VOL. XXVIII AUSTIN, TEXAS, JANUARY, 1945 No. S

Graduates with Long "All-Star" Selection Committees for Study List of Speech Honors 1919 Tennis Winner Still Is a Musician, Also Brilliant Game Of League Problems Visual Aids; News § Guide ECOND PLACE State debate A Team but not in Tennis (By Victor Grant) Closes Season A CTING under the recom- S winner in 1944 was Charles mendations of the Advis­ Maupin, representing Adamson (By Dr. Daniel A. Penick) OB BLAUSTONE of Aus­ (By D. W. McCavick, Director} High School of Dallas. He had '-T'WO MIDDLE-AGED men, who a quarter of a century ory Council, the State Execu­ Principal Urges New B tin High School, who was Sports Writers Unanimous in previously won a A ago won the State high-school tennis title in the Uni­ tive Committee has appointed So 3074, Celestial Navigation:; chosen on the all-star cast last Praising 1944 Season Position finding on the earth. Classification Rule large number of versity Interscholastic League, now work side by side in the two committees to study (1) spring in the State contest for League's Greatest 14 min. sound s-c $1.50. other debate con­ Bursar's Office of The University of Texas. They are the question of awards; and (By R. A. Armstead, Principal tests in Dallas one-act plays, is a dynamic Discusses geographical position, (2) the advisability of in­ Greenwich hour angle, local hour High School, Corsicana) and the surround­ Albert Leissner and Dewey Smalley, tennis doubles entry personality. |T SEEMED quite fitting augurating a State champion­ angle, relationship of hour angle to TN REFERENCE to your ing area. At the from Cuero High School in the League State Meet of 1919. A In addition to his performing in ship for Conference A Foot­ longitude, zenith distance and its form letter of December 18, TSCW Speech In­ that the third war-time "The Road Into the Sun," Bob has State High-School Champion­ ball, as soon as conditions be­ relationship to altitude, circle of notifying us that a vote of our stitute in 1942 he position, line of position, fix, rela* entered the musical, speech, dra­ ship game he played in Texas come normal again. district executive committee tied for first place matic, and sports fields each of his tion of assumed to actual position as best debater, three years in high school. With Memorial Stadium, a stadium Anyone interested in either of and intercept. will be necessary if we play and won first these matters should get in touch AA football next year be­ all of these, he has found time to that was built and dedicated So 1804, Vacuum tubes: electron place in the Kil- organize bands and really "gives to the heroes of the First with the appropriate committee. theory and the Diode tube. 16 cause the 1943-44 Bulletin on gore Junior Col­ The Committee on Awards is com­ out" with the hot beats on the World War. A fine crowd of min. sound jh-sh-c $1.50. Standards and Activities re­ lege contest the drums. He also plays the piano. posed as follows: Supt. E. T. Rob- Explains electron behavior in ported our enrollment as 499, Charles Maupin same year. He He has recently organized an 12,000 turned out to see the bins, Taylor, Chairman; Supt. matter, electron sources in vacuum was awarded first place in com­ orchestra quintet to play at the powerful, hard-driving Yel­ Murry Fly, Odessa; Supt. E. K. I wish to submit the following Barden, Sugar Land. statements: petition with North Dallas High in Teen Canteen and at local school low Jackets of Port Arthur (Continued on p. 3, col. 7) dances. Membership of the Committee on 1. Our district committee can­ 1943, and in a similar contest with down the aerial-minded High­ Conference A Championship fol­ o He has served as vice-president not hold a meeting by January 1. Sunset High in 1944, he again took landers of Highland Park lows: of the Socratic Debate Society and Cigarette-famine Not 2. I question your right to make top honors. The Dallas All-City High School. Both teams dis­ Superintendents: W. J. Stone, seems to have done a swell job in the following ruling: "Schools will Meets in 1943 and '44 were also Nocona, Chairman; V. W. Miller, So Bad, After All helping to run it. played a brand of football be assigned to football conferences won by this outstanding debater, Dayton; Nat Williams, Ballinger; During his dramatic career, Bob that marked each as a poten­ on the basis of high-school enroll­ as well as the Regional Meet in Knox Kinard, Hereford; Frank MOKERS, who look fearfully has played in "Lost Horizon," "Best tial champion. ment figures given in the 1943-44 1944. In addition he was three- Morgan, Commerce; E. T. Robbins, toward the prospect of hav­ Foot Forward," "What a Life," Regional championships in Class S Bulletin on Standards and Activi­ year Linz winner in the Scholar­ Taylor; J. W. Roach, Alice; R. D. ing to cut down on tobacco for "The Man Who Came to Dinner,-" A were concluded the week-end of ties." ship Club. He graduated in June Lee, Monahans. some time, might find cheer in the and starred in the local school pres­ December 16. In Conference B, The reason I question that in­ at the age of 16 with a good scho­ remark attributed to Mark Twain: terpretation is that the Constitu­ lastic average. Parents are Mr. entation of the one-act play, which district winners were determined "To cease smoking is the easiest tion and Rules, Article VII, Section and Mrs. C. C. Maupin, 902 won him State recognition. before December 2. The date set West Texas Girl Albert Leissner — Dewey Smalley thing I ever did. I ought to know, 5, reads as follows: "A high school Winters, Dallas. Bob will tell you that his favorite by the League for closing bi-dis- Cuero High School Wins 2nd in Tennis because I've done it a thousand enrolling the preceding year 500 or o trict matches in Conference B was times." more, is a Conference AA school." The Huckleberry Competition in tennis in the 1919 Winners December 9. Thirteen bi-district For real comfort, they might We enrolled over 500 last year. Interscholastic League began in the The first team presented here championships were reported to the P YOU WOULD know the flavor turn to the findings of the lata In fact the first monthly statistical school year 1913-14 and was con­ won