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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1921)
% ^ t Texas Older Bovs' Conference i Jan. 28. 29 & 30 •i* »J« The Battalion ❖ I We Pluck the Owl Tonight 4 I *> - , •^* *^ ♦j* ♦j* ♦j* ♦£> *%* *$+*$* •%• ♦§♦ Is Our Prophecy. s&*-<L*A X/-*- ^*-2/ ^ ^ ♦j* ^ ^ ^ ♦f♦§♦♦ &JZL Published Weekly by the Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. VOL. XXIX. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS JANUARY 21, 1921. NUMBER 16 FIRST FISH BANQUET BY “A” COMPANY, INF. Captain Reed Presented With Watch On Graduation By His Or ganization. According to a time-honored cus tom, handed down through the years the Fish of Company A, Infantry, surprised the “Fish” of ’21, ’22, and ’23 with an elaborate banquet in the Agricultural Building, Sunday even ing, January 16th. The company fell in in the usual way for retreat, but many an upper- classmgy® wondered why there was such an under-current of impertin ence running rampant among the Fish. Imagine their surprise when they were rudely thrust into the rear rank as mere privates and saw their places usurped, Trotsky-like, by Fish Major Fawcett (who bids fair to be come the Battalion Itch), and his right hand men, Fish Captain Glarke and Fish Lieutenant Reed. These officers handled everything in a mil itary manner, Captain Clarke having held the same rank in the revival of another odd custom (P.M.) in Fos ter Hall. After a very close inspec tion, these officers found only one man in the company who was able to pass as being dressed according to regulations, and that O’Meara, who is habitually so and cannot help it. t Then Captain Clarke, assisted by his various corporals preceded to the drill field where he gaVe a very cred itable repetition of some of the drills and exercises in which some of them so delight. This included a short session of Mexican Calisthenics and an exhibition drill by Corp. Irwin and his squad, Ted Wynn. From the drill field, the company proceeded on what appeared to he COMMITTEES OLDER BOYS’ CONFERENCE Organized Forces Will Look After Needs of Visitors and Show Them Around. Committees have been selected to care for the work of registering and entertaniing the boys and boys’ work ers who will attend the Texas Older Boys’ Conference to be held at A. and M. January 28, 29 and 30. As President Bizzell announced a few days ago volunteers will be sought among the student body to share their rooms in the dormitories with the delegates. No trouble is an ticipated in securing sufficient ac commodation for all boys who come here, but there will be some work in making arrangements for such a plan and a committee has been appointed to do this,work. As the boys throughout the state register in their respective communi ties to attend the conference their names are sent to the state head quarters of the Y. M. C. A. and early next week lists of these names will begin coming to College. Mr. Lewis will receive them and they will be pub lished in The Daily Bulletin each day as received. Students of the College can then choose from these lists the boys whom they wish to entertain. Of all the committees appointjil to work during the conference the re ception committee is the largest. It is headed by C. C. B. Warden and is in four sections, as follows: Committee of Freshmen to meet incoming trains and escort delegates to Y. M. C. A., with John Mayo as chairman; guides committee to show delegates to rooms in dormitories, headed by Bill King and Carl Scudder; Campus committee which will have table in Y. M. C. A. and furnish information to delegates; Committee on Y. M. C. A. Building to $12,677.60 AMOUNT OF PAYROLL TO ADVANCED CADETS 260 Juniors and Seniors Have Re ceived Commutation for Ra tions. a sample of one Red Thompson's > direct de] a in uai tbe tuildi famous “Thousand Mile Walks . Al though Lieut. Edwards declares they " cfioYiot go quire a thousand, the way he was catching his breath, it could not have been far from it. After a forced march, the upner-classmen, accompanied by the Fish, arrived at the banquet hall, still in doubt as to what that wild-eyed bunch was going to do, their feet hot, their breath short, and (worst of all) with their dignity suffering. Stepping into the lighted room from the dark, the company was daz zled by the brilliancy and charm of the banquet-room, with its well ar ranged pennants, its red and white shaded lights and its big “A” suspen ded in red and white from the ceil ing. The room was one that was difficult to decorate, but the final re sult was one of beauty and a credit to the labors of the Freshmen. The heavily loaded tables were formed into a big A, at the apex of which