THE BATTALION
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Home “Talkies” W^ill Replace Books
In Future, Booth Tarkington Predicts
Midshipmen Expelled
After Drunken Brawl
ANAPOLIS, Md.—Three midship
men in the United States Military
Academy here have resigned “for the
good of the service” according to of
ficials, following their discovery in
an intoxicated condition in the acad
emy dormitory.
The liquor was procured here, the
authorities said, and the three were
discovered after they had engaged in
a drunken scuffle in which all three
were cut and bruised.
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PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Declaring
that popular interest in books is de
clining, Booth Tarkington, novelist
who is now recovering his sight, as
serts that reading in the home is a-
bout to be replaced by home talking
pictures, and that the writer of the
future will have to devote himself to
writing scrip for the talkies if he
hopes to continue his trade.
“When one can press a button and
turn on a good play or vocalized movie
on the home screen,” Tarkington said,
“there will be little time for reading.
Certainly, there has been a gradual
decline in reading for a long time.
Times are materially changed from
the days when the only diversion of
the pioneer and farmer was a good
book. Editors tell me more people
than ever read books because of the
increase in population, but a very
much smaller percentage of the popu
lation reads books than formerly.
Ban Book Because Of
Cave Man Description
PERTH AMBOY, N. J.—“A Child’s
History of the World,” by V. M. Hill-
yer, has been removed from the local
schools by order of Dr. Wm. C. Mc
Ginnis, superintendent, at the behest
of Rev. Byron C. Nelson, Lutheran
pastor, who objected to its description
of the cave man and his methods of
eating and wooing.
The book declares that the cave man
drank blood of animals as we now
drink milk, and that when a cave man
wanted a wife, he stole her from a
neighboring cave, sometimes finding
it necessary to knock her senseless be
fore carrying her off.
The pastor said his six-year-old
daughter was reading these passages
and thought they were not fit for
children.
A murder trial at Princeton, W. Va.,
was heard over the air recently when
it was broadcast by a Bluefield radio
station. It was believed to have been
the first trial thus broadcast.
Steudents in the majority of Ameri
can cities are not allowed to form
high school fraternties, according to
the Office of Education, in New York.
“Padlock” Fraternity
Houses At Michigan
ANN ARBOR, Mich—Five fratern
ity houses at the University of Michi
gan in which liquor was found by dry
agents last week, have been ordered
“padlocked” by university authorities
until next September 1.
The order was made by the faculty
committee on student affairs. Under
the ruling, the fraternities may re
open under “social probation” for the
1931-32 college year, but may have
no social functions during that year.
A warning also was issued to na
tional officers of the fraternities that
if any more liquor is found at the
houses in the future their charters will
be cancelled locally.
The 79 students involved in the raids,
members of Theta Delta Chi, Phi Del
ta Theta, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Kappa
Sigma, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon, have
been order to find other rooming
houses at once.
It appeared late last week that no
legal action would be taken against
the 79. Their court appearances sche
duled for the latter part of the week
were postponed for two weeks.
Fathers of the students, many of
them prominent lawyers, and other
alumni, descended on the campus and
declared they would fight to a finish
any charges they considered unwar
ranted. These men were particularly
aroused over suggestion of charges |
against students who were found
asleep in their rooms where no liquor
was found.
State Representative Frank P. Dar
in, chairman of the house university
committee, demanded of the legisla
ture an investigation of the purpose
behind the raids.
Calling for an appointment of a
epecial investigating committee of
three representatives and two senators,
he said that he was not trying to
defend the presence of liquor in the
fraternity houses, but that he and
other members of his committee took
strong exception to the manner in
which the raids were staged.
He charged that the raids were
made on “information and belief”
search warrants. “From all appear
ances the raid was staged to get the
utmost possible publicity,” he said.
Says Sun's Rays Cause
Chang-es In Weather
DRAWING MATERIAL AND SCHOOL SUPPLIES
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WASHINGTON—Dr. Charles G. Ab
bot, astronomer at the Smithsonian
Institution here, has advanced the the
ory that changes in the intensity of
the sun’s rays regulate the weather.
Meterologists heretofore have be
lieved weather depended mainly on
irregularities of the earth’s surface
and could not be predicted far in ad
vance any more than could the pas
sage of rough water in a stream over
a rocky bed.
However, Dr. Abbot believes, weath
er is caused chiefly by frequent inter
ventions of actual changes of the
emission of radiation within the sun
itself.
His discovery has been checked with
similar findings at Williston, N. D.,
and Yuma, Arizona, he explains.
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AUGUSTA, Ga.—Lecturing to an
audience at his winter home here,
Professor William Lyon Phelps, of
Yale University, declared recently that
never in history has literature “been
so consistently filthy and rotten as
it is today.”
This state of literature, he said, is'
partly offset by the purity of popular
songs. These modern musical offer
ings, he said, were never so clean as
they are now, and are growing more
puritanical and prudish all the time.
Today, he said, is an age of bio
graphy, but writers thereof are more'
prone to select “victims” ■-than “sub--
jects.”
Paul Revere Story Is
Not True, Major Says
CONCORD, N. H.—Get out your
American history books, boys and
girls, and write in the margins op
posite Paul Revere’s ride, “Not so!”
Major Otis G. Hammona, director of
the New Hampshire Historical society,
is credited with the information that
Paul didn’t raise Massachusetts far
mers to battle at all, but rather came
right on up into New Hampshire, and
started the first battle of the Revolu
tion at Portsmouth, before the Battle
of Lexington had even been thought,
of.
Major Hammond contends that the
successful storming of Fort William
and Mary at Portsmouth Harbor by
the Granite State Volunteers set
aflame the torch of rebellion in the
colonies. It resulted in the capture of
powder, small arms and cannon.
bleak Bolivian plateau to study the
customs and language of the last re
maining remnants of the Uro-Chipaya
Indians.
AVIATION LABORATORY
LAFAYETTE, Ind.—Students in
flying courses here will soon have
practical laboratory facilities. A total
of 157 acres of land has been pur
chased by David E. Ross, president of
the board of trustees, and deeded to
Purdue University to be developed as
an airport.
Acquisition of the airport will mean
expansion of all phases of instruction
al and research work, according to uni
versity authorities.
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IN THE MESS HALL February 28, 1931
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