The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 5, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 14, 1933 Page: 1 of 4
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STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS, SATURDAY, OCTOBEE 14, 1933
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PLOWBOY
Tha football team left yesterday
for Beeatur for a night game with
Decatur Baptist College. This is the
first conference game for the Plow-
boys. Up to date the Plowboys have
won one and lost one non-confer-
eji'je game.
The probable starting line-up for
Decatur is as follows: Breedlove,
17 !> pounds, center; Rogers, 185
pounds, left guard; Keene, 185
pounds, right guard; Clary, 195
pojunds, left tackle; Godwin, 210
pounds, right tackle; Hopson, 165
pounds, left end; Roach, 190 pounds,
right end; Heatley, 170 pounds,
quarterback; Roberta, 175 pounds,
left half; Medley, 175 pounds, right
half; and Gipson, 175 pounds, full-
back.
Decatur has a. fast heavy team
with many individual stars. Medley
is supposed to be the big shot of
the backfield, although any of the
others is likely to star in this game.
The fine is composed mostly of vet-
erans.
Tarleton is taking an inexperi-
enced but fighting team to match
these. Gang, let's stay behind those
plowboys in. victory or defeat. We
all believe that they will bring hack
& victory.
Students, next Saturday is the
dssad-lme on the Grassburr sub-
scriptions. If you possibly can, sub-
scribe for a Grassburr. You will
never regret it. Sometime between
now and then someone will call on
you, and if you can possibly ar-
range to, buy a Grassburr.
Well, so long till next week.
—JINX.
QUARTET WINS LOUB
APPLAUSEii CHAPEL
Presenting their claims for the
name Tarleton Quartet, Carl Gar-
ner, Don Chaney, Chester Jones,
and George Gregg appeared in
chapel Monday. They ottered two
numbers. Judging by the applause
they received, they seem to have
more than a fair chance to be Tar-
leton's quartet.
The student body sang "On Ye
Tarleton" at the request of Dean
Davis' sister, who is visiting here
now. She is a member of the fac-
ulty at Cornell University.
E&1ADELE MARK'S BROTHER
DIES OF PNEUMONIA
■ Emadele Marrs has the sympathy
of the student body in the loss of
her only brother, W. F. Marrs, aged
20, who died of pneumonia in a
Fort Worth hospital Monday af-
iert.oon.
Enmdeie was called to Fort
Worth Monday afternoon and went
from there with her mother and
father and other relatives to Bel-
ton, where the funeral was held
* Wednesday afternoon from the
home of her aunt, Mrs, Agnes
White.
MB. WILKINS URGES EVERY
STUDENT TO BUY ANNUAL
Life's darkest moment, as pic-
tured by Mr, Wilkins at chapel
Thursday, equals one student
minus one Grassburr.
At least, a student will feel
badly if he doesn't have an an-
nual when every one is asking
every one else for his autograph
to he written in the annual. "If
3ii individual were to make an
annual himself, it would cost
$4,000, hut our Grassburr costs
only $4. Buy one now," he urg-
ed.
FiNEARTS CLUB HAS
ITS FIRST MEETING
The' first meeting of the Fine
Arts Club was held Tuesday even-
ing in the auditorium of the Fine
Arts Department. This, club is a
musical organization, one of the
outstanding clubs on the campus
for self-improvement of the stu-
dents.
After a short musical program
of violin and piano music, the con-
stitution of the club was. read for
the benefit of the new members.
Needham Horner, Margaret Ham-
ilton, and Mary Elizabeth Chand-
ler were appointed by the club's
sponsor, Mr. Charles Ft oh, as a
nominating committee for this
term's officers.
The club is planning an opening
social for this term.
DEMOLAYS SELECT
OFFICERS FOR VEAR
The John Tarleton Chapter, Or-
der of De Molay, elected officers
during its regular session Monday.
The chapter also agreed to have
a membership contest with the los-
ing side entertaining the winner.
Those elected as officers for the
coming quarter are: Jim Cage,
master councilor; Jack Douglas,
senior councilor4, Bitts Palmer,
junior councilor; Lennis Jones,
scribe, and Byron Miller, treas-
urer.
Installation of officers is sched-
uled for the next meeting.
M'CAIN PRESIDENT
OF PRE-LAW CLUB
The following officers were elec-
ted at the organization of the Pre-
Law Club: Robert L. McCain,
president; John Logan, vice-presi-
dent; Truett Been, secretary;
Ralph Parmley, treasurer; and
Anthon Simmons, reporter, Mr.
Wilcox was elected sponsor, and
Mr. Eaves legal adviser.
CERTIFICATE RECEIVED FOR
THE COLLEGE DAIRY HERD
The federal accredited herd cer-
tificate for the Tarleton College
dairy herd for another year has
been received, according to an-
nouncement from Professor H. N.
