The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 28, Ed. 1, Friday, May 8, 1942 Page: 2 of 4
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Tra lcc la la In the good old summer time tra la. Boy if you
think my voice is terrible you should hear my assistant editor.
I was just looking over exchange papers newspapers the Op-
timist receives from other colleges noting the mournful editorials
on school's closing. Pity the poor student with no summer school to
look forward to. Being at home and getting fifteen bucks a week in
the local shoe store has its advantages that's true. But do these ad-
vantages begin to compare with he opportunities of summer school
at good old ACC? No sir-ree.
A fellw has to keep his Uncle Sam in mind. When the olive drab
arms of the draft close in on you liberal education is temporarily
at an end. The thing to do is get as much education as possible be-
fore induction.
For boys with that problem and for girls who wish to accelerate
their business or professional training the college has expanded its
summer school. Almost any course of study they need is available
in the school's 13 departments.
Then there are the social opportunities of summer school. Why
mope about saying goodbye? As an experiment start asking friends
if they're coming to summer school. You'll be surprised. The admin-
istration is expecting a large student body and that means clubs
recitals parties date nights. Suggestion: Why tell her goodbye? Per-
suade her to come to summer school.
Did you see that story on the front page about the recreational
program at summer school? The only drawback is going to be pick-
ing out the fifteen or twenty activities you want to take part in each
week.
Can't you see yourself swatting the old apple in those intramur-
al softball games? And what about the tennis tournaments? Band
concerts motion pictures "free gratis" too. Swimming archery
dramatics picnics watermelon feasts skating parties bicycle races
around the loop and (believe it or not) lively chapel programs.
Hooray! Wouldn't that take the rag off'n the bush! Oh happy
day!
This summer school's going to be okay and I'm going to it. Tra
la de la. And if you think my voice is terrible you should hear my
business manager. In the good old
Aram
by Dan
Will someone please oblige by
giving chapter and verse for the
following scriptures:
"Blessed are the warmakers for
they shall be called the sons of
God."
"Go ye into all the world and
conquor all the nations by force so
you can preach the gospel to them."
"They shall beat their plowshares
into swords and their pruning-hooks
into spears; nation shall lift up
sword against nation and they shall
fight to defend their religion."
"My kingdom is of this world. If
my kingdom were not of this world
my servants would not fight; but
now is my kingdom from hence."
"Put thy sword into its place and
use it valiantly for all they that
take the sword shall use the sword."
I say unto you resist him that is
evil: and whosoever smitcth thee on
thy right cheek smite him back."
With the College Press
"May is the Month of Our Motherl"
To Mary we give the attributes of a Queen and the honor becoming the
Mother of God. But hers as her Divine Son's Kingdom "is not of this world."
As our earthly mother is honored in the highest way possible so to
our heavenly mother because she gave us our Savior. She is the Virgin
Mother of God and God shares her with us.
Oftentimes many persons tend to confuse honor with adoration. We do
not ADORE Mary we honor her. We only ADORE God.
Jesus in order to assume the most human form had to be born as a
mortal therefore Mary from birth was set aside by God minus the stain of
Original sin which blots the soul of every human form birth. Mary never
committed a sin so it was by the virtue of this fact that her body alone was
worth of bearing the Redeemer of Man.
But think of the relations between Jesus and Mary this way.
We know that God hears the prayers of everyone. But still isn't it nice
to know that there is someone in Heaven next to God Who is pulling for us?
And that person is Mary!
What priceless Heavenly aldl And all we have to do is ask! Mary is
ready to intercede for us if we only love and trust His Mother just as you
would like to know that someone loves and respects your mother.
Let us pray to Mary for peace and everlasting peace throughout this
world after this war. Let us ask Mary to end the rule of tyranny and restore
the right with God instead of insignificant Hitlers as the incentive to
mankind.
St. Mary's Rattler
Clark
"Bomb your enemies shoot them
that hate you curse them that curse
you and bayonet them that despite-
fully use you."
"He that lovcth me more than
father or mother or government is
not worthy of me."
