The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1926 Page: 1 of 4
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STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS, JANUARY 28, 1926,
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NUMBER" 18
LISTEN PLOWIOVS
■ The basket, ball season .is open
at last. We have five victories and
no defeats to; our credit now. Are
we going to be undefeated? Are
we? Well, we'll do. our best. It
would look fine to have a silver
basket ball in our trophy case with
■ the football.
We can be Champions! With a
team like ours we can do anything.
''Nothing ; is impossible." If .
If the student body will only back
the team. Did you notice how our
pep lagged ,at- the Pollywogs game?
Didn't we almost lose the game?.
Don't . you think the let down in
spirit had something to do with
that? ■>
TARLETON CAGERS
MAKE A FLYING
START
To;. Jje winners we must:
1. Have the best team (we have.)
2. Have the best coach. (We
have.) ! . .
3. Have the most spirit:'-
The third is perhaps the hardest
to get. For good coaches are to be
had and they can develop good
, t<e«nw if theyf; jhaye -possible mater:
~^p''fae-~c$ac}x:^h s; pVfh%'s ten , o,i
. twelve men to get info shape. But
-rrUjree y,el;l leaders haye eight hw
dred of us to condition. We must
$elp; t & em and yell with j&«n not
lipjfore . or afterwards. A team off
the court seldom, hears the yells,
Jbuif if .the noise, is .orgtfriMed they
jji^qw , we are all, backing them to
the limit. Lets all get together an
,thi,s proposition.
Gang, the writer of this ..column
certainly dislikes to bully rag you
all the time. He is a personal
friend of mine, and I know that it
doesn't appeal, put there are cer-
tain flaws in all our makeups that
he is trying to remove and make
i better students of us all. Please
' bear with him. '
By the time you have finished
reading this, issue of the J-Tac you
will know whether you have been
a success during the firstsemester.
•Have you been making grades that'
you are proud of? If not, why
not? Do your demerits total up
into the danger zone? Check up on,
' these things and make a change
for the better, for they will be held
Vagamst you when you go out to fight:
the battle of life. .
The John Tarleton Plowboys de-
feated by decisive scores the Me-
ridian Cougars in a two game se-
ries of basketball here ..Friday and
Saturday nights. The first night
the Plowboys won by a score of
forty-four * points to the Cougars'
fourteen points. In the second .game
the best the Cougars could do was
to hold the Plowboys to the score
of fifty-two to seven.
Characteristic of both games was
the excellent' defense offered by the
Plowboys. i Jesse Davis and Starr
were strong men in the line de-
fense.
In the first game the Plowboys
fouled numerous times, and it
was in this way that the Cougars
'got * most' of their fourteen points.
..Coleman, who was substituting for
Jennings at center, led the Plow-
boys in scoring for the first half- of
the game.
In the second game the Plowboys
had an even better. defense th|ui in
the fi/st ggrne. .The, Qnl^;:coi,i.}it:ithe
Meridian boys could make was to
throw one foul goal. Again Jesse
jOavis and Starr guarded the Coug-
ars so closely that, it waa impassi-
ble for them to shoot a field goal.
The first half qnded with the Coug-
ars one and the Plowboys thirty
two, ,
In the second half both teams
came back fighting. The Cougars
scored six points while the .Plow-
boys were bringing their total score
to fifty two points. .
Jennings was b'ack in the line-up
for p short time Saturday night but
due to recent illness he was not
allowed to play very long. All
members of the team showed a great
improvement over the game played
with the T. C. U. Polywogs last
Monday night and worked better
both in team work and in hitting
the. basket.
THE RECORDS WILL
TELL THE STORY
•ft
The seconc| semester starts soon.
That is a good time: to start out
with a new determination that will
put you over in giteat style.1 Make
teaching a pleasure for your teach-
er and surprise the DEAN by mak-
ing the HONOR ROLL.
New students will be coming to
.TARLETON tp take advantage of
the educational opportunities that
the school offers. Lets make them
feel at home and before long they
will be writing home to tell sister
Sally or brother John what a won-
derful place thjs is; then next term
we will have both Jhori and Sally
with us,
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Hiidsy is thinking deeply on the
baseball prospects. When he is-
sues ;i call * for ynpn, evfijfy boy in
jlptilppl to be there. Get he-
year.
SCHOOL ACTIVltlES
The value of a college education
would be considerably lowered if
our many social activities were not
upheld. Our gaun.es, .class meetings,
carnivals and lyceums depend upon
our ignited support for their exis-
tence, They are the events that con-
tribute largely to our means of en-
tertainment and the ones that enable
us i to obtain a broader knowledge
of the principle? of; life.
