The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 29, 1926 Page: 2 of 6
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: LARGE SHIPMENT
... OF
MOTHERS 1 DAY .CANDY
SERVICE DRUG STORE
PHONE 49
NEW .LINE OF
MOTflERS DAY
CARDS
good impression. See?
To'th'e parents: We welcome you to Tarleton, and we will
do all in our power to make you fee! that Tarleton wa,nts
you. We want you to know our college and love it as the
students do, \
Entered as second class mail matter at the postoflice in Stephenville,
Texas, under , the Act of Congress of March 3? 1879.
EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief - Wester Heilhecker
Business Manager : : William Davis
Associate Eotitor :... j°tt
Sport Editor ■ ; -Pat E* HodSe
Exchange Editor : ---Dace Mye
Editor u : - -- -Waldo Wilcox
Assistant Business Manager — - J"11 Br5%es
ENGINEERS EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor-in-Chief - : Raymond McClure
Assistant Editor... - * - Lewis Hale
Business Manager - -- —Gardner
Associate Editor - r McKain
Sport Editor ^ , - 'Glynn Cook
Exchange Editor ............. - - ' Loyd Hamilton
Faculty Advisor - ^r* Re£Win
THE ENGINEER
The engineer is the medium between ^ society and labor.
He, iF anybody should meet the requirments set forth in
Kilping's popular poem, "If1."' The engineer must know
the hardships of the laboring people, ancTiie must know
the requirements of distinguished gentlemen. He must
rub elbows with financeers and ditch-diggers. He is never
lauded or praised by the multitude?,' but not an edifice
stands that did not require the effort of some engineer.
His ditties are those that must be met when they arise, be
it rain or shine, day or night, warm or cold.
If an engineering student hopes to attain success in his
chosen field, he must develop one thing above all others,
and this is character. It matters not how successful you are
in your studies or how skilled you may be in special'under-
taking^—you will not succeed without it. The general
idea is that an engineer is an individual distinct from other
toilers, that his life is rough and uncouth, that his only
requirements are brain and brawn. That is the trouble with
most engineers today. They have -not developed their
moral character above ■ that of the masses, and as a result
they never climb; higher than the drafting office or the
instrument.
Just a word to those who contemplate adopting engineer-
ing as their life work. Are you willing to labor and worry
.and toil long after others are through? Are you willing
to sacrifice your pleasures if need be? Can you keep a
Jlevel head when millions are involved? Would you back
■your argument ■ if you were opposed by seemingly invin-
cible, forces? If you ean you will have spent days
and months and years in' preparation. You will have en-
dured hardships and difficulties. You will' have learned
the greatest lesson that an. engineer can hope to learn.
That lesson is the lesson of rapid fire thinking, cool judg-
ment and self-reliance.
April 20, 1926.
Miss Priscilla MIcKinnou,
Stephenville, Texas,
Dear Miss McKinnon: ■ ,
Yours of today is a very unus-
ual request arid I am tempted to
ignore it, since it requires such a
personal reply but my conscience
takes precedence over my pride and
I feel that it is my painful duty
to respond for the benefit of those
who may have aspirations similar
to my own. '
I first blessed the campus with
my presence in that memorable
year of '22, during the swan song
of such as Comp'ton, Savage, Beth-
el, Brauer and others. I do not re-
member what- took me there, but
in. '25 I succumbed to that deadly
fever called wanderlust and a west
bound passenger attempted to take
me away but soon gave up and a
freight train was elected .to finish
the job; however the conductor and
myself got together and decided
that I should get off at Slayton.
I was still lusted but , also busted
so I did hot wander so far. My
-name is the same as it was when
I was there.
My field of endeavor was along
the engineering line which will
explain who .my favorite teacher is
and why. It was -while pursuing
that course that I, performed the
greatest fete of my career; that of
laying out the plans of a house
which was never built. For reasons
ivhy the house was never finished
seo any engineer of the class of '25.
Another feat came one moonlight
night when I was persuaded to
take up a track. Due to the fact
that it was such an impromptu call
I was obliged to use a very popu«
lar undergarment for. a track suit.
All that I can say of that night is
that Charlie Psiddock d^es hot ieveri
know i wW track speed is aiidr^-
well it was a silly idea to plant
blackberries back, of the White-
house, 1
I think I pulled enough bones
while in Tarleton to make a stand
THE MAN WITH THE TRANSIT
You. ^ee {lis work in towers high,
in ' mighty ships,. in giant dams,
In a spool of thread or a yard of
cloth
In gushing oil arid hydraulic rams.
You feel his pulse in the turbines
throb,
And see. Jiis hand in the sea-
wall-wide, .
For he's labored at all and took
his chance,:
Andj maybe he lived and maybe
he died.
The highway was his work and
the pavement his Ibve;
Skyscrapers his. queen and his
peer;
For he wrought with a hand that
never trembled or shook,
Or a head that was stricken with
fear.
He spanned the \ Tiber, dammed
Afton's clear wave,
Built a city,' a wall and a gate,
Figiired the stress and the strain,
f the^giVe; arid the play,
Arid the load in proportion to
weight.
He lurks like a ghost in the radio
room,
In the aeroplane's motor and
frame. '.
He works in the forest, on the lone
prairie,
And he adds to the railroad's
■name.
He travelled from Alaska to Chili
arid back,
To toy with the gold of the land.
Wherever you look, whatever you
use
' Is the work of his heart and his
hand. ; -
He's the irian. Willi the transit,
\ Arid he's forked froni his store.
He's dug it froiti notes
And: through the schoolroom
' door. '
He's fought through formulas,
1 Equations arid fear.
* April 23, 1926.
