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THE J-TAC
TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1941
Official" Student -^Publication of John Tarleton Agricultural College
Published Weekly by Students of John Tarleton Agricultural College
Entered as scond-class mail matter at the Postoffice in Stephenville,
Texas, under Act of Congress March .3, 1879.
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Basketball! Let's Go!
The Tarleton Plowboy basketball team is a good one! They
play a good hard game and they have some nice tricks! Maybe
you didn't know these things. Well, it really isn't your fault
because you just haven't gone to see these fellows play. They
•surely do wish everyone would turn out for their games. These
boys can. do so much more with a lot of enthusiasm from the
student body. It really boosts them up and gives them confi-
dence and encouragement,
Tonight the Plowboys have one of their toughest assign-
ments. They will play Hillsboro and the boys on that team are-
out for state championship! Are you going to let those Plow-
boys go out on that floor without the proper backing? Let's all
gof Come out and support our team! We have the best there
is!—M. D.
To; Be Popular Is To Be Yourself
My attention was called recently to an article concerning the
value of being.yourself. Young people of high school and col-
lege ages have a great desire to be popular. Many times they
resort to copying others who are heralded as being outstanding
personalities. They try to remember jokes and clever remarks
that others used successfully. They even try to dress in a simi-
lar manner to campus belles and Romeos. At night they might
be found studying books and articles on "How to Become Popu-
lar Overnight."
So* many times a person is persuaded to do things which are
definitely against his morals because he wants to be in demand
^as'a member of the popular, active crowd. But truly such a
person would have more self-respect and be more respected by
others if- not more in demand if he would cling to his ideals
and bet true to his nature. Such an act in itself would make pne
stand oiit as an individual.
As far as the oth^r things one does in an effort to be popu-
lar are concerned—the first rule to popularity is "Be Yourself."
Regardless of how many jokes one tells or how many clever
speeches one makes, if he does not have such a personality
born in him, he is taking the chance of becoming a bore and a
nuisance to his friends.
And by all means he or she should buy clothes to suit his
or her personality and not buy something just because some
well-liked friend made a hit in a similar costume.
Just because the rule "Be Yourself" excludes copying others
in an effort to secure popularity, it does not exclude the prac-
tice of improving one's own personality by making a study of
things that are known to suit one's particular personality. That
way he would still be his ownself but he might become an im-
proved self. Who knows—perhaps the slightest improvement
might make him the most sought after person in his crowd
while all the copying of others would be of absolutely no avail.
Even Rubbish Has a Place
Trash isn't so bad—when it's in the right place. And that's
what those little green containers are for—those that were pla-
ced in various spots about the campus last week. They've ap-
peared to relieve the sidewalks, streets, and lawns of their load
of paper and food, and they're quite anxious to get started on
their new job. They're placed in the spots where you'll need
them mos?t—when you cross the street in front of the dining
hall ,you can dispose of your ice cream wrapper, apple core,
and "what have you" in the container by the curb; if you're on
your way to the post office after lunch and don't finish eating
until you.reach the administration building, there's a container
■waiting for you there with open arms; and when you've finish-
ed reading those letters you found in your post office box, there
are containers both inside and outside the post office in which
you may throw your fan mail. It's all very simple—and the re-
sult? A campus clear of rubbish without any extra effort on
your part—all you have to do is make use of the little green
rubbish cans.
Soliloquizing
By The Editor
A1 Capp could never have dream-
ed (or could he?) of the pande-
monium he would cause on college
campuses all over the United
States when, out of the genius
of his brain, he originated SADIE
HAWKINS DAY to be enacted in
his well-known comic strip, "LI'L
ABNER"! When the 500 leading
newspapers of the country which
run "LI'L ABNER" brought the
first SADIE HAWKINS day to
their many thousands of readers,
how could they know that boys
would like the idea of being chased
and girls the idea of chasing so
well that SADIE HAWKINS DAY
would become an annunal event
in great a many colleges and uni-
versities in the East, West, South,
and North!
