NTEK CH O
VOL. XII
ASTI
LEAG UE
is
AUSTIN, TEXAS, DECEMBER, 1928
No. 4
Mabie Brings Helpful Message
The Service of Dr. W. S. Sutton to the High School Boys Build Large PLAYS USED IN
Gym as Community House
1928 CONTESTS To School Folks at Breakfast
Public Schools of Texas
Compilation May Serve as j Tenth Annual League Breakfast and Section Meet(EDITOR'S NOTE. The article which follows appeared anonymously in the
Alcalde, organ of the University of Texas Ex-Students Association, early in Business Men Contribute Materials for Taft
GuidC ThL Season 0*0*16*
^g Hears Head of Department of Speech
1920. It was written by the present editor of THE LEAGUER. The title
Structure, and Laborers, Including Coach
in the University of Iowa Talk on
under which the article appears in the Alcalde is "The Sage of Texas TeachDavis and School Boys Give Services
|N order to satisfy the demand for
Theater and School
erdom."
No attempt is made to include biographical detail, and naturally
names of plays used in the 1927
no mention is made of the work of Dr. Sutton between 1920 and his death
1928 Intersch elastic League Play
last month. During this period, he was acting President of the University,
By A. C. TUTT
was needed and realizing that if this Tournaments, we publish
ISCUSSING the "Theater and the School," Professor Edward
below the
for nearly two years, and enjoyed active service as Dean of the School of
opportunity was allowed to go by names of the plays reported to
Charles Mabie, head of the Department of Speech, University
us,
Education. The following article deals only with his service to the public
For two years the high-school there would never be an adequate
!
although
this
list
is
not
complete:
of
Iowa,
brought a message to public speaking teachers, superinschools for twenty-three years, from 1897 to 1920.)
basket ball team had been playing on g-ymnasium in Taft, Mr. Davis spent]
Abilene,
"The
Brink
of
Silence,"
tendents
and principals assembled for the tenth annual League
an improvised court at the local com- many weary hours talking and plan- j
N 1897, there was a weak, little plant trying to grow and get press warehouse. In spite of this dis- ning. Finally enough money was Esther E. Galbraith; Alamo Heights, Breakfast and Section Meeting, which was enthusiastically re*
"Dust of the Road," K. S. Goodman;
strong among the thriftier and deeplier rooted schools that advantage, under the leadership and raised so 'that the committee felt that Alba,
ceived. He was introduced by Prof. John Hendricks, of Edinburg
"Grandma Pulls the String,"
then went to make up what was called the University of Texas. coaching of B. C. Davis, the athletic they were justified in starting work. Edith Barnard Delano and David College.
director of the High School, the
The money had not all been raised
Professor Mabie complimented the League on its enterprise in
Indeed, it had been nipped to the ground for a couple of years and had won two district and twoboys
bi- and pessimism was rampant. , Decem- Garb; Alice, "Not Quite Such a
only the roots remained. It had a hard time. The frigid atmos- district meets. At the close of the ber 2, lumber was placed on the Goose," Elizabeth Gale; Amarillo, beginning the one-act play contest, but offered cautions. He
phere of academic distrust was not congenial, and lustier growths football season in 1927, Mr. Davis I ground and the free labor began to "Overtones," Alice Gerstenberg; Aus- insisted that a contest is but a device, a means for stimulating
tin, "The Trysting Place," Booth
interest, and should be used solely as such. Particularly earnest
hedged it in and shut out the sunlight. The story of how this conceived the idea of building a gym- dribble in. Things went along very Tai'kington.
nasium. The proposal was presented nicely until labor began to run out.
plant did get its head up to the sunlight, and of how, under adverse to the Taft Chamber
Beaumont, "Pegg'y," Rachel Cro- was his warning against the use of poor plays. Time wasted and
of Commerce The frame of the building was nearly
conditions, it finally did grow and thrive revolves a chiefly around and after considerable discussion that up and there was no place to stop so thers; Bonham, "The No 'Count worse than wasted he said it was to use a poor play. Better have
the personality of one man. The plant, in 1897, was called the body voted to assist in the enterprise. Mr. Davis with his crew of willing Boy," Paul Green; Brackenridge, no play at all than a poor one. He gave superintendents a much
School of Pedagogy, and the man was then and is still called They appointed a committee to raise high-school boys stayed on the job, "Trial," Williams; Brady, "Lotus needed caution also in the matter of stage construction.
funds and go forward with building. working every spare minute and Flowers," J. C. McMnllen; BridgeA complete report of his speech-f;
Professor W. S. Sutton.
port, "Not Quite Such a Goose," will be published in the next issue of j Few, W. W., La Grange; Fly, Murry
There are still those who say that 4Elizabeth Gale; Brydn (Dallas), "Not THE LEAGIIKE, provided Professor H., Odessa.
teaching is not an art, that to teach
Quite Such a Goose," Elizabeth Mabie furnishes the manuscript
Graves, Mrs. Blossom E., Best7Box
in
effectively is merely a matter of moGale; Burkeville, "The Boy Comes time, as he promised to do before leav- 126; Green, R. D., Abilene; Griggs,
mentary inspiration^ that, while there
Home," A. A. Milne; Byers, "The ing San Antonio.
Asa W., West Columbia; Gross, H. R.,
may be a certain technique to be
Teeth of the Gift Horse," Margaret
College
Station; Groves, Forest E.,
The
League
section meeting was
mastered by the trainer of the horse
Cameron.
La Feria.
again
honored
by
the
presence
of
or the dog, subject matter is all that
Canyon, "Getting Off," with Bar- President H. Y. Benedict,
Hammock, Constance, Commerce,
of the Unihas to be mastered when it comes to Friday Is Traditional Day for
nard Delano and , David Carb; Cen- versity of Texas. It will be remem- East Texas State Teachers College;
training a child. But those voices are
School Games Declares
tral (Fort Worth), "The Unseen," bered that he was present and made Hamner, Laura V., Amarillo; Harden,
today few; in 1897 at the University
Superintendent
Alice Gerstenberg; Cumby, "Jazz and the shortest speech on
record at the Edwin P., New Braunfels; Haskins,
of Texas they were legion. It was
Minuet," Ruth Gioreoff; Caldwell, Houston meeting- of the
League the Harriet Kidd, Waco, 9 and Austin;
granted that a lawyer could be taught
By A. B. WACKER
"Moonshine," Arthur Hopkins; Cana- year before. Dean Shelby was called Henderson, Roy B., Austin; Howell,
how to present a case in court, and
dian, "Joint Owners in Spain," Alice awa io the juniol. College meeting in J. D., superintendent, Honey
Superintendent of Schools, Danbury
Grove;
11 ._ _--_-y~i _i . . i.
that the manner of a presentation in
tffri .' ft
»'
ft
I
Brown;
Celeste,
"Trifles,"
Susan
N
THE
LEAGUER
of
October,
an adjoining room, and the duty of Hughes, F. B., Denison; Hutto, H. H.,
court mattered a great deal, but it
Glaspell; Childress, "Where But in presiding was left to the editor
of San Antonio, 106 West Huff Avenue,
was not granted that such consid- J 1928, I read with interest an
America," O. M. Wolff; China Spring, THE LEAOUER and the writer of these
Jay, Ike W., Memphis; Johnson,
eration entered in presenting a lesson article by Mr. Limmer from
"An Interrupted Proposal," Arlo lines.
Lee,
Wink, Box 412.
Taft Gym, 100x80 Feet with Height of 22 Feet
in factoring to a class in arithmetic. Desdemona. In this well written
Bates; Clinton (Houston), "Not
Principal Wylie A. Parker, Forest
It was contended that any one of a message to our LEAGUER
Kemp,
J. F., Seymour, Kenley,
j
Quite
Such
a
Goose,"
Elizabeth Gale;
he adhalf-hundred methods might be used,
Then the fireworks started, opposi- j doing men's work. It wsis a hard job j Crowell, "The Valiant," Holworthy Avenue High School, Dallas, delivered C. H., principal Senior High^^San Anand one was as good as another. This vocates that we have football' tion began to crop out on every hand, j but it convinced the peopel of the Hall and Robert Middlemas; Cole- the invocation.
gelo.~
Everything was fine except the hotel
is stating it rather extremely, but this ames only on Saturday.
Many of the townspeople i'elt that it town that the building was actually man, "Finders Keepers," George
Lang, A. E., superintendent, Wink;
is, after all, the upshot of the arguThe playing of games on Sat- was foolish to be giving so much con- going- to be built and from then on Kelly; Colorado, "Circles," Mary Les- service which was exceedingly slow. Latimer, Mary, Belton, Baylor Colment against pedagogy as an art.
irday will take from the high- sideration to athletics. Opponents the opposition began to die down and lie Cantril; Comanche, "Dust of the A portion of those present had lege; Lawlor, Miss Ruth Curry,
It was during one of his frequent chool student one of his old tra- were outnumbered, however;.-by the [ on January 17, 1928, a gymnasium Road," Kenneth Sawyer Goodman; already gone before the presiding of- Castroville; Layton, E. E., principal
athletic supporters.
Even <
the j building 100 by 80 feet and 22 feet Commerce, "The Florist Shop," Win- 1 ficer requested those remaining to South Ward, Eastland, Box 156; Loftrips over the State that President iitions Friday
afternoon as a. ranks of the latter dissensiorj
.eave cards at their respective places land, W. T.,
arose. | high with a basket ball court 84 feet nifred Hawkridge.
Geo. T. Winston encountered, in
Lott, Mrs. Helen
tudent I still remember with a Some wanted to build a brick,and tile j by 50 feet and a seating capacity of Dalhart, "A Night at an Inn," Lord, Hence, the list which follows is in- C., Goliad; Vernon;
Lowery, Sarah, Speech
hrill how glad we were when building in the heart of towii to be 650 was dedicated to the community, Dunsany; De Leon, "The Whole complete :
Department head, Baylor University,
afternoon with its game used by both school and town. This The community accepted it for Truth," Lindsey Barbee; Deweyville, Alquist, Esther, Elgin; Ashburn, Waco.
L., Woodrow Wilson, Dallas.
)f some sort rolled round. Sat- was accepted as an admirab'lc plan what it was, another impossible task "The Lie That Jack Built," George Baker, T. P., principal
McBride, Clara A., Orange, 803
Junior High,
but one that could not be put over well done, another one of those things Earle.
Sixth; McDonald, E. W., Gregory;
irday was a day of another on account of the heavy
San
Angelo;
Bailey,
John
F.,
princicost of the that can't be done finally completed
Eddy, "Neighbors," Zona Gale;
and school had nothing to building and the upkeep after the and since that time the building has Edna, "Allison's Lad," Beulah Marie pal Senior High, Breckenridge; Bar- Mclntoch, W. A., Amarillo.
io with it at all. Professional building- was built. After much been used by the school and the com- Dix; Enloe, "Educatin' Mary," Nellie rett, W. G., Comanche; Bates, W. Z., Minims, Marvin H., coach Coitfoe
Lockhart; Bates, Mrs. W. G., Lock- High School, Conroe; Mitchell, Mrs.
fames, grown up games and so heated discussion on this question, it munity for .many different functions. L. Fischer.
hart;
Bear, George V., Donna; Bene- M. M., Houston, San Jacinto High;
was
decided
to
build
a
gymnasium
It
is
kept
of
up
by
the school- board and
Floydada, "Not Quite Such a
orth, took place on Saturday,
dict,
H.
Y., Austin; Bierschwale, Miss Murfee, Miss Mae, Lubbock.
construction and locate it on each organization using it pays for Goose," Elizabeth Gale; Forney, "Not
Sunday and other days, but Fri- frame
Mollie,
Lockhart;
Bedichek, Roy, AusNesbitt, C. E., Mineola; Norman,
the school grounds. The committee their pro rata part of the lighting.
Quite Such a Goose," Elizabeth Gale;
lay was school day.
then started on the job of soliciting
Credit for building is largely due Fort Stockton, "The Maker of tin; Bittle, P. B., Eastland; Blund, R. B., Vernon; Nuzum, Lee M., prinThen, in the second place, I was funds.
Their plan was to raise to Mr. Davis and his boys. They Dreams," Oliphant Down; Farmers- Allie, county superintendent, Orange; cipal, Wink.
Bock, C. C., Petrolia; Breedlove, C. B.,
lot aware of the fact that high-school enough money to buy the material would not say quit and with the help
Olson, Hildegarde, Austin; Owen,
Rule.
athletics were to be a money-making and then build the building with free of the believers in athletic training
A. Z., principal, Grandview.
(Continued on Page 3)
cheme. Mr. Limmer advocates that labor under the supervision of a paid and the support of the business men
Cantrell, J. W., superintendent,
Patton, E. H., superintendent, SchuSaturday will bring in more money, carpenter foreman. This drive met of the town, the job was accomplished
Wichita Falls; Carroll, Jewel, San lenburg; Poteet, Ernest H., Mercedes.
ut why worry about that athletics with reasonable success but not and Taft can recommend such a
Antonio, Route B, Box 132; Carroll,
Robertson, C. R. Weatherford, Runire for the children the children enough money was raised to build an building as a good investment for any Winner 1928 Play Contest
Mary, Corpus Christi; Cobb, P. C., nels, Mrs. J. L., Riviera.
Recommends List of Plays Dallas; Cook, L. T., superintendent, Shotwell, P. E., Breckenridge;
want the games .on Friday. Even if adequate building. Knowing what community.
money were the consideration, I am
Breckenridge; Cox, Larue, superin- Shelby, T. H., Austin; Smith, F. E.,
f the opinion that Friday will still
ISS ANNIE KATE FER- tendent, Jacksonville; Cude, Don H., San Angelo; Speer, R. L., Eastland;
be a more prosperous day since in
Falls.
Spence, C. H., superintendent, Edna.
GUSON who coached the Marble
Dr. W. S. Sutton
;he smaller town so many merchants
Dawson, E. T., Rising Star; DinsTaylor, Thomas H., /dean Howard
winning one-act play cast last more, B. M., Electra; Dodson, P. J., Payne College, Brownwood; Tidwell,
cannot close up their places of busiHouston, W. S. Sutton, then a suc- ness for a game on Saturday, the one
year, submits, on the invitation Smithville; Durham, Harry L., super- W. E., Caldwell.
