The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 19, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 11, 1925 Page: 2 of 4
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J-T
Entered as second-class mail matter at the postoffice in Stephenville,
Texas, under act of Congress of March 3,1879.
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief , Brents Harbison
Associate Editor Truman Threadgill
Assistant Editor William Davis
Sports Editor. Roy Bailey
Exchange Editor...: Wayne Rider
Business Manager...^... v .. Abbie Joe Downing
Assistant Business Manager Brady Nix
SERVICE, CO-OPERATION,—PRINCIPLE
Abraham Lincoln placed1 himself back of principle and fought for
it so hard that he landed in the White House.
The policy of Lincoln should bet the policy of every Tarletjom
Student. It is a common thing to see students putting principle be-
hind them, making it secondary—while they place personal egotism
in the front. This policy will mean failure im the long r'un. The
only means;by which' any one can advance is 'through the servicei that
he or she render to the institution of which; he, or she; is ja fractional
part.
If a student can't place principle in the front and Co-operate with
the faculty, and1 student body in their efforts to serve—he had better
quit.
If the rules arid regulations are to stiff—better hunt another place.
If the college interests which are the students' best interests must be
subordinated, because of personal ego, and near sighted! places of self
styled pride and rank rather than broadmindedness and careful un-
derstanding—better seek other places of abode.
If you expect to derive benefits from your stay in Tarleton Co--
operate with the outhorities, serve faithfully, execute promptly, and
be a cog in the wheel that is building a Greater Tarleton, whosei
stamp of! i,approval or disapproval may spell success or disaster in,
your life and mine.
BACKWARD OR FORWARD
It is seldom that we offer any direct criticism through our editorial
column, but just now we are going to "buret forth" and repeat the
chorus if necessary.
We should remember1 that we are college men and women arid not
hoodlums, slums, or low brows—and yet these very terms might be
applied to us by a stranger who might sometime visit our chapel.
We are not preaching—no siree—neither are we trying to establish a
set of rules to be followed by Mr. Dignity or Father Time. We are
simply trying to show you that all those uncivilized uncalled for
noises we sometimes hear in chapel are a hindrance rather than a.
help to our pep as well as to the general good reputation of the
student' body, and should be "cut out" if we wish to raise the planei of
our reputation and add to that store of culture we are; supposed to
receive from our associations here at college.
'WHEN SORROW COMES
Those times when sorrow comes, human weaknesses seem to
prevail moat. However, when a person, a group, an institution is dealt
. a blow whicli means irreparable loss, it is best to strive on in their
efforts ito serve—and when depression comes say with the poet—
WHEN SORRO W COMES
"When sorrow comes, as comes it must,
In God man must place his trust.
There is no power in moral speech
The anguish of his soul to reach,
No voice, however sweet and low,
Can comfort him or ease the blow.
He cannot from his fellowman
Take strength that will sustain him then.
With all that kindly hands will do,
And that love may offer, too,
He must believe through out the test
That God has willed it for the best.
We who would be his friend are dumb;
Words from our lips but feebly come;
We feel, as we extend our hands,
That one Power only understands
And truly the reason why
So beautiful a soul must die.
We realize how helpless then
Are all the: gifts of mortal men.
No words which we have power to say
Can' take the sting of grief away—•
That'Power which makes the sparrow's fall
Must comfort and sustain, us all.
When sorrow comes, as comes it must,
In God a man must put his trust.
With all the wealth which he may own,
He cannot meet the test alone,
And only he may stand serene
Who has a faith on which to lean."
— Edgar A Guest.
IT'S HERE
Monday night as the "Fighting
Plowboys" started their first game
with Grubbs that old "spirit"—"Tar-
leton spirit"—sprang up and present-
ed itself for the first time since foot-
ball season. Everyone was anxious,
feeling good and supported the Plow-
boys as well as they could possibly do.
Bunch it takes this to win; it takes
Tarleton spirit to beat Grubbs. We've
got it—Why not keep it and beat
Grubbs., ,
As a newcomer to J. T. A. C. I
caught that old fighting spirit and I
am a Tarletonite supporting that pur-
ple and white for all I am worth.
