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THE CAMPUS CHAT, DENTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 27. 1941
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The Editor's Desk
By JOHN THOMASON
ITS A SHAME
Monroe Katz, chief sweater of our
apartment, come* up to our sleeping place
one night this spring almost in tears. His
usually smiling countenance is by no
means anywhere to foe seen. To be truth-
ful, he is just not in the mood for it.
Being a gentleman who at all times
takes the events of life very muchly ser-
ious whether it afTects him in the least or
not, the citizen from Philly seems to foe
more than somewhat put out over a
shameful situation that he has just wit-
nessed. In fact, as I have stated and now
reiterate, he is on the verge of making
some very audible lamentations.
Fact is that Katz has just come from
the library. As he passes the library audi-
torium on his way out after reading a
word on the world situation as Dan Dunn
sees it in his daily adventures, he looks
into the library auditorium.
A musie student is giving a recital.
Katz goes to the door and is given a nice,
neatly printed program foy the character
at the entrance. But he does not enter, be-
ing a well-bred Yankee who never attends
functions unless attired in white tie and
tails, and since his only clean white shirt
which he then has on is a trifle torn on the
left sleeve.
Anyway, Katz looks in and around
and by an excellent process of deduction
concludes that the house is not exactly
what we Americans would call a "S. K. O.."
which is not Greek for "standing room
only." This makes our friend Monroe ex-
ceptionally discomfited. His belief in the
cultural attitudes and aspirations of tin-
North Texas students is completely shat-
tered.
"It's a shame," he relates to us as he
wades through the trash in Cox's room
and seated himself. "Something should be
done about it. Here the music department
goes to so much trouble to have the recital
arranged; they have such nice programs
printed, the recitalist works hard to pre-
pare her work, and only a few people come
to hear her. Why. why, it's terrible!"
He keeps this up for about twenty
minutes until Edwards, who is on the bed
in the other room reading through his
newly acquired book of famous quotations,
runs upon a phrase of Shakespeare's and
with the deft touch of a sage appropriate-
ly applies it to the case of Katz vs. The
Students of North Texas, et al.
"Weep not. sweet queen, for trickling
tears are vain."
NOW I'M SAD-
Understand I'm not crying now. And
neither am I criticizing the students of
this college I'm just telling the facts as
I told you common people I would. (These
last two sentences plagarized from the re-
cent speech of a governor in his campaign
for the Senate, with due apologies.)
Last Friday night Sports Editor Seely
and I hit 'em out to the pool to see Francis
Stroup's tankers open their current swim
season. Figuring as how there'll lie a big
crowd to see deal, we ankle up pretty early
so as to be sure to get a seat.
Seely is ordained official storekeeper
right off, being a dependable, well-read
graduate of Valley View high school, and
1 find a seat behind the diving board and
wait for the crowd to arrive.
Only they don't arrive. By the time
the meet is half over I've counted only
about a hundred pairs of ears. No more.
Here Stroup goes to all the trouble of
arranging a duel with the Dallas Univer-
sity Park team, Seely writes it up in last
week's Chat, not to sjieak of the dates the
swimmers ca.led off just to get wet In-fore
a handful of spectators, most of whom
just came out to the part to see what was
going on and were too lazy to go any fur-
ther. and only a few come out to see it.
I know that there are more people en-
rolled in this school who would enjoy a
real swimming match, and on top of that a
lot more who would like one once they saw
it. And don't think that there were a
bunch of flukes swimming out there who
cannot do more than dog paddle. On both
teams there was a combination of three
Southwestern A.A.U. title holders, one
Missouri Valley Conference champ, and
one former Nations! Junior A.A.U king.
Uh-oh. Here comes Edwards. I can
almost hear him quoting.
' Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling
tears are vain." He could be right.
Delta Psi Kappa
Selects Myers
As Summer Prexy
Rho Chapter of Delta Psi Kap-
pa elected the following officer*
for the summer at their called
meeting on Thursday, June 12:
president, Dorothy Myers; vice-
president, Lyda Blount; secretary.
Oida Yarbrough: chaplain, Dora
Miller; rush captain, Opal Brun-
dage; reporter Ruth Russell; his-
torian, Jeanne Carter; and ser-
geant at-armK, Mary Faye Rea-
Kan.
Delta Psi Kappa is a national
scholarship fraternity, require-
ment for invitation to membership
being a B average and fifteen
hour* of physical education.
