The H-SU Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 11, Ed. 1, Saturday, December 7, 1946 Page: 2 of 4
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THE H-4U BRAND
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Wo heard something the other day that wo
thought was pretty good basis for an editor-
ial. It was an optimistic view of a pessimistic
saying.
Evcryono has read tho saying "It's later
than you think." Some people even have it
tacked up on the wall so that thoy can read it
moro often and feel guilty and hopeless.
Why cau't wo say instead "It's earlier than
you think." It certainly is more encouraging.
Actually it is earlier. Most of us waste good
time and energy bemoaning the fact that there
are so many things wo should have done and
have not. If we go ahead and got started now
chances are we will be surprised at what can
be accomplished.
In chapel last week Dr. Richardson was
telling us to knuckle down und study em-
phasizing that we still had time to bring our
grades up. It isn't too late. If you will sud-
denly turn in a licat iotobook about two
days ahead of time and then study hard on
tho next test your teacher will probably be so
pleased in thinking that she is bringing you
up to your own level (or above) that she
will forget previous grades and pass you with
flying colors. Well . . . pass you anyway.
And say once you have started doing a little
studying how about keeping up the good
work T J. D.
Ah UiyHt PnokUm
A suggestion was sent in to the Brand office
this week that is not so funny as it might at
first seem.
Wives of veterans who are attending school
with their husband are in a jam when it
comes to taking care of their children during
school hours. The youngsters can't very well
bo left at home to shift for themselves.
Though a few vet's wives are lucky enough
to have relatives or friends nearby to help
them out the majority has no solution in sight.
The suggestion was that tho school sponsor
a nursery during the day for children of stu-
dents. Perhaps it coudd be operated by student
volunteers wo don't know but definite mea-
sures should be adopted. J. D.
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Gateul lUto
It would probably benefit many of us to
get down those dusty old handbooks we stud-
ied for driving tests and read them again
both from the driver's and the pedestrian's
point of view.
With so many cars about on the campus
during the day it's getting downright danger-
ous to cross a street. Many drivers seem to
have forgotten there is such a thing as a-
hand signal or that a stationary stop sign
means to stop completely and jay-walking is
'becoming as common a thing as buying a
doughnut every morning at the bookstore.
Of course we're not suggesting that stu-
dents walk clear to the corner and cross to go
from chapel to the bookstore. Just that they
at least change their gait before dashing out
from behind a car. J. D.
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Students who find it difficult to get tho
right book at tho right moment in tho library
" should bear in mind tho following facts :
1. There just is not enough library to supply
tho demand of tho increased enrollment of
students.
2. Tho library already overcrowded has
become overflowed with new books just ar-
riving. 3. Approximately five hundred students
use the library every day.
4. The library has aided both A. C. C. and
McMurry due to their inadequate supplies.
In a recent survey of colleges throughout
the country it was learned that the veterans
on the campuses composed 85 per cent of the
library rerearchers while not 85 per cent of
these student bodies were veterans.
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We have had a number of requests for edi-
torials on the food served in the cafeteria. For
benefit of students who haven't heard com-
ment along that line is more or less taboo in
tho Brand. J. D.
BUtcUPad
Her ii Your Faculty
By D. A. PARKER
A physios professor is supposed to bo a
"brain" and Simmons has one who. meets the
expectations.
In fact he might be called a "character"
too. Prof. Francis N. Buck carries on his classes
with such ease that you almost don't notice
that QI necktie that he wears with a suit of
any color. He looks like a GI just getting start-
ed in school. Ho hails from Cincinnati 0. via
Missouri.
Ho received his B. S. degree from Central
Missouri State College and has two years of
graduate work one at tho University of Cin-
cinnati and the other at U.C.L.A. While in tho
Army ho taught meterology for a year1 and a
half at U.C.L-.A. He plans to get his Doctor's
degree instead of his M. S. because he doesn't
bee the sense of working up two Theses. He
served as a meterorologist in the AAF with
the rank of captain and doesn't know whether
he will take his degree in physics math or
meterology.
Prof. Buck gets a lot of fun from teaching.