;
cessful school superintendent, a man, big day of the week.
Vaughter, Mrs. H. D., Jr., Byers.
of THE LEAGUER, the following intendent, Bryan.
!
so people said, who had brought orBy playing school games on Saturlist of plays which she considers Elrick, Mrs. F. T., Corpus Christi, Webster, Maud, Commerce, East
der out of chaos in the Houston day, I believe that there will be a High-School
Box 161.
Section
of
Speech
Arts
Association
suitable for entry in the con- Felter, Mrs. George R., Austin; Texas State Teachers College; Wilschools, and had developed something tendency to overemphasize athletics in
liamson, Eva, Electra, Box 1062;
Makes Recommendations Relative to One-Act
in the way of schools there that might the school. Athletics today are comtests this year:
Ferguson, Annie Kate, Gainesville; Woodward, E. J., Brownwood.
properly be called a system. Presi- ng into more and more of a comPlay, Extempore Speaking, Declamation
French, New York: Biddie Sweeps
dent Winston found that Superin- manding'position in our schools, and
Out,
The, Tanhouser; Before Breakand Debate Contests
tendent Sutton had some very def- f we add another day for that purfast, Sowerby; Boor, the, Tchekhov;
inite ideas concerning the relation pose, then we emphasize its imporBrothei-s, Beach; Cabbages, Staadt;
between the University and the pub- tance again. Mr. Limmer says that
HIGH
SCHOOL
SECTION
of
the
Texas
Speech
Arts As- Casualties, Flavin; Clod, the, Beach;
lic schools. The more he talked with we should give Saturday so that the
sociation
held an interesting and profitable session in San Confessional, Wilde; Constant Lover,
Professor Sutton upon this interest- students can prepare streamer, colors,
St. John Hankin; Dawn, Wilde;
ing topic the more he became con- pep-squads and so on.
In other Antonio during the meeting of the Texas State Teachers Associ- Fancy-Free, Houghton; Finger of Chairman of Committee Appointed by Music
vinced that the training of teachers words parents who have good use for ation.
God, Wilde; Flattering Word, KelSupervisor's Section of State Teachers Assofor the public schools was a field for their children on Saturdays must let
Miss Bessie Lee Dickey, of Brackenridge High School, San An- ley; Food, DeMille; Good Woman,
usefulness into which the University them go in order to make streamers
ciation Suggests Plan for Chorus and
tonio, acted as chairman. Leaders of discussions were Mrs. Middleton; Judge Lynch, Rogers;
might enter with profit to itself as and colored ribbon.
Marriage Proposal, Teckhov; MonOrchestra Competitions
well as benefit to the public schools.
Finally, we come to the reason that Gladys de Silva Bates, S4n Angelo; Miss Annie Kate Ferguson, key's Paw, Parker,; Moonshine, HopGainesville;
Miss
Jeston
Dickey,
Brackenridge High School, San kins; Foot Aubrey, Kelly.
is of paramount importance. Many
Accepts Appointment
USIC SUPERVISORS have a section in the State Teachers
A little later, when Professor Sut- boys work on Saturdays and make Antonio; Mrs. M. M. Mitchell, Houston; Mr. Hardin, New BraunLongmans, Green, New York: Ever
Association which devotes itself exclusively to the interests
ton was conducting a School of Meth- for themselves a little extra money. fels.
Young, Gertsenberg; Sister's TragIf
all
games
were
played
of
on
public
Saturschool music. At the Houston meeting in 1927, a comods at Waco, during the summer,
Measures adopted by the high-school section affecting the In- edy, Hughes; Thank You, Doctor,
days,
these
boys
would
have
to
give
came an offer from the President of
mittee was appointed to investigate the feasibility of installing
Emery.
terscholastic League are as follows:
the University to accept an appoint- up either the football or their jobs.
Statewide music contests among the public schools. Miss Mattie
Modern
Library
Ed.:
lie,
O'Neill;
1. A unanimous protest against"
ment as Professor of Pedagogy. He Personally, I think that the job is
should
form
the
background
and
give
Where
Mae Tomlinson, of Corpus Christi, was made chairman of this
the
Cross
Is
Made,
O'Neill.
did not accept at once. He made cer- vastly more important. However, I limitation in the selection of one-act a finish and polish to declamation
New
York:
Baker's
What
committee
They
and notice of its report may be found in another column
think
it
even
better
if
the
boy
can
tairi stipulations, all of which were
plays. Inasmuch as there will be at work. When declamation jg the finw
promptly met, and i/n the fall of 1897 both work for a little money and also least 250 entries in the contest it ishing course in high school ana noc Think, Crothers; Brentano's The of this issue.
W. S. Sutton became Professor of take part in sports. Leave the games would be impossible to find 250 worth the beginner's course, then will the Bank Account, Brock.
Under date of November 25 Miss Tomlinson wrote the following
Anthologies: Contemporary OnePedagogy in the University, and Dr, on Friday and he can.
while one-act plays, suitable for ama- standard be raised. Declamation will
letter
to the League suggesting a few of the problems to be faced
A. Caswell Ellis, adjunct professor,
teurs. Therefore, even though dupli- be sincere and natural, not imita- Act Plays, Lewis, Scribner's Sons; in promoting this enterprise. Her letter, addressed to
the editor
One-Act Plays by Modern Authors,
It turned out that these two very disFloyd G. Betts, principal Palestine cations are bound to occur, the coach tion.
Cohen, Harcourt, Bracefn Short Plays of THE LEAGUER, follows:
similar men, dissimilar in training, High School, says on the same sub- should be left to his own discretion
S. Out of the discussion on de- Webber and Webster, Houghton Mifpersonality, and experience, made ject:
I am so glad that you think kindly | s
in the selection of the play which
bate
grew the argument that instead flin; Representative One-Act Plays of musical contests for Texas chil- say that I believe that these contests
when hitched together, a very strong
"In answer to Superintendent best fits his own needs and material.
of encouraging the debaters to be so Clark, Little, Brown; Representative dren. Like you, I believe that music can be so arranged that they will
team. "Ellis," said Professor Sutton A. M. Limmer's article in the Oc2. The encouragement of extem- aggressive there should be an effort One-Act Plays, Mayorga, Little is our most civilizing agency, and that appeal to the smaller schools as well
pore speaking in all high schools.
Brown; Twenty One-Act Plays, Shay more emphasis should be placed upon as the larger ones? You have no id<j a
(Continued on Page 4)
(Continued on Page 3)
Extempore speaking and dramatics
(Continued on Page 4)
Appleton,
J1< than haa been heretofore. May I
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D
I
OBJECTS TO PLAN
OF SATURDAY PLAY
V
Speech Art Teachers Request M
Alteration of League Rules
\\
Music Supervisor Wants Music
Contests Part of League Work
M
THE INTERSCHOtASTIC LEAGUER
competitions.
The Interscho-
in gracefully to another school which is night of October 20, there was a nation-wide radio even intra-mural
GIVING
prosecuting an eligibility case against you is hook-up to the end that listening millions might lastic League abandoned promotion of track and
all the more difficult to hear one George White (promoter of some kind field and basket ball inter-school competitions
a difficult matter. It is
carry your community with you, once your com- of girl-show in New York) advise our girls to
munity has been thoroughly aroused. And still smoke cigarettes so that they may grow slim and
it is a matter of good sportsmanship to relinquish graceful and make good dancers. The only
your claims "when evidence is uncovered which woman to cross the Atlantic in the Graf Zeppelin
convinces you that your man is ineligible. Such was then introduced. She told our daughters of
was the position of B. H. McLain, Superintend- the awful deprivation she suffered in not being
ent of Schools, Sweetwater, during the past sea- allowed cigarettes on the way over. "Girls, it
Published eight times a year, each month, from Sepson. Census rolls seemed to show that his player was terrible; and you may be sure the first thing
tember to April, inclusive, by the Division of Extension,
was within the age limit. Other evidence seemed I called for when I stepped out of the cabin was
of the University of Texas.
confirmatory, and the protest had reached that a cigarette." Moreover, cigarette advertising is
stage of bitterness Which makes it exceedingly so valuable to any newspaper or magazine that
hard to deal with. Then a -birth certificate was it can hardly afford to publish information which
with the sale of tobacco to the
ROY BEDICHEK ---,------ Editor discovered, and a census record in a distant county might interfere
movie heroes and heroines, of
the
And
young.
was
man
young
the
that
clearly
indicated
which
we literally live, move and
that
so
smoke,
course,
(and
further
of contending
(Entered as second-class matter November 6, 1927, over-age. Instead
atmosphere of praise and
an
in
being
our
have
at the postoffice at Austin, Texas, under Act of August there was ground for holding out, into the details
smoking.
of
glorification
24, 1912.)
of which we need not go), Superintendent McLain conceded the case in a very sportsmanlike
communication to the papers. This relinquishment
adEilers,
A.
Win.
(URAL AID INSPECTOR,
OUR "STATE SONG"
vises THE LEAGUER that Shulz' Texas Wild certainly leaves the respective communities in
friendly
resuming
for
mind
of
frame
better
much
Flowers is on the approved list of library books.
HPHE DALLAS JOURNAL recently reprinted
The book costs S3, and hence any rural school relations in the next contests in which their * THE LEAGUER editorial entitled "The Eyes of
purchasing this book will be given credit for that schools engage. It represents a distinct advance Texas," which appeared in our November issue
amount on the requirement of the State Depart- over the attitude of the bitter-ender, whose con- Under the caption "The Only State Song Texa
ment that §10 per room be expended for library tentions too often cause permanent ill-feeling be- Has Accepted," the Journal of December 5. combooks. This book was reviewed in the November tween the communities involved.
ments editorially as follows:
issue of THE LEAGUER by Professor W. P. Webb.
|LAYS entered in the one-act play tournaments
should be worth while. Professor Edward
Charles Mabie made a strong point of this in hi
speech at the League Breakfast in San Antonio.
If you have a worthless play you are wasting your
time, even if you win. If you have a worthwhile
play, and coach your players intelligently, you
are winning even though you lose. Please look
over the list of plays used last year published
in this issue. In our humble judgment one of the
most worthless plays of the whole Ifst is the most
popular. How are we going to insure the presentation of worthwhile plays? The solution of this
problem will go a long way toward making the
play tournaments a success.
r E HAPPENED in on a session of the Texas
Speech Arts Association in San Antonio the
other day and heard a splendid paper by Miss
Lola L. Cox, of the North Texas State Teachers'
College. While it is our custom to run rapidly
away from anyone who has a paper to print
in THE LEAGUER, we were so impressed with the
excellence of Miss Cox' paper on "The Democracy
of World Accepted English Speech" that we
sought out Miss Cox after the meeting was over
and asked permission to publish her paper in
THE LEAGUER. She consented, and we hope to
offer it to THE LEAGUER readers next month. At
this meeting also we heard a talk quite worth
while by Miss Mary Sweet, polytechnic High
School, Fort Worth.*
DEBATERS will be interested to know that
debating is not considered a kingly sport.
The Royal Prince of Denmark (not Hamlet)
scandalized the press of Copenhagen a few weeks
ago by engaging in a rough and tumble debate in
Oxford University on the query: Resolved, That
this House Prefers Athletic to Esthetic Education.
The prince, otherwise known as His Majesty
George II, deposed king of Greece, lost the debate
to'a distinguished Spanish man of letters, one
Professor Salvador de Madariaga, who took up
the cudgels in behalf of esthetics. The king indulged in such sallies as the following: "I can't
speak the King's English, but I can swear in the
English vernacular ... I distrust the professor
and the pedant. Give me a burly man of bone
and gristle." All of which seemed distasteful to
the Danish press and people. That their prince
should get out on the academic stump was bad
enough, but that he should prefer football to
music was altogether too much.
QOMPETITION in temperance is the latest
thing we have heard of in the contest line.
A "photographic temperance campaign" recently
started by the Moscow Workers' Gazette is featuring
every day pictures of the most debauched and bibulous
souses who have signed the pledge. Each pledger
publicly challenges a friend to compete with him in
maintaining abstinence; and the Gazette. proposes to
flay and brand backsliders.
So reports Time (November 20). The competitive stimulus is used in every "field of human
endeavor. Sometimes it works for good, sometimes for evil. The instinct of rivalry is at the
root of gambling, of destructive business competition, of wars, and so on. In these fields it does
tremendous harm. But there is also rivalry in
doing good, there is rivalry in physical and
mental achievement, and in this the competitive
impulse operates to uplift character instead of to
tear it down. It is the purpose of the Interscholastic League to use the impulse to competition
for educational ends. It has fashioned a machinery not only for stimulating rivalry, but for
judicious control of that rivalry after it has been
stimulated.
Since the ribovo was put into typp, word comes from Miss Cox
that the paper cannot.be made available for THE
fJIGHLAND PARK, it will be remembered,
** sent a girls' debating team to the last State
Meet which won its. way into the finals, and gave
Temple spirited competition for the final State
championship. On this team was Betty Jeanne
Crocker who was graduated from high school last
June. She entered Radcliffe College in September. In Radcliffe, which is the women's part of
Harvard, much stress is placed upon training in
English. Not satisfied with Miss Crocker's highschool diploma, the authorities required.of her an
examination, a part of which consisted in writing
a theme upon some national question. Miss
Crocker chose as her topic, "The MeNary-Haugen
Bill." When she submitted her production, the
astounded examiners not only admitted her without condition in English, but on the strength of
the essay which she produced on this great national question, gave her credit at once for firstyear English. She has since been admitted to
membership in one of the most exclusive debating
societies in the college. Having debated the pros
and cons of this question for an entire year, we
dare say that Miss Crocker was able to- give her
English examiners more information on the McNary-Haugen Bill than they were aware was in
existence.
