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EDITORIALS
The Campus Chat
Friday, March I, 1957
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Caton s Capers
Student Sees Hot, Penniless Days
J. MILAM
b, JI >1 < \ 'l ON
W ith only thrwr months or mi until summer
vacation*, moiit of u* p<-a*anu will have to
hump it over th«- hot month* to be able to re-
turn next fall.
Not only do we have to think about thing*
a* ftimpie a* buying groeerMM anrl closet*.full
of inprcuive clothe*, but we munt ulao con
mder the tuition rai*e now before the *tate
leifutlature. M.'riie** IS NT *ave* u« by mak-
ing an oryaniMrtl raid on Austin.)
I will never forget my ft/at venture into
the money making world.
I wan juat flntahing the spring semester of
my first freshman year when mama stated
flatly that she > cutting off my allowance,
which had risen to an extravagant H7 cents a
week, thanks to inflation.
I had listeneo m ight eyed to a representa-
tive from a southern publishing company that
was "offering college students nri unusual op-
portunity to make scads of money over the
holidays."
J signed a 'ontract, which gave me .0015 per
cent of all sales ( hoped to make at least $;>0
during the summer if all went well,
Ho, borrowing from grandma at a nomi-
nal '>5 per cent interest, 1 started thumbing
it for rny assigned territory in the hills of
West Virginia.
I picked out a burg in the middle of my
territory when 1 arrived and found a nice
barn on the outskirts of town to set up head-
qu*r'-«-rH. I made a bed of hay and ate a de-
ixi"!,- upper of ch«Me and crackers. I was
ready to make money.
Hr./ht arid early the next morning 1 got
ip, washed my face iri the watering trough,
and picked a well traveled mule trail, which
I ascended, sample-case in hand
K>'fore I had gone far, a horse-drawn wagon
came up behind me, driven by two of the local
ntueii- They picked me up.
"Where you-all agoin't" the driver drawled.
"Ah is agoin' to the county line," I drawled
back, not wishing to appear foreign.
"W'hut fo' is you agoin' theah?" his com-
panion drawled.
"Ah has some books ah is aaellin'," 1 drawled
back. Determined that I wouldn't be out-
■l raw led.
When we reached the county line I got out
and thanked my friends kindly, surveying my
territory.
I climbed a nearby hill and saw smoke
rising from a cabin chimney in the next val-
ley. I descended, prepared to combat the stiff-
est sales resistance.
I spied an old iady and about twelve chil-
dren arid mentally prepared my sales talk.
Then two mongrels came from under the house
and I prepared a defense.
The old lady called the dogs off, and I came
down out of the tree and began my sales talk.
".Ma'am," I began, after le.Sng through one
of the books, "won't you agree that this is one
of the best literary bargains you ever laid
eyes on?"
"Yep."
"And won't you agree that it would lie a
simple matter to make a small down payment
and pay the balance when we deliver the book
at tne end of the summer?"
"Yep."
"Good. Then you just make out a check for
a down payment and we will deliver the book
in only a few weeks."
"Nope. Ah cain't read."
Rejected, my confidence torn to shreds, I
sold my sample case for 50 cents and caught
a west-bound freight for home.
The Treadmill . .
Poll-Taking Attempt Stymies Writer;
Reaction to Chimes Still Unknown
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Dedicates Life to Ministry . . .
Young Preacher Heads Local Church
While Continuing Studies at College
by till.I.) AI.I.KN
Many North Texan* work part tune and go
to achool, but few could carry a full load and
run a church at the same time.
But (Jarmon Haruiield, sophomore from
Garland, finds time to serve as pastor of the
Mozingo Baptist church in east lien ton arid
also carry 17 hours.
No one but a minister knows ail the differ-
ent and difficult situations that develop in a
church. Hut ilartstield feels that his work is
very rewarding.
"We had 17 professions of faith during the
last two Sundays," he replied, when asked
about the progress of the church recently.
