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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1928)
4 THE BATTALION THE B71TTALIOM Published every V/ dnesday nitcht by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical Collesre of Texas. Subscription price $1.75 per Year. ALL ADS RUN UNTIL ORDERED OUT tract of land, these difficulties should be overcome and any number of stu dents interested in the work should take courses along - these lines. Gifts like this add much to the wealth of an institution as well as its prestige and also serve as an aid to many boys working - their way through college. Now that Mr. Kirby has paved the way, we hope that other mem bers of our ex-students’ association who have made a success in their line of business will see the need and answer the call in making Texas A. and M. College the greatest school of its kind in the country. o HOLIDAYS Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized October 18, 1922. All undergraduates in the College are eligible to try for a place on the Editorila Staff of this paper. Freshmen, Sophomores, and Juniors who are interested in journalism for its own sake, are urged to make themselves known to some member of the Staff. EDITORIAL STAFF W. C. MORRIS R. R. PEEPLES L. J. FRANKE P. C. FARRIS , W. L. KENNEDY T. A. PILKEY G. O. MOUNT J. M. HOLMES E. L. ANDREWS W. T. COLEMAN J. J. LOVING R. H. SHUFFLER H. D. MAPLES R. O. PEARSON E. R. LAWRENCE W. C. JOHNSON W. C. TIMMERMAN G. M. WRENN J. E. HUDSON Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor Sports Editor Associate Sports Editor Assistant Sports Editor News Editor Associate News Editor Assistant News Editor Assistant News Editor Assistant News Editor Exchange Editor Associate Exchange Editor Literary Editor Associate Literary Editor Associate Literary Editor Cartoonist BUSINESS STAFF L. N. BOURLAND — Business Manager M. E. DIETERT Assistant Business Manager J. E. FONTAINE ....Circulation Manager CONDUCT Since we have compulsory chapel and all arguments for the revoking of the regulation have been abandoned there is no use in trying to create such a confusion as the speaker had to contend with Sunday morning. His speech might not have been very good or his subject was not particularly to your liking but that is no reason why he should be subjected to such treatment and not receive halfway respectable attention from the corps. If you are not interestd in the speaker enough to sit still and listen get a book or pa per and go up in the balcony and read during the talk but be careful to hold your paper low enough so he won’t think you are trying to hide behind it. Or still better, if you are too restless to listen, go to sleep. It would be much better to go to sleep and let those few listen who care to and I’m sure the speaker would appreciate it more than he would trying to talk above the uproar of a restless corps. Not only was the speaker annoyed but Dr. Walton was embarrased beyond expression. He cast many furtive and appealing - glances around the chapel but no one seemed to heed his plea and sense the very shameful predicament he was in. These men who are invited here to talk to us represent institu tions and cities from all over the state and possibly out of the state and it is by our actions during the brief time they are here that they are going to judge us and cause others to judge us. Our reputation as a corps is at stake at such times so if you do not like the speaker just pretend that you do or if that is impossible read, go to sleep, or leave but above all keep quiet. o Last Sunday morning at the services in Guion Hall something happened which was entirely out of order. I heard several people comment on it after the services were over. Members of the faculty, campus people, and the seniors were among those who expressed an opinion on the conduct of the corps as a whole. o This is a school where everyone is democratic and much emphasis is put on good-fellowship and good sportsmanship. Every man who comes here expects a square deal and he gets it. Do you think that the Corps acted as a sportsman when it deliberately hampered the speaker as it did ? Did the corps give him the square deal that it puts so much store by? We have an obligation to ourselves and to our school. First, we must conduct ourselves so as to throw no reflection on ourselves personally. Second, we ought not to bring discredit on the school by not acting the part of gentlemen at all times. Discourtesy will bring us nothing but regret. o i— The men who come here to speak to us at the Sunday morning services are doing us a favor and we ought to appreciate it. They are our guests while they are on the campus and should receive all the consideration pos sible. We all know the duties of a host to a guest; ill manners is not one of them. o —• I was in the audience and I found myself embarassed by the predicament the speaker was in. What must it have been for him ? In the future let us be more careful of our conduct. o — APPRECIATION OF KIRBY GIFT It is with great interest and enthusiasm that we note the gift of the six hundred acres of timber land to the College by John H. Kirby of Houston, the land to be used as a demonstration and experimental farm for the scien tific development of forestry in this state. The Department of Forestry of the College has long been handicapped in the presentation of its courses for lack of