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Promote Your School
Softball Race
First In Support of
Hardin-Simmons Abilene
and Texas Centennial
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HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ABILENE TEXAS MAY 16 1936
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Hello for next to the last time!
Improvement of Miss Head's gout
and the rapid approach of deadweck
has definitely cut down on the scan-
dal hereabouts this week but Gregg
and Utley won't bo stopped. Their
latest escapade (at this writing) and
let us hope their last was the invasion
of the Mexican dance last Tuesday
night. They were not content to
stand peacefully by and let the celc-
brators enjoy themselves but had
partake of some of the merriment
themselves. This they did by trip
ping lightly to the strains of a Mex
lean dance band.
Tarpley was right I All who lost
faith in the great but now departed
editor of the Brand because of his
unselfishly sharing the biggest story
of the year with everybody last year
have due cause to repent for he was
not wrong. Morrow and Borcn arc
no more. It Is just Morrow now and
has been ever since Tarpley said so
for that matter. There arc as you
all know definite ways to check such
stories and this one checks. The great
stir raised last year has probably
died to a "so what" attitude by now
however and our work of exonerat
ing Tarpley has been in vain.
You people who do not know next
year's editor so very well please re
frain from writing such complimcn
tary remarks in his yearbook. Such
statements as "you arc all right kid"
"you have what it takes boy" and
"you are the tops" are just a trifle
too much for the lad who forsooth
is a great genius and he is rapidly
becoming harder and harder to get
along with ns any of his one-time
friends will readily testify. Please
ease off on that sort of stuff just a
(riffle and oblige the Brand staff and
corps of profs.
The band rose a little above its ac-
customed level on the recent stampede
through East Texas and some of the
boys actually succeeded in getting
dates with people far enough advanc-
ed to be called school teachers. Cer-
minaro was a distinct disadvantage
because of the absence of his- running
mate Hardy but Reed Jenkens and
Horn carried on in the same old way.
Results of the trip show up plainly
on Evans and Tom Canon. If you
don't know what this means take a
look at their heads. They had an
agreement to have their hair cut and
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Dramatists Give
'Ghosts' For AAU
Ibsen's "Ghosts" was presented by
Hardin-Simmons university players
Monday afternoon at a tea in the cry-
stal ballroom of the Hilton hotel for
which the Oscar H. Cooper branch
American Association of. University
Women was host.
Mrs. Nora Levy speech instructor
and director of the play was intro-
duced by Mrs. Dan Gallagher branch
president. "Ghosts" condensed from
a three-act play to a one-act produc-
tion was the university's entry in the
intercollegiate play tourney at Hous-
ton held April 11-12.
Women faculty members of Abilene
high school Hardin-Simmons Mc-
Murry and Abilene Christian college
and all college and university women
of Abilene were named guests of
honor for the tea. Members of the
chapter received more than 200 guests
on the mezzanine floor
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H.-S. U. Students Give
Hamlin Party Program
Four Hardin-Simmons students
Kelley Barnett Jack Krauss Mildred
Burnett and Elizabeth Cox furnished
the entertainment at a program party
for the Hamlin high school seniors
Thursday evening May 7 in Hamlin
Kelley Barnett was the chief speak
er and "Jack Krauss gave accordion
old. Mildred Burnett read humor
ous (elections and Elizabeth Cox gave
dialect numben.
Women's Missionary Society of the
Baptist church of Hamlin sponsored
the party. A Texas. Centennial theme
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waa favored in all appointments.
Olsen Presents
Shingles To Alpha
Chi Membership
Three Abilene Chapters Of
Honor Society Given
Social
Eighteen members of the Julius
Olsen chapter of Alpha Chi collegiate
honor fraternity wcro presented shin-
gles of the organization Tuesday
morning at the chapel hour.
Dr. Julius Olsen counselor of the
fraternity bearing his name and
founder of tho organization now na-
tional in scope gave a short talk on
the vnlues of scholarship and present-
ed the shingles. Sponsors of the
group with Dr. Olsen are Dr. 0. 0.
