The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 2, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 1, 1942 Page: 2 of 4
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PAGE TWO
THE RED-BIRD
DECEMBER, 1942
THE REDBIRD
Published by the Students of Lamar College
Beaumont, Texas
ISSUE STAFF
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ................................ KENNETH WITHERS
ASSOCIATE EDITOR................................GEORGE SKINNER
. DEPARTMENTS
Editorial.............:.........................................Mary Jane Thompson
Sports ............................................................ Bill McRae, Bill Hart
Features ......................... Nevaire Gambrell
Music, Drama ..............................................................Marie Lively
Humor ....................................................................... Jean Smith
Make-Up ................................................................. Wynne Bennett
Circulation .......................................................................... Bill Haft
Art ........... Sue Biser
Photography ................................. James Ivers
News .............Marilyn Arnold, Eleanor Davis, Ruth Beattie
Violet Wilkinson, Kathryn Montague, Helen Cobb.
Faculty Adviser
Ralph K. Huitt
Slate of the Nation—*42
Today, across the roofs of cities, hamlets and villages can
be heard the clanging of hammer, the throbbing, pulsating
sounds of giant machines of industry and commerce pour-
ing out the goods that an army of democracy must be
equipped to wage Total War.
All of us are in some way rather confused about many
different things—of what we are fighting for—of what is
expected to be our patriotic duties—of the not-too-distant
future.
Last week the nation celebrated Thanksgiving; and the
United States, although engaged in a struggle for its very
right to live, paused to give thanks for the many blessings
its people had reaped in one hundred and fiftyrfour years
of independence. As one would attempt to count the stars
in the heavens, so it was impossible to count the blessings
of the 133,000,000 Americans. As one looks upon the many
blessings of this last Thanksgiving Day, one sees many of
thahlessings or the issues, many and varied, for which the
nation is figniing.
What are some of them? That each may know and un-
derstand and again be firm in the resolutions each must take
to face the future:
Churches, tall steepled, stone edifices in shining cities,
white clapboard under soft pines, brick plastered monuments
about which the thoughts of religion had evolved for the last
one hundred and fifty years—these are what we are fighting
for.
Our cities, smoking canyons of industry built with the
mind of sceince and developed with the ingenuity and brawn
of Americans—these are what we are fighting for.
A newspaper delivered on one doorstep as on 60,000,000
other doorsteps throughout the nation, bringing truth to the
masses—these are what we are fighting for.
Of homes, not just houses, filled with families sitting
around a table eating food grown by the soil and sun and
worked with the sinew of free men—these are what we are
fighting for.
There are so many things,'uncountable, unthought of,
innate to the American mind that are ideals and ideas that
we are fighting for, and have taken for granted too long.
And last, to know that as we eh joy the pleasure of living
in this land that the French, Belgians, Dutch, Norweigans,
Bulgarians, Rumanians, Italians, and all the other peoples
of this earth, are able to sit down and count as free men the
blessings of each of their lives and with the knowledge of-a
future and a free present.
Let’s Battle With Our Brains
Our country has been at war for almost a year, yet there
are some of us who have not felt any sacrifices. It is true that
we have been cut down on sugar, gas, tires and a few other
luxuries. Some of our friends have left for some branch of' the
armed forces, still we are not actually conscious of the war.
Our president has said that he wants every boy and girl
to get a college education if it is at all possible. We do not
know what the future will bring, but surely this war will
not be over for a long while yet. The ones of us who are now
in. college must make the best of it, for we do not know just
how long we can remain. To stay in college at any time
and not study is wrong, but in war time it is almost
criminal. We must have college trained individuals to win
this war and to win the peace that will come afterward. Let’s
buckle down and win this war everytime we get that lesson.
HEADY LAMAR SAYS
Young Co-ed: Oh, dad, I’ve
just discovered that the girl
who sits next to me in Bio has
a hat just like mine.
Father: So I suppose you
want me to buy a new one?
Co-ed: Well, darling, that
would be cheaper than chang-
ing schools.
