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The Campus Chat
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NUMBER 16
NORTH TEXAS STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, DENTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1M0
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Debate Institute Promises Dr. S. S. Smith |Join Acuity
To Pa Successful, Says Ray Lectures Here
Twanty-Thraa High
Schools, 174 Students
Already Enrolled
Twenty-three high schools anil
174 students have already entered
the debate tournament to be held
here Friday and Saturday, January
1U-20, state* Dr. Joe M, Hay di-
rector of the committee in charge
of the debate institute.
, Other members of the committee
are Mr*. Olive Johnson, of the
speech department, and Mullock
Hyder, debate coach for the Col-
lage. Thus far says Kay, the en-
tries are considerably in excess
of those of cither last year or the
year before.
I.unrh in Hall
All of the students are to have
luncheon in Marquis hall on both
Friday and Saturday.
The question to be debated is
Socialized Medicine, Dr. Ray an-
nounced. Principle speakers on tVi«-
program are Dr. llolnian Taylor,
• executive secretary of the State
Medical Association of Texas, who
will speak to the luncheon on Fr-
day in opposition to socialized med-
icine, and Dr. Clarence Ayrcs pro-
fessor of economics at the Univer-
sity of Texas, who will speak to
the Saturday luncheon in favor
of socialized medicine.
Other Speakers
Other speakers are Bullock lly-
der, Ross Compton, Dr. Kay of
the College faculty, anil Dr. Mor-
ton Talley of the T«8.<'.VN. speech
department. The speeches will be
' open to the public, Kay said.
High schools entering teams are:
W. H Adamson (Dallas), Bab
well Junior High, Bonham, Brown-
wood, Burkburnett. Denton, Farm-
ersville, Grand Prairie, Grand Sa-
line, Greenville, Henrietta, High-
land Park (Dallas), Jacksboro,
Masonic Home (Fort Worth), No-
cona, North Dallas Paschal (Fort
Worth) Pickton, t^uanah. Rhome,
Sunset (Dallas), Vickery Hillcrest
(Vickery), Wilmer llutchins (Hut
chins).
, Dr. Ray states that there will be
judges and decisions for the de-
bates, but no elimination. Every
team may debate three times.
CalUye G&UtuAa*
January 12 January 20, 1940
FRUV Y. JANUARY 12
7:00 General Religious Group
HI 06
7:00- Press Club Clubhouse
7:00 Industrial Education Club
Dinner Dance College Club, T.
S. C. W.
8:15- James Melton Auditorium
♦ 8:90 Phrttcff Informal Woman's
Club
SATURDAY, JANUARY Ml
0:00 Trojan Informal — Country
Club
MONDAY, JANUARY 15
f>:00- Amigas—Clubhouse
7:0d Senior Mary Aniens Lodge
7:00 Mill County Cluli II lor,
7:00- Kibitzers' Club II107
7:80- San Marcos Basketball
Game Harriss Gym
TUESDAY JANUARY, 10
7:00 Jr. C. L. C.-—Clubhouse
7:00 Green Jackets, Harriss Gym
, 7 :<Ki Jack County Cluli II106
7.00 Alpha Phi Omega Harriss
Gym
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17
5:00 B. S. U. -Clubhouse
(1:00 Sr. Mnry Anion Mexican
Supper Party Lodge
7:00—English Majors Clubhouse
7:00 Kappa Alpha Lambda—
1.1 n:.
7:00 Episcopal Group 11107
7:30- TSU Basketball Game
Harriss Gym
8:00- Math Club -
8:00 Bevill House Dance Recre-
ation Building
* THURSDAY, JANUARY 18
5:00 LLL ('lass Clubhouse
7.00 P. B. Prof< 'vsnmal Cluli
Harriss Gym
7:00 Historical Society — Club-
house
7:00 Jr. Mary Aniens Library
Auditorium
7:00— Psychology Club H107
7:00 Paris Club North Room
Clubhouse
7:15 Wesley Conclave HlOrt
FRIDAY. JANUARY 10
5:00 General Religious Group
H106
8:00 Marquis-Terrill Formal
•S:00 Mrs. Barton's Party foi the
girls of the Bevill House and
Bell Hall —Lodge
8:15 Informal Entertainment for
Debaters Recreation Building.
