The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 24, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 9, 1940 Page: 1 of 4
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SLANTS
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ON THE
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CANDIDATES
By ELAINE SCOTT
Associate Editor
THIS .year's campaign is now
in full swing. "What next"
is the question all seniors are
asking, for after last year's
campaigns we'll wonder what
surprises this year's frosh
c£in. manage to pull.
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Over night last year the cam-
pus was turned from a fairly
peaceful spot into a howling- acre
of betUam. The campus was flood-
ed with candidate cards printed in
lurid type, urging the students to
"Be Good to Goodrich," "Follow
the colore, and elect Joe Graeey,"
"Use your head."
One morning they awoke to find
the campus snowed under with
placards nailed to every spot on
the campus anyone might possibly
glance. Trees, sidewalks, the din
ing hall frontj the post office all
screamed, "Seben come 'Leben.
Vote for Dyess," "Ellen June "War-
den, Interested and Qualified,"
"As Nose for News."
From many trees were hung
large wtsh tubs with white-washed
signs on them saying, "Tubbs for
Student Council Prexy,"
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You gee, Chilton, there's prac-
tically no limit to the campaign
stunts a candidate might pull. As
has been proved, the candidates
who cover the campus most com-
pletely, the one who shouts his
merits to the four winds, and the
one who tickles the funny bone of
the student body most usually
wins. And that is some sort of
commentary on politics—Campus
or otherwise,
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Hottest race, will be the one for
athletic sponsor betwween Beth
Benjamin, . Eloise Roberts, and
Pauline Craft. _ Beth is an ap-
pealing blonde who has unfailing-
ly backed Tarleton from the first
■football game to the last basket-
ball game, obviously for no other
reason than that she simply liked
sports. She has consistently play-
ed the Fort star line through the
year, and, we've heard tell, if they
have anything to do with it, Misses
Beth ■will doubtless be elected.
Eloise, a Tejas club sister of
Beth, ia just the type of girl who
knocks a fella's eye out when she
appears in sweaters, slacks, or
the general run of sports togs. An
outdoorsy type of charm has
Eloise. She hails from the west,
which probably accounts for it.
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Some cadets' fondest dream,
we've heard, is that some day
they'll wake up in Heaven to find
angle-panned Polly Craft, the
third contestant. A pink and blue
type of charms has Polly, the most
feminine one of the three. Give her
red roses, lads., and she's wooed
That's the secret.
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Whether the old tradition of
having no girl for a leader is best
for the school is to be decided in
the coming election. Sara'Andrews
will oppose Charles Steen for ed-
itor of the J-TAC. Frances Lou
Deen and Herbert Minter will vie
for the Grassburr editorship.
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True to her sex, your reporter
has always thought there should
he no discrimination against wom-
en as office holders campus lead-
ers. For a number of years now,
only men students have held the
responsible positions. Why not
give the girls a break this time
and consider them, too?
CALENDAR
FOB THE WEEK
TUESDAY—
■ Silver Key* program.
J-Tac Staff Meeting.
• Pres3 Club Meeting.
WEDNESDAY—
Concert by Little Symphony Orch
estra and Tarleton Singers, Audi-
torium, 7:30.
T
THURSDAY—
Aggeette Banquet.
FRIDAY—
' Gramophiles,
SATURDAY—■
S.O.T.S. Panis.
College Giria Sunday ,-johvoi Picnic,
SUNDAY—
D.S.T, Dinner.
Higgins Twins, Byron and Viron, Elected Presidents of State College Twin Club
Tarleton Cheer Leaders Return From Baylor U. After Three Days "Perfect Time"
* ARLETON'S 20-year-old cheer-leading- cadets of double identity,
Byron and Viron Higgins of Lampasas, today are the presidents of the
Texas College Twin Association to succeed Irene and Florene Rushing
of Baylor University. The twins, who are seniors this year and about
as well-known on the campus as the dean himself, were chosen state
heads at the Second annual Texas College Twin Association at Waco
and Baylor University over the week-end.
Viron . . , and Byron who does the least talking of the new office
holders . . . returned Saturday night, as astonished as any two boys
could possibly be. ''It's a mystery to us how we were elected," the pair
chimed; "but boy, are we happy about the whole thing!"
Hospitality was at its best on the Baylor campus, led by Pat M. Neff,
president of Baylor University who promised the twins that the conven-1
tion would be held at Waco again next year. "If there is anything you
want that we didn't have this year," the Baylor prexy promised, "we|
will have it next year for you."
Viron and Byron may be sent to St. Louis, Missouri, August 31 to |
the National Twin Convention as Texas representatives. This was their
first year at Baylor.
Arriving Thursday night, the twins proceeded to the dormitories I
which were turned over to the visitors and found Garland Dansby with
whom they spent the night and Tom (Quate) Pritchard, both former
Tarletonites. I
They ate breakfast at the dining hall and registered at 9 o'clock.
