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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1921)
2 THE BA T T A LION THE BATTALION Published every Friday night by the students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. Subscription Price $1.75 per Year. Advertising rates on application. Member Texas Collegiate Press Association. ALL ADS RUN UNTIL ORDERED OUT. STAFF. Frank L. Bertschler Editor-in-Chief. W. T. Strange : Associate Edifor C. R. Warndof Assistant Editor D. J. Finn Assistant Editor C. C. B. Warden Contributing Editor. News Editor J. T. Rollins Sport Editor. C. Blumenthal Exchange Editor. W. W. Cox Social Editor. C. W. Thomas Assistant Editor. G. A. Denison Staff Photographer Mrs. A. T. Potts Campus Editor Miss Nell Pryor Assistant Campus Editor Bill King Business Manager. F. P. Buie Circulation Manager. S. C. Evans r Assistant Circulation Manager. Entered as second-class matter at College Station, Texas, Feb. 17, 1905. YOUR ADDRESS. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦****♦***** 4- * * STUDENT OPINION. * <*► * ❖ Better Hash. According to statistics, the average price of all foods has fallen over fifty- per cent. Our maintenance for next term is going to be the same as last term—that is, one hundred and thirty dollars. We are not complaining about that, but we most certainly ex pect to receive a little better fare than we are getting this term. This term we paid more than ever before, and received worse fare than ever before. Now we again pay an enormous fee, while the food-prices are back to nor mal, or nearly so. It stands to rea son, that our fare should improve pro- portionally, but if it remains as it is, we would suggest that somebody make an explanation. The United States Postal Service probably received more criticism than any other one institution in the nation. This is reasonable and ex pected since it deals with more people than the tax collectors and mail order houses. The Faculty Exchange is not in the truest sense a post office. It is an establishment for the convenience of the students, faculty, and college authorities. Service unequalled in many large Texas towns is provided every one connected with the college. Yet, each mail brings scores of letters incorrectly addressed. It is impossible for any one man to keep an absolutely accurate record of the whereabouts of each student and faculty member if such person is unable to do so himself. Some students have received mail for months from the same correspondent, each time the address being incorrect. This adds to the postmaster’s task, one consisting of much tedious looking through records. Hours are spent daily in an effort to send your mail to you. Where an office has numerous clerks and assistants, such can be taken care of. In a peculiarly situated office such as the Faculty Exchange, where every patron receives and sends more mail than the average person, and where one man attends to all de tails of the office, this additional and very unnecessary work is accomplish ed only at the expenditure of much time and effort. Every man in the college should notify all his correspondents of his correct box number, company, battery, or troop. This would expedite mail delivery and make the postmaster’s many tasks more wholesome. Henderson, as our post master is known to the students, is “one of the boys”. He is imbued with the A. and M. spirit and is unsurpassed in his strong support of every ac tivity. Let us help him to the extent of giving our correct addresses to all correspondents. It must become discouraging when we have heard him inform the same faculty member three times this one term that money orders must be obtained at the College Station office! And moreso when some fair damsel writes her gay Lothario with all confidence that merely “John Smith, College Station, Texas” will find him! We realize his importance in her estimation, but there are many Smiths, figuratively speaking, and many duplications, in the majority of names represented here. It is a matter of community pride when a town grows to .such size specific, addresses are ineeded thaq merely the^.oatoflice^ . It^ aiso be likewise here—su^rn a condition having’ - ago. reached long THE DORMITORY ROOM. Elsewhere, in the Student Opinion column, will be found an article suggesting improvements in the dormitories that will aid and induce de corating rooms. We