CAMELS SUIT ME BETTER ALL WAYS. _NOTHING SUITS THEY TASTE SO GOOD MY'T-ZONE' _THEY SMOKE SO LIKE A CAMEL! MILO AND COOL! RODEO HOLDER OF NATIONAL INTERNATIONAL TABLE-TENNIS BRONC-RIDING STAR WOMEN'S FISHING RECORDS 10-GOAL POLO STAR STAR that's T for Taste and T for ThroatTfbrTasre... -and you'll see why! Compare Camels for rich, full flavor; for T for Throat:.. mild, cool smoking-and you'llThats y_our agree with the millions of smokers proving ground fot who say Camels suit them to a "T" ! Let your own experience tell you any cigarette,. why more people are smokingSee itCamels don'r Camels than ever before! suit yout"T-Zone' -to a"T;' According to a Nationwide survey: MORE DOCTORS SMOKE CAMELS .' THAN ANY OTHER CIGARETIE • # .... •• • ~ • When 113,597 doctors from ('Oaot to coast were asked by three # •••• • ' independent research organizat ions to name the cigarette they smoked, more doctors named Camel than any other brand I TEXAS RAN GER Then there was the little red hen who wanted her coop placed in the middle of the highway so she could lay· 'em on the line. Sufferer: "I wish I had some drops to cure this toothache." Friend: "It's all a matter of mind. Yesterday I was feeling terrible. But when I went home, my wife put her arms about me and consoled me, and in no time I was feeling great." Sufferer: "Is your wife home now." I knew a girl from Arizona, Who wore a thin kimona, She caused attraction, When she went into action, That every man wanted to owna. CBM : "Where did you get that date? Buck teeth, cross-eyed, bowlegged, bleached hair .. . CGM: "You needn't whisper ... she's deaf, too." Next to a beautiful girl, sleep is the most wonderful thing in the world. "What I can't understand," observes Salty Sam, "is how a jury composed of six young women and six young men can be locked up in a jury room for 12 hours and come out and say 'not guilty.' " "Mama, how can a young woman keep her youth?" "Don't introduce him to other girls.'' I've been married four times. Do you think I'm a loose woman? No, dearie; you're just a busy body. \ Join the ~, flt9 U !I Prof 0~ '"' GOLD RUSH ... \~' All the smart girls ore getting a "rush" of gold to the feet . . . " pick" Beverly's four-strap san­dal ... for wecir with every­thing from slacks to your sophisticated blacks! SHOE SALON STREET FLOOR Store Hours: 9:30 to b WEST SIXTH OFF CONGRESS Phone 8-b43b NEWS ITEM A Texas ftTaduate after a good many years in the business world retired with · a comfortable fortune of $60,000. He amassed this large sum through courage, enterprise, initiative, faithfulness, the careful investment of his savings, and the death of ari uncle who left him $59,999.50. "Don't you think George dresses nattily?" "Natalie who?" "So you and Fred are getting mar­ried," exclaimed a friend of the bride­to-be. "Why, I thought all along it was just a flirtation.'' "Yes," smiled t~e girl, "so did Fred.'' "Darling, I could sit here and do noth­ing but look at you forever.'' "That's what I'm beginning to think.'' She: "I nearly fainted last night when the guy I was with asked me for a kiss.'' He : "Baby, you're going to die when you hear what I have to say.'' Coed: "Where is Elsie?" Housez00ther: "I don't know; she went to the library.'' Shay, you don't open the door with that, it's a cigar butt. My gosh, I've smoked my key. Mandy : I can't come to work tomor-· row, M'am. My lil' boy is sick. M'am: Why, Mandy, I thought you said you were an old maid. Mandy: Ah is, M'am, but Ah ain't one of dem fussy kind. MARCH 1948 Butbuup MISS TEXAS SHOP • • • Here is refuge for the discriminating co-ed who dislikes trudging from one store to another, one floor to another, in search of appealing fashions "just right" for her. Here we have assembled the mainstays of y9ur wardrobe-all in one shop, all on one floor'-in Junior fashions you'll love. Visit our "Miss Texas Shop" on our Second Floor. Store Hours • 9:30 to b I WEST SIXTH OFF CONGRESS 8-b43b IS THE TIME FOR DRESSING UP! FINE DOMESTIC AND IMPORTED WOOLENS HAVE ARRIVED IN SPRING AND SUMMER WEIGHT . ... HAND-DETAILED FOR TAILORING PERFECTION. e PRICED TO FIT YOUR BUDGET. CUSTOM TAILORS LOUIS N. RO SE Phone 4945 609 Brazos • gtuu,,, BE DAMNED A SHORT STORY Mac Camaga read where a psycholo­gist said many apparent geniuses and men of extreme self-confidence were not genii:ises at all but were merely putting up a front. He and Al began work in the Bung building as office boys. Mac knew that at the end of the three years, the Bronx notary, in front of whom they had made the $10,000 bet, would see that he was more of a genius than Al was. They had stayed good friends throughout the three years since they had terminated the partnership, each claiming the other had ridden along on the "gravy train" while the other partner did all the work. They had made quite a profit from Ca­nadian furs at the time. The two of them had begun work in the Bung ·build­ing to settle the bet, seeing which could adopt himself to strange circumstances quicker. It was lunch-time and Mac took off from his job to drop into his friend's office. There Al was, seated in his outer­inner office, in full view of everyone. "Pretending to be the hardest-working man in the world," thought Mac. "For seven years tn Canada he kept up this farce, and for these past three years he's kept the same sham night and day." He walked up to Al's desk. Al saw him and said, "Sorry today, Mac. We'll try to have dinner together. ,Work's piling up on me." He had his shoulders hunched up, holding a telephone in their crooks against each of his ears. In both his hands were fountain pens and he was writing about different subjects with each hand. Over