The H-SU Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 18, Ed. 1, Saturday, March 8, 1947 Page: 2 of 4
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l-Mtoriala . . .
Tho habit of throwing cigarette butts about'
on the campus is becoming more and moru
prevalent. As Dr. Richardson said it would be
next to impossible now to prevent students
from smoking in the vicinity of the school but
thero should be some solution for keeping the
grounds from becoming unsightly.
At first students tossed their cigarettes
under bushes. Now they have no inhibitions
about 'throwing them on sidewalks and steps.
Perhaps tho solution would be to assign
"details" as tho army docs to pick them up.
That would of course entail the designation
of a method by which those going on detail
.could be selected.
Perhaps fireproof waste containers could be
placed at vantage points about the campus.
At aiiy rate the school should decide upon
some wort of plan. One can hardly block a
road without providing an alternate route. We
believe the students .would be willing to co
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Sketch Pad
Mere is Your Faculty
By Mar j one Stephens
"I like to sec things grow" said Dean W.
T. Walton with that familiar twinkle in his
eyes. Ho was referring to his hobby of digging
in tho garden but he might well have meant
the students of Hardin-Simmons.
Dean Walton is listed in the Hardin-Simmons
catalog Is ".William Truett Walton B. A. B.
D. Assistant to the President and Dean of
Students." He received his B. A. degree from
Simmons College in 1920 and his B. D. degree
from Yale Divinity School in 1927. He was
associated with Hardin-Simmons University
for some time as associate professor of reli-
gious education before he assumed his present
position in 1941.
Busy as he is with his official duties Dean
Walton still finds time to be a member of the
Rotary Club American Legion Texas State
--'-Tcaolfers Association Life Member of Parent
Teachers Association Y. M. C. A. and Chisholm
Trail Boy Scout Council.
He averages making trips on 40 of the 52
Sundays in the year to represent the Univer-
sity in tho churches of this area. He is a popular
public speaker and is much in demand at all
times. His week-days are also filled with
speaking engagements.
AN APPLE FOR THE TEACHER HOHTERSPOOM ?...
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CRounding Up
(The Strays
It might be a good idea for some
kind soul to "take it upon himself"
to give Bobby Hill a book of dorm-
itory rules. He created quite a com-
motion when he went up to second
floor of the new dormitory to call
on his date Virginia Claire Smith.
Roommates Quincy Ryan and
Carol Howard are seen often with
Mr. Fcnstcrmaker and Edgar Hud-
nall.
Rodney Heck and Jack Haynes
must have become bored with their
radios Sunday as they were seen
in the company of a convertible.
Lest wo forget there were -girls
there also.
At open house in Cowden-Paxton
Tuesday night Leffingwell was
ultra-happy. Elizabeth Wallis was
was reared in Bcltori Texas and therefore
it was quite the natural thing that she attend-
ed Baylor College for- Women (now Mary
Hardin Baylor).
Mrs. Couch has been n member of the II-SU
staff since the fall of 1941. The first cooper-
ative dormitory was in University Apartments
and two garage apartments. Mrs. Couch was
in charge of 46 girls and she states that
"there were nine ways to get out of the dorm
other than signing out and leaving by way
of the front door and you can bet they used
these nine ways to get out."
Mrs. Couch moved to Smith hall in tho fall
of 15141. Buying the food planning the menus
supervising the cooking and serving of three
meals a day to 102 girls is a job which requires
most of Mrs. Couch's time from G a. m. to
sometimes 7 or 8 o'clock at night. Hence Mrs.
Couch has little time for her hobbj which is
her home and her family. She has two daugh-
ters one son two son-in-laws and one daughter-in-law
and one grand-daughter. All three
of he.r "sons" took part in World War II and
all three were stationed in the European
theater.
Mrs. Couch is a member of the University
Baptist church and the University Woman's
club.
Enough things have happened in the dining
hall to turn Mrs. Couch's hair grey but which
have afforded a laugh now and then. Some of
these are putting lard in the dishwasher in-
stead of dishwashing "compound" putting
turpentine in the cucumbers making ice water
in the coffee urn instead of the wuter cooler
pouring boiled custard over salad instead of
mayonnaise and using cups of salt for the pud-
ding instead of sugar.
