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VOL. XXIV AUSTIN, TEXAS, MARCH, 1941 No. 7 Club Keeps Citizenship Abilene Boy Ranks EXTEMP TOPICS LETTER League Chorus Forms Part of PUPIL DIRECTOR Ideals before Students High in Journalism 'AGE-RULE NEEDS (VOX and Quail School Music Program 'T-'HERE follows a list of all sub- PERSONAL JL jects suggested for study in RULE NOT GOOD (Miss Jerry Jackson) SOME DOCTORING1 ITEMS preparing for the Extemp Speak CITIZENSHIP Club ing contests. Topics under these held every Friday at will constitute the specific titles Choral Sponsor Wants This the English class period. The Writer Suggests Basis be Sports Day District found at the drawing just before Rule Changed Before Next Shifted from Scholastic the contests: entire class is required to be Planned for the Valley Season if Possible to Calendar Year The United States Census, 1940. a member of the club. There French governmental difficulties are no dues, but donations are pEARL BROOKS, girls and problems. (Vichy govern (By Mrs. Haile Daniel, Highland made when necessary. The (By Supt. J. G. Barry, Hondo) physical education direc ment.) School, Roscoe) purpose of the club is to instill HOUGH the following age- tor in the Mercedes school Nazi-Fascist-Jap treaty. AS DIRECTOR of choral in students fundamentals of semester regulation has system, writes that she is Professional baseball, 1940 sea ^^ singing in Nolan county, son. good citizenship. probably been submitted to planning the organization of Intercollegiate football, 1940 sea I would like to express my The club officers are: president, you for consideration, I would a Girls Sports Day District in son. hearty approval in agreeing secretary, and five chairmen head like to offer it as a partial ing the following committees: the Rio Grande Valley. She Mexican election. with Miss Annie Bess Cham solution to the difficulties we says: Defense and rearmament situa bers and Mrs. Temple Nash, Safety First, Good Manners, Char tion in the United States. acter Study, Thrift, and Hospital. have had in our football dis "Preparations are now being in their LEAGUER articles re N OUTSTANDING music program is carried on through- The Anglo-American naval base- 5 Best Citizens trict 37A. made to conduct a Sports Day pro garding the director for ele out the Quail Consolidated Schools.* The above group destroyer deal. As secretary of our district com gram one Saturday in April. I At each meeting five best citizens The war in Africa. mentary choruses. mittee for several years, I have feel that the Valley is a very good of choral singers have won the Collingsworth County League are elected by the class for each Conscription of wealth and men For several years I have been a found that most of the mistakes place for a sports day because of Choral Contest for the past two years. Members of the week. A large chart that has all Joy Riddle in the U.S. judge in many of these contests made in figuring and recording the proximity of the towns, and chorus have also won the music memory contest for the past the students' names on it, is used The San Francisco and New and had no group of my own to R. G. W. HAGGARD, Faculty ages on the eligibility blanks have also maybe it will break down for the purpose of designating by two years. York Fairs. participate. This year I have a M Advisor of the Abilene High come because the ages have to be some of the strong competition be red thumb tacks, stars, etc. how Other music organizations in the school are the Rhythm Japanese agression in the Far chorus of my own and must con many times that person has done Battery, has this to say of Joy figured on a scholastic basis, i.e., tween towns. Riddle, winner of second place Band, Melody Band, Cow Girls' Chorus, Glee Club, and East. fess I feel entirely bewildered when enough to become a good citizen. in as of Sept. 1. If we could adopt the Reporting Event of the State "As for the sports-day district, A Cappella Choir. Music in the Quail School is under the The presidential campaign. I think of having them sing under Each child belongs to some com a rule whereby ages would be Meet Journalism contest of 1939: at some scheduled time during our The Balkan situation. a pupil director, although the chil mittee. Reports, good or bad, are figured as of Jan. 1, it would al direction of Mrs. Carl Chaudoin and Mrs. B. F. Hooker. "Joy, age 17, is the son of Mr. sports day we will have a meeting Pan-American relations. dren have learned the songs en made at each meeting. Three un most eliminate the errors in our and Mrs. Wayne Riddle, 1717 of the Directors of Girls' Physical *Letter-Kead of the Quail school contains