The H-SU Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 8, Ed. 1, Saturday, November 13, 1943 Page: 2 of 4
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THE H-SU BRAND
November 13 1943.
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Editorials . . . changes
ACCORDING TO MOST GIRLS
tho inan shortage around llardin-Sim-mons
is very acute. All boys hero arc either
around 16 years old arc married and arc cither
ministerial students or pre-meds. But girls
let's say thank heavens for them I
Many colleges vroro lucky enough to obtain
some typo of war training program and have
five hundred navy cadets of army trainees on
their campus to ward off monotony. It's a
pity this university couldn't have managed for
something of tho sort; the female specie of the
human race would certainly enjoy college life
a lot more.
But how about those 1G and 17 year olds?
Fellows you help to build up morale of your
fellow classmates even though the gals are
often from two to seven years older. But some
day you'll bo older too and then you'll be
drafted and we'll get a now crop of 1C and 17
year olds.
Now if wc had a Navy or Army contract
just think of all the different ages that would
bo represented. Ah 'tis a girl's delight of
even dream of such a thing. Just look at the
tall dark and handsome gob ... or take a
glance at that beautiful army guy I My henrt
beats . . . thump thump skip thump
But all of a sudden the girl wakes up to the
fact that she is student of Hardin-Simmons
and thcro's a scarcely a male in sight. Much
less a handsome gob or a beautiful army man
or even a homely army man.
Wc tho girls of II-SU wish that our uni-
versity could get a war contract oh how wc
wish iti But guess we'll just have to go ou
being content with the supply on hand which
means we'll be plenty lonesome. S.G.
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T ET'S DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT
J Throughout the years curios and antiques
of all kinds have been given to Hardin-Simmons.
Most of these arc of the western nature
such as saddles and branding irons. Those
items and other similar ones can bo found in
the band room. On the third floor of the Fine
Arts building arc several cases of curios vary-
ing from arrow heads to world war relics.
Moro items of interest can bo found on the
main floor of the Science Hall.
The items in the band room and in the
Science Hall arc kept in order and are labeled
distinctly because they are before the public.
This is not true of the collection in the Fine
Arts building. Only a few students besides
the music students who use the practice rooms
have ever seen them. There arc any number
of students who do not know that such a col-
lection exists. As a result little care has been
taken to keep these collections in order. Much
of the value of such items is lost by not having
them labeled clearly.
Some student or group of students could do
the school and the student body a big favor by
getting permission and making this collection
of interesting articles on the third floor of the
Fine Arts building presentable. B. E.
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WE KNOW THAT A PERSON
" likes the sound of his own voice above
that of all others; yet wc would prefer the
matchless beauty of Grace Moore's lovely voice
to any soprano giggle of a Freshman girl or
squeaking tenor of an adolescent boy.
Tho school authorities do not require stu-
dents to attend artists course attractions. It is
a volunteer matter. If you don 't think you will
like it stay at homo by all means but if you do
come have the decency and politeness to give
those who do care to listen the opportunity to
do so.
Great artists deserve our absolute attentions.
Thoughtless ( t) disturbances such as laughing
and talking during a concert are evidences
of stupidity inconsideration and complete
lack of culture. The Golden Rule hasn't be-
come obsolete. It's still in good form to "do
unto others as you would have them do unto
you." So even if you don't enjoy the music
let us who do listen in peace and you may
leave during the intermission but not before.
And wc in turn guarantee you that wc will
listen in silence to the "Cow Cow Boogie" at
least once. B. F.
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CO THE YOUNGER
& generation is going to the dogs? That old
cry is raised again and again and each timo
it seems to gather force.
Every generation has its poor representa-
tives but our latest edition of humanity is as
honest and good as any that came before us.
To most of the younger sot life has como
to mean so much that it hurts to hear tho grey-
heads harping on the trite subject. By con-
stantly reminding us of the precarious posi-
tion in which we are placed by tho recent turn
of world events our good "preachers of doom"
are unconsciously sowing thought-seeds of fear
in tho mind.8 of those they would warn. Their
attack is wrong.
philosophical Phrases
The Arkansas legislature has passed a law re-
quiring all of the state's higher educational in-
stitutions to teach nature study and conservation.
And the reason why the woman usually gets
thclast word js because she has had moro ex-
perience in last-wording.
The middle class of people is liko the tern-
porate zone; the creative strength of the world
is there. Dr. H. E. Fosdlek.
Sixty-five coeds are out for tho rifle team at
the University of Vermont. Out to get her
man.
!&V 'An airplane is poison' because one drop will
- Om who desptsM himself is nearest to a proud
smb. SpiaoM.
