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2 — THE J-TAC Tuesday, February 28, 1956
Way Back When...
By LONNTE; THOMPSON -
Acting' News Editor
Way Lack in 1929, a paper was published
that contained the following words of humor:
Farmer: "Young man, what are you doing in
my apple tree? ,a.
Frightened teen-ager: "Yon. can believe it
or not, Mister, but 1 jurft fell out of an aero-
plane," .
Friend: "With whom was your wife quarrel-
ing, last night?"
(Proud Husband: ''Oh, 'er, she was scolding
the dog." ' " ' :
• F'rieud; _ "Poor beast, J heard her threaten
to take the front door key away from hit);." ,
• Whereupon: The ihorsjfnaii m<;un!ed 1#
hmse and galloped madly away in all direc-
tions. . ,. ■
- A notice in the same edition. ■ ■'
; VVfouid 'the girls release ; quit ;kissiitg search
other on I he campus. ; We hate to. See a woman
doing a man's job. . ■
Prof.: "Now, Walt, how many seasons are
there?" .
Walt: "Four."
. Prof.: "Name them."
Walt: "Football, basketball, baseball, and
track."
She: "There goes that conceited seniior., 3
understand that s-he bought that 'dress oil in-
stallment." '
He: "I suppose that's the ftiist installment
she's wearing."
• Manners are little 'fish that live in creeks.
CowunS
Campus Humor
A staid gentleman was upset by
the dress of the modem .girls at
u rodeo, "Just, look at that young
person with the .short hair and blue
jeans,'" he cried to a bystander. "Is
it a boy or ar girl?"
"It is a girl;'she's my daughter;"
"Oh, forgive me, sir. I . didn't
know you1 were her father."
. "I'm not. I'm her mother,"
Aji announcement was found in the same
"April Fool" fdi.tjibn.
' An anrioyrjciment has been marie by Bean
"Eager Beaver" Cunyus that, assembly is n<3
longer compulsory. However, those -•students
\^ho do not have any studying to do and wish
to attend will be accommodated by a .reserved
section of lounging chairs for taking naps. '
-Also a new attraction is added in-the fact
that couples, the boy and the girl, will have
individual love seats furnished by the faculty
* S-moking, chewing gum, and loud talking to;
your' neighbor -are required' by all who attend
assembly in order to complete the scene of
leisure. ;
The J-Tac ..
i
The J-TAC, official student newspaper of
Tarleton State College, is published in Stephen-
v'ille, Texas, weekly during the regular "long
sessions on Tuesday. It is not published dur-
ing holidays or. the summer. Publisher is
•Stephenville Empire-Tribune.
• Entered ;as second-Class mail matter at the
Post Office in Stephenville, Texas, under the
Act of Congress of.March 3, "1879.
At.-Texas Southmost College in
Brownsville,'"there is a story of the
ahsynt-minded professor:
. Tiip school bus had letf the col-
lege -three - blocks ago. From th|
near -of the; bus came a very excit-
ed feminine voice: "Stop the bus!"
"I forgoc my car!"
Tall tales about Texans keep
growing as evidenced by this story
■from the Northside Rampage:
Some easterners, visiting ' rela-
tives in Texas, were astound-
ed to learn that .their seven-year-
old nephew owned two sports cars,
12,000 head of cattle and a do'zen
oil.wells.
"Goodness — how did he get all
that?" tHey asked.
Oh, he just picked them up play-
ing trick-or-treat on Halloween." .
One soda sipper to another, "I
would like to ,g'6 with you tonight;
■ti> the-library but I have to study.'*
■I've heard about, tests that "curl*
your hair,", but I would never have
(jelieved it!"
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umn h.Krh; National, 70 cents per col unii-i inch.
Member of the Associated Collegiate Press,
■Texas Junior College Press Association, and
Columbia Scholastic .Press Association.
- From the Trmtonian comes this
point well -put: "They say' you'
can't take it with you, but have
you-ever tried to travel very fat-
without it?" ' ' '' .