at the League meet in 1919. State Office in Conference B. In Iof huckleberries, ask the cow-boy scientist, Prof. Raymond Pearl, report showed 508 original entries, fined to boys doubles. I will ap­ The boys who composed that team Six-Man football December 2 was or the partridge. It is a vulgar who, on the basis of a study of and this figure increased during the preciate getting information about were all-round athletes. They set as the date for determining error to suppose that you have 7,000 smokers, concluded that year plus reentries. I do not know these winners from every possible were good in all games including district winners. Seventeen dis­ iasted huckleberries who never heavy smoking definitely decreases how the figure 499 was arrived at. source, the boys themselves, their tennis. They hailed from Cuero. trict champions were reported in plucked them. A huckleberry life expectancy. A prolonged to­ I imagine that was our member­ relatives, the schools and towns Their tennis' career practically this conference, and eight bi- never reaches Boston; they have bacco famine may thus add a few ship at the time the deputy super­ which they represented. ended with this interscholastic district matches. not been known there since they more years of life to many habitual intendent visited our school in the In those early days most of the championship, not so their athletic Following is a record of each of grew on her three hills. The smokers. spring. The difference is that the winners came from smaller towns careers. the four football conferences: ambrosial and essential part of the Pearl, a kill-joy to chain-smokers, Constitution reads "enrolling the and very few of them kept up their Conference AA fruit is lost with the bloom which Both boys, Albert Leissner and also insisted that every ailment preceding year 500 or more"; tennis in college or elsewhere. • District winners for 1944 follow, is rubbed off in the market cart, Dewey Smalley, attended The Uni­ known to man is made worse by whereas the Bulletin on Standards and they become mere provender. Later those conditions changed, as numeral indicating the district: and Activities uses a membership versity of Texas and continued intake of nicotine. His findings As long as Eternal Justice reigns, will be seen. The larger cities (1) Amarillo; (2) Wichita at one particular date. So I hold active participation in athletics. were supported in large measure not one innocent huckleberry can came into the picture and the •Falls; (3) San Angelo; (4) Austin that*no district vote is necessary Both played baseball and lettered by a report submitted a few months be transported thither from the League became the training ground (El Paso); (5) Greenville; (6) in our case, or in the cases of the in that sport. Both took part in ago by a group of English medical country's hills.—Henry Thoreau. of intercollegiate heroes. other high schools involved, as long football. Smalley competed also Highland Park (Dallas); (7) scientists, who, after studying 1257 as we can show that we enrolled in basketball and became a three- Paschal (Fort Worth); (8) Sun­ cases of abdominal operations, 500 during the year. letter man. set (Dallas); (9) Breckenridge; came to the conclusion that heavy (10) Waco; (11) Marshall; (12) Why didn't they continue to play smokers develop lung complications I would like to point out another Bob Blaustone, Austin Lufkin; (13) Lamar (Houston); The Aims and Objectives of tennis? At least one of them says following abdominal operations six situation in this connection that (14) Port Arthur; (15) Austin; Virginia Broyles, Lamesa that he chose to play baseball be­ composer is Gershwin and his favo­ times oftener than non-smokers.—. will work a hardship on many (16) McAllen. ECOND place winner in the 1944 towns in Texas. In District A, for Track and Field Training cause in those days he could play rite band leader, Glenn Miller. Dr. S. Bernard Wortis, head of the Bi-district matches week ending State Tennis Singles was Vir­ example, about half of the high ball in the summer for money and He lives at 3110 West Ave., Aus­ S Bellevue Pschiatric Hospital, inter­ December 9, districts being paired, ginia Broyles, who also won the schools have four grades and about I. make enough to pay expenses for tin, Texas, with his parents, Mr. view by Albert Deutsch for the Regional Tennis championship in half have three grades. It isn't (By J. Eddie Weems) The author, J. Eddie Weems, the next school year. It is almost and Mrs. Henry Blaustone. (Continued on p. 4, col. 4) Newspaper P. M. 1943.' She graduated from Lamesa right for a smaller town to be '"T'RACK to me is a racy representing Temple High impossible to play baseball and classified Double A and a larger School, ran in the Texas Inter­ tennis during the same season. High School in 1944 in the upper subject. I can talk about one-fourth of her class. She is the town classified A because the larger scholastic League State Meet The other boy may have played SPRING MEET town has set up a junior high it with zest and I am glad to in 1918, winning second in the baseball for the same reason. Co-operatives in Schools of daughter of Jack Broyles, Route D, 880, second in the mile, and Lamesa. ACTIVITIES school. This interpretation ought write about it, but having seen Furthermore, they may have been running a lap of the champion o to be followed: as long as some boys run counter-clockwise better baseball players, though they HE League Calendar for mile relay. From 1926 to 1937 Ecuador, Chile and Brazil high schools have four grades in for twenty years, I may have could have developed into first-class T District Meets this spring one building and others only three, he coached at Abilene Christian tennis players. Maybe the mag­ This series of articles on the co­ is as follows: for purposes of conference classifi­ a tendency to talk and write College where his track teams ment of sound agricultural netic influence of uncle Billy Disch operative movement in South Awards Rule Is cation, the enrollment of the upper in circles. won eight conference champion­ March 16 and 17. First week and his wonderful coaching ability American schools is reprinted methods and the use of school four grades ought to be totaled," ships. From 1937 to 1942 he end for holding Conference had something to do with their from School Activities, Topeka, co-operatives. He was espe­ whether in one or two buildings. If it were not immodest for coached at George Pepperdine A and B District Meets. choice. Kansas, by special permission. cially anxious in establishing Not Practicable I am not suggesting that junior me to do so, I could say that College at Los Angeles, Cali­ Credit was omitted by mistake March 30 and 31. Last week What became of these fine boys? this school (which is a part high-school boys in our ninth I have run thousands of miles fornia. The Pepperdine relay from the December issue.