The Simmons Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 17, Ed. 1, Saturday, January 23, 1926 Page: 2 of 4
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THE SIMMONS BRAND SATURDAY JANUARY 23 1926.
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. .FaUtekeel Seek Satarday Morning.
OTIS D. GARTER
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EARLY JOINER
Bnnincoo Maaaser
Cfcas. Miller M'gihg Editor Sports
George Parka Assistant Sporta
T. L. Wright News Editor
CfaHwfee Olsea Society
Cearad R. '.
sst. Bus. Mgr.
Joe Bree
.Circulation Manager
STAFF REPORTERS
iMary HanVfaa
latnA Shaw
Lraim English
Verna Smith
Geo. B. Marshall
Leonard Lynch
Merrell Lacy
Ivy Rhodes
Willie Ray McDonald
Reporters for This Jssue:
Bob 'Whipkey Ruby Hatton Lua James
Qeo Armstrong John Clark Mattie Cook
T J. Bailey Douglas Carver W. G. Tan-
kertley Raymond Bynum 'and M. D. Cor-
a alius.
WANTED THOSE WHO TRY!
Attention. Is again called to students that
bow is the' time to begin writing manu
scripts to enter in the contests fostered
by the Texas Intercollegiate' .Press AssO'
elation which meets in Howard 1'aynp
College at Brownwood next Spring. Short
stories feature stories news stories one
set plays essays formal and informal and
editorials can not be written on the spur
of the moment. It takes time and effort.
It also takes talent and preparation but
who will say that Simmons students are
not capable of writing prize-winning manu-
scripts? There is no question about the fact
i that Simmons has students who are cap-
able of Producing good material that
which will command the attention and re-
spect of the entire state. We would not
have anyone say "that we are incapable;
we should not admit it . The surest way
to admit it is to refuse to try.
. Of course noE all tho contributions to the
leeal contest to be held here before the
convention will be selected but that does
set warrant the .refusing to submit the
contribution. Making an effort and fail-
iag.'b one of the best means by which a
petson may determine his potentialities
as a writer.' After his manuscript has been
refused he immediately sees why it was
refitted and frequently with revision and
recasting he is able to produce a work of
value at the next trial. Success' Is not at-
tained overnight in such endeavors. 'What
A one should fail this year? The same
' ooatests will be held next year and with
th4styear of experience .behind one- pos-
tsAle success will be more likely next
year.
Make the effort for the sake of the lit-
erary standing of Simmons. Do your 'part
in keeping Simmons at the forefront in
literary accomplishments. Personal recog-
nition is sure to follow both here and
abroad.
O
OPTIONS.
'By Joe Burton.)
I am' constantly being reminded of men
who have .accomplished something in the
'various lines of human endeavor. I read
.of the hard knocks the difficulties the
privations that men overcome before gain-
lag material success and of the great will
power conscious effort and .everlastingly
sticking to it necessary to gain the coveted
tL I read of bow one may by conscious'
enen overcome oaa iraus or acquire
geed ones aad I wonder if after all one
is repaid for' his effort I sometimes won-
der if the successful man feels that he has
received sufficient remuneration for his
'years of worry and toil and if he has not
Lsoome hardened just a bit soured by his
years of bitter experience.
. Ifhea I read such an article I become
VUfllnl as to the' real value of being
esastsutly occupied with this eternal bus!-
' imss of striving to be both mentally and
KisreHy .better. What's the use Why
heap tlw shoulder to the wheel all the
Ifm with sever a let up? Why not lake
Ufa easy aad let those who are willing to
Mr ' the' price far such things dig and
pbti aad toil? Anyone can travel the
'path at least resistance of "ignoble ease
aad tmttlvi sloth.? but even the demons.
