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The College Star
Published Weekly During the School Year by the Students of the Southwest Texas State Teachers College
VOLUME XII.
SAN MARCOS, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1924
NUMBER 39
PARENT-TEACHERS MEET
HERE JULY 28-AUGUST 3
Plans Perfected For Entertainment of
Large Crowd Expected
to Be Here.
The committee on arrangements for
the encampment of the members of the
Fifth, Seventh and .Ninth districts oi
the Parent-Teachers’ association to be
held in San Marcos July 28 to August
2, met Saturday afternoon at the cham-
ber of commerce building.
Mrs. John E. Parke, chairman of the
presidents’ council, presided at the
meeting. Those attending the meet-
ing were Messrs. B. A. Stufflebeme,
E. J. Berry, A. B. Rogers, W. A. Ly-
on, Mrs. James E. Morris, president
of the Seventh district PTA, Mrs. J.
P. Taylor, president of Palm school
PTA; [Mrs. Alfred Ivey, president of
East End PTA; Mrs. W. N. Joiner,
president of the high school PTA;
Mrs. G. B. Smith, president of train-
ing school PTA; Mesdames Ed Taylor
and W. E. Hall. The members of tha
committee representing tffe Southwest
exas Teachers College were unable to
be present because ot the term exam-
inations being held.
The final arrangements are to have
the encampment at Rogers park ra-
ther than at Tourist park, as was at
first announced. Tents and furnish-
ings will be rented at the same cost
as was first announced. Tents 16-16
will be up on the grounds July 26.
The rent will be $8 per tent. Reserva-
tions, with a deposit of $5 on the tent,
must be made not later than on July 22.
The course on social hygiene, di-
rected by Mrs. Enida Votaw Gal-
breath, graduate nurse of San Marcos,
will be in itself worth the effort of
persons to attend the encampment.
Mrs. Galbreath has secured assistance
from the best authorities possible and
has arranged one of the most worth
while courses to be found on the sub-
ject which is attracting the interest
of every parent of today. The social
hygiene classes will be held from 5:30
to 6:30 each afternoon at Rogers park.
Mrs. Josephine Jones, county health
nurse for Hays county, has arranged
an excellent course upon child hygiene.
These classes will be held from 9:30
to 10:30 each morning at Rogers park.
Mrs. S. M. N. Marrs of Austin,
state president of the PTA, will de-
liver a lecture course on PTA work
each morning from 8:30 to 9:30 at
the teacher’s college.
Mrs. Henry P. King, head of the
public speaking department of the
Teachers College, is chairman of the
committee arranging excellent pro-
grams for the evening meetings.
Program.
Monday July 28.
Organization and work of Parent
Teacher Associations by Mrs. S. fd.
N. Marrs, 8:30 a.m., at th College.
Child Hygiene by Mrs. Josephine
Jones, 9:30 a.m., at the College.
Social Hygiene by Mrs. Galbreath,
5:30 p.m., at Rogers park.
[Monday evening, 8:30 at Baptist ta-
bernacle :
Community Singing.
Address of Welcome by Mayor Fred
F. Erck.
Vocal solo by Mr. Wilie Doyle.
Lecture by Mrs. S. M. N. Marrs.
Congress song, “A Little Child Shall
Lead”, by Mrs. Charles Bass.
Tuesday, July 29—
Organization and work of Parent-
Teacher Association by Mrs. S. M. N.
Marrs, 8:3 0 at the College.
Child Hygiene by Mrs. Josephine
Jones, 9:30 at the College.
Social Hygiene by Mrs. Enida Vo-
taw Galbreath, 5:30 p.m., at Rogers
park.
Tuesday evening, 8:30 p. m. at Bap-
tist tabernacle.
Community singing directed by.Miss
Mary Stuart Butler.
Piano solo by Miss Halbrook.
jVocal solo by Mrs. H. O. Day.
Duet by Mrs. H. O. Day and Mr.
Henry Foster.
