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THE J-TAC
TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1940
THE J-TAC Editor's Comment
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SPORTS EP1TOR
JOHN PHELAN
ELAINE SCOTT
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SOCIETY ED [TOE DIXIE GILGEK
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Why Not a Swimming Pool?
.With spring rapidly approaching, thoughts
of many students—especially those of per-
sons who live in Galveston, Houston, Whar-
ton, Beaumont, Port Neches or other places
near bodies of water,—turn to swimming. In
Erath county there is located what is
known as Garner Park lake, about six miles
north of Stephenville on the Mineral Weils
highway. Because many people found con-
siderable difficulty in gaining transporta-
tion to this lake, a swimming pool — very
modern but not opened yet—was construct-
ed in the City Park behind the recreation
hall.
Now then. If you want to go swimming,
why not ..try out that new swimming pool?
It is to be opened soon. If there by chance
should be a rule restricting Tarleton stu-
dents from using the downtown pool—though
there is much doubt that there is—Tarleton
students would want a poo! on their campus.
Why not? The college administration is ask-
ing for larger facilities for physical educa-
tion programs; it would be a grand idea and
a great improvement. There could be no bet-
ter thought than of walking out of your
room or after class on a blistering day right
/nto a pool of sparkling, clear, blue water.
Davis Hall Needs Hot Water Letters To The Editor a. *
, Of the 128 boys living in Davis Hall,
nearly 120 of them shave at least once a
week. And when they do shave that one time
every seven days, it is usually on Saturday
nights before going downtown to the picture
show or to another entertainment. Very few
of them can shave in cold water—all water
is cold water on Saturday nights—so the
result, too many unshaven faces. Why can't
something be done, about keeping the boys'
dormitory supplied with hot water at all
times? Possibly there is some reason for the
lack of blistering liquid on this recreational
evening. But, whatever it might toe, why can't
something be done to remedy the situation.
Not only is there a lack of hot water oil Sat-
urday night, but there is also a lack of it
many other nights,
YOUR BIRTHDAY? ...
March 5: Billy D. Dobbins, Maurice Field,
Colbert Littlefield, James Strawn.
March 6: Fern Hassler, James K. Kerr, Joe
Martin, Dorothy Dale Slaughter,
Boyce Strong.
March 7: Wanda Turner, La Dell Boykin,
Martha Carlisle, Norris Hamil-
ton.
March 8:
March 9:
March 10:
Clara Evelyn Peach, Jay Boothe.
Bill Lehmberg, Mary M. Harris.
Billy Doyol, Kenneth Brown,
Gene Russell, William F. Shan-
non.
March 11: Ellena Fayne White, Edwin Ter-
ry, Erwin Gromatzky, Nadeene
Huestis, Earl Norris Kelly,
The College of Emporia was the first U. S.
college to receive a Carnegie library.
A 500-pound elephant skull ha3 been ac-
quired by the University of Texas.
The Mississippi State College power plant
■generates 2,000,000 kilowatt hours of elec-
tricity a year.
In the last 19 years, the Kose Bowl foot-
ball game has drawn a total gate of approxi-
mately $5,700,000.
Sixty per cent of Columbia University's
graduates continue their studies in the uni-
versity's advanced schools.
The Upsilanti (Mich.) Normal College has
the first building constructed especially for
the training of teachers of handicapped
children.
Dear Editor:
I dislike very much to write this letter. I
don't want anyone to be bothered with my
troubles, but I have a heavy load on my
heart and mind, and I feel from experience
you have had, that I might ask your judg-
ment on a very serious matter which has
caused me a great deal of worry. You will
probably understand my writing this regard,
ing the matter of so much importance to me,
when I tell you that homes have been des-
troyed and a great many lives made unhappy
by a similar trouble. I have put off writing
you for some time, but thinking that a later
date might be too late and you might know
the worst, it might mean life or death to me.
I do not care to tell any of my intimate
friends, ,for the most of them cannot be
trusted or relied upon. I have always thought
that you have been such a good friend in
times of distress, I think of you in extreme
times of danger. I know that I am asking a
great deal of you, but I feel like our friend-
ship will permit it.' In deciding such an im-
portant matter, I want to ask that you kindly
lay aside that friendly feeling, or whatever
kind of feeling you may have for me and
tell me from the bottom of your heart, do
you think Jeff will ever be as tall as Mutt?
A worried freshman, — Happy Turner.
P. S.—If you see fit to print in the J-Tac
please withhold the name.
ThiS columnist is so tired and worn out
that he feels like an enemic flea that Just
came out of a steam bath . . . and that's be-
ing tired. It's 3:10 Friday
afternoon. The J-Tac at
present also has a thin
appearance with about two
editorials and three short
stories "ready to go." It's
terrible, nerve-wracking,
discouraging. Here we
have a job to put out a
paper, with news in it.
What's happening? Won't
anybody do anything to
make a headline? Such is
the life of an editor, but
we love it, , .
PHELAN * • •
Read "Fish Day" Story
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ti
7UE to an unforseen something, The J-Tae
in the last few issues has been misinterpret-
ing ruling made by the Faculty Executive
Committee regarding "fiah day."
