WHY WE ARE LATE. The lateness of this issue is due sole ly to the failure of the engravings to arrive on time. But for this delay the Junior Battalion would have been pub lished Friday afternoon as usal. (Editor.) WHY THE CHEMICAL ENGINEER SHOULD SEE THE PANAMA EXPOSITION. It is desirable that the student in Chemical Engineering should visit the Panama Exposition as it is an oppor tunity ot see represented by exhibits, the industries in which chemistry takes such an important part. He will see there represented the influence chemical training has had in the change of the crude material into the finished product. Where it sustitutes a rigid control of processes for guess work and uncertainty. Where it has increased the productivity of labor by supplying more efficient processes, where it raised the standard or quality of his finished products and reduced the amount of seconds and rejections. For example, take the textile industry where a little touch of chemistry to cotton yarns and fabrics in the mer cerizing process gave the world a cot ton with beauty and luster of silk. The woolen industry is dependent upon chemistry for the processes of separat ing the pure fiber from the grease and dirt. It hleped the cotton planter by using the short fiber, adhering to the ginned cotton seed, for the making of smokeless powder and the stalks of the cotton plant for paper. The large number of lives lost in mine disaters would be heavier were it not for the Davy lamp, the rescue outfits and the fire damp indicators, all of which was only possible by the growth of chem ical knowledge. The whole fertilizer industry is under the strictest chemi cal control and in the last few years by means of this control and investiga tions in the field of chemistry they have been able to harness the free ni trogen of the air into a form that can he used as a fertilizer and available for all plants as food. The United States alone is richer by thirty mil lion dollars a year by the one discov ery of the change of starch into glu cose by the action of dilute acid. The demand of industries is increasing more rapidly than men with chemical engineering training can he supplied. A chemical engineer cannot afford to miss this opportunity of seeing the ef fect chemical knowledge has had upon the development of different indus tries and to know that this was made possible only by the hard work of many scientists for a lifetime. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The Kansas City delegates are fre quently invited to give their report in the rural churches near College. An invitation from the church at Well born was accepted last Sunday and an all-day meeting attended by the people for miles around was conducted by the college speakers and repre sentatives from Bryan Baptist Acad emy. The big picnic dinner was en joyed by the college men. The Sophomore class will he the first to secure their memorial column on the Y. M. C. A. Building. Dr. R. E. Vinson, one of the ablest religious educators in the Southwest, will speak at the Y. M. C. A. meeting Sunday night at 7:30. The campus people and cadets are invited to hear this able speaker and special music. The Y. M. C. A., intending to enter tain with a three-reel picture show last Wednesday night for the purpose of raising money for current expenses, gave way to the Athletic Association rally, which was planned the same night. Dr. F. D. Kerchner, president of T. C. U. of Fort Worth, addressed the corps and campus people last Sunday. He gave an eloquent sermon on “Con sider the lilies of the field; how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin, and yet I say unto you, that even Solomon, in all his glory, was not ar rayed like one of these.” The faithful leadership of Pros. Garner and Nichols has made the cam pus Sunday school the most success ful in its history. More than 100 men will soon complete a systematic Bible course study, conducted under the supervision of professors and other leaders. Y. M. C. A. Officers, 1914-15. President, R. R. Allen. Vice president, W. P. Martin. Secretary, B. F. Faber. Treasurer, E. N. Hogue. Chairmen of committees: Bible study, O. S. Gray. Mission study, C. C. Hudspeth. Membership, V. Denton. Finance, S. F. Clark. Social, V. Smitham. Program, J. S. Bugbee. Deputation, A. Sherley. Publishing, G. C. Moffett. SOUTHWESTERN STUDENT CON FERENCE. Any college man who has ever at tended a student conference will give fifteen rahs for the experience For seven years several hundred college men from several States have con vened in a conference at some delight ful summer resort in the Southwest. The student conference this year will be held at Monte ne, Ark.^ a delight ful spot 1400 feet above sea level, nestled in a basin of the Ozark Moun tains. The club houses and main buildings are equipped with a sew erage system, having an ahudance of pure water for drinking purposes, as well as for baths, lighted by electrici ty and overlooked by a lake filled with fresh water from gurgling springs, having an output of 10,000 gallons per minute. Swimming, boating, tennis, baseball, basketball and mountain climbing are enjoyable features of the afternoon recreation. Under the leadership of many of the leading educators, laymen and reli gious men of the Southwest this group of college men really learn what good fellowship is, solve some of the diffi cult problems of student life and se cure an enlarged acquaintance with college men from other States. This conference will be held at Monte Ne, Ark., from June 12, 1314, to June 21, 191.. In view of the pos sibility of a larger association with next year in a new building, A. & M. must have a large delgation of stu dents and faculty members at this conference. Remember Us When You Need Anything In the Drug Line Sole Agents for Huyler’s Gandies The Best Equipped Soda Fountain IN BRYAN The Smith Drug Go. J. A. McQUEEN, Mgr. Paint Often Works Wonders in covering defects—an athletic implement may look pretty, and the cheaper it is, generally the prettier it looks. All Spalding athletic implements are made primarily for use—good looks are secondary. Catalogue free. A. G. 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