The Campus Chat (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, June 27, 1941 Page: 1 of 4
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Twenty-Four Hours To Live;
What Would You Be Doing?
Eby Gets Many Answers
The Campus Chat
Ho-hum, 24 houra to live, and
what to do? Frederick Eby, who
believes in giving his education
students 'something new every
day,' recently woke up a sleepy
class by a demand for a written
answer to the question, "What
would you do if you had only 24
houra to live?" Amusing and amaz-
ing answers to the query proved
Eby's theory that the subject, al-
though old, still has possibilities.
The papers were unsigned, but
it's an easy guess that it was the
fat girl who answered, "I would
eat all the candy, cake, and fatten-
ing food 1 could get!"
25 Students Polled
Of about 25 students polled, half
said they'd rush home if faced
with death in a day; almost as
I* K T K I 1
Omar, concurring in the decision to ~ "———
eat and be merry. One victim of Oi I ± Cl. DilCL
modern repressions tentatively jTUOSnt DlTcJW i Oil OmOWS
planned to tell his teachers what
he thinks of them, read all the
"Wild West" stories he wants to,
bust loose with his whole slang
vocabulary, and wind it all up
with one good, exciting tight.
Mother, Girl Friend
Mother and the girl friend came
in for a good portion of considera-
tion in the last 24 hours. One stu-
dent was sure he'd go cra«y before|
the dayH
mitted
alloted
in# himself
An escapist
THE CAMPUS CHAT, DENTON. TEXAS. FRIDAY. JUNE 27. 1941 Z731
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TELEPHONE 1242
Mann Leads Johnson; O'Daniel Weak Third for Senate;
How About Waiting Until Saturday for Final Result?
BY NADEANE WALKER
and I.illie llagainx
those who I tacked Mann did so who will keep 5th, 6th, and all
because of his "favored son" ret- other columnists out of Texas."
Anony riduk Voter
anonymous voter with
take • sleeping powder; another out a bad third place in local sent- hacking. The government class politicians
toyed with the idea of a 24-hour imcnt, while Martin Dies just polled plumped for Johnson, and different
Most amusingly pathetic note
of the election was sounded by the
confused voter who said she'd like
to vote for Jerry Mann, but just
couldn't puzale out her absentee
ballot.
Though not so famous or infal-
lible an the Gallup poll, the Chat's
straw ballots are always amusing
for the tabulators. Nolmdy voted
for Dr. Brink Icy, but the inevitable
wag wrote in Hitler as a darkhorse
pussy-footing got votes because they "Don't have
Grace Taylor hail a a hillbilly Imnd," and furthermore
" 7 drunk . ' . 7™ .7"""'" *— * r.reason for supporting "Don't sell flour." Both hading
many vowed they d pray or go to squeezed into the picture with a o n e ballot-caster explained i t, O'Daniel; she likes his music. Tom candidates suffered mutilation of
church. One practical soul said Some of the most unusual last- feeble scattering vote. "Dr. Mac and the Party are for Mcllvain and John Whitson, gov their names at the
he'd go to church an Sunday day activities chosen were a sun- C lasses in government, math- him." . j ,, ,
School both if his last day happen- bath, aqua-planing, ba d m i n to n ematics, English, education, sur- "Dick Tracy" Dies eminent students, would employ supporters; Manns name was possibility. Of tha 79 straw votes
ed to be a Sunday. und football. An ambitious student veying, history, and science were Hardy Holt, staunch supporter an H,d strategy and kick spelled "Man" on two or three oc- cast distribution was: 30 for Mann,
Oddest feature brought out in said he'd find time to take a Civil asked to pick their candidates, with of Martin Dies, termed his candi- Governor upstairs to Wash-, (-anions, and half his followers 31 for Johnson, 8 for O'Daniel
the quiz was the 25 percent who Service exam in his last hours: —-— ' - ** ■ * ■ ~ - - —
said they'd marry in their last 24 there must be a rumor around that
hours. The biggest slice of Eby's the government is extending opera-
class turned out to be disciples of tions to the Hereafter—that, per-
hap/i, would explain it.
r8**on* fwr thoir choice. Most of date "The Dick Tracy of Congress, ington to have him out of Texas. added a't' to Johnson's name. three for Dies, and one for Hitler!