Watts and Prof. J. E. Burnnm.
New members receiving tho recog-
nition were: Billy Ghormley Flo Cald-
well Charles Gauntt Valda Moore
Jane Guinn Maurinc Dickerson Helen
Grace Williams Violet Barley Fred
James Marvin Gholson Johnnie Pat-
terson Frances Couch Mildred Bur-
nett Mary Lou House Gcorgina Haw
kins Kntharyn Duff Harold Holmes
and Cearly Kinard.
Old members are: Zclma Richard
son Nash Miller Lois Blvcns William
Earl Ragsdale Kelley Barnett and
Ruth King.
Officers of Alpha Chi for this year
were: Zelma Richardson president
(Continued on page 3)
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Art Unit Sponsors
Annual Art Display
Lacy Demonstrates Finger
Painting As Special
Feature
Art unit of the Woman's Forum
sponsored the second annual students
art exhibit Saturday Sunday and
Monday in the .city hall auditorium
Abilene city schools and Hardin-Sim
mons university were the schools rep
resented.
A special feature of the show was
demonstrations in finger painting by
Miss Suclla Lacy art instructor in
Hardin-Simmons.
Hardin-Simmons exhibit was divid
ed into seven classes drawing nnd
painting sketches of points in and
around Abilene oil and water paint
ings of nature costume designing in-
terior decoration public school art
and advertising designing.
Drawing and painting division: Ap-
ples realistic in charcoal Fiorine Ar-
dis; and realistic in oil Jessie Smith.
Pineapple realistic in charcoal Fio-
rine Ardis; modern in charcoal Al-
berta Kay; realistic in oil Jessie
Smith; modern in oil Annie Laurie
McKenzie. Primrose naturalistic in
charcoal Charlsio Guimarin; modern
interpretation in charcoal Fiorine
Ardis; naturalistic in oil Reba Wil-
liams; and modern in oil Mary Jane
Alexander. Cocoanut naturalistic in
charcoal Mrs. Lance Tarrance; and
naturalistic in oil Reba Williams.
Sketches of points in and around
Abilene: Lytle Lake (oil) Lois Ris-
ter; Lytle Lake (colored pencil)
Charlsie Guimarin; Fort Phantom
hill (oil) Reba Williams; Fort Phan-
tom hill (charcoal) Charlsie Gui-
marin; Ellis Williams' shack (oil)
Reba Williams; Mittle Campbell's
home (colored pencil) Charlsio Gui-
marin; Smith hall (pencil) Valda
Moore; A Little Picaninny (charcoal)
Gladys Gooch.
Oil and water paintings of nature:
"Wind" (water color) by Helen Sor-
(Contbiued on page 2)
" Veterans Of Future Wars" Find It
A Tough Trail Leading To Nowhere
By JAMES
Editor of The Student Advocate
A fortnight ago Lewis Gorin Jr.
was an unknown and unheralded jun-
ior at Princeton university.
Today he confesses that he is the
author of "the biggest publicity stunt
since the World War" the Veterans
of Future Wars.
In an office abovo a restaurant on
Nassau street main thoroughfare of
Princeton Gorin finds himself the
center of a deluge of mail wires visi-
tors testifying to his overnight leap
into the public spotlight.
He is astonished bewildered and
I suspect uneasy
The Veterans of Future Wars
formed to demand payment of the
bonus "before we're dead" has reput-.
'edly spread to 122 colleges (that is
H.-S. U. STUDENTS MAY
FIND SUITABLE ROOMS
AT TEXASCENTENNIAL
Hardin-Simmons university students have been assured of a place' to
stay at the Texas Centennial exposition in Dallas this summer with the pur-
chase of a three-story colonial home by the Cowboy band.
