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VOL. XVII.
STEPHESTVIKLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1937
NUMBER 20
Musical Organizations Have Full
Spring Program With Many Trips
F.F A CONTESTS'WILL
ATTRACT 500 ENTRIES
HIGHLIGHTS ARE BATTLE OF
FLOWERS AND DALLAS TRIP
Appearing before American edu-
cators at a Dallas convention, sing-
ing and playing befo-re high school
audiences of West Texas, and
marching- in the Battle of Flowers
parade in San Antonio, members
of John Tarleton's musical organi-
zations have a full program be-
fore them for the spring.
Next Friday night the little
symphony orchestra, the girls' trio,
and the male Quartet will appear
at the annual banquet to be given
at the Adolphus hotel for con-
vention delegates to the American
Association of Junior Colleges. R.
Berton Coffin, head of the voice
department of John Tarleton, will
direct the vocal ensemble, and
Albert T, Luper, head of the violin
department, will direct the orches-
tra. Dean J. Thomas Davis, sec-
retary of the convention, will at-
tend.
On March 3 the girls' trio and
the male quartet will appear at
the high school auditorium in Cis-
co. Inyitation to this affair was
received last week.
Tarleton's band, together with
the Honorary Corps of Cadets, will
go to San Antonio on April 20
to witness the colorful Battle of
Flowers. Members plan to remain
several days, play several conceits,
and march in parades. The band
may also attend the spring meeting
of the West Texas Chamber of
Commerce at Brownwood in May.
Newest plan for these musical
organizations includes a one-week
tour through Brady, Mason, Rock-
springs, and other West Texas
towns.
Several members of the fine arts
group will entertain at the A.W.S.
open house which will be given
February 25 for the senior girls
in the high schools of the neigh-
boring towns.
Morton P. Brooks' orchestra has
arranged to play for dances each
week-end for the remainder of the
semester.
MUSIC KEPT PLAYING WITH
3,040 NICKELS BY NICKEL
MACHINES AND ORCHESTRA
"We. shall have music wherever
we go" seems to be a motto for
Tarleton students as well as the
words of an old song, according
to Ike Newman, proprietor of the
Varsity shop, Morton P. Brooks,
dean of men and director of the
college orchestra, and Carl Cox,
oiie of the boys who operates the
nickelodeon in the Recreation hall.
Students spend about $50 play-
ing records on the nickelodeon
machines and about $10 for the
college orchestra each month. Re-
cords, which cost 5 cents a piece
and play for three minutes, can
bfi played for §1 an hour. The or-
chestra charges $8 an hour.
Yes, 3,040 nickles a month will
keep music going on the Tarle-
ton campus, and that's one place
whore a great deal of dad's money
goes.
Approximately 500 F. F. A.
members representing about 80
towns of Area IV will descend
upon the campus of John Tarleton
College for the thirteenth annual
Tarleton future farmer judging
contest, April 3.
The contest this year will not be
open to' all who wish to enter as it
has in the past. It will be limited
to Area IV towns only.
The following contests are to be
held: live stock, dairy, poultry and
egg, plant production, horticul-
ture, soil conservation, farm shop,
and entomology.
Suitable prizes will be given to
all winners. Among the prizes to
be given are 38 Tarleton banners,
made by the home economics de-
partment of the college. The
sweepstake award this year will
be $50 worth of books to the ad-
visers of the five high teams in
the sweepstakes contest. A set of
official station placards will also
be awarded the second to its sixth
high teams inclusive.
Classes and materials set up in
the rules and regulations for the
State Smith-Hughes contests held
at Texas A. and M. College are
to be used in this contest, The
director of this contest is A. J.
Spangler, and the superintendent
is Roy B. Mefferd.
COMMITTEE ASSISTS
WOULO-BETEACHERS
The Teacher?' Placement Com-
mittee of Tarleton College under
the direction of A. H. Wilcox,
head of the educational depart-
ment is assisting students to get
positions for next fall. Thirty-
seven students who expect to teach
have already filed complete appli-
cations in the department.
A printed application form is
filled out by the students. This
contains personal information,
qualifications, description of col-
lege courses, and all information
the school board might wish. It is
then sent for recommendations to
every teach?r in whose class the
student is registered. The appli-
cants also get recommendations
from people of their home towns.
The original copy of the form is
kept in the education department,
and copies are sent to school
boards where the student wishes
to apply for a position.
Sunday guests in the home of
Mrs. G. P, Herndon, Dublin, were
Mr. and Mrs. R. Berton Coffin,
Miss Mozelle Hilswick, Albert T.