sat Fish (Caesar) Brown as toast master, with Capts. Reed and Rey nolds on either side and Major Ham ilton at the end. Toastmaster Brown warmed up early and started the ball rolling by a stirring speech to the Fish, con cerning the meaning of the occas ion. Then at the command to take seats, everyone bent to the task of relieving the groaning board of its burden. It is said that tears stream ed down Sgt. Fisher’s face at the sight of the food, and Sgt. Allsmey- er’s voice trembled every time he spoke. Great stacks of home-made cake, country-cured ham, fried and baked chicken, sandwiches of all kinds, fudge, divinity and other candies faded rapidly and rested only when Toastmaster Brown broke in upon the massacre. Everyone was in responsive mood and the talks given by various upper classmen of the company sank deep into the hearts of every Fish and made him glad that he was a member. Short talks by Mujor Hamilton, Cap tains Reed, and Reynolds, Lieuten ants Atterburg, Edwards, Hatley and Alsmeyer, Sergeants Carruthers, Wendt, Alsmeyer and Fisher, and Corporals Cunningham and Lusher were all straight from the shoulder and struck home, especially the one in which Corporal Cunningham ex plained why he liked to beat the drum. Only one thing over-shadowed the gathering and that came with the presentation of a watch to Captain Reed. With it went the farewell talk by Lieutenc at Edwards and the company’s good-b\e to Major Hamil ton, Captains Reed and Reynolds, who leave at the end of this term. Capt. Reed’s response came straight (Continued on Page 4) Uncle Sam was paymaster the past week to the cadets taking the adanced course of the Reserve Offi cers’ Training Corps at the Agri cultural and Mechanical College of Texas. A total of $12,677.60 was paid to 260 juniobs and seniors who elected—military training for their last two years in college. Each one of the number received $48.76 being commutation for ra tions at the rate of fifty-three cents a day. Seniors will continue to receive commutation for rations at the rate of fifty-three cents a day until grad uation. Juniors will receive the same until they enter an Advanced R. O. T. C. summer training camp about the middle of June, when they will be fed in cantonment by the govern ment and paid at the rate of $30 a month. They will also be allowed transportation to and from summer camp at the rate of five cents a mile. A separate camp is maintain ed for each branch of the service in different parts of the country. It is held for six weeks and every stu dent taking the advanced course must attend the summer following the completion of his junior work. From the time the summer camp breaks up until the cadet completes- his sen ior year he receives commutation at the rate of fifty-three cents a day. Besides the allowance for rations each cadet receives commutation for uniform at the rate of $36 a year. Freshmen and Sophomores taking the basic course of the R. O. T. C. receive the same uniform allowance but are paid no commutation for ra tions. FIRST-SENIOR JUNIOR DANCE HELD SATURDAY Aggie-Land Jazz Sextette Provides Music—Best Informal Dance of . the Year. What has been one of the most en joyable social activities of the year tool, place Saturday night when the high and mighty Seniors along with the present Juniors—the rulers of dest c of the next year’s cadet corps AGGIE FIVE TAKES ROAD AFTER SCALPS First Trip of Season Leads to Hous ton, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans For Games. The Aggie basketball team headed by Coach D. X. Bible left Thursday afternoon for their longest and doubtless the hardest road trip of the season when they invade Hous ton for a pair of games with the Rice ed the well i decorated Sbisa- Owls tonight and tomorrow rjight at HalUAnnex with the fair damsels of headed by D. D. Steele and H. S. Kerr. Student Pastor R. L. Brown will also serve oh this committee. ' Other committees are: Program—Edgar Brinkman, chair man, Ike S. Ashburn, faculty repre sentative, O. F. Reynaud, J. J. Wyly, Jr., L. S. Plunkett, W. H. Matthews, Presbyterian Student Pastor. Entertainment—F. P. Buie, chair man, R. D. Brackett, faculty repre sentative, L. R. Hugon, W. Crippen, G. J. Kempen, H. L. Sanders, O. L. Dockum. Registration—F. M. Leverett, chair man, Ward Browning, faculty repre sentative. Publicity—F. L. Bertschler, chair man, Frank Martin, faculty represen tative, C. R. Smith, C. E. Ward, C. W. Thomas, J. M. Severn. Exhibits—A. E. Hatley, chairman, George Dong, faculty representative, J. Albritton, Ed Taylor. Recreation:—D. D. Clinton, chair man, Major W. H. H. Morris, faculty representative, T. B. Lewis, C. W. Sherrill, M. V. Smith, Pat Olsen, King Vivion. Inspection