Howard Payne Yellow Jacket (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 27, Ed. 1, Saturday, April 30, 1938 Page: 2 of 6
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YELLOYJACKET
Entered at the Post Office at Brownwood Texas
as second-class mail matter.
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Charter Members Texas Intercollegiate Press Association
Published by and for Howard Payne College Senior Baptist College
at Brownwood Texas as a part of the student activity.
THE STAFF
ROY FOX Editor
JOE BELL Sports Editor
MARY EVELYN JONES Society Editor
R. L. PATILLO Religious Editor
RONALD VIBBERT Feature Editor
BOB SIMS ROGER EATON MARY STEAKLEY ED
LOVELL Columnists
ALVIE STRASNER Jr Circulation Manager
A. C. WHITE Business Manager
J. C. Elam Roberta Howard Joe Fielder Thomas Levisay Bessie
Rae Coats Evangeline Velez Thomas Cole Lillian Shaw
Minor Beulah Duncan and Anita Joy Lindsay Reporters
SUNSHINE ON SLAUGHTER
Have any of you Jackets been in an automobile accident? Do
you know that an accident can happen to you in precisely the same
manner it happens to others. Tom Dick Harry or your best
friend? Or did you ever think of it in that light. Maybe it
couldn't and yet maybe some time you will wake up in the hospital
and still say "I never thought this could happen to me."
The 22-year-old driver is one of the world's worst auto men-
aces only slightly better than the 16-year old. For that reason
and the fact that most of us are approaching that age let's be
careful. It is us who must practice against this campaign which
haunts our pride and vanity.
Texas' beauty and misery from accidents are strange part-
ners. . . it is a land of beautiful sunshine and love its rolling
landscapes breath-taking sunsets thrilling sunrises that denotes
beauty and happiness. It is also a land of speeding autos driven
by brainless youths and negligent adults resulting in screaming
ambulance carrying white-faced pain-twisted people who moan
quietly and endlessly imploring God to whom they usually give
such little heed to remove them from the tearing and grinding
torture of broken bones.
Texas is also therefore a land of pain and misery. Remem-
ber that you and not Dick may be the next to know the sickening
impact of hurling steel. DRIVE SAFELY. . . .
WHY NOT USE "OUR" INFLENCE?
Howard Payne College indeed has extremely talented individ-
uals under the direction of some of the most outstanding educa-
tors and leaders of the southland. This fact we do not challenge
but here is one that we as students of Howard Payne College do
question: "Why are these individuals and groups not seen or
heard more often by our student body the actual sponsors of this
talent?"
By this we are referring to some of the groups in this insti-
tution who are heard by everyone in this section but rarely or
never heard by us in a student gathering. For instance but not
including all groups we would like to hear or to hear more of are
the Yellow Jacket Band so-called by this writer in preference to
Howard Payne College Band the Howard Payne College orchestra
Howard Payne Players debaters choral organizations etc.
During the football season fans of this section were thrilled
and inspired by its playing. We have a right to believe that it is
one of the best in the Texas Conference. Yet when football sea-
son is gone what happens to the Band? The Howard Payne Col-
lege orchestra which plays that type of music we all love so un-
animously has it ever been heard by an amalgamated group of
Howard Payne students? When it comes to comedy or drama
there is a group called the Howard Payne Players that can give
it to you a la de luxe But this year it has only presented one pro-
duction. The rest of its year is spent planning parties. And now
these debaters we all love a good argument or we wouldn't be
human. They debate in high style everywhere but before the col-
lege students. This is an insult to our pride. Let's do something
about it.
Choral organizations probably have been heard more by How-
ard Payne students this year than any of the aforementioned
groups yet they have only been presented before the student body
a few times. Let's do something about it.
Our proposal is this : When football season is over and times
are slack let's have some of these groups foster evening enter-
tainment for us. Long winter evenings spent in parlor dates at
the dump are boresome. Why not at frequent intervals have the
orchestra give a program the band play a concert the piano
department present a recital the debaters give us a public
speaking forum and the dramaticist sponsor a play or so. Even
in early spring when the "'love bug" has taken hold of the roman-
ticists and when there is nothing to do but take the gal friend to
the show and we don't have enough money to do that it would
not be amiss to have something of our own going on.
What we do need and need badly is something good in the
way of all-around all-year entertainment all of our own. Finan-
cially we could help these groups to buy music or equipment.
For a price more nominal than the cost of two ducats to the local
movie house (and the movies here are getting plenty of Howard
Payne money) we could really have some enjoyable entertainment
all of our own.