Vocal solo by Mr. Henry Foster.
Lecture by Mr. J. W. Chapman,
“Obedience to Law.”
Wednesday, July 30—
Organization and work of Parent-
Teacher Associations by Mrs. S. M.
N. Marrs, 8:30 a.m., at the College.
Child Hygiene by Mrs. Josephine
Jones, 9:30, at the College.
Social Hygiene by Mrs. Enida V.
Galbreath, 5:30 p.m., at Rogers park.
Evening program, 8:30 at Baptist
tabernacle.
Community singing led by Claude
Ivey.
Health pageant directed by Miss Mc-
Crery and others.
Lecture by Dr. A. P. Harrison.
Thursday, July 31—
Organization and work of Parent-
Teacher Associations by Mrs. S. M.
X. Marrs, 8:30 a.m., at the College.
Child Hygiene by Mrs. Josephine
Jones, 9:30 a.m., at the College.
Social Hygiene by Mrs. Enida V.
Galbreath, 5:30 p.m., at Rogers park.
Thursday evening, 8:30 at the
Baptist tabernacle.
Community singing directed by W.
F. Hall.
Reading by Miss Merle Martindale.
Vocal solo by Miss Martha Woodson.
Reading by Miss Grace Bruff.
Vocal solo by Miss Roxadene Mar-
tindale.
Lecture by Geo. O. Clough, president
State Teachers Association. Subject,
“Texas Educational Survey.”
Friday, August 1—
Organization and work of Parent-
Teacher Associations by Mrs. S. M.
N. Marrs, 8:30 a.m., at the College.
Child Hygiene by Mrs. Josephine
Jones, 9:30 a.m., at College.
Social Hygiene by Mrsfl Enida V.
Galbreath, 5:30 p.m., at Rogers park.
Friday evening, 8:30 at the Baptist
tabernacle.
Community singing directed by W.
F. Hall.
Reading by Mrs. E. O. Tanner.
Talk by Gov. Pat Morris Neff.
Saturday, August 2—
Organization and work of Parent-
Teachers Associations by Mrs. S. M.
N. Marrs, 8:30 a.m., at the College.
The college is furnishing supervi-
sors from the Physical Education de-
partment who will have charge of an
hour’s play period daily, and all the
children of the city as well as visiting
children. The play hour will be held
at Rogers park after the daily pro-
gram.
SENATOR BURKETT
WANTS COLLEGE
TUITION
GOOD PUBLICITY
WORK DONE
The Publiicty committee of the Tea-
chers College has been doing some
excellent work this summer and the
fruits of their endeavors are expected
in an increased attendance at the col-
lege next fall. A publicity campaign
has been carried on by the college for
the last several months and some of
the best publicity that has been sent
out has been put out by the college
this summer.
One of the recent accomplishments
of the committee has been a folder that
is now being mailed out to prospec-
tive students, telling of the features
of the college equipment for next year
and of the additions that will be made
to the curriculum, coaching facilities,
etc. This folder features especially
the athletic accomplishments of the col-
lege and carries pictures of the two
big gymnasiums with the two best in-
door basketball courts in the state,
the college bathing resort, that is the
only one of its kind in the southwest,
the Bobcat football team that defeated
the Rice Owls on their own gridiron
last year, and a drawing of the plans
of the new athletic field that is now
in the process of construction that
will be scond only to the Stadium of
the Longhorns.
PENNANTS ARRIVE
FOR GRIPS
The “T” Association has a last ma-
terialized another of their dreams by
getting a number of gummed stickers
of the college printed for distribution.
They are Maroon and Gold with the
words San Marcos featuring and the
monogram SWTTC subsidiary. They
are on a par with those put out by
any college in the state and every one
that leaves San Marcos is expected
to plaster their handbags, grips, wind-
shields and other available surface.
