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VOL. XIX AUSTIN, TEXAS, DECEMBER, 1935 No. 4

Practice Varies Number Agitation for 18-Year Age of Spaces After Colon Rural Declamation Winners 100 COUNTIES LIST LETTER, bO\ and Limit Began November 1927 \ COMMERCIAL teacher asks In 1935 State Meet of League OFFICERS ELECTED PERSONAL -X the following question coneern- ITEMS ng grading of typewritten material All Those Reported to State This-Is-So-Sudden" Ob- n League typing contests: Office Placed on League jection Not Valid in NEW YORK STATE'S "The rules for grading typing pa- Mailing List Reporting county officers from Val View of Record Ders in Bulletin 307 state that there Verde County, W. F. Jourdan, County 1-TEACHER SCHOOLS hould be two spaces after a colon. /^OUNTY organizations num- Superintendent of Schools, says: The latest Gregg Manual says to use "We expect to have the greatest PUDDEN," "a surprise," "no ^-' bering about one hundred Writer Calls Them "6,000 Rat- )nly one. Which will be used in meet in March ever held in Val inter- have already been reported, and previous discussion" are holes"; Cost $284 Per grading the papers of the Verde County." cholastic meet?" of the various officers ome of the phrases used in de- Pupil Year the names Miss Florence Stullken, Manager of entered on the LEAGUER mailing plan of the Leakey cribing the unanimous action "It is the he State Typing Tournament, replies list, and also on the mailing list Schools," says Superintendent Z. B. f the last State Meeting of ,s follows: (By W. W. Christman, Delanson, to receive any special announce­ Gray, of Leakey, "to weave the delegates in lowering the age- N. Y.) "No error is counted either way. League work in with the regular mit for participation in Inter- i'here are some places in which more ments that may be issued con­ and thereby be A COMMITTEE has been ap- work of the school cholastic League contests. han one space after a colon makes cerning changes or new inter­ able to give more attention to the -^ pointed to investigate the he typed material look awkward. We have often remarked that large pretations of rules affecting the work and at the same time get all \.nd so this variation is a good one. move slowly, and the move- New York State rural education of county organizations. of the pupils in the school to take odies )f course, there are still places work nent of the League towards this very system. Similar committees to be re­ part and get the many benefits that vhere the two spaces are really bet- Many counties remain :nsible legislation can only be de- have functioned several times were 219 county or­ the work offers. By having all of the er, but we can't make such detailed ported. There cribed as gradual. There was noth- within my recollection, but "the ganizations last year. Do not delay pupils to take part, we feel that we ules. are, to a certain extent, following ng sudden, there was no surprise, deestrick skool" seems to be an sending in the names of officers the method the League desires, 'to lere was ample previous discussion, act of God and, like the weather, elected as soon as the election takes or confirmation let us look back place. The list already reported is reach all of the pupils and have the nothing can be done about it. Left: Wilbert Bruggman, BurKngton, Texas (Cyclone School), first place schoolas a whole receive the benefits irough the files of the LEAGUER arranged alphabetically in the fol­ every year when NEW RULE MAKES late winner in rural boys declamation. Right: Mildred Page, Winchell, instead of just a few that are espe­ /hich is the official organ of the I grieve a little lowing paragraph, and the lists of or 6,000 one-room schools econd place State winner rural girls declamation. cially gifted with some talent.' " eague. the 5,000 officers reported for the first time in Age Limit Lowered in 1926 in the Empire State reopen to receive SANER ATHLETICS this issue are also arranged alpha­ three, four or A pupil of the Clemens school The age limit was lowered from 21 their quota of two, betically. If you find your county few for Henrietta High Organizes writes to the Seguin Enterprise of o 20 in 1926 (not by referendum but more unfortunate pupils too 8-Year Rule Disqualifies Only in neither list, it has not been re­ and too few to spur impres­ SCHOOLS NEED TO November 8 items of school news y action of the State Meeting of games 3 Football Players of Early to Capture Honors ported. Each member-school should rivalry. I from which we cull the following: 'elegates and State Committee in the sionable youth to friendly Cameron High be interested in seeing to it that the the cheap, bare buildings "The last period each Friday is de­ sual constitutional way). Many ex- visualize year the students of BE RE-CLASSIFIED county in which it is located is duly the road, just as they did sixty '"T'HIS voted to Interscholastic League work, erienced school executives, however, toeing reported, and reported at once. ago when I got my "edication," By E. A. Perrin, Superintendent of * Henrietta High School, en- and twice a month during the same aw that the recruiting snake was years Bowie County Man Says League Following counties have already a playground. Schools, Cameron) success of last period the Clemens Athletic Associa­ lerely sketched. Three recruiting and many without ouraged by their Should Adopt State's been reported in the LEAGUER: tion meets. We are now taking up ears were still left wide open. Near my home is a decadent one- " WISH to indorse the officials ear when they won the literary System Austin, Bee, Bell, Bexar, Brazoria, Story Telling instead of Arithmetic 18-Year Agitation in 1927 room school. Teacher's salary, fuel, * of the Interscholastic League vents in the county and second Brazos, Brown, Burnet, Caldwell, Cal- janitor service and incidental ex­ houn, Coke, Collin, Comanche, Crosby, and Spelling. The purpose of this is In the November (1927) issue of n their drive for saner thinking lace in the district, are begin- (By H. E. Markham, Superintendent first page, big head, we penses cost $1,757.19 during the school Duval, Ellis, Erath, Falls, Fannin, to help us express ourselves better." le LEAGUER, n the administration of Inter- ing to think and plan for Eylan Junior High School) * "Wants Age-Limit Further Re- year of 1934-35 at least that was Fayette, Grimes, Guadalupe, Hans- ead, League activities, The Fort Davis High School Trus­ uced." There follows an article by the amount of the budget of which cholastic jeague work a little earlier TT SEEMS to me that the Uni- ford, Harris, Hays, Henderson, Hock- tees have made a ruling that the local uperintendent C. W. Bingman, 00 was raised by local tax and specially football. The recent han usual. *- versity Interscholastic League ley, Howard, Jeff Davis, Kaufman, by the Kleberg, Knox, Limestone, Live Oak, football team, the Indians, may not outh Park, in the course of which $1,157.19 was contributed ircular letter sent out by you is The coach for debate, Mrs. Pope, be reorganized to fit into State. It is estimated that the cost Miss Hop- should McCulloch, McLennan, McMullen, play games with any teams not play­ e says: clear-cut pronouncement of nd the coach for speech, the State's school system. Under League for 1935-36 will be approximately ins, are both starting to accumulate Marion, Maverick, Nacogdoches, Nu- ing under the Interscholastic It seems to us very ridiculous tie truth as it relate to foot- classification made by rules, according to a statement ap­ that the University Interscho­ 0 less than last year. There are naterial and to solicit and encourage the new ces, Orange, Red River, Robertson, pearing in the Alpine Avalanche, lastic League, an organization six scholars enrolled. This long- >all and educational principles. upils to enter these events. Thb the State the school system is Runnels, Rusk, San Augustine, San sponsored by the State Univer­ suffering State will pay about $284 Beneficial to All ubject for debate this year is con- truly divided into three divi­ Patricio, Tarrant, Terry, Tom Green, sity, will continue to offer in­ Jasper County expects the best per pupil for their education this It is my belief that the 18-year erning government control of cot- sions, namely: (1) The Elemen­ Trinity, Upton, Van Zandt, Walker, ducements for students to stay term. Wharton, Wheeler, Wichita, Wil- county meet in years. "It is our in­ in high school who are three ule will be recognized as beneficial on. For extemporaneous speech and tary Schools, composed of the tention," writes R. B. Martin, Prin­ years older than the average of The nearest consolidated school is o all the schools when it has gone or declamation, the general subject barger, Willacy, Williamson, Wilson. cipal, Buna High School, "to make freshmen entering the Uni­ about two miles away. Its Board of nto practice. A few of the schools s "Texas" with the historical, eco- first seven grades; (2) The Jun­ Anderson County ... Director General, Bonner Frizzell, Palestine; this the best county meet Jasper ever versity Education charges $24 per pupil per vill feel the effects of it the first lomic, social, and traditional Texas ior High School, composed of Debate, W. C. Wade, Elkhart; Declamation, year for tuition, to which must be ear but not many after that. naking up the field for discussion E. L. Webb, Cayuga; Extemporaneous had. It will be held in Kirbyville. The January (1928) issue, page the eighth and ninth grades; Speech, W. E. Wylie, Palestine; Spelling, Many thanks for your splendid co­ iree, big head, announces: "Endorse added about $500 a year to transport I think too many superintendents ,nd selection. High School, com­ Mrs. Myra O. Blount, Palestine; Ready or The Senior Writers, Marguerite Dawkins, Slocum; Ath­ operation in making past meets in 8-Year Age Limit." This heading is the six children, a total of $644, nd coaches are laboring under the Those already interested in coming letics, Otis Coffey, Palestine; Music Memory, approximately $108 per pupil for the alse belief that a large number of ut for debate are Frederick Cum- posed of the tenth and eleventh Miss Ethel Hassell, Montalba; Picture Mem­ this county successful." ory, Mrs. W. D. Hawthorne, Elkhart; Arith­ (See AGE RULE Page 4) year. tie student body will be barred from mings, Tully Hopkins, Joe England, grades. metic, Geo. Tipton, Neches; Group Singing, of this State are paying Mrs. Jack Partlow, Frankston; Story-Telling, At a meeting held recently in the The people ompetition in high-school athletics. I. O. Wright, Jr., Foy King, and Junior High Left Out Mrs. Inez Harris, Palestine. Kaufman Hotel in Kaufman of the dearly to maintain a tradition. How At a meeting of school men in 'ohn Edward Roberts among the The junior high schools have no Blanco County Din­ long must we sacrifice the future of Waco recently the statement that >oys, and Louise Williams and Mar- organi­ Director General, A. P. Box, Johnson City; Kaufman County School Men's "exas History in High place in or under the present Debate, Roy Swift, Blanco ; Declamation, Carl ner Club, J. V. Baird talked on "In­ Schools Now Authorized our children to this fetish? We pour 5 per cent of the graduates of his orie Bevering and Ruth Barker zation,* because they are thrown into Buckner, Blanco; Extemporaneous Speech, terscholastic League Work." Mr. our taxes into the schools and the chool were over eighteen was made among the girls. the senior high-school classification. money disappears like water down a y a principal of one of our larger In extemporaneous speech the only (See-COUNTY OFFICERS-Page 4) Baird brought out the fact that Kauf­ EXAS high schools will be given This fact is enough to defeat the be­ twelfth rat-hole, without results. It is said chools in the Class A division. I ntrant so far is Bob Karsteter, but in high school. The student in o man County schools ranked .the option of teaching Texas his- ginner T that Abraham Lincoln once inven­ ook issue with the statement and Miss Hopkins will find others soon, the eighth grade knows that he does ory, starting with the spring term, toried the equipment in his old law till hold that such a condition is not or the work is valuable in develop- not have a chance to defeat the stu­ Nash Jr. High School (See LETTER BOX Page 4) t was announced recently by Ben F. office at Springfield, and among other ^eneral and could be so only under ng ability and creating interest in dent in the tenth and eleventh grades isinger, Chairman of the State Plan Speech Program items was "one rat-hole that is abnormal conditions. ,peech arts in general. with two or three years experience Board of Education, who explained worth looking into." There are 5,000 202 from Rural Schools In declamation, Bucky Boyd, Mary and physical strength over him. hat heretofore it has been taught in E pupils of Nash Junior High IN or 6,000 rat-holes in the rural edu­ Cameron High School has an 3elle Twyman, Boy Hembree, and In a recent county wide faculty in HIGH GOAL SET he lower grades only. This program The J- School (Texarkana) are showing cation system of this State. New of 424, of this 'atsy Lou Sherrill have announced Bowie County this question was dis­ its into Centennial year. It follows inrollment this year much interest in public speaking and York Times. from the rural heir intentions of trying out. There cussed. The conclusion was reached NUECES CO.LEAGUE he adoption of resolutions by the number 202 come to us have organized a speech club for the of our county. Under this .hould be many more entrants in this that the League should be adjusted Texas Legislature importuning the .chools purpose of increasing their ability as it would be natural to as- event also. 100 Per Cent Participation Board to authorize the teaching of The matters in which the interests ondition speakers. The officers elected to lead .ume that the Cameron school is an As soon as the material arrives we *Section 6, Article VII, defines a junior Urged by Director General Texas history in the high schools. of nations are supposed to clash are high school, as follows: "A junior high school the club activities are: President, of pupils of a more mature shall begin work in earnest. Watch Standley Three texts in Texas history by mainly three: tariffs, which are a de­ example is a unit in a school system organized as a Billie Blocker; Secretary, Faye Har- above Henrietta this year. Not only in these whether or not it occupies a authors are on the multiple list lusion; the exploitation of inferior age, yet no suggestion as made junior high, rison; Treasurer, George Brower; Texas events, but in others we expect to building to itself, and competes in class B." if official textbooks adopted by the races, which is a crime; pride of lolds true in our school. and Reporter, Charlsie Lou Chewning. for every school 100 pupils graduated from reach a high mark and establish a PLEA, Board and, will be available to the power and dominion, which is a Exactly Members of the club have begun prep­ ,he Cameron High School last year. 