Miss Cottingham coached the girls' debate team
last season for Highland Park, and we understand
she is headed toward the State Meet with a team
again this season;
QURSUING its policy of alternating the Thanksgiving program between public speaking and
athletics, the League this year secured one of the
foremost professors of speech in the country to
deliver the main address at the Breakfast and
Section meeting in San Antonio, Pan-American
Room, Gunter Hotel, November 30.
One hundred fifty-seven places were filled
around the breakfast table by 7:45, and but for
slow service on the part of the hotel management,
the function would have been an entire success
As it was, the meeting was somewhat curtailed
due to the fact that the service of the breakfast
required in itself more than one hour. It is the
purpose of the Chairman of this function to reduce the eating part of the program next year
to a minimum, and extend the discussion portion
of it. It has been suggested that a 50-cent breakfast be contracted for, that it be served on the
table and ready to eat by the appointed time.
The breakfast might then be over by 7:30, the
dishes cleared away, and an hour and a half left
for speaking and discussion before anyone would
have to leave to attend other section meetings.
The League will welcome suggestions looking to
the betterment of this function, Next year will
be an athletic program, and we hope to bring one
of the big men of the United Stages in this field
to deliver the main address.
some years ago, although in many counties such
competitions are still held under the auspices
of the Qounty authorities. The only athletic competition for girls which the League now fosters as
a state contest is tennis. It fosters as a county
contest indoor baseball for junior girls and volley
ball for senior girls. Non-contact games for girls,
it seems to us, are wholesome; and where proper
supervision is feasible, we see no objection to
basket ball played under girls' rules.
"The sports page of The Journal has just reproduced
an informative editorial by Roy Bedichek in his Interscholastic Leaguer which throws full light on the origin
of the Texas song-classic 'The Eyes of Texas Are Upon
You.' All ex-students of the University of Texas have
known something' of the authorship and the inspiration
of the song that has brought thousands to their feet in the
long run of the years, but comparatively few of the exstudents know that the song that has taken on the petency
of a battle-cry was perpetrated as a sort of joke. The
rest of the world has known little about it, and it serve
well that a larger number should have been told.
"This song has come to mean so much, it is so fraught
with the spirit and aspirations of Texas, that it has grown
to be more than the anthem of the University of Texas
It is a State song, in fact, and its persisting- popularity
assures an enduring fame to John Lang Sinclair, its
author, andio William L. Prather, former president of the
University of Texas, who fathered the familiar phrase,
"The steady gain of 'The Eyes of Texas' in popular
esteem sustains an argument which The Journal has frequently voiced. When competition was opened a year 01
two ago to. those who would produce a State song, The
Journal said that no song could be made a State song
-and sing.
tfiat the people would not accept and
The same argument applies to a national anthem. Up to
this time, in view of its popular acceptance, 'The Eyes of
Texas' is about the only State song we have. It's a goot
:
one."
"THE PLAY'S THE THING"
I ORADO TAFT, America's leading sculptor
*-* tells of the son of an Italian coal miner.in
southern Illinois who, when given the opportunity, became a/ great artist. This single instance
may find its counterpart anywhere. Latent talent
needs only to be identified and developed.
Every community possesses sufficient embryonic
genius to meet all its recreational needs. Bu1
commercial entertainment dominates not only
because it offers opportunity for profit but also
because no one has seriously undei'taken the task
of identification and development of the latent
talent everywhere available.
It was this idea that brought the Home Talent
Tournament into being. Numerous plays have
been produced recently with telling dramatic effe,ct, supplemented by musical numbers of. striking
quality. From one Wisconsin community comes
an original production, so well written and so
well staged, as to win critical approval in a statewide contest. Wisconsin has within her borders
the ability and the talent to provide much of her
own entertainment.
There's yet another reason. Rural communities need to be knitted together for the common
good. In the language of Edmund Burke: "No
men can act with effect who do not act in concert;
no men can act in concert who do not act with
confidence; no men can act with confidence who
are not bound together with common opinions,
common affections, and common interests."
The common desire for entertainment furnishes
the bond.that may bind the whole communities together in "common opinions, common affections,
and common interests."- K. L. Hatch.
THLETIC competition for girls is severely
A
condemned by the present Pope. He has let
NE of the penalties of having a radio in your
his opposition to this phase of modernism be
O"home is that you must turn yourto bechildren
on several occasions. Only a short time
known
talked
over,for a certain period now and then
to by skilled salesmen whp are determined to persuade them to smoke cigarettes. You can't buy a
magazine, open a newspaper or glance at a billboard without encountering the same suggestion.
Even the airplane is used to shout down from the
skies the great message "smoke cigarettes" or to
write the admonition in letters of smoke a mile
high across the sky. Since mature non-smokers
do not take up cigarette-smoking and could not
be persuaded to by all the advertising in the
world, we must conclude that this expensive campaign is directed solely towards our children.
Not content with making cigarette-smokers out
of the boys, the tobacco manufacturers are now
determined to convert our girls to this nasty
habit. And they are making progress. On the
ago, the Osservatore Romano, which is considered
the official organ of the Vatican, said:
Gymnastic and athletic competitions for girls offend the Christian sentiments and the customs of our
Italian civilization and of our people, and no historical analogies and no appeal to th-8 traditions of
other countries can justify them. The Roman Catholic Church has invariably and everywhere manifested its open and irrevocable opposition to such
sports and it is backed by all people who entertain
sentiments of gentility and Christian modesty.
Some American authorities in physical education for women are in substantial agreement with
;his point of view. They are inclined to condemn inter-school athletic competitions for mature
girls, and take care to ameliorate the intensity of
"WHY SHOULD WE BE CONCERNED?"
HE ABOVE CAPTION is the beginning of a
paragraph contained in an article entitled
"What Is an Amateur?" published in the November (1928) issue.of Sportsmanship, contributec
by Dr. Henry Stoddard Curtis, State Director of
Physical Education in Missouri. "Dr. Curtis/
we are told in an editorial note prefacing the article, "was formerly secretary and vice-presidenl
of the Playgrounds Association of America. A
student of sports and play in Germany, England
and France, as well as in the United States, he, in
1894. received an A.B. degree at Olivet College, in
1895. his A.B. at Yale, and 1898 his Ph.D. at Clark
University."
Surely one cannot complain of this training anc
experience, and yet Dr. Curtis, in a serious article
is guilty of the following heresy:
T
By the Editor
'ANY people are in the position of
which Tom Hood so quaintly
complains: "By too much sitting,
the doctors tell me, I', am hatching
out a whole brood of complaints."
PRESENT discussion in the press
-" might lead one to suppose that the
honor system at the University of
Texas- has broken down. Are the
students therefore without honor,
query some exercised and earnest
souls. No, not at all. The worst
that can be said is that the students
without honor, have in some way. so
secured and lead student sentiment
that conviction of a student for
cheating is practically a thing of the
past. Something of course must be
done and something of course will be
done about it.
Why should we be concerned with compensation in
school athletics, provided the student is a bonafide
member of the school, who keeps up his studies and is
a good sportsman? We do not discriminate against
musicians in college because they are paid to sing in
church or play at theatres or elsewhere. ' Money
prizes,are being- offered in many other contests, for
debates, for orations, for high scholastic standing.
University actors, who give plays during their vacations are often paid.
Thus Dr. Curtis lets down the bars-and invites
a waiting horde of professional athletes to come
in and swamp high-school and college athletics
He would thus put the Yale football team on a
plane with the New York Giants, and the University of Texas team on a plane with the San Antonio Bears or the Dallas Steers. This is a handsome suggestion to come from one high in authority ! It coincides exactly with the ironic proposals made by those who are against any form
of interscholastic or intercollegiate athletic competition. "Let us," they say, "provide this form
of college amusement just a;s the'baseball league,'
provide it for non-collegiate communities simpljgo out and hire the best team out we can find.'
Then, of course, the victory goes to the college o)
the high school which can get the most money foi
hiring the best athletes. Instead of minimizing
the commercial features of interschool competitions, as is thought desirable by practically every
competent authority who has ever given any
thought to the matter, Dr. Curtis' suggestions
bring the moneyed and commercial'interests into
the situation with full and dominating force. A
working agreement must then be formed between
every school superintendent and the local chamber
of commerce or other civic organization that is to
provide the sinews of war. The men who bet on
the games naturally assume the leadership in the
raising of funds and hence obtain a ruling position
in arrangements with the school authorities.
Thus Dr. Curtis would turn.school sport over to
the town gamblers. Happy, happy solution for
the ills now afflicting interschool athletics! And
yet "why should we be concerned?"
"We pay musicians, debaters, actors, etc., so
why not athletes?" The question, is easily answered. If public interest were enlisted in musical contests to the same degree that it is in athletics, if gate-receipts were piled up to as huge
proportions in debating contests as in football, if
rings of gamblers followed intercollegiate or interscholastic dramatic casts around betting into the
thousands of-dollars on the outcome qf the contests in which they engaged, it would then be just
as necessary to have as rigid amateur rules in
these activities as it now is in athletics. There
is no need of an amateur rule until the need arises,
the use of which redundancy in the present connection, reminds one of hitting a straw man with
a f eatker pillow.
If Dr. Curtis is really against interscholastic
and intercollegiate athletic competitions, then his
argument is likely disingenuous; if he is really in
favor of sports so organized, he fails to see the
disastrous effects which his proposels, if adopted,
would bring about.
As we have often said, the root of the professional evil lies in gate-receipts. Reduce the institution of intercollegiate and interscholastic athletic competitions to a subsistence level, and the
evils of commercialism and therefore, of professionalism, will pass quietly away. The evils are
reater in football than in any other sport simply
because more money is made out of football than
any other school sport; the evils are greater in
college than in high school simply because more
money is made out of sport in college than in high
school. What business, anyway, has an educa-'
tional institution staging an athletic exhibition
for profit?
|T is curious to observe the affinity
which apparently exists between
pecans and pedagogues. The cheap
wit will want to work off a pun in
this connection, but he can't get it
published in THE LEAGUER, at least,
"it shall not pass" as long as we own
a blue pencil that will make a mark.
Dr. A. Caswell Ellis, to take an illustrious example, has two immense
pecan orchards, and has spent much
of his spare and other time during the
last twenty years in developing superior breeds of nuts. He is an expert
budder and grafter. Not only can he
teach budding and grafting, but he
can actually bud and graft- thus,
you see, giving the lie to Shaw's infamous epigram on the teaching profession. Dr. Ellis, for years Professor of Philosophy of Education
in the University of Texas, is now
Director of Cleveland College, and
lives in Cleveland, Ohio, far away
from, his beloved pecan-orchards.
Professor J. E. Pearce, Professor
of Anthropology in the University of
Texas, has also distinguished himself
as ,a grower of, fine pecans. He goes
right into the fairs with his nuts and
wins prizes away from men who devote their whole time to the business.
During the nineteen years he served
as principal of the Austin High
School and during the later years
when he has been on the University
of Texas faculty, he has ridden his
hobby consistently. He spends much
of his spare time up a tree on his
farm near Austin patiently budding
and grafting superio-r stocks of pecans
on his native trees. He has produced
some of the finest nuts in Texas, and
that is to say, in the world. There
is more difference between one of his
improved pecans and the common forest variety than there is between a
thoroughbred Hereford and a Texas
Longhom.
For another example confirmatory
of our initial statement, consider the
efficient superintendent of the Cleburne schools, Mr. Emmet Brown.
For thirty years pecans have been his
hobby. He has experimented with
nearly a hundred different varieties,
and has proved a number for the Cleburne territory. He is known as an
authority on the subject, and is no;w
president of the Texas Pecan .Growers'
Association.
N.E.A. President Pleads
for Education to Bar War
OEOPLE will no .longer submit; to
war, Dr. Uuel W. Lamkin, Maryville, Mo., president of the National
Education Association, told the Missouri Teachers' Association convention
in Kansas City last month, when those
in one country, through education of
its youth, "come' to 'understand the
ideals, the aspirations and the hopes
of other countries."
Dr. Lamkin called attention of the
teachers to the importance of Americanization work.
"By Americanization we do not
mean merely the Americanization of
the foreign born," he said. "We mean
the awakening of the consciousness
in every boy and girl of the value of
his citizenship. When we can accomplish that, we will have more observance of laws in America and we will
need less enforcement of them."
Talk about peace and renunciation
of war is nonsense unless America
and Great Britain can reach an understanding as to the limitation of armaments, Walter Lippmann, editor of
the Neiv York World, told the conven"There has to be an agreement
about the navies with Great Britain,"
Lippman said. "You and I do not
care to bequeath to the children now
n school the terrible heritage of po;ential war between Great Britain and
.he United States. If we do, we have
'ailed utterly, and they will, with perfect justice, look back upon us with
contempt."
THE I N T E R S C H O L: & S T I C L E X G U E R
High-School Press
By DeWitt Reddick
JOURNALISM is gaining in
** ' importance in the high
schools of Texas. To know thi
we have merely to note the increasing number of high-school
papers that are being published.
Already we have 119 papers on
our list for the Interscholastic
League Press Conference, and
doubtless there are many more.
Of these 119 all are not yet members of the conference, but many
of them are and requests for
enrollment are steadily being received from others.
maybe a change of type, if possible,
would give you a neater appearing
paper.
Last year, The Battery mixed headlines of all capital letters with headlines that had both capital and lower
case letters. This year all of its
headlines, with the single exception
of a small two-line headline, are in
capital and lower case letters instead
of in all capitals. Even its six-column
banner is in capitals and lower case
letters. As a result the front page
has a much more harmonious and
pleasing appearance than it had last
year. Each headline stands out neatly
and distinctly and is much easier to
read than the headlines used last year.
Hal Sayles, assistant director of our
Press Conference, is editor of The
Battery.
Experiment With Type
Most large newspapers of the
United States have reached the conclusion that headlines of capital and
.ower case letters combined are much
easier to read than headlines of all
capital letters. If all of your headines are set in capital letters, why
not experiment a bit with your type
and see if you cannot produce better
leadlines with capital and lower case
etters?
Don't forget that your papers are
jeing read carefully and are being
filed away so that when spring conies
along we will be able to classify your
aaper according to the grade it has
)een making. We are looking forvard to our meeting with you next
;pring-.
