The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 31, Ed. 1, Thursday, May 11, 1939 Page: 1 of 4
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Volume 26
Pickwicker Ready
For Distribution
Tuesday Morning
Spring edition of the Pickwicker
semi-annual lltcrnrv. publication of
the Pickwickian club will bo rend)
for distribution Tuesday
This issue of the magazine will
contain twenty pages of pootr
essays and sketches written by
members of the club There will
bo only two hundred fifty copies
available nt ten cents each Patsy
Cooko Is editor
Guest speakers formed the regu-
lar program for the Pickwickian
club Monday In the parlors of the
girls' hall Tho program was nr
ranged by Volma Haskcw.
ACC Group Attends
Grad Convention
Colin Smith Australian cnrolleo
1n ACC spoke to the seniors of
Cleburne and surrounding tewns in
Cleburne Tuesday night at 8 00
Tho Abilene Christian College
male quartet composed of Robert
Hornbakcr first tenor; Clint
Cook II second tenor Frank Dunn
baritone and James F Black bass
also appeared on tho program
Taul Southern of the college fac-
ulty accompanied the group on1
tho trip
Around This
Wildcat
L
A
Student ballot on page 2 of
this issue clip vote and drop
ballot in box in lobby of ad
building
With Sheriff Shnnkles shooting
dogs all lover tho placo again
where will tho Business Ad club
find enough for its next scavenger
hunt Wonder if a repetition of our
protest against the campus canine
massacre would do any good
si
Writ n verse. Can't find any-
body to pin it on Here it is
Pick your own victim
1 look in all directions but
"No mate for mo I see
I see a lot whom I would have
But none who would have me
ACC Dames club throws party
nt Dean Adamas' house Set re-
refreshments (can of shcibct) on
back porch Get rcyly for refresh
ments I ook Gone Note comes In
ter telling where Is enn with stuff
in It explaining that thicfers
thought the) were hooking lco
cream signed Evangelistic Forum
rind can half empty Party wreck.
cd What do you think they came
for?
1
Lost staff member of Op-
timist last seen as bugs drag
ged him through the office
window with no screens Please
keep. Tho other two villi put
nut the paper next week.
Tugboat tho little stray dog
that stayed around McD Hall In
tho Young room for several days
lias found a new berth nnd a new
name. New owner calls It Jitter.
It doesn't care
4 4 s
Those mobile horseshoe pegs
have moved again but now
the holes and dust storms are
almost as bad as ever again.
LIttIo Johnny Holton senior
play director left his sent to give
some directions Friday night He
left moro of his seat than ho
meant to and went homo with a
(Continued on pngo i )
Nominees
For Final
And now in these last few min-
utes before the race starts folks
lot me remind vou thnt this brand.
cast is being brought to jou by
I'rcxy Lox Incorporated Abilene's
only colltglite hand dnlr Dunk
jour i oil to the end In pun. skim
milk from Prexj's dairy
And now thej Ye comintr to tho
post for this twelfth annual stu-
dent election classic Hero comes
Chcsicy McDonnld nrancim? out
onto tho track' Listen to the crowd
roar as he prances around here on
the edgo of this beautiful irnnn
bowl It's easy to tell who's the
favorite here Chcslov canters n-
round tho edge of the track now
waiting the for other entries to
take tho field
Tlrst Time On Record
Where arc those other horse?
What? Only one entry for the
POPULAR SPEAKER
Colin Smith spoke Tuesday at a
program at Cleburne will speak I
this evening over tho TSN pro
gram at 8 30 and will also ad-
dress the church of Christ Sunday
morning nt San Angelo
Exes Friends Gather
At Big Spring For
Tonight's Program
According to Buna Edwards for-
mer Optimist reporter residing in
Blir Snrincr. nnnroximatclv 60 ex-
students and friends of ACC wll )
gather tonight nt tho home of Alel-
vin Wise ACC ex and minister of
tho Big Spring chuich of Christ ti
listen to tho all college lexas
State Network broadcast and to
hold a barbecue
All exes living in tho near vic-
inity of Big Spring are invited
Those expected to nttend nre Mr
and Mrs Loyd Rlppic Mr and
Mrs II D Williams and Mr and
Mrs Tommio Campbell of Forsnn
Mr nnd Mrs Boono Cramer of
Coahoma Mr and Mrs Woodio
(Continued on Pago 3)
Does It Irk
m JM
'f . - skttsh i
i &mk. mJRSn
Colin Smith
Mispelled In Print? Read This
by bailey 'n ferguson
Do jou havo aches and pains
does it irk you aro you distressed
docs it mako you feol miserable
when your namo appears misspell-
ed in tho paper?
