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4 THE BATTALION THE B3ATYALICN Student weekly published by the students 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. Advertising rates on request. Subscription rate $1.75 per year. Social Survey Shows It Costs Less For The Second Year In School EDITORIAL STAFF CLAUDE M. EVANS PHILIP JOHN M. J. BLOCK D. B. McNERNEY W. J. FAULK H. G. STROMBERGER C. E. BEESON :. J. L. KEITH RUSTY SMITH W. 0. SANDERS Editor-in-Chief .... Managing Editor Associate Editor ..... Associate Editor Sports Editor Columnist Staff Correspondent Art Editor Cartoonist Cartoonist Reportorial Staff: R. A. Wright, C. 0. McCurdy, H. G. Seeligson, R. L. Elkins, E. L. Williams, G. M. Dent, Lewis Gross, E. C. Roberts, W. H. Mecom. BUSINESS STAFF B. G. ZIMMERMAN Advertising Manager TOM C. MORRIS Assistant Adv. Manager TRYGNE BOGEVOLD 1 Assistant Adv. Manager E. M. LIEM Circulation Manager GEORGE C. BRUNDRETT Assistant Circulation Mgr. Welcome Visitors We ask you to join us in our Thanksgiving, to share the hospitality of Aggieland, and to enjoy yourselves on Thanksgiving Day. To the exes, we say welcome home; to other visitors, make your selves at home, and to everyone, let’s get our worries off of our chests, and spend the day in a happy, festive mood. To visitors from Texas University, let the gridiron be the only thing to separate you from the spirit of Aggieland. Join us through the rest of the day. To all, if there is anything we can do to make your visit more enjoyable, let us know. We want you to say that this is the most enjoyable football trip you have ever taken. We want you to learn our school while on your visit. Acquaint yourselves with Aggieland and the Aggies. Visitors Welcome! Special Issue In this special edition of The Battalion, we, the staff ,are attempt ing to do our bit in making your visit here an enjoyable one. This is the largest student newspaper edition in the history of A and M publications. We have tried to put every bit of information in it that we think should make your visit easy and enjoyable. Take advantage of the directions and notices we have printed; they will help you in finding your way about in the crowd, and help you make your plans for the day. Every Aggie will help you, if you will just call upon them when you need any assistance. The Battalion wishes you all a very joyous Thanksgiving Day. Dutch Dates Surprised that the 50-50 dates idea didn’t dawn sooner. Instead of arriving on the heels of the rise to equality of women, it has taken a more practical turn to be the result of the depression. The plan has been much thought over no doubt, but it remained for a college professor to make the suggestion. It has met with the approval of many of the leading colleges, but the girls have put their limitations on the plan. If they are to pay half of their date expenses, they demand a more ideal date. Univer sity of California co-eds want their dates to be—“Large, tall, broad- shouldered; be able to dance well, talk, think and provide well; must stay clear of mustaches, caps, spats, and cigarette holders, and, above all, he must have a clear understanding of the word “no.” These “Dutch dates’’ are an interesting experiment. We wonder if as many night clubs, cover charges, and cigarettes will be on the date list. The plan ruins the poor working girl’s budget, but should reduce her obligations. And when the depression lifts, if the plan continues to function, we’ll know whether it is the finances or the new status of women. We suspect it is the former that brought about the change. Cleopatra went even further, by throwing a swell party with a lavish hand. She got results. It’s still effective perhaps, but where’s our Cleo ? The Working Drones Those students who devote their entire time to the perusal of their text books, who lock themselves in their rooms for the school year, who attempt to get their entire education from their classroom, who are too absorbed with their studies to mix with their fellow stu dents, to take part in the extra curricular activities of the college, are working drones. What does it avail the oil man to drill, drill, and never pump? Of what practical use is the book-worm, the hermit in collegiate cloth ing? They say, “I came to college to study, other things can wait.” The object of college is to train the mind. Of what use is the all-A man, if he can not count his friends as many, if he can’t fit himself to social contacts, if hio training is narrow boik memorization, if he can not speak, can not write, can not live; if his sheepskin is more wool than leather. Don’t misunderstand; one must study, and one must work; one extreme is as bad as the other, but those who do not work enough, I pay for their folly early, while those who study exclusive of all else j are doomed to be owls. The owl is a wise old bird who has burned so j much midnight oil he can’t sleep at night, a wise old bird, steeped with ! learning, but of no earthly use except the catching of mice, but we have cats