Two years ago the University
of Tennessee held the first college
SADIE HAWKINS DAY. Students
there, set aside a week wherein
girls might lawfully bag boys. The
penalty for capture was not so
grim as that exacted by the "his-
toric" Sadie who demanded mar-
riage, The participants of the mod-
ern SADIE HAWKINS DAY fes-
tivities reverse etiquette, ordain
that the boy be wooed and coddled
by the questing female. There are
on SADIE HAWKINS DAY chas-
es in which the girls pursue and
capture their men, dances, picnics,
and other celebrations.
And now Tarleton is to have, not
a SADIE HAWKINS DAY, but
a SADIE HAWKINS WEEK!
Think of it! A whole week in
which girls can be men-chasers
without being condemned—when
boys can stop making all the ad-
vances and do some retreating—
when girls can find out that mon-
ey is the root of all grey hairs
and can learn the feel of an empty
pocketbook after dating a gold-
digger—when the girls who are
bold get the most dates, and when
boys sit in their rooms pining for
phone calls—when girls will have
a chance to show boys the "Emily
Post" way of treating a date—
and when wooing will be done in
the feminine manner!
But these college celebrations are
not the only results of A1 Capp's
brainchild—RKO has produced a
motion picture, "LI'L ABNER,"
based on the famous A1 Capp char-
acters from "Dogpatch," which
features, among other amusing
scenes, the justly famous original
Sadie Hawkins Day incident which
has started a vogue.
* * *
According to the Collegiate Press
Review, Americans still like and
read their press, in spite of what
Secretary Harold Ickes has said
about newspapers, and in spite of
the fact that a heavy percentage
of the nation's press supported
other candidates than Franklin
Roosevelt in the last election. Edi-
tor and Publisher, the newspaper
trade magazine, reports an increase
in aggregate circulation during
1940 in surveys of 90 of the na-
tion's leading daily newspapers. If
creases, it means that some particu-
lar oifering of the publication has
attracted a new reader and held
him. Could it he that these new
readers of American newspapers
are attracted by the freedom in the
press, its fairness and its accur-
acy?
* * *
According to George Bernard
Shaw journalism is the highest
form of literature. Shaw says, "I
also am a journalist, proud of it,
deliberately cutting out of my
works all that is not journalism,
convinced that nothing that is not
journalism will live long as litera-
ture, or be of any use whilst it
does live—the journalist writes
about all people and about all
time—let others cultivate what
they call literature; journalism
for me!
# * *
Looking about the campus and
seeing the bright colors', particu-
larly red, that co-eds are wear-
ing, makes one feel sure that Tar-
leton students wouldn't agree with
all the "do's" and "don'ts" in dress
that Harold J. Brennan, head of
the art department of Westminster
College, advised co-eds to observe.
They are:
Don't wear obvious, bright col-
ors; wear subtle oif-shades.
Don't fail to look at the color
of a street dress by daylight be-
fore buying it.
Don't wear bright colors in large
masses; wear them as you would
a bracelet or a handkerchief.
Don't ask your girl friend about
your clothes unless you're sure
she will be frank with you.
Don't forget t,he texture is as
important as color in determining
the kind of clothes that look well
on you.
* # *
According to ACP, Dr. Ray-
mond Walters, president of the
University of Cincinnati, predicts
a marked attendance drop in the
enrollments of the nation's col-
leges and universities in future
years. Dr. Walters bases his fare-
cast on the fact that freshman
enrollments decreased two per cent
in 19-10, The decrease, he believes,
is due to stringent immigration
regulations and a decline in the
nation's birth rate.
* * -T-
Syracuse University claims to
be the first school in the United
States to start a Bundles for Brit-
ain drive, having started hers three
months ago. Since then the move-
ment has spread to colleges all
over the east, and students are not
only knitting but also raising mon-
ey for relief of Britain's armed
forces and civilians. The organi-
zation at Syracuse is composed of
more than 100 furiously knitting
co-eds, who sent a Christmas bun-
dle of garments direct to Mrs. Win-
ston Churchill in London.