G. B. Sandefcr band manager returned last week from Dallas where
he leased the Phi Chi fraternity house on the Baylor university medical
campus 3609 Gaston avenue. Members of the band will be quartered In the
Band Practice For
Centennial Begins
Musicians To Play Six Weeks
At Central Exposition
In Dallas
Cowboy band began rehearsals
Wednesday for the program it will
play at the Texas Centennial which
opens in Dallas June 0.
The band under the direction of
Marion B. McClure and management
of G. B. Sandefcr is booked for ap-
proximately six weeks at the central
celebration at tho state fair grounds
and will travel extensively throughout
Texas and Oklahoma during the sum-
mer in interest of tho affair accord-
ing to an announcement from the
management.
The band returned Monday from a
week's tour of north nnd cast Texas
where it played in high schools as an
advertising medium for the Centen-
nial. The Cowboy musicians designated
as the official band of the Centennial
will play in the recently completed
band shell of the exposition grounds
and at every performance of Col. W.
T. Johnson's world famous rodeo
which is to be held in conjunction witn
tho central exposition.
The organization along with the U.
S. Marine band will officially wel-
come President Roosevelt to Texas.
Check Shows NYA
Students On Par
Grades Of 6000 Workers In
Texas Colleges Above
Average
AUSTIN May 15. All work and
no play may make Jack a dull boy
but part-time jobs lead to higher
grades and better work.
This fact was established after a
state-wide poll of tho grades of 6000
NYA students in colleges by Lyndon
B. Johnson Texas NYA director re-
vealed that 69.2 per cent of students
with NYA jobs are making above-the-average
grades.
The NYA student aid program is
under the direction of school officials
in that they select the youths assign
them to socially desirable work and
supervise their activities. College
students work an average of 46 hours
per month and receive an average
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Richardson To Deliver High
School Commencement Talk
Dr. Rupert N. Richardson vice-
president of Hardin-Simmons univer-
sity will deliver tho commencement
address to the Roscoo high graduates
Tuesday evening May 10.
Dr. J. Stowart Pcarce pastor of
the First Presbyterian church Cisco
is to give the commencement sermon
Sunday May 17. Dale Morrison is
superintendent of tho Roscoo schools.
WECHSLER
Gorin's claim). A ladles' auxiliary
has been started. Tho press has de-
voted columns of publicity and photo-
graphs. The "March of Time" has
dramatized the movement. And hun-
dreds of students are asking: Is this
serious business? Is it a stunt which
wUI vanish when tho press wearies of
iff Are there any political strings
attached? Is this part of a republi-
can crusade against "government
spending?" Is it straight pacifism?
Or as a Hearst reporter who visited
here shortly before me asked is this
more "Moscow" plotting?
After conferring with leaders of
the movement and studying reports
from other sections of the country
(Continued on page four)
house during the Centennial where
they arc to be featured in concerts
and with Col. W. T. Johnson's world
championship rodeo.
"There will be about fourteen rooms
available for Hardin-Simmons stu-
dents each -day during the summer"
Sandefcr said. "These rooms will be
rented at a minimum fee to students
or friends of the university. During
July wo will have some sixty plnces
nvaljablo while tho band is away on
tour."
Tho houso is located ten blocks from
the main entrance to the exposition.
Free parking will bo accorded stu
dents who stay there. With the small
number of rooms available in the Cen-
tennial city during thccxposltlon it
is certain that tho house will be filled
throughout tho summer.
Students who plan to spend a day
or more in Dallas this year arc ad-
vised to make reservations before
leaving school with J. T. Haney sec
retary-treasurer or by writing San
defcr nt 3609 Gaston avenue Dallas
The houso will also serve as head
quarters for Hardin-Simmons alumni
nnd cx-student activities at thejCen-
tcnnlal Solon R. Featherston presi-
dent has announced.
Sextent Sings For Tea
Given In Wooten Hotel
Girls' sextet composed of Ruth
Schcibe Tabltha Adkisson Joy Pen-
der Edith Currle Margaret Bower
and Mildred Jenkens gave a group
of numbers at a tea Friday afternoon
nt the Wooten hotel.
