INTER-SCHOLASTIC LEAGUER* Vol. XXX AUSTIN, TEXAS, APRIL, 1947 No. 8

Turner Urges Changes In Basketball Plan

T AM writing this letter not •*• because I am dissatisfied with the AA basketball situa­tion, but because it has oc­curred to me that there are some changes that could easily be made for the betterment of the schools that participate in the State basketball tournament.

For the last four consecutive years the team winning the bi-district playoffs in this section of the State (7AA and 8AA) has always made a strong bid for the State Championship at Austin. In 1944, Sunset of Dallas made a clean sweep of the three game series, in 1945 Paschal, Fort Worth, walked off with the State tourney, and in 1946, Crozier Tech, Dallas, won the State Championship. Again this year Crozier should have taken State had their team not been plagued with illness be­fore their first game. Obviously the teams from this section of the State seem far advanced over the other teams who represent their schools at Austin.

It is the opinion of the people of this vicinity that it could be arranged to play other winners in the bi-district play, that it would afford better competition and help make the tournament a bigger suc­cess. The team who loses its chance to go to Austin in our bi-district playoff generally is capable of beating six of the other teams who are represented there.

I would like to call this fact to your attention and sincerely hope that something can and will be done to help make our State ath­letics a finer competition.—Coach Charles Turner, Paschal High School, Ft. Worth.

Criswell Backs Semester Rule

T WOULD like to join with •*• Superintendent W. W. Few of Pearsall Public Schools, re­garding the need for a Semes­ter Rule.

Under the present rules we have a number of boys who have been in high school four years, but have failed one subject with the thought in mind that they are still within the age limit and can come back and play another year of foot­ball—which makes for a good ball club because of their experience.

But on the other hand, the younger fellows, who are anxious for a place on the team, don't get much of a break. We have at all times discouraged this practice, but we are told that other schools are doing the same thing.

So why don't we go back to the old Eight Semester Rule and make everyone on the same basis.— E. J. Criswell, Superintendent, The Grandview Public Schools.

Excellent Records Made By Woodsboro Students

JN THE literary meet held in District 73-B at Odem,

on the 21st of this month, two of our pupils set very-fine records.

One student scored 450 out of a possible 500 in Number Sense and the second student scored 900 out of a possible 1,000 in the Slide Rule Contest.

Please advise if State records exist in these events and, if not, steps should be taken for recog­nition of aforementioned marks.— E. A. Meyer, Woodsboro.

(Editor's note: If contest directors will send in outstanding scores in Number Sense and Slide Rule, we can determine the record in these events during district meet competition.)

A.H.S. Broadcasts

Radio programs arranged to ac­quaint the public with the music department of Abilene High School go on the air every Monday night at 8 P.M. over KRBC.

o

Clocks meant "bells" in old Danish talk. Timepieces we carry today are called watches because watchmen who called out "Nine o'clock and all is well!" were the first to use them.

Council Approves Reclassification Last Four Grades To Be

Counted as Enrollment Number

Billy Jean Jones Midland H.S.

1946

Winner Appears On Radio Show

League Contestant Majors In Speech at Baylor

University

TDILLIE JEAN JONES of *-* Midland is making quite a name for herself in speech and radio work at Baylor Uni­versity which she entered last fall.

During her senior year at Mid­land High School, Billie Jean won a number of honors because of her speaking and acting ability. She was second place winner of the girls' division in Declamation at the State Meet, placed first in Dis­trict 3AA, Region II, in Declama­tion, and received the District and Regional "best actress" awards in the One-Act Play Contest.

Now she appears weekly on two radio programs, "Thoroughfares to Freedom" and "Side Street America." She has been a stu­dent director of one-act plays at Baylor and has been in two out­standing student productions. Radio is the career for her, she says.

npHERE will be a realign-•*• ment of schools for inter-

scholastic - competition under a recommendation of the Legislative Advisory Council which has been accepted by the State Executive Committee and made effective for assignments to conferences in the 1948-1949 school year.

Under this new rule the last four grades in high school will be counted as the enrollment num­ber in making the classification.

Basis for Figuring

To determine the high-school en­rollment, add the B-3's plus C-9's in Table V of the Superintendent's Annual Report (see Section 23, p. 98, Constitution and Rules).

Any member-school should ad­vise the State Office at once of any change in its Conference as­signment brought about by the ap­plication of this change in the manner of counting enrollment.

Checking of the enrollment fig­ures as reported to the State De­partment of Education will be un­dertaken during the ensuing sum­mer, and tentative football assign­ments will be issued in December, 1947, for the 1948 season on the basis of enrollment figures found in The Superintendent's Annual Re­ports. The accessions to Conference AA will necessitate considerable readjustment of district lines, and districts now having only five or six schools will have to accommodate more schools in order to prevent overcrowding in districts already full.

Special Rule A special provision is made for

three-year high schools which re­ceive pupils from several junior high schools.

Value of Spring Training Overstressed, Says Copass By B. A. Copass, Superintend­

ent of Schools, Iraan, Texas

"COR MANY years school •*• men, administrators, and teachers, have felt that the sport of football has con­sumed too much of the time devoted to the average Texas high-school's athletic program. The feel­ing has been so strong that it has been crystallized in the action taken in November by the Legislative Advisory Committee of the Inter-scholastic League seeking to abolish spring training as a recog­nized activity. The action repre­sented the feeling of a majority of the committee present in Novem­ber, which feeling reflects that of a vast majority of school men and women, in Texas.

Coaches Contest Change It is freely admitted that football

coaches will, and do, oppose any change from the present practice. However, arguments advanced by the coaches do not stand the acid test of fact. Having experienced the difficulties of coaching for some fourteen years, the writer feels some small qualification in giving some discussion of the sub­ject which does not come within the realm of theory. It can be said, and substantiated by the practice of all high-school coaches, that those things engaged in during spring training must be done over again the following September. Little value, if any value, is de­rived from work done during the spring other than that which en­ables the coaches to learn the names and, possibly, the abilities of newcomers to the football squad. Proof of the above can be had by observing fall practice on any prac­tice field in the country. •

Spring football has literally ruined other spring sports. Few high schools in Texas have baseball teams at present. The League has instituted a program for baseball recently which, it is hoped, will develop widey this sport and install it again as a favored sport among high-school students and patrons. Frequently spring football practice takes boys away from basketball, track, tennis, baseball, or any other

sport the school seeks to sponsor simply because the boys are made to feel that spring football is a "must." He is forced to choose between practice for a sport com­petition for which is months away and practice for sports in season.

Some Schools Are Crippled By far the greatest number of

Texas high schools and League members do not have sufficient stu­dents to carry on two or three ath­letic programs. It has seemed to members of the Legislative Ad­visory Committee that a majority of these schools should be served rather than clinging to an old pro­gram which has not proved to the best interests of all. There is little

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Supt. Edgar Succeeds Dr. Lewis at Austin

TAMES W. EDGAR, Super-J intendent of the Orange Public Schools, has accepted the invitation of the Austin School Boa rd to become su­perintendent of the Austin schools beginning July 1.

Supt. Edgar will succeed Dr. Russell A. Lewis, whose contract expires June 30, and who recently announced that he would not be a candidate for reappointment.

Since his start at Burnet as a teacher in 1923, Supt. Edgar has had 23 years experience as a teacher and school administrator, including five years as teacher and principal and superintendent and fifteen years as superintendent. Since 1939 he has been superin­tendent of the Orange schools, and prior to that he was assistant superintendent at Victoria, super­intendent of Mirando City schools, principal and teacher at Heiden-heimer, and principal and teacher at Burnet.

He received his bachelor of arts degree from Howard Payne Col­lege, his master of arts from The University of Texas, and is sched­uled to receive his doctor's degree in educational administration from the University this summer.

GENERAL PROGRAM

of the

Thirty-seventh Annual State Meet University Interscholastic League

CAUTION: A revision of this program will be issued in cir­cular form, and a copy mailed to each school which is reported as qualifying contestants for the State Meet. This Official Program will be issued for distribution to contestants and dele­gates before the Meet opens and will be available at bead-quarters. Always go by the LATEST EDITION of the program. Minor changes are often necessary from one edition to another.

Thursday, May 1, 1947

Registration, rebate and assignments to lodgings, Gregory Gymna­sium. Bureau opens 2:30 P.M. and closes at 10. Opens again 8:00 A.M. Thursday and Friday.

7:30 P.M.—Lutcher Stark Debate, Junior Ballroom, Texas Union.

Friday, May 2, 1947

8:00 A.M.—One-Act Play rehearsals continuing throughout the day, on schedule arranged by Melvin E. Pape with respective directors, Hogg Auditorium.

Ready Writers contest begins in Main Bldg. 201.

8 : 3 0 A.M.—Journalism Conference, Texas Union Bldg. Second Floor, Rooms 309-311, 315-316.

9 : 0 0 A.M.—Track and Field contestants assemble on Texas Memorial Stadium for preliminaries.

1 1 : 0 0 A.M.—Journalism, news-writing contest, Architecture Bldg. 105.

2 : 0 0 P.M.—Tennis—First round in boys' singles and doubles. Report at Penick Courts.

Tennis—First round in girls' singles and doubles. Report at Freshman Courts, 23d and San Jacinto Streets.

Journalism group meetings; 2d Floor, Union Bldg. Rooms 309-311, 315-316.

Extemporaneous Speech, girls' division, drawing. Main Bldg. 206.

Debaters, both Conferences, assemble in Room 210, Wag-gener Hall, for drawing. Immediately following, first round in both divisions.

2:30 P.M.—Semifinals in Track: 2:30, 120-Yard High Hurdles; 2:55, 100-Yard Dash; 3:15, 200-Yard Low Hurdles; 3:30, 220-Yard Dash.

2:45 P.M.—Extemporaneous Speech, girls' division, contest begins, Main Bldg. 202.

3:00 P.M.—Ready Writers assemble to hear results of contests. Main Bldg. 201. -

Declamation finals, girls' and boys' divisions. Biology Bldg. 12.

Extemporaneous Speech, boys' division, meet for drawing. Main Bldg. 206/

3:45 P.M.—Extemporaneous Speech," boys' division, contest" begins. Main Bldg. 202.

4:00 P.M.—Journalism, copyreading. Architecture Bldg. 105.

4 : 3 0 P.M.—Journalism, headline-writing contest. Architecture Bldg. 105.

Typewriting; contestants must have machines set in Room 216, Waggener Hall, ready to begin contest fol­lowing morning at 9:00.

5:00 P.M.—Journalism, feature story contest. Architecture Bldg. 105.

7:30 P.M.—Debate semifinals, both Conferences, assemble in Room 112, Waggener Hall.

Saturday, May 3, 1947

7 : 3 0 A.M.—State Meeting of Delegates, Crystal Ballroom, Driskill Hotel.

8 : 0 0 A.M.—Journalism, editorial-writing contest. Architecture Bldg. 105.

9:00 A.M.—Tennis—Semifinals, girls' singles and doubles. Penick Courts, north of Stadium.

One-Act Play. Hogg Auditorium. Conference A, final debate. Garrison Hall 1. Typewriting, assemble in Room 216, Waggener Hall.

9 : 1 5 A . M Journalism Conference, Second Floor Union Bldg., Rooms 309-311, 315-316.

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Dr. Earl W. Blank

Noted Director To Judge Plays Dr. Blank of Kentucky Will

Serve as Critic Judge At Meet

A N EXPERIENCED di-" ^ rector, actor, and critic, Dr. Earl W. Blank of Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, is this year's critic judge of the One-Act Play Contest.

