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THE J-TAC
TUESDAY, MARCH 1, .1938
THE J-TAC
Otfi<sial Student Publication of John TaTletoti Agricultural College
Published Weekly by Students of John Tarleton Agricultural College
Entered as second-class mail matter at tho Postoffice in Stephenville,
Texas, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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We Still Have A Record
No longer is the record of the Plowboys intact.
Tarleton has found out what despair and gloom
means. The students have been plunged to the
depths of despondency, and they have come up
smiling! The stickers which blazoned forth to the
world that Tarleton had won "86 straight" can be
worn no longer. However, the Plowboys still have
the support and the enthusiastic backing- of a
loyal student body.
As loyal students the Tarletonites can shout
from the very housetops that "our Plowboys" have
won 102 out of 104 games. This is something' al-
most as distinctive, and surely it's just as honor-
able, as the winning of eighty-six straight. The
leam and the coach are just as good sports as can
lie found. Students, let us proclaim to the world at
large that John Tarleton Agricultural College has
a basketball team which has won 102 games out
of 104!
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A gricultural Engineering
Does everyone know what agricultural engi-
neering offers to a man? Well, I would say no,
because until I came to college, I thought agri-
cultural engineering was just another way to
teach one how to farm. Unlike this idea the course
is planned to give a student an engineering train-
ing with an agricultural viewpoint. A thorough
study in fundamental engineering principles is
given, as much time is devoted to purely agricul-
tural subjects as possible, and the applications of
engineering to agriculture receive their share of
attention.
• The need for such engineers is being felt more
each year as the demands grow for farms better
equipped with power machinery, farm buildings,
and home utilities, and more land to be reclaimed
by soil erosion control, drainage, irrigation and
clearing.
Graduates of this course from a senior college
are prepared for service in the following lines:
with colleges and the government, in teaching,
extension and experiment station work; with the
government soil control projects; with the man-
ufacturers of farm machinery, gas engines, trac-
tors, other farm equipment and farm building;
in advertising saljt-s and designing work; with
engineering and contracting firms doing soil ero-
sion control, irrigation and drainage work; and
with farm trade journals. ,
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Can You Take It?
In honor of one who should be an inspiration
to ail at this time of year, we quote what he once
murmured in a time of stress, "And this, too, will
pass." If every college student would remember
this thought of George Washington which he be-
lieved at a time when he was faced with hopeless-
ness, each ami every one of us would accomplish
more in a crisis. When school work stares you in
the face—work which is difficult and seems to
you to be too difficult to do, just, remember that
this feeling of difficulty will pass and the work
will seem almost easy as soon as you "plunge"
into it.
Really, life is merely a place to see if you can
"take it." College isn't any different from the rest
of our lives. Some of us have already gone
through the period of our life in which we learn
that to do a thing is to solve our troubles. Upon
the way one handles the period of the crisis de-
pends the foundation of one's attitude in life.
Problems arise in college that we have to solve
for ourselves. We can no longer lean on another.
When some problems come, just let them "ride,"
for they will solve themselves. When you don't
know what to do, do nothing until the time ar-
rives. Believe in yourself. Not only believe but
know that you have the ability to work out the
problems which confront you, and you must know
that if you can do nothing by yoor own efforts, the
best thing to do is to let a problem work itself
out. Really you work it out subconsciously by your
ability to conquer the obstacles of life.
When you are "stumped" about a problem, just
remember that in five years from today, it will
seem a mere nothing—your mountain will truly
be a mole hill then—why not make it one today?
Let everyone know that you are the kind of a
person who can "take" every hard knock which
comes your way. Soon you will become accustom-
ed to these and will "grow up" to be one who has
been tested and found not to be lacking.
Why is it that a certain self-centered group
of campus snooties can go to the local theatre and
raise such a din and clamor that all other patrons
are ill-«t-ease during the riot?
"I'll bet you tell that to all the
girls!" is a trite expression, we
agree, hut the next co-ed who
step;: with Harold Willoughby will
he justified in saying it when he
pulls hi-i time-worn line on her.
"Honey, you're a cinch to be a
sponsor next year," he tells them
all. Willoughby . has said this to
several girls already, the present
victim being Carroll Cooper's ex,
Margaret Minter.
Although Charles Miller has
permission to remain out of uni-
form, Mary Katherine Douglas
has proved that it isn't just the
buttons that attract the woman,
but their romance of some months
is still all rosy.