(Read the "fish day" story on the front
page.)
# • t
Leap Day*s the Day
ThURSDAY was "Leap Day," the day when
America's fair maiden do the knee bending,
finger-ringing, and fast talking. Looking
through the Daily Texan, the University of
Texas daily, I noticed an article on the front
page with the heading, "Laws once made men
answer 'Yes,; this year they can say 'No',
The first law of compulsory marriage up-
on a maiden's command was made in Scot-
land back in 1288, enforced by an assured
penalty affixed for men who took the situ-
ation too lightly.
Dale Carnegie says, "Within the neJct gen- '
eration women will do the proposing anyway.
If you girls are so much tin love, why don't
you simply do the proposing in this genera-
tion?"
John Oliver Hobbe3 took the attitude that
"If we once allow even for argument's sake
—that it is for women to arrange the mar-
riages, all social life is doomed to destruc-
tion."
Briefly, Bernard Shaw takes a different
point. In part, he says, "It is assumed that
woman must wait motionless, until she is
wooed. Nay, she often does wait motionless.
That is how the spider waits for the fly . ,
Tarleton students enjoyed their leap day
as if nothing had happened. There were no
hasty marriages among the students.
LWr«<« ;
'ifHWH I ssottf HSH&? raff. ftms ml
FOUNDER OF TARLETON COLLEGE
HAD TO COPE WITH TRAGIC BOYHOOD
Dere Mr.. Editer:
I want ter git this here letter printed in
the J-Tack if you have rome.
To- them hansom kerdats:
Boys, won't yer pleas take pity on a pore,
lonely, innercent, little gal which ain't never
had no fellar? All I do all day is set an' set
over in thet sad Moody Hall, an' all I do all
nite long is cry inter my pillar 'cose none of
yer kerdats never asts me fer o date. I never
had a date an' don't 'zactly know what one
tis but they must be wunnerful things ter
has. I set an' wach all them other gals, which
ain't a bit more purtier than me, primpin'
themselves all up fore their dates come, an'
my hart comes fair to bustin'. Boys, I ain't
bad to look at; cross my hart an' hope ter
dye, I ain't! I got long yallar hair braided
half-way down my back, my eyes is cawn-
flower blue, an' my features ain't bad at all.
Come see fer yerself! Please! Oh. please, let
the buzzer buzz fer me jest onct!
Yer Hopin' Hopeful,
ELVIRY.
P. S, Yer can git holt of me at the girls'
dermitery. Buzz No. 12. Jest call fer Elviry
—thets all the name I got 'cose I wuz found
in the street here whin I wuz an enfant.
By GABE LEWIS
This is the second of a series
of articles oil the life of John
Tarleton.
Tarleton's boyhood was as trag-
ic aa hia later life. He was born in
White Mountain, Vermont, in 1811,
but at the death of his. mother
four years later, John was sent to
live with an aunt in Virginia. The
hoy, being of an independent na-
ture, resented his aunt's constant
correcting and nagging. Though
the spinster had promised to edu-
cate the orphan, the only schooling
he received was on the wood pile
or in the garden. At the age of
fourteen John decided that his
advancement was too slow, and
that he would run away and join
the army. His aunt discovered his
plans and met him at the railway
station. The would-be hero return-
ed home in humility. His second
effort was more successful, and
after trudging about over the
country with a small bundle of
clothes and little or no money, he
secured a job in North Carolina
cutting wood at fifty cents per
cord.
In a short time the runaway
drifted into Knoxville, Tennessee,
looking for work. Somehow, he
managed to attend school, secure a
certificate, and teach for a while.
He decided that he could do better
in the mercantile business, and
he applied to the largest firm in
Knoxville—Cowan and Dickerson
—for work. Mr. Dickerson, a young
man at that time, refused at first
to give Tarleton employment. Af-
ter much conversation Dickerson
took him on trial under the prom-
ise that he, Tarleton, would stay
as long as Dickerson desired his
services. On that agreement he
went to work, and worked for 41
years behind the same counter, in
the same building, and for the
same man, before that man said
he was willing- to let him go. And
then, the firm owed him so much
in back wages that they' were
forced to deed the business to him
for his compensation,
Tarleton accumulated more than
back wagesi during that long per-
iod of time. He acquired thousands
of acres of land in Arkansas, Iowa,
Kansas, and other states by buy-
ing land certificates from veterans
of the War of 1812. As these were
given to the ex-soldiers by the
government, they were willing to
dispose of them for ten or fifteen
cents an acre. Before his death
these lands were worth several
millions of dollars, but as Tarleton
was then an old man and thous-
ands of miles away and ignorant
of their true worth, they were
sold for a fractional part of their
value-. He also secured some land
patents in Texas and, as stated
above, walked to that state in
1865.
Upon arriving in Texas he found
that Indians were still in possess-
ion of his landsi, so he decided to
go into the mercantile business in
Waco. Here he again met tragedy
in a matrimonial adventure—his
first, though he was sixty years'
old. He was the victim of a Mrs.
