The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 13, Ed. 1, Thursday, December 10, 1936 Page: 2 of 4
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THE OPTIMIST
..Thursday December 10 1936
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: EDITOR Marlin Carruth
BUSINESS MGR- W A- Sloan
Member Texas Intercollegiate Press Asso.
Official Student Publication of Abileno
Christian College. Entered as Second Class
Matter June 28 1929 at the Post Office at
Abilene Texas under the Act of August 24
1312.
Associate Elitor -Assistant
Editor
Sedcty Editor
Sport Editor
Jteligioua Editor --
STAFF
WALTER DAUGHER1TY
u. SAM BLACKWELL
.. WANDA MAYFIELD
SONNY COWAN
THOMAS CAMPBELL
News: Kenneth Badgctt Weldon Bennett
Omar Bixler Chanda Brown Naomi Bus-
byv Walter Daugherity Buna Edwards
Noreno Gibson Arden Lawrence Joyce
Link Wanda Mayfield. Aubrey Mercer
Kathryn Molloy Bill Nichols Guy Petti-
grew Hope Reed.
Features: Thomas Campbell Sam Blackwell
Fern Hornback Dorothy Dabbs Bill Dor-
ton Richard Gibson Lona Johnson Iva
Reed 0. H. Tallman Ruth Jris White Er-
nest Womack.
Sports : Sonny Cowan Clois Bristo Ernest
Carter Eleanor Danielsori Horace Stevens.
STREiMLINED SANTA
Yes Santa Cluus has gone modern in
this age of "freedom!' and fast living.
The old-fashioned Santa Claus has
gone according to tobacco and liquor
advertisements in our modern stream
lified 'newspapers.
Children cannot be reared to do as-
Santa does now. or they will be smokers
and drinkers
' Little innocent tots who have never
been told the full history of Santa Claus
take big delight in seeing him on the
street corner and shaking his hand in de-
partment stores but when it comes to
seeing his pictures in magazines with
a cigarette between his middle fingers
and theicaption: "I smoke Light Delight
Cigarettes to quiet my nerves after the
long tiresome journey to your home'
' drink Whistling Willies Whisky aged
for 199 years in Sing Sing to rest and
revive me after getting unhung from
your chimney."
Why in years to come the present
Santa Clauses will be of so much evil
that the parents 'will have to play the
part and then Christmas will be ruined '
for you and me and everybody .v Bill
Dorton.
RESOLVE AND RESULT; .
If there were a time when weare sus
ceptible.to good resolves and the impul-
siveness of acting upon them it should
be now "
The air is tangy crisp. There arises
within us that bubbling gleeful premo-
nition of something in store at times
we nearly burst with surges of it.
Everywhere we look we1 see tingling
faces radiant with smiles ; compliments
fly freely irritations are fleeting.
Voices are .merry tense with excite-
ment; spirits are accelerating to a gor-
geous crecendo.
For in the air prevails that intangi-
ble something that we cram into the
two words "Christmas Spirit."
May it always be so!
TITUS AND. TODAY . . .
. The meeting is over. We have heard
X anew of that "grHcfiArflGo'dlwhich bring
eth salvation."
We. enter into pur everyday duties
with a refreshed purifjed wholesome
feeling that makesjlfe really worth
There's somcthingc about cleaning ev-
erything1 up andtrtflnj? in anew. Be-
sides the nearly a hundred who publicly
dedicated their lives to live "soberly
righteously andj&djyjq .this present
world' Ave are jSurtrjat private re-
solves were nwdeyPjjjnQst the entire
student bodjf( and thpsegw whOshave
seemed untouched hayevJjeard something
of good that has influenced them con-
sciously or unconsciously
Let us all take-j deepbreath and pull
together for ono magnificent common
good sincerely "looking for that blessed
hope and glorious.appsari.rig."
rime nor
reason ......
POEMS ON THE SEASON
I. AUTUMN 18 A OYPSir
EDITORIAL REVIEW FEATURE
IV)
. . . Titus
and TVZ&
PRE-HOLIDAY BREAKFAST HINT
Autumn 1b a gypsy. She In bravo
nnd gay .