The ten was given by Fisher Jew-
elry company for Leatha Evans Hnrd-
wick friend of Emily Post. Miss
Hardwick lectured on "The Romance
and Adventure of Entertaining."
Dorothy Sue Collins Etewanda Rid-
dlo Ruth King and Daisy Mae Cagle
girls' quartet sang nt tho Lions club
nt Anson last Wednesday. Quartet
will go to Wichita Falls Sunday to
sing nt tho First Baptist church. Dr.
E. B. Atwood instructor in Bible will
nccompany the group.
A general recital will be held in
tho university auditorium Thursday
evening May 21. It will be a voice
piano nnd violin recital. On Friday
May 22 there will bo a young artists
recital.
Players Present
One-Act Dramas
Thurston Upshaw Hanks
Direct Productions
For Credit
Threo ono-uct ploys were presented
nt Players club last Wednesday eve-
ning. Tho plays were student direct-
ed. Characters in "Londonderry Aire"
directed by Melbn Thurston were:
Bound girl Fny McAuley; tramp
John Upshaw Widow Boggs Snrnh
Elizabeth Cox and Hiram Boggs S.
J. Briggs.
In "Tho Finger of God" by Oscar
Wilde John Upshaw played the part
of Mr. Strickland. Doris Cassia por-
trayed the girl and Jerome Newman
took the part of Benson Strickland's
valet. Claudine Holderncss directed
tho production.
Patty Hanks supervised tho third
piny "Winds." Mrs. Whitfield was
taken by Vlda Battey and Jeanette
Puterson took tho role of May. Sher-
iff and prosecutor were played by
Mancil Shaw and Malcom Bridges re-
spectively. o .
Deaton Furnishes Music
Lola Gibson Deaton head of the
voice department furnished special
music for the 27th annual May break-
fast of the Aloha club held Thura-
day May 7 at the Wooten hotel.
Mrs. Deaton gang "May Morning"
by Denza and "Fairy Bells" by Test.
For an encore she sang "The Cuckoo
Clock" by Bantock. Ruth Scheibe
played the piano accompaniment.
Miss Mary E. Head dean of women
was the general chairman of arrange-
ments for the breakfast.
Band Manager
G. B. (Gib) Sandcfer manager
of the Cowboy band which was re-
cently designated official band of
the Texas Centennial. He will ac-
company the group of musicians
on their six weeks' invasion of Dal-
las this summer.
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Young Demos To
Select Officers
Local Club Attends Meet;
Dues Are Lowered For
College Group
Young Democrats of the campus at-
tended the two day session of the
state convention of thnt organization
last Friday and Saturday. Cearley
R. Kinard local president was recom-
mended for a member of tho import
ant rules committee.
Sessions of the meeting were hnr-
monlous with few exceptions. In the
newly adopted constitution dues for
college students were lowered from
35c to 25c. The constitution originnl-
ly read that dues would be $1 for
everyone. Taylor county club was
instrumental in having the article
amended. Only other controversy of
the meet was over a resolution prais-
ing both nntional and state officials.
After vigorous debate the clause re
ferring to stato officials was striken
out. Houston was awarded next
year's convention.
Last meeting of the. year for the
college club will be held next Tuesday
afternoon. Election of officers for
the coming year will highlight the
meeting. Prof. W. A. Stephenson
government head and vice-president
of the Taylor county club is sponsor
of tho local organization.
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Angie McCurdy Weds Doctor
Wedding of Miss Angie McCurdy
former Hardin-Simmons beauty and
Dr. Richard Lceton Nelson last Satur-
day evening was announced here Sun-
day. Mrs. Nelson is the daughter of Dr.
and Mrs. T. C. McCurdy of Archer
City. Dr. Nelson Is of Wichita Falls.
The couple left for a trip before oo-
Ing to Wichita Falls where they will
leave.
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Sandefer Speaks In Slaton
Dr. J. D. Sandefcr delivered the
commencement address to the Slaton
high school graduating class Thurs
day night.
