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THE CAMPUS CHAT. DKNTON, TEXAS. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, DM5
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The Campus Chat
On Books'and P opU
j am; a-carin rot* by shi Iw-ck an printed by the tardy
publishin co at dallas in texas 1M6 with pit s hers by cecil
MMMl
shes got me doin it too i l een rt'adin on her buk fur
ni onto 2 d>K and i think shi becks buk is worth the ait
bits >he a#ks an the ml checked gingani cover is the prut-
tiest yet even the rappin paper it is printed on is nise
doesnt hert your eves a bit
shi wants you to know why some of her spellin is so
diffrunt she explains in the forewurd i guess you will find
sum of the spellin prutty baii a* that part of my brain is
kinder parali*«d an i jus -|>ell bv ear sum of the stories you
will find have sum big wurds spelt out rite i lukt them
up in the dictionary that is if there was nobuddy arond
to a.xk most of the stories tho i jus manajed on my own
that was county of sumtimes havin to look up so many
wurds that i furgot in the end what i was goin to tell you
about
sum of her storys is so funny that you will lalf tit to
kill but others is kind of sad carrie is the spokesman in
the buk she tells about some of her nabors an about when
she wuz a littul girl she has some staitments that bare
thinkin about she says in ont staitment the peepul who dont
understan what i am ritin about is the peepul i am ritin
about
im just kind of borryin carries style in this colum i
hope she wont call nit a koppy-kat i reely beliefe that youll
vant this littul buk for your own library its the kind of buk
that you like to read to someone els or yourself some of
carries explainashuns are so naive (i looked that one up in
ifte dickshunary) that you wonder why somebody els hadnt
already said it such as this one when the printin man askt
me what i wanted to name my buk but i got all flustered an
sed i aint a-carin he wrote down sumthin an never askt
me agii,
heres a sample storv showing shi becks inimitable style
headin for a windbreak
i had been readin a lot about stream lines in awtomo
beds an that was aw rite too cause i knowed they needed
suni water to make them keep go in an if it hadnt been for
that the fack that they lukt so prutty wuld have been suf
tisshent for me count of me likin prutty things
one dav i went to town t buy a new hat an the only
thing i culd rind was the funny littel thing that lukt exactly
like the pitshurs of them cars there wasnt nuthin else to do
except to buy one cause they didnt have enymore to sell
the littel pepper box of a hat i bote lukt like a rabbit
that war- runnin from a man with his ears back the rabbit
i mean an everything about that hat run back the feathers
an all the trimmins run back
an of corse that made it easier to walk in
an so i put the hat on an started out walkin an shure
enuf i walkt faster maybe it was bause i didnt want peepul
to see how funny i lukt in that hat
shi beck was born in west texas she went to school at
simmons university an also kidd key koilej an then taut
a while and then went to dallas where she now is social sec
retary to the dallas country club she has appeared with
some of the characters of the book in radio programs and
has lectured both in dallas and fort worth concernin her
literary activities
i aint a-carin is a verry intertaining buk and ont which
i s keen and discerning as well—v r
• Collegiate Comments •
By Pratt Kinard
Texas is football capitol of the world!
Emphasizing the wide open, daring type of football en-
joyed by patrons of the sport in the Southwest, two national
football titans. S. M. U. of Dallas and T. C. U. of Fort Worth,
turned in a game recently that, according to (Jrantland Rice,
was unsurpassed by any similar spectacle in the some sixty-
odd years of the sport.
For years, the Southwest has been content to tight its
family football feuds without notice from the outside world,
while weaker teams with a more intense desire for the lime-
light have received all the honor and glory. But now the
great teams of the still greater Lone Star State have gained
due recognition, with S. M. U. being given the highest honors
that can come to any college team, the Dickinson Rating
Award of National Championship, and an invitation to the
Rose Bowl at Pasadena. California As it) everything else
Texan. Texas believes that her football teams are superior
to the highly advertised California product, basing her lie-
lief on the victories already gained by these two teams over
. trong West Coast opjiosition.
T. C. U. has also been honored by nomination for the
Sugar Bowl in New Orleans as an opponent of L. S. U.. and
it is quite likely that the Frogs will leave anything but a
sweet taste in the mouths of the Tigers after the contest.
The Hardin-Simmons University, champions of the
Texas Conference, plays the New Mexico Aggies at the Sun
Bowl in El Paso, while not to be outdone by its lighter-
skinned sister institutions, the Texas College (Negro) Steers
of Tyler, Texas, play the Alabama State Hornets at the
Chocolate Bowl in Tyler, for the Negro championship of
the United States.
it looks like a "bowl vear" for Texas football.