—Editor. end for holding Conference grade ought to be allowed to play around cinder and cinderless teams made records at Drake, Both of them became teachers in of the national public school Says No Decent Award Can B Meets. the Texas school system and both on our team; only that the ninth tracks. Track is a part of my Fresno, and Long Beach. In N ECUADOR a tiny but system) to train the Ecua­ April 14. Last week end for grade ought to be added to our high- of them deserted the teaching pro­ Be Purchased for the life, and it probably saved my 1943 he coached the Austin High I promising beginning has dorian Indians to teach their holding Conference A and school enrollment in determining Maroons who won the state fession for greener pastures. Price Prescribed AA Meets. Smalley still plays a good game of own kind better methods of our classification as to conferences. life on one occasion by quali­ championship in track. He did been made through the rural (Note: Since Area Meets tennis. Leissner does not appear fying me to outrun a high­ his college running at T.C.U., normal school near the village living and better forms of will not be necessary in I believe that statewide senti­ publicly on the tennis courts but where he was undefeated in. the of Uyumbicho. Here Reynaldo agriculture. (By L. W. McConachie, El Paso) Conference A, District ment will sustain both of my points jacker. Frequently I make plays enough to teach his two mile and half mile the last two A S I READ the rule, in the Meets may be held as late in this letter. the statement that every boy youngsters how to play a good Murgueytio is trying to train Teaching the Teachers Editor's note: Let's hear from should have track and boxing years he ran, 1921 and 1922.— game. rural teachers in the develop- This little normal school has a Interscholastic League as April 14) others about this rule. Editor. ^ farm of its own, farmed by the Rule Sook, regarding awards April 21. Regional Meets. as methods of defense. I do May 3 and 4. State Meet. not know which is better; it students. The students are orga­ for 1945-1946, I don't see "Good heavens!" exclaimed a nized into a co-operative which all depends upon the circum­ how you will be able to pur­ These dates are listed on page Persian to his General, "what will participate in the postwar A Colonial Writing-Mastermarket s the products and distrib­ 4 of the Constitution and Rules manner of men are these (Greeks) stances. Olympics. utes proceeds. Through actually chase any kind of an award along with other important against whom you have brought Oldest of Sports Pointers from Holy Writ practicing co-operation themselves that any school system would League dates. us to fight?—men who contend Students of the Bible know that And His Curious Pedagogy these student teachers learn how Without doubt track and field be proud to say they gave to Conference A and AA schools with vone another not for money the New Testament is replete with to organize co-operatives in the are the oldest sports in the world. ascertain boy for his participa­ will qualify direct from the Dis­ but for honor." allusions to the Olympic Games. As TN COLONIAL days writing the noble sentiments expressed in rural schools to which they go. From time immemorial men have trict to the Regional Meet. - a coach, I have been greatly bene­ by hand under the more the copy that was set for the chil­ I visited two of these rural tion. o run. A tennis coach told me one Conference B schools in Re­ fited by Philippians 3:13-14, which dren. "Adversity," saith one copy­ schools to watch the alumni at If the idea is to do away with "So important were the games time that tennis is the oldest sport dignified title of "penman­ gions I, II, and III will qualify reads: "This one thing I do, for­ book maxim, "is the touchstone of work. Both were in 'rather re­ awards, why not just do away with that not even the Persian invasion in the world. His theory was based ship" was a fine art. "The from District to Area Meets. getting the things which are be­ friendship;" "A virtuous mind is mote regions. To reach one it was them and forget about it, but as stopped them; and while a handful on the fact that Cain and Abel had There will be two Area Centers hind, and reaching forth unto those art of writing" referred not rather to be chosen than promo­ long as awards will be permitted of Greeks withstood Xerxes' army a racket. As repartee is that which necessary to start out early in the designated by the State Ex­ things which are before, I press to composition but to the tion;" "A comely countenance is a at ^Thermopylae the customary one thinks of when he gets home, ecutive Committee in each of toward the mark for the prize of silent commendation," and so on. (Continued on p. 4, col. 6) (Continued on p. 4, col. 2) thousands watched Theagenes of I had no ready answer. I went actual formation of characters the above mentioned regions. the high calling of God in Christ Thasos, on the very day of the home and told my family that I with the pen. By the time one of these excellent Area winners in Conference Jesus." This is a favorite Scrip­ battle, win the pancratiast's had lost an argument with a ten­ saws was copied a thousand times, B Meets will qualify to the ture of Gil Dodds, the divinity Our forebears thought of writ­ crown." nis coach. My seven-year-old son it was supposed to enter into the Regional Meet and will be re­ student who holds the world's in­ ing in terms of "strokes." There said to me, "Why