The “T” Association has had these
printed at the lowest possible price
so as to give them to the students on
a low price level also and this pre-
vents any profit. All that is consid-
ered in the price is the cost of the cnt
and the printing. They will be on sale
from now until school closes if they
last that long. Only 2,000 have been
printed and they will sell for a niclde
or five for a dime. See the table in
the hall or the Exchange anji get yours
at once. Show where you are from.
CANYON EDITOR PRAISES
EDITORIAL ON PRESS CLUB
A letter received from Editor Hinkle
of the Prairie, publication of the stu-
dents of the West Texas Teachers
College, praised the editorial which ap-
peared in issue 36 of the College Star,
suggesting that the Teachers College
here have a Press Club next year in
order to advance the quality of the
College Star.
Mr. Hinkle stated that the students
of Canyon had organized a Press club
and were members of the Texas Inter-
collegiate Press Association. Canyon is
putting out one of the best college
weeklies in the state and part of this
success at least he attributes to mem-
bership in the Association and to the
Press Club.
The idea of the Press Club should
not be dropped but should be fostered
and should materialize into definite
action toward this organization. The
College Star would be betterd by
membership in the Press Association.
Candidate For .Governor Speaks In
General Assembly Friday Morn-
ing in Interest of His Candi-
dacy For Nomination.
State Senator Joe Burkett of East-
land was the speaker in General As-
sembly Friday morning and laid his
claims for the nomination in the de-
mocratic primary before a large crowd
of students and teachers.
Senator Burkett was introduced by
Dr. C. E. Evans as one of the candi-
dates for governor who had had a wide
experience in the governmental affairs
of the state. He also was able to 'sym-
pathize with the problems of the tea-
cher as he had followed that profes-
sion for some years. He served as
RIVERSIDE AND EVANS
FIELD BEING IM-
fROVED
HORN WANTS DEMOCRA-
TIC COLLEGE ENTRANCE
Popular Bathing Resort Being En-
larged and Athletic Field Under-
‘going First Stages of Change.
This week has seen efforts in the
direction of improving the equipment
of the college redoubled and for the
rest of the summer the work on the
Bigger and Better Evans Field and
on an enlarged and more beautiful Ri-
verside will be pushed to the limit.
Riverside, the only college bathing
resort in the South and the pride of
the summer school of the college is
being improved rapidly and quite a sum
of money will be expended on it to
make it the best that can be found
anywhere. The island formed by the
division of the main stream of the San
Marcos river just below the place
a cool
district judge at Eastland and then as .
state senator and has been one of the | wh_ere the swimmers enjoy
most prominent of the public servants j swim, has heretofore been marshy and
lew’ and this island is being filled up
with dirt taken from the excavations
on the athletic field and will be made
into a picnic ground that will afford
college picnickers one of the best
grounds for that pupose anywhere
close "to San Marcos. Several trees
will be planted on the island and the
banks will be cleared of the growth
and made more beautiful.
The east branch of the river is be-
for some time.
In his opening remarks the candi-
date stated that he was becoming ac-
customed to making speeches as he
had delivered 548 addresses in 254
counties in the interest of his candi-
dacy. He stated that he was not an
educated man and since he had not had
the benefits of a secondary school and
a College education he realized that he
has missed a great deal and was at; d d of the vines and weeds and
all times a champion of the cause o bottom d d and it wiu made
education. He deplored the act that tathing place for the y011ng-
Texas, with its great population and^ and fcr who cannot- 5wim
well enough to take to the deep water.
taxes higher than in most of the states
in the union, stood 34th in the scale
of literacy.
Judge Burkett emphasized the one-
sidedness of the education of the child-
ren of the state and stated that the
rural children were entitled to the
same privileges of education that were
afforded to the children who were for-
tunate enough to go to school in the
city. He said that if he were elected
governor of the state of Texas that he
would make it his business to see to
it that the rural education was raised
at least to the standard of a six months
school.
The whole resort will be moved down
about a hundred feet. This is one
of the most advantageous projects that
the Teachers College has attempted
for some time and will add materially
to the lustre of the reputation of the
college as a place of summer profit and
enjoyment.
