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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.
SHAMPOOS
Hear
Mr., Miss or Mrs.
Try m fresh Cigarette!
That little sting way down in
the throat when you inhale a
cigarette is caused by parched
dry tobacco. You never feel it
when you smoke fresh, prime
Camels. The Humidor Pack
keeps Camels from drying out
or going stale. That’s why they
are always so cool and mild,
so throat-easy. Blended from
choicest Turkish and mellowest
Domestic tobaccos and kept in
tip-top prime condition by an
air-tight wrapping of moisture-
proof Cellophane, Camels are
mighty hard to leave once you
have tried them. If you don’t
believe it, switch to Camels for
one whole day, then quit them,
if you can.
R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO.
W'inMton-Salem, IV. C.
Camels
Factory-fresh CAMELS
are air-sealed in the new
Sanitary Package which
keeps the dust and germs
out and keeps the flavor in.
(c) 1931, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company