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THE BATTALION
THE BATTALION
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dents’ Association of the Agriculturat
and Mechanical College of Texas
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Tom Cheeves Editor
E. E. McQuillen Associate Editor
K. J. Edwards Associate Editor
C. A. Castillo Associate Editor
Bill King Managing Editor
C. W. Thomas. ..Assistant Managing Editor
Art Knickerbocker Sport Editor
R. V. Easley Assistant Sport Editor
F. L. Bertschler Contributing Editor
B. H. Frazier News Editor
H. S. Hudson Social Editor
Henry Fowler Cartoonist
F. M. Schiwetz Cartoonist
Mark Swain Staff Poet
REPORTERS
Company A, Arnspeiger, J.; Company B,
Franke, P. C.; Company C, Sherrill,
f ranke, P. C.; t.ompany o, Sm
Company D, Hatley, E. A.; Co
Smith, A. B. ; Company F, Williarr
G, Black, L. S. ~
B, Ro
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E,
iams, H. W.;
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Company A, Sehlachter, E. G.; Signal Corps
Company
P.; Ba
mpany A, Schl
Company B, Dillingham, H. C.; Signal Corps
Company C, Clanton, R. W.; Band Bill
Frame; Campus, Mrs. D. V. Graves, Mrs.
R. P. Marsteller.
i.; Battery A, Hu
W. N.; Signal Corps
BUSINESS STAFF
Henry Harrison Business Manager
F. L. Bertschler Assistant Manager
R. P. Huff Circulation
A. L. Forbes Assistant Circulation
Entered as second-class matter at College
Station, Texas, February
17, 1905.
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TRIBUTORS
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Monday night except in rare in
stances of late news items.
2. Write clearly, typewriter pre
ferred, and on one side of paper only.
3. Submit copy to Editorial of
fice at 78 Milner or to Managerial
office at 15 Foster.
4. Don’t hesitate about sending
in anything you think would be in
teresting — the staff will decide
and return clippings, MMs etc. if you
so desire.
5. If your contribution does not
appear when expected, don’t think it
was rejected. There has never been
so much copy submitted to the paper
before and there is not space for it
all. Keep sending and thereby help
the Battalion to succeed.
6. Remember the Battalion does
not specialize—sports, organizations,
personals, news, humor, poetry, and
prst-class illustrations all have a part
in it. Every student has his own
particular field open to him.
7. All Alumni as well as College
officials are urged to contribute.
WHY NOT SERVICE CLUBS?
No institution is in a better po
sition for judgment upon organiza
tions and societies that democratic
A. and M. We all freely admit that
organization can be carried to ex
tremes. But, after sonsideration and
observation, we offer the suggestion
that there be an A.E.F., or Gold
Chevron Club; a Silver Chevron
Club; a Globe and Anchor Club;and
a “Gob” Club formed at A. and M.
At other southern institutions this
is being done and at every one of the
large northern universities these or
ganizations, under .various names,
have long since been formed. A. and
M. has received quite a bit of pub
licity from the fact that a larger per
centage of graduates were with the
colors than of any school of an av
erage attendance reaching three
hundred. Those who served, as a
rule, served with distinction and
much credit has been reflected on the
Maroon and White. Why lag behind
in regard to these service clubs.
Two years previous it was incon
ceivable that the transportation serv
ice between Bryan and College
could ever get in a poorer condition.
Today this service is a stain upon the
records of the county or state who
granted a franchise to the company
maintaining this line. The civiliza
tion of this community is highly com
mended by the fact that such abom-
nable service has been permitted to
exist. But the temper of the pub
lic may not always run so smoothly
and it would not be surprising if the
end was almost reached.
A. and M. College owes to students
and Campus residents alike better
transportation service to Bryan than
is being provided by the decrepid
Bryan-College Interurban Company.
The City of Bryan owes it to itself
a more satisfactory manner of bring
ing people to its markets and can ill
afford such negligent service as is
now being given to would-be Bryan
visitors. Public officials of this
county or community owe to their
constituents a guarantee of a more
satisactory method of travel between
Bryan and College, and the public
should not rest until this guarantee
is not only given but also carried
out.
The company now operating service
between College and Bryan has been
given ample time to make good. So
far no improvement has ever been
observed. Worse yet, a decided
slump has occured until travel con
ditions are so very poor one hesi
tates to start to Bryan. The time
has come for a showdown. If the
service is not improved, public opin
ion will call one, and public opinion
is the most merciless power existing.
JOHN W. FUCHS DIES—MEMBER
CLASS OF 1917
News has recently been received
of the sudden death of Lieutenant
John W. Fuchs, C. A. C., who died
September 26, 1919, at the U. S.
General Hospital No. 6, Fort Mc
Pherson, Ga. His death was due to
the idosyncrasy of his body to co
caine used as an anesthetic while un
dergoing an operation on his nose.
His death came as a great surprise to
his many friends and classmates as
he was in the best of health and n ~>
one contemplated any serious results
from the operation.
Liuet. Fuchs, or Johnnie, as he
was known to every member of the
Class of 1917, entered the First Offi
cers Training Camp at Leon Springs,
Texas. Before graduation from th : s
camp, he with others was transferred
to the Coast Artillery School at Fort
Monroe, Va., to complete his train
ing. Here he received his commis
sion as a second Lieutenant, C. A. C.
Regular Army, in July 1917. He
first served at Fort Washington from
October 1917 to December 19, 1917.
He was then ordered to Ft. Howard,
Maryland, where he served for a
short time. He was then sent back
to Fort Hunt, Va. He attended the
Coast Artillery School at Fort Mon
roe during the month of Decenmber
1918. He was ordered to Camp
Ustes, Va., on January 1, 1919. Af
ter remaining here a few weeks he
was transferred to Jackson Barracks
where he served until his death.
Lieut. Fuchs was promoted to First
Lieutenant, C. A. C., Regular Armj * 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ,
before the signing of the armistic
agreement.
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