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CORRAL MAGAZINE EDITION
unmans Brand
Vol. VII.
SIMMONS COLLEGE ABILENE TEXAS SATURDAY MAY 26 1923..
Number 32
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Builders of
By Ltnnie
Lcl us review for a moment the work
of the Ancient Egyptians in the building
of the pyramids which stand today as
one of tho "Seven Wonders of tho World."
The pyramid as the most prominent Btruc-
turo of vertical height since tho fourth
dynasty of the Greeks. Other countries
iiave from time to time made copies of
these pyramids but they have wasted and
crumbled.
Tho origin of the pyramid is explained
by tho discovery of the various stages in
tho development of tho tomb.
In prehistoric time a square chamber
was sunk in the ground and the dead
were placed in it and a roof of poles and
brushwood overlaid the top. Tho first
dynasty king developed a wooden lining to
the chambers with a beam roof and a
stairway descending at the side. By the
third dynasty this dwarf wall had ex-
panded into a solid mass of brick. This
type was then enlarged by repeated
heightening and successive coats of mason-
ary and lastly a smooth covering was put
over the whole and the first pyramid ap-
peared. Iiowctcr not a single one re-
mained the same size. They were enlarged
and changed with the succession of tho
dynasties. Tho pyramid was never a fam-
ily monument but belonged like all other
Egyptian tombs to ono person; however
members of the royal family had some-
times lesser pyramids adjoining those of
the kings. There arc many architectural
peculiarities in these buildings that only
the minutest observer could detect; and
although similar each portrays many
characteristics not exhibited by any other.
So each life is a pyramid fashioned
largely by the will of man. Let us trans-
form this monument by the poetic imagin-
ation into a spiritual type holding firm
against the opposing forces of life. Tho
greatest thing in the world is a human
life and the greatest work in the world
is the helpful touch upon that life. Often
an artist in soul culture is found at the
task but there are many who are un-
skilled and tho product by the labor is
far from a manhood "perfect in Christ."
But this task is a vast one and it re-
quires a definite course that from an idea
to its realization.
We sometimes use the familiar figure of
the potter and the clay. Yet some truths
are obvious: the vessel marred in the mak-
ing may often be made anew but the life
so marred is often hurt beyond reparation;
the vessel is only for time the life is for
eternity. The faulty work cannot be un-
done. The mistake can never bo wholly
rectified for life never yields up what is
given it. The look the word the invisi-
ble atmosphere of tho home and church
the sights and sounds of all the busy
days enter the super-sensitive and retentive
soul of the individual and are woven into
his life ideals. Life is the choosing of
the ideal made within tho heart of man's
pyramid which is his soul; thereby mak-
ing the choice between two things only:
Abilene a Great Western
Trade Center
By Arthur
Abilene Out where the West begins is
a city with a future. Abilene The cap-
ital of Taylor County is 407 miles from
Texarkana on the East and 457 miles from
El Paso on the West thus making it the
entrance to West Texas or where the East
meets the West. It was established in
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distributing point for that large area 1
known as Central West Texas. In tho .
earlier days it was the center of a great
cattle country but in moro recent years
has become an agricultural commercial
and educational center.
Together with her location means of
transportation the industrial plants which
she now has and with the accomplishment
of the program laid out before her today
she is fast becoming and bids fair within
tho next few years to be the leading trade
center in the entire West.
For transportation Abilene has threo
railroads with outlets to the North South
East and West connecting with all tho
main lines of the State. The Texas and
Pacific railway trafersing the State from
East. The Wichita Valley terminating at
Wichita Falls where connection is made
with the Fort Worth and Denver and tho
Missouri Kansas and Texas and the Abi-
lene and Southern terminating at Bal-
linger whero connection is made with
the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe. Then
Pyramids
Maud Fuller
the present real self and tho future ideal
self. The foundation of the human pyra-
mid contains the stones of faithfulness
honesty and truthfulness. Emerson has
well said: "On these three rests peaceful-
ncss." Character has no other from which
to fashion itself. Therefore its final beau-
ty and worth wilt be determined in a
large measure by the quality of tho ma-
terial which is used in the building of
the human pyramid of life.
