The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 29, Ed. 1, Saturday, May 22, 1948 Page: 2 of 4
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THE STAFF
JOURNALISM CLASS EDITION
Poarson Howoll
Bottyo Elrod Cliff Luncoford
Morris Goorgo
Robbio Robinson
Loyco Woaihors
Reporters: Bill Puckett. James E. Tindlo. Bill Fain Kitten Mills.
Jody Powers Helen Howard.
Published weekly except during sumrricr vacations by the students
of Abilene Christian College. Subscription: One Dollar per year. Entered
as second class matter June 29. 1929 at the Post Office of Abilene Texas
under Act of August 24 1912. Address all communications to the Optimist
Station A Abilene Texas.
Now It's Our Turn
We the Optimist pen slaves seldom have a chance to tackle the
executive part of actually putting out the paper but your eyes are
now focused on the result when our mighty editor takes a holiday
and we "cubs" step in. . . .
All through the year we take the assignments given to us by
our smiling editor and in return hand in a reasonable facsimile on
the subject. To think that all the encouragement we get from the
editor is another assignment in return why we lose out all the way
around! But each time the paper is rolled off the press and on page
one we see a short news story or an occasionally feature story ap-
pears with our name beneath it that's when we are rewarded for
our services. An inner pride says "you could have done better but
that's a mighty fine rendition of words." A self-back slapping act
isn't a good prescription to follow but it has its place at times.
The process following the reporter's job is enough to make an
editor go CRAZY. Say no wonder our editor was always (never
mind). Why it's like having all the ingredients for a cake but the
real task is ahead. Be careful not to put too much yeast in it else it
won't rise. The readers won't get a rise out of the paper if it isn't in
proportion to their taste. It can turn out to be a lemon flavor but
on the other hand it could be a sweet cherry one. All this we didn't
know until we had our chance at it.
Maybe the editor was full of reporters who habitually turned
in their stories late and who left her with headaches and excuses of
why there was no news to turn in. So this time she vacated her
typewriter left empty sheets of typewriting paper on the desk and
the journalism class editors and reporters have the task of filling
some mighty big shoes. -Bettye Elrod
Satan Tries Hard
Once upon a time Satan laid a little bet with his head demon that
he could make Job holler "uncle." Satan lost and for several thou-
sand years defeat smoldered bitterly in his breast. Finally he came
up with another proposition to his trusty.
"There's a little stronghold down in Texas called Abilene Chris-
tian College that makes me mighty jealous. I believe with just a
little time and a free hand I could bring it over to my side. You
know just sort of a sporting wager. How about it?"
"Careful Lucifer" the doomed one answered back 'You remem-
ber what you stepped in when you tempted Job?"
Satan was unconvinced. "I know but I got some old leftovers
lying around down here that I believe would turn the trick. What's
the matter? You turning chicken?"
They dickered back and forth for a while until at last the de-
mon consented.
With devilish glee Satan stepped into his freight elevator and
lowered himself down into the fifty-fifth circle of darkness where
he began to stir around under a pile of old brimstone until he found
what he was looking for his precious leftovers. He went to work
and disguised these nondescript odds and ends to look like converted
Army barracks. Still laughing fiendishly he moved his latest scien-
tific triumph onto the campus of ACC and stood back to view his
handiwork.
"Good but not good enough" he mused. 'Ahhh. I have it!" He
then proceeded to outfit his housing project with the hardest bunks
his cunning could devise and put in walls that would magnify rat-
her than check noise. He sprinkled splinters along the floors and
left sharp nail ends protruding from unexpected places. Before he
was through plumbing (designed to cause even the sturdiest to fall
from grace) was installed and the gas pipes regulated to lei just
enough gas through to be exasperating.
Last he set up his newest and most ingenius torture device. It
was a mechanism designed to laugh yell pound on the walls and in
general to sound like a crowd of school children just let out. Attach-
ed to a timer this invention would run until 12:00 p. m. every night.
Moral: Keep your chins up you barracks men. This life you are
forced to lead may be the supreme test. Pcarson Howell
seniors
FNr.AGFMENT & WEDDING RINGS
Editor
Associate Editors
Business Manager
Sports Editor
Social Editor
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Optimisms
ACC has been plastered this week
(with posters of the student election)
and with annuals arriving picnics
and parties and the maddening maj-
or exams all the rush will be over
soon and summer will be staring
hotly at us! The campus looked like
it had been attacked by the Indians
leaving cars on the front lawn and a
person" hanging fiom a tree. Loud
speakers blaied all day Tuesday
lust befoie the big election buildings
were clothed in campaign sign's and
stickers and airplanes buzzed the
campus leaving trails of leaflets of
"vote for me" that blew across town
instead of floating down to the neck-
craned inquisitors.