Wifey: "Mother writes that she
is coming to sec us soon."
Husband: "Ah another mouth to
heed."
Sho: "You would be a dan-
cer but for two thlngi."
He: "What are they?"
She: "Your foot."
Pat watched the professor star-
ing up at the sky through the long
shiny black telescope. Presently a
star fell.
"Sure the man's a good shot" said
Pat.
Boarder: "Look I found a
nickol in my hathl"
Landlady: "Yes I put it there.
You've been complaining about
tho lack of change in your
meals."
Chubb: "I always say what I
think."
Dubb: "I wondered why you were
always so quiet."
"I've heard that Mr. Jones
walks in his sleep."
"Fancy that and they with
two automobiles."
Teacher: "This makes five times
I have punished you this week.
Now William what have you to
say?"
Bill: "Well I'm glad it's Friday."
"So you complain of find-
ing sand in your soup?"
"Yes sir."
' 'Did you join tho army to
serve your country or to com-
plain about tho food?"
"To servo my country sir
not to eat it."
College student: "Madam I am
selling something to prevent roos-
ters from crowing at daylight."
Mrs. Suburb: "Really what is it?"
Student: "An excellent recipe for
chicken soup."
Sandy: "Horo's a ticket to the
magician's show tonight Mag-
gie" Maggie: "Thank you Sandy."
Sandy: "And Maggie dear
when he comes to that trick
where he takes a teaspoon o'
flour and ono egg and makes
twenty omelets watch very
close."
"So you and your sister arc twins
Mr. Brown?"
"We used to be but she Is now
five years younger than I am."
"If you stood with your back
to the north facing south what
would be on your loft hand?"
"My fingers sir."
"How is it" said one dog owner
to another "that your dog knows
all sorts of smart tricks while I
find it impossible to teach my dog
anything?"
"Well you see" said the other
dog owner "you've got to know
more than the dog to start with."
A teacher was explaining sub-
traction to a pupil. The pupil
did not seem to understand so
at last tho teachor askod:
"When you have two chops on
your plate and you eat two
what remains?"
"The bones" replied the pupil.
Fish: "Are they very strict up
there at H-SU?"
Soph: "Strict why when a kid
dies during class they prop him in
his seat until the end of the period."
"What did your grandfather
say when they amputated his
leg?"
"Ho yollod 'Hey what's com-
ing off there'?"
Teacher: "What figure of speech
is 'I love my teacher'?"
Student: "Sarcasm."
Patient: "Doctor I want to be
vaccinated whero it won't show."
Doctor: "Open your mouth
please."
First Soldier: "Sit down George
you're rocking the boat."
Geo. Washington: "Can't."
Seventh Soldier: "Why?"
George: "My pants are too tight."
So they painted him standing up.
He: "What time should I
come?"
She: "Come after supper."
He: "That's what I was com-
ing after."
One day two little morons went
hunting. First moron shot a bird
that was flying by. Said the sec-
ond moron: You nut why waste
bullets? Tho fall would have killed
him.
Teacher: Why war you lata
this morning? '"
Stud: They (tatted clatm be-
fore I got here.
rfAsteb ALxufi SomeiAutf jbaUtf (founding Up GedtlirCS
9k tU Qou bvunUvdei U Jf0( The Strays .
At genio Jfall
Across Ambler street situated at
the spot numbered 1241 is the
domicile of 15 senior girls common-
ly known as Senior Hall. A strang-
er whicli might well be any Fresh-
man girl cither ordered over by an
uppcrclassman or coming on her
own accord (am I kidding?) prob-
ably finds many things which would
make her think she had entered a
mad house.
Down on first floor she probably
runs smack-dab into "Blackie" Mrs.
Collier's dog scrambling through the
hall hoping it's dinner time. Look-
ing to her right she sees Halouise
Mason and Thelma Leo Russell
brewing coffee or leisurely chat-
ting with Eithcl Johnson. Hearing
some sort of wild hollering sho
goes down the hall to Betty White's
and Helen (Queenic) Edmondson's
room to find Betty laughing at her
own cleverness and Helen books
under arm coming in to say "hello"
and "good-bye" and be off to another
lab or some kind of meeting. About
this time the phone rings and
rings and rings. Not knowing any
better tho Freshman picks up tho
two campus phones to find it is the
pay-phono buzzing. The call per
usual is for Imogcne Taylor who
per uual is out. Feeling that she
should pay her humble respects to
the habitants of the second floor
the green thing bounces up the
stairs to see Dorothy Stevenson
Parker in her room on the landing
singing happily as she unpacks from
her glorious past week. Wanting
to ask questions but knowing she
shouldn't tho Freshman wonders
down the hall.