4:00 House Presidents' Cabinet
Lodge
SATURDAY, JANUARY 2d
0:00 Beta All-College Recrea
tion Building
T.C. Debaters
To Compete
At Baylor
Waco Tournament
Held This Week;
Nine Teams Go
According to announcement by
Bullock Hyder, Teachers College
debate coach, student speakers of
the College, including the entire
debate squad, will enter six di-
visions of speaking events at the
Baylor University speech tourna-
ment held in Waco, January 12-111.
The Waco tournament under the
direction of Glenr R. Capps, Bay-
lor speech coach, is the outstand-
ing forensic meet of the state, at-
tracting college teams from schools
in Texas and many other states.
Nine teams will participate in
debate, with individual speakers
to enter events in oratory, radio
-peaking, extemporaneous speech,
after-dinner speaking and poetry
reading.
Teachers College students who
will enter the tournament include:
Fay Cooper, debate, extemporane-
ous speech; Helen Powell, debate;
Jack Kobbins, debate, aftej*-dinner
speaking; Gordon Carpenter, de-
bate, extemporaneous speech; Nor-
man Bagwell debate, oratory; Har-
old Ferguson debate, oratory, po-
etry reading; Henry Amlin, de-
bate; P.'eston Conner, debate, ra-
dio, Betty Jane Timblin oratory,
debate; Nelma Williams, debate,
poetry reading; Durward Dyche,
debate, extemporaneous speech;
Duane Faw debate, extemporane-
ous speech; Laverne Stark, poetry
reading, debate; Leah Tate, debate,
extemporaneous speech; Carroll El
lis. debate, poetry reading; Donald
Box, oratory, debate, radio speak-
ing; Mi;ry Lena Blackburn, debate;
i Christine Reeves, debate.
Non-debaters entering the tour-
nament are Frank Bonner, poetry
rending, radio; Edna Earle Wil-
liam . oratory, radio; Betty Ann
F I a d g e r, oratory, after-dinner
speaking, poetry reading.
Hyder and Mrs. Olive M. John-
son will accompany the group to
the tournament.
Gallery Shows
American Indian
Art Works
Thirty-three paintings by Amer-
ican Indians the Pueblos and
Sioux—of ceremonial dancer s,
mythic bird-beings, serpent-beings
and of living fowls and animals
are on display in the little gal-
lery and the hall showcases of the
College library.
Tin- primary artistic instinct of
the American Indian, according to
Kenneth Hunt of the art faculty, is
for decoration and his decorative
sense is thoroughly under the di
rection of an imagination which
is peopled by the visions that his
religion calls forth.
The subjects shown represent
ritual ceremonies in which masked
figures impersonate the powers of
nature or show the symbols of
those beings who in the native
lore vitalize the natural world and
give it force and meaning. The
art on display is predominantly
religious, and associated with the
great foittal ceremonies in which
the ancient religions of these In-
dians find fullest expression. The
Indian religion, according to Hunt,
is intimately a devotion to the
simple world of nature which sur-
rounds the Indian and directs his
daily life.
Hospital Orders
Hay Fever Cure
Dr. Jay Waddoll, College physi-
cian, has announced that a large
amount of histaminasc, new cure
for bay fever and asthma victims,
lias been ordered for use in the
College hospital.
This new remedy, put an the
market last Tuesday for the first
time, is the work of about one and
one half years by a research group
that did not want to put it on the
open market until they were sure
they had effected a cure.
Next Week
Will Show Students
That Modern Songs,
Jokes Not so Modern
Showing that modern vaudeville,
with its songs, jigs, and wisecracks,
isn't so "modern" after all, l)r.
S. Stephenson Smith, Educational
Counsellor of the American Society
of Composers, Authors, and Pub-
lishers, will lecture on "Vaudeville
in Shakespeare's Plays," when he
visits the College campus Wednes-
day, Jan. 17.