"If thine enemy hunger starve
him; if he thirst laugh; also get coals
of fire and heap them upon his
head."
"Thou bearest not the sword in
vain; for thou art a minister of
God an avenger for wrath to him
that docth evil. Wherefore others
must needs be subject to you not
only for wrath but for conscience
sake."
Or any other passage of the New
Testament that reads like these con-
tradictions and pciversions of God's
word that are used to justify the
Christian's engaging in carnal warfare.
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From Christian Colleges
HardingHears K.C. Star Man;
F.H.C. Selects Annual Editors
"The business outlook for metro-
politan papers is bad" said Charles
V. Stanscll associate editor of the
Kansas Ciy Star in an address be-
fore the Harding college student
body and the Arkansas College Press
association which convened there
April 24.
Contributing factors to such
a condition are the rising cost of
paper and other war-time expense
prices he said. Winners of the awards
given competing member papers by
the association were announced as
The Profile Hendrix college first;
Arka-Tech Arkansas Polytechnic
college second; and The Bison. Hard
ing college third.
The Sky Rockot
The 1041-42 annual staff has been
chosen at Frced-Hardeman accord-
ing to the Sky Rocket Editors of the
annual the Treasure Chest will be
Evelyn Detherage and Barnic Keith.
ACC Campus Canvass
Watermelon Feeds-Picnics!
'Bring 'Em On1 Students
by Clayton Tuggle
To a student body unaware of the
extensive recreational program plan"
ncd by the administration for ACC's
summer school was asked the ques-
tion this week "Do you think we
should have school-organized and
supervised functions during sum-
mer school in addition to the regular
date night and if so how often?"
Only persons planning to attend
the summer session were queried.
About eighty per cent answered in
the affirmative and each had widely
varied opinions as to how often such
functions should be held all the
way from "about two a week" sug-
gested by Betty Burrus to one every
two weeks advocated by Jim Bob
Jarrcll Billy Fly Leslie Cochran
and Dorothy Urban. Dorothy reason-
ed "I don't think people would go if
there were an event oftener than
Texas Tornado's Path
by Norman Whitefiold
While the A Cappella chorus was
singing the Hallelujah Chorus to a
placid audience in a church at
Shrcvcport Louisiana death and
destruction in the form of a tornado
tore the village of Crowell Texas
to bits.
After the program chorus mem-
bers received the usual congratula-
tions talked light-heartedly to new-
found friends and made plans for a
gala evening. Five hundred miles
away in Texas a small community
was being ripped apart and swept
away.
Four days later members of the
chorus were unusually silent and
deadly serious as they drove slowly
through this little helpless town
that knew such terror the same
hour they gave their program in
a secure church building far away.
The OPTIMIST
DON FTNDLAY Editor
LEA SHORT Business Manager
NORMAN WHITEFIELD Assistant Editor
Published weekly except duringaummer vacations by the students of Abilene Christian College.
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tion A Abilene Texas.
OPTIMIST
Max Heflcy and Orvllle Guinn arc
business managers; Betty Lou Flynn
and Billy Lively snapshot editors;
Nina Miller features; Wendell
Broom humor; and Bobble Beasley
organizations editor.
Tho Graphic
"That juke box that is always on
the go in the Oasis is one of 300000
which are in daily operation in the
United States to the tunc of
$1000000 in weekly receipts" says
George Pcppcrdinc's Graphic of the
record player in the school's club
room.
Dan Post Graphic columnist sug-
gests a device which he thinks would
prove an additional money-maker
on the automatic phonograph. He
would "Incorporate a slot into which
a coin could be plunged to halt the
music of today's 'music' generation.
He humorously adds "I'm not so
sure that it is all 'music.'"
once every two weeks." Both she
and Vernon' Gahagan suggested a
number of functions for the pro-
gram. Only about 20 per cent of those
questioned professed not to care par-
ticularly whether such affairs were
held or not. Hard-boiled Bill Terry
wanted all to know that he was
"not going to have time for any fool-
ishness and besides Pepper isn't
going to be here."
