The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 27, 1954 Page: 2 of 4
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The Campus Chat
Wadnatday. Oc*. 27, IH4
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Lab for Literature
I rrfmery Ittentnrjf
of liter*
of th*
and farulty r*m or nI
la writ-
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ill roMMMrtion with th.
u deeire to maet and
writer*, btrt thin i not th
tor ill* interest ia writing
Writer* alwajr* profit from hemg around
wj-iter*," Iter aaid "* Seeing what other
to usually mmkr* you write tetter
l>r Brown mn only tearhea creature writ-
ing I hi* rouriM* in writing. Kngliah SIR, will
b# offered in th* tyring vmtnteri. but hv
ai*o prarttee* it "TH« liuily," • short t«rjr.
iffMini in the sprit**.. !**««• of Pi-rtpf-
liw
Another of I>r Brww«> article#, "Swift ••
Mora)Mt," appeared in th<r October, IIAl is
• m "1 the Philological Quarterly —
(light r ,m. hu interest in writing >• twofold ^
"I trN | writ*- in Montana," he said. 'and
now I'm trying to writ*- about Montana "
In addition. h«- in working on a iMMgnfli
in 'he history of ideae on ISth-rentury theories
i f (•iri«umn«> I r Brown'* •rtwle on Swift
tnapir«d him to writ* thf* pi«-r - "Swift do#*
strange thing* te poopie," he remarked
When the <-han<-e fam u- return to Tesaa,
hi# naiivf state. t r Brown, m he put It,
'grabbed it "
"Now what I want most," he Mid. "ia to
<■!>' <uragf writing. Iioth my own *nd tha* of
•>ther $««>pie "
Tbuv Jax J/Am Winy 30rfp
Qiiipm jof Gvshaqsi VflsumA
Internal Revenue form 1040-A. which
ha« been a headache for taxpayer# for
many years, will be far lent* complicated
thin year, thank* to the effort# of the
Revenue service.
In fact, for the wage earner* receiv-
er. Brown r«*eiv«wl hi# B A deirree in
rimmtotui from Rice institute tn IM2 White
at Kin he took Prof George William*' e* a
litre writing coarse "That", where urienrf and
writing began to mi*," t r Brown said
For «i* months he worked an a rhemist fur
the Pan American refinery Then mme th*
Nine month* at the California Institute nf
Technology ehaneed the <>hemi«t Into « meteor
ologiet, and for four yar* f>r Brown trie,) to
ontrueM the weath< r "It mad" * pessimist of
me." he Mid
The Air fnrw aponaored a globe HreHntr
tour for T>r. Brown with a long pause in In
din "All I remember.'* he said, "i« that it'*
even harder to predict the weather in India
than it I* in Tex** "
After hi* discharge from the Air Fore*, he
Abandoned science 'or th<- graduate study of
English He attended the Slate University of
Iowa and studied in it* Writer'* Workshop
under the direction of Paul Knifle. well known
The Writer'* Workahop wa* an nduc ti *r>
in itself, it turned out Tw« years and 2
poundu later Dr Brown received the M A
degree in writmif. and. not content, proceeded
to aim for the doctorate
In 1SMW). after receirin? the Ph l> in literary
criticism, Dr Brown migrated to Montana,
where he taurht for four y*ar* at th«- Ea*tem \
Montana College of Kduration in Billinir*
"Billin**' rhief literary dial I net ion." h«*
pointed out. "i that Hemingway wrote hi*
*tory The Gambler, the Nun and thf Radio'
in * Billing*' hospital I r-ontrihtited nothing
I'm afraid "
S iilll
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Campus Echoes . . ,
Goose Goes; Students
Mourn Loss of Dorothy
DR JAMIS M. BROWN
• hut t'ttaftci (i l.'Ol
Joe's Place
Old Chief Sighs, Unpacks Suitcases
As Chat Wins All-American Again
I Helu-vt\ if every per*«>i> could have nn op-
portunity to viait the room where the Hi*
tonr document arc kept Kor thow >if u*
who iue «onietmie« ►fuilty <>f not taking fieri'
oualy >nr •leno«'facy. "in hi*t<>ry, nnd our
patrintitm. ' «>iuld of particulnr l>encfit
It i* a mo*l impresaive *ight to walk be
« in the entrance of the room
into * he dimly lighted place and read n train
the fntiniu* W" id« on which our government
. • imi«e«!