give this our hearty endorsement. There was a time which old pictures recall when the rooms at A. and M. were dear to the hearts of their occupants. Since then, the college pennant has become a worthless and useless commodity. All the ingenuity of Engineers and Ags have contributed to means of hanging banners, pennants, and pictures without the aid of tacks. Many students have expended considerable cash in beautifying their rooms against difficulties. The Student Opinion ar tide suggests molding. And if molding is installed, let it be filled with tacks. What matters it if the rooms are made more pleasing to the occu pants? Only one dormitory has walls sufficiently free from defects to re main bare. We endure bare barracks walls in the army. Yet, in the dugouts of France and Germany the soldiers covered the walls with the odds and ends that were dear to them. Many rooms at A. and M. now have the unpainted college furniture, thi’ee beds, and three trunks as fur nishings. It is natural that dissatisfaction should reign in such a room For nine months the college dormitory room is “home”. We favor making them sufficiently attractive to be pleasing. THE “Y” RELIGIOUS SERVICE. Beyond its function as a social center and provider of entertain ment for the fifteen hundred students of A. and M., the College “Y” has yet another duty in its triangular activities. This is covered in its relig ious services each Thursday night. When you are at home you ordinarily attend church services with regularity. When away it is different. The restraining and protective influences of home are not present. At col lege the Sunday chapel services are in the nature of broad, non-sectarian lectures presented by the best and strongest speakers in the state and na tion. This does not fill the need for a religious service in nature similar to the home church. This is what the “Y” attempts to present to the stu dents of A. and M. whether they are church members or “Y” members or not. The Thursday night services are supervised and directed by stu dents alone. The music is provided and rendered by students The les sons are taught and read by students. It is YOUR service. Your pres ence is requested and needed. Be present next Thursday evening. THE NEW YEAR. Full of brilliant prospects and opportunities the year of 1921 is well under way. The New Year resolutions have been broken and in many cases forgotten. The Christmas holidays saw the close of the first lap of the college year. The long “home stretch” is now in sight, although the longest part of the year is yet to come. Now is the time to profit by the experiences of the past. Let your errors and mistakes early in the term guide you through the coming months. If the past three months have not been satisfactory to you, make the coming five meet your approval. A college education is obtained from day to day—not at the time of final tests. Bear in mind that primal purpose for which you came to A. and M. Keep on the job. If you have failed to do so in the past, wake up before it is too late. Let June find you satisfied with your accomplish ments and by stai'ting now, 1921 can be made the best year of your life. THE CAMPUS RESIDENTS. One of the most pleasant surprises to the students remaining on the campus during the holidays was the lively interest the campus people show ed in them. They gave a very enjoyable Christmas party, organized a New Year watch party, sent boxes to individuals, invited many to their homes and through other acts of kindness, made the stay here^ for all a very h'appy occasion. Nothing could be appreciated more by the students, and nothing could better help them to forget that they would rather be at home than these indications of thoughtfulness on the part of our campus Why Not Ye Old Time Pennants and Pictures? Some of the old natives of this Col lege—such as Dough Rollins, Warden, Joe Reid, and others—clearly remem ber the good old days when the rooms were decorated with masses of pen nants, and a “blaze of color”, when the occupants actually enjoyed to look at their walls, and the rooms looked comfortable, warm, and friendly. Of course, in orded to accomplish this, it was necessary to drive a number of tacks into the walls, thereby ruining them. Then one summer, all walls were put back into shape, and a strict order published, forbidding all stu dents to drive tacks into the walls. That was a