Her dress Is russet and her cap la
d. ' . (
Autumn is a gypsy. She is young
always
She runs and laughs and If Us
her arms o'erhead. . '
Autumn is a gypsy caring
naught to know '
That byo and bye Old Winter will
come through
Autumn is a gypsy sho cares
naught for snow.
Now sho has white clouds and'
skies of bluo.
Autumn is a cypsy but sho will
soon bo past.
Her day will go and she will (all
asleep.
Autumn Is a gypsy but at the
North Wind's blast
Sho covers up with blankets
white and deep.
Fern Hornback.
P
-by Thomas Campl
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BY THOMAS CAMPBELL
In the earlier years of the nine
tecnth century certain scholarly
and sincere denominational
preachers ceased to cling to estab-
lished customs and "orthodox"
tradition of their fathers and be.
gan to proclaim freedom from
Jionest but not honorable dogmas.
Their aim was tho model design
ed by God bought by Christ and
Inhabited by the Holy Spirit;
aamely the church of the New
Testament ' " "
" TNT
A greater plea has never
and will never be more unl.
versal in theme nor power-
ful in results. In fifty years
a million soula m the United
States had answered this yea
having tired of speculation
onpther xampi five foot shelves post-holiday pqckeebooks
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higKeV pWceSuV wS' '"'"''"''' .-! . ' holiday' makeups1 wifl ifo Ao Oh ys ftig sreV. tho Buftar As (he stfn goes dawn 1 tho we' !
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J jruardian. protector of the children who boo5tB w b0 tho fatter. and 'the donVodfoVe tbkr aVcH'said. tttdjTho. sky is. covered .v.ith.aoit!' ' 1H. '
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"EARLY to bed and early o rise and
your girl goes' out with'other-guys'
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WHAT we.4earn in college:
Lord Macaulay suffered from gout and
wrote all his poems' Tri 4ambic feet . . .
Raleigh died in James I's reign and start-
edsmpking!i. William IV was given a
lovely funeral. 'it took six men to carry
his beer . . . Magna Charta; provided that
no free man should be hanged twice
for the same offense.
and creeds and having erred
In dogmas and doctrine. It
spread into Europe and par.
tlcularly the English speak-
ing people of tho globe. It
has nja.de 'tfie - Anglo-Saxons
the greatest nations of the
world. 'I It broadens the most
-:SUPg fflf
FOOTBALL coach is a fellow who is
always willing1 to lay down your life for
the school.
slept there. She owed them "something
better than this. Bad language bad im-
pressions; she must save them from
making their budding lives into the full-
blown mess her own was.""
Drusilla Ashley the daughter of well-to-do
parents becomes ma'rried to the
town doctor son of the local livery sta-
ble ownerj; The story is concerned with
her resignation to the. lof in life wnich
fate has rather perversely assigned. As
the years pass she finds true happiness
and contentment in the role of a good
wife and mother. Among its other vir-
tues the book offers an interesting
study of smalltown life.
entertainment
world will be as well off in tho .they?"
long run.
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white clouds
t m MHKjiw Then as tho sun falls slow
v Tho clouds are turned to
yhQCHASH-SAyAQE affair has son and gold
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"Tnought you had a dato with '.fv . i0. . ... . "
Blonde tonight " ijw-jj mo iu WUUiU numur men io pin ana mauve they go
-nr n i. ' . wanting to test Monera's faith-
"Well when I saw her lenvo i'(.i'.9Tiii .....
lufucon. ) .uiiucioiuiiu uv wub i iiKe io mink of my mo
the dorm at 7:25 with that .Ten-
nessee guy I .got sore and called
it off."
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Favor saw that he wasn't miss-
ed so ho came back. Nlco going
North Rollings Ballard Et.
wanting John Stevens to try to day-
get a dato to see whether Monera A day that lasts for long.
as a
would. rcmajn true.
i if.
. Tolcranco should be
in At. I
toward tho-inane way
exercised
Virginia
Cetora Too bad she didn't give Walker and Totsy stalk Into tho
Lemolne a break and get Mc- parlor. everyplte. they don't like
Gregor back in line.
