t Stmi-Wttkty Campus JoJinxL "Texas* Outstanding Semi-Weekly College Newspaper' L.XXI SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY, DALLAS, TEXAS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1936 NO. REPRESENTATIVE MUSTANGS CHOSEN Introducing the Representative Mustangs of 1936 Surprise Vote Held At Chapel tess of "Man With Hoe' Surprising the student body with a pop ballot the student reator to Be Free to council of S. M. U. threw a "coup d'etat" into campus politics Students in chapel Thursday morning with a Representative Mustang election. Five boys and five girls were chosen in, the school E SET FOR MARCH 6 wide vote, on the suggested basis of all-around ability and participation in S. M. U. activities. The boys elected were to Be Presented by S. M. Harry Shuford, Robert Wilson, John Sprague, Bob Naylor, . Committee on Public - +and Charles Max Cole; the girls Lectures 4b • • A were Ruby Elliott, Mary Boron, Ruth Peavy, Lillian Cullum, and jrin Markham, poet and lec- Betty Bailey. , will speak Friday, March 6, Script-Score Shuford led the boys with 489 p. m. in McFarlin, Dr. J. 0. votes. Following were Naylor with •f announced yesterday. Mr. 302, Wilson with 385, Sprague with ham is coming under the aus- Ticket Sales 221, and Cole with 154. Boren led of the S. M. U. committee on the girls with a vote of 277. Pol- c lectures. The lecture is free lowing were Elliott with 262, Peavy 1 students. Boom Upward with 235, Bailey with 195, and Cul­ «-as horn in Oregon City, Early Receipts Indicate lum with 158. 1S">:S. He began his career in "Present Company" Will Doubt and indecision marked the ornia after first working at Play to Packed House council's approach to this year's intr, blacksmithing, and herd- Representative election, due large­ rattle and sheep. He received FIRST TEN ROWS TAKEN ly to unfortunate circumstances education from the San Jose which completely upset last year's nal school and two western Reserved Seats to Go on Sale vote and evoked wide criticism on Monday Morning in the heads of the student govern­ l£9f>, he was principal and McFarlin ment. This year's surprise ballot, rintendent of schools in Cali- however, was carried over with ia. From early boyhood, Mr. Early ticket sales indicate that aptitude and precision. kham wrote poems in the Cali- "Present Company Excepted," 1936 Not Queens ia papers and received rccog- men's and women's Pan-Hellenic In council meeting Wednesday show to be presented by Script and n from the best eastern maga- night it was decided that the stu­ Score, will play to packed houses dents chosen were not to servo as next Wednesday and Thursday is moH famous poem, "The nights. queens to represent the school at With a Hoe." was written in various other schools' annual cele­ ami received wide recognition, The reserved seat sale opens brations. The vote is based entirely Monday morning. Already the box C haile! as the "battle-cry of on the basis of quality, with the office is beseiged with phone calls next 1,000 years." council reserving the right to and requests for seats. The first L a series of magazine articles choose separately the girls to at­ ten rows of reserved seats will be p<i the "Hoe Man in the Mak- gone when the office opens. It is tend other schools' meets. " he covered the problem of expected that the largest audiences Harry Shuford is a senior in the i labor. The articles have been ever to attend an amateur per­ school of commerce. He was co- !i?hed in book form called the formance on the S. M. U. campus captain of the 1935 Mustangs, is ildren in Bondage." will witness the current production. president of Sigma Alpha Epailon, r. Markham is honorary presi- "Present Company Excepted" is Blue Key, and senior class, a mem­ of the Poetry society of REECE ALLEN FILES FOLK DANCE POSSIBLE a musical comedy written by John ber of Cycen Fjodr, Punjaub and erica and is a member of the Institute Puts SUIT AGAINST TRUSTEES Council Defers STUDENT RECREATION Profs Making Rosser and Herschel Baker. This Alpha Kappa Psi. erican Academy of Arts and is the third consecutive show to be Bob Wilson, Kappa Sigma, holds ters. Reece Allen, Wichita Falls, a ". And whirled into a sponsored jointly by men's and wo­ down claims to the position of all- he lecture by Edwin Markham Big Names On trustee of the Student Loan as­ Final Vote On dance"—a folk dance, to be ex­ Stage Debut men's Pan-Hellenic. Those familiar American halfback. The Thursday he the first presentation of a sociation of Texas, filed suit act. with the script promise that it will vote makes him all-Amertcan Mus­ nineiy outstanding figure in Wednesday