Dr. Blank will judge the eight regional winners at Hogg Memorial Auditorium, Saturday, May 3, and select the State Meet winner, sec­ond, third, and fourth place win­ners, and give the individual act­ing awards.

Chatauqua Actor

He was on the staff and served as one of the critic judges of the First National Drama Conferences, sponsored by the National Thes­pians at Indiana State University in 1941. He directed the Farragut Players and appeared in the cast of that group. He has also acted in Chatauqua and with the Frank Winninger Comedy Company.

He was guest-director and on the staff at Louisiana State University in the Dramatic Institute, and has taught at the University of Denver, and at the West Virginia State University.

Edits Drama Page Besides directing the Berea Play­

ers, which has a membership of 400, he edits the "Play of the Month Department" in Dramatics Magazine. This summer he will present his Berea Players in Miss Lula Bett, Zona Gale's Pulitzer Prize Play at the Second National Drama Conference.

To Criticize Plays This year's critic judge received

his Bachelor's degree from the Uni­versity of Chicago, his Master of Arts degree in drama from Car­negie Institute of Technology, and an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from Maclean College.

Pasadena's Junior Court Successfully Strikes at Juvenile Delinquincy Wave JUVENILE delinquency be­

came a real headache to peace officers and school ad­ministrators of Pasadena when the war boomed a quiet town of 3,000 into a small indus­trial city of 30,000. Today, thanks to the originality of Judge Monte C. Stuckey and the co-operation of the Lions Club and the entire com­munity, "mischief cases" and minor misdemeanors have fallen off 65 per cent.

Judge Stuckey, who presides over Pasadena's Corporation Court, decided that more than lip service had to be exercised if the wave of minor crimes such as the destruc­tion of property, school absentee­ism, disregard of traffic regula­tions, largely committed by teen­agers, was to be stopped. The result of his concern is the Pasa­dena Junior General Court which has been copied by twenty-six cities in the United States and in Sidney, Australia.

Lions Club Approves Why not have a teen-age court

with high-school students as judges and court officials to hear the var­ious law violation cases involving high-school and even younger boys and girls? When the Lions Club was approached, it agreed to

sponsor the court. A committee representing the Pasadena Inde­pendent School District, headed by Superintendent V. W. Miller, in­vestigated the proposed project and gave approval and support. The plan was adopted September, 1945.

Full explanation of the plan ap­pears in the merit book which each student, beginning with the fifth grade, receives:

"The Pasadena Junior General Court is sponsored, formed and planned with a definite purpose of giving to the boys and girls of Pasadena, Texas, an opportunity to self-govern your own youth world which possesses possibilities of education in a new world of personal progress.

"The court was organized to deal with traffic and other community standards violations by juveniles in the Pasadena Independent School District between the ages of six and seventeen. It is operated entirely by teen-age boys and girls.

Students Officiate

"The court's membership com­prises five judges, two court clerks, four prosecuting attorneys, four defense counsels, four court bailiffs and two court reporters, who are elected by the student body or ap­pointed by the senior high-school

faculty or the Pasadena Lions Club, sponsors, to serve for one year.

"The officials function as a court on alternate Saturday mornings in the Corporation Court Room. 'In­vitations' to appear are issued by the police department, the Harris County Sheriff's school patrol, the constable of that precinct, junior deputies and special commissioned officers.

"Each student starts with 1,000 merits. Violation of the rules or 'laws' cost him or her a certain number of demerits. Demerits are registered in the composite form in the graduation year in the sub­ject Civics."

Is the court paying dividends? Judge Stuckey's answer indicates that it certainly does. He says, "The exact figures in the drop-off of juvenile cases was noticeable the second month the court was in operation, especially in malicious mischief cases. Our survey chalked up a 65 per cent drop. The Harris County Sheriff's Department on Juvenile Cases reported 100 per cent decline in the cases brought to their attention from this district.

"The Texas Highway Patrol re­ported an increase in the securing

Brackenridge, Alamo Hts. Win Honors at Region VI Meet

Twenty-Eight Schools Attend Interscholastic League's First Competition-Festival in

San Marcos March 28-29

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Two Choruses Win Perfect Ratings Huntsville High School Host

To Region V Musical Organizations

•DRACKENRIDGE High School of San Antonio, directed - ^ by Irving Dreibrodt, and the Alamo Heights High School Band, also of San Antonio, directed by Pat Arsers, were the outstanding organizations entered in Class A at the Region VI Competition-Festival held at San Marcos, March 28-29. The meet was held on the campus *-of Southwest Texas State College.

Both of these organizations re­ceived First Division honors in Concert Performance and Sight Reading. Tivy High School, Kerr-ville, Harlandale and Burbank of San Antonio achieved the same honors in Class B, while Floresville received top rating in Class C.

Concert Ratings Given

Results of the contest in Concert Performance were:

Class A: Brackenridge and Ala­mo Heights, Division I ; San An­tonio Tech, Thomas Jefferson, Di­vision II.

Class B: Kerrville, Taylor, Har­landale (San Antonio),Edison (San Antonio), Burbank (San Antonio), Division I ; Uvalde, South San An­tonio, Georgetown, New Braunfels, Division I I ; Seguin, Division III.

Class C: Floresville, Division I; Gonzales, Division I I ; Lampasas, Carrizo Springs, Division III ; Brackettville, Division IV.

Class D: Kerrville Junior High, Pleasanton, Luling, Llano, Divi-' sion II ; Crystal City, Cotulla, Di­vision III.

Class E: Allan Junior High School (Austin), Division I.

Class EE: Fulmore Elementary School (Austin), Division I. Ba­ker Elementary, Division II.

Sight-Reading Results

Results in Sight Reading were: Class A: Alamo Heights, Brack­

enridge, Division I; San Antonio Tech, Jefferson, Division II.

Class B: Kerrville, Harlandale, Burbank, Division I ; Uvalde, Tay­lor, South San Antonio, George­town, Edison, New Braunfels, Di­vision I I ; Seguin, Division III.

Class C: Floresville, Division I; Gonzales, Brackettville, Division II ; Lampasas, Carrizo Springs, Di­vision III.

Members of the Region VI Com­petition-Festival Committee were Dillard McCollum of Harlandale, chairman, A. O. Bird, Gonzales, treasurer, S. G. Boynton, Los An­geles Heights, secretary, and C. L. Landolt of Uvalde and T. P. Baker of Austin. General chairman was R. A. Dhossche, San Antonio Tech, San Antonio.

Schools to Vote On Rule Changes

Ballot Includes Spring Training Question,

Class A Play-Off

-pOUR BALLOTS will be mailed soon to all mem­

ber schools on questions which have been under discussion during the past school year.

Conference A schools will vote on a state championship play-off in football on a weekly schedule beginning the first week-end after district championships are deter­mined.

All schools will vote on the elim­ination of the spring football training. The proposed change, if carried, will abolish all football practice and the issuing of equip­ment from the close of the sea­son until August 15.

Ballot No. 3 amends Rule 2 of the Football and Basketball Plans to prohibit the practice of allow­ing coaches a percentage of gate receipts.

The fourth ballot forbids par­ticipation in post-season games in both football and basketball. If this ballot carries, the change re­quires a year's notice to become effective. All other changes will be enforced during the 1947-1948 season.

Ballots must be returned by May 10. All of these questions have been recommended by the Legis­lative Advisory Council and were acted upon favorably by the State Executive Committee.

•nEGION V's first choral A^- singing competition under the sponsorship of the Uni­versity Interscholastic League was held at Huntsville, March 29 with Euell Porter of Sam Hous­ton State Teachers College as con­test chairman.

Special awards were given Bryan High School's Mixed Chorus and Beaumont High School's Mixed Chorus because of a per­fect rating in both the Concert and Sight-Reading performances. A special commendation was given to the Goose Creek Girls' Chorus for its excellent concert perform­ance.

Twenty Choruses Participate Concert ratings awarded the

twenty choral organizations and one orchestra included eight First Division honors.

Results of the concert perform­ances were as follows:

Class A: Goose Creek Girls' Chorus, Bryan Mixed Chorus, and Beaumont Mixed Chorus, Division I; Port Arthur Mixed Chorus, Di­vision II.

Class B: Alvin Mixed Chorus, Division I; Pasadena Mixed Chorus, Division II; Freeport Girls' Chorus, Division IH.

Class C: Anahuac Girls' Chorus, Division I; Tomball Girls' Chorus and Crockett Girls' Chorus, Divi­sion I I ; La Marque Girls' Chorus, Division III.

Class D: Huntsville Mixed Choru,s, Lamar Junior High, Bryan, and Orchard High Mixed, Division I I ; Orchard High, Girls, Division III.

Class E: Austin Junior High, Galveston, Boys, Division I; Aus­tin Junior High Girls and Mixed, Galveston, Division II.

Class EE: Tomball Elementary, Division I; Huntsville Elementary Girls, Division II.

Sight-Reading Ratings Ratings in the Sight-Reading

competition were:

Class A: Bryan, Port Arthur and Beaumont; Division I ; Goose Creek, Division II.

Class B: Alvin Mixed Chorus and Pasadena Mixed Chorus, Di­vision II ; Freeport Girls' Chorus, Division III.

Class C: Tomball Girls, Ana­huac Girls, Division I I ; Crockett Girls, Division I I I ; La Marque Girls, Division IV.

Beaumont High School, the only high school entering an orchestra, received Division I honors.

Dr. Joseph R. Griggs served as regional executive chairman. Dr. Griggs is superintendent of the Huntsville Public Schools.

Judges for the competition were Dr. Smith McCorkle of Texas Christian University, Dr. Archie Jones of The University of Texas, Roy Johnson of East Texas State Teachers College, and Ford Lane of Waxahachie.

Order Breakfast Tickets Now

The annual breakfast for State Meet delegates will be held Saturday, May 3, at 7:30 a.m. in the Crystal Ballroom of the Driskill Hotel in Austin.

Tickets will be mailed on re­ceipt of $1.25 by the State Office or can be obtained Fri­day, May 2, at the League headquarters in Gregory Gym­nasium.

Page 2 THE I N T E R S C H O C A S T I C EEXGUER

Published eight times a year, each month, from September to April, inclusive, by the Bureau of Public School Service, Division of Extension, The University of Texas.

ROY BEDICHEK OLETTA WILLIAMSON-.

Editor .Assistant Editor

(Entered as second-class matter November 6, 1927, at the post office at Austin, Texas, under the Act of August 24, 1912.)

Vol. XXX APRIL, 1947 No. 8

'T 'HE IMPORTANCE of good vocal expression illustrates •*• the magic power of the human voice. It is said that Socra­

tes, who lived among people who worshipped beauty, was so ugly that when he walked down the street the babies cried and the horses ran away; but when he opened his mouth to speak, he had a voice-formed personality which enchanted his listeners.

It was the late President Roosevelt who, by the example of his fireside speeches, made the American people realize that there were magic powers in the human voice. President Roosevelt perhaps did more to make the American people voice-conscious than a thousand debate coaches.