Luper. and Miss Elisabeth May-
be w.
Wilma ITarrell spent the week-
end in her home.
Dust Storm Covers Campus and Ignores
Efforts to Avoid It and to Keep Clean
A film of dust on desks and
chairs, many pairs of bloodshot
eyes, and a gritty scii?ation be-
tween the teeth of both faculty
members and students were only
a few of the verifications that Ste-
phenville was again plagued with a
sandstorm last Thursday.
Smiles were beginning to be
common once more when the sun
showed itself after a terrific fog
of dust left here Tuesday, but Wed'
nesday morning the visibility went
down to one-fourth of a mile, ac-
cording to records.
A coat of dust could be seen on
everything from the floor of the
Recreation hall to the bedsheets in
the dormitories.
Tightly closed windows and lock-
ed doors seemed not to be of any
merit for protection from the fine
grains of sand which blew down
from the North.
Students, feeling that they were
about to suffocate in the tightly-
eloscd classrooms, attempted to op-
en windows for air only to be
greeted with a cloud of brown
unpleasantness.
Janitors in the various buildings
of the campus, while searching for
more dust cloths, found that they
had to start anew on their recently
dusted chairs or window-sills.
A sure sign of Spring in the
West is the frequent sand storms,
so everyone must face it and wait
dustily.
Letter from Austin Reveals Sad Plight
of Fighting Thomas Who Lives in Same
House with Last Year's Iron Man Editor
BOYS' DORMITORY WILL GIVE
MUSICAL REVUE FEATURING
SINGING AND DANCING ACTS
The following is a letter received
in the mail yesterday morning
from one poor soul, Hinds Thomas,
telling of the troubles he has in
Austin from "Iron Man" Cowan,
editor of the J-Tac last year.
Please read this letter with the
greatest respect for its authentic-
ity and do not tell a soul of the
things it contains. If you know
anything to help this poor student,
please send your contributions to
the J-Tac* office. All donations will
be appreciated. The problem is too
great for the editor;
Editor of the J-Tac
John Tarleton College
Dear Sir:
The information about which I
am corresponding I feel sure will
interest you as ' it concerns your
predecessor of last year. There is
a fellow here-in the University of
Texas who says that he hails from
Stephenville and that he attended
John Tarleton for two years pre-
ceding thi3 one. I stated that he
was your predecessor wholly on
the strength of his own testimony,
which I for one am not inclined
to doubt, at least, not in his hear-
ing. This fellow, who says his
name is Wayne Malvern Cowan, is
known familiarly about the Uni-
versity campus as "The Iron
Man." I would not dare to recount
his exploits to anyone who had not
known him of old for fear that I
should lose my reputation for m-
reproachable veracity, but I feel
that by communicating with one
who is already acquainted with
this remarkable character, I- may
obtain understanding and advice.
I am closely associated with The
Iron Man and can write a volume
on any phase of his unprecedented
life, but I am reluctant to express
myself freely until I discover
whether my chronicles will be re-
ceived as the pure and unadulter-
ated truth that they really are. I
can easily understand why one
who has not personally encounter-
ed The Iron Man himself (for he
has no peers) would attribute my
convictions to the delusions of a
deranged imagination; and I will
not consider it a personal affront
if you discredit my testimony, but
please understand that these opin-
ions are not mine alone but those
of the student body of this univer-
sity as a whole. He is feared and
respected from frat house to gut-
ter, from beer joint to the State
Capitol.
I will not attempt to elaborate
on his far reaching intellectual
achievements, for they are beyond
my mental scope, but will content
myself with a mild illustration of
one of his lesser feats of physical
prowess. I welt remember the ill-
fated day when I first discovered
that this quiet and unassuming
individual was a lion in the cloth-
ing of a lamb.
He first distinguished himself by
his amazingly paradoxical sleep-
ing habits. He absents himself on
some mysterious errand until
about 11:30 every night; and
then, as decently conventional peo-
ple are preparing to seek the
solace of their couches, he comes
rushing violently into the house
exhorting his housemates to be up
and doing "with a heart for any
fate,'' calling- us "degenerate
pawns in the hands of Morpheus."
Now we, his housemates, are by no
means weaklings, having been
named (before the advent of The
Iron Man) "Tho last of the Fight-
ing Whites," Slugger Allen, and
Terrible Thomas; but, after two
weeks of living with Wayne Mal-
vern Cowan, we were all reduced
to mere shadows of our former
selves.
