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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1932)
BAT TALiON Published Weekly By The Students Of The A. & M. College Of Texas VOLUME XXX COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, MAY 11, 1932 NUMBER 32 1PH WEBSTER ml pult forS, Li Arrangements For Junior Banquet, Junior Prom, And Final Ball Nearing Comple tion. Price Reduction Will Last Through Remainder Of This Term As An Experi ment. Ralph Wefbster’s nationally known twelve piece dance orchestra, now featured at the Plaza, Hotel in San Antonio, has been awarded the contract to play for the Com mencement dance and parties. These will include the Junior ban quet, Junior Prom ,and Final Ball on the nights of June 2, and 3. This orchestra was chosen from a group of prominent Southern and Eastern orchestras who sub mitted bids on a competitive basis. The dance committee, which was appointed by Junior Class officials, consists of R. E. Rinn, Yoakum; H. L. Graves, Corsicana; and C. E. Praeger, Paris. Plans for the decorations are be ing completed by T. S. Roots of Marshall, and 0. H. Smith of Fort Worth, who are in charge of that phase. An adaptation of the mod ern trend will be used. “Programs and invitations for the events are expected within a few days,” said R. E. O’Connell, secretary and treasurer of the Jun ior Class, “and with the exception of a few minor details, all arrange ments are complete.” A motion to the effect that the existing price of thirty-five cents for admission to the Saturday night picture shows in the Assembly Hall be reduced to twenty-five cents for the remainder of this school year, was passed at a joint meeting of the new and old Y M C A Cabinet. It was decided that the new ad mission price of twenty-five cents should be charged for the three re maining Saturday night shows more or less as an experiment. Should the reduction meet with favorable approval of the student body, it is likely that the new price will prevail during the next school year. L. W. Storms Wins Award In Drill Contest Giddings High Meet Fish Here In Two Games Final Games Dated For Mon day And Tuesday With Blinn College. San Antonio Junior Wins Drill Held As Part Of Mothers’ Day Program. L. W. Storms, Jr., San Antonio, was awarded the judges decision and “best-drilled” medal of the Ross Volunteers following competi tive drill of the company on the college drill field Sunday afternoon. The competitive drill was held fol lowing an exhibition drill by the R V company as a portion of the program for Mothers’ and Dads’ Day. Storms, who is a junior in “A” Troop, Cavalry, was chosen the one to receive the medal after all but three men had been eliminated from the drill and after the three remaining had been put through a stiff several minutes of intensive drill. Members of the final trio besides Storms were Jack Tarver, junior from Rosebud, and R. W. Sanders, senior from Dallas. Judges of the drill were Majors B. F. Delameter, J. P. Wheeler, S. R. Hopkins and W. C. Washington, all of the A & M military science staff. Having been victorious in all but one game since the season opened the strong Aggie freshman baseball nine will entertain as their next guests the Giddings high team, on Kyle field in a pair of tilts on Friday and Saturday after noons of this week. After the series with Giddings high the freshmen play two games with Blinn Junior College of Bren- ham, who hold the distinction of being the only winners over the “Fish” this season, and will thus bring their activities to a close, May 16 and 17. Mooty Showing Well Jake Mooty, brilliant little fire and curve ball artist from Fort Worth who came to A and M with a record well worth considering and who has since upheld it commenda- bly, is slated to face the Blinn slug gers in the opener in both ensuing series, since ample time will be al lowed between each for rest. C. A. Hill, the pride of Seagraves, and M. J. Schriever, who calls Lock hart home, are the best bets to see service in the other two games. Team Line Up Remaining positions will be fill ed as follows: C. Steves, San Anto nio, catcher; Tommie Hutto, Coa homa, first base; Travis Voehkel, Fayettville, second; Bob Connelly, Fort Worth, third, and E. H. Bob bitt, Hillsboro, shortstop; J. T. Jones, Belton, will patrol the left outer-garden; William Sood, Fort Worth, in center. C. M. Reynolds, Bastrop slugger, will be found in right. Old Files