The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 8, Ed. 1, Friday, November 6, 1942 Page: 2 of 4
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Editorial
Remember HPC
McMurry has been whipped soundly whipped.
The players and coach who so decisively thrashed the Indians
in their own stomping grounds last week have been congratulated
bounteously but there is still plenty of room for a few more
plaudits.
The grit and skill displayed by ACC's Wildcats were magni
ficent. ACC's line was impenetrable and backfield men knifed the
opposition with rapier-like precision. Bert Brewer Jake Mullins
Glenn Brock Royal James and every boy that tore the turf of
Eagle stadium turned in heart-warming accounts.
School spirit was never higher than on last Saturday night. Abi-
lene Christian students sat together yelled together and won to-
gether. Ceremonies between halves could hardly have been con-
ducted with a better attitude.
McMurry Affair Was Toa Party
But. this is no time to settle back on the laurels of the past.
Compared with the encounter coming up week after next the Mc-
Murry affair is an Ellen H. Richards tea party. There are some
wings to clip and a stinger to extract down Brownwood way.
Smooth smug Howard Payne is flustered. Year after year
sports writers have rated her teams above those of this institution
in the Texas conference. Unfortunately those ratings have often
been accurate with ACC being nosed out of a tie position for con-
ference Championship.
This season is different. Again the Abilenians and HPC'ers are
tied and again dopesters have slotted Payne over ACC. Then what
does the purported underdog do but spoil the whole picture by
pushing a team which has defeated the HPC Yellow Jackets all
over the home stadium.
That's why the highly-touted fellow-leaguer is flustered. This
is ACC's year. She has dropped only one game; she will lose no
more. HPC must be whipped soundly whipped.
Passage of time has not assauged in the least the excruciating
memory of Howard Payne's yellow-shirted supporters parading
downtown streets following their victory here last year. The time
has come for table turning. Smooth smug self-assured Howard
Payne is going to meet a group of boys that has the Yelow Jacket
measure and then some.
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By Bonnio
Has it ever occurred to you that
maybe the reason you can't get
the grassbur out of the other fellow's
eye is that the rest of the grass
clump is in yours?
It's easy to tell the size of those
who size others up only to criticize
them.
If you don't like the way the
other man is doing the job try doing
it yourself.
The brakeman's profession is al-
ready overcrowded by those who
put the brakes on every effort for
good
Funny how much heavier a load
is when I am carrying it than it is
when I am binding it on another.
Ho Can't Provo This
The biggest word in the English
language is "smile." You can cut
pdp
By E.
1. How many advertisements appeared in last week's Optimist?
2. Why didn't McMurry pay us a visit last week?
3. Who arouses the slumbering college by ringing the bean-bell
every morning?
4. Why can't we have these short periods more often?
5. How many church services have you missed this week?
6. When have we had a better pep rally than last Friday night?
7. Rudolph Besier's play The Barretts of Wimpole Street will be
presented on what date?
8. Why can't everyone arrive at chapel on time?
9. Will those beloved (?) exams make a return engagement at mid-
semester or will they wait a full six-weeks?
Answers
1. 20; 2-10 1 don't know; do you?
Leo Fudgo
off a fifth of it and still have a mile.
Those who stay out of the Church
because there are hypocrites in it
have the taste of buzzards. They
overlook all the live sheep in the
flock and concentrate on the dead
one.
There are hypocrites in marriage
too but that doesn't bother people
about getting married.
I suppose some folks would have
refused to be an apostle of the Lord
because there was a Judas in the
crowd.
Better is a poor and wise youth
than an old and foolish king who
knowetli not how to receive ad-
monition anymore. (Solomon)
Before you gripe consider the
plight of the damper. Every fire it
dampens blackens it in the process.
quiz
R. Davis
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Begged
Borrowed
Stolen
By Greene
Into the family drinking well.
Willie pushed his sister NclL
She's there yet the water kilt her.
And now we have to use a filter.
GPC Graphic
Harding college went all out to
welcome back Pres. Benson from
another "whirlwind" tour of the
middle west. With brass bands
beautiful babes banners and bunt-
ing they crowded near to his house
and amidst "spontaneous" acclaim
called for a speech. He appeared on
the balcony and received a $100 war
bond for the college. Then he retired
for the night all was happy.
Littlo Willie hung his sister.
Sho was dead before wo missed
her.
"Willio's always up to tricks.
Ain't ho cute? He's only six!"
Vladmir Horowitz appeared as
guest in the second concert of the
season at Wcllcsley. Among his most
fovorably received works is his
recording of "Concerto in B Flat
Minor" with his father-in-law
Artoro Toscanini.
All the girls have nearly decided
to turn to the woolens as a solution
to the fuel ration there are advan-
tages of living in Texas where the
oilwells are right i n your back-
door we wished.
Item in tho Skidmoro Nows:
Dear Sir:
Since I started eating the Break-
fast of Champions I've crushed
seven fountainpens and broken two
typewriters trying to write home. I
didn't mind it so much when I
opened my closet door and tore it
off its hinges; and it wasn't so bad
when I swung the revolving door in
a department store so fast that I
killed four people.
But when I tried to kiss my date
last night and broke her neckI'm
going back to Grape-Nuts.
She was only the milkman's daugh-
ter but she was the cream of the
crop.
Willie with a thirst for gore.
Nailed tho baby to the door.
Mother said with humor quaint.
"Willio dear don't spoil the paint!"