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An inquisitive reporter for the Daily Cardinal, student
publication of the University of Wisconsin, with a fla'r for
statistics has computed that the 2.875 co-eds of the Univer-
sity use enough lipstick each year to cover 27.800 square
feet, enough footage to paint four "gr od-sia d barns."
A more interesting research along the same lines (or
lipa) would be to compute the mileage per square footage
of the kiss-proof variety of lipstick.
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Stanford University is no place for the 4 B's. Ray Ly-
man Wilbur, president of the University, has warned, stat-
ing that "Stanford has no place for busters, boozers, bor-
rowers and bums."
It mifit be added that in almost every instance he was
taJkinf about the same type of student, for a "boorer" can
almost always supply the qualification.- for the other three
titles.
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Three lucid answers to a query conducted by the Louis-
State University Reveille in regard to women's smok-
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SOCIETY EDITOR
SPORTS EDITOR
ASSISTANTS: Ralph Dean. Frances Fischer. Louise Floyd. Louvenia Gallaher, Clyde Heath, Mi.rgucrite Herren. Birdie Hood. Evlyn
Marten*. Rosemary Price. Jeanettr Ridley, Violet Koark. Hob Kucki-i I illy Sandlin, Naomi Shires, Edward Smith, Ruth Spurlock, Ben
Stover, Charles Turner, Mildred Townsend, Truman Tunnell, Rale it I'sry, Noble Wright.
ALVIN R. 1RBY
JAMES C. WHEELER
ALONZO JAMISON
FVFI VS McC.Al'tiin
DUDE NEVILLE
BOWEN EVANS
FACULTY SPONSOR
J D. HALL. JR.
TODAY'S SlI'REME COURT
Tin eyes of the country are upon the Supreme Court
this week as the AAA case comes up for hearing. The
>ame court a few months ago ruled the N'RA unconstitu-
tional. and speculation is hijjrh as to the light in which the
court will view the present case.
Consistently twenty years behind the times, and a mass
of contradictions, prospects are good for a "i-1 decision,
which would place the fate of the AAA in the hands of one
man.
More than 12o,ono,ooo people have turned their eyes on
the Supreme Court. The history of that body has been scruti-
nized: there is a movement on foot to strip the Court of its
power to declare an act of ( ongress unconstitutional
This movement brings up the question: Is a govern-
ment in which nine men art empowered to direct the des-
tinies of the people against their will truly a democracy?
Dr. Jack Johnson, head of the Teachers College economics
department, now on leave of absence, last summer discussed
this question, and answered it "No" in a series of two ar-
ticles published in The Chat.
A democracy is described ;i« a government by the }>eo-
ple, of the people, and for the people, Uovernnient by nine
men is not hy the people, but becomes an oligarchy. Dr.
Johnson |jointed out. When the nine men ->t aside an act
of Congress, then the "of the people" clause is violated.
Congress is intended to represent the will of 'he |>eo-
ple. Being elected as they are by popular vote, the congress-
men who desire re-election do not dare vote in opposition to
the wishes of their constituents, regardless of coercion by
the much-discussed lobbyists.
"What is the use of the Constitution if it can be vio-
lated?" ask the people who oppose stripping the Supreme
Court of this power They feel the writers of the Consti-
tution were inspired people, working with a supernatural
document, and that the Supreme Court is a similar august
Irfody.
But the writers of the Constitution were in truth some-
what disappointed and ashamed of their work. Thomas
Jefferson himself favored scrapping the document entirely
and writing a new one only a short while after it was
written.
The Supreme Court in its early days had no power to
declare any act of Congress unconstitutional: its present
power was assumed as opportunities presented themselves
In a government representing itself a* a democracy, th<
Supreme Court has today more power than any other gov -
erning instrument in the history of the American people.
TEACHERS OAO LAWS
In a protest against the signing of oaths of allegiance
by their instructors as required by a law passed by the
Massachusetts legislature, students of Williams College pre-
-eiite.l a musical comedy including the giving of the Nazi
salute by the attending students. The swastika of Hitler
was prominently displayed throughout the ceremony.
Recent legislative bodies in several states have passed
laws designed to prevent teachers' teaching communistic
propaganda, to prevent their teaching anything demoral-
i ittg to the youth of today, to prevent their teaching any-
thing destructive to the government of the United States,
etc.
Thest laws bind the hands of the school teachers of the
states. The epidemic of these laws was recently satirized
b\ Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt in one of her speeches.
What constitutes an educated individual able to take
hi* place in a democracy if it does not include the knowledge
of some of the defects of the existing order?