God grants liberty only to
those who love it, and are
always ready to guard and
defend it. —Daniel Webster
Life is not long, and much
of it must not pass in idle de-
liberation how it shall be
spent. —Samuel Johnson
After making an observa-
tion around the college,I have
found that quite a few of the
girl’s hearts belong to boys
that are either off at a Uni-
versity or they are helping
Uncle Sam with his interna-
tional problem. It is through
my meditations that I devote
this column to a most appetiz-
ing subject.
LORENE DEARING finds
S.M.U.—MILTON THOMAS
very thrilling; while RUTH
WHITLOCK’S heart is deep
in Texas U. In case you didn’t
know, CARSON SUBLETT is
enrolled there—It is because
of TOMMY that GERALDINE
KEMPE’s favorite song is
“California, Here I Come”—
patsy McClelland is
very faithful to her Army Air
Corps fellow, CHARLES
HARRISON—TROY BOAT-
WRIGHT who has recently
left Lamar to enter^the Navy
and GENE WYATT a student
at Big “T” have a number of
Cardinal admires. One in
particular is that campus
cutie, MARILYN ARNOLD.
MARGARET WHERRY is
still BERT’S home town
girl—ELINOR (ever loyal)
DOMASCHK is an ideal girl.
She is still carrying a torch
for PARKER BRADLEY—
NEVAIRE GAMBRELL real-
ly enjoys those letters from
N.T.S.T.C. Can’t say I blame
her. Good school!
“GOOK” BELL sure does
like A & M and not for its
female population either—E.
L. YOUNG takes up a lot of
room in MILDRER GALA-
TIANS’ thoughts—“HI” JEAN
SMOLLEN has a tremendous
anxiety to be in New York.
Of course PETE is there, but
that wouldn’t have anything
to do with it (am I kidding?)
—JEAN SMITH says that she
The military, disciplined
life has not been “our way of
life”. We know too well the
truth of this statement. Now
the United States is forced to
learn the military “way of
life,” and suddenly we find
ourselves confused and bogged
down in a thousand bypaths
of “military”. This new col-
umn is written with the hope
that it may clarify and settle
many issues to those of you
who are in S.M.T.C.
First, there is the confusion
of “military courtesy”. Turn-
ing to the government pub-
lished “R.O.T.C. Manual for
Essential Military Schools”,
section two, page 57, the fol-
lowing is derived from official
government instruction.
Military courtesy and dis-
cipline go hand, in hand. The
life of the soldier and of any
larger unit of combat rests on
the word “discipline”, for it
means being able to take and
carry out an order under all
conditions. Tto' the army this
is essential. Army regulations
state: “Courtesy among mili-
tary men is indispensable to
discipline”. Coming under the
term Of courtesy is saluting.
Who is saluted and who is
not saluted! First, all com-
missioned officers are saluted
at all times. A non-commiss-
ioned Officer is never saluted
except when rendering a re-
port, or for parade or review
purposes. When do you salute
an officer and how long do
you hold the salute? An offi-
cer is saluted when at least
six paces away whefl passing
doesn’t have to roam over the
entire country to find her a
man. She has one who attends
“Lamar on the Neches” and
he is none other than CHAS.
BECKER. NANCY PAT
THOMPSON claims to know
a boy in the Air Forces and
he just got his wings, too. It’s
her brother-in-law—!
JOLINE THOMPSON (no
kin to the one above) has a
boy from every .port. You
should see some of the letters
she writes. Oh! these Thomp-
sons! What am I saying!—
HELEN KERR deserves a
headline on her story. The
fellow just left, and he gave
us a cause for an out of sea-
son election—For some rea-
son or other a boy slipped in
here. CALVI’N MOORE
glooms over his frogs while
thinking of Hockaday and
BETTY—ANN DUNN has a
handsome admirer in the
Navy Air Corps. He is also
an ex-Lamar student who is
home for a visit.