Dr. Smith will also lecture to
students and the general public
on "Broadway Tackles Politics,"
a discussion of such popular politi-
cal satires as "Of Thee I Sing," "I'd
Rather B.1 Right," and other recent
Broadway satires on the national
political scene. This discussion will
be presented in the library audi-
torium from 4:30-5:30, the period
regularly scheduled for the weekly
book review.
Open to Students
Both lectures will be open to
students, faculty members, and
the general public, Dr. Floyd Sto-
vall, who is in charge of arrange-
ments for the lecture, has announc-
ed.
In his discussion of Shakes-
peare's art, which is to be presented
in the library auditorium from
10-11 Wednesday morning, Dr.
Smith will show the use the great
dramatist made of songs and
dances in hie comedies, turning to
account the popular art of the
strolling players.
Dr. Smith will hold personal, in-
formal talks with students of the
English, speech, and journalism
classes of the College concerning
the problems of creative writing
from 11-12 and with students of
the music and art departments
from 2:30-3:30. in the library audi-
torium.
\ttcnds Luncheon
At 12:30, Wednesday, Dr. Smith
will attend a luncheon in Marquis
hall with faculty members and
students interested in his work.
Reservations, at 65c per plate, must
be made with Miss Katie Henley
in the office of the president, not.
later than noon. Tuesday, January
18.
Dr. Smith, who has lectured
widely on contemporary literature,
the theatre, and fine arts, is now
on leave from the University of
Oregon, where for 14 years he has
been Professor of English. His
appearance at the College i.s in
conjunction with a three-month
tour sponsored by the American
Society of Composers, Authors,
ami Publishers, in a survey of
regional and campus work now go-
ing on in creative arts, music,
literature, and the theatre, in order
to advise the Society as to pos-
See LECTURER on Page 6
Two of the three new faculty
members coming to the College
at the beginning next semester.
Dr. Louis Schloemer (above) and
Miss Mary Atchesoa are prepar-
ing to assume their teaching duties.
Schloemer will teach in the biol-
ogy department, and Miss Ache-
son will he a home economics in-
structor.
Silvey Lectures
In McKinney
On Friday, Dr. J. K. G. Silvey, of
the College biology department
lectured and exhibited rare motion
pictures in color before the McKin-
ney Rotary Club.
The film shown was the only
photomicrographic film of aquatic
microscopic organisms in natural
color, to be found in this part of
the United States. The films were
previously showrn at the meeting of
the American Association for the
Advancement of Science in Colum-
bus, Ohio, December 26-30, and sev-
eral institutions have asked to copy
them.
Three Added
To Faculty
Of College
Schloemer, Acheton,
And A. G. ?rica
Begin Next Term
Three new staff memliers will
join the College faculty at the be-
ginning of the spring semester to
meet expansion in their respective
departments. President W. J. Mc-
Conneil has announced.
They are Dr. Louis Schloemer,
assistant professor of biology;
Miss Marjorie Acheson, instructor
in home economics, and A. G. Brice,
instructor in English.
William G. Woods, assistant
dean of men, has been granted a
leave of absence to accept a tempo-
rary appointment by the Uni-
versity of Michigan in connection
with a Kellogg Foundation curric-
ulum project. His work will afford
him an opportunity to study to-
ward the doctorate whil" on salary
with the Foundation. Woods left
Saturday for Michigan, where he
will be joined shortly by Mrs.
Woods.
Biology Teacher
Dr. Schloemer. new biology staff
member comes to the Teachers Col-
lege from Urbana 111, where he
has been serving since August
with the Illinois Natural History
Survey. Author of numerous ar-
ticles on game fish and a member
of the limnological section of the
American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science, Dr. Schloe-
mer holds his Ph.D. degree from
the University of Wisconsin and
his B. S. from Beloit College. He
has participated in the research
program of the Trout Lake Bi-
ological Laboratory and taught at
the University of Wisconsin while
doing his graduate work there.