Some of the spell-bound from the
audience of Beyond The Horizon
visited backstage after the Friday
night performance and discovered
that Marge White is just as heart-
warming off the stage as she is on.
What the dramatic star didn't know
was that there were three people who
had traveled from Louisville Ky
to see her that night. They were her
parents and nine-year old sister who
had been in Abilene all day and saw
her perform before surprising her
back stage with their unexpected
visit. Genuine tears fell when Marge
embraced her family.
The inviting but hot sun shines
down on the strolling couples who
appear to be content as if the thermo-
meter was hitting 70 instead of 99!
Kathenne Voss is now stumbling
blindly around the campus with Jack
Brewer on one hand and a diamond
on the other
La Verne Wtight's third fingei left
hand is suppoiting an engagement
nng Jody Powers made this state-
ment not long ago. "I'm not going to
go steady unless he is the man I
marry." So what happens? Jody is
now going steady with no comment
about the matter. People aie just
like flowers at certain stages such
as these couples.
Planted: Jonnn Taylor and Don
Hall. . . . Budding: BUI Vaught and
Joy Potty. . . . Growing Beverly Hale
and Johnny Johnson. . . . Blooming:
Jody Powers and Bill Duncan. . . .
Delta is dead Theta is still swim-
ming and Sammie Capps is lonely
without her loved gold-fish. She still
has Theta sister of Delta but there's
an emptiness in her fish bowl that is
heart-tearing. Delta was buried in
the rose garden by the dorm with a
few friends of the family persent.
Leon Sharp ex-candidate for stu-
dent council presidency lias finally
had a poem written about him. One
verse reads:
Once a week as faithful as any
He mails a letter to West Virginny.
But through the other days of the
week
Another's caress he seems to seek.
Numa Crowder is keeping the boys
at his boarding house in a constant
state of nervous anxiety They don't
know whether oi not he has popped
the big question to Ruth Benson.
Th biggest campaign jobs of tho
year cluttered tho campus with signs
of "vote for mo I'm crazy!" Tho
campaign managers went all out for
their candidates up for student coun-
cil office. Expense and time was
fruitless for some but tho job was
well done. This year's president. Don
Hardage said in chapel tho other
day "You havo an impossible task
of electing somcono to fill my shoes."
Dean Adams was standing by to add
"You sure will Don wears size four-
teen." Editors To Be Chosen
All letter applications for next
fall's editor and business manager
of the Optimist and of the Prickly
Pear must be turned in to Lawience
L. Smith bursar by the end of this
week.
The appointments will be an-
nounced befoie the end of school.
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Nicknames
Monikers Bestowed By Pafe
Sometimes Have A Purpose
A Cappella To Present
Secular Concert Tuesday
The A Cappella will picsent an all
seculai conceit in the auditorium
May 25 at 8PM
Fc.ituied numbu will be Ballad
for Americans by Robinson with
Jack McKinnev as soloist Othei
numbers will be selections form Bob
Page's aiiangcment of Ole Man Riv-
er. Italian Street Song and Indian
Summer. Remaining numbers will
be O Suzanna. Waltzing Matilda
Small Town Band and Madame
Jeanette
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aeZtS Schedule
dpexetta PicMe
The music department of Abilene
Chnstian high school will present
an opuietta In Old Vienna m as it
is frequently called. Pickles May 21.
in the Sewell auditorium The pro-
duction is undei the ducctmn f Mis
Charles Floyd and Miss Cas.ula and
is a comedy in thiee .ict.s
Chai actors in the play aie Hans
Maiei (Can oil Vest). Louisa (Ella
Ruth Yowell). Captain Kinshi (H.ir-
old Thomas). Bumshi (Robert Sc-
niggs) Jenninson Jones (Ed Hairell)
Jigo (Paul Southern). Iiun.i (Sarah
Ann Cioom) Aithur Crefont (John
Morlan) June (Nancy Adams) Jonas
Pennington (Joe Hardegree) and
Lady Vivian Delancy (Juanice Shep
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Meet The Seniors
Debater lcadei and journalist of
ACC thoioughl desciibe Eugenia
Scott of Shawnee Okla but instead
we'll say she is a graduating senior
who will soon leave the Texas range
for the Oklahoma hills. She is a four-
year scholar of ACC and is giaduat-
mg with a BA in English. This is her
second year to represent the school
in Who's Who In American Univer-
sities and Colleges and she is a mem-
ber of Cadettes the Pickwickians
W club CSO Giavel club and edi-
toi of the Optimist. Aftei graduation
Eugenia (known as Ugenius to her
associates) says she doisn't want to
do anything but loaf"
Numa Crowdei has put foith much
effoit towaid the Anti-Cancer Anti-
Heait Disease Society organization
as president this year He is a Bible
major and will be a summei giad-
uate. Numa is a member of the Cam-
era club Badminton club Mission
Study Class and Evangelistic Forum
He was in the air corps during the
war and will have completed his col-
lege woik in two and one-half years
Numa's futuie is planned around
pieaching.