While they registered, Dr. D. C. Rife of Ohio State University, who is
conducting research on twins, took Anger prints, blood tests, and asked
many questions-
Friday afternoon all twins present, about .125 sets, put on stunts
such as pantomimes, musicals, songs, games. The Higgins twins didn't
do anything' because they "weren't-prepared."
Besides there being many doctors present and sets of twins from
North Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, and Nex Mexico, there werei
Paramount News Reel men, and reporters and representatives from
Pic Magazine there.
Two other sets of twins from Tarleton were present. Lucille and
Lorraine Granberry and Robert and Maxey Bowers.
The Bowers twins were given a prize for being: the most unidentical
twins.
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ELECTION
ISSUE
VOLUME XIX.
STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1940
NUMBER 24
Unofficial Student Election Date for Chapel Monday
TICKETS ISSUED
FOR MILITARY
BALL: NEEO 400
Deadline Set
April 10;
Ball May 3
Provided 400 tickets are sold by
Wednesday, April 10, the annual
military ball will be held this year
in the dining hall at 8 o'clock, May
3, following- the federal inspection,
Maj, James D. Bender, P.M.S.&T.,
has announced. Tickets have been
distributed to cadet officers, spon-
sors and sub-sponsors.
In the event the quota is not
reached, money will be refunded
the purchasers and the ball will
not go on. Proceeds from the tic-
kets will take care of all expenses
of the ball, including music by the
college orchestra, and refresh-
ments.
The first military ball was held
in 1936, Major Bender's first year
here as professor of military
science and tactics.
It is not necessary for a cadet
to know how to dance in order to
have an excellent time, experiences
have proved in the past. Tickets
are selling for 25c eaeh, and one
ticket will admit one couple (boy
and girl) or one stag cadet.
UNKNOWN MAY
QUEEN CROWNED
PARENTS' DAY
Tarleton on Parade, which will
be presented on Parents' Day by
the Girls' physical education de-
partment, the military depart-
ment, and the music department,
is beginning- to develop into a pro-
gram typical of those which Tar-
leton organizes. It will be entirely
representative of Tarleton. Climax
will be the crowning of the May
Queen.
For some weeks now the girls'
physical education classes have
been rehearsing such dances as the
schottische, the hunsdon house,
and the varsovienne.
Unknown May Queen
A May queen was selected early
in the semester by a secret com-
mittee. Even this committee is ig-
norant of her identity, as is the
queen-to-be herself. The knowl-
edge of the girl who is to receive
the honor will be a secret until she
is crowned by the cadet colonel
during the pageant.
Miss May Jones heads the com-
mittee in charge of the program.
Following is a program they have
arranged:
The Program,
Trumpeters.
Parade of Military Band and
Honorary Corps.
Queen's Processional.
Cadet Colonel.
Queen of May.
Lady attendants and" military
escorts.
Crownbearer.
"Coronation Waltz" by Mili-
tary Band,
(Continued on page 2)
Seniors to Decide Class
Gift in Chapel Thursday
suggestions are for organ, library desks,
fountain, scoreboard in gym
gENIORS will decide it xt Thursday in chapel on the gift their class
ia to leave this school, J. Curtis Brown announced, ive suggestions
have been made and will be voted on at that time.
PSYCHOLOGISTS
TO DALLAS ON
BUSINESS TRIP
Mrs. Effie C. Neatliery's busi-
ness psychology class will be in
Dallas Thursday1 visiting business
houses, such as Neiman-Marcus,
the Dallas News, and the Texas
Power and Light plant.
High points of the trip will be a
style show -which Neiman-Marcus'
models will present5 a dinner .at
the Mural Room in the Adolphua
Hotel, and explanation lectures at
the Power and Light Plant and
the Dallas News.
A. bus has been chartered for
the group. Mrs. Neathery and
Dean J. Thomas Davis will accom-
pany the class.
Some have suggested the upper
classmen construct a fountain at
some beauty spot on the campus
and equip it with changing- color
lights. Others would like to have
the money go for the construction
of a natural stone house for the
night watchmen and the telephone
at the north entrance of the cam-
pus.
Others would like to complete
the set of library desks last year's
class began.
Still others propose a new score-
board for the gymnasium or a
downpayment for a Hammond
rgan.
All senirs are urged t attend
the meeting next Thursday. If
anyone has any other suggestions
for a class gift, they will be invit-
ed to present them to the assem-
bly. They are also asked to bring
25 cents as their apportioned do-
nation.
Former Student of Architecture
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Now Employed at Dallas, Looks
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To His Alma Mater for a Helper
TpOR "the first time in the memory of James E. Gardner, professor ol
architectural engineering, a former Tarleton student has requested
a Tarleton graduate to fill a position.