Tomorrow will be the day of the radio and public address systems. Tomorrow will give us many more exhibits of the magic power of the human voice. There will be voices of men who will outdo Roosevelt and Hitler. The voice as a greater weapon of influence and power is here to stay. Here is something for our student speakers to think about.—E. C. Buehler, University of Kansas, The Gavel.

o '-THE ADVISORY COUNCIL at its last meeting recom--*• mended to the State Executive Committee the appoint­

ment of a committee to study the hold-over abuse, with power to act. R. B. Norman, Amarillo, R. B. Sparks, Goose Creek, and E. T. Robbins, Taylor, were appointed. They have been at work for some months and are reporting that there is one and only one way to stop the abuse, and that is for the membership of the League to adopt an eight-semester rule counting elapsed time from first enrollment in ninth grade. They believe a nine-semester rule will simply aggravate the matter; and permission to count out a semester during which a contestant is out of school would make the rule a dead-letter to start with. In other words, this Committee means business. It wants to see whether or not the membership of the League as a whole wants to do something about a vicious practice which is doing so much to discredit interschool athletics in the eyes of the thinking portion of the public. So, we shall see.—R. B.

o • T\7TE PUBLISHED an editorial in advance of the basket-^* ball tournament calling especial attention to the op­

portunity offered by such trips to teach pupils traveling-courtesy. We gently remonstrated against "swiping," against unnecessary noise, against playfully carving initials on a bed-post or a bureau. Then the basketball tournament came on and we put up twenty-four teams in various hotels and tourist-camps. We took the pains to visit these places after the guests had gone and to inquire if there had been any unseemly conduct. We were greeted with a chorus of praise from proprietors for the gentlemanliness and general good conduct of the guests. We therefore think it unnecessary to say any more. Let's let well enough alone. Otherwise, we should call attention of teachers, principals of schools, and sponsors generally to the advisability of repeating the travel-courtesy talk to the boys and girls who are preparing for the journey to the State Meet.—R. B.

o '""T'EXAS is not the only state in the Union in which the

practice of handing out liberal prizes in FFA athletic contests has run afoul of the amateur rule of the state interscholastic organization. Reporting a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Illinois High School Association, the Illinois Interscholastic of March says: "It was regularly voted by the Board that the interscholastic contests sponsored by school FFA organizations must be conducted in accord­ance with the Constitution and By-laws of the Association."

o ' TTAVE you certified the names of boys who will enter the •̂ Track and Field events at the State Meet in Austin May 2 and 3 ? This information must be obtained before the boys can enter the contests. If the names of Regional Win­ners are forwarded immediately after they are known, the League officials and the individual contestants would be spared considerable trouble.

Texas Universities Offer Scholarships to Winners WfLNNERS OF State Meet contests and of Regional Meets

" in some contests are offered scholarships by Baylor University, Southern Methodist University, Southwestern University, and the Texas State College for Women.

Baylor University will give a scholarship to the two first-place winners in Extemporaneous'* Speech at the State Meet, one to the winning girl and one to the winning boy. Each of these schol­arships is worth $180 and entitles the holder to free tuition for three courses in , the academic depart­ment for one year only.

S.M.U. Payi Fees Southern Methodist University

offers scholarships in Regions III, IV, and VII covering all tuition and fees for one year to the win­ners in these contests: First place winners in Number Sense, Regions III, IV, and VII; first place win­ners in each Conference in Debate, in the three regions.

Scholarships to first place win­ners in each of the eight Regions are given by Southwestern Univer­sity in Debate, Declamation, One-

Act Play (to each of the three boys chosen best actors and to each of the three girls adjudged best ac­tresses), Ready Writers, Extemp Speech, Slide Rule, and Number Sense.

Gives Fourteen Scholarships

The College Government Asso­ciation of the Texas State College for Women has undertaken to sup­ply funds for fourteen scholarships to State Meet winners. Payment of the $50 tuition charge will ,be made for the winning girl con­testant in the following con­tests: Journalism, Debate, Extemp Speech, Ready Writers, Dramatics (three chosen on the all-star cast), Tennis Doubles, Tennis Singles, and Declamation,

Mary Martha Sivalls, who is a senior this year at Midland High School won second place honors at the 1946 State Meet in typing.

She is a member of the high-school band, is the girl drum major, and is an accomplished pianist. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Sivalls, 811 West Louis­iana, Midland, Texas.

•HIGH s e r e PRISS N

btuii i t t p w e t .

»T*EXANS love to travel— -*• and that goes for Texas

high-school journalists, too. And they make their traveling pay dividends. At least three Texas papers have sent delegations to national journalism conventions this year.

To attend the Columbia Press Association national meeting in New York City in March went Ronnie Dugger, editor of The Brackenridge Times, San Antonio, and two sponsors from The Tech­nician, San Antonio, Mrs. Edith King and Miss Dorothy Rehm. The Times won a first place group rating and • The Technician was awarded a medalist rating. About 3,600 delegates attended the meeting.

The Austin Maroon last fall tossed its masthead into the na­tional ring by sending two dele­gates and the adviser—Erlene Kalmbach and Marlee Baker and Mrs. Katherine Norman—to the Milwaukee convention of the Na­tional Scholastic Press Association.

Perhaps other papers were also represented at these meetings; but these three were the only ones brought to our attention.

Twenty Candles for Us

The I.L.P.C. celebrates its twen­tieth year of service to the high-school journalists of Texas when delegates convene in Austin May 1, 2, and 3. Detailed information on the program will be sent to you by mail.

Belton High School journalists have installed a chapter of Quill and Scroll, national honorary jour­nalism society. The society has been named The Albert Nibling Chapter in honor of the first editor of The Belton Tiger. Mr. Nibling, after serving as editor of his high-school paper, went on to receive a Bachelor of Journalism degree at The University of Texas, re­port for a Houston newspaper, serve as managing editor of The Temple Telegram, and now edits a newspaper in Sherman.

April Foolishness

If you received the March 31 issue of The Amarillo Sandstorm on exchange, we know that you have already enjoyed its April foolish stories about the vanishing school, the ball to honor unpopular students, and the play producers who produced a play. A shower of humor invigorates the staff and should stimulate reader interest.

Staff members of Lubbock's Westerner World let their imag­inations go, too, as they produced a wild and humorous April Fool edition about the firemen who failed to save the frightened flames, the student who was expelled from school for committing suicide, and the schedule of events to be avoided.

A bright idea to encourage friendliness emerges from the front page of a recent issue of the Tyler Lion's Tale. One day was set aside and labeled "Hey Day." For that day all sophomore and junior girls wore name tags, and, apparently, all students were called upon to join in friendly greetings when passing. Use your ingenuity, and plan a "Hey Day" of your own for next fall.

Add to April First Editions: The prize banana for the use of pictures goes to Fort Worth's Jacket Journal. The staff printed "mug" pictures of professional wrestlers as though they were local characters.

If you plan to attend the I.L.P. State convention, be sure to mail the names of your delegation to DeWitt Reddick, University Sta­tion, Austin, as soon as possible.

By F. W. Savage State Director of Music Activities

'""pHE Regional Competition--•*• Festivals got under way

March 28 with contests in two regions. Elsewhere in 'this issue of the LEAGUER are the results.

R. A. Tampke, band contest chairman for Region VI, Euell Porter, vocal contest chairman of Region V and Lena Milam, orches­tra chairman for Region V deserve a lot of thanks for the efficient and cheerful service they have ren­dered to those Regions.

Roy Bedichek and I took time off to pay a short visit to San Marcos during the competition. Mr. Bedichek was attending a music competition for the first time, and I can best state his atti­tude by quoting a part of an im­promptu talk he gave at a lunch­eon.

"I am impressed by two things in this meet: one, the excellent organization which permits the meet to move along on sched­uled time; two, the tremendous participation. This gives me great satisfaction since it balances the Interscholactic League program which I have considered rather top-heavy with athletic contests. Another fine feature of the music competition-festivals is the op­portunity that is given for com­petition by groups as well as in individual competition."

"The training for citizenship offered in group-competition is obvious, since each individual is made to feel his responsibility for the success of the organiza­tion, the band, orchestra, choral club, etc. At the same time it is well to offer an opportunity for an individual to be on his own, and put forth his utmost efforts to attain an individual distinc­tion. Both these requirements are met in the present organization of the competition-festivals."

Three of the Regional Executive Committee of Region VI, Dillard McCollum, chairman, S. G. Boyn-ton and A. O. Bird attended the competition. I've been told they stayed on the ground from begin­ning to end helping Wherever they could to make the competition a success.

I'm sure the competition at Huntsville was equally as success­ful as Region VI but I did not have the privilege of attending so I can't give any first-hand de­scription.

Experiment at S.M.U. We received a letter from Frank

Malone describing an experiment which he performed instigating a new type of clinic. It seems to me that this can be very valuable to all concerned. If you want to get all the details, write Frank Ma­lone at Southern Methodist Uni­versity. The experiment is briefly described in his letter which is quoted below in par t :

"The New London High School Band came to Dallas and to the Southern Methodist University campus. We had the stage pre­pared for them so that after a few minutes of stretching the band took the concert stage. With their director on the podium, they took several minutes to warm up and tune and then played through the three numbers that they will use in the contest in April."

"Prior to their visit I had or­ganized a clinic team composed of a flutist, a double reed man, a clarinetist, a saxaphonist, a French horn player, a trombonist, a cor-netist, a specialist on baritone, and bass and two fine drummers. We had taken the scores that this or­ganization would perform and had studied them practically under a magnifying glass.

"While the band was perform­ing, my clinic team sat in their sections and I stayed on the side­lines with a secretary to whom I dictated criticisms of their initial performance.

"Following their performance with the director, each one of my section leaders took their section to a private room in which they held a two-hour section rehearsal. During this time they took the op­portunity to help as many individ­uals as time allowed.

"Following the sectional rehear­sals the entire band was reassem­bled on the concert stage. I took over the directing duties and spent an hour and a half working on the full-band ensemble.

"I have tried for many years to clinic bands by myself and have always felt that I was butting my head against the proverbial wall. Any man who tries to clinic a band by himself does not have the individual capacities, the nec­essary time nor the physical strength to correct all of the basic errors. However, with this new type of clinic the band is gone over with a fine-tooth comb, and I have

every reason to believe that even the minor parts of musical instruc­tion benefits by it. I feel that it was an unqualified success."

More Barber Shop Quartets Choral directors, generally, are

always complaining because they can't get boys interested in choral singing. Some directors have been very successful in solving this problem and you have probably heard or read of their methods. Now I have a suggestion to make. Mr. Bell at the Southern Music Company at San Antonio sent me five albums of Barber Shop Quar­tet arrangements by mistake. They so impressed me that I re­quested he send some more which I could keep. These albums con­tain everything from "Mood In­digo" and "You'll Never Know" to "Never Throw a Lighted Lamp at Mother." My suggestion is that you buy some of these albums, get a lot of quartets together and let the boys sing. Here are the titles:

Barber Shop—Parade of Quar­tet Hits No. 1. Edwin H. Morris & Company, Inc. 60 cents.

Barber Shop Harmony. Mills Music, Inc. 60 cents.

More Barber Shop Harmony. Mills Music, Inc. 60 cents.

Barber Shop Songs and "Swipes." Bregman, Vocco and Conn, Inc. 60 cents.

Barber Shop Classics. Remick Music Corp. 75 cents.

Tomorrow's Press Is I.L.P.C. Theme

MAGAZINES

Mexican Border Ballads and Other Lore. Edited by Mody C. Boatright. Publication of The Texas Folklore Society XXI. Austin. 1946.

'TpHIS latest of the Texas •*• Folklore Society's publica­

tions is a thin green volume of only 140 pages but of more than usual excellence. In the carefully prepared initial article, "Corridos of the Mexican Bor­der," troubadour Brownie McNeil gives the origin and historical back­ground of the Mexican border bal­lad known as the eorrido and of several individual corridos, which he quotes. He introduces several little known ballads along with some old favorites, with comments and notes which contribute greatly to the reader's understanding and enjoyment of these songs from the hearts of a proud, sensitive peo­ple. Wilson M. Hudson's cuento of the cowchip tamales is ingenious and well told. Howard N. Mar­tin's Alabama-Coushatta legends are as simple and dignified as the Indians themselves. Robert T. Clark's treatise on the Louisiana bullfrog described by Europeans of the 17th Century is a marvel of scholarship.

