The H-SU Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 15, Ed. 1, Saturday, January 13, 1940 Page: 1 of 4
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HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ABILENE TEXAS JANUARY 13 1940
No. 15
INCOMPLETE '40 GRID CARD SHOWS EIGHT TILTS BOOKED
1 5 New Members Installed
Into Alpha Chi Thursday
M If;" fate
Editing a paper without ruf-
fling someone's feelings is like
winking at a girl in the dark a
lot of exercise hut no results.
Thnt little bit of jornalistlc phi-
losophy is credited to the Junior Col-
lcgiun. . . . This scribe can say from
dear experience thnt when someone
does happen to get his feelings ruffled
through the medium of a college news-
paper results are plentiful. It is then
the editor better hang out his No One
at Home sign and hie himself away
in some nice tranquil secluded spot
for n week or so.
'Twas not so long ago upon n sunny
Monday morning we came whistling
down the hall bound for the editor's
snnctuary in the best of spirits.
Swinging through the open door we
nbruptly came face to face with n
huge burly gentleman slumped in the
editor's broken-backed chair with an
unpleasant scowl on his face and a
crumpled two-day-old issue of the
Brand in his clenched fist. '
One rapla glance at the big
fellow told us that something was
wrong that last issue of the
Brand had ruffled someone's feel-
ings and gosh this was a
mighty hugh guy to contend with
ruffled feelings.
Before we had time to throw up
a mental defensive bulwark the bulky
frame launched toward us and in a
lusty growl came the familiar words
"Who writes that screwy gossip col-
umn?" Trying to ease the situation wo re-
sponded "Oh different ones. . . .
Here have this comfortable chair"
glancing around for the chair with
four legs the same length.
"Different ones eh? Well some-
one's responsible for what goes in
that gossip column and I want to
M know whol" growled our irate visi-
tor seemingly larger with each pass-
ing second.
So just to satisfy his curiosity wc
told him that wc guessed in the final
analysis that being editor we were
responsible for what appeared in the
columns of the paper.
Jerking open the crumpled Brand
and running a chubby finger beneath
several lines of type he exploded
"Well what the h was meant by
this crack about me last week?"
Scanning the lines with a thought-
ful and pondering look on our face wo
ardently tried to analyze the remark
that had so ruffled this kind fellow.
. . . But try though we might wo
couldn't figure out anything libelous
or even any grounds for his being
offended.
So after a long session of soothing
explanation pointing out that thcro
was no harm meant or done the big
fellow strolled out the door gazing at
the gossip column and mumbling to
himself. . . .
People's feelings just do get ruf-
fled somctimesl
Poorest exhibition of sports-
a manship this corner has wit-
nesBcd in a long time occurred
in chapel Thursday when a stu-
dent speaker attempted to bring
a short address to the student
body. Loud sarcastic uncalled-
for guffaws from several stu-
dents throughout tho audience re-
vealed somo pretty poor sports.
Those who take unfair advantage
of a speaker are the last ones who
would have nervo enough to face an
audience from u platform. Possibly
it is a streak of yellowness cropping
out
We always wondered how majestic
organ tones would sound floating
through the chapel building and now
It looks like we'll find out when Dr.
Asper gives his recital on a new
grand Hammond organ January 26
Our conjecturo is that it will trans
form the place.
Student Prexy Brand
Editor Among Entrants
Election of 1G honor students at
Hardin-Simmons university to mem-
bership in tho Julius Olsen chapter
of Alpha Chi national scholarship
fraternity wns announced Thursday.
Four arc seniors and eleven are
juniors and ten coeds and fivo men
students wero named to tho scholar-
ship society from tho ranking 10 per
cent of tho H-SU junior and senior
classes said Wayne Evans Hereford
senior nnd chapter president.
Seniors elected arc Jack Dean stu-
dent president El Paso; Mary Anna
Campbell Abilene; Edith Lewis
Baird and Rupert Richardson Jr.
Juniors named are Graco Elizabeth
Compere Abilene granddaughter of
Dr. J. D. Sandefer H-SU's veteran
president; Wanda Fox Young Abi-
lene; Omer Hyde Friona; Herschel
Chlttum Wichita Falls; Margaret
Hlgglns Seymour; Robert Murdoch
editor of tho H-SU Brand Dallas;
Bitsic Lynn Bollinger; Elna Burns
Abilene; Helen K. Painter Nocona;
Myra Samford Peacock and Virginia
Carlcy Borgcr.
