The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 25, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 30, 1946 Page: 2 of 4
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THE MEGAPHONE
THE MEGAPHONE
Editor _______________________ _______ _ Knott Knobody
Sports Editor ----------- ----------- Camp Gilliam
Cartoonist ________ - ----- - — ----- -- Frankie Vaughn
Sponsor........- ____ - — - M. E. Fox
Business Manager ______ _ . ____ .M. Howard Knox
Student Business Manager Perry Richardson
Reporters: I. 'L. Adams, Bill Baggett, Frances Cone, Doris Cook,
Barbara Hunt, John McCutcheon, Roy Moses, Bena Taylor, Evelyn
Schmidt, C. R. Strathern, Mary Jane Trammell, Leona Cheek,
Tommy Miles, Raymond Boriski, Edward1 Proctor, Reagan Cates,
Allen Holley.
Published by the Student’s Association of Southwestern Uni-
versity, Georgetown, Texas. Issued weekly during the school year,
except during vacation periods and holidays. Entered at the post-
office at Georgetown, Texas, as second class mail ..matter, Sept.
26, 1906, under special provisions of the Act of March 3, 1879, and
accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section
1103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized Aug. 20, 1918.
MAY DAY
May Day, according to volumi- They have become merry spring
nous record, has an ancient and time sports participated in by
very mixed ancestry. Simply by girls in the schools and colleges,
examining our own springtime One of the customs observed in
feelings, however, we may say
with authority that it is one of
the most genuinely instinctive of
all folk festival days. Perhaps ev-
en you may feel the rustle of
spring!
There is an old couplet that
runs____
The Queen of May is
here today And gives us
all a holiday.
various parts of the country is the
making of May baskets to be
hung on doors of friends .. ..sup-
posedly without the knowledge of
the person living in the house.
However, there are different
schools of thought concerning the
time of day and the contents of
thq basket.Thcre are those for-
eigners from the north and east
who insist that the correct proce-
We won’t have the holiday but dure is to fill baskets with candy
there’s no law against your hav- and deliver at night said baskets
ing the holiday spirit. Anyway, to homes of friends........which pro-
we have the Queen of May and we cedure differs radically from our
can pay her homage by being southern custom of delivering at
happy all day. sunrise flower-filled baskets to
Students of folk customs have homes of friends,
traced the May Day celebration The former method has its
back to the FJoralia of the Ro- points, for candy can be eaten,
mans, the festival in honor of Flo- too, but candy tastes better, in
ra, the goddess of flowers, who is our humble opinion. They might
identified with the Greek goddjesw have something there! Maybe we
Chloris. The festival was institut- could try both methods this year
ed in Rome in 238 B. C., and was and see which we like better!
celebrated from April 28 to May 3. Flowers at sunrise......vs......candy
Tradition, however, gives Romulus at night!
credit for instituting it. Since we have such an infiltra-
May Day observances in the tion of foreigners in Texas this
United States have lost all the rl- spring, perhaps we’d better try
tualistic and symbolical charac- their method, too, so that every-
ter of their Old World originals, one will be happy this spring.
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From our point of view, we would say that Virginia
Palmer goes in heavy for the (Hold Braid. Can you shed
any light on this situation, PhM 3/c Bill Johnson?
We would like to know if Betty Alexander has re-
ceived that post-card from New Orleans yet? Maybe
Dick Turner forgot to mail it . .. how about it, Dick?
Jimmie Schock, what happened to the harmony be-
tween Miss Travis Robinson and yourself? Could you two
use some “Advice to the Lovelorn?”
Wade Greathouse and June Gunter seem to becoming
old regulars in the reading room of the library at night
Come now, don’t tell me you study all the time!
For additional information on Clyde McCoy’s Orches-
tra and other doin’s at the Plantation Saturday night just
contact Georgia McDaniels, Joan Earhart, Dot Stuart, and
Virginia Switzer.
Datin’ right along with the best of them this semes-
ter are Dick Sparr and Carmen Abbott.
Sisty Babb looks downright lonely since Jack Coffman
left the campus for the army a short while ago.
Mary Lee and Bill Jack are still continuing on their
way as “steadies” on the campus.
NO MEGAPHONE
In case you didn’t notice it, we didn’t have a Megaphone
last week. We just decided that we’d take a holiday same
as people do and see how it feels to Loaf for a spell. We did
and we like it; in fact, we think that we could soon learn to
loaf as well as Camp Gilliam, Adams, Kenley (our photo-
grapher on occasions), or even Editor Knott Knobody. It
just takes a little time and patience to be a good loafer.