* * *
A new sorority for tall girls
only—Hi Kappa Kappa—is now en-
livening- Alabama State College
for Women. Only girls who are
five feet, eight inches or over are
allowed to join. Another member-
ship requirement is that all mem-
bers pledge themselves to call oth-
er girls on the campus "shrimps"
who are not five feet, eight inches
tall.
National Student Opinion Survey
Reveals Ideas of College Youths
Several weeks ago Tarleton took part in a National Student
Opionon survey contest which has headquarters at the Uni-
versity of Texas. Twenty-seven students were asked what they
thought about certain questions that hold a particular interest
for the youth of America in this day and time.
Parents who worry about their college sons and daughters
not getting enough sleep will find' confort in the figures com-
piled in this study of Student Opinion Surveys of America.
Collegians who say they sleep less than seven hours each
night constitute only one fifth of the national student body.
The other four-fifths get at least seven hours, and of the total
7- per cent say they spend nine or more hours under the covers.
Turning from the field of attitude measurements, the Surveys
through its national polling* machinery has asked a sampling
of all types of students, "How many hours a night do you
usually sleep?" ; ' •
It was found that women, by their own admissions, sleep
more than do men. Lower-classmen (freshmen and sophomores)
spend more time in bed than do uppex-classmen (juniors, sen-
iors, and graduates).
Note in the following breakdown how the percentage tends
to increase among the longer sleeping periods for women, while
they tend to decrease in the-column for men:
Sleep per night:
5 or less hours
6 hours
7 hours -
9
10
hours
All
Men
Women
. 4%
4%
3%
.17%
19%
15%
.37%
38%
35%
.33%
31%
36%
. 7%
6%
10%
. 2%
2%
1%
The table below shows how added activity or longer study on
the schedules of upper-classmen cut down sleep. But the sur-
vey revealed no evidence that during the normal colloge day
there is any wholesale studying in the "wee small hours." The
majority of students, the cross-sortings bring to light, sleep
seven or eight hours daily.
Sleep per night: Lower-classmen Upper-classmen
5 hours or less 4% 5%
6 hours - —16 19
7 hours /. 34 41
8 hours 35 30
9 hours 9 5
10 hours .... 2 1
Another question was concerning whether or not a college
should control the political activities of students and faculty
members.
Active supporters of .academic freedom and student rights
were recently shaken when the University of Michigan with
one-sentence letters refused re-admittance to thirteen young
men and women "because they were considered disturbing in-
fluences."
University officials have declared the action was not taken
because of the students' political ideas or activities, but the
Michigan Committee for Academic Freedom and the barred
students themselves believe they have shown that this was the
basic reason. If the problem of academic freedom is placed be-
fore the entire student enrollment of the United States, especi-
ally now during these war days of fifth-column scares and un-
American activity investigations, what is the concensus of this
democracy's college youth?
Student Opinion Surveys of America, of which the J-Tac is
a co-operating member, has sampled the nation's colleges and
universities. It finds everywhere overwhelming majorities op-
posed to any control of either student or faculty thought or
activity.
Polling a representative cross section of U. S. Campuses, in-
terviewers asked, "Do you believe that a college has the right
to control a student's personal political activities or expressions
of opinions?"
Yes, said 4%
No, said 96
Regarding control of faculty members' political activities or
opinions, these were the results:
Yes, said 9%
No, said 91
The slightly larger percentage in favor of control of the fac-
ulty may be due in part to the influence of teachers themselves,
many of whom believe that in times like these they should
show restraint. That feeling was expressed not long ago by
Professor Alonzo F. Meyers of Kent State University, when he
declared, "Teaching should protect democracy, but in periods
of stress it is of paramount importance that academic freedom
does not provide the cause for denial of democratic education
as a result of abuse of its privileges. At the same time, we
must insist upon the preservation of academic freedom in order
that we may prevent disastrous results from defense distator-
ship."