Among the papers enrolled in the
Conference are several that are in
their first "year of existence. The
Jacksonville High School Neivs made
its first appearance Friday, October
26, and has appeared weekly since
then. It is a five-column paper with
neat, well-balanced headlines.
Many City Papers
San Antonio ond Houston head the
cities of the State with the number
of papers registered with THE
LEAGUER... The Brackenridge Times
and the Main Avenue Huisache are
continuing the good work they have
been doing in the field of journalism
for the past few years. In addition
there are some newcomers in the San
Antonio field. From Los Angeles
Heights High School comes a fourcolumn monthly called Broadcaster.
Maurine Roberts is its editor.
Alamo Heights Grade School issues
a small mimeographed paper called
Newsy Notes.
In Houston, The Piirple Pup, published by the Sidney Lanier High
School, is a charter member of the
No Play Preemptions
Interscholastic League Press ConferAs explained in another column of
ence. The Purple Pup is unique in
his issue, the State Executive Comthat it does not print one bit of advernittee has abrogated the rule of the
tising. Its papers are not given away
ne-act play plan which limits any
but are sold for 5 cents a copy, and
jiven play to one school. There is
the paper has a circulation of 1,080. unlimited
choice so long as the plays
It is printed in purple ink.
meet the requirements laid down in
Recently The Harrisburg Pioneer, he rules.
published by the students of Harrisburg Junior High School at Houston
Premium on County Meet Entries
enlisted with the Conference, and not
In this year's rules a premium is
long afterward came The Student
?iven
on entries which participate
Echo, published every three weeks by
the journalism class of Milby Senior n the County Meet. In. interpreting
High School at Houston. Sam Hous- his rule, be sure that a track team
to^i High School at Houston also pub- s considered as one entry. Of course,
lishes a high-school paper. Dallas, remium is not given on each indiand especially Fort Worth, are lag- vidual entry in track. The team is
ging behind the other large cities in onsidered one entry.
respect to the development of journalViceregent Not Vicegerent
ism work.
Our
attention is called by J. B.
What's in a Name?
:
Smith, of Malakoff, to the thirty-first
Variety is certainly found in the vord in column
8 of the Senior List,
names of the high-school papers of and he asks if the word
"vicegerent"
Texas. Any kind of sound imaginable, s not intended. Doubtless
it was,
almost, is represented to some degree. rat since the word "viceregent"
is
We have the Slidell Scream and The irinted in the list, we shall have
to
Rom; both from Vernon High School tick to this rather unusual word.
and from Brownwood High School iVhile not in the small or abridged diePort Neches brings forth The War- ionaries, "viceregent" is found in
Whoop; Palestine supplies The Chat- Websters New International Dictionter. Minden presents The School ary. It means, of course, a deputy
Voice, while Plainview publishes The *egent.
Bow Wow. Colorado High School
lets out The Howl, while the Megargle
public schools issue The Blue Bird
Echo. The Denison High Buss and
the Cricket Chirps of Seguiii High
School round out the set of Sounds.
Birds, animals and insects, too, are
represented in numbers. From Huntsvilie High School comes The Hornet.
Marfa supplies The Shorthorn; The
L/ynx is the contribution of Spearman
EACHERS in schools where:
High School. The Eagle flies from
...-there.are
no library facili-;
Georgetown High, and The Eaglet
;ies
may.
obtain valuable matecqnies from Ropesville. The Purple
Pup, as we have mentioned, is pro- rial on many subjects suitable
duced by the Sidney Lanier Junior for school themes from the ExHigh of Houston. Holland High tension Loan
Library. This maSchool supplies another Hornet.
terial,
made
up. in the form of
Killeen has The Kangaroo, and Abernathy has The Abemathy Antelope. package libraries, is loaned free
From La Feria comes The Lion; from to any school in the State.
Bartlett, The Bulldog; and from LibFollowing is a partial list of theme
erty, The Panther. Slaton produces subjects on which package libraries
The Tiger's Cage and Henrietta pub- may be borrowed:
lishes The Bearcat Parchment.
What Are the Effects of the World
Studying the papers of other high War?; How Congress Works; Danschool? is one of the best methods an gers That Beset International Peace;
editor and his staff may employ in So Big Texas; Installment Buying;
getting ideas to improve his own The Story of the Constitution; Where
paper. If you have not already devel- Do Capital and Labor Stand; Om
oped a large mailing list, why not add World Commerce; The Progress of
to' that list some of the names men- Disarmament; The Third House of
ongress Lobbyists; Our Lame Duck
tioned above?
Congress; The Pan-American ConA Bigger "Battery"
gress; Our Texas Rangers; Where Do
Several of the papers of last year Women Stand in Politics?; How the
have blossomed forth this year with President Is Elected; The Progress
a different set of type or a different of the Negro; The Merit System
style of make-up. One of these is The Pocket Americans
Mountaineers
Battery of Abilene High School. The Whoe Caused the World War?
Battery was a mighty good paper last Women in Industry; The History of
year, but it is a better one this year. Our Money; Our Indian Dances; Fa
It, has broadened from a six-column mous Inventors; Famous Women o;
to a seven-column paper. The type History; Famous ' Women of the
used for headlines last year was heavy United States; Prominent Women o:
and black and what is called "con- Texas; Texas Heroes; Our Nationa
densed" type. The new paper has re- Playgrounds; The Talking Movie.
placed this old type with a lightei
It is well when writing for materia
type called "clearface" that is much on a subject to indicate a seconc
easier to read. Are your headlinef choice. Acl'dress requests to the Ex
so heavy and black and condensec tension Loan Library, University 6:
that they are hard to read? If so Texas,
,
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(\
TALKS ON TEXAS BOOKS
XIII.
Texas Literature (Payne)
By W. P. Webb
say the State is too young, its culture
too immature. That would seem to be
the opinion of the great universities
of this State, and therefore of the
controlling- .members of their faculties. So far as I know there is not
a course in English in any state supported institution in Texas that devotes more than casual notice to
Texas literature. And some have refused outright to permit such a course
to be given.
It would seem that the public
schools of this tSate have an opportunity to take the lead in the study of
Texas literature. Dr. Payne's contribution has made that possible. In
time, it may be, the universities and
colleges would follow the example and
make some provision for a study of
the artistic and literary efforts native to the soil that supports them.
HERE has just come from
the press a little volume by
Dr. L. W. Payne, of the English
Department of the University of
Texas, entitled A Survey of
Texas Literature. The book, or
pamphlet, is what its title indicates. Dr. Payne has undertaken
to examine the books that have
been written about Texas or by
Texas people, and to appraise
their literary value. The first
part of the book is devoted to the
W. Payne, A Survey of Texas Litliterary output of Texas from L. erature,
Hand McNally & Co., Chithe time of Cabeza de Vaca to cago. 50 cents.
the end of the Civil War. In
this period there was a beginning of history, fiction, arid
Athletics for Girls
poetry. Although the history
and the fiction of the time have
By Ethel Pen-in
been surpassed by later writers,
EDITOR'S A'OTB. Miss Perrin is Chairman
it seems to be generally agreed o£ the Woman's Division of the National
Amateur Athletic Federation, for ten years
that the best poetry produced was
head of the Department of Physical
Education o£ the Detroit public schools.
in or about Texas up to date
was written at this time. Mira- WE WANT more athletics and we
want the right kfpd. Look at
beau B. Lamar's "The Daughter
;he girls returning from summer
of Mendoza," and Reuben M. camps as they race off the trains in
Potter's "Hymn of the Alamo" ;he city terminals, eager to greet
s.eems to hold first rank in Barents and show their marvelous
:oats of tan. These girls are sturdy,
poetry.
The outstanding development after
the Civil War was the rise of literature, history, fiction, and poetry,
about the cattle country and the cowboy. And of this that which will
probably endure longest is the cowoy ballads, folk-songs. Dr. Payne1
nentions more or less briefly all who
lave done any considerable writing
bout the cattle countrf*. He calls
he period in which this writing apeared the transition period. In the
ec'tion devoted to the more recent
eriod, one finds the names of Texas
writers still living. Among them are
Dorothy Scarborough, Barry Benefield, John W. Thomason, Jr., Ruth
TOSS, George Patullo, Karle Wilson
Baker, Clyde Hill, Grace Noll Crow11, John P. Sjolander, Larry Chittenen, Leonard Doughty, Stark Young,
nd that beloved genius whose name"1
vas William Sidney Porter, known to
s as O. Henry. In conclusion, Dr.
'ayne gives some attention to the
rarious agencies, newspapers, book
eviews, clubs and libraries, that have
iromoted an interest in Texas art and
iterature.
This volume devoted to a'survey of
Texas literature is a good sign. It
means, in the first place, that the hisory of this state is now sufficiently
ong to justify a book about Texad
ooks. It means that art. and litera-^
ure are on the way. In the second
place, the fact that a reputable pubisher was willing to go to the exense of bringing out this book is alnost a sure sign that there is among
he people a present or potential denan d for such a work.
It is quite fitting, too, that Dr.
'ayne, of the English Department of
he University of Texas, should have
prepared such a volume. The hunIreds of teachers in this State who
lave studied under him realize that
ic is well fitted by training and by
nclination to do something for Texas
n this way. In that respect Dr.
Dayne is unique, with possibly one
or two exceptions. Dr. Payne is not
only interested in the books he wrote
about or the book he wrote but he
s interested in the people who wrote
;hem. Perhaps no one requires sympathy born of understanding more
;han one. who writes. It must have
seen some such character as Dr.
Payne that Stark Young had in mind
,vhen he wrote recently in The New
Republic:
I am thinking of P's generous
interest and concern long ago when I
was writing my first lines, of that unending assurance that he wanted me
to turn out well, write beautifully,
and that art was a natural impulse,
not a luxury. . . . This great gift of
creative generosity and warmth of
heart that he has, enables him to see
this man (the author) as the man
himself wishes to be seen. . . He
wishes for you your own kind of perfection, and senses your desire and
motion toward it. He becomes your
best public because more and more
of you goes where more and more of
you is welcome; and your best critic
because he helps you to judge whal
you have done, not by the achievemenl
of others, but by what is possible to
you.
Stark Young's characterization
which suits Dr. Payne to a T, indicates unmistakably a person wel
qualified to do just what Dr. Payne
has done. Those Texas authors whos
names are mentioned in this volum
may be thankful that Dr. Payne un
derstands men as well as books.
Dr. Payne's book brings up tb
question: Does Texas really have ;
literature? Many people, supposed! j
well informed, deny that'it has; thej
hey have grown in height, breadth
and weight, they look as though they
ould move mountains and above all
hey are happy. The parents look a
ittle bewildered at the change but
bey are proud and the first inforr/i+ion to reach them in the hubbub
s what these girls can do, how many
Mountains they have climbed, how far
hey can swim, what stunts they can
o on a horse or in a canoe, and what
lew games they can play. Not only
he star. performers are telling of
heir accomplishments and showing
he benefit of a summer in the open.
3very girl, big or small, heavy or
ilght, very husky or naturally less
lusky, has her accomplishments to
Ik about, because she has had her
hare of opportunities. Now the
chool regime begins and it would be
i great pity if through over enthuiasm for a "winning school team"
lese youngsters lost out on this equal
pportunity plan which they have en-,,
oyed all summer. Equal opportunity
or all means just as ,'much time,
iquipment and leadership given to
he athletic dub as to the star. In
he school it does not mean that "the
earn" is to have first consideration,
f, however, a school lias the wherewith-all to give every Student what
e needs and desires in- an athletic
rograni and can give still more to
he super-group, well and good but
et them first take care of the maority.
To narrow the discussion to athetics for girls, the biological difference between girls arid boys points
o a difference in selection of athletic
events. Instead we have turned to socalled "standard" events, standardzed originally for men'and later for
joys. And again following, we have
ised the ago old method of intense
nter-group competition. But the
question arises how are we to reap
he social and character building benefits claimed for inter-school competitive athletics unless we develop
winning teams and record breakers?
Here lies the whole point of this
writing there is a way and it is a
good one. Have more inter-school
athletics, but play with instead of
against. Not a play of words but a
real idea, and this is how it \vorks
Let School A invite School B to a
'Sports Day" or "Play Day" or whatever you wish to call it. School A
with much forethought and many
ommittees, arranges a program into
which everyone, from the star to the
dub, may fit something for everyone
to play. All School A students have
been divided into, say four teams
each with its own name. As the -visitors arrive they are invited to join a
team so that when the festivities begin there -are four teams, each made
LEAGUER. The Brackenridge Times
up of one-half from School and the
other half from School B. All com
petition of the day lies between thes<
four teams and it takes no time at al
to build up a group loyalty apd a
friendly rivalry. Any number maj
participate, according to space an<
any type of activity may be caj^riec
out.
'
We talk about our modern Olmypici
promotinf good feeling between na
tions because these selected atWete
meet in contest. As a matter of fac
each national team goes into the con
test with the assurance that it is su
perior to all other teams. This i
part of the technique of coaching
Is this very different from preparation
for war? And each team returns, i
victorious, with this feeling enhancec
MUSIC SUPERVISOR
PLAYS USED IN
WANTS MUSIC CONTEST
1928 CONTESTS
PART OF LEAGUE WORK
(Continued from Page 1)
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ville, "The Trysting Place," Booth
Tarkington.
Georgetown,
"Lonesome - Like,"
Harold Brighouse; Goodnight, "Three
Pills in a Bottle," Rachel Field; Garland, "The Diabolical Circle," Beulah
Bornstead; Groom, "The Lie That
Jack Built," Georgia Earle.
Hamlin, "The Rushlight," Monier
Barry O'Shea; Harlandale "The Finger of God," Percival Wilde; Haskell,
The Lord's Prayer," Francis Coppee;
Highland Park, "The Giant Stair,"
Wilbur D. Steele; Hillsboro, "The
Neighbors," Zona Gale; Humble,
"Keeping Him Home/' Katharine
Haviland Taylor.
Kingsville, "Six Who Pass While
the Lentiles Boil," Stuart Walker;
Klondike, "Lifting Jimmy's Jinx,"
Ernest J. Sharpsteen.
