The Texas Steer (U. S. S. Texas), Vol. 1, No. 5, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 1, 1925 Page: 4 of 4
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MORE DOPE
A winter series of pulling and sailing
races will be held during the week begin-
ning 1 March. These races will include
the regatta for the Department Pulling
Trophy and the regatta for the Depart-
ment Sailing Trophy. The former includes
five races as follows:-
I Punt Race 1/4 Mile One man
2 Whaleboat Deck Force first enlist-
ment Two miles
3 Whaleboat Engineers Two miles
4 Whaleboat Selected crew Two miles
5 Dinghy Selected crew One mile
The sailing races include a free-for-all
race in which any type and kind of rig is
permitted, and races between sailing
launches, whaleboats, and dinghies. The
above races are the only official ones
scheduled but dope has it that there will
be an officers', one mile dinghy race,
using race boat oars, and possibly a short
race between officers' race boat crews.
The "Tex" wants to win them all, so do
your best. If you can sail or pull or think
you can, offer your services to the Athletic
Officer. If you can't do either, get be-
hind the men who can and boast! Let's
have a little more of that old Texas pep!
DON'T GIVE UP HOPE
A marine who had completed thirty
years of faithful service, retired with a
comfortable fortune of $60,000. He
amassed this large sum through his courage,
enterprise, initiative, attention to duty,
faithfulness, military efficiency, the careful
investment of his savings, and the death
of an uncle who had left the marine
$59,999.
(Leatherneck)Doc---"Open your mouth, stick
your tongue!" '
Patient-'A-a-a-a-h!" ,
Doc---"Flat feet, chief."
(Pennsy Keystone.)out
OBSERVANCE OF NATIONAL
ANNIVERSARIES OF THE
UNITED STATES
Perhaps some who were unaccustom-
ed to the proceedure on such occasions
wondered why the national salute of
twenty-one guns were fired at noon Feb.
2 3rd.
The regulations state that, "On the
22nd of February and 4th of July every
ship of the Navy in commission, not
under way, shall full dress ship at 8:00
a. m. and remain so dressed until sunset;
at noon saluting ships shall fire a national
salute. At sea the same salute shall be
fired with the ensign at the peak."
"When the 22nd of February, 30th
of May, or 4th of July occurs on Sun-
day, all special ceremonies shall be
postponed until the following day."
As a usual thing these national holi-
days arebserved on the day following
when they occur on Sunday. Last Mon-
day, however, owing to the exigencies
of the service, the Arkansas, New York
and Texas were hard at work all day.
OH YOU WEST COAST BOYS!
"For years it has been my desire to
settle down in my own little Bungalow
in Southern California, on a little ranch,
and there in the golden sunlight, and
the silvery moonlight, dream the hours
away, seeing visions of other times and
other places.
And where can you find more to
arouse such visions than you can on a
California ranch.
You button your Boston garters on to
your Paris sox, your Baltimore suspend-
ers onto your Detroit overalls, Put on
your Lynn shoes and your Danbury hat
and you are up.
You sit down at your Grand Rapids
table, have your Hawaiian pineapple,
your Cape Cod fish, your aunt Jemima
flapjacks, swimming in New Orleans
molasses.
You have a bit of Cincinnati ham,cooked in Chicago lard, on a Detroit
stove burning Wyoming coal.
Then you go out, put your Concord,
N. H. harness. on to your Missouri mule,
hitch it onto a Moline plow and plow
up a couple of acres of land covered by
Ohio mortgages.
You plant Indian corn, Bermuda pota-
toes, Bavarian malt, Hungarian barley,
and Italian hops. And then you sit up
all night blending the malt, barley and
hops into a camouflaged concoction to
reduce the high cost of bootlegger.
And then when the twylight falls, you
fill up your pride of Detroit with Mexi-
can gasoline, dash out to the beach and
while sitting in a Greek restaurant,
smoking a Boston made cigar, you
watch a New York girl dance the
Memphis shimmy to the music of the
New Orleans jazz band.
And then you go back to your little
house under the orange trees and the
mortgage, read a chapter of the Bible
written in London, England say a
prayer written in Jerusalem; wind up
your Waterbury watch; and put on
your China silk pajamas, crawl in be-
tween your Fall river sheets and fight
all night with the fleas, the only Native
product of the whole damn ranch."
Exchange
He calls his wife Crystal because she's
always "on the watch."
(Judge)
Teacher---In what naval engagement
did the Uuited States suffer the severest
loss?
Bright Pupil---The Washington Arms
Conference! (Sub Base Ballast)
Small boy---"Me fadder vants a nickles
worth o' ice cream;"
Soda Clerk---"Cone?"
Small boy---"Naw, Rosenbaum."
STEER THIS HOMEo.,au 1
THE TEXAS STEER
U. S S. T'exa--- ?5-1500
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