reasonable order, and it has been justly enforced. But no mat ter how just this order might be, it killed one of the most attractive qual ities of the school—and unnecessarily at that, for with a very small outlay the College could enable the students to again make their rooms beautiful and avoid that “jailish” and institu tional atmosphere now so disagreeably apparent. What we mean is, that wood moulding should be put on the walls such as are in Mitchell and Leg gett Hall. This would enable the stu dents to again decorate their rooms, and at the same time preserve the walls. We believe that the Colleg£_could well afford to go to such a pense, especially since it wo 1 so much to the students. Why Not Campus Chun i^JL-PKea^|t holaing its ^■ptings' TIT liui the Methodists in the Electrical Enj- gineering building, and other denomi nations in such similar places. There fore, it appears to us that these de nominations could accomplish greater things if they had their own individ ual places for their meetings Why can not each denomination have a small building like a taber nacle, somewhere on or near the Campus in which to hold their meet ings. Each building could have an auditorium for the main service and small rooms for Sunday School classes. Then adjoining this building, we see no reason why the pastor should not have a small bungalow in which to live. Compulsory chapel services could be changed over to some other mor ning of the week and the present sys tem of Sunday School could be abol ished for Sunday morning services and Sunday School could be held by each denomination in their respective places. Therefore, with good places for worship and with the pastors liv ing on the field, we can see no reason why greater things in the line of re ligious work couldn’t be accomplished. INTERESTING PUBLICATION LITTLE READ BY STUDENTS The Extension Service Farm News is issued semi-monthly by this branch of the A. and M. College and is prob ably the strongest agricultural peri odical in the state. The entire corps of specialists connected with the Col lege contribute articles to this pub lication and its circulation among the agriculturalists and farmers of the state is exceedingly wide. The paper is one well worth the reading by every agricultural student or person inter ested in Texas agriculture in any phase. Clippings from the News make valuable additions to notebooks and it is an excellent source of infor mation for academic papers submitted in class. For general information concerning agricultural conditions, practices, and events, no better publi cation is available to citizens of Texas. Cadet Master Sergeant L. L. Bums swore off smoking a month or so ago; following are some of his Christmas presents: Two boxes of cigars, one hand painted ash-tray, one meershaum pipe, one carton Camels, one humidor Prince Albert. It is lucky that his room-mate smokes. Dora: “Every time Jack kisses me he colors up to his ears.” Flora: “Dear me, do you rouge as heavily as all that?” +> * ❖ WITH THE OLD-TIMERS. ❖ ❖ H. O. Von Rosenberg, ’20, who is practicing Veterinary Medicine at Cuero, visited the Campus this week. Doug Howell, Cadet Colonel ’18-T9, visited the Campus during the holi days. He returned to the University of Pennsylvania where is taking a course. Jack Shelton, Cadet Colonel T6-T7, visited the Campus during the holi days. He is in business and doing well. J. B. Dannebaum, 1st Lt. Cav., U. S. A., ex.-’20, writes as follows: “The ‘Hustler’ brought me from Houston in time for the noon meal on Decem ber 17. The same old faces were at the depot, handling railroad business. The walks from the depot presented nothing unusual with the possible ex ception of the khaki clad corps in meal formation. It was really not until the parade and review of the afternoon that the remarkable changes in the old place become evident. _ The snap and pre cision exhibited by the various units connot be matched by our present day regular army with its state of almost disorganization. The infantry, artil lery, signal corps and lastly, my own branch, the hard riding cavalry, all made a splendid showing, which shows what -efficient instruction can do. It is with no spirit of disloyalty to the regular service when I say that the Regular Army can well afford to seek the efficiency and splendid spirit exhibited by the cadet corps. The buildings built since 1918 have added