All of a sudden out of tho clear
blue comes the most blood-curdling
hysterical noisy sound ever to
enter her innocent little cars. She
soon learns that it is only Helen Mc-
Lcod and Gclenc Ernest having a
horse race on the beds to the tunc
of "Hl-ho Silver" coming over the
radio. Betty Rcid and Carlcno Par-
ker eagerly await the outcome
which Is usually at least ono broken
bed. Pat Sandcfcr is at the desk
trying desperately to finish a letter
she's been writing for four days
but not having much luck in tho con-
fusion. Next door she hears Nell
Vcrna LeMond's radio playing any-
thing from opera to the "All Re-
quest Hour." Down on the north
end "tho quiet end" she opens the
door to find Frances Prichard and
Lorraine Lamp calmly taking life
easy or preparing to put out their
weekly washing. Convinced now
that she has been caught in tho
throes of dignified and that ain't
what sho means Seniors sho de-
cides that the easiest way out of it
all is to kill herself. But on the
way out she runs into the fifteenth
member of the clan Mary Beth
Cole just back from a B. S. U.
meeting. Wondering if it's not bet-
ter to be a dumb green Freshman
than a Senior living in this asylum
she wanders back to Mary Frances
thinking of what news she has found
today to write home aboutl
At tfetGtU&H Jfall . . .
When one lives in Ferguson
he generally falls in cither one or
two classes the "holycndevors" or
the "sinners." But getting down to
concrete facts the former arc not
nearly so good and the later so bad
as they appear to be so when you
put the two together you find a
swell bunch of boys.
Due to circumstances beyond our
control something new has been
added this year Yes women in
Ferguson Hall. No longer does one
walk around in his shorts shouting
telephone or no longer does one
shout naughty words to his room-
mate as loud as ho might Nkc
A and E entrances arc the only
sections opened to the boys this fall.
D entrance is open to married
couples and to women but that is
proclaimed "off limits" for we boys.
E entrance has a quite heavenly-like
atmosphere while A entrance seems
to have inherited from B entrance
"the noisest place on this forty
acres."
Wandering through "A" you
would probably find a hot bull ses-
sion going on in Acil Glenn and Ed-
win Prichard's room. Going on to
second floor you would find on in-
teresting domino game in Heck's
and Reeves' room or just across
the hall in Bost's and Esscl's room.
You usually see a few Abilene faces
on second floor most of the time
playing dominos or perhaps in a hot
At Matof Qaul Jf all
Life in Mary Frances Hall begins
at 6:30 each morning when the an-
noying ring of the huge cowbell
sounds through the quiet halls. Few
people seem to be affected by it at
first but some have enough spunk
to take a bath before breakfast.
Others get a few extra winks of
sleep and those who eat breakfast
manage to roll out of bed five or ten
minutes before 7:00 and stumble
blindly into the dining hall.
After breakfast there is a mad
scramble to get to classes on time.
Thus the day begins. Quiet hour
(?) is observed from 1::30 'till 3:00
each afternoon and from 7:00 'till
9:45 each night at which time tele-
phone calls are forbidden and all
record session in Haynes' and
Smith's room. You can always find
Billy Bigham but ho is always in
bed by dark. Finally reaching the
third floor there sits Glenn Breeden
struggling with his chemistry and
next door finds us with John Hurt
preparing his Sunday sermon.
Leaving A entrance gazing across
the tromped green grass at E ent-
rance the thought of a monastry
comes into your mind. Just like
a freshman said "I'm glad I don't
live over there because nothing ex-
citing ever happens." Perhaps
that's true enough but E respects
that new paint job which A doesn't
have.
Going up stairs you can always
hear Marvin Frogy pecking out a
story for the Brand on that "noise-
less" typewriter. Glancing around
on second you usually would see
Boyd Robertson visiting Melvln
Byrd with roommate "Goosecreek"
Robinson lying in bed reading his
Cu Cu comics and next door Pat
Luckctt translating French and A.
B. Smith Jr. tying history notes or
cutting pictures out of Esquire.
Bringing our journey to an end
upon third we take one last look
around finding the Cravens broth-
ers carrying on as usual in that
Northern dialect and when you
hear noise on the third floor E it
is usually created by Sleepy James
and Wayne Blacklock who often try
to lock each other out of the room.
girls stay in their rooms and
study (?).