Every choico in life causes man to prog
ress or degenerate. Each step is cither
sclffish or altruistic. Tho higher piano is
surmounted when the law of sclf-sacrifico
blots out the lower self and establishes
tho hichcr and nobler impulses; for self-
satisfaction is one of the greatest evils
of the age. Thcro is little hope for him
who is contented with his present attain-
ments. For a consciousness of an unreal-
ized self is a fundamental and universal
fact of human life. It is a prophecy of
better things as Longfellow expresses it:
"That even in savage bosoms
There arc longings yearnings strivings
For the good that comprehended not
That the feeble hands and helpless
Groping blindly in the darkness
Touch God's right hand in that darkness
And arc lifted up and strengthened."
Wc know that life is not merely "plastic
clay" to be moulded or a "block of mar-
blc" to be hewn according to the will of
the sculptor. But this conception em-
phasizes rightly the tremendous power of
environment and personality in shaping
character. If tho individual were a block
of marble he would be no different from
the dead inert lumps that lies in the stu-
dio awaiting tho will of the sculptor. But
tho individual has life and the difference
between the individual and a mere object
lies in an inner power or activity which
lifo possesses and uses when and as it
will. Some one has said that; "Lifo is a
bundle of possibilities and self activity."
The block of marble has possibilities so
has molten metal and a tube of paint;
but life has possibilities plus inner power.
Every possibility in a life must develop
upward or downward. This development
whether in a plant or an individual is a
result of influences that come to a life
and the response made to them by activity.
So the life that is nurtured unfolds it
self and is able to recognize each pos-
sibility as it appears; he knows how best
to deal with it; and lie knows how to
stimulate the activity to greatest endeavor.
But progress without love is socialistic.
That unwritten law which upholds the
true standards of life which directs the
conscience of man gives patience in time
of struggle unfolds tho beauty in the
darkest hours and calls forth duty when
life seems hidden is indeed the corner
stone of the great pyramid of life. It is
the supreme law that directs the actions
of man even that law which prompted
the Greut Teacher to say: "In as much
(Continued on page four.)
Bullock.
too the Santa Fo passes within 12 miles
of Abilene on the South and a special
motor bus service is being maintained be-
tween Abilene and Buffalo Gap the near-
est point with thirty minute service over
a first class pike thus making it possi-
ble to reach any point in the State within
a very short time also greatly facilitating
trading of all kinds.
In addition to the railroads there are
ono hundred and seventy-five miles of
piked roads in Taylor County and several
State and National highways pass through
the city with the vast amount of truck
hauling carried on today and the fact
that that business is growing steadily
make these roads a very great factor in
trading.
Then Abilene's many industries play a
great part in her commercial growth for
the more factories and mills a city has
the more trade she is able to draw. To-
day Abilene has six factories eight cot-
ton gins ono cotton compress a $200000
flouring mill a $100000 grain elevator
twelve wholesale houses a afternoon and
weekly newspaper as well as several spe
cial editions and there has just recently
been' completed in Abilene one of the
largest electric generating plants in tho
entire Southwest this plant representing
an investment of nearly n million and a
I (Continued 011 page four.)
On the Other Side
By Myrtle
A song rose from Allen Hall; then sud-
denly abruptly it fell caught in tho pas-
sion of wandering music. The twilight
across the campus tonight was like the
music soft and inexplicably deep. There
was a cleanness in the air that was balmy
left by the evening shower; and a fresh-
ness that suggested violets and daisies
and locust blossoms. But with the eve-
ning stillness there was melancholy a se-
rene and half-fallen gloom that was heavier
than tho perfume-laden air and deeper
than the shadows. Laughter of girls among
tho trees and iron benches and distant
voices of lover's strolling on the west side
were intermingled. Then they all with
the melody that rose from Allen Hall
grew quiet and blended more nearly with
tho ardous serenity of the evening sky.
