The Normal Star (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 38, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 22, 1922 Page: 1 of 4
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The Normal Star
Published Weekly During the School Year by the Students of the Southwest Texas State Normal College
VOLUME X.
SAN MARCOS, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1922
NUMBER 38.
KLAN PARADE IN SAN
MARCOS SEEN BY 15,000
LINE OF SILENT MARCHERS IS
ESTIMATED AT FIVE HUND-
RED; STIRRING SPEECHES ARE
MADE BY KLANSMEN AFTER
PARADE; PRINCIPLES GIVEN
Streets of San Marcos One Solid Mass
of People; Cars Extended Four
Blocks Down Each< Street
From Main Square.
Old timers in San Marcos declared
Monday night’s crowd the largest ever
seen in this city on any occasion. The
parade of the Ku Klux Klan had been
well advertised and there were people
here from almost every town in South-
west Texas. The writer personally
saw people from as far South as Sin-
ton, and there were large numbers
from Lockhart, Luling, Seguin, New
Braunfels, San Antonio, Austin,
Georgetown, and the smaller towns of
Buda, Kyle, Martindale, Staples.
^ People^ began to park their cars in
the public square as early as three o’-
clock and all the afternoon cars were
being backed up to the curb with
lights turned to the street until by
seven o’clock it was hard to wedge In
anywhere. While there was the great-
est crowd ever seen come together in
the_ city there was apparently no con-
fusion nor any accidents so far as we
have learned. About twenty-five spec-
ial marshals looked^ after the parking
of cars and gave instructions to the
people as they gathered in and it was
indeed a most orderly gathering. It
was reasonably estimated that 15,000
people witnessed the parade.
At about nine-thirty o’clock six rob-
ed horsemen were seen coming up
from the direction of the depots, fol-
lowed by a large float upon which
was carried an immense cross illum-
inated with elec'tric lights. A number
of Klansmen were on the float which
followed the horsemen at the head of
the procession. Following came the
robed figures in single file carrying
banners upon which were various in-
scriptions, among which were noticed :
“America Always”, “For Our Public
Schools,” “Free Speech and Free
Press”, “For the Protection of our
Womanhood”, etc. It took some twen-
ty minutes for the line of marchers
to pass a given point and a count
showed that there were about five
hundred of the robed figures in parade.
It was stated, however, that not more
than one-third of the Klansmen present
were robed and in the parade, the local
Klan not participating only in a very
small per cent. A lack of robes for
the large number of Klansmen that
came was given as the cause of the
small per cent who were in the parade.
The parade marched on the North
side of the square and up Hopkins
street for four blocks, doubling back
on San Antonio street and taking a
stand in front of Williams Drug Store
where the speaking took place. There
were three speeches. The first was
tfye regular Klan oration given in a
most eloquent manner by a speaker
who showed unusual ability. Then the
next speaker was introduced
as a Baptist minister from another
town. This speaker delivered- an ad-
dress in a voice which reached to the
farthest extent of the crowd which had
gathered. No one seemed to recog-
nize the voice but many remarked that
the speech was one of the most elo-
quent fieard here in many a day. The
third speaker also gave a very earnest
address upon the principles of the or-
der and in some instances was very
severe in denunciation of certain clas-
ses which he termed as antagonistic
to the principles of the Klan and to
good government, especially the boot-
legger.
During the parade and the addres-
ses there was not the least disturbance,
the immense throng standing througo
it all patiently and apparently well
entertained.
During the parade when the Ameri-
can flag came floating by and while
many of the banners were passing there
was _ tumultuous handclapping and
cheering, as also was the case during
the speaking. At no time was heard
a word of disrespect or disorder from
the audience so far as we ha e been
able to learn.
When the speaking was over the
Klansmen silently marched back in the
direction of the depots from whence
they came and in a few minutes the
great crowd had dispersed in as or-
derly manner as they had gathered.
Whether one agrees with the principles
or practices of the Klan or not all who
witnessed this gathering Monday night
must admit that the order can draw
a crowd and hold it for as long a per-
iod as any aggregation that has ever
come to San Marcos.