The young preacher began his ministry in
a mission about four miles northeast of (>ar-
land in the summer of JW5." . lie attended Ar-
lington State college during the fall of that
year and continued to preach at the mission.
ilartstield enrolled at North Texas hi the
spring of l&£>ti, coming to Denton to lead a
group that asked for support from his home
church, the Miller Koad Baptist church of
Garland. Me delivered sermons each Sunday
and on Wednesday nights in the chapel of a
local funeral home.
"I wasn't sure that I should stay in Den-
ton after my first semester here," he recalls.
lairing this lime of indecision llartsfleld
and the pastor of the Miller road church were
touring the city one day and drove into the
new Mozingo addition. They suddenly realized
that they had found a great opportunity. Af
ter some consideration they contacted D. B.
Do You Remember . . . ?
Collegians Hear
Yusuke Tsurumi,
Japanese Orator
23 Years Ago
Feb. 27, 1932 ... A convocation of all stu-
dents and faculty members will be called Mon-
day at 11 a.m. to heur Yusuke Tsurumi, Jap-
anese politician, orator, and publicist, speak
on "Japan at the Crossroads," Dr. W. J Mc
Connell, dean of the college, has announced.
. , . The annual class track meet is to lie held
today at the athletic field beginning at 2:15
p.m. Entrie- continue to be made in the var-
ious events, and prospect* are good for a lively
race for honors, with advance dope favoring
the freshman team.
19 Year* Ago
March 3, 1938 . . . Margaret Speaks, well-
known American soprano, will lie presented in
concert next Thursday on the fine arts series
at 8:15 p.m in the college auditorium. . . .
Marking the beginning of the spring series of
all-college dances, the I'horeffs will sponsor
the dance Saturday night from 9-12 in Har-
ries gymnasium. . . . The Junior Mary Ar-
dens will entertain with a formal exchange
dance at the Mary Arden lodge tonight
from 8-11.
10 Years Ago
Feb. ZH, 1947 . . . Boasting a dozen or
more original songs, the 1917 Varsity show,
"Mood Fantasy," started its two-night run
laat night in the main auditorium before an
audience of 1200. This is the first student-
produced show since 1942. . . . Following con-
cert appearances throughout Texas, the North
Texas State college harp ensemble, directed
by Miaa Lillian Phillips of the School of Mu-
sk, will preaent a home concert Wednesday at
8:16 p.m. in the college main auditorium. . . .
Xsrth Ttx&s State's "B" squad eager: chalked
up win number three against Southwest con-
ference opposition by trouncing the Wogs from
TCU 54-47 in Harrias gym last Friday night.
. . . Approximately twenty North Texas State
Fugles will begin the 1047 track season by
traveling to Laredo for the Border Olympics
Friday and Saturday of next week.
Boyd, a local contractor, and he let them have
two lots in the addition.
"The lots cost us only one dollar, which we
pent to get the deed recorded," Ilartstield ex-
plains. ^
lie enrolled for the summer term at North
Texas and started preaching in a tent on the
new location in August. By October he and his
members had built a church which now has a
membership of more than sixty.
Along with his regular duties of preaching
and visiting, llartsfleld has a program on
KI>NT each Saturday from H:30 to 9 a.in
"I am a preacher at ail times and sometimes
a carpenter, a painter, and a janitor at my
church," says the young minister.
lie has riot decided whether he will remain
in Denton after graduation. But he believes
there is a chance for expansion in his work
and iri the future. As far as he can foresee,
he will continue to serve as pastor of the Mo-
zingo church, at least until he finishes school.
Ilartsfidd, like most young preachers, plans
to attend a seminary, He does not know at
present which one he would like to go to.
Regardless of any situation which may
arise, he is definitely convinced that his life's
work i in the religious field.
