The College Star (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 48, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 10, 1926 Page: 2 of 4
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I
THE COLLEGE STAR
Newspaper published weekly during the school year by the stu-
dents of the Southwest Texas State Teachers College.
Entered as second-class matter, November 21, 1921, at the Post Office in
San Marcos, Texas, under Act of March 3, 1879.
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief .....................................................................•................... George Bugby
Sports Editor ..............:.............................................................................. Jack Devinney
Assistant Sports Editor ..................................................................L. M. Stribling
Business Manager .............!.;....................................................................Claude Dailey
MEMORIALS
Man has always built and kept
his memorials. There seems to
be an eternal dread, which lurks
in the heart of everyone, at the
thought of being forgotten. Men
build monuments in honor of
others, in honor of ideal's and 'in
honor of events.
Armistice Day is no less a
monument than the Jewish Sab-
bath or the Goddess of Liberty.
It represents the mutual agree-
ment of nations to stop war. It
emphasizes peace—inactivity in
warfare. It heralds to the world
the willingness of nations to
make ware no more. The day is
a memorial of an agreement
among nations to hush the can-
non which nations,, so soon be-
fore, had pledged to spend and
to be, spent without stinct or
limit in war.
Americans love peace. Ameri-
ca lives for peace and not for
war. The Star, being deeply
American, hereby dedicates this
issue to Armistice Day with the
prayer that nations may learn to
live without war.
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OUR REJUVENATED
FACULTY
The enthusiasm of the student
body this yea ris unusual and
that general intensity of spirit
pervading the campus, we are
glad to note, has extended to the
faculty, accounting, possibly to
some extent, for their rejuvena-
tion.
One incident of this rejuvena-
tion may be found in the fact
that approximately forty of our
instructors attended the Bobcat-
Saint game, in Austin Friday,
most of them accompanying the
student body on the special
train, joining in the yelling, and
singingfi and altogether casting
aside the austere dignity of the
classroom, and participating in
the hilarity of the occasion.
Possibly loyalty to the school
actuated them to make the trip,
or maybe the gregarious in-
stinct. But most of all they were
influenced by the same stimuli
which caused the students to
make the trip; namely, a hope
that the Bobcats win, and the
overwhelming desire to be pres-
rexnt to witness and participate in
thC victory.
We' believe that the fraternal
attitude which the faculty is as-
suming toward the students this
year in particular, is wholesome
and conducive to a complete un-
derstanding and sympathy be-
tween the two which will tend
to make college life more enjoy-
able and profitable. We feel that
it diminishes the dignity of their
position not in the slightest, but
rather inculcates in the student
body a greater deference and
admiration. It is an indubitable
fact that never before in the his-
tory of the school, has the facul-
ty manifested so much interest
in student activities, and the
student body wishes to express
its appreciation.
SCHOOL
SUPPLIES
9
TOILET ARTICLES
BASS DRUG STORE
$500,000 WORTH OF
MACHINERY AT SOUTHERN
TEXTILE EXPOSITION
(From Manufacturers Record)
With more than 180 exhibitors, and
machinery valued at $500,000, the
Southern Textile Exposition at Green-
ville, November 1 to 6, will surpass
all previous textile shows in the
South.
Every phase of the textile industry
will be represented, in addition to a
great variety of miscellaneous equip-
ment and materials applicable to gen-
eral industrial utilization and build-
ing. An annex 200 by 60 feet to Tex-
tile Hall, where the shows are held,
had to be constructed to take care of
the greater number of exhibitors this
year. Recent inventions to be shown
for the first time will create special
interest, as well as the new products
to be displayed.
The exhibits of fine-goods machin-
ery and machinery for making silk-
mixed goods are also to be shown.
Because of the increasing number of
fine-goods mills in the Southern states
these exhibits are expected to attract
a large number of visitors.