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Then at the last a glory ot
gold
And a pink and-lavendor song.
Pern Hornback. .
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FOUND: the standing of 'tho
PALS a training camp for QATA.
Looks like AKDEN Is finally
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Murads but they certainly attain
no.?.cafolV3fl3..nl9knB them
solves at homo without a date.
Can It be .that they aro letting
their family windings down?
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i STUDENT'S LAMKNX A
music
drama
cinema
I- ))illl l.:'t' )i ill ;) H
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-versatile master
i ". TNT
Tho gospol of Christ is omni-
potent! The greater the lntellec-
tual religious Impulse of a na-
tion the greater is that nation
Tho United States possesses moro
true churches than any nation
And thougn it is torn by graft and
false tLonomlcB yet It remains
the greatest nation. Our Saxon
extraction has descended a great
responsibility upon us; wo aro
tho guardians ot the world's
morality and rollgton .When these
fortresses of God fall then not
only our beloved country is de
fitroyed'but the all civilization!
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s came
Winter has went
Tt. wnR"vrtrtt.rlid'' ".
By accident
The birds has flew
if" i
As you have saw.
Spring hits-come .
To Arkansas.
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TNT
Thus our plea not only con.
veys responsibility ot soul's
being taught the light but
also .encompasses fho lexlgt-
anco of civilization. Preach
ers need to preach I
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SHOE HORN: An instrument that plays m
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footnotes . . t. .
SKELETON: What. is left of a man
when you take "his insides out and his
outsides off.
Man's ultimate destiny depends
not on whether be can learn new
lessons or make new discoveries
and conquests but on his accep-
tance of the lesson taught him
close upon two thousand years
ago. Inscription on a mural in
Radio City New York.
IF you brood. over your troubles you will
have a perfect hatch. .
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A University of Oregon professor of
public" speaking has invented a "sit-
ftp get.jlowh" Jigllt; Svith fewhicfTThe Signals
'5 ! - Speakers to stdp talking." This is
" i'.jliv - Ierable of course' 1 to i the1 sounding
WhenaporBonVealIythlnks.it confif. which w6uldliawakeri the
students.
Tho Romans wort people who
used religion In order
things done. H L.gchugcj;
Isn't long until
Paul C. Witt.
befs praying.
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."The Big Game''
Uriiqup Iri the history of fcbtball pic1
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turesV' Tho Big Game.' appearing t thpi
ramoup Saturday only' uses realpig-i
sKiri' stars; (rather than movie extras.
Utilizing All-American heroes as well as
first-string players of Southern Califor-
nia even Philip Huston and Bruce Cab-
ot the two male leads were football
players in their college days. Iri this pic-
ture too is your' chance to see Bobby
Wilson of SMU ail-American halfback
of 1935. -v.
'VIA TT..41.
Wallace Beery at his best is in the
new Metro-Goldwyn Mayer story "Old
Hutch" which shows today and Friday
at the Paramount. The story will be re-
membered from its original appearance
in the Saturday Evening Post. The au-
thor was Garrett Smith who uses the
highly amusing situation of the laziest
man "in town following his discovery of
$100000 in thousand dollar bills. Ex-
tra attraction: the latest release of
March of Time. ""
"Charge of the Light Brigade"
T The soul-stirring spirit of Lord Ten.
nyson's ''Charge of the Light Brigade"
carries""the truly vast and impressive
film of that name to a terrific climax as
it opens' Sunday ( afternoon through
Monday and Tuesday 'af the Paramount.
In the opinions of reviewers. "The
bf thefV-j.-. .Gharire of the Liriit Brigade" wilT.m-ob-
otheru$rWk W begiHning-f a 'new- era
in scenic production.
Looks like ARDEN is finally And wby(haa Faulkner devcl-
crowdlng out tho opposition that oped 'a sudden fear of cauliflower
nearly obliterated him last year. . cars?
...JOHNNY HOLTON raado a .. '
royal mistake one night or was . ... .