Some folks might thing that dor-
mitory life is dull but not in Mary
Frances Hall. No not with fire-
crackers going off at midnight and
frightening the girls because they
sound exactly like shots. No not
dull with people playing tricks on
their friends by pouring mineral
oil all over the floor of room 307
or filling room 212 with lux. Girls
watch it when you are offered gum
by some of those generous (?) Mary
Frances Hall girls because that gum
may be Feen-a-mint; it has been
done you know. We miss our
Cowboy football players but Mary
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So They Say
What do you think would improve H.-S. U.?
JOAN JACKSON: "Clean it up. Dust the chairs clean blackboards."
ROSE SHIRLEY WALKOW: "Heat practice rooms. Have socials to
include both town people and students.'
SHY FRESHMAN: "Navy cadets."
DENNIS WOODS: "Girls in hall should have more liberties."
CURTIS WIMBERLEY: "Bookcases and new furniture in rooms and
dorms."
OTIS WADDILL: "A relaxation period every week. More social ac-
tivities." KITTY MOORE: "More men. Heating system."
JACK HAINES: "More spirit and more girls."
LAVON BOST: "More cooperation from the women."
HERBIE JOHNSTON: "I don't think H-SU can be improved." (Right
after being chosen Junior favorite).
GAYLE KEETER: "Improvements on campus. Beautify it."
JOHN EARL SEELIG: "I don't think cuts should count. If a student
can pass the course with a number of cuts. Okeh. As a rule a person
can't pass the course with too many cuts anyway and it should be left
up to him."
GWEEN TUNNELL: "Moro teachers like Dr. Walton.
BETTIE BROWN: "Chapel programs by the Band from the camp
and the Air Basel"
Dwaylyn Parker seemed to be in-
furiated by last week's edition. We
wonder why? Could It bo because
ho and Mary Beth Cole have not
broken up or because his name was
mentioned with chicken Ben Turner.
On the happier side of life we
need more peoplo like Perla
Dudley. She is always ready to
help in anything worthwhile and
best of all she is a person who
is loyal and truo and who can
always find the bost in every-
thing. More power to you
Perla you're tops as a real
friend.
Have you noticed how glamorous
Gene Epplcr looks with his hair
dyed black. Wowt What a guy!
He knows how to accomplish things.
Why doesn't somebody tell
Ruby Woodrow that that ter-
rible temper of hers will never
get her anywhere with anybody?
The semester reports have come
and gone and by tho time they
reach home some of us will prob-
ably be wishing that they hadn't'
gone so quick. However the press
must go on so we approach you
only with a mild sandstorm this
week.
First of all let us congratu-
late Helen "Queeny" Edmond-
son. elected our University
queen. Thore is something
about Helen that sends every
one on their way with a smile.
The so-called weaker sex of the
B. S. U. clan invaded Ferguson Hall
Tuesday night Destination was
John Hurt's room.
Roberta Dunn had a nice timo
over in tho vicinity of ACC
three Sunday nights ago You
never know what to expect of
a blind date do you Roberta?
U'Nita Rogers seems to have for-
gotten her "freshman days" if wo
remember correctly she was told
not to "haze" for being a poor
freshman!
The fun is really going to start
next week when the Alpha Psi
pledges began their campus
capers. Can you feature Ed
Stowart making love to Roberta
Dunn on top of a table in the
book store?
POETRY
A cow was standing on the track
A train rushed up behind her back;
The driver saw her plight in time
And jerked down on the whistle
line.
But she just turned and said "Moo
Moo
I'm a member of the B. S. U.
Saddle Soap . . .
By MARY ANN NOLAND
Grectin's how y'all?
Just a word to wish you a happy
turkey day and a gobbl'n good time
Thursday. Peekin' into our next
calendars we see pistol-packin' Pil-
grims In June pumpkins roasted ap-
ples and mince-meat pies. Fran-
tically singing something that faint-
ly resembles "lay that pistol down
Puritan Pappy" we find Mr. Turkey
on the run. Tain't no use pleading
befeathered friend 'cause Thanksgiv-
ing Day is here again. It was in
1621 that our pioneer ancestors in-
vited all the neighboring red-skins
and pulled a big feast. Every since
1863 the last Thursday in November
had been celebrated as the national
Thanksgiving Day until a few years
ago when it was changed to the
third Thursday in the month by the
president. Incidentally the day is
not a national legal holiday since the
U. S. has no legal holidays not even
the Fourth of July.
Censors arc such clever chaps.
A group of Hardin-Simmons stu-
dents were discussing pro and con
what had been put in Christmas
boxes for the overseas soldiers re-
cently when a senior girl remarked
that her friend had enclosed a let-
ter to the censor in the package that
she sent to her overseas husbantd.