for that. The intelligent organization does not hire men for the number of i grade points they have accumulated, but for their accomplishments in ! college. The striking of a happy medium is ideal. Yet, if it were necessary to select between the over-studied and the under-studied, j one would be as bad as the other, but the latter would be more en- i durable. It is the class room star, shining without a handicap, that makes j the working student who has a few outside interests, become over- I worked, and mediocre by grade-book comparison. These opinions are not criticisms or suggestions or yet even objec tions, but purely a few observations. Nevertheless, any objections to the thought will come largely from working drones or owls. Thanks If we have much, there are others who have more; if we have but little, there are, those who have less Let us give thanks for what we are and what we have, not in spirit of boasting, nor in that of humiliation, but with a resolve to be better in the future, and yet never be too good to give thanks. How much does it cost the under graduate to attend A and M col lege for a year? This and similiar other questions concerning student expenditures at A and M are being carefully surveyed and compiled by D. R. Davis, Mt. Pleasant and J. J. Rotrekl, Dallas, under the super vision of the department of Rural Sociology. The survey is being conducted throughout each class at A and M and although final statistics have not yet been compiled results show that the freshman sepnds $641.22, the sophomore, $591.69 and the junior, $636.25. A careful examina tion of probable expenditures as given by the seniors the year shows that the average expense will be approximately $761.00. These av erage expenses are a total through out the year. The direct expense paid to the college upon register ing for the entire year is $353.50. This expense includes room and board, room key deposit, student activity fee, laundry and hospital fee. The students necessary ex penses are the uniform, books and accessories, laboratory fees and other incidentals covering his school work. The balance of the average to tal expenditure per student for the year is composed of the students individual entertainment, care and necessary replenishment of the uniform, travel as on corps trips and student trips, confections, books and light reading, restau rants, and general entertainment of visitors. Further information resulting from the survey shows that visi tors of each A and M student spend an average of $31.00 per year. This survey is only a part of the main objective of the depart ment of Rural Sociology as it is running a complete survey of the social, economic, educations, and industrial conditions of Bryan and College Station and Brazos county. Rambling Around H. G. Stromberger The game with Texas, a full moon that night, “Hymie” Wald- man and his band, Oh! boy what a time is in store for the old cam pus this week. From what can be remembered from R V last spring, and summer camp with Saturday nights at the Gunter roof, it looks like the “struggle” honoring the football and cross-country teams will really be an affair. All I have got to do is find some one willing to lend me $2.00, meet the Texas special, arrange for a blind date, borrow some one’s car and then for a big evening. Speaking of music a certain pup on the campus certainly knows his place when it comes meal time. No matter where he is on the campus, my error—she is, as soon as the band starts their march towards the mess hall off she goes to lead the parade. “Reveille” as this little black “purp” is known has more friends on the campus that most of the students. It was more difficult to get into the Rice campus last week than it is to get into the interior of Mexico. I happened down Houston Friday night with the intention of seeing some friends attending the Institute but when it came to get ting into the campus for a while I though I would have to produce a pass port. Had I had on a uni form there is no telling what my fate might have been. From what I could gather the Rice student body had acquired a rumor to the effect that A and M cadets were going to paint their beautiful cam pus red. Destructive “hell-raising” of that type is a thing of the past as far as A and M students are concerned. The efforts of the college to beautify the campus should be ap preciated by every student. With in the last few days new plants have been set out around the courts of Law and Puryear Halls. Trees have recently been planted at ve- rious places over the campus and the time will undoubtedly be short until we can boast of one of the prettiest campuses in the State. It is remarkable the progress made within the last three years along this line. Various students are from time to time forced to withdraw from the college because of elements not within their control. Most of these students are imbued with the “Spirit of Aggieland” and have just as great a feeling for the place as those students fortunate enough to graduate. These men want to be identified with the school and as things are now there is no symbol whatsoever that they might use as a means of identification. Some plan might be worked out whereby some pin, ring or emblem might be established which would give those students some sort of a tangible connection with the school. Any ideas or opinions on this thought would be greatly ap preciated by the writer of this column. Convicts Leave Jail To Attend College (College News Service) Redlands, Calif., Nov. 3.