Uncovered By Snooping Scribe In Library Indicate That A & M Once Boasted Daily Paper (Editor’s note: This is the first of a series of articles written by a member of The Battalion staff to acquaint its readers with inter esting though comparatively un known facts about A and M as re vealed by old publication files in the library.) Several years ago there was a daily newspaper at A and M! We wouldn’t dare publish this if we didn’t know we could prove it, for of all the startling things we have learned since attaching our selves to the staff of this publica tion this is the most amazing. In fact, we won’t blame you if you doubt us and come around to demand proof, for when we told our own editor-in-chief, he laughed us right out of the office with, “You silly ass, there’s not that Ice Water Fountain Purchase Probably Be Late This Month Entry List Will Be Replete With Many Entries In. All Events. Final entries in the ninth annual horse show were made at noon to day with the exception of the post entries which are to be made at the gate. The show will be held Saturday on the main drill field at 1:45. Prizes and trophies for the various events are donated by Bryan and College Station mer chants and business men. Committees The committee for the show is composed of Major S. R. Hopkins, chairman; Major I. G. Walker, en tries; Captain C. S. Richards, grounds, assisted by Sergeant Er nest Seeger; Lieutenant J. V. Car- roll, publicity; Lieutenant J. S. Seybold, clerk of the course, assist ed by Sergeant John V. King; Ca dets G. C. Brundrett and L. W. Storms, announcers. Major Hop kins and Lieutenant Nachman were the committee on the selection of prizes and trophies. Judges For Events Judges for the various events are Major J. P. Wheeler, Captain T. C. Harry, Captain L. A. Pick, Lieutenant E. T. McCullough, Lieu tenant L. R. Nachman, Mr. M. W. Sims, and Mr. Frank Seale. On the committee for the presentation of trophies are Mrs. T. 0. Walton, Mrs. C. J. Nelson, Mrs. S. R. Hop kins, and Mrs. I. G. Walker Prizes are offered on the fol lowing events: children’s two gait- ed class, cup donated by Bryan Lions Club; mounted tug of war between artillery and cavalry, blue ribbon to winning team and show passes to members of winning team presented by Palace Theater; equipment race, cup given by Bryan Rotary Club; ladies jumping class, cup given by Sankey Park; cpecial Shetland pony class, cup by Canady Pharmacy; senior jumping class, cup given by Sankey Park; special tion walk, cup by Dr. Marstellar; junior jumping class, cup by Bryan Chamber of Commerce; open jump ing, cup by Exchange Store; and cowpony stake race, box of cigars donated by Casey and Sparks. Proceeds From Show Will Be Boosted By “Y” Treasury To Make Purchase. Net proceeds of $162.50 were de rived from the two picture shows held in the Assembly Hall last Wednesday, for the purpose of ob taining sufficient funds to pur chase and install a refrigerated drinking fountain in the Y M C A. One thousand and fifty persons attended the shows, the overhead of which amountd to approximately $100. It is likely that the additio nal money needed to buy the cool ing system will be appropriated from the Y M C A treasury. Bids to five concerns have been let by the Fiscal Department for the equipment which will cost a- bout $450. In all probability, the new system will be installed some time this month, Myron L. Cashion, secretary of the college Y M C A announced early this week. It is the present plan to place the new electric water cooling de vice in the basement of the Y M C A and to continue to use the bubblers in the fountain at the door of the building. Specifications require that the water be cooled from eighty-five to fifty degrees Fah renheit rapidly enough to provide cooled drinking water for two hun dred and fifty persons per hour. Scout Work Is Studied With Sociology Now Course Leading To Scoutmas ter’s Certificate Open To Everyone. much news on the campus and there never has been. Now go find some thing to help fill this darn weekly sheet up and be sure you don’t take another drink.” We didn’t pay any attention to him, however. Not that we took a drink but that we went over to the library and dug out our proof—sev eral bound volumes of The Daily Bulletin and its successor, The Rev eille, dated from 1917 to 1925, evi dence sufficient to prove our vera city, if not our sobriety, to the edi tor. First known as The Daily Bulle tin