The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 19, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 11, 1925 Page: 3 of 4
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OUR PRICES ARE
RIGHT AND OUR
SERVICE GOOD
HUDGENS
&HICKEY
Groceries & Feed
SPRING GOODS NOW
ARRIVING DAILY ,
MILLER'S VARIETY
STORE !
Ladies Work a Specialty
Pay Us a Visit
BELL BARBER SHOP
HEARD FROM THE FORT
W. P. NEWSOM
Shoe Repair
BELKNAP STREET
A Trial Will Convince You
Give Us a Trial
0. A. SMITH
GROCERIES
The Place to Get'Your Work
Is Where They Give Service, and
THAT'S PATE'S
Pate's Barber Shop
A FULL LINE OF
BOX STATIONERY
and School Supplies at
LIVINGSTON
RACKET STORE
Down Grubbs and on to the
State
Mayor Reynolds has gone from
the Fort. Looks like we can't
keep pur gang all together.
33-15. ft isn't over yet Plow-
boys. . Good work. We knew you
could 'do it.
Red and Frank have at last de-
cided to4 ep,nie back to the fold.
Welcome Home boys
Coleman" has returned after a
vacation which he spent in the
midst' of bottles, beds and of
course, good looking nurses.
Fight 'em Plowboys.
Kirk left Sunday morning. Kirk
has been wrestling for some time
with "flu" but it seems that it
must deprive him of a few days
more. Hurry back Kirk, we need
you.
Famous sayings by famous men,
"I hope you do."
"I hope you think you can."
"I hope you think I won't."
"That's two more for thinking,
hurry Fish Holton, room nine."
'We are oifering a reward of
three of the members of Killin's
codtie garage force to any one able
to supply the name of the author
of above quotations.
Heard on drill day:—-
"Where's my gun rod?"
"Who swiped my hat?"
"What time is it?"
"Button up those pockets."
"Hurry Fish, shine my shoes."
Just think about it! It's really
too good to be true! Captain
Harris likes some of the members
of the Fort so well that he actual-
ly lets them drill on Saturday af-
ternoon. SOME SUCTION!
Thanks, Captain!
We have several track and base-
ball men in our home. Stay in
there boys ! Goober can pick one
out of the sand every time and
Jake netfer misses and how they
can sling that stick. We have a
bright future in baseball before
us':
Down with Grubbs!
Agpe is going over the top for
twelve feet this season.
This world isn't so old after all.
Adam moved to the Fort the other
day.
On to the State Championship.
Rip Holton has several severe
cases of the S. A. and on one occa.
sion it has been necessary to ap-
ply the indicator. t
State Championship■ gang!
Fat's RESPONSIBILITY! is fad-
ing and he finds) red) hair 411 over
his shoulder now. !*|*!? I
Gig 'em gang!
To Buy or Trade—-Will, pay a
reasonable price or trade? good
electric iron for a pair of electric
curling irons. Must be in good
condition to stand strain ; of my
cootie garage. Apply, phone or
write H. E. Killin.
The supremacy of Cannon and
Killin as "leather pushers" is be-
ing questioned by Agee, Cow, Mas-
sey and others j
Jimmy and Red; came to visit us
and see the Plowboys pour it . on
the Grubb Hornets . ;
The appearance of several coot-
ie garages and soup strainers are
going to cause the loss of ejectric-
-ity. Look out curling irons.
33-15. • Keep it up boys, good
work!
Plowboys, listen, we are just an
humble bunch of boys but we're
behind you 100 per cent. Stay in
there fellows and fight 'em. We're
for anything that will put'Tarle-
ton on the map more than ever
before. This is a good old school,
fellows and we love it and our
efforts and hopes are for you. You
know us.—
—THE FORT.
DID YOU EVER
DID YOU EVER
ALL OUR PATRONS
are enthusiastic about the photographs
we have made for them, You, too, will
Better make your appointment today,
be delighted.