Smith, The certificate is from the
United States Department of Agri-
culture and the Texas Livestock
Sanitary Commission,
The agriculture department has
also received from the Texas Live-
stock Commission a late report on
the bi-monthly blood test of the col-
lege cows for contagious abortion,
showing that the herd does not have
any reacors to that disease.
MARY JO SLAUGHTER'S
MOTHER DIES AT HOME
Mrs. R. C. Slaughter, mother of
Mary Jo Slaughter, died Sunday
night, October 8, and was buried
Monday at the West End Cemetery.
Mary Jo graduated at Tarleton
last spring, and was May Queen of
1933. She has many friends on the
campus.
Mlt. FERGUSON TELLS HOW
TO MAKE BETTER GRADES
To make better grades, Mr. Fer-
guson at the girls' chapel Wednes-
day advised: first, making a sched-
ule and sticking to it; second, de-
veloping interest for books; third,
not attempting too much; fourth,
getting interested in a subject, fifth
studying while you study, and,
sixth, surveying a lesson as a pre-
liminary to actual study. He also
said that if every student studied
two hours outside of class for ev-
ery hour in class the failures would
rapidly diminish.
Our Reporter Goes Nuts and Interviews
The Squirrels, Who Trace Ancestry and
Try to Express Opinions About Co-eds
Our bright-eyed reporter has
gone completely nuts at last. (This
is strictly against the rules; if you
go anywhere you must sign up in
the parlor.) She is interviewing
squirrels this week. However, you
have to be nuts (hickory, pecan, or
walnut) to get an interview of a
squirrel—to get an interview of a
squirrel — oh! write your own
thesis and pass the aspirin.
Armed only with a memorandum
pad and my faithful pen named
Herman, I advanced stalwartly to-
ward the residence of Mr, and Mrs.
Oscar Squirrel, 015 Maple street,
directly off the Main branch, and
confronted Mr. Squirrel face to
face. Oscar was engaged in taking
the screens olf the back porch
when I made my dramatic en-
trance, but he removed the nails
from his mouth and courteously
bade me good afternoon.
Mr. Squirrel said, first of all,
that he could do one better than
that Freshman from Hitchcock, he
can trace his ancestry clear back
to Cedric Berzedius Rodent and
his mamma (he uses the more for-
mal term, mammal) had the first
mineed-pickle-chestnuts in Erath
county.
Oscar said the co-eds were more
beautiful than ever this year, and
was about to go into detail about
one Lily B when Mrs. Oscar
came out and gently but firmly ex-
pelled the whole theory.
Whatever a good reporter must
have, it is tact (refer to page 74,
paragraph 8, in "The Young Man
and Journalism.") When the dis-
cussion became too heated,—and
the photograph had had sufficient
poses—your eminent correspond-
ent skillfully turned the conversa-
tion into other channels.
"What do you believe will be-
come of that Geneva Conference'?"
Oscar said he didn't know Miss
Conference, but that Lily Bar .
Well, ladies and gentlemen and
the usual run of J-Tac subscrib-
ers, the world will neveT know
what encomiastic remark Oscar
was about to bestow upon the
world of science, for he was furth-
er impeded by a smart crack just
above the ear, delivered by Mrs.
O., and, if I am any student of
physiogomy, Oscar was seeing
sters, not lovely faces, about blue
pinafores.
Just so disastrously ends an-
other interview, without ever get-
ting an opinion on the Situation in
India.
—M. J. D.
Thursday, October 12, Marked the 441st
Anniversary of the Discovery of America
Thursday was Columbus Day,
the 441st anniversary of the dis-
covery of America. On October 12,
1492, Christopher Columbus and
his crew sighted land, after more
than two months of discourage-
ment in their efforts to find a new
route to India.
Christopher Columbus was born
in Genoa, probably in 1451. He had
little schooling, but became inter-
ested in astronomy and cosmogra-
phy. In 1470 he married the dau-
ghter of an Italian, who was once
a navigator in the Portuguese ser-
vice. With her he obtained some
valuable charts, journals, and
memoranda. While constructing
maps and charts for the livelihood
of his family, Columbus gained
the belief of a great land in the
west. Not until about 1482 or 1483
did he find opportunity to lay his
scheme before John If of Portu-
gal; then help was refused him.
Later he went to Spain, where he
gained the favor of Isabella, queen
of Spain, who later gave Columbus
assistance in his project.
On August 3, 1492, with three
small vessels, he set sail from the
bar of Saltes, near Palos. His
crew soon became mutinous, but
Columbus never flinched in his de-
termination to press on. On Octo-
ber 12, his perseverance was re-
warded with the sight of land,
which proved to be one of the Ba-
hama Islands. In two other voy-
ages which followed, Columbus
discovered several islands, and it
wasn't until his third voyage, in
1408, that he landed at Paria, on
the coast of South America. He re-
turned to find Spain in a terrible
condition; but in spite of odds
against him, he made a fourth
voyage, which ended only in dis-
aster. He returned to Spain in No-
vember, 1501. Isabella was dead;
Ferdinand proved basely ungrate-
ful, and Columbus was permitted
to die in poverty at Valladolid on
May 20, 1506.
