The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 36, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 6, 1946 Page: 1 of 4
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“OVER 21” GIVES DELIGHTFUL EVENING
OF ENTERTAINMENT BY MASK AND WIG
NEWS OF THE DAY
Adams
The Nuermberg trials have
come to a conclusion, but as yet
nothing; of the results are known.
However, we do know that the
British^ have asked the death pen-
alty for the twenty-one defend-
ants, and for Martin Bomman, be-
ing tried in absentia. It is be-
lieved in some American* circles
stated.
will escape with prison sentences.
The American public has re-
ceived very little of the testimony
given at the trial, and almost
none of that has come in the lat?
ter stages. Perhaps the newspa-
pers do not consider the event
newsworthy, but it is the concen-
sus of opinion that the powers
Magazine Needs
Workers; Young
Stresses Speed
Any person desirous of work-
ing on the Southwestern Magazine
should contact Howard Young in
the publications , office , anytime
Thursday aftampon.
“It is: our hope that we will
be permitted to turn over a near
*raafi
that be are withholding the bulk
of available informatlbn a trick
often employed by England and
Russia. It is to be hoped that the
entire trial procedure will be pub-
lished as soon as conveniently pos-
sible.
The State of New York has re-
voked the charter of its Ku Klux
Klan, an act that should be heart-
ily applauded throughout every
state in the nation. The names
of members as well as the offi-
cers of the Klan have been given
to' the FBI, an admirable proced-
ure since that body is well able
to take care of such subversive
“We expect to have the maga-
zine out in time in the future or
f©el that we have miserably failed
in the task that we have been
given to do. A magazine is now
in progress that will cover the
months from December to June.
It will be in the hands of the stu-
dents by the close of the summer
semester. The September issue
will be ready for distribution by
September 1. A snapshot section
is being inaugurated for the bene-
fit of students and ex-students.”
Young said.
Shunning Of Girls
To Result From
Crowded Colleges
W>i.
With war veterans jamming
classrooms in quest of higher ed-
ucation, many American girls
never will* get to college, accord-
ing to an article in the current
(Aug. 3) Saturday Evening Post.
“Many state institutions are re-
fusing admission to out-of-state
women, and it seems inevitable
that these schools will damp down
further,” writes MUton MacKaye
in an arvicle “Crisis at the Col-
lages.”
“Speaking off the record, and
—eegvetfully, - number of educa-
tors predict such a tightening of
•the situation that many American
girts presently of college age will
Watta Ya Think?
Thursday and Friday, August 8-9,
in the library auditorium, is a hi-
larious comedy full of rapid fire
gags that will roll ’em in the
aisles and keep ’em there.
The play centers around Paula
Wharton, witty authoress, and
her husband, Max Wharton, s
big-time newspaper editor turned
officer trainee. Throughout the
in first one ridiculous situation
then another. In the first act
play the couple find themselves
their troubles begin when they
are forced to share their apart-
ment with a. young officer and
his wife ' (Howard ' Young and
Jacksie Ritcheson).
The Becond act deals with the
efforts of Robert Drexel Gow
(Charles Parr), a dapper and
Veterans Adopt
Const. By-Laws
At Last Meeting
JOHNNY & RAY
The purpose of this column
is to express the views and op-
inions of you, the students of
Southwestern University, on
events of national, inter-nation-
al, and local importance.)
Question of the Week:
Why did you choose Southwest-
ern for your education?
NOBLE ATKINS: Odessa, Tex-
as, Junior, English Major, In-
dependent.
Noble explains, “I heard from
reliable sources that S. U. had
an excellent music department. I
have always been enterested in
pompus newspaper publisher, to
got Max out of the army and
back behind the editor’s desk. A
visit to the Whartons by Col. Fo-
ley (Joe Jefferson), Max’s com-
manding officer, and the colonel's
wife and mother-in-law (Mollie
Keyes and Beulah Mae Dimmit)
tend to make the situation ex-
tremely confusing and very amus-
ing.
In the third act the apartment
becomes a veritable madhouse.
Col. Foley and family bring Max
his orders, causing quite a stir.
After they leave. Robert Drexel
Gow appears on the scene fol-
lowed shortly by Joel L. Nixon
(John Goodwin Tower), fast talk-
ing Hollywood movie director, and
his comely secretary (Dolores
Duerson). Nixon tries to persuade
Paula to revise the scenerio for
a movie adaptation of her boqk.
The play finally ends happily for
all concerned.
The Veterans Organization of
Southwestern University met Wed-
nesday night, July 31, in the li-
brary auditorium.
The first business to come be-
fore the meeting was the read-
ing of a letter to the veterans
from Dr. Score concerning hous-
ing.
' Thfc business of selecting a fac-
ulty sponsor was discussed at
length and it was decided to elect
the sponsor at the next regular
meeting of the organization.
The' constitution having beed
approved at the last meeting, the
proposed by-laws were read and,
after a heated discussion and* one
correction, were ratified by the
body.
