The College Star (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 11, 1934 Page: 2 of 4
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THE COLLEGE STAR
Wednesday, April 11, 1934
THE COLLEGE STAR
Published weekly through the regular session of 1933-34 for
and by the students of the Southwest Texas
State Teachers College
Entered as second class matter, Nov. 21, 1921, at the Post
Office in San Marcos, Texas, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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John Brandstetter.......................................................................Editor-in-Chief
A. B. “Duke” Martin ........................................................Business Manager
Tom Nichols .......................................................................... Faculty Adviser
York Willbern ..................................................................-.....Associate Editor
Brooks Holt______________________________________________________________________________Assistant Editor
Harper Bass .............................................Assistant Business Manager
Junior Staff
Hillman McNeil ...................................................................................................... Editor
Contributing Staff
Linda Franke, Dorothy King, Berthal Lanier, York Willbern,
John Brandstetter
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DARTS
By LUKE
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I, the mighty Luke, am right
and the remainder of the world
mentally unbalanced. An astound-
ing statement you will no doubt
say, but haven’t I proved it, time
and time again?
I have offered sure fire solu-
tions of all problems from fair
dancing to birth control. If a few
million narrow-minded egotists
fail to react favorably to my sug-
gestions, then progress is doomed
and we remain at a standstill un-
til we finally deteriorate to such
an etxent that we become ordinary
American citizens.
Who can envisage a worse fate?
Have I not conclusively shown that
to be an American implies that
one is a crooked politician, a graf-
ter, a stupid ass, a reckless driygr,
an idolater, a nit-wit, and a “heel”
of the first magnitude?
This is true because I, in all my
wisdom, have decreed it so, and
who may gainsay the revelations
of the oracle.
ABOUT THE NEW TEACHER REQUIREMENTS
The new law or statement of educational requirements for
Texas teachers recently laid down by the State Board is
driving towards a sound goal. The fundamental purpose be-
hind the action is to further educational interests in this
state.
We take this opportunity, however, to attack the adminis-
tering of the idea. The law says that those who are al-
ready teaching may proceed with their job and get the work
off summers. It also says, that those who expect to apply
for positions must have this administrative education or this
physical education requirement off.
This means only one thing. IT IS DISCRIMINATING,
PROBABLY UNINTENTIONALLY, AGAINST THE GRAD-
UATES OF 1934 AND THE qRAmiATES OF-JLoaa-
• TSWwe fhinFWelmrporris sound and just but we don’t
believe that any one particular class should be penalized for
graduating in the year 1934.
You ask how it is discriminating. All right:
Take Mr. BB who is teaching in Podunk Hollow. He may
keep his position and take the work out summers. He goes
right along with his job.
Take Mr. CC who is a senior at the present time in SWTT
C. Mr. CC’s curriculum is scheduled full for the remainder
of the year with courses outlined in his degree program. It
is impossible for him to work in the other courses. If he is
to graduate in the summer, it makes his situation even more
deplorable. He can not apply for a job until he has finished
all the work then. It takes all the extra time and expense
while Mr. BB is contentedly going on with his teaching.
Take Mr. DD who graduated in 1933 but was unable to get
a job. He can not apply for a job either now, until he has
gone back to school and worked out the additional credit. But,
if he had gotten a job last year, he could go right on teach-
ing and work out the new requirements during the summers.
As the situation exists at present no course in education
below junior rank is classified as being in the administrative
field. Is it consistent to require the teachers of the state
to assimilate more work than is included in the curriculum
of a number of State Teachers Colleges ? If and when pro-
visions are made for offering the required eighteen hours in
administrative education, the present plan will necessitate
the prospective teachers doing three years work in educa-
tion in two years or possible two years’ work in one. We re-
peat, then, that on the face of it, the plan is sound but that
in fact it is inconsistent and discriminating.
Dear reader, what do you think of this plan. We think
that the requirement is just, but that there should be no dis-
crimination.
PLEASE LET THE FLOWERS, ALONE
The College has several beautiful flower gardens. To take
care of these flowers, the college has employed a caretaker.
This caretaker has the duty of seeing that they are well
taken care of, watered and plucked at the proper time. There
is a time when flowers should be plucked. The college care-
taker will pick them at that time.
Those people who have taken it upon themselves to pluck
the various blooms should please stop to consider that the
flowers are grown for everyone and are being amply taken
care of. Please remember that they are not being grown for
faculty members to cut at will. The same applies to stu-
dents who have chosen to follow the example set by a great
many of our faculty.