experimental wooded acres for students desiring work in the study of forestry and the problems of reforestration but with the addition of this “Well fellows the holidays are over, they are a week gone by, and all should be back in harness now.” So says the instructor and though he is correct enough there are on every side a hundred or more who dissent violently with him; not over the obvious fact that the holidays are over but about whether they are ready to resume the old grind or not. No one seems to be willing to relinquish their Xmas holiday dreams and memories long enough to study and some not even long enough to attend classes • The girl for of course there is a girl, has probably long ago forgotten that the poor cadet ever existed. If you don’t know that to be a fact you are a sublime egotist, and an egotist is a self deceived fool and love is sublime so you can readily see that.... Caesar was ambitious, but Caesar was self-supporting, and even then you know that Cleopatra would have none of him. So forget your little Helen of wherever for her kisses can never make you immortal and your grades will at least repay your attentions, something she’s not likely^jto^dm RADIO BULLETINS READY FOR DISTRIBUTION Interesting and Instructive Lectures Being Broadcast Over WTAW In accordance with its new policy, the A. and M. radio station, WTAW, has published a bulletin describing its activities for this year and giving the programs for each period of broad casting. The bulletins are in the office of Mr. W. H. Darrow, Program Director and Chief Announcer, and anyone desiring the programs may have a bulletin by calling at Mr. Dar- row’s office in the Extension Service Building. In the bulletins is a brief history of radio at A. and M. with the names and pictures of the present of ficials. The station is licensed to operate on 483.6 meters, 620 kilocycles, and this year letters are being received from sections never before reached. Many letters have been received from those who tuned in on the football games broadcasted and the basketball and baseball games to be played here will also be put in the air. Seventeen lecture courses are being given at the night programs, two lec tures of fifteen minutes each being given on both Wednesday and Friday nights. Most of these are of agricul tural interest, but a few are being offered of a cultural nature. The fol lowing faculty members are conduct ing the courses: Cotton Marketing—Dr. V. P. Lee, Prof, of Marketing and Finance. Forestry—C. B. Webster and W. E. Bond, of the Texas Forestry Service. Poultry Keeping—Prof. D. H. Reid, Head of the Poultry Husbandry De partment. Soil Management—Dr. J. O. ^or gan, Head of the Agronomy Dept. Livestock Raising—Prof. D. W. Williams, Head of the Animal Hus bandry Dept. Keeping the Car Fit—F. R. De- Forest, of the Ag. Eng. Dept. Gardening—Prof. F. S. Jamison. Beekeeping-—Dr. S. W. Bilsing. Dairying—Prof. J. A. Clutter. Contemporary Problems in Soci ology—'Prof. D. Russell, Head of the Dept, of Sociology. Books—Prof. W. H. Thomas. The Schools of Tomorrow—Dr. C. H. Winkler, Dean of the School of Vo cational Teaching. Contemporary Problems in History —Dr. S. R. Gammon and Prof. V. K. Sugareff. Science in Everyday Life—Prof. Veazey, Dr. O. M. Ball, Dr. J.H.Hance, and Prof. M. K. Thornton. Food Selection for Healthful Liv ing—Miss Lola Blair, Extension Ser vice. Agricultural Practice—Prof. F. E. Geisecke, College Architect. Radio Engineering — Prof. C. C- Yates. There will be from four to seven lectures in each course before they are completed sometime in March. Following the half hour lecture period, musical programs are given for the remaining hour. Quoting Pres. Walton, “The ideals of WTAW are somewhat unique. Not to adver tise, not to mold public opinion, but to further extend the useful function of the A. and M. College is the ob ject of these broadcasts.” The parents of a number of stu dents have written asking about the periods of broadcasting; the new bulletins give all information about the time of broadcast and the matter to be broadcast. All the students are cordially invited to get one of the bulletins and send it home so the par ents may get the benefit of college through the air while the students are receiving instruction here. DEBATING TEAM MAKES PRE-SEASON TOUR Soon to Debate University of South ern California on Campus The A. & M. Debating team began its pre-season tour on the 12th of December, ending up with a non-de cision debate with the Trinity Univer sity at Waxahachie, Texas. The men who composed the team were: Ivan Irwin, Dallas; W. S. Morrison, Big Spring; R. N. Talbott, Miles. The de bates, for the most part, were held with West Texas Colleges. Howard Payne, Simmons, Abilene Christian, and Trinity were included in the itinerary. In every instance, the team was accorded a hearty welcome by the various institutions with which debates were held. It is indeed surprising that so much interest should be displayed as was shown by these colleges. Even the Girls Pep Squad of the Abilene Chris tian College was out to greet the team and welcome the initial relation in forensic activities with the A. & M. College. Only once previous to this year has there been a team to represent this College in debating. This year there are four distinct teams who will take part in debates with other colleges. Debates have been scheduled with a great many (Continued on Page 7)