It was gratifying to our journalistic souls to notice that
some of our avid readers did notice the lack of Megaphones
in the windows of the Megaphone office last Tuesday; they
even came back on Wednesday and Thursday to ask con-
cerning the whereabouts of the newspaper.
It was amusing, however, to see some of our fans grab
for the old Megaphones that we playfully placed in the win-
dow to see what would happen; on the other hand it was al-
most insulting to us to think that they couldn’t tell the dif-
ference between an old edition and a new one! We were torn
between being amused and hurt.
We pinned a cute little rhyming note to our readers
and glued it to the window to notify our readers that there
would be no Megaphone because we had taken a vacation,
too; but do you know what most of our reading public did ?
Why, they read the note and proceeded immediately to take
and attempt to read the old copies of the Megaphone that
we had placed in the window. Amazing how well some peo-
ple read, isn’t it? They have learned (from reading the Meg-
aphone, evidently) that they should not believe what they
see in print.
TEXAS VIEWED BY A TRAVELER
Boy, dis Texas is nuttin’ but big. I ain’t been over
much of it, but tuh a guy from New England, where yuh
kin go t’ru about five states in six hours, it’s amazin’.
Las’ week I t’umbed down tuh Galveston, which is
about 250 miles, in seven hours. In dat time back home
I could go from Boston tuh Joisey City.
Annudder t’ing is duh flatness. Yuh kin see so fai
wit’out seein’ nuttin’. I t’ink da scenery back home is
better dan down here, but den I might be precipiced. One
t’ing I like about duh lanscape is dose bluebonnets. Boy,
da roadsides is Jis’ lousy wil ’em. I keep wond’rin’ wh>
such a big state picked such a little flow’r tuh be dus state
flow’r. Yuh’d t’ink dey’d take a sunflow’r or sumthin’.
An’ da rivers—dey suretickle me. When we went over
da Colorado River duh fourt’ time, I asked da driver if he
knew where we goin’. He did. He went over it six times
altuhgetherv We also went over Onion Creek, which is
about t’ree yards wide an’ da bridge goin over it is at least
two hunert yards long. Whadda laff.
An’ dese Texas drivers! Dey’re makin’ a noivuss
wreck outa me. Seventy or eighty aroun’ corners is nuttin’
tuh dem. Why, I know a guy dat was hittin’ ninety on a
highway down here an’ somebuddy pass’d him. If yuh
drove like dat back home, yuh wouldn’t know it when yuh
went t’ru Rhode Island which, instrumentally, is my home
state.
All in all d’ough I kinda like Texas an’ I hope I kin
travel over all of it sum’time. ... if’n I kin live that long.
Dear Plditor:
In reference to the Cantata given by the choir of The
First Methodist Church on Sunday last, April 14, I am
thoroughly convinced that the “laurels” go to Miss Ann
York, organist, by reason of her unexcelled exhibition and
faultless performance under the unquestionable strain in-
volved during the rehearsals and practice sessions, not to
mention the length of the public demonstration itself,
which involved almost an hour's continuous playing \inder
heavy tension. For every performance there is the “unsung
hero” or “heroine” but I do think it right to permit Miss
York to play that part in that particular presentation.
“Orchids and endless praise to Ann York”.
Most sincerely,
A Student.
* SERMONETTE *
, By EDWARD HEACOCK
In the Bible many outstanding incidents took place
in a garden. In fact, according to the scriptures, Man first
lived in a beautiful garden. But in this garden the first
humans, Adam and Eve, were constantly hiding in fear
from God, because they had disobeyed Him.
It was in another garden—Gethsemane—that the sal-
vation of mankind hung by the decision that Christ would
make. Gethsemane was a garden of decision—here Christ
arose to meet the issue—-the Cross.
As we think of this decision of Christ, and what it has
meant to mankind throughout the centuries, let us also
think'of what Christ means to3 us, and what we, as Chris*
tians, owe to Him. Although we need not pay the great
price for our decisions thpl Jesus did, we must.realize that
our decision to serve Cnnrft is the most important thing
that faces us at any time during our lives.
Capt. A. M. Doering:
Home On Leave
Captain Anna Marie Doering,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. E.
