The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 11, Ed. 1, Wednesday, December 10, 1947 Page: 2 of 4
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THE OPTIMIST
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The Optimist
THE STAFF
Bobext Pago Managing Editor
Eugenia ScoU Editor
Morris Gcorgo Buslnoss Managor
Sports
.Joo YowolL Robblo Roblson Dusty Garrett
Photographor Bill Williams
Faculty Advisor . Max Loach
LUa McNabb Assistant Business Managor
Jack McKinnoy Cartoonist
Boportors: Bill Puckott Loyco Weathers.
Poarson Howell. James E. Tindlo Goorgo Wat-
son. Bottyo Elrod. Mary Virginia Kenoy Bill
Gllllland. Bill Fain. Alvln Jonnings Kitten Mills.
Published weekly except during summer va
cations by the students of Abilene Christian
College. Subscription: One Dollar per year.
Entered as second class matter June 29 1929
at the post office of Abilene Texas under Act
of August 24 1912. Address all communications
to the Optimist Station A Abilene Texas.
A Jfutoty Bo 7a Ijou!
With just about one more chance the ACC
student body is going to boo itself right out
of the Texas Conference and into a pack of
trouble.
Two foregoing incidents have proved it.
During chapel the other day when President
Morris was announcing the fact that the holi-
days had been postponed a day some ignorant
simple-minded student (using the term "stu-
dent" very loosely) had to start booing and the
assembly took it up until President Morris
had to ask them to stop.
And at the basketball game Friday when
the University of Houston team was playing
here the booing that went on was almost
enough to get us kicked out of the Texas Con-
ference. A "boo" doesn't express anything but lack
of argument lack of sense and lack of good
breeding. If we profess to be a Christian col-
lege then we ought to act like one. Learn
to keep the big mouth shut even when some-
one is a "smell ahead" of us.
Ronald Reports
A QafXfxella jaud favmaU
Was I disgusted!
Como Sunday and I was all packed for the
trip had my dog biscuits lied up in a bundle
my collar shinod. and my teeth knawod white
with a big soup bono.
And then he didn't take mo.
"Leonard" I said.
(Leonard is my boss Leonard Burford that
isj.)
""Leonard I think it is pretty rotten that I
can't go on the A Cappella tour. Who do you
think is going to chaperone them?"
He looked a little worried but he said that
they would try to get along without me so I
resigned myself to the fate of staying home.
Things were pretty blue for me that Sunday
afternoon just after the busses pulled out so
I decided to conjure up little images and see
what might be going on. . . .
And you know lho first thing I saw was two
busses pulling into Temple one getting sepa-
rated from tho other. The first ono was parked
down-town by lho auditorium whero they sang
and tho other was at tho church. Woll. tho
poor people couldn't find lhoir "children for
tho night." so all was quite foulod up for an
hour or two.
After the program the Temple church mem-
bers had a party for the A Cappella at the
American Legion hall there boy would have
liked to be there. They had cookies with nuts
in them. But I just picked my teeth and
dreamed.
Irma Fulbright started the ball rolling by
finding at Temple some of her kinsmen run-
ning around about 50 I think. And Helen
Floyd was with them too since she is engaged
to Irma's brother Glen. Harold Lipford didn't
find anyone kin to him but he found an air-
plane on the campus of Temple Junior College
ind High School where the chorus sang the
next morning.
Donna Deacon found it hard to part with
her red George Washington shoes for the sex-
tet numbers. Alice Marshall's long black mous-
tache caused near-calamities everywhere the
six girls sang.
Speaking of kin-folks. Jack McKinnoy Joan-
notte Scruggs and Tommy Allen wero highorn
a kito seems that all tho "relatives" livo in
South Texas. Ray McGlothlin was on homo
stompin' ground because he was in Houston
last year. Joan Doran. ditto.
Things really happened in Austin. . . . Peggy
Pago lost her suitcase key. . . . Palsy Morris
and Wynoll Watson got orchid corsages. . . .
