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VOL. I. College Station, Texas, Wednesday, January 8, 1919 No. bl: FARMER FIVE TO: ‘+ GET IN ACTION FRIDAY SCHOOL OF COMES HERE FOR OPENING GAME OF THE SEASON The first basketball game of the|™ season will be played in the gym next Friday night at 7 o'clock when the quintet from the School of Military : Aeronautics at Austin comes for aj; game with the College five. All of |. last year’s regular College players are here and there is some new ma- terial on hand which will make several of the old players hustle to hold their. positions in the opinion of Coach Driver. The Longhorn team defeated the team which comes here by the score of 23 to 15. : For thessecond game of the season on the night of January 18, T.C.U. will furnish the opposition. This team has all of its last year’s players back and. will put up a strong game. COLLEGE ENROLLMENT IS MOUNTING STEADILY yo Enrollment in the College for the second term had reached 677 at noon yesterday, indicating a gain of 77 stu- dents for the 24 hours ending at that time, and with additional men coming in regularly. The indications now are that the figure will reach 800 by the end of the week, which will constitute an excellent showing. One of the very gratifying features about the enrollment, aside from the general high standard of students re- turning, is the large number of men in the Senior class. While the exact number of men in this class has not been ascertained it is known that the number is large and that the men are - excellent students. eth. I a Gipre—— SCHEDULE NOTICE ISSUED, The following sections will please rote changes in their schedules: 18, 14, 111, 112, 140, 176, 260 a and b. ; " F. B. CLARK, : For the Schedule Committee. AERONAUTICS | | Ve ht He We ne we ole He de oe oe fe fe fe oe fe fe % MAJOR ASHBURN HAS *e DECIDED TO STAY IN THE ARMY Major Ike S. Ashburn, for- mer publicity secretary of the College and now with the 358th Infantry, A.E.F., has decided to accept a permanent com- mission in the army, following the completion of his duties with the army of occupation, according to adviees which have reached friends on the’ Campus. He was twice wounded last fall, the wounds he ‘sustained when shot by a German sniper keeping him in the hospital three months. He has been decorated for bravery “and has made an excellent record in every way. Ve oe \/ \/ Ve 3% He He Ba We ENS ne He nt He ne Me HE ne Ne He We »e He pte GRADE OF TEXAS SYRUP INTERESTING EXPERIMENT IN THAT DIRECTION CARRIED OUT BY EXTENSION SERVICE COMPETES WITH HONEY Process is Demonstrated Whereby Ribbon Cane Product Will Not Sugar and Sour— Impur- ities Eliminated Processses whereby Texas ribbon cane syrup is being improved in qual- ity and its tendency to sugar and sour eliminated were explained to the Plant Industry Council Monday afternoon by J. M. Merwin of the Extension Serv- ice staff, who, with the assistance of Dr. J. K. Dale of the Bureau of Chem- istry of the U. S. Department of Ag- riculture, is demonstrating the work in Texas. Prevents Sugaring and Souring Briefly stated, the juice from the cane is clarified in the usual way and then cooked to a semi-syrup and. al- lowed to remain over night so that all foreign substances will settle out of the syrup while its specific gravity is still low. After the foreign substances (Continued on Page 4) : REVENUE BILLS STUDIED BY SEMINAR ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES IN- VOLVED IN WAR TAX MEAS- URES FORM INTERESTING TOPIC Fundamental features of the princ- ipal revenue bill that have been en- acted to meet the expenses of the United States in the world war and %| pending bills of the same character, formed an. interesting topic of dis- cussion at the semi-monthly meeting of the Economics Seminar Monday ‘night with Prof. J. D. Bond leading the discussion. He reviewed the revenue not of Oct. 3, 1917 , which was remarkable for the large amount of money it produced by taxation upon wealth and luxuries, and after citing its principal provis- ions, he gave some interesting crit- icisms of it as voiced by Dr. E. R. A. Seligman of Columbia University and other noted economists. The pending i revenue bill in congress, as drawn by Representative Kitchin of North Caro- lina, chairman of the house finance committee, was discussed in a similar way, though the treatment was not final inasmuch ‘as that bill yet remains to ‘be enacted. The distinction be- tween the excess profits tax and the war, profits tax was drawn, this phase of the discussion being very in- forming. This Country Sets Precedent It is customary to pay war debts with bond issues and other methods aside from direct taxation, Prof Bond pdinted out, and he showed that the highest direct taxation that had. ever been levied by any country for war purposes was that of 17.5 per cent, levied in England in the third year of her participation in the recent war. The United States had paid for 17 per cent of her war expenses the first year of the conflict by taxation and if the present revenue bill is enacted about 33 per cent of the war cost of (Continued on Page 4)