tour—S. C. Evans, chair man, George Long, faculty represen tative, A. D. Jackson. Banquet—T. Hall, chairman, C. C. Braden, faculty representative, R. H. Maxwell, R. C. Mowery, C. E. Taylor. DRAMATIC CLUB PLAY POSTPONED TO JAN. 24 GRADUATE ACCEPTS CAMPUS POSITION WITH VOCATION AL TRAINING BOARD. W. O. Farthing, ’17, has been greeting many of his old friends on the campus this week where he has arrived to accept the position of Co ordinator for Federal Students in the Vocational Training Work. E. C. Nash, also graduate of ’18, who has been located here in this capacity during the past two years i$ now promoted and will be inspector of the entire Southern U. S. Vocational Training work. “Captain Lettarblair” the first^if a series of plays to be presented by the A. and M. Dramatic Club, has been postponed from Jan. 14th to Jan. 24th. This change was made in order that students who would at tend the production might have the time for completing the work of the term and preparing for examination. The club believes that class work must always come first. The sale of tickets will continue. All tickets already purchased will be good for the same seat on the 24th. If anyone for any reason cannot be present on that date he may obtain refund for tickets already purchas ed. nex < ae’s eye found it hard to locate the , oor for the numerous innova tions shown in the decorative art. However, when the music was begun by that state famous, and rivals of the Louisiana Five—OUR OWN AG GIE-LAND SEXTETTE—that foot just naturally would start moving across the floor and the “toddling” contest; was on. The Sextette as well as the dancers were “right” and in the estimation of the committees and the participants this was one of the most successful dances of its kind held this season. The precedence shown by this dance over the ones held on previous occasions may be given more weight by the fact that Dr. and Mrs. Biz zell, as chaperones, showed themselves higl. 1 ^ pleased with the occasion. This is one of the few times that “Prexy’s” familiar countenance has shown it self at an informal dance of this na ture. With twinkling eye and the ever Jovial nature “Prexy” somehow seemed to show a restlessness as a mere observer and although he did not dance; well, “You’d Be Surprised” at the {amount of pleasure he did derive and his was only characteristic of every individual present. As; a Junior-Senior dance this oc casion was an outstanding success and we believe that there should be a great many more during the second term of the year to help the mem ber^ f the Senior class to enjoy them- seives. c'uiu iozgef aboUc tile .trottue* of assisting “Prexy” and “Ike” take care of the fifteen hundred cadets in the corps. Bill King and his Sex tette are. absolutely incomparable and if they keep on improving at the rate with which they have progressed since they organized before Xmas they will be filling a date for the In- naugural Ball by March 4th. Besides having “Shorty’YjSherrill to look after the affairs of state the social committee glso has the ass's- tance of George Martin, Sterling Evans, John Cape, and C. C. B. War den. This quintet will have charge of all of the dances on the Campus, with the exception of the R. V. Hop and the Final Ball, during the next semester. HUNDREDS OF BOYS ARE COMING HERE FOR CONFERENCE Entertainment Well Provided Give Them Best Impression of A. and M. EPISCOPALIAN STUDENTS OFF FOR CONVENTION IN HOUSTON. the cny auditorium: (On Sunday they journey to Baton Rouge, La., for two games with the Louisiana Tigers, then to New Orleans for a couple of contests with the Tulane University five. The Owls are reputed as having one of the fastest basketball teams in the state and Bible is expecting the hardest battles of the season Friday and Saturday. It is believ ed by the close followers of the game here, that with Hartung back in the game and Captain Forbes in condition, the Aggie five will present a better balanced team and one with more scoring power. Another shift has been made in the tqam which Bible hopes will improve the offen sive strength. This is shifting Dwy er back to his regular position of guard; Captain Forbes to his old po sition as center and placing Ehlert and Megarity at forward. Megarity, while small, has been looping them in nice shape and it looks as if the team will have more ^scoring power with him as a forward. Anyway this combination will doubtless be put against Rice in the first game. The Owls are a bit chesty and by comparative scores they seem to bear out their contentions. It will be recalled they defeated the Sim mons College Cowboys by a score of 30 to 17 in one game, while all the Aggies could do was