Well if your cognomen appear-
ed in last week's paper In a dilapi-
dated butchered rendered form
console yourself with tho kind
thought that Wyrd the deity of
fato nnd tho law of averages was
Just playing n mean trick on you
But cheer up and rend the of-
ficial report of tho latest Bailey-
Terguson survey.
Only Ten Names Jumbled
Our records show that in the last
issuo of Tho Optimist only ten
names wrro f lngrnntly violated and
mlsnomatcd But vvo'ro going to
get nwny from tho old habit of
"A Glad Heart Makoth a Cheerful Countenance."
ABILENE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ABILENE TEXAS Thursday May 11 1939
At Post
Review
$5000 00 handicap race for student
prexs "ics jes it Is! Chesley
McDonald tho Cedar Uniou Farms
entry wins bj dcfnult' And what
n history making event! That's tho
first Unit on record listeners
where tin office of student piexv
has been nwnrded on default Or
is it?
Now thej re lining up for the
vice prexj preal ncss Here come
Iouio Welch and Grtham Oir
limping to the starting line Thej
are ridden b Cecile Irene Reed
and Ococe McCnsland nominees
for student association secrotnij
Secretary Nominees
Oh oh' There seems to be some
mix up here' Cecil Irene o-rnhho!
at the McCasland tresses nnd came
up with n handful Ocoee rather
resented tho nttack nnd reclprocnt-
(Continucd on Pago 4)
Radio Program Tops Week
Opening Summer
I Term Heralded By
New Bulletins
The oueninir of the summer ses.
sion hns been announced bj the
' sending of 2G 000 bulletins accord
ing to Dr U C Morlnn dircctoi
of the summer school
Registration begins June C nnd
class woik starts tho seventh The
majoritv of class work will be done
i l hour and a half morning class
ob meetings Tuesday through Sat-
urday Mrs Lena B Meeker nnd Betty
Ynter Mercey visiting faculty
members nlong with twenty-nine
of tho regular teachers will com-
pose tho teaching staff
Special attention is being given
to the Group Lessons in piano and
audio visual instruction Tho sec-
ond annual conference in audio-
visual education will meet June 22
and 23 July C nn illustrated trav-
elog on Alaska will be presented
Approximately 125 of tho present
student body arc expected to at-
tend summer school
Havo jou reserved jour annual
If not do it today.
One More Issue
The last issue of 'I he Opti-
mist will be published next
week
In order thnt tho last issue
will be complete us the present
school j ear tho iditor requests
that all clubs chsscs and or-
ganzation officers be turned In
In him before Wcdnosdaj noon
Ma) 17
If possible turn them in soon
cr Thanks
You To See
blaming It on tho llnotyplst
Why? Becnuso after working a
total of 12 hours on this survey
and messing up twenty typewritten
pages and dreaming of names
names Names NAMES for two
nights we havo managed to work
up a very high respect for tho
llnotyplst who sets up the material
for this tho school vehicle
Total of 571 Names
Last week that Individual had
to punch tho littlo squaro kcjs
enough times to spell out a total
of 571 nnmes Tho nvcrngo name
contains 15 letters nnd two spaces
so thnt means ho jiggled tho fin
ger thnt ho uses for punching orf
names 7545 different times not
counting nil tho corrections which
would bring tho totnl over 8 000
Thercforo If your nnmo appeared
'A' Club Orders Silver
Screen As Year's
Major Project
A six by eight foot silver screen
wns ordered this week by the "A"
Club men's honor organization
for the 10mm movie projector pur-
chased by the club last year
This sciccn was chosen ns tho
annual project by the club this
ear in order to comploto tho
equipment for campus movies with
first class material
The club also plans to begin a
film librarj this year composed of
educational pictures travel films
etc
This larger screen which will
make possible better pictures for
showing in the auditorium cost
sev'enty dollars
Reserve vour annual
Reserve vour yearbook
Climaxing All-ACC week tonight
will be the half hout broadcast
