”
Rounder—“Oh, there’s noth’ng se
cret about it. I just want to find out
how he managed to get into the house
without waking my wife.”—Exchange.
A clergyman not long ago received
the following notice regarding a mar
riage that was to take place:
“This is to give you notis that I
and Miss Jemima Brearly is cornin’
to your church on Saturday after
noon next to undergo the operation
of matrimony at your hands. Please
be prompt, as the taxi is hired by the
hour.”—Selected.