The Normal Star (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 1, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 9, 1921 Page: 2 of 4
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THE NORMAL STAR
THE NORMAL STAR
Editorial Staff, Fall Term, 1921
Editor____________________ Ben Baines
Business Mgr___________Ospar Stroman
Associate Editors
Hodge Pickens, Elizabeth Flake, Paul
Milam, Winefred Thalmann, Alfred J.
Ivey, R. Underwood, Haskill Young.
Subscription Rates: 50c per term; $1.50
per year (Regular Session)
Address all communication for the
Star to the editor. Students contri-
buting news please bring same to the
Star office in the Science Hall. To in-
sure publication, all contributions
should be turned in at the Star office
not later than Wednesday.
Address all matter relating to busi-
ness to the business manager.
For advertising rates see the business
manager.
REVISE OUR VOTING SYSTEM
If an election for county judge was
being held in Hoys county and there
was only one ballot box in the county,
what per cent of the voters do you
think would vote? Again, if that elec-
tion were just announced by posting
a placard on the court house steps the
day before the election, how many vot-
ers then do you think would exercise
their franchise right?
Last year there was loud complaint
in Normal about the apathy of the stu-
dent body concerning school elections.
No doubt there was disinterest among
some of the students, there always will
be, bult so long as there is only one bal-
lot box, and the elections announced
on the bulletin board in the main hall,
the voting in the various student elec-
tions will always be light. Many stu-
dents never hear of the election unless
they pass the ballot box and see others
voting, and then often times they are
in a hurry to a class and have not time.
Many students never come inside the
main building except for general as-
sembly twice a week, and consequently
never hear of the election unless it
falls on Wednesday or Friday.
Along with the general growth in
college ways that Normal has enjoyed
the past, two years, The Star would
suggest a new plan for holding stu-
dent elections on the order of the fol-
lowing :
On election day let the Student Wel-
fare Committee see that a ballot box
be placed in each class room where
classes are to be held that day. The
teacher, no doubt, will be glad to an-
nounce the election to each class and
let each student deposit his or her
ballot in the box after class is dismiss-
ed. Double voting is no more to be
feared in this manner than in the old
because each ballot requires the stud-
ents registration number. The teacher
■QfluPE^asily lock the ballot box in his
desk aluring vacant periods so as to
prevent \any attempt that might be made
to meddne with the votes.
In that vvay every student would have
ample opportunity to vote. Let them
know when and where elections are
being held and they will vote. There
will then not be so much complaint
about the lack of school spirit among
the student body.
Let’s try it!
NOTICE TO STUDENTS
FOOTBALL OUTLOOK IS
BRIGHTEST IN HISTORY
Over Fifty Men Reported For Prac-
tice-Squad Well Balanced Witlf
Speed and Weight.
(Continued from Page One)
The Normal Star belongs to you.
Why not better it by writing for it
yourself? The management would like
to list every student in the Normal
that is willing to wri.e for the Star.
Whether you have ever done any of
that kind of work before or not, if you
are willing, come to the office and give
us your name and tell us what kind
new.* yau want to report. Perhaps _
you; wil yrot nave more than oneVas-
signmcnt V week; perhaps not ^at
many unless, you want more.
So if you are willing to help imprV -
your school publication call at Ine
Star office in the Science Building a!\d
give us our narije. We will conside^t
a compliment.
Jesse Kellam, football captain o:
last year, was a visitor on the hill this
week. He came ovei from San An-1
tonio to go with the Bp .ats to George-
town today. Jesse said he might not
be able to make a letter this year but
he surely would like to be in there and
try for one. Always a place for a good
man, Jesse.
unable to be with the Bobcats only
about half the season last year. Terry
is a deadly tackier, accurate in re-
ceiving and throwing forward passes,
and in general is a hard playing Bobcat.
Other prospects for end are Walker,
an old letter man, Underwood, and A
Killena. These men are showing up
pretty good in practice.
For tackles this year the Bobcats
have some of the best material they
ever had, for there is Claud Kellam
who is a two letter man, having played
tackle as no other man ever played it
for Normal. In addition to Kellam
there is E. Killena, the big two hund-
red and ten pounder from Huntsville
Normal. Killena looks mighty good in
right tackle and we expect to see him
play some good foot ball this year.
For Claud, we know he will not go
back on his record and therefore we
expect him to play some mighty good
ball on the left side of the line. Besides
these two stars there are Boggus and
Hartzog who have been showing up
pretty good in tackle. Boggus comes to
the Bobcats from San Marcos High
and Hartzog from the Academy.
Neither are the Bobcats lacking in
good material to fill the positions in the
center of the line. For guards there
are Richards, Ivey, Birdwell, and Alli-
son. Richards and Ivey are last years
scrubs and they demonstrated their
ability to play guard in the games they
played in last year. This year they,
look mighty good. Birdwel and Alli-
son are new men and they show that
they have had experience in the foot-
ball game, and we feel sure that they
will be valuable assets to the team.
For center there are three good men,
Hildreth, Cole and Tate. Bill was
last year’s center, so we know just what
to expect from the big husky from West
Texas. Hildreth is another one of last
year’s scrubs, and shows up at present
as though he will get into a majority
of the games. Then there is Cy Tate
who has been doing some fine work
thus far in center. Cy goes in with
that old relentless determination and
savage vim that makes football play-
ers. We expect to see Cy do some work
at center.