Mr. Gardner liaa received a telophone call from Stewart Phillips,
class of '37-'38, requesting that he recommend a Tarleton graduate to
fill the position of an assistant architeet_
Mr. Phillips, who is a practicing
College-C. of C.
Sponsor Dinner
Faculty members of John Tarle-
ton College and business men of
Stephenville mingled in good fel-
lowship last Thursday night at
the annual goodwill banquet of
the Stephenville Chamber of Com-
merce and Tarleton College, held
at the Tarleton Dining Hall.
Dean J. Thomas Davis was toast
master for the occasion. The Tar-
leton chorus sang and Jerrye Mc-
Claran, winning orator from Tar-
leton, spoke. J. W. Clements, new
mayor of Stephenville, also spoke.
Dean Davis Speaker
at PTA Meet Here
Dean J. Thomas Davis spoke at
the district meeting of the Par-
ent Teacher's Association last
Wednesday on "Democracy in the
Home and School." His speech
is to be printed in the Associa-
tion's magazine.
Dean Davis has been asked to
preside at the Farm Chemurgic
Conference at North Texas State
Teacher's College in Denton on
April 26 and 27.
Charlie S. Wilkins, registrar,
will speak at the meeting on pea-
nut chemurgy. He is writing his
doctor's dissertation on this sub-
ject.
Support your favorite candidate
on election day.
architecture in Dallas, is, to use his
words, "snowed under with work."
He has developed a profitable busi-
ness in designing residential homes
ranging in value from three to
eight thousand dollars. While a
student at Tarleton he designed
Miss Laura Fellman's home.
Until now Mr. Gardner has been
unsuccessful in his efforts to fill
this position for Phillips. Former
students who would fit the qualifi-
cations already have good posi-
tions.
Among those that hold good po-
sitions are Hugh Gregg and Her-
schel Winslett, '38, now located at
Houston. William Paul Jones, '36,
the designer of Mrs, G. E. Wood-
ward's and Dr. Vance Terrell's
homes, is also located at Houston.
Baldwin Young, '30,' is practicing
in New Orleans.
■ Doyle Miller, '30, is employed by
the Texas Steel Company of Fort
Worth. Robert Reinheimer, '36, is
practicing in Texarkana, Ark.
Miss Mars anna Lanlcford is em-
ployed in a government bureau at
College Station.
Swelled Heads.
In West Virginia it is an old
custom to burn the hats of fathers
when their first boy 13 born.
(Father's head is supposed to en-
large considerably so that the old
hat no longer fits.)
Read J-TAC ads.
THREE TO GO
TO SPEECH MEET
AT TEMPLE SOON
Jack Clemer, Billie Moore, and
Jerrye McClaran will represent
Tarleton and District 5 at the
State Speech Meet to be held at
Temple Junior College on April
12, at which there will be ap-
proximately one hunderd junior
college students from remote sec-
tion of the State in attendance,
Thege students, coached by Miss
Lillie V. LiUard, have won this
year all the district speech con-
tests of the Texas Junior College
Association, in which Tarleton has
participated. Recently these en-
trants carried away first honors
in both boys* debate and girls'
oratory at the Distrrict Meet at
Weatherford Junior College.
Jerrye McClaran of Winters won
first with her original oration,
"Youth's Challenge to America,"
being judged upon the value and
arrangement of her material and
upon her delivery. She gave the
oration at the Goodwill Banquet
held at the college last Thursday
evening.
Tarleton Singers
Featured at Church
The Tarleton Singers presented
three numbers—"Send Forth Thy
Light" by Shuelky, "All in the
April Evening" by Robertson, and
"Holy, Holy" • by Gounod—at the
morning services of the First Bap-
tist church last Sunday. Kathryn
Nutt, junior conservatory student,
was soloist, and R, Berton Coffin,
director of voice, was director.
High School Band
Presents Concert
Tarleton cadets and co-eds may
hear the Stephenville. High School
Band in concert next Sunday af-
ternoon, when it plays from 2
until 3 o'clock at the Stephenville
First Baptist church. The pro-
gram is the annual spring concert
of the Yellow Jacket Band.
G. W. Collum, father of Kath-
leen and Glenn Collum, Tarleton
students, is band director.
Capital Punishment
The wearing of the fez has been
forbidden in Turkey by govern-
ment order. Penalty-—death. The
men in Turkey now wear derbies,
straws, snap-brims.
No After Dinner
Dance Thursday
There will be no after-dinner
dance Thursday night because
of the dinner dance of The Ag-
gie Club, according to an-
iiounciiieiit by the Students*
Council.
After dinner dances are held
regularly each week from sev-
en until eight o'clock on Tues-
day and Thursday evenings.
Admission is 5 cents for couples
and 10 cents for stags. All pro-
ceeds gQ to the Students' Coun-
cil.