Soloman, is home on terminal
leave from the United States
Army Nurse Corp where she has
been attached to the General Head-
quarters American Forces in the
Pacific. A winner of the Bronze
Star Medal, she has just returned
from Tokyo, Japan where she re-
ceived recognition for outstanding
service.
Captain Doering received' her
B. A. Degree from Southwestern
University in 1931 and later she
was connected with the Library of
the New York Academy of Medi-
cine.
Captain Doering will remain
here for some time with her par-
ents and friends.
Tuesday, April 30, 1946
— EX STUDENTS' COLUMN —
Dr. Allen Barr will locate In Georgetown as an asso-
ciate of Dr. Howard P. Wheeler, May 1.
Dr. Barr attended Southwestern from 1937-40, and
received his B. S. Degree from North Texas State Teachers
College. He is a graduate of Baylor University of Medi-
cine in Houston. He served his internship at Broadlawn
County Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa, and has for the past
year been in private practice in Houston.
Dr. Barr is the son of the late Dr. Walter Barr of
Sherman. He and his family will make their home in
Georgetown with his parents Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Williams.
The Reverend Mr. Larry Stokes, who was on the
campus during 1940-42, has become associate pastor of
St. Paul’s Methodist Church in Houston. A considerable
portion of his work will consist of a missionary project
in the Latin-American population of the city.
Mr. Stokes and his wife, the forjner Miss Eugenia
Palmer, ’42, are making their home in the apartment at
the church.
Miss Betty Moore of Houston was recently married
to Mr. Bill Hearne of Fort Worth.
Mr. Hearne was a member of the Marine Detachment
on the campus in 1943-44, where he was later attached to the
Pirate football squad. He has recently returned from 22
months service in the South Pacific. The young couple will
make their home in Fort Worth, where Mr. Hearne is con-
tinuing his education at Texas Christian University.
Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Cooper have announced the birth
of twin children on April 10. The children have been
named Walter William and Bettye Lee. Mr. Cooper received
his Southwestern Degree in 1928.
PhM 3 Edgar M. Miles has received his discharge from
the Navy. Mr. Miles left the campus in 1944 to enter the
service. He attended Navy school in San Diego, California,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was later attched to the
Corpus Christi Naval Hospital. He plans to re-enter school
at a later date.
John Tower of Wichita Falls, who enlisted in the Naval
Air Corp while a student on the campus in 1943, was a
visitor on the campus recently. He will return to school
in July to continue his education.
Lt. I. J. McCook, Jr. \\ honorably discharged from
,the Army Air Forces v -ently after two years service.
Mr. McCook was a flight instructor before entering the
service in 1944.
He received his B. B. A. in 1939. He is again attached
to the Freund Motor Company in Georgetown.
Mr. Frank Carothers, well-known business man and
Southwestern ex, was toastmaster at the Founder’s Day
Dinner in Houston, and delighted the large group of ex-
students and friends, who heard with interest the report
of President J. N. R. Score on plans for the future of
Southwestern.
Bishop A. Frank Smith, ’12, also spoke in appreciation
of Southwestern’s contribution to the church and state.
The Navy Chorus traveled to Houston Thursday apd
appeared in concert at the Lamar High School and Austin
High School during the afternoon. At both of these places
and the Founder’s Day Dinner, the Chorus created a very
fine impression with its splendid singing of numbers
ranging from the sea chanties to numbers by Sigmund
Romberg.
June Goen, a student of Texas University, was se-
lected from three hundred and fifty photographs submit-
ted to Zachary Scott as one o'f the ten most beautiful girls
attending the University of Texas.
June was on this campus in 1944-45 and was an active
student and a member of Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority.
“Family Portrait” Tours With Yellow
The cast of “Family Portrait,”
which journeyed to Mexia last
week to present the play, was
made up of a number of startled
faces when they returned home.
Not only had they made the trip,
hut they had completed it very
successfully without a single
breakdown or mishap. Under nor-
mal conditions on a trip, this feat
wouldn’t have been so remark-
able, BUT this particular trip
was made in the “Yellow Peril,”
Southwestern’s excuse for a bus.
Everyone on the campus knows
the Yellow Peril. It has been at
football, baseball, or basketball
games, and, if not there, then just
running, or rather dragging, a-
round1 the campus. This mechani-
cal wonder has the reputation a-
mong those wbo have ridden in it,
or seen it in motion, as the slow-
est piece of locomtion produced
since the Stanley Steamer.