ACMEANDERS ELECT
HOOVER PRESIDENT
Acmeanders organized for this
year last Thursday. Maurice Hoo-
ver was elected president; Arden
Lewis, vice-president, and William
McEntire, secretary-treasurer.
Members of the Acmeanders are
Hale Barfoot, editor of The J-Tac;
William Wiley, editor of the Grass-
burr and senior class president;
Martin Craddock, business manag-
er of the J-Tac; William McEntire,
business manager of the Grassburr,
Arden Lewis, president of the Stu-
dent Council and lieutenant colonel
of the Cadet Corps, and Maurice
Hoover, captain of the football
tepn.
COMPANIES SPONSOR SHOW
TO BUY SPONSOR UNIFORMS
Privileges were granted to the
college students to attend the pic-
ture showing at the Majesic The-
atre Thursday night. "A" and "B"
Companies of the Cadet Corps were
sponsoring Claud Colbert in "Torch
Singer."
The money derived from the prof-
its of the show is to be used by the
companies for buying uniforms for
the company sponsors.
PEP MEETING HELD
AT CHAPEL FRIDAY
Friday's chapel period turned
out to be the best pep-meeting so
far this year. Instead of th© usual
assembly in the auditorium the en-
tire student body met in the col-
lege gym, giving the Plowboys a
big send-off,
The snappy yells and the co-op-
eration of the student body toward
the yell-leaders proved that the
"Old Tarleton Spirit," which we
have heard so much about, will
reign supreme on the campus once
more.
Upper-classmen, keep this up;
the freshmen will follow in your
footsteps.
CHANGES, IMPROVEMENTS
MADE IN FISCAL OFFICE
Several changes have been made
recently in the fiscal office to pro-
vide more conveniences. The cash-
ier's window was moved from the
west end of the counter to the east
end. Mr, Carroll Sheffield is the
new cashier. To provide for more
privacy, the divisions were parti-
tioned off. Mr. Autig McMahan is
the new accountant, taking Mr.
Belcher's place.
.SMITH JUDGES
CATTLE AT LUBBOCK
M. N, Smith, professor of ani-
mal husbandry at Tarleton, spent
last week in Lubbock, where ; he
judged dairy cattle at the Pan-
handle-South PI ai na , Fair *; Hej udT
ged; seventy^fiight elasses-iii all;- in-
cluding Jerseys, Holsterns, and
Guernseys.
Mr. Smith left Stepbenville at
jjoon last Tuesday, judged on' Wed-
nesday' and Thursijay,; and,: weift
through. Texas Technological: Col-
lege on Friday with W. L, Siangle,
head of the animal husbandry de-
partment there. He returned Fri-
day night.
SHORT TALK DATED
1929ISSTILLGGOD
The following advice to students
appeared in The J-Tac for March
9, 1929. Mr. Wilkins is the adviser
and the article appeared under the
head "Short Talks by Faculty
Members." Mr. Wilkins says it is
still good; so it is reprinted with
his permission:
Too many students have the fol-
lowing fallacies in their beliefs:
Officers are not chosen on the
basis of merit.
You think it takes a "pull" to
succeed.
Honor students are the teachers'
special friends.
A thing is right if you can get
by with it.
Life satisfaction is in enjoying
momentary pleasures.
Nearly all science that changes
your way of thinking is no good.
There is no need for you to think
for yourself.
New and startling facts are sel-
dom true.
Most people are hypocrites.
Your parents acted just like you.
Most of the world's progress has
already been made.
Rich men are never honest.
Christian teachings pay small
dividends in this world.
Most slanderous gossip is true.
The registrar has a special
grudge against students.
An easy course is the best to
take.
Do you know:
Whether these statements are
true or false?
That most of you will deny them
without thinking?
That thinking worries you?
That you believe anything that
bothers your thinking is not worth
while?
That the greatest crimes com-
mitted by mankind were due to
errors in thinking
That you have a few standards
for judging ideas?
That the greatest lesson you can
learn in school is to think
straight?
Your stand on all of this shows
that most of you keep fallacies in
your thinking and allow others to
enter into it because you have no
exact standards to think by. You
are fast approaching the time when
you will have to do ai! of your own
judging of life values. If you fail,
you are the one who suffers most.
Truth in all ages has been ascer-
tained by bringing all the facts
together that bear upon it and
weighing them carefully. My ad-
vice to you is, "Let there be rea-
son in your madness. You cannot
be forgiven if you know not what
you do."
FORMER TARLETON STUDENT
IS ATTENDING U. OF IDAHO
Miss Edwina Williams, who grad-
uated from Tarleton last spring, has
gone to Moscow, Idaho, to pass the>
winter with her brother, Professor
J. K. Williams of the State Uni-
versity of Idaho. Miss Williams will
attend the university, working for
a bachelor of science degree.
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