to take the long end of a 32 to 20 score in the first game and 16 to 12 in the sec ond with this same team, and that after they had .been or tbp read for a Y. M. C. A. FEATURES MOVIES DURING REGISTRATION IN TERMISSION BETWEEN TERMS. AGGIE ALUMNUS KILLED AEROPLANE ACCIDENT. Lieutenant John Victor Anderson, ’14, lost his life on January 4, in an aeroplane accident at March Field, Riverside, California. Lieut. An derson was a distinguished student at A. and M. during the ’13 and ’14 sessions, graduating in C. E., and immediately accepted a position in Korea as Mining Engineer. He re turned to the States at the outbreak of the Waf and enlisted in the ser vice. He had only recently trans ferred • to the Air Service. His father is J. W. Anderson of Abi lene. A. and M. College is well repre sented by the number of Episcopa lian students attending the Students Diocesan Conference at Houston the latter part of this week. Forty some odd members are in attendance. A good time is assured to them, as they are guests of the City of Houston. The colleges all over the state (including O. I. A. and Baylor Belton), will be well repre sented by between forty and fifty students each. And you know those “mean old Aggies” just can’t keep away from anything with C. I. A. written on it. Bill King says he is going down to hear'the speakers, but you know Bill! He also loves to dance and when, he was told there would be dances he said he had mean’t to go all the time. Anyway C. I. A. and Baylor Bel ton will sure root for the Aggies on Friday and Saturday night. The object of the conference is to bring the Episcopalian students of all the colleges into close com munion with each other. The last student, conference was held in Gal veston, and only about 15 boys from A. and M. attended. Reverend Jamison deserves great credit for the good showing this year. YOU TELL ’EM. You tell ’em milk, You’ve been watered. You tell ’em fountain pen, Sbisa don’t feed well. You tell ’em sky juice, You’ve been drunk yourself. You tell ’em potatoes, You’ve been washed with sand. You tell ’em silverware, You are made of brass. Due to the fact that the days of registration and suspension of class es caused a lull in college activities and left a few moments of spare time on the hands of*the students, a prob lem that comes up every year again faced the college authorities, that of furnishing some form of amusement to those who did not visit their home or the neighboring towns. The Y t M. C, A. thru the management of the secretary, Mr. Lewis, has arranged for pictures to be shown. Wednes day nights program featured William Russel in “The Cheater Reformed”, and a two-reel comedy entitled “The Porter”. Martha Mansfield in “His Brother’s Keeper” and a Sunshine special filled the Thursday night pro gram. Friday night sees the presen tation of “Two Kinds of Love”, a western feature and two-reels of comedy. Saturdays show will fea ture Justin Huff in “Blackbird” Real Art Special and “Hands Up” comedy. week. Nothing would * be 'more gratifying to the Owls than to put over a couple of wins in Houston Friday and Saturday nights, since they still remember the four defeats in basketball last year and the 7 to defeat in football last fall. Little is known of the Louisiana teams, except they have been turning in wins on all games played thus far this season. The Louisiana Tigers will be on the campus for a douple of games in February and we j«Xull at that time be able to get a line on them but the Tulane five does not play this year on our court. If the teams of these schools this year measure up to the standard of those of previous years, and they doubt less will, the Aggies will find pretty hard sledding in Louisiana and must go at top speed in all the games in order to turn in four wins. The games are so arranged, how ever, as to permit one days rest be tween each series of games, so any slight injuries will not interfere and the men will have time to recover from bruises. Coach Bible and the following men made the trip: Cap tain Forbes, Ehlert, Megarity, Har tung, Dwyer, Williams, Jones, and March. YOU DON’T SAY! Don’t you tell ’em clock-works- you are always behind time. Don’t you tell dept.