He taught in high school at Roswcll N. M.
three years before entering the service. It was
here that he met and married the former Irene
Henry. They have a four year old daughter
Slmrron Kay.
Ho doesn't dislike any food and can't think
of what he likes best but an ice cream cone
is always good to settle an argument. He likes
any kind of sport. In baseball his team is the
St. Louis Cardinals and in football its the
Hardin-Simmons Cowboys. Ho says both arc
tops. He docs a little golfing and his hobby
is photography.
How docs he like Texas? Well he likes the
weather in the Southwest.
GUje -m Irani
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 Post Office at Abilene Texas under
act of March 3 1912
Subscription Price per year
$1.00
Editorial Office: First Floor Abilene Hall 1302
University Drive. Downtown Office 241 Hickory
Street.
Telephones: 7211 or 5751
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STAFF
Floy Johnson -
Wood Butler
Helea Jean Bond
Freak Brewer r
Betty Dealer
David Best
Associate Editor
Sports Editor
Feature Editor
Cartoonist
Meet the Senior
There are literally thousands of young
Southern gallants who prefer southern fried
chicken to salt pork or tripe. No small num-
ber of them have blue eyes and Jjlaek hair.
However it does narrow it down a little to
say that one in particular is five feet three
inches tall and weighs 160 pounds goes to
Hardin-Simmons and is a senior.
"Squeaky"!
The name Merlin Clary is known only to
maiden aunts Sunday school teachers and his
mother (when she means what she is saying)
but to people on these acres he is best known
as "Squeaky."
Although ho lives here in Abilene 'Squeaky'
still looks to Eden as his real home. He likes
to fish and hunt no particulor kind.
He is a math major and already has a job
in sight with the Petty Qeo-Physical Company
of San Antonio that will have to do with
the field of oil exploration.
Ho was manager of the 1I-SU basketball
team last year and now has his extra time
taken care of by his duties as instructor in the
physics lab. He is also a member of Science
Club Phys-Ed Club and the Press Club.
And say will you people stop asking
"Squeaky" if he is someone's little brother
who is' here for a visit 1 He is 19 years old and
quite capable of taking care of himself.
CHANGING CHINA
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By BETTY DOZIER
With Christmas drawing near the
annual Lottie Moon week of prayer
will be observed this week through
the Y.W.A. and tho Christmas offer-
ing will bo contributed Thursday nt
tho general meeting at 9:15 p. m. in
Mary Frances Hall.
Both Noon Watches will meet
this week in the chapel where
Brother King will talk on "How and
Why Wo Study Our Bible."
Continuing the general theme of
the past few weeks Paul Midlnger
will speak to the Life Service Band
Tuesday night at University Bap-
. Religious Actfrlttea
Vetera Editor
In the last part of tho 19th century China
was in a semi-colonial state. The powers men-
tioned in the previous issue either by force
or by persuasion got a foothold on Chinese
territory and the Asiatic mainland.
So-called spheres of influence were as fol-
lows: Manchurian Russia; Shantung Ger-
many; Yangtze area and Hongkong British;
Kwangchowan in Southeast China France;
Korea Japanese.
Reasons why China was not partitioned
was because there were too many people want-
ing to share the spoils and the Chinese were
skillful in playing one aggressor against
another.
Fear of China's collapse caused alarm in
England who had the largest interests among
all powers in China. The idea of an open door
policy was first formulated in England. Later
this idea was sold to America and John Hay
secretar yof state was credited to have formu-
lated such a policy. In 1899 tho United States
announced this policy to Britain Germany
and Russia and later to Japan Italy and
France. But tho reply from the European
powers was lukewarm and evasive.
Defeats that China had been suffering were
known to many leaders in China and they be-
gan to wonder if the foreigners or the Chinese
were at fault. Among the progressive thinkers
was Kang Yu-wei a Cantonese school teacher
and a prolific reader. Ho was intrigued with
tho English form of government and believed
that China should adopt a republican form of
government.
At that time there were two schools of
thoughts in China. The progressive were led
by Kang; tho conservatives were led by Li
Hung-chang.