' after Mag east dawn' from their former
gksay weald Bet. listen to the suggestion
ef seek a state of inaction and certainly
k ehasjitT be' even mere' vigorously con-
! by beteg "just a little lower than
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ssBWtaeM ki m ward strive; Any oae aaa
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tat a t.Mag I W been w&rrylfif about for
a long tia was really an easy job after
"Let us then be up and doing.
With a heart for any fate;'
Still achieving Mill pursuing
learn to labor and to wait."
SMILES
Get the Drift?
"I heard your on was an undertaker
I thought you aald he was a physician."
"Not at all; I just aald he followed1 the
medical profession."
One Day Off.
Employer (to applicant for a position
who has handed in testimonials from two
ministers) : "We don't work on Sundays.
Haven't you a reference from some one
who sees you on week days?"
Have We Come to This?
Affable old lady: "It's a fine day Miss."
Youth: "It's a fine day but I'm not a
Miss'; I'm a Mister."' .
Old Lady: "0 I beg your pardon. You
looked so much like a boy that 1 took
you for a girl.''
Accurate.
"Can you give me a good description of
your absconding cashier?" sauvely asked
the detective.
"Well" answered the hotel proprileor
"I believe he'g about five feet five Inches
tall and about $7000 short."
The Kings English.
Johnny recited a stanza of the "Psalm
of Life thus:
"Lize Grape men allry mindus
Weaken maka Lize Blime'
Andy Parting Lee B. Hindus
Footprints Johnny Sands a time."
J?try Time Regardless.
"Goodby" said the little boy. "And
I've had a very good time thank you."
''You don't say so" replied his host play-
fully. "Yes I do" said the little boy very se-
riously. "Always."
All Out of Step Save BUI.
The purymen had retired to consider
their verdict. When they reentered the
court the judge asked the foreman if they
had arrived at a unanimous decision.
"No Your Honor" he replied "we have
not. I never met eleven such obstinate
men in my life."
Silencing Them.
Orville Wright at a dinner in Dayton
was reproached for not taking up the
challenge of the Smithsonian Institution
that it was Langley not the Wrights who
was the first to fly.
"The trouble with you Orville" said
a banker "is that you are too tacriturn.
You don't assert yourself enough. You
should pressagentize more."
"My friend" Orville answered "the best
talker and the worst flyer among the birds
is the parrot."
Bringing It Up to Date.
"One day" said a story-teiler "at the
close of a hot day Adam was returning
from a hard day's labor to his humble cot
tage with his. hoe on his shoulder. Maybe
it was a cave. That doesn t matter for
it was a humble abode. Young Cain was
running ahead boylike throwing rocks at
the birds. Suddenly they came upon a
beautiful garden.
" '0 father' said Cain "look at that
beautiful garden. I wish we could live
there.'
" 'We did live in that garden' said Adam
regretfully 'until your mother ate us out
of house and home.'"
'Can you give me a good remedy for the
tooth-ache?"
"Yes fill your mouth with cold water
and sit on tho radiator till it boils."
Last night as I lay dreaming
Dreams as strange as could be.
I dreamed that' on my card was an "A"
And alas ''twas only a "D."
Fresh: "What's that mark over
your ear?"
Frosh: "That's a birth mark."
Fresh:
Frosh: '
"How's that7"
"Looked in . tho wrong
berth.?'
A stout woman drove up to.a fllliwr
station.
"I want two quarts of oil" she
said.
"What kind heavy ?'1 asked the
attendant.
"Say young man dori!t get fresh
with me" was the indignant response.
Quite
Site I notice by this article that
men become bald much more than
women because of tho intense activity
of their brains.
He Yes and I notice that women
don't raise beards because of the in-
tense activity of their chins Bir-
mingham Post.
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The young husband has arrived
home -to find his wife in tears
"Whatever Is the matter darling?"
hat inquired.
"0 doarost" she sobbed "I've work-
ed hard aH the ' afternoon making
esjatento betuaia yea are so foad of
thaw aad they've tensed et to be
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WHAT OTHERS SAY
Cleaning' Up a College.