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DISTRIBUTION OF OUR
WORKING POPULATION
Industry claims about the same
proportion of the total working popu-
lation in Europe and in the United
States, but this country, according to
the findings of a German scientist as
reviewed by our Department of Labor,
has a smaller percentage of its work-
ing population engaged in farming
and forestry, and a larger proportion
engaged in commerce and transporta-
tion than is the case in Europe. More
people are employed in the profes-
sions and public service in Europe,
and fewer persons, no doubt as a re-
sult of the World War, in domestic
service.
The difference existing between Eu-
ropean countries and the United
States in the distribution of working
population, according to types of
work, are strikingly illustrated in a
chart, prepared by Cambridge Asso-
ciates (Boston.) However, we are
warned that these are not to be re-
lied upon absolutely, because of va-
riations among the countries in meth-
ods of classification, but that, broad-
ly speaking, thees statistics may be
used for comparative purposes.
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DISHONESTY INCREASING
It is often asserted that much of
the present thievery among the white-
collar workers is due to the desire to
“keep up with the Joneses”. Some
color to this theory is given by a re-
port of the American Surety Com-
pany for the first nine months of this
year. The company reports an in-
crease of 59 per cent in the amount
of net claims incurred in the fidelity
bond field in which it guarantees the
honesty of employees, and character-
izes this increase as “the mo'st sur-
prising feature” of the nine-month
review. The report says the company
finds it difficult to explain such an un-
favorable showing, and continues, as
we quote it from the New York
Times:
“No one can say certainly the cause
of increased defalcations among em-
ployees. It is certainly not the part
of an organized crime wave, but rath-
er a reflection of human behavior
caused by conditions of the times.
“Suggestions are frequently made
to us that such embezzlements and
defalcations are brought about by a
desire to live up to false standards
of one’s friends or neighbors or to
participate in various forms of riot-
ous living. A study of the motives
behind many crimes of this sort leads
us to believe that thees two causes
are very often evident.”—Literary
Digest.
I, Hi HARRISON
Sells the Best
CHIFFON HOSE
For Less Money
JENNINGS
PHARMACY
SCHOOL SUPPLIES
And
Sandwiches
THE COLLEGE STAR
THE WORLD MARCHES
TO AMERICAN MUSIC
American tunes, produced by instru-
ments made in America, are inspiring
all the nations, runs the report, ei-
ther to praise or protest. As a sign of
the extent of this new invasion from
Yankeeland, Louis F. Van Norman
points out, in the New York Indepen-
dent, that theer are more American-
made musical instruments in foreign
lands than those of any other nation.
Mr. Van Norman has been American
Trade Commissioner in various for-
eign countries, and writes from first-
hand knowledge on this subject. In
1924, it appears, we sold more than
$12,000,000 worth of musical instru-
ments abroad, as compared with Eng-
land’s $6,000,000 business. Germany’s
$2,000,000 and France’s $500,000.
Moreover, we are assured, our expor-
ters are maintaining, even increasing,
their' lead. “The world is listening”
announces Mr. Van Norman, adding
that:
“From the testimony of field rep-
resentatives of the Department of
Commerce, from consuls and travel-
ers generally, it is evident that this
‘staccato gospel of the Yankee’, as
spread by American music and mu-
sical instruments, is already well on
its way toward the Americanization
of the world. Some of the evidence
is well worth recording. Almost lit-
erally all over the world does our
trade in musical instruments extend—
even to the remotest regions.
“In 1924, we shipped to 107 differ-
ent countries. Jn Australian, Canad-
ian, and Cuban drawing-rooms the fa-
mily piano is now almost always of
American make. Old and young alike
in Australia, Mexico, Cuba, Argen-
tina, British India, South Africa,
Spain and Venezuela delight in our
player-pianos. Australia, indeed, is
our very best market for player-pia-
nos. Last year we shipped these me-
lody makers to Australia to the
amount of almost $2,000,000. Player-
pianos have been a godsend to the
white managers and their families on
the isolated plantations of the Dutch
East Indies, and as well have furnish-
ed vast entertainment to the ever-
increasing number of natives in those
parts of the world who have grown
rich' on rubber.