one telephone he must have been ordering tarpaulins, for he shouted, "Send me a tonnage of dun­ nage and a percentage of rentage tent­ age. .. . " Then turning his head slightly, he began quoting styles of type to a print­ ing equipment c9ncern, "Caslon, Chel­ tenham, Century; we got Gothic, Goudy, Cloudy Goudy and Erbar Ital, Pal. There Bodoni bold and Memphis Old. We have Cooper in every shade made; Stock Wood-block bold and timid ..." His secretary handed him a third tel­ ephone, the old-fashioned two-piece type. "Buenos Aires call, Sir," she informed him, then said to her girlfriend, "So I says to this bus last night. You been goin' with me for twenty-two days. That's almost three weeks; when are ya gonna pop the question?" Over the center telephone Al said, "Entonces usted vende. setenta por ochos centavos-" then as there must have been a pause in two of the three con­ (Continued on Page 28) MARCH 1948 A MERMAID'S PARADISE .' , OF BATHING SU ITS! ' l • ROSE MARIE REED-black sat­ ., in lastex-2-piece with striped taffeta bustle and wired-bra . Black with colorful plaid ruf­fled trim .......................... $16.95 • CALTEX OF CALIFORNIA­matelasse lastex, one piece. Royal blue, white, and black $12.95 • COLE OF CALIFORNIA­rope-print on satin lastex, one­ •'... piece suit with front skirt. Also ••• f .• ' in 2-piece . ,, • ' .. Red and royal blue ........$19.95 TEXAS RANGER 0 0 0 "Evening madam." Howling Success F RIDAY, February 27, was Family Day at The University of Texas. President Painter, Brad Bourland, Arno Nowotny and Hilda Getzendaner got it up for the purpose, they said, of "giving married couples a chance to get better acquainted." The idea, as announced in the Texan, was for married students to bring their assorted husbands, wives and children to their classes. Numerous complaints were heard on campus, however. One married vet stat­ed: "I leave home as early and get back as late as possible. Being cooped up in that little room with a wife and two kids every night is enough, without bringing them to school.'' Bitterest attack on Family Day at U. T. (which shows no signs of becoming· an annual affair) was made by F. Win­tercomb Canspring, Ph.D., of the Eng­lish department. "Arno Nowotny can take Family Day," said Dr. Canspring, "and cram it into one of the numerous cubbyholes in his desk.'' Dr. Canspring, resting up at Seton Hospital Saturday morning, was further quoted to the effect that such a program if continued would require enlarging classrooms and restroom facilities. DONA ROSITA, we are happy to re­ port, came up to our advance predic­tions. There was some discussion among the critics as to whether or not the dances merged·with the action, but it was agreed 6. that a fine job was done with something really experimental. Best acting was Chappie Pitts' sensi­tive picture of the aunt. The Curtain Club is coming up with You Touched Me! by Tennessee Wil­liams and Donald Windham, a play sug­gested by a D. H. Lawrence short story. Lawrence had the idea that sex was worth considering. The same principle is expounded in You Touched Me! We've been trying to get that over in the Ranger, but the censors say No. We're saving up to buy them a copy of the Kinsey Report. f;ducalioa A isle Talk "A COURSE .for the Church Usher" is offered by the University of Omaha School of Adult Education. It is described in a little folder which was called to our attention as an intensive short course "for laymen who seek to make the services of ushering more sig­nificant and helpful to the church and its program." Among the course topics (Unit VI) is titled "Esprit de Corps of the Usherinf1 Staff.'' It's proved very successful. The head usher, Presbyterian Church, Columbus, Ohio, wrote ·in that "The course in­trigued me to the proverbial last drop. I followed it with eager interest. I am grateful to you for the doing.'' Sounds okay to us . • S ANDWICHED among two letters on the subject of Communism, the fol­lowing chain letter came to the Ranger office: Dear Friend: This chain letter was started in Reno in ho.pes of bringing happiness to tired business and professional men. Unlike most chain letters this one DOES NOT cost any money. Simply send a copy to five male friends, then bundle up your wife and send her to the fellow at the top of the list. When your name comes to the top you will receive 16,178 women. Have faith! Do not break the chain. One man did break the chain and he . got his own wife. Signed: Tommy Manville Charlie Chaplin Errol Flynn Fala Roosevelt Assault ffERE'S an interesting headline from The Daily Texan: PAINTER RECOMMENDS FREEDOM OF SPEECH Record Reverie, THE force of Petrillo's edict is becom­ ing quite evident at the local platter palaces. Very few new etchings have been released and most of what has shouldn't be. As we predicted, the qual­ (Continued on Page 30) MARCH 1948 GOODFRIENDS famous Cotton Colony presents the "Cotton Boll" story from our collection of spark­ling new cottons. WE SKETCH ONE FROM A"BUMP­ER CROP" -The cool, fresh dainty look of tissue gingham plaid in lime, pink, aqua. Sizes l 0-16 12.95 TEXAS RANGER 1­ EASTER EASTER EASTER EASTER EASTER EASTER double feature in faille- sleeveless dress with swirling skirt and wide embroidered cummerbund (Excitement!) To double it, demure bolero with detachable pique collar and cuffs. Sizes 7 to 15. $29.95 2404 Guadalupe MEET THE STAFF • The guy who drew that cartoon in the Christmas issue of the Ranger is Bill Polvogt, sophomore art ma­jor from Dallas. In case you need reminding, we mean the cartoon showing the couple dancing close together. While attending Crozier Tech in Dallas, Polvogt was art ed­itor of the