MGM Studios
United States
Must Conserve
Its Resources
Conservation Vital
To Our Present Place
Says Forest Speaker
One paper ventured the infor-
mation that its author, if about to
depart, would wire Hitler to as-
sure the Fuehrer that he'd be
keeping the place hot for him.
Maybe it was a waiter who wrote
that one of his last acts would be
Ito drop a tray of dishes.
Honesty moved the author of the
; most lively sounding list of all:
"With 24 hours to live, I'd pray,
cry, walk the floor or run, go home
and try to sleep—and then prob-
ably commit suicide!"
Out-of-School Educational Conference
To Nancy Gates Will Bring 15 Visiting Speakers Here
Give Contract
The United States can't continue
to hold its present place as a great
world power if it doesn't conserve
its natural resources, William R. j
Services Are Held
For Mrs. Hunter
Barbour, associate forester for the TL. ...J... lunaa IP
U. S. Department of Agriculture, j inur5Qay, OUMt? IO
told an audience at the main audi- w „ , .. . „ . J
torium of the Teachers College I Mrs. Morris Hunter, director
Saturday morning in declaring *ht' ^"Tt
that because of the present war; Avenue A ami Highland died at
situation conservation is more vital .homf' «'« A'at ' " h
to the nation today than it has Wednesday. June 17. of a heart,
ever been before. j "ttack after an illness of only two.
i day*. Funeral services, field rnurs-;
A forest should be treated like tjuy afternoon. June 18, at the First
a man's capital, Barbour said, ex- j Baptist church, of which she was a
plaining that if a man lives out of member, were conducted by the
his capital and does not add to it, I ftt.Vi q, jj. Baucorn, pastor of the j
his capital soon disappears. But if Cuml>erland Presbyterian Church,
he lives off the interest on his cap- Burial was in the Gray's Hill cem- j
ital and does not spend all tiie in- i t<tery, Sherman.
terest he will have not only his Born in Abirigton, Va.. Feb. 28,
original capital but the interest
which he has not used will add to
his capital. The annual cutting of
trees in national forests, he said,
is less than the annual growth,
and the government continually
is planting more trees.
Forest Conservation
The federal forest service, a
branch of the Department of Ag-
riculture, has been assisted in for-
est conservation, Barbour said, by
state forestry departments. In
paying tribute to the Texas forest
service, Barbour said that since its
organization back in 1915, it has
kept out of politics and attended to
its business of preventing fires and
is now one of the bes*t state ser-
vices of its kind in the nation.
The five-fold purpose of state
forest services, he said, are: (1)
the administration of state for-
ests, (2) operation of state tree
nurseries which make possible the
sale of pine seedlings at cost price,
(8) fire protection, (4) providing
technical service and advice to
owners of private timber lands for
nothing or a very small price, (5)
general service of information and
education of the public—issuing
bulletins and pamphlets, etc.
Conservation Problem
One of the major problems in
the conservation of forests, Bar-
bour said, is getting the private
owners, who own approximately
three-fourths of all the lumber in
the nation, to conserve their for-
ests. Private owners have been
discouraged in doing so, he said,
because taxes are paid year by
year and forests only produce at
intervals of years and because it
is very dfficult to get long-time,
low-interest loans which are nec-
essary to forestry conservation.
The federal forest service has at-
tempted to offset these difficulties,
he said, by forming finance com-
panies which can make such loans
to private owners.
Museum Lecture
Schedule Changed
The demonstration lecture by
members of the museum staff
scheduled to be held Thursday will
be held Wednesday afternoon from
4 until G o'clock in room H201 in-
stead.
This change is made because of
the holidays.
The subject to be considered at
the Wednesday meeting is "The
Long Drive," a unit on the Texas
cattle industry.
Kwalwasser Scores
Erskine, Mursell
On Music Theories
DR.
NANCY JANE SATES is the second younq Texan to grow up with
Floyd Graham's stage band here at the college and go to Holly-
wood. The fifteen-year-old Denton girl, discovered by Graham
when she was only three years old, is now in the movie capitol un-
der a six month's contract with Metro-Goldwin-Meyer.