Today we are preparing ourseleves
for tomorrow. One 'phase of the
preparation will be neglected if we
go into seclusion as hermits and
leave others to care for the present
while we only look to the future.
We must make the most of our col-
lege days. We must rely not-only
upon our own opinions but also up-
on those > of our associates. Sur-
rounding iis are hundreds of young
men and women with sterling char-
acters and great intellectual powers.
Through constant association^ we ob-
tain a part of the others' good quali-
ties and yet the original possessors
gain. '
Let us all cooperate in these act-
ivities that are / hcDeficial to oui-
selves, to our foHownjen, 9J?d J,o
Tarleton. Let us really live during
these present days in which we are
preparing to live.-in - future ones. •
This terni is slowly but surely
coming to an end; soon the grades
will go out and alll will be over,
at least so far as this terms work
is concerned. Your grades may be
excellent; more than, likely they
will be found amoung the average;
but there is a chance that , jhey
will fall below average, ahd'"evdn
beyond the danger 1 jne.. Neverthe-
less, these grades, what ever they
qiay be, will go do\yn in the re-
cords of this institution.
Have you ever stopped to think
how the grades you are. now mak-
ing may haye an influence, for pr
against you, in the- year^ that are
to copie ? ; The grades that will sopn
go down us your terms grade may
some time in the .future bring YQu
success or cause yon failure.
Have you worked faithfully, hon-
estly, and to the utmost of your
ability? Have you been honest,
bpth with yourself and with your
institutions? Are yo\i better equip-
ped for the . work which you
tp follow in after life • than V0,u
were^hen'ydu^ ehte^ed^'fjletoh Ii$t-
September? To sum * it all u,p,
have you, done your best? If you
have, you have accomplished some-
thing which will in lat^r years, if
properly applied, repay you for ajl
your efforts. If not: yoii have npt
realized and taken advantage of the
pjpp^Ftjinitles afforded'youj then both
your tinje, and your money haye
been squandered. ■.
In the • course of a few days \a
new leaf will be turned,, and you
will once more start aiiew on a'
sheet that is clean and white. Hav.e
you resolved what kind of story
this new record will tell • at the end
of, the coming term'? Have ycui
determined that your grades for tljie
coining semester shall be higher,
are ,you one of those that' are indif-
ferent about their grades? By faith-
ful work next term you may be able
to raise some of the low. grades tp
a pass or even better. Remember,
nothing worth while is accomplish-
ed except through hard Work a/id
much sacrifice.
COLLEGE POULTRY PLANT ,
The Dean has been interested,
for years in. helping the people of;
this . section of the state who are'
'interested iii poultry production. In,'
rder.to do this he1', secured the ser-;
vice ■ of Mir. Homayer to direct this!
work.
In the beginning .of-,-'this depart-
ment there "Were neither houses nor
chickens that -belonged, to tlie col
lege. With an appropriation by the!
State for this work, we have fenced;
"the.Poultry Plant and today, we have
two, hundred and fjfty white leg-
horn hens, fifteen 'Rhode Island,
Reds, and fifteen Bari'd Rocks. In
addition to this there have been
bpilt one large laying, house, and
four poultry houses for breeding
pens. :. ■
Up tp December the thirteenth the
two hundred White Leghorns had
been averaging in egg production
between forty and fifty five .per-
cent. Lights were started then, be
iiig turned on them,: daily at six
o'clock^ arid gradually a little ear*.
Cpntifljucd Oft !
WHY NOT STUDY
AGRICULTURE
Fellow students, I wonder how;
many of you know there is a Gen-,
era I, Agricultural course given at
Tarleton? Probably then^;aie . a
few of you that have heard some
of us ,"Ag." students, say. that ,,we
were' taking a General Agricultural
course but did not- know what ■ it
means.
The Ag course is one. of the
best all round courses offered at
Tarleton for at least three or four
good reasons. ;
Tlie main reason why the Ag
course is one of. the best is that
this is Agricultural institution
and is- better equipped to prepare
a student in this fiield. *
i The; Ag.. department has a fac-
ulty whic^'£QU)pares,fayorably ^v.ith,
other faculties of other depart-
ments or other colleges. This Ag.
faculty is giving instructions in
.'those subjects; which a*e vital tp
our permanence and progress as
a people; :
Two last reasons why the Ag
jHe^gronp 'of students fhat |alce this
course are among the most upstand-
ing-of th,e colleger- ■'<:
•■'•Jfe jjre realize, that some day «te
are going to have to take over the
farms that oiir 1 fathers oytti? Do
we expect, to fall in1,the same old
ryts that thpy ,ar,e in? I say "no.".
