The Normal Star (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 34, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 23, 1923 Page: 2 of 4
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Summer Term, 1923
Editor-in-Chief------Herschel Hopson
Assistant Editor_____Franklin Herndon
Marietta Collier, Mrs. R. C. Harri-
son, Franklin Herndon, Doris Kellam,
Arlin Johnson, Marie Lusk, Roger Por-
ter, Lynda Remy, Wylie Summers, Fan-
nie Woodson and Daniel Smith.
Business Staff
Business Manager---------Alfred Weir
Exchange and Circulation---------
A. D. Hildreth
Published weekly during the school
year by the students of the Southwest
Texas Normal College.
Entered as second-class matter, Nov.
21, 1921, at the post office at San Mar-
cos, Tex., under Act of March 3, 1879.
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should be turned in at the editorial of-
fice not later than Thursday.
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ness to the business manager.
For advertising rates see the busi-
ness manager.
narrow, ill-considered and extremely
foolish and absurd. The Star is un-
alterably opposed to any plan that taxes
the students who attend school here in
the summer for the beenfits of those
who attend in the regular session.
The Star would suggest that this
money be used in securing the very best
in the form of entertainment that can
be had High class lecturers, men who
are recognized—recognized artists and
not seventy-five-dollar lyceum attrac-
tions that play every crossroads school
house. Of course, not many real high
class entertainments could be secured
for seventeen hundred dollars, but one
good one is worth a dozen poor ones.
The Star not only makes that sug-
gestion, but it calls upon the student
body to demand that these entertain-
ments and the disbursements of these
funds be made by the Students Welfare
Council, the students’ representatives.
Summer students, rally to your
rights. The tax money must be spent
even if we have to furnihs free ice cold
Coca-Cola to keep the more industrious
summer students awake. It is your
money. It falls upon you to demand of
the Student Welfare Council three
things:
1. That all the summer blanket tax
be spent this summer for this summer’s
student body.
2. That the money be wisely spent so
that the summer student body shall get
the largest possible return in enjoyment
and enlightenment from its expenditure.
3. That the Studet Welfare Council
call an election this summer to lower
the blanket tax for succeeding summer
school.
WHAT SHALL BE DONE WITH
THE SUMMER BLANKET TAX
Receipts
From student fees --------------$1,750
Carried over from last summer— 950
Total -------------------------$2,700
Proposed Disbursements
The Star -----------------------$ 550
Four Lyceums „_________________ 450
THE SENIOR
L. I. CULPEPPER, B. S.
ished the year stronger than ever be-
fore.
Culpepper has also taken an active
part in the Y. M. C. A. He has been
an active member of the cabinet all.
year. His good judgment, his reason-
ing and his interest has contributed
much to the success of that organiza-
tion during the year.
Culpepper has majored in his history.
He has taken an active interest in all
of the social sciences and whenever
social or historical probelms were the
topic of discussion either in class room
or on the campus you can count on
Culpepper being there and contributing
of his vast expanse of knowledge and
his clear thinking. He always swings
a wicked line but he usually knows the
stuff that he has to spread.
When the Fentress school board
needed an experienced and capable man
for their school for next year it was
naturally they should select Culpepper if
they looked over the men in the college
this year. Culpepper will build a big-
ger and greater school in the new oil
town than they have ever known before,
for his judgment, ability, experience
and culture to carry to his adopted city.
Irving Culpepper, loyal, sane, demo-
cratic and liberal. Long may you wave
and great may be your influence! In
men of your type only can government
and society be secure.
-o-
ROSALIE BRAGG, B. S.
Among the words well known to po-
etic diction is “sprightly.” Though the
school of modern literature is oposed
to so-termed poetic diction, and though
we do not intend to grow poetic in this
article, “sprightly,” in a very human
and modern characterizes Rosalie
Bragg—vivacious, energetic, quick of
thought and action—this is Rosalie.
She belongs legally to that great
number of charming senior cooks and
seamstresses that the home economic
department has been turning out this
year, but Rosalie is that versatile who
can cook, “sew a fine seam,” write a
poem or drama, carry on a brilliant con-
versation or whatever the occasion de-
mands. In fact, the English department
has always resented the fact that the
home ecoonmics won her.
Summing her up objectively, she has
been a Pierian, an H. E. Club and Y.
W. C. A. member, a Student Welfare
Councillor (1921), a practice “cottager,”
the “senior goat for four terms, as she
says, which capacity she says she has
enjoyed immensely, and an ardent root
er in athletics. In fact, one has only
to mention baseball, football or basket
ball and immediately one thinks of a
particular section of the grandstand
where sat Rosalie Bragg.
Rosalie affirms that she is no spe-
cial importance and that she is leaving
nothing as a reminder of ever having
Total _______-_________________$1,000
This leaves at least $1,700 of this
summer’s blanket tax for which there
is no need.