Never suspecting that The Iron
Man himself was not weakening
from these repeated infringements
on the rules of self-preservation,
I evolved a scheme by which I
foolishly imagined that I could
vanquish him through subterfuge
and once more restore peace . to
our little home. For eight consecu-
tive afternoons I crept furtively
home through alleyways and slept
until The Iron Man came home at
night. Then I would leap to my
feet and stagger around the room
loudly protesting that the end was
near, that I was surely passing
on to the great beyond, and that I
had not been in the bed sleeping
but had fallen across it in a faint
just a moment before he came in.
Thus, I narrowly averted death
for eight days by arousing his
sympathy enough to overcome his
homicidal rage at finding anyone
in bed before 4 o'clock in the
morning. After spending the
mornings of these eight days tak-
ing boxing lessons, the afternoons
in bed, and building up my body
(Continued on page 4)
Dean Davis Will Attend Convention
Of Junior College Leaders in Dallas
MIXED ENSEMBLE WILL
ATTEND CONVENTION ALSO
Dean J. Thomas Davis will leave
shortly for Dallas to attend the
seventeenth annual convention of
the American Association of Junior
colleges, of which he is secretary.
Tho convention will be held at the
Adolphus hotel on Feb. 26 and 27.
Speakers at the convention will
include Homer P. Rainey, director,
American Youth Commission, Am-
erican Council on Education; Dean
E. I). Jennings, Southern Metho-
dist University; Dr. Frederick Eby,
University of Texas; Guy Winslow,
president. Lassell Junior college,
Auburndale, Mass.; Nicholas Ric-
cardi, president of San Bernardino
Vfiiley Junior college, San Ber-
nardino, California.
Curriculum revision, intercolleg-
iate athletic problems, and extra-
ciass participations needed in the
expansion of junior college pro-
grams, and extra-class participa-
tions needed in the expansion of
junior college programs will be
rliseussed at the meeting.
The John Tarleton Little Sym-
phony, under the direction of Al-
bert T. Luper, violin instructor,
will play, and R. Berton Coffin,
voice instructor, will conduct the
Tarleton Mixed Ensemble in songs
at the convention.
CLUBS MIKE DATES
FOR AMATEUR SHOWS
The various clubs of Tarleton
College will sponsor shows of Tar-
leton talent in the auditorium dur-
ing the sprine: in order to finance
their social functions. A calendar
setting the dates for these enter-
tainments was arranger! Saturday.
Dates which have been set are as
follows:
Owls' Club, March 10; Talons*
Club, March 11; Engineers' Club,
March 31; Pro-Law Club, April 7;
and Silver Key Club, April 14.
ABILENE CONCERT HEARD
BY FINE ARTS STUDENTS
Ten fine arts students, chaperon-
ed by Mr. and Mrs. Charles W.
Froh, attended the concert given
by Percy Grainger, famous English
pianist, in Abilene last Thursday
i! ight.
They were Wilma Harrell, Tur-
nerville; Coda Baggett, Gustine;
Luna Ruth Petty, Big Spring; Eu-
gena Gentry, Do Leon; Lillian
Summy, Goldthwaite; Mary Rog-
ers. Janie Rogers, Stephenville;
and Bettye Boulter, De Leon; Mar-
garet Wilson, Dallas; and Cleo
Holder of Turnerville.
PRESS CLUB PLANS
LOCAL CONTEST FOR
TIPJjJIATERIAL
Tarleton Will Attend Annual
Convention At Commerce
In April
The Press club will sponsor the
annual local contest for the var-
ious T. I. P. A. contests according
to Joe Kennedy, president of the
Press club. All material entered
in the contest must be turned over
to the Press club in time for judg-
ing the winner before it is sent
off on March 13.
The contests are as follows: ser-
ious short stories, humorous short
stories, formal essay, poems, and
one-ace plays.
The Texas Intercollegiate Press
Association, composed of college
newspapers throughout Texas, will
convene at East Texas State
Teachers College at Commerce on
April 15, 16, and 17. Kennedy an-
nounced that delegates from the
Press elub would go to this con-
vention if possible. Winners of the
contests named will be announced
at the convention, and also the
J-Tac and Grassburr will be en-
tered in the publications division.
Last year the Grassburr won
first in its division and the J-Tac
second. Tarleton students won one
first and various other places. Ken-
nedy hop.es, that Tarleton students
will show enough interest to rate
well in the" contests. Exact de-
tails will be announced this week
about the local contests.
MALE OOWTTWILL
SING ON MARCH 3R0
The King Ambassador Male
Quartet and Bell Ringers of Cleve-
land will entertain at the Tarle-
ton auditorium March 3.
Loyd King, manager, has direct-
ed a quartet for the last 12 years
and filled 4,000 engagements in
leading colleges, universities, and
communities in America and the
West Indies.