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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.
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Entered as Second Class mail matter June 22
1917 at the Post Office at Abilene Texas under
act of March 3 1012.
The case between M. C. Hall and
Jean Morris has ceased to exist. The
picture on Jean's dresser might in-
dicate another romance in bloom.
A few of the many are:
Patsy Wooten-Bert Connally
Alfine Page-Bill Williams
.Betty Dozier-Raymond Troutman
Doris Barbee-Bobby Mcador
Marguerite Turmes-Jesse Sutton
Jackie Briley-Jimmy Shipman
.Jean Middleton-Frank Brewer
Clara Hanna-Royce Britton
Billie White-Bill Scott
Valencia Shuttlesworth-Bill Foley
Joe Garrison you are being ad-
mired. Several are wondering if .Lena
Adams will gain anything by1 her
technique.
Billy Gene Humphrey has decid-
ed that an occasional date with
Johnnye Lemond is better than
none at all.
Pat Murray and Howard Mc-
Chesney create no excitement for
this column. It's just a smooth ro-
mance without any arguments
bickerings or "two-timing" ... as
far as the eye can see.
Perhaps you have been fooling
people for years without knowing
why you do.
April-Fool's Day or All-Fools Day
is the name given to the first of
April in allusion to the custom of
playing practical jokes on friends
on that day or sending them on
fools' errands.
The origin of the day has been
disputed but it is in some way a
relic of those once universal festi-
vities held at the vernal equinox.
This festival began on old New
Year's Day March 25 and ended
on April 1.
In Great Britain April 1 was
anciently observed as a general
festival but it apparently was not
until the beginning of tho eigh-
teenth century that the making of
April-fools was a commdh custom.
At the feast of Hull in India the
last day of which is March-31 the
chief amusement is the bofoollng of
people by sending them on fruit-
less and foolish errands.
The custom was known as "hunt-
ing the gawk" in Scotland. The
gawk is the cuckoo and the April-
fools were "April-gawks" the cuckoo
u-i-.unn. nOtJsJn most lands
a term of contempt
In France the person befooled is
known "as "poisson d'avril." (For the
benefit of those who aren't French
scholars "poisson" means fish).
The activities of the day in our
own country need no explaining.
Everyone is on guard but more
times than you expect you find
yourself in cmbarassing positions.
To answer the telephone and hear
no response or to pick up an object
on the street and find a string
attached are common occurences on
the day. ' ""
When we fall for a joke and be-
come an "April fool" we console
ourselves with the thought that it
only happens once a year and that
we have a chance to try the same
trick on someone else.
CHANGES
A tramp is one who has fallen a
victim of arrested development and
never emerged from the nomadic
stage.
All the universe one has is the
universe he has within.
Subscription Price per year
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Editorial Office: First Floor Abilene Hall 1302
University Drive. Downtown Office 241 Hickory
Street.
Telephones: 7211 or 5751
Jmn 2bioJUteot Cdito.
Bill Znfluk . . BuUfU Myi.
Life like heat is a mode of mo-
tion and progress consists in dis-
carding a good thing as soon as you
have found a better.
One is today what he is because
he was what he was last year.
Learn the luxury of doing good.
Have pity on thoM sad Oil
Whose gab have dons them dirt
There's aothtog that can dry their
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Except aaother skirt.
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Associate Editor
Sports Editor
Feature Editor
fUUfltou Activities
. Veterans Editor
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Cartoonist
Why aren't women more active
in politics? They know all the party
lines.
Who ou aar tlMM days that food
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Musicians Left Minus
Relics Music Bandroom
The Cowboy and Cowgirl bands
were placed in a difficult position
when Abilene hall was recently de-
stroyed by fire. Many irreplace-
able articles were lost in the fire.
Director Marion B. McClure lost
several of his own original manu-
scripts. The music was intended for
future use of the Cowboy musicians.