'ecord. Henrietta Independent. (See RE-CLASSIFIED Page 4) A child in Nueces County to ligh schools. schoolboy folly. Bertrand Russell. aration for entries in debate and participate in some phase of the Their ages were as follows: fifteen declamation in order that they might years of age, 1; sixteen years of age, work of the Interscholastic be prepared to be contestants in the 17; seventeen years of age, 49; School (Cameron) Interscholastic League. League program for the coming Special Committee Outlines eighteen years of age, 23; nineteen Yoe High year was made recently by years of age, 6; twenty and over H. V. Standley, of Bishop, Di­ Rules for Spanish Contest years of age, 4. These ages are as Works Out System of Awards 40 On Debate Squad Of rector General of the League. of September 1. Amarillo High School The above figures show 33 per cent COMMITTEE on awards letter only and shall be worn by high- In a brief statement, Mr. Standley recommended to district and regional T THE State Meeting of of the graduates of the Cameron met in the Yoe High School school pupils only. said: committees* this school year: High School would have been in­ A Fourth, that no pupil shall be eli­ TjORTY members of the de- "It is my desire to assist in mak­ Delegates, 1934, a request the Regulations for Spanish Contest eligible to compete in football and 67 Building on October 28 for gible to compete in two major activi­ -*- bate squad in the Amarillo ing this the greatest year ever for was presented from the Spanish 1. This contest is open only to sec­ per cent eligible according to the purpose of deciding a standard ties concurrently who has not during High School are busy at work Interscholastic League work in Nu­ Section of the T.S.T.A. for con­ ond-year students of Spanish. 18-year rule. I wish to call to your the preceding semester made a mini­ is to be award to be presented a pupil marshalling the facts for both eces County. If this wish of a State contest in 2. Contestants shall be divided into attention that these figures are basec mum of 10 grade points if he is sideration two groups. Group I shall be com­ of the Cameron public schools realized, every child in the county on those graduating and not on the taking four courses and physical edu­ sides of the question. must have an opportunity to partici Spanish. Principal R. H. Wil­ posed of those who could not speak for merited achievement. The before learning it in high entire school. cation or a minimum of 12 points if More than 175 students are enrolled pate. For that to be possible, every liams, of the John H. Reagan Spanish school and those who have not livec Disqualify Only Three committee was composed of he is taking 5 courses and physical in the various classes of the public school in the county will have to be High School, Houston, stated in a Spanish-speaking country since W. C. Wiese, Chairman; E. D. education. speaking department, which is headed league. Please shal The examination of the team of come a member of the that members of the Southeast entering high school. Group II Fifth, that no pupil shall receive by Miss Oretha Cornelius. Speech In be composed of those who could speal the year 1934 shows that the 18-year Parnell, L. C. Wood, Francis mail your membership fee to the Texas State Teachers Associa­ more than one sweater per school year activities are provided for those un­ terscholastic League, Austin, Texa Spanish before taking up Spanish in rule would have disqualified only Cox, C. M. Hicks and Miss tion favored a Spanish contest high school and of those who may three of our players, and the year but may receive other appropriate able to enroll in regular classes and Do this as soon as possible, certainlj have lived in a Spanish-speaking Louise Green who submitted the for those who desire more experience in the League. Others spoke in 1935 shows that only two of our play awards, as he shall earn them. In before January 1, which is the las country. following report: case of eligibility for two major than class work provides. day for paying fees without a pen 3. The teacher of Spanish in eacV ers would be disqualified. behalf of the contest, but on mo­ prevent a First, that no student shall be eli­ awards in which sweaters are given The Forensic Society, a debate club, alty. Then begin locating your pros school shall select the contestants t< The 18-year rule will tion, the proposal was lost by a represent that school. but i gible for an award in a major activity the pupil shall choose the activity has a membership of 50 which meets pects for the various events. Let u few over-age pupils playing, slight margin. 4. The contest open to Group will prevent our younger boys froir who has not passed a minimum of in which he shall be awarded the Thursday afternoon. begin our training early so that th shall consist of three events: (1) an credits during the The Pi Delta Dramatic Club, with Several districts and in at least matching their strength with grown three and one-half sweater. competition will be keen and ver examination on fundamentals; (2) : who is not at 33 members, is sponsored by Mrs. one regional meet optional contests declamation; (3) a composition o men. It will withdraw the temptation semester preceding and Sixth, that the basis for the awards valuable. a mini­ W. E. Murrell. The Senior Play and in Spanish were offered last year 150 words. of school officials and fans from so the time of the award passing shall be as follows: "Let me urge every teacher to be I and one-half credits. One-Act Contest Play are beginning with very promising results. On the 5. The contest open to Group liciting over-age pupils solely fo: mum of three (a) Football. Participation in one- come vitally interested in the work shall consist of three events: (1) an Second, that the Yoe High School half the quarters of conference games cast selection under the direction of a basis of this experimentation, a football purposes, and it will give op Perform every assignment given examination on the fundamentals t adopt a standard 6-inch letter Y of or upon special recommendation of Mrs. Lela Crossett. humanly possibl committee appointed by the Spanish be taken with Group I; (2) spellin portunity to the younger boys of th perfectly as it is either Chicago maroon, or grey, or a the coach and confirmation of super­ Assembly programs and a wide to do, especially the county director Section of the T.S.T.A., composed of from dictation; (3) a declamation. school, the large majority, to com pete for places on the team. combination of both with an appro­ intendent and principal. range of activities, together with the ships. Professor Chas. B. Qualia, of Texas *The LEAGUER will publish plans of an courses studied and conversation en­ Tech; Miss Roberta King, of Dalla district or regional committee which decidj I believe these corrections will b priate design or emblem of the activ­ (b) Basketball. Participation in "If there is any information needec contest, if it is furnishe gaged in, offer opportunities for the public schools; and Miss Pella Phipps to hold a Spanish brought about without loss to the in ity for which the award is made. one-half the quarters of all games write me at Bishop, and I will attemp with copy of the same. Third, that the Y as above described practice of better speech. Amarillo to obtain same." Corpus Chris of Amarillo Junior College, worked terest of the public in public schoo (See-SPANISH CONTEST-Page 4) athletics. shall be considered as a high-school (See-AWARDS SYSTEM-Page 4) Globe. Caller, out the following contest which is Page 2 THE INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUER

alive offers better educational opportunity for big hat and a six-shooter, all mov- Huntsville, is starting a Texas high- ng- across the prairies under a cloud school magazine to stimulate the in- ligh-school debaters th'an one which is academic, >f pistol smoke. Surely enough has or of such vast proportions that nothing we could >een written about men who swagger, BOOKS erest of high-school students in cre­ do about it in Texas would influence decision 'an hammers and make hip shots. No MAGAZINES ative writing, according to a Story in Texas Ranger ever fanned a hammer a recent issue of The Crane. If you perceptibly one way or another. High-school boys when he was serious, or made a hip are interested in creative writing, you shot if he had time to catch a sight. and girls want prospect of immediate results, and The real Ranger has been a very might communicate with Mr. Hufford they want a question which they can discuss with quiet, deliberate, gentle person who for details. parents and friends and read about The "Official Notice" column of the Leaguer could gaze calmly into the eye of a The Cotton Situation Approaches a in Texas s considered sufficient notice to all member murderer, divine his thoughts and an- newspapers and chools concerning interpretations of Rules: Crisis, by Dr. A. B. Cox, Bureau In appearance the editorial columns hear discussed in public meet­ Article VIII, "Introduction," Constitution and icipate his action, a man who could of Business Research, University of a paper should be different from ings. They like to be a part of the intellectual life Rule*. ride straight up to death. In fatal encounter the last resort of a good Station, Austin, Texas, Mimeo­ the news columns. Many of our high- Published eight times a year, each month, from Sep­ of the community, and it is important from an Typewriting, Page 65, Rule 13 officer the Ranger has had the un- graphed, 20 pages, 25 cents. school papers have the defect of dull- tember to April, inclusive, by the Division of Extension, ducational standpoint that they be made to feel In changing back to the old rule lurried courage to take the extra ooking editorial columns. Here arfe 'raction of a second essential _ to ac­ *~P*HIS is a keen analysis of the of The University of Texas. that they are a part of. that life. We hope debate for finding the accuracy percentage, JL of the cotton situation up-to-date three devices that have been em­ we failed to make the entire change curacy which was at a premium in caches and others interested in the debate will ;he art and science of Western pis- by Director A. B. Cox, The Uni­ ployed to liven the appearance of edi­ in rule 13 on page 65. The third sen­ ;ology. The smoke from such a man's versity of Texas Bureau of Business torial columns: .-..:... consider this question and write the LEAGUER tence in that paragraph should read: land was a vagrant wisp and, never Research. As is well known, Dr. Cox 1. Wider columns. A seven or To find the per cent of accuracy; the clouds read of in books written nas been and still is a severe critic uggestions concerning it or concerning any of the Government's present policy in eight-column paper might well set the subtract the penalty from the number for those who love to smell powder editorials other question which may become a genuine pub­ smoke vicariously. restricting the production of cotton. double-column. For fiv£- lic issue in Texas during the next school year. of words written . . . etc." Note that The negative side of the League's column papers a colnmn-and-a-half ROY BEDICHEK ...... Editor in the example given in paragraph 13 It is of these men, good shots, greal present debate question, therefore, width is preferable. . we have followed the right procedure. horsemen, and for the most part in­ will find aid and comfort in these twenty mimeographed pages. The 2. Contrasting title lines.. Titles corruptible, that Mr. Webb writes affirmative side will also want to know for editorials should, if 'possible* be QOMEONE suggested the other day two divi- Number Sense , He studies them in relation to their what the opposition has up its sleeve set in type which is different from (Entered as second-class matter November 6, 1927, . sions in football on an age-basis, one 14-18 Only seventh graders are eligbile work, and the result is an understand­ and it should therefore familiarize that used for news headlines. If such at the postoffice at Austin, Texas, under the Act of in Number Sense. Paragraph 2, page ing appraisal. It is possible that his itself with this important pronounce­ contrasting type is not available, the group and the other 18 and over. Whether or great affection for the Rangers makes ment. This is highly recommended as August 24, 1912.) .. 59, prescribes the same numerica' a source of argument and arsenal of titles might be inserted in the side not the suggestion was serious, it would satisfy method of representation as is used him less critical than the cold facts facts for those who uphold the nega­ of the editorial rather than above. two antagonistic lines of pedagogical thought: in Music Memory, but does not in­ warrant. They were not all super­ tive of the present debate query in 3. Large initial letters. The first (1) those who believe that, driving a high-spirited clude the same grades that are men, not all the upright and just men the League. K. B. letter of an editorial set in 14-pdint Vol. XIX DECEMBER, 1935 No. 4 boy of 14 or 15 into a strenuous bodily contact eligible in music memory. Rule £ of tradition. Indeed, there is more or 18-point type breaks the monotony than a suspicion that some of them game against an antagonist 19 or 20 years old is clearly states that only seventh grad of the body type and adds to the at­ ers are eligible. were debauched by the profits of pro tractiveness of the column. A T ITS second annual meeting in A. & M. not right; and (2) those who believe that it is hibition booze, that some of them were ^ College, June 13; the Texas School Adminis­ the school's duty to furnish "big time" football Debate Bulletin Correction drunkards and that, particularly HIGH SCHflOC along the Rio Grande, their opera Madras, {India) Students Ask tration Conference passed among other resolu­ for the community, irrespective of the question­ On page 53 of Bulletin No. 3538 PHESS able sportsmanship of, pitting boys against men. Government Control of Cotton Pro tions during certain periods wer« For Extension Teaching tions and recommendations, the following: "We duction, the figure 98,000,000 is t pretty downright murderous. To b recommend that the Unive'rsity Interscholastic Division on an age-basis is recognized and ap­ sure, some of this less romantic rec plied in some of, the milder forms of the League's misprint for 98,000. Dated November 4, Oil Corporation League look into the matter of alleged irregulari­ ord must be blamed upon Governor Buildings, Madras, India, a letter .ad- athletic who used the Rangers for politica competitions, protecting the boy or girl Choral Singing TF YOUR paper has not ye vises Dean Shelby, Extension Divir ties in the payment of football coaches and the purposes, but the record under 15 against the boy or girl over 15. The Specific designation by the schoo is there -* enrolled in the I.L.P.C., be sion, of the desire of the students of giving of excessive awards to players in some nevertheless. principle is, of course, sound; and carried out, board of a person to direct choirs The City, College (Madras and .Ban­ schools." F. L. Moffett, E. K. Barden, J. W. Chap­ But perhaps this is caviling. The sure to send in your application may qualify such person under Rule galore City) to avail themselves of man, and S. V. Burks composed the resolution would also include a weight factor. But the prac­ heroes are here in great plenty for membership at once. W< tical difficulty seems insurmountable. There 7 of the Rules in Choral Singing. correspondence work in the Extension committee. The League has a committee now at are Colonel John Coffee, Hays, Captain have sent out criticisms of ter Teaching Bureau. The letter is not sufficient numbers in the over-age group to Ben McCulloch, Colonel Samuel H papers