The students of Williams College intended their dem-
onstration to be a good Matured protest It wa- in truth,
however, a recognition. Such laws are of the nature Hit-
ler is passing, and other dictators are passing, in order to
"run the students through the mil!" to be turned out stereo-
tyi ed individuals utterly oblivious to any fault whatsoever
in the government. Only with such an educational system
can a dictatorship exist : and likewise, with such an educa-
tional system only a dictatorship can exist, for there is no
one else competent to govern.
\REVT WE Al l ?
Writing in the last issue of the Kadelpiun Review, C 11
Oman, superintendent of schools in Garrett, Kansas, con-
fesses that he is totally confused as to th< exact goal and
meaning of the modern educators and their philosophy. Mr
< 'man thinks that at most of the educational conferences,
the leaders merely talk about what should l>e done without
doing much about it. Too. educational theory changes so
from year to year that what is accepted as the Pole Star
of all education one year is cast aside within a few months,
and educational devotees bow at a new shrine.
To contribute still further to Mr. Oman's confusion,
two of his former students, taught under the old order, tel!
him that he and his courses in high school gave them some
of the best equipment that they ever acquired for life
The article concludes. "We are told that a new order
prevails today. I am aware of that. Also, we are told that
tne new order demands a new educational philosophy and
procedure. I am wondering. There seems to be no definite
agreement on the way the program is to !>• carried out. The
writings and speeches of many seem to be vaporing going
up to the clouds with very little in them that is helpful to
one whose limited field affords little opportunity to experi-
ment with ail the various indefinite and controversial sug-
gestions.
"I am still confused."
All we have to say is this: don't feel that you are ah
normal. Mr Oman; we are all still confused.
"I think R la pmfectly fine for a woman to do anything
she wants to."
"The lipa that touch cigarettes shall never touch mine."
"If 1 had a wife, I'd hate to have her flecking ashes in
the babr's face."
Take your choice, but it st<*m* that the latter answer is
«f the Hume.
"at" or "At"
Confused Kmily Post
Goes To England
For Explanation
Do you know your "AV and
"TV? For instance. juat what
would an invitation to tea mean
to you if in the wording you found
th<' "a" ju*t a p!ain little "a"
and what would it mean to you if
the "a" were a nice big capital?
Did you say that Emily Poat
is th« lady to keep uk straight on
auch things? Well, even Emily
Poat seems to tnnk that nince tea
drinking was originally an Eng-
lish custom that it would he quite
within the rules of the game t >
um the English custom in the
wording of the invitation Now
when you get an invitation to tea
and a conventional line "At Home"
appears m capital letter*, you may
know that it is not strictly a for-
mal tea, but still it is a less formal
tea if the "at Home" appears with
only the word "Home" capitalist
The Lngliah tall us that thi* placet-
more emphasis on the word
"Home" and helps us to create a
friendly note of hospitality. "At"
always t>pelli "at," but the mean-
ing of the wurd la not always
the same in mvttatiea*.
Education Office*
Are Being Moved
Offices of the Education Lab-
oratory are being move'4, to the
Education Puildmn this week be-
cause the present structure housing
these offices is being dismantled
to make way for the new Library
Building.
Offices moved include those of
Dr. Webb, Dr. Hrenholu. and Dr.
Craig. The nt* Laboratory Of-
fices wdl lie in E201 and the of-
fice* of Dm. Webb, BrenholU, and
Craig will be in E202.
Notes
American farmers produced 13,
(147.000 hales.
(Continued from page li
if re-elected, it wouldn't recall
them ?"
the (icneral either lound
thi- out before he came to
Denton or he knew it before
the series ever hcuan. Thi*
newspaper "report" is prac-
ually a verbatim report of his
address here some weeks huo
Cornelius Van Schaack Roose-
velt, 20-year-old grandson of the
late Theodore Roosevelt, last week
was ordered held for the Middle
*ex County (Massachusetts! grand
jury a.- an alleged air pistol sni-
per.
Young Roosevelt was charged
along with Peter de Florea. 21 of
Pomfret, Connecticut. The two
defendants, fellow students at
Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology. were arrested November
21 after allegedly taking potshot*
at passing motorists. Two air
pistols of Germsn manufacture
were seised.
It was all 10 fun, the youth.- in-
sist, but Uw court mauls that the
pullets discharged by the pistols
might kill a person at a distance
of fto feet if they struck him in
the temple
.Note: Vfter Saturday the
Will Rosier*' Memorial ram-
painn will have closed. Onl>
three da>s remain in which
Americans ma\ 'ontributc to
a fund to perpet ate the mem
or> of the greatest American
of this day.
