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T H E MEGAPHONE
Saturday, February 14, 1942T.
THE MEGAPHONE
Published by the Students Association of South-
western University, Georgetown, Texas, issued
weekly during the school year, except during va-
cation period, and holidays. Entered at the post- i
office, at Georgetown, Texas, as second class mail
matter, September 26, 1906, under special provis-
ions of the Act of March 3, 1879, and accepted for
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Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized
August 20, 1918.
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THE STAFF
The Staff
Editor-in-chief .............. T. K. Sanford
Associate Editor .............. Jack Harris
Business Manager ......... Douglas Benold
Society Editor......... Mary Frances Shell
Sports Editor................ John Patrick
Sponsor ...................... J. E. Parish
Reporters: Thelma Bradshaw, Frances Fly,
Patricia Vennell, Ray Lawler, Barry
Greer, Helen Farmer, Jeanne Walk-
er, Nancy Wilkerson, Bessie Hughes.
We Believe
During the next two weeks, in the absence
of the editor, Mr. J. E. Parish’s journalism
class is to be in complete charge of the
MEGAPHONE. Editing at least one edition
of the paper is an invaluable experience for
anyone who hopes to derive any benefit
whatsoever from his journalistic studies and
the class will get an opportunity to put into
practice the principles which it has been
studying in the textbooks.
Johnny Patrick and Jack Harris have been
appointed editors pro tern for these next two
issues and the entire class will act in the ca-
pacity of associate editors in addition to ful-
filling their regular duties as staff members.
To the class, therefore, should go the entire
credit for these two issue and it is hoped that
any student who is called upon to aid them
in any way will do so. The task is one which
is difficult for the inexperienced; however,
we are certain that the result will show that
the class has learned its lesson well.
The new war timv proving con
fusing to most .students.....IACK
GILLUM gazing in a ilia/(•men t at
.1 A N E NKYMS without her make
up. . .T. K. Sanford escorting 1,01
1S E I {HITT to the dorm after band
practice. . .SAMMY LeTl’LLE and
MAI.'OK ll.viiKISON being seen to
getlier. . . V EKNON KENNELS rea
dy to return to Houston ... Hl'DDi
WII.SON dating MAl’KYNE PER
KINS ..CENKYIEVE HKAIM.EY
excited about ai lthe Tri Kelts going
down to break fastA B WOLFE
reassuring himself that hv is going
to be a bachelor...Ktudents looking
forward to the "Kid Party”...
St:A kit, BETSY NICHOLS, 1.01
BOOAK1), and MARVIN HANCOCK
extending their visit last week-end. .
"SKELTER” RUSSEL looking for
some boy (any boy) with red hair..
SHIRLEY MOFNT wondering about
her intended visit from a J.T.A.C.
lad... LIBBY JO WALLACE turn-
ing her attention toward one par-
ticular person ..GEORGE “YANK”
BAN NOW and JERRY STONE be-
ing seen together quite frequently...
JOHNNY RICE and KATHLEEN
HORN getting late permission as
often as possible.. . .JOE MIMS
haunting the mail box for letters
from FRANCKS FLY.....JAM KS
Condensed by
JOHN PATRICK
“Verdun”
BY JULES KOMAINS
Jules Romains’ VERDUN is his
SKELTON and CAY DAVIS spend j greatest work to date and is at
ing more of their time together.... |last the true beginning of the
MARGARET NELL WAKEFIELD vast narrative for which he has
counting the days until the band
tour is over .GILBERT CONOI.KY
enlisting in the navy.. .ANNE HAK
RISON waiting anxiously for anoth-
er chance to go to San Antonio to
see SLICK—SAM COBB causing
much excitement when he called for
a rescue party to come and get him
in Austin—Ins car had broken down.
long been preparing. In 1908 he
started planning his MEN OF
GOOD WILL which he intended
to be the great novel of all time.
It was to take up 27 volumes, and the notary art. All this printed
of these 27, VERDUN is the accumuiation of tactical genius,
sixteenth. Pettish critics have of- wijich OUght to have ensured vic-
ten said that MEN OF GOOD
WILL reads like the back files of
College Youth
Bewildered?
(Associated Collegiate Press)
That familiar picture of a gloomy, bewild-
ered college youth is headed for the museum
wall, if results of a survey of co-ed opinion
at the University of Texas may be believed.
