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Saturday, December 5, 1942
THE MEGAPHONE
Page 3
Zeta Pledges Entertain
Initiate Group Saturday
Buffet Supper
At Edens* Home
Lt. Woody McCook
Praised For Valor
Artifacts
By SAM LeTUI.LE
The pledges of the Lambda Chap-
ter of Zeta Tau Alpha plan to enter-
tani the initiates Saturday evening,
December 5. An informal buffet sup-
per and dance will lie given at the
home of Edith Jane Edens.
The house will be decorated with
Christmas decorations, a tree, holly
wreaths, colored lights and red ber-
ries. in charge of decorating are
Mary Dean Crimes, Vera Mae Betti
son and Edith Jane Edens.
The entertainment is to consist of
dancing and various games. The
menu includes barbecued chicken,
potato salad, pickles, olives, hot rolls,
punch, cookies, anil angel food cake.
Invited as faculty guests are Dean
Ruth Ferguson, Miss Mary Wilcox,
Miss Pearl Neas, and Mr. and Mrs.
George <!. Hester.
<s- Tiro remainder of the guest list is
as follows:
Kathleen Horn, John Rico; Jeanne
Tyree, Vernon Runnels; Cay Davis,
Gene Oliudej; Mittie Sue Carter, Chid
Price; Sarah Barber, Dana Kilgore;
Molly Hoskins, C. B. Morris; Jeanne
Furrh, Kurt Lindenburg; June Wel-
ty, Lewis Bewley; Betty Wright, Ed
Bancroft; Helen Farmer, Don Box;
Evelyn Porter, James Skelton; Mau-
ryne Perkins, Billy Wallace; Betty
Nichols, C. B. Scarborough; Betty
Stinson, John Riley; Helen Mayes,
Buddy Everett; Jerry Berry, Jesse
Blalock; Margaret Samploy, Bob I Cookie
Kappa Alpha Fraternity
Initiates New Members
Last We dnesday night the Kappa
Alpha Order initiated three new
members into the Chapter. The new
members are Melvin Dusek, from
Granger, Texas; Paul Miller, from
Longview, Texas, and Edwin Bough-
ton from Hollywood, California.
Melvin Dusek pledged Kappa A1
I pha in September of 1941. Although
) the initiates are going to miss Du-
sek’s pledge duties, they are more
than glad to have him as a member.
Everyone knows Eddie Boughton,
S. IT. head cheer leader, and he has
I established a tine reputation on the
campus.
Last, but not least, Paul Miller,
known to the S. IJ. students for his
musical talent, lie, too, is a line rep- | |>«*intx*r, his best mural being in the
LIEUT. CHARLES McCOOK
(TOM TREANOR, In “Home Front”
Column, Los Angeles, Calif., Times)
ERITREA.—It isn’t like me to
devote a whole column to fellow
from Texas, but you’ll have to meet
Cookie.
The first time I saw Cookie was
in the Douglas Co. store when I was
buying a shirt and he was buying
a pair of trousers.
"Waist .'12 and trousers 29,’’ said
Mackintosh; Ruth Ann Windham, Ed
Harris; Linnea Bergquist, James El-
lison; Very Mae Bettison, Barry
Greer; Ann Harrell, Allan Huff;
IVggy Phillips, Paul Gips; Cora Alice
Taylor, John Tower; Virginia Weems,
Evans Adkins; Betty Pullen, Ham
LeTulle; Josephine Bartlett, Eddie
McFarland; Jane Westmoreland,
Sonny Mundin.
Tri Deltas Have
Founders Banquet
Tri D«ltB Founders Day Banquet
On the 23rd of November the
Theta Epsilon Chapter of Delta
Delta Delta had a banquet at Ed-
wards Cafe in honor of their Foun-
ders’ Day. A turkey dinner was
served to the following girls:
Jamie Carroll, Frances Mims, Billie
Lou Thompson, Laverne Walden,
Jimmie Barton, Shirley Mount, Ra-
chel Wardlow, Margaret Nell Wake-
field, Mary Ann Ullrich, Lukie How-
ard, Sara Frank Thompson, Julia
Byrom, Martha J. Shaw, Frances
Allen, Betty Adams, Gloria Allen,
Emily Brown, Eleanor Beatty, Jose-
phine Yeager, Daphne Littlejohn,
Marie Williamson, Mary Beth Rucks,
Virginia St. Clair, Dorothy Wools,
Jean Sholars, and Bobbie Lee Wood-
land. The special guests were Mrs.