Subscription Kates
■ One semester, mailed out- ®f town
Ope (semester, delivered in town
$1.75
$1.50.
.Editor'
Acting Assistant Editor'
; Fgatitre'"Editor
. "Business Manager .'...1....
Acting .Sports Sfltt®1' ......
■ Assistant Sports '■Editor ..
Exchange iEditar .1
Acting ;Ne*va jEditur .......
. Marilyn Frazier
,. Marlloji ®foiit?Hit..
>Pat Slorfisoff
Sue Woods,;
3M'l Heinricbs:-
Paul Justice;
'Verna Gibbs
Lonnie 'Thompson
Acting iCii'culation imager ,Joi;ge
-■Reporters;:. James Beth .Russell,''
Barbaraf Kichardspn, Tom Carter, Corkyj
.TDiekfeon, an/i Wendell.'jBiyan'i'•
I'aeulty Adviser Stuart Chilt-gn
Y.ou can send 22/psuivij*or-Amer-
.ic^s .surplus <tpa nrW^dy faiH'
abroad, just ojI^ dollar. Join
iFQQJDi CRUSADE an<* sfftd
22 ;pOiinds ;o( rbopQ, nourishment
and Chrtstma^ happinesj? tct tfhim-
,&ty ibvetseaa, SehsJc your
"iiollar of mare lo CAHJE v* rN?w
'.CARE — San Frpi.fc^sep'pr
. >yaur 'lociit €&f*£ office*.. v
CMSMt
Jest Jokin'
The bachelor is a crazy guy.
And has a lot of fun; ,
He sizes all the cuties, up
And.never Mrs. one. ' .
Manager: "Young lady, in the
matter: of dress, don't you think
you could show a little more dis-
cretion ? " .: *
Cutie.: "My g'oodness, . some . of
you guys ain't never satisfied."
'Husband: "I - suppose you are
still angry, with me because I came
■home last night with this black
eye ?" - . _
" Wife: "Maybe you don't kn.ciw'it,-
but when you came home last night
you dkln't have a black .eye."
The big transport, loaded with
passengers, was flying over a state
hospital for the insane; All at'on.ee
the pilot ibfl'st -out in loud laughter.
A .passenger inquired: "What's
the. joke?" , -
"I was just thinking,..replied the
pilot, "how bothered they, will
at the 'hospital when they find out
I've escaped." .
"Today,' .'said..the minister,' "I
shall preach on the subject of liars.
Now-I should like to, know who in
the audience has read the ■ "17th
chapter of Mark?"
About three-quarters of the.
-hands in fbe church were raised.:
Wheireas the minister sighed and;
said. "Certainly most of us need
thjs sermon; There isn't any X7#h'
chapter of Mark." ■ ; .
—The II-SU"'-Brand (Simmons)
On the Horizon
Tuesday Basketball, Arling-
ton Junior College, Here,
s pan.
D ST Meeting, Mrs. Siillen-
berger's Home, 6:30 p.m.
Vespern; - Methoflist Student .
•Center, 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday —■ Eternas Club
' Meeting, Balcony of Girls'
. Dorni, 7 p.jn. i
•Ehursday — Junior Chamber
• pf 'Commerce Banquet, ,'Din-
■ ■ ing ,Hall, 7:30-p.m. '
"Vespers, Methodist Student
Center, G:30 p.m.'
- F-Eiday .t~' Tpoun^aUiHi":-;-
/G«mniunion.': Service, Meth-
odist Student ("enter,' 7:30 -
; I'exas Edueation Agency, Area ■
, 'IV Meeting, Big Auditorium,
A '■
Saturday —iTe.fas Education.,
Agensy,,.'; Area IV Meeting,;
■Rig Auditorium. ■
Mwdfty ^ ; ICeys Club
Mwtingr;-1 Sci^ric-e-
■ / Btiilding'. fi. p.iu. -■;.--
': jVtft'r.cJt 7' -7- vJptr^miiral Sitortff,
Boxing,, Gym.