annual, The Wolfpack. He decorates windows at Hemphills, does art work for an advertising agency, works at Gipson's, and con­tributes some hilarious cartoons to this magazine. • Distributing Rangers to students about the fifteenth of every month is the job of Betty Fox. She's in charge of circulation for both the Ranger and the Texan. Betty got her Bachelor of Music last year and is taking a couple of graduate courses these days. As if she didn't have enough to keep her busy week­days, she plays the organ and is in charge of the children's choir at All Saints Church on Sundays. Her home is here in Austin. MARCH 1948 e ROUND-UP IS APRIL 9 . . . . GET INTO WEST­ ERN STYLE W I T H A STETSON F R 0 M REY­ NOLDS-PENLAND. ALL LOOK SWELL IN ARROW Come in and see our new crop of Arrow stripes and solid colors. Being Arrows, they'r e Mitoga cut to fit your shape. And they're Sanforized· labeled to stay trim-fitting (fabric shrinkage less than 1%). $3.25 up ARROW SHIRTS TEXAS RANGER ··:-·_ eynolds enland Austin's Finest Man's Shop ' RANGING LOOKING on our calendar-the one with the blonde Varga Girl on it-­we see that Round-Up is scheduled for April 9. Not to be outdone by our broth­ers-in-crime, The Daily Texan, we will make the April Ranger the Round-Up Issue. This means we will have to come out a week earlier than usual, bu t by push­ing our idea men, artists and writers, and cutting down on studies and certain extra-curricular activities, we can do it. As this column is written, the Round­Up Issue looks like a good idea. We are getting cartoons from former Ranger cartoonists such as Sid Pietzsch, Bob Eckhardt, Johnny Latham, Al Melinger, Joe James, Whiskey Harper, and---of course-Johnny Bryson. Among the other features scheduled for this super-issue will be a photo­graphic story on the Veterans Adminis­tration. Floyd Wade, J. P. Porter and our photographer, Betty Wallace, have already been to Waco digging up in­formation and shooting pictures. Extra Range1·s will be printed and made available to ex-students at a table in the Union Building. • QUR articles on Communism last month caused quite a stir, particularly from the Houston Post. Headlines screamed something about an investigation, but we didn't hear much more about it. Our fan-mail increased noticeably. One well-known newspaperman said our story would have been more sensa­tional if we had published the names and addresses of those twenty Communists on the campus. We told him we weren't particularly interested in being sensa­tional; besides, we weren't worried about twenty people out of 17,000 posing much of a threat. But, like Ben Jeffery, we would like to see the Communists come out in the open and let us hear more of their ideas. You'll have to give Addington credit for not being afraid to speak his mind, even though his ideas aren't very popular. • THERE isn't anything very outstanding in this issue. However, we pulled Warmack away from the D & B long enough to clip some good jokes for you. ON THE COVER IF WINTER COMES, can spring be far behind? Tony Marshall gingerly dunks a blue pinkie in Barton's icy springs in an attempt to prove the groundhog a grouchy old reactionary. While modest Rang er staff members covered their eyes, Betty Wallace snapped the picture. CONTENTS SHAM BE DAMNED... 4 JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING... b "MEET THE STAFF.......................... 8 JOURNALISM DEPARTMENT 13 THE HEROES 15 BLIND STUDENT lb GIRL OF THE MONTH .... 18 A SHORT STORY..... 20 SENATOR "HAPPY" O'TOOLE GIRDLES THE GLOBE.. .. ... 22 "GUTS " WYSOCKI , LOVER OF THE ARTS...... ... 1;, AN EDITORIAL ............ ...................... 40 STAFF FLOYD WADE, Associate ROBERT E. V. JOHNSON, Editor Managing Editor: Ben Jeffery. Feature Editor: J. P. Porter. Art Editor: Ed Miller. Make-Up Editor: Bill Bridges. Humor Editor: George Warmack. Car· toon Editor: Bill Yates. Staff Photographer: Betty Wallace. Exchange Editor: Madeline Bynum. Staff Assistants : Pie Wagner "and Mary Gray Stillwell. Writer Contributors: Ralph Marks. James Turpin, Ronnie Dugger, D. B!air Justice and E. Gartly Jaco. Art Staff: C. W. Nelson, Bill Polvogt, Lynn Sterba and Bob Hall. Supervisor and Advertising Manager: F. R. Moer;.e, Ad ·1eitis­ing Salesmen: George Seager+ and Don Moore. VOLUME SIXTY NUMBER SEVEN MARCH Published by Texas Student Publications, Inc. Editorial Office: Journalism Building 5. Business and Advertising Offices: Journalism Building 108. Appli­cati(' • ., for second class mailing permit pending at the Po\t Office, Austin, Texa•. Printed by Von Boeckmann-Jones Co., Austin, Texas. TEXAS RANGER REPORTERS writing Daily Texan stories in lab on assignment from supervisor. Stories are then nt to afternoon editing lab. 2 NGHT EDITOR assembles Texan, headlines. Editor is handing stories Press (just east of Geology Building) . WHEN classrooms and libraries close at 10 :30 each weekday night, most £tudents trudge wearily homeward to bed. Sometimes they pass the gaunt Journalism Building leaning on its fire­escapes, and note with detached curiosity its still-brilliantly lighted basement rooms. If the night is warm a clacking of typewriters floats steadily through the open windows. From a small corner room issues the deliberate pocketa­pocketa-pocketa of Associated Press tele­type receivers, typing out reports of the latest events in all parts of the world. Occasionally the paio;serby will hear a small bell ringing. That's the teletype's method of announcing to the editor what the next report will be-three bells for a routine news st0ry ITY -HEALT+t SERVICE.. ,1, •I I I I '• OFFICE -HOURS ·· · ' ' . '> -' IJ..