Tho boys got a quick swim at the gymnasium
where they dressed. . . . Joyce Linn found H.
G. Castle. . . . Joan Caskoy stayed with a very
understanding aunt. . . . Bob Pago located a
long-lost cousin. . . .
Loisteen Glimp (ex) met the chorus at Lam-
passas High where they sang Wednesday morn-
ing. All went well but Mr. Burford made a
crack at their being so flat he had to get a
ladder for them.
Brownwood furnished movios bowling eat-
ing and souvonir-huntlng for tho most part as
they arrived a couple of hours early for lho
dinner. Tho Brownwood church fed them like
they wero kings and queens with lots of potato
salad and pecan pie. The Brownwood stop
tho last on the itinerary was climaxed by giv-
ing tho two bus drivers a gift each and finding
out that Eldon Doggo a stalwart bass was only
IS years old I
Well what of it I'm only going on three I
Club Cues
Fads and Fashions
Rio Grande Valley
The Rio Grande Valley club
was entertained last week with a
weiner roast at Cobb park. Jo
Harris was in charge of the ar-
rangements assisted by Earl Her-
rington Robert Hampton and
Bettyo Elrod.
Others attending were Bobby
Holland Carole Jones Mary
Shipp Jane Robcrson Lewis
Shelton Ouita Roberts Mr. and
Mrs. Gil Hamilton Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Hcrrington Mr. and Mrs.
Alton Hall and Brother Hollings-
worth sponsor.
Kitten Klub
The Kitten Klub will hold their
annual banquet at the Crystal
ballroom in the Windsor hotel
Dec. 13 at 0 p.m. It will be a
formal affair with 70 members
and their dates attending.
Razorbacks
Attention all students from Ar-
kansas! Have you been reading
the "Arkansas Gazette" in the
library? You will find it there
daily. This has been made pos-
sible by the Razorback club. How-
ever this is not by any means
the extent of the club's activities.
Other variations range from club
meetings to intramural sports.
Regular club meetings are held
each second and fourth Tuesday
night at 0:30 p.m. Come and be
with us next Tuesday night.
East of Mississippi
At a recent meeting members
of the East of the Mississippi un-
der the leadership of the presi-
dent Parker Henderson discussed
everything from individual plans
for the coming holiday to club
plans for n spring excursion to
Carlsbad Caverns.
Dues were taken for a social
for the second Tuesday in Jan-
uary or as announced as follows.
Announcement: It has been de-
cided that the club will meet to
sing Christmas carols immediately
after prayer meeting Wednesday
Oct. 17. The steps of the Ad
building will be the meeting
place.
Houston Club
A ping-pong table for the stu-
dent activity center has been do-
nated for repairing by Mr. Mc-
Kinnoy to the Houston club. As
soon as the club members finish
the needed repairs on the table
it will be placed in the SAC for
everyone to use. It is planned
so far to have the table ready
this week according to Vice-
President Jack Meyers.
Other activities of the club in-
volve plans to charter a bus to
Houston during the Christmas
holidays. Last Sunday night in
Zellner kitchen the Houstonites
had a hamburger supper.
Future Teachers
At the regular meeting of the
Future Teachers Mr. Johnson
superintendent of Abilene negro
schools spoke on ending racial
prejudices through education. He
said the future depended upon
teachers who guide the youth of
the country.
Ann Alexander Clifford Reel
and Dorothy Taylor were initiated
into the club. A committee was
appointed to arrange a social for
this semester.
Bantu Basia
The Bantu basta club made up
of students interested in African
missionary work held their reg-
ular December meeting Thursday
night at 7:30 in the home of Mrs.
Zelma Lawyer 1536 Washington
Blvd.
Elmer Baker junior from Fay-
etteville Ark. was elected presi-
dent; Rona Claassen of South
Africa vice-president; Margaret
Ann Short of South Africa secre-
tary; Max Love of Abilene treas-
urer; and Kenneth Overton of
Thorp Spring reporter.
