The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 19, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 8, 1936 Page: 4 of 4
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The J-Tac
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AMP US
Hear ye, hear ye, this Kangaroo
court of this institution is now- call-
ed to order.
■ I say, Deal;?, old thing, 'ave you
beene reading- your, etiquette
again? By jove, one needs think of
- one's etiquette, v.-hen one encoun-
ters so many uncouth persons.
Chunky—a, one word indication
for Mary E. (I'm a -wampus cat)
Jones. ', *
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■ Always gets his. tno-i-- that bra-
wny, euaaing, drinking Bryant
. Hairbreadth Cowan. 0. D. and
rammed everything but a brick
wall. Hoc 5?ad you didn't see a
good hard wall, Junior.
Headliner: Dyeas—Katliff. secret
love affair exposed in brawl.'Pur-
loined photograph led Mickey
Mouse to suspect Ben T. The Mouse
juihped Benjamin, but Ben failed
to respond. >
She was. both proud and shy as
she', donned her little military uni-
form and hit the cadence of. "Bring-
ing in the. Sheaves"—to march un-
affected into her home-town church
She had made- good off at college,
and' Nadipe Keith didii't intend , to
let it escape the ho me-town news
readers.
What did you do, Austin Harri-
son, call that freshman "Bird?"
You know the one that took your
pants off, singlehanded.
A Bit of Admonition
Love a gal
Lose a pal,
Take a drink
Raise a stink,
Sock a mug ■ ,
In the jug.
Slumbering J. C. Sutton awaked
in time to inform Miss Lewis that
Columbus arrived F.O.B. U.S.A. in
1607.
The Itasca" delegation with an
original system for lady courting
No so long .after I mentioned Tom-
my Martin's letter to Mrs. John-
son, Emerson opened correspond-
ence with Mrs. Shanafelt.
All the gals take 'a run-out pow-
der on.Arliss (I want a woman)
"Wyatt. The last time—would have
pursued her hand but found two
boxes of candy alongside his con-
tribution;
On a ruse of frozen water pipes
the business • manager ducked the
office. Water pipes to the Dean, but
'tvfas a wifie dear to Mac.
The Teel IIouss staged a frame
Coleman Smith pulled a crazy act
on "Gunteey" Sullivan, "Guntsey".
took it on the lam, hopped a
strange Model ''T" and didn't show
up for two days. \
Charlie (I just heard a good one)
Wilkins has passed on to join that
innumerable throng of joke tell
ing professors. Amen. .
Well, as the French would say
it, aw reservoir until i can confis-
cate someone else's reputation.
—The Gentleman
MAJESTIC
BARBER SHOP
RIDE THE
CITY BUS, 5c
Mates the Loop Every 10 Minutes
THE
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Announces
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CREAM
PAHGBTHEtN'S
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« .TARLETON
MONOGEAMED
9 JEWELRY
Rest Physical Training Classes at U.
Are No Snap, Says Tarleton Ex of 1935
Norris Davis, Tarleton, '25, and
editor of the J-Tac last year, con-
tributed the following article,
which the J-Tac is pleased to ac-
.cepfc "at the regular rate of $1.00
per word." Davis is attending the
School of Journalism at the Uni-
versity of Texas this year:
Forward—, march!. Company—,'
halt! That is the way you boys jn
Tarleton get your physical train-
ing, And as you march perhaps
you sometimes think longingly of
those runjors of rest physical
training that you have heard con-
cerning the University of Texas,
But the physical training in the
University is not the snap it is
rumored to be. In Tarleton if you
can prove that you have fiat feet
or show that you have only one
hand, your days of physical train-
ing are over. At the University of
Texas every student is given a
physical examination and the
physical training he is to take is
decided upon, Most of the boys are
passed as O.K. and are allowed to
choose any of the numerous regu-
lar classes; but there are always a
few who have ailments that are
peculiar to them. The University
gives to itself the serious task of
rebuilding the bodies of these spec-
ial students, and it is for this pur-
pose that special "corrective"
training has been organized.
Take an imaginary trip with me
through Gregory. Gymnasium. Stop
in room 15 and wat'eh the boys.
One is playing with marbles, but
he is using his feet instead of his
hands. With the marbles between
his. toes he walks about for a time.
He drops them. He struggles to
get them replaced between the toes
and then walks some more. Beside
him on the wall a chart states that
this is an exercise for flat feet. De-
tails of the exercise are given.
Other boys are busy with many
queer machines, each of them with
its chart tacked oit the wall close
by. •
You are watching a part,of the
boys' class in corrective . physical
training in the University, the on-
ly class. of its kind in the South-
west. Here boys with some physi-
cal defect which makes it impos-
sible for them to take part in the
regular physical training classes
are cared for. The class at present
has 61 members. In an inner room
there are . nine ' cots arranged
around the walls. Cots in a physi-
cal training class! Yes, for cor-
rective physical training does in-
clude the course in* rest about
which you have heard so- many ru-
mors. Here the students who are
recovering from serious operations
or illness spend 30 minutes stretch-
ing on. a cot. Weary and discour-
aged from his struggle in classes,
the student retires here to a clean,
white cot and does . nothing but
rest. The remainder ,of the day's
work is made easier.
Classes meet thre£ times each
week. Standing in the door to: .his
office, S. N. .Eckdahl, instructor,
waits for them to come in. With a
sympathetic but stern glance he
watches them dashing . here and
there at the beginning of the per-
iod. Some climb a rope, hand over
hand. Some play basketball. Until
the bell they may do whatever
they wish. As the bell sounds, Eek-
dahl's voice rings out, "All right
boys, get started on your regular
programs." And the reason for the
slight sternness becomes'apparent.
