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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1930)
Patronize Our Adver tisers flic lattmion They Make This Paper Possible Published Weekly by the Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical Coll ege of Texas VOL. XXVIII BRYAN, TEXAS, FEBRUARY 5, 1930. NO. 20 EX-STUDENTS MAKE LOANS Battalion Picture Complete Fizzle First Edition of Ag. Magazine Out SIXTH CONTEST TO BEGIN SOON Treasury Exhausted by Excessive Demand of Students for Loans. Seckatary Revak Injured in Photog raphy Accident. To be Distributed over Campus and to County Dem. Agents. The real value of the loan * fund of the Association of Former Stu dents does not become apparent un til the advent of a new term, and then to only those few who are un able to obtain a loan at all or can not get one of the desired amount. As is the usual case with the As sociation, the treasury died out be fore all were satisfied, but unlike the beginning of former terms, this fund became depleted some two weeks be fore registration for the second term began. A total of 173 loans were made and a total of near the $19,000.00 mark was loaned, thus giving an average of a little more than $100.00 per loan. It is seen by this that the Associa tion is accomplishing their part in this educational regime. Their only handicap is the lack of money in the fund’s treasury. DEBATE TO BE HERE THIS WEEK Triangular Debate Between A. and M., T. C. U. and S. M. U. Will Be Held Here. The announcement of a triangular All was silence. Five still figures huddled closely together looking with grim countenances upon the dastard ly result of their intrigue and inge nuity lying still and white before them. Off in a corner two more fig ures stood behind a menacing weapon mounted upon a tripod, gazing tri umphantly at the quintet before them. At last they had them where they wanted them! “Alright, Joe, shoot quick before they move,” one of the pair whisper ed hoarsely. A burst of flame, a loud report and the picture of the 1930 Battalion staff should have been ready for the Longhorn. But it wasn’t! Instead, a frightened photography director, Monterey Joe Revak, stood simulating the pose of the Goddess of Liberty with a burning torch held high above his head, his hair on fire, burning bits of wet flashlight powder on his hands and shoulders, and a flaming mass of the same powder at his feet licking out tongues of flame as if to devour the dim carpet which covers the floor of the room of the editor-in-chief and the business man ager of the Battalion. Revak is expected to recover from (Continued on Page 5) Filling a long recognized need, The Texas Aggie Countryman, agricul tural monthly publication of the A. and M. College of Texas, made its first appearance on the campus Feb ruary 3. The first issue of the new periodical will be distributed among the extension workers, staff of the experiment station, the faculty, stu dents in agriculture, vocational teach ers and county . and home demon stration agents. The publication of’ the first issue of The Countryman marks the real ization of a dream and ambition on the part of Professor Daniel Russell, head of the department of Rural Sociology and the completed work i& largely the result of his ef forts and that of the members of the Agricultural Journalism Society, which was organized on the sugges tion of Professor Russell. Editor of the magazine is T. A. Ketterson, Houston, and business manager is Paul A. Dresser. The arrangement of the material in the publication and the quantity of ad vertisements indicate the effort these two officials have made to make the first appearance of their period ical a success. (Continued on Page 5) debate in which A. and M., T. C. U. and S. M. U. will participate is the outstanding ’development of debat- j ing here this week. The date for the ; contest has not been definitely de termined as yet, but will probably be ! sometime in March. Each school will j send a negative team to invade the j enemy territory, and will keep the affirmative at home; thus there will be debates at each of the three schools on the same night on the Cashion Announces Motion Pictures To be Shown Here in Jan. and Feb. Nineteen big-time screen-hits will be presented in the Assembly Hall during the months of January and February, according to the program re cently announced by M. L. Cashion, general secretary of the local Y. M. C. A. Four of the shows include all-star casts, while the others present the foremost actors and actresses of the screen, Mr. Cashion said. Three of the presentations will be benefit shows, the pictures for two of which have not question, “Resolved, that all nations should adopt a plan of complete dis armament, except for such forces as needed for police purposes.” The components of the team here are working out daily with Professor C. O. Spidggs and a real debate is held each Monday night. The outstanding points which have been discovered by the various teams have been for the affirmative that we are at present “Up a tree back- wards,” and must change, while the negative points out that if one na tion were to disarm and another fail ed to, then we would certainly be in a boll-weevil position. Thus it looks as if some competition is in store for the candidates for the team, before the final selection is made about the last of February. yet been selected. Following is the schedule announced, giving the date, name of show, name of producer and leading- members of cast: Jan. 15—The Pagan (Metro) Navarro. 17— (Benefit) Speedway (Metro) Haines-Dane. 18— The Awakening (United Art) Coleman 22—Thunder (Metro) Chaney 25— Four Devils (Fox) Janet Gaynor 29— Illusion (Paramount) Carroll-Rogers 30— The Rescue (United Artists) Banky 31— The Girl in the Show (Metro) Bessie Love-Hackett Feb. 1—Salute (Fox) All-Star 5—Broadway (Universal) All-Star 8—Lucky Star (Fox) Gaynor-Farrell 12—Green Murder Case (Paramount) Powell 14— (Benefit) — 15— Broadway Melody (Metro) King-Page-Love 19— Dance of Life (Paramount) Carroll-Skelly 22—SO THIS IS College (Metro) All-Star 26— In Old Arizona (Fox) Lowe-Baxter 28—(Benefit) — Mar. 1—Big News (Bathe) All-Star Oratorical Contest This Year to Cov er Subjects Concerning Constitution. The Battalion has been authorized to make the first announcement on the A. and M. campus of the many changes in the regulations of the 1930 National Intercollegiate Orato rical Contest on the Constitution which have been announced by the director of this year’s contest. The ten-minute limit has been a- bandoned and a word-limit of 1,500 words has been set. The total amount of the prizes remains $5,000, the lowest prize being raised, however, to $4000, but the first prize remains at $1,500. A new list of subjects, more in keeping with the maturity of college men and women, has been announced. The 1930 subjects are: The Constitution of the United (Continued on Page 5) STEERS BOUGHT BY A JL DEPT. Forty Steers Purchased For Experi mental Purposes in School. Announcement of the purchase of 40 steers at the Fort Worth market, 10 out of each market type, was an nounced this week by the Animal Husbandry Department. The steers will serve a two-fold purpose. In the first place they will serve as an illustration of the four major market types and will be used in cattle grading instruction. More advanced students will study the feeding effects on the four classes while graduate students and profes sors will obtain data on the effects of the various feeds. The tests will be continued for a- bout 150 days. It is hoped that these steers will serve a very worthy pur pose both in cattle grading instruc tion and the giving of data to gradu ate students and professors in the latter objective. These four market types, by being added to the Animal Husbandry Department increase the efficiency of this department. . ^ ^ ♦£* ^ ♦£ 5 ^ NOTICE SENIORS There will be a reception for the Senior Class given by Dr. and Mrs. T. O. Walton at their home Thursday night, Febru ary 6th., from eight until ten. Uniform for the occasion will be No. 2. v%N**v”F***!*v*%*v’*'f"l‘*!**!"r