and later as The Reveille the publication was a four-column, four page newspaper published by the Publicity Department of the col- Seminar Hears Dr. Ball Talk On Paleobotany Plans Made For Joint Ban quet Meeting With Social Science Seminar. (See FILES on page 6) An illustrated lecture on Paleo botany by Dr. 0. M. Ball, head of the Botany Department, at the Physics Lecture room, Monday eve ning May 2, ended the current schedule of meetings for the Science Seminar. At 6:30 on Mon day evening, May 16, the Science Seminar will join with the Social Science Seminar in holding a joint informal banquet at Sbisa Hall to close the activities of both organ izations for the year. Following the dinner Dr. Harry B. Wiser of the Depaidment of Chemistry, Rice Institute, will give an illustrated lecture on “Some Colloidal Phenomena in the Forma tion of Gall Stones.” Dr. Wiser is recognized as one of the outstand ing scientists in the field of Physi cal Chemistry and has the reputa tion of being a very interesting speaker. Tickets for the banquet, at 75b per plate, are now on sale and may be purchased anytime before 10 a. m. Monday, May 16, from the following men: C. H. Winkler, W. T. Leland, J. W. Barger, L. G. Jones, E. W. Steel, J. T. Lonsdale, F. L. Thomas, E. B. Middleton, N. F. Rode, and E. E. Vezey. Meeting once every week at the Y M C A cottage at the old college zoo, students of Rural Sociology 404 are studying scoutcraft meth ods preparatory to receiving a cer tificate as scoutmaster in the Boy Scouts of America, according to Daniel Russell, professor of rural sociology, whose class has chosen Boy Scout work as its project for the year. Aids Rural Sociology Although taught primarily as a project for Rural Sociology 404, the course is open to anyone inter ested in the work, Mr. Russell said, and all students who attend thir ty-two of the forty hours offered will receive certificates as scout masters. Three classes have already met, but full credit will be given to all students who attend the remainder of the course, according to Mr. Rus sell. Classes Once A Week Classes will be held at five o’clock every afternoon next week and the course will be closed with a overnight hike Saturday, May 21, to the Lock and Dam Club on the Brazos river. The overnight hike will give twenty hours’ credit. The course is being offered through the co-operation of three officials of the Boy Scout Organi zation in Texas, James P. Fitch, Dallas, regional executive in the Southwest; R. R. Adcock, Houston, South Texas director; and W. W. Simpson, Houston, Boy Scout Executive of the Missouri Pacific Railway. All three of these men have at tended meetings here during the past three weeks and Mr. Adcock will be present at the meeting next Monday afternoon. Military Work SEIMS 0 K Rated Highly In py RK[ Last Inspection Expected To Arrive Here Dur ing Week Of May 23. Students may expect to receive their copy of the 1932 Longhorn about the first part of the week of May 23rd, according to a statement from the annual office this _^iorn- ing. This will be possible should the printer be able to ship the book on the scheduled date, and there is not an unusually long time spent in transport. A1 Saenger, editor of the Long horn, stated Tuesday night that distribution would be made as soon as possible on their arrival. Ship ment of the books this year will be made by freight, and under rea sonable handling will take a week to reach College Station. The books will form such a large shipment that they will require one whole box car for their movement. Col. Castle Expresses Opinion Of Staff Following Review Wednesday Afternoon. Managers At Work On New ’33 Longhorn Contract For Engraving To Be Awarded Last Of This Month. Inspection of the Military De partment of A and M, by the board of inspectors of the Eighth Corps Area, was being completed today. The inspection was under the di rection of Col. W. A. Castle, the units being inspected by officers in their organizations: Lt. Col. D. D. Tompkins, Cavalry; Lt. Col. R. N. Pennell, Field Artillery; Maj. G. P. Anderson, Coast Artillery; Mstj. N. P. Groff, Infantry; Capt. Clay Anderson, Engineers; and Lt. Nickelson, Signal Corps. The visiting officers were honor ed at a dinner, given at the Aggie- land Inn by the resident officers, Monday night. A review of the corps for the inspectors, this afternoon, impress ed them very much, Col Castle stating that the military here con