Miss Acheson, who is to take over
the management of the home eco-
nomics department duplex to re-
lease Miss Myr-i Sowell for her
work with the nursery school and
the teaching of an advanced course
in family relationships, was for
two years a graduate assistant
and resident advisor at the home
management house at Purdue Uni-
versity.
Holds Degrees
She holds the B.S. from Iowa
State College and the M. S. from
Purdue. She has had eight years'
experience in Iowa as a teacher of
home economics and vocational
home economics.
Brice. new member of the Eng-
lish faculty, holds the B. A. and
M. A. degrees from Columbia Uni-
versity. where he was awarded the
Alexander Moncrief Proudflt fel-
lowship. At Duke, where he has
studied toward the doctorate the
past two years, hi' held a fellow-
ship and assistant ship. He hns
also served as nn instructor at
the College of the City of New
York.
ifc'1
Melton, Star Tenor, Presents
Concert at College Tonight
Opera Star Sings Here Tonight
Janes Melton, outstanding in
opera, radio, and motion pictures,
will give a concert in the Main
auditorium tonight at 11:15 o'clock.
The performance will be one of the
College's regular fine arts num-
bers for the semester. This ia the
fourth number in a series.
Workshop Play Production
rrwtviwf fiwre uisi nign%
Proctor, Francis,
Harris, Karley
Are Directors
Four winter workshop one-act
plays directed by advanced speech
students were presented Thursday
....... , night at 8 o'clock before nn in-
Entrenchment has r ->un, and . ,. .. ..
vited audience in the main audi-
Campus Elections
Coming Early
In New Semester
As Outstanding in
*\ayiv § v/|ivr a §
James Melton, opera, concert
and radio star tenor, will sin« at
the main auditorium of the Col-
lege at 8:15 p. m. tonight in the
fourth fine arts number Of the
semester.
Already boosted to top-notch fa-
vorite in the concert world and
already successful in opera, radio,
moving pictures, and concert tour,
Melton has not only the voice, but
the personality for winning audi-
ences.
Melton's round of Negro char-
acter and American cowboy songs
is well-known and always popular
with audiences, but he has strayed
from the American scene in the
program outlined for his Teachers
College performance. Included on
the program to be sung here will
be songs of many foreign countries.
Karl Kritr, will accompany Melton
at the piano.
A collection of jalopies that, from
descriptions, rival the many tin
lizzies around the Teachers College
campus in variety and type, is the
pride of James Melton. He keeps
these cars, all in running condi-
tion. at his country home near
Westport, Connecticut.
Program for the concert tonight,
as announced by Dr. S. B. Mc-
Alister, head of the Fine Art®
Committee of the College, follows:
I. Gia ill sole dal Gange, Scar-
latti; Ombra mai fu (O ye be-
loved shade), Handel; and Danza,
danza fanciulla gentile (dance,
dance, gentle maiden), Durante;
II. In the Silence of Night,
Rachmaninoff; Ay Gitanos Eakin;
Clouds, Ernest Charles; Love went
a-Riding. Frank Bridge;
III. Sombrero, Chaminade; La
Reve, from "Manon" (The Dream),
Massenet; and Ouvrc tea yeux
bleus (Open thine eyes so blue),
Massenet.
Intermission. IV. Impromptu No.
See JAMES MELTON on Page 6
the heavy campaign artillery o'
the coming favorite elections will
soon be booming from behind re-
spective fraternity and sorority
lines.
Arthur Evans, Yucca editor, has
Auto Wrecks, Jail Stretch, Cold
Face Yankees on Christmas Tour
H) POLLY ANNA BADGETT
Four wrecks, not to mention mi-
nor accidents, a two-day stop in
the Jasper, Tennessee jail, fazed
six Teachers College students re-
turning by car from their homes
in New York and Philadephia not
at all. They're back in classes now,
after hitch-hiking about 400 miles
after their final calamity in Mem
phis, Tenn
The boys, who made a quick anil
quiet trip north for the t'hristmas
holidays, were Ted Romaine, Little
Falls, N. J.; Joe McCabe, quarter
milcr from Philadelphia; Martin
Perry, the Bronx, New York City;
Hob Wasser, pole vaulter, Phila-
delphia; and Jimmy Nuss, high
hurdler from Philadelphia; Bob
O'Sullivan. half-miler from Phila-
delphia.
