The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 27, 1934 Page: 3 of 4
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THE J-TAC
PAGE THREE
AMPUS
eyhole
Botany Students See That Green Leaves
Makes Sugar Then Starch From Sunlight
Hello, and how are you doing
after another week of trials and
sore feet?
As far 83 I hear, the dance
didn't go over just like we wanted
it to. What's the matter, girls?
Surely you don't mind a -whole
dance with a beginner. Someone
told me that every time a couple
looked pleasant someone would tag.
If you really are having a good
time, frown and hide your feel-
ings.
Perhaps some of you didn't
know the dance was last Saturday
night.. Some few we missed were
Yates Stafford, Vivian and Blair,
Alton Redwine and his double,
Dolly Farmer (did you have a
sore toe?) and others.
Over a week ago it happened.
One Tarleton student drove his
car down the Ward school drive.
Another did likewise. Suddenly
both were asked to leave. That
shows their love for the old school
days, when we were young and
healthy.
Definitions of words and ex-
amples:
Chicken—featherleg-.—Ex-Odell.
Golddiggx'i'— one who goes to a
football^ game with a date so he'll
buy her peanuts. Ex.-Dolly Far-
mer.
Chump—one who takes a date
to a football game. Ex.-Huckabay.
Pansy—one who just can't fake
it. Ex.-Killian.
Bore—one who runs you nuts.
Ex.-Gentleman at the Keyhole.
Cream puff—mush. Examples—
All girls except a few.
Ted Crowther kisses his girl's
picture three times a day and
looks at his watch. We guess that
his girl kisses his picture at the
same time. Wonderful thrill, isn't
it, Ted?
I wonder who Slim Curring-
ton's poet laurSate is. He received
the following love message the
other day.
"When first he came to see her,
He showed a timid heart;
And when the lights were low,
They eat this far apart.
But when their love grew warm-
; er,
; And they learned the joy of a
kiss;
They knocked out all the spaces
Andsatupcloselikethis.
How do you feel, Colonel? Those
■who have been cutting your throat
with your home-town girl—Jack
Morris, Private; Ralph Mattern,
Private; R. M. Skinner, Fish Pri-
vate; Pruitt, Private.
It seems that La Belle Whitacre
has acquired another man. Roy
seems to have gone over like a
Tulane Greenwave.
Bill Gay Kennerly from Brady
was not mumbling in his beard
when he said something about
buying a Grassburr.
Dorothy Carey has town privi-
leges. But I'm not telling you, A.
D.
Little Mae, what are you so
hajjpy about? Be careful tonight
or I may be peeping. Don't do
anything 1 wouldn't do.
Miss Clay's talk said something
about a sense of humor. Well, two
gentlemen in the Mill Dinette
Wednesday night seemed to mis-
use it.
You gals have not invited some
of the best ones to your rush par-
ties. Look them over again.
What is this about Charlsie go-
ing to get married and Jerry al-
ready having a husband?
Cage seems better after having
some of the wind taken out of his
sails.
Let's get this straight now. El-
liott and Long both have a date
with the same woman for the
dance. Imagine her embarrass-
ment. (Lucky, though, isn't she?)
What they did Sunday night:
Odell and Christine, walking;
Grace Chandler and Wayne Evr-
idge, walking; some few, church;
others—your guess is as good as
mine-
Crnu: Doyle's pleasing voice.
Odeli Elliott's pleasing voicc.
\ fjiiidn't have believed it, bat
I UftiH , ,iyn Fitzhugh Call a
h ,y ■':■ ■■ ■ ;
Dvli / elevated ey«
Miraculous but true, and it can
be proved before your eyes that a
plant leaf can turn sunshine to
starch. It takes sunlight from the
aky, carbon dioxide from the air,
and water from the ground to
make its own food to manufacture
foods which we eat. This process
of making food from the sunlight,
air, and water is called photosyn-
thesis. The product made in the
leaf is sugar then starch.