the following legend: "Largest Consolidated Aerial warfare in Europe. thusiastically. Expressing the favorable reports made on one per district, except, of course, whatever School in Texas." Cedar Street, Abilene, Texas. He Education to evaluate our program The Petain-Laval government in mood of the song is one of our son during a meeting makes that falsifications might come up. An was graduated from Abilene High and discuss a sports-day district France. great problems in this type of person a non-voting member until eighteen-year age limit based on School and is now a sophomore er conference." The election of 1940. singing. Too many groups are he or she has done some act of Jan. 1, would also be a compromise in The University of Texas. His Submarines and sea warfare. allowed to sing totally without in good citizenship. between those who favor an eight Sponsor Advises Student Austin address is 2405^ Nueces Labor organization .difficulties. terpreting the song. A child di A special program is planned een-year age limit and those who Street. Council Proceed Slowly Anti-American activities and rector cannot succeed here! and given each week by one of the favor nineteen. EDUCATORS WILL sabotage in U.S. It is my hope that the rules committees named. Specific proj "Joy was editor-in-chief of the Errors Frequent The work of the 77th Congress. will be changed before next year. 1938-39 Battery, which was ad appealed to as such better than ects are planned at the beginning It may seem ridiculous, but Suggests Few Projects, of each year. These projects may judged the "Best high-school bi many, many ages are recorded they can through an uninterested weekly newspaper in the State" in DISCUSS DEFENSE but Enough to Keep home room group. include any type of civic work such wrong on eligibility blanks because TIMELY ADVICE as beautifying or making ground the Texas High School Press Asso those who record them do not figure Active Because our council is rather ciation contests last year. young we have undertaken few N THE VIRGINIA ratifying COOKING CLUB IS improvements. This club gives the the scholastic ages correctly. In 2nd Annual Adult Education "In addition to editing the Bat projects of a moral or disciplinary Convention of 1788, John Mar students ground work for parlia our district, it probably averages I tery, Joy was a member of the Conference Meets in (By Ruth Cunningham) nature. At present our members shall, in the course of a speech, mentary procedures that high- better than one to the school. We Abilene Chapter of the National Austin Mar. 27-29 HE PLAINVIEW High are wearing special arm bands and said: FINANCIAL HELP school students so often feel inade probably are no exception. If ages quately prepared. It develops Honor Society, the Student Asso were figured as of Jan. 1, the Con School Student Council are attempting by example and "Look at history, look at the ciation House of Representatives, school spirit to help solve the traf great volumes of human nature. poise, iniative, and dependability. stitution and Rules book each year, SECOND annual was organized last year after Sales Profit Used for Making The children have a real chance the Hi-Y Club and was president and the INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUER Southwest Regional Con fic problem in the halls. In the They will tell you that a defense of the local chapter of Quill and a general demand had been future, as we grow older and more less country cannot be secure. The Needed Improvements for working together. could publish in headlines that ference on Adult Education made by the student body for Scroll." students born in or prior to the experienced, we hope to be able to nature of men forbids us to con in School Emphasizes Citizenship meeting in Austin March some form of self-govern handle larger disciplinary prob clude that we are in no danger of It is for these reasons that I year such-and-such are ineligible 27-29 will devote itself to de ment. With much thought lems, not of individual misdemean war. The passions of men stimu think this club is important for it for further participation. For Fabens Winner Now instance, in September past it could fense problems. A program and effort on the part of the ors but of school-wide faults. late them to avail themselves of (By Mrs. Nexa B. Woodfin*) constantly, in work and in play, Financing brings before the students the need In Northwestern have been announced that students with the defense theme has pupils a constitution the weakness of others. The pow '-THE COOKING club re- was Our student council has-no com ers of Europe "are jealous of us* of good citizenship principles.