George Vaughn, high tenor, was
five years a member of the Cleve-
land Opera Company, soloist with
the Cleveland Symphony for one
season, and for five years with
the famous Orpheus Male Chorus.
H. Tom Little, lead tenor, has
been soloist with the Oklahoma
Symphony Orchestra, was a radio
contest winner and studied in
New York. George Scott., bass, ac-
companist, and reader, is a gradu-
ate of the Ithaca Conservatory of
Music and Dramatic Art and has
been with the quartet for nine
years.
Swiss bells will be used in ad-
dition to several other instru-
ments. Novelty features and cos-
tumed sketches will add variety
and a lighter touch to the concert.
McCONACHIE APPEARS IN
FOR SCORING LEADERSHIP
With only three games to go,
Carl McConachie, 0 feet 6 inch
center from El Paso, appears about
"in" for the scoring leadership
of the undefeated Tarleton Plow-
boys. McConachie, with I GO points,
is 48 points ahead of second-place
Jude Smith. Mae has consistently
scored between 10 and 15 points in
almost all of the games this year.
Slew Hull has increased his total
and is now challenging the steady
Smith for second place. The lead-
ers are as follows:
'C. McConachie 166
Smith — 118
Hull 106
Kill en 71
Carrigan 61
Tinker 61
P. McConachie 45
COLLEGE ORCHESTRA WILL
PLAY FOR NIGHT CLUB
FLOOR SHOW
Tarleton's annual boys' musical
revue featuring singing, dancing,
and burlesque specialty acts will be
presented in the Tarleton audi-
torium on Wednesday, March 3,
under the direction of Syd Davis.
The entire show will represent
a night club scene with the college
orchestra furnishing the music.
There will be a number of couples
made up of dormitory boys sitting
around tables on the stage. The en-
tertainment will be in the form
of a floor show at the night club.
All of the entertainers will be
boys with dormitory residents tak-
ing the place of girls.
When the curtain rises the orch-
estra will play a theme song, and
the couples will enter from eleva-
tors from each side of the stage.
The theme song is an original
composition by Gregg Wilfong. The
singing and dancing will then
begin.
The boys' chorus, composed of
Boyd Collier, Jack Hunt, Guy Mc-
Murry, George Ready, Buzz Bar-
ton, Henry Kuhlmann, Harvey
Watson, Norman Sterling, John
Buckner, and Harry Hedges, will
present the first dance, and later
they will give another act. Mar-
jorie Page and Sally Haywood are
teaching the chorines their steps.
Specialty acts will be given by
various boys who stay at Davis
Hall. An imitation of the three
stooges of movie fame will be
given by Norman Sterling, Buzz
Barton, and Cy Clayton. LeVon Lee
will do an imitation of Sally Rand
in the form of a burlesque fan
dance. He and Richard Rodney
will team together in a burlesque
ball room dance with Richard lead-
ing.
Gabe Lewis and Reuben Friou,
dormitory managers, will give
some some sort of a novelty act
which is yet to be worked up.
Henry Wray will loosen up his
feet in some fancy tap dancing, ac-
cording to Syd. Martin Johan-
sen will sing. Another number or
two may be included,.according to
Davis.
Lewis Mickley is the stage man-
ager. The admission to the show
will be fifteen cents.
PILLSBURY DUE FOR
SPEECH ON NATURE
Arthur C. Pillsbury, naturalist,
scientist, inventor, explorer, au-
thor, and lecturer, will speak at
the John Tarleton auditorium on
the everting of March 4. His sub-
ject will be "New Miracles of Na-
ture."
Mr. Pillsbury climbs the moun-
tains for flowers, walks on the
ocean floor picturing and sketch-
ing marine life, and shows with
the lapse-time camera the results
of days or weeks of growth in a
few seconds, lie pictures the bac-
teria under a fly's toe with his tan-
dem microscope.
The "New Miracles of Nature"
lecture consists of a new set of
pictures all in natural color and
on safety stock, of flowers growing
and opening, in lf.pse time photog-
raphy and microscopic subjects,
some with polarized light and
other new discoveries.
Mr. Pillsbury pictures life in
words of one syllable. Four years
of work in six minutes—the mould
story, circulation in leaves, and
the autumn leaf story are some
of the things to be presented in
this lecture.
Yetta Belle Byers of Brecken-
ridge, student here last term, was
or, the campus Saturday. Roberta
Cheney returned to Breckenridge
with her for the week-end.
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The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 20, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 23, 1937, newspaper, February 23, 1937; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth140287/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.