"Hold until he arrives" was the
direction on a letter received at a
Kalamasoo (there's really a city
named that, you know) jail re
cently. The addressee is not yet
an inmate.
The sheriff, however, expects to
complete delivery soon
Probably it's just the old
Ro<iHcvelt wild game huntinit
instinct cropping out.
The world must consume ap-
proximately one million more Iwles
of cotton this year than it did last
year, if crop estimates are to be
taken at their face value. The
most racent estimation, made this
week by the Department of Agri-
culture. places the 1935 crop at
IS.7S4.000 hales. One month ago
II,MUM bales were forecast.
I^ast year's production was 9,-
086,000 hales, and two years ago.
Weekly Calendar
Thursday. December 12. 4 p. m..
House President's Te« at th<
Mary Arden Lodge.
Friday, December IS, 8 p. m.
Freshman Christmas window
shopping and picture show at
Palace Theatre—10 cents. Meet
in front of administration
building.
Monday. December 16, 8 to U p
m., Senior Mary Arden guest
Christmas party and dance.
Tuesday, December 17. & to 10 p
m, Junior Mary Arden guest
Christmas dancc.
Wednesday, December 18, Annual
Big-Little Sister Christmas Pro-
gram and dance at Harris (iym
nasium. Complimentary to all
girls of the College.
Thursday. Daeember ID. c L. c
Christmas dance at the Mary
Arden Lodge.
Friday, December 20, 7 p. m. Press
Club meeting at College Club
House. New members will be
initiated, and the Club will have
a Christmas party.
Friday, December 20, all-College
Chrtatmas dance, sponsored by
the W Phi PI Social r'.ab.
Friday, December 20, 7 p. m. Stu-
dent Christian Association at
the Mary Arden Lodge.
Ponjree Ward
Kepmtei Placed in IHicky
Little Corner of
Hospital
And so they put her in the
hall!
Mumps, t'u, colds, and tummy
:ic'ics. along with a case or two
of appendicitis, tilled T C. Hos-
pital to overflowing Monday after
neon. So when Ye Olde Chatte
Reporter happens over with all
he! little woes and weaknesses,
what do they do with her? Why.
they drape her in sheets, surround
her with ducky little ponget
.screens, and put her to bed in the
hall.
Buzzers buss. Nurses hurry.
Dietician worries. First they can't
seem to remember which patients
are to have which food, and then
they can't figure out how they are
goimr to get them to eat it.
A telephone rings, and a syrupy
i'emale voice wants to know, "When
is my roommate coming home?"
Somebody storms in and wants
si sore toe doctored. Somebody
else yells, "Can't I have something
to eat now? I'm afraid I'll get
out of the habit." And away the
nurse goes, trying to do her beet
for all of them.
She deals tactfully with the one
who cries because she "Can't take
that nasty old medicine," the one
who has too much company at all
hours, and the one who insists on
chattering to the very sick boy
in the same room with him. And
then, to top it all off, here comes
another with the flu- anil all of the
rooms are full up!
And so, when the nurse berges
up to our little nook in the hall
and desires to know how we would
like to lie a nurse, we tell her no,
thank you. we much prefer the
calm, peaceful existence of a news-
paper woman.
Professor Kuhlman has a theory
that all photographers are as craty
as Army huffier*.
City Of Meke-Believe
By Billy Sandlin
HOLLYWOOD , 4. , . .
Madge Evans returns from Kngland to pla.v tne lead in
"Exclusive Story" opposite Kranehot lone . . . Beautiful
Dolores Costello Harrvmore is returning to the sneen undei
David Selznick . . .Ann Harding's little daughter. Jane,
is MtiK offered severnl contracts with major studios out
Harding steadfastly turns them down. Her objection in
regard to her daughter's working is rather signilicant in
that she claims the studios are not the proper place lor a
child of Jane's age . . . Tin motion picture rights to The
Count of Luxembourg" have finally been obtained by Para-
mount and it will lie one of the major productions of 1!KH>
with its beautiful Franz Lehar music . The Dioiine Quin-
tuplets are now being hailed us the "highest priced motion
picture stars in the world." Their trust fund has just been
augmented by $50,000 for appearing for l.r 0 minutes in a
full-length feature lilm Stepin Kctehit took so many
bows at the Roxy Theatre in New York the other night that
he finally came out and said, "I'm too tired to take any more
bows." Then the applause became deafening, and so what
did he do but send out u looge to complete the bowing.