did you not tell very fiber of the copyist's char­ Huge Grant to Detroit for bated in accordance with League door record in the mile. If one was the "body stroke," the "hair the coach that Adam was first in acter. And compare them with rules governing the payment of will analyze these verses, he will curve," the "swelled stroke," the Football Assignments the human race?" that most popular of all sentences rebates to the State Meet. learn that a good runner must "pointed 1," "the oval," and the Citizenship Teaching Test set for the beginner typist: "Now Conference B Schools in Re­ HE tentative list of football Track is classical, as we who have confidence, that he must have "straight hair stroke," with all is the time for all good men to A FIVE-YEAR experiment become John and Mary Doe, Citi­ gions IV, V, VI, VII, and VIII assignments for the 1945 have been following Mrs. Bassler's a correct body-lean, and that he the permutations and combinations T come to the aid of the party." zen, tomorrow, they will not football season has been mailed must not look back. In First Cor­ of the same. There was much *^Mn education for good will qualify direct from the Dis­ articles are reminded. Is it not clear that the typewriter neglect civic duties and obligations to participating schools for this inthians 9:25 the same writer says, talk of "joining" and "conjoining," citizenship is being launched trict Meets to the Regional In 1896 the Olympic Games were has been a most degenerating in­ the while they hold forth vocifer­ past season. "Every one who runs in the games and the "slant" was a matter which Meets. Only District winners revived, and since that time Amer­ fluence ! in the public schools here, ously for individual rights. Indi­ If any school that did not take exercises selfcontrol in all things." required grave treatment through­ certified by the District Chair­ ican stars have been the brightest Now "The Art of Writing Re­ under the guidance of Wayne vidual rights, in other words, carry part in football last season de­ No boy who refuses to train and out whole chapters of closely man will be eligible to partici­ constellations in the athletic firma­ duced to a Plain and Easy System individual citizenship obligations; sires to play League football to practice selfcontrol can be a printed matter with still more con­ University and with a grant pate in the Regional Meets. ment. As track and field are in­ on a Plan Entirely New in Seven and all too often Mr. and Mrs. during the 1945 season, now is champion. The discipline and self- densed footnotes. of $425,000 from the William Schools qualifying direct from ternational sports, every athlete Books" is the title of a work issued Average Citizen of today forget the the time to make your request control that athletics gives make a District Meet to the Regional can have the Olympics as his goal. Poets burst into raptures over a in 1813 at Andover printed by Volker Charities Fund, Inc., latter, educators say. known to the District Committee me a conscientious believer in clean Meet will not receive rebate. During the war the Olympic Games beautiful "hand." Flagg and Gould and written by of Kansas City, Mo. and to the State Executive Com­ sports. "Frankly," say Wayne Uni­ The State Executive Committee are not held, but we anticipate the John Jenkins, Writing Master. It mittee. "Hail mystic Art which men New and improved techniques of versity officials, "there is in this has authorized the payment of day when the nations that are now Running is fundamental in all like angels taught is a quaint volume. The frontis­ citizenship training are to be country a serious lack of basic The 1945 acceptance cards rebates only in those instances engaged in war can meet on the major sports. A fast runner steals To speak to eyes and paint piece is a lithographic reproduction sought and tested. Results, it is civic morality. In civic matters, too have been mailed out to all foot­ requiring contestants and dele­ fields of sports. It is very prob­ the bases in baseball. The immor­ unbodied thought!" of the features of John Jenkins said, may prove of significance to many citizens think only of their ball schools. It is better to be gates to attend Area Meets in able, I think, that boys like Charlie tal Billy Sunday, who could speak Two birds are slain with one mis­ himself, coat flaring widely at the the 100,000 school systems of own rights and refuse to perform safe than sorry, so send in your order to qualify for Regional Parker, Dewitt Coulter, and many 280 words a minute, probably got sile in the colonial writing-school. breast but tightly buttoned around America. their duties and obligations." football acceptance card today. others who have made records in Meets, and Regional winners to Not only was the art of writing The plan aims to so teach boys the Texas Interschloastic League 1 the State Meet. (Continued on p. 4, col. 8) taught, but the SQUI wa,§ lifted by ( Continued on p. 4, col. 7)^ and girls today that when, thejr ^Continued on p. 3, col. 7£ Page 2 THE INTERSCHOt'ASTIC LEXGUER Takes Scholastic and the exclusion of most other types of material, examine flashy and mis­ Journalism Honors leading and often false advertis­ Presenting Part of the Advisory Council: Others to Come ing, and attend trashy and vulgar motion pictures. He asks what fraction of our masses would sit through a performance of the Trilogy or the Philoctetei. liwalafeiMii! 