Cullen Cranfill was born in Abi-
lene with expectations of graduating
not at the time from ACC He is a
physical education major and will
giaduate this spnng He is a member
of the Tiojans ACC golf team and
has played on the softball team for
three years After graduation Cullen
plans to coach basketball
The Optimist staff wi.shes to ox-
tend birthday greetings to the fol-
lowing Elmei Baker Lync Beck.
Guerdon Busby Onis Case Yvonne
Cogswell Donald Cranfill Joe David
Crossno Elmer Folk. Alvm Eugene
Gobbel Grady Gulley Bill Kirk
Clara Mac Laney John McFailand
Billie Sue Nichols. Jack Parkei
Jimmie Rasor Jo Reagan George
Richardson. Nicola Russo. Allene
Sickles Twylah Stout Lawrence
Waggoner Dan Whitaker and Rex
Wootan.
Plus Tax
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by Helen
It makes no difference hov
peopie try io live up to thm
names some of them always g
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an leasons ami it umiiiv
upon it's owner with drt.ul 1
nicknames stick and stick unti
ly their owners become usi
men nue deciding that th
branded for life Here aie a
oui nicknames their owners (
leason for these monstrositie
joe iNeai carrou "lilue t
got his name from his very rt
as far as he knows Wanda 1
alias Kitten was always pn:
around with a mischievous lc
her eyes and reminded her
school chums of a little kitteni
Biockman better known as J
says it's his bird brain that is n
siblc lor his title Louise A
affectionately called Dewby i
little mixed up in her pronunc
as a child Instead of saying N
her middle name she said Dew
hret
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Dewby it remained
Harold Williams the singing
boy called Tex got his name
g
wearing cowboy boots and a
gallon hat Charles Shipman
known as Chuck got his nick
while in the air corps All boy-j
were named Charles always I
shortened to Chuck (an Army
let) Mclba Sue Cagl. states th
Inch school pair thought thajl
was such a corkscrew that the
ged hoi with Corkv P S Shi
h.is a 'Mr named "Beets
Burden Manly for no good n
if
.insucrs to the nami of Sonny
mii M.ilunc alias Chees can't
tuber whv he was bianded with
a name We won't try to guess1
William Scott widely knowr.
Bugsv s.ud he was named
Bugs Morris but it was an insult
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Bugs that is ) Jewel Pfeifei
times called Boots says hcV d:
couldn't see how she resembled
jewel but he could see how shi1 h
ed like an old shoe Clarence Ma?
known as Salty and Christoi
Wayne Chicken just seemed 'up:
up these names while struck
through high school
But afterall nicknames arenl
bad ACC is sometimes cnllol J!
lene Concentration Camp but fcl
we know it's all in fun'
Evangelistic Forum
tiospel meetings was th c-
jict chosen and gien to the Fir
by J W Roberts last Friday cvt
The following are some of the i
ers he suggested
1 Be an optimist when offv
the invitation Always have b;
iry prepared and clothing readh I
2 Insist on having day serviBl
3 At range for a singer if postal
4 Elders should appoint a ladjv
he in charge of preacher's room 01
places to eat.
a iic careiui i your act
Guaid against occasions that iru
cause gossip
0 Pleaching should be simple b
iause the average audience cdol
Hon has i cached only the clp
made
" People need help more
they need to be lebuked
8 Do not listen to previous chpl
scandals and gossip or take sidil
issues of this tvpe
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Bro. Short Addresses
Mission Study Group
Bro Short missionary whose u i
is in Africa and who plans to ret '
to that country soon spoke to
Mission Study class on the ever
of May 12. He emphasized the il
that God had not sent angels to d
His work for Him in that country (o-
tn any country) but that He hw
given the charge to christians to car
ry His word.
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