Prospective pledge* were dis-
cussed and Ruth Elder was invited
to serve the "worm" pledgeship.
We welcome Rebecca Behannon
who transfers to us from Baylor.
Menjou, Bennett
In Saturday Show
Revising the old story, "Rich
boy meets |<oor girl," Joan Ben-
nett it rid Adolph Menjou lend an
amusing angle to the weekly Sat-
urday night show featuring "The
Housekeeper's Daughter."
Stage show attractions will in-
clude Manuel Meyer and his sax-
aphone, a solo by Nancy Graham,
and a guitar solo by Vergil Harris.
Kwalwasser
Continued from page 1
Dr. Kwalwasser said that statistics
show that although there are many
exceptionally intelligent musicians
there are also brilliant musicians
of low intelligence, and that the
average intelligence of musician*
is a little lower than average in-
telligence.
Attacking the "dictatorship" of
teacher* who "decide what the
child's disease is before they see
him" anil get one idea and ride it
to death," Dr. Kwalwasser .said
thai too much practicing of scales,
an accepted principle for develop-
ment in music, can be injurious to
the music student because he will
be lost when he come* to interpre-
tative mimic.
"We would have Stravinsky* by
the dozen if the piano size were
cut down." Kwalwasser said in
pointing out new problems to be
tackled by music educators. Chang-
ing the size would not affect the
piano acoustically, the speaker
said, and would make it possible
for the child to master an instru-
ment usually mastered only by
adults.
Army Camps
Continued from page 1
any command.
Hypnotism No Side Show
Waiters emphasized (hat hypno-
tism was not a side-show attrac-
tion, but that it possessed definite
therapeutic values in connection
with nervousness and fear.
Eby and a group of around
,'10 girls will leave at 4:30 today
to attend the dance at Camp
Wolters, near Mineral Wells,
Texas, The girls will act as host-
esses for the soldiers, helping in
the national plan to provide whole-
some recreation for Uncle Sam's
stalwarts. The group will make
the trip in a chartered school bus,
stay until the dance i* over, and
then drive back to Denton, arriv-
ing here some time Saturday morn-
ing-
New York
Continued from page 1
the blackest African gals; a blond
girl dancing with a black boy. be-
ing tagged by them, and drinking
with them." The climax to the Sa-
voy Night Club visit came, Miss
McElheny relates, when one "high
yaller' man with a bewitching
black moustache sauntered up ami
held out his hand to me with, "May
I have this dance?"
Sunday some of the group ate
at the Essex House in the famous
"Casino overlooking Central Park"
where Sammy Kaye was playing,
went to the Riverside Church;
through the Central St. John the
Divine, which will be the largest
in the world whenever it in com-
pleted; through the Brooklyn State
Hospital for the Insane and Leteh-
worth Village, the world's largest
institution for the feeble-minded,
which has 2,000 acres in its
grounds.
Sigma Tau Delta
To Elect Officers
Sigma Tau Delta, an organisa-
tion for English majors and min-
ora, will elect officers for the sum-
mer next Tuesday night at 7:80
in the college clubhouse, Oneita
Hildebrand, president of the club
for the winter session, **id Wed-
nesday.
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BeautKui JOAN BENNETT ;o star', with Adolph Menjou in HOUSE-
KEEPER'S DAUGHTER movie to be shown in the main auditorium
at the regular Saturday night show.
Off the Campus With the Exes
BY ONETA ASHLEY
Assist* A. &. M. President . . .
K. I. Angel!, NT8TC graduate
and M.S. degree holder from Co-
lumbia University, was recently
appointed assistant to President
T. (). Walton of Texas A. & M.
in addition to his regular duties
as director of student publications.
Dr. Walton explained that the ap-
pointment was an emergency mea-
sure to meet seasonal demands for
a supervisor of short courses and
conferences with parent* and stu-
dents. He came to A. & M. in 1986
from the state department of edu-
cation, where he was district dep-
uty state superintendent.
Teaches in Hometown . . .
Doyle Preston graduated from
(iladewater High School in Itt.'lti,
came to N'TSTC to receive his de-
gree and began teaching at Valley
View. Next year he will return to
the (iladewater High S'hool as as-
sistant coach and athletic director.
Instructors at Camp . . .