And in the gray and shadowed blue ap-
peared distinctly a lonely distant star
Venus.
It was not dusk when the study bell
rang for the spring evenings arc long.
Groups of girls came back to their rooms
hesitantly and lingered yet about open
windows and tho second story veranda;
some to watch the coming of other students
and to tell their latest secrets in the twi-
light; others to watch the night picture in
the west where the sun had gone away ami
left tho grotesque beauty of a rose sky
witli gray and gold and blue and new
stars.
A voice somewhere caught the new
strain of music:
"Dusk and the shadows falling
Over land and sea;
Somewhere a voice is calling
Calling for me "
But tho campus was still now and tho
dusk had turned to a decided gloom of
night. Two girls left the parlor and stood
on the steps of the Hall entrance.
"You're happy Lomah!" Laura Phillips
whispered holding her pal very close.
Then as if understanding the heart of
the girl she loved she turned and left her
on tho steps alone.
She was tall Lomah was and tonight
in white she seemed a part of the moonlit
Reflections of Light
This original conception of what Eco-
nomics and Sociology means to the world
was conceived by the Social Sccncc Club
of tho College of which Dr. Baker is in-
structor. It is an ingenius conception and
has been well expressed in picture by
Chaunccy Garrison the club artist.
This cut is in the 1923 Bronco and
through its meaning is obvious when care-
fully studied a simple explanation will
perhaps aid in its interpretation.
Observe how the torch of Experience
gives out a brilliant light which shining
upon the realms of Sociology and Eco-
nomics is reflected upon every phase of
life and living.
In the illumination sent out Sociology
rise those institutions that are first and
most essential in the making of a life
the Home tho Church and the School.
The divinest inheritance given to man is
that of a home beautiful built truly after
tho ideal held up by Sociology. Tho
church it the builder of the spiritual spark
of man's nature. The school is tho fosterer
of his mental and physical development.
Thus as the torch of experience burns on
its light grows purer and gives out per
0. Barber
dusk tho light of the day that was not
yet gone; a fusion of organdy and flowers
and tho form and personality of Lomah
Day. If she possessed beauty and pcoplo
said she did it came from her eyes. It
was not the depths of blue nor the lashes
but something deeper that pcoplo loved
her soul.
Sho looked along tho dimly shadowed
buildings of the campus along the daisy
covered walks toward the West then moved
on as if caught up in tho night toward
the end of the walk lightly happily. At
the end of the walk she stopped still so
stilt that she seemed afraid for there in
the gray and shadowed blue glowed a pas-
sionate star.
"They call you Venus O strange star"
she whispcicd caught in its ardor "but
to me you are not that you are morel
Yet thcro is melancholy in your gleam
tonight and there ought to be joy "
Held in the fervor of the Spring night
the girl made her way unconsciously to
the old iron bench under the last oak .
It was dark now but her first impulse to
return soon to the hall was forgot. She
was a little girl again in the far away on
the other side.
In a land where the plains stretch away
to infinite boundaries and where the white
wave of the prairies tide incessantly with
tho restless prairie winds was tho place
they called Knowlcs. It was where the
strong live and the wild; where man and
animal abode together under a vast open
sky. It was a land that endowed youth
with ardent hopes and tender passions and
its inheritance was a spcark of eternal vir-
tuesthis land nearer the setting sun.
In the center of this treeless grassy
bosomed land was Knowles a store a
postoffice a dance hall and a school house.
It was a quaint old one story affair that
school house setting out alone from the
other buildings. A few redline bases and
mush pots marked tho hard swept circular
playground and here and there about the
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fect revelation of the best. The reflec-
tion of Sociology serves to intensify tho
needs and advantages of the best and an-
nounces to the world what Experience has
learned through tho centuries.