Coincidental!' tho teacher of tho emperor
Kwang Hsu was a pupil of Kang Yu-wei Thus
the young emperor becamo well acquainted
with Kang's idea. When the latter visited
Peking in 1896 he repeatedly pointed out that
Japan was strong because she was western-
ized. So began the Hundred Days Reform in 1898
which was sponsored by tho emperor who de-
creed that China should immediately modern-
ized. Realizing that a government could not
change overnight tho reformers turned to a
strong man for leadership. This prospective
leader Yuan Shih-kai turned out to bo a
traitor to the cause. Having been informed of
the plan of tho reformers to lock up tho "6m-
prqss Dowager and her supporter Yuan broke
tho news to tho empress. Continued on Page 3
EMIHIAMdSES
If we put in jokes people say we're
silly.
If wo don't people say wc should.
If wo steal things from other
papers wc are too lazy to write
things ourselves.
If we don't we're stuck with our
own stuff.
If we don't print contribs we don't
appreciate true genius.
Likely as not someone will say we
took this from some other paper.
We did.
If your nose is close
To the grindstone rough
And you hold it down
There long enough
In time you'll say
There's no such thing as
Brooks that babble.
And birds that sing.
These three will all
Your world compose
Just you the stone
And your darn old nose.
We doubt if many need this ad-
vice but there are those few who
do.
tist Church on "A Closer Walk." Tho
first three messages in this scries
were brought by Dr. Fred L. Fisher
Chester O'Brien and George May.
Truitt Sheriff is leaving Sunday
night for Nashville Tcnn. for a
meeting of Southwlde student secre-
taries and student workers.
Thanks to the generous spirits on
our campus who swelled our $15
quota on the building of the Shang-
hai B.S.U. room to $40. Our thanks
cannot compare with the apprecia-
tion of those who will receive it
over there.
W. F Howard left December 1 for
Honolulu to make arrangements for
a week's Youth Rally there similar
to those held in Dallas and Houston
this past summer. William Hall
Preston and several Baylor students
Howard Butt Bo Baker Jackie
Robinson and Bruce Mclver will
join him there later in December
when the meeting will take place.
The Chowhands will speak this
week in Morning Watch on "Food
for Thought." Their subjects will
be Bread of Life Living Water
Fruit of the Spirit Milk of the Word
Meat in Due Season and Honey.
Those who will speak in the
order named are Blllie Shirley Lc-
Roy Hall Edith Pippcn Albert
Odom Kitty Bateman and Bob
. Roberts.
By JOYCE CANON
A telegram sent to Rev. W. E.
King pastor of the University Bap-
tist Church by the Cowboy foot-
ball squad and coaches sums up
the way Simmons students in gen-
eral feel about the honor bestowed
on him by his alma mater William
Jewell College. The phrase referred
to is "They picked the right man.'
A drunkard's life hat two chris-
ten: First ho could havo stopped if
he would: Second he would have
stopped if he could.
The best ammunition misses the
mark if the aim is poor.
Religion is like a bicycle. When
it stops going it falls over. Let's
keep ours going.
To the idler clay is refuse; to tho
potter clay is opportunity.
If you can keep your head and
calmly ponder
How silly spending drives the prices
high;
If you can save the cash you'd like
to squander
And only buy the things you need
to buy;
If you can do your part to fight
inflation
By simply being thrifty with your
self
You'll do a vital service to the na-
tion And furthermore you'll benefit
yourself.
I took her riding in my car my lit-
tle angel walked home.
I took her rowing in my beat my
little angel swam home.
I took her skating in the park my
little angel crawled home.
I took her riding in my plane my
little angel.
Califomians walking down the
street singing "Freese a jolly good
fellow."
The slurp slurp of the ocean wavos
The gurglo of tho perch
The swishing of the little whales
End life's unendless search.
Ever hear of the ventdlloquist who
threw his voice so far that it had to
answer him by long distance telephone?
CRounding Up
CTtie Strays
W. T. Morgan and Ra'Orr How-
ington arc to be married during
the Christmas holidays.