Johnson, a widow, who he had
noticed on the streets wearing a
beautiful hat with a long red fea-
ther stuck in it. As! she was worth
about thirty thousand dollars and
thought John had little or no prop-
erty, she insisted on a marriage
contract before the ceremony. The
contract stated that neither would
be responsible for indebtedness
against the other's property, and
that in case of separation there
should be no division of wealth.
After they were marrietd and she
found that the value of the prop-
erty of her non-talkative suitor
amounted to several times that of
hers, she wanted him to divide;
this he refused to do. They quar-
reled, and one year and one day
after their marriage he came home
from work and found his wife
gone. He next heard of her
through a friend who read a legal
notice she had placed in a St.
Louis paper,4 stating her intention
to sue. for a divorce. Without wait-
ing to change clothes, he secured
a lawyer and rushed to St. Louis.
Arriving there barely in time for
the case, he surprised Mrs. Tar- .
leton and her attorneys by pro-
ducing his copy of the marriage
contract. The divorce was granted,
but his wife got none of his prop-
erty.
After he returned to Waco, Tar-
leton nearly lost his life through
poison in some ,creamed berries
which were brought to him by a
little girl. The child's brother
worked for. Tarleton and knew
where the merchant kept large
sums of cash. When the old man
regained his health, he discharged
the clerk, but preferred no char-
ges against him. As his life had
thus been unhappy, he decided to
again make a new start. At this
time, in 1880, at the age of sixty-
nine, he moved to his lands in
Erath and Palo Pinto counties. ,
Higi troubles were not yet over,
for although the Indians had been
chased into Oklahoma, there were
many squatters' living on his land.
He paid theso people for their
improvement and divided the land
into blocks of several hundred
acres each, offering them for sale.
As he was unable to sell his land,
he decided to convert it into a cat-
tle ranch.
Before, every activity in John
Tarleton's life had been a failure
except his business ventures; at
least he had accumulated a vast
fortune. But in these last years of
his life in his new undertaking
of ranching, even his business
judgment seemed to fail him.
Placing ten thousand acres under
one fence, he raised six or seven
hundred calves a year and often
shipped four hundred four-year-
old steers at a time. But the price
of cattle had dropped to the ex-
tent that Tarleton lost large sums
of money. He also began to dis-
pose of his valuable lands in oth-
er states for a small part of their
real value, putting the money he
received into his cattle business.
At the time of his death his once
great fortune had been reduced to
about one tenth of its original
value.
In the last few years of his
life John Tarleton's eccentricities
became more marked. Each day he
would either walk to town and
back, a distance of fourteen miles,
or around his pasture fence which
was about eighteen.miles in length
He said that it was too expensive
to keep a horse. His health was
excellent, and, unlike many other
old Texans, hia strongest drink
was coffee, He ate two hearty
megls a day, drinking only a glass
of buttermilk for supper. Every
time the ranch foreman's wife
Senior Girls Plan
And Furnish Homes
In Fall Course
House planning and furnish-
ing, a senior home economics
course which was completed in
January, has been of interest, not
all those who have seen their com-
pleted work.
This course is made up of three
projects, the first consisting of
planning a family-^stating the
number of members with their
sex and age, the occupation and
income of the father, and the fam-
ily's location in the country—and
planning a home to suit the needs
of that particular family. The sec-
ond project is landscaping the
grounds surrounding the house,
and the third is furnishing a bed-
room and a living room contained
in the house.
Bessie Neblett planned an inter-
esting nursery in blue and white,
and wine, with tiny specimens of
furniture and pictures on the wall
to interest small children.
Martyne Black attained a strik-
ing effect in her master bedroom
with dusty rose draperies striped
with white and gray, a dark green
carpet, and furniture of bleached
wood.
Helen Wall planned a regal
guest room with blue carpet and
bedspreads, and gold draperies
and upholstery,
Elva Bumpas' girls' room in
pastel blue with birdseye maple
furniture is one which any young
miss would covet.
Perhaps one of the most uni-
que rooms is a boys' bedroom
planned by Mildred Witcher, It
carries out a "good luck" motif
with beds whose head and foot
posts are in the shape of horse-
shoes, and whose bedspreads have
horseshoes appliqued on them. The
sturdy walnut furniture and knot-
ty pine walls harmonize with the
personalities of the hypothetical
owners.
Other girls besides those men-
tioned, who are taking the course
are: Twola Copeland, Dorothy
Darden, Doris Hearne, Mary
Ileatly, Mildred Hewatt, Eliza-
beth Eochell, Winneil McKennie,
Winifred McMaina, Kittle Bob
Mayes, and Juanita Rogers.
cook fried ehicken for breakfast,
Johri would leave twenty-five cents
under his plate; it was his favorite
food. He never wrote a check to
an individual, but would always
pay his employees in cash. As he
became more aged, he would fre-
quently become lost in his pasture.
One cold, cleeting day he was seen
by the foreman'sitting on a stump
outdoors. When asked why he did
not come in, the lonely old man
replied that he was accustomed to
hardships and did not mind them.
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