The poll, questioning a representative group
of 300 from dormitories, sorority houses, co-
operatives, and campus offices employing stu-
dents, showed Texas co-eds to be possessors
of definite opinions on everything from poli-
tics to hair ribbons.
Careers are all right in their places, they
say, but that place is immediately after grad-
uation, but, looking 10 years ahead, they’re
practically unanimous in voting for a home
and family. Incidentally, that family will
probably be one of from three to seven chil-
dren. Statistics may show that the average
American couple has only one child, but Texas
igirls choose three as the best number.
The draft ic banging the plans of many
university students, but Texas girls aren’t
opposed to it. They aren’t especially enthu-
siastic, either, but they mark themselves up
as being resigned—recognizing the necessity
for military training. They want to do their
part in defense, too, but they’d prefer it in
the medical or nursing service and in home
defense units.
But while they are conscious of national J night, school,
problems, they aren’t too preoccupied to take
account of clothes and appearance and in-
terior decoration. They shout down the
popular notion that co-ed dormitory rooms
are a nightmare of party favors, college pen-
nants, and unmade beds. The style in room
decoration, the poll declares, is distinctly
ultilitarian. Bureau drawers, an impressive
number say, are organized on a system. There
is, however, a shameless minority which ad-
mits living in a room that is a “scramble.”
Even in this modern age, “mother knows
best. At least 75 per cent of Texas girls
declare that they discuss most of their prob-
lems—dates, careers, love, religion—with
their mothers. But they want to bring the
subject up; no “prying” allowed.
Believe it or not, if a choice were forced
upon them, they'd take a good mind over
good looks—two to one! But they’re willing
to work on their looks—even if they do say
that the motive behind their campus clothes
is comfort, not a desire to impress anyone.
The average yearly clothes budget is about
$300. That takes care of those saddle ox-
fords, socks, skirts and sweater for campus,
as well as something fancier for dates. In the'
“glamour game,” they’ll take perfume, tailor-
ed clothes, a startling coiffure, and a good
conversational “line.”
Sixty-three per cent think the morals of
L You Imagine?
Icky without Porgy?
Mrs. Moses not helping the fresh-
men in some way?
Sam Cox not smoking four packs
of sigarettes in a day?
Miss Bowden letting her girl stu-
dents have long finger nails?
Hugh Cundiff missing his sleep?
Franklin Pickle editing the Mega-
phone?
The Cobb Brothers as they looked
ten years ago?
Stanley Tegge as yell leader?
Leroy passing out free cokes?
Grandma Wright in an airplane?
(But she really was!)
Jimmie Melbert not wanting to be
Student of the Month?
La Verne without hay fever?
How Sehon and Elrod look with
their new army haircuts?
Doug Benold pouting?
Why Joy Coleman is so interested
in debate?
Sam Cobb not escorting all of Mar
garet’s friends?
Barry Greer turning modest?
Frances Wallace without dimples?
Gwen Stacy leading the singing in
chapel ?
tory in three weeks, turned out to
be no less productive of almost
j the better French newspapers jmme(jiate defeat—though not
since 1908, and Thompson of the
j New York Times finally exploded, wboie pretty equally divided be-
| roared that Ramains theory of tween phe combatants—with gen
i fiction is almost intolerable! uinecompunction the High Com-
| Still, Clifton Fadiman claims that man(j reckoned Its misdeeds and
tf-tiuae/i
The Moving Finger writes;
and having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety
nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half
a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a
Word of it.
—Omar Khayyam
Although two Tri Delta were
pointedly entertaining each other at
Saturday’s ’possum hunt, several
know it alls believe their presence
explained Charles Cooke’s noisy ef-
forts to be the life of the party.
Why, though, did he seem to be
stagging it ?
There lias been considerable un-
rest among the prospective Baud
Widows, girls phose musical stead-
ies leave next week with the Pig-
skin Prevue, since word got around
that Louise Britt already has a date
for every night of the tour.
IS?1’
Those who noted with approval
Sookie Carter’s young sister Courte-
ney, who w.as visiting on the campus
Saturday,groaned in dismay at learn-
ing that it will be a year and a half
before she enters Southwestern.
Patrick and Joy! Patrick and Pa-
tricia! Patrick and Thelma! Patrick
and his “Cousin” Doris! And now
Patrick and June out ’possum hunt-
ing! Really, this is awfully confusing.
tr-$r
Is is true that Martha Ann Nall
has a friend who’s a bull-fighter?