J. N. R. Score, Mrs. Ruth Ferguson,
Mrs. Hester Davis, Mrs. Fred Cooper
Smith, Mrs. A. A. Allen, Mrs. Stiles
Byrom and Mrs. John Shaw.
CAA trainees progress through
elementary, secondary, cross-coun-
try, link-instrument and flight of-
ficer or Instructor courses. Each
course lasts 8 weeks. Trainees
may be called by the Army or
Navy for further training or ac-
tive duty at any stage of the
courses.
To get a “student instructor”
job, which pays $1620 a year, yoy
must have completed one year of
college—although a CAA ground
instructor’s certificate or satisfac-
tory practical experience may be
substituted for the college train-
ing.
For a “junior instructor’’ job,
which pays $2000 annually, a bit
more experience—or work—is re-
quired.
No written test. There’s a catch,
though, for many undergraduates
—you must he 20 years old.
Application must be made
through the Civil Service Commis-
sion. Get blanks at your post of-
fice or by writing the commission
in Washington—801 E. Street,
N. W.
'How’s that?’’ asked tlio clerk.
“‘Waist 32, trousers 29,” P >okie
repented softly.
“Is this for a man or a barrel?”
i
demanded the clerk.
“It's for me,” said Gookie gently,
but in a way that didn’t encourage
any further cracks.
"1 didn’t mean it, that way,” said
the clerk.
COOKIE’S FULL NAME is
Charles McCook, and he hails from
Georgetown, Tex.
I hope Cookie never sees this, but
the clerk was right. Cookie’s a man
all right—the Fightin’ Man, they
call him—but he’s a barrell too.
They have a second name for him
—the Smallest Giant in the World,
which will give you another idea
of his proportions.
When he talks to you he looks di-
rectly at the third button down from
your collar.
There’s nothing small about
Cookie. It’s just that he wears trou-
sers 29. He’s really sawed-off.
COOKIE FIRST BLEW in here
about two months ago flying a Hud-
son bomber, on hist way to China to
fight them Japs. lie got his nickname
the first night because he showed so
much Texas enthusiasm for getting
in there and mixing it up. He was
hot with the old Texas indignation.
“I’ll be out of here in the early
morning,” he said, “and I’ll be in
Karachi, China, by dark. I’ll spend a
night in New Delhi and then I’ll
head for the Burma Road. In four
days I’ll be in Chungking fighting
them Japs.”
The major event of the holidays
in that mystic realm of art is the,
exhibit at the University of Texas.
Enriched by the magic names of
European, South American and
American artists in the surrealist
world and the fact that the exhibit
was held B.G.R. (before gas ration
ing) a large number of people were
presen t.
The room was crowded with sta |
dent artists and people of undefinitei
identity muttering, “Darling! What
a precious purple cow!”
The best of the paintings were'
chosen by Orrtzco who is a Mexican '
SST? k'3 Novel Holiday Party Held
By Kappa Sigma Fraternity
The Invitation of Learning met
at the home of I>r. Claud Howard
on Thursday evening. Dr. Howard
reviewed Caroline Spurgeon's
Shakespeare’s Imagery, probably
the most outstanding critical
study of Shakespeare which has
appeared in the last half century.
It is a psychological study of
Shakespeare’s images in their re-
velattion of his personality, tast-
es, and philosophy of life.
While Shakespeare’s images
have constantly been picked out
and drawn upon to illustratte some
aspect of the poet’s mind, Miss
Spurgeon has assembled and ex-
amined on a systematic basis all
|Games. and Dancing
Sig HouSC Shines Featured Last Tuesday
Thanks, Pledges
The Higs have really remodeled
their house on t hr1 inside ami worked
over their lawn. Of course, these
new silver maple trees aren't grown,
but are growing fast, ami they give
trim fitness ami blend perfectly with
the shrubbery, (lowers, ami foliage
that border the house.
Almost any time you will find Mrs.
WHEN COOKTE said he’d be out
in the morning he didn’t know yet.
Nobody had told him the Army had
decided to cannibalize his plane.