by JOB Mi NICK
At la*t the time has> atrivetl for thi* for
mer Chat etliU r to relax and get off the
fence where he ha* been sitting for nigh onto
five month*
For now that the Chat hn# wrapped up it
2dth consecutive All'American rating. I can
unpack my bag* and quiet my fear of Papa twwn the ptlla
Shuford'* loaded thotgun
But it took a not unwelcome trip to Wa*h
mgton. I).i" , to relieve the am lety The occa
«ion was the 30th annual national meeting It give* *,ne « feeling .if awe to *tand un-
«f the Anaociated Collegiate pre**, the organ I der the magnif ••-••nt mural* >n the walla de
ration which rate* college new*paper* and picttng f«tnou moment* in our hi*torv tine
yearbook* from all over the country think* of «ll th wonderful i>n c« from which
The trip to Washington was worth the ef h v" «'<" ' I" u ,h- m,,,t Ptwperou* na
fart for another reason it wa« my fir*t ,"'n 1,1 ,h'' Wl v!''
time inside an airplane Yucca Kditor lion I* • verv imprc«n« !*«! to vi*it the
Faught and I left the Greater Fort Worth chamber* >n which h> untion* business is
International airport at approximately i carried on through th« '■ f ■' t of our elected
p.m. Wednesday, and by 9:80 we were in the representative* The (-wpttol building it*clf i
capita).
After the trip on the American Airline*
I)T4I I am firmly convinced that the only-
way to travel long distance* i* by plane I
mentally whistled The High arid the Mighty
ail the w*y up and back
And leave it to Texas to furnish the only
rough weather of the trip The flight to
Waahingtor wasn't interrupted by any *ud
d*-r. jars or dip* caused by shifting wind cur
r*nt* and tin flight back to Fort Worth was
e*|uaJiy swmotr until we were approximately
forty-five minute* out at Fort Worth. Then
w* ran into the thundercloud* and the rain
that seem* t*i have soaked the ground thor
oughty around here
At that time my stomach did experience a
few iMMMjr jolts, but happily, the trip w*«
e«d*d with nary a rvtrh.
iarly affect the visitor
It would lie (Missible to t(o on and on
M>M ut the many beautiful and impressive
buildings, the historical places, nnd the other
night* i" '<ee hi Washington but spare i«
running out
Suffice it to say that I had m wonderful
time in Washington My only wish i« that I
were «1111 there
iJorothy the red g«mo e has di«ap|K ar«d' To
journalism student* «' Fast Texas State, thi-
i* « ghastly revelation V r 2H long, faithful
year*, f'orothy. «t faded red woollen shoe sign,
ha* stood m the office of the Fust Texan.
. arnpii* new paper, watching over the publi-
. at ion Through the year s, each editor has
placed hi name on her signature-covered
feather- The onl> eiue to her disappearance
was « note *tatmg she had gone to a cooler
location
• * *
l're*ent student, at T> *a A and M ean no
It.ngio check imck on the grade* of their
father- report* the Battalion, college paper
In the future the cadets must have either a
legitimate excuse or the permission of their
father, before seeing the "old man's" marks
• * •
A college eilucatic is a fascinating thing,
judging by answer* 'hat appeared on a recent
nformation tent, report - the Southwest Mis-
*otir State Standard
<,,m. answer- were F Jord a Swedish
automobile, Iran Bible of the Mohammedan*:
Nicotine the man who discovered cigarettes.
