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Thanks For The Buggy Ride
It is only fitting that the student council bo
commended for its initiative in giving the students
of II-SU the skating party Monday evening. In
contrast tothc attendance nt many of the all-uni-vcrsity
socials the students turned out en masse.
They did this despite the change in date and neg-
ligible publicity given the affair.
It is our opinion that there is a lesson to be
derived from this. If the students are offered
something they can enjoy or that offers enough
variety to break the monotony of the cut-and-dricd
calibre of the usual all-university socials they will
attend and take wholehearted interest in the affair.
A pink tea is all right and has its place. It pos-
sibly furnishes an exciting and delightful evening
for club women or a knitting circle but college
students prefer something a bit more exciting that
allows for more freedom.
It is not our intention to criticize those that have
instigated the socials of the past but rather to en-
courage the present student council and offer our
.support for a furtherance of the project they have
started.
It is their intention to purchase skates and give
skating parties as a regular part of our social ac-
tivity. Many of us skate horizontal more than vertical
but it is fun. If you do not care to try there is
many a laugh from the sideline. If you hold our
iewpoint let it be known. Your support will help
to assure success.
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"Tobacco Road" Of Congress
Senator Tom Connally and other Southern Sena-
tors may rest assured that their fight on the auti-
lynching bill is being given support by the citizens
below the Mason-Dixon line. That is not to say
that Southerners are barbaric or that they are less
opposed to lynching than the people of other sec-
tions of the nation. It is saying that they feel
competent of handling their own affairs.
To be sure the South hns been the scene of num-
erous lynehings but the South has a racial problem
that is peculiar to its particular section. This prob-
lem cannot be remedied by legislation. Prom the
legislative viewpoint the Negro is the equal of the
white now.
Before we conclude that this is conclusive evi-
dence that law enforcement has broken down in
the South let's look at other sections.
We noticed there were numerous instances of
violence in the North and East the past year. Ten
people were killed in one strike. Property was
seized without due process of law. The mails were
interfered with. This all happened without the
Southern senators rushing into Congress demand-
ing that the Federal government take over the
matter.
After all this United States is a federation of
sovereign states; a fact which the South will not
forget. Let reason and intelligence prevail as to
law enforcement rather than sectional prejudice.
"We are backing our representatives in their fight
on the "Tobacco Road" of Congress.
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Goofy News Incidents
People laughed when news came in that a group
of WPA workers had staged a sit-down strike in
the Sorthern states. Henry W. Harris in picking
his list of "Goofiest News Stories of 1937" includ-
ed numerous sit-down occasions on his list.
May we nominate for our list of similar inci-
dents those people who seriously impair their own
progress through personal carelessness. Did yon
ever hear of someone being forced to be uncharit-
able in his attitude in order to protect his own
property?
Carelessness and lack of consideration for kind-
hearted friends has been responsible for these
friends avoiding the campus corner when driving
toward town. Students accuse the drivers with
being inconsiderate. Is it selfishness to be thrifty
to the point that one desires self-preservation?
Maybe that is putting the matter a little too
strong but when it reaches the point that students
become disrespectful and discourteous it is time
something was done. Some persons seem to have
forgotten that there is a definite capacity of any
.passenger vehicle. "When several students desire
to go to town at the same time the first car that
stops is super-saturated with free riding patrons.
This one habit together with failure to thank
the obliging "taxi-driver" is slowly reducing the
number of courtesy rides to and from the campus.
Disregard for the age old tradition handed down
from knighthood and chivalry days that "Ladies
should be first" has disgusted several of those who
were willing to take the abuse on their automobile
in order to assist the students.
No doubt u little more courtesy a little more ap-
preciation and a bit more care in protecting the
other man's property might mean that these friends
would not avoid our corner.
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Spurs
By The Wranglers
Needless to say WE are enjoying
the remarks regarding this column.
But two or three times since wo
started we have been tempted to walk
up to certnin pcoplo and say "Wo
wiite THAT column and you're a
liar." When their throat has been
cut their imagination was given free
rein; you should have heard tho lies
told on us. We're not kicking it's
funny to us. Maybe you can enjoy
it too.