John Tales represents the flower­ing of a great talent, one fostered and encouraged through the years by those who have long guided the destinies of the Texas Folklore So­ciety. Those familiar with J. Ma­son Brewer's services to Texas and Southern folklore will read and reread with ever-increasing delight his newest John tales.

Do rattlesnakes swallow their young? Hundreds of people be­lieve that they do, scientists to the contrary. Frank Dobie reports the experiences of numerous eye-wit­nesses who are absolutely sure that they saw the rattlesnake do just this thing. They go into great de­tail, pile proof upon proof. Seeing is believing, they say in effect. But may it not be rather believing is seeing? Who knows?

Andrew Forest Muir closes this interesting volume with the de­fense of a pioneer woman who seemed ready, able and willing to defend herself against all comers, men, women or potentates, even great General Houston himself. This Mrs. Mann was traveling with the general, or he was with her. At any rate, a team of her oxen was pulling one of his com­missary wagons. I t was during the "runaway scrape" and Mrs. Mann was heading for Nacog­doches. When the wagons turned oft* to go to Harrisburg at the general's command, Mrs. Mann en­raged, jumped from her horse, un­hitched her oxen and headed them toward Nacogdoches. Houston's wagon-master resisted but after having his shirt torn off of him, gave up. Sam Houston did not take sides. Apparently he had more than a passing acquaintance with the famous Mrs. Mann.—L. G. B.

New Coach at Marshall J. W. "Swede" McMurry, for­

mer football coach at McKinney, Gainesville, and Lubbock high schools, has been named football eoach at Marshall High School.

Workshops, Reception and Banquet Planned for

Delegates

'T-'OMORROW'S Newspa-•*• per" will be the theme of

the twentieth annual Inter­scholastic League Press Con­vention as high-school jour­nalists from the four quarters of Texas assemble in Austin May 1, 2, and 3.

Workshops in photography, news writing, make-up, editorial writing, and business problems will provide for the sharing of experiences and the advice of experts in these fields. Tentatively, a magazine editor has agreed to discuss some of the possibilities in Texas for regional magazines. An opening reception on the night of May 1 and a ban-quet-with-floor-show May 2 will provide opportunity for fun.

Hard workers at the convention will be the contest delegates, two from each of the thirty district-winning papers, who will partici­pate in five journalism contests: news writing, headline writing, copy editing, feature writing, and editorial writing. Only the thirty winning papers are entitled to be represented in the contests, but any paper enrolled in the I.L.P.C. may send delegates at their own expense to the convention.

Because postwar hotel accom­modations are as difficult to get in Austin as they were during the war, each staff is urged to restrict its delegation to not more than four or five. Contest delegates are furnished lodging through the In­terscholastic League; but all non-contest delegates must provide their own lodging. Non-contest delegates are urged to arrange for reservations with one of the local hotels or rooming houses in ad­vance.

Winning papers in Texas were announced this month by the sev­eral judging committees. The best two papers in each class and divi­sion have been given an "Award of Distinguished Merit." In addi­tion, six more Distinguished Merit awards have been made at-large in the groups having a large number of fine newspapers. These Distin­guished Merit newspapers are en­titled to enter two contestants in the State Journalism Contests. An "Award of Honor" Was made to those papers which were very good but which did not rank among the winners.

The papers receiving awards are as follows: Northwest—Class A

Award of Distinguished Merit: Abilene Battery, Amarillo Sand­storm, El Paso Austin Pioneer.

Award of Honor: Lubbock West~ erner World, Wichita Falls Coyote News.

Northwest—Class B Award of Distinguished Merit:

Snyder Tigers Tale, Sweetwater Pony Express.

Award of Honor: Canyon Eagle's Tale, Kermit Yellow Jacket. Northwest—Class C

Award of Distinguished Merit: Crane Crane, Grandfalls Gusher.

Award of Honor: Vernon Long-horn. Southwest—Class A

Award of Distinguished Merit: Laredo Journal, San Antonio Dec­laration, San Antonio Technician.

Award of Honor: McAllen Wheel, San Antonio El Nopal. Southwest—Class B

Award of Distinguished Merit: Pharr Bears Tale, San Antonio Chief.

Award of Honor: Falfurrias De­light, Mission Feather. Southwest—Class C

Award of Distinguished Merit:1

Marfa Shorthorn, Mirando City Panther.

Award of Honor: Llano Buzz. Northeast—Class A

Award of Distinguished Merit: Dallas Bagpipe, Dallas Sunset Stampede, Dallas Woodrow Wilson News, Fort Worth Jacket Journal, Fort Worth Pantherette.

Award of Honor: Dallas Forest Echo, Dallas Tech Talk, Fort Worth Eagle Record, Fort Worth Lariat, Longview Long—View, Ty­ler Lion's Tale. Northeast—Class B

Award of Distinguished Merit: Belton Tiger, Bonham Bonhi.

Award of Honor: Weatherford Grassburr. Northeast—Class C

Award of Distinguished Merit: Joinervill Delight, Longview Gauger.

Award of Honor: Overton Lions Roar.

Southeast—Class A

Award of Distinguished Merit: Austin Maroon, Harlingen Car­dinal, Houston Round-Up.

Award of Honor: Corpus Christi Gaviota, Houston Statesman, Orange Scratches.

Southeast—Class B

1947 State Meet Program

(Continued from Page 1)

10:00 A.M.—Shorthand—Contestants report in Room 201, Waggener Hall.

Tennis—Semifinals, boys' singles and doubles,

11:00 A.M.—Conference AA—girls' division—final debate. Geology Bldg. 14.

Conference AA—boys' division—final debate. Garrison Hall 1.

1:30 P.M.—One-Act Play (continuation). Hogg Auditorium. Slide Rule Contest, Architecture Bldg. 105.

1:45 P.M.—Track and Field finals, Texas Memorial Stadium.

2:30 P.M.—Tennis finals, boys' and girls' doubles, Penick Courts.

3:00 P.M.—High School Number Sense Contest, Architecture Bldg.

105.

4:00 P.M.—Tennis finals, boys' and girls' singles, Penick Courts.

SPECIAL NOTICES

ALL DELEGATES should come to the Gregory Gymnasium imme­diately upon arriving in Austin and register. Unless you are

registered, we cannot undertake to deliver messages, letters or tele­grams, or advise your friends where you may be found.

DELEGATES' BADGES are issued only to delegates and con­testants to the Meet, and to no one else. Delegates and con­

testants are cautioned against losing or misplacing badges. Dupli­cates are not issued.

LODGINGS, beginning Wednesday at 2:30 P.M., will be furnished the delegates free of charge. Do not offer to pay for lodging

assigned by us. Friends and relatives of contestants are heartily welcome, but free lodgings are not assigned to them. Substitutes on teams or alternates are not assigned free lodgings or entitled to rebate. •

We cannot agree to lodge delegations of more than two in the same house. It is rare that one house can accommodate a large number. It is, therefore, necessary to split delegations, and assign part to one house for lodging, and part to another.

Coaches or faculty representatives will be expected to lodge with contestants if assigned to a dormitory or hotel.

EACH contestant in the Track and Field Meet will be required to • wear a number on his back. These numbers should be secured

at the Gregory Gymnasium during registration. Those arriving Thursday morning may get them at the Texas Memorial Stadium.

DELEGATES' TICKETS admit them to the One-Act Play tourna­ment and the Track and Field Events free of charge. Other*

will be charged 50 cents, adults, per session, and 25 cents, children.

Tennis Clinie

DR. D. A. PENICK announces a Tennis Clinic in the Trophy Room of Gregory Gymnasium Friday, May 2, at 10:00 A.M.

coaches, players, and interested visitors. for

Open House

MRS. ROBERT FELGAR, Educational Director of Braekenridge Hospital, announces an open house for delegates to the Inter­

scholastic League State Meet at the Nurses Residence, 709 East Fourteenth Street, May 1, 7:30 P.M. All delegates are cordially invited, especially those who are interested in nursing.

Principals' Meeting

THE ANNUAL DINNER and business meeting of the Texas Asso­ciation of Secondary Principals will be held Friday, May 2, at

6:30 P.M. in the East Room of the Stephen F. Austin Hotel.

Annual Exposition and Power Show

THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING at The University of Texas will present its annual Exposition and Power Show Friday, May

2, from 7 to 10 P.M. Exhibits will be on display in the Architecture, Main Engineering, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Buildings.

Learn what is new in Electronics, in Aeronautical Engineering, in Petroleum and Petroleum Refining, in Architecture, in Mechanical and Civil Construction, and in the growing field of Ceramics.

Curtain Club Entertains

MEMBERS OF THE ONE-ACT PLAY casts and directors will be guests of the Curtain Club Friday from 7 to 9:30 P.M. A

play will be presented during the open house held at the Modern Lan­guage Building.

Coaches-Trainer Clinie

TRACK COACHES and high-school athletes are urged to attend the Coaches-Trainer Clinic Saturday, May 3, at 10; A.M. in the

lecture room of the Stadium. Frank Medina, head trainer at The University of Texas, will demonstrate the correct technique of bandaging and give other instruction in first aid. A technicolor film will be shown, and a tour of-the training quarters of the University's athletic department will be conducted by Mr. Medina.

Lutcher Stark Debate Contest

THE SPEECH DEPARTMENT will have the Lutcher Stark Debate Contest on the high-school debate topic Thursday, May 1,

at 7:30 P.M. in the Junior Ballroom of the Texas Union. Debaters will be guests of the Speech Department a t an open house following the contest.

League Breakfast

THE ANNUAL LEAGUE BREAKFAST for State Meet delegates will begin at 7:30 A.M. in the Crystal Ballroom of the Driskill

Hotel, Saturday, May 3.

Supt. Walker Resigns

D. M. Walker, superintendent of the Leverett's Chapel School for the past 16 years, has resigned. He will be succeeded by B. D. Ma­son, high-school principal. Jack Garrett, science teacher, will be­come principal.

Award of Distinguished Merit: Kingsville Round-Up, Mercedes Tiger.

Award of Honor: Raymondville Bear, Taylor Cotton Boll.

Southeast—Class C

Award of Distinguished Merit: Bartlett Bulldog, La Marque Blue and Gold.

Award of Honor: Crosby Mes­senger, Mont Belvieu Eagle.

Principals to Elect Officers

OFFICERS will be elected and the new constitution

adopted at the annual banquet of the Texas Association ei Secondary Principals in Austin Friday, May 2, at 6:30 p.m. in the East Room of the Stephen F. Austin Hotel.

R. B. Sparks, president, has asked that reservations be sent immediately to the secretary, Principal M. H. Connelly of, Harlingen. The cost will be $1.75 per person. As only 70 plates have been reserved, it is necessary that reservations be made before April 30, re­ports Mr. Sparks.

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Suspect, by Edward Perey and Reginald Denham. Dramatists Play Service, Roy. $25, 4m4w, psychological thriller, 75c, 3 act.

This is an excellent thriller that has to do with a mother who tries to shield her son from the knowl­edge that she is a murderess. The play is set in a remote part of England where the mother and her housekeeper have retired after the murder trial. The action takes place thirty years after the event, and is brought to a head when the son falls in love with the daughter of a newspaperman who covered the trial.