The address was tho only one the
Hardin-Simmons president will make
this year. Ho has declined several
invitations but becauso of urgent re-
quest on the part of Slaton students
and patrons agreed to speak there.
Future Ad-Writers Map Campaigns
For Products "Built Right To Sell
Students who rend nowspnper ad-
vertising will be faced with slogans
such as have never been heard of in
tho journalistic world before if tho
present crop of Hardin-Simmons ad
writers ever engages in the actual
work.
A slogan selecting fest held in one
of the ad-wrlting classes this week
unearthed some of the most unique
phrases ever put down In writing.
One future ad magnate chose as the
product which he will sell to the
masses whether they want it or not
the unsung toothpick. "They Pick
Cleaner" he chanted as a warmup
to his salestalk and then drove the
argument definitely home with "The
Pick 'of Society." Incidentally he
spoke of his product as the "Latest
Streamlined Toothpick Creation" and
Wiggins To Speak
At Alumni Banquet
Program At Wooten
June Graduates Invited To
Attend Affair Carded
May 30
Three thousand issues of the News
Flash Hardin-Simmons university
alumni and ex-students publication
were mailed members of the cx-asso-elation
this week. The latest edition
of the Flash features stories on the
annual banquet to be field on May 30
at 8 p.m. In the Wooten hotel.
A completed program which will in-
clude talks by Dr. D. M. Wiggins
president of the School of Mines El
Paso and W. B. Irvln superintendent
of tho Pcrryton public schools has
been announced by tho program com-
mittee. Dr. Wiggins was until the
last year dean of students nt Hardin-
Simmons and Irvin served ns a mem-
ber of tho education faculty nt the
university Inst summer. Both arc
Hardin-Simmons graduates.
Foy Is Toastmastcr
Toastmastcr for the affair will be
Raymond Foy Dnllas city advertis-
ing director of tho Dnllas Morning
News and a Hardin-Simmons alum-
nus. Feature of the entertainment per-
iod will be the presentation of an one-
act version of Ibsen's "Ghosts" by a
cast from the department of speech
directed by Mrs. Norn Levy instruc-
tor in the department. The produc-
tion was given nt tho annual colle-
giate one-net piny contest nt Houston
several weeks ago and its star Edel-
weiss Jenkens won first honors for
girl performers.
Music will be furnished by a uni-
versity orchestra and other musical
numbers will bo given by students
from the school of fine arts.
To Elect Officers
Following the banquet and enter-
tainment period election of officers
for 1930-37 will be held. Present of-
ficials arc: president Solon R. Feath-
erston Wichita Falls; vice-president
Lacy Beckham Abilene; and secre-
tary Mrs. II. A. Pender Abilene.
June Graduates to Attend
Special invitations hnve been ex-
tended the June graduating class to
attend by Featherstone and Mrs. Pen-
der attendance chairman. Graduates
in tho June class may secure tickets
(Continued on page 2)
Speech Juniors
Present Recitals
Holdcrness Hanks Appear
In Joint Program
Monday
Patty Hanks and Claudine Holdcr-
ness juniors in the speech depart-
ment and students of Mrs. Nora Levy
speech instructor wcro presented in
a joint recital Monday night in the
Caldwell Fine Arts auditorium.
Miss Hanks gave a one-act play
"Tho Hour Glass" by Thomns Butler
Yates; "Jealous" a negro dialect by
Paul Laurenco Dunbar; "The Mystic"
(Rice) n poem.
"Tho Painco of Court Painters" a
one-net play by McKay "Protest"
(Paul Laurenco Dunbar) nnd a musi-
cal poem "When Day Is Done"
(Longfellow) were tho three selec
tions given by Miss Holdcrness. Em
ma Rose Stunrt plnyed the nccom
panlment for tho musical number.
extended pity nnd sympathy to all
misinformed renders who did not
snatch a goodly supply of the choice
"oak" picks to their bosom while they
lasted.