-1 : : .. · ... .. ,_'•, "-"-;; \ --' I ' .. .. ....... ... , ... -'--­ The Finest . in Radios RCA VICTOR ~~gr~· TONE SYSTEM Maximum selectivity. Standard and short wave. "Magic Loop" antenna. Beautiful rich walnut plastic. Slightly more in ivory flnish. THE LATEST IN RECORDS King's Record Shops 2118 Guadalupe Phone 9437 and ENFIELD SHOPPING COURT 904-8 West Twelfth Phone 9004 EXPERT RADIO REPAIR SERVICE MARCH 1948 teams up with his best-selling King Cole Trio to vocalize on two clever ditties, My Baby Llkes to Be-Bop and You Can't Make Money Dreamin' (Capitol). The former is some rhythmic nonsense that manages to hold the interest while the latter is dedicated to the B.B.A.'s. East Coast Blues is the first instru­ mental by Harry James' new crew and offers some lively jump. Willie Smith's alto and Ziggy Elmer's rugged, Bill Harrish T-bone take the solo spotlight from Harry's horn (Columbia). On the reverse, entitled I Understand, Buddy Di Vito and Harry struggle through another muddy ballad for dancers and bobby-sox romantics. Don't be taken in by the title of Cap­ itol's latest album, Collector's Itenis. Out of the eight etchings, only two are worth the ear energy, namely, Benny Carter's wonderful alto saxing of I Can't Get Started and some fine Dixie­ land by Red Nichols and his Pennies on You're My Everything. The rest includes another mud-pie cooked up by the Holly­ wood Hucksters with Benny Goodman at his worst, Peggy Lee in her cute days, and some mediocre jazz offerings from a few Ellingtonians, Stan Kenton in his better days, and Eddie Miller's sad sax. Capitol says these discs were never issued previously. The reason is obvious. - E. GARTLY JACO £ibemti:sin W E ran across the following item in the Talk of the Town section of the New Yorker for the week of January 17, and it seems particularly appropriate for university students who daily trudge past an administration building etched with the words, "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.'' (By Permission Copyright 1948 The New Yorker Magazine, Inc.) "THERE is no liberal view," sighed the Herald Tribune as the old year died, "no really self-consistent and log­ical body of principle lj.nd policy.'' It was a doleful thought, and the old year drew a few more tortured breaths and expired. Ever since Thanksgiving, the Herald Tribune has been rassling with the theme of liberalism, and there have been morn­ings when the struggle resembled an old-fashioned rassling match with the Devil. The Tribune's feeling about the independent liberal seems to be that he comes from a good family but has taken to hanging around pool halls. His insta­bility, his shallow charm, his unpredict­able movements, his dissolute compan­ions, all have been the subject of specu­lation recently in the Tribune's pages, and the word that was finally trotted out to describe his fate was the word "bank­rupt.'' Even this word, however, seemed vaguely to trouble the Tribune, which does not in theory approve of any sort of American insolvency, even liberal in­solvency. Clearly, a dilemma. The Trib­ (Continued on Next Page) TEXAS RANGER "NOWADAYS YOU CAN LEARN A LOT OF HANDY THINGS BEFORE YOU GET MAR­RIED." 'He'r.e1 s ~ome £lttto'r.matiott A. NOBODY CAN REALLY AFFORD TO GET MARRIED. lJou ~kould f(ttow: B. CHANCES ARE FOLKS W ILL GET MARRIED ANYHOW. C . KRUGERS WILL FURNISH THE APPROPRIATE DIAMOND. (THE TARIFF IS FROM $50.00 TO $2500.00 WITH PLENTY OF LEEWAY IN BETWEEN .... TAX INCLUDED.) BOTH FOR $150.00 1. Weekly Te:·m : OWNED AND 2. Monthly Ter . OPERATED 3. Lay-Away 1-1­ 4. 30-Day Ch~r;:-· BY Accounts S. Buy for Cash TEXAS EXES TEXAS' DEPENDABLE JEWELERS "Love, fiddlesticks, he's got "We service all makes" P. K. WILLIAMS NASH CO. "On the Avenue" CONGRESS AT SECOND 8-4688 "I also installed tasting equipment so he could enjoy Dentyne Chewing Gum!" / n-F-­"Wire me for sound, and I'll tell the world­Dentyne's delicious! With each mechanical munch and muscle, I really enjoy Dentyne's refreshing, long-lasting flavor! Dentyne is keen chewing gum ! Helps keep teeth-white, smiles bright!" Dentyne Gum-Made Only By Adams JUST (Continued from Page 31) une met it boldly by explaining that the liberal's work was done, his victory com­plete, and that henceforth the "conven­tional party structure" would be happy to carry the whole load and take care of the situation without any help. Its edi­torial paid tribute to the deep moral roots of nineteenth-century liberalism and the classic insurgencies, and traced the course of liberal history from the Jefferson revolt right down to the year 1933, at which point the editorialist gu~ped, hawked, and spat out. The Tribune's estimate of the inde­pendent liberal sounds to us a bit on the romantic side, a bit too full of the great tradition, not quite catching the essence of liberalism. The value of the liberal in the republic is not that he is logical but that he is inquisitive. At the moment, the liberal's desperate position and his dead life seem to us neither as desperate nor as dead as the H .T. has been making out. There are still a good many free men around who don't think that the liberal's work is done. (They would like to, but it isn't that easy.) The independ­ent liberal, whether walking by his wild lone or running with a pack, is an essen­tial ingredient in the two-party system in America-as strange and as vital as the trace elements in our soil. He gives the system its fluidity, its benign incon­sistency, and (in cahoots with the major political organizations) its indisputable grace. We have never believed that the independent liberal had a priority on liberal thought, or a corner on the mar­ket; he merely lives in a semi-detached house and