Spring Has Sprung
"Spring has sprung" on the campus of
T.3.C. this past week. ;
True evidence of this fact is the opinion
that four boys gave when si'sked what they
thought about spring.
They said:
"In spring a young man's fancy turns to
wine, women, and song."
"In spring a young man's thoughts turn
to (and left his thoughts unspoken
hut for the gleam in his eye).
"In spring sTyoung man-turns fancy," was
another one's statement.
All these replies indicate, more or less, that
boys hav<j the spring fever or "girl fever."
Thjs isn't so unusual considering that their
la! hers must have had the girl fever before
them.
Spring has affected men that way since the
day of the Greeks and their mythical gods and
goddesses of Olympus. ..
Zeus, the king: of the gods,, wkni continually
falling in'' love: with a beautiftil maiden, nymphi
or goddess during tKe eternal springtime that
ruled Olympus.
Another example of spring's power to awake
the tenderer'emotion is in nature!s own chil-
dren, the butterflies. .Qne boy said .that spring
was the time to come out of the cocoon; thatiis
exactly what the butterfly does.
Nineteen out of the 24 songs on the juke-
box in the Kec Hall are concerned with /this
subject of spring, girl, or love fever,
"No, Not Much"'is one of the tenderest bal-
lads that is popular now. It gives the idea that
the-spring-struck guy doesn't love the girl—
No, -not much that is. . "
Many of the male students' opinions about
spring and its companion, love, generally seem
to ..run like this:
"Spring and lave go together."
"Good-grosh, it's \vbnderful!'-
•- ■ , '. ■ ' /,? i. / "■
And just one delectable, "Ummmmmmnn!!"
to sum up the general opinion of - love and
spring. "Ummmrammnn- again.—B, F". R.
. ' ROTC Training .
Army ROTC was , established to producc
college-trained officers for the regular. Army
and the Army Reserve.
Its-mission is to have ready iff time of Na-
tional Emergency a corps of,leaders for our
Armies. Two slogans of the ROTC aptly de-
scribe its mission. They .are "Better prepared
to' Better Serve," and, '^Learn Today—Lead
Tomorrow.'"
, John Milton, recognizing the need for edu-
cated men in the military service, in I<>M
wrote, . a complete and generpu^ education
fii a mkn to perform justly arid skillfully all
the bffi.cesXhotii private iind; public, of peace
and war." ''' '
No matter how great our aversion to war is,
the wist and prudent-man recognizes--that ,war
may come and prepares for it. This-?was proved
during World War II, when some lQ<y^QQ&. gradu-
ates of RO.TC served in th'e'A^^^rce^ in
all ranga* from second lieutenantr'^o.. general.
Today many thousands more ROTC graduates
are again-ready, to;-;help^'cJeffBd-.'our coiiritry.,if :
and. when the need arises.'
, In 1819, Captain Alden Partridge founded
the Academy which is now Norwich ^University
|n NQrthfield, Vt. This was the first institution
of higher education tp prescribe military train-
ing as part of the curriculum; ■
In 18G2,. Bepresentative Justin Moirill of.
, V^.i;fliio tSponsored iah-act to •pro'vide grants-of
■lahd/'ahd;; later that,.woliia.
offer: military; training:, along;, \v:ith; agriculture:'
.and;
runner and- protagonist ;of ili<^G -a«- we. >krip\V
it today. ■ .
The National Defense Act of 1816 estab-
lished tjie KO^C' program,: which • has fheeii
amended and improve^ by ifhe^stihseQuent Na- !
tional Defense Acts of Congress. ? , I
, , ^arletq.ri- 'Qpijegij
I!)epartmeut.) / • ' ' ■
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The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 18, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 28, 1956, newspaper, February 28, 1956; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth140590/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Tarleton State University.