The group learned and sang re-
ligious songs in Chi Tonga a na-
tive language. Tentative plans
were made for the formation of a
class in Chi Tonga to begin in
January.
Max Love exhibited a map of
Africa with pins marking the lo-
cation of African missions now in
existence.
The group read letters and dis-
cussed news from the workers
now in Africa. Mrs. Lawyer
served African-style refreshments.
Even 'New Look Has 'Old Look'
About It--They Call It Modern!
Religious Realm
By BILL FAIN
"A house divided against itself
cannot stand. . . ." These words
of Christ ring just as true today
as they ever did whether it refers
to a club a nation a church or
a school. When there is division
in any type of organization or or-
ganism its efficiency is cut down
considerably.
Thoro has always been a slight
division horo on tho campus of
ACC and ono which requires
sorious consideration. It Is open-
ly admillod by ovoryono. This
division Is the division botween
tho "social" group and tho
"preacher" group. It seems that
somo of tho sludonts in tho social
group think that tho ones in tho
proachor group are all hypocrites
and tho ones in tho preacher
group think tho ones in tho social
group aro all sinners.
When we begin to think about
this condition we can sec how
ridiculous it really is as if the
personal life of the individual
had nothing to do with it.
Why can't we live together as
one student body and put these
prejudices aawy? If one person
in a small group isn't living as he
should why condemn the whole
group? Why can't we as Chris-
tians go to that person and talk
to him about his faults? One of
the reasons we don't succeed in
it is the fact that when wo go to
him we try to make him feel as
if we have absolutely no faults of
our own and that he is entirely
at fault. Last Wednesday night
we had an impressive service at
the College congregation; confess-
ing our faults one to the other.
Wouldn't it be a wonderful thing
if we instead of dividing over a
few silly erroneous ideas could
straighten out our differences
and be no longer either social
or preacher but all Christian stu-
dents in ACC? What does the
future hold; two schools or one?
o
In the last few months we have
seen the new look spread over
the ACC campus. The newest ad-
dition will be the new shades that
will be added to replace those
taken from most of the offices
in the Ad building.
By BETTYE ELROD
This modern world! Somo-
times I wondor about lho "now
look" that oddly onough has an
"old look" about it. Even If tho
boys do carry out lhoir throat
to wear short pants If girls con-
tlnuo to woar long skirts it prob-
ably would only provo that they
' have knobby knecsl
ACC has a definite fashion
world of its own. The "twinsy"
effect was recently started and
Nancy Montgomery and John
Thomas follow through with
brown and white checked skirt
and trousers to match shirts and
yellow pull-over sweaters. Ann
Ingram and Gay Morgan like to
wear their identical bright plaid
shirts on the outside. Deen Bart-
lett and Alfred Waller have blue
sweaters alike.
"Really ducky" is the com-
ment on Ruby and Dail Griffin's
sweaters to match. The brother
and sister gave each other a
sweater with flying ducks on the
front of it for their birthdays.
Christmas spirit is shown by
the many girls who wear bright
red rubber boots (or boats?) dur-
ing the rainy weather. Charlsie
Walls Jerry Slade and Louise
Reagan like them with the tops
turned down as do the rest.
Miss Mima Williams is a teach-
er that teaches new fads. She
has a crochet beanie of a hat to
match her sweater.
The boys also have originated
fads that are "simply out of this
world" (that should have stayed
out). Pete Reagus from Cali-
fornia wears slip-over sweaters
without a shirt. Must be a "for-
eigner fad' or because the Texas
weather is so unpredictable he
prepares for anything.
Charlie and V. T. Smith won't
part with their corduroy hats that
they so proudly wear perched on
the back of their heads.
Knit ties tied in a Windsor knot
is Froggy Rogers and Lowell
Johnson's specialty. It is a type
of knot that really gives the
wearer a smart look. So boys
you too can be smartly dressed.
Yes Miss Co-ed and Joe Col-
lege this is your world of orig-
inality. o
Letters have been sent out to all
papers from home towns where
honor students reside. This also
is a move to help publicize Abi-
lene Christian College.