Yeea Fighting Plowboys, beat
Grubbs." ~ " ~ - ~ ~
OUR THANKS TO TARLETON
COLLEGE
We want the friends of our boy,
Robert Lee Porter, to know that
we appreciate every act of kind-
ness extended to him and to us
during his student life and while
he was sick and after he died—
and the kind acts were many. No
boy ever had truer friends, and we
know a finer spirit was never
shown than that evidenced in the
comforts extended us in our very
great bereavement. Sincerely, V. 0.
Porter and family, Carlton, Texas.
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
OF STUDENTS BY COUNTIES
FOR REGULAR SESSION 1924-25
Anderson.., „„! 3
Archer ; 1
Arkansas (State) 1
Armenia (Country) , 1
Atascosa ,.,.J 1
Bastrop ! 3
Baylor j 1
Bee ; 2
Bell ; ! | 1
Bosque ■ 9
Brazos 2
Brown 16
Burnet 1
Callahan 3
Cameron • 2
Childress ' 1
Clay : 11
Coke ; 1
Coleman 7
Collin : 2
Collingsworth 2
Colorado (State) ; 1.
Comanche ; 47
Concho j 1
Cook i 1
Coryell 2Q
Crosby j ■ 2
Dallas 3
Dawson ■; 2
Denton ; 1
Dimmitt 1
Donley ! 1
Eastland ; 24
EI Paso [ ; 1
Erath ; 317
Falls 1
Fayette j..' 1
Fisher j 6
Floyd j 2
Frio | 2
Garza ; i 1
Gillespie,., ' 3
Grayson j 1
Grimes L' ■ 2
Hale .....j. ; X
Hamilton ; j. 46
Hardeman L 4
Harris i 1
Harrison .1
Hartley 1
Henderson 4
Hill ; : - 7
Hood 28
Howard.'.', > 1
Hunt 2
Jack : 1
Jim Hogg "1
Johnson ,...{ 12
Kent : 2
Knox ; 13
Lamar ; 2
Limestone 6
Llano 1
Lubbock ; 8
Lynn 2
McCullough 2
McLennan 5
Matagorda I 3
Menard i 8
Mills.. ; 3
Mississippi (State) 1
Mitchell ... 1
Montague : 3
Navarro 1 ■; \3
New Mexico (State) 1
Nolan 2
Palo Pinto 21
Parker 2
Potter 1
Refugio 1
Runnels j 10
Rusk i 1
San Patricia 1 1
San Saba ; 2
Scurry r 3
Shackleford 1 3
Shelby 1
Somervell.^...' 4
■ Stephens : 2
Sterling • 1
Stonewall .3
Tarrant ' 4
Taylor 1
Terry : :■ 1
Throckmorton ; ; V 1
Tom Green ; 8
Travis 1 1
Wharton ; 1
Wheeler 1
Wood ; 1
*
Young 2
Total j .....768
HOME ECONOMICS CLASS
ENTERTAIN BAND WITH TEA
One section of Miss Looney's food
class entertained the band members
Monday afternoon with an informal
tea. The reception proved a very en-
joyable affair and Lt. Bolen as spokes-
man for the band delivered the most
eloquent response ever, devoting most
of his talk to thanks and appreciation
of the feed. Lt. Bolen never over-
looked the opportunity to express in
that artistic way of his own, the fact
that he was sure all the members of
the band would welcome another such
reception. Quite right.
THE CALF PATH
(Published by request; sent in by
Newman L. Van Dgusen, Bruns^-
wick, 0.)
•!
One day through the primeval
wood
A calf walked home as good calves
should,
But made a trail all bent askew,
A crooked trail as all calves do.
Since then two hundred years have
fled,
And, I infer, the calf is dead.
But still he left behind his trail,
And thereby hangs my mortal tale,
The. trail' was taken up next day
By a lone dog that passed that way
And then a wise bell-wether sheep
Pursued the trail o'er vale and
, steep,
And drew the flock behind him, too
As good bell-wethers always! do.