Here Thry Come
Perry and Romaine left New
York to go to Philadelphia on
December HO. In that fairly short
trip over icy roads and snow, they
were hit by an 8-ton truck and
knocked in the ditch, lost their
bumper when they skidded into the
hack of a car, and caused a four-
car smash-up when their car swer-
ved across the highway and other
cars behind them had to stop
suddenly to avoid hitting them. One
lady was taken to the hospital, the
<>nly person injured in the crash.
At :i o'clock on the afternoon
of New Year's Eve, the group
left Philadelphia, anil went over icy
and snow-covered roads to Bal-
timore where they stopped at 8 that
evening.
More I'uhH Than Pull
"We thought we'd piny safe and
not drive when so many drunks
would probably be on the roads,"
says Perry, "But funny thing, we
spent the whole time in Baltimore
pushing our car all over town try
ing to get it started so we could
go sightseeing."
The next morning they pushed
the car two miles out the highway,
finally got it started, and didn't
stop for two days, when they were
at Bristol, on the Tennessee-Vir
ginia boundary line. They stayed
in Bristol overnight because their
lights had gone out, and while they
slept, the motor of the car froze.
Fatal Stop
On their way again, after thaw-
ing the motor and arguing over
proper methods, the six boys stop-
ped in Jasper, Tenn. so that Ted
Romaine could visit with relatives
That, they say, is where they made
their big mistake.
After spending hours in Jasper,
the boys pushed off the car and
headed for Texas again. They had
gone only about .'12 miles, to the
top of Mount Eagle, when a "17
V-8 pulled up beside them and a
siren rang in their ears. They
stopped their car, and watched as
itwo men carrying shotguns came
'over and looked menacingly into
the window.
Said one man, "Put your hands
up and get out of that ear."
The boys got out.
The men searched them, searched
the car and asked about any con-
cealed weapons. They asked the
boys if they had been in Jasper,
Tenn., on the night of December
Hi. The Iwiys had. That was the
night they had passed through
Jasper on their uneventful trip
home.
They were taken back to Jasper
and slapped in jail. Perry says
he thought the jail was harmless
enough when he looked at it and
the old frame building with bars
I over the windows. That was before
he went into the one big room that
served as a cell for all the prison-
ers. including petty thieve*, a
man who had murdered his father,
three brothers and a sister; a Ne-
gro who had slaughtered three
children; and a Negro called Fath-
er Divine who was in jail for mur-1
del ing a man and stealing chickens.
Where Did You Hide It
Not until they had fumed and
stormeri around the cell for a half-
day did the l oys tind out why they
were being kept in the jail. On
the night of December ltl a bank
in Jasper bad been robbed and the
boys' license plate hail been re- ,
corded as an out-of-town car in
'See TENNESSEE JAIL on Page ♦
toi ium of the College.
Twice a year the speech depart-
ment presents a program of one- i
act plays. This serves the double
purpose of giving a large number
announced"that fVvonte" nomina- "f "tud""ts participation in ^ra-
tions will take place some time n'a, c ~VVIt,e"' and *l"° lhe
during the third week of the "f directing.
