The Normal Star (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 13, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 13, 1923 Page: 1 of 4
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The Normal Star
Published Weekly During the School Year by the Students of the Southwest Texas State Normal College
VOLUME XI.
SAN MARCOS, TEXAS SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1922
NUMBER 13
BOBCATS LOSE TO
FAST SAN ANTO-
NIO ALL-STARS
Score 27-12 Tells Story Itself;
Horton Plays In Hard Luck;
Gish, Lowman and Kal-
llna Play Good Game.
STODENT WELFARE
COUNCIL SERVES IM-
PORTANT PURPOSE
The Bobcats opened their basketball
season by losing a fast, snappy game
to the undefeated San Antonio Inde-
pendents, by a score of 27-12, at the
Gym ' Thursday night. Although the
score does not indicate, it, the game
was close in that the Bobcats had the
ball as much as the Independents.
Their passing was good but they could
not seem to connect with the basket.
Ed. Kallina stood out by showing his
ability to get the ball in scrimmage.
The Independents would carry the ball
near their goal and seem about to
make a shot when big Ed would tie up
with the man having the ball and come
out either with it in his possession or
have a held ball called.
The Independents are old college
stars who have played together for a
number of years and have not been de-
feated either last year or this. This
game will enable Coach Strahan to un-
derstand his men enough to make a
strong well oiled machine by next
Thursday when they meet their old ri-
vals, of Denton, champions of T. I.
A. A. last season. The Bobcats have
started off with a bang and are going
to make every team step lively that
they meet in the race for championship
this year.
Summary of the Game.
Original lineup Bobcats, Horton and
Boggus, forwards; Hildreth, center;
Warren and Kallina, guards.
Independents: Gish and Tuttle, for-
wards; Englebert, center; Timpson and
Arbough, guards.
Scoring: Field goals—Independents:
Gish 6, Englebert 4, Tuttle 1, Timpson
1; Bobcats: Horton 1, Boggus 1.
Goals after fouls: Independents—
Gish 1; Bobcats: Kallina 8 (out of 9).
Score by Periods.
Independents _____7 2 10 8 Total 27
Normal ________3 4 2 3 Total 12
Substitutions : Normal—Lowman for
Warren, Warren for Boggus, Boggus
for Hildreth, Hildreth for Warren.
Although Jack Horton played a hard
luck game last night, we expect to see
better things from him. Remember the
game next Thursday night with Denton
and come out.
NORMAL PUBLIC SPEAKINS
STUDENTS ENTERTAIN RO-
TARY CLUB AT LUNCHEON
Miss Graves of the Normal Public
Speaking Department and the follow-
ing students from her classes, Misses
Martha Woodson, Sallie Ross Jones,
Esta Mae Bond, and Mrs. Pauline
Adams, were guests of the Rotary Club
at their weekly luncheon at the Orien-
tal Cafe on Wednesday. An interest-
ing program of readings and music was
presented by the talented representa-
tives of the Normal.
“Shall I brain him?” asked a Senior.
And the victim’s courage fled.
“You can’t”, they yelled “he’s Fresh-
lan.”
“Just hit him on the head.”—Ex.
Medium Between Student Body
and Faculty Has Already Done
Many Things Toward Devel-
opment of Good School
Just as a matter of enlightenment to
the new students and to those old stu-
dents who do not know about the
Student Welfare Council and the func-
tions thereof, the Star wishes to take
this means and space to throw some
light upon said Welfare Council. The
council has been in existence for sev-
eral years and has been the means of
creating a better understanding be-
tween the faculty and the student body,
and has secured many just privileges
for the students.
The following is what the school
catalogue has to say in regard to the
student council:
“Student Council. The Normal Col-
lege recognizes the students as a part
of its administrative machinery. In
order that they may be officially re-
presented each class elects from among
its number sepresentatives as members
of the Student Council. This commit-
tee meets regularly with the President
or with other members of the faculty
appointed by him to discuss such mea-
sures as pertain to the general welfare
of the student body. Alreary much
good has resulted from this form of
closer co-operation between the faculty
and the students, while it also gives
an opportunity for initiative on the part
of the student body as a whole, and
offers incentives for the development
of leadership on the part of individual
students.”