And from that day o'er hill and
glade.
Through those old woods a path
was made.
And many men wound in and out,
And dodged and turned and bent
about
And uttered: words of righteous
wrath,
Because 'twas such a crooked
path.
But still they followed—do not
laugh—■
The first migrations of that calf;
And through this winding wood
way stalked,
Because he wobbled, when he
walked,
This forest path became a lane
That bent and turned and turned
again;
This crooked lane became a road
Where many a poor horse with his
load,
Toiled on beneath the burning
sun,
And traveled some three miles in
one.
And thus a century and a half
They trod the footsteps of that
calf.
The years pass on in swiftness
fleet,, ,
The road because a village street,
And this, before men were a^ware,
A city's crowded thoroughfare.
And'soon-the central street was
this,
Of a renowned metropolis.
And men two centuries and a half
Trod! in the footsteps of. that calf-
Each day a hundred thousand
rout
Followed this zigzag calf about;
And o'er his crooked journey went
The traffic of a continent.
A hundred thousand men were led
By one calf near three centuries
dead.
They followed still his crooked
way,
And lost one hundred years a day.
For thus such reverence is lent
To well established precedent.
A moral lesson this might teach
Were I ordained and called to
preach.
For men are prone to go it blind
Along the calf paths of the mind;
And work away from sun to sun
To do what other men have done.
They follow in the beaten track,
An out and in, forth and back.
And still their devious course pur-
sue
To keep the path that others do.
But how the wise old wood gods
laugh,
Who saw the first primeval calf,
Ah, many things this tale might
teach—■
But I am not ordained to preach.
—Sam Walter Foss
Capt. Harris: "Killian! How you
do look!"
Killian: "Yes sir, I fell in a mud
puddle."
Capfc. Harris: "What! And with
your dress uniform on, too?"
Killion: "Yes sir. I did not have
time to take it off."
DEBATE TRYOUTi
TO BE H ELD FEB 18
The date for the tryout to determ-
ine the Tarleton debating team will
be held Wednesday afternoon, Feb. IS
instead of Friday afternoon, Feb. 13,
as previously announced. A debate
has been arranged with McMurray
College at Abilene and others are
pending. Let everybody come out and
support the contestants.
EX-STUDENT
In a recent letter to a member of
the .faculty, Allie Maud Bynum, who
was a student here last year said:
"I attended the University of—"
(meaning a prominent state univers-
ity) "last year, but it was not like the
enjoyable school yeear that I spent
at Tarleton. I believe that no school
can have the spirit that Tarleton did;
and I hope it will always remain the
same and that it may grow to be one
of the best colleges in the South."
The above seems to be the common
feeling that our students have about
Tarleton when they go from us. Let
us strive to make ours a better and
better institution, so that our ex-stud-
ents may always point with pride to
that fact that, they are from Tarleton,
and may remember with pleasure the
days spent here: -
Office Hours 8 to 12—1 to 5
Dr. J. A, Whitacre
DENTIST
Office Over Service Drug Store
Stephenville, Texas
GO TO
Marinello Shoppe
for Marcels, and soft water
SHAMPOOS
Phone 34 for appointments
Our Motto' CLEANLINESS
Nowhere on earth does cleanli-
ness count more than in a mark-
et. We maintain a perfectly sail-
itary condition.
BELKNAP STREET
MARKET
Phone 62
Armstrong & White
Most Modern Equipped Plant in
West Texas
ONE DAY SERVICE
STEPHENVILLE PLANT &
FLORAL CO.
Cut Flowers, Pot Plants
Funeral Designs and Bouquets
of all kinds
Phone 484
Member F, T. D.
CHANDLER BROS.
Dairy Products
Service. Quality
Phone 500
W.F.WILSON
Watchmaker, Jeweler
and Engraving
AT PERRY BROS.
"BOY OF MINE"
By Booth Tarkington
Thursday and Friday-
February 12 and 13
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The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 19, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 11, 1925, newspaper, February 11, 1925; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth139912/m1/2/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Tarleton State University.