A. few of the boys frown. They
don't like routine and regular hab-
its. That very dislike of regular-
ity probably contributed a great
deal toward causing them to be
defective in the first place. The
first part of the period is given
over entirely to this scheduled
work. During the last ten minutes
they amuse themselves with what-
ever machine they like bes,t. "'
"Corrective physical training has
its place," Dr. H. L. Klotz of the
medical staff of the University
says. "It is necessary here. Doc-
tors all over the country have
commended our work,"
"A well man has no business
here," Mr,. Eckdahl declared. His
eyes speculatively watched a boy
lying on his, back with . his toes
hooked lender a bar, alternately
raising himself to a sitting posit-
ion and then slowly going back to
the prone position. "That .boy is
working on a slight rupture. The
muscles of his stomach are being
strengthened to offset the defect.
"Most of the boys stay with lis
for a short time only. As soon as
their defects are corrected, they
are shoved into the regular class-
es." His look was just a little re-
flective. Perhaps he was remem-
bering the many flat chests he has
helped to fill out, the many round
shoulders he has straightened, the
flat feet that have been corrected,
the boys he has nursed to.strength
after illness or operations, or the
cases of slight heart , disease he
has .completely cured. Perhaps he
■remembered with joy sorfie crip-
FEBRUARY BRINGS FIVE
SATURDAYS AND PAYDAYS
Yes, this is February, but it
has five paydays.
February won't have five Sat'
urdays again until 1964,
You see, it has to be leap year
and the first day of the month
muot fall on Saturday for this
to happen.
In fact, February has had five
Saturdays only six times since
the Gregorian calendar was
adopted in 1752. -
pled or maimed boy whose outlook
on life had been brightened by use-
ful exercise and teamwork1 with
other boys. Maybe he thought re-
gretfully of the few paralysis or
blind vases with which he could
do nothing more than to have them
report to the health service doc-
tors at regular times. He snapped
back to the present to direct one
of the correctives for a minute
and then continued his discussion.
"Yes,"we have all kinds of equip-
ment; most of it has technical
names, however," he said. "We
have pulley weights, quarter
rounds, suspended barrels, various
types of bars and ladders, bicycle
exercisers, walking machines,
punching bags, rowing machines;
in short, we have machines to ex-
ercise every muscle in the ' body.
Over there is an ankle exerciser
which I invented myself. We pre-
scribe machines needed to correct
,-the particular defects of each stu-
dent. Each one has a different pro-
gram or schedule."
At the other, end of the room a
student finished climbing a ladder
while standing on his head and
turned to another exercise. He un-
consciously straightened his pos-
ture as he glimpsed hia reflection
in the large mirror opposite. The
mirror helps show all the students
their defects. As you watch, the
work goes quietly on.
Mr, . Eckdahl, a lieutenant-col-
onel in the ■ reserves, has spent the
greater part of his life specializing
in the teaching of corrective work.
He used it in rehabilitation work
for the government after the war.
The University also has a class to
train students who plan to teach
corrective physical training.
Corrective physical training with
its cots and marbles may sound
like play; but it is work, good
constructive work of which, the
University, is proud,. _ . >
' John Qunn Rounasville is a clerk
in the state treasurer's office at
Austin. - - , ' ■
GROUND-HOG SEES SHADOW;
BAD WEATHER IS FORECAST
Tarleton Students are assured of
six more weeks of bad weather, if
they believe in the ground-hog as a
weather man. As February 2 was
clear in Stephenville, the ground-
hog saw his shadow. Tradition
says the ground-hog seeing his
shadow may mean any number of
things, including six weeks more
of terrible weather.
Ground-hog day is not a perfect
example of a natural history myth
—not historically, at ; any rate.
February 2 is Candlemas Day, and
its origin as a festival is very
early in Christian times. How and
when Christendom began to be-
lieve that the state of the weather
on Candlemas Day ruled that of
the succeeding six weeks is lost in
antiquity. In some parts^of Europe
animals do not enter into the cal-
culations; it is simply a fair day
or a foul day that counts on Feb-
ruary 2. Elsewhere the bears or
the badgers or the hedgehogs are
supposed to emerge from their
hibernation on that day 'and, like
the ground-hog or woodchuck in
this country, pop back into their
holes for six weeks if they see
their shadows.
The story of the ground-hog day
care across with the early settlers
from England, is the belief of Dr.
W. Reld Blair, the director of the
New York Zoological Park.
As a matter of actual Weather
Bureau record, the ground-hog
day tradition sometimes hits the
mark and sometimes doesn't. In
any event, the woodchuck certain-
ly couldn't get a job in the Wea-
■ther Bureau.
James Bodine, '33, is a senior at
the University of Texas, .
YOU ARE ALWAYS
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like you are going to feel when you
feel like you are going to have a
feeling like you never felt before.
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SATURDAY NIGHT
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SUNDAY- MON.- TUESDAY
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WEDNESDAY
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AT-
BLAKENEY'S—of Course
ere's one cigarette that
writes its own
It's like ibis —-
You see J'm reading a
Chesterfield advertisement
and I'm smoking a Chester-
field cigarette, and all of you
are smoking Chesterfields,
&
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Now listen—Chesterfields
are mild (not strong, not
harsh). That's true isn't it?
Then you read "and yet
they satisfy, please your
taste, give you what you
want in a cigarette," That
says it, doesn't it?
Wait a minute—
It says now that Chester-
fields have plenty of aroma
and flavor. One of you go
out of the room and come
back. That will tell you
how pleasing the aroma is.
writes its otvn
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The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 19, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 8, 1936, newspaper, February 8, 1936; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth140253/m1/4/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.