Can't we students of Howard Payne who are supposed to be
giving our all for the institution do something about it? It's too
late to start this year but let's get at it early next year so when
things begin to get slack we won't have to say that there is noth-
ing to do at Howard Payne College.
While proposing worthwhile projects to begin next year it
wouldn't be such a bad idea to start a campaign to keep the
museum open at least one day a week during the coming school
year. It would be more profitable
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to put a boy or two to work at
this than some of the work that
is that not 5 per cent of Howard
the interesting displays our fine
YOUTH VS. WAR OR
WE WHO ARE ABOUT TO LIVE. . . .
The World War was a war to end wars a war to make the
world safe for democracy.
Today only 20 years since the end of such a war the world is
again toppling on the brink of another such catastrophe. Japan
has not relinquished her invasion against China. The civil war
in Spain that picturesque and historic little nation continues to
ruin all chance of peaceful and happy lives for its citizens. Ger-
many and Italy led by two of the worlds most dangerous dictators
keep the world in fear. What is to be done about it?
W students in Howard Payne College would be the first to
be called should the need arise. We youth in the prime of life
with everything ahead of us who are to be the future rulers of
this nation would be the first to pay with our lives for something
that is uncalled for just to please a minority of munition makers
and greedy rulers.
We are not afraid to fight ; we are not afraid and would not
delay one moment to protect our peace-loving nation against in-
vasion yet we do abhor the idea of wasting away our lives and
future for nations who are continuously at war with some one.
Being a peace-loving nation we should force some type of
legislation to be passed whereby our Congress could not declare
war without a national plebiscite to determine whether citizens
of the country believe the need for entering war urgent and need-
ful. Youth is against war ; let us who are about to live do some-
thing about it.
Sophs Letter To Pa
Dear Pappy:
"Now is the time for all good Sophs
to come to the aid of their class" Is
what Soph Prexy T. Levisay and Vice-
Prexy Alvln Stanford McBrlde have
been a hollering around this institu-
tion of higher laming for the last
couple of months. Pappy they adopt-
ed that slogan on accounts of the jun-
ior class whose top kick is George
Fred Allen. Whoopee Edwards did
not want to entertain the high school
seniors who are supposed to be here
today to see what this Deer Ole Col-
llt'ch is like.
Pappy they are gonna have a may
Pole you don't know what that Is
so's I'tell you you know that pole
that you use to tie ole Becky too when
you started to steal the luclous milk
from her and tied the rope out too
long and had to run her around the
darn pole till you had the rope all
wound up well Pappy thats what this
May Pole business is like. Oh Yeah
they are gonna have some folk dances
but not the kind you usta to go to
down at Deacon Moore's barn down in
Possum Hollar. You know Pappy
they are gonna have a Queen too
they 'lecfed her by this penny vote
business you know some guy bring
a cigar box and stick It out afore yew
and say "Drap in a sheckel" well
some of these guys who had to ac-
count for a few pennies for some of
these beauties around here said there
wus more Scotchman around Hard
Pain Collitch than Scotland could pro-
duce in a coupla generations I don't
know how long that Is.
Pappy you know this guy Charles
Russel Boud I've been telling you
about for the last eight months in my
weekly epistles. Well Pappy you know
the darndest thing happened the other
day he went and tole a bunch of us
fellows that he was a good cook and
began explaining how was the best
way to make a cake but that did not
interest me half as much as his re-
ceipt for baking that good ole Vir-
ginia ham I am gonna tell It to you
cause I know that you can use It
about hog exterminating time next
year. He said to get a good big and
deep baking pan and place the said
ham in the middle of it then add one
quart of Scotch and one quart of Rye
to start with then put it In the oven
and simmer for two hours take out
and add one quart of dry gin then put
back in oven and simmer for a coupla
a more hours take out again and add
a half gallon of wine put it back
in the oven and bake for an hour
longer then take out and place In
the container on the cook table take
out the ham and throw out the back
door to the pigs then sit up all night
with the Gravy. Now Pappy I don't
know what he meant by that last but
being as how you are older you will
probably no Just the exact thing to
do. Pappy I kinda figger his little
wifie Dorothy gave it to him cause
he is from Okla. and she balls from
up Virginia way.
Say yew ought to see tnese actors
in the junior class's play "Hot
Water." We got some play actors
that would make Garbo and Barry-
more look like the Pumpkin Center
Footllght Players.