SAN MARCOS GETS
REVENGE OFF NIXON
Locals Show Good Offensive and De-
fensive; Hennig Just Too Much For
Nixonites; Duckett Back at Third.
Thursday afternoon on the local dia-
mond the All-Stars recovered some of
the honors they lost at Nixon last
week. Speed-Ball Hennig was just too
much for the Nixonites. Nixon was
able to gather only five hits off the
big Ace, while San Marcos was push-
ing the ball over the lot for ten hits,
four of which, went for two bases.
Brassell was the big stick artist for
the locals, getting two two-baggers.
With his last one, he drove Atkinson
and Brown in with the eighth and
ninth scores. Atkinson gave the fans
a treat when he beat out two perfect
bunts for hits.
The team was back in its old fielding
form, not making an error during the
game. The same two teams played on
THIRD ANNUAL
CARNIVAL AT RI-
VERSIDE SOON
PLANS ARE CAREFULLY LAID
FOR BIGGEST EVENT OF SUM-
MER; POINT WINNERS WITH
MONOGRAM ATTACHED
Date F.or Festival Not Yet Definitely
Decided Upon.
KORMALITES TO
FILL GOOD POSI-
TIONS NEXT YEAR
WORK OF THE COMMITTEE ON
TEACHERS STILL GOING FULL
SPEED; AIDS MANY WORTHY
STUDENTS TO GET POSITIONS
the local field Friday, but too
a good write-up.
The box score, Thursday:
late
for
Nixon
A.B.
H.
R.
E.
Hinton, c.
_____4
1
0
0
Bell, 2b. .
_____4
1
0
1
Wiseman, ss.
_____3
0
0
2
Kallina, rf.
_____2
0
1
0
Allen, 3b. -..........
_____3
2
1
0
Howell, If. ______
_____3
0
0
0
Moore, cf.
____3
1
0
0
Tom, lb.
_____3
0
0
0
Muicke, p. _ ..
_____3
0
0
0
Totals .....
—28
5
2
3
San Marcos
A.B.
H.
R.
E.
Sledge, rf.
3
0
0
0
Atkinson, lb. _
__ 4 -
2
2
0
Brown. 2b. .
____5
1
2
0
Brassell, 1fi
____4
2
0
0
Lowman, cf.
_____5
1
0
0
Shands, c.
_____3
0
2
0
Duckett, 3b.
____4
1
1
0
Shelton, ss. ......
_____2
1
1
0
Hennig, p.
_____4
2
1
0
Totals
—34
10
9
0
Two base hits:
Brassel, 2;
Shelton,
Hennig. Stolen bases : Brassel, Shands,
Tom, Allen. Struck out by Hennig: 6,
by 'Muicke, 4; Time: Two hours. Um-
pire : Perkins.
SOMHER NORMAL
DEFEATS JUNIORS
SEVEN TO THREE
JUNIORS UNABLE TO SOLVE THE
PUZZLING BALL OF CARROLL;
SUMMER NORMALS CLIMBING
TO TOP OF LEAGUE; ERROR
IN STANDING IS CORRECTED
The Juniors suffered defeat at the
haftds of the fast going Summer Nor-
mal nine last Wednesday afternoon.
The game _ was marked by unusually
good pitching especially on the part
of Carroll. It seemed that the Junior
crew was entirely at sea when trying
to figure out his stuff. The hits on
both sides were kept well scattered.
Contrary to the usual run of hits in
the games heretofore there was only
one three bagger and one double by
Fulcher and Weir respectively. Only
Horton seems to have been able to hit
Carroll, annexing 3 hits out of 4 at bat.
Juniors
A.B.
R.
H.
E.
Weir, 9 ___________
—4
1
1
0
Cavness, 2
—4
0
0
1
Tohnson, 5
—4
0
1
0
Horton, 8 .