The work on the new athletic field
to house the 1924-25 athletic teams
of the college has been started and
is being pushed forward rapidly. There
have been several teams at work on
the field for the past week and more
.; ill be added next week and the work
In order to do this he advocated'the] ^ levelling up the field completed b>
payment of tuition in the institutions
of higher learning. He stated that a
tuition fee of $150 per year should be
charged for the college year and the
money that was saved the state in that
way given for the public school. He
stated that this was the plan used in
California, Illinois and other states,
and should work as well in Texas,
Senator Burkett was also in favor
of the abolition of many of the boards
at Austin and favored a centralization
of their powers. However, he was not
in favor of abolishing the board of
pardons and stated that there was a
great need for this board. He stated
that there were a large number of
convicts in the penitentiary that should
be considered for pardons and said
that he was not in favor of making
them desperate by taking away from
them the last hope of liberty and hap-
piness. There are one thousand sold-
ier convicts in the penitentiary, accord-
ing to Mr. Burkett and many of these
got in there after the war due to the
conditions that kept them from get-
ting jobs.
He also advocated a better handling
of the penitentiary system, but den
fended the management of it in the
past by saying that statements of
amounts that the system had cost the
state were gross exaggeration. He said
that if the convicts were put to work
in the cement business that they could
turn out cement at one-half the price
that it is sold for now in quantities
large enough to pave every road in the
state.
One of the main things that the can-
didate expressed himself for was the
abolition of the automobile tax and
the adoption of a gasoline tax instead
to take care of the roads with a per-
tion to be spent for the advancement
of education. He stated that a tax
of 3 cents on gasoline would mean a
revenue of nine million dollars per
year and would make the tourists who
help to wear out the roads of the state
pay for their up-keep.
In conclusion Judge Burkett express-
ed his appreciation of the opportuni-
ty of addressing the Teachers College
audience and admonished the voters
to vote for him if they believed in the
tenets of his platform and to vote
against him if they honestly htought
that he was wrong.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to extend to the people of
San Marcos and the Teachers Col-
lege our sincere appreciation and
thanks for the many kindnesses dur-
ing the recent illness and death of our
beloved daughter and sister, Willie
Mae Autrey. Your many expressions
of sympathy •'have been a comfort in
our hour of sorrow.
F. A. Autrey and children.
the first two weeks of August. The
teams and men are at work at the pres-
ent time plowing up the high parts of
the field and filling in the low places.
For the past few years the athletic
teams of the college have been playing
on a field that is several feet higher
at one end than it is at the other and
this has put them to a distinct disad-
vantage when they were playing on a
real field, and the new Evans Field
will be one that will call forth their
best efforts and one that will be sec-
ond to none in the state with the ex-
ception of that of the new Stadium
at the University , of Texas.
As soon as the work of levelling up
the field is completed, a ’ large force
of men will be put to work sodding
the field and this is expected to' be
completed within a few days after it
is begun. The grass will have a
month in which to cover the field and
it will be ready for the fall training
camp of the football team which will
begin September 15th. The grass will
be watered with thousands of gallons
of water from the plant of the Utili-
ties Company and will be sold for the
warriors of the moleskins, to sport
upon when they work into shape for
the campaign toward a TIAA cham-
pionship next fall.
The gridiron will be turtle-backed
in shape and will shed water rapidly,
thus eliminating the horrors of a muddy
football field when it happens that the
dements are indisposed toward the na-
tional Collegiate sport.
As soon as the gridiron is complet-
ed and ready for the Fall campaign,
work will begin on the enlargement
of the limits of the field. The south
and west fences will be moved back
far enough to permit the construction
of a quarter-mile cinder path that will
be completed and curbed in time for
the track artists to do their best when
the track season opens up next spring.
