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THE BATTALION
THE BA.TTA.EICN
Student weekly publication of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of
Texas.
Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at College Station, Texas,
under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
Subscription by the year, $1.75.
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ROBT. L. HERBERT
C. V. ELLIS
M. J. BLOCK
T. B. KETTERSON
G. M. WRENN
J. L. KEITH
T. S. ROOTS
FRANK W. THOMAS JR
W. J. FAULK
C. M. EVANS
A. C. MOSER JR
D. B. McNERNEY
P. J. JOHN
H. G. SEELIGSON II
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. Associate News Editor
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INVITATIONS TO MOTHERS AND DADS DAY
Last year a new method of distributing invitations for Moth
ers and Dads Day of the college was inaugurated to eliminate in
part the excessive work necessary in mailing the invitations. This
year we hope the system will again receive alteration, or that
the one of former years will be used.
If the method is remembered correctly, it consisted of distri
buting address cards, collecting these, and mailing invitations
according to information recorded on them. This was partially
successful, but due to the widely dispersed student body, the plan
could not even theoretically be complete, and it is known that some
few of our mothers and dads failed to receive their invitation.
To both ourselves and to members of our immediate family
Lhis one day is THE day of importance and, although the student
might be though lax if he failed to inform those back home of the
occasion, the sending of invitations is a logical proceedure and the
method of distribution should be complete.
THE UNIVERSITY OIL LANDS
It seems that the present might not be the right time to be
come confident, or in better expressed terms, cocky, over the prob
ability of A & M being the recipitent of heretofore termed Texas
University oil royalties. It is no time to assume this air of sophis
try even after our governor’s action on the matter has proven fav
orable to our participation, but now, as later, is the time to indicate
that the grant of sharing privilege will aid the college in future
years materially in the building and equipment program which has
in recent years been inadequately supplied for maintaining the
standards for which the college is known.
The provision for our sharing the funds has passed both
houses of the state legislature and is now in the hands of the
Governor. If by any method we could present to him again the
true necessity of his approving the measure, we believe his favor
able action would require only the element of time. Meanwhile
our silence is marked with confidence of a sincere nature.
IN APPRECIATION TO THE ATHLETIC [DEPARTMENT
sity of Wisconsin is the only one in which the State has not made
drill mandatory.
To what purpose this Prussianization of American schools ?
The whole thing is un-American and dangerous. The only way
to truly disarm is to disarm mentally. And the place to begin to
disarm is in the high schools and colleges.
A student protest movement has begun. It should have the
blessing of every lover of peace and democracy.—New York World-
Telegram.
Baylor Chorus—
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and “Danse des Lutins” (Victor Mor-
et).
This will be followed by “The Nile”
(Lenoux) by the entire club. Miss
Eleanor Noble, Beaumont, is featured
as soloist in this number.
Miss Harriet Booker Stokes, Tem
ple, is the reader for the Baylor club.
This is the third year she has been a
member of the organization.
A duet “ ‘Tis Evening” from “Dame
Picque” will feature Miss Virginia
James, Lubbock, and Miss Mildred
Brindley, Harlingen.
The concluding group on the even
ing’s program will be sung by the
entire club. This will include: “Cu
pid Made Love to the Moon” (Dudley
Smith); ^Sylvia” (Oley Speaks); and
“Sparkling Sunlight” (Arditi).
Members of the ensemble are: Vir
ginia James, Lubbock; Frances Floyd,
Sour Lake; Emma Jean Owens, Gar
land; Dorothy Rogers, San Antonio;
Mindred Brindley, Harlingen; Mary
Marrs, Marble Falls; Frances Semaan,
San Antonio; Mignon LeTulle, Bay
City; Crystal Welch, Rusk.
Ruth Henderson, Belton; Lollie Beth
Garvin, Navasota; Harriet Booker
Stokes, Temple; Louise Southall,
Johnson City, 111.; Emma Dorcas Mor
gan, Fort Worth; Louzelle Barclay,
Temple; Christine Czako, Ennis; Clar
ice Childers, Belton; Flora Belle
Brooks, Longview; LaVelle Sisson,
Lufkin; Ruth Spradling, Donna; Elea
nor Noble, Beaumont; and Bernice
Skeans, McAllen.
SUSPEND STUDENT PAPER
TORONTO—The Varsity, under
graduate newspaper of the University
of Toronto, has been indefinitely sus
pended by the Student Administrative
Council following the publication in
its columns of an editorial on atheism.
President Machado, of Cuba, has re
moved 40 college professors from of
fice because, he believes, they have
stirred up sedition among students.
GET A BIT TO EAT
WHEN PASSING
THROUGH
Navasota
At The
Colonial Cafe
UNIFORM TAILOR SHOP
Tailor Made
Shirts and Breeches
Blouses and Slacks
MENDL & HORNAK, Props.
The crime w»ve 9 toe,
strikes a breakwater
An alarm! Head
quarters radios it
to cruising cars.
Police Radio is ""joining the force” in many a city—acting as a break
water in checking the surge of criminal activity . . . The apparatus the
police are using comes out of the telephone workshop. It is logical that
Interest in the welfare of those of us who on Sunday afternoons
have been unable to find something to do and have directed gripes
toward anyone who would likely be responsible for our lack of en
tertainment, has been shown recently by the athletic department—
to which our remarks could have been least directed—by opening
to students the use of handball courts on that afternoon.
To those interested in golf, tennis, indoor baseball, and barn
yard golf, no trouble is experienced in passing time during week
ends favored with fair weather, but regardless of weather, hand
ball is an excellent sport of pasttime for those not afflicted with
bridge-playing fever.
It seems that The Battalion, in representing the student body,
should recognize this accomplishment by members of the athletic
departnment.
THE GOOSESTEP
Western Electric should make the equipment, drawing on a fifty-year
.of
experience as manufacturer of telephones for the Bell System ... Serv
ing this vast organization is a huge responsibility. Carrying it out means
This engineer’s
"precinct” is a
laboratory.
Caught — because
the radio saved
precious minutes.
keeping an open mind on new methods of manufacture, new sources of
supply, new channels of distribution. It means welcoming and taking
full advantage of every worth-while aid that modern science offers^
While the United States raises the peace flag, swears alle
giance to the Kellogg anti-war pact and talks disarmament, the
process of making over our colleges and universities into army
barracks continues.
Army figures reveal that in ninety so-called civilian institu
tions of high learning military drill is compulsory, that 75,000
college students march to martial music under compulsion, that
10,335 high school boys do the goosestep in twenty-five high
schools under duress. Of all the land grant colleges the Univer-
Western Etectric
Manufacturers... Purchasers . distributors
SINCE
THE BELL S YSTEM