ANN ’ McNEIL (the girl
with B. L. written all over her
books) sure does wish that
Galveston was closer. No
tires, no gas, Hitler still loose
—What next?—Another score
for A & M is BUD McMULL-
IN and MARTHA RILEY—
This may not fit into this col-
umn pattern, but from what
I hear JEAN PICKET has
taken a fancy to that ever
popular SAM GALLIER—
OUIDA McQUISTION still
has eyes only for ALTON
ELLIS—If you boys feel
slighted about this issue, let
me know when your girl
friend joins the WAVES or
WAACS. I shall be more than
glad to put It in the column.
Yours for victory,
HEADY.
and the salute is held until it
is returned, or until the per-
son saluting is six paces be-
yond the officer §aluted. Sa-
luting at al ltimes is done in
a snappy, brisk, military man-
ner and is never carried out
in a slovenly or disinterested
way.
For the purposes of S.M.T.C.
commissioned officers are not
to be saluted except when on
the parade ground or actually
in pursuance ,of duties of S.M.
T.C. When in formation oi
review junior officers always
salute senior officers first.
Why is saluting so impor-
tant in military courtesy and
discipline? For two reasons.
Saluting is first a military
way of greeting a fellow sol*
dier or officer. It pays respect
to the uniform, too, which
each of you are wearing. Re-
member,- when a soldier is
saluting an officer he is not
saluting a personality or indi-
vidual. He is showing respect
to the uniform of his coun-
try’s army.
Commissioned officers of
all the various branches of
our armed forces, the Army,
Navy, Marine Corps and the
j Coast Guard rate a salute, and
lit is customary to salute off-
icers of friendly foreign coun-
tries when they are in uni-
form.
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Virginia: Have a nice week-
end?
Joline: No, mother sent me
to bed without any breakfast
Sunday morning.
Jokes by Jerks
Miss Allen: What are the
two genders of nouns?
Bill Conkling: Masculine,
which is divided into tempe-
rate and intemperate and fem-
inine, which isV divided into
torrid and frigid.
Jerry: Why didn’t you
laugh at the prof’s joke this
afternoon?
Buddy: I didn’t have to,
I’m dropping that course. „
Mary Jean: You have no
idea how very helpful I found
your lecture.
Prof. Blackshear: Indeed,
in what way?
Mary Jean: Oh, it taught me
to concentrate.
Prof: That’s nice. Tell me,
what are you concentrating
on now?
Mary Jean: Oh, lots and
lots of things.
Dr. Hayes: What are rabies
and what do you do about it?
Lynn: Rabies are Jewish
priests and you can’t do any-
thing about it.
Pat Blair: I see my friend
gave you a black eye.
Glynn: You never saw the
person who gave me that
black eye.
Pat: Well, he’s my friend
anyway.
Ed Hughes: Yes sir, that
friend of mine is one of the
greatest inventors of the cen-
tury.
Kathryn Brown: You don’t
say! What did he invent?
Ed: Petrified motion.
Said an excited freshman to
a candidate f6r student body
president: “I wouldn’t vote
for you if you were the Angel
Gabriel.’
To which the sophomore re-
plied: “If I were the Angel
Gabriel, you wouldn’t even
be in my voting one.”
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LAMARETTES ORGANIZED
A new club, sponsored by
Miss Crais, has been orga-
nized for the out-of-town girls
attending Lamar. The Club
has chosen “Lamaretts” as
the name.
The following officers were
elected at the first meeting
of the club: President, Lula
Marie Conway; Vice-Presi-
dent, Emogene Coker; Secre-
tary, Jane Jordan; Treasurer,
Dorothy Grinder; Reporter,
Doris Saucier; Sergeant-at-
Arms, Oeatta Brewer. The
Socia ICommittee is composed
of Lillie Mae Elkins, Fay Fer-
guson, Billie Louise Gunn,
and Beth Ferguson.
The club members are look-
ing forward to a delightful
evening Tuesday, November
24, when they plan to go skat-
ing in Port Arthur.
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