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.
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First Lieutenant Warren at “I” Co.
Reveille: “Dismissed! March!”
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ODE TO SPRING;, ,
O gentle Spring
Of the I’d sing
With ornamental verhosic.
But blustry March
Takes all the starch
Out of my corporsity.
M. SCOUUGALE.