I believe that .education especially In
the small Christian college . . has a
duty of reclamation; that it should neg-
lect no opportunity to save a boy or a
girl from folly; and that often a little
patience will make good men and women
Out of mighty questionable material. On
the other hand I believe that the time
has come to cease tolerating some of the
things that we are tolerating in American
colleges and universities. If college .stud-
ents persist in breaking tho law of the
land if they persist in gambling in break-
ing college rules and in other evil prac-
tices they should be dismissed from our
campuses.
The college has a ' duty to them per-
haps but it has a duty also to those others
upon whom their influence Is not good and
with whose progress they are Interfering.
Furthermore education is too expensive
to permit wasted energies and wasted re-
sources. Furthermore we have educated
too many men and women with warped
moral conceptions and turned them out in
the world with degrees and the mark of
the approval of higher education upon
them. Lastly if the institutions of higher
learning do not take a decided .stand
against violations of tho law of the land
and the laws of decency by the "cream of
the earth" where shall we look for a
check and what shall we hope for the
future?
And I also believe that if faculties and
administrations both in endowed and in
public institutions would make an effort
to rid their institutions of the moral de
generates destructive agitators and social
parasites who masquerade under the guise
of students regardless of whether they have
money and position or not regardless of
whether their friends or parents may or
may not give to the next endowment cam-
paign and regardless of the fact that any
school has enough enemies without in-
creasing the list these same faculties and
administrators would find the best stud
ents right behind them. Our schools would
be more wholesome places for young peo-
ple to live in. There would be fewer cas-
ualties and fewer disappointed parents.
Higher education would accomplish more.
The standard of the collegebred would be
raised. There would be greater respect
for law. Scholarship would he higher and
more highly regarded. Athletics would be
cleaner and more valuable. The future
of the nation would be more secure.
Herman Sweet in The Educational Heview.
Freshman Week.
One of the greatest breeders of bad
manners surviving in some as yet adoles-
cent college communities is the utterly
inexcusable brutality and boorishncss dis-
played in initiations and class hazing pro
grams. One college dairy recently des-
cribed an initiation of an "honorary" so-
ciety which consisted in "the infliction
of various indignities by a group of red
clad and red painted adult males upon
another group bound and prostrate upon
a dray. The latter were vigorously if not
viciously bastinadoed and most thoroughly
soaked with a hose. There was not a
spark of good humor or dignity in the
whole performance. It seemed to be pure
brutality recklessness and childishness.
. . . It Is hardly conceivable that a
whole group of prominent upperclassmen
can Inflict such brutal indignities much
less submit to them. It does seem that if
the society can not impart some dignity
interest or good wholesome fun to the
ceremony they had better spare the pub-
lic" The Harvard Crimson has recently given
publicity to freshman English themes on
the subject "My Impressions of My Ite-
ception at Harvard." One such theme
particularly commended was the follow-
ing: "At all colleges each member
of the freshman class is met at the rail-
road station by a deputation of sophomores
equipped with various instruments of tor-
ture such as hair clippers war paint pad-
dles etc. When the innocent freshman
emerges from the train these representa-
tives of the sophomore class fall upon
him with shouts of joy immediately giving
him a convict's hair cut with the clippers
and ruiiiing the clothes he happens to be
wearing with the paint. After this each
sophomore takes a good swipe at the pos-
terior portion of the freshman's anatomy.
When this ritual Is completed the fresh-
man is sent along to his dormitory while
the bloodthirsty sophs operate on another
victim.
"After the freshman arrives at the dor
mltory tie linda upperclassmen tn tne
same' building who guarantee to make bis
life miserable for the entire year.
"As I have heard of this form of hazing
all my life naturally I expected about the
same sort of treatment at Harvard. ..
"Imagine my surprise then when I was
not only allowed to go to my room un
molested but have not been bothered
since. You may rest assured however
that this surprise was Ta very pleasant one.
