The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 23, 1935 Page: 2 of 4
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PAGE TWO
THE J-TAC
Timid and Silent or Grinning and Bold
Youngsters on the Campus are Enjoyed
Published Weekly by tlie Students of John Tnrleton Coll
Entered as second-class mail matter at the Post off ice in Steplienville,
Texas, under act of Congress of March 3, 1S7D.
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STAFF
...u ..... ... Norris Dnvis
Jack Smith
Mary Jo Denton
Fran res Tate
...Vnndine Williams
Carolyn Slaikeu
Louis Tate
Reporters: Harold Benty, Elbert Adams, \V. P. Allen, Bill MpjtiII, Mary
Love Griffith, Hara Nell MclVrnu'tt, Ann F.hlyps .Tarratt, Justine Lim-
1-nfli. Fay Krarliroiiuli, Bob Shannon, Mary Cockrill.
Assistant Business Manaj;ers: Miktred Kudiurdsnn, Mary I,fit. McAfee,
W. IX Morgan.
Staff Poet, Krfoa Rtntum.
Editor-in-Chief
Business Manager...
Associate Editor
News Editor
Feature Editor
Boriet.v Editor - -
Exchange Editor .
CHOOSING WHAT'S WORTHWHILE
What's worthwhile in life? That's a question we should all
ask. Are the things we are doing going to mean something to
na, or arc they not worthwhile? Life is a thing, of social con-
tacts and life should be a thins of happiness—the happiness that
comes from a contented mind, from a knowledge of work well
done, and from a knowledge of good deeds done. There are her-
mits and reel uses who seem satisfied to live without any of these
things, but who envies them and their lives? Such a life means
nothing. The man who lives and! enjoys kfc and does his best
to make others enjoy that same life is the one who should inherit
the earth. Such happiness and useful lives do not come from
frivolous things, however. The knowledge of work well done or
some human suffering relieved; these things Five real happiness.
We. as college students, are forming habits which will stay
with us throughout our entire lives. We must choose habits that
will lead us into the right channels of Hie now, or we will be un-
able to find these channels later without great difficulty and
danger. Let's start out now to form habits of doin^ our work,
helping others, and doing things for recreation that are sound
and uplifting. All work and no play may make Jack a dull boy,
but all play and no work will make him a thoroughly detestable
nit-wit.
Every day they come to deliver
the paper and never a word out
of them. The boys who deliver the
Star-Telegram seem to have that
golden possession of silence. And
what a rare possession that is.
Perhaps that's why it's called gol-
den, because it and gold arc both
so scarce. But back to the boys.
Day after day they deliver the
paper, seldom to the right person
but always delivered, and day af-
ter day they peek around the doors
for a glance of the much famed
college rooms. They stand on tip-
toes, ready to flee at a moment's
notice but impelled forward by a
curiosity as great as their fear.
In much the same manner a man
might approach a sleeping snake
which he wanted above all else to
capture and also feared above all
else. They never stay to see much
at one time.
A glimpse is sufficient. They re-
spond to the friendly hello? thrown
to them by lounging cadets (who
perhaps remember when they were
little )with only a little more
haste and dispatch in leaving the
building. An invitation to come in-
to a ro'ini is met with a wild stam-
pede, all in silence. But boys will
be boya and even silent news boys
have ideas of fun. A cadet glee-
fully sang in the shower and the
boys daringly advanced and knock-
ed on the door. On receiving a
particularly ferocious invitation
to come in, they fled down the hall
amid peals of laughter. It was the
only time their silence had been
broken.
Maybe college life is ruining
them, too. Competition is setting
in. A freckle-faced boy appeared
the other day on the campus car-
rying laundry wrapped up in a
sheet and the sheet dragging hap-
pily at his foet. With a smile,
equally as golden as any silence,
he approached a cadet, showing
round white teeth and happy blue
eyes all the time, and asked,
"Have you goL any money now?"
The cadet proved to be the wrong
one for paying the bill as he did
not owe the bill and didn't have
any money either. With his smile
unimpaired the young business
'man calmly and unperturbedly de-
cided that perhaps it was two or
at least one other guy, and went
his way. Ami the cadet wasn't
even angry about being dunned
for a debt he didn't owe. The smile
removed all sting. With such
silence and such a smile Tarleton
campus should be si world-wide
famous one—one of these days
before long.
P. Koldfeet, By Jupiter, Makes Radical
Changes in Scientific Magazine Policies
LAST CALL FOR LITERATURE FROM THE LITTERATEURS
March 1 is the last da}*—last day.
Time is almost up, and what are you to do? ThatV« what worries
99 per cent of the industrious population of today—but there is slill
time, TIME to ACT; TIME to WRITE; TIME to THINK. As many
as think they can write are invited to enter (he Press Club contests
with ideas which are old, new, rank, and otherwise. Everybody in
Tarleton is urged to enter and prove his ability.
Read this' and learn some more about the literary contest. The
contest is sponsored by the Press Club with the purpose of obtain-
ing good material for the T. I. P. A. contests. By March 1 all ma-
terial must be entered. Informal essays, formal essays, feature
■Tories, news Stories, editorials, and poems are the types of material.