"My life is dedicated to the ministry,"
llartsfleld says.
b> BOB I.I.N 1)1.FY
was out on rny first assignment. It was
big real big. I had to take a poll, get the
opinion of the typical college kid on a matter
of great import namely, to find out just how
many student* set their watches by the tower
chimes. I began my search in the local drug
store.
She was in the third booth from the end.
She was beautiful. She had everything a man
could ask for big muscles, a moustache, and
hairy knuckles. 1 slid in across from her.
"Good afternoon," I said, "I'm taking a poll
for the . . ."
"Get lost, masher," she breathed. She'd been
eating an onion sandwich I fought back the
tears.
"I.ook, miss," I protested, "I'm just trying
to . , She reached acoss and grabbed my
shirt front in one of her hairy paws.
"Scram, Buster, before 1 tons you out on
your neck. A decent girl can't even eat a meal
in peace without some sharpie trying to make
a pass at her. Now, bug out, Buddy."
I staggered out of the liooth and headed for
the front door. Then I spotted a kid at the
magazine rack. He looked harmless, so I ap-
proached him.
"Hi," I set forth.
"Why, hello there," he cooed. He was look-
ing at the pictures in a Strength and Health
magazine.
"I'm with the college paper, and I'm taking
a poll."
"What a darling idea," he twitted. "I'll bet
that's exciting work." He blinked his eyes.
"Huh? . . . Oh, yeah. Well, what I'm trying
to find out is . .
"Oh, dear, you will excuse me, but I've just
got to fly. I have an appointment at the hair-
dresser's. Do forgive me. Toodle-oo." He snaked
his way through the crowd and out the door.
What the heck, I thought as I headed towa- i
the UB, it takes all kinds, and anyway, those
muscle magazines have to have some sub-
scribers. The bunging of the chimes brought
me out of my reverie and reminded me of the
job I had to do. I hustled over to the UB and
got there just as classes let out. The regulars
were camped in their habitual spots of van-
tage, while the late-comers jostled each other
for the lesser positions. It was all male.
There were three girls ducked down behind
a parked car on the opposite side of the street
from the UB. I approached them.
"Howdy," I said, squatting down beside
them. "I'm taking a poll for the . . ."
"Beat it," one of them said without looking
up.
I overheard
I shrugged, started to walk off
part of the conversation.
"Now remember," one was saying, "walk by
very slowly, kind of like Marilyn Monroe does."
"But I can't," the youngest one protested,
"I just can't."
News in Review
Mollet Visits to Renew Friendship
For once, a representative of a foreign
country has visited in Washington who wants
something besides money.
M. Guy Mollet of France, his country bowed
down under the threat of a grave financial
crisis, saw Ike, not about finance, but friend-
ship.
M. Mollet, who readily admits that France
is faced with a record high budget and record-
high inflation, feels that first things must
come first. Although he would undoubtedly
like to arrange new loans with the United
States, the Frencn premier first wants to re-
build the former good will between the two
countries, dampened somewhat by the Suez
crisis, and to bolster the sagging prominence
of France in world affairs.
So instead of talk about money matters,
which grows more and more tiring to the
American ear, Mollet and Ike met to thrash
out strictly global political problems.
• * •
A govern merit agency in Philadelphia
had the answer for ati advertising
agency in distress.
The agency called the translation
service of the Federal Trade bureau
and asked for a little help. The com-
pany wanted a Latin inscription for a
trophy cup it was to award to tin- win-
ner of its golf outing.
When completed, it read in Latin:
"Kheu, pueri, sic pila salit." <>r, in
good old Knglish, "Well, hoys, that's
the way the hall bounces."
• • ♦
The Red Star, Soviet organ of the defense
ministry, quoted a Russian military official
as -dying that the Soviet Union has long-
range missiles and the means to deliver th< in
to any place in the world.
Maishal K S. Muskalenko, head of the
Moscow military district, stated that if the
U.S. ever begins an atomic or hydrogen war,
it could be struck bnek at with the same type
of bombs, "and possibly even more powerful
ones."
