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Press Club Presents
"SECRETS OF DOCTOR
KILDARE"
Friday, December 15
Z-752
Watch Plowboy Five In
Action Thursday Night,
7:30, As Part of
Butches' Club
PROGRAM .
VOLUME XIX.
STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1939
NUMBER 12.
Flight Training Is Reality,
Instruction To Start Soon
20 Students Promised
Instructions In
CAA Program
Flight training' at John Tarle-
ton College has finally become a
reality.
With final arrangements for
Civil Aeronautics Authority train-
ing completed, preliminary ground
school work will start immediate-
ly.
Students registering for the
course took their first physical ex-
amination last night at the Col-
lege hospital. Final physical tests
will be given later in the week at
the Stephenville Hospital. Dr, S.
D. Naylor and Dr. Vance Taylor
are examining physicians.
H. P.f Harven, head flight in-
structor from Stamford, will con-
duct ground classes, first of which
will be held tonight in Shack 35.
In order to pile up the 15 hours
required before flying may he
started, a two-hour ground school
class will be held each night. Thud
it is planned that actual student
flights may be begun immediately-
after the Christmas holidays.
From the students passing the
physical examinations and taking
ground training, 20 will be select-
ed to take flight training. Accord-
ing to available information, any
person who can comply with regu-
lations is eligible for the course,
"Anyone who can meet require-
ments and pay the $40 fee can
take the course whether he is a
student in this college or not,''
says Bean J, Thomas Davis. "Of
course Tarleton students will have
first choice."
Military Band To
Plan On Third
Radio Program
Broadcasting for the first time
this year, the John Tarleton Mili-
tary Band will play on the Tarle-
ton Hour over WBAP next Sat-
urday morning at 9 o'clock from
the College Auditorium.
Appearing with the band on the
Tarleton program, third of the
current year's radio series, will he
a selected group of. singers from
the Tarleton Chorus, a brass quar-
tet, a sportscast and a skit by an-
nouncers Edwin Terry and Raby
Alford,
With D. G. Hunewell directing,
the band will play Sousa's "Stars
and Stripes Forever," "Abenlied"
and "As Long a= I Have You." R.
Berton Coffin will lead the Tarle-
ton Singers, who will sing Christ-
mas music.
J. Lewis Evans, Jack Lauder-
dale, John Hays and Fred Jen-
nings. brass quartet, will play one
selection. John Phelan. sports edi-
tor of The J-Tac, will discuss the
approaching basketball season at
Tarleton, and Terry and Alford
will tell in dialogue form the his-
tory of the Tarleton Fine Arts de-
partment.
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CALENDAR
FOR THE WEEK
TUESDAY
Grassburr Staff Dinner.
J-Tac Stall Meeting 6:45 p.
WEDNESDAY
Aggette Christmas Tree
THURSDAY
Biitcbes Program at Gymnasium
FRIDAY
General Privileges—Sbow
Utopian Club Meeting-
SATUKDAY
WBAP Broadcast 9 till 9:30 a. m,
Gramophiles 7:15 p. m.
D. S. T. Dance 8 till 11 p. m.
SUNDAY
Gramophiles 4:15 p. m.
Lbrds and Commoner* Dinner
MONDAY
Tarleton Flayers Christmas Program
Privileges Granted
For Third Doctor
Kildare Picture
Friday night will be general
privilege night for Tarleton stu-
dents. On that night the Press
Club is sponsoring at the Majestic
Theatre "The Secrets of Doctor
Kildare" starring Lew Ayers and
Lionel Barrymore.
All students who plan to see this
show are urged to buy tickets be-
fore leaving the campus as the
club sponsoring the show receives
no- benefit from student tickets
sold at the box office.
Tickets may be purchased from
any member of the Press Club.
Aggettes Celebrate
Yuletide with Party,
Gift to Red Cross
Aggettes will celebrate the Yule-
tide season with a party in the
Recreation Hall, December 13,
According to Aggette tradition,
a blanket will be given to the Ste-
phenville representative of the
American Red Cross for a Christ-
mas gift to a needy Stephenville
family.
Also according to tradition, Ag-
gettes will end their party as
strolling Christmas carolers, sing-
ing to different groups on the
campus.
Chickens Win Fame
Winning- for Tarleton almost as
widespread interest as did its un-
defeated Plowboy basketeers, are
the numerous international rec-
ords piled up in the course of its
egg-laying contest, largest of its
kind in the nation. In a recent is-
sue of a national poultry maga-
zine, five records established at
Tarleton were cited.
