The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 20, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 12, 1940 Page: 1 of 4
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THE MEGAPHONE
vol. xxxn
Z-736
Published By The Students’
GEokGETOWN,
iation of Southwestern University
MARCH 12, 1940.
NUMBER 20.
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Clearing House
MELTON ROBINSON
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A Catalogue of Easter Elements
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The japonica has been in bloom
a month now........ “Time now for
spring sales, been waiting two
Jesse Jones to Speak at
Centennial Celebration
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months for them/’ say clothiers.
The blackbirds have arrived and
travel about in nervous droves.
Choirs have rehearsed Easter can-
tatas weeks on - end........Soon the
days will be long, lazy and torrid
........Cleaners pnd pressers are pro-
moting cedar bags for the summer
storage of woolens........The daisy and
the onion flower spring up “bn the
campus amid clover........People say
bright seasonal wisecracks like,
“Spring has sprang,” “One robin
doesn’t make a spring,” and “In
spring a young man’s fancy lightly
turns to thoughts of love,” etc.
Bus companies look forward to
heavy carrying for the holidays.....
Phoebes and waxwings have ar
rived in this territory to make
company for the mocking birds
who. have been here all winter
Time to think about a Bob Gaines
barbecue on the river or some-
where........Radio programs feature
Easter music, specialties, varieties,
etc........Time to fertilize lawns........
Out come the straws, in to moths
and moth balls goes winter doth
ing—.The Easter story is told to
Sunday School classes again, Easter
dramas dusted off and presented..
House wives clean the house thor-
oughly and put the home In sum-
mer order........Time to drain radiator
and crankcase, maybe------- Spring
fever, sleepy sickness wants to fish
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SU Pre Meds
Attend Austin
Convention
Trip Educational
And Enjoyable
From all over Texas came more
than four hundred pre-medical stu-
dents Friday night to hear Dr.
John Spies, dean of the school of
medicine at Galveston, and other
leading doctors of medicine. Dr.
Spies said that no finer and no
more fascinating profession exist-
ed than medicine.
Dr. Homer Price Rainey made a
welcoming address to the guests
at the banquet sponsored by Alpha
Epsilon Delta, honorary pre-medi-
cal fraternity. Another speaker was
Dr. K. HL Aynesworth, a member
of the Board of Regents.
“The studies leading up to the
practice of medicine should be not
only illuminating but also inspira-
tional;” Dr. Spies said. He acfcled
that the interest of a doctor
should ha preventing diseases as
well as making sick people well.
He said the medical school may be
able to contribute to the Latin
American program which the
Greater University
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yellow begin to shine in store win-
dows, stylized Easter rabbits and
eggs, party favors and table dec-
orations all reflect Easter........Soon
the blue bonnets will cover the
hill sides and fill vacant lots.
The pansy and the purple and yel-
low iris seem to reflect the Easter
color scheme........Faculty members
are just as glad as students of a
short vacation from classes........Fre-
quently one crosses areas of fra-
grance from peace or pear blos-
soms........Easter Sunday: the pews
of the church are filled solid, the
crowd is expectant of the old new
Easter story.______The butterflies are
slow in coming........You can even
smell summer coming........
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Metallurgy
Studes Make
Field Trip
Twenty Southwestern visited
the McNeil lime plant Tuesday,
March 12. A caravan of four cars,
the Crosley, doodlebug and a mo- „
torcyde, carried the students of I j
Dr. J. C. Godbey’s metallurgy class
to study die preparation of quick-
lime.
The chemists watched the lime-
stone dumped in at the top go
'round and round*; and come out,
atfer being heated to 1800° F., as
calcium oxide.
The trip also included a visit to
die Texas Quarries, at Cedar Park(
where building stone is cut.
Many of die students brought
back chunks of the lime as souve-
nirs.
in our own state.
The educational clinic of College
of the City of New York has train-
ed 22,000 “problem” children since
its founding in 1913.