Mis« Myia Jo Preston of Arling-
ton, music student of the college
during the long term, will serve
this summer as music counselor
at the Casa Del Mar Camp at La
Port and return to study at TC
next fall.
Miss Margaret Melton, NTSTC
senior physical education major, is
an instructor this summer in danc-
ing at Camp Arrow Head in Kerr-
ville.
Teachers Elected . . .
Walter E. La Forge of Beau-
mont. Jur.e graduate of NTSTC,
was elected director of choral mu-
sic at Orange High School re-
cently . . . Miss Velmu Lee Hug-
gins, NTSTC grad who taught at
Kingsvilk* last year, will teach in
the grammar school at Arp next
year.
Lands Job in Austin . . .
Milton E. Decherd. NTSTC ex-
student and University of Texas
graduate, has resigned us super-
intendent of the Kennedy Public
Schools to take over a new posi-
tion in the personnel division of
the N.Y.A. Decherd has held offices
in the Kennedy County Chamber
of Commerce and in Il 3l was ap-
pointed to the governor's com-
mittee to study educational prob-
lems in the state.
June Is the Month . . .
and weddings still come thick
Campus Personalities
and fast: Ex Grandis George,
home economics teacher at Flu-
vanna the past year to J. C. Ad-
dington of the Texas Power and
Light Company of McKinney . . .
Fix Pauline Low, member of the
Leander School faculty the past
year, to Dr. C. C. Hay lay Jr. of
Electra, graduate of NTAC anil
the Southern School of Optometry,
Memphis. Term. . . . Grail Glennis
Wiseman who holds the M.A. de-
gree from Columbia University
and has been teaching the past
two years at Hobbs, N. M,, to Ev-
erett C. Hatton, University of Ok-
lahoma graduate . . . Grad La Una
Schrader, teacher in the Thorndale
Grammar School, to El wood Pratt
of Cameron, employee of the Gulf
Oil Corporation . . . Grad Beverly
Vernon to Grad Lee Conway of
Benus ... Ex Glenn Walker Mas-
sie to Mary Elizabeth McChesney
of Del Rio . . . Grad Ruth Coffey
of Aubrey to Frank Newtor. of
Valley View, SMU graduate . . .
Grad Kenneth Pharr to Louie
Wright of Lubbock, graduate of
Texas Tech . . . Grad Mildred
Ephlin, music teacher of the Tyr-
rell school to William Schiefly Jr.,
graduate of Pen State and an em-
ployee of the Texas Co. in Port
Arthur . . . Grad C. K. Wilson,
junior high school teacher of Den-
ton to TSCW graduate. Vernelle
Cope , . .Grad Louise Wall to John
D. Reed, A. & M. graduate and
employee in Houston of the Bew-
ley Mills . . . Grad Garland G.
Hammer, who is working toward
his doctorate in the University of
Missouri arid is now in the Dallas
Public School System to Maggie
Lou Richards, NTSTC graduate
and teacher at Highland Park,
Dallas ... Ex Mary Lena Black-
burn of Garland to Ex Fred Rod-
gers of Temple ... Ex Mary Joyce
Cox to Virgil Pate of Gallup, N. M.
. . . Grad Olive Watt, teacher at
Pendleton to Grad Robert Cham-
bers, member of the Junction
school faculty . . .
Deaths . . .
Funeral services were held in
McKinney recently for Prof. Floyd
~i\. Scott, NTSTC graduate who
had been principal of the North
Ward school in McKinney for 23
years. Prof. Scott diet! after an
operation and brief illness.
Outstanding Mathematician
Likes Coast Guard Academy
By NaDEANE WALKER
When Jerry Stark went to Stlom
Springs, Ark., recently to the S, L-
M. A. finals, he took his second key
in math. One of the keys he holda
is in analytical geometry, the oth-
er in comprehensive tests.
As a sophomore last year. Stark
was selected as Yucca Who's Who
from the mathematics department,
though Who's Who berths are us-
ually reserved for juniors and sen-
iors. A senior this year, he was
chosen again for the same honor.
On Saturday of this week all
of Stark's ambitions will, in his
own words, be at stake: that's the
day he'll take a physical exam for
entrance in the Coast Guard Acad-
emy at New London, Conn. He
passed mentals for the academy
last May in competitive examina-
tions in English, math, and gen-
eral adaptability. In the Coast
Guard mentals Jerry was thir-
teenth in the national contest
from which a class of 200 were
chosen to enter in July.