70 Per Cent Quit School at 14 The reason assigned for this evi­ dent lack of appreciation of the Published eight times a year, each month, from September to more worthwhile things in aca­ April, inclusive, by the Bureau of Public School Service, Extension demic and cultural fields is the fact Division, The University of Texas. that seventy per cent of the people left school at age 14. How many such persons hava any intellectual interests and read books worth reading, or, indeed, read books at ROY BEDICHEK ..Editor all? The increasing amount of leisure (Entered as second-class matter November 6, 1927, at the post time for the masses makes its office at Austin, Texas, under the Act of August 24, 1912.) Rosemary Coward proper use a greater and greater problem. Let those who read this Vol. XXVIII JANUARY, 1945 No. 5 CONSISTENT winner of book, the author tells us, think A honors and awards, Rosemary back on how their intellectual in­ Coward maintained this record by terests would have fared if they 'T'HE FACT that there seems to be no way of organizing placing third in Copy Reading in had left off schooling at age 14. high-school athletics without becoming involved in cer­ the 1944 State Journalism Contest. The principle laid down by the tain commercial aspects is all the more reason for keeping She graduated from Forest Avenue author is stated in the following High School, Dallas, in June, again words: these activities strictly within school control. Arguing for with high honors. "That almost any subject is an organization somewhat similar to the one we have in She served on the staffs of the studied with much more interest Texas, Burt Beyer, in the official organ of the New York "Forester Annual" and the "Forest and intelligence by those who know association, says: "Unless school men'move to control and Echo," the school paper. Member­ something of its subject matter ship in the National Honor Society than by those who do not: and, extend school-boy athletics, outside enterprises are going to was granted her because of her conversely, that it is not profitable move in and promote events for the profit and publicity they fine scholastic record. In addition, to study theory without some prac­ can get." Not only is this true, but as the school activities she received a four-year Linz Pin tical experience of the facts to weaken, outside organizations whose motive is profit (mainly and an Everts Award, both of which it relates." . . . "The young Upper row, left to right: Terrell Graves, Coleman; Nat Williams, Bottom row, left to right: Edward T. Robbins, Taylor; R. D. Lea, which are given to students main­ are not fit to be students of politics, Ballinger; Jack R. Ryan, McKinney; R. B. Sparks, Goose Creek; Monahans; E. N. Dennard, Marshall; Murry Fly, Odessa; Frank through advertising) are going to draw the boys themselves taining a good grade average because they have no experience W. J. Stone, Nocona. H. Morgan, Commerce. away from their school affiliations. throughout high school. with life." Parents are Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Knowledge Mutt Be Functional attending college, his first position this capacity for seven years. His Coward, 1738 Poplar St., Dallas. Many things, thinks the author, being with the Steep Hollow School next position was at Levelland as o can be learned from books, but Biographical Sketches of in Brazos County. In 1923 he be­ principal of the junior high school, many other things found in books came principal and coach at Nocona after which he transferred to 'T'EXAS might profitably study seriously the development have their full and complete wean­ Advisory Council Members of air travel and airplane manufacture. Its all-year High School, and three years later Monahans. ing only when experience with life was promoted to the superinten- round flying weather, and its vast stretches of vacant ter­ has been had. "They (ideas) can E. N. Dennard TV/TEMBERS of the Advisory Council of the Interscholastic dency. He finished his work rain make it an ideal location for flying schools. These •HIGH 50KDI1 only be tested by comparing them toward a B. S. degree during sum­ The Council member represent­ advantages were at once recognized and utilized by the PRESS, ^J with life . « .; they cannot be uti­ League are selected by regions and by conferences, mer months, and later completed ing the AA Schools of Region IV £»WT _M»<«- lized, for only the heat and stress is E. N. Dennard, Superintendent United States government when the need for training avia­ each region and each conference being represented. Thus work on his Master's degree from of life gives occasion for their use. eight regions, with three representatives each, bring the The University of Texas in the of Schools at Marshall. tors arose at the beginning of the war. Texas is also pre­ They are 'inert ideas' and inert number comprising the council up to twenty-four. While same manner. Since then he has Mr. Dennard was born at Carth­ pared to furnish ideal centers for concentration and dis­ A TABULATION of copies ideas lead to boredom and to hazy done work toward a Doctor's age, Texas, and received most of understanding." each of the members is well known in his own region, he tribution of air-travel. It stands midway between the two of the high-school papers degree. his education in that section of the may not be so well known across the State in another region. great oceans with ready access to great ports on the Gulf. submitted to the I. L. P. C. The way out, the author thinks, Hobbies are golf, fishing and State. He attended Lon Morris is a real program of adult educa­ It is the purpose of this and following installments to intro­ College at Jacksonville two years; The manufacturing end of the business also is offered at­ office this fall reveals that five hunting, in addition to the regular tion, similar to that of the "Tuto­ duce each member of the council to the entire League mem­ sports of high school and college. graduated from Trinity University, tractive advantages. Why shouldn't there be a department general weaknesses lead all rial Classes" in Great Britain or bership. He is a member of the Baptist Waxahachie, with a B. A. degree; of aeronautics established as a part of the State government others in regard to the writ­ better still the Folk High Schools Church, Voluntary Parole Board received an M. A. degree at South­ The biographical sketches which * to study in advance and prepare for the great air age which ing found in these papers. of Denmark, by means of which a of Texas, Executive Committee of ern Methodist University. Post poverty stricken people following follow are given in the order of the Committee on Elections for two TSTA, Rotary Club, and NEA. graduate work was done at the is coming and relate the State to it as advantageously as Check your paper to see which, photographs above, which orier is years. He was on the Nominating the war with Germany in 1864,. be­ Mr. and Mrs. Stone have two University of Colorado. He played if any, weaken your paper: quite accidental. Committee three years. Mr. Ryan possible? State aid for airports will come as one of the first came the most enlightened people children—Bill, age 14, and Sarah, football four years while in college. 