The next meeting is scheduled
for Wednesday, August 14.
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the first time I have been caught
with my mouth open, and consid-
ering my propensity for gab, it
won’t be the last time.
Elsewhere in the final tabulation
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never be allowed to matriculate,”)
the article continues.
, With almost ’'400,000 veterans
attending colleges or universities
the close of the school 'mm-
and more than 1,000,000 more ex- of results, we notice that the Hon.
pected to seek admission by Sep- Tom Connally has again been re-
Twr,se^i,Ws *"the Setmte‘
it crisis in its history,” the
reports. Colleges do - not
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—ahd this is
can be quartered any
groups as the Ku Klux Klan.
Here in our own State we have
concluded the Primary elections,
to the great satisfaction of some
successful candidates, and the cha-
grin; of a great many others. We
.Will have a run-off for governor
between Beauford Jester slid Dr.
Homer P. Rainey, much to the
surprise of no one other than this
writer, who had loudly proclaimed .. _______,_____
that Dr. Rainey would win with- S, U. an ideal school for the
IWRT Ihm-dfT. Bdt that Is hot turning - veteran.* ”
music and decided to take ad-
vantage of the opportunity. Then,
too, S. U. offers more extensive
Bible and Philosophy courses than
Texas A A M. Thus my decision
to come to Southwestern.”
Noble formerly attended A&M
and we’re glad that he decided
to transfer here.
BILL NORTHWAY; San An-
tonio, Texas, Junior, Pre-Dental
Major, K. A. “It was natural. All
of my family have attended South-
western and I could find no rea-
son to be individual. Besides, the
close relationship between the
professors and students, the
friendly atmosphere on the cam-
pus In general and the time one
ia able to devote to Study makes
re
“Miss Georgetown”
Tires Of Facing South;
Does Something
52 VETERAN HOUSING UNITS
TO BE BUILT, SAYS SCORE
Gay OF Town Clock
Friskily Bongs Over
150 Times At 11:30
Students rushed to class early
everyone looked at their
watches and shook them ......
When a clock str’ves 11 times a^
11 o’clock that isn’t ne.. a but
when a clock strikes over 150
times at 11:30 and is still going
strong, then, brother, that is
news.*.
Monday morning at 11:30, the
town cIock started tolling and
students started checking their
timepieces. Students began to
wonder if it was 12 and if the
bells had stopped ringing and if
so, what a swift hour it was.
When a clock strikes over 150
times, then what time is it? That
is the question students are ask-
ing.
That wasn’t the only devilish
prank the gay old town clock com-
mitted however. At 10:30 it sound-
ed 69 times and at one o’clock in
the afternoon, tolled three times.
Upon delving further into the
mystery of the frisky town clock,
it was discovered that the trou-
ble lay in the fact that the strik-
ing plunger hangs on its worn
gear and continues to strike un-
til righted by hand. Considering
the heighth of the building and the
summer heat, it is a wonder it
stopped at all. _
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Women are temperamental crea-
tures at best, and this story con-
cerns one who has taken her tem-
perament to the extreme. The lady
in question is Miss Georgetown
(for lack of a better name) who
sand's atop the Williamson County
courthouse.
At the beginning of her vigil
the lady faced South, but due to
some slight on the part of the
Southside people she has done a
complete about face and now
stares stonily towards the North,
much to the wonderment of the
local citizenry. No one seems to
know the cause of rupture in the
35 year old romance. And the
Lady continues to say nothing.
One school of thought has it that
the people along Eighth Street
grew lax in their attentions, thus
arousing the Lady’s ire. Another
school' comes forth with the opin-
ion that not even a statue could
look at Roy Richardson and George
McClain for that length of time
without wishing a change of scen-
ery. Still another group (un-ro-
mantic heathens they are) con-
tends that the change is due to
nothing more than the statute
becoming loose upon its pedestal
and shifting with the wind.
Anyone with a better explana-
tion will be welcomed with open
arms-and mind as we are intrigued1
with the whole story. Wef also
hope that when the cause has been
determined appropriate steps will
be taken to insure against such
an occurence in the future.
Tells Kenley
Units Will Be
Ready By Fall
FOUND— Shaeffer
Dr. Finch’s car.
pencil in
Megaphone Writer Tells Of Jap
Ship Nagato Before Atom Sinking
seems to be an occqrence
that happens automatically each
six years. Senator Connally has
been chosen to sit in on the peace night,
conference, and had a large hand
in the shaping of the United Na-
tions Organization. 1 «
,1m m,, Always a staunch Denxfcfet,
dot, because “super- Connally was a strong supporter
has
also— csssor, Harry Truman. He ha*
walla keep out the weather.” and nation.
truly been a credit to Me state
LINDA WALLACE, Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma, Junior, Music
Major, ADPi. Halt says she vis-
ited the campus and found the
students so friendly that she de-
cided to investigate the music de-
partment. She liked what she
and we*i*e glad she did.