Want* to Go
If he passes the physical ex-
amination, Stark will be in New
London within three weeks. Anx-
ious as he is to get in, he faces
an odd situation. If he passes and
is admitted, hell have to start all
over as a freshman, taking all
his math courses again; if he
fails, heTt stay here as an assist-
ant and teacher in the TC math
department.
Jerry got the idea of getting in-
to the Coast Guard from his fath-
er. who is retired fom the Navy.
After an unsuccessful attempt to
get in the naval academy, for
which he was never examined, he
turned to the Coast Guard Acad-
emy as the next possibility. "There
were too many politics in the nav-
al appointment business," Jerry
Teacher Exchange
To Be Discussed
At Meeting Today
Under the direction of Frederick
Eby Jr , of the college education
faculty, a teacher exchange ser-
vice designed to help widely -wpa-
rated American teachers exchange
positions for one year is being in-
stituted on the TC campus.
Meetings for teachers and ad-
ministrators interested in informa-
tion concerning the exchange of
positions with teachers in New
Jersey, Minnesota, Colorado, Mich-
igan, arid other states will be held
today at 11:10 a.m. and 2:30 p m
in II107, Eby said. Those who are
unable to attend either meeting
should see him at his office in
HI0H.
The branch on the TC campus
is part of the International Ex-
change Teachers organization that
also helps administrators locate
superior candidates for exchange
positions.
According to the exchange, to
protect teacher tenure and retire-
ment increment, the schools of
most states pay their own teachers
regular salaries while away on the
exchange.
Psychology Club
Sponsors Contest
For Camera Bugs
The psychology club is spon-
soring a photography contest
which is open to all amateur pho-
tographers.
Any student in the college may
submit a series of six photographs
made with a box camera All pic-
tures must be made with a simple
box camera, and must be made
personally by the person in whose
name they are submitted.
First prize will Ik- awarded the
person who submits the six best
snapshots singi.- entries will not
be accepted.
The contest closes Wednesday on
July Entries may be turned in
to Mr. Eby or placed in the spe-
cial contest box in the Campus
Chat office. Decisions of the judges
will be final.
First prize will be an eight-
dollar Agfa camera which will be
available to the club through the
courtesy of the Hamilton Drug
Store.
Brahm's 'Requiem'
Will Be Presented
In Park July 11
Brahm's "Requiem." another in
the series of major choral works
produced by the NTSTC music
department under the direction of
Dr. Wilfred Bain, will lie present-
ed in the recreation park July 11
at 8 p.m.
About 150 of the summer chor-
us students of whom the A Cap-
pella Choir will form the nucleus
will present Brahm's greatest
choral work for what is believed
to be the first time in Texas.
Rays Announce AdoDtion
Of Their Second Son
Dr. and Mrs. Joe M. Ray an-
nounce the adoption of their sec-
ond adopted son, David. David is
five months old, blonde and blue-
eyed,
Ray is a member of the college
government faculty.
explains. The New London acad-
emy is similar to Annapolis, grant-
ing the same degree, and a par-
allel rank and commission.
Likes Athletics
If he does go to New London,
Stark says he hopes to include
some activities there that he hasn't
found time for before, such as ath-
letics and especially boxing and
mile run.
Stark is president-elect of both
the Math Club and the Alpha Chi,
honorary fraternity. His favorite
author and hero is Rene Descartes,
and he considers "Discourse on
Methods" by that author the best
piece of literature he has ever
read. "I'm interested in math for
the same reason Descartes was,"
he explains, "for its certainty of
demonstration, methods, and evi-
dence of reasoning."
Walks. Talks Fast
Jerry lives in Denton, walks
fast and talks fast, and carries a
pocket notebook for recording
quotations and references that im-
press him. He agrees with Van
Loon's theory that all times and
generations overlap, and by some
dark mental process has figured
out that he lived in the Dark Age-
during his high school years, and
even went so far as to refuse to
accept his diploma for that reason.
Now he's in the Renaissance, but
in the Coast Guard Academy he
hopes to attain the Modern Age.
Ed(itorial) Wards
By RAY EDWARDS
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CORRESPONDENCE . . .
Here in a copy of a letter that one of
the citizen* of local fame over at home re-
cently posted.