goes out without his rubbers. The Tribune itself has turned in such a good liberal performance lately in its 1;ews columns that its editorial shudders have seemed all the more strange. After all, it was the Trib that handed over ten columns last Sunday to William Z. Fos­ter, who has seldom needed more than twenty-five words to hang himself in and this time did it in two flat, when he described legislative debates as "ridicu­ lous talkfests." The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is true to himself. (It may not be as cozy an attitude as it sounds.) He greets with enthusiasm the fact of the journey, as a dog greets a man's invitation to take a walk. And he acts in the dog's way, too, swinging wide, racing ahead, doubling back, cov­ering many miles of territory that the man never traverses, all in the spirit of inquiry and the zest for truth. He leaves a crazy trail, but he ranges far beyond the genteel old party he walks with and he is usually in a better position to dis­cover a skunk. The dog often influences the course the man takes, on his long walk; for sometimes a dog runs into MARCH 1948 something in nature so arresting that not even a man can quite ignore it, and the man deviates-a clear victim of the liberal intent in his dumb companion. Your Ourn Measure1nents When the two of them get home and flop down, it is the liberal-the wide­ranging dog-who is covered with bur­docks and with information of a special sort on out-of-the-way places. Often in­effective in direct political action, he is the opposite of the professional revo­lutionary, for, unlike the latter, he never feels he knows where the truth lies, but is full of rich memories of places he ·ha~ glimpsed it in. He is, on the whole, more optimistic than the revolutionary, or even than the Republican in a good year. The Tribune may· be right that there is no liberal "view." But the question is whether there is still a liberal spirit. In these melancholy days of Hooper and Gallup, when it is the vogue to belittle the thought in the individual and to glorify the thought in the crowd, one can only wonder. We think the spirit is there all right but it is taking a beating from all sides. Where does a liberal look these days? Mr. Truman has just sug­gested a forty-dollar bonus for all good taxpayers, Mr. WaHace has started call­ing people "ordinary" and man "com­mon," and the H eralcl Tribune has lib­eralism on the mat, squeezing it in the kidneys. Your true liberal is on a spot. but it isn't the first time. Two d::illars says it isn't going to be the last tirue. We'd make it five dollars except for all this talk of bankruptcy. Sex Te:x·t QNE of our faculty friends purchased a copy of the Kinsey report, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. He's a scientist, so that was all right. The bill the University Co-op sent him has our professor worried, however: 1 SEXUAL BEHAVIOR $6.50 ARE CAREFULLY TAKEN TO ASSURE LASTING COMFORT AND SMOOTH FITTING APPEARANCE IN A TAILORED SUIT OR PAIR OF SLACKS YOU'LL BE PLEASED WITH OUR WIDE SELECTION OF FINE FAB­RICS FROM WHICH YOU CAN CHOOSE YOUR FAVORITE MA­TERIAL. From $49.50 2548 Guadalupe ON THE DRAG JOURNALISM (Continued from Page 14) the University for either funds or policy. It is owned and operated by a non-profit corporation, Texas Student Publications. Other children in the TSP family are the Cactus and the Rcmger, and all are governed by a student-faculty-editor board. But the close interdependence nf the Department and the student newspaper is illustrated by a story which is a favor­ite part of the Department's history. In 1925 Governor "Pa" Fergurnn was get­ting a lambasting by a good part of the press throughout the State. The students who were editing the Te xan were as critical as most of the other papers put together. The Governor couldn't do much about the professional papers, but he did veto the appropriation for the teach­ing of journalism at the Universit.y. " In Austin, almost everyone reads the Daily Texan." That was the closest shave the local Fourth Estate has had since the Board of Regents Journalism first established a School of in 1914. With the veto of given-the paper is not subject to Uni­versity jurisdiction (although the Re.­ "theory" they ture room. have learned in the lec­ appropriations the journalism courses were put under the EBA school until 1927 brought a new governor and a new appropriation. In that year the De­ gents can, if they wish, have it censored or discontinued) and the policy is largely that of the student editors and volunteer staff members. The right of the Daily T exan to have an uncensored editorial page, and the right of the journalism professors to teach what they think is best, is fiercely partment of Journalism was organi zed Journalism faculty members can exert guarded by the newspapers of Texas. under the College of Arts and Sciences. influence on the paper's editorial policy Whenever there is a hint that censor­ Many people, both on the campus and only indirectly-through the Board of ship is threatened there is an editorial off, often are surprised that the T exan Publications. But almost without excep­ storm of protest in the best papers over has such an exuberant editorial policy. tion, the policies of the student editors the State. That's because• many of the The answer to this has already been are in some measure a reflection of the best newsmen in Texas were UT stu- Add the ,subtle charm of pastel pearls to your neckline Achoker of srunning beauty . . , clasp is needed. 