Throughout the Country
Mrs. Hunter, the daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. William J.j
Porter, had lived in Texas 41 years i
and in Denton 13 years, the family j
having moved here from Sherman j
in 1928. She had been in charge of
the boarding houses of the Teach-j
ers college since they were moved •
to Avenue A. She was married to;
Hunter in Sherman, April 17, 15 0fi.
Mrs. Hunter is survived by her
husband, Morris Hunter; six child-'
ren, Misses Margaret and Myra'
Hunter of Denton, Warren K. Hun-
ter of Bakersfield, Calif., Miss
Frances Hunter of New Orleans,
Mrs. J. B. Ellington of Dallas and
Miss Julia Hunter of Galveston; Home fcc Director New York Studv Trio
two sisters and a brother, Mrs. i r\.i __ C .i..ir/J... . A j,
Annie Mitchell of Sherman, Mrs. Leaves Denton Saturday |s Attracting Attention
Kate Jones and John Porter of pQr f\|af|onal Meetinq
Denison. !
Dr. Florence I. Scoular, direc-
tor of home economics at the col-
lege, left Denton Saturday for
Chicago, where she will attend the
National Home Economics Assoc-
i a t i o n meeting there, Monilay
through Friday, as a counselor
from the Texas Home Economics
Association.
A miniature Chicago fire, lap. ———
ping up the administration build- _ . t a ——
ing's front hall with such poster CampUS Chat lO Appear lies ar. account of a trip made by
slogans as "Stamp Me Out" and p. C-j!-- ithl'ir P«ycholofy class over the
"Don't Monkey with Matches" has uaY earlier east. The tour is for six weeks, this
been raging the past week at TC. time to be spent in visiting various
With the aim of decreasing fire I Since school will be closed next clinics and state and federal in-
hazards through education. Miss Thursday afternoon. July .'1, for stitutions. Six hours of college
Alga Junigar, representing the fire the holiday period, the Campus credit will be given each student,
insurance division of the Texas Chat, which usually is issued to This seems to us to be food for
Board of Insurance Commission, students on Friday, will be pub- thought; there could be no more
has been displaying the prize-win- lished a day earlier in order to en- pleasant and interesting way to
ning posters from over 200 Texas able readers to obtain a copy of learn psychology-or any other
schools. the paper before they leave town, course."
Fire Prevention
Display is Shown
Throughout Week
Referring to the recent "verbal
row" between Dr. James Mursell
and John Erskine, Dr. Jacob Kwal-
wasser, director of music educa-
tion, Syracuse University, told an
audience at the music hall audi- !
torium of the Teachers College
Saturday that the philosophies of
both were unsound theories of mu-
sic education.
Kwalwasser was s)teaking of
much publicized argument between
Mursell, psychologist and member
of the music education staff of the
Teachers College of Columbia Uni-
versity, and John Erskine, presi-
dent of the Juilliard School of,
Music. NTSTC music students
heard Mursell explain his theories
in a lecture at the college Monday
before last.
Mursell's Philosophy
Mursell's philosophy that music
is universal and that every stu-
dent should bo given the training
of a prima donna would "make
somebodies out of nobodies" Dr.
Kwalwasser charges, whereas Er-
skine's philosophies that the very
talented should be given music
training, would "make nobodies of
somebodies."
To assume that musical talent is
universally bestowed is ridiculous,
Kwalwasser said, for the curve
for musical talent is the same asj Mnny of th(, fa,.lllty
the normal curve of intelligence, |,,av<> from th(, Teachers Col-
and inefficiency can't be made up lege thl, ftr„t wix w,.,.k„ thi„ Hlim.
by the teachers. The teacher may ITI(,r arf, studying over the Uni-
train the average student to do t(,(| Ntf,t,.H while others are teach-
the liest of which he is capable jn^ jn colleges of the nation,
but not the best that the better Q R „r.«,kshoar of the busmen
musicians can do, he said *i'ng ,,, |h HlU(lyin„
that musical equipment should be
Two-Day Session To Be
Held June 30, July I;
Sutherland To Speak
Dr. Robert l«. Sutherland, direc-
tor of the Hogg Foundation, Aus-
tin, will be the featured speaker
at the conference on out-of-school
youth and adult education to be
held here on the campus June 30
and July 1, with 15 vir.iting speak-
ers participating with speakers
from the college faculty.