Laredo, "Enter the Hero," Theresa
Helburn; Littlefield, "The Dear Departed," Stanly Houghton; Lockhart,
"Rooms to Let," M.. N. Beebe; Lockney, "Sauce for the Goslings," Elgine
Warren; Lubbock, "The Bishop's
how music has advanced within the
ast five years. I don't know how it is
n any other section than South
^exas, but I do know that a high parentage of the smaller towns like Sinon, Kenedy, Nordheim, Karnes City,
ind others in that class have either
irchestras or brass bands. I know of
ne two-teacher rural school that has
in orchestra of twelve.
The first difficulty that you mention
the absence of a school of music in
he University is a very real one,
-ut I don't know whether we should
e bothered greatly about that or not.
Usually people who are in those
chools are artists, and they are iiierested in making artists of other;
"hey seem to be so far in advance
f the mind of a normal person, that
hey are not able to see difficulties
hat are very real to those who are
lot as proficient as they. In almost
very instance they select the type of
nusic that only a well-balanced proessional orchestra can play. They
o not take into consideration that Luling, "A Modern Club-Woman,"
he director of a high-school orches- Mrs. W. C. Weaver.
McAllen, "Our Neighbors," Zona
ra, to give the training to all who
Gale;
Mexia, "Six Who Pass While
ome for it, has to take whatever inthe
Lentiles
Boil," Stuart Walker;
trumentation happens to fall to him,
whether it balances or not. Of course Miami, "Old Wash Lucas," Paul
e will do everything possible to get Green; Mercedes, "Finders-Keepers,"
he proper balance. My point is that eorge Kelly, Merkel, "On Vengeance
lost of those people, while they know Height," Allan Davis.; Milby (Housnusic unquestionably, do not know ton), "Fixin's," Erma and Paul
hat problems a teacher has to meet ireen; Miles, "The Neibhbors," Zona
Jale; Mineola, "Not Quite Such a
i the ordinary hiph school. I beGoose," Elizabeth Gale, Mission,
eve we could be just, as successful
'Judge Lynch," J. W. Rogers, Jr.;
: we had a .committee composed of
Munday, "The Trysting Place," Booth
ur niost experienced supervisors. In
Tarkington.
electing music, I would follow the
New Braunfels, "The Neighbors,"
anie plan that is followed in declaZona Gale; Newton, "Suppressed Denation, if I were responsible for it.
sires," Crom Cook and Susan Glashere is so much that is standard
pell; Normangee, "Double Crossed";
that would be my only stipulationNorth Side (Fort Worth), "Columlat the piece selected should have
sine," Colin Campbell Clements;
een recognized as worth while) that
North Dallas, "Forty Miles an Hour,"
le director of each orchestra should
arolyn Draper Gilfatri.
ave no trouble in finding just the
O'Donnell, "The Florist Shop,"
iece that his-particular orchestra can
Winifred Hawkridge; Olton, "Sauce
o well.
for the Goslings," Elgine Warren.
The enormous number of children
Pampa,
"Grandma Pulls the
akiiig part in those contests is the String," . Edith Barnard Delano and
reatest difficulty that I can see ir, David Carb; Panhandle, "Getting
ie way of inaugurating these con- Off," Edith Barnard Delano and Daests. The only solution to that prob- vid Carb; Pecan Gap, "Not Quite Such
em would be to eliminate by districts a Goose," Elizabeth Gale; Pharr,
s they do in football until only a "Neighborrs," Zona Gale; Polytechew are left. Jt would necessitate nic, "Grandma Pulls the String," Demiting the number of persons who lano -and David Carb; Post, "The
flight take part in each event, but Brink of Silence," Esther E., Galven that would not hurt the schools, braith.
,,
ut it should furnish a greater inRails, "The Valiant," Holworthy
entive to all of the pupils to do their Hall and Robert Middlemas; Roaringery best, so that they may be among Springs, "Not 'Quite'Such a Goose,"
le chosen few. '
Elizabeth Gale; Rochelle, "Riches,"
Like you, I have no interest \vhat- Gilbert Emory; Rqtan, "Spreading
ver in promoting any contest which the News,"- Iiady-jGregory; Refugio,
oes not emphasize work done in the "Glory of the. Morning," W. E. Leon:hools. After all, we are not trying ard; Robstowh, "The Pot Boiler,"
o make artists of these students, but Alice Gerstenbe'rgr Rock Springs, "By
e are trying to broaden their hori- Ourselves," Lu-dwig Fulda; "Rockon and give them a wholesome way wall, "Not ;.Q.uit:e Such a Goose,"
o spend their' leisure time. If some Elizabeth Gale; Roscoe, "Finders
f them develop into artists, that is Keepers," George Kelly; Royse City,
ust so much gained, but if we con "Who Kissed Barbara"; Runge, "The
e sure that their lives are made Adults," Elizabeth Hall Yates.
Sam Houston (Houston), "The Unuller and richer by this meana,
whether they develop into artists or seen," Alice Gerstenberg; San Anelo, "Thursday Evening," Christoot, the time has been well spent.
Briefly, the plan I had in mind ran 'her Morley; San Jacinto (Houston),
omething like this: To have three The Confessional," Percival Wilde;
o-roups in chorus singing, primary, in- ieymour, "Where the Cross Is Made,"
ermediate, and high school. The pri- kigene O'Neili; Slaton, "Neighbors,"
mary and intermediate would appeal Zona Gale; Strawn, "Twelve Pound
ven to the rural schools, and need ook," Barrie; Somerville, "The
lot go further than the district, if -iant's Stair," Wilbur Daniel Steele;
hat far. The primary group will Sweetwater, "The Bishop's Candlef course sing in unison and the in- ticks," Norman McKinnel.
Taylor, "Mansions," Hildegarde
ermediate group either in unison or
hammer;
Temple "Two Crooks and a
wo-part. That will give the intermeiiate group a chance, and it should .ady," Eugene Pillot; Terrell, "Not
nake judging easier, for obviously Quite Such a Goose," Elizabeth Gale;
wo-part music is more difficult than Trenton, "Neighbors," Z'oria Gale;
unison. IHA the high-school group Tulia, "Not Quite Such a Goose,'
there might be girls' chorus, boys' Elizabeth Gale; Tynan, "The Trystchorus, or mixed. Let it be under- ng Place," Booth Tarkington.
Union Hill (Fort Worth), "The
stood that if the chorus is either all
iris or all boys, that the music must Quick Lovers," B. C. Bynum.
Vernon, "Judge Lynch," John Wilje two or three part, and if it is a
liam Rogers, Jr.
mixed chorus, four part.
Weatherford, "The Thrice PromIn orchestra and band contests, it
ised Bride," Cheng-Chin Hsving
would be fair to have two groups
Westminster, "The Neighbors," Zonj
one group in which most of the memale; West Camp (Muleshoe), "Findbers of the organization were players Keepers," George Kelly; Wharing with a band or orchestra for the
ton, "The Hour-Glass," W. B. Yeats
first time, and another group in which
West Columbia, "The Rescue," Rita
the greater number of members had
Creighton Smith; Wortham, "Old
had one or more year's experience.
Walnut," Allena Harris.
Yoakum, "Uncle Jimmy," Zona
( EDITOR'S NOTE. We shall be glac Gale.
to publish in THE LEAGUER other suggestions looking to the establishment
OBJECTS TO PLAN
of music contests in the League.)
OF SATURDAY PLAY
and if defeated, with a feeling that
either coaches were poor or they had
a "rotten deal." Is this very different from war?
If we give children experience in
friendly, rather than bitter rivalry
and if they have these experiences so
often that the world does not rise or
fall becaus eof the outcome, we maj
be able to return to the _spirit of th
old Olympic games, a devotion to ai
(Continued from Page 1)
tober issue of the INTERSCHOLASTI
LEAGUER concerning the limiting t
Saturday and holidays the playing o
all school contests, many argument
against such a plan could be advancec
but one only is sufficient to offset a
the points that he has listed in f avo
of such a plan and that is in orde
to have athletics they must be finance
THE KYLE
SEMINARY
W
HEN KYLE was young,
among the most prominent
and important of her institutions was the Kyle Seminary, established in the fall of 1881 by
Eev. T. H. Storts, a Baptist minister from Missouri. This was
the first school in the new town.
Rev. Storts came to Kyle in the
early part of 1881, made arrangements and contracts, and began the
erection of his buildings. He pro-
Rev. T. H. Storts, the Founder
ured four town blocks, the present
ome of Mrs. H. C. Wallace being the
lortheast corner. There were no
treets or alleys passing through this
roperty it was a solid block.
The Storts family came down in
September and the school opened in
)ctober, with Professor Storts as
resident; Miss Annie Storts, priaary teacher; Miss Meyer, teacher of
ther subjects, and Miss Flora Storts,
ow Mrs. Zeke Nance, music.
The public school was merged with
le Seminary and the institution was
ery prosperous from the beginning,
wo dormitories were built, one each
or girls and boys. The boys' dorlitory was named in memory of Rev.
. N. Morrell, an aged Baptist minster who had recently died in the
ommunity.
In about 1883, Rev. Storts was suceeded as president by Professor
N. M. Jordan, who .had been at the
ead of the Dripping Springs Acadmy, and who was able to bring a
umber of the ptipils from that
chool. Professor Jordan prevailed
n Mrs. W. W. Andrews, who had
n academy at Science Hall, to move
ler school and consolidate it with
he Kyle school. This gave the school
uite an impetus and it prospered
wonderfully.
But in some manner, Mrs. Andrews
vas not satisfied with the arrangenent and withdrew from the school
,t the end of a year.
After two or three years Professor
'ordan was succeeded by Professor
ames, who was a great school man
and under whose management the
chool continued to prosper greatly.
But in the late eighties dissatisaction arose over the public school
leing connected with the Seminary.
About this time two of the buildings
vere burned, which spelled the doom
the Kyle Seminary. But in its
lay it was a splendid school and
erved its purpose well. Kyle News.
o
"Madam, we guarantee satisfaction
ir we return the boy," Woodrow Wilson once told a solicitous mother on
;he busy opening day of college.
-the bills have to be paid. It is impossible to do this with the receipts
aken in on Saturday in many places.
Such is the situation at Palestine. On
:he other hand, I found Saturday the
jest day for games in Dallas. . The
matter of days for contests is purely
a local matter. The school authorities
.vho are responsible for financing athletics in their particular communities
know the situation there better than
anybody else in Texas and it is a part
of their duties as school men to correlate the activities of the school with
the conditions that exist in their respective communities.
To'arbitrarily regulate when teams
in all sections of Texas must play
would be as.wise as the National Government requiring pupils in .a small
rural section in Iowa to study exactly
the same course of study as that prescribed in New York City.
Let us use common sense in the administration of our executive duties
in our own communities and expect
the other fellow to do it in his or let
the school boards get rid of us and
get executives who will.
If it meets the local situation to
play on Saturday, then play on Saturday; if Friday is a better day, then
play on Friday. State control arid,
regulation is good in many instances,,
but often times it is a hindrance in
matters that are strictly of a local
character, ,_ _, ,.^ ,'.,......,...,.__^
INiHERSCHOirASTIC LEAGUER
Direc-
Wichita County
Voung County
letics; Miss Evelyn Plunkett, Kirvin,
R. E. Brewster, Iowa Park, Director Genarose of sending members of the fac- surely it attained a size last year uptor of Music Memory.
I. T. Gilmer, GraHam, Director General;
eral; E. E. Rogers, Electra, Director of De- Staney H. Peavy, Graham, Director of DeCOUNTY OFFICERS
Henderson County
ulty out to visit high schools and in- wards of fifteen hundred students,
bate; Mrs. D. P. Lowe, Wichita Falls, Direc- bate; J. Lee Farrar, South Bend, Director
B. O. Smith, Athens, Director General; tor of Declamation: Miss Mary McGinnis, of Declamation; Eula B. May, Jean, Director
spect their work. There are paper and statisticians have computed that
_. C. Miller, Trinidad, Director of Debate; Burkburnett, Director of Spelling; Miss of Spelling; A. M. Whitis, Newcastle, DirecUnithe
at
instruction
The
school
summer
standards and real standards.
of Declamation not given) ; W. E. Dora Temple, Thrift, Director of Essay Writ- tor of Essay Writing; Ivan Oliver, Graham,
F YOUR county officers have (DirectorExistace,
Director of Spelling; Miss ing; I. B. Griffith, Iowa Park, Director of Director of Athletics; Miss Katherine Bills,
Wylie,
of
student
per
cheapest
which
the
is
that
of
versity
consists
standard
paper
(Continued from Page 1) __
Lm-a Hill, La Rue, Director of Essay Writ- Athletics; Miss Clairie McNay, Burkburnett, I Graham, Director of Music Memory.
report
please
elected,
been
the
of
other
ing ; George H. Turner, Athens, Director of Director of Music Memory.
is printed" in the high-school an- instruction offered in any
Miss Annie Pope, Malakoff, Direcschool them for publication in THE Athletics;
public
Many
be
terms.
may
and
University
catalogue,
or
nouncement
tor of Music Memory.
recently to a friend, "was a wonderbeappearing
list
appraised by a mere examination of teachers have secured degrees by at- LEAGUER. The
Harris County
ful help from the beginning."
to tending the summer school who, with- low will not be printed again,
order
In
submitted.
Hugo Hartsiield, Pasadena, Director Gendocument
the
Professor
that
record
on
It is not
J. J. Johnson, .Crosby, Director of
however, a out this opportunity for summer in- but those received before the eral;
Debate; O. E. Lunsford, Houston, Rt. 5,
Sutton from that time to this ever get at the real standard,
Director of Declamation; J. H.
able
633,
been
Box
have
never
would
inspection of the struction,
lost sight of what he conceived to personal visit and
issue goes to press will Sheppard, La Porte, Director of ofSpelling;
a University degree. The January
secure
and
to
Essay
necessary,
is
expert
an
Webster, Director
by
Greene,
work
H.