They were only going to cannibal-
ize a little bit. In a few days it
would be all right, and Cookie could
head for Karachi. But they had to
cannibalize it that night.
Perhaps you don’t know what Can-
nibalizing a plane is, but you can
understand very quickly. It’s a case
of plane eat plane. There was an-
other Hudson in the airport with a
bad tachometer in this case. It was
carrying a priority load and it was
considered more -.mportant. that this
other Hudson get out than that
Cookie get out.
Ho while Cookie was asleep they
cannibalized his plane to the extent
of removing one tachometer and pot-
ting it onto the priority Hudson.
They tried to notify Cookie so e
utable character, always displaying
his shining personality.
Congratulations, fellows!
wouldn’t get up at 4 o’clock in the
morning, but he had gone to bed ear-
ly to get a good sleep and in tln^
maze of barracks here they didn't
find him.
SO COOKIE WAS up at 4 a.m.,
eating his breakfast when it was
still dark, so he’d bo ready for the
take-off at the first dawn. He would
need all the daylight to reach Ka-
rachi before dark.
After breakfast Cookie reported
to tile briefiing ollicer and said:
“Lieutenant Charles McCook,
Georgetown, Tex., going out to Ka-
rachi, bound for China.”
“Sorry, McCook,” said the briefing
officer, “a tachometer was removed
from vour plane last night. You’ll
have to lay over.”
“How do you mean a tachometer
was removed from my plane?” asked
Cookie softly.
“Oh, your plane will Ire ready in
a couple of days,” said the briefing
officer hastily. Sometimes when
Cookie speaks his softest, lie speaks
at his most alarming.
WELL, TIIE FIGHTIN’ MAN was
miffed, but it would only be a few
days, so he settled down to steady
eat ing.
But another tachometer didn't
show up and Cookie didn’t go out for
a week. On the eighth day be was
called in and an officer told him:
“McCook, we have had to canni-
balize your Hudson a little more. It
was out of service, so we ...”
“Wliat did you take this time?”
asked Cookie softly.
‘“Oh, it’ll be all right in a few
days,” said the officer.
“1 know, but what did you take?’’
asked Cookie.
“The 1 ort. engine,” said the officer.
BY NOW COOKIE’S plane didn’t
have a. tachometer and it didn’t have
a port engine, so it was definitely
out of service.
So it beeme automatically the
plane to cannibalize every time
spare part was needed for a Hudson.
After a month, the Fightin’ Man’s
plane was nothing blit a skeleton.
Karachi and China were farther
away than when Cookie was back in
Georgetown, Tex., where all the
pretty girls are.
THEY MADE A test pilot out of
the Fightin’ Man and that’s what
lie’s been for the past six weeks.
But. meanwhile they slowly began
rebuilding his cannibalized plane,
and yesterday it was ready for the
first trial hop.
The Fightin’ Man got up at 3
o’clock in the morning because he
couldn’t sleep and at 6 o’clock he
was in the air, trying her out.
At 6:05 he entire camp was awak-
ened by a thunderousticc“sTEonihs
ened by a bloodcurdling ronr as
Cookie showed what he thought, of
the whole dam thing by going into
a trial power dive at about 550 miles
an hour.
Palace of Fine Arts in .Mexico Citv.
Picassa exhibitetd “Gitar” which
was purely ?- - ?—? ‘
No small number of visitors have
come through curiosity over surreal
ist paintings, which, as usual, have
evoked controversy. Artists Hitler
would have sent to the criminal
images for the information they | Harris bragging on her boys and the
yield in throwing new light upon j tine work they are always doing on
. their house. With the sanding of the
courts for painting “green skies and'| understanding
I purple seas” are drawing us bitter
I criticism from some of tlu* gallerv-
j goers. But there are ;m equal iimn-
■ ber of staunch defenders of the
works of Max Ernst, Paul Klee, and
I other leaders of this branch of the
modern school.
him and his work.