Scene about the campus: Billy
Jack Wisdom dividing his time
between Mary bee Fullaear and
freshman-favorite Marguerite Cha-
pin. . . . Pansy Lee Porter and Len
Clardy eating together at the din-
ing hall. . . . "Big Mac" courting
Babe Fullagar on the steps of the
Administration building all Fri-
day afternoon. ... A huge picture
of Ann Clay reposing on Charles
Brown's dresser. . . . -Toe Hall
waiting outside of Sylvia Bode's
classroom. . . . Jessie .Tones sign-
ing out for Vada Belle Tomlinson.
We don't know whether or not
it's serious, but we've noticed Con-
nie Wise and Roger Jackson hold-
ing hands quite frequently of late.
Many are wondering if Roger
plays "cock-eye" with her as he
did with his last love.
Although this case has been go-
ing on nearly all year, we've neg-
lected. for some reason or other,
to mention it before. We're speak-
ing- of that amorous couple, Dolly
Wilbanks and Bobby Kruse.
And here's another couple of
love-birds from 'way back: Hester
Miller and Guy Moore. This cou-
ple can be seen each week night
in the girls' dump from P>:30 to
7:00, and elsewhere from 7:30 to
10:,'10 on Saturday and Sunday
nights.
That, Varsity heart-throb, New-
ell Oliver, broke down the other
night and escorted one of Tor-
leton's co-cds to the game, the
lucky girl being Mildred Arm-
strong.
It seems this Fd Paso trip for
the hoys made widows of many
girls. Frances Gregory and Gladys
Bradley were seen at the show
together Sunday: Billye Faye Lon-
don hag a clear mind for onee. not
having to decide among so many
boys; Jarvis Fullagar has some
extra time on her hands. These
girls and Luna Ruth Petty con-
gregated in Frances' room Sun-
day night—but of course they did-
n't talk about the absent basket-
ball boys!
Kach week a miracle takes place.
This time the episode is between
"Bunkhous-r" Johnson and Rose
Frances Skiles, and .Tay Crabbe
and Betty George Cypcrt. It hap-
pened like this: Some unknown
person took it upon himself to
tell Runkhouse that Rose Frances
wanted to go with him. and Rose
Frances was iold that Bnnkhousc
wanted to go with her. It was
really a miracle, as the two are
now enjoying each other's com-
pany. The other couple mentioned
hail the same tale told to them,
ami the result is that -Tay and
Betty have had their first date.
Here's hoping these affairs can all
turn out this successful.
A Letter Home —
dear ma and pa,
well i got to thinkin the other
day that i hadnt saw you since
September and it was about time
for mip to write u. i wanted to tell
u how much i had learnt, i bet
u was thinkin it took me a mighty
long time to print this here letter,
well it didnt. they taught me how
to write on a thing they call a
tipewritte.r and i guess you can
see how good i am. i can write just
as plain as anything, they got
some mity funy things down here,
i wish you cud see how they feed
us at the chow house, chow is a
new eolege word the means eat.
i used to get hungry all the time
but now im about to get used to
the litle hclpins they give us. take
today fer instance i didnt get but
¥ix hclpins of meat and seven,
ears of corn and 13 pieces of light
bread (they get bread from the
bakery).'somein else i notice is
how silly the girls is. you know
how tliey always copy one anoth-
er. well they nil wear the same
kind of dresses down her? even,
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Archie Says:
Dear Arehic,
I'm a poor liitle freshman who
is terribly abused. IIow can I
make these mean, old senior girls
let me alone?
Tcda Rcll Nogers.
Dear Teda Rcll.
Just put a hard look on your
face, and don't pay any attention
to them. If they don't knock you
down, you'll get by wiih it.
Archie.
Dear Archie,
My brother is just as smart as
a whip, but T ain't. Can you ac-
count for it ?
Cud Bambill.
Dear Gud.
Mavbe it's because fie "-.'racks"
move books- than you do.
Archie.
Dear Archie,
What would you do? Three
cents is just too much to pay for
stamps to write to my girl.
Mohn Jorris.
Dear Mohn,
Your girl probably thinks so too.
But you can always use a post-
card, you know.
Archie.
Dear Archie,
The sun was shining bright this
morning when I woke up and look-
ed out, hut I just couldn't get up
so I went back to bed and slept
through a class.
J. S. Cackson
Dear Mr. Cackson,
What are you—a ground bog?