On the north side next to the hill
there will be constructed some concrete
bleachers to be used by the fans dur-
ing football season, and also during
baseball season. The present grand-
stand will be torn away and a new
modern stand with comfortable seats
will be built. The road will be routed
through the fish hatchery and the pres-
ent road space added to the field. A
120-yard straightway will be built in
front of the stands.
When this project has been complet-
ed it will be a drawing card for the
athletes of this part of the state and
will place the Bobcats in their right-
ful place among the best teams in col-
legiate ball in the state.
Y.W. VESPERS
Wednesday evening at 6:45 the YW
CA girls met on the hill for Vesper
services and a short social hour. It
took the place of the regular Wednes-
day morning service.
Basis of Selection in Some of Large
Colleges Deployed; Poor Fresh-
man Scholar Should Be
Given Chance.
Dr. P. W. Horn, president of the new
Technological college to be built in
West Texas was the guest of the col-
lege yesterday and the main speaker on
the program of the Schoolmaster’s
club last night and gave the school-
men the benefit of his observation in
his recent tour of some of the largest
schools of the north, where he went
to collect data that would help him to
build the best possible Technological
institute.
Dr. Horn was introduced by Pres.
C. E. Evans and stated at the outset
that he ould talk on the question of
“Who ought to go to College”. Another
question that Dr. Horn stated he would
touch upon were how many ought to
be sent home from college. Accord-
ing to the democratic ideals of educa-
tion every man ought to be educated,
yet Dr. Horn said that this was im-
practicable, for were everyone educat-
ed, where would we get our ditch dig-
gers. our rail maulers, etc.? He stated
FACULTY PICNIC AT
NEW BRAUNFELS
The members of the faculty of the
Teachers College and their families
and a few friends were the partici-
pants in a delightful picnic held in
Landa Park at New Braunfels last
Wednesday night.
Approximately seventy-five people
attended this outing at the celebrated
resort and e-^ln, one of the shortest
evenings of .be summer in the cool-
ness of the picnic grounds at the
park. Many of the picnickers took
advantage of the excellent swimming
pool and forgot the cares of the ferule
and crayon for the evening. After the
swim a splendid feed was set before
the teachers who displayed the fact
that they were aqcomplFbpd, in,lines
other than that of dispensing know-
ledge, for they did justice to all that
was placed before them.
Following the meal, child games
were played demonstrating the fact
that many dull years in the schoolroom
will not stifle the pleasures of youth.
After a pleasant social hour they re-
turned to San Marcos, and back to
the scene of their constructive labors.
SENIORS PICNIC AT
PARK
After two weeks of talking, and af-
ter much deliberation concerning the
kind of a celebration the seniors would
put on, the intellectuals finally gath-
ered at Rogers Resort for the purpose
of enjoying a picnic, and the most
fond expectations of any of the sober
crew were satisfied after a fashion that
will be remembered by all of the sen-
iors of the school this summer.
The vanguard of Seniority arrived at
the park about six o’clock and from
then till about a quarter of seven the
picnickers arrived until there were
some thirty in number. Maiiy of the
intellectual crew took a dip in the
water and one or two of the gentle-
men who have lately come into the es-
tate of seniorhood entertained those
who did not go in with exhibitions of
fancy diving and flip-turning that
would have done credit to Houdini or
Annette Kellerman.
After an excelent swim, the seniors
and their guests indulged in the past-
time of roving for a while in order to
work up an appetite for the feast of
watermelons that was on the card for
the main event of the evening.
The melons proved to be the best
entertainment of the evening and a
social hour was spent “over the rine”
after which some of the crew so far
forgot their dignity as to take a whirl
on the merry-go-round and follow other
diversions that would help to make
them forget their troubles and wor-
ries for the time.
About ten the crowd broke up, with
the unanimous opinion that the picnic
had been all that one could be and
with the earnest resolve that they
would repeat the performance some-
ttime in the near future.
GENSBERG WINS SINGLES
IN HANDBALL TOURNAMENT
The finals in the singles tournament
for the handball championship of the
college was played off last Tuesday
before a capacity crowd in the big
gymnasium. Gensberg won the first
two games in a scheduled best two out
of three.