this week and hope tc signed K.S., R, ;Acharya, B.A., L.T., work on the awards problem, and it would doubt­ Bus Transfers Walker, Major John S. (Rip) Ford less be well to have one at work on the other make up football teams, except in a few high get around to the others in our F.R.E.S. (Lond.), and reads as schools of the State. The younger age, it is as­ Since the new law requiring countj Captain June Peak, Captain G. W follows: matter. We believe that the payment of the foot­ boards of education to make Arrington, Captain John R., Hughes Conference some time within sumed, must serve as a sort of cannon-fodder definiti "A few of our students wish to ball coach a percentage of gate-receipts is assignment of bus transfers, Interpre Captain W. J. (Bill Jess) McDonald the next two weeks. joip the correspondence section in a to keep the game going. With 18 as the lower Captain L. H. McNelly vicious practice. Does anyone else think so? tation I (g) Appendix III, p. 99, of th< and all th We appreciate the response tha few of the subjects of your Univer­ level for the proposed new division, however, anc Constitution and Rules has been rest. One of the best chapters deal we are getting to .our request tha sity to qualify for a degree. I would be no upper age-limit, and an abandonment of the altered by the State Executive Com with the redoubtable Captain Frari you write to us for information o much obliged if you could give me all scholastic requirements, many schools could put mittee. Bus transfers assigned by th< Hamer, who probably has killed mor guidance concerning your paper. W the necessary information, rules and '"T'HE State Board of Education has authorizec men than any person living today have averaged about three letters on "big-time" football. County _ Board are riot any longer regulations and application forms with the teaching of Texas History in Texas high affected "by Article VIII, Sec. 13. And one of Mr. Webb's particula day from editors or sponsors who as! regard to the above. Kindly inform schools beginning with the second semester oi heroes is Captain John B. Jones, wh' us some question about their paper us whether you could arrange to have flourished in the Seventies and wh Through this personal correspondenc these candidates examined in conven­ this school year. This fits very nicely into the Article VIII, Sec. 14, page 21. died in 1881 at the age of 32, leaving we feel that we can be of our greates ient centers in India." League's extemporaneous speech contests which '"TpHE contest is a natural form for teaching to The first sentence of the seconc a record of adventure, courage an< service to you. Please dp not h'esitat are this year devoted to Texas History. The take. It is often used as a social entertain­ paragraph of this rule should, read tact which must excite admiration to write to us .if you are facing som League has issued a Texas History syllabus oj ment. Sometimes the two purposes are served a A pupil living at home with hi; and wonderment. Many of Jones' problem on which you think we ca parents (or guardian) and qualifying great deeds were performed in th< help you. Interpretatidnfe 60 pages as guide for extemporaneous speech one and the same time by one and-the same com­ under the exception clause above, i hill country northwest of Austin, on contestants, more than a thousand of which were petition. In early days in New England, before eligible in any higher class schoo of the finest ranching areas in th The Amarillo Sandstorm has com Facts. School newspaper uses sold before the bulletin was off the press. Teach­ the machine-age, it was important for farmers within fifteen miles of his home. world, where there was always troubl back to life after two or more year contributed articles from .alumnus. ers who want this syllabus should order a copy to have at hand expert corn-shuckers. The first Indians, then cattle rustler of non-existence. It is now a four Question. Does use of such con­ or copies at once, for the limited number printec and fence-cutters and feudists. ,Mr column weekly. When you read th tributed material bar paper from In- husking-bee grew up as a stimulus to rural youth Webb tells, will though perhaps not full front page of The Sandstorm, yo" ter.scholastic League contests? not last long at the rate they are going. The to learn to be expert in getting the husks off the TALKS ON TEXAS enough, the story of the Horrell know at once that the paper is pub Ruling. No. Contributed material bulletin is sent postpaid for twenty cents, or Indian corn. But it soon developed into a com­ BOOKS Higgins feud in Lampasas County, lished by a wide-awake staff. Man' with "by-line" is no bar to partici­ eight copies in one order are sent for a dollar munity entertainment. Although man can't com­ war which cost many lives and whic" of the stories tell of events that ar pation in League school newspaper The syllabus is carefully worked out to fit in pete with the machine in XX. W. P. Webb's "The Texas Captain Jones tried to settle by hav to happen on the day the paper i contest. : ; separating grain from Rangers" with the Texas History Text and with reference cob and husk, still the corn-husking ing the leaders of the factions sig: published. Timeliness is stressed. bee holds on (By Stanley Walker) a. truce. One of the great men o books on Texas History which are in general cir­ as an .entertainment. Here are the rules of thi that section was the "good bad man, In a recent issue The Belton Tige Spanish-American Meet For the first time in culation among the public schools. contest nailed on the barn-door of a recent New Pink Higgins, whose descendants ar carried a story by Albert Nibling the'history of The Texas Rangers. By Walter Pres the Interscholastic .League there is a highly respected citizens "today. It i now. a newspaper man. Nibling wa England husking-bee. cott Webb. Illustrated. 583 pp separate organization for the Mex­ told of old Pink that he once, whil editor of The Tiger during its firs "Husk clean and throw ears to the center; husks Boston: Houghton Mifflin Com ican children. This department which riding the range, came upon a trei year of existence, and the story toL pySCUSSION at the League behind. pany. $5. gives the children with the language Breakfast and A he or she who finds a red ear must passer who had killed a cow and wa of his experiences during that year handicap an equal chance with the ^ Section meeting in Gunter Hotel, Terrace 'dss some he or she present. But the he or she . WEBB, one of the few preparing to skin it. He killed th Where is the editor of your paper fo other children, was organized .in April Dining Room, November 29, confined itself to the must not kiss the same he or she twice; exc.epi genuine historians of th man, cut the cow open, put the bodj its first year? inside and then rode into town t at Alpine. Jesse Blackwell of Marfa new 18-year age rule adopted at the last State that a he or she can kiss a he or she that has Southwest, has done a magnifi and Knox Reid of Ft. Davis are in invite people to come and see a mar Some teachers complain about no Meeting of the Delegates. The Secretary, S. M kissed them. It's customary for the he or she charge of this division. cent job in sifting the volu velous freak of nature, "a cow givin having enough journalism students t to resist ; Events in this section of the League Dinsmore, of Electra, took elaborate notes, bu1 the osculation, also if they sense ,tha minous but often tedious anc birth tq a man." Old settlers toda> pake a good staff for the schoo will include v611ey ball with a team will be unable to write them up in form for pub­ they are to be attacked, it's proper to run. conflicting records of the Texas will tell you that Pink Higgin: papen Miss Hallie D. Walker, spon of girls and boys each; soft ball with lication in time to be inserted in this issue of the "If the girl you tackle is too athletic for you to though a trifle hard, was a good mar sor of The Sunset Stampede, has m Rangers, and in writing, frorr two teams each of girls, and boys, .one and a constructive citizen. complaint on this score Sunset Hig] LEAGUER which is now ready for the press make a goal, or if you can't catch her three times the heart, the story of thes< from grades has 160 journalism students. one to four and one from Neither will the excellent address made by around give up. She really does not like you tough, hard-riding, fast-shooting Mr. Webb has a high regard fo: grades five and up; boys' track events Frank Hamer a regard which prob including 50-yard dash, 100-yard Chancellor Charles W. Flint, largely extempora­ Try another. peace officers. Textbooks for those 160 journalism ably is fully justified. Hamer led th dash, 220-yard dash, 440-yard dash, neous, be ready for the printer of the presenl 'Wo hitting allowed, but accidents will nappen Was there ever such a valiant bod; students at Sunset are furnished b; little group which mowed down Clyde running broad jump, running high issue. Iodine in the kitchen." of manhunters? Probably not. Ant The Dallas News and The Dalla, The upshot of the discussion was a motion Barrow and his cigar-smoking, gun jump, discus throw, shot-put, chin­ carried with small opposition requesting the State their story, as Mr. Webb tells it with toting moll, Bonnie Parker, but hi; Times Herald. That's cooperation. loving and painstaking care, is prob ning the bar, and horseshoe pitching; Executive Committee to submit a mail referen­ real claim to fame rests on something declamation for both boys and girls ably .the best history of Texas eve: , The Dallas high-school papers al more substantial than that. It wa divided by grades one to four and" dum on whether or not the age-rule (18-year T> BAD the accdunt of New York 'State's 6,000 written. The tale is long, but not toe face a real test of their reader Hamer who defied the Texas bankers inter five and up; picture niemory; mus"ie limit) be raised to 19. The State Committee will long. The detail is marvelous, ad est. In place of a system of subscrip ^ one-teacher schools, description of which and charged them with setting up a memory with a team of two fronv mirably selected and mirrors the de tions each issue of the paper is sok meet shortly to consider this recommendation appears in this issue of the LEAGUER. It cost; murder machine when they offered a grades one to eight; spelling; choral yelopment of that vast territory frorr for five cents a copy. If the About two hundred were present at the meeting, $284 per year reward for dead bank robbers. H paper singing with 10 to 15 in choir, in to "educate" each pupil in these the days of the early colonists to the should begin to fall charged that venal local peace officers down in readei grades seven and below; arithmetic; one-room "ratholes," a higher cost per student present relatively effete era. interest, had framed poor half-drunken coun plop! would go the sales and one-act play. than is found in the institutions of higher learn­ : The task of the Rangers has been The large number and steady try louts and. shot them down as number This division will have a district OPEECH teachers held their 13th annual con- finished, and, as such, the group has of sales is a compliment to ing in Texas. Dean Shelby of the University Ex­ bandits to collect the reward. It took the papers meet which will be held in Ft. Stock- ^ vention in San Antonio during the recent tension Division made a study been reorganized. The law creating courage to make this allegation, but of the rural school the Department of Public Safety re­ ton 'one week before the State Inter- meeting of the T.S.T.A. We are able to give in system in New York nearly twenty years ago, he proved it, and made it stick, though The Benavides Scholar has changec scholastic Meet. Marfa Sentinel. duces the Rangers to two mountec he almost lost his job for his honesty this issue only a routine account of the meeting, and pointed out in the thesis resulting from this pompanies and a headquarters com­ from the magazine style of make-up Texas politics are notoriously which it followed last year to a news­ reserving space in the January issue for filling study the vast waste of money. Committee after pany, a total of forty men, and in­ noisy, devious and often smelly Now, a home is more than a resi­ creases the Highway Patrol to 140 paper make-up. The new s.tyle gives in the details. It has been bur observation. that committee .has confirmed his findings and still Political conniving is to blame for the staff a chance to play up its news dence. I'll tell you what it means to this is one of the most energetic and hard-working no men. This virtual abolition of the most of whatever criticism, has been me and if you like my idea, you can propaganda dynamite has been found with force occurred exactly 100 years after in better fashion. Reporters from the groups that assembles during the State conven­ sufficient explosive power to jar more than a few made of the Rangers. Mr. Webb first freshman class, and probably other write to the' dictionary makers and the creation of the Rangers by a revo­ became interested in the Rangers in ;ell them to put in my definition in tion. They begin early, hold late, and keep at fragments loose from the mountain of conserva­ lutionary body in 1835. Thus Mr. classes, too, are elected by popular the period from 1915 to 1918, when vote. their next edition. work right through to the end. Naturally, many tive stupidity. New York journalists contemp­ Webb's volume is the obituary of the the men were under heavy fire be­ Home Is Wherever You Can Com- Rangers a fine, sweeping wreath. members of this group are interested in contests, tuously refer to Texas as in the "Bible Belt," and cause of their activities, along the The enterprising staff of The Abi ortably Be Yourself. and so there is nearly always included on the pro­ Mr. Webb, a professor at The Uni­ Dorder. Serious charges against them It's where you can "have a dog that grow hilarious over instances of intellectual dark­ versity of Texas, worked on this \ene Battery had its first issue ready book led to a legislative investigation, and gets more hairs all over the place gram a discussion of one phase or another of ness in the Southwestern "provinces." But any­ for a long time, and its completion for distribution on the day that the contest the force evfentually was consider­ ligh school opened for registration. than any ha'ir tonic could. It's where work. The League cooperates biennially one of a thousand rural consolidated schools of was facilitated by a grant from the ably revamped. But this was not with the Speech Teachers Association in bringing Bureau of Research in the Social tn the Quill and Scroll contests by you can kick the dog, too, if you're Texas if set down in the New York Adirondacks nough for Mr. Webb. For years he which copies of last year's paper a heathen. It's where you can hold to Texas an outstanding speech authority for the would shine like a jewel in a muck-heap. And Sciences at the University. The pro­ studied the Rangers, gathering data, fessor, who is something of a re­ were judged, The Battery was given our pork chops between your fingers League Breakfast and Section Meeting and for was it not Massachusetts which recently passed a and now he gives us the thoroughly an International Honor Rating, the and chew it then lick your fingers. porter, was not content with poring satisfying result a bit on