BAXLEY STUDIO
Phone 115
G. M. CARLTON BROS. & COMPANY
"The Busy Corner of Stephenville"
Spring Woolens for Sport Dresses and
Skirts priced at the yard. .$1.50 to $5.00
English Broadcloth, Sport Patterns and
Plain Colors priced the yard 85c
COME'TO SEE US
G. M. CARLTON BROS. & COMPANY
DRIVE ALONG
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A COUNTRY ROAD
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AT NIGHT AS YOU
£ $
WERE HAVING A
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GOOD TIME
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YOU RAN
$ sjs , $
UPON
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SOMEONE OUT
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OP A CAR
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POOLING WITH
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A TIRE
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AND HE HOLLERED
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A.T YOU
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SO YOU
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STOPPED
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AND HE CAME
BACK AND
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TOLD
YOU THAT HE
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HAD A PLAT
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AND NEEDED A.
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JACK
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AND JUST AS YOU
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GOT ALL
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THE TOOLS OUT
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AND EVERYBODY
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HAD PILED OUT
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THE OTHER
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CAR
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WHIZZED BY
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AND YELLED
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AND ASKED YOU
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IP YOU EVER
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GOT STUNG
DID YOU??
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HUH???
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MARJORIE NEBLETT AND CO.
DID.
Me. Garrett: "Brown, you remem-
ber in Latin 'Caesar sic dictem de
cur en igesse lictum.' What djd that
mean ?"
Brown: "Caesar_sicked the cat on
the cur, I guess he licked"him!"
MAJOR PROBLEMS OF
THE FRESHMAN YEAR
(By William Lowe Bryan, Presi-
dent, University of Indiana.)
The first major question for all
the students who essay to enter
the university is whether they
ought to be there at all.
Four powerful pulls bring them
to the door. First, athletics; sec-
ond, the dance and wh^t goes with
that; third, better paid -jobs dem-,
onstrably coming more and more
to men and women with college
training especially since the war
in which army commissions came
almost exclusively to college train-
ed men; fourth, it must be true,
it is true that the fundamental
hungersi for truth and for beauty,
.which have given rise to learning
and to art, are in the boys and
girls of our generation, as in ev-
ery past generation. >
Students Seek Truth
Our children are like all their
predecessors. They want to know
the truth. They want to have
what is best within themselves do
its work. These four pulls act
powerfully all the time in millions
of American homes and bring in-
creasing tens of thousands into
the freshman classes. I want them
to come, all of them that can get
there, and make their trial. But
it is certain that a very large num-
ber should almost immediately
drop out and make trial in some
other direction.
When we make the necessary
diagnostic tests by the physicians
and by the psychologists and by
the membei's of the faculty, we
find that our freshmen are distri-
buted as regard physical and men-
tal ability along the socalled pro-
bability cure, with relatively few
in the upper 10 or 15 per cent, cor-
respondingly few in the lower 10
or 15 per cent, andl the great ma-
jority in the middle 70 or 80 per
cent ti ,
The lower io or 14 per "cent
ought to go away. Not until the
diagnosis is sure. Not until the
scientific diagnosis is supplement-
ed by a kind, personal diagnosis.
When a great steel plant does not
permit an employe to be dismissed
until a wise and kind personnel
mani'says the word, the university
should be bs wise and as kind with
a boy whose_,best chance in life
is at stake. Nevertheless, the low
level freshmen should' go as soon
aa they are surely discovered.
It is necessary that the resour-
ces of the university should be
spent upon those who. can profit
by them. It is best for these less
capable ones themselves ;that they
should undertake work which they
can do.
Question of Adaptation
I do not agree with those who
think that 'college education
should fce reserved for the upper
10, 20 or 30 per cent I do not
agree with those who rage at the
increasing hundreds of thousands
in high school and college:
I look at every question (for
one way of✓ looking at it) at a
question of organic adaptatibn.