Dean Howard's Calendar
Speech Tournamont Dec. 11
and 12 Aud.
Kitton Klub banquot Dec.
13.
A Cappolla Christmas carol-
ing Dec. 16.
Faculty Wives Xmas party
Dec. 16 7:30-9:00 Zollnor.
Children's recital (Aud.).
Demonstration School 7:30.
Dec. 16.
Noon. Dec. 10 Commonco
Christmas holidays.
He Got You Puzzled
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eye the right eye in position to
be doffed courteously at the first
sight of a lady. As a rule this
type is married and his hat says
"I'm taken." If he isn't married
you'd better watch him 'cause
that's where he's headed.
The cutest of course were
Sonny Manly and Russ Coffee.
You'll find a hat on the back of
their heads a few curls peeking
out and a smile on their face.
They like women but women
like them too and that's dan-
gerous. Watch your man if he's
this type.
You may not be a professional
"hat-reader" but here's one you
can't miss. Tommy Allen. He
likes red and women especially
the Glyn Castlebcrry-Bonnie Waters-Peggy
Page variety. And he
isn't keeping it a secret either.
He's wearing it on the back of his
head.
Well there it is girls. And
here's a little advice to go with
it. If it's marriage you want
your best bet is a guy who wears
his hat on the side of his head
over one eye. But if you just
want a date try the Bill Vaught
variety. Oh yes. And good luck!
Mission Study
W. R. Grimsley an elder of the
College church of Christ spoke at
Mission Study class on Wednes-
day Dec. 4. Grimsley gave the
point of view of the elders of the
church with regard to supporting
evangelists in foreign fields.
Young People's Meeting Schedule
YOUNG PEOPLE'S SCHEDULE
Dec. 15
Chairman
Song Leader
Prayer
Reading
Talk:
Theme: "Temperance and Patience"
Room 51
W. Wilkerson
Room 52
... B. Whitemore
.. A. K. Powell Bob Cruze
..Pete Douglas Harold Ellis
R. H. Petty Ken Rasco
Room 108
John Wright
Jack Davis
Gerald Fitts
Jemmio Rasor
"Temperance" Arnold Connel E. Y. Folk Lonnie Garless
Talk: "Patience"!!. Leon Davis James Gebbs V. W. Hayhurst
Peanut Week
The girls of Zellner hall drew
names last week to start "Pea-
nut Week" Dec. 7-14. Each day
some deed will be done for the
secret friend and at the close of
tho week gifts will be exchanged.
A Christmas tree was decorated
by the council and a party is
being planned.
o
Upon being asked for a state-
ment about the A Cappella tour
Donna Deacon said "The inter-
esting parts are too private!"
(lain Ploifl Some Peculiar PianAd
An exact reflection of the Ad building in one of tho many walor puddles was snappod by pho-
tographer Bill Williams. It came out so well wo thought the studenU would enjoy it. Whatovor
tho rain may have caused In lho way of mossy dls positions muddy shoes and sloppy floors it furn-
ished a perfect mirror for the Ad building to admire itself.
OPTIMISMS...
Here 11 Is Doc. 10 and only a few short weeks
until Christmas. The thing most prominent in
ovoryono's mind is "WhaAo got who cheap?"
So tho Optimist deddod to run a porsonallzed
Christmas for tho uso of lhoso studonts who aro
having difficulty in deciding tho fatoful ques-
tion: Aunt Mary Feet warmers (to make suro you
don't get cold foot wear a pair yourself!).
Undo Godwin Pipe cleaners (Ho doesn't
smoke of course but ho can carry them around
anyway).
Cousin Elbert Collulold collar ono that can
bo washed with lho Saturday night bath.
The boss Ono slightly used doso of arsenic.
Liltlo brothor James Tho pawn tickets on his
scooter skates and bicyclo you "borrowed"
last spring.
