VOL. XXII AUSTIN, TEXAS, MARCH, 1939 No. 7 SUGGESTS QUERY Ready Writet Writes Back MESQUITE WOOD President, Principals And SHOULD NOT COPY LETTER. Rural Declamation Group In To Old Home on the Range Supervisors Section TSTA BOX and FOR '39-40 DEBATE (From Levelland Hockley County IS ORNAMENTAL BORROWED PLAYS PERSONAL Finals At State Meet Of 1936 Herald) ITEMS School Shops Will Find It Heavy Penalties Possible for Director Says His Social s VIRGINIA GILLEAN, to Violation of Copy­ Science Classes Like former Levelland High Admirably Adapted I always look forward to receiv­ Socialized Medicine the past Woodcraft Work right Law ing your LEAGUER. That paper School girl but for has more extracurricular ideas in two years living at Cooper, oi (By F. L. Winship, Director fa, minute than most addresses and (By J. W. Reid, Director where it will be remembered SCHOOLS having wood- of Speech Activities) articles have in a month, and this Debate, Lubbock High School) by our readers, she won the ^ working shops should not is because they are practical and U HAVE requested District and Regional Inter­ overlook the possibilities of 'T'HIS week we received down-to-the-minute. A lot of stuff through the LEAGUER that scholastic honors in Essay mesquite wood, especially if * four letters asking for that is written reflects things we send in suggestions rela­ Writing, writes the Herald they happen to be located plays of which copies might thought and done a year or two country. ago. Harry C. McKown, author tive to the debate topic to be that she is this year entering in the mesquite be made for use in production. of many texts on extracurricular used in debate next year. I am the contests in Senior Decla­ J. Frank Dobie, writing in the We have received several such activities. one of those directors of de­ mation and Essay Writing December issue of The South­ letters. The purpose of this bate who has been too busy and that her highest ambition western Sheep and Goat article is to inform directors T MIGHT interest you to know to give it very much thought is to again be a winner. Raiser, calls attention to this and school executives about I that the no "ALL-ROUND" plan but would like to pass on one Miss Virginia reminds us that fact in one paragraph of his the matter of copying plays. proposed by Supt. B. A. Trevino suggestion. I believe some she still loves the Plains and takes excellent article, as follows: Law is Severe of Duval County was used in the a delight each week in hearing "The layman usually divides It is illegal to copy any copy­ Chambers County Interscholastic form of the socialized medi­ "from Home." We are sure that mesquites into two classes: (1) Edwin D. Martin, Principal Ham­ righted play or publication. The League Meet last year. It was cine question would be good. in her fancies she often romances trees and (2) the switch or scrub ilton Jr. High School, Houston United States laws on the subject very satisfactory, and was adopted I carried out a little experi­ of the high and wide stretches of mesquite, which does most of its HE PRINCIPALS and Super­ provide for a fine of not less than again for this year. J. Justin ment in my Social Science These boys and girls, all from rural schools, qualified for the 1936 the landscape in Hockley em­ growing underground, giving cer­ visors Section of the Texas $100 for the first offense. If it is Jenson, Mt. Belvieu, Texas. State Meet by winning in their respective counties, districts and blematic of "freedom, democracy T classes this week which tain portions of the West the rep­ State Teachers Association at its done wilfully and the copies are regions. The above picture was taken in front of one of the Uni­ and opportunity; an oasis in a proved to me that it is a ques­ utation of being "a hell of a place meeting in Dallas last Thanksgiv­ used for production, there is a versity Buildings just before they were entering the state finals. nazi, fascist and communistic tion that high-school young­ where you have to dig for wood and ing voted to have a spring meet­ penalty of one year in prison. This troubled world." No wonder she tree law and can be en­ sters enjoy discussing. climb for water." Of the ing. The meeting- has now been is a federal PRESCRIBE LIST still thinks of this as "home." We mesquites, there is one kind with forced. Most publishing companies In regular classes, according to Urges Abolition of Ail- scheduled for May 5-6, at The can assure her that her friends out yellowish wood and another of a have clipping bureaus having ac­ usual procedure, I allowed them to EXPERIMENT WITH University