So you see the Council represents
the student body in things that are of
general interest. It is your means of
putting any complaint before the ad
ministration, it is your means of get-
ting special concessions and privileges,
and in general, it is the bond that
unites the faculty with the student
body. If the student body wants the
privilege of attending a movie that is
of educational value, the student coun-
cil looks after it. If you do not get
your Star regularly, report to the wel-
fare council and the matter will be
looked into. If you are not satisfied
with the school equipment, such as un-
desirable desks, poor black boards, de-
fective heating, etc., report to the coun-
cil and it will see what can be done.
Let it here be remarked however, that
the Student Welfare Council is not
merely a ways and means whereby and
through which kicks against the ad-
ministration may be registered. It is
intended to serve a greater purpose, a
constructive purpose. It is true though
that any so-called kick will be more
effective if made to the Welfare Coun-
cil than if it were made to individual
members of the faculty or to other
students. Let it be understood that
the Council is the medium between
students and faculty. Give the council
your suggestion. It alone can secure
the desired result. It is there for that
purpose.
The council tries to represent the
student body 100 per cent, and the de-
sine of the council is that the student
body co-operate with the council and
the faculty. If the council is fortun-
(Continued on page Four)
WORDS OF THANKS
Mrs. Burleson wishes,
through the Normal
Star, to thank the young
men of the Normal Col-
lege, who so quickly res-
ponded to the fire alarm
of Thursday morning,
and, who with the Col-
lege fire fighting appara-
tus, so efficiently fought
the disastrous fire that
occurred on her property
on Normal Hill.
Mrs. Burleson is most
appreciative of the ef-
forts of the San Marcos
Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment, their ready res-
ponse and their cour-
ageous work.
FORMER DEAN OF S. W.
T. N. SOON TO OPEN NEW
NACOGDOCHES SCHOOL
PRESIDENT A. W. BIRDWELL
WORKS HIS WAY UPWARD
THROUGH DIFFICULTIES.
Once a Tie-Hacker Now Presi-
dent of Stephen F. Aus-
tin Normal.
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WORK ON INTER-NOR-
MAL DEBATE HAS
STARTED
Question Has Been Selected By
Comittee And Those Desiring
to Try Out Have Signed Up.
Girl Rooming House On Normal
Street Burns Thursday Morning
There was a good representation out
to the meeting last Monday morning,
which was called to get those inter-
ested in the Inter-Normal debate to-
gether, by Mr. Arnold. Those desir-
ing to try out for .the teams were asked
to sign up, which most of them did.
Work on the debate will start, imme-
diately. .
There will be eight men chosen from
those trying out on competitive basis,
who will form the Debating Squad.
From this squad will be chosen two
teams to represent S. W. T. N. in com-
petition with other Normal Colleges of
Texas, and four alternates. These stu-
dents will be assigned to coaches ap-
pointed from the faculty, to whom they
will be accountable. They will be
graded and upon successful completion
of the course, will receive three term
hours credit. Application for mem-
bership in this class must be made at
once to Mr. Arnold.
. This year we will debate Denton
Normal in Denton and-Commerce Nor-
mal here. We have three former inter-
normal debaters in school this year,
namely: Roger Porter, Alfred J. Ivey,
and Harold Simon. These men were
winners in 1917, 1919, and 1920 res-
pectively. All of these will not try
out, but the prospects are for plenty
of good material; the more, the merrier.
Having to go to Denton, the home of
our old rival who always has a strong
team, will make it necessary for us
to develop a real team. With the new
method of selecting and coaching the
debaters, and with the number of de-
baters to choose from that we have,
we should .develop two winning teams.
This is a good place for a man to make
a credit, win honor for himself and
bring glory to his school.
Among the men of Texas who now
loom foremost in the educational ranks
of the State is found President A. W.
Birdwell, a man whom every Normal-
ite knows and loves. With his ap-
pointment to become President of the
new Normal at Nacogdoches came the
necessity of the severance of Dean
Birdweff’s connection with this college.
We can sincerely say that we are both
sorry and glad, sorry that his close
association with this school has so
hurriedly been broken, glad that he
was selected to the leadership of ano-
ther of the greatest educational insti-
tutions of the state.