The story told in the above tabulation
is simple and graphic. Only one item
needs any explanation—that is the item
“carried over from last summer.” It
merely means that after all the enter-
tainment provided for by last summer’s
Student Welfare Council there was left
on hand over nine hundred dollars for
which there was no use. We would
not undertake to say at this time what
that nine hundred should have been
spent for, but we do say that it is pow-
erfully poor judgment that collects
from a summer student body over nine
hundred dollars more than can be wise-
ly spent. There were approximately
1,850 summer students last summer. In
other words, there was collected ap-
proximately fifty cents per capita more
for the blanket tax than there was any
use for. The result is this money was
paid into the school treasurer, and
there it is today. Somebody pays and
then somebody else secures the benefits
therefrom We say that such a policy
is unwise, unfair, undemocratic. Yes,
we were almost inclined to turn it
around and say such a policy was both
pernicious and autocratic. We do not
wish to indict anyone nor any group
In particular, but the Student Welfare
Council who looked after the interests
of last summer's student body failed
miserably in the only big job that it
had to do. The money collected from
last summer’s students should have
been spent by them, and they should
hav§ secured the return on their money.
That brings us down to the consid-
eration of our own problems concern-
ing the money collected this summer
through the blanket tax. From the
tabulation above it is readily seen that
there has been collected from this sum-
mer student body over seventeen hun-
dred dollars. Add to this the nine hun-
dred dollars carried over from last
summer. That will make a total of
twenty-seven hundred dollars in the
blanket tax fund for this summer. The
estimated disbursements are about one
thousand dollars—five hundred and fif-
ty to pay for The Star and four hun-
dred and fifty dollars for lyceum at-
tractions. This lease a balance of ap-
proximately seventeen hundred dollars.
What is this seventeen hundred dol-
lars going to be spent for.
The Star contends that this money
should be spent by and for the group
who pays it into- the treasury. We think
that no part of this summer tax should
be carried over. You, summer students,
paid this money. You are entitled to
something in return for it. It is your
money. It belongs to neither the in-
stitution nor to the state. You have
levied the tax upon yourselves. On you
rests the final decision as to what it
is to be spent for. Is there any reason
why you should pay a tax for future
student bodies to spend? No, no, a
thousand noes!
Then what is the money to be spent
for? It should be spent on and for this
summer’s student body. That is the
idea we want to impress. We want good
wholesome entertainment eslected by
the repreesntatives of the student body,
the Students Welfare Council. There
has been argued on the campus by a
group whose minds seemingly are
warped by a single interest that this
money should not be spent thi ssum- .
mer but retained in the treasury for the i
use of the regular student body next |
fall. We say that such a demand is -■
A man who can really deliver
goods whether it be in the class room,
in a mock fisticuff with a faculty mem-
ber or as the champion of the rights of
his fellow students in an official capac-
ity is a real combination in a Texas
Teachers’ College. The August senior
class of ’23 has been fortunate in hav-
ing such a man in L. I. Culpepper,
sometimes known as Goggles.
Culpepper first came, to the San Mar-
cos Teachers College away back in the
days of 1914-15. He has attended regu-
lar sessions and summer sessions off
and on ever since. He was in school
during the regular ession of 1916-17
when a man to pass in good society
had to be truly an old time Southern
gentleman. Culpepper could meet the
requirements and was a favorite in
those days among both women and men
.—as he is today.
Age and experience always brings out
more forcibly the real characteristics
of a man. This has been true of Cul-
pepper during the session of 1922-23.
The student body has had no more'
loyal champion. In the winter tern'
his friends ran him for a place on the
Students Welfare Council as represent-
ative at large. He won handsomely,
leading the field by the biggest major-
ity of the day. The students’ confidence
in him was not misplaced. He has tru-
ly ^represented the wishes and will of
the great majority, which so often has
no champion. When a part of the stu-
dent body was mistreated and oppress-
ed he ably led the fight in the council
for a square deal to all. His dramatic
and eloquent speeches on the floor of
the council will never be forgotten by
his fellow students as long as one drop
of free blood folws through their veins.
Culpepper has not only represented
the student body in the council but
when’-the Chautauqua Literary Society
was about to go under for lack of a
competent leader and guide they knew
where to turn for a good man. Cul-
pepper was elected president. He sue-
Quality of Rexall Products
Hundreds have visited our store during the
famous Rexall One-Cent Sale and the en-
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Rexall Products. This has been the great-
est sale in our history. Keep right on using
Rexall Products.
Williams Drug Company
The Place Where Most People Trade
cessfully pulled the society out of the
hole and rut into which it had fallen.
er his administration and through
his enthusiasm and leadership, the so-
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been on the hill, but on the contrary,
she will live in the minds of her school-
mates as a good student, a good sport
and a good pal.
-o-
Miss Otha McLaughlin was in Gran-
ger last week-end.
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FOR JUNE OVER
ONE HUNDRED DRESSES
UNDER PRICE
$3.95-$4 95—$7.45---$9.95
BREVARD’S
DEPARTMENT STORE
After a long and weary days’ work at the Normal
Follow the Crowd
And you will find yourself in the good old reliable
Jennings’ Pharmacy
On tlw Corner
■—Where your thirst will be quenched
by the cool freshing products of Jen-
nings' Sanitary Fountain; where you
will find a choice line of magazines,
candies, school supplies, in fact, every
want will be satisfied. If it is , we
have it in our stock.
jjj Jennings’ motto is!
I “Our Customers Satisfied”
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Buy Your Groceries Here
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Phone 265-266
School Supplies
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IT’S EASY
when economy combined with good
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The Normal Star (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 34, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 23, 1923, newspaper, June 23, 1923; San Marcos, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth614340/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Texas State University.