“In Japan, where the clash between
Oriental and Occidental music is on
in earnest, the American player-piano
is beginning to crowd out the ancient
samisen. For untold generations, this
native instrument has been found in
the restaurants of Nippon, and the
colorful geisha girls have danced to
its accompaniment. Now the samisen
is beginning to give way before the
onward march of the player-piano
made in Chicago. With the player-
pianos, of .course, go the music rolls—
which carry American tunes and melo-
dies. In little villages in the heart
of British India, Yankee-made reed
organs beguile with Hindu songs,
while orthodox Protestant and Catho-
lic families in old England accompany
their devotions on organs manufac-
tured in St. Louis.
. “Throughout all the far-flung Latin
American countries American jazz
music, popularized by American band
instruments and American phono-
graph records, is making its way. Ha-
vana, while preserving its traditional
fondness for Spanish and other Eu-
ropean music, is yielding to the se-
ductions of jazz. All kinds of Ameri-
can music, in fact, make strong ap-
peal to the Cubans, and the latest song
hits presented in the United States
reach them very quickly. An Ameri-
can resident of the Cuban capital re-
cently told me that he was once con-
siderably amused to hear an elegant
young caballero boast that the guitar
with which he was wont to serenade
his inamorata was made in Cleveland,
Ohio—the inference being that this
fact insured its super-excellence and
the up-to-dateness of its possessor.”
If “the new musical malady, jazz”,
really had its origin in the remote
jungles of the tropics, remarks Mr.
Van Norman, it has now returned “to
mock its ancestral home”. In the
wilds of Java, as in African jungles,
the chance traveler may hear the re-
markable strains of “Yes, We Have
No Bananas”, and “Barney Google”.
American ideas and American foreign
trade are thus promoted on the wings
of America’s inspirational music. If
the movement continues, we may be
able to observe “some interesting ef-
fects on the musical tempo of humani-
ty,” surmises Mr. Van Norman, ad-
ding:
“The popularity of American musi-
cal instruments in foreign lands is,
of course, not wholly dependent on
the jazz tempo. But it is this jazz
tempo which is raising disturbances
abroad. Not only the professional
musicians of the Old World but the
creative artists as well are beginning
to resent the march of jazz—some of
them to wage fierce warfare against
it. One English critic has put it thus:
‘Jazz has stirred up human passions
to the pitch of a war of retaliation in
art’.”
American players of jazz instru-
ments and leaders of jazz orchestras
have, of course, followed their instru-
ments into foreign lands, but “local
talent” rapidly enters into competition
with the wandering Americans.\ The
writer recalls that:
“Several American jazz players
were refused admission to England re-
cently, and it is reported that the
British Ministry of Labor has suc-
ceeded in securing regulations which
practically prohibit the importation of
American ‘talent’ of this kind. The
old-line musicians of Europe perhaps
dimly realize that this new thing just
coming over the horizon may take
their jobs away from them. British
musical unions have been the most
outspoken in demanding ‘protection’
from American jazz. Now France has
also begun to stir in opposition, and
recent reports indicate a growing
uneasiness in Germany.”
Really, the most outstanding fac-
tor in this remarkable increase in
foreign demand for our American mu-
sical instruments, concludes Mr, Van
Norman, is the apparent hunger for
our player-pianos, our phonographs
and records. The world is learning to
march to their music.
TWINKLES
Landlady: “Isn’t this good chick-
en?”
Boarder: “It may have been moral-
ly, but physically it’s a wreck.”
For the best of goods in the
BAKERY LINE
Call at
COOPER BAKERY
Next to Palace Theatre
JOE FULLER
Headquarters
KINGS CONFECTIONERY
Closed Service Cars
With or Without
Drivers
PHONE 446 or 57
“Hello, my dear fellow, how dif-
ferent you look without a beard or
mustache. I wouldn’t have recogniz-
ed you if you hadn’t had my umbrel-
la.”
Wife: “I got the recipe for this
pudding over the radio, today.”
Hub (tasting it): “Ugh! Dogone
that static!”