considerably to the beauty of the Campus. I hope some day to see A. and M. with three thousand stu dents. The old pep spirit is very evi dent, as well as a seemingly new in terest in the military department. I want to urge all graduates to accept reserve commissions. The Army needs men in reserve of the cailbre produced in Aggie-Land. Teach the Fish to honor the “Bat” and the “Wildcat”. Here’s luck for next Turkey Day. Sincerely, J. B. DANNENBAUM, 1st Lt. Cav. U. S. A., Ex-’20, A. & M. Miss Helen Holick met numerous of her old friends on the Campus dur- |ig the holidays. hey say Holliman is about to fry. So is Warden. And Potts. R. Warren, ’18, is now on the [us again connected wit rskpdi^g S.tatian- bnnectea with Expdrimen Station work since graduation and are glad his work will permit him to range old haunts again. Lieutenant Kotzebue, ’17, of the regular army, was a visitor in Bryan over Christmas. His disappointment over arriving after the holidays had begun was keen and he is to visit A. and M. before June. Mr. D. V. Shuhart, ’20, was married to Miss Alma McHenry at Mission, Texas, on the morning of December 29, 1920. They left immediately after the ceremony on an extended honey moon, visiting San Antonio and other cities in Texas. Shuhart is now pro fessor of Agriculture at the Grubbs Vocational College. Miss McHenry is a sister of A. C. McHenry, ex-’20. .the ANCIENT CUSTOMS REVIVED IN FOSTER. Intended for last issue). Ask the Fish of Foster Hall if the customs and traditions of the col lege are safe with them. Monday night between tattoo and taps saw the revival of the ancient and time-honored custom of P. M. and the renewal of the old order of B. of A. H. (this signifies A. H. stu dents). This order is more cosmo politan than the well known club of that name, and carelessness in over dressing is unforgivable. Caesar receiving his tribute could not have received a more widely varied assemblage than did Fish Clark, captain and guardian of the flaming brazier ( ? ). Ethiopia came and knelt humbly during the awe-inspiring ceremonies. Special REDUCTIONS On all Uniform Goods We offer our entire stock of fine $37.50 Serge $28.50 Herman $9.50 Army Shoes reduced gQ All Cotton and Wool Shirts at 20% Of F All Khaki and Serge Army Pants at 20% OFF All Stetson Army Hats at ^ 20% OFF All Officers’ Genuine Cordovan $15.00 Shoes, (PI O O reduced to ALL HART SCHAFFNER & MARX AND SOCIETY BRAND SUITS AT LESS THAN WHOLE SALE COST. A. M. WALDROP & CO. HEADQUARTERS FOR COLLEGE TRADE The Elite Confectionery —FOR— COLD DRINKS, CANDY, CIGARS, ETC. When in Bryan the Boys Are Invited to Visit Us China came all chalked and quered up. Giants and pigmies intermingling with brigands and priests knelt side by each. How- ever, by far the greater number seemed to think A. and M. to be in a warm and tropical climate as whisk-brooms seemed to be the most popular apparel, closely followed by stocks and leggings. The Right Honorable Fish Foi’d lead in pleading with the Mighty Bullock, sacred image of the order, and waxed heroically eloquent in re sponse to cries of “Yea Bayloro (the female of M. B.). Fish Irwin, bearer of the Sacred Urn, burned the offerings and sacri fices amid the tremblings of the Oi'- der. Only through cooperation and care in ceremonials can this noble order be upheld and may all members eli gible feel honor bound to make Fos ter Hall safe for P. M. t When in Bryan AND IN NEED OF RAZORS, RAZOR BLADES ( POCKET KNIVES, ELECTRIC LIGHT GLOBES AND LIGHT HARDWARE OF ANY AND ALL KINDS CALL ON US Myers Hardware Co. • • • • • • • • Guy Boyett’s Store NORTH OF CAMPUS NEAR INTERURBAN HERE FOR THIRTY YEARS—OLDEST AT THE BUSI NESS BUT LIVER THAN EVER BEFORE Tobaccos of all Kinds STA TIONERY Toilet Articles J P :: GIVE US A CALL AND TRY OUR SERVICE t * ■* *1* *1* *1* *1* *1* "t* •I* *8* *8* ^ a X* *1* •I* *1* C. S. Martin :: MEAT MARKET Fresh Meats, Fish, Oysters, Eggs, Butter. Delivery leaves for College every ;; morning at 9 o’clock except f Sunday. 2—PHONES—471 Us BRYAN TIRE & REPAIR COMPANY H. G. Umland, Prop. Tires, Tubes, Gasoline, Oils ’! and All Kinds of Vul- ■ • canizing 4* a. McKenzie WATCHES and JEWELRY Pathe and Claxtonola Talking Machines Cadets are invited to call and see our lines v , •• « • £ JNO. S. CALDWELL £ Graduate Optometrist and ^ ^ Optician ^ ^ Office: Caldwell’s Jewelry J i. Store -¥■ ★ Bryan, Texas -V- ’A’ ^ *************************-&