We take the following excerpts from
the Galveston News of December 5th:
“The Illinois rail splitter, who later
directed the destinies of a nation, and
the East Texas tie-hacker who is to
direct the educational destinies of
thousands of our best young men and
women, had much in common. Abra-
ham Lincoln split rails as a partial
preparation for' the presidency of the
United States; Alton W. Birdwell
hacked -crossties as a partial prepara-
tion for the presidency of the Stephen
F. Austin Normal College. The mar-
tyred president was never embarrassed
by a reference to his rail splitting ex-
perience. Fond parents and earnesli
educators have for these fifty years
held out to the youth of our land that
Lincoln’s rail splitting experience was
more worthy than the blue blood of a
thousand years. Professor A. W. Bird-
well, president of the Stephen F. Austin
Normal College, is not above reference
to his experience as a tie hacker along
the banks of Mud Creek, near Troup,
Texas. The story of this experience
and of that particular Saturday morn-
ing when he rode into town on a load
of crossties, and how a -big-hearted,
loving school teacher met him on the
streets and putting a strong arm
around him, said, “Birdwell, wouldn’t
you like to go to school?” has been
and will be an inspiration to thousands
of big country boys whose environ-
ment has robbed them of early school
advantages.
He knew that Alton Birdwell had in
him the making of a great character.
He knew and understood that the only
missing factor in the big boy’s make-
up was opportunity. To be born the
son of a real honest-to-goodness pion-
eer preacher and a Texas tenant far-
mer, in the year of grace 1870, or there-
abouts, was to be denied most of the
things—Matthew Arnold called “sweet-
ness and light.”
And that Saturday morning was the
turning point 'in the. boy’s life. Prof.
Birdwell received his elementary edu-
cation in his father’s school, from
his mother, who, by the way, was a
well educated woman. Later he at-
tended summer normal schools at
Omen, Smith comity. This little “san-
dy place in the road” was for a quar- ^
ter of a century the home of the Sum-
mer Hill Select School, familiarly
known to the old settlers as “Mr. Orr’s
school at Omen.” In its day it was a
great school, and to it came thousands
of the young men and women of East
Texas to sit for a little while at the
feet of Prof. A. W. Orr, one of the
very greatest of the pioneer teachers of
this state.
School Teaching Experience.
After obtaining the necessary permit
to teach, Professor Birdwell taught
country school in Smith county. The
story of how he rode out to his first
“charge”, Pleasant Retreat, six miles
from Tyler, seated on a small trunk,
in a farm wagon drawn by two diminu-
tive mules, and how he managed eighty
pupils and taught everything from the
“blue back spelling book” to Latin, is
typical of many another aspiring and
perspiring school master of that day.
One of his trustees said to him at the
end of the first session, “Birdwell, you
have taught a pretty good school, but
I'll swear you was the ‘poorest’ look-
ing dhance I ever saw.” And if the
tmth must be told, Birdwell had never
taken a prize at a beauty show. Later
he served as ward school and high
school principal in the Tyler city
schools. He also served as County Su-
perintendent of the Smith county and as
superintendent of the Troup schools. In
the meantime he became popular as a
summer normal teacher and conductor.
Professor Birdwell’s college educa-
tion was obtained in the summer
schools of the University of Texas,
the University of Missouri and of
Chicago, and in the regular sessions
of the George Peabody College for
Teachers at Nashville, Tenn. While
at Peabody he took strong courses in
hi.-Lory at Vanderbuilt University. He
received the master of arts degree
from Peabody in the summer of 1916.
(Continued on page Three)
SOPHOMORES ELECT
CUSS FAVORITES
The two-story rooming house at 210
Normal Street, next door to the Nor-
mal Cafeteria, occupied by Mrs. Cor-
nelia Hutton, and owned by Mrs. Lucy
Burleson, was almost totally destroyed
by fire Thursday morning at eight
o’clock. n
Just as the students were passing to
their eight o’clock classes, someone
screamed “Fire” and the entire student
body, rather that part of them who
were unfortunate to have to be up at
eight, rushed out to see the smoke
pouring out of the windows of the sec-
ond story of Mrs. Hutton’s. Several
of the boys ran to get the hose cart
which is kept by the school for fire
emergency and preceded to hook up to
a plug and fight ’er.
