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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1922)
THE BATTALION 3 |l»H- «* *—o——■ SENIOR CLASS - ' VALEDICTORIAN WILL BE THOMAS The Lad From La Grange Is Extend ed Further Honors By the Senior Class. C. W. Thomas, 1922 Longhorn Ed itor and commander of the Shock Troops, was recently elected Vale dictorian for the Commencement Ex ercises by the Senior Class. Thomas has made a very enviable record since coming to Aggieland in 1918. He has been a distinguished student some several times, has been a prominent member of the Dramatic Club, a mem ber of the Ross Volunteers the pres ent and past year. The selection is undoubtedly a good one and it is felt that the address to be delivered by Thomas at that time will be one worthy of mention. a.m.c. KdWlOld [®diroi)0OilSg= ddODddS Didja * * * Ever go to a dance boy * * * That was more than a :J: :|c Dance. On the ceiling enough :J; :{J cloth- of many different colors * * * Had been draped to reach * * * From College to Bryan ❖ * * And part of the way back. * * * Intertwined with this were * * * Streamers, balloons and lights * * * That added to the beauty * * * Of the place. * * * The music could not have * * * Been surpassed by ❖ * * Paul Whiteman, himself— * * * The floor was like glass— * * * And above all * * * There were four hundred * sis Of the snappiest looking =H * sf: Girls sis sH sis Ever assembled under sis sfl * One roof. sis sis s{c Gosh! boy, if you didn’t sis sk sis You had better take in sis sji * This Year’s R. V. A.M.C. DRS. LAWRENCE & ZACHRY DENTISTS 4th Floor City Natl. Bank Bldg. Phones—Office 348 Res. 558 BRYAN, TEXAS §CQ[1K]C1 ELECTRIC CLOCKS IN BIG HOTEL. Installation has just been made by the General Electric Company of the Warren electric clock system in the annex to the Plaza hotel in New York. This represents the first hotel in New York in which this system of regu lating clocks has been utilized. It is the second installation of the sort in any hotel, the first having been made last year in the Ritz-Carleton Hotel at Atlantic City, where the clocks have been thus regulated with much success for the last seven months. In the Plaza installation there are about 50 clocks, located in the main rooms, in the foyers, salons, draw ing rooms and dining rooms. They are operated by small generators which convert the direct current of the hotel’s lighting circuit into al ternating current for the clock sys tem. The converters, the master clock and the control panel are all located in the telephone exchange of the sotel, on the first floor. Tiny motors, so small that one of them easily nestles in the palm of the hand, are geared to the dial hands of each of the secondary clocks con nected with the system. These small motors, which take the place of the usual intricate clock mechanism and which are of the synchronous type, will operate the hands of clocks of any size. Big clocks with dials five feet in diameter and little clocks with dials whose diameters are only three inches are regulated equally well by these smallest of motors, none of the dimensions of which exceed three in ches. Absolutely uniform time is shown by every clock of the system at a giv en moment. The system is also self regulating and therefore independent of voltage or frequency fluctuations incident to the power lines from which it draws its current. The master clock exercises constant control over the power generating ap paratus which drives the individual motors of the secondary clocks. This control by the master clock enables all the secondary clocks to keep ac curate time. They are never more than three seconds slower of faster than the master clock. The reliability of this system, as re vealed in actual service, is believed to bring prominently to the front this novel idea of thus electrically operat ing clocks for hotels, office buildings, manufacturing plants and institutions where it is desired to have a large number of clocks and to insure that they will all keep accurate and uni form time. RECORD SILK TRAIN. Four million, eight hundred thou sand dollars worth of silk, one of the most valuable single cargoes of freight ever transported over an American railway, has just been sent over the electrified lines of the Chi cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ranlway. This shipment was contained in the longest exclusively all-steel baggage train ever operated between Seattle and Chicago. The journey of 2174 miles was made on scheduled time. The train contained fourteen bag gage cars and one coach, the latter for employees. The weight of the train QUEEM SPECIALS MONDAY, TUESDAY—A BIG DOUBLE BILL Ramona, The Great IN PERSON—HIS GREAT MAGICAL ACT Wanda Hawley In a Peach of a Picture, “Love Charms” Wednesday, Thursday—Extra Special Cosmopolitan "Just Around the Corner” Friday, Saturday—Wallace Reid in The World’s Champion COMING—Mae Murray in “Peacock Alley.” William S. 1 % Hart in “Traveling On.” “Black Beauty” was 1325 tons. This is equivalent to 23 express refrigerators, and made it possible for the shipment to be made in one special train instead of two. The “silk special” contained 448 cases of manufactured silk, and 4008 bales of raw silk. This cargo was bound from the Orient to New York, and it reached Seattle on the Japanese steamer Arabia Maru. It was hauled up the - — p ——— ' - - Cascade Mountains without a helper by one of the powerful 3,000 volt General Electric locomotives, and was lowered down the heavy grades on the other side by electrical breaking. With the electric locomotive the air brakes are held in reserve, and re generating braking is used in descend ing grades. A.M.C. OBSERVATIONS L_.„* A. STRANGER At a recent corps dance recently which I was a visitor, I was attract ed by the natural beauty of a Bryan girl. She seemed a very graceful dancer, appearing to be unusually light on her feet. She shook her bob bed hair gracefully out of her face, it being cut in an ideal Talmadge bob. Her slender form caused the youthful canton crepe dress wh'ch was a beaded affair, low waist line with a decorated girtle, to hang per fectly—In fact, it looked draped on her. Chiffon hose and a unique pair of patent leather Grecian sandeL furthered her charming appearance. She passed close to where I was standing and her voice, although strikingly feminine, impressed me as egotistical immediately. Furthering my close scrutiny, I quickly realized that she failed to have a large host of admirers eager to “Beak In” sim- 1 ^ many other local prides. Af ter a brief deliberation, I asked a friend the cause of her not being so popular and without hesitation he said “Her disposition” and several others assented. It was for the first time impress ed upon me that any girl with an uncomparable disposition regardless of her beauty was in Aggieland like a sailship in an Indian Ocean Moon- soon. A.M.C. Crescent moon Situation Ruby lips Slight mustache rar,b. Maiden breathes Whene’er she can Softly gurgles Hesitates Whispers then “Be a naughty man Again ! ! ! ” a.m.c. “Does she dress well?” “Dunno. I never watched her.” <S><e><8><8><S>'§><e><§><S><S><8><®><»<3><S><§><8><8*^ WM. B. CLINE, M. D. Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Over A. M. Waldrop’s Store BRYAN, TEXAS The Exchange BarberShop Appreciates Your Patronage JUST RECEIVED A NEW SHIPMENT OF STACOMB GET YOURS FOR THE R. V. FESTIVITIES I Campus Barber Shop J. F. LAVINDER, Prop.