Special to the J-Tae,
Did yo'u know that' this is "Bet-
ter Home Week" in America? Bet-
ter Home Week is sponsored by an
organisation in Washington, D. C.,
of which Herbert Hoover is Chair-
man. The purpose of this move-
ment is to create sentiment among
our people for better homes and
better living conditions. :
The future history of America
will ho shaped, in a large measure,
by the character of its homes. Many
forces have operated during the past
generation to change home life.
Fears.have been expressed as to the
trend of American civilization. It
may be said in general that if we
continue to be a home loving peo-
ple, we shall have the strength of '
character that comes only from a
wholesome family life, and our de-
velopment will be sound and in thf
right direction. This means that
our homes must be convenient arid
comfortable, that however modest
they may be, they must be places
of beauty, that must represent . to
individuals the center pf their af-
fections gnd loyalty, that they must
provide daily training in wise plan-
ning, cooperation and the service
of others.
DID YOU KNOW—
ing army of skeletons as large, as 9 yon? rootiii', tootiii', dynamit-
the f^rlcc;t I nr11li!i.ififV.i.,.t .in', shootin' Civil Engineer.
: • f ' PARENTS' DAY
In .accordance with a long established, custom, Tarleton
will ; observe Parents' Day on Sunday and B/Ionday of next
; week. We wish that the parents of . every student might
1 be here; but, sitlce that is not to be expected, we hope that
MOST of them will come. Of course, the purpose of Par-
. ents' Day is to show the parents what their sons and
daughters are doing, but we have an, idea that most of
( will come rather to see their children than 'than, to
see what thejh are doing. .
cofllege.;is/(loing its best to provide for the enter-'
tainnaent antj comfort of the parents while they are here,
v">v;; . <ahd'we hope the student^ will try to make them feel wel-,
■\jf;l'.Students,;. if( your,'.parents ^ can riot be ;here, give
:,JsQpe(j>ixe' else's 'pargpts: .:a,. heattyi:welcome and.; show. them
-t .
^■'fi'1 Yotx^.knqw th$ pfirehts'^re going
.cles&es the first two hotire jMoiiday. rnorning. Well;
jiuat haYe^your lions'perfectly that morning and mike a
the federal prohibition force, but
there was one in .particular that
made a lasting impression. After
waklnig on the wfong side of my
girl, all the way to town ,1 gave the
lady at the ticket window a. dol-
lar, trying to pretend' that it was
not the onljest one I had, 1 then
walked by the door and gcive the
boy the fifty cents , I had received
in change and put. the tfckefs "in my
pocket. It was gome embarrassing
when,I, still inferrible ignorance,
took the , fair one , around for re-
freshments after, the show. I pre-
1)1!) YOU KNOW'
^ That oiJt of ten contests, with
Gnibfas this year, we have lost four.
That all in all ' we have only
lost ten contests out of any nature
this year,.
None in football; one in basket-
SuiJi, seven in baseeball, oiie~ de-
bate and one track meet with How-
ard Payne. Yet we hear some grip-
ing' about ou,r doings.
That is up to the fish of this
ycar to keep up this record.
That will only do this by bring-
ing back some new students ' who
will' make the college better for
fiis having been here.
Jona Williamson spent the week-
end and holiday at home in Lipan,
Texas.
Florence Green visited tier par-
ents at Graford, Texas.
Take out of these contests we
tended that someone stole my cap ^avb lost only three on our home
and oddly enough, she. drank .that territory:
as much like a true sport as she
did the frosted coca cola which
had not been paid for. The cause
of the above mentioned flustration
was assuredly the microbe of love
and the result was that I lost all
confidence in myself and never pro-
posed, the one and only time I was
tempted to, which was the reason
I was never refused by a Tarleton
co-ed.
While in Tarleton I was inclined,
at timtes, to be pessimistic and
thought it necessary to hoot at some
of the things) that the faculty did,
but after leaving, I was soon con-
vinced that it is, an ideal place
gfter all and now my praise of Tar-
leton can not be confined to a let-
ter so short as this one! must, of
necessity, be. The love that all
ex-students haVe for her is merited
by the fact that she is, and jhas al-
ways been, worthy of our fondest
hopes, and th^t love is made stron-
ger by knowing that she will carry
on, always,> -..
• , . Almost truthfully,; ■ . •
■„ ■" Bernie Trice.
A lock of George Washington's
jhair has been inherited by the Mt.
Vernon association. • ; l ^ ; j ,. -
That the president of the stu-
dent's council is one of the rank-
irig C. E. students?
That thfe editor of the j-TAC and
GRASSBURR are engineering stu-
dents?:
(That two members of the track
team are taking engineering?
That the members of our debat-
ing teaiii are both engineering
students? .
CITY BAKERY
FRESH BREAD CAKES"
AND PIES
DR. A. 0. CRAGWALL
AT PERRY BROS.
Res. Phone 299 Office 8
DR. J. A. WHITACRE
DENTIST and XRAY WORK.
Oil ice Over Service Drug Store
Stephenville, Texas
Office 130
Residence 30
li F. COMPTON
WONDERS WHAT GIRL WILL
GET THE SILVER SET
HE IS GIVING AWAY
Office Phone Res. Phone
423-2 Rings 423-3 Rings
DRrJ. S. NUT-T
DENTIST
X Ray Pictures of all kinds taken
Office over Smith & Ferguson
DIPLOMA DAYS
All the world loves the sweet girl graduate as
she stands on the threshold of life, confident and
hopeful.,
In later years, when responsibility comes, her
mind will turn back to the carefree days of her
school life. She will appreciate THEN her gradu-
ation photograph; ••
Mftkjel An .Appoinpjjient Maw.!. :
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The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 29, 1926, newspaper, April 29, 1926; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth139956/m1/2/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.