The doubles in the handball tourna-
ment are now in progress and some
exceptionally fast yet evenly matched
teams are in the field.
that in his opinion a large number
should not go to college yet he said
the question that was facing the edu-
cated world today was who to select for
the college education. He was inV fa-
vor of the selecttion being made not
by the dean of the college or the col-
lege president, as is being done in
some of the large universities, but by
the student himself.
His opinion was that many will not
go to college because they are consti-
tutionally opposed to work and do not
want to go to college or do anything
else that will require effort. Then
many will not go to college because
of the variety of taste and inclina-
tions, and then another reason is the
limitation of facilities to take care of
the college students. He said that one
cannot judge the merits of a man by
the education that he takes. Some of
the best soldiers in the World War
were men who did not do any work in
school. Some of the men who rise to
prominence are men who in the days
of youth would not study mathematics
and English.
The question then that comes up be-
fore the school men of the state is the
question of selection of the best mater-
ial to admit to the college. Dr. Horn
advocated the ideal of service as the
only basis that the college should
work on with reference to the selec-
tion of the students that present them-
selves to become enrolled as students.
He told of the limitations that mafly
of the private and denominational
schools place on their schools and said
that where they had limited facilities
they could limit the attendance and
make it a selective process if they
wished but said that this'would not
work in the state schools and that they
should admit all that they could take
care of until the facilities of the col-
lege refused to take care of more. “Any
state institution has not the right to
limit the attendance until the limit of
facilities is reached.”
Dr. Horn plead for the slogan of
“first come, first served”, in education
just as it was in business, as the de-
mocratic ideal of higher education. He
told of the policy of some of the larger
universities , ar.d college^ of limiting
the attendance aUthca^r institutions, to
the highest tenths of the graduating
classes of the high schools of the coun-
try, and deplored the policy of judg-
ing the ability of the students by the
grades that they have made in high
school. He stated that scholarship was
not the measure of the success of the
man in after life and that many of the
men who were the ranking tenth in
book knowledge failed to get higher
than the post of the country preacher
in after life.
He was highly in favor of admitting
students above twenty-one years of age
on individual approval and gave as
arguments the fact that the two high-
est honor graduates of Southwestern
University this year were admitted to
the college on individual approval.
Some of the greatest scientists have
been men who were not the most bril-
liant in college and a man ought not be
sent home just because he fails to make
his grades the first term he is in col-
lege. A school man is taking a great
deal of responsibility when he tells a
college student that he ought not to
be in college and that his place is back
at home doing manual labor. “It re-
anires a great deal of egotism for a
man to shut the door of opportunity in
the face of another man.” The meth-
od of selecting the college student be-
cause of his I. Q. test being high is
altogether wrong, and the school men
ought to raise their voices in protest
against such methods of setting the
ban on college students and saying
who should go to college and who
should not.
“The great shame of "the education-
al system of the state of Texas,” said
the new Tech president, “is the fact that
one out of every three in the Freshman
class at the University of Texas is
purposely and wilfully failed at the
completion of the Fall term solely be-
cause the authorities of the Univer-
sity want to select the students who
attend there.”
Dr. Horn told of his visit to some
of the great institutions in the north
and stated that the Texas Tech college
would have two requirements for stu-
dents to follow: the first, that it would
be for those students who wanted to
go there and second for those who
would profit by attending the college.
At the conclusion of the address by
Dr. Horn, Pres. C. E. Evans endorsed
the speech of the educator and made
a short talk along the same lines.
Then questions were asked by some of
the schoolmen, one of the most impor-
tant discussions being on the junior
college. The speaker for the next
meeting of the schoolmasters club will
be announced later in the week.
Mamma: “Did you hear me when I
called you this morning?”
Willie: “Yes.”
Mamma: “Why didn’t you answer
then?”
Hillie: “Couldn’t think of anything
to say.”
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