Scotland Yard 2 feet 10 inches, Concubine
•a her. -everai businesses combine
• t •
Freshman Dress I'p day was celebrated on
the Howard Payne campus The frosh were
paraded through town attired in gay, humor-
■ m*. "Ut -of-this-world creation* thought up
hy the upper classmen
• • •
Mike the Tiger, mascot of the LSI" Bengal*,
celebrated hi- lUth birthday f'ct 11 Fresh-
men and faculty member* were permitted to
wi*h birthday greeting* bv *troking hi* shiny
c.va' at their own risk
• * •
An'l then there'* the story of the Michigan
Stat, student who drove into a dark wooded
re« near Fast Landing and turned on the
headlight*
Th< cop* thought the guy looked mighty
peculiar running around in front of the car
with a butterfly net when they drove up a
few minute* later Before the little men in
white coats could arrive with the straight
■ticket*, the student explained that he wa*
taking entomology at MSf and that he
figured the tight* would attract all kind* of
bug" for specimens
• • •
About four hundred male student* stormed
the women'* dormitories at LSI' la t week >
h frenzied attempt to <tea' feminine tin
rnentionable* Encouraged by chant# of "Roll.
Green Wave, if Tui*ne can do it we can do it
too," and "Hey. hey, what do y\ u say: let's
tak> the pants away," the male mas* was
greeted by the girl* with encouragements
giggles, and shower* of water It was only
recently that student* at Tulane. numbering
700 males, successfully staged a similar panty
rani. The attempt wan halted !>y the sudden
■trenching and the appearance of the police
and the dean of the college
Letters to Editor
Writer Suggests
Verbal Campaigns
In Next Contest
T the Kditor
["he purp'Uted inability of student* to com
ply with the -pint ••? the election rules is
a sorrowful error
1 tint ■ orisiclet any election rule*, whether
national or collegiate, to he a panacea to
which f"iS"W-ini! generations should adhere
K\pentiituies may oi may not have lieen ex
■ i-iiitAt t 1 wouldn't know
The consensus of a • select i group of
people '* that the election, as a whole, was
arrieil out in a "shameful" manner
Those who participated, whether victorious
• o not. would, in all probability, say they en-
uj.'d "aking part m the election 1 know I
did
The next time an electi'tn is held on cam
pus. I suggest the campaign be conducted by
word f mouth By conducting the campaign
ri this manner, ■nlv a small percentage will
km-a hn'a at election i" being held. We
,v ioIi ! want anyone t«- find out. for we
•nigh' be openly eriticited fot Iteing a nart.
f a ■ ampus election
|,et - all 'i awl ni' .ur h<des arol hibei
naif foi the remamdei of our college years
\nd the next time anyone suggest* partici
pating n an election, we'll tell him. "That isn t
• i , p.rope' 'hintf t.. iii, "
T Hay Barlow
mn Wm than 15000 a year, a 1 Wine
card will be all that will have to be filled
out to fi /ur ' the income tax for 1954.
Thirty-five million of the estimated
sixtv million American taxpayers are
eligible to umi- the new card form, which
is nothing more than a stripped-down
version of old 1040-A.
This vear all returns must be in by
April 15, one month later than the pre-
vious March 15 deadline, but the tafe
collectors will welcome them anytime
after Jan. 1 . ,
NTo change in general rates is made
under the new law overhauling the tax
structure, although it provides cuts for
millions of individuals and nearly all
corporations. A 10 jht cent reduction in
fiersonal taxes went into effect Jan. 1
under previous legislation.
Thf 1040-A card form may be the
first st 'p toward relieving taxpayers
earning under $5000 a year from filing
any return at all ,
The new form has its limitations,
however, and many taxpayers will pre-
fer to tackle the more complicated 1040
form instead. For example, those using
the new form may not. take more than
the .standard 10 per cent deductions, nor
may they itemize their deductions.
In the past. Form 1040-A has been a
full sheet of questions, front ami back.
This has lieen reduced to a card about
the size of a bank check, with 15 lines
• if information to be filled in.
Accompanying the form is a sheet of
instructions which gives detailed direc-
tions and also serves as a guide to
whether the taxpayer would Ik* better
off to use the simpler 1040-A form, or
the more complicated 1040 form.
As in the past, the Revenue service
will calculate the tax for taxpayers us-
ing tht* simple form, and send them a
liill or a refund.
fiven the instructions for Form 1040
carrv out the emphasis on use of the
plainer form. These instructions begin
1>v suggesting that tne taxpayers con-
sider if they would not be lietter off
using the simpler form. The card can he
handled as speedily as a punch board in
revenue offices which have the neces-
sary equipment.