—4
1
3
0
Kellam, 6
—2
0
0
0
Barrow, 3
- 4
0
0
1
Hopson, 7
2
0
0
0
Finfrock. 1
___2
0
1
0
Granstaflf, 4
—2
0
0
1
Totals____.______
—28
2
6
3
Summer Normals
A.B.
R.
H.
E.
Doyle, 4
—3
1
0
0
Del Barto. 3
—4
2
2
1
Dobbins, 5
„_4
1
1
0
Fulcher, 6
—3
1
1
2
Eulers, 2
—3
0
1
0
Carroll, 1 ________
—3
0
0
1
Lewis, 8 ........... /
—3
1
0
1
Elbers, 7 ...
...3
0
1
0
Gee, 9 .....
___2
1
1
0
Totals _________
..28
7
7
5
There has been an error in the stand-
ing of the various teams of the Nor-
mal League. Why this error occurred
in the last issue of the Star is perhaps
the mistake of the editor. We take
this means of correcting same. The
Summer Normal team has now played
four games and won all four giving
them the first place. The other teams
have a standing as given below. These
are records secured from Poach Straban.
About August the fifteenth the South-
west Texas State Normal College plans
to hold its third and greatest aquatic
or river carnival. All students of the
school look forward to this great event
each year and it is one of the most en-
joyable features of the summer session.
Much sport and keen rivalry is dis-
played by all entering the contests.
Last year we had something like twen-
ty five contestants in all the different
phases of the swimming and diving.
The bystanders got a. good chance to
see excellent swimming and good div-
ing, form and straight.
In the contests all is decided by the
awarding of points to the winners in
each event. Five, three, two, and one
are the ranks or pbints given for first,
second, third and fourth places in each
contest. We are offering in all four
contests this year so a contender has
a chance of a possible twenty points
for the high point man. The contests
are open to girls as well as boys and
the same contests are offered in each
branch of the sport just as they are
offered for the boys. In addition to
the awarding of points there goes to
the high point student in each division
(boys and girls) a neat bathing suit
with a monogram attached. You will
notice in this week’s edition of the
school publication that a monogram is
wanted. This is speaking for the mono-
gram for the winners in the swimming
carnival to be held at Riverside. On
later information we also find that rib-
bons are to be awarded to the winners
in the four, first places in each event.
So we see that even tho’ we do not
win the bathing suit we have a ribbon
or two to show that we are able to
do some things well.
All who saw the contests last sum-
mer remember that there were a num-
ber of interesting races and contests
offered. We plan this summer to keep
these same contest and add a few most
interesting ones which have been sug-
gested since the last tournament.
Among the interesting features are:
1. Free for all swim up stream—
50 yards.
2. Distance swim for all. Boys, five
times around the platforms. Girls, three
times around the platforms.
3. Form swim for all. Use side,
overhand, breast, crawl, and back
strokes at the command of the referee.
4. Diving for all. (a) Plaint front—
ploin or swallow, (b) Running for-
ward jack knife, (c). Back Jack knife,
(d) Back, (e) Four voluntary dives
for each participant, (f) Rope dive,
(g) Tree dive, (h) Farthest dive un-
der water.
The above contests are open to both
boys and girls and we, hope to see that
this summer will show up the greatest
number of contestants ever entered as
yet. The exact date for the contest
will be published later. Watch the
Star for the dope. The winners for
last year, were Miss Alice Bass and
Mr. LeGare Atmar. Come out and
have some fun and take a good swim
at Riverside. Get in trim for the
events to come.
The radiophone, under the manage-
ment of Paul Stephens, recorded an
address by President Vinson of the
University to the girls of Baylor Col-
lege this morning. There was some
interference in the atmosphere, but the
members of the class could hear the
address quite plainly.
Mildred Finfrock has gone to her
home in Houston.
The_ rolls secured today from the
Committee on Appointments show that
the Committee has been of great ser-
vice tin the successful placing of stu-
dents in desirable positions. Many of
these were secured directly through the
services of the Committee, others the
Committee was instrumental in se-
curing. J
For the benefit of their fellow-stu-
dents who are here now, who will be
here next year, or who_ will teach in
some other school we cite the follow-
ing students, who heve secured the po-
sitions given opposite their names,
since July 1, when we published a list
of students who had secured positions
prior to that time:
Frances Donalson, fifth grade, Tut-
tle, Oklahoma.