John Plunkctt stated that in his
experience "school supervised func-
tions were no fun anyway."
But the affirmative was clearly in
majority with Maxine Brown de-
ciding that "We should have pic-
nics and plenty of them." Sue Wil-
son summed up the case for the af-
firmative with her terse statement
"The more the merrier."
Saturday morning the chorus left
Vernon Texas for the long awaited
trip home that was to carry them
through streets banked on either
hand with wreckage.
First approach to the town reveal-
ed few ruined homes but as the blue
and white bus drove on south
through the town's main street
scenes of destruction and implied
suffering multiplied. Some houses
were left with hardly a scratch
while fifty yeards distant nothing
but shattered hulls of homes stood
with perhaps two or three
fatigued persons painfully picking
through devastation in search of
something of value to reclaim or
possibly some poses-ion of sentimen-
tal attachment.
The group of students gazed silent-
ly as the bus passed a lot piled high
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STAFT
Hilda Cortkroa. VItUb Grew Lewis Cox.
Ways Heftoa. Rado Archer. Margie Haasy Jamas
AttebsRT Jo Beth Hendrick. Wilms Tabor
Kawenne Monty.
ner.
Prin
tad by A.C.C.
Friday May 0 1042
TheRth
- Column
X and Whitefiold
This week the Column was slated
to be written by some gosslp-mon-gcring
senior but major exams and
a general run-down condition noccs-
situated the postponement of such a
pleasure and so. back to X and
well mostly X. . . .
Spooking of a goneral run-down
condition the Column is getting that
way trying to keep up on the latest
about such affairs as the Royal
James-LaVorlse Lee deal. Tuesday
morning we heard it was busted.
Tuesday night we heard everything
was mended. How it will bo when
we go to press no one can tell.
This Is D-i-r-t
And wo mutt tell a few things
about the a cappella tour or had
you heard? Of course one of the
more interesting things to watch
was the way Jimmy McKinney deft-
lyhandlcd his situation situated as
it were between two ferns Lou Ann
Townsley and Mary Prudic Story.
He should get a medal for diplomacy.
Then too several "telephone calls"
were made . . . one long distance
about eleven o'clock Tuesday night
from Shrcvcport to Abilene. Caller?
Dot Hannah. Recipient? you guess.
5th Column Roports Military News
Several pleasantly surprised cam-
pusitcs heard the graduation of ex-
student and track star Joe Beadles
at Annapolis Tuesday morning. The
exercises were broadcast. They say
Joe has asked for submarine duty . .
it scares us just to think about it
but Joe knows he has the best wishes
of all of us.
And then thero are frogs. . .
We think Orville McDonald Paul
Pcderson Snakey Johnson and Wal-
ter Cypert started it but several
others have embarked upon the frog-
gigging business. The aforemention-
ed four had frogs for supper Monday
night . . . ughl
We've also been told that Halcyon
Stagncr and Lewis Cox are through
and stuff. Well that's happened be-
fore to both of them.
Another little interesting thing to
watch is the Plunkett-Crenshaw deal
. . . and it seems that Johnny is de-
finitely out to make it some sort of
deal. While on the other hand we sec
both of them runnin' around with
sundry kids and they say Crenshaw
and Jackson still get along O.K.
there must be some sort of under-
standing. Tho Early Blrdxle
We were asked by certain ferns to
warn the Trojans to get dates for
their banquet earlier next year. It
seems several of the lads waited too
late.
And by the way had you heard
that Jean (Blondic) McGcc and
Horace Tcmpleton (air cadet) were
doing nicely corresponding n'stufi.
Also that Alice Alene Morlan has
been receiving special delivery let-
ters from California (and Charlie
Floyd).
Wandas
Don't sick a snake on to Joy
Lane she'll pick it up and chase you
with it Ask Paul Pcderson for de
tails. They say he was one surprised
(but Ewift) boy
S'long
5th Column
aerta urn: jimmle McKln-
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The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 28, Ed. 1, Friday, May 8, 1942, newspaper, May 8, 1942; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth99039/m1/2/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.