If you have the feeling that you must pick a rose because
it is good for the bush, stifle the feeling and turn away with
the thought that when the proper time comes it will be cut,
out many other people can enjoy its beauty in the meantime.
Please, we ask you!
Perhaps in America more so
than any other country people
are less considerate of the hap-
piness and wellbeing of others.
Conclusive proof of this is illus-
trated in, the attitude of McIn-
tyre, Brisbane, various professors
and others who persist in setting
forth their ideas themselves when
they could just as easily give the
mighty Luke the exclusive use of
them and save him the untold
trouble of disguising and mutilat-
ing them, almost beyond recogni-
tion, for use in his column.
Another Love Affair
LEARNING AND FORGETTING
THTORY
This eternal selfishness is mani-
fested . not only in attitude of
Luke’s co-writers, but, to a small
extent to be sure, in the action
of the masses. Some of the less
fortunate who are not blessed with
Luke’s super-abundance of mental
acumen actually have the imper-
tinence to not only profess disbe-
lief but, more is the pity, to criti-
cize the work of a modern Solo-
mon’s mind.
For such as these there is no
lessiy cutting their own throat,
but are actually standing in the
way of others who might other-
wise be set on the right path.
“Are you a clog in the wheels
of progress?”
“No,” you will indignantly an-
swer.
“Very well then, are you willing
to unquestionably follow the die-'
tates of the unfailing Luke?”
“Well,
There it is. Deviate and be
damned. Luke washed his hands
of such. He absolves himself from
all responsibility. Until there
comes a time when the American
people are willing to discard their
jealousies, their selfishness, and
their sectionalism and follow the
teachings of a mental genius, we
are definitely relegated to the lot
of the aforementioned ordinary
American citizen.
C. E. EVANS GRANDSON
IS WINNER AT SHOW
Erwin Soyars, Jr. of Sabinal,
grandson of President C. E. Evans,
won the prize for the champion
baby beef of Uvalde county at the
spring stock show in the Union
Stock Yards at San Antonio last
week. Master Soyars, age 10, is
a member of the 4-H Club of his
county, and raised the baby beef
himself. The price he received for
his animal was 11 1-4 cents per
pound, almost three times the nor-
mal price for this class of beef.
The prize was won in competition
with six 4-H Club members from
Uvalde county and eight vocational
agriculture students of Karnes
county. In all there were eighteen
beeves exhibited.
Erwin is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
E. L. Soyars, both degree grad-
uates of the College. Mrs. Soy-
ars was formerly Bernice Evans,
and is the daughter of our Presi-
dent. Mr. Soyars is managing a
large ranch near Sabinal.
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COLLEGE PLAYERS!
By Isidore H. Bungstarter
“But you’ve got to take her,”
Lyle urged, “I have already told
her you would.”
“But I don’t even know what
the girl looks like,” 1 answered.
“Think of my reputation. You’ve
got to.”
“Say Lyle, I wouldn’t know
how to act with a strange woman
all afternoon.”
“Recite her some of those love
poems; the kind you recite to Helen
all the time,” he suggested.
“I don’t mind making a fool of
myself around Helen. Anything I
would do around her would give
her a better opinion of me.”
He turned and walked slowly to
the door.
“Wait,” I cried, “I’ll go.”
Lyle was my best boy friend.
When he heard that Helen, my
Secretary of War, was going to be
out of town, he took it upon him-
self to get me a date for the A.A.
party at White Rock Lake. He
went home and left me alone to
start thinking. To recite love
poems to some one other than
Helen; I couldn’t bear the thought
of it, so I quit thinking.
That night we went by for the
girls. Of course he insisted that
it was proper to get mine first; so
we did. We went up to the house,
knocked on the door, and were ad-
mitted into the house by an elder-
ly man. He told us that she
would be ready in a few minutes,
and then left the room. While we
were waiting all I could think of
was Helen—what would she think?
At last she came in. She was
beautiful, very beautiful. I must
have forgotten my manners, be-
cause I don’t remember a thing I
said. We went by for Lyle’s girl
next. With four in the front seat,
We were crowded. I had to sit
close to Diana, the girl I was
with. I put my arm around her in
order to make more room. I could-
n’t think of a thing to say, not
even a poem to recite. We just sat
and looked at each other listen-
ing to Lyle’s line, a line I had
heard at least a hundred times.
At the party we danced. Before
long I became conscious of the
fact that we were alone in the
garden looking at the moon. My
arm was around her. I don’t
her head on my shoulder. The
breeze blew her softblack hair
against my cheek. She turned her
face up and looked at me with her
beautiful brown eyes. Her lips
were close, too close. A force
semed to pull me toward her.