Bertha Landrum, Intermediate
grades, New Salem near Rosebud.
Ruby Enloe, fifth and sixth grades,
Liberty.
Love Quick, Supervisor of Penman-
ship, La Grange.
Pearl Evans, grades, East End
School, San Marcos.
Margaret Ellis, third and fourth
grades, Blanco City.
Belle Eads, Intermediate, Clemeville.
Leighton Palmerton, Principal Lake-
view School _ near Lockney.
Cecelia Rice, Intermediate grades,
Pharr-San Juan.
Hazel Rice, Intermediate grades,
Orange Grove.
Alma Gause, Mathematics, Batesville
High School.
Esther Cox, sixth and seventh grades,
Wood School near Victoria.
Alva Timm, first grade, Bloomington.
Etta Fleming, Kindergarten, Victoria)
Emmett Rice, primary, Forester
School near Neadville.
Marguerite Sutton, second grade,
Sommerset.
Esther Grant, grades, Corpus Christi.
Mary Louise Foster, grades, San
Antonio.
Selma Bowen, Choate School.
Haskell Young, Commercial Subjects,
Manzanola, Colo.
L. K. Alexander, Ohio.
D. L. Walker, sixth and athletics.
Humble, Texas.
Lucy Purdy, Principal, Ledbetter
School near Lohn.
A. S. West, Superintendent, South
San Antonio.
BENTLEY SPEAKS TO STUDENTS
Mildred Summers, a former student
of Normal , is with us again this term.
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Rosalie Dougherty is spending a
fortnight in Eagle Lake.
Normal League.
Played Won Lost Pet.
Summer Normal __4 4 0 1000
Faculty-Seniors ___4 3 1 750
Freshmen _________5 3 2 600
Sophomores _______3 1 2 333
Juniors -----------_3 0 3 000
Sub-College _______3 0 3 000
While this is going to print the Soph-
omores and Sub-College are endeavor-
ing to determine whether or not the
Sophomores shall have a chance for
the pennant or whether the Sub-Col-
lege shall remain at the bottom.
Mr. Ed. R. Bentley, formerly a tea-
cher of the Southwest Texas Normal
now candidate for State Superinten-
dent of Public Instruction, addressed
the student body Friday morning in
the Main auditorium.
He said in the beginning that the
Southwest Texas Normal College was
very near and dear to him, having
spent two summers here as a teacher in
the Summer Normal.
The following, though not an exact
record of what he said, expresses in
a few. words the main points of his
speech:
The ambition, which I have to become
State Superintendent, is the ambition
of Ed. R. Bentley. I have not been
prevailed over by any partisan group
to run for the office.
Rural schools must get more money
and better attention and supervision
if they are to function in the way they
should.
The Text-book Law of the state as
it is operative now is the most ex-
travagant that has ever been passed
by any Legislature of this' state.
I believe that it should be made man-
datory on the Text Book Commission
that when text books be changed that
it be made a gradual change.
Rural schools should get the same
money as high schools.
Women, for doing the same kind of
work as man teachers, should receive
the same money that men receive.
Never will Texas cease to rank as
the 34th state in education until ad-
ministrators of our schools know the
year before how much money they will
have for the following year.
Instruction in the elementary public
schools should be conducted in one and
only one language, that of our country.
If I am elected, I hope to give to
Texas the equal of any educational
system in the United States.
Mr. Bentley was enthusiastically re-
ceived by students. He left from here
for San Antonio to close his campaign
in that city.
SHERMAN AND
BARROW VICTORS
IN TOURNAMENT
SIX TEAMS COMPETE FOR HON-
ORS; ELIMINATION GAMES ALL
HOTLY CONTESTED; ANOTHER
TOURNAMENT TO BE HELD
AT THE END OF THIS TERM
The last week of the term saw the
regular handball tournament of the
school held at the gym under the dir-
ection of Coach Strahan. There was
considerable interest manifested by all
concerned and six doubles teams en-
tered the raec for the championship.