Murdoch is the second Brand editor
to become a member of Alpha Chi
since its organization in 1025. Bur-
ton Shelton editor 1937-38 was vice-
president of the society.
Present members of the honor so-
ciety completing the senior quota in-
clude President Evans Lcm Paul
Henslee Anson; David Hull New-
castle; Pauline Judd Abilene; Mar-
garet Rowell Abilene; Margaret Wil-
liams Abilene; Mary Louise Johnson
Dr. 0. O. Watts Is chapter counselor
during tho Illness of Dean Julius Ol-
sen senior member of the H-SU fac-
ulty organizer of the chapter and
for whom it is named. Thursday
night a candle light installation ser-
vice was held at the home of Dr. and
Mrs. Watts.
New officers elected to positions
left vacant from last year included
Bitsic Lynn secretary; Jack Dean
treasurer and Bob Murdoch reporter.
Dave Hull was named program com-
mittee chairman and Tid Compere
head of the social committee.
Two new faculty sponsors named by
the group were W. A. Stephenson and
Loycc Adams.
o
Littleton Takes
Missionary Post
Rev. J. Henry Littleton former
student of Hardin-Simmons univer-
sity nnd former pastor of the Ham
lin Baptist Church resigned recently
to take over duties as district mis-
sionary of District 17.
Rev. Littleton a graduate of the
class of '23 with his wife wero the
first married couple ever to bo grad-
uated from tho same class in H-SU.
He has held the post as pastor in the
Hamlin church since 1925.
SURVEY REVEALS
College Students Consume
Plenty Candy Soft Drinks
Abilene is legally a "dry" city. But
that evidently doesn't stop the 800
Joe Colleges and Betty Coeds from
drinking cokes.
Do you drop in the bookstore after
your daily chapel to sweeten your
disposition or get a soft drink to keep
you awake through your next class?
If you do then perhaps you will en-
joy reading tho results of a recent
survey of bottled drinks nnd candy
bars sold in the bookstore ALONE
Apply a little of Prof Bumam's
mathematical teachings to the sta-
tistics the results were rather start-
ling. In the average month we con-
sume approximately 2000 bottles of
soda pop and bottled drinks. Were it
possiblo to stack each bottlo end to
end vertically they would reach 425
feet higher than the Empire State
building in New York City. Should
we lay them end to end horizontally
down Hickory street they would reach
from the bookstore to tho far side
of Hendrlck Memorial Hospital.
If we took all the candy bars sold
To Play Here
V I I H P IB hHS- M K fni
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Artist Course Organist
Has Wide Reputation
It is altogether probable that Dr.
Frank W. Asper who will be heard
in a recital in the H-SU auditorium
on Friday night January 20 has been
heard by more persons in his beautiful
renditions on the organ than any other
livng musician. This is due to two
things: first the immense popularity
of this famous poet-organist; and
second the exceptional opportunity
the artist has had to reach vast aud-
iences both in the auditorium nnd
thiough national radio networks.
In the Suit Lake Tabernacle alone
he has played upwards of 2600
"tourist recitals" on the famous or-
gan. Thcso are courtesy recitals
given under the auspices of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints daily nt noon. Tho average
audiencfe usually representative of
"Class Voice" 112
To Be Continued
The "Class Voice" class 112 has
proven such n successful and 'enthu-
siastic class during the fall semester
accomplishing such unusuar work
that Mrs. Deaton has arranged to con-
tinue it into the spring semester as
"Class Voice" 122.
A new "Class Voice" class 112 will
be organized for the spring semester
for all students desiring to avail
themselves of the opportunity of spe-
cial voice training.
in a month and laid them end to end
they would reach from Smith hull
to George Kouvclius' Candyland on
Pino Street. Or should wo take tho
candy bars and soda pop bottles and
lay them end to end they would
nearly surround tho .Hardin-Simmons
campus.