P.
be at the start the correct relationship
If Any Errors Are Noted in the List of District Officers, Please Notify the
J. F. Horton, Pasadena, Director of
of bringing appear in the January issue, and Writing;
University
the
the
to
value
examine
to
also
necessary
is
it
South
Yelverton,
Pauline
Miss
Athletics;
between the University and the public
Counties Comprising District Number 16
State Office at Once.
the students. public school men and women within so on. If any errors occur in Houston, Director of Music Memory.
schools, viz., that the University is the actual written work of
They Are Practically the Same as
Issue.
This
in
Omitted
Are
Jack County
and more personal its walls for summer instruction has the following list, please send in
in the Next Issue of The Leaguer.
head of the public school system, and Gradually, more
Published
Be
Will
and
Year
Last
General;
Pruett, Perrin, Director
and it is been incalculable, and was a part of corrections so that we may make W.H.C.N.Franklin,
Postoak, Director of Dethat, in so far as its service can go, inspection work was done,
date; J. C, Terry, Bryson, Director of Declaprofited Professor Button's regular policy witt
perintendent T. A. Fisher, Cameron, Direcit should better the standards of the rumored that the inspectors
Miss Lois Honeycutt, Jermyn, DiDistrict No. 1
which corrections on our permanent mation;
relationship
the
to
regard
more
perhaps
tor of Declamation; Superintendent E. R.
learned
and
much
as
rector of Spelling; Miss Stella Conner,
public schools and train teachers for
W
Professor
Canyon.
Center:
H.
District
Howard, Mart, Director of Extemporaneous
C.
Writing;
Director of Essay
Jacksboro,
records.
University
the
between
exist
should
the
than
visits
Stewart, Jacksboro, Director of Athletics; E, Loekhart, West Texas State Teachers Speech; Superintendent C. C. Comer, Gateswork therein. The life blood of the from these inspection
s, E. M. Davidson, Jacksboro, Director of College, Director General; Professor C. W. ville, Director of Essay Writing; Mr. G. M.
Cer- and the public schools.
Previously published:
University flows into it, of course, schools which were inspected.
Batchelder, West Texas State Teachers' Col- Smith, High School, Waco, Director of AthMusic Memory.
begun
was
School
Summer
The
a
as
lege, Director of Debate; Professor H. A, letics. Counties: Bell, Coryell, Falls, FreeAnderson, Angelina, Archer.
from the public schools, and any in- tainly there grew up naturally
County
Johnson
Finch, Superintendent of Schools, Dalhart stone, Limestone, Milam, McLennan, Robertand
enterprise,
private
a
as
partly
Blanco,
cordiale
Bell,
entente
"
an
Bowie,
work
Bexar,
this
of
Bee,
result
I. G. Kennon, Cleburne, Director General; Director of Declamation; Superintendent C. son.
terruption or disharmony intervening
as
say,
Debate;
would
E. Weaver, Silverton, Director of Extemof
R.
Director
Benedict
Dr.
Joshua,
as
No. 15
partly,
G. C. Koons,
District
public
the
and
Brown.
University
Briscoe,
the
Brazos,.
between
Bosque,
public
the
between the University and
E. D. Shelton, Venus, Director of Declama- poraneous Speech; Miss Jennie C. Ritchie,
Professor
District Center: Huntsville.
a "regential" undertaking; that is ;
Camp, Caldwell, Cass, Collins, tion; Mrs. V. B. Penuel, Cresson, Director West Texas State Teachers' College, Can- Earl
schools must be detrimental to the schools which strengthened both very
Hultor, Sam Houston State Teachers'
of Spelling; Miss Sybil Wray, Grandview, yon, Director of Essay Writing; Mr. S. D College, Director General; Superintendent
me
was
expenses
the
of
payment
part
Crosby.
Comanche,
materially.
Colorado,
College
Teachers'
State
Texas
latter and all but fatal to the former.
Director of Essay Writing; C. C. Laughlin, Burton, West
of Deof Athletics. Counties: Armstrong L. G. Andrews, Navasota, Director
by the University itself, and part by
Dawson; Denton, Dallas, Dimmitt. Alvarado, Director of Athletics; Miss Mary Director
Broadway,
Influence of Affiliation
It has been Professor Sutton's disBriscoe, Carson, Castro, Dallam, Deaf Smith, bate; Superintendent Robert F. Miss
Music
of
Director
Cleburne,
Cleveland,
Mary
fees collected from matriculants. It
Gray, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill, Hutch- Trinity, Director of Declamation;
Ellis, Erath.
Memory.
tinctive service to the University that
Now it would be far from Professor
Ochiltree, Oldham S. Estill, Huntsville, Director of ExtemporaMoore,
Lipscomb,
inson,
years
twenty
just
1918,
in
only
was
J. P. Dewald,
Falls, Fayette, Fort Bend, Fisher.
King County
Parmer, Potter, Randall, Roberts, Sherman neous Speech; Superintendent
he has, through the Department of Button's claim, who, by the way, has
Willis, Director of Essay Writing; Professor
after its birth, that the Summer
J. W. Bentleyj Dumont, Director General; Swisher.
Gaines, Grayson, Guadalupe, GilTeachers'
State
Houston
Sam
Jones,
W.
J.
Visitation and the School of Educa- the happy manner of rather underratDistrict No. 2
Mrs. W. D. Newtnan, Dumont, Director of
College, Huntsville, Director of Athletics.
School was made an integral part of lespie, Goliad.
Debate; Miss Maurice Hardesty, Guthrie,
tion, brought students to the Univer- ing his own services, that affiliation
Lubbock. Professor A Counties: Anderson, Grimes, Houston, Leon,
Center:
District
of Declamation; Mrs. R. K. Wide- W. Evans, Texas Technological College, Di' Madison, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto,
the University, paid for entirely froir
Harrison, Hartley, Hill, Hood, Director
sity from the public schools and sent has been the sole influence making
man, Grow, Director of Spelling; Miss Cath- rector General; W. A. Jackson, Texas Tech' Trinity, Walker.
year, Houston, Hudspeth, Haskell, Hopkins, rine
Last
budget.
University
the
Dumont, Director of Essay Writ- nological College, Lubbock, Director of De
Lesh,
out teachers into them, until in truth for the vast advance made by th
District No. 16
ing; R. K. Wideman, Grow, Director of Ath- bate; Professor J. T, Shaver, Texas Tech'
the Summer School had com
also,
Irion.
Superinof
schools
public
the
Myrtle Browning, Knox City, nological College, Lubbock, Director of Decla^
District Center: Sour Lake.
Mrs.
fact,
letics ;
and in
public schools in Texas during the
Lake, Director Genmencement exercises at which regular
Director of Music Memory.
mation; _____________ Director of Ex tendent J. P. Buck, Sour W.
Jasper.
Texas today and the University may last twenty years. The State has
Liberty,
Evans,
R.
temporaneotis Speech; Professor R. A. Mills eral; Superintendent
Kent County
university degrees were conferred. Ir
Kaufman, Kleberg, Kimble, Knox.
Technological College, Lubbock, Direc- Director of Debate; Superintendent E. B.
Texas
be said to be parts of one organism. progressed in every way, and in this
General;
V. E. Boyd, Clairemont, Director
1898, 186 students matriculated; ir
tor of Essay Writing; E. Y. Freeland, Texas Stover, Orange, Director of Declamation;
Lamb, Lavaca, Live Oak, Leon.
Works on Affiliation
Ed Williams, Girard, Director of Debate; Technological College, Lubbock, Director o Principal Z. A. Williamson, South Park,
mighty stream of progress the publi
1,592.
Director of Declama- Athletics. Counties: Andrews, Bailey, Bor Beaumont,
Director of Extemporaneous
1918,
Jayton,
Pritchard,
Paul
Motley,
Milam,
Medina,
Madison,
The first work (outside of his regu- schools, as well as all other worthj
tion; Mrs. Check Jay, Girard, Director ot' den, Cochran, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens Speech; Superintendent B. W. Martin, KirbyMemento
Valued
DiA
Matagorda,
Jayton,
of Essay Writing; Tom DenRobinson,
McCulloch,
Director
Mildred
Miss
ville,
McLennan,
Spelling;
ProfesLamb
which
Hockley,
Hale,
duties)
Garza,
lar class-room
Floyd, Gaines,
public institutions, have been swep
nis, Port Arthur, Director of Athletics; Mrs.
rector of Essay Writing; T. C. Bowen, Lubbock, Lynn, Martin, Terry, Yoakum.
The present which Professor But- Montague, Morris.
Beaumont, Director of Music
Milam,
B.
sor Sutton entered upon after becom- along willy nilly. But the claim i:
Lena
Girard, Director of Athletics; Miss Nanni^
District No. 3
Memory.
Beth Rice, Jayton, Director of Music Mem,
Nacogdoches, Navarro.
ing a member of the faculty was that made, and there are few public schoo ton probably appreciated most De
Superintend
Childress.
Center:
District
ory.
District No. 17
"X
'
Orange. ,
ent P. P. Brewster, Director General; Super
of making the Committee on Affilia- men who do not agree, that affiliatior cember 25, 1919, was a neatly let
Lamar County
District Center: Alpine. 3. C. Coleman,
intendent C. E. Davis, Quanah, Director o:
Teachers' College, Director
State
Potter.
Ross
School
Polk,
Sul
tion, of which he was made chairman, with the University of Texas has beer tered budget of the Summer
L. Lt. Rowland, Howland, Director General Deba-te; Superintendent R. D. Thompson
V. A. Byrd, Fort
Parker, Midway, Director of Debate Chillicothe, Director of Declamation; Super' General; Superintendent
Reagan, Bed River, Reeves, Re- Aaron Myra
of Debate; Superintendent
a vital force among the public schools one of the major influences in the covering the years from 1898 to 1918
Director
Smith, Howland, Director o' intendent H. T. Burton, Clarendon, Direc Stockton,
Miss
Director of DeclaPecos,
Humphrey,
H.
Joe
Rains,
Superintend
Declamation; Miss Louise Black, Blossom tor of Extemporaneous Speech;
prepared and presented by Dean H fugio, Robertson, Runnels,
of the State. Some had said that all betterment of their standards.
-_......, Director o£
Director of Spelling; Miss Jewel! Edwards, ent C. IK. Jackson, Paducah, Director of Es mation ; ._____._..__.._.-_
Superintendent J.
Speech;
receipt;
showing
Randall.
Extemporaneous
and
affiliated
be
Benedict,
to
Y.
fit
schools in the State
Petty, Director of Essay Writing; Philliip say Writing; Mr. John R. Naylor, Childress
From a mere committee on affilia
of Essay Writing;
Pattonville, Director of Athletics Director of Athletics. Counties: Childress H. Head, Alpine, Director
San Patrick), San Saba, Scurry, Grant,Leona
State Teachers'
were already on the list, .and that tion, with volunteer visitors, came and disbursements both as a "re
Ross
Sul
Graves,
C.
B.
Coach
Frey, Paris, Director of Musi. Collings\vorth, Cottle, Doniey, Foard, Hall
Mrs.
College, Alpine, -Director of Athletics. CounHardeman, King, Motley, Wheeler.
Memory.
therefore the Committee on Affilia- first the office of Visitor of Schools gential" undertaking and as a private Shelby.
El Paso,
Culberson,
Crane,
ties: Brewster,
District No. 4
\
Lavaca County (corrected)
Hudspeth, Jett Davis, Loving, Pecos, PreTarrant, Travis.
tion had a very easy job. But it was with one man's full time devote enterprise. It is neatly framed anc
Ward,
Superin
Upton,
Falls.
Terrell,
Reeves,
District Center: Wichita
sidio,
W. L. Russell, Hallettsville, Director Gen
Upton, Uvalde, Upshur.
the new chairman's notion that other actually to visiting the schools, and bears some such legend as this
Director General Winkler.
eral; Joe R. Schwartz, Schulenburg, Director tendent J. W. G.Cantwell,
C. Boswell, Byers, Directo
District No. 13
Van Zandt, Victoria.
of Debate; W. A. Eilers, Hallettsville, Di- Superintendent
schools should be encouraged to raise organization for examination and "For the one and onlie Begetter o:
Juanita Kinsey, Wichit;
of Declamation ; Mrs. Chas. Chovanetz of Debate; Miss Declamation;
District Center: San Angelo. SuperinSuperintend
of
Director
Waller, Walker, Williamson, Wise, rector
Falls,
their standards to a point justifying criticism of the written work of high the University of Texas Summe:
Columbia
Miss
Spelling;
of
Director
Shiner,
of Ex- tendent Felix E. Smith, Director General;
van Vetterman, Hallettsville, Director of ent C. F. Walker, Henrietta, Director J. F Superintendent J. C. Helm, Sterling City,
Wood.
their inclusion on the affiliated list. school students submitted in the School.
Essay Writing; R. F. Smothers, Moulton temporaneous Speech; Superintendent
Director of Debate; Superintendent W. R.
Writing
Essay
of
Zavala.
Director of Athletics; Miss Hettie Moch, Kemp, Seymour, Director
The physical symbol of his worl<
Affiliation was to be used at once as course of the affiliation process.
of Declamation;
Superintendent B. M, Dinsmore, Electra, Di Hardy, Bronte, A.Director
of Music Memory.
Director
Hallettsville,
H. Smith, Winters, DiSiiperintendent
Bay
rector of Athletics. Counties: Archer,
the University as Dean of the De
in
a tie binding the University to the
County
Atascosa
Speech; SuperinLlano County
The office of Visitor of School
lor, Clay, Jack, Montague, Throckmorton rector of Extemporaneous
of Education may be seen
tendent H. C. Lyon, BaHinger, Director of
partment
public schools, and as a spur to public
General
Director
Pleasanton,
Young.
Smith,
G.
Wilbarger,
L.
Wichita,
A
General;
Director
Llano,
Hart,
W.
W.
later became the Department of Vis
Essay Writing; Mr. W. R. Bissett, San AnC. Donaho, Jourdanton, Director ot De- L. Lane, Pontotoc, Director of Debate; Miss
District No. 5
in the imposing edifice known as the R.
schools to improve their standards.
gelo, Director of Athletics. Counties: Coke,
bate; S. V. Burks, Poteet, Director of Dec- Erne Cleveland, Castell, Director of Declama
with two competent mer
itation,
Masters
E.