The teams were composed of Perkins
and Cole, Sherman and Barrow, Lloyd
and McDonald, Lyons and Weir, Stra-
han and Wray, and Stroman and John-
son. Throughout the whole tournament
the different games were hard fought
and many of them were won ,by a two
or three point margin. The whiner
bad to play the best two out of three
games and most of the time each set
of team were forced to play three games
before the match was decided.
In the preliminaries Lyons and Weir
defeated Strahan and Wray, and Sher-
man and Barrow defeated Lloyd and
McDonald. In the semi-finals Perkins
and Cole took the. games away from
Lyons and Weir, and Stroman and
Johnson lost to Lyons and Weir.
The finals were the best games of
all and each point was contested to
the last. In many of the games the
interest was so keen that a number
of times the servers changed hands
without making a point. For the
championship Sherman and Barrow
eliminated Perkins and Cole.
OUR FACULTY SCATTERS
FOR THE SUMMER
The reporter snooped around and se-
cured some interesting dots on our fa-
culty’s plans for the summer. Some are
quiet but offer prospects for a de-
lightful vacation, some are working in
the interest of their education, while
others have plans so exciting that they
cause the less fortunate much longing.
Wherever they go we wish them a plea-
sant rest, a joyful vacation and lots
of fun.
Miss Hines left Saturday with a
party of friends for an extended au-
tomobile tour of the West and North-
west.
Miss Tansil is spending an inter-
esting summer at the Aloha Camp at
Pike, New Hampshire. 1
Miss Butler is planning a quiet sum-
mer vacation at her new summer home
in the mountains near Wimberly.
The Chamberlains are “rusticating”
during the summer. Mr. Chamberlain
will join his family on their farm in
Illinois soon after school is out.
Miss Lay is in the University of
Chicago pursuing a course in Home
Economics.1
. Mrs. Burleson will go to Houston to
spend the vacation with her children
Mr. and Mrs. Blount.
Miss Grave’s vacation plans are de-
lightful, a trip through Kentucky and
Tennessee with stops over at all the
places.
Miss McCormick is off to California
as soon as the term is over.
Miss 5 Hearne is enthusiastically
planning a trip to Colorado, where she
will attend a Y. W. conference at
Estes Park.
Miss Stephens intends to go to Dal-
las for advanced work in music.
NEW STUDENTS ENROLLED
FOR SECOND TERM
Paul Stevens, > Dee Hairgrove, Fred.
Norris, Bertram Thomas, L. C. Mc-
Donald, James Lancaster, Roy Canon,
David MacNaughton, H. O. Pebbles,
Rogers Clark, H. P. Bates, Thomas
Newton, Caroline Furrias, Ella Rem-
mers, Erna Stoermer, Josie Stoermer,
Mae Duncan, Mrs. L. C. McDonald,
Gena Rolston, Willie Eargle, Callie
Moore, Norma Shaw, Karin Rowan,
Mrs. Adele Quillian, Effie M'cLane,
Mary Shoemaker, Dorothy Duncan,
Mary Dodgen, Lillian Jennings, Mrs.
Maud Gardner, Beatrice Moble, Hat-
tie Hodges, Nettie Greenway, Nettie
Wilson, Mrs. Allie Brown, Mrs. Thos.
B. Barnett, Willie, Joe Gordon, Thelma
Zell Chassler, Lola Mueller, Lela
Oakley, Maud B. Norris, Lena Evans,
Elfrieda McCurry, Mrs. Beulah Cul-
pepper, Ruby Henry, Mae Davenport,
Mary Oliver, Bernice Sheffield.
Sight-seeing trips to San Antonio
for $3.00 a round trip, every Monday.
Phone Dobbins Transfer, 87.
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ICE CREAM—$1.25 per gallon de-
livered. Dobbins Confection’y, phone 86.
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