Originally this bus was an In-
ternational, but now no manufac-
turer of automobiles will claim
the production of it. Although it
has traveled over many miles in
its lifetime, the speedometer re-
gisters quite a few thousand, and
it doesn't register correctly. The
bus moves so slow that it can’t
force the speedometer to budfce.
except maybe once in every ten
or twenty miles and on downgrades
of 45 degrees or over. _____
The average trip on the Yellow
of difficulties. There is always a
blowout or two, but it is never
dangerous because it is never mov-
ing fast enough to turn over.
Then after the blowouts comes
the motor trouble. After the , bug
has been towed in and fixed and
is on the road again, time comes
for it to run out of gas, which it CContinued from Phge 1)
usually does. When more gas is
secured the destination is usually
reached, with luck of coarse. The
Remarkable' thing about the boa
is that whether the usual trouble
is encountered or not, it never ar-
rives an time.
Although numerous criticisms
an offered about the faithful aid (
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What you see here is a portion I of the yellow Peril; there is more,
but you can’t see it. 1
bus, it is still a dependable thing.
No matter what it has to go
through, or what happens to it,
it will deliver its occupants to
their destination sooner or later.
Going to Mexia, it was so loaded
down with people and baggage
that it could hardly pass through
the underpass, but it still got the
cast there and back safely. Inci-
dentally, the play was a success
there, too—same as it was here.
No matter what is Baidl about
. it, or how it is ridiculed, it is the
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tion system. And, in all probabil-
ity, it will still be transporting
studlents when ajl the present ones
have graduated and are forgotten.
NAVY CHORUS SINGS
IN HOUSTON
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quet at the Rice Hotel. This was
our most important performance
andthe chief reason for our trip to
Houston. About 125 ex-students
and friendb of Southwestern at-
tended this banquet and this group
will bo the spearhead for the fi-
nancial drive in the Houston area.
_Our program was wsU received
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and we hope it made a worthy
contribution toward! the success of
the banquet.
As we were filing out of the
banquet room, Mr. Carter, man-
ager of the Rice Hotel and him-
self a Southwestern Ex, invited
us to sing for a larger banquet of
400 in a nearby room. We consid-
ered! the invitation to this unsche-
duled performance a high comp-
liment to the abilities of the or-
ganization.
The members of the chorus then
BCBtUPfta WW'TtBT city of Hous-
ton in the pursuit of civilian com
panionship. (not male!) Nuf said!
Following a night spent in the
pursuit of various types of amuse-
.nent accompanied by various a-
mounts of sleep, the members of
the chorus assembled once more
at Hie Rice Hotel. The departure
from the fair metropolis of Hous-
ton followed at 0600. Those rid-
ing in the orange comet were ia _
the best of spirits on the rsknmijMhmTSuMtar
trip and filled the ah- WMk.;,
ing (T)f Havre
muters on the
in the time
turn trip >rr_ _
games of bridge At the sight of
the good ship U.S.S. Kuykendall
all hands joined in singing “There
is no place like home.”
The members of the chorus join
in thanking Southwestern andl our
director, Mr. Bigelow, for mak-
ing this trip possible.
READ “READERS DIGEST”
The proprietors of the Tavern
have noted the worn shoes sport-
ed by students here andl have di-
vised a plan whereby shoe leather
and energy can be spared. All you
need to take advantage of this off-
er is fifteen cents and a shuffle in-
to the Tavern andl you will be able
to provide yourself with a popu-
lar form of entertainment gt this
amazing price.
DO YOU LIKE IT?
The MEGAPHONE has grown
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up It’g now six columns widte and
twenty inches long____whereas it
was five columns wide and six-
teen inches long. When you count
the pages, you may think that you
are being cheated; but, if you will
count the inches of printed mat-
ter, you will find that you really
have more copy in the four large
pages than you had in the six
small pages. Count .’em ’n see!
We hope that you like this lit- ~
tie innovation. It’s spring and
May Day is almost here and we
wanted to do a' bit ~6T Changing
and we just thought we’d try
something different for a change.
How do you like it? If you don’t
answer, we’ll take it for granted
that you like the change__., or per-
haps it could be that you don’t
read the editorial page.
We have heard tell of people
who didn’t read the editorial col-
umn, but that’s hard to believe!
Why, there are sometimes very
profound statements made in this
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