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THE OPTIMIST
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 16 19
;Editor
Business Manager
Samuel E. Blackwell
.. Louie Welch
Member Texas Intercollegiate Press
Official Student Publication of Abilene
Christitn College. Entered as Second Class
Matter June 29 1929 at the Post Office at
iAbllcne Texas under the Act of August 24
1912.
A more complete staff will will bo
announced next week
GROWTH
Our drive for students has apparently
brought pleasing results. We should not be
far short ol' our objective in numbers at
least Thif World tnd ACC are strangely
intermingled. Our hope is that the baser
elements of fche world may be subjugated to
the high ideals and standards of ACC. To
that dnd we ask the cooperation of those
who believe in its ideals tnd have a genuine
pride in its name to assist in a stricter and
1 more expeditious meting of discipline.
Mob psychology will be at work among
those who would disregard our standards and
make our name liable for just criticism. This
might grow to become an unwieldy child that
would bring sorrow to good old Alma Mi.jter.
The better element united in a drive for un-
precedented victory in scholastic attainment
spiritual growth physical Determent and a
Tan-AOC congenial society will eliminate
much of the deluded misguided class and
eradicate the incorrigible.
Our battle cry for the past year has been
"United for a Greater ACC." Superficially
wo have sueceeded. It is now the responsi-
bijity of every sovereign member of this
democrttic society to produce from the
bbundant fertile soil a truly greater ACC.
Taken from the "World and ACC"
WELCOME FRESHMEN
Hello New Students. We are glad to see
you everyone but especially are we glad to
have you probably the largest number' of
you that ever converged upon the campus
at one time in the thirty-two years since the
beginning of Abilene Christian College.
And you don't hear us standing around
saying "Lots of new students but they're
not like the old ones." Perhaps they are not
but they are better. For with the growth
of our school in size and efficiency we would
expect to have more and more students of
real abilibjtland distinctive ideals.
And the latter is the main .thing we want
to welcome you to those things which are
distinctive in Abilene Christian College
the genuine personal friendliness of every-
one for everyone else the opportunity to
know intimately the finest persons of your
own age you ever knew the unexcelled op-
portunities for expression and experience in
scores of extra-curricular activities and
above all the weal th of Christian experiences
and religious study which no college in the
world equals.
We'll see you at the all-school parties at
the religious meetings at the games and
contests yes all of you alt all of them
that is the principal tradition of Abilene
Christian College.
Freshmen
Spirit manifested thus far among those in
the I fish pond on the purple and white cam-
pus point toward a very favorable year. Ev-
ery freshman will tell you immediately su-
perfluously and proudly "I'm a freshman."
And so you are. And since you are its good
to be proud of the fact don't i go around
wearing strained awkward look of what you
aren't. (T(t's a dead give-a-way. And don't
put on that superior bored look that is equal-
ly obnoxious. It's the freshman who pays
in lots of ways but this latter) typo finds it
Tnorltf expensive.
There'll come a day when you'll bo proud
of the fact that you were a willing freshmari.
And real freshmen arc dear lovable things.
Ba enthusiastic at everything you go after-
enter wholehearjtedly into every movement
sponsored b our' alma matter be anxious
and 4ajjer to learn. If not -- well you will
-learn several things.
Students read the ads and act accord-
ingly for that is whojt fceeps the Optimist
feeing. Were it not for the advertisers there
woUld be no paper so if jyoti wanlt a paper (
efoch week be curb to do your business at the
firms advertised In the Optimist each kveelc
. . . Titus
Timothy
and
iiy vrxiK u:xni:tt
nicss be tho tic Hint bonds
Our hearts in Christian lovo
Tho fellowship of kindred minds
Is like to that above.
Students as wo. begin our year's
work In Ablleno Christian College
let us not forget tho unexcelled
sentiment contained In the fow
lines of this wonderful old hymn.
There Is no greater Joy to bo en-
tertained by human hearts than
tho mingling of lives which lime
been touched by tho power of
Christ's love.
Wo aro proud of tho religions
advantages in this Institution
where such a bond ot united
youthful association can be had.
It Is our unreserved duty to
edify one another.
In order to assist us in this
great purposo various gioups have
been formod. These consists of
tho Mission Study Class which
meets each 'Wednesday evening
with James llejonlds as lender
Monday Night Meetings with
Marton Crass as director; the
Evangelistic Foium which meets
each Friday ovenlng "lth lliiy-
mlond Kelcy as chairman; and
tho Young Ladies Training Class
which also meets Frida evening
with Manora Crass ns leader.
In tho next few days man new
friendships will bo formed' some
of theso. associations continuing
only a short time others lasting
forever. Somo of our friends wo
shall seo no more wheu the year's
work is complete but there Is
one friendship that can bo formed
that death Itself will not be able
to sever that Is with "tho friend
that sticketh closer than a broth-
er" the ono who says "Whcio I
am there ye may be also."
time nor
reason
OUT WHERE THE WEST
BEGINS
Out where the handclasp's a little
stronger
Out where the smile dwells a lit-
tle longer
That's where the West begins;
Out where the sun is a. little
brighter
Where tho snows that fall are a
trifle whiter.
That's where the West begins.
Out where the skies ore a trifle
bluer
Out where friendship's a little.
truer
That's where the West begins;
Out where a fresher breeze is
blowing
Whero there's laughter in every
stieamlet flowing
Where them's more of neaping and
less of sowing
That's where the West begins.