The five outstanding qualities of
Shakespeare’s nature, according to
this author, are sensitiveness,
poise, courage, humor and whole-
somess. He was "gentle, kindly,
honest, brave and true, with deep
I
Not all of the paintings are of the !
sensational nature of the surrealists, !
but rather suggest the variety of,
aesthetic expression during the last:
30 or 40 years. Leading artists of
the United States, Enrop and Mexico J
are represented. The older generation
of French painters whose works arc
shown are Vlaminck, Segonzac, I >e- j
rain, Matisee and Rouault, and the1
younger men, Leger, (Iris, Braque, j
Picasso and Pierre Roy. Orozco arid J
Siqueiors are representatives of the)
Mexican school, and Arthur B. Davis,
Edward Hopper, John Kane, Mars-,
den Hartlet and Preston, the I'nited J
States. |
Maybe we will get back to our j
own “Star Studded” art department J
next week. I know you will be on !
the edge of your chairs waiting!
Until next, week I wish you a Hilari-
ous Halloween and a Merry aster.
and quick sym-
pathy for all living things.”
In his review, Dr. Howard
brought out that Miss Spurgeon
feels that the relation of oursel-
ves to our fellows in the centre
of Shakespeare's belief and main-
spring of his actions. This thought
which may have been the philoso-
phy by which the poet guided his
life and actions, seems to be this:
“that by, in, and for ourselves, we
are nothing; we exist only just in
so far as we touch our fellow, and
rciv backe
receive back from them the warm-
th of light we have ourselves sent
out—Only thus can we fulfill our-
selves and be in truth that which
wo are intended to be.”
Ex-Students Serve
As U.S. Chaplains
Twentv-one Southwestern Univer-
sity former students who are mem-
bers of the annoual eon fere net's of
Texas have entered the armed serv-
ices as chaplains. One of these, Bur-
ton H. Coleman, A. B. ’33, had just
The lota Chapter of Kappa Sigma
entertained Tuesday night, Novem-
ber 23, in their newly remodeled
house with a novel Holiday party.
All the Sigs and their dates dressed
informally. Coming to the house,
they were greeted by Mr. M. L.
Williams, Miss Neas, and Coach ami
Mrs. Harris. In the center of the
dance floor hung a, huge sack full of
candy, nuts, and favors. Nan Mickle
was blindgolded and her attempt to
knock down the sack was successful.
Everyone dived for the candy and
nuts, with Evelyn Porter and James
Skelton the winners.
A practice black out followed,
with Bill llooton, the Air Raid Wor-
den, letting the Black out last only
ten minutes and giving the couples
their first experience of a black-out.
Ray Davidson, social chairman,
presented each couple a list for the
Sc, . nger Hunt. Madly scrambling
over the campus for add tilings, C.
B. Morris and Molly Hoskins were
declared the winners of a carton of
Lucky Strike cigarettes.
With the new Sig barbecue pit.
all the couples roasted their owui
sandwitches and sat around under a’
big harvest moon and drank pop and
sang Sig songs.
All those enjoying the Holidav
Party were: Very Mae Bettison,
Barry Greer, Molly Hoskins, (’. B.
Morris, Peggy Phillips, Tom Chat-
ham, Billie Lop Thompson, Rex Hut
“herson, Jeanne Tyree, Vermin Run-
nels, Emily Brown, Cab Wolf, Puff
Brabham, Rav Davidson, Mary Kay
So with Johnny, the yard bov who j ^ 's< ’ Htton, Kathleen Horn,
has been with the Sigs for almost j J < > 11 n u \ hue, Doiis Biggs, Bob
20 years, these hoys have faith in j ^ r * fX L t. Bettv Freeman, Bob Barton,
knowing that he will keep it nice. ! rr-v ^<>rr' ’ ,^(’ss,‘ Blalock, I-ranees
As for the L. K. II. girls, they really VV/lllace’ Hoi> f>,lilliPs< Margaret
Wakefield, Grant. Scoggins, Nnu
floors, new boards put here and there, ;
the floors have been varnished, vv:ix-[
ed and shined.
Ed Harris and Rudy Wilketis ap i
predate any compliments on the!
painted woodwork. It was painted
all white, with slight instructions
given here and there by Ruth Ann
and Jamie Carroll Duke thinks lie |
will major in varnishing, and as mi- 1
del-studies he will have Albert Cobb, i
Jamvs Skelton and Allen Huff. |
I To watch J. P. Graves and Bob 1
Campbell with their interior deco-I
rating is a rare treat. (Very rare.) j
The waxing department included Ed I
jKtany, as that king of polishing,,
i with Gene Chudej and C. B. Morris!
dabbing here and there with the wax. j
But to really learn the trade, see |
j Looney Mattox and John Tower.