—you have about you. ’em architectural a designing way Don’t you tell ’em exchange store —r-we know you do a bootlegging bus iness for cadet officers and sell “pri vate stock(s)” to freshmen. ❖ ❖ * Don’t you tell ’em Ike—when you go driving you usually have two webb feet in your car. One of the most important meet ings in the point of value and inter est to this College will be the Texas Older Boys’ Conference to be held here January 28 to 30 inclusive, at which time 500 boys of and above the age of fifteen years and numer ous leaffers of uoy>. work organiza tions will attend. The conference is to be held at this college as the result of direct e^ by President W. B. Bizzell to nave these boys here from all points in Texas and impress them with the in terest of student life at A. and M. and the opportunities open to boys who want the best education and training for a useful and remuner ative occupation. It is intended that the students as well as faculty and employees shall put forward every effort and facility at their com mand to make their stay here useful and happy. In order to arouse the greatest en thusiasm in the boys attending the conference it has been decided not to set aside any particular dormi tory space for accmodating them but to allow them the privilege of room ing with the cadets who voluntarily offer to share their rooms. General sessions of the conference will be held, at which time special feature programs will be rendered and the students of the college will be urged to attend. Thus the stu dents of the college will share in the enjoyment of the entertainment pro vided the boys in conference here and the boys will share in the routine student life of the college, effecting a relationship which it is hoped will become a- championship and make each one of the boys ambitious to at tend school at A. and M. and in such instances where the boys cannot hope *. •.yU-.'.ul- ,k.v^ d*«>.'•>r» .J_.. MASONIC CLUB HOUSE TO BE BUILT AT TEXAS A. AND M. COLLEGE. Subscription to a fund for the purpose of erecting an A. and M. Masonic Club House to be erected near the campus was started by the suggestion of the Worshipful Master of the Brazos Union Lodge at a called meeting of the A. and M. Masonic Club on the evening of January 17, and before the close of the meeting the sum had reached such a stage that preparations were made for the purpose of obtaining a suitable site. There are. approximately 300 Mas ter Masons on the Campus and such a building would be very beneficial to the Masons here as visiting breth- ern. The purpose of 'the club is to erect a building with money donated by the members as well as other ma sons throughout the state that would be interested in seeing the club house erected, which would afford an addi tional place for their sons to spend the evenings, there to receive good and wholesome instructions. Mary was a thrifty girl, Her debts made her very sore, She married Douglas Fairbanks To keep from Owen Moore. stance or condition make of them friends of A. and M. and supporters of the school’s interests in their re spective communities. This initiation of the boys and boys workers into the Open Order of the A. and M. College spirit is one phase of the conference pro gram and the other is to bring them together in sectional meetings and teach them as well as the workers in terested in their welfare the value of organization, emphasizing partic ularly the Boy Scouts, Y. M. C. A., agricultural and livestock clubs. These sectional meetings will be held with boys grouped in the fol lowing classifications: employed boys mostly boys from the cities who be cause of their duties have not had time to engage in the Y. M. C. A., Boy Scout and agricultural and live stock club activities; city high school boys, boys from the ten biggiest cities of Texas, who are a part of the real city life; organized county high school boys, from those smaller high schools where they have through the agency of Y. M. C. A. secretaries, county agents and other workers been organized and exerted organ ized effort in some lines; and then those boys representing the smallest public schools who are not acquainted with organization work. These four groups will meet sep arately with the workers who ac company them here, their teachers., county agents and others interested in their individual welfare and hear college officials and other experi enced workers discuss the work of organized groups, how groups may be oi’ganized, how they may work and what they can expect to accom plish. Sectional meetings will be held Saturday mormiig, and afternoon, Sunday morning, afternoon > .and night. The conference will convene in official session Friday night Januai'y 28, at 7 o’clock. This will be a gen eral session with everyone invited and Dr. Bizzell will make a welcom ing address. The general session will adjourn at 8:15 and those reg istered for the conference will at tend the lyceum concert by Miss Josephine Martino, soprano, Podo- Iski, violinist and Brockman accom panist in Guion Hall, complimentary to them. After breakfast on Saturday morn ing the whole delegation will review with President Bizzell the entire ca- (Continued on Page 4)