And if so, does he look like Tyrone
Power?
C3?"
Joe Morris certainly doesn't lose
carried to extremes, and, on the j anY time with the new girls. For he
was seen Saturday night with Mar-
garet Sampley, transfer from TSCW.
7Ue.MouuUf, Here And There
With The Exes
tyoot Shelf}
Western Front and Its strategy
in 1915. "The Two High Com-
mands,” he states ironically, "had
taken the field with a whole dos-
sier of formulas guaranteed to be
infallible by such experts as Na-
poleon or Moltke and perfected
by generations of professors in
I MEN OF GOOD WILL is the
! Comedie Humaine of and for the effort
20th century, and he ought to
know! Personally, we believe the
finished job will rank not merely
as the longest novel of modern
times, but also as the greatest;
each day urged Itself to greater
Attack followed attack, and the
respective High Commands con-
cluded, quite logically, that the
next ope would simply have to
...... , _ a.oadroppe ?Dnt ?z.til3drhc m m99
that is, if Romains can WUl.i* contrite more men, more ar-
the pace he has held throu|ft ^ fire. What they failed to
VERDUN in the remaining eleven rea]ize w&s ^ there w&g & ^
installments.
VERDUN is the story of the
World War told in terms of the
great siege of the little French
town that stopped the German ad-
to such pyramiding of men and
all available resources on the
rickety framework of blood and
terrible death. Romains tries to
to prepare the reader for the last
vance for four long and bloody terr|fic attack when the Germans
years. It is hardly written in an put absolute]y a„ they had -n a
desperation-blow born of utter
despair. The front, he writes,
was “a continuous scratch over
which (the troops) formed like
a scab and at every point of which
they faced the opposing lines with
a ceasless crackling of fire, a
lethal trembling, as though some
thing tormented, burning, and
unapproachable had become In-
stalled as a natural feature of the
landscape."
Jean Jerphanion, the central
character, if not the hero, of the
appalling struggle, is a sensitive,
an
eyewitness vein, but rather un-
folded in broad, sweeping phrase-
ology, a truly brilliant synthesis
that can have been attained only
a quarter of a century after the
real event. The picture of the ca-
tastrophe is overwhelming, and
Romains moves into it very dclib
erately. In the unhurried course
of his previous volumes he has
i introduced some 400-odd charac-
J ters, portrayed French pre-VVar
i society wiht encyclopedic accuracy
and proved himself at least the
J equal of any modem writer who
I has employed anything at all like
The Cougar.—! f the theme song of}010 same method-
( It is a superbly good book and |
! promises to rank alongside WAR |
| AND PEACE as one of the great- I
est of all grand-scale perspectives |
on war. Divided precisely into |
two parts, it takes up first, in I
what Romains calls the Prelude,
a leisurely description of the
We have it straight that “Grandpa”
transacted the deal.
115?"
Buddy Wilson and Mauryno Per-
kins seem to be doin’ all right, but
Mildred McNeill hasn’t given up yet.
The mystery of the week—WHO is
Loudie Hurst’s secret love?
ET*
When did Tom Chatham begin
collecting autographs?
■ST*
Why doesn’t somebody suggest to
Dudley that he learn shorthand?
Then he could get every word Mr.
Hester says, instead of every word.
I5P
Does George Kousor’s heart still
belong to that cute little high school
girl? We haven’t seen them together
lately.
Are the smiles and clean shirts
. several Southwestern boys the
result of Anna Mae Vinther’s re-
turn to the campus?
Egr*
Has Arthur (steady) Lackey de-
cided to forget high school for a
while at least, and give the G&L
girls a try?
rr
What is this we hear about Sam
the University of Houston used to
be “Night and Day,” with the in-
stallation of war saving time Mon- [
rlay it may turn out to be “Nightie |
Night.” Former “day” classes may i
be just as much in the dark as thv
acute, idealistic student, recently j 9obb and his bevy of girls getting
married, now a second lieutenant stranded
Fashions On Parade
We have seen lots
kinds of styles on
this week, and some of them
were awful, but the day may
come when we will all be glad
to wear the black stockings. Let
us pray not. The A. D. pledges
will at least be used to it.
More new clothes are gradually
finding their way to the campus.
Sun(jay Betty Stinson was out in
a red print silk with a white flan-
nel jacket. Billie Tom had on a
pale pink shark-skin with a
pleated skirt all around.
