The Collegian (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 32, Ed. 1, Friday, June 28, 1940 Page: 2 of 4
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Friday Junt 28 1140
THE COLLEGIAN
WE HAVE NO PLACE FOR ANY ISM BUT AMERICANISM
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THE COLLEGIAN
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HIRSCHELL RODGERS Editor
Associate Editor
HILLER NEWTON
Business Manager
JAMES D. LEWIS
"I'm
Sorry"
STAFF
Quits Editor. LILLYBUD DENMAN
Feature Editor. MARY McCLELLAND
Society Editor... .VIRGINIA GREGORY
Administration Editor. GENE KENNEDY
Sponsor. MRS. HELEN POST WRIGHT
Subscription (Mailing Included ) Term . 26c
Typists LUCRETIA NORMAN EVA WELLS VIRGINIA GREGORY
ELSIE PRATER OPAL HOLLEY
Special Editors MADGE McCORMICK KATHLEEN MAXWELL
Nobody ever thought to apply either
retail or wholesale distribution service to
"being sorry" but the wide practice in
the art in the field of traffic casualties
seems to make it necessary. In Memphis a driver was ar-
rested for driving recklessly while intoxicated. The charge
contained 12 specifications. Eleven cars and one pedestrian
were struck by the car. Incidentally a policeman had his
fingers pinched in the car door and seven concrete posts were
demolished. The driver in the role of defendant in the munici-
pal court entered the plea "I am sorry."
He was sorry once for a dozen inflictions of damage
which is mass productivity wholesale distributiong or some-
thing. The incident was closed by a blanket fine of $138 with
the victims left to provide their own indemnity. "I am sorry"
has been wasted down the years. Until it came to be applied
to the three degrees of dangerous auto driving it rated as
the least productive of reactions to offense in any form. Now
it is a pass out through the front door of the court room.
"I am sorry" is very easily said and should be used more
often perhaps but how many of us really mean it? Hiller
Newton.
in their hatred people will forget about civil liberties and the
constitutional guaranties protecting them. They will not ob-
serve them in their relations with other people and they will
permit nay demand that Congress pass laws seriously
abridging if not actually abolishing them.
The American people will relinquish at the bat of an eye-
lash the rights and liberties for which their fathers and their
fathers before them went to war. Once relinquished such
rights are not always easily regained. It can reasonably be
argued that this war (which the United States will probably
enter to protect democracy) will end with a dictator in the
United States. Ironical yes but history is nothing but a
succession of ironies.
Even if this is too pessimistic a prediction and war sees
only a temporary relinquishment of civil liberties and re-
sulting physical suffering and mental anguish will equal any-
thing the soldiers in the front-line trenches will have to en-
dure. It is one of the everlasting tragedies of the human race
that it crucifies its greatest benefactors. It were better that
we stay out of the war even at the risk of humiliation and
economic loss than that we extinguish for centuries the lamps
of learning whose flames are fed by freedom of thought.
' (From the Dally Texan)
Arkansas Sal
Dere Tudie:
Wal here is another weke and i am goin' to tell you with
help of Slim who rally gets around all the dirt in this here
school. Least .vise all i cin and some i should not.
First rite off i want to tell you that that Blond of dewitfs
is rally a brwnete and he sez he is now sad cuz she is gone
out of this here town.
Slim sez that Don Chisam is also departed from his gal
who is out of town also and he was absent from the caa
bisness afore she left but a course he was sick.
Thar is lot of kids which Is seen
Pressure
Boys
The Pressure Boys are at it again.
Revival of high-powered propaganda
methods to stir up public opinion in this
country against Germany dates from the
Nazi invasion of the Low Countries; and like the German
invasion which touched it off it is gaining momentum daily.
All you have to do to notice it is to look at the front page
of any newspaper or listen to any radio broadcast about the
war. Some papers are not so bad as others of course. Some
confine the propaganda to the editorial page but it is still
present in all of them.
We haven't heard any stories yet about the Germans kill-
ing Belgian babies cutting off captured soldiers' hands using
priests for bell-clappers and committing other assorted atros-
ities and we probably won't. The pressure boys have refined
their technique remarkably in twenty-three years.
Rearmament in this country repeal of the Johnson and
Neutrality Act and ultimate entry into the war are aims
in probable order of their accomplishment of the newest
propaganda efforts.
The change of the public's attitude is already noticeable.
You no longer hear people talking about staying out of the
war; you hear them talking about how long it will be before
we enter the war.
In spite of the fact that we have no more business getting
into the war now or anytime than we have of transferring
the gold at Fort Knox Ky. to the middle of the Atlantic
ocean and of sending a million or so men after it we probably
will be fighting side by side with England and France sooner
or later the later the better.
People are beginning to accept that fact without thinking
that if they did not accept it it probably would never happen.
You no longer hear so many tales about the horrors of
war except when they are applied to civilians. Writers used
to turn out reams of copy fairly dripping with the blood of
men who had ignominously had their guts shot out trying to
make the world safe for democracy but they have changed
their tune of late.
It is just as well perhaps. Everybody with an I. Q. one
point above that of an idiot knows that war is horrible and
that four million men blasting away with everything from
semi-automatic rifles to heavy artillery can make an awful
mess of each other. It is superfluous to remind people of
that. Instead of weeping on each other's shoulders about
ending mother's boy away to die they ought to be thinking
about ways to keep mother's boy at home. But they aren't.