The essays are the kind that are written for English themes, and
such themes are good things to enter. Those who have good stories
in the .T-Tac may enter them.
All material must be given to some representative of the Press
Club by March 1; it is to he typewritten on regular typing paper,
double spaced, on one side of paper only.
I HE TIME APPROACHES—it is March 1 that ends this literary
contest.
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DRAMATIC
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+ DILLY-DALLY +
Evelyn Prentice
This one is billed as a smashing
follow-up of "The Thin Man." This
stutment is based on the presenta-
tion of the William Powell-Myrna
Loy team, but it is not the picture
their last one was.
The High Spots: Blackmail be-
comes known to a powerful at-
torney. His wife thinks she is guil-
ty of a murder she did not do. A
baby daughter is the binding tie.
Cast; William Powell. Myrna
Loy, and Una Merkel in the leads.
Technical set-up: A Cosmopolitan
Production, directed by William K.
Howard, produced by John W. Con-
sidine Jr., a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
picture.
One Hour Late
Enter the singing Joe Morrison.
Joe is perfect as long as he is
Kinging, but his attempt at being
a dumb clerk—well, it's too dumb.
The picture is passable, but the
plot is not worth writing about.
It concerns a clerk in love with a
beautiful steno—who makes a play
for the boss while jealous clerkie
becomes engaged to another. A
heroic act made possible by a stuck
elevator saves the lovers from
parting. Conrad Nagel—a past big
shot—makes a weak appearance in
this one.
The Gay Divorcee
Old and third-run. but still good!
Adopted from the successful
musicomedy. the picture is like the
original except for the foreign ac-
cent given to the name.
Worthwhile features:
Fred Astuire, lending nimble-
footer (next to Bill Robinson) in
the United States.
Ginger Rog-ers, Beauty and tal-
ent plus.
Alice Brady and Edward Ever-
ett Horton. Better than their us-
ual good.
Good shot: The "Night and
Day" number.
Under Pressure
The latest of the McLaglcn-
Lowe riots. This one pictures the
lives of the "Sandhogs," the men
who tunnel under rivers. Many
interesting features concerning the
hardships and dangers of the tun-
nel-makers are explained in this
production. The film is not a hit.
but comes up to the average usual-
ly established by the pair, Charles
Bickford, Griegfried Rum on, Mar-
jorie Rambeau, and Florence Rice
are included in the cast.
Small Boy: "What is a pedes-
trian, Daddy?"
Dad: "It's a man who has a
wife, a daughter, two sons and a
car."
While glancing through a cer-
tain well-known scientific maga-
zine, the young reporter happened
to notice the following brief para-
graph headlined ''Insane Profes-
sor Thinks lias Invented Machine
for Testing Temperatures on Ju-
piter." The article went on: "Al-
though he is very indefinite about
the actual make-up of his mach-
ine, Professor Koldfeet of Stoph-
enville, Texas, claims that he has
completed all work on the new
'Jupitcroscope,* and that-he will
soon be ready to make actual tests.
The instrument, Koldfeet says,
will not only give temperatures on
the star, Jupiter, down to the nth
degree, but will also calculate the
time of day on that particular
star." Then in bold-face type be-
low the article was written: ''It is
the policy of this magazine to
prompt and encourage the inven-
tion of new and novel instruments
and devices, hut when we see or
hear about such machines as this
Prof. Koldfeet, of Texas, claims
he has constructed, we wonder
sometimes if things in the scien-
tific field are not just a bit advanc-
ed for the present age. From now
on, therefore, this magazine will
be published but once every three
months, with only special articles
printed such as, "On Eating Crac-
kers in Bed," or "How Not to Feed
Goldfish." The article was signed.
"Oscar Twiddlebloom, Editor."
Grabbing his hat, the young re-
porter raced over to the Profes-
sor's laboratory, not to see Kold-
feet, but to try to prevent him
from reading the magazine article.
The reporter knew that the Pro- |
fessor takes the magazine. But j
alas, he was too late. As he was j
about to knock on Koldfeet's door,
he heard a terrific explosion, !
which rocked the laboratory as j
would an earthquake. Then all j
was silent. Five minutes later, the [
reporter dared to peep in a win- j
dow, the glass of which had been
shattered by the explosion. Inside,
the Professor was standing in the
middle of the room, open magazine
in hand. He was motionless, pave
for a slight tremor of his body,
brought on by rage. "PIIOOEY!"
he shouted, and the reporter rec-
ognized this ejaculation to be
something like the noise which he
thought was an explosion, . . ,
change the policy of a nation-wide
magazine overnight, ns Koldfeet
did. Out of respect to him, we pre-
dict the weather to be just like his
instruments have calculated —
snow, with occasional frost, fol-
lowed by a heat wave.
J-Tac advertisers help make pos-
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The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 23, 1935, newspaper, February 23, 1935; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth140224/m1/2/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Tarleton State University.