The article was a part of the general cele-
bration of Russian power on the 39th anni-
versary of the Red army.
School children will
horror, but the word's
shudder with
out that school
may be larger in more ways than one.
Along with recommendations for
newer and better school equipment, a
speaker at the 41st annual convention
of the National Association of Second-
ary School Principals said that the
school day and maybe the school year
should be longer.
"The length of the total school day
and possibly the year will need to be
(Bootkqq&aa Ohqunipi fijuah
Jo TYLaksi Jqxoa (Bona-ohy
Word is now out in Texas that the
big-time bootlegging interests in the
state are organizing for an all-out push
to vote Texas bone-dry. At least this
is the meaning we gather from a recent
statement by Coke K. Stevenson Jr.,
head of the Texas Liquor Control board.
Late last year the illegal lit]uor lords
in Dallas and a few well-meaning, but
uninformed members of the clergy
combined efforts to chase beer out of
the Oak Cliff section of "Big I)."
Recent efforts by a group of Oak
< liff merchants for a new "off prem-
ises" beer election have apparently
failed, as their petition, signed by
thousands of registered voters, has
been tablet! by the Dallas commission-
ers' court.
If past experience can be used as
any sort of a guide to public reaction,
no thinking adult in Texas or the
United States should be foolish enough
to endorse the return of the prohibition
fiasco.
Nationwide prohibition, forced down
the throat of the nation by the noto-
rious Eighteenth amendment, was the
brainchild of the Anti-Saloon league
and a small group of Al Capone-type
"You've got to," the third one asserted, "it's
the only way you'll ever get one."
Then I was out of earshot. I pushed my way
through the gang of spectators and went into
the Howdy room. I spied a lone girl and made
for her.
"Hi," I said.
"Y'ou got a car?" she asked.
"No, I'm taking . . ."
"You in a fraternity?"
"No. Y'ou see, I'm with the . . ."
"I don't talk to strange men. Goodbye." And
she was gone.
The janitor came by, making chugging
sounds with his mouth as he pushed his broom.
I ran after him.
"I'm with the college paper and I'm taking
a . . ."
"Chug chug chug chug."
(Dari&ion by fljuiain
Jo tRsduai (DofymA&A
Winy (jJmlwi TltfJO
Decisions by Great Britain to go
ahead with her plans to make major
reductions in its overseas defenses
may lead to a weakening of U.S. de-
fenses in Europe.
With acquisition of the latest Amer-
ican guided missiles, Britain plans to
reshape its defenses by cutbacks on
ships, aircraft, and troops in military
garrisons around the globe.
Foremost of these cutbacks will oc-
cur in Germany, where the proposed
cut is from 80,01)0 to 50,000 men.
Should other NATO countries follow
Britain's lead, it would put such a dent
in the NATO armor that it could no
longer serve as an effective shield
against an attack on Europe.
Counting on German troops to bring
NATO up to strength, the British will
rely on increased fire power and guided
nuclear missiles as their main line of
and last speaker ol the Hungarian Parliament defense. I his idea could backfire, how-
ever, if the German socialists win this
year's elections and succeed in taking
Germany out of NATO altogether.
And where do these changes leave
the United States? If more European
nations attempt to reduce their forces,
the U.S. will also be forced to make
some changes.
Either American troops will be in-
creased to offset these reductions, or
else the U.S. itself will pull out most
of its men. The Pentagon reportedly
feels that it can't leave a Continental
army so undermanned it could be easily
overrun.
Any great reduction by this coun-
lengthened to accommodate the pro-
gram held desirable by the school com-
munity for its boys and girls," he said.
♦ • *
A former speaker of the Hungarian Parlia-
ment says that the Hungarian underr >und
is preparing for an uprising next month,
"more deadly than the last."
Monsignor Bela Varga, the leader of the
anti-Communist Hungarian National council
before the Communists came after World
War 11, made his remark in a talk before the
Women's Press club of New Y'ork City.