"Dear Adolph,
"I know that I ain't the smartest man
in the world, but I ain't so shore that you
are, either. I know you must have a bunch
of things up your sleeve when I ain't got
nuthin' but a hard brown arm that has
chopped cotton and hoed corn for forty
years.
"I'm the mayor of a little town in Tex-
as, U.S.A, by the name of Frognot. It's
riot night as big as the county seat, but we
Met along.
"We've got a bunch of farm boys over
here. Adolph, that will probably be havin*
some dealin's with you before too long. A
lot of them are just kids. Why, I remem-
ber not more'n a few years back they was
runnin' around in knee breeches.
"As I was sayin', Adolph, you'll be
seem' some of them kids before too long
if things don't change; an' any time you
do, you're going to find some of the hard-
est fighting rascals in the world.
"Now, over here like we are where
there's not much passing, we don't get on
to all the things going on in the world. To
tell the honest truth, 1 don't have the
least idea what this war is about; and a
bunch of the boys have been asking me,
proving that they don't know.
"All we know over here is that there
is a war in the world, and everybody seems
to think that we'll be in it before long. If
and when we do get in this war, our boys
over here will march off an' fight just as
hard a.-: ..lie rest of them. A-n-d they'll
probably forget to ask what it's all about
until it is over.
"We're proud of our boys, Adolph.
We didn't raise them up to fight any wars.
We want them to plow the cotton, the
corn, the onions. We want them to go to
college, to work at the cotton gins, to run
the road graders, to Wi."k in the post of-
fice, to marry and raise another bunch of
fine boys, to hoe out the graveyard, to put
a new roof on the schoolhouae—you see,
Adolph, we want our boys to stay over
here.
"Just to show you what kind of kids
we have here, one of them comes up to
me the other day and says: 'Pete'—That's
my name, you know—Pete Swackerhan-
dle—'Pete,' he says, 'I've been thinking
about the way this town is run, an' I have
concluded that you're a fool'
"Just like that he says it. And right
then I though, Adolph, what would you
have done if one of your lads had told you
that? Well, the kid might have been right
or wrong in my case, but I just ast him if
he knew any way of improving things. The
heck of it is, by golly, he did, and now we
are using some of his suggestions.
"But, what I was getting around to,
Adolph, was to tell you this: As none of
your lads dares tell you anything that
you would not like to hear, the people over
here at Frognot have decided to get me to
send you this letter.
"Your people might be afraid to say
it, but 1 just want to go on record as say-
ing that I, Pete Swackerhandle, mayor of
Frognot, Texas, United States of Ameri-
ca, through the powers vested in me by
the votes of these 91 citizens in a demo-
cratic election, do this day, June 27, 1941
A.I)., take great civic and personal pleas-
ure in informing you that you are a damn
fool!"
Pete Swackerhandle
A DREAM . ..
I had a strange dream the other night.
I dreamed that I died and went to heaven
which makes it strange indeed. At the
time of my death, the late me was a Ger-
man.
As well as I recall, I was guided down
a broad and down-hill path—which, to say
the least, made me somewhat leary of the
place. As I entered the door, I saw a sign
reading either Heil or Hell. It was hard
to tell which.
Despite a slight brimstone smell, I
saw right off that things were okay down
there. There was a little work going on,
but there were so many people that the
shifts were extremely short. As soon as I
got comfortably settled in that place of
eternal joy and rest, along comes a big
American cussing the weather, the food,
ami the working hours.
Touching his sleeve, I said. "But. com-
rade, I thought there should be no dis-
content in heaven!"
"Heaven, heaven!" he yelled, jabbing
his buddy in the ribs, "get a load of this
fellow. He's lived in Germany so long he
goes to hell and thinks he's in heaven!"
TOENAILS . . .
In the days of blitzkrieg and fighting
all night and sleeping all day there is still
at least one way of getting out of military
service over here. A fellow was rejected
the other day because he had ingrowing
toenails.
At first glance, that reason might
sound facetious, but on second thought,
we are supposed to kick the pants off Hit-
ler if he ever gets in our way. A man with
sore toes would not be the man to sneak
up behind Adolph when he stooped over
to pick up his trick moustache.
There might be one advantage to the
fellow's feet, however, he might be bent
over caressing his reversible nails when a
shell whined over right where his head
would have been if he'd not been in a staple
shape.
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