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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1927)
^^ TURKEY ^jgTEERSrTHANKSGIVING DAY? Published Weekly by the Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas VOL. XXVI BRYAN, TEXAS, NOVEMBER 16, 1927. NO. 9 ONLY A.&M. ENTRY THANKSGIVING HOP WINS WEEK’S NEWS American Royal Live Stock and Horse Show at Kansas City A. and M. has made entry in the American Royal Live Stock and Horse Show at Kansas City which be gan last Saturday and will extend through Nov. 19th. The Animal Husbandry Department has entered Aberdeen-Angus among the contend ers for prize awards and honor rib bons. Railroads all over the United States are offering reduced round-trip rates to the show, and the auction sales of purebred individual animals are attracting many breeders. Buy ers of carlot feeders also are present ed an advantageous opportunity to stock their feed lots from among large selection of real quality. The Livestock Judging Team from A. and M. will also compete at the Show for the silver loving cup prize. * * * Oklahoma University Students Pro test Against Ban on Autos Democracy’s salvation affected nine years ago Armistice Day was not quite complete in the opinion of Uni versity of Oklahoma students. They were prepared last Friday to make their last stand in the short-lived re bellion of three weeks ago against dating and automobile rules. A petition prepared by a student committee, asking liberalization of the rules, was presented Friday after noon to the board of regents in its first meeting since the uprising. Decisions to place their demands be fore the board of regents was reached by the students after negotiation with the univetrsity administrative coun cil had failed to obtain any conces sions. President W. B. Bizzell, for merly president of A. and M., took the attitude that the rules were laid down by the regents and that his only (Continued on Page 5) SENIORS, JUNIORS AND CLUB MEMBERS Unless your picture is made this week, it will not go into the Long horn because the prints are to be mounted and sent to the engraver at once. Club money must be turned in to me at 80 Legett at once. F. L. GERDES, Bus. Mgr. Longhorn. Bonnie Anxiety Tenth, Hereford steer calf, owned and bred by Texas A. & M. College, was awarded the grand championship in the fat steer class at the American Royal Live stock and Horse Show in Kansas City Monday. The animal also won two hundred and ten dollars in cash prizes in addition to the grand championship blue ribbon. The steer was sired by Bonnie An xiety, the college bred bull, and was displayed in the show ring by Willie Joe Largent, son of C. M. Largent, noted Hereford breeder of Merkel, Texas. Bonnie Anxiety Tenth, weigh ing 960 pounds, had previously been awarded the championship in the Hereford class of steers. This was the only animal sent to the American Royal by A. & M., and will be sold in Kansas City Friday. AGROMOMY TEAM GOING TO CHICAGO The A. and M. agronomy team will leave College at midnight Nov. 22 for Chicago to enter the International Crops contest. The team will arrive in Chicago about 6:30 Thanksgiving day, and Friday will be spent in some special work in hay grading. The final contest will be held on Satur day, Nov. 26. Four men will make the trip, three on the team and one alternate. These are W. L. Crawford, J. de la Feunte, R. C. Mauldin, and R. M. Zellner. The contest includes the commercial grad ing of important grains, hay, and cot ton, judging the important grains on a comparative basis, and the identifi cation of about 200 different plants, weeds, and diseases of crops, giving the crop name, botanical name, variety name and the locality where each is of importance There will be about fifteen or twenty schools entered. This will be the first time A. and M. has entered a team in this particular contest. A widower was to be married for the third time and his bride had been married once before. The groom- elect wrote across the bottom of the invitation to a friend: “Be sure and come. This is no amateur perform ance.” Practically all plans for the Thanksgiving dances have been com pleted. The dances will be held Nov. 24, 25, and 26. Music will be -furn ished by the Merrymakers, a ten- piece negro orchestra from Little Rock, Arkansas. The Thanksgiving Hop, honoring the football team, will be Friday, Nov. 25. Capt. Joel Hunt will lead the grand march with Miss Doris Dun- ha of S. M. U. Hundreds of students and ex-students, as well as visitors, will make merry at these dances and a good time is assured to all. ELECTION OF R. V. JUNIORS COMPLETES MEMBERSHIP The election of the Junior R. V.’s on Tuesday, November 8th, gave the or ganization fifty-four new members. With the eighty-one Seniors, this brings the membership up to its full strength of one hundred and thirty- five. The list includes: Ashley, H. Bartlett, Z. W. Jr. Baner, R. E. Bently, D. H. Berry, L. E. Boykin, R. S. Jr. Bray, A. C. Buescher, V. A. Burgess, H. E. Bunton, S. E. Callaghan, J. B. Cape, E. Chase, A. M. Cochran, R. Cuthrell, J. H. Davis, W. E. Evans, C. Ferguson, J. E. Farmer, N. H. Fields, W. J. Flaca, C. V. Flory, C. M. Foster, L. A. Gibson, G. G. Hartung, L. A. Holleran, W. K. Horn, M. E. Johnson, D. H. Kelly, J. W. Ketterson, F. A. Magill, J. R. Jr. Marshall, C. L. Moore, G. H. Morris, C. E. Myers, S. W. (Continued on Page 7) A. H. MEN MAKE FINE RECORD The livestock judging team is truly holding up the laurels of A. & M. College. They went up to Wichita) and in competition against some of the strongest teams in the South and East walked off with first place. Not only were we first, but Mr. N. E. Ryall, over here in C company, de cided he needed some money so he took first place' in the whole <oriLest. Next they went up to Kansas City —The Royal—where they took second place out of about fifty; this time they competed against all the more important schools in the United States. Next comes The International. Don’t forget; just one more win and the Bull is ours. MITCHELL HALL TO BE VACATED FOR THANKSGIVING VISITORS Mitchell Hall will be vacated from Thursday noon Nov. 24 to Sunday noon Nov. 27 for the accomodation of the feminine visitors to Aggieland. Cadet officers arrived at the above decision after a discussion of every possibility of accomodation from plowing up the drill field to continu ous dancing Thursday to Sunday. The men who live in Mitchell Hall have preference in reservations for their own friends and relatives. Other cadets will provide for their visitors by arrangement with the present oc cupants of the rooms. On the other hand the men who live in Mitchell Hall will make arrangements to oc cupy the rooms of men who are going home over the holidays. The Y. M. C. A. is to provide negro maids for the maintenance of the hall during the holidays and it is to be completely turned over to the feminine visitors except during the hour of 12 to 1 p. m. each day. At this time the hall will be vacated and cadets who live in the rooms may go in to get books, toilet articles, etc. Friend: “I just saw a young man try to kiss your daughter.” Modern Mother: “Did he succeed?” Friend: “No.” Modern ^Mother: “Then it wasn’t my daughter.” Irate Diner: “Hey waiter! This soup tastes like dishwater!” Waiter: “How do you know?”