Christmas Music
To Be Presented
December 19 th
Part of Tarleton's Christmas-
merrymaking -will be a program
of Christmas music to be given
at the College Auditorium next
Tuesday evening, December 19,
at 7:30 o'clock.
The Tarleton Chorus will sing
three groups of Christmas music
and to close the program will
lead the audience in singing sev-
eral traditional carols.
Two selections from Handel's
"Messiah," "He Shall Feed His
Flock" and the "Hallelujah Chor-
us" will be presented. Other se-
lections to be sung by the chorus
are Christiansen's "Lo How A
Rose" and "Lullaby on Christmas
Eve," the "Glory to God in th.,>
Highest" by Pergolis and Read-
ing's "Adeste Fidelis."
A brass quartet' composed of
Jack Lauderdale, J. Lewis Evans,
John Hays and Fred Jennings
will acorn pany the chorus when
it sings "Carol of the Russian
Children" by Gaul and will play
Clokey's composition, "Two
Kings," Lauderdale and Evans
play trumpets, Hays, trombone,
and Jennings, baritone.
R. Berton Coffin, professor of
voice and director of ensemble
singing, is in charge of the pro-
gram.
Former Students Visit Here
Clifton Miller, a former Tarle-
ton student, visited on the cam-
pus. Saturday and Sunday, Sidney
Reese of Ballinger, another form-
er student, visited friends here
during the week-end.
Subscribe for the J-Tac.
J-Tac Reporter Gives Suggestions
On Christmas Gifts For Fair Lady
Christmas is approaching, so
'-•.0 why not snoop around th'j
stoics here in Stephenville and
window shop at bit. You might
pick out the proper thing to give
Aunt Sadie and at the same time
Ma, and Pa, and Worry-wart, the
little brother.
Candy's Good, Boys
Now, let's see. There's candy.
Who in this little spot on the globe
we call Texas wouldn't be delight-
ed to get a box of King's choco-
lates all spruced up in fancy trim-
mings for her Christmas present?
There are some beautiful boxes
(though they are not very taxing
on the pocket-book) to be had in
some of the local drug stores that
would make any girl happy. Yes,
let's put candy on our list definite-
ly.
Then there are the little things
Sadie might like. In one of the
local dry goods stores you can
buy miniature figures, of such
characters as Rhett Butler, Scar-
lett O'Hara, Little Bo Peep,
clowns, and The Blue Bonnet Girl
filled with powder pull'-; in pastel
shades.
Aunt Sadie always liked per-
sonal things, you say, so why not
give her a Christmas box of hose?
Or one of those handy combina-
tion make-up nail polish kits that
are on sale? She's sure to like a
set of perfume - compact - lipstick
the Coty company has on sale
here.
Why Not A Robe?
"My kingdom for a robe!" shouts
many a cold co-ed these cold morn-
ings and in a few weeks her wish
will be realized. There are too
many lovely satin and woolen,
quilted and plain, robes in town
for a single girl to be left out,
Quilted satin in a floral design
seems to be the style this year.
However, very feminine lacy and
chiffon ones are very popular.
Filmy chiffon nighties and pajam-
as held the spotlight along with
robes and house shoes in the win-
dow of one of the local stores last
week.
Clever sweaters may be had, too.
One model selling more rapidly
than others is a gold angora card-
igan with a huge flower of a har-
monizing color of wool dripping
down one side. Angora is the "best
thing for sweaters, gloves, suits,
and even socks this year.
Of course, one can't have every-
thing, but there is a very good
choice of fur chuMiies not too far
from the campus for the girls to
be interested. Red fox, squirrel,
silver fox, and kolinsky are dis-
played.
Frangrance Is Welcomed
Perfume and cosmetics are al-
ways gifts welcomed by any girl.
\ new gift stock has recently been
•cceived by one of the local drug
•tores. Even though you innocent
nales bestow a bottle of cutdoorsy
->erfume to that little creeping vio-
'et you've been dating, she'll be
•ilea?ed—or at least her roomie,
who is a bit on the breezy side.
There are some lovely little mu-
sical powder boxes here that tin-
'•*le a minuet or polka when the
Mie lid is lifted. "The Beer Bar-
"el Polka" will be on them next
vear, we are told.