1. Failure to put the significant on earth and a people with the Terrell Graves, Coleman has also served as president of the problems to be considered. age 13. His first position was at Palmer, facts into the lead. highest standards of living. The The B Schools of Region II are North Texas Division of the State Edward T. Robbins, Taylor Texas, from 1929 to '33, serving as 2. Lack of lively featurettes to Danish National education is suc­ ably represented by County Su­ Teachers Association. For two Edward T. Robbins, Superin­ teacher, coach, and high-school brighten news pages. cessful because: it is given to perintendent of Schools Terrell years he was a member of the N. tendent of Schools at Taylor and principal. From there he moved to 3. Laek of specific editorials per­ adults; it is residential; it is es­ Graves of Coleman. He served as E. A. Transportation Committee. Advisory Council representative of Pampa, where he spent four years "nVEN in these parlous times while we are spilling our taining to important local matters. sentially a spiritual force. These principal of Coleman South Ward Mr. Ryan has been chairman of Region VI A schools, has taken an as head of the social science depart­ 4. Editorializing in news stories. folk high schools have demon­ School from 1929 until '38, at which District 6 for thirteen years. He blood in the fight against dictators, much dissatisfaction active part in League activities ment, assistant coach of athletics, 5. Inadequate news coverage. strated "that the same amount of time he was elected to head the is a member of the Rotary Club is expressed at the democratic way of doing things. We public schools of Coleman County. and The Red Red Rose. for about thirty years. He was a and assistant high-school principal. Most of these weaknesses can be information, which it takes half- contestant while in high school, find this criticism sometimes directed against the Federal He is a graduate of John Tarle- Prior to becoming superintendent remedied by a careful study of a grown youth—dozing on school R. B. Sparks, Goose Creek judge of contests while a student ton Junior College at Stephenville at Marshall in 1940, he was prin­ Government, sometimes against the State and local govern­ good high-school textbook* and an forms—three to five years to learn, Another well-known member of in The University of Texas, and and of North Texas State Teachers cipal of the high school three years. can be acquired by adults, who are the Advisory Council is R. B. has since been on the faculty of ments, and often against the public schools. *Dr, Reddick is th« author of an ex­ College at Denton. His first teach­ Murry H. Fly cellent text of this character. "Journalism keen on learning and who have Sparks, who has spent thh-teen League member-schools. He has We remember in the later 1920s and early 1930s, Ameri­ ing experience was in the rural Thirty-five years as head of and the School Paper/' B. C. Heath 4s done practical work, in the space years as Principal of Robert E. Lee held the chairmanship of various schools of Erath County, where he school systems is the record of cans returning from Europe with glowing accounts of what Co., Dallas, 1938.—Editor. of three to five months." The High at Goose Creek. League organizations in the Taylor spent two years before his con­ a man named Hitler was doing for Germany; and of what application of its principles. If author advocates for Britain the Mr. Sparks was born at George­ area for a number of years. Murry H. Fly, Advisory Council nection with the Coleman Schools. representative of AA Schools in a man named Mussolini was doing for Italy. Why, the you are not certain of the adequacy establishment of a House Educa­ town, Texas, in 1898. He received of your news coverage, you may get tion by each Local Educational Nat Williams, Ballinger his diploma from Lampasas High He holds an A. B. degree from Region VIII. He is in his twentieth latter personage had made the trains run on time. How some help from the I.L.P.C. Authority in some one of the great Superintendent Nat Williams of School in 1915, an A. B. degree The University of Texas, an M. A. year as Superintendent of the wonderful for an American to say that! Our trains had mimeographed pamphlet on this houses of the community which Ballinger has been a prominent from Southwestern University in degree from Texas A. & M. College, Odessa Schools. been running on time for fifty years without a political subject, now in preparation. will be vacant and can be purchased member of the Advisory Council 1919, and an A. M. degree from the and has done graduate work at the Mr. Fly was born in Mississippi University. At the beginning of for a song. of the Interscholastic League for a University of Chicago in 1926. but came to Texas to attend college. dictator. He had drained the Pontine marshes. How won­ his career he spent one year at Humor Help* number of years. He has been Further graduate work was done He received B. L. and B. S. degrees derful! But our drainage districts and irrigation districts Cultural Coursea Devine High School as teacher and "The Sunset Stampede," this with the Ballinger school system at The University of Texas and from the old East Texas Normal The author advocates emphasis coach. The following year he be­ in America, democratically organized and administered, had year has been running a column of since 1939, and represents A Colorado State Teachers College. College and B.A. and M.A. de­ on cultural rather than vocational came high-school principal at drained a thousand Pontine marshes. The same things had human interest short items on its Schools of Region II. grees from The University of courses in these peoples schools and His first teaching position was Hearne, serving in this capacity front page that do much to He graduated from Abilene High Texas. He has traveled ex­ been done but in a different way, and the way makes