Sales of sweets have increased of
lato. Two theories have been ad-
vanced for this Increase. One that
tho government has taken a hand In
the trado and require the products to
contain more vitamins and dextrose
than in tho past. Tho other reason
advanced by imaginative minds is
that most of our eight hundred stu-
dents are in love and the association
of ideas causes them to cravo some-
thing sweet in tho daytime too (Per
haps tho bookstore would do a gbod
business in box chocolates too if tho
price wasn't too high). To wish-
think .a little if ono could uso tho
pop bottles and candy bars as bricks
it wouldn't tako so very long to build
u sweet little love nest just big enough
for two if wo had tho contractors
January 26
many states and nations sometimes
reaches the amazing total of 4000
and the aggregate number of persons
thrilled and entertained was in 1939
over 200000. This staggering figure
is a tribute to Dr. Aspcr's fine artis-
try no less than to the famed organ
itself.
Besides this unique contact with tho
public Dr. Asper has played at least
800 Tabernacle organ concerts over a
national radio network and the Co-
lumbia Broadcasting System esti-
mates that the average audience- is
upwards of ten million ench week.
Letters of appreciation indicate that
ho has entertained radio listeners in
every state in the Union in all parts
of Canada the British Isles Hawaii
Japan and many other foreign coun-
tries. .
BoniieauxCrawford
Only New Members
To Alpha Psi Omega
The Zeta Theta enst of Alpha Psl
Omega national honorary dramatic
fraternity at Hardin-Simmons univer
sity held formal initiation ceremony
Friday night for two newly elected
members Karl Bonneaux Trent jun-
ior nnd Judy Dozier Crawford Anson
senior.
Informal initiation was held Mon-
day night with a party at the homo
of Mary Anna Campbell. Other so-
cial event of tho week was a waffle
supper at the home of Katharine
Boyd H-SU speech -department head.
Membership in Alpha Psi Omega Is
limited and its members nre selected
for meritorious performances from
the ranks of the H-SU Players club.
Officers are Koma Beryl Mahler
Claude president; David Hull New-
castle vice-president; Ruth Ann Hall
Loraino secrotnry-trcWsurer; nnd
Kntharino Freeman Moran reporter.
Textiles Subject
In Science Meet
Tho Science club met Monday morn-
ing with John McCullough addressing
the group with a review of tho most
recently developed synthetic mate-
rials. Tho review took in improve-
ments on the oldest of this typo of
fibers rayon and included such ma-
terials as lanital and glass wool
In tho business meeting that pro-
ceeded tho program additional plans
wero made for the initiation of tho
new members nnd tho date was set
for Monday nfght.
Tho Home Economics club will be
in charge of the next program.
12 Seniors Prepare To Bid
Campus Adieu at Mid-term
Twelve seniors nt Hnrdin-Simmons
university to receive diplomas at the
annual June commencement will com-
plete degree requirements at mid-
year with close of the current fall
semester Mrs. J. A. Beard H-SU
registrar said Tuesday.
Tho full semester examinations will
be concluded January 27 with regis-
tration for the spring semester on
Monday January 29.
Seven of the 12 seniors winding up
currlculnr requirements nro Abileno
residents. Seven will bo graduated
with the bachelor of arts degrees
four with bachelor of science degrees
and Evelyn Edmonds Hcarne coed
will receive her degree as bachelor of
music with n major in piano.
31 -Act Plays Scheduled
By Speech Class Thursday
Cowgirl Band To
Play Roby Rotan
Concerts Friday
Haidin-Simmcms university's Cow-
girl band will piny its inaugural nway-from-homo
concert of tho season at
Hawley Monday afternoon with the
Hawley high school choral club nnd
rhythm band as co-sponsors for its
program In cooperation with the
Hawley parent teachers association.
Virginia Sheridan Houston harpist
was featured in solo selections on tho
band's program. Herbert M. Preston
its conductor directed the H-SU mu-
sical organization.
Next week final ono before the
closo of tho current semester the
Cowgirl band will play two concerts
at Roby nt 2 o'clock Friday afternoon
January 19 and nt Rotan at 8 o'clock
that night.
The high school senior classes both
at Roby and Rotan are sponsoring
the concerts in those cities said
Harry II. Hayes the band's manager.
H-SU Co-op House
Elects New Council
Students of H-SU Co-op House re-
cently voted to elect u council to be
called the Hardin-Srmmons Coopera-
tive House Council for the purpose
of helping girls settle problems aris-
ing. Mrs. A. II. Harrill is council
chairman.