When the weather man changed
and brought us a little rain, Gwen
Stacy had on a blue rain coat and
hat to match. It is the cutest thing
in that line of clothing we have
seen this season.
Frances Askey is leading the
girls seen Saturday nite leaving
their dates. Her dress is chocolate j
brown with a gold blouse and gol(|
head* around her neck Mary
college students are about as good as those1 Tom Neal had an a pink wool
of young people at home. Fifty-three per I dress with a natural belt.
NONIE AND SOOKIE
of different with big studded belt. It is very
the campus becoming and we suggest she wear
it so every one who hasn’t seen
it can.
Other things found during the
school days of the week were, j
Marilyn Campbell’s yellow skirt (
with dark red and gray tsripes in j
it. Dorothy Robinson’s brown skirt
and bright green jerkin, Margaret!
Warnke’s brown and yellow skirt |
and brown blouse, and Miss Lei- •
ser’s tan skirt and bright red I
jacket. j
Another new comer to our cam-
pus is Margaret Samply, and she
dresses very cute. She ha,| on a
very becoming green plaid skirt
the other day.
Our boys should take a hint
and follow Bill Holmes idea of a
cute way to dress in sport clothe*.
He always looks nice.
The novelty found this week
in the French army. As the second
part of the book opens, Jerphan-
ion brries himself in the conflict.
His sensations, his wild adventures
in the boiling crucible of war are
set down in an explosive climax
calculated to test both men and
their philosophies. After nineteen
days in the midst of the battle,
he goes home to Paris on leave
and tells his wife somewhat weari-
ly that “it is now proved beyond
power of contradiction that mil-
lions of men can toleart, for an
about 11:30 Tuesday night?
Did they really have car trouble?
Has Mas forgotten Bergquist for
Bid Howard? If so, what about
Charles Cooke?
iW
Frank Carvev, transfer from SMU,
began a close friendship with Brock-
ette while they were returning from
Dallas. Could it he that this will be
THE romance of the season?
t5F
It has been said that Paul Gips
went to San Antonio last week-end
indefinite period and without | only to he stood up—(probably
cent attend church
regularly.
occasionally, 35 per cent
Everyone is talking about Kath-
rine Rogers' white tailored dress
are wearing on their arms. Small
with Indian designs in them. Al-
so the tassels hats every one I*
getting.
spontaneously rising in revolt, an
existence more terrible and more
degraded than any that the num-
berless revolutions of history were
held to have terminated forever.”
The book ends as Marshal Pe-
tain posts his final order of the
day. In glorious terms it tells
of the repulse of the last great
German attack. HIs aide, Geof
froy, groans to himself as he
reads it. ‘Tf only,” he thinks
weaorily, “this could be the last
order of the day to be issued in
connection with the battle of
Verdun!”
The present has apparently
failed to affect Romains, and he
is writing now on Volume 19. For
his unforgettable pictures of the
era he writes about, he draws on
his own experiences in years gone
past, and those of his friends. HIs
rumor). Could this have anything to
do with the fact that he is going
home this week-end?
Why is Anne returning to Ban
Antonio this week end?
C5?"
We wonder if Britt, too, has joined
By Nan Mickle
Robert Purl, a Southwestern Ex of ’35, who
is stationed at Fort Sam Houston in the Post
Finance office, and Fred Purl, a Southwest-
ern Ex of ’37, with the Phillips Petroleum
Compnay of Pharoah, Oklahoma, spent the
week-end here with their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Edgar Purl.
• • •
Mr. Edward Munden, Southwestern Ex ’07,
and brother-in-law of Miss Pearl Neas, was
i elected president of the Fort Worth-Tarrant
i County unit of the Texas State Teachers
1 Association Tuesday afternoon at Paschal
: High School in Ft. Worth. Mr. Munden is
j principal of Handley High School.
• • •
Miss Esther Mae Tarver, Ex ’28, daughter
of the late Judge Tarver who was a graduate
of Southwestern University, and Robert Ned
Brownlee of Corsicana were married Saturday
in the University Methodist Church.
• • •
Mr. Ed Onstot, A. B. ’27, former Vice Pres-
ident of Capital National Bank in Austin,
Texas, will accept a position in the office of
Government Reports Functions of State Of-
fices at Corpus Christi, Texas, on February
15, 1942. Mrs. Onstat (nee Janice Goodson)
is also a Southwestern graduate.