He said that the anti-Communists use the
password "MUK," which means "We move
again in March."
* • •
Cigarette smokers burned more weed
last year than in 1955, the Internal
Revenue service reports. Consumption
was up 2 per cent more than during
the year before.
The service said that tax-paid ship-
ments totaled 391.6 billion in 1956.
Production-wise, the factories turned
gentlemen, who saw the possibility of a out 424.2 billion fags compared to 412.3 try may well result in a whole new
quick buck in the offmg. billion in 55 concept of our (iefen„e pr ram; Ljke
The prohibition legislation was voted < 'gar smoking also went up 2 per Britain, the U.S. will have to relv on
"* ' ' ' cent> ljut P*Pe tobacco sold 10 per cent u stricter nuclear defense.
Iess- —Bob Heaberlin
Stock Wlnhksd Sju^siaa (Djwp;
'(?aaah' (Rapsuii QmpJvoJbjaLh
The Campus Chat
into effect while a large percentage
of the American males were fighting
World War I in Europe.
Thus began the most tragic era in
the pages of American history. It was a
heyday for bathtub gin and home brew
and the backyard still.
But more than that, it was a snarl-
ing, wide-open holiday for gangland
warfare, highjacking, murder, tommy
guns, and the speakeasy.
It roared on for some fifteen glor-
ious, bloody years, until FDR's New
Deal came along in 1933 and swept it
away.
All in all. American people probably
Nineteen fifty-seven is going to be a
year that will see some business slumps,
but the depression scare is now be-
lieved baseless. Business analysts now
say that the fear of another 1929
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drank more during the prohibition- "bust," brought up by Herbert Hoover
ridden "roaring '20s" than in any other and George Humphrey, is totally un-
10-year stretch before or since.
Crime of every variety reached
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all-time high
By gaining control of the half-dozen
or so large cities in Texas, the boot-
leggers would be well on their way to
starting 'he whole mess all over again.
The cuople in Oak Cliff went to
sleep. They stayed away from the polls
and, as a result, the "wood alcohol and
caramel color boys" are now in the
driver's seat.
We imagine the do-gooders are
happy. They have chased sin out of
th ir par! of town. But the bootleggers ment, seem to be solutions, but not in
are happy too. a 1929 manner. The coming year will
The voters need to wake up. And m°re likely resemble the 1958-54 per-
the do-gooders need to wise up. You '°d-
just can't infringe on personal rights The big answer to economic worries
without being prepared to pay the appears to be government spending. If
check. general business slows, this vast source
And sometimes the check runs high, of spending will rise, not decline. Dur-
—Bill Sloan ing the 1929 fail, the government ac-
justified.
After the recent big stock market
break the top question in the nation's
mind was whether or not the govern-
ment's tight money policy had stag-
gered the business boom and laid the
basis for a bust.
Production and business expansion
may slow during the year. Businesses
are finding that higher costs cannot be
offset with higher prices without af-
fecting sales volumes. A mild turndown
in production, and possibly employ-
counted for less than 10 per cent of
the total spending, but in 1956 it spent
25 per cent of the total.
Not only federal, but state and local
government spending is increasing
yearly. The various governments'
planned outlays should be able to fill
two-thirds of a possible $12 billion gap
in private business expenditures.
I his $12 billion gap is expected in
two broad categories, plant invest-
ments and increased inventories.
In spite of efforts by monetary au-
thorities during the 1929 |>eriod. the
money supply wasn't controllable.
Under the present set-up. however, the
Federal Reserve board has proved its
ability to get money to the people in
a short time.
This board is now reasoning that de-
flation is more of a danger than infla-
tion, and credit will be made easier and
cheaper during 1957.
Thus, if 1957 sees a turndown, it will
be a mild one, and depression can lie
ruled out. With government spending
filling any voids left by big business,
and credit prospects looking brighter,
a re|Kiat of 1929 is believed out of the
Picture. —Billy Cooke
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