Big Sister Judy A spatula to apply her
pancake mako-up.
Mother A book on "How to Win FriondS
and Influence Kid$."
Dad Tho tio you wanted to go with your
now suit.
Speaking of Christmas perhaps Santa Claus
may help to alleviate the tenseness of such sit-
uations as. . . How Joe Clayton feels when
Billie Beorden goes with someone else and
vice versa. . . . What will become of the Jim
McFarlnnd-Gaynelle Stephens duo? ... or has
Ann Harper definitely decided that Joe Bob
Jay is it instead of Trebor Sreyem (spelled back-
wards is "Robert Meyers")
Staying awako in class doos have its virtue;
according to tho story of what happened in ono
of Dean Howard's classos. All of a sudden in
tho middlo of his locluro ho said: "Everybody
who is paying attention may loavo." Two poo-
plo left tho room.
Some mighty peculiar things can be heard
over the dormitory loud speaker systems which
just does to show how we humans believe in
making good use of all modern inventions
Interesting things heard recently over the
speaker in the new dorm were these: "Mar-
garet hurry up come on" "Jo Reagan come
home" and "You mean I can't call Shannon
Daniel to tho parlor during quiet hour?"
Ho probably didn't know what ho was talk-
ing about but a local bus driver was roportod
to havo mado lho recent statoment that ACC
had somo of the prettiest girls of any school in
town but not tho best-looking boys. We'ro In-
clined to agreo with him on tho first part of
that slalomont. but not tho last. (Plug plug.)
Dogs will be dogs and dogs will chase cats
as Mr. Burford came to realize the other day
when he and Ronald were downtown.
It seems that It sometimes takes quite a littlo
whlio for that good-natured littlo froshman.
Anneita Proffitl to got ready to go somowhero.
So not long ago when Anneita's dato callod for
her Mrs. Slkos said "Go on Into tho parlor and
I'll wako you up whon sho comos down."
Tex Williams' rendition of "Clear Cool
Water" was so vivid at Swanee the other night
that everyone in the audience began to get
awfully thirsty Was probably a boost to the
CSO's cold drink business.
Speaking of Swanee. it was a mighty pro-
fessional looking show especially for a group
of school kids to bo putting on. Congrats to
tho whole bunch including tho stago crow.
And still spoaking of Swanee. ll sooms that
Kelly Martin roally put everything ho had Into
that cowboy scono. Mighty good.
The Yuletide season is going to hear some-
thing besides Christmas bells for wedding bells
will be ringing for Kay Dollar and Ray Mc-
Glothlin Ed Brown and Edna Willioms Pat
Welch and Bob Reed Doris DuBose and Jimmy
Rasor Betty Patterson and Hcrschel Jamison
Jo Holloman and Marion Grant Miss Helen
Floyd and Glen Fulbught and Rita Roach and
Jimmy Holmes.
Something new and different in the way of
bow ties are exemplified by Edgar Webb's sil-
very one and Bill Scott's "glo-bow "
This week everybody is trying to be good
to everybody else and everybody is trying to
keep everybody elso from knowing who's botng
good to them that is in tho girls' dormitorios.
It's peanut wook and "poanuts" do all sorts of
things for each othor everything from polish-
ing shoos to leaving candy. Usually poetic on-
doavors accompany lho kind deods. Horo aro
somo examples: .
I know that you aro bright
And know how to write
So if you want to cut a lltorary caper.
Hero is an envolopo and paper.
If you put your shoes out in tho hall
I'll got them when I como to call.
If you loave this little cono
Hanging on tho door
I'll bo back another day
To fill It with somo moro.
Hero's another romembranco just for you
Look again tomorrow and see what's new.
And this ono very appropriately accompan-
led a package of gum: "Hoy you. have a chew."
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Latest rumor and it is from a very reliable
source has it that the Wildcats will play a
basketball game or two in the Sun Carnival
during the holidays. Probably will play Texas
Mines one ninht nmi fhnn .... . ... .
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ternational relations on the second by playing
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