At sunset one evening we went
into a field to prove photosyn-
thesis. A young Jackbean vine
(any other young plant, however,
will do) was selected to furnish
the leaves. Four leaves of normal
size were chosen and properly tag-
ged. Late in the afternoon when
the sun is gone, the leaf stops its
manufacturing process and begins
to transport its food product to
the roots.
The first leaf that was taken off
from the vine was labeled No. 1.
The other three leaves were tag-
ged for a later use. No. 4 was cov-
ered with a folded piece of black
paper, and the edges of the paper
were folded over so that no sun-
ligh could get to the leaf. A letter
"T" had been carefully cut in the
paper before it was folded over
the leaf. The only part of the leaf
that sunlight now could hit was
where the letter had been cut. No.
3 was covered like No. 4 except
there was no hole at all cut in the
paper. No. 2 leaf was left uncov-
ered. Care was taken not to harm
any of the four leaves .Leaf No. 1
was taken with us.
About 10 o'clock the next morn-
ing we went back to this plant af-
ter the sun had shone on the lea-
ves several hours. Nos. 2, 3, and 4
were broken from the vine and ta-
ken to the laboratory.
It was proved to us that iodine
osi starch will turn the starch a
deep purple—about Tarleton pur-
ple. This was proved by placing a
few drops of iodine on a halved
potato tuber. Iodine turned the
white of the potato to a purple.
"Well, if the iodine turns starch
purple, then when you drop it on
the leaf, which is supposed to
have starch in it; it is to turn the
same color," declares a student.
'You are right," said the instruc-
tor. "But you have forgot that
chlorophyll is the green coloring
in the leaf which permits the ab-
sorption of light. You must know
that the leaf is made up of mil-
lions of minute cells, and each one
of these cells contain this chloro
phyll and also clilorcptasts. The
chloroplasts are the granules with-
in the cell which contains the
green coloring. Under the micro-
scope in some plant leaves starch
grains can be seen hanging inside
of the chloroplasts.
Boiling the green leaves in alco-
hol will remove all the green from
the cells and leave the leaf white.
This was what happened when the
four specimen were boiled. The
appearence of each leaf was the
same.
Specimen No. 1 was picked up
and dropped into a weak iodine
solution. It turned purple all over.
That was the one which had been
taken from the plant before the
food present could be transported
to the roots. Specimen No. 3 was
emerged in the solution next. It
did not stain at all, for it was
the one that had no sunlight on it,
because of having been completely
covered with black paper. During
the night all the starch had been
transported to the roots of the
Jackbean. No. 2, the leaf left un-
covered, was the next one to be
dropped into the iodine solution.
It turned deep purple all over-
indicating the presence of starch
manufactured since sunrise of that
day.
Specimen No. 4 settled the ques-
tion for all. It was emersed in the
weak solution of iodine, and the
exposed part of the leaf in the
form of a "T" took the deep pur-
ple color. The remainder of the
leaf stayed white. This proved that
starch was present only where the
sunlight came through; sunlight
was turned into starch.
The students were astounded.
One student said, "AH this means
that we wouldn't have anything
to eat if it were not for plants."
The Botany teacher said, "Yes,
that is what it all means. A plant
is a wonderful creature. Don't you
think so?"
The students in Botany had what
seemed to many of them a miracle
proven to them. The fog of mys-
tery drifted away under the spell
■>f science. A firmer faith in the
method Of science was established
:n the minds of most of the stu-
dents.
Students Advised to Wait One Week
Before Sending Winter Clothes Home
The members of the committee
on "The Weather and Why" got
together recently and after a very
careful discussion, decided that it
would be extremely hazardous for
Tarleton students to send all their
winter clothes home. During the*
meeting, it was pointed out that
though Spring would undoubtedly
be early this year, one can never
tell when a late norther will blow
in.