The battle of wits between the mother and the newspaperman brings about a tense situation in which the mother is fighting for the happiness of her son, and the newspaperman is determined to find the truth for his daughter's sake. The play has a tremendously strong ending which should leave the audience limp. The authors have injected the same grim psy­chological atmosphere into this play that they had in their earlier play, Ladies in Retirement.

Uses: Little Theater, Advanced Acting Groups.

Reviewer's Opinion: Excellent.

tume dance. They steal a male outfit from Judy's "steady," Shrimp, while he is stuck in the window. They get rid of Judy's parents in order to "borrow" fur­niture for the dance (one of the conditions on which they were in­vited), and scare and upset the whole family.

Finally father, who has three daughters and a baby contest on his hands, rebels and takes Judy in hand. Shrimp gets his share of repayment too.

All of the action takes place in the living room of the Prudy home, making the play very easy to pro­duce. At times some of the humor is forced, but the play has a few good scenes and should go over quite well with a Senior Play audience.

Uses: Senior play, 'Teen-age groups.

Reviewer's Opinion: Good.

Original Poem Takes Honors

Talented Dallas Student Enters Southern Methodist Univ.

A N ORIGINAL composi-^*- tion, "In Memory," won third place in the 1946 Decla­mation Contest for A. G. Power of Sunset High School, Dallas.

A. G. also appeared in the cast of "To the Lovely Margaret," which was in the State Meet competition.

Now he is a pre-med student at Southern Methodist University.

Tongue Twisting Is Funny Unless It's Your Tongue New York Wri ter Gives

Examples of Radio "Fluffs"

/ Remember Mama, by John Van Druten, adapted from Kathryn Forbes' book "Mama's Bank Account." Dramatists Play Service, Roy. $50 and $25, 9ml3w, comedy, 75e, 3 act.

This is a beautifully told cross-section of American family life during the eary 1900's. The closely-knit family ties and the many mem­bers of the family keep the play bubbling with all sorts of pleasant turmoil.

The play is full of human inter­est, with laughter following tears in scene after scene. Mama, of course, is the main character and sees to it that her family is steered through the problems of childhood and young manhood and young womanhood. The play has been very successful on Broadway, but a t the present time i t is released for production in most of the United States.

If you are interested in doing the play, be sure to contact the publishers early in order to get the proper release in your area.

. Although the staging for the orig­inal production was quite elab­orate, John Van Druten has writ­ten a preface outlining a simpli­fied method of production which should bring the play within the realm of most dramatic groups.

Uses: Little Theater, Advance Acting Groups.

Reviewer's Opinion l Superior.

The Rich Full Life, by Vina Del-mar. Samuel French, Roy. $35, 3m6w, comedy-drama, 85c, 3 act.

Vina Delmar has handled the story of a sensitive adolescent girl, who is usually too frail to go to parties and such, in an admirable manner. The Fenwicks have a going-on-seventeen daughter who catches colds all the time, and is allowed to go out very little. Her father, who is in the hardware business and her uncle who is a doctor, coddle her dutifully. A domineering aunt does her bit to keep Cynthia inside also.

But when Ricky Latham, a sen­ior and catch of the school, asks Cynthia to the Senior Dance, her mother sees to it that she goes even though it rains steadily all week, and even though wet weather always makes Cynthia sick.

Sure enough, the poof, little frail girl gets ill the night of the dance. The mother, who has fallen into prosaic domesticity, knows that the answer to a really rich full life depends on the happy memories one has to look back on when the going gets rough. For once in her life the mother wants Cynthia to have a wonderful time. The character of the mother is drawn beautifully, and she does a brave and noble thing to send her daughter to the dance despite the weather. The uninspired relatives cannot see the value of this ges­ture, as one might readily gather. Are really terrific memories worth the price? The mother in this play (and Vina Delmar) says YES!

Uses: Senior play, Dramatic Club productions.

Reviewer's Opinion: Excellent.

A . G. P o w e r

S u n s e t H . S . ( D a l l a s ) 1 9 4 6

During A. G.'s high-school career, he had the following list of honors to his credit: President of the Sen­ior Class and Cheerleader in 1946; president of the Good Scholarship Club; president of the Speakers Club; Student Council representa­tive; National Forensic Club; Na­tional Thespian Club; captain in R.O.T.C.; secretary of Officers Club; Debate Club; student traffic court representative from Sunset High School.

He received the Four-year Linz Pin, the Bible Award; and was a member of the National Honor So­ciety. He was made a Junior Ro-tarian. In addition to all this, he was judged best actor in both eity and regional One-Act Play con­tests. He was awarded the Johnny Folsom Scholarship given an out­standing graduate from Sunset.

His parents are Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Power, 2630 Gladstone, Dal­las, Texas.

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San Angelo Gives Annual Band Concert

fhe Would-Be Gentleman, by Mo-liere, arranged by Roland Fer-nand. Dramatic Publishing Co., Non-roy., 4m4w, extras, comedy, 1670 costumes, 75c, '3 act.

The action of this play takes place in Monsieur Jourdain's draw­ing room in Paris about 1670. Mo-liere's story about the man who makes a fool of himself in trying to assume high-flown airs is quite well known, and this is a good adaptation of that original tale. Monsieur Jourdain is taken in by unscrupulous musicians, philoso­pher's, dancing masters, and even by a count and countess. The hon­est but untitled young man who is in love with the Would-Be Gentle­man's daughter does not have a chance. He dupes the social

^ climber, however, by pretending to be the son of the Grand Turk.

Much fun is had at the expense of Monsieur Jourdain when the pseudo-Turk, in order to win the consent of papa to the marriage of the Turk and the daughter, makes Jourdain a Mamamouchi (sup­posedly a very high honor). The old boy is so dizzy by the time he gets through the ritual he does not know what is happening . . . and all ends happily, though Jour-dam has his just deserts when he finds he has been thwarted by his shrewish wife.

Uses: Dramatic Club play, High School or College Costume produc­tions.

Reviewer's Opinion: Excellent.

Too Sweet for Sixteen, by James F. Stone. Eldridge Entertain­ment House, Roy. $10, 4m7w, comedy, 75c, 3 act.

Judy is sixteen and a half, and will move Heaven and earth to get her own way. As a matter of fact, she nearly does both. Because of the girl shortage at the local col­lege, Judy and her 'teen-age friends, Midge and Lila, are in­vited to the college fraternity cos-

Meet a Body, by Jane Hinton. Long­mans, Green and Co., Roy. $25, 9m4w, mystery, 75c, 3 act.

Although the play abounds with secret devices, insane people, cruel, selfish, dishonest persons, and other bright touches, the best point in the play is the number of dead bodies that pile up during the three acts. The scene is the living quarters of the MacGregor Mortuary in an American city. The characters that wander in and out offer oppor­tunities to do Scotch, Irish, Jewish, Brooklyn, and what-not dialects.

The story concerns an inventor who comes into the Funeral Par­lor, orders his own funeral, leaves specific instructions to be carried out after his death, and then, as he goes out the door, dies instantly. The story from then on is much too involved to summarize, but sprinkle the total liberally with slow poison, fast poison, electronics, weird music, slinking figures, hand3 appearing around doors, out of caskets, and behind windows; add a trap-door and some dumb police­men, and you have a pretty good idea of the play. Oh yes, there is some love interest thrown in for good measure. Even $10,000 is tossed around the stage.

In spite of all these stock tricks, the play is fairly interesting, and though it is quite jumpled, if it is played very fast, the audience should enjoy it. Just to add to the confusion, the author has written the play so that you can use women in two of the men's parts and a man in one of the women's parts. The added dialogue is given to make these changes. The publisher offers a Director's Manuscript for the use of the director of this play. That is a very good idea; he will certainly need it. Let us hope they include instructions for getting out of the theater without stumbling over the bodies or grabbing up a handful of poison!

Uses: Senior Play, Dramatics Clubs.

Reviewer's Opinion: Good,

CAN ANGELO High School ^ presented its annual band and orchestra concert March 20 in the City Auditorium with L. M. Calavan, of Dallas, as guest conductor.

Mr. Calavan was director of music in Stillwater, Oklahoma, for seven years, and at Bristow, Okla­homa.

Homer A. Anderson, head of the instrumental music department, has developed three organizations since coming to San Angelo, The San Angelo High School Orches­tra, the Bobcat Band, and the Junior High Band. All three groups took part in the perform­ance.

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New Jr. Declamation List To Be Published for 1948

THE TWISTED tongue, the "fluffing" of a line, the

slip-of-the-lip are hazards to be hurdled by every speech contestant, as every speech coach realizes.

While the young speaker who suddenly hears himself announc­ing his title as "Belling the Tees" instead of "Telling the Bees" will find scant comfort in the thought at the moment of his embarrass­ment, he has automatically become a member of a great league of speech-manglers.

The professional radio an­nouncers have contributed so many of these vocal faux pas that a col­lection would make a gem of hi­larious reading matter. Jerry Cot­ter, author of an article appear­ing in the New York Times Maga­zine* has gathered some of the humorous slips in broadcasting.

O c c u p a t i o n a l D i s e a s e

"The twisted tongue," writes Mr. Cotter, "is the occupational disease of radio broadcasting. Announc­ers, commentators, actors, novices, and veterans alike live in terror of the verbal bluff that turns an innocent phrase into a bit of bawdy banter or comical nonsense, caus­ing censors to sputter and listen­ers to guffaw.

Though most announcers hate to admit that they've ever mangled a line, it is the rare radio voice that hasn't slipped. The other night one of the NBC boys stepped over the line of straight announcing when he boldly declared that a "pewgram of mosic" would follow. Announcer John Reed King prob­ably didn't intend to go in for dramatic criticism but it sounded that way when he referred to the long-run play as the "perennial 'Lice with Father.*"

E v e n T h o m a s S l ips

Even the eminent Lowell Thomas, after years of tossing proper names around with a vet­eran's savior faire, isn't above an occasional break. On a recent program he startled his audience by twice referring to the fiery former Secretary of the Interior as "Mr. Icksie."

Singer Burl Ives can do wonders with the tricky phraseology of the hill-billy ditties he sings, but on the Billboard Award Show he broke down completely. In accept­ing a scroll for outstanding the­atrical work he responded to Play­wright Russel Grouse's presenta­tion in pure Swahilli:

"I want to thank Mr. Brussel Reuse for this screwl."

During the war a Mutual broad­caster gave the collectors an item

•Special permission was granted by The New York Times Magazine for the re­printing of this article by Jerry Cotter.

when he referred to the then cur­rent "Battle of the Bulgian Belch." And it must have been the excite­ment of the war that caused an announcer to introduce one pro­gram with grave solemnity: "Helen Hayes now presents 'A Litter for Hitler, '" Litter or letter, Miss Hayes went on to give a ringing dramatic performance.

T h e Gods L a u g h , T o o In most cases the hapless speak­

ers recover in time to carry on in the best tradition of the studios, but sometimes the gods are cruel. For example, when a CBS actor was giving directions on setting a table, he began: "Place the sports and foons on the . . ." After one of those awful pauses, he tried again: "I mean the sparks and sphoons." You could almost see the beads of sweat trickling down his brow as he made a third at­tempt: "Of eourse I mean the porks and soons." At that point he gave up.

Then there are the classics of radio, the fluffs that have come down from the early days, when life in the studios was on a more informal basis. Old-timers recall with great affection the late Lou Gehrig's forthright endorsement of Wheaties as his favorite break­fast food when appearing on Grape Nuts sportcast: Graham McNamee's admonition to use the "better gasoloon"; Clyde Kittell's introduction of the Pope as "His Holiness, Pipe Po-ess" and the daddy of them all—Harry von Zell's booming, "Ladies and gen­tlemen, the President of the United States—Hooberrt Hever."