The conference is being sponsor-
ed by the college to bring before
educators Information concerning
the needs and opportunities in
Texas for the education of indi-
viduals outside of the public
schools.
Sutherland will speak at 8:30
Monday morning, June 80, on "The
Out-of-Scnool Movement in Adult
Education," and again at 7 o'clock
Monday night on "The Needs of
Out-of-School Youth."
Scheduled Speaker
Among scheduled speakers are
ROBERT L. SUTHERLAND, ,j. c. Kellam, state administrator
director ot tho Hogg Foundation,
will be the featured speaker at
the conference on out-of-school
youth and adult education.
Faculty Members
Study and Teach
While on Leave
of NVA, Austin; Miss Ruth Iluey,
WPA adult program, San Anton-
io; 1,. I, Samuels, district supervis-
or of national defense, Arlington;
Onah Jacks, State Girls' Club
agent, College Station; and Mrs.
Frank Hobden, state music direc-
tor, NY A, Dallas.
President W. J. McConnell of the
college will preside over the first
session Monday morning, when
music will be furnished by the
college Symphony Band, directed
by Harry Parshall. Dean B. B.
Harris will preside at the Monday
night session, which will feature
music by the college A Cappella
Choir, directed by Dr. Wilfred
Bain.
To Lead Symposium
Miss Myra Sowell, member of
the home economics faculty who
The story of Dr. Mori Bonney's
psychology class trip to New York
determined according to the stu- Tom Osborn„ anJ j M ,,w of worked with the Kellogg Founda-
dent s promise. Ufa English faculty at the Uni tion In Michigan last year, will be
Debunks Iheory \ t f T ,,, , (in|||Bm ,)f the leader of a symposium Tuesday
Debunking the popula. theory ' k, ff , N(.w York Hon morning at 10 o'clock, when organ
Williams of the art staff a' [ " "■ wl,J J* #urni,,h«' hy Charles
r York University, Miss Louis Kinney of the music department.
/ft#!.. .. M I i, ■ I . .... .Ill i n rm t ft*. *.
is attracting the attention of cf'l" "started years ago by a Harvard j ,,
lege newspapers throughout the.prw,ident lhat mUBic j„ the best
Jeff"*,rsa*nsi, -t-ii, «v s, /"i™
Ik'hu, Florid™ M (W. iJ — KWALWA8gElt, p... 8 T.uch«r. I hi. .0/
Tallahassee' — versity; Miss Jessie E. Acker of materials p« rtaining Ui out-of-
The Campus Chat of North , , , 7T7. the home economics faculty is at- **001 J™* ndult education
Texas HtalTf^hara cSJ* ™- Holiday Notice tending a short curse al Colorado ' '> : ''^«ry auditorium and a
1 SUite College, F-rt Collins. Colo, reception for visitors and faculty
* , .at the home management house
NTSTC faculty members who nfU.r„oon. and a luncheon
are teaching at other Colleges this . „
Holiday Notice
Classes will lie held Mon-
day, June 30, to make up for
those missed Saturday, July
5, because of the Fourth of
July holidays. All classes
will be dismissed July 4
through July 7, classwork
being resumed Tuesday, July
8.
Dean B. B. Harris
summer are Mrs. Mary Frances
honoring speakers Tuesday at noon
u in Mariiuis hall,
Gardner Williams, in awmmunitf { J Hiscussions on different
workshop of the Kellog Kounda- ,nvi„ion(< ()f th(, and
tion; Dr. E. G, Ballard of the Kng- . . nrwin be
lish staff at New Mexico High
lands University, Las Vegas, N.
M.; Clara Dodson of the home eco-
nomics department at the Oregon
State College, Corvallis, Oregon.
