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VOL. XXIX
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS APRIL 22, 1931
No. 30
COMMITTEE FINDS ELECTION ILLEGAL
COAST ARTILLERY AUTHORIZED FOR A & M CORPS
Two Batteries to Include Coast
Defense, Anti-aircraft and Railroad
Artilery Authorized For Next Year
TO TRAIN FOR DEFENSE OF TEXAS MINERAL INDUSTRIES
LOCATED IN EXPOSED COASTAL POSITIONS
Establishment of a coast artillery
unit as a component part, of the cadet
coivs xor nex^ year has been author
ized by the War Department at
Washington. Word to this effect was
contained in a telegram received re
cently by the military department
here, and details of the organization
of the unit will be forwarded soon.
The coast artillery unit, which in
cludes seacoast artillery, railroad ar
tillery and anti-aircraft artillery, is
to be established here primarily to
produce officers for six reserve anti
aircraft regiments which have been
assigned to this area tor mobilization.
Math. Contests WO!
Be Held Next Week
Contestants for the watches and
cash prize offered the winners of the
sophomore and freshmen mathema
tics contest will enter into the con
test voluntarily due to a change in the
rules over last year it was learned
from Professor J. W. Mitchell of the
department of mathematics Wednes-
doy. The preliminary contest will be
held during the first part of next
week, the exact date having not been
announced. Due to the unlimited
number that may enter, there will
probably be one hundred freshmen and
about fifty sophomores to take part
in the first examination.
Following the first test, the two
men making the highest grades in
each section will be allowed to enter
the finals, whose date has not been
announced. This will cut the contest
ants to thirty-four freshmen and
twenty-four sophomores. All entrants
this year must be taking the course
for the first time, and must be classi
fied according to the course that they
are taking. All papers turned in are
to be numbered, and will be graded
according to number. This is being
done to insure fairness in the grading,
and the winners will not be known
until the announcement is made at the
banquet at which time the prizes will
be awarded.
Sophomore
First prize, gold watch, given by
James Sullivan.
Second prize, $20.00 cash, given by
R J. Windrow of Dallas.
Freshmen
First prize, gold watch by R. J.
Potts of Waco.
Second prize, a gold watch by J. I.
McGregor of Houston.
The winners of last year’s contests
will also attend the banquet. They
are: sophomores: M. L. Benke of San
Antonio, first, and J. E. Hurley of
New Orleans, La., second; and fresh
men, L. Manzanera of San Antonio,
first, and C. Stephenson of Floresville,
second.
ATTENDING CONVENTION
Dean Charles E. Friley, registrar,
and E. J. Howell, assistant registrar,
are in Buffalo, New York, this week
to attend the annual meeting of the
American Association of Collegiate
Registrars.
About eleven out of every twelve re
serve officers graduated from this
unit will be assigned to some one of
these six regiments, while a small
percentage will be assigned to sea-
coast artillery work at Galveston and
a very few to railroad artillery work.
The primary purpose for the or
ganization of the six anti-aircraft
regiments is to protect the greatly
exposed oil and sulphur industries
along the Texas coast line, as this
section at present is one of the most
exposed sections of the Gulf Coast
area.
It is contemplated that two batter
ies of the unit will be organized in
the cadet corps and that at least two
classes will be organized by next year.
Due to the fact that production of re
serve Cavalry, Engineer and Signal
Corps officers has reached the objec
tive and that a small increment each
year will keep these branches fully
supplied with such officers, the num
ber of freshmen to be enrolled in each
of these organizations for next year
probably will be reduced unless there
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Ag. Students to
Have Picnic Thurs.
A barbecue and picnic for students
and faculty members of the school
of agriculture and those taking land
scape art will be given Thursday aft
ernoon starting at 4:30, April 30, in
the pasture of the agriculture engi
neering farm according to D. W. Wil
liams of the animal husbandry de
partment, chairman of the committee
on arrangements. A program of ath
letic contests between students and
faculty members will include a part
of the program which is being com
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Prepare Invitations For
Mothers’ Day Program
Invitations for students to send
home to their mothers to attend the
annual Mothers’ Day program here
are now beig printed and will be dis
tributed among the cadet corps in the
next few days. Plans of distribution
will follow that used last year.
