THE BATTALION
Time at Hand
to Order Book
Now is the tims to order an extra
copy of the Longhorn for mother, sis
ter, sweetheart, and friends. If you
wait until the Longhorns are dis
tributed on the campus, then it will
be too late to get your extra copy.
The management will not have any
extra copies ordered, unless directed
to do so by individuals. Any student
desiring to order a De Luxe copy-
may do so at this time also. The price
of the extra copy will be $4.50 and
the price of the De Luxe $7.00.
These prices both have a 50c reduc
tion over the prices of last year.
Another improvement which you
may receive for a small fee, is to
have any name you may want en
graved on your book in gold letter
ing. This can be had for 50 cents.
See Norman at 4 Milner concern
ing your extra copies.
THIS IS NUMBER FIVE OF A SERIES OF ADVERTISEMENTS TO COLLEGE MEN
Yea rs Ahead
HOOVER RECOUNTS
TRIP TO AFRICA
Scientist Has Interesting Experience
While on Expedition.
WASHINGTON.—For three years
home was a corrugated iron house on
top of a sun-blistered, solitary" moun
tain in arid country for W. A. Hoover,
Mrs. Hoover, their four-year-old
daughter and Fred A. Grealy, a fel
low scientist, who have just returned
SEVENTY - FIFTH ANNIVERSARY
Watering 87,000
Horses
On Horseshoe Lake near Oklahoma City, in
a businesslike, compact building, 8 7,000 horses
(figuratively speaking) are stabled . . . nearly
three for every family in Oklahoma City. For
with the completion of a new unit of the Okla
homa Gas & Electric Company’s power sta
tion at this point, the total generating capacity
was raised from 46,930 to 87,130 horsepower.
To keep these “horses” up to full working
condition, and do it cheaply as possible, is no
small job. Just the water required is 86,400,-
000 gallons daily, the equivalent of eight days’
supply for Oklahoma City.
The new generating unit was made necessary
by the expansion of industrial activity through
out Oklahoma and particularly by the in
creased use of electric power by the oil industry.
For it, improved valves, fittings, and piping,
so vital to efficient and economical power
production, were supplied by Crane Co. T hus
in these modern times does progress in one
industry bring progress in another.
No matter what branch of engineering you
enter after graduation, you are likely to find
Crane piping materials essential tools of your
profession. In the Crane book, “Pioneering in
Science,” is told the story of Crane research in
metallurgy, with important scientific data and high
pressure and temperature curves. A copy will
be valuable for reference. Let us send you one.
k, C RAN E x
PIPING MATERIALS TO CONVEY AND CONTROL
STEAM, LIQUIDS, OIL, GAS, CHEMICALS
CRANE CO
GENERAL OFFICES: 836 S. MICHIGAN AVE
NEW YORK OFFICE: 23 W. 44TH STREET
Branches and Sales Offices in One Hundred and Ninety Cities
CHICAGO
7^ similar
tractor is
notv also
available
in a smaller
size—the
Model “C”
OU expect vastly more in a tractor
today than you did ten years ago.
Step by step mechanical progress and
improvements have been going on ever
since the first gas tractor was made way
back in the early 90 , s.
The new Model “L” Case Tractor
surpasses anything you have been accus
tomed to look for in a tractor. While
it is only a year since this tractor was
introduced, there are several thousand
now in daily use in the United States,
Canada and foreign countries. Their
happy and satisfied owners maintain
it is years ahead in tvork output, all
around usefulness, and ease of handling.
Here are a few of the features that have
been developed to an unusual degree:
1. Powerful engine with renewable cylinder
sleeves.
2. Heavy 3-bearing crankshaft drilled for
pressure lubrication.
3. Highly efficient oil-type air cleaner.
4. Hand operated clutch. One man can
hook or unhook the tractor from any
machine while standing on the ground.
5. Low, roomy platform—adjustable seat.
6. Efficient and durable heavy roller chain
drive, enclosed and operating in oil.
7. Three speeds forward—2p2, 3jA and 4
miles per hour.
8. Irreversible steering gear—13 ft. outside
turning radius.
A complete technical description of
this tractor will be gladly mailed.
J. I. CASE CO., Inc., Racine, Wis.
CA
QUALITY MACHINES FOR PROFITABLE FARMING
in-chief, and W. A. Porter, business
manager, with their staffs, are pub
lishing. Copies for the printers are
being shipped regularly by Halbout *
and he promises to have the book
distributed on the campus earlier
than any Longhorn in previous years
or any ether annual in the South
west. Nevetheless, he asserts that he
may hold up the shipment Lintil the
middle part of May.
The 1930 Lon'ghorn will contain
many changes that will greet the eyes
of the reader, and they will undoubt
edly astound him beyond comprehen
sion. Much planning and superb edit
ing marks the book as the outstand
ing in the history of annuals. Scin
tillating schemes and features may
lead to criticism, nevertheless, th
criticisms cannot be directed to the
annual itself, but to the facts, plain
facts, that the Greenhorn section will
to Washington from Southwest Af
rica.
Killing a charging leopard with a
(22-calibre rifle, says Hoover, was the
most exciting* adventure of their
lonely post. The Ringhals cobra in
cident was a close second. The cobra
spit poison in Hoover’s face.
Hoover was a field leader of the
National Geographic Society expedi
tion in co-operation with the Smith
sonian InstitLition to establish a solai
radiation observatory on top of
Mount Burkkaros, a dead volcano of
Southwest Africa.
Betty, Mr. and Mrs. Hoover’s
daughter, was one and Cne half years
old when they went out to establish
the observatory. Now she is four. A
flock of chickens and a cow were hei
only playmates for three years.
The work of the expedition was to
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