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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1931)
THE BATTALION 3 Scribner’s Announces Amateur Story Contest NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—In a con test which provides an opening for stories from unknown writers, Scrib ner’s Magazine in its February issue offers prizes of $1,000 and $500 for the best narratives, 2,500 to 6,000 words, which are concerned with some phase of American life. All persons, * regardless of nationality or residence or previous literary experience, are eligible for the contest, which closes June 20, 1931. The amateur has his chance in this contest, the announcement states. It is an attempt to bring new vigor and life into literature by reaching those people who are living and creating America and not merely writing about it. The narrator may be, says the statement, a worker in an oil field, a business man, a miner, a for est ranger, a stock broker, a house wife, a debutante, a politician, a resi dent of a deflated boom town, an ap ple-grower, a bootlegger, an actor, a farmer, a bishop, an office clerk or a longshoreman—anyone who has something significant to tell either about his own life or life as he has observed :t. The manuscripts may be either nar ratives or a ■ c12s or sketches. Th'-y will be read as quickly as possible and all found suitable will be purchased outright and published. From these the prize winners will be selected. The purpose of the contest, states the an nouncement, is to break through the literary shell and get to the real .America. The editors are hopeful that the majority of the stories will come from non-professional sources, from individuals who are expressing for the first time their thought on paper and will, because of that, bring a strength and vitality and freshness of vision often lacking in conventional writing. As instances of the type of stories desired, Scribner’s points to the cow boy tales of William James, the “Hankie” stories of Owen Francis and the Florida cracker stories of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Each of these is said to be an accurate and interesting pic ture of life in a particular American setting. To Hold Farm Shop Contest This Weeir „ The annual contest of the agricul tural engineering department for stu dents specializing in farm shop will be held this week, according to infor mation received from Professor M. F. Thurmond, under whose direction the contest will be held. Competition will be held in sheet metal work, concrete work, saw filing, identification of hardware, nail driv ing, and forging. Entrants will com pete in all phases of the contest. The grand prize will be a large loving cup donated by students in the department. Suitable prizes of tools will be awarded to other winners. INDUSTRIAL ARTS CLUB The Industrial Arts Club was ad dressed Monday evening, January 11, by its president, N. B. Read, Waco, who related his experiences on the four thousand mile inspection trip taken last summer. Mr. Read visited many schools and colleges in the north and east and studied the dif ference between systems of education in industrial arts courses. SHOE SHOP Serving A & M CAMPUS Will Be First— (Continued from page 1) the Spanish American war. He grad uated with the class of 1897 from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, at Auburn, one of the land grant col leges. During the Spanish American war he was pi’omoted to first lieutenant and was commissioned in the Regular Army in 1899 as a second lieutenant of infantry. From 1899 to 1907 he was with the Seventeenth Infantry, from 1907 to 1914 with the Twenty- fourth Infantry and from 1914 to 1919 with the Quartermaster Corps. During the World War, Col. Nelson was a general staff officer with the Thirty-first and Ninety-Second Di\i sions, commander of the 80th Pioneer Infantry and colonel of the Sixty-third Infantry. In 1920-21, he was on gener al recruiting duty, stationed at Den ver, Colorado. He was senior instruc tor for the Illinois National Guard (Thirty-third) from 1921 to 1924. He graduated from the general staff and command school of the Army at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1925, going afterward to the Ninth Infantry. During his college days, Col. Nelson was a star athlete in football as well as in other sports. He played football in 1898 at the University of Mary land. The mayor of the city of Lynn, Mass., gives it out that he is going to put a stop to flirting on the streets. Won’t Lynn look funny, without any girls!—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The happiest country would be one that practiced socialism, having neigh bors addicted to private enterprise.— Bertrand Russell. Petroleum Dept. Given Miniature Derricks Two miniature oil derricks have re cently been given to the petroleum production department, reports re ceived from professor J. B. Joyce, head of department, disclose. One is of steel construction, a donation of the Car negie Steel Company of Pittsburg, Pa , and the other of wood, the handwork of students of agricultural engineer ing. The steel derrick is equipped with complete miniature model cable tool equipment, and may be operated by an electric motor. The wood derrick stands about nine feet in height, and is built to scale. Anyone interested may view them in the petroleum production office in the E E building, professor Joyce said. The earth is a perfect machine, without any conscious impulse of free will of its ownv—Prof. J. W. Gregory. It is not the clear-sighted who lead the world. Great achievements are ac complished in a blessed, warm, mental fog.—Joseph Conrad. Them Good Malted Milks We Still Make Them King’s, Whitman’s and Pangburn’s Candies HOLMES IIROTIIERS Confect ionery ARCHITECTS’ DANCE Preliminary plans for the Architec tural club dance were discussed at a meeting of the club Monday, January J12, according to R. C. Rippstein, San Antonio, president. General plans are under the direc tion of E. E. Roberts Jr., San Antonio. R. L. Stripling, San Augustine, is in charge of decorations. By custom this is one of the most elaborately decorated affairs of the season, because it is the ambition of each class, by displaying its artistic talent, to surpass all proceeding class es. The average American workman earns 58 cents an hour. DR. A. BENBOW Dentist OFFICE OVER 1st STATE BANK. PHONES: OFFICE 275 RES. 635 BRYAN, TEXAS The Campus Cleaners and Tailors HENRY LOCKE, Manager Alterations, Cleaning-, Pressing and Repairs Hats Cleaned and Blocked Caps Cleaned. Ties Cleaned and Pressed OVER THE EXCHANGE STORE THE TIME IS COMING When you will need new uniforms, shirts and breeches. Slack and Civilian suits a Specialty New Samples Just Arrived Come and see me first and save money at— North Gate of Campus next to Luke and Charlie FRANK ZUBIK, Prop. AGGIELAND TAILOR SHOP Which is bigger — the air plane’s landing wheel or the setting sun? Guess first,then check your guess with a measure. YOUR EYES MAY FOOL YOU BUT your taste tells the Truth!