Because we have more students from
the farm here at college than from
any- Pther place, Sp .why! ■ not the
Ag. fanners go hack to the farjji
and make it a more pleasant place
to'live, a'place that will call some
of our fellow, men back to the old
plantationsj not 'to dream but to be
up and doing.
The Ag. .students have had,' and
will continue to have one of the
most serviceable clubs that has ever
been known in the history of Tar-
leton, one that our fellow mates
will be proud tp belong to.
■ Now, Ag. students, let us get busy
and boost our course. When we
go home and come in contact with
prospective students tell them, about
the courses and put Agriculture on
top.
THE TARLETON COWBOY CLUB
The Tarleton Cowboy Cllttb was
organized in Deceinber, 1923, by
the .students in the Agriculture de-
partment Only those talqing Agri-
cultural courses or subjects are
eligible for member-ship,
'Thursday the. bid members met
and decided to continue.. the, club
this year. The following officers,
elected at the close of last year,
Were. Retained';
Gordpn L. Cacjy ....President
Max Menzips.— ../Vice President
Wilson Hartgrove ..--.Sec, Treas.
Elton Mims... J.-Tac Reporter
Lonnie Starr -Sergeant at Arms
Last year the club held two judg-
ing contests, one for county club
boy's of neighboring counties, the
otjher for high school judging teams.
Banners, trophies, and scholarships
were given to' the. winners/ Also,
the club furnished the contestants
With a barbecue dinner and a rodeo,
after the contests were over. In ad-
dition to, the otl^er contests, the.
club held! a cpn^est in May for its
WiCfjiyfid
Continued, on Pajge 3 ; i
.
A. IS
''3®|®SER'way'ON"
OUR CAMPUS.
With the? Faculty advisor, Mr.
Hale, President Lewis Hale, Vice-
President Robert Acock, and Secre-
tary-Treasurer Fain' McDpugal at
its head, the Y. M-. C. A, is going
to be a success," Mr. Funkliouser
generously ,inyhe,4 us f -to use ,{he
drawing room .for bur meeting place.
Although finances will not per-
mit; the erection of a Young , Men's
Christian As^to., building, this band
of Christians is going to strive to ac-
complish the four-fold purpose
of the student niovement: that1 is,
to lead students- to faith in God
through Jesus Christ; to lead them ,
to membership and service in the
Christian Church; to promote th^ir
growth,, in Chris,tian; faith and char-,
actei, especially .through, the study
of tlie Bible and prayer; to influ-
ence them to devote themselves in
united effoijt vjfitli> .,^11 chpstian^ ' to
make the, will of Christ effective
^htunap. gqpjety.,' ifeS-y:
Pingdoni'' of ' " thTougfiqut the''
world. ; ^ -
This inspiring task is to be ac-
^ tj^ Y program by
COmv , ..
giving periods 'for discussion of
c^piis proble;*!? and problems that
influence, .us as Christian citizens .of
our, country; 'hy' devoting tiriie .to,
lectures from faculty- members arid
ministers, ' upon highly interesting
subjects pf present discussion; and
last but not least, by prayerfully
devoting ourselves to the study, of
"How toJ Follow Jesus."
You who desire to become mem-
bers of the Y; M. C. A. will be ac-
cepted upon your ,willingness to de-,
Cjlai-e . your , intention <, to make jlie
purpose of the ¥. M. Ci A. your
personal program of allegiance and
service.
LUCWY THIRTEEN
CLUB LOSES PRES.
At the, beginning of this school
year the Lucky 13 club was reor-
ganized and Jack Johnson was elect-
ed president AU of i us club mem-
bers felt very fortunate in having
this brilliant young athlete at our
head: for we felt sure ' our elub
would be a success jwtlj. such a
leader. Jack is a leader, not only
iii every' small function of life—
but 'also in every phase of life he
undertakes. ■ >
However, this past wgejc, it was
our misfortune tp' receive a formal1
resignation from : Jack; stating :that
his school work, athletic duties, and
various other activities divided his
tim<? so that hp to fa Id not give pro-
per attention to j^is.chib. ■
Every club member regrets ityery
much that Jack has to leave us,
and we realize that to fill his chair
will not be a small job, nor a job
to. be completcd in a fortnight.
The person taking the chair will
assume a great responsibility in the
effort to fill the .place of our ex-
president,!,Jack: Johnson.
Every member of the club was
sori-y to Ipse Jack, but in a case
like1 his, Where it was necessary
for him to leave us, wei will put
forth -an extra 'effort to carry his
work on. May success in every walje .
of life^be hisi andf ina^hW; continue
to be the leader he has alWay8/: beep? ■
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