the patri­ later meetings of the Speech Teachers Association. law which requires school-teachers (only school- over the documents. He set for him­ lighest rating given by the judges. It's where you can practice reciting otic side perhaps, but far and away The award was announced this, fall. he Gettysburg Address in front of It is hoped that this this cooperation will bear teachers of all the professions) to march before self the enviable chore of actually ;he best work of its sort ever to come four mirror. Perhaps most important good fruit next year, that is, in 1956. officials recruited largely from the shyster-lawyer- living with the Rangers, camping ut of Texas. New York Times. At the Texas High School Press >f all, Home is the politician class and take an oath to support the with them out under the stars, listen­ place where, if ing to their salty talk and learning Association convention to be held in are there, you can tell all callers On the semi-arid highlands of Ari­ Constitution of the United States? The august what sort of men they were. The job 3eltdn in December a trophy will be hat you aren't. WALTER PITKIN. zona are hundreds of T TNICAMERAL legislature is being agitated a Harvard faculty started to stiffen its proud neck of the Rangers was to send mis­ square miles awarded to the paper which has per- jovered by self-grown ^ little in Texas. Nebraska creants Mexicans, Indians, fence- cedar trees, 'ormed the greatest service to its has one already. at this insult, but the Great Scientist-President each far enough from To keep young, every day read a cutters, feudists, bank robbers, etc. its neighbors ichool this fall. In addition to print- The question has been debated by many leagues, Sonant soon whipped the recalcitrants into line. :o allow free growth without its ng the news, what service has your ioem, hear a choice piece of music, both high school and college. Be ;o the jail or the graveyard. Mr. If the movement it said to the credit of Professor Mather of Webb says: iranches touching those of any other 5aper performed? School service is lew a fine painting, and, if possible, should gain enough headway to make it a public hat faculty that he insisted on taking an oath at ree. Biologists report that this cedar ne of the most important functions o a good action. Man's highest merit question in Texas by the 1936-37 school year, it the same time to support the Declaration of In­ As strange as it may seem in some deposits toxin about its base, and so f a school paper. Iways is as much as possible, to rule quarters, the Texas Ranger has been automatically prevents growth of might be worth considering as a debate question dependence which recognizes explicitly the right hroughout the century a human be- xternal circumstances, and as little ng, and never a mere automaton ani­ eedlings that would crowd it and in- Earl Huff or, Professor of English s possible to let himself be ruled by in the League. A current issue which is really of revolution. mating a pair of swaggering boots, ringe upon its scanty water supply. ,t the State Teachers College at iem. GOETHE. Page 3 ____.^_^^_^^__^_^_^_THE INTERSCHOirASTlC ^^ r^ -^ LEAGUER^_^_ ____ Daniel Webster, Wendell Phillips, and wiser, fixing attention upon his dis Edward Everett, .^make a very fre­ course, and reporting a thing in the New Material Swells League Bulletin List for quent use of auditory and motor name of him who said it. The Tal­ GGODPMYS imagery." mud. Memorizing Useful Teachers in Charge of the League Contests If the pupil has not developed the different forms of mental imagery, PONSORS, teachers and coaches of League activities will do well to keep up with the revised no better place can be found than 18-YEAR AGE LIMIT S list of publications all intended to help make the League work more effective and more truly in the reproduction of some good :ducational. Among them are many old friends, but the teacher will find also a number of new­ piece of literature which abounds in WARMLYDEFENDED mental images, "for," declares Dr. comers. There is the revised Constitution and Rules, copy of which every teacher in charge of Scott, "this faculty can be developed Stanton Man Gives Reasons a League contest should have constantly at his elbow. Sometimes the principal gets the copy even late in life," The hearer sees Why Rule Is Education­ which is mailed upon the receipt of the League fee, and immediately sequesters it, sometimes and feels and understands only * so ally Sound filing it so carefully that it is never discovered again. much as the speaker feels and sees, and understands. Then if the To circumvent this careful filing, the League will send any teacher who has charge of a (NOTE. 'Play* recommended in thii depart, The Long Christmas Dinner, by ment are not necessarily eligible for League 'thought-getting, thought-holding and QUPERINTENDENT OP SCHOOLS League contest a free copy on request. one-act play contests. That is a matter which Thornton Wilder. Samue IFrench. thought-giving process" is mastered A. M. Limmer, Stanton, con­ Note also the new debate bulletin. No free copy of this is distributed, as it is quite an requires careful study of a given play in the 35c. light of the eligibility requirement* laid down n a drill in declamation, what a won­ tributes the following to the dis­ expensive affair of three hundred pages. In the Constitution and Rules.) Comedy, 1 act, 5m7f, int, simple derful field of usefulness is opened Christmas Plays for Women and costumes, 30 min. Mr. Wilder fore­ cussion of the new age-rule, Declamation teachers please note the new bulletin entitled "Centennial Declamations." You shortens and compresses ninety for this "real human being" of ours Girls. Fitzgerald Publishing Cor­ Christmas dinners in the Bayard in communication with other real published in the November 21 will be surprised, on examining this publication, at the wealth of good oratory which Texas has poration. New York. 50c. home within the compass of a one- human beings." issue of the Dallas News: produced. Extemporaneous Speech coaches will find this collection of speeches necessary also, as A collection of eight one-act Christ­ act play. An interesting experimental In the next issue, I shall discuss the "Almost from the beginning it is a source book in Texas history, to which reference is constantly made in the Extempora- mas, plays for all-women casts, by va­ form showing the changes in cus­ uses of declamation in language- rious authors, furnishing excellent toms and manners during this period of his public school career the leous Speech Syllabus now available. material and heartily recommended. of time as well as the growth of the building. writer has1 advocated Saturday The new Picture Memory bulletin called "Art Experiences" should catch Titles of the plays included are: Bayard . family and their accumula­ the attention of "Enterprising Oswald," by Reby Ed- tion of property, Summing up vividly football, higher school marks teachers who are preparing pupils for this contest. Don't fail to get a copy of this for each mond; "Once a Year," by Marion a wide aspect of American life. requirements, eight - semester pupil trying out for this contest, that is, Holbrook; "Christmas Makes the or should be, every pupil in the fourth or fifth grade. Heart Grow Fonder," by Reby Ed- Once in Bethlehem, by Be'ulah Folms- SPEECH TEACHERS rule, eighteen-year age limit, Go on through the list and find out what you need, and don't wait to order. mond; "Her Christmas Gift," by bee. Walter H. .Baker Co. Bos­ the awarding of letters instead Much time and expense will be saved if those who wish copies of any of these publications Carol Fuller; "Sensible Christmas," ton. 35c. by Mabel C. Allyn; "One Christmas ELECT OFFICERS of expensive sweaters to all will note carefully and follow the "directions for ordering." Eye," by Marion Holbrook; "Mrs. : Christmas play, 1 act, 14m2f, ext, winners alike in all interscho- Santa Claus," by Margaret Parsons; int, costumes Biblical, 1 hr. A.very 13th Annual Convention of mentary text in reading, details being selected which are of particular "The Christmas Indian Suit," by Let- fine play of the Nativity, not difficult astic events and the one-year DIRECTIONS FOR ORDERING nterest to fifth grade children and the style adapted to children of this, and very effective. May be produced Speech Association Meets grade. The work in picture memory will be made more interesting tie C. Vanderveer. ;ransfer rule. nd instructive if teachers will use this bulletin as a classroom text in without scenery. in San Antonio Those ordering bulletins_ should read carefully the de­ picture appreciation. The following titles just received Sound Rules Made by League scription of the bulletin given below and the terms upon from the bramatit; Publishing Com­ Peace I Give Unto You, by Dorothy "The majority of these requirements vhich it is distributed. 'Fifty Fine Arts Favorites" (1934), No. 3436, 90 pages, pany, Chicago: The Star Christmas Clarke Wilson. Walter H. Baker ARA LOWREY, of Baylor Uni- 'or Interscholastic League participa- Stamps are not accepted in payment for bulletins, and single copies 15 cents. In quantities of ten or more at Book,, containing, recitations, drills, Co. Boston. 35c. ion have been set up, not bulletins are not sent C.O.D. or on account. Cash in the 10 cents per copy. ; versity, was chosen Presi­ because 'arm of money order, express order, currency, or personal plays and complete Christmas pro­ Drama, 1 act, 4mlf, int, costumes ;hey have been advocated by this Miss Florence Lowe, Head, Art Department, Sam Houston State grams; Christmas at Casey's, a farce modern, 30 min. A new dent of the Texas Speech Asso- iheck must accompany order, Teachers College, discusses in this bulletin each of the pictures in the Christmas writer for a dozen or more years, but Do no expect the bulletins to travel as rapidly as first- ast year's contest list, presenting also biographical data concerning by Jessie M: Ford; .Christopher's play, easy to do, but of universal iation at its Thirteenth Annual 3ach of the artists. The current bulletin, "Art Experiences" (see Candle, a 30-minute comedy by Anne appeal and with a profound and pow­ because they are pedagogically, class mail. Wait a reasonable time before sending in an above), contains cross-references to this volume. Coulter Martens; and Santa Claus erful plea for peace. Material sug­ \leeting in the Travis Park psychologically and administratively nquiry concerning an order previously .given. and the Madonna, one-act drama, by gested as a .worship service for use Methodist Church, San Antonio, sound. If it is necessary to telegraph an order, the money should 'Fifty Famous Pictures' (Reprint 1932), No. 2936, 10 H. E. Marisfteld. with the play is included. Especially >e telegraphed also, as otherwise the order must surely cents. November 29. Other officers "Just recently a general letter ' e held up awaiting remittance. recommended. reached this office. It was from a This is a pamphlet of fifty-six pages giving information concerning Mistletoe, by Marion Holbrook. Fitz­ lected at this meeting follow: When the term "League School" is used in this list it sictures used in previous years. The stories are simply told-and can BabO'uscJca, by Ethel Van Der Veer. friend, S. R. LeMay, Superintendent s meant to refer to a school which is a member of The >e readily, understood and appreciated by pupils in the fifth grade. gerald Publishing Corporation. Jessie Millsapps, Houston, Vice- 'Jniversity Interscholastic League. The information is authoritative and will do much to increase the Sarnuel French. 35c. if Schools at Athens, Texas. In this pleasure children will find in studying the pictures. The work was New York. 35c. resident ; Emory G. Horger, etter he urges that all Class B and Reduced prices do not apply on cumulative orders. For written by Miss Thelma Whaley, Head of the Art Department of the Christmas play, 1 act, ImSf, int, Eastern Oregon Normal School. Prices on Comedy, 1 act, 2m2f, int, costumes lass C high nstance, a school ordering 50 copies one time and 50 at quantity orders follow: 20 modern, 25 min. A delightful and costumes Russian peasant, 30 min. Texas State College for Women, schools work diligently mother . time does not receive these at the rate given on copies or more, five cents per copy. human little comedy especially appro­ A fine Christmas play founded on the )enton, Executive Secretary and :or the repeal of the new 18-year rule 00 lots. . , . priate for the Christmas season. Russian legend of Babouscka, who as now proposed for Interscholastic 'The Educational Significance *of Physical Education" must forever seek the Christ child. Treasurer; Jeston Dickey, San BULLETINS (1926), No. 2603, 14 pages. Her visit inspires courage in one, Antonio, Historian. eague competition. He specifically The Empty Room, by Dorothy Clarke :faith in another, and makes a kind ,tates that his letter is addressed to Constitution and Rules of the Interscholastic League Written by Dr. Jesse Feiring Williams, Professor of Physical Educa- An 'assembly (Revised for 1934-35 Contests), No. 3322, 108 pages. ion, Teachers' College, Columbia University. This is a speech delivered . Wilson, .Walter H. Baker Co. deed possible to one who has feared of 150 were present, hese smaller type schools and ex­ >y Dr. Williams at the League breakfast and section meeting during to do it. Highly recommended. Minnie Laura Blundell, President, Contains rules and regulations governing all contests. Free copy is he 1925 meeting of the State Teachers' Association. The place of . Boston. 35c. . . . . presses deep concern over their plight ent to the person remitting the fee for a school. Extra copies 10 thletics in the school program is fully and competently discussed, Christmas Drama, 1 act, 4m3f, jresiding, to hear the program which 'in football) if this rule is permitted ents each. 'ree copy to any teacher in any member-school of The University of int, In the Light of the Star, by Agnes Texas Interscholastic League. To others, five cents per copy. costumes Biblical, 40 min. Mary and onsisted of talks by Mary K. Sands, ,o stand. Government Control of Cotton Production, No. 3538. Emelie Peterson. Row, ; Peterson Joseph seek refuge in the inn arid are Texas State College for Women, "Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts" 311 pages. Single copies 35 cents. Four copies for $1. refused. Many tokens occur on the & Co. Evanston, 111. 50c.' 