in the Wichita Falls When the student council pre-' top all previous attempts by S. M. tang. U. students. rature since Robert Frost spoke March Slate County court to restrain Presi­ Point System sented a petition to the Board of Cheered Long John Sprague, Kappa Sigma, c several years ago. dent Selecman, Dean E. D. Jen­ Trustees at S. M. U. last month Heading the production staff is (Continued on Page 3) University To Measure Up To nings, the Rev. H. D. Knicker­ Morgan and Wheeler Elected to grant the permission to dance Brooks', Tall Tales, Ross' Charles Meeker, former student at Highest Academic Stand­ bocker, George Winfield, the Officers of Pending N.S.F.A. on the campus, the Board denied Piano Playing, McCrary's S. M. U. and now assistant man­ ards In Nation Rev. J. Sam Barcus, and J. T. Convention jurisdiction on the petition, but Singing Score ager and publicity director for the Harrell, recently elected trustees recommended that some form of Palace theater. Working with him Several members of the faculty |THE DUSTY of the Student Loan fund of Student affairs are bustling on student recreation be started on are Joe Rucker, stage technician; Having made good its boast this made their stage debut at the CORNER Southern Methodist university, the S. M. U. campus this week, as the campus. Rosser and Baker, authors; and year in the extra-curricular world, chapel services Thursday and re­ from exercising their duties of David Russell, director and assist­ S. M. U. will meet its opportunity evidenced by the full program exe­ This week a committee which ceived a smashing ovation from an CORNER office. ant producer. early next month to measure up to cuted at student council meeting was appointed to look into the audience of students who ordinarily STONES The citations accused that the standards in the academic realm as Wednesday night in Dallas hall. matter met. It was composed of look to them for words of praise— Taylor Robnison, assistant direc­ defendants are "pretending to set by outstanding universities of Topping the list was the Represen­ several faculty members and the reverse order of things made a tor and assistant producer, has de­ n>o is that SKINNY girl that act as trustees and officers of OF CALIBER the nation. When the Carnegie en­ tative Mustang election which was students. They went in to a hud­ hit! signed all scenes and cotumes for ties in the co-op with those IN- the Student Loan fund without dle over the situation. Someone "Present Company Excepted." Rob­ dowment founded an annual Insti­ considered and decided upon with Dr. Floyd H. Ross, the first on A-MURAL KINGS ... no not the authority of law." The suit suggested that the students inson is a junior majoring in dra­ tute of Public Affairs, the chal­ precision. Additional officers for the program, was introduced by COMMAS . oh! it's NITA charges no mishandling of funds journey down to the gym one matics and will succeed Meeker as lenge was offered. On March 10 William Mayne Longnecker, mas­ GUE . SQUIRT POTTER, but requests removal from office the NSFA convention were chosen. fine spring night and all get to­ production head after presentation and 11 the student body will have ter of ceremonies, as "possessing 'RSWORTHY and stansBURY of the defendants. Mortar Board point system was gether for a folk dance. of this show. an opportunity to prove that it too a chiefly amateur standing." Dr. bad enough to go out with even discussed. A number of ratifica­ Webster's definition of a folk Stage sets for "Present Compa­ is a cross-section of thinking Ross' first number was Rachman­ they didn't talk too much . tions to the student constitution dance is somewhat hazy. It has ny Excepted" will surpass all oth­ America. inoff in G minor, and as an en­ tch what you do when with them were considered. something to do with the tradi­ ers seen on the hilltop, Robinson Clark W. Evchelberger, director core he played "Crapshooters" by don't lok now TOAD STAMPS tional antics of people in South­ declared. Scenes follow a modern­ of the League of Nations associa­ James Noel was elected last Eastwood Lane. Pete Acker is THE MAN. istic motif and are done in graded tion; Dr. W. E. Dunn, assistant di­ week to head the NSFA convention ern Europe, where gypsy blood you JUGS in the barn would runs free. No definite decision "Tall tales" as interpreted by Dr. blues and tans. Sets will be the rector, Bureau of Foreign and to be held on the S. M. U. campus ve those "bull sessions" out of was reached by the committee. John Lee Brooks comprised the tallest ever used on the McFarlin Domestic Commerce, Washington; next fall.