Ah, yes! How candy does warm
the heart, quicken the pulses, as
t'were! When you see that luscious
box of "Home-made Tidbits", the
box of chocolate ' covered straw-
berries—well, hoys, how can you
resist?
Jewelry, But Not Too Much
Jewelry seems to hold the center
of the stage in gifts from stu-
dents here at Tarleton. Each year
girls and boys return with newly
acquired watches, pins, rings. This
vear novelty necklaces are the fad.
Bracelets and necklaces with large
bubble-like globes will be on many
a Christmas tree. Bracelets orna-
mented with corks in different col-
ors, little bells, charms, dice, and
ieweled flowers will be much in
evidence.
So, girls, show your dream
prince the sights and great will be
your reward—perhaps.
STUDENT VOTE
TO SELECT MISS
TARLETON
Miss Tarleton for 1939-40!
This caption will appear under
the picture of the girl selected by
a vote of the student body start-
ing today and ending the second
Thursday in January after the
holidays. (
Ballots may be purchased at
several places over the campus
for one cent each. Each will count
one vote, and the students may
nominate anyone they desire.
After the first week of ballot-
ing, the leaders will be announced
and the field reduced to ten. The
last week of the election the nom-
inees will be reduced to five girls.
At the conclusion of the elec-
tion the girl receiving the major-
ity of the votes will be declared
Missi Tarleton of -lD.'i'J-40 and
crowned in the auditorium tliR
night of January llt 194H.
Students will vote on the in' -t
typical Tarleton co-td, taking in-
to consideration personality,
friendliness, beauty, neatness, and
school spirit dseirable for a, Tar-
leton girl.
The proceeds from the election
will go to some worthy individual
in the form of a scholarship for
next year.
Tarleton Flayers
Will Dramatize
Christmas Flay
Dickons* "Chrjst-mas Cnrul" will
be dramatized for a short program
to be presented in the Tarleton
auditorium next Monday evening
at 8 o'clock by the Tarleton
Players.
Billie Wetzol and Neva Frances
Harrcll will appear in the Dickens'
story of ScroogQ, Tiny Tin^ and
the Christmas spirits, which will
close the program. Other plays to
be presented are Eugene O'Neill's1
"Before Breakfast," which' was
postponed from the Tarleton
Players' initial performance be-
cause of the illness of the leading
member of the cast, and "The Se-
quel," one-act play by Percivale
Wilde.
Cast of Wilde's play will be
composed of students new to the
Tarleton stage: Geneva Jackson,
Brady; Joe Charles Ashby, Breck-
enridge; Jack Helms, Garland;
and Winston Blackloclc, Munday.
Sarah Ann Ferguson and Jack
Clemer will present a sketch in
which they will play the part of
sophisticated collegians home for
the holidays. Sallie Blanche Hol-
comb will also appear on the pro-
gram.
Baptist Students
To Present Two
Christmas Programs
Student members of the Bap-
tist Student Union council are
oreparing a devotional to be given
at a morning church service be-
fore Christmas and a play to be
"given after the holidays.
Proceeds from the play, "The
Three Links," will be used to fin-
ance a trip to the Southwide B.
S. U. convention to be held at
Ridgecrest, North Carolina, in
June.
Baptist students continue to at-
tend the Wednesday night prayer
meetings held at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. E, Berton Coffin. Last
Wednesday evening S. F. Davis
led a short devotional on individ-
ual influence.
Student la Called Home
Joy Eaton was called to her
home in Comanche because of the
illness of her grandmother. - '
"Messiah" To Be Played
A complete performance of
Handel's "Messiah" will be given
by the Gramophiles in two record-
ed programs scheduled for Satur-
day evening, December 16> at 7:15
o'clock and Sunday afternoon at
4:15 o'clock.
tort Worth Reserve Officers
To Be Honored Here Dec, 14
Flying Field To Be
Dedicated as CAA
Program Started
With ground school for Civil
Aeronautics Authority ■ flyers
scheduled to open tonight and pro-
ceed at the double quick time until
the holidays and student flying set
to begin immediately after the
holidays, plans for formal open-
ing of the flying set field and han-
gar in North Stephenville are be-
ing perfected.
Tentative arrangements now are
to dedicate the field next Sunday
afternoon. It is probable that a
number of visiting planes will be
present - for the ceremonies and
accompanying air show.