I was amazed to find the attitude of the
upperclassmen one of friendly helpfulness
Instead of 'one of haughty superiority. I
was still more amazed to find that tins
freshmen class had the' best dormitories 're-
served for' them. In short Harvard re-
gards a freshman as a rational human being-
instead of a babe in arms.'
The hazing of freshmen has developed
as a self-perpetuating nuisance largely
because of' the spirit of the bully who is
determined to take It out on the next
available victim A possible remedy for
seek barbarisms is .looming on the hori-
zon in a growing number of Institutions.
What an opportunity Is offered in the new
and Increasingly popular Freshman Week
for a chance to- organize In resistance to
upperclass savagery before the Upperclass
savage arrives on the scene 1 Why should
a class which has seven days in which to
get together to orient itself to unfamiliar
surroundings accept as ordained from
abovo those absurd conventions and tradi
tions observances and requirements os
tensibly designed "to keep freshmen in
their place" but really perpetuated as an
outlet and excuse for hodliganism and
abuse of privilege on the part of a slight'
ly more mature group themselves just
escaped from thralldom? Organized re
sistance by a numerically larger group
could stand up against these inflictions.
Will some kindly faculty adviser pass this
suggestion along? We should really like
to see it tried.
A Lesson or Privileged American Youth.
Restricting himself to only two and
three hours' sleep each night in order to
attain his ambition for a graduate degree
in American scientific agriculture Peter
Dutko a Czechoalovakian who landed pen-
niless in Philadelphia two years ago re
ceived the degree of Master of Science in
Animal Husbandry at the Pennsylvania
State College commencement in June of
last year.
Unable to speak English though master
of five 'other languages when he came to
the United States the thirty-year-old Czech
resolved to teach himself the language.
He worked in the anthracite mines in May-
field until he saved enough money to
enter Penn State. He entered last fall as
a graduate student having enough credits
as a graduate of an agricultural college
in Czechoslovakia.
Although at first he could hardly un-
derstand the lectures of his professors he
stuck to his task worked until three and
four o'clock every morning-over his books
and finished the year an honor student.
Journal of Education.
I enroll myself among those who believe
in modern youth. I perceive in them
certain freedom from cant and hypocrisy
from pedantry and sham. Their spirit is
the spirit of discovery. Their mood is
critical sometimes they seem unduly to
flout and jeer. Their manners are strange
and sketchy but their souls are sensitive
to great causes. Theyare serious in the
face of real problems. They are demand-
ing the right to stand on their own feet
to exalt their own prophets to erect their
own standards to develop rather than to
accept as an inheritance their own social
consciousness. President Alderman.
Early in the evening at a dance held by
two Boston University organizations a Col-
lege of Business Administration boy had
approached Mary a Practical Arts and
Letters girl and slipped a note into her
hand. It read "I'm deaf and dumb and
therefore cannot talk but I can dance."
She gave him that dance and another and
another. She wondered what he would say
to her if he could speak. She reflected for
a minute and decided that his silence was
better than the talk of many other men
she knew. Her thoughts were interrupted.
Tho music started up and her partner si
lently suggested that they dance.
When the music had ceased she looked
into his soft blue eyes and thrilled as he
returned her gaze. But her ecstasy was
turned to surprise when he moved his
lips and she heard these words "Hadn't
we better sit the next one out?"
Mary was revived by a bottle of smelling
salts. And the moral of this is: A man
may not be as dumb as you think he is.
Boston University News.
NOTICE ! Arrangements can be made for three additional
students in trombono and valve instruments.
W. R.
Room 353-4
REGULARITY
The secret of successful saving is regularity.
Any person who will adopt a method of saving a regu-
lar sum at regular intervals if only a dollar a week will
create the habit of saving. To save when the habit is once
acquired is as natural as breathing and the final reward is
financial independence.
THE CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK
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