The rumor got around to her
friend the senior said that censors
arc those kind of people who rum-
mage fiendishly through each box
replacing it back in a disorderly
fashion and taking out anything
that their sudden sparks of genius
tell them shouldn't go overseas.
After neatly wrapping and typing
each gift she typed a note to the
censor. The letter asked the official
who examined the package not to
dare take any candy or anything out
and to tie it all back just like she
had it fixed because she wanted the
gifts to look pretty when her hus-
band got them. The postscript of
the short epistle read: "I am cnclos-
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Sketch Cpdd- .
By IMOGENE BRADSHAW
Imagine a pretty bit of feminity done up in a
Cowgirl Band uniform or just plairi college civvies
long brown hair twinkling blue cyea and n cute
figure and you have Betty Reid president of the
Cowgirl Band. Further description would have
to Include a sparkling smile long eyelashes which
ore the envy of all the girls and elusive dimples.
She will be flying through tho air with" the
greatest of ease not on a trapeze but in an ar
plane if her dreams como true. For Betty wants
to become on airline stewardess and if Dame For-
tune smiles on her sho will go to New York for
two months' training and then will be assigned to
a base. With that personality plus and beauty.
Betty will probably bo a success at soothing nerves
and telling people to fasten their safety belts.
She really must like airplanes to bo willing to
leave terra firma.
Betty gets that coveted sheepskin in Juno with
a Business Administration major and French and
Band minor. So she has learned to pound the
typewriter keys and balance debits and credits.
And she must be one of those people to whom
French expressions mean something besides a
junble of unintelligible sounds. If she ever wants
to mystify the tired businessmen who rido in her
airplane sho can break out in a torrent of French.
Betty is president of tho Cowgirl Band. She
toots a hot comet and makes speeches when she
has to. What this school needs is more Cowgirl
Band concerts with Puixy Rcid announcing the
program. Do wc hear applause?
Betty goes for: sailors fried chicken hot rolls
"Rhapsody in Blue" Fred Waring football tho
"Claudia" stories reading collecting phonograph
records "Random Harvest" blue and soldiers.
She also likes football heroes. All the informa-
tion we have on boys sailors soldiers ct al is
off the record and not given us by Betty.
The rest of us will have to confine ourselves
" to flights of fancy Betty while you soar through
the sky. But we arc all behind you when it
comes to wishing for you all the success and hap-
piness in the world. If there were only more
like you!
Meet Our Faculty
By BETTY ANN FULMER
One of the busiest men on the campus Harry
Hayes holds so many offices and docs so many
things it almost makes- you dizzy to think about
them. As field representative of the University
he advertises the school through various means
such as the displays you see so colorfully arranged
at nearly any convention. Harry serves too as
executive secretary of tho Ex-Students Associa-
tion which means the handling of correspondence
files and organization of Ex-Student clubs. The
horn tootin' girls with the purple and gold uni-
forms know him best as the manager of tho Cow-
girl Band. In addition to these staggering duties
he edits the Ex-Student publication carries on
public relations work by taking programs to
schools and other places and in the past has
taught in both the History and Economic depart-
ments of Hardin-Simmons.
In 1932 he received his B. A. degree in 1940
his M. A. and in 1941 his B. S. all from Hardin-
Simmons. As yet he is the only person to have
received three degrees from H-SU and probably
will always hold the distinction of having received
them under three different presidents Dr. J. D.
Sandcfcr Dr. R. N. Richardson and Dr. W. R.
White respectively.
His hobby if it could be termed such is tho
Cowgirl Band. He likes to play golf and tennis
but he has very little time for either of them. As
for books he definitely prefers those of a historical
nature. In tho realm of music ho enjoys all
varieties and intimated that lie liked that of the
Cowgirl Band in particular. If you want to get
an inside tip as to the type of people who make
a hit with Harry listen to this: "One thing I
like is honesty and fairness. I don't liko two-
faced people at all." Regarding food he says
simply "I draw no lines." f"
Saturday Harry will leave for the Naval Indoc-
trination School at tho University of Arizona at
Tucson. In the Navy he has received his com-
mission as lieutenant J.G. His wife ex of '32
will assume his duties.
We shall all miss you Harry more than we
can say and wc want you to know that we shall
remember you and be eagerly awaiting your re-
turn. We consider your going as a mere visit
away from us. So Bon Voyage and hurry home!
Sty $-&l'!tainft
A weekly college newspaper published every
Saturday during the school year by the Hardin-
Simmons Press Club in the interest of the Student
Body of Hardin-Simmons University.
Entered as Second Class mail matter June 22 1917
at the Postoffice at Abilene Texas under
act of March 3 1912
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