Archie.
Dear Archie,
I'm in dire distress. T am un-
decided between two boys, and I
can marry either one of them.
The one that I really love is home-
ly looking and poov, but he is a
dear. The other one is tall, dark.,
handsome, and rich, but I don't
love him. Which should I choose?
Bita Roykin.
Dear Bita,
By all means marry the boy
that you really love, even if he is
homely looking and poor.
Archie.
P. S. What's the other boy's ad-
dress?
Dear Archie,
This may sound inquisitive but
do you know how old Miss Mahan
and Miss Glover are ?
Wargaret Winter
Dear Wargaret,
I don't know for sure but I
heard both of them say that they
taught Julius Caesar.
Archie.
wells down here, you dont- have to
draw a rope or nothin. just turn a
litle nob and the h2o (that means
water in kemistry) comes out as
clear as that up at crystal springs,
well i guess that i wont have to
write to you again, there wont
be no use in it because i will be
home in june.
11! be sue-ing you
(i wont, really sue you.
thats just a new eolege
sayin).
■your stifi-
Nuteworthy Notes
We will have to conclude that
children are natural mimics; they
insist on acting- like their parents,
in spite of the effort made to
teach them good manners.
The Weikerifughigh College is
very strict in carrying out their
rules. A boy died in class and the
prof, propped him up until after
class was over.
A business man ask So and So
for recommendations when So and
So asked him for employment. So
and So gave for his recommenda-
tion that "he had never been to
college!"
We heard a cute poem the other
day:
I'm just like a prairie flower,
Growing wilder every hour.
Nobody loves the.
I stink.
No man is whipped until he
begins to place the blame for his
failure on the oihar fellow.
Then there was the co-ed who
returned her engagement ring
with the words "Glass, handle
with care,"
And there was the Scotchman
who didn't go to college because
he had to pay attention.
Dishonesty: A shrewd trick
some one else plays on you.
Shrewdness: A dishonest trick
you play on someone else.
War doesn't decide who is right
but who is left. ,
We wish people were unselfish.
Then we could stop work and live
off their generosity.
First they took the country
away from the Indian; next they
took him off the penny; now he
is to he minted off the nickel.
With Violet in his arms,
Tic drove the Ford—poor silly.
Where once he .held his Violet,
He now clasps a lily!
Did You Know
THAT:—•
In Lotta Moody Hall of the girls'
dormitory there are four Marys,
four Margarets, four Bettys, three
Virginias, two Maebeths, and two
Pollys ?
Dorothy McCurdy, Marguerite
Chapin, Ann Clay, and Ilafae
Smith were yell leaders in their
respective high schools ?
Ruth Wood was chosen as the
most popular girl in Paducah High
School ?
Pmgena Gentry was Queen of
the De Leon Watermelon Festival
in 1935?
Mildred Was son, at the age of
fifteen, was valedictorian of the
Texas City High School class of
'3fi?
Sammy Statham and Pansy Lee
Porter are roommates; both are
sponsors; both are class favorites;
and both are from Cisco ?
Mary DuPree was an R.O.T.C.
sponsor and runner-up for the
most representative girl in Braek-
enridge High School, San An-
tonio?
Tcddie Allen's father is news
editor of the largest newspaper in
Texas, the Houston Chronicle?
A few days ago in chapsd Dean
Davis made the statement that the
people who raised most of the cain
at the ballet came from families
which were—well, not the best.
On the other hand, all of us
have rO'.n children of really good
parents do things which their fam-
ily could not condone.
(Preachers, wo understand, have
more trouble about this than any
ether class of people.)
Everyone in his life does some
small, petty thing of which he is
ashamed. But let's not condemn
their families just because of this.
Coach Wisdom is going to the
State Basketball Tournament in
Austin this Thursday to watch the
best Texas high school teams in
their play-offs. He intends to steer
a little ball-heaving talent up to
Tarleton.
When Jack Chevigny was head
of athletics at Texas U. ,he tried
to get Wisdom to coach Texas'
basketball team. But Wisdom de-
clined. And this year Dana Bible
is rumored to be interested in Tar-
leton's coach. (Confidentially, Jack
Gray, Texas' present coaeh, isn't
doing so well, and the school may
be looking for someone to take his
place.)