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Harvard
law student and son of the Am-
bassador to Great Britain, will be
a delegate to the Democratic na-
tional convention.
NOTICE
Due to the fact that both the'
editor and the associate editor
will be out of town for a ten
day period to attend the Na-
tional Convention of Pi
Delta in Tennessee, the next -is*
sue of the Megaphone will be
published by next years staff,
Derrill Lee Cates and Albert
Williams. There will be '-no
paper until Saturday, March 30
due to the Easter. Holidays. We
take this opportunity to extend
our best wishes for success to the
staff on their forthcoming pub-
lication. ./t.
R.F.C. Chairman
Long S.U. Friend
Got LLD In 1930
250 MURDERED
BY MAD SCIENTIST
IN LAB EXPERIMENT
$50 In Prizes
Offered To
Bible Readers
Fifty dollars will be given as
prizes in the Mitchejl Bible read-
ing contest to be held here In April
The prizes are offered by Mr. and
Mrs. P. S. Stone, of Houston, Texas.
In memory of Mrs. Stone’s father.
Mr. I. W. Mitchell.
Late in April, a preliminary
test, under die direction of
speech department, will be open to
all Southwestern students. The
ranking contestants
mont at which time, their rating
will be decided upon and these
prizes given: first place, $25.00, sec-
ond place, $15.00, and third place
$10A&
In the preliminaries, the contest-
ants will read verses selected by the
judges and perhaps some of their
own choice. The readings will last
six minutes for each person.
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GEORGETOWN, March 14—Jesse
H. Jones, Federal Loan Administra-
tor, will deliver one of the prin-
cipal addresses at the Southwest-
ern University Centennial celebra-
tion on April 13 and 14, it was an-
nounced today by President John
W. Bergin.
Mr. Jones will bring greetings
and salutations from the nation’s
capitol to Southwestern University
on its observance of one hundred
years of higher education in Tex-
as. It was in 1940 that Rutters-
ville College in Washington coun- force while others had been
ty opened its doors as the first Col-
lege in the Republic of Texas, and
this was the pioneer institution in
which Southwestern University had
its beginning.
Southwestern conferral the hon-
orary Doctor of Laws degree on Mr.
Jones at its eighty-fifth commence-
ment exercises in 1925 at which
time Jones delivered the com-
mencement address.
The program on which Mr. Jones
will appear will be one of six ma-
jor events scheduled for the two
day Centennial program. Many
prominent Churchmen, Educators
and Laymen will participate in the
the celebration. Among these will
be Bishops A. Frank Smith, John
M. Moore, Charles C. Selecman and
By T. K. Sanford
Two hundred and fifty individ-
uals were victims of ether fumes,
administered by a scientifically
minded Southwestern student, early
yesterday morning on the second
floor of the Science Building.
Interviewed a few hours after the
crime, the young scientist not only
admitted his guilt but also seemed
inclined to brag of his accomplish-
ment.
“I’ve had a key to the building
for some time,” he boasted, “and
when I decided to do it, I didn’t
have any trouble at all.”
Further explaining his grisly
deed, this modern Bluebeard said
that some of the subjects for his
experiment had been captured by
in-
duced to their doom by offers of
food and drink.
“I had watched their reactions to
confinement for a period of several
days and accurately tabulated the
results,” he continued. “This morn-
ing, I made my final observation
by anaesthetizing them and exam-
ining them with a compound micro-
scope.
Certainly Bill used a microscope.
How else can the minute details of
a fly’s body be examined?
Bill who? Bill Godbey, of course.
Who else would get up at 2:30 a.
m., go to the Science Building and
perform an experiment the sole
purpose of which is to find out
the color of a fly’s eyes, the size
Rodgers Elected
Student Prexy
By Wide Margin
194-134 Final
Count In Runaway
Vote Saturday
Clock On Whose Face Time
Makes But Little Impression Found
Ot XTIS'1 Bainey,'
President of the University of Tex-
as; the three living Past Presidents
of Southwestern, Dr. Charles Mc-
Tlyeire Bishop, Dr. James Samuel
Barcus and Dr. King Vivian; and
many prominent alumni from busi-
ness and professional fields.