A constitutional committee was ap-
pointed by Lola Mccks council chair-
man. Members elected to tho coun-
cil are: Margaret Jnrratt Ruth John-
son nnd Claudine McCall. Ruth Anne
Hall Mary Frances Hall council
chairman aided in its organization.
SURVEY OF STAFF
Shows Brand Executives'
Dads Are Not Ministers
If you think tho Hardin-Simmons
campus is literally "cluttered up"
with ministerial students as Hardin-
Simmons is noted for the number of
ministers it graduates each year wo
invite you to take a look at the Abi-
lene Reporter-News to find a minis-
terial tie-in.
No reporters and editors of tho city
paper are not preuchers themselves
but the publisher ana six other mem-
bers of the staff are sons of minis-
tors an unusual fact in the news-
paper world. Especially in a daily
newspaper that has no special relig-
ious interest to propagandize of to
"grind nn axe" for.
It) an edition of "Editor and Pub-
lisher" monthly newspaper trado
magazine wo find this Item: "Tho
following recently appeared on the
bulletin board in tho newsroom of tho
Abilene West Texas Reporter-News.
'Tho publisher business manager edi
tor manager day .city editor and
night police reporter of this news-
paper are sons of ministers If
To receive bachelor'of nrts degree:
Glenn It. Coffey Anson major in
journnlism; Maurice Glenn Cole Abi-
lene history major; Claude Blanton
Booch Abilene business administra-
tion; James Edgar Harris Abilene
history; Anita Pauline Judd Abilene
English; James Walton Moore Jr.
Abilene government; Tom Dick Wi-
man Jr. Roscoe education.
Bachelor of science seniors and
their major field: Mrs. Grady Daniel
Anson elementnry education; Faytino
Howell Dowdy Clyde secondary edu-
cation; Raphael Pauline Hay Abilene
elementary education; Mrs. John W.
Pence Abilene home economics.
To Take Place At 8:15
In H-SU Auditorium
Variety spices the program of thrco
one-act plays to be presented Thurs-
day evening beginning at 8:15 in the
H-SU auditorium.
They are "Enter the Hero" "This
Is Villa" and "The Man Who Died at
12 o'clock."
Thcso three one-act plays for Jan-
uary 18 will be the final contribution
to the 1939-40 activities of tho play
production class which is assistant to
Miss Boyd in these productions.
"Enter tho Hero" a comedy by
Theresa Elburn consists of the fol-
lowing cast; Dorothy Kcllcy as Anno
Carey; Judy Crawford as Ruth Carey
tho younger sister; Larry Cunning-
ham as Harold Lawson; and Ruby
Nell Moseley as Mrs. Carey.
"This is Villa" by Josephine Nillge
is as its namo suggests a continua-
tion of the story of that famous Mex-
ican character Pancho Villa. Special
make-up and coiffures for this ploy
were worked out by members of the
play production class. Characters in-
clude Karl Bonneaux as Villa; Leon
Barnes as Ficrro; Dalo Puckett tho
professor; Ted Hull Lopez; Dewcco
McGahey plays tho fiery Rosita;
Jewetto Patton Carmen; and Larry
Cunningham Antonio.
"The Man Who Died at 12 o'Clock"
by Paul Green is a fast moving farco
on the Negro describing his supersti-
tious nature. Bettyc Suo Pitts plays
Sally; Ted Hull plays January Evans;
and Frank Cleveland plays Charlie
"the man who is to dio at midnight."
Special make-up was also used in this
play under tho direction of the play
production class.
These three plays all directed by
Miss Boyd are to be presented at 8:15
o'clock and the admission is 25 cents.
there's any cussing to bo done around
tinrn tVini. will An U"
Wondering how this would com-
paro with tho executive members of
tho Brand staff wo questioned tho
exes to find out just what "pop" did.
From the survey it looks as if no one
will bo on hand to do the cussing if
needed for not one of their dads wero
ministers.