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Movies and Dances Solve Noon Leisure Problems

Health Workshops Planned for June Teachers to Study Problems

Confronting Their Own Schools

J o y c e M u e l l e r

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The Junior Declamation List is going to be revised during the summer months, according to Bruce Roach, State Director of Speech Activities, who is soliciting the aid of all speech teachers and coaches.

"Send in your favorite selections for the Junior Declamation Con­test," urges Mr. Roach, "and be sure to give the entire declamation or furnish the name and author and place where it can be located."

*-pHE noon leisure problem •*• has been solved by Free-

port High School, Freeport, Pennsylvania, where two ex­periments with a lunch-hour activity program have been highly successful.

One activity at noon is "Penny Dancing" which the student coun­cil sponsors in the gymnasium. A committee is on the job to collect the small fee, change records and take charge of the daily crowd which is usually in the neighbor­hood of 300 students. The money is used to buy new records.

Free movies is another form of entertainment which has proved to be popular. Educational, travel, and historical films are shown in the auditorium by boys who have been trained to run projectors.^ School Activities.

Spelling Expert Is Stenographer Employer Finds Secretary

Who Really Knows Her Business

*T*HE high-school spelling •*• champion, Joyce Mueller,

won third place honors in the Conference B Ready Writing Contest at the 1946 State Meet for her school—Poteet High School.

Joyce was salutatorian of her class in which she ranked second seholastically.

After completing a business course, she entered the employment of an engineering company in San Antonio where she is now working.

She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Mueller, Poteet, Texas.

W7-ORKSHOPS to prepare ™ teachers, for more effec­

tive participation in the school and community health prob­lems will be conducted at five Texas colleges this summer.

In co-operation with the State Department of Health and Educa­tion and the W. K. Kellog Founda­tion on the campuses of The Uni­versity of Texas, North Texas State Teachers College, Texas State College for Women, Stephen F. Austin State Teachers College, and Prairie View University, teach­ers will have the opportunity to study the particular problems of his or her school and community.

At The University of Texas, under the direction of specialists from the Department of Physical and Health Education and the Ex­tension Teaching Bureau, and con­sultants from State and local health agencies will aid teachers with their special projects. Some of the problems which will be given spe­cial attention will be: The school's part in controlling communicable diseases of children; safe and healthful school environment; health instruction for different grade levels; nutrition instruction.

Teachers are expected from the schools which are already partici­pating in the three year in-service education program. These schools are at San Angelo, Sweetwater, Burnet, Lampasas, East Bernard, Laredo, and Odessa.

DEBATE FORUM B y

E d d Mil ler

Queetion-bosfi Mr. Miller, debate coach of the University Debate squad. is willing to answer as best he can, questions arising in connection with this debate. It will be well if you write him a letter requesting information to enclose a stamped and addressed en­velope for reply. Address: Edd Miller, University Station, Austin. Texas.

Speech In Texas Schools

THIS column belongs to Texas Speech teachers (or discussion of speech prob­

lems and news concerning Speech activi­ties in Texas high schools. Communica­tions should he sent to Mr. Bruce Roach, Box H, University Station, Austin, Texas, who is editor of this column.

Electrical measurements indi­cate that most dreams last from two to three minutes and virtu­ally all dreams which we remem­ber occur a few minutes before we wake in the morning and fade al­most instantly after wakening.

^T*HE Reagan High School "*• Speech Department at

Houston sponsored its first postwar forensic meet March 14 a n d 15 . Schools f rom Loui ­siana, Oklahoma, and from all sec­tions of Texas were invited to the two-day meet. Awards in the form of figurines, certificates, arid rib­bons were presented to the winners in boys' and girls' divisions in De­bate, Extemporaneous Speaking, and Declamation. J. R. Holcomb, Speech Director at Reagan was in charge of all arrangements.

will be used on the series during the remainder of the school year.

The Junior Class at Highland Park High School, Dallas, has be­gun work on the three-act comedy "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay." Miss Peggy Harrison, Public Speaking teacher, is director.

Senior student Jack Norris of Paschal High School, Fort Worth, wrote, produced, and directed the "Ranch Day Review" which was staged on March 13 in the school's auditorium. A large cast took part in this variety program which high­lighted the first day of Pasehal's annual "Ranch Week."

Each Thursday evening Station KMAC, San Antonio, carries a pro­gram sponsored by the Speech De­partment of Harlandale High School. Student-written scripts

Texas Colleges Offer Special Courses This Summer for Speech - Drama Teachers

Current Bibliography on Medical Care

Emerson, H. "Why Compulsory Medical Care Fails." Chris-tian Science Monitor Maga­zine; p. 3. March 8, 1947.

Fid^er, A. "Whither Medicine: From Dogma to Science?" New York. Nelson, 1947.

Green, D. H. "Program for Medicine. Medicine Today; the March of Medicine. New York. Columbia University Press, 1946.

Pink, L. H. Health Plan for the State of New York. New York. Associated Hospital Service of New York, 1945.

Spencer, S. M. "Is the Clinic Your Best Bet?" Saturday Evening Post: 219:30-1. March 22, 1947.

"State Health Plan, Maryland." Survey; 83:54. February, 1947.

OPEECH and drama teach-*-* ers interested in taking special work during the sum­mer in their field will find a number of colleges and uni­versities in Texas are offering courses to meet their needs.

Colleges are planning courses in speech correction, radio, acting, directing, producing, and have an­nounced lecture classes in these plus the popular workshop ap­proach.

Baylor Announces Courses The department of speech at

Baylor University is offering one of the most complete programs for teachers, according to Miss Sara Lowrey, chairman of the depart­ment. Speech fundamentals, Voice and Diction, Debate, Public Speak­ing, Interpretative Reading, are some of the titles on its summer school agenda. There will also be a good program of radio and drama. Teachers interested in ra­dio can enroll for Radio in Educa­tion, Radio in Religion, Radio An­nouncing, and Radio Acting.

For the one-act play directors will be Acting and Play Directing and the summer theater produc­tion.

Southern Methodist University is offering the following special courses in speech, drama, and radio: Fundamentals of Radio; Speech and Education; Speech Cor­rection (held in conjunction with a workshop in Education for ex­ceptional children); Voice and Dic­tion for Teachers. In addition to these, Southern Methodist Uni­versity's department of speech will have its usual courses in Speech Fundamentals, Acting, and Busi­ness Speech.

C h o r a l R e a d i n g T a u g h t

E a s t T e x a s B a p t i s t Col lege ,

Marshall, is offering a six weeks

course in choral reading, which is the application of the basic speech principles to choric speaking and includes a survey and adaptation of materials for various age levels and methods of classroom use.

Sam Houston State Teachers College .at Huntsville lists these courses: Drama; Classroom Speech; Public Speaking; Funda­mentals of Speech; Elementary Argument; Advanced Radio Work; and Speech Correction.

A freshman course in Funda­mentals of Speech and Delivery will be offered by Temple Junior College, Temple, Texas.

North Texas State Teachers Col­lege at Denton will offer these courses: Speech 325, which will be radio speaking, announcing, script writing and participation in weekly broadcasts; Speech 330, the pro­duction and direction of radio pro­grams. During the second six weeks, that college will give courses in Auditorium Activities and Ad­vanced Dramatics.

P h o n e t i c s Of fered San Angelo College is offering

a basic course in speech which in­cludes fundamentals of public speaking, phonetics, microphone technique, and auditorium work.

Public Speaking, Play Produc­tion, Oral Interpretation of Litera­ture, Problems of Acting and His­tory of the Theater will be avail­able at Abilene Christian College. Fred J. Barton, head of the de­partment of speech, writes that he will be happy to answer inquiries or to offer additional courses upon demand.

Three courses will be given at Texas College of Arts and Indus­tries, Kingsville, according to Clark S. Carlile, acting head of the de­partment of speech. First, Speech Fundamentals; second, an advanced course in speech fundamentals; and

third, a course entitled Speech for Teachers. This third course will involve various types of speeches and discussions. All three will be taught on a laboratory basis in which the student will get actual practice.

S.U. Announces Courses Southwestern University at

Georgetown lists three summer term courses at the Junior, Senior, and Graduate level which should fulfill the needs of many teach­ers: Public Speaking, Methods of Teaching Speech and Play Direct­ing Methods.

Howard Payne College at Brown-wood offers six hours in Funda­mentals, three hours in Poetry In­terpretation, and three hours in Radio Speech.

During the first summer term at Stephen F. Austin State Teach­ers College at Nacogdoches, Ama­teur Dramatics will be available, and Auditorium Activities will be offered the second term. Radio will be used in connection with these.

Titles of courses available dur­ing the summer session at The University of Texas are: High School Play Directing; Make-Up, and Beginning Acting; Play writ­ing; Radio Writing; Stagecraft; Directing; The Study of Theater History; Radio Drama; Voice and Diction; Introduction to the The­ater; and Advanced Laboratory Production.

Texas Technological College at Lubbock, in the first six weeks of the summer session, offers courses in Fundamentals of Speech, Voice and Diction, Business and Profes­sional Speaking and Speech Cor­rection.

During the second term, from July 21 to August 29, Radio Speech, Fundamentals of Speech, Business and Professional Speaking and In­terpretative Beading will be given.

Thirteen new members were initiated into the National Thes­pian Dramatics Society at Martin High School, Laredo, in February and were entertained with a party afterwards.

El Sombrero, school newspaper of Perryton High School reports that the Senior Class play, "Aunt Samanthy Rules the Roost," was a huge success, with a near-capacity crowd attending the show on March 11. Director was Miss Evelyn Milam.

"Heaven Can Wait" has been selected by the HcAllen High School seniors as this year's class play. Don Irwin, principal of the high school, is directing the show which will be presented, matinee and night, on May 15.

On March 20 the public speaking class of Hutto High School pre­sented a Speech Pageant dealing with the history of Texas, com­bining observance of Independence Day, Alamo Day, and San Jacinto Day. The theme, "Texas Under Six Flags," was brought out in speeches, readings, and songs of Texas.

Chase Winfrey is the supervisor of Speech in Austin City Schools. He has a very ambitious speech program in progress and is inte­grating speech work with the aid of the thirty speech teachers in the Austin system from the third grade through senior high school.

Austin High debaters won first place honors at an invitational Speech Tournament held at San Marcos early in March. The girls' team won all four of the debates held, and one of the boys' teams won a "perfect rating" in the tournament.

Thirty new Red Dragons were selected in spring try-outs at Aus­tin High and will see their first experience with this organization when the next play is produced in April. Miss Naomi Davis sponsors the club.

•VTOW THAT the debate sea-•L^ son is practically over, this is a good time to stop and evaluate your activities during the past year. Of course, your evaluation would in­clude the number of debates you won and lost and your record In various tournaments, county and district meets, etc. But a more important evaluation would con­sider the things of lasting impor­tance you have gained from this season's debating. And of particu­lar value would be the lessons you have learned that will aid you in the future.

Some of you debaters will grad­uate this year and perhaps never have occasion to take part in a formal inter-school debate. Even so, I believe it is true, that a care­ful weighing of the things you have learned will be of great service to you in whatever you do. Debating is a good place to find out about yourself. If you have not been able to mingle well with your colleagues or your opponents, if you have not been able to see arguments clearly and know how to answer them in the best possible way, if you have not been able to present your ideas forcefully and effectively, then you will be able to plan better to overcome these de­ficiencies in your later life. These things and others will undoubtedly have been made clear to you in the course of your debating.