"Oh what a strange looking cow"
said the city lass; "but why hasn't
she any horns?"
"Well you see" explained the
farmer" some cows are born without
horns and never have any. Others
shed theirs and some breeds ain't
supposed to have none at all. There's
lots of reasons why some cows ain't
got horns but the reason that that
cow ain't got horns is because that
ain't no cow it's a horse."
Gag
Chemist: (To his crying wife)
"Stop crying. Your tears have no
effect on me. What arc they? A
small percentage of phosphorus
salts a little sodium chloride. All
the rest is water. Bah!"
The OPTIMIST
DON FINDLAY Editor
LEA SHORT Business Manager
A. C. GREENE ASSISTANT EDITOR
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A Abilene Texas.
PONDER
OPTIMIST
ACC Campus Canvass
Campus Canvassls xRedHot!'
Should Coeds Date Soldiers?
By Greene and Whitcficld
Campus canvass got hot as a rail-
road stove this week. Some of the
results will not be just exactly pleas-
ing to "rcsultccs."
Because there had been quite a
bit of controversy on the campus
about it the poll was taken on: What
about girls dating soldiers? Only
boys were included. These are auth-
entic statements but there will be
no signatures.
"I think it's nice for a girl to go
with "a soldier that she knows.
And when I say knows I mean one
that sho knew before she came here
or one who has a proved back-
ground. When I sec a girl with a
soldier that I know she just found
or vice versa I can't help thinking
worse of her."
"I know what I'" think"
"In just about a month I'll be in
uniform myself. I hope I can find
some friend or make some friendship
in the place where I'm stationed.
But I know what I'll think of the
girls that I go with who don't know
beans about me or my family."
"Just because he's in a uniform
doesn't mean he'll bite you. Girls
who go with unfamiliar soldiers are
just adventurous little sprites."
"Girls who go with soldiers they
don't know are asking for trouble
and talk among the boys at least."
(So help us that's what two of
them said. Same words and everything.)
Forum
Editor:
Success! The leaders of the
Forum and the Young People's
meeting have received the oft
requested criticism. (We sure did
howl about it too!)
But now that the editor has
got it started let's keep this ball
rolling. Let's have some more
reasonable and thoughtful crit-
icisms. And not only that but
let's have a few suggestions for
improvements in tho programs
too. After all the programs are
intended for tho benefit of those
who attend and if no benefits
are derived then the progtnms
aie wasted. Let us then all GET
together TALK together WORK
together and TOGETHER make
OUR Forum meetings a success.
In last week's Optimist it was
suggested that the Forum be-
come a meeting for "preacher
boys" exclusively. To make it
that would be to ignore the most
useful aspect of the Forum
which is to develop leadership
in young Christian men. Poten-
tial elders need to receive train-
ing in public speaking directing
of church activities and Bible
knowledge just as much as do
the young evangelists. May I
suggest then to every Christian
boy that we make it our bus-
iness to see that the Forum pro-
vides just such training.
Sincerely
Foy Short.
STAFF
xt A1 ?e4rchVvviUe' .ack Si7nnt Genc Sutphen
Norma Ruth Moser Mary Elizabeth Haag Evelyn
9.?' T?m Lynn; Patsy Powell E. R. Davis Edward
Mills Jimmy McKinney.
Friday November 0 1942
"Ask the gal who goes with one!"
Pick-up Dating
"This old idea of a date bureau like
some colleges have is pluying with
fire. The same applies to this "pick-
up" way of dating. If I know some
nice military man who I think is
respectable I don't mind introducing
him to the crowd but when I see
some girl downtown with a soldier
that I know is a stranger I feel sorry
for her."
"Soldiers are like any other boy
you never know 'til you try one."
"Why a girl wants to take the risk
of going with a soldier I don't know.
It's dangerous it's silly and it's un-
necessary." (Yes that was a soldier speaking!)
"Just make sure the boy is a good
boy. It makes no difference then if
lie's good and you can tell he'll
show it."
Boys Didn't Know
Boys didn't know that they were
being "polled" until after they had
talked for a long time. This is the
way they really feel about the sub-
ject not what they tell their girl.
The group questioned included:
Hichaid Meggs Jimmy Austen
James LeFan. Walter Cypert J. T.
McDonald Jake Mullins Mike
Hughes Frank Kiser. Gene Sutphin
Gene Grounds a soldier Bruce Mun-
day Holhs Manly Henry Grubbs
Doug Graves Itado Archer Gene
Stanford and Doggie Dugger.
To the Editor:
Just today I was talking to
some of my fellow students
about one of the well-known and
somewhat delapidated traditions
or customs of this school.
Of course I suppose that it has
been required for years but no
longer do I see that there is a
need for the school requiring
chapel attendance during the
meetings of the College Church
of Christ I lvlicve that in
Christ's own teachings He want-
ed Christianity to be on a volun-
tuiy basis
We aie doing mwc harm than
good when we try to forci
Christianity on anyone the
acceptance of such to be right
must be from the heart and on a
voluntary basis. One of our chief
purposes has been to draw a dis-
tinct line between the Church
and the school. We are defeating
this very movement in its be-
ginning when chapel attendance
is required at Church.
I write this with all respect to
those who attempt to guide and
teach us.
Sincerely
Glen Exter
Eric DeLamarter organist and
composer of national reputation has
been named visiting professor of
music and conductor of the Univer-
sity of Michigan Symphony Orchestra.
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