B.
Crockett, Ector, Glasscock, Irion,
Paris.
Concho,
Center:
District
Direcconsider
is
conseIt
much
Campbellton,
was
Building.
Education
lamation; A. D. Blue,
Of course, there are
tion; Mrs. Mary Miller, Llano, Director o
Director Gen Midland, Reagan, Runnels, Schleicher, Sterlworking constantly at the job. Thii
of Spelling; A. C. Secrest, Lytle, Di- Spelling; Miss Louise Heinatz, Llano, Di President, Paris Junior College,White,
Clarks
Tom Green.
M.
R.
Sutton,
by many competent critics the hand tor
ing,
quent talk, and there still are echoes,
Superintendent
eral;
rector of Essay Writing; S. DeBorde, Char- rector of Essay Writing; R. B. Tate, Llano
W
department a year or two ago wa
District No. 19
of Athletics; (Music Memory Director of Athletics; Miss Ruth Robinson ville, Director of Debate; Superintendent
somest building on the campus, no lotte, Director
of the University's dominating the
Declamation
of
Director
Bonham,
White,
T.
Director not given).
taken over by the State Departmen
District Center: Kerrville. SuperintendCastell, Director of Music Memory.
~_-._ ___ __, Director of Extemporaexcepting the library building.
even
high-school curriculum, and a multiA. Franklin, .Kerrville, Director GenBorden County
neous Speech; Miss Jennie Jackson, Denison ent ;R.Professor
of Education and is now one of the
Lynn County
G. H. Wells, Schreiner InHis work of twenty years has been
tude of statistics have been brought
Director of Essay Writing; Robert Berry eral
S. T. Matherly, Gail, Director General
L. H. Baze, Tahoka, Director General Paris Junior College, Paris, Director of Ath- stitute, Kerrville, Director of Debate; Suof the vas
M.
subdivisions
principal
Debate.
of
Director
o:
Knapp,
that
Bullock,
E.
policy,
O.
small
one
a
around
what
B. Cowles, Junction, Direcjust
H.
Debate
centered
forward to show
A, L. Faubion, Wilson, Director of
Fannin perintendent
Delta,
letics. Counties: Collin,
Mrs. T. A. Hollar, Gail, Director of Declawork of that important department
tor of Declamation; Professor B. L. Enderle,
L. Burkhalter, O'Donnell, Director o Franklin, Grayson, Lamar, Red River.
articulating properly the Universitj mation; Miss Nova Odom, Fhrvanna, Director W.
percentage of high-school students
Fredericksburg, Director of Extemporaneous
Declamation; J. C. Turney, Wilson, Directo
While a great work of this kind i.< no
District No. 6
Spelling; Miss L.-andrum (first name not of Spelling; Miss Grace Cade, Meadow, Di
Speech; Miss Julia Estill, Fredericksburg,
public schools of Texas. IT of
the
with
ever enter a higher institution of
WritEssay
of
Director
given), Fluvanna,
District Center: Greenville. Superintend Director of Essay Writing; Mr. Howard C.
rector of Essay Writing; Winfield Nicklaus
ever the sole accomplishment of one
three departments of. his work thi ing; Geo. L. Stevens, O'Donnell, Director of Tahoka, Director of Athletics; Miss Merl ent L. C. Gee, Director General; Superin Gilstrap, Schreiner Institute, Kerrville, Dilearning; but these statistics do not
Athletics; Mrs. S. T. Matherly, Gail, Direc- Smith, O'Donneil, Director of Music Memory tendent W. L. Willis, Sulphur Springs, Di rector of Athletics. Counties: Bandera, Gilman, it may be said with absolut
policy has been carried out and ha tor of Music Memory.
show that high-school standards in
rector of Debate; Superintendent 0. P lespie, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Mason.
personality
the
of
more
that
truth
Lipscomb County '
Norman, Kaufman, Director of Declamation
District No. 20
abaundant fruit, namely, in thi
born
fundamental studies, studies imporCounty
Childress
M. W, Graves, Higgins, Director General __^____________., Director of Extempora
and the service of W. S. Sutton wen
District Center: Georgetown. SuperinF. B. Hill, Childress, Director General Delmer Ashworth, Lipscomb, Director of De neous Speech; Superintendent H. O. Ed
Summer School, in the growth of the
tant whether a student ever goes on
into this work than of the personalitj
V. Phillips, Carey, Director of Debate. bate; Mrs. W. H. Sewell, Follett, Director o: wards, Rockwall, Director of Essay Writing tendent Thos. E. Lee, Director General;
Department of Education, and in th T.
to the University, have been lowered.
H. F. Standley, Kirkland, Director of Decla- Declamation; Miss Gladys Lowery, Darrou Principal Lewis P. Hale, Greenville, Direc Superintendent W. H. Korges, Elgin, Direcsingle indi
other
any
of
work
and
L. M. Mills, Childress, Director o" Kett, Director of Spelling; Miss Owen (iirs tor of Athletics. Counties: Hopkins, Hunt tor of Debate; Superintendent R, H. Brister.
development of the Department of mation;
On the contrary, it has been proved
Spelling; Miss. Letha Dumas, Arlie, Director name not given), Booker, Director of Essaj Kaufman, Rains, Rockwall, Van Zandt, Wood Taylor, Director of Declamation; Harvey
vidual.
Williams, Austin, Director of ExtemporaVisitation.
of Essay Writing; E. F. Covey, Tell, Di- Writing; Edwin W. Spitzer, Follett, Directo:
conclusively that high-school standDistrict No. 7
neous Speech; Principal W. L. Darnell, 2611
rector of Athletics; Miss Viola Cravens of Athletics; Miss Scott (first name noi
Conference for Education
Professor
years
busy
these
H
ards in English, history, mathematics
In
Wichita St., Austin, Director of Essay WritCenter: Texarkana. Professor
Childress, Director of Music Memory.
given), Higgins, Director of Music Memory L. District
Lamb, 1541 West Ninth St., Texarkana ing; Mr. C. M. Edens, Coach, Southwestern
The same may be said of the Texa: Sutton has found time to be a mem
and languages have been materially
Clay County
Martin County
Director General; Superintendent P. E. Wal University, Georgetown, Director of AthletDirector 01 Debate; Su ics. Counties: Bastrop, Burnet, Lampasas,
raised by affiliation. And with the Conference for Education, which wa ber of and take active part in the
C. C. Bock, Petrolia, Director .General
M. E. Butterfield, Stanton, Director Gen lace, Mt. Pleasant,
Debate.
«£
Director
perintendent W. J. Walker, Gilmer, Direc Llano, Travis, Williamson.
Henrietta,
Walker,
F.
C.
o:
eral; Richard Overton, Tarzan, Director
coming in of large numbers of elec- financed and organized inJ907. Thii work of both the Texas State Teach R. R., Pope, Blue Grove, Director .of Decla- Debate;
H. L
District No. 21
Mrs. Leonard Rose, Ackerly, Direc tor of Declamation; Superintendent
Tammie Burrus, Bell evue, Di tor of Declamation; Miss Maude Eidson Morris, Naples, Director of Extemporaneou
tiv S in the high-school courses of organization functioned for severa ers' Association, and of the N.E.A mation ; Miss
District Center: Brenham. Arthur Nierector of Spelling; F. W. Richardson, Byers Stanton, Director of Spelling; Miss Lora Speech; Miss Opie Dalby, High School, Tex buhr, Brenham, Director General; Superinstudy, plenty of room has been made years and in the course of its to He was at one time president of th Director of Essay Writing; C. F. Sullivant. Self, Midland, Director of Essay Writing arkana, Director of Essay Writing; Pro tendent W. W. Few, La Grange, Director o£
Director of Athletil s; Miss L. D. Todd, Stanton, Director of Athletics fessor M. F. Fleming, Winneld, Director o Debate; Superintendent W. F. Wellborn, Bellfor students who have no desire to short life it accomplished one thing National Society of College Teacher Henrietta,
Martha Nichols, Henrietta, Director of Musii Miss Loraine Lamar, Stanton, Director o Athletics. Counties: Bowie, Camp, Cass ville, Director of Declamation; Principal
it:
Marion, Morris, Titus, Upshur.
justified,
than
more
NaMemory.
which
learnthe
of
alone
higher
of
member
of Education, a
enter an institution
Ernest M. Walls, A. and M. Consolidated,
Music Memory.
District No. 8
College Station, Director of Extemporaneous
Cooke County
Panola County
ing, while at the same time the same existence, and that was y the carrying tional Society for the Scientifii
Miss Adice Cameron, Hempstead,
Superintended
Speech;
Abilene.
Center:
District
Gen
Director
Forestburg,
Barnes,
E.
A.
General
rais
Director
Gary,
amendment
McLeroy,
L.
W.
in
of a constitutional
R. D. Green, Director General; Superintend Director of Essay Writing; Coach Frank W.
students secure better training
Study of Education, Chairman of tin eral; H. H. Moss, Gainesville, Director of De
Beckville, Director of Debate ent J. F. Boren, Baird, Director of Debate Allenson, Brenham, Director of Athletics.
Lewis,
L.
A.
ing the tax limit for school purposes University Commission on Race bate and Declamation; Mrs. Roblert Trew, W. T. Bridges, Beckville, Director of Decla Superintendent B. H. McLain, Sweetwater Counties: Austin, Brazos, Burleson, Colofundamental subjects than before.
Gainesville, Director of Spelling; IKliss Mars mation; Mrs. W. D. Harris, Carthage, Rt. 5 Director of Declamation; Professor John N rado, Fayette, Lee, Waller, Washington.
in rural communities to 50 cents, and Questions in the South. He has beer J.
Was No Partisan
Cox, Gainesville, Director of Essay Writ Director of Spelling; Miss Ellie Kay, Carth Watson, Abilene, Director of Extempora
District No. 22
D. Otts, Woodbine, Director of Ath age, Rt. 4, Director of Essay Writing; Joe neous Speech; Superintendent Ben S. Peek
ing;
b
might
tax
a
such
that
for
educationa
providing
to
work
his
in
a constant contributor
Professor Sutton,
District Center: Houston..- Professor N.
letics; A. G. Pfaff; Gainesville, Oireetor o Lacy, Carthage, Director of Athletics; Miss Colorado, Director of Essay Writing; Dr.
better standards in high schools, carried by a simple majority instead journals and magazines, is co-author Music Memory.
Maurine Baker, Beckville, Director of Musii D. W. Arnett, Simmons College, Abilene K. Dupre, Assistant Dean, Junior College,
Director General; Superintendent
Memory.
Director of Athletics. Counties: Callahan Houston,
Coleman County
never adopted the attitude of being of the former two-thirds majority re of Pupils Series of Arithmetics
Director of DeKent, Knox J. C. Ingram,' Goose Creek, Peterson,
Jones,
Howard,
Haskell,
Fisher,
RosenCounty
Parker
Superintendent M. V.
A. M. Scarborough, Novice, Director GenSutton and Bruce's Arithmetic, Lowe; eral;
a representative of the University of quirement.
Mitchell, Nolan, Scurry, Shackelford, Stone bate;
SuperintendDeclamation;
of
Director
berg,
A. Ben Oliver, Santa Anna, E)irector of
General
Aledo, Director
McAlister,
E.
G.
Taylor.
wall,
prirm
Professor Sutton was the
ent K. E. Oberholtzer, El Campo, Director
and Higher; Sutton and Horn's Debate; Alta Gray, Talpa, Director of Dec- John Ragle, Millsap, Director of Debate; J,
Texas. He talked of the advantage
District No. 9
of Extemporaneous Speech; Superintendent
Mrs. Wesley Williams, Coleman E. Granstaff, Weatherford, Director of Dec
of preparing students so that they mover and the first Dean of the Uni- School Room Essentials. He is also lamation;
Director of Spelling; Mrs. J. C. Scsu-borpugh lamation; A. G. Anthony, Poolville, Directo]
District Center: Stephenville. Mr. E Levi Fry, Texas City, Director of Essay
Anna, Director of Essay Writing of Spelling;. Miss Vera Priddy, Millsap, Di J. Howell, John Tarleton Agricultural Col, Writing; Superintendent L. C. McDonald,
might enter any institution of higher versity of Texas Summer Schoo author of Problems in Modern Edu Santa
Frank Stringer, Colem:an, Director of Ath- rector of Essay Writing; George Bedford lege, Stephenville, Director General; Super East Bernard, Director of Athletics. Couninstru
an
primarily
is
1905
again,
conIn
which,
cation, published in 1913.
learning. Indeed, he always
letics ; Mrs. Martin, Coleman, Director o Garner, Director of Athletics; Miss Ver; intendent L. T. Cook, Breckenridge,, Director ties: Brazoria, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris,
'
Matagorda, Wharton.
White, Springtown, Director of Music Mem- of Debate; Principal R. L. Speer, Eastland,
tended that it is a good thing for the ment for the betterment of public his alma mater, the University of Music Memory.
Director of Declamation; Miss Lillie U.
District No. 23
ory.
County
Cottle
College,
pub'
Agricultural
The
Lilliard, John Tarleton
Arkansas, in recognition of his emiState for some students to go out of school standards in Texas.
District Center: Uvalde. Superintendent
Rusk County
Stephenville, Director of Extemporaneous Guy
Byrd R. Lewis, Paducah, Director General
Dean, Uvalde, Director General; 1 Miss
the State to receive their advanced lie school teacher may attend schoo" nent services to education in the A. H. Hehdrix, Paducah, Director of Debate,
L. L, Hale, Henderson, Director General Speech; Professor Carroll Neeley, John Bertha Dalton, Uvalde, Director of Debate;
Monetta Rasbxiry, Paducah, Dire stor of ThosJ Alien Minden, Director of Debate Tarleton Agricultural College, Stephenville, Superintendent B. H. Miller,, Eagle Pass,
instruction, while other higher educa- in the summer, but not during other South, conferred upon him the degree Miss
Declamation; Mrs. W. G. Wornack, Paklucah, R. H. Hall, Henderson, Director of Decla- Director of Essay Writing; Professor W. J.
of Declamation ; _____________,
Director of Spelling; Mrs. Jesse Lode n, Pa- mation; J. W. Knight, Mt. Enterprise, Di Wisdom, John Tarleton Agricultural College, Director
tional institutions in the State have seasons in the year, and, therefore of LL.D.