But when the man has been developed
by powers mentioned above there is a
field yet that ho must enter that of in-
dustry business or some means of livli-
hood. Ho approaches this field by the
paths revealed by Economics a path that
leads to the Shop the Railroad and Fac-
tory. In this field are found problems and
perplexities which only Experience could
have solved. Experience has solved them
and sheds out a radiance of knowledge on
them that only centuries can reveal. Eco
nomics is the power by which Experience
does reveal what it has learned.
Observe the picture moro closely for
its meaning becomes more obvious and
more significant. Every phase of human
environment and endeavor is embodied
here. Notice that the world is conscious
of the light of Experience only through
the reflection of those powerful plates of
Economics and Sociology.
Makers of
By Sam
Forcigcrs coming from tho unstable na-
tions of war-wrecked Europe look upon
America as a haven of rest and count it a
privilege to sail their ships into our ports.
Our brothers returning from those fields
of agony and blood regarded it life's high-
est honor to have had the opportunity of
offering their lives in behalf of America's
noble ideals. They counted it a peculiar
favor to he citizens of our great united
and grand country: N
"Grand in her rivers and her rills
Grand in her woods and templed hills;
Grand in her past her present grand
In sunlit skies and fruitful land."
Who made America grand? As wc ask
ourselves this question thcro comes be
fore us in u panoramic view a host of
American statesmen such as: Washing-
ton Lincoln Webster or Wilson. Yet the
question remains unanswered for the mak-
ers of America have not been great but
the mothers of great men. This match-
less achievement has been contributed in
an indirect way by molding the lives char-
acters and ambitions of America's lead-
ing men. For men of all professions and
nations have ascribed their success to their
mothers. Abraham Lincoln ono of our
greatest and most revered presidents said:
"All that I am or hope to be I owe to
my mother." "My mother was tho mak-
ing of me" declares tho noted inventor
Thomas A. Edison. D. L. Moody the
world noted preacher attributes his ac-
complishments to his mother and Benja-
min West said: "A kiss from my mother
made me a painter."
Mothers are the home-makers of Amer-
ica. Our fathers work in the office or
fields during the day but they come at
eventide to seek the comforts and pleas-
ures of home. What if mother were not
there? They would not find the consola-
tion or inspiration for which they yearn.
It would not be home but only a place of
rest at the close of a weary day.
By their Influence in the home our
mothers form the customs of society the
nucleus of 0 nation's character. The home
is the foundation of any nation. Upon that
foundation was our past buildcd; upon
that foundation stands our present and
upon that foundation is to depend our fu-
ture. Tho home is the nursery from which
come examples of greatness of courago
and of patriotism. It is the citadel from
which a nation gets her strength honor
and glory. Certainly then the writer was
correct when he said: "The hand that
rocks the cradle rules the world."
Not only are mothers the homel makers
of America but they arc the ideal makers
for America. As an ideal is the mag-
netic pole of progress in every man's lifo
so the ideals of the American people form
the magnetic pole of progress for Amer-
ica. To open the minds of their children
by the right ideals is the delicate task
assigned to our mothers and the quality
of our nation depends upon how well they
perform this task. Whatever may bo
The Mother Tongue
Before Cicero hurled the shafts of his
eloquence against Cataline or Demosthe-
nes talked about a viown or Pliny wrote
his letters or Piautus his plays or Virgil
his songs the English language was in
tho making. If we were to trace the
stream of this language of ours back to its
sources we would have a difficult task.
As tho Mississippi at its mouth is a broad
stately jajestic flow and further upstream
divides in this river t.m! that river and
this creek and that little creek until he
who seeks its source would lose himself
in the hills and lakes of Minnesota the
borders of Ohio or in the broad lands of
Montana so he who would trace the Eng-
lish language back to its origin would
find himself in the dim firelight of a tribe
in the German woodlands or in the coun-
try of the Vikings or in tho Roman Sen-
ate hearing tho voices that now echo only
in the halls of history or on one of the
beautiful hillsides of Greece where the
blind Homer sang of the heroes of tho
mythical past in word that live until this
day.