Mrs. A. A. Rucks of Angleton, who
has spoken before the student body on
numerous past occasions, has been
selected to deliver the main address of
the chapel program. President T. O.
Walton will give the welcoming talk
and will be followed by two cadets,
yet to be named, who will speak on
“To Our Mothers” and “To Our
Fathers.” Other parts of the pro
gram are still being arranged.
J. A. Cotton, chairman, and H. A.
Lang aid Joe Dial have been se
lected by Senior Class President Ray
Walker as a committee on arrange?
ments.
Longhorn Will Be
Distributed About
Middle Next Month
Containing three main feature sec
tions and portraying a theme of gen
eral campus and civil student life
the new Longhorn will be distribute!
among the cadet corps about May 15
The year book will contain approxi
mately 485 pages and will feature old
ivory stock and Ben Day and color
processes, E. M. Moore, editor, has
indicated.
Pictures of well known students
have been used to illustrate different
phases of the college life, while the
“Hall of Fame” section will be devot
ed to faculty members. Winners of
the annual beauty contest among the
senior favorites will be anounced in
the book.
Cadets who will receive de luxe
copies as a result of the raffle held
recently among the military organiza
tions to raise funds for the Long
horn are T. O. Pike, D. J. Parmesan,
Dan Humason. G. H. Follett, R. A.
Weatherford, and “Frog” Weather
ford.
l aps Plays as S. S. R. V. Noses into
Pori Following Three Day Cruise
New Election to Decide Yell Chief and
Junior Publications Representative 1s
Called; Declare Evans and Jones Elected
COMMITTEE PLANNING NEW BALLOTING SYSTEM FOR
USE IN ELECTION NEXT MONDAY; TWO BOXES
AND SUPERVISED POLLS PLANNED
Because of irrefutable evidence presented them of widespread
ballot box stuffing, the senior election committee late Wednesday
voided the general election for chief yell leader and junior publi
cations board representative held this morning and yesterday
and called for a new election to be held for these offices next
Monday.
Election of Claude Evans as editor
General WinansMaKes
Inspection of Cadets
“I expected to see a great deal hero
but saw a great deal more than I ex-
peted.”
So said Major General Winans, new
Eighth Corps Area commander upon
his first inspection of the A. and M.
military department. General Win
ans, arriving by car Tuesday morn
ing, spent almost the entire day on
the campus inspecting the various
branches of the service here. A re
view of the entire corps of cadets was
held in his honor in the afternoon.
With the ship’s band softly playing
Taps, the gallant barkentine “R. V.
1931” nosed into port Saturday at
midnight to end officially the Ross
Volunteer revelry for another year.
Although the general merriment
ended not until the sun had risen on a
new day, by Sunday noon the girls and
the fine cars had left, and the campus
peacefully awaited the return of Uie
remainder of the cadet corps plus an
influx of more than two thousand
farm boys of the Future Farmers of
America Association. By Monday the
ship had been scrapped and only mem
ories were left to those who stayed for
the dances and to those who went
afield for their pleasures over the
spring holidays. The desultory manner
in which Monday’s classes were held
showed that the professors too en
joyed their brief vacation.
The true and complete story of
what transpired over the holidays can
not be told—-only the surface descrip
tion of the dances and other functions
can be skimmed off of the fluff of the
gayety. From the time the graceful
Queen Courtney Bess of the House of
Cook took her seat on the throne by
the side of King James of the House
of Cotton at the Queen’s Ball Thurs
day night to found the new dynasty of
Cook-Cotton, joy reigned supreme.