all enlarges upon the value of history, at Georgetown, where he taught until 1926 when he was promoted add humor and reader interest School in 1921 and continued his the difference in the world. If all you want is a well-con­ literature, and the Christian re­ mathematics one year. His career to the superintendency. Since 1935 tensively, having visited every and to avoid weakness No. 2 listed ligion in a program of adult edu­ studies at Hardin-Simmons Uni­ was interrupted in 1918 by a short state in the Union, Cuba, Mexico, ducted community, running smooth as grease, why don't you versity, where he received his he has been head of the Taylor above. Publication of such spritely cation. Without a knowledge of period of service in the Army, but Schools and his administration has and Canada. invite in an expert Commission, tell it what you want done, stories is a move in the right direc­ Greek philosophy, particularly that B. A. degree in 1924. In 1942 he he was able, to resume his work He was District Governor of the received his M. A. degree from The been highly successful. From 1934 pay it a handsome salary, and then forget about it, Why? tion. They satisfy the same reader of Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus and with the Georgetown Schools in the to '41 he also served as a member Lions Club in 1941-42, and has because that's not the American way. Being Americans we appeal as gossip and are on a much other Stoics and of the religion of University of Texas. He has also fall of 1919, this time as Principal served as president and secretary done graduate work at the Uni­ of the Summer School faculty at A. simply wont tolerate outside domination. We want to run higher plane. Why not read the Palestine, no one can fully compre­ of the High School. From 1920 to & M. College. of the Trans-Pecos Teachers As­ column in a current issue of "The hend history, literature or religion. versity of Colorado. our own affairs, and if they're the worst run affairs in the '26, he was Principal at Plainview, sociation. Stampede" and then require your This emphasis comes out clearly in Mr. Williams began his teaching and from 1926 to '31 he held a Mr. Robbins is an active member Frank H. Morgan world, we have the satisfaction of knowing that we're run­ staff members to submit one such his chapter on "Secondary Educa­ career at Abilene High School three of the Methodist Church, Rotary similar position at Marshall High The Region IV A schools' repre­ story for each issue? Starting tion: A Criticism." "So it (educa­ years after graduating from that Club (past president of Hearne and ning them. However, community after American community School. His connection with the sentative ,on the Advisory Council, their column last year, Stampede tion on the secondary level) tends school. After two years as mathe­ Taylor Clubs), Masonic and Scot­ has demonstrated that we can run them ourselves better Robert E. Lee High School since Superintendent Frank H. Morgan editors reported at the spring I. L. to become a collection of isolated matics teacher there, he accepted tish Rite Bodies, and Chairman of than they can be run anywhere else in the world. But it 1931 has been highly successful. of Commerce, is truly fitted for that P. C. convention that it had stirred subjects—a world of planets as the position of Principal in the Leadership Training of Capitol Since 1940 he has served as chair­ position, since he was born in takes organization, groups of public-spirited men and women, up considerable reader reaction. the Greeks conceived planets, stars Tahoka High School, a post which Area of Boy Scouts. Professional man of the District 14 AA Execu­ Tyler, received his education in citizens in the real sense, who get out of their own back­ Two war projects, sponsored by wandering each on its irregular he held for three years. In 1929 memberships include Phi Delta tive Committee, and his position on Northeast Texas and has spent all school papers, merit honorable men- way, occasionally dashing into each he began an eight-year period as Kappa, Texas State Teachers yards, look over their own fence to gain the larger view, and the Council is representative of his teaching career in that section. other. For this we need to sub­ Superintendent of the Cross Plains Association, National Education are willing to take the time and put forth the effort to make Region V A A Schools. He holds both Bachelor's and continued on p. 3, col. 6) stitute a solar system whose ruling Schools. He spent two years as Organizations in which Mr. Association, American Association their own community and their State and nation a better principle is the making of human Master's degrees from East Texas o Superintendent at Baird before Sparks holds membership are of School Administrators. beings. Many things go to the State Teachers College. place to live in. taking over his present duties at Rotary Club, National Education In spite of all these activities, he making, but essentially it is the Ballinger. Association, Baptist Church, Nat­ finds time for his favorite hobbies He first taught at Mt. Vernon, training of three aspects of man, Mr. and Mrs. Williams are the ional Association of Secondary of hunting, fishing, and woodwork. where he was high-school principal body, mind and character. And parents of three children—Don, a Mr. and Mrs. Robbins are the and coach for two years, followed neither mind nor character can be Principals, Tejjas Association of TNVESTIGATING charges of invasions of academic free­ student in A. & M. College; Nati- parents of two children; Marion, by five years as superintendent. made without a spiritual element. Secondary Principals, and life lynne, a senior in Ballinger High sophomore in high school, and Later he moved to> Wichita Falls dom, intimidation of teachers, violation of merit system "Unless we solve the problem of membership in Texas State Teach­ School; and Gwen, a student in ers Association. Edward, age 4. and taught in the junior high and existence of spy system in the Chicago public schools the spiritual element, our civiliza­ school four years, after which he Ballinger Elementary School. The Sparks family consists of Raymond D. Lee by a committee of the N.E.A. has gotten down to work with On Education, by Sir Richard Liv­ tion will perish." served as superintendent of the Jack R. Ryan, McKinney Mr. and Mrs. Sparks and one ingston, The Macmillan Com­ The A schools in Region VIII Honey Grove Schools two years. a noticeable lack of co-operation on the part of the Superin­ The final chapter on Education Jack R. Ryan, Superintendent of daughter, Alice, who is in the tenth pany, New York, 1944. 