The fire also put a crimp in plans
for a Cowboy band museum which
would have displayed trophies ban-
ners pictures and historical relics
dear to past and present Simmons
horn footers in that all but a few
of them were destroyed.
New music stands were delivered
to the musicians Tuesday. They are
the same type of wooden stands as
were in use before.
After being burned out the musi-
cians took what little music and
equipment they escaped with and
went in search of a new home. As
an expedient the university allocat-
ed the use of Behrens stage as a
practice spot McClure and his
musicians are still optimistic as to
the possibilities of some day seeing
their own permanent building erect-
ed on the campus. As far as can be
learned no orchestra music was .lost.
Trapp Family Here Soon
Plays Old Instruments
Unusual Radio Venture
Carried Out by Students
By RUE COPELAND
John Petry Glenn Murray Leo-
nard Todd and Paul Stephens
walked into the office of J. Harley
Hubbard manager of Radio Station
KXOX in Sweetwater early this
year to try to purchase a half-hour
period on that station for a young
people's religious broadcast.
Because of other school activities
they felt that Friday night was the
only night they could devote to
such a program.
The station manager explained
how crowded he was time telling
these students that he wasn't even
accepting any more local churches
for Sunday broadcasts at the time.
The students kept explaining that
this would bo a different typo of
religious broadcast that it would be
entertaining as well as inspirational
to all of the station's listeners.
For a station crowded with net-
work shows one would hardly ex-
poct such a station to sell time for
a gospel program in the heart of
Friday evening. "What time do you
want to put this program on?" the
manager asked. The boys asked for
the 6:30 period on Friday. That was
already taken but the .manager told
the follows that they could buy tho
period from 7:00 to 7:30 on Friday
night until the network insisted on
that time and then they would be
given three weeks notice to move
to a different time period.
What about the needs of such a
program? Talent transportation and
finance where was it all to come
from? The students had already ex-
plained to Hubbard that this was
strictly an independent student
activity and was underwritten by
any organization on or off the cam-
pus. There wasn't a penny in the
treasury to pay for this new radio
venture. On the way back to the
campus they dug into their pockets
and make up more than enough to
pay for half of thejirst broadcast
one giving his last dollar and another
DOrrOWHIg-U Uullai- In uiUci-lu el-re
a part in this first offering for the
Amazing Grace Hour.
The Amazing Grace Hour in its
six broadcasts has featured Hardin-
Simmons student talent for all the
music. Two testimonies are given
each week by a boy and a girl en-
rolled in Hardin-Simmons and Paul
Stephens H-SU ministerial student
brings a weekly message.
Program director is Stephens mu-
sic director is John Petry announc-
er Bill Ward and narrator George
Dodson.
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There's not a man on the campus
any busier or happier than the
director of religious activities.
In the tiny nook called the B. S. U.
office Truett Sherriff works and
prays and fellowships with those
"who drop in" to chat with him
or discuss the problems connected
with any number of the religious
activities that are carried on around
the campus. As his title suggests
Sheriff helps direct the Life Service
Band program Ministerial Council
Baptist Union and the various
branches of these organizations.
Perhaps the most important cur-
rent activity in the realm of reli-
gion on our campus is the coming
revival rncetlng to be held from
March 10 to 14. Sherriff is anxious
that all students attend the services.
"Can you mako up a sentece with
the phras bitter end' in it?"
Little Mary looked dubious.
"Would this do teacher? 'Our dog
chased our cat and he bitter end'."
Seven sisters a brother and their
mother all gifted in singing and
with talent in the playing of such
rarcly-hcard ancient instruments as
tho recorder spinet and viol da
gamba will comprise a musical
program at Bphrcns chapel here
next Saturday March 7 when the
Trapp Family Singers present a
concert of unusual church and folk
music of many lands.
The appearance of the Trapp Fam-
ily Singers in Abilene is one of more
than 100 concerts being presented
by tho Baroness and her singing
progeny in leading cities from coast
to coast on tho Family's sixth trans-
continental American bur. At the
chapel program the musical family
will appear in the colorful peasant
costumes of their native Austria.