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While conversing with one of the
business-men in Abilene the other day
the name Hardin-Simmons was men-
tioned. For the first time since I
started to Hardin-Simmons I was
ashamed to admit that I was a stu-
dent here. He said that he hated to
bring his car on the campus because
of the petty thieves. WE don't know
of anonc who would stoop quite so
low. Several small Items have been
supposedly lost (probably stolen) this
year and nothing has been clone about
it. For once students it's up to u
to stop those pack-rats. Although
you are not guilty your reputation
Is hdrt. You know whether or not
ou arc guilty (mabc jou arc the
only one who does) so if you are a
thief don't be a lot of things we arc
not allowed to mention or print by
carrying it on and hurting the high
standards of the school and the stu-
dents. This isn't a II. S. U. lecture
WE just hate rats.
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By Savage and Norton
Upon discovering that it Is still
dark at 7:30 in the morning IIANEY
and JUNE FROST have started dat-
ing at that time because after all
IIANEY has to work at night.
Tho happiest girl on tho campus Is
FRANCES THOMAS. At last she's
caught her a man BURNEAL
SCOTT!
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Have you noticed: DOROTHY DO-
ZIER'S unusual beauty which grows
upon you the better ou know her?
How much happier MARY 7.1 LLA
TURNER is this year and the pleas-
ing personality she has? How quiet
BETTY BOOP WILLIAMS has be-
come? (Where has all that peppy
liveliness gone Hoop?). And have
you noticed BEE AGNEW? You
should. '
Read Editorial "Goofy News Incidents'
Range
RititV
Meditations
A couple of swell slimes FAYE
NELL SPEARS nnd HOLM AN aio
being seen quiet a bit together. Pow-
er to both of them.
By The Dude
LESA WILLIAMS one of the most
slummed girls on the campus doesn't
deserve tho catty and stinging re-
marks thrown her way. She has cer-
tainly proved that she can take them
however.
Wc suppose that most of you have
heaid by this time what n big success
JEAN ROBERTS wns and is in her
home town and of her many accom-
plishments. One thing she forgot to
develop was n fiiendly and social at-
titude. She simply can't think to
speak to anyone outside her small
set. JEAN we realize that you aie
a freshman nnd have a lot to lehrn
but plense try to lcmember that one
has to be friendly on this campus to
get along; regardless of how many
things you can do well I
Incidentally R. E. CAMPBELL has
been here. . . .
MILDRED PENDER now has an
interest at State. During the Thanks-
giving and Christmas holidays she
had dates with him and now he writes
to her. Pender jou made a good
catch In attracting WOODROW
WALTER. Is it true that MITCHELL
is really "in the wrong crowd?"
It seems that "HAM" HAMILTON
was named for a purpose and very
appropriate at that. He is a HAM
without a 'question.
Come on HAM snap out of it;
let's see at least a little of that foul
spirit the rest of the FRESHMEN
are displajing.
BITSY LYNN hns been very happy.
Her boy friend from home saw to that
last Sunday.
About that boy friend that BEE
AGNEW is loyal to. He IS deserving
of BEE and she doesn't have to SIT
at home and wait for him to call her:
he's already there. In fact TOBY
SHACKELFORD has been there for
FOUR jears.
Things have been rather dull since
THE YACHT CLUB is no longer good
publicity but at last we have heard
of a new nnd rivaling club that is
rapidly gaining in popularity (such
as it is). Nothing for certain yet
but all the charter members of the
old club are flocking to join the new
organization. More about this as soon
as wo find out ourselves. We will
keep you posted.
Last week we were glad to see
BUBBA DAY MILDRED BURNETT
nnd JOHNNY GREEN on the campus.
OPEN LETTER
HART don't let them discourage
you. You're doing ALL the GOOD.
A lot better than one of your friends
who would like to be doing SOME
good with HER!
KENNETH SKINNER better
known as the JEW can't seem to rate
a girl on the campus and we know
the reason why. You can't blame the
girls JEW after the stunt jou pulled
in SAN ANGELO we wouldn't go out
with jou either.
R. I. COLLIER is now carrying
things just a little too far. He has
been sucking ever since the band went
to San Angelo last year and is now
being submissively led about by
CHARLOTTE. Being hen-peeked is
the last straw. What next?