We would hate to lose Wisdom;
but if Texas hired him, it would
be their smartest move since Dana
X. Bible.
The band and crack company
are trying to raise money to visit
the Battle of Flowers at San An-
tonio. The band is planning a mu-
sical on March the tenth and the
crack company is busy on a dance
schemr. Their idea. 1 suppose, is
lo work their heads off trying to
get money to spend marching their
heads off,
How would the rest of you cadets
like to march about nine miles in
the blazing hot Santone sun in
full dress uniform? And yet these
two student organizations are rais-
ing money to bo able to do just
that. Some school spirit—.
We hear the DeMolays arc do-
ing pretty well. (We're one our-
self—just, giving them a plug.)
They have gotten notices in the
Fort Worth papers. The chapter
now has approximately twenty-
five Tarleton students in it.
We hear, too, that J. F. Bick-
nell is the moneyed man about the
campus. He always has from 51K
to $20 in his pockt t— yeah, .two
dollars.
We can't see why the A. W. S,
got all the credit for putting on a
womanless wedding. After all the
A. W. S. is a girls' club.
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I Perfect Cadet \
Last week the students were
given a minute-to-second descrip-
tion of a perfect co-ed. This gave
every cadet a chance to find out
what bis girl had and what she
lacked. Today ihe readers may
find out a co-ed's idral of a per-
fect (if there be such) cadet. All
you girls compare your favoril-e
boy friend with the following:
Thy cadet should possess hair
(when not clipped) like Joe Bh'n-
venu, eyes like those that help
Lewis Mickley, Darrell Haffon!'.-
eyclaslics, Hugh Gragg's nose, Ja-
da Davis' lips. Garland Dansby's
teeth, and Johnnie Buckner's dim-
ple which is found in the chin, Don
Rankin, up to date, has the best
physique on the campus (which
means a lot to help any boy
along).
It seems the perfect co-ed had
many fine qualities and it would
be unfair to the cadet to show him
up. The things the height of per-
fection needs are: Len Clardy':;
friendliness, Arthur Wagy's love
of wit, any boy's love of fun, Joe
Parish's vocabulary, and Scott
Cockrell's knack for conversation,
Whert a boy finds he can do such
things as sing like Martin Johan-
sen, truck like S. J. Fooshee, dance
like Edgar Markley, draw like
(ex-cadet) Herman Poe, can go to
town on a musical instrument like
Jack Oliver, play football like
Mouzon Matthews, play basket-
ball like Thomas Tinker, and make
the "A" honor roll on the side
line, write articles like James Fer-
guson, deliver announcements as
only Glenn Collum can, and be a
great lover like Toofer Johnson,
he has something there.
Girls, can any of your friends
meet this standard ?
THEY
Point
To
One of the most impressive and
patriotic ceremonies of the mili-
tary department in John Tarle-
ton Agricultural College has not
been continued this year. Perhaps
some of the seniors have been
wondering why this is so; there-
fore. this week the finger of the
public points to:
"Should 'Retreat Ceremonies' be
held every evening in reference ti>
having the flag lowered and the
bugler sound retreat?"
H. F. Boyd: "Yes, because the
students should pay more respect
to the flag."
Edmina Croxdale: "Yes, because
it Inings to the school more of a
military feeling."
C. D. Nichols: "Yes, it will teach
some of the first year students the
real meaning of the flag, and ;t
will make them feel more respect-
ful toward it."
Paul Blaine: "Yes, if we have
military training, we should go so
far as to have the retreat cere-
monies.
Charles Hanstrom: "Yes, be-
cause it is a custom of nearly all
of the other military schools.
FJsie Pulley: "Ye';, hecause it
gives one a more patriotic feel-
ing-"
I shot a poem into the air.
It was reprinted everywhere.
From Bangor to the coast of
Maine,
And always credited to
—Exchange.
Student gets the paper.
School gets the fame,
Printer gets the money.
Staff gets the blame.—Tatler.
Fur boys only (Read Back-
wards ):
"Didn't you if girls be wouldn't
you, this read would you knew
we."
Watch for next week's issue of
the J-Tac for the qualifications for
a perfect professor.
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for (he amateur,
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with
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Thursday and Friday
"Arse'ne Lupin
Returns"
with
Melvyn Douglas
Virginia Bruce
Warren William
Saturday
"Bulldog Drum-
mond's Revenge"
with
John Barry more
John Howard
Louise Campbell
Sunday and Monday
"Mannequin"
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Spencer Tracy
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