Tickets may bo obtained at the
Hardin-Simmons university busi-
ness office and downtown at the
Mackcy Co.
Baroness Maria Augusta von
Trapp and her daughters Johanna.
Agathe Hcdwig Maria Martina
Rosemary and Elcanorc will be
dressed in handsome figured-brocade
floor-length dirndls with vari-
colored aprons and shawls and
billowy white blouses; and the son
Werner in a picturesque gray-and-green
Tyrolean hunting suit.
In addition to rare old pre-classi-cal
church music and groups of seldom-performed
works for 16th-century
blockflutcs viol da gamba and
spinet their programs offer folic
songs of the Austrian Alps calling
upon their unmatched skill at yodcl-
ing. Promised also arc performances
of several recently completed tran-
scriptions by Father Wasncr of
popular American and English folk
melodies which the Family have
assimilated on their concert travels
including charming settings for the
"Londcrry Air" "Home on the
Range" "My Old Kentucky Home"
and other favorites.
Although established today as one
of America's most heavily booked
concert attractions the Trapp Fam-
ily did not perform publicly until
ten years ago when the great
Metropolitan Opera soprano Mme.
Lotto Lchmann first encouraged
them to turn their hobby of o-cap-pclla
singing to professional uses.
TrCVlOUslynlic clmre:i DnrtJhs and
Baronesses heirs to an old Austrian
title the Family includes in addi-
tion to the nine who will be heard
here next Friday the father Baron
Gcorg von Trapp the eldest son
Rupert and a small American-born
boy Johannes lived quietly in a
medieval castle on their estate In the
picturesque mountains near Salz-
burg. They had always loved to sing to-
gether and for their own amuse-
ment had roamed the countryside
collecting folk songs and mountain
yodels which had never before been
written down. During the long win-
ter evenings the older members of
the Family liked to gather around
the mammoth fireplace in the baron-
ial hall and sing these lovely old
melodies.
In time they were joined by
Father Wasner a young priest who
had studied music in Italy and had
for three years held the post of
organist at the Austrian National
church in Rome Santa Maria dell
Anima.
He became their private chaplain
as well as their musical director
and prepared for their use special
transcriptions of old church music
and folk songs. Father Wasner also
instructed the family in the play-
ing of the ancient instruments which
opened up to them a whole new
repertoire of works by the early
Italltan German and Elizabethan
composers.
When the Nazis invaded Austria
their ancestral estate was confiscat-
ed. The family took refuge in Italy
and from there sailed to America
to find here a permanent haven.
Today the Trapp Family make
their permanent home on a farm
near Stowe Vermont where they
maintain a thoroughly old-world
atmosphere of quiet charm.
Student "Prepared
Who would have guessed that
Marconi's invention of the wireless
"way back when" would add zip
and zest to chapel programs in
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Someone in Tuesday's chapel took
advantage of the Invention in the
form of a pocket ilze portable
radio. In the midst of the scheduled
program came the familiar sounds
of the air waves from the left
center section.
So Theq Sai
By E. E. WELSH. JR.
The question this week is: "What do you enjoy most - about the
Brand besides the dirt column?" '
LOIS ERVINt Sports section.
CARL MERICLE: It really doesn't matter to me but Ilike the editorials.
LESLIE KELLY: I like to read the news of the campus.
WILMA MARTIN: I enjoy Meet the Senior.
JOHN BERRY: I like the sports page and all the paper for that matter.
EDSEL BURFORD. Editorials.
FLYOD STRICKLAND: I like the cartoons.
V. D .WALTERS: I think it is a fine paper and I regret that I don't have
mUch time to read it.
BARBARA BERRY: I like the Sketch Pad Meet the Senior and tho
editorial page.
VERNON CHAMBLI88: The news interests me more than any other
part of 'the Brand.
A Cowboy Sofa
By DOROTHY LEWIS
List to the talc of tho cowboy trials :
Though disturbed by disaster and damaged by
dragons
They arose with courage to conquer the crca-
tures.