285 are represented on the Advisory He has been superintendent of the tendent, Dr. William H. Johnson and the School Board, ac­ for Citizenship gives us a broad the McKinney Public Schools for grade at Robert E. Lee High. pages. $1.75. Council by Superintendent Ray­ Commerce Public Schools for the cording to accounts of the controversy appearing in the conception of the meaning of citi­ the past fifteen years, has served W. J. Stone, Nocona mond D. Lee of Monahans. He past nine and one-half years. *npHIS is a book by the Presi- zenship. "Properly conceived, it as a member of the Advisory Coun­ Supt. W. J. Stone of Nocona has papers. "Enough indication of misadministration of the has been with the Monahans- Organizations in which he is dent of Corpus Christi Col­ involves all a man's actions which cil for three years. He is the been a member of the Council since Wickett Independent Schools for Chicago public schools has been uncovered in the first steps active are the Chamber of Com­ lege of Oxford University touch his fellow-citizens, and affect representative of all the AA 1940. His twenty-one years with the past three years, one year as of the National Education Association's investigation to merce, Lions Club, Masonic Lodge, which should be read by all the health and well-being of the Schools in Region III. He has the Nocona Public Schools, eighteen high-school principal and two as suggest that the teacher organizations and civic bodies which State; it is almost co-extensive and Texas State Guard. students of education and been in the McKinney System years as superintendent, have superintendent of the system. requested the probe were fully justified," says Dr. Donald with his duty to his neighbour." twenty-one years. Previous to his given him ample opportunity to especially all of those interest­ Mr. Lee was born at Thurber, DuShane, chairman of the N.E.A. committee. It seems that Citizenship Training election as superintendent, he was understand the problems of his and Texas, and completed his elemen­ ed in adult education. It is Training for citizenship cannot Sigmund Freud the Chicago School Board has a tenure rule which protects principal of both the junior high surrounding schools. His ex­ tary schooling there in 1922. He really a re-issue of two books be accomplished in the period de­ school and the senior high school perience and interest in athletics attended the Post High School and What made him toil to the end voted to the education of children teachers from summary dismissal, but the complaint now is at McKinney. have specially fitted him to serve graduated in 1926, having earned of his days, amid illness and suf­ previously published, "The and youth. Though much of civic that teachers are transferred, shifted about and demoted Mr. Ryan received his B. A. de­ in the capacity of representative three basketball, four football, ferings and exhaustion in the very Future of Education" and responsibility can be learned in the as punishment for not being "good," while those who fall gree from Southwestern University for the Class A schools of Region three track, and two baseball let­ shadow of death, when he had no "Education for a World ordinary school and through the in with policies of the Superintendent and the Board are in 1921. He also attended The Uni­ III. ters in his four years there. Dur­ hope of reward, either for himself Adrift." While written about reading of the "little books," real versity of. Texas and did his grad­ Mr. Stone was born at Bedias, ing the next four years he attended citizenship can be learned only by or for those he loved? He took "rewarded." While having no knowledge of the merits of uate work at Southern Methodist Texas, and spent the first twenty- West Texas State Teachers College English education, the treatise participation in community and life as a task that had been set, as this matter, we do wish to point out that the National Educa­ University. one years of his life in that local­ at Canyon, where he lettered in has much of value to us in state affairs and is, therefore, de­ a duty imposed on every one of us tion Association is performing a useful function in investi- He was a member of the State ity. He finished his high-school baseball and also participated in pendent upon adult education. by the past of which we are the America. Textbook Committee for five years, work at Sam Houston Normal football and track. Graduate work "gating such charges when they are made by responsible "How far it is from civics to product. This inheritance is al­ The author calls our attention being chairman of that committee was done at Texas Tech and Colo­ people. There is an intimation in the press reports that there citizenship!" ... "Bibles of citizen­ Institute in 1918 and entered col­ ways with us in the form of pur to the fact that, in spite of com­ for four years. He has taken an lege immediately afterward. He rado University. super-ego, intangible, and yet the is a shady hook-up existing between the Board of Education pulsory education, splendid build­ ship—likes other bibles—though active part in the Texas State served in SATC a short time dur­ After graduation, he was em­ most indubitable reality that ings, impressive teachers, and guides to a better world, are not and "politics," and "politics" in Chicago, of course, means Teachers Association, having been ing the first Woi'ld War. ployed by the Texline Board of shapes our life.—Hanns Sachs in large school budgets, the masses transport to one." Mayor Kelly, a member of the Executive Com­ During the next few years he Education as high-school athletic Freud, Master and Friend, Har­ o| the people read daily papers to 1 T. H. Shelby, mittee and having served on the alternated between teaching and coach an