Representatives from all Texas
Colleges and Universities, Educa-
tional associations and learned soc-
ieties throughout the country have
been invited to attend the Centen-
nial celebration.
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In one of the largest majorities
ever polled in the histpry of
Southwestern politics, Cy Rodgers
defeated Byron Peebles to become
President of the Student’s Associa-
tion of Southwestern University last
Saturday.
Rodgers Is an outstanding figure
in the athletic activities on the
campus. He is a three year letter-
man on the Southwestern football
team, a participant in varsity track
and a student assistant in the phy-
sical training department of the
University. In addition to his other
athletic accomplishments, Mr. Rod-
gers has brought honor and credit
to the University through his box-
ing ability. He has, since being a
member of the student body of
Southwestern, gone to the state
meet twice in the annual Golden
Glove tournament, reaching the
semi-finals, as a middleweight.
Far from being an athlete and
no more, the new president is
something of a literary light, being
a member of creative writing
class, where his poetry and hu-
morous sketches have attracted fa-
vorable comment. As an outstanding
student on the campus, Rodgers has
been a member of the Snyder Hall
Honor Council, Vice-president of the
-4SnplwiWPflft clasSf-and -.ksbiimst
By T. K. SANFORD
Standing in the registrar’s of- pose
fice, we pointed up at the eastern
wall and spoke to one of the girls
who work there.
“Odd picture on the wall up
there.”
“Where,” she inquired?
“That picture of a clock. Very
realistic.”
“That’s not a picture, silly. That
is a clock.”
“Oh! My mistake. I’ve been
standing here for fifteen minutes,
and the hands haven't moved yet.
Oh, the ignominy of it all!
Who doesn't the school have it
fixed?”
“I don’t suppose they want it
fixed. Why should they?”
“Come to think of it, I don’t
suppose there’s any reason why
they should. After all, they are
doing enough big filings, like the
Contest Play
Departs For
West Texas
The one-act play festival in Abi-
lene, March 15, 10, 17, was the
scene of Southwestern’s play “Hap-
py Journey’
Frank Hall
Honored By
Science Soc.
Mr. Frank Hall, graduate of
Southwestern and former Head
Chemist of the Texaco Oil Com-
pany, was recently elected assoc-
iate member of the Southwestern
science society. Mr. Hall was locat-
ed at New York City but after re-
tiring from business has moved to
Georgetown to make his permanent
home here.
Mr. Hall is now a member of the
board of directors which is super-
vising the research on oil for the
Bureau of Standards, Washington,
D. C. This board is composed of
the head chemists of the large oil
companies.
president of the junior class. He Is
a major in history, and plans to
teach.
Bergquist
Recovers From
Operation
The Rev. C. W. Bergquist, father
of Carl Bergquist and member of
the Board of Trustees, was operat-
ed on Tuesday for gall bladder.
Mr. Bergquist is in King's Daugh-
ters Hospital in Temple. According
to the latest reports Rev. Bergquist
is improving, but is still in a very
weak condition.
Rev. Bergquist is the pastor of the
Swedish Methodist church here at
Georgetown.
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entertained the
initiates with a picnic March «L
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ittaCilr ftlr their co-operation
guess you might say it created
an illusion of unreality. What’s the
mystery? Do the hands just move
when they are so inclined?”
“Are you crazy, or what? The
clock just doesn’t run, you goon!”
“Ah! That throws a little light
on the matter. It’s purpose is purely
ornamental, I suppose; although I
must say I’ve seen ornamentals
which were more decorative.”
“No, its no ornament. The thing
just simply stopped running, and it
hasn’t been fixed. Now you run
along* like a good little lunatic.
I’m busy.”
“What a pity to be neglected so.
Doesn’t anybody ever wind it?”