from tho stage of Sewell Auditor-
ium over the Texas State Network
from 8 10 until 9pm
Following the rndlo progrnm w 111
come tho traditional political rally
for tho student offices to be filled
tomoriovv in the annual student
elections
All ACC week a trnditionnl per-
iod set nsldo each spring nt the
college for a scnes of special pro-
grams of vniious nature began
Mondaj and will continue through
this week
Purpose of ACC
This morning tho subject of
"ACC and its Purposes' wns dis-
cussed in 1 minute sneoches bv
President James F Cox Paul
Southern Bible instructor and
Wayne Mickey one of tho students
nlso made a short r pecch
Yesterday mornir g in chapel nil
awards for athletics forensics
journalism prizes and honors in
general were presented A com
ACC In Five Game
Baseball Playoff
ACC's red nnd yellow uniformed
hard baseball team is participat-
ing in a five game play off series
with H-SU s first placo Rangers
by virtuo of Its second place stand-
ing in tho Abilene Amnteur league
Tho piny off series w ill go to the
team winning threo out of five
games played nt Withers Tleld
the now Abilene Apaches ball park
beginning jestcrdai Next game of
the series will be plaved tomorrow
(Iridaj) at 2 30 p m
Admission for gimes in the plni-
off series is ten cents for bleachers
and fifteen cents foi grand stand
The ildcnt team ended up tho
regular season with n rccoul of
ten wins and fiye losses to attain
n peicentage of 007
Your Name
in tho paper in a slightlv hnckm v
ed form you came out on the long
end of a bet wheio the odds were
57 1 to 1
Prior Places 10 Times
Who was who around this joint
last week? Well last week Bruce
Prior lntrnmural track man from
Kansas was fortunate enough to
seo his nnmo in print ten times
With one exception his namo was
smeared all over tho sports page
Other students that vvcro men-
tioned again and again were Leon
Henthorn Ocoee McCnsland Aec
Jones Jack Reynolds Leon Reese
Dnrtha Taulkner all with seven
repetitions while the following had
six apiece J L Ferguson Bon
Bnllej Wilson Dowell nnd Bob
(Continued on pngo 4)
Proverbs 15:13.
Seniors Present Annual
"Dying To Live" Friday
Tomorrow evening in Sewell
Auditorium the senior class will
pitsent its nnnual play at 8 p m
The class this ear is present-
ing 'Ding to Livo' a three act
farce b) llbui Ilraun directed
b John IIoKon class president
and well expel ienced actor
Members of the cast composed
of foui men und seven women
have had to lush their rehearsals
betause of undue delay in receiving
of plav books but piomisc that it
will be ready in best of condition
bj tomorrow evening
Rricf Sjnopsls
Now for a biief synopsis of the
plnv
Chick Breen in love with Silvia
Winlock has had an innocent
fiicndship with n girl mmed Fs
telle long before he ever met
Sylvia But in order to please his
plete list of these will be found
elsewhere In this issue of Tho Op
timist
Tuesday's chapel progrnm was
in the foim of a speech on "ACC
nnd Its History bv Paul C Witt
head of tho chemistry department
Tonichts Program
Radio program tonight will con
sist of twelve short numbcis by
the n cappelln chorus girls' sex
tot tho lldcat band President
Cox's greeting to tho ex students
nnd friends Amelia nnskcrville of
tho music fncultv in a violin solo
men's quartet short intciview of
Hclmuth Stromquist the college's
contribution to the 1038 Little All.
America football squad and Colin
Smith Australian stuc'ont of the
college string ensemble nnd two
numbers bv the band and chorus
singing nnd playing together
There were several ex studct
gatherings held over the state Ok-
lahoma and other near by states
during the week in commomon
tlon of ACC
Campus Movies In
Auditorium May 23
Tuesday evening May 21 at 8
in Sewell Auditoilum will bo a
showing of tho enmpus activities
tnken tho past ear with this
v car's new additions
In addition to tho campus movies
there will be a feature picture on
Africa plus n cartoon
Adams Visits Okla.
In Quest Of Student?