Professor Koldfeet, famous wea-
therist, and chairman of the com-
mittee, has been making some sci-
entific researches the past few
days and has arrived at startling
conclusions. During the meeting
he spoke at length about his find-
ings, and the results of his ex-
perimenting. Before falling asleep
the secretary of the club took
notes on the Professor's speech as
follows:
"Fellow clubmen, we are facing
a momentous problem which we
must solve immediately. There are
a number of students in Tarleton,
especially Freshmen, who have
been influenced by weather radi-
calists to such an extent that
many are planning to send over-
coats, raincoats, blankets, and all
other winter clothing to their re-
spective homes. This would be ex-
tremely disastrous, as my scien-
tific researces reveal that there
brows. (What did they mean by
yelling "I want Dolly" at a cer-
tain young man?)
Some girl must have thought
the last dance was the Halloween
dance—scanty costumes.
Jimmie couldn't stay away. He's
gone back for more Joy and enter-
tainment.— Snoopingly yours, The
Gentleman at the Keyhole.
WITH OUR
EXCHANGES X
The official student body trip
for T, C, U. will be made to Hous-
ton November 24 for the Rice—T.
C. U. game.—The Skiff.
E. T. S. T. C. freshmen defeated
the Wesley College Panthers 21-7
in their opening game. The Etex
Lions also took a non-conference
game from McMurry College.—
The Kast Texan.
Thirty-six promotions were
made in Schreiner Institute last
week—eight in the band and
twenty-eight in the infantry.—The
Mountaineer.
Kansas dispatch reports jack-
rabbits organizing into companies
and marching overland many
miles to water tanks. Still, they
probably reserve the right to quit
marching if a greyhound shows
up.—Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Clovia Neal: Listen, sister; ;if it
wasn't for me you'd be the biggest
fool in school.
Margaret Couch: How does it
feel to head the list?
Edwin Hunter: I wish to marry
your daughter, sir.
Mr. Standlee: Do you drink,
young man?
Edwin: Thanks a lot, but let's
settle this other thing first.—The
Dial.
will be "one day this winter when
the temperature will go as low as
53.00% degrees. Fellow members,
we must not let this "Send Your
Winter Clothes Home" movement
go any further. WE MUST "
At this point the secretary fell
asleep and did not wake up until
three hours later when Professor
Koldfeet was concluding his
speech.
The final words of his speech
went like this: "And next week,
there will be a decided change in (
hte weather, as my Weatherscope
tells me that there will be rising
temperatures accompanied by
snow and dew. I thank you, fel-
low Clubmen, for your kind and
generous attention."
James Barnett—How come you
are rolling your own cigarettes?
Smithy B.—The doctor said I
sheuld get more exercise.—The
Wichitan.
"Hello, is this the girl reserve?"
"Yes."
"Well, reserve me a nice blonde
for Thursday night."—The Wieh-
itan.
Finals, finals everywhere,
With drops and drops of ink,
And never a prof who'll leave
the room
And allow a guy to think.
One advantage the flivver has
over the airplane, is that when the
flivver engine stops so does the
flivver.—The Wichitan.
School days, school days,
Dear old golden rule days,
Drinking and smoking and
shooting craps,
Taught to the tune of a wihsky
flask,
You were my sheba in cham-
bray;
I was your dashing Romeo,
And you wrote on my slate,
"You're too darn slow,"
When we were in Tarlington.
—Henry W. Shortfellow.
PARTY TO FURNISH FUN IN
DUMP FOR NON-DANCERS
AH students who do not care to
attend the Hallowe'en dance will
find pletjty of fun at the Hallowe-
en party which is to be held in the
Dump parlors on Halloween
night. This party is being sponsor-
ed by the college, and everyone is
promised a good time. So come
prepared to join in fun that will
rival the hilarity of the dance.
Don't stay away from the party
because you haven't a costume-
come any way; you'll have just as
good a time as if you wore the
foxiest costume ever made for
Halloween,
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