If, on the other hand, you will be in school next year and plan to continue your debating, whatever deficiencies showed up this year can be overcome next year. As a matter of fact, you might well spend part of your time during the summer not only in preparing next year's debate question, but in working on yourself to correct whatever faults *night exist in your debating. Take a good honest criti­cal look at yourself as a debater and plan now to improve during the coming year.

Speaking of the future still—as soon as the topic for next year is selected, begin your preparation. Most of you are probably aware by now that preparation in debat­ing is a great share of the success in debating. Begin your prepara­tion early and your job in debating next year will be lightened con­siderably.

Hints on' Preparation A few hints on preparation

might be of some value. Of course, none of the handbooks and special sources on the debate question will be ready until next fall, so the summer preparation you make will be pretty much on your own. First of all, I would suggest you begin keeping notes in a card file or loose leaf notebook. Keep accurate notes on all material you gather that will be useful in debating the ques­tion. Be sure to make a reference to the exact source of material as well as quoting or summarizing the material you need. Begin this filing system early and keep it up to date with all the new material you run across.

Read widely in daily newspapers and in current magazines. What­ever question is selected will un­doubtedly be a current one about which the newspapers or magazines will carry a great deal of mate­rial. Most of this would be hard to find at a later date, so keep up with it as it comes out, make records for your filing system of what you read and where you read it.

Study Carefully Be sure you understand what

you read. Too many of ,us are apt to get only a vague idea of the real meaning of an article and not actually understand all its implications. Understand thorough­ly by reading carefully, slowly, and by studying what you read with great care. If you don't understand, don't hesitate to ask someone to give you an explana­tion of vague or obscure material. Understanding is essential, for without it your debating is bound to be inadequate.

At any rate, prepare as thor­oughly as you know how and you will have a jump on the other de­baters who wait until the begin­ning of the season to begin their preparation. I am looking forward to seeing some of you in Austin in May, and good luck to all of you.

Bonham High School has joined the ranks of the many schools choosing the popular "Date With Judy" for production as Senior Class play. Mrs. Lillian Creek-more is directing and production date is April 25.

I t is in the variations of taste, in books as in women and all other sublunary dispensations, that make the world a diverting place of residence; and human intercourse is never more stimulating than when it gossips of books—be they "corn" or classics.—J. F . Albright.

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Deport Suspended Deport High School was sus­

pended in basketball for the 1948 basketball season, action of State Executive Committee on April 2, 1947, considering the case of mis­treatment of basketball officials at the game between Deport and Mt. Vernon at Talco on February 21, 1947.

Rulei for Muiic Contests Interscholastic League eligibility

rules and classification procedure become effective at the beginning of the 1947-48 school year, for music competition - festivals for­merly administered by the TMEA.

Correction in Spelling Rules Rule 4, page 43, Constitution

and Rules, of the Spelling Contest should read: Word Sources—The sources from which words shall be taken for this contest in the respective divisions follow:

Grades V and VI—League Spell­ing List, Grades V and VI, and "Spelling Goals" (State Adopted Text) for second and third years.

Grades VII and VIII—League Spelling List, Grades VII and VIII, and "Spelling Goals" (State A d o p t e d Text) for third and fourth years.

High School—League Spelling List for High School, and "Spell­ing Goals" (State Adopted Text) for Grade VIII.

This correction has been cir­cularized and put in the hands of each member-school.

'46 Winner Enters Contests Again Albert Marsh Has Full Life

With Sports, Writing, And Band Activities

WfRITING is a favorite " sport of Albert Marsh,

senior at Rio Grande City, which he represented at the State Meet last year, winning second place in Conference A Ready Writers.

"Guard That Throwing Arm," Texas Trainer Advises Baseball Coaches TiASEBALL, like all other £> sports, requires a great

Suspension Edgewood High School (San An­

tonio) is suspended from basket­ball during the 1947-48 season.

Trips Approved Members of the State Executive

Committee ruled October 9 that "educational trips shall not be in­terpreted as a violation of the awards rule provided the trips are financed and sponsored solely by the school board."

Interpretation of Graduate Rule After hearing O d e s s a High

School's request for a liberal in­terpretation of the graduate rule, the Executive Committee on Oc­tober 9 adopted the following mo­tion: .

That in the opinion of the State Executive Committee anyone who "has sufficient credits to entitle him to a diploma"—any diploma based on the minimum number of credits, irrespective of other re­quirements not involving credits— shall be considered as meeting the graduate requirements of Article VIII, Section 2.

Scope of Awards Rule Defined In defining the scope of the

awards rule, the State Executive Committee, on October 9, adopted the following motion:

In defining the awards rule it is the opinion of the Committee that Article XIII, Section S, ap­plies only to awards given by the school, or awards received by a pupil from any source whatsoever for participating in interschool contests. Awards, rewards, gifts or other valuable consideration re­ceived for participation in athletic contests other than interschool events are to be governed by the provisions of the amateur rule.

Spelling List Correction In the Word List for Interscho­

lastic League Spelling Contest, in the list for Grades VII and VIII, column 11, the word "fightful" should be corrected to "frightful," and in column 6 of High School Grades, "biblical" should be capi­talized "Biblical."

In Spelling Goals, Grade VII, page 72, line 3, "Negro" should be spelled "negro."

Six-Man Change Effective in 1948 The State Executive Committee

has authorized that beginning with 1948 classification procedure for assigning schools to Six-Man Foot­ball Conference as recommended by the Advisory C o u n c i l , be changed to read

No school shall be eligible for assignment to Six-Man Football Conference whose enrollment exceeds 100 stu­dents in high school.

Talco Disqualified Talco High School is disqualified

from participating in 1947 Track and Field events.

Albert Marsh Rio Grande City High School

Albert is editor of the school paper, "El Carreton," editor of the annual, "El Mesquite," plays bas­ketball and was first drummer in his school band which won first division in the marching contest at Harlingen.

Two first places and. a second place were the results of Albert's first League activities last»year. He took top honors at the District Meet at Weslaco and first place at the Regional Meet in Kingsville.

This year Albert plans to enter all activities for which he is eli­gible. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George B. Marsh, Rio Grande City.

Guppies, those interesting little fish best known because of their blithe regard of birth control, may have a serious job cut out for them ' i the world's warmer countries. They may be a means of control of parasitic worms known as schistosomiasis — which is even worse than it sounds.—Science Digest.

AMIDST the turmoil of • ^ other matters, Americans have made the mistake of al­most ignoring a recent Su­preme Court decision which deals with issues so central to our freedom that it towers above many of the fleeting events that are getting the headlines. . . . By a five-to-four vote the court upholds a New Jersey State law (and also similar laws in New York, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois) by which public tax funds can be used to pay for school buses to parochial schools as well as the public schools. . . .

"First Amendment" Does the school-bus issue in­

volve the First Amendment, for­bidding any "law respecting the establishment of a religion?" It does. The purpose of all sectarian education, Justice Rutledge points out, is the propagation of a cer­tain brand of religious belief. The means used are not only teachers and books and classrooms and school equipment, but also trans­portation. The transport item is, at least in the rural areas, as essential as the teaching item. For the public to pay that out of taxes is as much a support of sectarian education as for the .public to pay for teachers.

But, argues Justice Black, the support of school buses by the township or State is like the sup­port of any other measure for the public safety or the public wel­fare. And the State must be neu­tral in conferring these benefits on children of various religious groups.

Not a "Public Function" This is the heart of the major­

ity decision, and before Justice Rutledge gets through with it he leaves it a shambles. For, as he points out, the whole purpose of the First Amendment was to ex­clude religion and religious edu­cation from the public functions supported by the State. If it is a "public function" to provide re­ligious schools with bus transport then why not also (he argues) provide them with school lunches, payment for teachers, and every­thing else?

Justice Black at this point as­sures us that he does not mean to go any further'than bus trans­port, and that this "approaches the verge of the State's power." But I think he will find that the driving forces which have been behind the school bus movement— and which have been strong enough and confusing enough to be­muse such excellent minds as his own Chief Justice Vinson's and Justice Douglas' and Justice Mur­phy's and Justice Reed's—will not be content with this victory. They will try to push on.

deal of work on the part of coaches and players alike, both before and during the season. (

But all of the pre-season and mid-season precautions pay off, according to Frank Medina, head athletic trainer at The Univer­sity of Texas, who passes on some good trainer-tips to high-school baseball coaches.

"Today's highly competitive ath­letics demands the utmost of the athlete," says Trainer Medina, "in the way of top physical con­dition, commonsense training hab­its, precision and timing. It is im­portant for the coach and player to be conscious of all of their re­sponsibilities."

Start Early "In conditioning for baseball it

is advisable to start individual workouts at least four to six weeks before the group or team play be­gins. To start this training period properly, the coach should instruct each athlete, stressing the impor­tance of conditioning his body with emphasis on the 'throwing' of arms and legs.

"We recommend fifteen minutes of calisthenics together with four to six laps around the track, end­ing the workout with six or more running starts. This should be the procedure for the first week.

"The second and third weeks should be the same as the first with the exception that each prac­tice should be climated with a fifteen-minute session (inside of the gym) with all players throw­ing and catching baseball."

Frank Medina Head Trainer at The University

of Texas

From this period on through the season, Medina warns coaches to be on the alert for any complica­tions that may arise in "overen-thusiastic" athletes.

Avoid Complications "Hold out any athlete for a day

or two when the throwing arm begins to develop kinks or sore spots in shoulder or elbow,"' he ad­vises. "The recovery of the ail­ing shoulder or elbow may be aided by massage and manipula­tion, heat-treatments, and over­night analygesic balm packs. It is also important to instruct all players at the beginning of the second week to be sure to wear a jacket, coat, or sweater to insure further protection to the throw­ing arm, for here lies our weak­est link in early season training.

"Often as not a player will complete his workout, then rush

out after showering without suffi­ciently protecting his throwing arm. As a result, soreness, colds, and charley horses develop.

"The fourth week is soon enough to begin throwing out of doors, running bases and hitting prac­tice. Our only word of precau­tion is to keep warm and keep moving. This will, to a consider­able degree, eliminate the possi­bilities of injury to arms and legs."

Trainer Medina suggests to the outfielders, as a further protec­tive measure, to massage their arms every day with analgesic balm before going out for prac­tice, until the weather warms up sufficiently for good baseball play­ing.

Guard Against Heat As a closing reminder to the

coaches, he insists that each player develop the habit of tak­ing salt tablets daily so that,. as the season progresses *and the weather gets hotter, he will not experience heat-fag or muscle cramps as the result of a defici­ency of salt in his body.

Medina was formerly head trainer far the "Galloping Gaels" of St. Mary's University in Cali­fornia. For four years he was a trainer for the West All-Star foot­ball team.

Since 1945 he has been medi­cating the ailments of all the Longhorn athletes. A tour of the modern physiotherapy unit in the University's training quarters will be included in the lecture and demonstration he will give all high-school coaches and athletes attending the coaches' clinic dur­ing the State Meet, Saturday, May 3, at 10 A.M. at the Stadium.

Abolition of Spring Training Advocated

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to substantiate the claim made by some coaches that the quality of football will suffer if spring train­ing is abolished. Proof of that claim is definitely lacking. Again, there is no reason why the size of any squad in numbers should be limited if coaches are content to hold practices on the campus of the school represented. It cannot be claimed that spring football in any manner .keeps down injuries, since there is simply ho way to measure the extent of the causes of injuries. There are sufficient spring sports to occupy the time of all boys in all high schools if these sports are properly conducted.