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To give you a slight idea of what it takes to make a
picture like "Anthony Adverse." we list the tollowing: I wo
hundred and ten thousand feet of bamboo were used to build
seven coaches for the French equences; six hundred and
twelve people were tested for tin ninety-eight speaking
part*, of which seventy-eight were major roles; 1 '41 sets
were erected, of which one, the slave corn) ound. is the larg-
est ever built <it extends over eight acres); lor another
set of an African jungle, they used one hundred tons of
undergrowth to make it look authentic and. before they
finish the epic, two thousand people will have been used as
extras.
I'REY IE WS
"Dangerous" with Bi tte Duvi.« and Franchot rone is
one of the pictures of the year. Last year Miss Dav is bare-
ly missed tin Academy reward with her performance in
"Of Human Bondage" and now seems t > have clinched it
with her characterization in tin- picture
"A Tale of Two Cities" with Ronald Cole man and isa
bell Jewell. It is a nig picture in the old-fa>hioned sense
and so enormously detailed that you wonder at tin- patience
of these movie men.
"Story of Louis Pasteur" stars Paul Muni in one of his
great characterizations It is an untilmable story that ha-
been tilmed and is rated as the l"-st yet to come out ot Holly
win id.
STATISTICS
The size of the motion picture industry i. hard to com
prehend until we see the actual tigures. Perhaps the fol-
lowing facts will help clarify your conception of its size. The
total admissions for are estimated at $l.Otn.oOO.OOO
with an HO.OOO.OOO theatre attendant The average price of
admission in the I'nited Suites is cents; at"l we are told
that out of every dollar of income in the I'nited States, 2
cents goes to the motion picture theatre owners.
Statistics compiled bv the Hay- office and the Domes-
tit and Foreign Bureau of the Depaitment of ( >mmerce re-
veal that thirty-live per cent of the admissions are paid by
young people between tht ages of 12 :.nd 2 1 The light come-
dies. musicals, and operetta- appeal to the younger folk and
compose the majority of ;lie films that are produced.
• Passing In Review •
By Jeanekte Ridley
It is surprising to lind out the enormous number of
people named Smith who are graduates of th( College.
Seven are members of one family, and an eighth is now in
Demonstration School. They are:
Julia Smith, who received her B A in 1021 with a major
in English and minor in education, i- now a student in the
.Billiard School of Music in New \ ork City, and is teaching
in a (iirl's School there.
.1 \\ Smith, who received his I! A in 1025, majored
in Latin and English. He is r.iw at honu in Denton.
Willis Smith, a histor.v and chemistry student, re
ceived his I! A here in 1025 and his M A. in 1027 from
S. M. C He is now president and general manager of the
Si pes Book Depository in Oklahoma Citv
Knth Miller Smith, who has also received her M A
trem S M. I ., received her I!. A in 1020. with a major in
English and Spanish. She i- now teaching Spanish and
English in Highland Park School. Dallas
Emory Clark Smith, who finished in 1920. is now in
Law School at the University of Texas. He majored in
Latin and history, and taught at the Huntsville Teachers
College from 1020-1982.
Robert Miller Smith, another of the brothers who works
for the Si pes School Book Depository in Oklahoma City,
received his B A. in 10:i0, with a major in history and a
minor in business administration.
Ralph Bruce Smith, the last of the family to receive
Ills degree, finished last spring with a major in business
administration and minor in English. He is also working
in Oklahoma City for the Sipes I:<>< K Depository.
Some other ex-students with the same last name to
finish here include a brother and sister from Denton. Thev
are:
Laura Beat tie Smith, who finished in 1980. receiving
her B A in English and music. The t ext year she received
her M. A from ('. I A. and is now on the faculty there.
Elliott Smith, hei brother, who will long be remem-
bered as a tennis star around the Campus, received his B. S
in 1988 with a major in geography and minor in physical
education, lie is now teaching physical education in Trini-
dad. Texas.
Other Smiths include:
wh? rwis>u'(i to 1928, has Since
attended Columbia I niversity and Colorado Universitv
She is now teaching the low first grade in Houston. Texas.
Willie Mat Smith, who rccpivpci her Ii A in 1MT>
majored in English and physical education She received
her M. A. the following year from C. I. A She is now-
teaching the sixth grade at Sanger. Texas
WM . Sniith who graduated in 19.84. is now working
in the < anion Water and Light Office He majored in gov-
ernment and minored in historv when in school here
l«sJhZ/S;te:,UI "f SmHh" "h"
Bernice Smith, who received her B. S. in elementary
education and English, and is teaching the third grade in
Irving. Texas. *
,. K"<«l Smith, wh., Im- hem mvmmn+nt of
th" Ko St,,n I. xks.S,h. ,I, ,|,U;V 1931. major,.,I
education and minored m English.
Lucille Smith.B.A.. who is now teaching in the pri-
catTon * We,hn r,on' a elementary edu-
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