—From penitentiary to campus was the unusual 'step in rehabilitation tak en this week by two ex-convicts who arrived to attend the Univer sity of Redlands. William C. Cooney and George I. Kelly, 20-year-old Berkeley youths, who were sentenced to San Quen tin penitentiary for eight years after conviction of robbery charges in 1928, were granted parole by the state parole board upon condi tion that they attend the Univer sity. Henry Cook Hathaway, who dur ing the last ten years has played a leading part in the development of student athletics at New York University, was found dead at the foot of the Palisades, near Alpine, N. J. He was missed from a pic nic on which he had gone from friends, and it is believed he slip ped and fell over the cliff. Educational Authorities in Washington are credited with the belief that while education by radio is still in the experimental stage, broadcasting has already proved its merits as an aid to education by helping materially to reduce il literacy throughout the nation. READY AGGIES FOR THAT XMAS DANCE? GET YOUR SUIT MADE NOW AT THE Aggieland Tailor Shop FRANK ZUBIK, Prop. Cleaning and Pressing a Specialty i i i i \ \ ! The Campus Cleaners & Tailors (On the Campus) A complete service for your every cleaning and pressing want. Suits made to order at real low prices NOW! I ! I ! THE PAN By D. B. McNerney Time after time— The Battalion has carried com ments of students and faculty members as to the disgraceful conduct of A and M students in the Assembly Hall but naught has come of it . Last Friday— the Caldwell Girls Glee Club was generous enough to visit us and display their talents for our en- tertaiment. Most of us, we are glad to say, were gentlemanly enough to remain quite and en joy the singing, but there were a few who persisted in making- asses of themselves and embar rassing the remainder of the audience, to say nothing of the girls themselves, with all sorts of loud childish remarks and very uncomplimentary noises. Drastic Steps— should be taken by the proper authorities or the Senior Class to put an end to such conduct. It might not be amiss to hold a “local talent” show some night and let these would-be wits dis play their wares for the enjoy ment of all. Wednesday Afternoon— the Seniors performed the an nual “elephant walk.” This is one of the few really impressing tra ditions that A and M may boast of. The ceremony is based upon the story, fabulous or true, we know not, that the old elephant, upon seeing the end drawing near, leaves the rest of the herd, seeking an isolated place for his death bed. Traditions such as this— do much toward the bolstering of school spirit. Since many of the old customs are dying out in the face of so-called progress, props of this sort, many of them, will be needed to replace the stays of Aggieland spirit, that are now being abandoned. President To Be At Olympics (Intercollegiate Press) Los Angeles—President Herbert Hoover has accepted readily the in vitation to attend the Olympic games here next summer. It is be lieved the president will take in the games while on a westward tour for his next presidential cam paign. Leisure grows in popularity, now that so many people wonder what is the use of working so hard for money when you will lose it if you try to save it.—Elmer Davis. Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.—Addison. ASSEMBLY HALL ' rW?bk“ tfno RADIO Picront Thursday Evening—7 O’clock Friday Evening—7 O’clock CAR'S; PAfnOJUG COMEDY SENSATION: rt I k lowoi. SHERMAN MARY Y ASTOR \ OTHERS Saturday Evening—7 O’clock Sankey Park Diamonds Silver <=S3EE 1 [5=0 Watches The wise ones are making their Xmas selections now. —And it isn’t a bit too early either. Our newer and larger store is filled with appropriate gifts of Jewelry that are at tractive and reasonably priced. <=S=I[==HB=» Won’t YOU give us the privilege of showing YOU through? THANKSGIVING VISITORS In Bryan Eat At The NEW YORK CAFE Special Turkey Dinner Quality Reasonable ! Service Prices Wednesday, Dec. 2—6:30 AGGIES! — FIGHT ’EM— And let us do your work. “SERVICE WITH A SMILE” The Aggieland Barber Shop R. W. IVY, Prop. (Next to Aggieland Pharmacy) Parents When you visit your son, stop at GREENWOOD COURT, BRYAN Conveniently located opposite Court House Modern—Hot and Cold Water—Gas—Call 348 The Aggieland Pharmacy at The North Gate of the Campus is The Only Drug Store at the College C=s=JEHS=0 HERE YOU WILL FIND A COMPLETE LINE OF: DRUGS SUNDRIES LUNCHES OsaEJEsO LADIES AND GENTLEMEN FIND OUR SERVICE PERFECT DRINKS