The Legislative Advisory Com­mittee has suggested that practice start on August 15. Such practice can easily be accomplished by hold­ing workouts late in the afternoon, or early in the morning, in'order to avoid the heat of the day. This is a concession, since football is the one sport Which would thus have practice before school actually be­gins. While there is no way to gauge the result, a trial of the suggestion seems in order.

Montana School Invents Mathematical Baseball

TV/TATHEMATICAL Base--*•'•*• ball is a big help in teaching mental arithmetic. The method used at the Ana­conda High School, Anaconda, Montana, is to start with simple exercises such as the multiplica­tion tables.

Captains are chosen from the class and they pick their teams. The pitcher asks the question and the contest is on . . . the batter or pitcher who gives the answer first wins. If the batter wins, he moves to first base, second, and so on. If he is stopped at any one of the four positions he is "out." After three outs, the other side takes positions on the field.

The teacher is umpire and her decision is final as to the one shouting out the correct answer first.—School Activities.

That Way "Lies Chaos"

It will be a disaster if America yields any further to the drive for State support of religious es­tablishments. That way lies social chaos and bigotry and tyranny. For, as Madison pointed out long ago in his Remonstrance, the whole point about separating church and state is to take the question of religious education out of politics. Once it is admitted, you get a competition between various sects for State funds and State " support and, finally, for State power. Religious controver­sies are fatal to democracy. The only way to avoid them is to stick to the rigid separation of church and state, and especially of church schools and State funds.

Ass'n Secures Top-Flight Men for Coaches' School

SOME OF the .nation's outstanding football and basket­ball mentors will be on the staff of the coaching school

of the Texas High School Coaches' Association in El Paso, August 4-8, according to Bill Carmichael, secretary.

Jes s Neely a n d Joe Davis of Rice Ins t i t u t e , a n d Bo Mc­Millan of the University of In­diana will head the list of football instructors while Frosty Cox of the University of Colorado and Adolph Rupp of the University of Ken­tucky will give coaching aids to the state's basketball mentors.

Room reservations have already passed the two hundred mark, L. W. McConachie, director of In­terscholastic League activities of the El Paso public schools, has reported.

The summer session which at­tracts hundreds of coaches and ad­ministrators is an annual affair now in its 17th year. Harold De­ment of Galena Park is president, Gene McCollum of Port Neches is vice-president, and Bill Carmichael of Bryan is secretary of the or­ganization.

Red Ramsey to Coach San Angelo's Squad TJ OBCAT Line Coach H. R. - ° (Red) Ramsey, in 1941 and 1942 an ex-professional football player with the Phila­delphia Eagles, signed a three-year contract as head football coach and athletic director of San Angelo High School.

Ramsey succeeds Von Rhea Beane, who has accepted a position as head coach at Bay City.

The new mentor's plan is to as­sign one member of the high-school athletic staff to each of the major competitive sports, basket­ball, baseball, and track.

Coach Ramsey played with the Texas Tech Red Raiders in 1935-37, and has been in the Navy since 1942.

Hitting, Throwing, Catching Techniques Shown in Films 'npHREE FILMS designed •*• primarily for high-school

baseball coaching programs produced in collaboration with Jimmy Dykes, Major League manager and Hollis Thurs­ton, coach of the Hollywood base­ball team, can be ordered from the Visual Instruction Bureau of The University of Texas.

"Hitting in Baseball," a one-reel 16 mm. sound film, demonstrates every essential detail of effective batting, and fully illustrates the three accepted ways of gripping the bat.

Tips on Pitching The various techniques to be

mastered in learning to throw a

baseball effectively are shown in the film "Throwing in Baseball." Carefully photographed action shots clarify the three-quarter throw, the side-arm throw and the underarm throw.

Body positions and movements in catching the ball are explained in the film "Catching in Baseball." Detailed scenes portray each step in catching various types of ground balls, and the high-batted ball.

Other Available Films Other baseball films in the li­

brary of the Visual Instruction Bureau are: "Batting Funda­mentals," , "Catching Fundamen­tals," "First Century of Baseball," "Inside Baseball," and "Play Ball, Son."

BASEBALL RULES AND HANDBOOKS ARE READY

A compact book of baseball rules which will be fol­lowed throughout the University Interscholastic League baseball competition is now available.

The codified rules are in a form suitable for the high-school athletic program with emphasis on proper classi­fication and logical arrangement. Separation of actual rule from penalty and from purely explanatory state­ment or exception permits clearcut tables and use of specific references and play rulings.

The National Federation Codification Committee, who were assisted by representatives of major and minor baseball leagues, have made several improvements in the third edition of Baseball Rules for brevity and easier picturing of outlined situations.

Orders may be placed now with the State Office of the League. Price is 15 cents each or |1.50 a dozen.

Kenneth Jackson, Austin High School trackster, won first place in the 1946 Track and Field Meet, in the Shot-Put Event with a dis­tance of 51' 7%" to his credit.

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I ennis 1 alk By

Dr. D. A. Penick

"pvURING the past seven •*-^ months we have dis­cussed points necessary in the make-up of a successful tennis player. Now we approach the climax of the season—the compe­tition which is already underway and which will end with the State Meet in Austin, May 2 and 3.

In the last article in the series in the LEAGUER, we shall conclude "Tennis Talk" with the eight most important requirements of win­ning the Interscholastic League championship:

1. Be in the best physical and mental condition.

2. Know and practice the fun­damentals of the game: watch the ball; start quickly; move fast; and be waiting for the ball at the right place and in the proper position.

3. Concentrate on every shot. Use your mind. Think!

4. Don't try to win on the first shot. Take your time. Have pa­tience. Wait for the right shot.

5. Never give up. Go after every ball. Always have the will to win.

6. Be a good sport. Never ques­tion a decision of an umpire or of your opponent if you have no um­pire. If there is a doubt about a point, give the benefit of the doubt to your opponent.

7. Attend the clinic Friday morning at 10 o'clock in the Tro­phy Room of Gregory Gymnasium. There will be a number of speak­ers, including Miss O'Gara of The University of Texas, Tom Frydell, professional tennis instructor, San Antonio Country Club, and pos­sibly Wilmer Allison. Be prepared to ask questions about anything connected with tennis.

8. Of course, you will not win unless you have worked long and hard under the direction of your coach. Winning tennis requires conscientious and intelligent prac­tice, plus mental effort and strict observance of the fundamental principles of the game.

Only a Little Effort Needed

It is remarkable that so many speech disorders yield so directly to proper treatments. There is so much that a teacher can do by applying a little effort frequently rather than exhaustive treatment at any one session. For example, a child who reads first-grade ma­terial and says, "Turn to me 'ittle dirl" has several art iculator de­fects. She is substituting a " t" for the "k," a "d" for a "g," and she is omitting the "1" in "little." Add to that the principles of addi­tion and mutilation, which might occur in other instances, and you have accounted for the Usual ar­ticulatory defects. Yet, the diag­nostic procedures involved no elab­orate apparatus except where there is a question of good hearing. Most of the burden rests on a properly trained and wide-awake teacher, in this case, one trained in phonetics and auditory discrim­ination plus general teaching abil­ity and a sympathetic understand­ing of the psychology of the child who manifests the deficiency.

Attending College Training Camps May Cost Eligibility Kidd Warns Players in League to Guard Their

Amateur Standing

PROFESSIONALISM at its •*• worst," said R. J. Kidd, Athletic Director of the

Pasadena Teen-Agers Set Up Model Court

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of drivers' licenses procured by teen-agers."

No Repeaters Do the students co-operate fully

with the plan? To that question Judge Stuckey points out that the Junior Court docket shows "no re­peater cases."

What are some of the most com­mon offenses (committed in prac­tically every town by youngsters), which are tried in the Junior Court?

"Traffic violations, killing song birds, fighting, breaking windows in newly built houses, removing lumber and trespassing are some of the - most common cases," re­ports Judge Stuckey.

When asked his opinion of the Junior Court, W. L. Avara, prin­cipal of the Pasadena Senior High School, had this to say:

"I find that the Junior Court has improved the attitude toward citizenship to a very noticeable ex­tent and that the students are be­coming civic minded in that they are beginning to feel their re­sponsibility.

"The court is getting excellent support and co-operation from stu­dents who were summonsed. Last year 163 cases were tried, and only eight failed to appear.

"I feel that the Junior Court would be a great help to any school or city interested in sponsoring it," Principal Avara concluded.

Police Chief Testifies L. S. Locklin, chief of police at

Pasadena, gives his approval of the court. He wrote this testi­monial :

"In my opinion, the Junior Court reduced the juvenile delinquency problem well over 50 per cent in our community. I notice a really high percentage of mischief cases and minor misdemeanor offenses when the court recessed last fall for a few months.

"I thoroughly endorse the plan and believe it should be adopted nationally," the chief stated.

One benefit brought out by Judge Stuckey is the effect of the expe­rience on the youngsters themselves who operate the court. Out of the original^ court body of nineteen members selected January 5, 1946, five of that group, after graduation took up the study of law. None of these boys had a future voca­tion planned before they became interested in the Junior Court procedure.

Judge Stuckey believes that boys and girls between the ages of six and seventeen are "V.I.P." (very important people) and should be treated accordingly. He also believes that injecting some "drama" into the daily routine of obeying the law appeals to the average teen-ager. His plan is a streamlined version of Cops and Robbers, and it's proving more ef­fective than shouting "Don't" at the students.

League, referring to the grow­ing practice among some col­leges of inviting promising high-school athletes to college-conducted spring training camps.

"An athlete who has any high-school eligibility left certainly risks losing it by attending such, a camp," Kidd declared.

"If he accepts free room and board for his athletic services, he becomes a professional as far as the League's Amateur Rule is con­cerned. If he has completed his thirty days of spring training at his own high school and takes ad­ditional training, his eligibility will be subject to question."

"The student who fails to make the grade for one of these athletic scholarships will be out of luck all around," Mr. Kidd concluded. "My advice to any boy who has any idea of playing on his school team next year is to stay away from the college spring training quar­ters, no matter how attractive the offer might be."

Q. . Has girls' basketball been officially added to the League in Conference B schools?

A. No. The League does not sponsor girls' basketball at this time.

Q. Will a boy who reaches his 18th birthday on July 3, 1946, be ' eligible, in regard to age, to play football in the fall of 1947?

A. Yes. Any boy who is 18 years old after May 1 is eligible for the following scholastic year as far as the Age Rule is con­cerned.

Q. Is a boy reaching his 18th birthday January 2, 1948, eligible to participate in the 1948 Track season?

A. Yes.

Q. If a high-school boy fighting in the East Texas Golden Glove Boxing Tournament wins and ac­cepts a 17-jewel watch, is he in­eligible for future high-school ath­letics?

A. Yes He would have violated the Amateur Rule.

Q. Would it be violating the Spring Training Rule to have two, spring training sessions, one for two consecutive months?

A. As a spring training session is limited to 30 school days, con­ducting two spring training ses-< sions would be a violation of Rule 32 of Football Plan.

Cleveland Succeeds Brown

Ernest D. Cleveland, superin­tendent of Overton schools for the past sixteen years, is now super­intendent of the Nacogdoches pub­lic schools, succeeding Dr. S. M. Brown.

Dr. Brown has accepted the school superintendency a t Tyler.

o Cheerful note for 1948: The

hole in the doughnut has decreased in size 1% inches since 1927. (But, of course, two "sinkers" now cost the inveterate dunker 6 cents.)

B R O A D C A S T HIGH SCHOOL

TRACK AND FIELD MEET Sat., May 3—2 p.m.

MEMORIAL STADIUM, AUSTIN

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