Dean alter II Adams left Sun
day on n tour through Wewoka
Ardmoit Oklahoma Citv and
Shawnee Oklahoma
He will visit the churches show-
ing pictures of tho college nnd
speaking in tho interest of gaining
new students
Sunday ho will return aftci de
livcring tho baccaluureato address
at his homo town Springfield
Texas
Hailcy Leaves Monday
For N. Carolina Meeting
Homoi li liky minister of the
Highland chur-h of Chrst will
lenvo Mondny for Gnensboio
North Carolina whero he vlll hold
a siventcen day meeting
Later in Kansas Citv. Kansas
he will preach two weeks Ho will
then go to Oiegon whero ho will
spend two months on a missionary
tour
Annual To Press
Tho Prickly Pear was sent to tho
printer tho first of tho week It
will bo ready for distilbution in
about n week or ten dujs
Don't hesitate do it now re
serve our annual
mother Chick has taken rstelie
out n few times
In the intervening years ho for
gets nil iibout Hstellc moves to
another city nnd directs his af-
fections toward Sylvln Suddenly
just ns Chick was doing all right
rstelie appears on tho scene nnd
writes to Chick begging him to
resume their friendship
Chick Tries In Vain
In vain Chick tries to rebuff
her nnd In desperation he appeals
to Sylvia's brother Samson Win-
lock who promises to meet Fstelle
nnd tell her thnt Chick is interest-
ed in another girl
With a little trouble coming
from Samson's jealous wife and n
former business partner of Sam-
son's Mrs Naomi Estellc who is
looking for him to ask his ndvice
on n new proposition the plav be
FOUR-STATE QUARTET
BW"n8PISlimS0vKslHlHWBBH
On the Texas State Network tour and n trip to Clcburno yes-
program this evening from 8 30 terdny
to u is tho Four-State Quartet)
composed of Robert Hornbaker
Stafford Kansas Cline Cook Cor
dell Oklahoma Frank Dunn Con
way Aiknnsas and James Black
Levellnnd This group has just re
turned from the n cappella chorus
Press Club Selects
Blackwell As Winner
Of SDC Annual Awardi
Last week the Press Club elect-
ed Snmucl E Blackwell editor of I
Tho Optimist ns winner of the
nnnual Press Club Award
This award is presented nnnually
by O II Tnllmnn through Sigma
Delta Chi honorary journalistic
socictv to tho most active and
outstanding membei of the Pi ess
club for the entire enr
Blackwell s election was based
upon his work as editoi of the
paper diiector of the local TIPA
contest nnd general journalistic
work
The award will consist of n gold
medal with proper engraving and
will be presented In the neni fu-
ture Journalism Class
Visits Reporter-News
The ten members of the ACC
journalism class Inst Mondav visit-
ed the plant of the Abilene Reporter-News
The group wns shown through
the editorial composing nnd press
rooms nnd tho "moiguc"
The purposo of tho visit was to
acquaint the students w ith tho pro-
cesses involved in tho publication
of n small town dally newspaper
Dr. J. P. Gibson Attends
Annual Medcal Meet
Dr J P Gibson college phjsl
clan left Monday evening for tho
nnnual meeting of tho Texas Modi
cnl Association In San Antonio
Tho meet bignn Tuesday and
will contlnuo through todnj Dr
Gibson will return tomorrow
Number 31
Play
Eve 8 p. m.
gins to get interesting
Trouble Starts
Hut where the ball really starts
rolling is when Mclvn Jones tho
Winlocks' mnid tells her mistress
thnt n woman named Estcllo has.
culled to see Samson With tho
maid beginning tho works there is
a slip up between some letters of
Chick's from rstelie nnd tho un-
derstanding of Mrs Winlock think-
ing them to be from Mrs Estellc
Rut it all comes out in a very
surprising climnx at the finish of
tho plaj
Melvn Jones who insists on
waxing poetic upon tho most In-
auspicious occasions will roll them
in tho aisles every time she opens
bnr mouth
Complete Cast
Ith Sylvia Winlock as tho he-
(Continued on page 4)
This quartet also sang on two
different radio programs last eve-
ning over R.RBC nnd will bo tho
main feature of the weekly TSN
piogrnm Saturday morning at
9 15
Morris Has Thirteen
Graduation Talks
Don H Moirls college vice pre-
sident spoke jesterday to the sen-
iors for their commencement ex-
ercises nt Ovalo
Besides this appointment Morris
has twelve other high schools to
address as follows
Old Glori Friday May 12;
Robj Sundni May 14 Sunday
evening Haird Mondny May 15.
Paint Creek Colony School Wed-
nesdaj Mas 17 Nolan Thursdny
Ma 18 Javton Fiiday May 19;
Satuiday Mnv 20 Moran Mondny
Ma j 22 Ilojd Tuesday May 23
Purvton Tiiclnj Mnj 2G Avoca;
and Sundui Mn 28 Odessa
Academy Graduates
1 7 Seniors May 27
Seventeen students will bo grad-
uated from the academy this spring
according to the secretarj of the
senior class
Candidates for graduation are:
G W Moore David Taylor La-
venin Sisco Jean Seelve Alice
Morlnn W N Montgomery Mollyo
Mnnly Olin Kirk Ellcne Jennings
Virginia Herring Durwood Gill
Baibara Crown Jim Carr Wilfred
Ciapp Addio Bcllo Carr Gloria
Deanc Brown and Peggy Bovvers.
Bailey Wins Award
For Fourth Time
Ben Baile) was awarded tho
wockly press club award for tho
best storj In last week's paper.
Bailey's story wos a featuro con-
cerning tho misplaced Press club
award pen
Gaston Cogdell was a close run-
ner up with his Knllcdoscopc a
weekly news commentary column.
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The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 31, Ed. 1, Thursday, May 11, 1939, newspaper, May 11, 1939; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth91662/m1/1/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.