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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1931)
2 THE BATTALION THE EATTAEICN 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. EDITORIAL STAFF ROBT. L. HERBERT Editor.-in-Chief C. V. ELLIS Managing Editor C. M. EVANS Staff Editor M. J. BLOCK Associate Editor G. M. WRENN Associate Editor J. L. KEITH Art Editor T. S. ROOTS Associate Art Editor FRANK W. THOMAS JR Sports Editor W. J. FAULK Assistant Sports Editor A. E. CARAWAY Associate Sports Editor T. B. KETTERSON News Editor D. B. McNERNEY Associate News Editor P. J. JOHN Associate News Editor A. C. MOSER ... Associate News Editor H. G. SEELIGSON II Reporter P. E. GRIFFIN Reporter BUSINESS R. N. WINDERS Business Manager W. F. FRANKLIN Assistant Business Manager W. J. NEUMAN Circulation Manager HOWARD HEDGES Advertising Manager A reward of $100 for the person who first raises the German national flag over the city of Strasboroug, Alsace-Lorraine, as a signal that the city has again passed into German hands, is provided in the will of Charles F. oerger, who died recently at Philadelphia. A AND M STUDENT POLITICS The recent student election, if it may be given the dignity of being called an election, was, without a doubt, a miserable failure so far as creating any much-needed political interest. We venture to say, although without proof, that A and M is the only school of its size that does not experience annual political campaigning on the part of its student body. We are distinctly a cadet corps, noth ing more." We should be a student body as well and act as such on the proper occasions. As well ats we can recall, the Press Club is the oply group during the past three years that publicly pledged itself to a political ticket in the student election. We are such a. practical group of men and this is such a practical school, yet one of the most practical phases of modern Americanism is poli tics, something which is vividly conspicious because of its absence in our voluntary curricula. ENGINEERS’ DAY A LOSS There are moans and regrets of innumerable sorts, but to find engineering students and engineering societies so inert that they fail to utilize the resources of their laboratories and the offered assistance of their professors in the putting on of an engineering exhibit for the exercise of their creative ability and the successful advertisement of their schools, is a regret of the most serious nature. Last year the annual electrical engineering show was com bined with displays from other engineering departments with good success to inaugurate Engineers’ Day as an annual affair, but lack of interest this year has eliminated the possibilities of a show and left to next year’s classes the task of making the affair bi-annual or of dropping the idea entirely. It is up to the students to act, and, although all members of the departments have offered their assistance, it is not for them to display the initiative necessary in planning the show and they are unwilling to do so. It is hoped that next year will find the students involved a little less inert. Band Concert To Broadcast Sun. The Texas Aggie band, directed by Major R. J. Dunn, will give its second out-door concex-t of the year Sunday in the triangular park in front of Gathright Hall. A particularly in teresting program has been arranged in observance of Mother’s Day. The program, beginning at four p. m., will be broadcast over radio j station WTAW through arrangement j with radio station KTRH of Houston. Station KTRH has authority to broadcast at this time but is relin- guishing this right in favor of the college unit. The first of the concert series was held last Sunday. Concerts will be given by the band on May 10, 17, and 24. Walt (Whitman) did not bear a good reputation in Philidelphia . . . . yet dogs followed him and children loved him.—James Huneker. Fortson To Edit Next Year’s Technoscope E. P. Fortson jr., of Ashville, North Carolina, a junior civil engineering student, has been selected as editor- in-chief of the Technoscope, quarter ly magazine published by students of the School of Engineering. Selection of Fortson was made at | a combined meeting of the present j Technoscope staff and the Techno scope faculty advisory committee j Monday night. The Technoscope will continue its plan of quarterly magazine issues, and will attempt to arouse a greater student interest in the publication than has been show toward it in its | first two years as a member of the college publications group. A new type of American music, which is neither Indian, Negro or jazz, will soon be developed in this country, and will be an outstanding contribution to the world of music, according to Wheeler Beckett, guest conductor of the San Francisco Sym phony Orchestra. MOTHERS’ DAY GIFT SUGGESTIONS Vanity Pearls Perfume Fountain Pen Leather Bag - Mesh Bag- Costume Jewelry Come in to see our new store—We will show you much more SANKEY PARK Diamonds — Watches — Silver ALTERATIONS, CLEANING, PRESSING AND REPAIRS HATS CLEANED AND BLOCKED. CAPS CLEANED TIES CLEANED AND PRESSED THE CAMPUS CLEANERS & TAILORS HENRY LOCKE, Manager Over The Exchange Store CAMPUS BARBER SHOP in the MOTHER S DAY IS THE DAY TO LOOK YOUR BEST SHAVES HAIR CUT Bert Smith, Prop. 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