By this time the alarm had been
turned in and the city department was
up on the hill and on the job. The fire
had started in an upstairs room and
had gained such headway before the
alarm was. given that the building was
burning practically all over when the
fire company arrived. Three streams
of water played upon the burning build-
ing for nearly half an hour before the
fire was completely under control.
Thanks to the efficiency of the depart-
ment, no other building caught.
Eighteen young ladies, students of
the College, -yvere rooming in the house,
five of whom lost all their personal ef-
fects, all sufferng partial losses. Much
of the furniture, fixtures, etc., were
saved by the boys of the college and
the firemen. The loss on the building
was partially covered by insurance.
The College Y. M. C. A. at once got
to work and are now giving a silver
shower for the young ladies who were
so unfortunate as to lose all their be-
longings. Most liberal contributions
have been made by both the students
and members of the faculty. The con-
tributions amount at present to a good
deal over one hundred dollars and are
still coming in. Such a spirit as this
is worthy ,of note—it is upon these
things that the good school is built.
The names of the girls who suffered
the greatest losses are as follows: Wil-
lie Stevens, Hazel White, Gertrude
Knippa, Rosa Knippa, and Frieda Kes-
ler. The qther thirteen who were room-
ing in the house managed to save most
of their things.
Race Is Very Close In Vanity
Election; Rita Tuttle and
Hersche! Hopson Fin-
ally Elected.
In their class meeting Monday, Jan-
uary 8th, the Sophs fell in line with
the Fish and the Seniors and elected
their class favorites. Rita Tuttle was
the first nominee, Billy Morse the sec-
ond and Sallie Ross Jones the third.
An eliminating ballot left Rita and
Sallie Ross. Now the race became
hot, causing more excitement than did
the late contest for the speakership
oi the House of Representatives. When
the final vote was taken Miss Rita
Tuttle had won by otle and was de-
clared the favorite girl of the class.
It was equally as hard to choose the
favorite among the men. Herschel
Hopson and Terry Lowman were the
candidates. At last Herschel was elect-
ed by a majority of five votes.
The whole school heartily agrees
with the Sophomores in Jheir choice
oi favorites. Miss Tuttle hails from
Staples, Texas, and is well known.
During the short time that she has been
here she has made for herself many
friends. Herschel Hopson is a native
of this city, withal a good Sophomore.
GYPSIES ENJOY
BIG PICNIC AMONG
WIMBERLY HILLS
Normal Co-Ed Sextette Answers
Call of Wild to Enjoy Fun
of the Great Outdoors.
Two trucks full of khaki-clad girls
went to Wimberly early Saturday af-
ternoon. Soon after we reached our
destination, Johnson’s Camp, we tested
the temperature of the Blanco River
water on that day, January 6th. For
particulars, Grace Fuller should be able
to give you minute and accurate data.
We hiked to the summit of one of
the hills to enjoy the picturesque scen-
ery of those far-famed hills from that
angle. After a spirited target practice
a camp-fire was built and supper cook-
ed. Every one ate with more than the
proverbial “out-of-door appetite” until
we had eaten all the food that had
been taken. Grouped around the camp-
fire in a typically outdoor fashion we
told ghost stories. The prize stories
were related by Miss Lowman and Ka-
thora Remy. Terry Lowman was prom-
inently present; more than that, he
proved to be quite useful. Those who
enjoyed the outing were Glynn Patton,
(Continued on page Three)
OLD TIE HARRIS
BLAIRS ARE ACTIVE
Absence of Old Members of Club
Causes Work to Lag During
Fall Term; New Members
Are Full of Pep.
Before Christmas the Harris Blair
Literary Society had only a few meet-
ings. Wherein the Harris Blairs fail-
ed in the fall term they are now go-
ing to make up for. We are introduc-
ing ourselves into the literary work
practically as if we had never existed
before, since there are none of the old
members of the once large and strong
society to lead us in the paths of Ora-
tory. The reason that there are so
very few of the older members of the-
society here now is due to the fact that
most oj them have graduated or stopp-
ed school to teach.
Young men and new men will now
find a greater opportunity than ever
before in the history of the Harris
Blairs, for they will be upon a par
equality with all members of the club.
Our program for next week is as fol-
lows :
Our School Song and What It Means
to Us _______________ Archie Lewis
Declamation _________ Burnice Nelson
A short story_______Thomas Newton
(Continued on page Three)
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