Thank g’oodness Helen will never
hear of this.
“Have you seen Helen lately?”
Lyle’s girl asked on the way home.
“She’s out of town,” I answered.
“Oh! do you know Helen Jones?”
Diana asked.
“Well, I’ve met the girl,” I an-
swered.
“I’m her cousin,” she told me.
“I’m her ex-boy friend then,” I
said half aloud.
The more you study, the more you
know.
The more you know, the more you
forget.
The more you forget, the less you
know, so
Why study?
The less you study, the less you
know.
The less you know, the less you
forget.
The less you forget, the more you
know, so
Why study?
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True Story of a
College Co-ed
her hair, her eyes, her lips. Would
he never get close enough to go
meet him?
The roommates stood watching,
expecting, and waiting for that
reunion—oh boy!
At last he was almost there.
She ran out of the door. He open-
ed his arms to gather her in close
to him. She reached him, the wo-
man stopped to see what was hap-
pening, the roommates held their
breath, and she took hold of his
two little fingers!
Moral: Trust a freshman to lose
her nerve!
R. D. Baker and Birge Gi'egory
made personal appearances on the
Hill last week. Both are engaged
in the teaching profession at pres-
ent and were only week-end visi-
tors at the scene of their former
crimes.
WORDS WERE IN THE
WAY SOMEHOW
The regular meeting of the Col-
lege Players will be held in the
Green Room Thursday. April 12 at
4:00. The meeting is very impor-
tant and there is much business
for discussion. The meeting will
begin promptly in order to dispose
of all business. Every member is
expected to attend.
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TYPEWRITER Ribbons, carbon
paper, bond paper, at Record-
News Office, Phone 163.
The morning that I went away
I didn’t shake my father’s hand.
I couldn’t find the words to say
Goodbye, or I hate to leave Old
Man.
Nor he his blessings on me laid,
Or wished me well there at the
door,
But each felt himself repaid
For what we knew the other bore.
And oft I see him as he walked
Away that morning to his plow,
And oft I think of how we talked
Without the use of words some-
how.
And when I can go back again
I’ll probably find him bent and
bowed,
And coming homeward through the
lane;
Then words will be forgot some-
how. —Berthal Lanier
BEN THE TAMALE MAN
In the spring or in the fall;
Sun may shine or rain may fall;
You can always hear him call
Tamales.
Just a touch of dear old Spain,
A feeling you can’t quite explain
When you hear his old refrain
Tamales.
Dressed so neat in suit of white;
Bowing, scraping, so polite,
Offering everyone in sight
Tamales.
Then he hobbles on his way
Calling back at you, “good day”
Then his calling fades away:
Tamales.
By Isidore H. Bungstarter
The afernoon was lonely — so
lonely; she had expected him to
come that morning, but he had
disappointed her. Why had he not
come? Had something happened to
him? Why hadn’t he telegraphed
or written if he was not coming?
A number of questions ran through
her mind and blighted her con-
sciousness.
She slept. For hours, it seem-
ed, she spent time struggling with
troubled dreams. She finally
awoke, later decided to go to town
with her two roommates. She was
angry with him now—she tried to
convince herself—angry that he
had treated her so. And he had
said—no! he couldn’t possibly
have meant that and do this to
her.
Ah, she would wear that new
dress she had saved for him, she
would flirt—blissful consolation —
she would flirt! She’d forget him
and make him sorry for his neg-
ligence.
Her roommates were just too
sweet to her because of her great
disappointment. /
“Yes, dear, I know just how you
feel. Nothing is so sickening as
a disappointment, but the day isn’t
over yet, you know.”
“Oh, yes, it is. He won’t come
now, the—.” She tried so hard to
call him names—vicious names,
but they wouldn’t come. Oh, if
she’d only given a date to that
cute freshman!
They were waiting on one of
the girls now. She had resigned
herself to a dull evening and a
wrote" —; ~ ff 'clidT~ HerM’Oom-
mate came out of the room.
“There is a good-looking, dressed-
up person coming up the street.
Could that be he?”
Heart, be still—oh, if it only
were! The sweet thing, he hadn’t
forgotten. She ran to the door.
Yes, yes, yes! It was he. Oh, he
looked so good to her; all of his
strength and waiting anticipation
swept over her and drowned her in
ecstasy. There was a woman com-
ing up the street, but what did she
care! She could hardly wait to be
in his arms—to feel his kisses on
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