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THE BATTALION
THE BATTALION
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.
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EDITORIAL STAFF
CLAUDE M. EVANS Editor-in-Chief
PHILIP JOHN Managing Editor
M. J. BLOCK Associate Editor
D. B. McNERNEY Associate Editor
W. J. FAULK Sports Editor
H. G. STROMBERGER Columnist
C. E. BEESON Staff Cox-respondent
J. L. KEITH Art Editor
RUSTY SMITH Cartoonist
W. 0. SANDERS Cartoonist
Reportorial Staff: R. A. Wright, 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
TRYGVE BOGEVOLD Assistant Adv. Manager
E. M. LIEM ¥ Circulation Manager
GEORGE C. BRUNDRETT Assistant Circulation Mgr.
War!
Today all eyes are turned toward the oriental front where Japan
and China are fighting. Eyes are eagerly scanning newspapers for
bits of information regarding the latest developments in the East.
The greater powers of the world are taking a hand in the affairs and
it is possible that one false move on the part of any nation will result
in a disaster for which the nations of the world have been covertly
and hypocritically preparing since 1920. A crisis in the history of our
generation has come. Will we as a generation be different from pre
ceding generations or will we follow in the footsteps of preceding
cexifuries? Will we be as modern, freeminded, and original as we claim?
> The characteristic attitude of the college students of this country
toward political questions is one of contempt and disregard. When
an individual attempts to take our lives we object—quite violently.
When a group of individuals in whom we have vested an authority to
take our lives does the same thing we do not even question. Perhaps
we are changing and are awakening to the fact that we have a right to
decide for ourselves our own disposition. Pex-haps we are realizing
that something* more than the lives of a few of our bodyguards are at
stake. On every face is a question. Just what is going on over there?
What has happened today? Perhaps we have shaken off our lethargy
and realized our own potentialities. Let us continue to develop our
sensibilities in this line.
It is part of the present economic plan to erase its blunders with
war when other remedies fail. The world today is in the grip of a
depression. No part of the world is free from it because of the world
wide principles of trade in practice today. Unemployment is a universal
question which remains unanswered by all political leaders. Will the
surplus in labor be consumed as “cannon-fodder”? Is there another
way out? The problem is our and face it we must. We have depended
on gray-headed, canting, sniveling hypocrites long enough. Today
is the day of Youth and in the face of a problem like this if we do not
assert ourselves we are doomed as surely as the youth of preceding
generations.
The year 1929 saw the opening broadsides of a commercial war
with its tariffs, taxes, and what-nots; a battle of the grey-heads of
all nations. With the closing or restriction of ports came the necessity
for self-satisfying nations and so Japan seized Manchuria. Youth is
armed and sent to battle to condone the errors of Old Age. Red blood
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February 14th
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is to be used to wipe out the wavery, chalk lines written by the hands
of old men. As a frank age and a frank generation let us openly decide
our own problems. Plot, counter-plot, espionage, sabotage—all are tools
of grey bearded fools. The wisdom of grey bearded experience is a mere
figure of speech it seems. Frankness must be met with frankness and
youth is ever bold and straight spoken. Youth will tackle the problem
of its life with its new ideas better than have the seasoned, atrophied
brains of seven thousand years of underhanded viziers, caliphs, kings,
chiefs, ministers, presidents, and emperors.
Vote Shows Baseball
Leading Sport; Grid
Games Close Second
(Intercollegiate Press)
CLEVELAND, Feb. 3.—A sur
vey made by the Associated Press
for its members of sport writers
throughout the country on the most
popular sport shows that baseball
is still king of the American sports
world, although it is being closely
pushed by football, the collegiate
game.
Other popular sports were found
to be favored in the order:
Golf, boxing, basketball, horse
racing, fishing and hunting, track
and field, ice hockey, tennis.
The survey also showed golf to
be the spox-t requiring the most
skill. It was followed in the order
by: baseball, tennis, billiards and
boxing.
Sports requiring most strength
or stamina were in the order: row
ing, wrestling, boxing, football,
basketball, distance running.
Sports involving the most luck
were in order: golf, baseball horse
racing, basketball, football.
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Hillel Club Holds
Banquet Honoring
Out Of Town Guest
A luncheon will be given by the
Hillel Club on Sunday, February
sixth, in the banquet room of the
mess hall, honoring Rabbi Henry
Cohen of Galveston, and Dr. and
Mrs. Tabenhause of College Sta
tion.
The luncheon is a token of gra
titude for the assistance given the
club by its sponsors.
It’s A Fact—
If you weigh 150 pounds,
your daily foot poundage is
2,836,200. You pound 1,418
tons of weight into your
shoes every day. Give your
feet a break by having your
shoes rebuilt at—
Campus Shoe Shop
(Over Exchange Store)
BOYS!
Come To GIBBS
The Biggest Little Store
in Bryan
FOR—
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Chicago University
Tests Prove Man Is
More Intelligent
FOR NEAT FOOTWEAR
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Bryan
(Intercollegiate Press)
Chicago, Feb. 3.—Another Chap
ter was written in the controversy
over who is the smarter, the man or
women student, when a test con
ducted by the University of Chi
cago in its freshman classes show
ed that in the first eleven ratings
not one co-ed appeared.
This, in spite of the fact that
ASSEMBLY HALL
“LONELY WIVES”
with
ESTHER RALSTON
and
LAURA LA PLANT
Saturday 12:30, Adm. 250
“"“PRIVATE LIVES”
Saturday 6:30 and 8:30
Admission 350
“INDISCREET”
with
GLORIA SWANSON
Wednesday, Feb. 10, 6:30
women outnumbered men in the
750 freshmen who took the exami
nations. First place went to Wil
liam K. Traynor, 19, Chicago, son
of William T. Traynor, vice pres
ident and director of Swift & Co.
Knowledge didn’t count in this
examination, for it was a psycho
logy test to measure intellects. For
instance, an artificial language
was supplied with the instructions
to translate a passage from it into
English. Simple problems in arith
metic which were not quite simple
after all made up another part.
The test by no means settled the
question, however, for in other
tests in other colleges and univer
sities men have been outstanding
in some, co-eds in others.
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