Mingling the words of many peoples it
has blended the characteristics of many
tongues and brought together the ideas
of many nations. It has become a uni-
versal language expressing the depts of
human sorrows or tho heights of human
joy naming the forces that move Iiy laws
that we call science and proclaiming the
freedom of man and his brotherhood. By
selection from the world's stock of ex-
pressions for all the needs of human
America
Morris
the efficiency of our schools the ideals
of our mothers will always bo of vastly
greater influence in forming the character
of our men and wbmen.
George Washington was eleven years of
age at his father's death; to his mother
fell the responsibility of rearing him and
guiding him over the pitfalls of early life
to tho dawn of manhood. He is known as
the father of our country but to his mother
belongs the honor of having planted in him
those ideals that bore fruit for our nation.
t King George the Third conceived his
t)rannical ideas from his mother while but
a youth. Sho was constantly saying "Be
king George bo king." By those words
she instilled in his mind the ideals which
guided him through life and caused our
fore-fathers to suffer.
Moreover it is from our mother that
wo get the highest and noblest of our am-
bitions. Every true mother endeavors to
plant in her boy a worthy ambition. Con-
gressman Parrish who worked his way
through the State University and while
there was one of the leading students
representing the institution both on the
athletic field and in a forensic way said;
speaking at our college about six hours
before the accident that caused his death
"I was twenty years old and on the ranch
when my mother came and placing her
arms about my neck pled with me to
strive for an education that I might be
better equipped to fight life's battles;
whatever victories are mine I will lay
them at the feet of my mother where they
belong." Ho realized that to his mother
was lie indebted for the noble ambition
that led him through his educational strug-
gles into the halls of Congress and thero
won honor for him and his state.
In time of war mother is a potent factor
in the life of the nation for she is the
fighter behind the lines. All the fighting
is not done at the front; victories are not
won on the battle-line alone. During the
Civil War our grand-mothers with the few
remaining slaves produced the food that
gave our grand-fathers strength during
those days of struggle and hardships. They
worked till late at night weaving by hand
the cloth from which they made the uni-
forms that protected the Southern sol-
diers from the bile of the north wind and
the sting of winter's silent sleep. The
South would have been compelled to have
surrendered long before sho did had it not
been for those faithful toiling mothers at
home.
In the past World War our mothers con-
tributed their part. They wore the ends
of their fingers sore knitting socks and
sweaters for the doughboys. They went
to the fields rode the tractor and followed
the plow while their sons followed the
generals they shouldered the axe and the
hoe while their brothers shouldered the
guns. True they were not on the firing
lines but they were behind those lines.
I They furnished the inspiration that made
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speech it is suited as easily to the tongue
of the orator the mind of the mathema-
tician or the pen of the poet.
It is the language of liberty. Study
the documents of human freedom of mod-
em times from the Magna Charta to the
American constitution most of them are
shaped and phrased and given power by
your mother tongue. Go with me to an
old hall in Philadalphia. Watch that body
of men marked with furrows of years
in the wilderness and sober with the se-
riousness of life and death listen with me
as the words roll sonorously through that
old hall and echo through the corridors
of ages:
"When in the course of human events
it becomes necessary " and the rest of
great document that has affected every
government upon the face of the earth
written in our mother tongue.
Or listen in on the wave length of his-
tory and get this distinct and fresh from
the broadcasted classics of the past:
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as
to be purchased at the price of chains and
slavery. I know not what course
others may take but as for me give me
liberty or give me death." And you recog-
nize the language of liberty the English
tongue.
It is the language of progress. It gave
the orders that started a nation westward.
It sent its call along the dim trails of the
the forests that covered two continents;
it was heard about the firesides of a new
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