Experience with the card this year
will help determine whether next year
the Revenue service could put into prac-
tice a plan whereby taxpayers eligible
to file the simple tax form would not
have to file at all
In effect, the employees would give
the same information as now required
on the card to their employer, who
would tiass it along to the Revenue ser-
vice with the employer's record of in-
come tax deductions. The Revenue ser-
vice would then bill the taxpayer or
send him a refund.
It appears that the government ha«
finally crime up with a painless method
for extracting income taxes from the
average wage earner fharles Adler
The Deadbeat
Cold Buckets Prove Prize Aboa rd Minesweeper
a beautiful str icture. both inmlde and out
The ISO-foot hurh rotunda and dome partiru
hi HAN KIF.ITKB
KI'ISOHF NI'MBKR TWO of life on
a cork on the York -a new series of
thrilling stories designed to make ex
sailors, if no! homesick, at least sick—is
now declared to lie launched.
Last week I said that the wind played
(sometimes it played and then some
(bswwcAaiA fcxpsudt Vichfty in
£ui (Joiinq (public (x)ili VYlaJvi
As the Tuesday election draws near,
voters will tie caught in the whirlwind
of final campaign speeches this week
in the twelfth-hour bid for votes
And the way things are shaping up
it appear* that there will Ik- a Repub
lican president in the White House and
a Democratic Congress The combina-
tion of the traditional off-year tendency
Sim* thi* wa my firat trip to th«> nation'* <>f fh(1 rmrtv to lose strength
capital I did not waate the opportunity and f|nd th,, discontent „f the unemployed
vi*ited several of the more famous buildings ifesttlMK! to work against the Re-
of the city It would take many hour* and publicans
«wr*l d*r to really all that could he Acconii||jr to , (rrana-roots election
. , _ , „ , t , survey made by U. S. News and World
I>on and I went first to the Sm.th~.nian aft|,r 2 the Democrats will
which we covered in a «,mewh.1 hav<? workinr majority of five seats
inner Ther. are many, many « [n ^ and „ 2fi to **> majority in
hfbto and rrtk* of the p**t te he seen and th,. House of Representatives
strength, with the exception of 1934.
when the Democrats gained Hence, the
Republicans would tend to lose this
vear; they now hold only a majority of
three in the Senate and a majority of
six in the House
And unemployment In some area* i*
throwing votes into the Democratic
column For even though the Republi-
cans may not be to blame for the unem-
ployment, voters tend to show their dis-
times it lost its temper and got down " horsepower diesels—but when the wind
right nasty > an important part in the started on the C hesapeake, or arouno
life of men aboard the I'SS Auxiliary Cape Hatteras, or even in the mouth
Motor Minesweeper I*, a bare 135 feet of the York River, a cold, empty bucket
and 300 tons of creaking timbers, haw- all to one's self was indeed a prize
sers, and tired human bones beyond comparison
THE 4H WAS a speedy little craft-- Those who didn't have a bucket or
she could do 1 I knots on her two 500 couldn't liear the thought of teaming
up with a fellow shipmate in the use
of one had. if they could keep from
being washed overboard the sea
The crew of the 48 was tough—seldom
did anyone fail to make it to the side
FXCFPT FOR THIS one character
I'll never forget the sight. His cue was
the captain's voice as he shouted,
satisfaction by voting against the party "Away all lines." The 48 would be less
in power. Loss of income among other than 30 feet from the pier when pale
industrial workers and widespread loss of face and cold of brow, spectacles set
among farmers also sounds bad for the low on his nose, scragglv moustache
Republicans.
Rut whatever the predicted outcome
of the election, nothing will la- decided
until the qualified voters go to the polls
That will be the big job for North Tex-
nns eligible to vote in Tuesday's elec-
tion. —Joe Minick
Q&nqAsiAA,
(Dsjchion
The Campus Chal
IbaMk 14 *>«l!4l(i«
fArKMAKffit i mm
M«*iW* UwrnM r«ilnl l >tm
drooping over his upper lip. and both
cheeks bulging—the lad would race for
the gunwale.