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It The attached trouser or skirt cuts down on che shrinkage of the hanger keeps clothes pressed a old allowance by keeping your long time ... and eliminates mis­suits right in the groove. They matched garments. A metal spring don't need half so much pressing device with pressing jaws does the when hung on this HANGER. A crick . . . and without mirrors. varnished hardwood hanger (for Truck on down co che Regis­suns, trousers or skirts) that'll trar's office for a look see. You'll cram more clothes neatly into a find a sam pie there. : • • • FI FTH AVENUE rresentation by Mail· · ····: : Gwyn Ann Frederick 347 Fifth Ave., IN.Y.16,N.Y. : Please send me the hangers checked below. Enclosed is$ . . ....... . Style A @ $1.00 each Style B @ $1.00 pair Style C @ $1.00 each Style D @ $1.00 pair NAME. ADDRESS.. .......... ................... .. , ................ , ADDRESS ................................................. ·­ . •• CITY.......................... STATE ...........ZONh..... . CITY ......................STATE..............ZONE ..... . • .......................................... . e • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 34 MARCH 1948 dents-journalists such as Stuart Mc­Gregor, associate editor of the Dallas Morning News; Stanley Walker, former city editor of the New York Herald Tribune, Lloyd Gregory, general man­ager of the Houston Post; and Joe Bel­den, originator of the Texas Poll. Paul J. Thompson, who has been chair­man of the Department since 1927, heads a teaching staff which concentrates on practical journalism-teachers who have, every one of them, done practical news­paper work before joining the faculty. Professor Granville Price, for instance, has worked on the New York Herald Tribune; Professor Olin E. Hinkle on the Lexington (Ky.) Herald; Professor Dewitt C. Reddick with the Christian Science Monitor; and Miss Afton Wynn, supervisor of the reporting lab, who helped found the Fort Worth Press. Dr. Reddick is director of one of the Department's most important extra­ curricular programs, the Interscholastic League Press Conference. This is a statewide conference for high school journalists, held each Spring in conjunc­ tion with the University's Interscholastic League program. Honorary organizations for journal­ ists are Sigma Delta Chi for men and Theta Sigma Phi for women. Alpha Delta Sigma, advertising fraternity, was recently reorganized. All three chapters are affiliated with their national groups, and all three have their professional counterparts. The Journalism Department today, like every other division of the University, has the largest enrollment in history. Classes, labs, a journalism library, a re­ search "morgue," and publications of­ fices are crowding the 42-year-old build­ ing to its limit. The next big step forward for the Department is the realization of their long dream of a new home-specially constructed to house lecture rooms, edi­ torial offices, and a complete printing plant, all in the same building. The j ournalist.'s elementary rule is that he keep up with the times. The De­ partment of Journalism, under its pres­ ent leadership, should do the same. -THE END ----:::---­ Old Lady: "Little boy, I wouldn't kick my little sister around the street like that." Little Boy: "Oh, it's all right-she's read "Sanctuary!" -Vogue "What do you think about Universal Military Training, baby? a wide variety if it is of well-cooked and pleasant­ly served food that you want is really reason­able prices that you seek in these days of high costs and meager portions if you want the place where you eat conveniently located near school or down­town shopping center then___ the answer to all your quests is TWO AIR-CONDITIONED MILAM CAFETERIAS CONVENIENTLY LOCATED 21ST AND WICHITA ITH AND CONGRESS TEXAS RANGER You meet heart-throb # 1 as you enter the Cake House with a dolly on each arm. Don't goof off! Don't get "discumbobulated"! Just pass yummy Life Savers all around. They're wonderful little tension-breakers. Be­fore you know it, that week-end date's yours. THE CANDY WITH THE HOLE STILL ONLY 5¢ FREE! A box ot LIFE SAVERS for the best wisecrack! What is the b est joke that you heard on the campus this week? For the best line submitted to the editor each month by one of the 1tudcnts, there will be a free award of an attractive ccllophanc­wrappcd as&ortmcnt of all the Life Saver .flavors. THE HEROES (Continued from Page 15) "One night on a lonely bend of the Main Street car line (they tore it out in '37, or maybe '38) the motorman was mugged for his rattling box of change. "Jimmy, the kid across the street, was picked up with a pocketful of nickles, quarters, dimes. Maybe he was in- but he might have played at pitching money at the sidewalk cracks and won. Who knows? He never said, even when he got two years. And Dale, who sat white-faced to hear the sentence read, left town soon after to drift with cotton picking and the C. C. C. (jobs were hard to find then) and we never knew exactly what the straight deal was. "But what the hell! Dale was a good soldier. Heard the platoon sergeant blow his whistle, picked up his carbine, crawled out of his hole into the arc laid down by a light Jap machine gun. "Now we are home. Home, where the fresh-faced girl I childishly loved in school has, in the past few years, acquired blonde hair, a taste for cheap gin, and an indiscriminate choice of bed mates. How sweet can home be! "The rest of them, the lucky ones who came home to drink whisky, tell war lies, and sweat the girls, will never know." Chill, early breeze comes from the hills to greet The twisted trash cans in the lonely street. The town unstirred save for the bits of paper Whipped by the wind, and that silent group Collected in the smoky