In the coke hall collegians collected to chatter "
From dawn they sat sipping between sessions '
of Spanish;
Professors passed. through powerful in pur-
pose Delayed from their desks by mysterious dark-
ness. The King of the Campus conscious of the
calamity
Of students reciting in shadowy stillness
Entered the hall with long step and stride.
A teacher of tradition ho loved the brick
building
Housing tho memories of many great battles.
T'was here on the walls hung the heroes' deeds
Monicntocs not matched nor measured by
money :
Presents from patrons from prominent places
Priceless placards pennants and pictures
To tell of tho times they returned from travel.
T'was here that the band combined to play
Their music unmatched and mighty in melody j
Skilled in Sousa by n Writer of rhythm
They measured their meters in manner unusual.
The lectures continued with no thought of the
danger
Now creeping upon now crawling within :
Imperfect wiring a modern monster
"Was ready to move with the wind.
Blazing with boldness and striking so swiftly.
That n comma splice slipped unchecked
The hall heavy with heat pouring forth in the
noon-day
Was rocked from the roof by the rogue.
Staring the students stood in silence
Retrieving crews roamed through the rooms
Carrying out chairs from the Crazy Cremator.
They battled the blaze brought books and band
pieces
Irreplaceable pictures and relics of art ; s
Lines formed in front of the door to the coke
hall
That emptied entirely the store of its stock;
"With tense expressions and tested tactics
Tliey passed the pieces from person to person.
Flames leaped and licked at the lives of the
fighters
Viciously drawing a paw for the kill.
But all of tho murder all of the malice
Was nothing but useless noise.
Crews carefully tnrried out instruments
Of the now homeless world-famed band:
Two dozen brasses nnd n couple of drums
Ministers mighty in many great places
Their medleys were merry and martiaUtand
magic "'
Strutting the streets with their cow-step and
whirl
Tall Texons riders and ropers parading and
prancing
Receiving the All's and ovations from throngs.
. .The great-Jiall cleaned of the costly instru-
ments ''' '
Tho Weaver of Western music cried out :
"The harp! The harp we must hunt up tho
harp!"
But the Sou of old Simmons the wise man of
. words
Rich with remarks replied in return
"Better let the harp be or you may become
The owner of a harp and a crown!"
Staggering in steam tho firemen fought on-.
Cool with concern in confronting the crisis:
The roof began to crackle and crumble
The white columns blackened from smoke ; '
Flames flickered then raced upward rapidly.
Soon all that was left was the hull.
The buckling walls of the building all bent
Pointing up the sky standing lonely a silent .
reminder
That wc empty our lives and die.
Gone were rich records of previous history
Gone were the classrooms and books ;
The Brand and the Bronco wero now left home-
less . ....'
The bandroom where buddies and gathered to
talk
Was one great mass of charred timbers now "V
toppling. t
Lost was tho building constructed -by citizens'
Of old Abilene years ago. . .'
Visitors passedsteadily bv the skeleton. -
Viewing the victory of this roving vagrant
Who recorded an ending to a valued old
servant.
Sluggish in spirit the students now shifted
To n near-by church for instruction.
But the Giver of Good looking down on
adversity
Began to raise friends for the cause.
On a Saturday morning to the strains of tho
anthem
The chapel hall crowded with students and
friends
The carver of character stood tall to announce
That a fund-raising feast would begin.
"What will you give to rebuild the hall!"
Tho chairman cried out through-the throng;
Praying and pleading joking nnd gesturing
Five-hundred was promised five times;
Three hundred two-fifty a hundred a
hundred
And down and around it went;
A hundrcd-uml-fifty n hundred then fifty
Twenty-five four dozen times more ;
Till twenty-ono thousand and three-soventy-
fivo
Was pledged and promised by nil.
The grantor of degrees a herald of history
Arose with an anxious remark;
Grateful in heart for the generous giving
Ho unlocked his word-hoard for applause.
On that snmo day in the afternoon - .
At tho sot of the evening sun
A wrecking crew skilled in destruction and
. death
Struck at tho heart that still stood.
Hundreds who watched will tell through tho
years
How tho walls camo n-turabling down.
Tho future is filled with fortiln ideas
And much courage must now bo commanded:
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