A clgaretto saleslady named her
product "Carmen Cigarettes" nnd
began her drive with a slogan illus-
trated by a beautiful senorita relax-
ed upon a beautiful chaise lounge. A
thin blue veil of smoKo curled' from
her Carmen cigarette and the legend
was "Relax With Carmen." Thero
was also the suggestion that bliss was
within the reach of all. For the lower
clement of the smoking world who
would not have understood the subtle
suggestion of tho first slogan she in-
cluded two slightly coarser ones
"Avoid that 'onion' taste" and "Your
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Alpha Psi Omega
Convention To Be
AtH.-S.JJ.Inl937
Society Extends Invitation
To Local Chapter At
Waco Session
Hnrdin-Slmmons will entertain the
Alpha Psi Omegn national dramatic
fraternity in Abilene for tho 1037
convention according to an announce-
ment Wednesday from Mrs. Nora
Levy speech instructor.
Invitation was extended to tho Hardin-Simmons
chapter through dele-
gates at tho session held last Frldnv
nnd Saturday in Waco.
Don Gayer Maxlne Merritt Naomi
Davis Tony Levy nnd Mrs. Levy were
in attendance nt the meeting.
Baylor university was host to tho
session which was featured by the
premier of "Wake Un. David." n nlnv
dealing with life In tho Enst Texas
otl fields and written by a Baylor
senior Clemon White. A representa-
tive of tho Centennial witnessed the
premier nnd the piny will bo given
at the Dnllas celebration this sum-
mer. Gayer wns presented on the pro-
gram in n discussion of the practical
vnluo of dramatic activities in gram
mar high school and college life. A
banquet Saturday night featured ini-
tiation of new members.
Alpha Psi Omcgu hns chnptcrs in
Texns university Texns Technologi-
cal Trinity Bnylor Mary Hardiu-
Baylor Texas Christian university
nnd Abilene Christian and Hardin-
Simmons. McMurry Program
Honors Alpha Chi
Julius Olsen chapter of Alpha Chi
national scholarship society was
guest along with A. C. C. representa-
tive at a program given Wednesday
morning nt McMurry college for mem-
bers of the organization in Abilene.
Mrs. Nat G. Rollins wns speaker
for the occasion and discussed the sub-
ject "Worth."
Hugh Wnddill .president of tho
James Winford Hunt chapter at Mc-
Murry Introduced tho visitors from
H.-S. U. nnd the James A. Garfield
chapter of A. C. C.
Dr. Thomas W. Brabham president
of McMurry presided and extended
greetings.
Miss Julia Lukcr head of the Mc-
Murry English department nnd chap-
ter sponsor hns recently been elected
national president of Alpha Chi.
Maxine Higgs Chosen
Abilene Beauty Entry
Maxino Higgs former Hardin-Simmons
student nnd member of tho
girls' quartet was chosen "Miss Abi-
lene" by chamber of commerce judges
Tuesday morning.
She wns crowned in a ceremony lust
night nt the Paramount theater by
Tom K. Eplen president of tho local
chamber of commerce.
Miss Higgs will participate in tho
"Frontier Follies" in Fort Worth dur-
ing tho Texas Centennial celebrations.
The good-will committee of tho
chamber of commerce sponsored the
contest in which five Abileno girls
competed nnd Billy Rose director of
the Follies is making possible tho
nppenranco of tho winner in Fort
Worth.
Deaton Sings For Spring
Guest Party of '32 Group
Mrs. Lola Gibson Deaton voice de-
partment head furnished music at the
annual spring guest party of the '32
club which wns held in the colonial
suito of the Wooten hotel Wednesday
With Ruth Scheibe as accompanist
Mrs. Deaton sang "Apple Blossoms"
(Kelly); "Dreamin Time" (Strick-
land) and "Love's Echo" (Newton).
Ann Taylor and Emma Rose Stuart
also appeared on the program. Miss
Taylor gave a lecture on the three-
act play "Baby Mine" (Margaret
Mayo) and Miss Stuart played "Valse
Brilliante" (Mnnna-Zucca).
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