Dr. W. H. Andrew
Pastor of First Baptist Church
in Bryan, speaks here Parents'
Day,
SINiRiSrSH
WORK FOR TOUR
ON APRIL 14TH
With the presentation of its
fourth and fifth concerts this af-
ternoon and tomorrow night, the
Tarleton singers will complete pre-
parations for its annual spring
tour April 14.
This afternoon at 3:30 o'clock
the singers will' perform in the
Tarleton auditorium for the Cam-
pus Club and the Junior Twentieth
Century Club.
Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock
the group will sing and the little
symphony orchestra will play at
a free concert to be presented in
the Tarleton auditorium.
Last week the group sang at the
Parent Teachers Association con-
vention, the Goodwill banquet at
the college, and at the Baptist
Church. It also, took part in the
broadcast over WBAP Saturday
morning in collaboration with the
college orchestra.
Soloists with the group are Vir-
ginia Dye, Kathryn Nutt, E. G.
Bailey. They are students of R.
Berton Coffin; head of the voice
department of the college.
A male quartet has been formed
with Bill Marshal], tenor; Sam
Hilburn, baritone; Glen P. Wilson,
sec-jnd tenor; and Rex Nixon, bass.
l eaving Sunday morning on the
tour, the singers will present 11
concerts before returning Wednes-
day night. They will take an active
part in ths senior day activities
for the visiting seniors from sur-
rounding high schools.
Accompanist for the singers is
Mrs. R. Berton Coffin.
W. H. Cole Talks on
Marriage Sunday
Some church-going Tarleton stu-
dents heard, at the First Method-
ist church last Sunday evening,
the Rev. W. H. Cole's discussion of
"Happy Homes and Successful
Marriages," the first in a series of
sermons on that suhject. It will be
continued next Sunday evening-.
Other students heard the Rev.
E. L. Miley, pastor of the First
Christian church, speak on the
topic, "1 Go Fishing."
[CAMPAIGNING IS
SLOW: OFFICE
SEEKERS SPEAK
Robert Koons for
J-Tac Editor Only
Independent Man
Monday morning, April 15, dur-
ing chapel period has been set as
the unofficial date for the student
spring election, at which time the
student body will select their stu-
dent officers for the coming year,
according to Joe Graeey, president
of the Student Council. The date
is to be approved by Dean J.
Thomas Davis.
Excitement was running, but not
too high, last week and there had
been no indications that campaign-
ing would pick up this week.
Two chapel periods were devot-
ed last week to speech making by
the candidates. The remainder of
this week will he taken up with in-
troduction of candidates in chapel.
Only one independent candidate
has filed his name with Graeey.
Robert Koons, Wharton, withdrew
his candidacy for the news editor-
ship of the J-Tac in order to
run against Charles Steen of
Houston and Sara Andrews of
Granbury for editor of the weekly
paper. The vacancy has not been
filled as yet, but the J-Tac staff is
expected to select, someone for the
position to run against Zonell Bur-
nett.
Other candidates for student of-
fices include Hugh Spotts, Dick
Eddleman, Earl McSpadden, and
Charlie Brownfield for president of
the Students' Council, Sarah Ann
Ferguson, Kathleen Collum, and
Merle Calvert for secretary of the
Students' Council.
For the Grassburr staff, Her-
bert Minter and Frances Lou Deen
for editor; Edwin Terry and Char-
les Lockhart for business mana-
ger; Tommy Lou Muterspaugh and
Dorothy Earles for associate edi-
tor; Betty Lieb and Lucille Gran-
berry for senior class editor; Mil-
dred Biedleman and Lorraine
Granberry fov junior class editor;
Mary Ruth Cox and Kathryn Nutt
for club editor; Valerie Belscamp-
er and Mary Lou Turner for fea-
ture editor; F. D. Parmer and
Moxey Bowers for military edi-
tor; and Fred Jennings and Henry
Tillet for sports editor.
For the J-Tac staff, Olive Ruth
Hensarling and Marjorie Vest are
running for associate editor; Phil
Larrimore and Norris White for
business manager; Dave Tipton
and Joe Hayes for sports editor;
Margaret Gibson and Jocille Bur-
roughs for society editor; Fran-
ces Brown and Pasy Raye Brown,
for feature editor; and Tony Nix-
on or Travis Slagel for military-
editor; and Arthur Zieglemeyer
and Wilburn Salmon for circula-
tion manager.
For yell leaders, seven are run-
ning—Jack Key, Grover Gibbs, J.
C. Sikes, Lowell Milburn, Joe Hed-
rick, Jack Clemmer and John Rea-
vis.
For athletic sponsor, Beth Ben-
jamin, Eloise Roberts, and Paul-
ine Craft are in the race.
Support your favorite candidate
on election day.
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