Psychology Club Gets New Experiences on Two Fronts
Group in New York
Keep up Fast Pace;
See Father Divine
could hold and listened to negroes
saying, "Thank you, Father,' be-
fore every sentence, as "Thank you
Father for some cups," or "Thank
you. Father for some trays." A
"roly-poly little nigger" who owns
While students on the NTSTC u $26,000 Dusenberg that "would
campus were attending the show tftke two nickels in anybody's park-
in the main auditorium or seeking ,n>r meter." Father Divine, Miss
some other means of diversion in McElheny says, has about several
a small town last Saturday night, million Negroes "just wrapped
members of the Psychology Club around his chubby little finger."
of NTSTC up in New York were ! Going in for a supper, a Psychology
eating supper in one of Father
Divine's "peace missions" ami
hearing his followers call him God
and thank him for "leading Moses
out of the wilderness," or "getting
Jonsh out of ilw wiVmir."
So writes Edith McElheny in
describing the highlights of last
Club member asked one of the
black "angels" if "Father" were
married and heard in a whisper,
"He's God, isn't he? Do you think
God is married?"
in Harirm niinnii)
In Harlem from 8 Saturday
morning until almost 2:30 Sunday
week's jaunts in New York. For morning, the group visited the
twenty cents, she said, they got all Savoy Night Club and saw white
the fried chicken, beans, potatoes, boys doing the "congo stomp with
coffee, bread and pie that they I See NEW YORK, page 2
Funeral Services
Held for Father
Of Faculty Member
Funeral services for the Rev. W.
L. Tittle of Frisco, father of Wil-
liam Tittle of the physics de-
partment and Dorothy Tittle, stu-
dent in the college, were held Mon-
day in Frisco with burial here in
the I.O.O.F. cemetery.
Mr. Tiitie was pasior of the
First Methodist Church here for
four years and died in Frisco, Sun-
day, where he was pastor, follow-
ing an illness of about two yearn.
Surviving are his wife and five
children.
Hypnotism Exhibition
Witnessed at Home!
Girls to Army Camp
| speech clinic, testing bureau, and
I the appearance clinic. In addition,
the club plans another trip to
Camp Wolters tonight for girls
desiring to go, and a trip to Dal-
adult education program will be
held Tuesday afternoon lieginning
at 2:00 o'clock.
Two-Day Program
The complete program follows:
Monday, June 30
8:80 a.m. Main Auditorium
Presiding: Dr. W. J. McCon-
nell, President, NTSTC
Music: Symphony Band,
Harry Parshall, conductor
The On t-of -School Youth
Movement in Adult Edu-
cation, Dr. Robert L. Suth-
erland, Director of Hogg
Foundation, The Universi-
ty of Texas, Austin
ilas next Tuesday for most of the
While the Psychology Club's reg- (members to attend the 'Opera Un- j j;(H)-6:«M> p.m
ular sponsor, Dr. Merl Bonney, der the Stars* and to visit a night Library Auditorium
club, Exhibit of materials pertaln-
Meet on Wednesday ing to out-of-school youth
HP I At the regular weekly mooting adult education
pursuit of new experiences, the Wwln(,sdHy niKht in the library au- 3:00-5:00 p.m
stay-at-home members of the club d|tor,um( W. (iib«*on Walters, mu-| See CONFERENCE, page 2
arc also very actively engaged m > sjr in„tructor at TSCW and a1
chasing down new and unusual
and several of the regular mem
bers of the club are dashing about
the streets of New York City in
things.
charter memlx r of th<- club demon- r C,,W««
strated some of the techr;hues of Ur L)amal! ^UttefS
The past week's activities In- producing hypnosis. Working with Ci.-L. P*r*l\/«i«
elude a trip to the annual Neiman- his wife as a subject, Walters pro- JTro e a Y
mnrruK iiijrir umiw in Dmian, an,liuceri complete imnuerrmr to . Dr. F. 5n. Djuunii, mS
excursion to Camp WolU-rs by j in one arm while at the same time the English faculty, is serioualy ill
several of the girls to act as host- making the other arm super-sen- in the Denton hospital where he
esses for the army boys there, a
hypnotism demonstration by W.
Gibson Walters, and special per-
sonality improvement by the
sitive to pain. He also demonstrat-
ed muscular rigidity and the will-
ingness of the subject to carry out
See ARMY CAMP, pag*- 2
was taken Monday following a
stroke of paralysis at his home.
His condition was greatly im-
proved Wednesday afternoon.
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