The mediocre youth who goes thru
high school, college and profes-
sional school arid spends his life
as a mediocre professional man
has made countless1 contacts with
the truth about the universe as
now known. He has the principal
skills of his profession to the ad-
vantage of those whom he serves
professionally. The multitude of
mediocre college men constitute
the necessary bridge between the
few men of genius at the top apd
the world at large. The medio-
cre youth has a right to the high,
school and college, and the inter- ^
est of society requires that he
should not be denied .that right.
I shall not at this time and
place say anything of the upper
10 per cent men except that in my
judgment our dealing with the
lowest group is not so important
as our dealing with these who are
to be the leaders of society.
THE H. M. T- AGE
What a jolt to the memory that
brief reference tor the hug-me?
tight buggy proved to be! Who
does not remember that gladsome,
golden age of romance anid modes-
ty? Who, indeed—unless one hap-
pens to be under 30 years of age.
And what a scandal the old H.
M. T, was when it first came into
3tyle! Why, the young man ac-
ually had to touch his young
ady as they sat side by side in the
narrow confines of the seat. It
vas unavoidable. The makers of
;he H. M. T. shameless Twen-
tieth Century money-grabbers,
nade the seat so narrow that
•.lose contact was not to be escap-
ed.
How the tongues did wag! first
passengers in the H. M. T. took
their reputations in. their hands.
Remember how gingerly and
blushingly the young lady's beau
seated himself beside her, loosed
the rein, seized-the whip, and in
augurated one of those suprem
ely enjoyable buggy rides of the
dying days of the Nineteenth
Century? If he was very, bashful
he let the whip remain in its
socket, and employed his free
ight hand to grasp the side of
the buggy seat in an effort to pre-
vent close contact with his lady
love. As far her, she clung to her
side of th§ buggy with both hands.
If the young man was very braz-
en, he stole an occasional glance
at his companion out of the corner
of his left eye. If ©he caught
him at it, she blushed furiously
under the brirol of her shuck bon-
net or around the corner of her
"fascinator."
In the eyes of the present gen-
eration, the sparking couple of the
late nienties were pikers, hope-
lessly dumb and a complete loss,
without insurance. Yet the spark-
ers of that happy ' age are the
mothers and fathers of today,
some of whom are not scandaliz-
ed when they see ha]f a dozen
young folks in an automobile built
for two.
Get out the old kodak pictures
of that period and take a long look
at them. That one, for instance-,-1
where several young couples as-
sembled on the bridge. Some of
the cut-up boys donned the girl's
hats, and some of the more dar-
ing young ladies wore the boy'®
hats. Yes, sir! And before
sneering at the sheiks of today,
with their bell-bottomed trousers,
get out that 1897 picture of your-
And as for the 1925 practice of
keeping the hair combed by the
use of gummy substances, recall
how you used to doctor your own
unruly locks with various prepara-
tions. And do you1 by any chance
remember that funny contraption
which fitted under the collar and
lapel of your coat, to keep it neat-
ly in position? Of course you do.
Then if son wears the upper half
of a sock pulled tightly over his
scalp to make his pompadour
'stand put, don't laugh at him and
call him sissy. You!d have given
a small fortune (fifteen or twenty
cents at least, in those days) to
have discovered the same system
yourself away back there thirty
years ago before boll weevils and
demisedans werq ever heard of.
The old H. M. T.—What a scan-
day it used to be. And how tame
the present day boy'si and girls re-
gard it!
From the "Abilene Reporter."
DE MOLAY BANQUET
TO BE FEBRUARY 19
All active members of the John
Tarleton chapter of De Molay togeth-
er with the non-active De Molays of
the student body and the members of
the advisory board are to have their
first banquet of the year 1925 at the
New Hall Hotel Thursday night week.
Members of the advisory board will
be present and a great feast is ex-
pected.
W. E. Moody sold Joe Beard a light
globe Saturday night, after 'an ex-
planation that it would give more
light and use less current (juice) and
he's no Jew either.
Uncle Moody was invited to a lawn
tennis party Friday and couldn't find
a sear sucker f it-in. town.
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