Linda was the girl that did the so-
lo of “Mood Indigo” when the
ADPi’s serenaded Wednesday
At dusk on July 29, the Jap-
anese batleship, Nagato, was last
observed listing heavily to star-
board off Bikini. The second A-
bomb explosion of “Operation
Crossroads’’ had buckled her
plates. By morning of July 30
the last battleship of the once
mighty Imperial Japanese Navy
had slid beneath the waves to
rest on the floor of the Pacific.
The Nagato, one of the newer
class Japanse battle-wagons, sis-
ter ship of the Fuso. mounted
five 14-inch guns and1 had a speed
of approximately 25 to 30 knots.
She was used effectively by the
Japanese in several naval engage-
ments until planes of “Bull”
Halsey’s third fleet put her out
of commission.
For several months after the
war she lay at anchor in Tokyo
Bay, until she was towed to Bi-
kini for the A-bomb test. When
the Nagato sank, the last tan-
gible evidence of a once power-
ful Navy slipped to the bottom
of the ocean it strove to gain
mastery of.
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BEVERLY MARSHALL; Cor-
pus Chriati, Texas, Junior, ADPi.
Five, girls from my home town
were going to Southwestern when
I .got ready to come t0 college.
They were so craxy about it and
built it up so much that I-decided
to try it I’m certainly glad 1 did
too cause I’m jntf as my girl-
friends were.
■Hfinltt
The above picture of the A- taken on Japanese film, with a
bomb victim, Nagato, was taken . , , .
while .he we. et enchor In To- '*">«'•* * •
kyo Bay in October, 1946. It was the Megaphone staff.
Glen Kenley, president of the
Veterans Organization on the
Southwestern University campus,
received a letter from Dr. J. N.
R. Score concerning the fall hous-
ing of veterans and their wives.
The text of the letter, dated July
31, is reprinted below in full:
“Several questions have been
raised about veterans housing and
for the official information of the
men now on the campus. I would
like to state the following:
“1. We are assured by the Fed-
eral Public Housing Authority
that the project combining our
allotment and that of the City
of Georgetown and a total of 52
units will be in place and ready
for occupancy by September 14,
1946. This is the day on which
former students are being regis-
tered for the fall semester.
“We were advised by the sur-
plus housing people to allot 16
per cent of the room to married
students since 16 per cent of all
G. I.’s in college in the United
States are married. Instead we
have allotted1 16 of the 52 units
to married veterans, practically
doubling the quota for married
veterans.
“I have heard that the report
is going around the campus that
preference is being given to vet-
erans who have not been here in
school, that, is ridiculous. We feel
our first obligation ia to students
now on the campus, to
those who were on the campus
during the spring semester and
who for tfjou and sufficient rea-
sons are not in "school during the
summer, third, to those G. I. s who
were former students of South-
western University in civilian sta-
tus or in our. Navy Unit, fourth,
any veteran that we can possibly
take care of. As I write you this
letter it appears we have places
for but 12 more veterans in Mood
Hall and the veterans housing,
and we already have three times
as many applications for married
veterans as we can allot.
“2. I am still of the opinion
that married veterans who have
rooms in Georgetown should prob-
ably keep them. Also that vet-
erans who are members of fra-
ternities and who possibly can,
should room in fraternity houses.
I am of this opinion solely from
the standpoint of endeavoring to
take care of as many veterans as
possible.
“3. I hope every veteran un-
derstands that while we shall
manage the housing project, we
shall not receive one penny of the
rent. The rent goes to the gov-
ernment. We requested the FPHA
to set the rent on rooms and apart-
ments at a figure not to exceed
that which we are charging in
Mood1 Hall or the apartments on
the campus which we are renting
to veterans, and I think the vet-
erans understand our charges for
room rent have not been raised
since before the war, in order
to be able to give the veterans
the benefit of a cheap rent and
to make it possible for their 65
dollars a month or 90 dollars a
month to come as near support-
ing them as possible. Our request
to the Federal Public Housing was
turned down and the flat charge
was established tentatively at 19
dollars per month for single men,
presuming that from four to sev-
en men to be housed in each unit,
and the charge for apartments
for married men was set as fol-
lows: for shelter, one bedroom
apartment, $27.50, furniture $4,
making a total of $31.80, utilities
paid; two bedroom apartment,
$30.00 shelter, $6.00 furniture,
making a total of $36.00, utilities
paid.
“Our understanding is that men
living in veterans housing are
given no credit for holidays oc-
curring within the term. That is,
for instance, Thanksgiving and
Christmas holidays are not cred-
ited. A veteran must pay, from
the date of the beginning of the
term to the date of the close of
the term on a monthly basis. When
this matter is finally determined,
we shall publish all of the re-
quarements of the government in
order that every veteran msy have
a full and complete understand-
ing. I think that you understand
that these regulations are stand-
ard throughout the country.
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