Say Pappy I shore do wish I could
get on that Lasso staff. Them guys
shore dress up. Jest as soon as the
Lasso went to press this J. Weldon
Skinner guy he's the big shot on
the staff he steps out in a new suit.
Pappy I didn't know I had so many
friends. Boy a whole lot of guys I
didn't even know started shaking
hands with me and giving me the
awulfust cigars. Oh Yeah they are
having elections next week and there's
lot's of baby kissing. Whats the limit
of a baby's age anyhow?
Yore rhematlc sun
Ezra Q. Stufflnsougb.
'Rock oil" was the name for
petroleum until the Latin words
petra maning rock and oleum mean-
ing oil were substituted.
they are doing and a fair estimate
Payne College students have seen
museum has to offer.
Stockyard Shavings
ADVICE OF AN OLD TIMER
Piof. "Anonymous"
Greetings and salutations and Hi
Tootses (paidon me) also dee. Since
I am an author of such great renown
I feel free to express myself freely
and term myself as an old timer.
And now to get Into my subject as
the surgeon said to the nurse I have
flung woo from Cape Cod to Kala-
mazoo and I mean I've spread it on
thick. I have pitched woo with red-
heads brunettes and blondes and after
careful study of each case I find the
'hit don't moke no great deel differ-
ence no how cause it all winds up in
the same fin.'sh. That reminds me of
a little brunette In Oxford. We were
sitting on a park bench and the moon
was shining bright and she raised her
lips oh but then that's another story.
Getting on with the subject life was
simpler In the old days. You could
kiss a girl without having to wash
off the evidence. That also reminds
me that the hardest time to get the
baby to sleep is when she is eighteen.
Boys anything worth a nickel is
worth fighting for and if you don't
think your irirl is worth a nickel
what are you going with her for?
I might add there "Hitch your
wagon to a star" but hold your
horses.
Boys and girls take me for In-
stance don't ever grow old because
practically all the fun is taken out
of middle a&e by the necessity of
setting a good example for the kids.
Everything that I really like to do
is either illegal Immoral or fatten-
ing. Now just a little advice in poetry;
As you rumble on through life
brother
What ever be your goal
Keep your eye upon the doughnut
And not upon the hole.
In glancing through my notes I
ran upon so.ne definitions that I
thought might be of Interest:
Dream Girl; A nocturnal prowler
whom the house detectives never
bothers.
Girl friend: A feminine acquaint-
ance whom one cannot get along
with or without. (See Baby.)
Bacon: The stuff that eggs don't
taste good without it.
Honeymoon: (rhymes with June
soon etc) The last' vacation a married
man has.
Best Man: The man who feels worst
at a wedding.
Bridegroom: Just one of the wed-
ding gifts.
Acorn: A kind of nut that helps to
line the interior of a hungry hog.
Ex-Wife; The angel you took to
Niagara Falls and the Devil you put
on the train for Reno.
Woman: A Kelng to run away from
or with as the case may be.
My time is limited as I must be
on my way to fling woo to the four
corners of the earth missing Cape
Cod and Kalai.iazoo this trip and as
CilliM III
JACKET BUZZ
Welcome Seniors to the campus of
Howard Payne College. Hope you
enjoy as much as possible this column
that gives the scandal of the campus.
Flash! Roger Eaton courting Helen
Joyner Friday night. "When the
cat's away the rat will play." While
our friend Jeff Moore was away on
a debating tour it seems as though
Helen did some stepping out.
Our short stuff Clifford Horn court-
ed Leora Hester. Did you carry your
box to let him stand on while you
courted Leora.
If Is a general Idea on the campus
that the girls that live on first floor
all are engaged. Incidentally we
know of a few on the other two
floors.
At last the time has .come with
our "Woman Hater" Boche Barbee
when he felt strongly a woo-pltchlng
urge. Freshman Shelton the baby
one.
Wanted! A girl that can buy a
show ticket or two a week cute has
a car a musician not engaged one
adept at chunking woo (not especially
on the dorm steps). Al Hicks. (Paid
adv.)
Say you High School Senior Girls
we have a group of eligible bachelors
on the campus that have emerged un-
scathed from the onslaughts of the
coy glances of our campus coeds.
Here Is your chance to see what you
can do with them. Their names and
qualifications follow: Etherldge foot-
ball hero; Collins rah rah boy and
track man; George Edwards Mr.