It Just one big mistake?.... and
now it develops that GRIFFIN 1 l' .-..v-. .
tho GOON GIRL has lost her hat C O 1 I e g 1 cl L e
... FRESHMAN lBANKS. s ....
doing rlglt weR.r-Wk; Stan his .." . COg l.t at 1 O.n
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opinion oi xanaees.. .
i ' llcro'n a 'jidviAi'' ti landb. dear
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nnnL.x hrirhnrnWR httlrcul.'HIlnin. r Peaco nftnlhd In'n irnni1nrfi.il
s6n and just any Trojan.
Tr !
Economics '
Makes mo tired
But that's no reason -The
teacher should' bo fired
Eleven o'clock '
Time goes slow.
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But says Cox
"Hoe your row."
Cold weather
Is not so hot.
Do I ltko It?
T do not! " '
-by; Lona JoEnsbn-
bsrztri r.l
thing. It conies ftom'doitlB'you'r
very best in your dally duties.
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How long will It take WILLIAM
McGOWN to find out that tho Someono.h.asjsald It is expecting
grass on the other side ot the Jhe worst belqg prepared for the
llAr nwl tnlrln !..
fenco wasn't as green as he """ "uv !TMII "l -"eB.
thought? (or was it greener If
you get tho idea)
Sf ffr 9fr
Some folks Beem to think Ship
man isn't flying so high Just be-
cause he rates the major's daugn.
ter
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OZRO HIRAM Is doing n swell
job educating tho gJrl from SUN-
-H)l'.W.
It goes bock .ty being an opti.
mist seelqghe doughnut In.
stead of tlipj.bpjo
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As Bro. Slkes might say it's
not in having o do what you llko
to; bii likingid do what you
tiavb to do''
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Don't you agreo with James
WhHnrnmh Tl 11 ov null a Vi mnmi
NY CALIFORNIA to the ways of "" "f fflI 7. I . ' '
the cold Norh. . . .Is J. SHOWAL- "' d "rf 5 ? ' do
TER bothered with floas or was. J" 0 ?. h" Ml'
that neck business In thurch just Je3t'f? yV 9t nnd Pra8
uiaixii
That follo.wathat.' counts jest the
same
an oxcuso tor DAILEY?.... and
in spite of It all folks are find
l .. tl.l CVTJ1T.VM 1WTIITP. lu
just another little country girl who ?MKff!a "IT "T"
;.v. . nn Is mixed. wUh troubles or less
And its the man who does tho best
That j;et8(mpro klcfca than all the
Then thero's big-hearted Tyler rest!"
who wants to give every girl a So even if your roommate gets
thinks she's come to town.
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TeachbY drones5'1' ''' '
'Aboutmoney and Trent';0""
1' think my mind v '. '
Must bo bent. ' '
Sleopy and hungry.
Up late last night
Need some sleep
To sot mo Jlght.
Boy of boy
Thero goes the bell.
Can you Imagine anything.
Half so swell?
Got a History class
Just four cuts.
Anothor aubpect
That drlvos mo nuts.
Go to cafe
To gab and eat.
Wish someono would sit
in my chapel seat.
Go to chapel
And sit and sigh
Wish that dinner time
Would soon draw nigh.
At last
We're out.
It I had the energy
I guess I'd shout.
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Tho term 'Lary Christian' is
Will hold side reading done and go homo paradoxical. Don -Morris.
for fi?ewHdays with a peace of .
mind th'a( comes from a job well
done" 't j v- t-Work for a bigger reason than
pref.
chance to ride In his car and hear roadat you .jniit.wado in and get
his philosophy of life. Wonder those note books up and that out
how much longer bis list
out?
H-
What's that old phrase Mobo
about "Work Like a Trojan?"
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"We'll be back in a minute"
said the Bursar as he ushered -his
Galveston shadow out of. the of- If I were William 8hakeBpearoYiflJ?l..
the scoro 6fl9tne" Texas-ArlcanaaV I'd'ho' d long ago: and he'd bdThera'a no fuu like work. W.
fJL ' fofthe fact: that yo
pdVStiATION to uo checked' at tht
-i j VJ 5 weok. Don-Morris.
William 8hake8pearefi?... i
you ' are going
the end ot the
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The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 13, Ed. 1, Thursday, December 10, 1936, newspaper, December 10, 1936; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101333/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.