station house Awaiting the arrival of the dead. -THE END MARCH !948 specialists in the Examination of the Eyes and the Fitting ef Glasses. WARD & TREADWELL (!J~ Seventh & Congress • WHERE THE STUDENTS GET THEIR GLASSES IN TIME FOR SPRING Have your wardrobe spotlessly cleaned, immaculately pressed by Austin's largest cleaners. You'll be in step with the new season! Save with the 15% cash-carry discount Campus Location-21st & W ichita IJM.f.IlQ•. !tSM..IJPIX DIAL3566 • li)e -~~•OW.3166 1514 LAVACA STREET OUR CANDIDATE He's for the Union Building, He's for student rights, He's agin cumpulsory classes. He's for variety shows in tights. Our candidate views with alarm, He points with pride -and he accuses­ But you'll never know the difference If he wins or if he loses. - Austin Labor Journal "O Doctor," said the young lady, "will the scar show?" "That, madam," said the doctor, "is entirely up to you." -AMA Scalpel A priest saw one of his parishioners hanging drunkenly on a lamp post. "For shame, young man. What's got­ten into you?" "Three Fathers, Feather." --Christian Science Monitor While driving through a desolate part , of the country the old pot sputtered and stopped. He: "Gee, whadda yuh know!" She: "Oh yeah?" (Pulling out a flask.) He: "Ha, ha, and what have we got here? " She: "Gas." -Rotarian Little Johnny came home from school one afternoon and asked, "Mama, where did I come from ? " His mot.her was shocked. Johnny was awfully young to be hearing about the facts of life. But she knew the children at school had been talking. Now was the time. "Sit down, son," she said. "I want to tell you a story about the birds and the bees ..." She proceeded to describe the facts of life to little Johnny. When she had finished Johnny re­marked, "Well, I juot wondered where I came from. Suzie Smith told me she came from St. Louis." - Open Road for Boys "Heard you were moving the piano, so I came over to help." "Thanks, but I've already carried it upstairs." "All alone?" "Nope, harne~sed the cat to it and drug it up." "You mean your cat hauled that piano up two flights of stairs? How could a cat pull a heavy piano?" ' "Used a whip." -Etude Frosh: "I have been trying to see you all week. When may I have an appoint­ment? " Fed. officer: "Make a date with our secretary." Frosh: "I did, and we had a swell time, but I still want to see you." -Woman's Home Companion The latest hits as well as the old favorites are at Maurine's, one of the most extensive stocks in the entire Southwest. • CLASSICAL OR POPULAR PIECES • RADIOS AND RECORD PLAYERS Ask about our FREE RECORD DEAL! MAURINE'S "A NAM E TO REMEMBER" RECORD SHOP 819 Cor19ress Ph. 2-4679 Open 9 A.M. Close 6:30 P.M. TEXAS RANGER INVITATIONS COME FIRST And first among all wedding invitations are those that bear the mark of Crane. We invite you to come to us for your invitations and all the papers needed to make your wedding the event it is in your life . . . to give added dignity to your new prefix of . "Mrs." INFORMAL YET CORRECT Inform.ala by Crane are a happy combination of correctness and convenience. Ideally suited to all manner of acknowledgments, invi­tation& to formal or informal parties and for messages accompanying gifts . •. they express your good taste and compliment the recipient. You are invited to see our complete selection. von BOECHmADD-JODES co. STATIONERS -PRINTERS 110 EAST NINTH ST. TELEPHONE 2-1163 First He: "Was her father surprised when you said you wanted to marry her?" Second He: "Surprised-why the gun nearly fell out of his hand." -Sunshine A hot-spell story that we liked is about the girl who went swimming in the raw in a secluded mill pond. Along came a little boy who started to tie knots in her clothes. She floundered around, found an old wash tub, held it up in front of her­self and marched toward the little boy saying, "You little brat, do you know what I'm thinking?" "Sure," said the little brat, "you think that tub has a bottom in it." -Strength and Health Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars. -Forbes The apple of a man's eye is a half­' peeled peach. -Fruit-growers Journal Mr. and M1~. Smith were at their breakfast table. Said Mrs. Smith to the newspaper that hid her husband: "Those new people across the street seem very devoted." No reply. Only a rustle of the paper. "Every time he goes out he kisses her, and he goes on throwing kisses all the way down the street. Albert, why don't you do that?" "Me?" snorted Mr. Smith. "I don't know her!" -House Beautiful Joe: My wife is scared to death that someone will steal her clothes. Moe: Doesn't she have them insured ? Joe: She has a better idea than that. She has someone stay in the clo,,et and watch them. I found him in there last night. -Time One wealthy man, ambitious to be­come a conductor, engaged a symphony orchestra in preparation for a concert. It wasn't long before the musicians re­alized that he knew little about 1IlUSic. Finally, the enraged kettle-drummer cut loose with a long roll in the middle of a quiet passage. The conductor flushed and demanded, "Who did that?" -Down Beat He whispered sweet nothings in her ear, As they sat secluded, these two: And he murmured, "I feel like I've known you for years." And she answered, "You certainly do." -Grit He : Only a mother could love a face like that. She: I am about to inherit a fortune. He: I am about to become a mother. -The Call MARCH 1948 38 The ability to see clearly through a problem and apply the latest banking procedures will assure smoothly running finances. We invite you to discuss your needs with our officers. THE . CAPITAL NATIONAI~ BANK Walter Bremond, Jr., President SEVENTH ST. BETWEEN .CONGRESS AND COLORADO U. S. Gov't. Depository Member F.D.l.C. TEXAS RANGER A MATCH struck in library disclosed this lone student peering in vain at notes. LIGHT READING O you find it difficult to study at the house? DoesDyour roommate simply tear you away from your books to slip out for a couple of quick ones? Do the rest of the tenants play their radios, slide down the bannisters, sing in the shower? If so, what you want is a nice quiet place, con­ducive to intensive study. The far-sighted builders of The University of Texas had you in mind. From one end of the campus to the other are LIBRARIES, with STUDY TABLES in them, espe­cially set aside for those of you who don't go to movies, games, or the Turf Club every night. These libraries, all for you, are just right for serious contemplation, inviting the muse-and read­ing braille. The decorations on the ceiling of the Reference Reading Room are elaborate if not beautiful, and the light up there is better than down on the tables. We were squinting at some of the inscriptions the other night, and the one we liked best was 0 wad some power the giftie gie us To see ours els as ithers see us! We remember a time back when someone with light meters tested those glow worm cages on the library study tables. He said it was just about right for developing negatives. This idea of lights in the library that can be used for reading purposes has been brought up before. It is always pointed out, of course, that such a . radical step would cost money. Guess that settles that. But it's awfully dark. Just a few extra candle­po~er, maybe? · It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion. MARCH 1948 folding quantities ..• as high as fifteen bucks-that's what Pepsi-Cola Company pays for gags and ·such-like you send in and we print. Procedure? Simple-send your stuff, marked with your name, ad­dress, school and class, to Easy Money Dept., Pepsi-Cola Co., Box A, Long Island City, N. Y. All contributions become the ~Cl~~ Put one and one together-and you get a He-She gag. Three bucks each to Duane 0. McDowell of So. Dakota State College; Albert M. Dredge of Duquesne Univ.; Emmett Carmody of Manhattan College; and Alfred Shapiro of New York Univ., re­spectively, for these specimens: She: And what position do you play on the football team? He: Oh, sort of crouched and bent over. * * * She: Why don't you park the car by this sign? He: You're not allowed to park here. She: Don't he silly. The sign says "Fine for Parking"! * * * He: Your eyes sparkle like Pepsi-Cola. She: Tell me more. I drink it up. * * * She Scot: Sandy, 'tis a sad loss you've had in the death of your wife. He Scot: Aye, ' tis that. 'T was just a week ago the doctor told her to dilute her medicine in Pepsi-Cola, and she hadna' time to take but half the bottle. * * * Current quotation on these is $3 each for any we buy. Sure, but everything's over-priced these days. EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTION At the end of the year, we're going to review all the stuff we've I bought,and the item we think was best of all is going to get an extra ) $100.00 \ Will getting " Pepsi-Cola" into your gag hurt its chances? Don't he naive, chums. We like it. So, if you should wind up with a rejection slip clutched in your hot little fist, that won't he the reason. Well, don' t just sit there! Pick up that pencil-get your stuff started now. There's Easy Money waiting! '*************************** LITTLE MORON CORNER Here's the gag that won a M. M. (Mas­ter Moron) degree-and a fast two bucks -for Ben Ornofj, of Univ. of orth Carolina, in the November contest: Our minor-league moron, Mortimer, caused considerable furore in local cir­cles by entering one of our better bis­tros and calling for a Pepsi-Cola. When served, he proceeded to glug it down with not one, but six, straws. Ques­tioned as to his motives, M ortimer care­fully removed all six straws from his mouth and replied with considerable hauteur: "So I can drink six times as much Pepsi, natch!" Earle S. Schlegel of Lehigh Univ. also came up with two bucks for his moron gag. Why don't you get on the gravy train? Two bucks each for every moron joke we buy. ...*************************** - -------------DAFFY DEFINITIONS-We're not just sure who's daffy-hut we sent one frog apiece to Don Mc­Cauley, Baylor Univ.; Edward Whit­taker, Boston Univ.; Joy Duvall, Univ. of Chicago; Charles R. Meissner, Jr., Lehigh Univ.; and James 0. Snider, Baylor Univ., for these gems: Lipstick-something which adds color and flavor to the old pastime. Controversy-one Pepsi-two people. Worm-a caterpillar with a shave. Riyal-the guy who gives your girl a P epsi. Steam-water gone crazy over the heat. * * * So we're subsidizing lunacy. Okay -but it's still a buck apiece for any ofthese we buy. GET FUNNY...WIN MONEY ...WRITE A TITLE ''-----------------------------------------------------------------·'' E ver play " pin the tail on the donkey?" Well, this is pretty much the same idea-and never mind the obvious cracks. SS each for the best captions. Or send in your own idea for a cartoon. $10 for just the idea ••• SIS if you draw it . . . if we buy it. Here's how we split the take for cartoon drawings, ideas and captions in the November contest: $1S each to Jay Gluck of Berkeley, Calif. and Herbert John Brammeier, Jr. of St. Louis Univ.; $10 to H. Dick Clarke of Univ. of Oklahoma; and SS each to Virgil Daniel of George Washington Univ., Frances Charlton of William and Mary College, and Sidney B. Fly nn of St. Louis Univ. WITH THE STARS ITS CHESTERFIELD BECAUSE~ALWAYS MILDER ~BETTER TASTING J.3 COOLER SMOKING THE RIGHT COMBINATION•. . WORlD's BEST TOBACCOS