Lyceum Crowd of
About 450 Hears
Of War on Crime
A -.olo.-iul career of L racking
down criminals 'a.- revealed when
C. Ray H.msen, crimmuiogisfc,
former Chicago M' an'1 prose-
cutor, and undercover nv-ii^utor
in about 30 American ci : .>;joke
to a Tarleton audience t about
450 persons last Tuesday ev. "ing
in the auditorium.
Mr. Hansen's lecture '.ras the
second of the current lyceum ,-er-
ies. Next in the series will be the
address of Carlton Palmer, art
critic, scheduled for January 22.
Mr. Hansen, cited in the 1938-
39 "Who's Who" for patriotic and
courageous service in -the effort to
smash Chicago gangs, told of per-
sonal encounters with the "mad
dogs" of crime in all parts of the
United States.
While working as examiner in a
Chicago election, he was kidnap-
ped and beaten beyond recognition
before being released. In Philadel-
phia, New York City and other
urban centers he has at different
times hidden his identity and as-
sociated with criminals to gather
evidence for prosecution.
"Crime in America," according
to Mr, Hangen, "thrives, on the in-
efficiency of court procedure, pub-
lic indifference to criminal activ-
ity, and th£ alliance of organized
crime and politics."
Highly important in the battle
against crime, he pointed out, is
the proper conception of the rights
and duties of citizenship. Especial-
ly did he emphasize the responsi-
bility of so-called "respectable
people" to use their ballot rights.
Other conditions which Hansen
thinks must be corrected before
success may be expected in the
war against crime are the inade-
quacy of local police forces and
of prison systems in which faulty
segregation of prisoners leads in-
evitably to crime education.
Salesmanship And
Psychology Class
Proves Popular
Approximately 108 Tarleton stu-
dents and Stephenville business
men and women attended lectures
on salesmanship and psychology
given in the Tarleton auditorium
last week by Jack D. Brown of
Texas Christian University,
The lectures were sponsored by
the Stephenville Chamber of Com-
merce.
Mr. Brown said that the enroll-
ment was proportionately as large
as that of any city in which he has
lectured.
Cowboy Ballads And
Negro Spirituals Are
Topics Discussed
Cowboy Ballads and Negro spir-
ituals were the main topic of dis-
cussion at a meeting of the Utop-
ian club this week.
To carry out the topic idea, roll
call was answered with state-
ments about different cowboy bal-
lads, Mary Heatly discussed the
life of John Lomax and James
Curtis Brown made a talk on
Negro spirituals. To climax the
program, the entire membership
of the club sang two favorite Ne-
gro spiritual—"Old Black Joe" and
'Carry Me Back to Old Virginia."
At the next meeting of the Uto-
pians; January 10, members of the
club will be guests of the Gramo-
philes.
Former Graduate at Eastland
Mrs. J. E. Bieknell, who grad-
uated from Tarleton last spring,
is at her home in Eastland this
year. Before her marriage last
fall, she was Olivette Killough,
The Campus Speaks
By BOB THROCKMORTON
Cadet Colonel
Do you have a responsibility?
Of course you are diretly respon-
sible for attending your designat-
ed classes, and perhaps the success
of some extra-curricular activity
depends on you, but in what other
forms do you feel responsibility?
Are you a commissioned or non
commissioned officer? Are you a
class officer or representative?
Are you a student of John Tarle-
ton Agricultural College ?
If you have attained the rank
of either a commissioned or non-
commissioned officer, you have
accepted a position incurring as
much duty and respect as any
on the Tarleton campus. Yours
"sponsibifity to develop
and maintain military discipline
and at ihe jsuiiif? time to instill
the kiuiivieriyt .iiid spirit neces-
sary to Hie !'i .'tess of the cadet
corps. Officer: and non-cOriitnis-
sioned officers, are you assum-
ing your responsibility?
If you have been selected as a
student leader, the success of stu-
dent life and activities lies in your
hands. By your earnest endeavors
the democratic spirit of our insti-
tution can progress or regress.
Student officers, your councils are
important. Are you accepting re-
sponsibility?
Lastly, all of you are stu-
dents, and you all have definite
responsibilities as members of
the student body. You receive
the privileges of John Tarleton
as a single body; you participate
in activities as a student body;
you think as a student body; you
act as one single unit. The!*
don't you think it proper to ac-
cept the responsibilities of the
student body individually and
collectively together? If one sec-
tion of your organization, the
student body, incurs damage,
won't you help accept the re-
sponsibility of repairing that
damage? Even- if you are not a
cadet officer, or class officer, as
a student let me challenge you
to your responsibility.