And at sea he never learned "To the
lee!" "To the lee, you fool'" "With the
wind, idiot!" "Clear the decks for ac-
tion!" Everyone tried to help him
to teach him . . but he always heaved
into the wind.
c-«Ti. . PERHAPS HE KNEW exactly what
Atx-AMF tr i Tturs hp was doing, for a short time later he
dam Ki.rrm
Vmtor Tmm twHl olWatet* Pit
only time to glance over them
to the haae of the Washington
but derided against going to the
If such a switch in the Congress oc-
curs. Preside nt Eisenhower must try
to get his fin-gram passed over the ob-
• h"* Ur jections of the Democrats, who will
, aad that", an awftdly long way morp thj|n |{kety he doing everything
ooftsible to gain strength for the 1(*IW
nre«idential election.
Whether Ike's magnetic personality
will he enough to swing the ma jority of
congreaamen to his side remains to he
seen Possibly he will not have much
impressive thing tmub\e getting Democratic support
TWre are kept fafe urogram sfnee the Democrats hay
asdocutk ftDtmas
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ciiAat.as *pm
eirn.M* n**oaav* t.rov nnmc wnxm Jacobs
Lactam
jtm nbal swtat.rr
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A WW* *!tTKt^
Raavrr joawsrow
During one afternoon we covered the N'a
tional Gallery of Art the Arehivee building,
the Capitol building, and the Library of Con-
gna . We had not the time even to half way
ma a« thee* wa* to he
|ii wmm
HP
■from all the supported him even while the Republi
Wars ttm aaa C aOHati>n of the (gnu had wi «l of CuiiHai
Maf c<mf>^>iatiuii. THe tendency far tfce party In power
«M mtmII. and many to toae fdNnfOi In off-yaor rtwllopa
WW boeli to the early part «f Jht eati-
■■■19W the in party has 1
JORW OOX
"VHHY Noums
muck soi.aw
• lltl
was transferred to permanent shore
duty because of his "chronic" seasick-
ness.
Our main liberty port was Norfolk.
Va Everv week or so the Yorktown di-
vision of minesweet*rs would steam
into the harbor of Norfolk, braving the
wash of every passing tugboat and gar-
bage scow, and berth at pier seven.
SAILORS FROM cargo ships, cruis-
ers. awl bnttlewagons manned the life-
lines of their respective vessel- and
-houted. "Well If it ain't the SS United
States herself comin' right alongside."
And the sailors were always neatly clad
in undress blues or whites.
We afwavs prepared for trips into
the harbor by donning our srrounfrfest
dungarees, multicolored civilian socks,
and baaehalt cap*. TTien we assumed the
"bet you wiae guys can't do this" atti-
BATTLESHIPS of the Missouri class
and carriers of the Coral Sea class were
berthed at the end of pier seven. We
moored at the head of it, eight abreast.
Discipline was nil on the minesweepers,
and deep freezes were meant for more
than frozen meat.
The quarterdeck watch consisted of
one man armed with a .45 automatic.
One night I returned from liberty early,
crossed four minesweepers to the 48.
and encountered Sarge, a Kentucky hill-
billy who had sjient eight years in the
Arm> before deciding to try another
branch of service. He was on watch.
SARC.E WAS SO LOOPED that I had
to log myself in from liberty. And he
was wearing three 45s. "Expecting a
raid"" I asked. Seems the two men on
watch on the minesweepers tied o n
either side of the 48 were so clobbered
thev couldn't stand up. and Sarge "was
just standin' watch for all three ships."
Qan ChkhJtianA Stop
HfcntheuiA Ur JiJoW?
In the princinal address of the final
session of the Baptist General conven-
tion in Fort Worth last week, a member
of the executive committee of the Bap-
tist World alliance said:
"Seventv per cent of the world's pop-
ulation still remains out of Christ . . .
fortv per cent of it has never heard the
message of Christ. Since 1890. the world
has been growing heathen more and
more at the rate of six million persons
each year."
If that is the case, what are the
chances of a divided Christian world
changing the situation ? Perhaps the
time has come when Christian churches
—divided into multitudes of churches
over religion itself—are unable to stem
the flow of the world's people toward
heathenism.
Perhaps the time has come when the
Christian churches should prove the
phrase "United we stand "
—Dan Klepper
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