Nor are they thinking about what will happen to the few
who do stay home and who like to think for themselves even
in wartime. Fully as horrible as the slaughter at the front
is the hysterical fanatical intolerance that comes behind the
lines. Franxied undiluted hats will sweep the country; and
together on the campuss but 1
don't know If they Is just goln In
fer frendship courtln' only or
addln' some Blend ship courtln'
also.
Thar is Thomas and Virginia
who are goin' strong tU that fat
boy comes along. And Marion
Bynum and Jack Davenport set
on the bench sometimes. Lots a
times 1 see Adrain Yet with Eva
Wells and then some times with
Pat the valient. Also Jack Smith
was at chapel with Roberta Mc.
Cormick.
A guy whose name Is Price
Richard Ashton was two days out
of a class because of rain which
kept him at his hometown. But
he has a gal that is mighty hard
to leave even on a sunny day.
Thar is a boy here who has fer
a long time been woman shy. But
jest afore a certain gal left he
became kinda brave and took her
to the sho. A friend of Slims sez
that this here Julian Tomlinson
had his arm around Alice Raw-
lings which anybody can see is
no way fer a boy who is supposed
to be skeered of wlmmin to act
Ther is some scandelus goins on
in this school. Slim saw Percy
Owen and dick Alford (who is a
gal) and Bob Farrls and susie
Smith gal in the sceins lab dancin'
on the top of some tables. And
it was nite! Percy Owen also took
this here Dick up to see his air-
plane tho Slim sez it was rally
his etchins he was goin' to sho
her. v
Plnkey Denman should be verry
sad cuz his gal turned him down
when he asked fer a date the oth-
er nite. But he always is cuttin'
up jest like his heart isn't a break-
in. Qulllon Hutton who is that
strong silent man 1 told you about
is being also strong about havin'
no gal around. That Doris Goos-
by gal is shorely cute enough to
keep him toeln' the mark even if
she is 70 miles away.
Thar has been a hitchln jest
lately. That J. D. Lewis now has
a Mrs. Lewis but 1 don't kno
who she was a fore they was jlned.
Slim sez that Ed Cernel still
flutters whenever he sees Eva
Wells but she can't even see him.
Peers to me that it Is a heart
less world and that this is a wick
ed and cruel bunch of wlmmin to
kke the boys all the time from
classes and from being happy as
they rltely should be.
Baby Blair has more than once
refused to go courtm-with a
dober. But is n't cuz she is loyal
to the Blu and White but cuz she
does 'not like to ride in a Taxi.
That Liard Meadows is shore a
flirt. Every time i see him he is
friendship courtln' with a different
gal. Sometimes its Gene Farrls
and then its Hazel Lewis. But
mostly it is a red headed gal.
If n some of these hear ladies
don watch out they's a goin a
have to go back to teach schule
next year without airy a husband.
These husbands just court these
hear shy little ol gals around here
till its pitiful. I know ifn' I had a
man 1 would shore watch him
heap closer'n these married ladies
duz.
Thin thars that Visty Lee Mc-
Million (or something like that)
that just courts 'em all. But if 1
wuz a boy 1 guess she would en-
tice me too.
1 shore do hope you like this
here dirt as i shall probaly pay
derely fer it. And you have Slim
to thank fer a lot of It. So 1 must
close and get out my mlgnifyin
glass and butter fly net to help me
catch what dirt is inslgniflcunt or
flitey.
Your dere friend
SAL.
Students at Kent State Univers-
ity Indicate that students from
cities are healthier than those
from rural areas.
LETBETTER'S
MATTRESS FACTORY
130S Main Street
Phone 29I-R1
THE PLAGIARIST
"Frequently water drinking"
said the professor "prevents be-
coming stiff In the joints."
"Yes" said Vista Lee "but some
of the joints don't serve water."
Pome
Little grains of powder
Molecules of lead
Makes some people mighty rich
And others mighty dead.
College Star
Son Pop I wish you would
help me with this problem.
Dad Can't son it wouldn't be
right.
Son Maybe not; but you could
try. East Texan.
Daffynitlons
(Given by a small boy who had
seen too many movies.)
Parenthesis is the name for
father and mother; useful for
raising children.
Brackets is the name of a
gangster business; it is used to
get money from people.
Apostrophe something that
happens to people; the gangsters
use it when people won't pay.
Italics are a kind of people;
they come to this country and
make gangsters of themselves.
A tall stately girl is merely a
long lanky girl with money.
AIR CURRENTS
The CAA class is meeting reg-
ularly on Tuesday and Thursday
nights since the text books have
arrived.
Class will meet Friday night in
order to make up for time already
missed.
Students are anxious to take to
the air and will get their chance
as soon as the spring class has
finished their course.
Mr. C. C. Kersey flight instruc-
tor has gone to Kansas City in
order to purchase a new plane to
be used here for training of the
Flying Billies.
A model airplane is being buUt
for the ground school work. The
purpose of the model la to ac-
quaint the student with the mov-
able controls on the plane.
Jessie Beryl Chisholm and
Philip Shaw have just completed
their cross country flights.
Aeronautic officials were In
Brownwood Tuesday conferring
with local authorities as to the lo-
cation of another airport.
For Ladle who want the) best
FRENCH BEATY SHOP
Phone 1S31
204 East Anderson
STOP SHOP and SAVE
M System Store
Evsrythlna to eat ' I
505 Flsk St
Sellers Barber
Shop
Welcome Students
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Four Complete Soda Fountains
Sandwiches Drinks Lunches
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The Collegian (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 32, Ed. 1, Friday, June 28, 1940, newspaper, June 28, 1940; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth100245/m1/2/: accessed May 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Howard Payne University Library.