In the back field the Bobcats have
their brightest prospects, the men be-
ing of fairly heavy weight as a whole,
and possessing the excellent quality of
speed and being able to think quick
For quarter back Storey and Brown
both look like mighty good bets. Storey
is of medium weight and ruffs like a
streak of lightening. He is also a
good field general, being able to watch
the actions of the opposing team and
call plays through the weak spots.
Brown, who is a three letter man from
the Academy, has been showing up ex-
cpetionally well this week. His
specialty is returning punts, being a
sure catcher and fleet of foot. Then
there is Summers who has been showing
up mighty well at quarter, but lately
Coach Strahan has been working him at
full. AH these men possess the ability’
to play the position. For the half
backs there are Wier and Ramsay, who
just simply are natural born halfbacks.
Wier is a Baylor letter man. and all
who were here last year will recall that
at half, Charlie coulldn’t be beat. These
two men will probably be- very consist-
ent ground gainers for the Bobcats
this season. Crownover and Etnmil
Shelton also look good in half. They
are speedy and can think quick. In ad-
dition there are a few others who are
doing some fine work as halves. The
full back position is being held down
by Capt. Pete Shands, Kaderli and
Uor-s rt w iff be remembered that
Pete was a tower of strength in the
back field last year both at full and
quarter. We predict that this year he
will do likewise. Kaderli, who played
here several years ago, is also a can-
didate for full. He has demonstrated
his ability as a back field man, and we
hope to see him in action this year.
Other men who are making a good
showing at different positions are, Car-
ter, Barrow, Dement, Burkholter,
Moore, Tllison, Shelton and Atkinson.
Space does not permit us to give the
IDYLLICS HOLD THEIR
REGULAR MEETING
Popular Girls Society Starts The
Year’s Work.
Gertrude Rheiner of San Antonio
visited he rsister Gladys- at the Mur-
• chison House last week end. Miss
Rheiner was & student in Normal in
918-19.
and Mrs. L. E. Ledbetter of
were the guests of Misses Bar-
nd Entroj) last Sunday.
The Idyllic Club held its first meet-
ing of the term last Saturday after-
noon. A number o fthe old members
were present and the meeting pro-,
gressed as smoothly as tho there had
been no intervention of four months
since the last meeting.
Martha Woodspn, President for the
Pall term, presided, and additional of-
ficers were eleeffd. who are:
Vice-resident________ Janie Hightower
Secretary _____________Grace Cavness
Treasurer ______________ Bessie Burnett
Senior Warden ___Bonnie Williams
Junior Warden , Anna Woodson
Star Reporter_____Winefred Thalmann
The election of a sponsor to fill the
place made vacant by Miss Davis is
under way, and the results will be
known at the next meeting. Commit-
tees were appointed to plan a course
of study and early social events.
That the Idyllic is one of the popular
clubs on the hill and has a wide repu-
tation was evidenced by the long wait-
ing list ready for this Club’s inspection
at its first meeting. The membership
roll is limited to fifty girls, and all
those admitted this term must be of
college rank. All old members that
did not attend the first meeting are
urged to bring themselves to light be-
fore their places are filled with new
members.
The group of enthusiastic girls that
met together last Saturday applied
themselves to the serious work of get-
ting the Club launched on its 191-22
career in a way that seems to insure
another very successful pear to this
well known organization.
HARRIS-BLAIRS HAVE
SPLENDID BEGINNING
Prominent Mens’ Society Plans
To Out-Strip Last Year’s
Fine Record.
With a large number of old mem-
bers present and an equally large
number of new Normal students pre-
sent, the Haris-Blair Literary Society
met in the Main Auditorium Wednes-
day night for its initial meeting of the
year. The main features of the meet-
ing was a stirring talk by President
Sheppard, and the taking in of new
members. After six new men had
been taken in, elections were held to
fill the offices that were not filled in
the final meeting last Spring. The fol-
lowing officers were elected: Under-
wood and Kirby, tellers; Harris, ser-
geant-at-arms ; McMeans, chaplain and
Stroman, critic. At the final meeting
last year Earnest Sheppard was elect-
ed president, Edwin L. Barnow, vice-
president, Paul Milam, secretary and
Wlilie Doyle, treasurer.
Mr. McMeans, who was a member
of the Harris-Blair in 1912, treated the
Society to an inspiring talk for which
he was voted a rising vote of thanks.
No functions other than a regular
program next Wednesday night have
thus far been planned, as the chief aim
of the Society now is to get more mem-
bers. Until this year the regular meet-
ing time, has been Monday morning,
but owing to the new arrangement that
calls for six days of school the regular
meetings will be held on Wednesday
night. Lights are to be put in room
1.4 of the Main Building, which is the
regular meeting room for the Harris-
Elair, and the meeting will be called
to order there next Wednesday night
at 7 o’clock sharp.
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Phone 85. Prompt service. Your pat-
ronage solicited.
entire list of the men comingoit for
football, for there are over fifty men
trying out for the team, and of course
some of them are net making the show-
ing now that they probably will as the
season progresses.: But we can count
the scrubs giving /he first squad a
healthy workout any tvrve they are
called on to deliver the goods. We.
believe in the scrubs, because t>.’y let
the first squad fellows know that t4iere
is such a 'game as Tootball and fhal
it is not like play’ng tennis.
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The Normal Star (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 1, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 9, 1921, newspaper, October 9, 1921; San Marcos, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth614547/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Texas State University.