Here's what our survey of tho
Brand staff revealed: Editor Robert
Murdoch's father is a building con-
tractor nnd business manager Fran-
ces Sears' father is a rancher and cap-
italist. If you have any letters to mail
just give them to Wacil McNalr; his
dad's a mail carrier. Louise Beaver
associate editor and "screwy scoopcr"
gets her printers Ink rightly for back
in Dallas father in in the commercial
printing business. Up in Indiana
you will find Al Breaks' dad raising
pure bred Angus cnttlo and Hamp-
shire hogs. In Abilene being field
secretary for tho American Red Cross
in West Texas keep father of ex-
(Continued on page 4;
One Home Game
Signed; 3 Open
Dates Left Yet
San Francisco Dons
To Meet Cowboys On
Wichita Falls Grid
By WACIL McNAIR
Athletic Manager Gib Sandefer re-
leased an incomplete 1940 grid sched-
ule for the Cowboys Tuesday nnd nlso
announced thnt open dates would be
filled Inter in the year. Eight games
are already definitely booked nnd
most of these nro reappearances of
1939 foes.
Tho three major ititcrscctionnl
games nre again lined up with the
first coming of tho Centcnnry Gen-
tlemen in Shreveport September 21.
The San Francisco Dons will meet
the Ranchers for tho first time on
Texas soil in Wichita Falls Novem-
ber 1G. The Cowhands have gone to
the coast city to meet them for the
past two seasons.
Only one trip to California is list-
ed which is with the Loyola Lions to
bcplaycd in Los Angeles November
8.
Daniel Baker who opened the sea-
son in '38 will again be featured in
the curtnin raiser on the Cowboys'
home ground. Also another trip to
Odessa will be made this time with
the College of Mines as the opponent.
Canyon will be tho site of the an-
nual tilt with the West Texas Buffa-
loes and the Howard Payne game will
be played in Brownwood.
Four open dates remain to be filled
nnd nt least one good home game will
probably be booked. Negotiations
are now being made for bringing
Catholic university here to highlight
the homo season. Tho Catholics play-
ed a scoreless tie with Arizona State
of Tempo in the Sun Bowl January 1.
The Ranchers gave Tempe their lone
intercollegiate defeat of 1939 and
the Bulldogs automatically went to
the Sun Bowl wnen they won the
Border Conference. This game be-
tween the Cowboys and the Bulldogs
was played in Odessa next fall's sito
for the College of Mines game.
The plans for a gamo hero with the
Baylor Bears of the Southwest con-
ference on October 1G fell through
when the Bears filled thnt date with
Villanovn. Sandefer hnd hoped to use
this as another top flight home game.
If tho dickering with Catholic falls
through ono of tho better interscc-
tlonal matches will probnbly be trans-
ferred here.
The incomplete schedule:
Sept. 14 Daniel Baker nt Abilene.
Sept. 21 Centenary nt Shreveport.
Oct. 5 Texas College of Mines nt
Odessa.
Nov. 2 West Texas State at Can-
yon. Nov. 8 Loyola nt Los Angeles.
Nov. 10 San Francisco nt Wich-
ita Falls.
Nov. 22 Arizona State at Tempo.
Nov. 28 Howard Puyne nt Brown-wood.
2 Debate Teams
Attend Waco Meet
Thursday two of Prof. W. A. Ste-
phenson's debate teams loft for Bay-
lor University attending a two-day
debate session ending today. Ono
team consisting of Jimmlo Moore
and Wallaco Hcitman is in tho sen-
ior college men's division while the
other team Jeanne Hay and Bill Tip-
pen is in the mixed division.
National Pi Kappa Delta question
is: Resolved that tho U. S. should
pursue a policy of strict Isolation
(military and economic) towards all
belligerents in cither civil or inter-
national conflict outside the Western
hemisphere.
Tho H-SU teams plan to go to tho
University of Oklahoma in February
for n debating contest and to tho PI
Kappa Delta convention in Knoxville
Tennessee Inter in the semester. A
group from Redland University of
Redland California is expected to
meet local teams hero somo tlmo in
March.
RICHARDSON SPEAKS ON
SOUTHWESTERN HISTORY
Dr. R. N. Richardson made tho sec-
ond address in n scries on Southwest-
ern history to tho A. A. U. W. Inst
Thursday evening. Tho first of tho
speeches was given January 4 nnd
tho third will bo delivered January
18. Tho association met at the Hil-
ton hotel.
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