Out where the world is in the
making
Where fewer hearts with despair
are aching.
That's whero tho West begins;
Whero there's more of singing and
less of sighing
Where there's moro of giving and
less of buying
And a man makes friends w ithout
half trying
Thats' where the West begins.
Selected.
five foot
shelves
AN AMERICAN DOCTOR'S
ODESSEY Victor George Heiser
644 pages $3.50 may Illustra-
tions. "It Is extremely unpleasant"
Dr. Helsser remarks mildly "to
bo scratched by 'an Insane leper
with cholera."' However 'it was
one of the. risks to bo reckoned
with in taking care of insane
lepers and to Heiser it was atf ih
tho day's work.
The book constitutes a stirring
relation of the adventures of Dr
Heiser a he worked I'll forty-tire
dlffeent countries in his amazing
battle against disease. '
"Watch for "STELLA DALLAS"
150th ANNIVERSARY of
the CONSTITUTION
1787---1937
By tho President of the United States
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS the Constitution of the United Stntcs was signed on Septem-
ber 17 1787 and had by June 21 1788 been ratified by the necessary
number of States and
WHEREAS George Washington was inaugurated as ithc first President
of the United States on April 30 1789
NOW THEREFORE I Franklin D. Roosevelt President of the United
States of America hereby designate the period from September 17 1937
to April 30 1939 as one of commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth
anniversary of the signing and the Constitution of flhe ratification of the
Constitution and of the inauguration of the first President under the
Constitution.
In commemorating tins period we shall affirm our debt to those who
ordained and established the Constitution "in Order to form a more perfect
Union establish Justice insure domestic Trnnsuility provide for the com-
mon defence promote the general Welfare and secure the Blessings of
Liberty to ourselves and our posterity.'
We shall recognize .'that the Constitution is an enduring instrument fit
for the governing of a Car-flung population of moie than a hundred and
thirty million engaged in diverse and varied pursuits even as it was fit
for the agrarian Nation of less than four million. It is therefore appropri-
ate that in the period herein set apart we shall think afresh of the found-
ing of our Government under the Constitution how it has served us in
the past and how in the days to come its principles will guide the Nation
ever forward.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF 1 have set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States of America to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Washington this fourth day of July in the year of
Our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-seven and of the Independence of
the United Stttes of America the one hundred and sixty-second.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
By the President:
CORDELL HULL Secretary of State
Hold That 1937 Line Wildcats
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u. d. io smuy migratory birds Stevenson
Ferguson.
The boundary of the Sahara
hesert is expanding more than a
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Watch for "STKLLA DAI.Ii.4S"
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If tho earth we.re flat Identical
time would prevail In eery city
of the world. Ferguson.
Welcome All New and Old Students
ACC CLEANERS
ACC Shoe Shop
Expert shoe man in charge of Shoe Dept.
Latest methods in Dry Cleaning.
One Day Service.
K CALL 3919
Solicitors in Boys' Hall j 5 Girls' Hall
Garner and McCaleb Virginia Millsap
THE
WORLD
AND
ACC
Student Slants on
News of the Day
byOHT
Our papers are still cursed b
tho emblazonment of war in grcnt
shocking headlines: "StreeU of
Shanghai Gutted With Blood and
Corpses ns Jops Renew Attack"
"American Dollar Steamer Bomb-
ed Off Shanghai" "25000 Killed
ns Bombs Make Havoc of City."
We find the issuvs over which they
are fighting may be Communism
vs. Fascism; Glorious Empire vs
National Liberty; and Economic
Prosperity s Individual Freedom.
Undoubtedly the rank nud file
do not understand why they are
pouring their blood on the land
Others may hn'c a picturo of what
Is to bo gained; but they are prob-
iibly mistaken nud when it is nil
oer and they hnc seen thousnnds
of comrades die and millions suf-
fer they will come to tho rude
awakening that nothing has been
gained. Why then nre they will-
ing to sacrifice their bodies to tho
hungry god of war?
Patriotism the process by
which lives of happy individuals
are wiecked or lrjt to swell the
ioffers of the lich-ris u factor.
Propaganda is an instrument but
tho irresistible force that over-
comes the hosts is the uniform
the marching and that marshal
music that shakes us loose from
our moorings and fills our henits
with hato and murder
War
I do abhor;
And yet how iiweet
The Found ulDiig the matching:
street
Of dium or fife and I forget
Broken old motheis and the whole
Dark butchering without a soul.
Without a soul ao this bright
treat
Of heady music sweet as hell;
And even my peace-abiding feet
Go marching with the marching-
street
For yonder goes the fife
And what care I for human Life'
Tho tears fill my astonished oyes.
And my full heart is like to break
And yet It is cmbannered lies
A dream those drummers make
Oh it is wickedness to clothe
Yon hideous grinning thing that
stalks
Hidden in music like a queen
Thnt in n gnidcn of gloiy walks
Till good men love the thing they
lonthc;
Art thou hast mnny infamies
But not an infamy like this
Oh snap tho fife and still the
drum
And show the monster as she is.
Fiom "The Illusions of War''
by Hichard LaGallienne.
All Ona's life is music if on
touches tho notes rightly and In
tune Ruskln.
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The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 1, Ed. 1, Thursday, September 16, 1937, newspaper, September 16, 1937; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth91600/m1/2/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.