Many were glad to note that
Horace B. (Turk) Armstrong is back
in circulation along with his buddy
Herbert Abney. Armstrong and
Abney were seen Tuesday night
with Francis. Ubbcn and Billle
Stricklin.
Dan Turner is one lad who was
unusually happy about Simmons'
victory over Tech last Saturday. He
was heard to vow that if the Cow-
boys lost the game he would neither
shave nor have his hair cut until
January 1 1947.
Programs were selling. at a new
high at tho Tech game. One cutie
sold hers for 50 cents and another
was offered $2.00 for one.
NEWS FLASH: Rumor has it that
tho Cowboys will play no future
games with Abilene schools. No
reasons have been given and offi-
cial confirmation will probably be
forthcoming soon. It is also rumor-
ed that Simmons will sever athletic
relations with Haword Payne of
Brownwood.
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STEP DOWN
There's a tale going round the
Iowa State campus of a certain Eng-
lish professor who went over to
a local department house and asked
to sec the list of people living in it
and also the waiting list. Ho didn't
have to go through very many names
before he found the one he was look-
ing for and said "Put my name
down for this man's apartment
please. I just flunked him and he'll
be dropping out of school any day
now." (ACP).
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The death is reported in the West
of an old-time traveling salesman
one of a dwindling tribe. He was
77 and left an estate of 900 towels.
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Brother King has boon pastor of
the University Baptist church since
his discharge from the army Nov.
14 1945 and since then has become
a familiar figure on the campus.
Ho was given a citation for
achievement at William Jewel Col-
lege on Achievement Day Nov. 14.
Anually on this Achievement Day
seven alumni distinguished in their
respective fields arc awarded cita-
tions at a morning convocation and
a dinner is held in their honor.
The other six awards were pre-
sented to: John W. Clark vice-
president of tho Cook Paint & Var-
nish Co.; Lawrence E. Mahan form-
er national president of the Morg-
age Bankers Assiclation of Amer-
ica St. Louis; Chas. E. Rcndlen law-
yer Hannibal Mo.; Dr. Mary Elmore
Saucer assistant professor of Ana-
tomy School of Medicine Univer-
sity of Texas; and Dr. Frank H.
Trimble chairman of the Applied
Physics Division Midwest Research
Institute.
While Brother King attended
William Jewel College in Liberty
Mo. ho was a "Cheerleader foot-
ball star fraternity member and
general prankster" according to the
Kansas City Star. "During the war
as a Chaplain Brother King found
that telling college pranks often
relieved tension of troops going to
combat.
The chaplain's dog Lulabclle was
the subject of one of Ernie Pyle's
mose widely-told war stories. The
chaplain carried the miniature dog
in a coat pocket as he walked
through a hospital tent filled with
soldiers at Anzio. Here and there
the patients brightened as they
petted .the dog.
One soldier had lost both arms
and had asserted he had no desire
to live. He saw the small dog and
asked if King would let the pup
lick his face. Lulabclle was placed
on the soldier's chest. She wagged
her tail and her small tongue lap-
ped his face.
"I used to have a dog sir' tho
soldier said. 'He would slip up and
lick my face when I was sleeping.
That's the first time a dog has lick-
ed my face since I left home."
Brother King left the dog with
the soldier.
The Stars and Stripes described
Chaplain King as a man "with his
feet in the mud but his eyes in tho
stars."
While serving in the Armed For-
ces he began as a captain with
tho 5th infantry division at Fort
Sill. Okla. Dec. 15 1940. He served
with the 45th division through the
Sicilian Salerno and Anzio landings
and was at tho Anzio beachhead
breakthrough.
Later he was appointed Sixth
Army corps chaplain and made the
Southern France landing with that
outfit. He was with the Sixth corps
through Southern France Vosges
mountains Germany and. Austria
and was at Brenner Pass on V-E
Day.
Brother King was recently elected
vice-president of the Kiwanis club
and has served as pastor advisor
to tho Baptist Student Union here
on the campus.