• • •
Mr. Clarence Roitsch, B. A. ’41, was made
a Second Lieutenant at Luke Field, Arizona,
February 6. Mr. Charlie Powell, B. A. ’41,
was made a Sergeant at Luke Field, Arizona.
• • •
Dr. and Mrs. Howard P. Wheeler are the
proud parents of a daughter born February
5, in an Austin hospital. Mrs. Wheeler is the
former Mary Jo Davidson, ’39.
• • •
J. L. Starnes, Jr. A. B. ’22, was buried in
Springfield, Missouri, on February 7, 1942.
He was born at Jonah, Texas, and received
his education at Southwestern University
and the University of Texas.
• • •
Captain William Leake Mann, commanding
officer of the United States Naval Hospital,
Corpus Christi, will be guest speaker during
a three-day convention of the International
Post-Graduate Medical Assembly of South-
west Texas, Inc., which opens Tuesday in the
Gunter Hotel, San Antonio. Captain Mann
will speak on “Medical Arrangements of Joint
Operations of Land Forces and Sea Forces.”
Captain Mann, very outstanding in the med-
ical field, received his Ph. B. from S. U. in
1903, and his A. M. in 1912.
• • •
Rev. and Mrs. Ray Perry Waters announce
the marriage of their daughter, Shirley Lor-
raine Waters to Charles Everett Ingram,
Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps,
January 31, 1942, at their home 144 12th
Street, Northeast, Washington, D. C Lieu-
tenant Ingram is a Southwestern graduate of
the class of ’40.
• • •
First Lieutenant Dawson Duncan, ’27, who
has been on special duty with the 36th in-
fantry division of public relations section,
has been reassigned to the Quartermaster
Regiment at Camp Bowie, Texas.
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. Hal Anderson, both ’41 grad-
uates of Southwestern University, were on
the campus last week-end, visiting Miss Pearl
Neas, Registrar. They were on their way to
San Antonio where Mr. Anderson was going
to interview some Government Officials. Mrs.
Anderson was the former Miss Jane Thomp-
son, Zeta Tau Alpha.
• • •
Mr. George Sessions Perry, author of “Hold
Autumn in Your Hand,” won the National
book award of the American Book Sellers
Association recently. He was in New York
to attend the award luncheon, but he returned
to Texas Friday. He is going to write about
the Army Air Corps when he returns. He will
go to San Antonio to gather material on how
Uncle Sam’s fliers are being trained and will
write the story of their training for national
publications. Mr. Perry finished high school
at Rockdale, and spent one year at South-
western, before he started his brilliant ca-
reer as an author.
• •
‘Dogface” Fannin, Ex *41,
Mr. Ray i cumin, tx m, was
visiting friends on the campus this week. He
is now waiting to get into the Air Corps.
the many bracelets the gifW+prTnCfpIe, he claims, Is "to follow
the line of least resistance.” It
seem* highly improbable that
World War n will distract him
from finishing Ida noveL
Ensign Franklin Price of the United States
Naval Reserve, has just been made Cost In-
spector of the Pennsylvania Ship Building
tho lengthy procession that, for! Yard at Beaumont, Texas. He was formerly
many years, has been trailing T. K. Assistant Auditor at the Dallas National
Sanford? And we thought she was in' Bank. Ensign Price was in the class of ’29 at
love With Pablo, Angie, etc. j Southwestern. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Price of Georgetown.
Floyd G. Betts, ’40, now a student in Medi-
cal College at Galveston, was a visitor to the
Why doesn’t Marion (Lord Byron)
Cooke give the gals a break? We
think he’s very good looking, and i campus last week-end.
theer are a lot of cute freshman girls j • • •
, And here’s a reminder for all Exes living
music occupies :n or near dties where the PIGSKIN REVUE
| will appear on its forthcoming tour. The
PIGSKIN REVUE, as many of you know, is
a fast moving collegiate variety show with
entertainment for the whole family. We hape
that you Exes who have The opportunity will
not miss seeing the PIGSKIN REVUE of
1942, which promises to be the best which
its producer, Tom Johnson, ha* ever taken
on tour.
who would like a chance at him. 1
Could it be that his
his time?
Things are still running smoothly
for Sidney and Rodney. They seem
to make the dirt column Tegnhrrty
enough without ever having troubles.
Perhaps that is because it is so un-
usual to find a couple that doesn’t
have quarrels now and then.
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