“No! That isn’t what’s wrong with
it”
“Not a timepiece and not an
ornament May 1 ask, what can be
the nature of its purpose in this
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by Thornton Wilder.
r5£-,' players left Wednesday at
library and the gym to build up the noon for McMurray College where
school’s reputation. But still a received criticism on the
stranger, not acquainted in these play. The cast includes Billie Doris
climes, might think it queer that a Hays as Katy Kirby; Ford Ains-
college can’t afford to keep its worth as Elmer; Katherine Hedge
clocks running. And that’s the only ^ Caroline; Jimmy Hotchkiss as
Arthur; and Jean Johnson in the
this forsaken jumble of coil springs
Journalism Students Observe
Workings of Local Paper
By T. K. SANFORD
of Berlah. Carl Bergquist was
and cogwheels has not undergone gtage manager for the play.
a minor operation of some sort.L The play was presented to the
The expense must be too great. . Southwestern student body last
“Of course, to me, it is of no con- Tuesday night,
sequence. I can gaze at a clock L
which doesn’t run and waste my ^ ^
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times makes but little impression* A- I nn(. OjL
With apologies to Mr. Thomas V/1I LUU^ 1 HIM
Hardy and a prayer that my Eng-
lish teacher is Within earshot) But According to Miss Messick, the
as I say, » stranger might not per* sports club after hiking to Katy
calve the humorous side of the bridge by way of the railroad
situation, especially if he didn’t track and lacking the necessary
happen to ' have a watch.” matches, rubbed two boy scouts
'Well all I’ve got to say is, if together to build a campfire,
that wisecrack is to serve as a Sixteen members of the sports
Unaided by space ships, oxygen
helmets, or flying suits, a group of
would-be journalists, made good
their escape from the cramped
quarters of the Tower Room and
took a trip to the Sun, Tuesday
morning, March 5.
Lest the unsuspecting reader be
mislead, the sun referred to is
not die one which shines or does
not shine each day according to
the vagaries of its inclinations, but
Mr. Cooper, who has been con-
nected with The Sim for each of
its 63 years and whose son is its
present editor, interspersed his ex-
planations with the telling of in-
teresting incidents in Georgetown
history in which he and others con-
nected with the paper were in-
volved.
Georgetown has not always been
the law-abiding, peace-loving com-
munity it is today, he recalled, and
representative for the affair
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fa- drab and dreary world?
know and, what’s
TOnnar
to serve as a
basic for j dgamant, you, also, fai!4
SAfasssssstse
with a butterfly net come over
Irom Austin and pRS:
took a hike Friday afternoon
. . . , .. . , 1 he offered as proof of this fact a
inste.d ‘S that dispenser I type drawer whlch showcd ^ ef.
of light, The Williamson County I fect, ^ ^
Un' slug through its face. Elaborating of
Staff members of The Sun, a this incident, the old gentleman
weekly publication serving George-
town and vicinity, received Miss
Murray and her charges courteously
and graciously consented to having
the routine of the day’s work in-
terrupted.
Katy bridge. After playing varj J. E. Cooper, for fifty yean editor
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on any purpose. Now aonun, willya?” “Very welL State you put it that
’What! A clock without a pui> way,
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games, the members sat
I a campfire and roasted
ale cChnamon
apples. The club hiked home
by way of the road.
a
of The Sun and at present associate
editor, conducted the party through
ielplahtSIKr thoroughly
the process of printing a news-
paper.
said that the bullet hole was made
when an employee of the paper un-
wisely showed himself at a window
during the course of a street fight,
back in the days when men were
men or else. One of the belliger-
ents evidently mistook him for an
enemy, in the worgs. of Mr. Coop-
er, “cracked down on him.” For-
', the mau%nnan*s
not equal his expectations and
bullet missed its mark.
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Stanford, Ed. The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 20, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 12, 1940, newspaper, March 12, 1940; Georgetown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth601326/m1/1/?q=%22jesse+jones%22: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Southwestern University.