Only one student in twenty, however, approves of control of
undergraduates, the poll shows. And this opinion is prevalent
from coast to coast in about the same proportions. "Our educa-
tional centers have always been the seats of freedom, and if
we start censoring political views on the campus, we are de-
stroying fundamentals of democracy," said a senior in a Far
Western university. In that group of states the largest oppo-
sition (97 per cent) was discovered. Another undergraduate
stated, "Students and faculty should be allowed to debate social
and political matters on the campus if we want to keep democ-
racy here. Remember what the Nazis did in Germany—the uni-
versities there were among the first institutions, along with
the newspapers, that were gagged." The latest group believing
a college administration has the right to control such activity
was 8 per cent, in the West Central States.
Since no record was kept here of the survey taken at Tarle-
ton, it is impossible to make a comparison with the national
percentages.
The belief that the United States must help England on a
lease-lend basis, trust in a British victory, and faith that da-
mocracy will survive—those are three patent manifestations of
current collegiate thought expressed through Student Opinion
Surveys of America.
Sampling a representative cross section of campuses, includ-
ing Tarleton with the co-operation of the J-Tac, the Surveys
during the first two weeks of January interviewed typical stu-
dents, presentng three queries that cover one of the most cruc-
ial problems ever faced by the U. S. These were the qustions,
and the majority answers given by American college youth:
1. It has been suggested that the United States allow Britain
to have planes, guns; and other war materials on a lease or
mortgage basis, with no cash payment. These materials would
be returned or replaced with new equipment when the war is
over. Do you approve or disapprove of the plan?
Approved, said r 67 per cent
2. Do you think Britain or Germany will win the war?
Britain, said - 88 per cent
3. Do you think American democracy will survive if Britain
is beaten by Germany?
Yes, said - 71 per cent
Thus, an overwhelming preponderance of the men and women
of college age today, who may be among those most vitally
affected by the war in the future, are represented fully confi-
dent that the days ahead are not as dark as some of their qriult
contemporaries would have them believe. There is no doubt, the
poll shows, that most students are convinced the United States
will have to aid the British, even if there is no cash payment.
"Refusing to help Britain would be like sticking our heads in
the sand," remarked a Rochester University senior.
Surprisingly enough, the one-third of the national enrollment
opposed to handing. Britain war materials without payment is
generally not concerned with the danger of actual involvement
in the war that we are told the President's plan, now in Con-
gress, would bring. The reason most opponents expressed was
this: We'll get stuck with another war debt; England won't be
able to repay us."
Choice of more than one-fourth of the nation's college stu-
dents, "Gone With the Wind" was easily ranged the collegians'
No. 1 motipn picture show in 1940, a poll conducted by Student
Opinion Surveys of America, reveals.
Based on a scientifically-represented cross section of the
United States college enrollment, the survey showed "Gone
With the Wind" the choice of 27 per cent. Only one other pic-
ture was the preference of even half that many—"Rebecca"
was selected by 14 per cent.
The top ten pictures of the year, according to collegiate opin-
ions, were:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
"Gone With the Wind."
"Rebecca."
"Grapes of Wrath."
"All This and Heaven Too."
"Foreign Correspondent."
"Knute Rockne, Ail-American."
"Northwest Passage."
"Northwest Mounted Police."
"The Mortal Stotrm.",
"Boom Town."
Feed Europe?
Associated Collegiate Press
Britain's recent thumbs-down on American proposals to feed
Europe's hungry has checked, but not stilled, the red-hot ar-
gument raging here.