Have you noticed:
JACQUE NEVILLS a cute bru-
nette who is being overlooked. . . .
KATHERINE FREEMAN a slime
who is tops in our estimation. . . .
FRANCES SEARS a sweet girl. . . .
HEADSTREAM'S bad case on LOVE
HENDERSON ROBERT DUNA-
GAN a really cute boy who could get
around if he'd half try. . . .
By Rowland Dow
My life is but a weaving
Betwixt my Lord and me;
1 may not choose the colors
He knows what they should be;
For He can view the pattern
Upon the upper side
While I can see it only
On this the under side.
Selected.
For the creation or manufacturing
of any product there are two essen-
tials. Great things don't "just hap-
pen." It would be foolish to think
that one quiet day in Detroit the
townsfolk heard a rattling sound in
the distance and after a long while
there came rolling down the street on
automobile. Merely self assembled
from a pile of scrap iron at the edge
of the city ... for tho creation of
the nutomobile there had to be wis-
dom to design and power to build. For
the creation of anything tday there
must be these essentials wisdom to
design and power to build.
There had to be these factors in the
creation of this world. To think that
back in tho ages beyond conception
that there came without any plan by
a higher power from an atom of un-
explainable origin this vast universe
of ours is foolish. For the creation of
these vast world's of which our sys-
tem must less our planet is only a
minute portion took unsurpassable
wisdom to design and unlimited pow-
er to build.
If these analogies are true then
there must be for our lives these two
essentials wisdom to design and
power to build. "We arc God's build-
ing." "We are His workmanship."
"Created in Christ Jesus before the
foundation of the world." God has
made the plan drawn the blue print
for our' lives. And by His Holy Spirit
He will supply the power for us to
build upon His plans. May we find
His design and utilize His power in
building a Christ-like life?
Build it well what'er you do
Build it straight and strong and true
Build it thick and high and broad
Build it for the eye of God.
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It was good to sec JOHNNY
GREEN and MILDRED BURNETT
back on the campus again especially
since they were together and of
course BUBBA RAY the Brand's lit-
tle helper was back for the week-end.
It seems THE SPUR anonymous
column hns lun out of copy so-the
author it just going down the list and
cutting the throat of each student
whether he deserves it or not. We
wonder if the author leally knows
BAGWELL well enough to say she's
sophisticated and is not her tiuo Eclf
this year? We suggest u second size-up.
And also Mr. Author HELEN
DUNN AG AN doesn't make weekly
trips to Baird and after all she han-
dles her boy friends better than most
girls do so here's to more like her.
It's rumored SELBY ASWELL is
really engaged. No don't gionn no
girl on the H-SU campus would have
him. He has to go all the way to
Baylor-Belton to sec his love.
LOVE HENDERSON has been here
four months and still pretends not to
know anyone except her current heart
throb and a few girls who know no
better than to associate with her.
Come on down to earth HENDER-
SON and speak to people. You're
not really so awfully much better)
than the rest of us. You admitted in
Kangaroo Court that jou had alwajs
been conceited and from the looks of
things you alwajs will be.
The Silk Bandana
By Susan Franklin
Heenuso of your outstanding success in the field
of track and because you're a swell fellow to you
Alton Terry wc hand the silk bandana 1
Hailing from the country south of here near
Unidy this bashful young man aged 25 has made
Ins name prominent on the
lists of important athletes in
America. Hut before wc dis-
cuss this let us find out n few
personal highlights in his life.
Of course everyone is inter-
ested in his love affairs and
since he is not engaged or even
going steady you girls might
try your luck. His first girl
n blonde was true to him for
one year until she married.
He has preferred blondes all
of his life; because the over-
head is lighter. His ideal must
be of medium height and nei
ther fat nor thin.
While a sophomore in high senool he went to the
county track meet and ran the half-mile. After
the meet he picked up the javelin for the first time
in his life and threw it farther than the winner and
this was the first step toward his brilliant career
in the track world. When he started to H-SU he
began to play football; this he did for two years
besides lettering four years in basketball.