Winebrenner the second and president
of the Junior Class; Claude Knleff
famous trumpet player also a dope;
Tommy Cole trombone player and a
swell guy (Paid publicity ; Weldon
Skinner Lasso Editor; Bud Farrar
Prof. Boud's assistant; Red Swindle
athletic hero; Roger Eaton he has a
car; Roy Fox newspaper reporter
Joe Fielder the boy who sits while
women stand; Thomas Levisay Soph
prexy; Syd Russel football hero
Strasner another rah-rah boy and a
capable Caslnova; Leonard Becktold
couldn't be beaten; John Dyer makes
A's In History and next year's foot-
ball captain; Rlnehart Kluge assis-
tant band director; Melvln Boedecker
the man that can run; Dow McBrlde
vice-president of Sophs. This is most
of them.
Now for a few old maids. The
honorable mention might include
Margaret Denman Wilma Fry Helen
Thompson Ruth Cobb. Don't take
this too serious girls.
George Edwards president of the
Junior Class was taken the other day
as a freshman. Just forget it George
It was a poor little freshman that
thought it.
Girls the next time you want some
excitement in the dormitory do some-
thing besides set off a flrecrecker.
Poor ole Hext sure gets the run
a parting word I would like to quote
my good friend Bret Harte:
Of oil the words of tongue and
pen
The saddest are "It might have
been"
More sad are these we dally see
"It Is but it hadn't ought to be."
Oh yes grass is green but not a
grass widow. So long Tootses Tom
Dick and Harry I'll be seeing you.
So long Willie Turner. In case you
haven't found it out by this time I'm
saying good-bye.
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THE CAMPUS CHURCH
around from that cute little Bobble
Westerman from Cross Plains. But
you know Joe a quitter never wins.
Th miehtv Minor save a talk at
Cross Plains Friday night and he did
some private talking to Miss Wester-
The other night In one of the parlors
at the dormitory one of the boys that
courts at the dorm was seen kneeling
at the feet of his girl frlnd. It looks
to me like he was proposing to her
but since Interviewing the couple this
event took place a month ago. Evi-
dently you were just fixing her shoe
Strother.
Some of our serious S. A. cases.
In case some of you seniors have
never known the S. A. just take a
look at some of these couples. Berry-
Vannoy; Bell O. Strickland; J.
Strickland - Wilson; Poe - Henson;
Steakley - Edgar; Sharp - White;
Huff stutter - Pinky Moore; A. Martin
- Strother; Peggy Smith - Myrick;
Jones - Havlns; Abney - Cox; Palmer-
Tune; Felder - Christian; Milford -Brown;
E. Velez Pena; Bishop -A.
Velez; Brown Howard; Schular -Vlbbert;
Stone - Stephens; Ham-
mond - Whitehead; Modonough
Westerfleld; Lindsey - G. Smith;
Dorothy Mcintosh - Charles Day; A.
Marshal - Ralner.
BAND NOTES
As the school year draws to a close
the H. P. C. Band wishes to thank
the student body and faculty for their
support during the year. Since foot-
ball season the band has played con-
certs In chapel at Junior High over
the radio on W. B. A. P. and so far
has given one Sunday afternoon con-
cert for the students and the citizens
of Brownwood. Sunday was one of
those days. After two or three num-
bers the members were forced to "take
up their chairs (and music) and walk"
into the Mims Auditorium.
Tommy Cole has really made a hit
with his trombone especially out at
Junior High. No foolin'. We're proud
of our Tommy. He's the sweetheart
of the band.
Speaking of sweethearts the band
at present has three in mind. They are
Shirley Williams Joy Lindsey and
Evelyn Jones. Take your choice for
the Sweetheart of 1938-39.
We boast of several outstanding
personalities this year. For instance
the Trumpet Twins Joy and Smltty;
two A-l dopes. T. Cole and C. Knlef;
Fisherman False-alarm Glbbs John
Griffith the man from Kansas in case
you haven't heard; 17 hr. a day Bob
Barnett; and not to forget Peter
Piper Fielder Jr.
Besides the band there la the H. P..
C. orchestra. On their calendar for
the year appears the C. of C. Banquet
at the Brownwood the Howard Payne!
Auxiliary at Howard Payne Hall
Charley's Aunt and the May Festival
on Howard Payne Day.
A. C. C. came down the other day
and really put on a good show. Not
bad work for a school.
Comanche band entertained us high-
ly last Friday in chapel. What a more
they have an orchestra and a good
floor show. Some really good person-
alities. Thanks to Joe McDonough for the
"extra drumming."
We are looking forward to next year
for a bigger and better band we'll
see you.
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