: Anything to do with remodeling,
t hev will know about. j
i When th(> girls get there on Sat-
■ unlay night, they needn’t ask, for
| each hoy will show what he did and I
| why it looks tin' best. And it all I
i adds up to near perfect ion— lawn, ]
floors, and couches. I
like the Sig house now.
Ho shot the place up, as the saying ,,(’kr»n hi* service when he and his
goes, and when lie brought his plane
down and pronounced her right ex-
cept for a. few minor repairs, there
wasn’t anyone who didn’* anow the
Fightin’ Man was about to get on
his way. Tie’ll be off to Karachi to-
morrow, bound for his rendezvous
with them Japs.
“WOODIE” NOW IN AFRICA
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McCook, par-
ents of Charles W. McCook, men-
tioned in the above article, have re-
ceived two letters from their son
since “taking off” from Eritrea, Af-
rica. He delivered the Hudson
bomber to the base at Chungking,
Chinn, “had a rendezvous with the
Japs over Kunming, China, and is
now back in Africa, attached to the
22nd Bombardment Squadron, Tenth
Air Force.” His friends know that
‘“Woodie” will dcliber his part of
the Irombs to the -enemy wherever
and whenever ho is found, and wish
him well.
Ensign John Lewis McCook, broth-
er of Charles W., now in New Or-
leans, temporarily attached to the
Eighth Naval District, was here last
week ona visit to his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. T. J. McCook.
I. J. McCook, Jr., is an instructor
at the army primary flying field,
Bruce Field, Ballinger, Texas.
wife were accidentally killed while
en route home for a short furlough.
Two of the number, William
Mathis Dunn, A. B. ’33, and O. B.
Salyer, A. B. ’39, are chaplains in
the Navy.
The other Southwesterners serv-
ing as chaplains in the Army are as
follows: Ben 11. Bohinfalk, A. B. ’32,
Sam L. Dubberlv, A. B. ’33, Vernon
l’crry, A. B. ’38, Sherwood S. Davis,
A. B. ’23, and Edwin C. Calhoun,
A. B. ’22, members of * •* South
west Texas Conference.
Members of the Central Texas
Conference in service as chaplains
are R. Henry Price, Ex ’22, J. I’.
Isbell, A. B. ’10, G. T. Lavender, A.B.
’35, J. Beal Duncan, Ex ’32, and
Thad E. Son, A. B. ’34.
Former students who are members
of the Texas Conference include
Claud S. Harkov, A. B. ’09, who has
been serving as a chaplain for sev
oral years, and who was at Scho-
field Barracks when Pearl Harhnr
was attacked, J. Alton Jones, A. B.
’35, Francis A. Ficher, A. B. ’30, and
Clyde E. Thomas, A. B. ’37.
Members of the Northwest Texas [
Phi Mu’s Honor
Local Alumnae
The Phi Mu sorority entertained
their alumnae and patronesses with
coffee Saturday, November 21, in the
Phi Mu Chapter Room.
Mrs. Wright presided over ttie sil-
ver coffee service. Rose and white
floral decorations centered a lace
table cloth. The room was lit with
and rose tapers. Those who called
between four and six o’clock
Mickle, Wayne Coffin, Jeanne Furrh,
Duke DeGrassi, Gloria Allen, John.
Tower, Ann Harrell, Allen Huff,
Jamie Carroll, Rudy .'ilkens, Eve
lyn Porter, James Skelton, h'liza.-
both Patterson, Dooney Mattox, Cny
Davis, Gene Chednj, Sookie Carter,
Albert. Cobb, Betty Carroll, Ed Star
rv, Mary Dean Grimes, J. P. Graves,
Milda M. Swain, Bob Campbell, Chid
Price and Ed Harris.
Many colleges are not as lucky
as we are when it comes to long
Christmas vacations. Texas Uni-
versity students will relax from
were December 17 until January 5.
served mixed sandwiches, sweet rolls,
toasted nuts, and coffee.
Miss Mamie Newman, the nation-
al auditor of the Phi Mu sorority,
was a guest on the campus of the Xi
Kappa Chapter from Sunday, Nov.
22, to Tuesday, Nov. 24.
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who left the campus in the fall of
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