"Al" was still very interested in javelin throw-
ing and went out for spring track only to find that
ho was the only person on the track team. "With
this much discouragement any other person would
have given up but "Al" was determined to go on
with his ambition. In the spring of 10IJG Coach al-
lowed him to work out and because he was good
he was sent to Des Moines Iowa for the Drake
relays on April 24 lD.'JG. There he set a new
American record of 222 feet.
Then his ambition was to work toward the Olym-
pics and this he did and was allowed to go to Ger-
many in ':JI! after competing in matches in Chicago
and New York. In the Olympics he threw the
javelin 220 feet winning Cth place and stayed in
Heilin three weeks. He spent one week in London
at the Hritish Empire Games and threw 217 feet.
His longest official throw was in Glasgow Scot-
land during the Scottish-American Games where
he tossed the "stick" 223 feet.
His ambition is to win the Olympics in 1910 and
then he will turn professional. He hopes to reach
2-10 foet. When he graduates at the end of this
semester Al will either coach in Iliehlnnd Springs
or work in California. This summer he will be in
the I'nii-Amcricau (iames in Kio dc Janeiro.
LITTLE DUMMY has broken a
record made a record or accomplish-
ed the unbelievable. She had calls
from "eight" diffetcnt boys for dates
Saturday night. And she went with
EVANS. There's a couple for you.
Our boost of the week goes to
GERRY ALLEN. She has done noth-
ing on the II-SU campus to bring
about such unfair criticism. She is
cute looking friendly to ever) one
and has the right attitude. Is that
reason enough to cut her throat?
JOHN HOOPER and JIMMY
KATE TART are still going strong
this year. Either she doesn't care
what he does or else she hasn't heard
about several ot the little happenings
on those band trips. Ask him about
DALLAS Jimmy Kate.
BILL PLETCHER certainly has
"clean" dates these days. He has
been courting BOBBIE "WASH" Uie
blonde from Roscoc who deserves a
boost ANYWAY!
From Other
Ranches
The Varsity Show is coming in
April. The BRAND officials are
planning this as the biggest production
of the year JOHN ENDICOTT is
to be the director-general. Swing
band and all! Watch for it!
And then there was the Scotchman
who wouldn't go to school because he
had to pay attention. Los Angeles
Junior Collegian.
HAZEL HOWELL is foot loose and
fancy free. She has finished her cor-
respondence course in courtship with
that man back in Brcck. Boys here's
your chance. But you will have to
work fast since she finishes at midterm.
Scrapbook Scribblings
Americans are experiencing some difficulty de-
ciding which came first: the apology for or the
sinking of the United States gunboat Panay on
tho Yangtze river 28 miles above Nanking.
Publicity is a great thing a great weapon a
considerable convenience. Almost everybody who
wants it expects it. Almost everybody who gots
it figures it wasn't sufficient.
Freshman WILBUR also n has
been is worse than even McCauley;
and that Is as bad as anyone CAN be.
If ignorance is bliss nnd stinginess
a blessing then WILBUR is due to live
n long blessed and blissful life time.
But we doubt that these are the re-
quired elements for a very long and
happy existence so our advice to
Wilbur is to changt and change fast.
Wilbur if you want to see a small
view of yourself in the near future
drop in on PROPST. He can tell you
exactly what happens to poor fresh
freshmen.
Hardin-Simmonsites had a wonder-
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Kansas State has introduced color
as the keynote of examinations. A
new system known as the Chcmo-
Score device turns the students' an-
swer red if it is incorrect and blue
if it is correct.
Interesting sight at the Corral
LLOYD GUY and FRANK WATERS
sitting together.
HARRY McRAE is like JOHN
PIERCE. All tho girls want to go
with him but don't know how to ap-
proach him.
So Theq Sag
By Willie Sue Long
HELEN "PATSY" DAY desenes
a boost. Why? Because she's been
typing our column. Cute kid that
Patsy!
A middle aged woman had fallen from a window
into an ashcan. A Chinese passing by remarked:
"Amelicans velly wasteful. That woman good for
ten yeurs more."
ROXIE BASS last year's most
talked of .girl is gone but not forgot-
ten or at least so it seems. She re-
ceived quite a nice shipment of Christ-
mas cards this year and from none
other than the Smith hall boys!