A representative statement of the case is found in the edi-
torial columns of the Harvard CRIMSON. The CRIMSON holds
that outside relief is urgently necessary. "The most promising
proposal made so far," continues the CRIMSON, "is that <?f
Herbert Hoover. His idea is to let the occupied countries buy
foodstuffs here with their liquid assets now in this country,
and carry it home in their own ships. Added to this would be
the food contributed by numerous charities. If at any time it
appeared that the food was going to Germany, the shipments
could be halted immediately. Negotiations would have co be
undertaken by the state department with British and German
representatives. Upon the shoulders of the recalcitrant party
would rest the responsibility for whatever calamities may even-
tuate from a foodless Europe "
Princeton Believes in Democratic Movement
A new and interesting slant is given by the PRINCETON-
IAN, which believes it would be to the advantage of this coun-
try to check famine in Europe. The PRINCETONIAN reasons
that "the revolution against Naziism on the continent must be
waged by a powerful underground democratic movement or-
ganized and equipped by Britian and provisioned by America.
Once the people of Europe who still cherish the ideals' of free-
dom feel that behind them stand not only the armed xnight, of
Britain but the moral^ and material support of the United
States, the fierce indignation which they must feel against
their oppressors will be translated into passive action. They
will refuse to be crushed to earth, and united will resume the
fight against uniformed men."
At the University of Wisconsin the DAILY CARDINAL adds
its viewpoint, as follows: "Opponents of Mr. Hoover's plan
claim that by not allowing food to pass through the blockade,
the danger of revolution would be increased and .the cause of
freedom helped that much more. However, the latter make two
assumptions which may or may not be correct. They assume
first that the subject people CAN revolt. The Nazi machine and
Herr Himler and his secret police are something the 'world
has never seen before. Secondly, the opponent of Mr. Hoover's
plan has to assert that he, safe in a free country which would
definitely suffer from a Nazi victory, can conscientiously rej-
quire the innocent people in central Europe to die of starvation
so that the form of government which he thinks best may sur-
vive." %
Balance of "End" and "Means"
A contrasting view is expressed in the Washington Univer-
sity STUDENT LIFE: "It's the old question of ends and means.
Does the end—the salvation of British Democracy and thus the
defeat of totalitarian anti-democracy, of the new-revolution—
justify the means—the use of starvation as a part of economic
warfare, as a legitimate weapon of modern war? Can we be
callous and let children suffer while keeping alive the prin-
ciples we cherish? Or should we be merciful, allowing Hitler
to keep the conquered nations in line, helping him in the race
with time, possibly destroying all chance of freeing these same
children from a lifetime of submission to the new master-
race and subjecting even more people (including ourselves) to
the iron rule."
It would appear from a survey of these and other editorial
opinions that the preponderance of America's serious-minded
collegians believe there is an obligation to provide food, IF it
can be established that such a show of mercy will not be
turned to the military advantage of the Nazis.
CADET CHATTER
Coach Casanova Spotts seems
to have recuperated from past es-
capades and is back in the race
again—this time running within
the Council. And a freshman too!
Mystery of the boys' dormitory!
Cigarette stubs tipped with lip-
stick have been found on the top
floor of the first ramp.
Who'll be twirling Lucille and
Louise around since certain foot-
ball heroes have departed?
A certain little brunette has re-
kindled that certain spark for the
Stamford hepcat!—The Charlie
Brownfield.
Ziggie says he's footloose and
Frances free! Ziggie, is that a
flashlight or a torch you're car-
rying around?
We wish Minter would make up
his mind whether he prefers light
blondes or dark blondes.
Joe Hedrick, battle-scarred from
many previous engagements with
Cupid, has been defeated again.—
Warning, Bob Miller! We hear
tell that home-town competition?
is in the offing.
What's this about Marian Glenn
getting go popular!.
You can't say LaVcrne Pass
hasn't got stickability, or vice ver-
sa.
Seems as though jfchis Lock-
hart-Craft and Reavis-Deen deal
is on the mend again after the
scare of Saturday. s
Why doesn't Earl Gathright,- one
of the best dancers in Tarleton,
show up at more of the college
dances?
Then there's the two freshmen
at Millsaps College, Jackson, Miss.,
who learned the ways of the city
when they broke the glass on z
fire-alarm box. "We're from the
country," they told irate police-
men. "When there's a fire at home,
they shoot off a gun."
Men prefer blondes because they
get tired of squeezing blackheads.
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