'Educational Athletics." )enton; E. C. Barksdale, San An- "Consider the source of this sym- This is the League handbook on miraculous night and the play ends Christmas play, 1 act, .5mlf, int, the debate 'query for the current Contains two notable addresses on athletics, one having especial onio; Dr. B. F. Pittenger, The Uni­ chool year (1935-36). It contains both negative and affirmative reference to athletics in high schools and the other to college athletics. with a revelation of The Way. costumes modern or period. A new >athy. Athens has for several years riefs, articles from standard authorities giving a general survey of versity of Texas; Lillie V. Lilliard, ?he former is by James Edward Rogers and was delivered at the and unusually beautiful Christmas :ompeted in Class A in/ athletics, won le cotton situation, as well as selected arguments from those who league Breakfast and Section Meeting in Dallas, November, 1929. The play that moves rapidly and is good ohn Tarleton College, Stephenville; everal honors in football, won avor and from those who oppose government control of production, atter is by President Franklin Parker Day, of Union College, de- Why the Chimes Rang, by Elizabeth 'he material in this bulletin is evenly balanced, and it is designed to ivered before the National Collegiate Athletic Association, New drama. The setting may be modern, ames H. Parke, The University of urnish the high-school debater with a fairly comprehensive treatment York, McFadden. Samuel French, 35c. ,he State championship ofi two or January 1, 1930. This pamphlet is sent free on request to anyny addressa<~" though any time from 1850 to 1885 Texas, and J. Howard Lumpkin of f the subject. ' It was prepared by Professor Thomas A. Rousse, n Texas. Drama, 1 act, 3m2f and extras, int, is suggested. Some of 'the finest of more occasions and the national )ebate Coach, The University of Texas. . costumes medieval. A dramatization Waco. shampionship twice in basketball, sent the Christmas music is used, and 'the 'Financing a State System of Highways" (1929), No. 'The Three-R Contest (1927), No. 2639. of a deservedly popular story for chil­ Nativity scene is simply, but effec­ The. sectional, meetings, were held ler coach directly to the leadership 2929, 120 pages, 10 cents. ""'"'' dren, dealing with the divine beauty tively made an integral part of the >n Friday afternoon with the fol- Contains briefs, bibliography, and selected arguments, .both afflrma- A large folder containing the writing scale by which specimens will f the Rice Owls, who won the South­ >e judged in the "writing of charity. The play may .be given play. Highly recommended. owirig chairmen: Marjorie Wills, ive and negative, on the following query: "Resolved, That the Sterling contest. Also contains specific rules and at any time but is especially ; appro­ west Conference last year and look 3lan for Financing a State System of Highways in Texas should be directions for conducting the Three-R contest. Sent free to any studio; John N. Watson, High- adopted." This bulletin was uesd in the 1929-30 debates. No free copies. 'eacher in a member-school. priate for the Christmas season, it The Cancelled Debt, by Isla Paschal )lenty good at this writing. It is chool Chairman, and Mary K. Sands, has been done thousands of times, and Richardson. Walter H. Baker Co. jrobable that many of these cham- 'Trial by Jury," No. 3028, 10 cents. A One Book Course in Elementary Music and Selected whether very simply or elaborately >f the Texas State College for Boston. 35c. ionship players were recruited* from Contains briefs and arguments pro and con on the following query: Songs for Schools, by Charles A. Fullerton. given, its dramatic content and its Women, College. Each program fitted 'Resolved, That a substitute for trial by jury should be adopted." This charm never fails to move, to thrill Drama, 1 act, 3m5f, int, costumes }lass B and Class C schools in Hen- [uestion was debated in the League debating contests during the Bound in cloth, 254 pages. Contains words and music for more than he individual .930-31 scholastic year. , its audience. With the play are .in­ modern, 30 min. Through her innate needs of the group lerson and adjoining counties. So >ne hundred songs, correlated with specially prepared phonograph and much was gained from the n- ecords for teaching children chorus singing. Will be used as badis cluded the fullest notes on costuming, kindness a w«man is able to repay, ;his type of sympathy will and should 'Limiting Taxes on Tangible Property" (1932), No. :or choral singing contests in the League for next two years. Eighty setting and suggestions for the ex­ without realizing it, a debt incurred formative talks rendered. defeat the purpose of the letter mailed 3228, 10 cents. ients per copy; sixty cents per copy in quantities of ten or more. in her childhood. Good drama for the quisite music which should accom­ ,o these schools by Mr. LeMay. Contains briefs, selected arguments and authoritative statistics on pany the latter part of the play. Christmas season or at any time. he following debate query: "Resolved, That at least one-half of all OTHER PUBLICATIONS Police Cat Reasons for New Rule' State and local revenues in Texas should be derived from sources other "There are many reasons why the han taxes on tangible property." This bulletin was prepared by A, 'icture Appreciation. moving picture machine is an objec- Mike wasn't anything much to look C. Duval, Ph.D., Instructor in Economics, The University of Texas. Twenty-page pamphlet containing a reprint of articles published in ;ive instrument, it throws its pictures at. Any fancier would have disquali- L8-year rule should prevail but the ?he Interscholastic Leaguer and written by Miss Florence Lowe. This FUNCTION OF two latest and perhaps most impor- Centennial Declamations, No. 3542, 200 pages. Single )amphlet is of especial interest to teachers who are preparing pupils >ut to the screen. Although well ied him for cat-show competition at copies 35 cents. Four copies $1. for participation in the Picture Memory contest Enclose legal-sized ;ant are: stamped and addressed envelope and pamphlet will be furnished free DECLAMATION oaded this machine would be useless he merest glance from a hundred This collection of the most famous orations by Texas orators, and of charge. 1. The State Board of Education 'rations concerning the history, traditions .and progress of Texas II Thought Projection f it did not have this quality of mak- ards off in the twilight. under seven flags, furnishes schools an opportunity to make a notable What's Right With Speech Contests. ng objective what is within. Just so Mike's service to the courtyard was n its last session passed resolutions ontribution to the success of the Texas Centennial. Laniar, Houston, By Miss Jeston Dickey favoring the rule. As far as public Austin, Rusk, Archer, and many others of that great galaxy of Texas Address of Henry Lee Ewbank, Ph. D., Professor of Speech with the speaker, if the brain power he way he policed it. His job, he "leroes and statesmen are represented in this collection. It was com- Jniversity of Wisconsin, delivered at the Sixteenth Annual League loe's not function schools are concerned this is the high­ >iled by Roy Bedichek, Chief of the Bureau of Public School Interests, Breakfast and Section Meeting, Galveston, Nov. 30, 1934. Of the hearers' minds [ecided, was to make the territory Extension especial interests to public speaking teachers and coaches. Sent only est policy-making body that we have Division, with especial attention to the requirements of the n case legal-sized stamped and addressed envelope is enclosed with N THE last issue of the eceive no images and the speech is a nside the gate forbidden ground to jeague declamation contests. The historical notes were supplied by request. and its policies should be respected. )r. Eugene C. Barker, Professor of History in The University of 'ailure. logs; and what human policemen and I LEAGUER, I tried, to indicate 2. The majority of the large Class Texas, whose position as the greatest living authority on Texas Relationship of Scholarship in School to Later Success Projecting the Personality atekeepers hadn't quite managed to History is generally recognized by. historians throughout the world. in a general way what the best A schools that have championship Containing nearly 100 selections, which represent the best thought in Life. I believe the speaker after good drill [o, Mike did. He was a big cat any­ and highest aspirations of our greatest, leaders, in each of the periods F authorities consider the prin­ football material favor the higher >f Texas history, supplemented by arr^le historical notes, this bulletin Dr. n direct delivery, learns to project way, -and when he swelled into his age limit." may be used with good effect as a source .book for Texas history The interscfioiastic Leaguer, it disposes nnaiiy or tne om contentioi cipal function of training in more than mere thought, he learns to fighting size and bared his teeth and Jasses. . ' . ;hat the poor student stands best chance of later success in life. Th< declamation. Thought - getting project personality. A good actor is issued orders most dogs didn't tarry *"Eecruited" is probably a harsh word here. 'Making Friends in Music Land," Book I (1925), No. supe Athens serves practically as a county high o h and thought-projection is the one who has fused great personality for argument. school and thus receives properly many small 2537, 73 pages, 10 cents., Sent ^chool graduates. EDITOR. Written by Dr. Lota Spell. Music supervisors have found this bul- the'rfre now Before us. with great technique. Just so with Mike lived his life under one mis­ etin treating appreciatively thirty-five classical selections a valuable Vlusic Memory Score Sheets. .in,.; -the. first: place,:-most beginners the declaimer. The same principle apprehension, in the matter of pigeons, aid in arousing interest in music among their pupils. The language is ConConvenient for giving practice tests. One cent per copy; thirty-five holds good. The difference lies in the Bronte Schools Organize delightfully simple and adapted to the understanding of sixth, seventh, cencents for 50 ; fifty cents for 100. Free copies to county directors of are. jaccustomed to express but a lim­ which his friends never corrected. It and eighth graders. An excellent supplementary text in reading. music memory only on careful estimate of the number that will be 'act that the actor expresses for the required in the county meet. None furnished free for county meets ited,: range of ide.as, and of ten un­ was his habit, with a cat-friend who For League Competitions audience "Making Friends in Music Land," Book II (1926), No. prior to March 1. No order filled for less than ten. willing to express these freely. "Given while the .declaimer ex- ived with the Keeper of Egyptian preses to the audience. When the Training for Interscholastic League 2637, 75 pages, 10 cents. Picture Memory Score Sheets. a good selection," continues Mr. Win- Antiquities, to stalk the pigeons which A continuation of above-described bulletin. Five cents per copy in contests to be staged next spring is Same as above except for Picture Memory. Same price u Music ans, "they will often speak with more speaker finds that he can project swept down into the courtyard. The nuantities of ten or more. Single copies ten cents. Memory Score Cards. No order filled for less than ten. thought and personality .and combines getting under way in the Bronte confidence and freedom even, with ;wo cats would maneuver them into ''Music Heard in Many Lands" (1927), No. 2737, Three-R Test-sheets. it with technique we have a great schools this week, with Mrs. D. Hull 10 cents. more earnestness than with their own a corner and each would grab a Similar to Bulletins Nos. 2537 and 2637, but treating other selections. Reading and arithmetic test-sheets for familiarizing contestants with speaker. : starting her extemporaneous speak­ ;he nature of the tests in the Three-R contests and for giving practice pigeon as the confused birds took Single copies ten cents ; in quantities of ten or more, five cents each. tests. These are published in different series (A, B, C, etc.). After matter, provided there is thorough ing pupils, and Miss Mary Jean Al­ assimilation." Speakers often fail This acquired ability is going to a given school has tested its pupils with copies of one series, it should flight. . . corn getting her prospects lined up Making Friends in Music Land," Book III (1928), No. order tests in another series which contains different material, and because they have nothing to say. A lold over, in almost all cases to the With the pigeons in their mouths 2837, 85 pages, 10 cents. so on. The sheets are sent prepaid to any address in Texas for one original speech. I have taught hun­ for the choral singing work. cent per sheet. No order filled for less than ten. - good declamation furnishes this some­ they would march straight to the Directors in charge of preliminary This bulletin by Dr. Lota Spell gives both teachers and pupils valu­ In ordering be careful to specify which series, if any, you have thing to say until the pupil has ac­ dreds of pupils public speaking and lousekeeper of the residence; she able information and suggestions for recognition of theme, instrumental already used in your school this year. have never found a case where training and tryouts have been ap­ tone and types. Planned as a class-room text in music appreciation "Radio Control," Debate Handbook. 224 pages, quired the habit of continuous speak­ would take the birds from them and with many suggestive and thought questions appended after discussion 20 cent*. pointed . as follows: Field Events, Contains bibliography and selected articles for and against the fol- ing. He catches the style and spirit declamation did not help, in a marked give the cats some beef or mutton of certain phases of the subject. Single copies, 10 cents; in quantities degree the extempore speaking of the H. A. Fitzhugh; Music Memory, Miss f ten or more, five cents each. owing debate query: "Resolved, that the United States Should adopt of the selection. "He receives this," and a saucer of milk, as a sort of the Essential Features of the British System of Radio Control and pupil. On the other hand, I have Mary Jean Alcorn and E. B. Max­ Operation." Eight copies for $1. says. Winans, "in the best way, not jurchase price. Then she would release well; Singing, Miss Alcorn, Extem­ "Making Friends in Music Land," Book VI (1935), No. taught many pupils who have had 3540, 80 pages, 15 cents. "The League of Nations" from conscious imitation, but by com­ ;he quite unharmed pigeons through poraneous Speaking, Mrs. D. Hull and (1923), No. 2329, 87 pages, ing to feel it through intimate ac­ training in "Expression" by private Same description as Book III, except that different selections are 10 cents. teachers who .