Which all goes to prove that an old
flame never dies.
All old-fashioned girl blushes when she's em-
barrassed ; a modem girl is embarrassed when sho
blushes.
Back talk was what a Perdue German professor
got when he yelled "Gentlemen order 1" and the
answer camo from a fraternity quartette in the
back of the room " beer I"
While on the subject of last year's
popular (?) students we would like
to mention TOM CANNON who early
in life was driven to drink and is now
driving himself to the insane asylum;
about three times a week we're told.
The real reason is one of the
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Bandmnn Phil Harris defines swing
music as not "merely a catchy term
for rhythm" but as a "definite stylo
of rhythm and accentuution of rhy-
thmic beats giving the music a decided
'swing'." Here are a few of tho H-
SU students' ideas of swing:
Roland Dow: "Something you rock
in."
Jiames Stephens: "Modern up-to-date
dance tunes."
Leonce Stephenson: "Something you
can't define. It must be 'yumph'."
Mac Alexander: "A good time."
Frank Self ridge: "A peppy music
to have a good time by."
Sarah Cox: "Something that makes
you want to truck it on down."
Clark Jarnigan: "Something to
cause desire for rhythm."
Dale Marshall: "Something that
makes you go 'ga-ga'."
Love Henderson: "Something that
gives you that old feeling."
Douglas Kelley: "It don't mean a
thing if it ain't got that swing."
Harold Russell: "Something hot
with lots of rhythm."
Clyde Crawford: "I don't know any-
thing about swing I just want my
name in tho Brand."
Ouida Dobbins: "It goes round and
round."
Sam Oatman; "A nine piece negro
band."
Drato Cathey: "Rhythm out loud."
Kirk McKinnon: "Walking rhythm."
Burnice Beaty: "Hot music."
Coach Kimbrough: "Swing is the
best music for football."
Garland Eastham: "The hot stuff."
June Kittrell: "Undefineable."
Bud Reeves: "Smooth and hot."
H. J Mitchell: "A musician's holi-
day." Swede Jarvis: "Something we need
more of in Hardin-Simmons."
Hibbard Polk: "Something you can
show what you've got with."
G. A. Mahler: "Benny Goodman."
"ROBBINS and ROSES and CAN-
DY" (pun) I That's what SUMPTER
sent JO NELL for her biithday
(candy and roses). Congratulations
to you senior favorite.
PEGGY MATHIS made quite a hit
with that Snyder boy while on her
week-end visit with FAY NELL
SPEARS. He came down to see her
last week-end. Was it her looks or
...J.
The good-looking It. B. GLENN
brother of the love-sick RALPH
would be doing the gjrls a break if he
acted as if he knew H-SU was a CO-
EDucational school.
This week we've been trying to get
along with everybody so we've been
mending throats that wcio cut last
week. But you'd better keep on be-
ing nice to us because we may cut
your throat next week and let the
other columnists mend it.
Campus Pulse
Friend Editor:
1 like to think of the women that attend thh
"institution" as something beside "wikkid wikkid
harlots."
Hut this is the opinion the general public is get-
ting of the feminine portion of our student body.
They feel that any girl who must bo confined to u
building that has all AVINDOWS NAILED SHUT
mid a powerful spotlight illuminating the vicinity
as in the ease of University Apartments must be a
pretty low type of woman.
Don't get mo wrong. I don't have occasion cur-
rently to date any of the girls in University Apart-
ments or Mary Frances either.
Hut it makes me furious to think that the girls
that go to II-SU must be LOCKED IN A BUILD-
ING wit blights flashed on them so brightly that
they must keep the shades down to sleep. Is it
healthy to live in n place like that?
It is ridiculous. It reflects the unjust distrust
that the administration has for the girls in the
student body. It makes the entire .student body
look like a bunch of irresponsible children who will
.sneak up back alleys to climb to the balconies of
women's dormitories and carry tho maidens away
to their destruction. (Isn't it sad?).
I say: "Shame shame on a FAITHLESS admin-
istration." Disgustedly I remain a student who
has never been in jail and who has not broken
more than half of the 10 commandments and who
is confident of going to a comfortable hereafter.
TOWN STUDENT.
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