Herman Waldman’s eleven piece or
chestra from San Antonio aided and
abetted the dancing with the best mu
sic that has been heard in the mess
hall in years. But—“It sure was hard
to work with all those pretty girls
dancing by,” said Waldman. “I never
saw so many beautiful women in one
group before.”
Following the dance each night the
merrymakers usually repaired to a
Bryan cafe where they were enter
tained again by a good part of Wald-
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Receiving Entries
in Horse Show Now
Entries for the annual horse show
to be held on the drill field Saturday
May 9, the day before Mothers’ Day,
now are being received by Captain I.
G. Walker, officer in charge of en
tries. Invitation has been extendeo
to horse owners in Brazos and neigh
boring counties to enter their mounts
in the affair.
Tentative program for the show in
cludes a five gaited saddle class, three
gaited saddle class, fancy harness
class .children’s three gaited class (fo:
children up to 14 years of age), Shet
land pony class, mounted tug of war,
rescue race for freshmen, cow pony
race, and jumping classes open to ar
tillery and cavalry seniors and artil
lery and cavalry juniors.
Committee in charge of arrange
ments for the horse show consists ot
Major J. P. Wheeler (chairman), Cap
tain C. S. Richrads, Captain I. G.
Walker, and Lieutenant J. V. Carroll.
Dr. Gold Addresses
Hillel Club Members
“Science is not a revolt, but a suc
cession of revelations,” Dr. H. Ra
phael Gold told members of the Hillel
club and faculty at a meeting of the
Hillel club Tuesday, April 21st, in the
Asbury room of the Library.
“We are revealed to the newer won
ders of the world through the micro
scope, the telescope, and the scientific
machines of man, and that these ma
chines are prophets,” he stated. “Re
ligion is not anti-scientific but ultra-
scientific; religion is not a state goal
but scence isn’t constantly filling it
up,” Rabbi Gold said.
of The Battalion and of L. B. Jones
as senior publications council repre
sentative for next year was affirmed
oy the committee as neither of these
candidates were opposed in the first
balloting.
Investigation by the election com
mittee of testimony offered by elec
tion judges and others interested dis
closed that many students, taking ad
vantage of an evident weakness in xhe
polling system, had voted from two
to fourteen times. Under the system
used in the election, a student was not
required to show any sort of a poll
tax nor to sign his name to the bal
lot.
The investigation further showed
that coercion had been used to bring
out large blocks of votes in favor of
candidates in the balloting for chief
yell leader. Some freshmen, upon
being questioned, admitted that they
practically had been compelled to vote
for one candidate or another.
In the new election to be held Mon-
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“Y” Announces Shows
Remainder Of Year
Following the policy of securing
shows as soon as released, and ad
vertising them in advance, the motion
picture management of the Y. M. C.
A. announces that a complete series
of shows have been contracted for the
balance of the school year. They have
been secured with an effort of pleas
ing the public, and all of them are of
recent release. The complete sched-
dule of shows are as follows:
April 22 —- Princess and Plumber—
featuring Chas. Farrell.
April 24 — Stolen Heaven — with
Nancy Carroll (Benefit show).
April 25 — Along Came Youth —
playing Buddy Rogers.
April 27 —- Parlor, Bedroom and
Bath—Buster Keaton (Benefit show).
April 29 — Inspiration — showing
Greta Garbo.
May 2 — Don’t Bet On Women —
and Edmund Lowe.
May 6 — Fighting Caravans — in
cluding Gary Cooper.
May 8 — Dishonored — Marlene
Dietrich (Benefit Show).
May 9 — Man Who Came Back ■—
a Farrell-Gaynor.
May 13 — Gang Buster — with
Jack Oa'kie.
May 16 — Finn and Hattie — com
bining Mitzi Green and ZaSu iPtts.
May 20 — Bachelor _■ •
ing Marion Davies.
May 23 — Reducing — featuring
Polly Moran and Marie Dressier.
May 27 — Strangers May Kiss —
starring Norma Shearer.
May 29 — Connecticut Yankee —
Will Rogers.