-'hid just the same a side-window. There were probably Mrs. Lucy Warner; Story-Telling, treated. Single copies, fifteen cents; in quantities of ten or more, ten Contains briefs and arguments pro and con concerning the following quaintance." : . . . cents each. Use in 1935-36 contests. query: "Resolved, That the United States should join the League of handicap in direct straightforward pigeons which had been caught by Mrs. Oeorge Thomas; Fourth and , Getting the Thought Nations." Excellent for literary society and community debates. No first person ability to speak as any Mike dozens of time. Clarence Mad­ Fifth Grade Spelling, Miss Lillian "Developing Number Sense" (1926), No. 2638, 31 pages, free copies. Then we shall say the first and of the beginners who had no training den in Household Magazine. Kiker; Sixth and Seventh Grade 10 cents. Typewriting Tests. greatest factor in*peaking is thought. o Spelling, Miss Nell Lowry; Junior Written by John W. Calhoun, Professor of Applied Mathematics, Fifteen-minute typing tests, of the same nature as tests used in at all. The University of Texas. This bulletin is an enlargement of the Interscholastie League Typewriting Tournaments, spaces counted. Two In the study of declamation "the pupil Education in its higher meaning is Girls Track, Miss Elizabeth Leonard; bulletin issued by the League under the same title in 1925. It contains cents per copy, fifteen cents per dozen. Developing Imagination Arithmetic, Miss Helen Meyer; Junior directions to the teacher and to the student for developing "number is taught," as Mr. Clark would say, greater than priesthood and than roy­ sense," that is, an ability to solve quickly arithmetical problems with a "Number Sense" Test Sheets. "how to get the thought from the As a vital part of this thought alty, seeing that royalty demand; High and Grammar School Play­ fair degree of accuracy without the use of pencil 'or paper. It is old- For practice tests in "number sense." One cent per sheet. Key for printed page, how to hold that process we must include the training thirty qualifications, the priesthood ground Ball, O. C. Brinell; Ready fashioned "mental" arithmetic systematically presented. This bulletin grading problems is' sent with each order. No order filled for lea* is used as a basis for county contests in arithmetic. It contains more than ten copies of a. given test. thought" befort his mind's eye until of imagination. It is not necessary twenty-four, while such education Writers, Miss Mary' Bess Hooper; than a thousand problems. One free copy to each member-school ex­ is pecting to enter the arithmetic contest. Extra copies, ten cents apiece, its full import is apprehended, how to read a monologue or a daring story acquired by forty-eight. And these Debate, Miss Katherine Mae Heaton; Rfty cents per dozen, $3 per 100. ; Declamation Bibliography. to concentrate of adveniure and romance to find the Tennis, Miss Elizabeth Leonard and A list of forty-odds books containing declamations. This circular his whole mind on that are they: By study; by distinct pro­ "Words for the Spelling and Plain Writing Contest" i sent free. thought until his whole being is sat­ true field of imaginative development nunciation; by understanding anc E. Maxwell. San Angelo Standard. (1935), No. 3533. Mr. Clark says: "When you read oJ The Interscholastic Leaguer. urated with it, and by this time he discernment of the heart; by awe List for use in all League contests during the current scholastic year. Monthly publication, official organ of the League, mailed free on is ready to "give the thought" to his trees let them loom before you,.when reverence, meekness, cheerfulness; by Beaumarchais served Louis XVI as Five cents per copy, twenty-five cents per dozen, $1 per hundred. request to any teacher in Texas who is coaching or training pupils for participation in League contests. hearers. you are describing a battle see th ministering to the sages; by attaching censor on a commission basis. When High School Newspaper Handbook, 54 pages, 15 cents. Circular of Information. In giving the thought to his hear­ opposing forces, when you talk abou oneself to Colleagues, by discussions business was dull, that is when revo­ This helpful pamphlet was prepared by DeWitt Reddick, Adjunct This is a six-page folder giving in condensed form essential infor­ ers he can be given splendid training the. starving foreigner in the slums with disciples; by knowledge of the lutionary pamphlets which the censor Professor of Journalism in The University of Texas. Sponsors of mation concerning the conduct and functions of the University Inter­ picture that despicable situation." I Scripture was paid to suppress were scarce, he journalistic activities in high schools will find this booklet crammed scholastic League. All contests are listed and classified. Schedule of in that "sixth sense," as one of Colum­ and of the Mishnah; by full of suggestions which will be of_ use to pupils engaged in preparing fees is given, and the entire organization outlined. Any number ot is the easiest thing in the world tc moderation in business, in intercourse wrote and published incendiary the school newspaper. In quantities of ten or more, this pamphlet copies of this folder is sent free on request. bia's professors has called it. "The will be furnished at ten cents per copy. sense of an audience." Some people teach a boy to see that about which with the world, in pleasure, in sleep pamphlets himself, ' promptly sup can talk with themselves but not with he is talking. in laughter; by being loved, loving pressing them and receiving his com Art Experiences, studies for Fourth and Fifth Grade in All orders for bulletins or other League publication* an audience. If a real straight­ Dr. Walter Dill Scott believes tha the All-present,* loving mankind, lov mission. This was the same enter Art Appreciation, No. 3536, 92 pages, 15 cents, ten should be addressed to forward declamation is delivered, its all great orators make use of menta ing just courses; by cooperating prising Beaumarchais who helped copies for $1. "Art Experiences" suggests the purpose of the 19,35-36 Picture pertinent message will aid the pupi imagery. "They use visual imagery,' with one's fellow, judging him favor finance the American Revolution an Appreciation Bulletin. It is intended to give the child a genuine BUREAU OF PUBLIC SCHOOL INTERESTS, he says, "more than other forms, bu ably, and leading him to truth an< finally committed France to the cause feeling for art. It describes. each .of the pictures prescribed in this EXTENSION DIVISION, to acquire this admirable and neces year's contests, and contains the usual biographical material concerning sary trait, objective speaking. The all make use of others $nd some, e.g. jseacei by making one's master of the American colonies. the artists represented in the list. The work is .designed as a supple­ ' University Station, Austin, Texas Paf i * (THE INTERSCHOL'KSTIC LEAGUER

school just as he learns about the be adhered to and the teachers are mation, and extemporaneous speak­ Hackett, Godley; Three-R, Philip Gainings, Music Memory, Lola Mae Atkinson, Lawn; says: "There is no reason why high Junior Caddo Mound School. feural Schools, W. L. Karrh, Route 1, Oyalo; Championships great events of history or about the respectfully requested to observe the ing in the Interscholastic League Lamar County Story-Telling, Mrs. Ima Gotten Jennings, schools should make their regulations parts of speech in English. same. meet. Special awards may be made Director General, Burton Mason, Blossom ; Route 5, Abilene; One-Act Play, Georgia ;o suit some over-aged man who ought Why? What For? Jebate, Ned Colvert, Caviness; Declamation, Mackey, Route 5, Abilene; Choral Singing, If football is as valuable as the 1. When grades have been entered for outstanding achievement in these Mellie Kirkham, Petty; Extemporaneous Mrs. Andy Shouse, Route 2, Merkel; Arith­ probably to be in college or at work, (By Roy B. Henderson, Athletic Speech, Rose Dunlap, Paris; Spelling, Jewel metic, Virgil Bowers, Potosi. gentlemen imply, and I am inclined upon grade sheets they will not be fields. Edwards, Pattonville; Ready Writers, Mrs. Throckmorton County and if not, should be giving all his Director) to agree with them, we should or­ changed, except the teacher shall (h) The chief pep squad leader Carl Wartham, Bairdstown; Athletics, Dee Director General, A. S. Jackson, Throck­ time to hastening the completion of Culnningham, Petty; Music Memory, Mrs. morton ; Debate, J. A. Abernathy, Elbert; ganize a football course with regular have convinced herself that the grad­ shall be given an appropriate emblem Shelton McAmis, Roxton; Rural Schools, John Declamation, True Lovelace, Woodson; Ex­ his high-school course. Very often, Redd, Deport; Choral Singing, Mrs. Dixon temporaneous Speech, Mrs. E. M. Marrs, T*HOSE who part company on class room work and laboratory ing of the paper was incorrectly done of award. Shelton, Howland, Picture Memory, Miss Mar- Throckmorton; Spelling, Mary Choate, Wood- however, these fellows are in high periods on the field. In this way all or that the figures computed in ar­ ;aret Ritchey, Caviness. son ; Ready Writers, W. F. Hale, Spring school purely for the sake of the game * the 18-year age rule branch Lipscomb County Creek; Athletics, R. B. Smith, Throckmorton ; pupils, and not just a select few, will riving at the grade were wrongly Director General, H. W. Deane, Darrouzett; Music Memory, Mrs. True Lovelace, Wood- and the reputation they can make in off on their separate ways at a profit. We do not select a few and COUNTY OFFICERS Debate, Oressa Hastings, Booker'; Declama- son ; Picture Memory, Eulalia Mitchell, El­ computed. :ion, Verna Harris, Higgins ; Extemporaneous bert; Arithmetic, Homer Neal, Woodson; playing against boys. . . . The Asso­ fundamental point; namely, the tell them they are the only ones who 2. The above ruling makes the Speech, F. D. Barnes, Follett; Spelling, Three-R, H. E. Stevens, Throckmorton; ciations should protect the legitimate (Continued from Page 1) Thelma Cope, Lipscomb; Ready Writers, Ma- Choral Singing, Winona Pordue, Throck­ purpose of inter-school contests can take English, history or math. grade, when it is once entered, com­ zie Boone, Lipscomb; Athletics, M. E. Cleav- morton. high-school boys against these left­ It is quite a different thing when plete. Consequently the only way a inger, Darrouzett; Music Memory, Mildred Titus County overs." The editorial endorses Dr. which ultimately lead to various Bonner Ivey, Johnson City; Spelling, Mrs. Solomon, Booker; Picture Memory, Gladys Director General, B. A. Hardaway, Mt. we go outside the school and com­ failing grade can be brought to a L. A. Weir, Blanco; Ready Writers, Mrs. Geo. Jamieson, Higgins; Story-Telling, Edna Har- Pleasant; Debate, A. Z. Hays, Mt. Pleasant; Stewart's position and declares in fa­ championships such as county, Wall, Blanco; Athletics, S. Cox, Blanco; Music tenberger, Follett; Arithmetic, Ha Slack, Hig­ Spelling, V. L. Cody, Cookville: Ready pete for attractive honors and prizes passing grade will be through a suf­ Memory, Mrs. A. Simmons, Johnson City. gins ; Choral Singing, Mrs. Kenneth McGibbon, Writers, Mrs. Hazel Harkrider, Mt. Pleasant vor of the change, but cautions district, regional and State. The with another school. ficiently high grade not yet recorded Callahan County Follett; Playground Ball, J. H. Flathers, Dar­ Athletics, W. F. Swan, Mt. Pleasant; Music against too early action. That was Director General, Truett Briscoe, Clyde; De­ rouzett ; Volley Ball, L. H. Bond, Booker; Memory, Evelyn Whitt, Cookville; Arithmetic, greater the championship hon­ Control or Abandon averaged in with a failing grade bate, R. F. Webb, Putnam; Declamation, Nat Tennis, J. L. Byrd, Higgins. Mrs. J. R. Reynolds, Mt. Pleasant; Three;R, six years ago. Some State high-school athletic as­ which has been recorded to bring it Williams, Cross Plains; Extemporaneous Llano County Mildred Lamb, Talco; Picture Memory, Viva In the issue of March, 1928, page ors offered the greater the drive Speech, J. F. Boren, Baird; Spelling, Mrs. Director General, Odus Stephen, Llano; Alien, Talco; Story-Telling, Mrs. L. H. Raney, sociations by bitter experience have to a passing grade. Jewel Swanzy, Clyde; Ready Writers, Julia Declamation, O. V. Hall, Lone Grove; Ex Mr. Pleasant; Rural Pentathlon, James 1, we find this caption: "One Pro, and power behind that cham­ Ojerholm, Baird; Athletics, Arthur Neibuhr, temporaneous Speech, Maude Hall, Llano; Adams, Cookville. been compelled to legislate against 3. Ruling number two does not pre­ Baird; Music Memory, Mrs. J. E. Pittman, Spelling, Mrs. A. F. Box, Llano; Ready Val Verde County One Con, on Age-Limit Rule." In pionship ; power either for good State championship -football. Texas, clude a pupil going back and getting Cross Plains; Picture Memory, Mrs. F. Under­ Writers, Miss Carol Moss, Llano; Athletics, Director General, E. C. Welborn, Del Rio this article, C. C. Carver, of DeKalb, wood, Cross Plains ; Choral Singing, Jesse R. Clayton Stribling, Llano ; Rural Schools, Ford Debate, T. C. Hickman, Del Rio; Declama­ or for evil. up to the present time, has been un­ up work which he has neglected. Morgan, Baird; Story-Telling, Viola Boat- Gephart, Castell; Picture Memory, Mable tion, Mrs. Eppie Chalk, Del Rio; Extempora­ favors; and John R. Ratliff, of El Danger Ahead wright, Baird; Arithmetic, R. H. Jennings Webster, Valley Springs ; Choral Singing, Miss neous Speech, Berneice Rains, Del Rio; Spell­ willing to admit that the job is too However, value for such work will Clyde; Three-R, B. C. Chrisman, Baird. Brownie Byfleld, Llano; Story-Telling, Ann ing, E. S. Key, Langtry; Ready Writers Campo, is against the proposed There is no danger that unorgan­ big; that it can't be done; that the be given in the current grade (un­ Camp County Ingram, Llano; Wild Flower, Zolora Stribling, Pauline Davis, Comstock; Athletics, L. W change. In February, 1929, Speer, of Director General, R. L. Hodges, Pittsburg Llano; One-Act Play, R. M. Bolt, Valley Cranfill, Del Rio; Music Memory, Elizabeth ized inter-school competitions will returns are not worth the struggle. recorded), and not in the failing re­ Declamation, James Finley, Leesburg; Ex­ Springs; Arithmetic, Arch Gainer, Pontotoc Harrell, Comstock; Girls' Athletims, Ida Eastland, presented statistics on page lead to grave evils or that they will We sometimes wonder if we have corded grade. temporaneous Speech, Hallie Reeves, Pitts­ Three-R, Margaret Bales, Bluffton. Louise Stewart, Del Rio; One-Act Play, Mary 1 under the following caption: burg ; Spelling, B. G. Bird, Leesburg; Ready Lynn County Bowles, Langtry; Choral Singing, Miss Day embarrass the school's educational been wrong in arguing that it is pos­ 4. Pupils who are participating in Writers, Mrs. M. F. Flemming, Pittsburg Director General, W. G. Barrett, Tahoka Alva Godwin, Juno; Picture Memory, Ed- "Thirty Per Cent of Players, District Athletics, Austin Burns, Pittsburg; Music Debate, S. G. Anthony, Tahoka; Declamation wina Sandel, Pumpville; Three-R, Nancy program. No teacher will feel the sible to make high-school football Interscholastic League work will not Memory, Connie Mae Wrisht, Newsome E. E. Gilbreath, O'Donnell; Extemporaneous Belle Lattimore, Pandale; Arithmetic, J. T No. 2, Now in Fifth, Sixth and pressure to stultify her conscience serve the best interests of the school be granted a special privilege, nor Arithmetic, Herbert Smith, Pine. Speech, W. N. Lewis, Meadow ; Spelling, L. B. Chadwick, Del Rio. Seventh Year." This was the begin­ Cass County Waldrep, Tahoka; Ready Writers, J. B. Bolin Victoria County and give a pass to John or Bill so under the tremendous stimulus of a will individual pupils, whose parents Director General, M. Steger, Queen City Tahoka; Athletics, F. C. Thorpe, Tahoka Director General, R. C. Pickett, Nursery ning of the agitation for the 8-semes­ that he may play in a game that does State championship. For years we have made special request that their Debate, Merle Taylor, Atlanta; Extempora­ Music Memory, Mrs. J. K. Applewhite, Ta­ Debate, Eva Pearl Gregory, Bloomington; Dec ter rule to cure the ailment of over­ neous Speech, E. Irby, Atlanta; Ready hoka ; Picture Memory, Louise Hancock lamation, Mrs. L. L. Nicholson, Placedo not lead to a championship. When have defended the plan on the grounds children be granted special oppor­ Writers, Harriette McClung, Atlanta; Ath­ Tahoka; One-Act Play, Iris Lamb, Tahoka. Extemporaneous Speech, Wm. K. Davies age pupils in football, which has letics, C. C. Alexander, Atlanta; Music Mem­ Matagorda County Victoria; Spelling, Geo. A. Musselman, Sa the championship drive begins under that eligibility rules may be adopted tunity