new semester. , Guests Served
Ten women and five men will at,th? P1^ n,«ht
be selected as nominees for the w,,re formal and du[mK
five women's and two men's Col- intermission coffee was served in
lege favorite berths. tht' ,"un^' MHd"lk' Zorn' *™lu"
Nominations will be made at a aU' T m^ov- Pourfd ,
called assembly in the main audi- ^ch ma■,or,, acted a!< hosts and
torium. The student body will as- hos,<'^es-
scmble in the auditorium, and re- First play presented on the ^'re-
sponsible persons will pass out one gram was "Foolish Mother di-
nomination ballot to each person, reeled by Myrtle Proctor. The
the editor stated. cast was made up of Sunny Jack-
Baliots will be filled out. and " M^>' $*"***• Vivienne
they will be taken up as students a# M„r* SaJ^r' Mary F\
leave the auditorium a*M" McGregor, and
vole. I,„ve ben «m,. *
ed a: d nominees are chosen, a
general election will be held some-
where on the campus. Held ap
Noel Francis directed "The Spy
in which Harry Black took the
part of eneral Gretcheff,
Nolia
proximately a w^k later the vot-
ing will be by presentation of ac- *'«' WORKSHOP P\.A\ S. Page fi
College Admitted
tivity ticket, which will be punched
Out of the ten women nominees
five College favorites will be cho-
sen; two men will be elected.
Evans announced that letters
are being sent to faculty membe.M
of the various departments for the
choosing of Who's Who students
for the 11)40 annual. They will be
To Association
Of Music Schools
, .. The North Texas State Teachers
announced^ when all returns have has been admitted to mem
Avesta Contest
To Close Jan. 17;
Fall Issue Out
Edna Earle Williams, editor of
the 1939-40 Avesta, announced this
week that the literary contest spon-
sored by the magazine would close
January 17
All contestants wishing to con-
tribute materiul to be judged in
the present contest must have theii
entries in the Avesta office by that
time, the editor said. Information
concerning the contest and entry
blanks may be obtained from the
Avesta box located in the office of
the Campus Chat. \11 material to
be entered in the contest must he
accompanied by one of these con-
test blanks.
The fall issue of the Avesta was
issued to the students of the Col-
lege last week, and contained ma-
terial that has been entered in the
contest. A short story, "Rooms and
Meals" by Mary Emily Thomp-
Hon. and illustrated by Sam Ing-
ram, is featured in the magazine.
Ingram also uses his pen to set off
the poem, "Wild Geese," by Dovie
Ann Travis. Among other students
who display their literary wares
are Virginia Paty, John S. Smith,
Jay D. Gaulden, Kay Edwards, and
Blaine Rideout.
come in, Evans said.
bership in the Nat'onal Association
Dr. Stafford Plans
New Art Books
Approximately 26 students will of SchooU of Mus,iCi President W.
he named in the Mhos Mho this j jflcConnell has announced.
year, e o rv | pormpti l(l jy24. the association
is composed of some 80 leading
schools of music in the nation, and
its stamp of approval is the strong-
est evidence possible of the merit
of the music department and insti-
tution so recognized. Dr. McCon-
Dr. Cora E. Stafford, director nell said in making the announce-
of the art department of the Col- ment.
lege, will write next summer a The College was formally ap-
series of new art appreciation proved at an annual meeting of the
textbooks to be published by Laid- association held in Kansas City
law Brothers of Chicago. December 27-29 at which Dr. Wil-
Plans for the new series were fred C. Bain, head of the NTSTC
completed in Chicago prior to the music faculty, was in attendance.
Christmas holidays when Dr. Staf- The recognition came following a
ford met with the general man- visit made to the Teachers Col-
agers of Laidlaw Brothers and dis- lege campus just before the holi-
cussed revision of her art appreci- days by Burnet C. Tuthill, •recre-
ation textbooks 1 to VIII. tary of the national association.
Beaumont Paper
Carries Pictures
Of Castor Process
A full page spread of eight pic-
trues carrieo n the Sunday, De-
cember 31, issue of the Beaumont
Enterprise which shows the first
actual processing of castor beans
in Texas at Romayor in nothern
Liberty County, includes pictures
of Dr. W. J. McConnell, president
of the Collage, and Gilbert Wilson,
instructor ia chemurgy here.
The pictures feature the start
of a project which is expected to
grow into the permanent
and chemurgic pi
The plan, originated by
Liberty Castor Plant A
has the backing of the North
State Teachers Collet*, *ad Wil-
son and his students will from
to time assist it Willi
information an
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