Sea shells and campus bells will .
float before students eyes at the
University Queen Coronation De-
cember 14 in Bchrcns chapel.
Joy Smith will be crowned Queen
In the mist of a below sea-level
party. King Neptune Warren Hult-
gren will present the mermaids
and fish present for the "wet"
affair.
As the audience looks on King
Fish Bill Scott president of the
student body will crown Queen '
Fish Smith senior student from
Lawton Oklahoma. The fish swim-
ming around will be the eight class
favorites and the four attendants
and their escorts.
Following the coronation a ban-
quet in honor of the royal party
will be held in one of the down
town hotels. The coronation the
largest all university social events
of the year is free to the .public
but banquet tickets of $1.50 went on
sale today at noon. Doris Barbee
and Martha Schoolar arc in charge
of tickets sales.
Class favorites arc: Fairy Lynn
Mahon and Al Milch; Junior Joyce
Cox and Dub Jackson; Sophomore
Billle Word and Bob Irvln; Fresh-
man Blanche Keating and Henry
Scott.
Attendants will be Billle White
summer queen escorted by Bill
English senior class president;
Frances Ubbcn runner-up for uni-
versity queen escorted by Ray-
mond Troutman sophomore class
president; Earlcnc Arnold escorted
by Bill Williams freshman president;
Barbara McQuary escorted by Red
Cleveland junior class president.
Margaret Vaughter Dougharty
student council social chairman in
charge of all arrangements.
Campus Infirmary Is
A Haven of Help for
The Sick or Injured
By BETH SHIREY
"Miss Irvine I need a band-aid"
can be heard almost any day back in
the southeast corner of Mary Fran-
ces hall.
Students have come to look upon
the campus infirmary as a haven
when they arc sick or hurt for aches
and pains arc a specialty with Rctta
Irvine and her assistant Leona
King Hardin-Simmons' nurses.
Twenty-four hours a day these
two women in white are at the dis-
posal of the students and spend
their time curing minor ailments
and passing out words of advice.
Everything from a scratched finger
to the recent and abundant cases of
influenxa comes to their attention.
When a student is unable to go to
the infirmary in Mary Frances hall
for treatment cither Miss Irvine or
Miss King will include him in her
list of calls for tho day. Dr. Pric-
hard the school physician handles
the more serious cases.
Card files are kept on each patient
in addition to a record of absence
excuses issued. Only by one of the
nurses can a student illness be ex-
cused and he must notify her on the
day of his absence in order to vali-
date the excuse. Miss Irvine stated
that approximately 175 excuses
have been given this year.
An ex-army nurse Miss Irvine re-
marked "I thought the G. I's. could
think up some good excuses for ill-
ness but the students can even top
their stories.
Miss King who served with the
army in overseas combat is enroll-
ed as a special student at Hardin-Simmons.
THAT'S GRATITUDE
An honest coed at the University
of Kansas came right back at the
"Laws" recently. Instead of scurry-
ing by the horde of wolfish lawyers
on the steps of Green hall she pass-
ed at their whistles and whipped
outa sign. Printed on it in big red
letters were the simple words:
"Thank you!" (ACP).
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The lad was sent to college
And now Dad cries "Alack I
I spent a thousand dollars
And got a quarter-back."
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O CIQUIKE. INC . I4
Reprinted from the October inue of Esquire
Gfatiilt 4a$y now-remember whose side you're onl"
So They Say . . . .
Question of the week: What further action should be taken in the
case of John L. Lewis?
BILL BROWN: He should be impressed that the whole nation is suffer-
ing by his actions and not just the "operators".
JOHNNY MALOUFi Relieved of his position and replaced with Prof.
Ribble my labor Eco teacher.
KENNETH KENNEDY: Place a heavy fine on him personnally and
not the union.
BEN H ASHMORE: Enactment of law to limit his power and a power-
ful board set-up to arbitrate labor-management disputes occurring in vital
industries.
JOE REDDEN: Put him on the target ship in the next atomic bomb
experiment.
J. D. WOOD: I haven't made up my mind whether to bet on Joe Louis
St. Louis or John L. Lewis.
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