to bring up work, be given ory, Sue Powell, Queen City; Story-Telling Director General, T. E. Laughlin, Gulf; De­ lem; Ready Writers, Mrs. J. B. Pickett failed to prove effective. And in the organized and stimulated competition to correct evils as they appear and special opportunity to bring up work. Dora Hobbs, Kildare; Choral Singing, Ear bate, R. E. Black, Blessing: Declamation Placedo; Athletics, Calvin Magness, Inez following issue, E. C. Deering, of Blankenship, Bivens. J. H. Cherry, Collegeport; Extemporaneous Music Memory, Mrs. Freddie Icke, Victoria the pressure to violate sound educa­ that the championship furnishes the 5. All pupils of the school will be Speech, R. G. Bryant, Pledger; Spelling Picture Memory, Frances Tully, Nursery Marshall, declares the result of a Castro County Choral Singing, Ruth McCurry, Victoria Director General, H. P. demons, Dimmitt D. W. Hicks, Midfield; Ready Writers, J. H tional policies inside the school in­ instrument by which the rules are given equal opportunity to raise any Lovelady, Blessing; Athletics, R. H. Stevens Story-Telling, Lena Lois Griffith, Inez study showing "Fifty-eight Players Debate, Miss B. Howell, Hart; Declamation, Three-R, G. E. Key, Inez. creases and it is at this point that enforced. When we see in some quar­ failing grade under equal conditions Louise McClure, Hereford; Extemporaneous Gulf; Music Memory, H. H. Moore, Bay City in District No. 6 in High School Over Speech, Miss B. Howell, Hart; Spelling, Co- Rural Schools, T. P. Hale, Bay City; Arith. Waller County schools must submit to eligibility rules ters the fierce fight that is being made said conditions to be determined by rina Hyatt, Hereford; Ready Writers, Sister metic, R. A. Elliott, Wadsworth; Chora: Director General, Frank E. White, Waller Four Years." of the strictest kind not only that the against the 18-year age rule we are the individual teacher. M. Germane, Nazareth; Athletics, George Singing, Lucille Frazier, Bay City; One-Aci Debate, L. S. Thomas, Pattison; Declama "The Two Camps" Graham, Mujeshoe; Music Memory, Mrs. F Play, Howard Townsend, Gulf; Picture Mem- tion, Mrs. Bonlyn Shelton, Pattison; Extern educational program may be served forced to the conclusion that the con­ 6. Pupils once declared ineligible Gallman, Dimmitt; Arithmetic, Clarence ory, Mrs. Harold Lloyd, Collegeport; Rura poraneous Speech, Mrs. S. K. McKnight In the March, 1929, issue appears Howell, Dimmitt; Picture Memory, Helen Athletics, F. J. Balusek, Cedar Lane; Rhythm Hempstead; Spelling, Gladys Lay, Waller and the most deserving pupils re­ test should be abandoned if it cannol for participation in Interscholastic Estes, Dimmitt. Band, Mildred Holander, Markham; Story. Ready Writers, Mrs. J. C. Pate, Hempstead a large heading on the front page, warded, but that the whole structure be preserved for normal League contests by the office shal Coleman County Telling, Mrs. Eleanor Lauderbach, Palacios. Athletics, E. A. Jones, Waller; Music Mem running as follows: high-schoo! Mills County ory, Mary Elizabeth Urban, Hempstead; Pic Contrary Pur­ Director General, J. C. Scarborough, Sant: ture Memory, Mrs. Laura Shean, Hempstead of inter-school competitions may be boys. remain ineligible until the teacher in Anna; Debate, Mr. Wallace (initials not Director General, A. H. Smith, Goldthwaite pose in School Sport High Schools Debate, Tolbert Patterson, Mullin; Declama­ Arithmetic, Mrs. Minnie Baines, Brookshire saved from the inevitable wreck not Undoubtedly progress has been whose subject or subjects the pupi' given), Coleman; Declamation, Glynn Story-Telling, Jewel Batson, Waller. Pulled and Hauled Between Two Op­ Mitchell, Talpa; Extemporaneous Speech, W tion, Lois Blackwell, Goldthwaite; Extempo far away if present-day tendencies made. On the whole conditions are has failed has notified the office thai R. Chambers, Burkett; Spelling, Grace Wyatt raneous Speech, T. P. Clem, Star: Spelling Washington County posing Camps." This article is a Novice; Ready Writers, J. T. Runkle, Cole- Oleta Fisher, Mullin; Ready Writers, Horacf Director General, E. C. Kleinknecht, Rout are not checked. better than they were twenty years the current work of the pupil is suf­ man; Athletics, Milton Pool, Coleman ; Music Cook, Goldthwaite; Athletics, S. E. Cloninger 5, Brenham ; Debate, Fred Borgstedtte, Rout letter from the editor of the LEAGUER The championship is an effective ago(> ficiently high so that when it is aver­ Memory, Mrs. O. C. Cook, Fisk; Arithmetic Goldthwaite; Music Memory, Nita Swindle 2. Brenham; Declamation, Sadie Schomburg to a newspaper man who inquired but is this reason to stop the E. L. Allison, Rockwood ; Rural Schools, Mrs Priddy ; Picture Memory, Grace Patterson Brenham; Extemporaneous Speech, Isabe device which may be used in stimu­ movement toward greater use of aged with the recorded failing grade Lynn R. Brown, Santa Anna; Picture Mem Star; Choral Singing, Mrs. Doris Carothers Becker, Brenham; Spelling, Mrs. Inez Me what all this row about the age-limit ory, Mrs. J. F. Turner, Santa Anna; Chora Goldthwaite; Story-Telling, Fannie Luckie Cauley, Brenham; Ready Writers, Fannie Ma lating interest and participation in inter-school contests in emphasizing the present standing of the pupil is Singing, Edith Toombes, Valera; Girls' Ath Goldthwaite; One-Act Play, Mrs. Mary Big- Stone, Brenham; Athletics, Ernest Rogers meant. letics. Marguerite St. Clair, Santa Anna. ham, Goldthwaite; Wild Flower, Gertrude Fry Brenham; Music Memory, A. J. Giese, Rout* literary and athletic activities. It is and keeping preeminent the chied passing since the beginning of the Goldthwaite. 3. Brenham ; Wild Flower, Lucille Lehrmann "One cannot understand the pres­ Deaf Smith County Route 1, Brenham; Choral Singing, Dorothy powerful; it is full of dynamite and, purpose for which the school is or­ semester or term. Cameron Herald Director General, F. W. Dodson, Hereford Montague County ent athletic problem in high schools," Director General, W. J. Stone, Nocona; De Styles, Burton; Story-Telling, Mrs. O. M like dynamite, it may be a blessing ganized? Let's stop rewarding the Debate, Ralph Arceneaux, Hereford; Decla Brown, Chapel Hill; One-Act Play, Mis says the editor of the LEAGUER, "un­ mation, Mary Chambers, Dawn; Extempora bate, G. F. Fletcher, Stoneburg; Declamation C. C. Redman, Saint Jo; Extemporaneous Marion Smith, Brenham; Picture Memory or a curse depending upon how skill­ over-age boy for dropping out of neous Speech, E. W. Harris, Adrian; Spell Lydia Dannheim, Brenham. less he clearly sees two opposing ing, Tandy Legg, Dawn ; Ready Writers, Ruth Speech, E. W. McPherson, Nocona; Spelling fully and wisely it is used. There is school or wasting his time (and the SPANISH CONTEST Wolfe, Hereford; Athletics, Gilford Miller M. S. Traughber, Montague; Ready Writers Young County camps: so much dynamite in high-school foot­ taxpayer's money) and begin reward­ Friona; Music Memory, Ruby Thompson Mrs. Nettie Chambers, Sunset; Athletics, Dan Director General, Stanley H. Peary, Gra­ "Camp No. 1. Those who want to (Continued from Page Hereford; Picture Memory, Thelma Cope L. Martin, Bowie; Picture Memory, Mrs. P ham ; Debate, C. B. Tate, Eliasville; Decla ball, and in other contests in direct ing and honoring the pupil whose 1) Hereford; Arithmetic, Lucille Hughes, Here W. Patterson, Route 1, Bellevue. mation, Maude Duncan, Graham; Extempo use athletics as a school activity for ford; Choral Singing, Mrs. James Bragg Montgomery County raneous Speech, Edrye Raines, OIney; Spell proportion to their possibilities for work and progress stamps him as one Friona; Story-Telling, Emily Minter, Hereford Director General, M. H. Mimms, Conroe ing, Mrs. Bernie Teague, Olney; Reads the education and development of commercial exploitation, that it should qualified from every standpoint to 6. Not more than three students Denton County Debate, Tom R. Ellisor, Magnolia;, Declama Writers, A. M. Whitis, Newcastle; Athletics bona fide high-school students. tion, H. C. Smith, Montgomery; Extempora Floyd Deacon, Graham ; Music Memory, Arti shall represent a high school in any Director General, A. O. Calhoun, High Sims, Jean; Picture Memory, Mrs, Eula E be kept under the closest scrutiny at represent the whole school. School, Denton; Debate, Floyd Daugherty neous Speech, Albert Bailee, Splendora "Camp No. 2. Those who are in­ event. Spelling, Mrs. Caroline Clark, Porters; Ready Swaim, Loving; Rural Athletics, Fritz Hill all times, and, as danger signals ap­ Denton; Declamation, C. L. Langston, Krum Olney. terested in athletics as a spectacle, 7. Winners shall be selected as in­ Extemporaneous Speech, H. R. Pemberton Writers, Mrs. Rock Rabon, Montgomery; Ath pear, they should be heeded and cor­ dividuals and not as teams. Justin ; Spelling, Mrs. Winnie Minick, Sanger letics, Joe Lagow, Conroe; Music Memory as a thrill-giver, as a town-booster, rective masures taken. Examination on Fundamentals Ready Writers, Mrs. Mary H. Martin, Denton Carl Fisher, Conroe; Arithmetic, Mrs. I. J Athletics, W. A. Cooper, Denton; Music Mem Roark, Willis; Choral Singing, Carl Fisher RE-CLASSIFIED as a money-making device, as a RULES TO GOVERN 1. This event shall consist of a ory, Mona Morgan, Hebron. Conroe; Picture Memory, Henrietta Russell builder of community prestige. "Discrimination" Theory new type Willis; Story-Telling, Mrs. Mattie Sneed examination on the funda­ El Paso County Montgomery. No one can truthfully say that the mentals. Director General, J. M. Hanks, Ysleta; De­ (Continued from Page 1) "Take the attitude of Camp No. 1 bate, T. M. Risinger, Fabens; Declamation Newton County 8-semester rule is a failure, however, CHANGING GRADES 2. This event shall be open to Director General, H. S. Brannan, Burke- on the age-rule, for instance. It C. E. Whitehead, Tornillo; Extemporaneous to fit the State's classifications of Groups I and II. ville; Debate, L. T. Allbritten, Deweyville it has not been entirely successful in Speech, F. W. Cooper, Ysleta; Spellingj Sybi schools. seems that the average age of the Declamation Bowie, Ysleta; Ready Writers, H. L. Wal Declamation, Mrs. V. B. Watson, Newton high-school graduate is now some­ reaching and eliminating the over-age Cameron Superintendent Does 1. Separate declamation contests drum, Clint; Athletics, T. A. Pollan, Ysleta Extemporaneous Speech, E. J. Mikulik, Dewey In Bowie County there are threi Music Memory, Katherine Brooks, Ysleta ville; Spelling, E. G. Gillespie, Bleakwood what under 17, hence Camp No. 1 boy and in protecting the normal Not Like Scratched-Up shall be held for Groups I and II. Picture Memory, Mrs. B. P. Hickerson, Clint Ready Writers, Mrs. Johnie McGee, Dewey­ class "A" schools, and four class "B' Rural Schools, H. C. Hinton, El Paso; Arith ville; Athletics, W. B. Miller, .Burkeville; Pic­ believes in lowering the age-limit for high-school boy. After all, there is 2. Contestants in the declamation ture Memory, Miss Bures Adams, Newton schools that teach four high-schoo Grade-Sheets contests shall be judged on metic, F. C. Martin, Ysleta; Choral Singing participation. But only one way in which this may be pronuncia­ Mynette Wadsworth, Fabens; Story-Telling Choral Singing, Kathleen McCreight, Newton grades, but there are ten class "B when this is done tion, intonation, and interpretation oi Opal Carruth, Ysleta; One-Act Play, Mrs One-Act Play, Frances Petty, Bleakwood and the sport is made available for done and that is by the adoption of H. L. Waldrum, Ysleta; Typing, Mary Cor Secretary, Paralee Patterson, Burkeville. schools that teach only two high the selection given. a larger number of bona fide high- an age limit corresponding with the "O ULES governing the manner 3. The declamation for Group I for neilson, Tornillo. Panola County school grades. Classifications in thi Galveston County Director General, Jim F. Keeling, Long, school boys, the importance of the scholastic age. This is exactly what * in which all pupils of the the year 1934-35 shall consist of any Director General, E. M. Belcher, Dickinson branch; Debate, Andrew Woods, Beckville paragraph has reference to Inter Declamation, Charlyce Knight, Carthage; Ex sport as a spectacle is lessened, for was done at the annual meeting last one of four selections from Dor Debate, Riley Le Fever, Lamarque; Declama scholastic League classification am Cameron schools may make up Quixote. tion, Mrs. L. L. Porter, High Island; Ex- temporaneous Speech, Elbert Essery, Long, younger boys simply cannot play May and by the State Executive Com­ temporaneous Speech, C. A. Davis, Alta Loma branch; Spelling, Rubye Barber, Beckville not to State classification. as failing grades, a copy of which 4. The declamation for Group T. Spelling, Mrs. L. D. Rice, Kemah; Read Ready Writers, Faye Anderson, Carthage good a game as the older ones. Hence, mittee the week following. If you say shall consist of a Spanish poem of Writers, J. E. Parish, Dickinson; Athletics Athletics, E. B. Morrison, Carthage; Music No Awards Won a rule should not discriminate against is given below, were handed to Bill Holleman, League City; Music Memory Memory, May Campbell, Gary; Picture Mem we find opposition in Camp No. 2 three to five minutes in length. The Gertrude Roberts, Hitchcock. ory, Mrs. W. T. Bridges, Gary. I find that the ten nine-grade the pupil contestant may select any poem oJ where the main thing is the game. over the scholastic age, you the teachers of the schools dur­ Gregg County Reagan County schools have not secured any awards say that it should discriminate in his standard quality he desires. Director General, E. R. Sharpe, Junior High Director General, Edward M. Potter, Big Better game, larger crowds; larger ing the past week by E. A. Per- School, Longview; Debate, C. A. Thomas that is to sas, a fair portion of them favor in contests in which age gives Composition Lake; Debate, George Blitch, Big Lake; Dec­ crowds, more money, more publicity," rin, Superintendent. 1. This event is open only to mem­ Junior High School, Longview; Declamation lamation, E. W. LeFevre, Texbn; Extempo­ but the records show that the four an advantage. On the other hand, you Elizabeth Benson, Gladewater; Extemporane­ raneous Speech, Hattie Lucille Paxton, Big etc. . . . The Interscholastic League rules bers of Group I. ous Speech, W. M. Devereax, Kilgore; Spell Lake; Spelling, Zona Johnson, Big Lake eleven-grade schools, have taken thi say it should discriminate against the 2. The composition shall be of about ing, Avery R. Downing, Route 4, Longview Ready Writers, Mrs. Blossom Graves, Best The March, 1929, issue contains, provide that in order for a pupil to Ready Writers, W. C. Mathis, Route 4, Long, Athletics, James Harold Nail, Big Lake meets very easily. normal pupil of scholastic age. 150 words. view; Athletics, C. N. Jarrell, Gladewater. Music Memory, Mary Graver, Big Lake; Pic­ on page 2, an editorial urging rea­ be eligible to compete in an Inter- 3. The composition shall be written Music Memory, Janice Key, Route 1, Glade­ ture Memory, Helen Chapman, Texon ; One- I believe that the Inter scholastic; This brings us to an argument sons why the age-limit should be re­ scholastic League event he must be about a picture to be shown to the water ; Picture Memory, Verna Smith, Route Act _ Play, Lela Hazel Boyd, Big Lake; Story- have a place in the school system of duced to 18 years. against the new age rule which has contestants after they have as­ 2, Longview; Arithmetic, J. K. Reynolds Telling, Mrs. F. F. Tannery, Big Lake; A] passing in three and one-half* sub- Route 1. Kilgore; Choral Singing, Leonan metic, Mr. Hubbard (initials not given) Texas, but I believe it should be ad Henderson's Study come into the office recently from two sembled. Fulkerson, Senior High School, Longview Best. *Better, three half unit credit courses. 