of Texas, during the Round Co. Championship here take a great delight in the deep reddish hue as beautiful when cess to all Texas newspapers. In OF 1-ACT PLAYS read an article on the question, State meeting of the University success that was hers, claiming her polished as the richest mahogany. addition, publishers can request and then asked for an expression Floyd W. Parsons, Calallen, Interscholastic League. The Sec­ CHANGING SEASON (By as our own. We shall look for­ This redwood mesquite is, I be­ the Drama Loan Library to give of their opinion on it. I found Texas) tion plans to participate at that Suggestions Thrown Out for ward to even greater glories this lieve, harder a.nd more brittle than the names of all borrowers and they were very eager to discuss it, time in the Third Annual Con­ Comment of Dramatics the abolition year. any other variety. I wish I knew the plays lent to them. So much and they Fort Bend County Wants to N MY opinion, ference on Extracurricular Activi­ Teachers opinion was well divided, She further says: "The subjects which variety was utilized in the for the law. of their Make Volleyball a I of points in Interscholastic ties which is also held on these agreed that, regardless on which I wrote at the District timbering of the Alamo. The wood Not only is it illegal to copy personal opinion, the arguments Winter Sport League competition is one of dates in Austin under the auspices (By F. L. Winship, Director and Regional Meets were 'Sand­ work of various old Catholic plays, but it is dishonest. Play­ balanced on both of the Interscholastic League. Speech Activities) were pretty well the biggest forward steps a storms' and 'My Own Snake Story.' churches of the Southwest and of wrights make their living from the President Martin is promoting a sides of the question. (By Frank Arnold, Director Ft. county can make in conduct­ Of course, my snake was the rat­ certain old Mexican ranches be­ sale of their writings and the roy­ W/E HAVE received and is one dis­ Bend County Athletics) luncheon for this group on May 5 As I see it there ing its meets. tler." tween Laredo and Brownsville is of alties from their plays. In soma advantage, that is, the statement at which Dr. E. K. Fretwell, of listened to a large num­ At the last meeting of the This mad scramble for points May we express the fear, Miss mesquite wood; the wood served for cases they are too high. However, of the proposition. I am at a loss Teachers College, Columbia Uni­ ber of requests for a change in county committee of our county, and the all-round championship, Virginia, that you took a psycho­ windows in the first church of if you will write the publishers now to offer any suggestion on versity will be the principal the present One-Act Play set­ Fort Bend, I was instructed to ask especially among small schools, has logical advantage of the people Castroville. The interesting head­ stating your circumstances and the that. However, I believe the speaker. President Martin is you for permission to conduct an always been the greatest drawback quarters house of the great King conditions under which the play ia up which forbids the use of proper solution of that difficulty anxious to hear from members of experiment here next year. We to league work. "Win the All- WRITER P. 2) Ranch very appropriately has fur­ to be presented, they are usually tragedies and most high, satir­ would give us a good question. (See-~READY the Section who expect to be pres­ would like to run our volleyball around Championship" has been niture made of the mesquite. It is willing to make royalty adjust­ ical, and serious comedies. You probably have other sug­ ent. elimination in December for the the battle cry of every school. a delight to record that such excel­ ments if they can. Copying plays gestions that are better, but just Because of the increasing following reasons: When points are given, the in­ lent cabinet makers as Brown's is cheating the playwright of his number of these requests, we thought I would pass this one dividual event and the participat­ Woodcraft Shop in Corpus Christi JOURNALISM CONTEST wages, and the publisher of his it is worth. I 1. The rural schools find it dif­ WANTS SHAKE-UP are proposing a change. We along for whatever ing child are too often forgotten are teaching Texans what beauti­ just fee. think this sales tax question is ficult to practice in January and Event Is to Be Included in Cass want your ideas and criticism February because the weather the number of points that that ful wood the mesquite is." Publishers Discontinue Service proving to be a good one.