“Miss Ponder,” said the boss, “you
are a very handsome young woman.”
“Oh!” said the typist, blushing.
“You dress neatly and you have a
well-modulated voice. Your, deport-
ment is also above reproach.”
“You shouldn’t pay me so many
compliments.”
“Oh, that’s all right,” said the boss.
“I merely wanted to put you in a
cheerful frame of mind before taking
up the matter of punctuation and
spelling.”
Field Worker in Sociology 103:
“But have you no religiousu convic-
tions, my good man?”
Convict: “Yes mum; I wuz caught
breaking into a church collection box.”
Guest: “Waiter, theer is a fly in
my ice cream!”
Waiter: “Let him freeze and teach
him a lesson.”
He’ll Need His Legs.—“Don’t deliv-
er a Used Car to a Purchaser That Is
Not in Good Running Condition.”—Ad
in an Oregon paper.
FRESH FRUITS AND
VEGETABLES
Call
AGNEW & COMPANY
Phones 265 and 266
FUNK’S
DRUG
STORE
Driverless Fords
$1.00 per Hour
Essex...............$1.50 per hour
Buick...............$2.00 per hour
DOBBINS
TRANSFER CO.
Service Cars—Baggage
Phone 87
BARBECUE, BEEF,
SAUSAGE AND PORK
At The
Q. K, MEAT MARKET
We Have the Best
Phone 432
SO MEN
If you play with the heart of a woman
Be she old or merely a maid,
Be sure! my son, you’ll regret it
As sure as a spade’s a spade.
You’ve laughed and joked with the
other boys,
At the way you’ve fooled ’em along,
Never considering the pain you’ve
caused,
Nor thinking you’ve done any wrong.
But wait. Some day you’ll really love
And then you’ll begin to pay
For the hearts you’ve broken will give
you no rest
In your dreams, your work, your play,
You’ll see their faces as you talked
to them
And remember the look i» their eyes,
As you spoke of love and other things
Gee! but you’ll hate those lies,
For the day you find yourself in love
With a girl so wondrous fair,
You’ll think of the hearts you’ve
trifled with,
And you’ll begin to doubt if she’s
square,
And then they’ll all come back to you,
And the question you’ll ask will be:
“I’ve fooled and played with dozens
of them,
Do you suppose she played with me?”
When you kiss the lips of the girl you
« love
As you leave her at the door,
You’ll wonder in spite of all you can do
If she’s been kissed that way before.
For the things she does through in-
nocense,
Will fill your-heart with doubt
And the moments she spends away
from you
Will tear your heart strings out.
You’ll never think that she does right,
Tho’ she does and tries her best,
You’ll be jealous of every man you
see,
And you’ll think she likes the rest,
For you’ll think of the many girls
you’ve kissed
And you’ll reason that this is true:
“For the things I can do to other
men’s girls—
Other men to mine can do.”
DRY GOODS AND
SHOES
At
GRAND LEADER
Lower Prices
Southwest Corner
of the Public Square
Parlor Barber Shop No. 1 and 2
And BE BACK BEAUTY SHOPPE
We are prepared to give the latest
in our line of work . . . Phone 509
Our. Work.. Speaks.. For.. Itself
SITTING PRETTY; FEELING FINE
BECAUSE Papa and Mama
Send Their CLOTHES to
JOE, THE TAILOR
—all the time.
• Phone 99
Also Closed Service Cars
STATE BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
San Marcos, Texas
TEACHERS COLLEGE DEPOSITORY
THE BOBCAT
“At the Brow of the Hill”
WELCOMES YOU
WE HAVE A COMPLETE LINE OF SCHOOL SUPPLIES
Our Drings and Sandwiches will please
you . . . COME IN—and be satisfied!
STUDENTS, MAKE OUR STORE
YOUR HEADQUARTERS
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The College Star (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 48, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 10, 1926, newspaper, November 10, 1926; San Marcos, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth614220/m1/2/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Hays+County+-+San+Marcos%22: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State University.