Rifle Team, Honorary
Corps, Cadets To
Perform and Parade
Christmas Party
Planned For Girls
At Dormitory
Tarleton's rifle team and honor-
ary company will perform and the
entire cadet corps will parade in
review next Thursday when a
group of officers from Fort Worth
will be guests on the campus.
Maj. James A. Garza, unit in-
structor of the 358th infantry reg-
iment of Fort Worth organized re-
serves and a group_ of officers in
the Fort Worth division of the
Reserve Officers' Association are
expected here.
Plans have been made for escorts
to show the guests and their wives
who will accompany them, the dif-
ferent departments of the college.
Following the tour of the college,
they will assemble at the Armory
to witness the rifle team in action.
At 5 o'clock the Honorary Com-
pany will perform for ,the guests
with the regularly scheduled re-
treat parade following. First call
for the parade will be blown at
5:15 p. m. The guest officers and
their wives will appear in the re-
viewing stand for the ensuing
ceremonies.
Climaxing the evening's activi-
ties will be an informal dinner at
the dining hall honoring the
guests.
This visit to the Tarleton campus
is a result of the organization's
interest in the Tarleton cadet
corps and college as a whole since
the Reserve Officers' Association
has as its primary interest the bet-
terment and support of R.O.T.C.
units.
According t. Muio"* "•'.lines T
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ation has vol ... donate _t p. "i'ti
tatiivn sabm' ; - aw-.inlcii ru , .
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t.tk winuei <jf .. -abvr will tit
oidcJ .1 l u later date by the Fort
Worth R. O. A, It will be awarded
at the end of the school year in an
appropriate ceremony.
Uniform to be worn at the re-
treat parade will be dress with O.
D. shirts. Members of the Honor-
ary Company are to wear their re-
spective uniform.
Old Saint Nick will arrive on
the Tarleton campus December 19,
when each hall of the women's
dormitory will have a Christmas
tree and party.
At the party refreshments will
be served and gifts will be ex-
changed according to a name-
drawing to be held soon.
Yule Party Planned
For Methodist
Students Dec. 15
The annual Christmas party of
the Methodist Young People will
be held Friday, December 15, at
6:30 p. m., at the home of Louise
Jarratt.
Each' guest is requested to bring
a comical present not costing over
ten cents.
Transportation there and back
has been arranged for, and all
Tarleton students who desire to
attend should meet ;.t the church
at 6:15 o'clock. Privileges to all
students who attend the party
have been granted for that night.
Debaters Consider
Methods of Keeping
American Peace
Eight Tarleton debaters are now
at work on the question, "Re-
solved, that the United States
should follow a policy of strict
isolation (economic and military)
towards all nations outside the
Western Hemisphere engaged in
international or civil conflict."
This is the national Pi Kappa
question officially adopted this
year by the various senior and
junior colleges of the country and
by the Texas Junior College
Speech Association.
A debating team will be selected
from a series of local debates
among candidates.
Students now debating are Roby
Alford, Heston McBride, Joe G.
Davis, Charley Koundtree, Jack
Clemer, Winters Procter, Jones
Robinson, and Charles Steeft,
Dean Is Among 230
Educators Attending
Rainey Inaugural
Dean J, Thomas Davis was among
the 230 delegates from Texas edu-
cational institutions attending the
recent inaugural ceremonies of Dr.
Homer P. Rainey at the Univers-
ity of Texas.
Presidents of at least ten out-of-
state universities were present.
Twenty-seven Texas colleges and
universities and ten junior colleges
were represented.
Regents, trustees, deans and
other school officials from schools
ranging in size from Harvard Uni-.
versity, the nation's oldest educa-
tional institution, to Rice Institute,
one of the youngest of the nation-
ally known colleges, were there.
Some of the junior colleges rep-
resented were Weatherford, Texas
Lutheran. N. T. A. C.. Sehreiner,
Ranger, San Angelo, Temple, and
John Tarleton.
Campus News la Broadcast
• News about J.T.A.C. is being
given each Tuesday night at 10:30
by Milton Atkinson, the KGKO
Campus Editor, over Station
KGKO, operating on 570 kilo-
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