4. The composition shall be judgec One-Act Play, Lucile Nix, Gladewater; Story- Real County justed to fit the classifications of th< The issue of April, 1934, page 4, or three sources. It is said: "A boy EDITOR. Telling, Mrs. J. C. Key, Kilgore; Typing on correctness, use of idiomatic Span­ Ralph Wheeler, Kilgore. Director General, Z. B. Gray, Leakey; De­ State. contains an article by Roy B. Hen­ has as much right to take football jects in the high school, and three- bate, Mildred Cooper, Leakey; Declamation ish, sentence structure, and unity. Hall County B. J. Stewart, Camp Wood; Extemporaneous I write you with the interest of thi derson giving results of a study of as he has to take English, history or fourths of his work in the grammar Spelling Director General, J. T. Duncan, Estelline. Debate, Carroll Smyers, Memphis; Declama­ Speech, Terry Hill, Camp Wood; Spelling. school children of Texas overage age of boys on the football any other subject." The gentlemen grades from the beginning of the 1. This event is open only to mem­ Mrs. Bryson (initials not given), Vance at heart, am tion, T. V. Phillips, Lakeview; Extempora­ Ready Writers, Georgia Gildart, Camp Wood not with a chip on the shoulder chal squads of about fifty selected schools, are right as far as they go but they semester or term to seven days prior bers of Group II. neous Speech, Hettie Lou Bagley, Lakeview Athletics, Homer Sansom, Rio Frio; Music 2. Fifty commonly misspelled words Spelling, Mrs. Clarence Morris, Plaska; Ready Memory, lenging someone to knock it off. May showing that they grade down from don't go far enough. No one can to the contest. Writers, Gladys Van Horn, Turkey; Athletics Loraine Tidwell, Leakey; Chora" shall be dictated to contestants. L. B. Peniek, Estelline; Music Memory, Mrs Singing, Anna Lee Wentworth, Rio Frio I suggest that you study the three an average age of 18 in one school to .object to a boy taking football as he It becomes necessary for the super­ Points on Which Grammar Examina­ Henry Foster, Plaska; One-Act Play, Mrs, Picture Memory, Mattie McNeil, Rio Frio Arithmetic, W. B. Sansom, Leakey; One-Act classifications above, and make a new 16.73 in another school, and suggest­ takes English, history or any other intendent to determine a policy gov­ tion Shall Be Based Carl Perriman, Memphis; Choral Singing Play, Novie Chant, Camp Wood ; Story-Telling Maidee Thompson, Memphis; Rhythm Band Mrs. Llewellyn classification of the Interscholasti ing a downward revision of the age- subject. If football is as valuable as erning the administration of this 1. Division into syllables and syl­ Alice Baker, Memphis ; Picture Memory, Mrs. Gildart, Camp Wood; Rura labication. Alvis Yarbrough, Parnell; Arithmetic, C. A, Schools, A. G. Wells, Leakey. limit. any .academic subject why confine its rule which shall govern the entire League, so the junior high schools 2. Verbs of all kinds. Wimberly, Newlin; Three-R, C. T. Howell. Refugio County may have a chance. So let us hear no more about the advantages to the comparatively few student body and not only those Plaska; Story-Telling, Rosalie Carter, Parnell. Director General, R. L. Moore, Refugio 3. Pronouns. Hidalgo County (Independent) Debate, Mrs. Grace Hunter, Austwell; Decla­ suddenness of the 18-year limit who make the team? No age limit agita­ pupils who participate in the Inter- 4. Adjectives. Director General, Claude Dailey, High mation, Margaret Germond, Woodsboro; Ex­ tion. Eight years is not sudden ex­ in an eligibility rule prevents a pupil scholastic activities. With this pur­ 5. Gender and number. School, Mission; Debate, Forrest Groves, temporaneous Speech, Mattie Carroll, Tivoli; Donna; Declamation, Sam Hendrix, La Joya ; Spelling, Irene Henderson, Refugio; Florence AGE RULE cept in a geological sense. from learning about football in the pose in view the following policy will 6. Simple idioms. ' Extemporaneous Speech, Catherine Links, Anderson, Woodsboro; Mary Lucy Marberry, 7. Ser and estar. Weslaco; Spelling, D. tl. Buckner, Pharr ; Tivoli; Ready Writers, Mrs. Frances Lee 8. Subjunctive. ; Ready Writers, Amy Cornish, Mercedes; Ath­ Gwin, Austwell; Athletics, A. L. Smith, (Continued from Page 1) letics, R. K. Knight, McAllen; Music Mem­ Music Memory, Mrs. Margaret Daucette, ory, William Doyle, McAllen; One-Act Play, Refugio; Art, Edith Richards, Austwell; LETTER BOX Arthur Hayes, Mission; Picture Memory, J. P. Story-Telling, Celestine Hartmann (address over an article signed by two small- DeWald, Edcouch; Story-Telling, Mrs. Mason not given) ; Arithmetic, Mrs. C. H. Thomas, (Continued from Page 1) Ramsey, Mission ; Wild Flower. Charles E. R. Bayside; Choral Singing, Miss Beamie Dortch, school superintendents. "We believe,' Discussion from the Field AWARDS SYSTEM Cameron, McAllen; Typing, Maurine Phillips, Refugio. Mercedes; Art, Lola Burran, Edinburg ; Chora] Rockwall County they say, "the 18-year age-limit would among the 254 counties of the State, Singing, Arthur Harris, Weslaco; Arithmetic, Director General, J. A. Wilkerson, Rock- help more than anything else to ad­ the counties that surpass Kaufman We invite letters of not more than two hun­ (Continued from Page 1) Elizabeth Alley, McAllen. wall ; Debate, J. E. Terry, Royse City; Decla­ dred words on any phase of Interscholastic short elementary school terms and by Hidalgo County (Rural) mation, Edna Lee Crouch, Rockwall; Extem­ just the situation," and much more County being ones in which there are League work. Letters should be signed and farm duties. In the cities, where all Director General, Thurman G. Rohr, Ed- poraneous Speech, H. L. Lacky, Chisholm; to the same effect. position of writer indicated. Editor. couch ; Declamation, Ruth Friend, Mercedes; Spelling, Mrs. Lillian Brown, Fate; Ready located large cities such as Dallas, save a few of the boys graduate be­ played or upon special recommenda­ Ready Writers, Beulah Moye, Donna; Spelling, Writers, Mrs. Ben Branch, Royse City; Ath­ "Old Boys a Nuisance" Houston and Port Worth. Wants Rural Story-Telling tion of the coach; and confirmation Esther Terveen, Mercedes; Athletics, Clyde letics, W. B. Holsonbake, Rockwall; Picture fore they are 19, the rule will make Chisum, Pharr; Choral Singing, Mrs. Vera H. Memory, Miss Nebbie Collins, Royse City; February (1928) issue published, As teacher of a member school of relatively little difference. It will of superintendent and principal. Chisum, Pharr; Picture Memory, Mrs. J. C. Secretary, Mrs. Ada Lou Adams, Rockwall. on page one, an article by Principal meau. Edcnuch: Arithmetic, Modene Vit- Principal M. C. Stewart, of Bullard the Interscholastic League, I am writ­ make a difference here in Wichita (c) Baseball. Participation in tet:oe, La Villa; Three-R, Mrs. Jesse Smith, Rusk County: Corrections A. C. Schmidt, Big Hill School, Route ing to suggest that in the story-telling three-fourths of the winnings of all M arcedes; Story-Telling, Mrs. Lucille Gib- R. C. Lee of Henderson elected to fill posi­ School, is formulating plans for a Falls. We are informed that several bon Elsa; Art, Louise Kelly, Mercedes. tion of Director General, in place of L. H. 1, Thornton, under the following event there be two divisions made: games played or upon special recom­ Buckner, resigned. E. W. Adams, Henderson, live Latin-American Interscholastic of this year's team will still be in HillJTllll Countyv^vjuii fcjr elected Director of Athletics in place of O. E. heading: "Old Boys Held in School the rural and ward schools. At pres­ school next session, but will be in­ mendation of the coach and confirma­ Director Gen eral, I,. W. Hartsfield, Hills­ Locke of Laneville, resigned. Chester Beard by Athletics a Nuisance." "If the 18- League in Nueces County this year. boro; Debate, Clara Smith, Hillsboro; Decla­ of Overton, Director of One-Act Play. ent the rural children have to com­ eligible under the 18-year rule. tion of the superintendent and prin­ mation, T. B. Blackwell, Whitney; Extem­ year age-limit were now in effect," In his capacity as Director-General of pete with the city poraneous Speech. Bessie Hnbby, Itasca; San Saba County the Latin-American League, he plans children, and are The rule would work a hardship on cipal. Spelling, Grace Barton, Hillsboro; Ready Director General, E. I. Bacon, San Saba; says Principal Schmidt, "I have three at a disadvantage. I have heard (d) Track. Placing in district Writers, Alma Barton, Malone; Athletics, Debate, Anita Verser, San Saba; Declama­ an expanded program for the young many schools. In the long run, how­ J. R. Naylor, Itasca; Music Memory, Kath­ tion, Mrs. E. A. Kuykendall, Cherokee; Spell­ boys in this school term that would many rural teachers complain, and meet or upon special recommenda­ erine Pitts, Hubbard; Tennis, A. E. Kidd, ing, Ethel Roberts, Bend; Ready Writers, be out of the way and thus give some organization. ever, high-school Alma Parks, Locker; Athletics, H. L. Ram- hesitate to enter children from their football will be bet­ tion of the coach and confirmation of Hillsboro; Choral Singing. Frances Parr, ter off for its Hillsboro; Story-Tel ling, Mrs. Ben Cook, sour, Richland Springs; Music Memory, of the younger boys a chance. These schools because of the uneven com­ adoption. The boy of the superintendent and principal. Penelope; Baseball, Frank James, Hillsboro; Lillian Wayland, San Saba; Picture Memory, Jack King, student reporter for the 15 or 16 who does not go out for the Volley Ball. W. Tl. Col«on. Malone; Arith­ Alice Martin, Richland Springs. boys should have graduated at least petition. (e) Band. Passing the band metic, James Starling, Hillsboro. Brady South Ward writes to the team under existing conditions, know­ Shelby County two or three years ago." MRS. G. C. HARRIS, course and being regularly available Houston County Director General, A. E. Day, Center; De- In the same issue, February, 1928, Brady Standard, as follows: "Last ing that he has no chance Director General, Euclid M. Smith, Crockett; aate, Claude Lancaster, Joaquin; Declamation, Principal, Lynn Grove School. to get on Debate, for band activities dating from the Mrs. C. J.N. B.Heat* Daniel.1 - Woldon Lovelady; ' ~ 4- Declamation,~ - --- Superintendent Shivers (initials not given), appeared on the front page a two- year the South Ward School won the ' Navasota, Texas, Route 1. the squad in competition with candi­ beginning of the second semester to Tenaha; Extemporaneous Speech, Reeves Ha- county championship in all the Inter­ dates who are on the threshold of ey, Shelbyville; Spelling, Mrs. Howard Bryan, column head, as follows: "Report the end of the first semester of the Tenaha; Ready Writers (not reported) ; Ath- Declares That Pupils Are Kept in scholastic League events, and we are manhood, will have a far better i jjiuaa Mulligan, Jjatexo : /\Lnieii<1s, j onn L>. etics, R. E. Malone, Center; Music Memory, The 18-Year Rule following school year or upon special Royal, Crockett; Music Memory, Mrs. Ernes- Mrs. P. L. Sandel, Center; Rural Schools, rades too Long." There follows ex- all set to try to accomplish the same chance. The new rule will make foot­ recommendation of the director and +i-ne Carperi t^r. Cro"Ue++.: Choral Singing, E. A. Bowers, Tenaha; Arithmetic, Marl thing this year. We are not going to It is not unlikely that other civic ball conform more to the real purpose Mrs. J. A. Bynum, Crockett. aldwell, Tenaha; Picture Memory, Peggy iracts from a report published by the bodies will follow the example of the confirmation of the superintendent Jasper County Byrne, Timpson ; Choral Singing, Mrs. J. B. University of Chicago as supplemen- wait until next spring to set to work of high-school athletics; a purpose Director General, R. B. McCauley, Center. Junior Chamber of Commerce and principal. Martin. Buna; De­ on these events but we are now at Ver- which, due to the commercialization bate, Elton Scott, Brookeland; Declamation, Tarrant County (Rural) ary educational Monograph No. 34, non in opposing the new rule making (f) Agriculture. Being a member Mrs. J. C. Adams, Kirbyville; Extemporane­ Director General, B. H. Watson, Route 2, November, 1927, showing upper started toward our goal." of football and the undue emphasis ous Speech, C. L. Cox, Jasper ; Spelling, Mae Surleson; Debate, J. O. Roark, Grapevine; 18 years the age limit for participa­ of the team ranking in the high ten Crazier, Kirbyville; Ready Writers, Gladys Declamation, C. A. Johnson, Route 3, Arling- grades in American schools two years on victory, has been largely forgotten. >ow, Brookeland; Athletics, M. M. Davis, on; Extemporaneous Speech, J. T. Nabors, tion in interscholastic athletics in at the State meet or an individual Kirbyville; Music Memory. Myrial Reed, Buna. Arlington; Spelling, J. L. Hill, Arlington; >ehind pupils in the same grades in "I . saw a most interesting little Texas. In many other football-minded It is going to be rather heart­ ranking in the ten high individuals Johnson County leady Writers, Mrs. John Frisselle, Benbrook ; ^uropean schools. Director General, J. J. Dyer, Burleson; De- Athletics, O. L. Kimbrough, Route 1, Azle; article in the September issue of the communities, objections will be raised breaking for coaches to see stout at the meet or upon special recom­ >ate, Etta Ewing, Rio Vista; Declamation, Husic Memory, Ann Hiett, Arlington; Pic­ National Authority Quoted iBAGUER," writes Harry Bird Kline, 6-foot lads in school and know that mendation of the agriculture teacher ?. L. Muston, Arvarado; Extemporaneous ture Memory, Lydia Norton, Route 6, Fort to the rule. Vernon is one of a large Speech, H. G. ' James. Rio Vista; Spelling, Worth. In the same issue, appears an edi­ Box 2454, Dallas, "and wish you number of communities whose high they are ineligible. But if the rule and confirmation of the superintend- Vlyers Campbell, Venus; Ready Writers, Taylor County torial on page 2 headed, "Shall We ivould send me a copy." Tempie Blackwell. 1011 Main St., Cleburae; Director General, Wendel> Foreman, Route school patronage is drawn partly from improves the tone of football as much nt and principal. Athletics, B. J. Jackson, Route 3, Cleburne; i, Abilene; Debate, Velma McColIum, Route Reduce the Age-Limit?" It quotes (EDITOR'S NOTE. Mr. Kline should as it is expected to, that will be worth (g) The major letter of attain­ ', Abilene; Declamation, Albert Bond, Brad- rural districts. Students from these haw ; Extemporaneous Speech, Mrs. Lucy ;he January issue of the High School name the article so that the bouquet districts are often older than their a few such heart-breaks. Wichita ment shall be awarded to participants laynes, Merkel; Spelling, Mrs. J. A. Bristow, Quarterly, whose editor, Dr. Joseph S. ranvew; Chora ngng, . . aey, Route 2, Abilene; Ready Writers, Ruby Pow­ may be passed, on to the author. Classmates, having been retarded by Falls Times. in tennis, debate, typewriting, decla­ Liberty Chapel School; Arithmetic, Anna ers, Tuscola; Athletics, Ted Edwards, Qvalo;: Stewart, of the University of Georgia, That's all the pay he gets.)