Speech; SuperO. B rector of Spelling; Miss Pearl Miller, Hen- Stephenville, Director of Athletics. Counties Director of Extemporaneous
Writing;
Essay
of
Director
ducah,
J. C. Cochran, Del Rio, Director
His health has been poor for the Robinson, Chalk, Director of Athletics ; Mrs derson, Director of Essay Writing; Ches- Eastland, Erath, Hood, Palo Pinto, Somer intendent
never found in Professor Sutton a the summer school was organized with
Cotulla,
Donaho,
T.
W.
Writing;
Essay
of
Moore, Paducah, Director of fMusii ter Duran, Laneville, Director of Athletics veil, Stephens.
the needs of the public school teacher last year, and it has become necessary Grace
University partisan.
Director of Athletics. Counties: Dimmitt,
Memory.
District No. 10
Miss Lelia Worley, Henderson, Director of
Maverick,
LaSalle,
Kinney,
Frio,
Edwards,
for him to give up his regular work
A by-product of considerable im- primarily in view.
Music Memory.
CollingswortK County
District Center: Denton. Professor L Medina, Real, Uvalde, Val Verde, Zavala.
ColTeachers'
State
Texas
And it has been a success from the at the University. His mind, however,
North
Sharp,
A.
District No. 24
County
Augustine
portance in this affiliation work conSan
Dir^ctoi
Dodsonville,
Nicewarner,
J. M.
Director General; Principal E. B. CornDire ctoi
District Center: San Marcos. Professor
D. C. Baldree, Broaddus, Director General lege,
jginning. Growing gradually but is keen and alart, and in his cozy little General; B. W. Beaird, Wellington,
sisted in the necessity which soon
Dallas
School,
High
Dallas
North
stock,
DirecWellington,
of Debate; J. D. Wilson,
C. B. Carter, Melvin, Director of Debate, Director of Debate; Professor C. A. Bridges E. O. Wiley, Southwest Texas State Teachstudy at his .home, 112 West tor of Declamation; M. C. Davis, Shamnock, Miss Pauline Byrd, San Augustine, Director North
College, Director General; Professor L.
Texas State Teachers' College, Denton ers'Wright,
E. H. Cagle, Welling- of Declamation; J. D. Robbins, Veach, DiSpelling;
of
Director
Southwest Texas State Teachers'
iiteenth Street, he takes active in- ton, Director of Essay Writing; C. C. Brown, rector of Spelling; Mrs. Florence Tucker, Director of Declamation; Superintendent H N.
College, San Marcos, Director of Debate;
O. McCain, Gainesville, Director of Ex- Miss Mattie Allison, Southwest Texas State
Grace
Misis
Athletics;
of
Director
Shamrock,
(DiWriting;
Essay
-of
has
Director
which
Broaddus,
problems
big
the
in
terest
temporaneous Speech; Superintendent J. A.
Cagle, Quail, Director of Music Memory.
rector of Athletics not given) ; Miss Eleanor Kooken. Arlington, Director of Essay Writ- Teachers' College, San Marcos, Director of
concerned him throughout life, and
Blohm, San Augustine, Director of Musir ing; Professor Theron J. Fouts, Denton, Di- Declamation; Professor J. W. Dunn, SouthCherokee County
west Texas State Teachers' College, San
Memory.
rector of Athletics: Counties: Cooke, Dal- Marcos,
to the solution of which he has conE. S. Erwin, Husk, Director General; BDirector of Extemporaneous Speech;
County
Smith
Wise.
Tarrant,
Parker,
Denton,
las,
Deof
Director
R. Mathcws, Jacksonville,
Professor D. A. Snellings, Southwest Texas
tributed so much. He is loved and bate:
District No. 11
J. H. Propes, Tyler, Director General
Hayford Holcomb, Alto, Director of '
State Teachers' College, San Marcos, Director
venerated by the teaching profession Declamation; Milburn Ash, Rusk, Director o£ Claud Wilkinson, Troup, Director of De
District enter: Hillsboro. Superintend- of Essay Writing; Professor O. W. Strahan,
Spelling; Miss Ora Schrum, Rusk, Director tiate; E. J. Burns, Whitehouse, Director of ent W. F. Doughty, Director General; Su- Southwest Texas State Teachers' College, San
of Texas, and is truly and in fact of
Counties:
Essay Writing; W. C. Wisener, Dialville, D'eclamation; F, M. Mathis, Tyler, Director perintendent H. D. Fillers, Corsicana, Direc- Marcos, Director of Athletics:
of Athletics; Mrs. L$e Jones, Ponta, of i Spelling; Miss Willie Gilmore, Bullard, tor of Debate; Superintendent L. A. Mills, Atascosa, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell, Comal,
"The Sage of Texas Teacherdom. Director
Director of Music Memory.
Director of Essay Writing; Vernon T. Evans, Itasca, Director of Declamation; Mrs. M. G. Gonzales, Guadalupe. Hays, Wilson.
o
Wi.xiona, Director of Athletics; Miss Louise Doyle, High School, Hillsboro, Director o5
District No. 25
THE SERVICES OF DR.
W. S. SUTTON TO THE
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF TEXAS
'*n
I
-v-iAum
DISTRICT CENTERS AND
DISTRICT OFFICERS
Wanting ©i Closing
Dates
SPEECH ART TEACHERS
REQUEST ALTERATION
OF LEAGUE RULES
(Continued from Page 1)
Mo Membership Accepted
After January IS
No Basket Ball Fee Accepted
After January 8
League has rigidly enforced this rule
for several years. No exceptions can be made
this year.
to acquire more of the English style
of debate, that is, more graciousness
and ease without impairing logic in
the least. It was also agreed that
t would be well to use as the State
subject next years "The Pan-Ameri:an Question."
4. An urgent request was made
for a time to be set aside when
coaches of literary events might meet
and discus's their problems, while at
Austin fpr the Interscholastic Meet
May.
At the banquet of life each in turn
s a guest and a dish. Fabre.
It will be time enough for the warrior to throw away his gun when the
squaw casts away her papoose. Indian Proverb,
Denton County (corrected)
Gleiln, Tyler, Director of Music Memory.
Miss Eulah McElroy, 1612 W. Sycamore,
Taylor County
Denton, has been elected Music Memory
Director to take the place of Miss Vera
E. H. Boulter, Tuscola, Director General;
Manire, Denton.
H. O. Harris, Bradshaw, Director of Debate;
Miss Doris Powell, Buffalo Gap, Director of
Eastland County
Declamation; Miss Mary E. Howton, AbiR. L. Speer, Eastland, Director General; lene, Director of Spelling; Miss Ola Mae
Debate;
Roy Scaggs, German, Director of
Weed, Abilene, Director of Essay Writing;
A. M. Limmer, Desdemona, Director of W. S. Cunningham, Trent, Director of AthDeclamation; Mrs. J. N, Poe, Ranger, Direc- letics ; Mrs. T. C. Weir, Buffalo Gap, Ditor of Spelling; Lewis Smith, Olden, Director rector of Music Memory.
of Essay Writing; H. V. Nigro, Cisco, DiWard County
rector of Athletics; Mrs. John Denman,
Ranger, Director of Music Memory.
A. A. Forester, Barstow, Director General;
J. B. Jordan, Monahans, Director of Debate;
Fannin County
Miss Odum (first name not given). Pyote,
W. T. White, Bonham, Director General; Director of Declamation; R. A. Parsons,
D-ebate;
of
Director
Windom,
George,
D.
W.
Monahans, Director of Spelling; Mrs. Troy
J. D. Mclntyre, Honey Grove, Direc tor of Patrick, Barstow, Director of Essay Writing;
DirecLadonia,
Fowler,
Declamation; Grady
E. H. Thompson, Barstow, Director of Athtor of Spelling; Miss Nina Ferrell, Honey letics ; Mrs. Fudaley (initials not given),
Grove, Director of Essay Writing ~, John Grandfalls, Director of Music Memory.
Sheffield, Bonham. Director of Athletics;
Wilson County
Miss Mary Alice Pritchett, Bonham, Elirector
>f Music Memory.
S. P. Conn, Floresville, Director General;
G. N. Varner, Floresville, Director of Debate;
Foard County
R. H. Kidwell, Pandora, Director of DeclaW. C. Jones, Thalia, Director Gerueral; R. .mation; Miss Vela Lynn, Poth, Director of
B. Mitchell, Foard City, Director of Debate; Spelling; Miss Josephine Brown, Floresville,
Miss Pearl Ward, Thalia, Director c£ Decla- Director of Essay Writing; Hubert Meiners,
nation ; Miss Cora Carter, Margare t, Direc- Stoekdale, Director of Athletics; Miss Lillie
,or of Spelling; Miss Mae King, Cro well, Di- B. Reese, Stoekdale, Director of Music
ector. of Essay Writing; Walkeir Todd, Memory.
^rowell, Director of Athletics; Mis,s Lottie
Willacy County
Woods, Crowell, Director of Music ^Memory.
Geo. H. Mitchell, Lyford, Director GenFreestone County
eral; Miss Hattie Fowler, Lyford, Director of
H. R. Lively, Streetman, Director General; Debate; Mrs. W. G. Woods, Raymondville,
Director of Declamation; Mrs. W. V. Pitt-,
Debate;
oC
Director
'Teague,
Peevv,
E.
i.
of Declamation;*
W. G. Colson, Donie, Director of D eclama- man, Raymondville, Director
Mrs, Ralph Lanier, Sebastian, Director of
DiFairfijeld,
tion; Miss Elizabeth Watson,
Lyford, Direcrector of Spelling; Miss Wary 'J>ou Mc- Essay Writing; T. L. Duffey.
Michael, Teague Director of Essay Writing; tor of Athletics; Mrs. Leigh Flynn, Hayn K. Hackney, Worthum, liireetos; «l Ath- mptuiviUe, Director of J5I_usic Memory.
Extemporaneous Speech; Mrs. Ora Lee
Bettis, Clifton, Director of Essay Writing;
Principal W. H, Norwood, Corsicana, Director of Athletics. Counties: Bosaue, Ellis,
Hill, Johnson, Navarro.
District No. 12
District Center: Nacogdoches. President
A. W. Birdwell, Stephen F. Austin State
Teachers' College, Director General; Professor W. F. Garner, Stephen F. Austin StateTeachers' College, Nacogdoches, Director of
Debate; Professor H. L. Lowman, Stepher,
F. Austin State Teachers' College, Nacogdoches, Director of Declamation; Professor
Meredith N. Posey, Stephen F. Austin State
Teachers' College,. Nacogdoches, Director of
Extemporaneous Speech; Professor W. R
Davis, Stephen F. Austin State Teachers'
College, Nacogdoches, Director of Essay
Writing; Principal Rufus E, Price, Nacogdoches, Director of Athletics: Counties:
Angelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Henderson, Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk, Sabine.
San Augustine, Shelby, Smith, Tyler.
District No. 13
District Center: Victoria. Superintendent
V. L. Griffin, Director General; Superintendent E. A. Perrin, Goliad, Director of Debate;
Superintendent W. L. Russell, Hallettsville,
Director of Declamation; Professor W. B.
Connell, Ganado, Director of Extemporaneous
Speech; Superintendent E. E. Bagwell, Yorktown, Director of Essay Writing; Coach
Norman Douglas, Yoakum, Director of Athletics. Counties: Calhoun, DeWitt, Lavaca,
Goliad, Jackson, Refugio, Victoria.
District No. 26
Professor
Kingsville.
District Center:
Hugh Porter, South Texas State Teachers'
College, Kingsville, Director General; Professor J. E. Conner, South Texas State
Teachers' College, Kingsville, Director of Debate ; Miss Mildred Pecaut, South Texas State
Teachers' College, Kingsville, Director of
Declamation; Professor L. F. Connell, South
Texas State Teachers' College, Kingsville,
Director of Extemporaneous Speech; Professor W. A. Francis, South Texas State
Teachers' College, Kingsville, Director of
Essay Writing; Professor L. J. Smith, South
Texas State Teachers' College, Kingsville,
Director of Athletics. Counties: Aransas,
Bee, Brooks, Duval, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells,
Karnes, Kennedy, Kleberg, Live Oak, McMullen, Nueces, San Patricio, Webb, Zapata.
District Center: Brownwood. Dean Thos.
Taylor, Howard Payne College, Director
General; Superintendent C. H. Hufford, Coleman, Director of Debate; Superintendent W.
T, Barrett, Comanche, Director of DeclamaDistrict No. 27
,,ion; Superintendent G. L. Huckaby, San
Saba, Director of Extemporaneou Speech;
District Center: McAlIen. Superintend Superintendent C. A. Peterson, Brady, >nt J. Lee Stambaugh, Pharr-San Juan, DiDirector of Essay Writing; Professor J. 'ector General; Superintendent H. C. Baker,
:Iorace Shelton, Howard Payne College, .Sdinbuvg, Director of Debate; Superintend,:!rownwood, Director of Athletics. Counties: ent Thos. J. Yoe, San Bonito, Director of
: }rown, Coleman, Comanche, Hamilton, Mc- Declamation; Professor Ed Onstott, Donna,
julloch, Menard, Mills, San Saba.
Director of Extemporaneous Speech; SuperinDistrict No. 14
tendent V. H. Tumlinson, Raymondville, t)iMcDistrict Center: Waco. L. C. Procter, - ector of Essay Writing; J. C. Dykes,
Director of Athletics. Counties;
Allen,
T.
E.
Principal
Temple, Director General;
_',
; Waco, Director «J Debate; Su- Cam.er9jj, Hjda,!go, Stsrr, Willaeyj,