tinues to show great improvement, and the corps has made an excel lent showing. The report of the inspectors on the units of the college was not made public, but intimations were that, as always, the college would receive an excellent rating. “Engraving contract for the 1933 Longhorn will be let probably the last of this month,” J. E. Angell, business manager of student publi cations announced Wednesday morning. The contract is pending complete plans for the book, which are being drawn up by B. M. Gott lieb, editor of the yearbook. Gottlieb is also finishing the ap pointments of a staff, and will be at work in a few days on a rough plan of the book. No appointments have been made to date, other than the advertising manager, who will be T. C. (Ike) Morris of Forres- ton. Several engraving firms have signified interest in the contract for next year, and will probably bid on the work. Engraving for the book will be let by contract to the bidder chosen by Gottlieb and An gell, following a submittance of bids in a few days. Contract for the printing of the book will not be made before Octo ber, at the earliest, as at this time the plan of the book will be in more detail and the printer will be able to make a closer estimate of the work. Riflemen Fall To Thirteenth Place In Hearst Matches Case For A & M Trophies To Be Parting Gift Of 1932 Class. A & M Sharpshooters Place Two Teams Among First Ten In Recent Contests. “Terror Riding” For Co-Eds Before Being On Girls’ Polo Team Captain Lyons Gets Order For Transfer To Hawaiian Islands Notice has been received by the Military Department here that ; Captain E. L. Lyons, assistant pro fessor of military science and tac tics, Infantry, is to report to the Hawaiian department of the Unit ed States Army in Honolulu, Octo ber 1st. Special to The Battalion DENTON, May 11.—Riding bare- back, playing polo, and jumping hurdles, approximately seventy students are enrolled this semes ter in the Eastwood Riding Acad emy at Texas State College for Women (C I A). The forty freshmen must com plete a period of “terror riding” or bareback gymnastics on a gallop ing steed before they are allowed to choose one of several types of saddles and ride outside the pad- dock. After leading the nation’s best riflemen for two straight years, in which they easily took first place in the National Intercollegiate and a pair of seconds in the Hearst International matches, the Aggie sharpshooters fell to thirteenth place in the former, but placed two teams in the Hearst matches. Washington State University won a double victory as they took hon ors in both the National Intercol legiate and Hearst matches. Their scores were 7811 out a possible 8000 in the National and 960 in a possible 1000 to cop the Hearst. While they failed to win the match the A & M crew set a new precedent in the Hearst competi tion, placing two teams among the first ten. That Aggie team known as the third string was second and the first team took third place. There was a difference of only four points in their total scores. Members of the teams placing in the Hearst matches are: First team—J. S. Porcher, team captain from El Paso; F. K. McGinnis, Dal las; C. W. Crass, Palestine; O. D. Members of the senior class vot ed their approval of specifications of a trophy case to be presented to the college as their parting gift, and authorized its immediate pm’- chase at a meeting of the class Tuesday evening. According to specifications giv en to.the class by C. W. Herring, chairman of the trophy case com mittee, the case will be octagonal in shape, suitable for display in the rotunda of the Main Building. Made Of Steel A steel frame will be used in stead of the wooden frame which was suggested at first. The case will have a heavy stone base and the walls will be of thick, heavy quality plate glass, Herring said. It will contain two shelves for trophies, in addition to the base. Specifications for the case were drawn by S. C. P. Vosper, of the college architectural staff. Contract for the steel frame probably will be let to a firm in San Antonio and it is estimated that the complete case will cost $350. The base will be made on the campus. Assumes Debts The class also voted to assume the debts of this year’s yell staff, incurred as a result of the decrease in sale of yell books, and to pay a balance due on sweaters for the yell staff. The total amount of this debt is approximately forty-five dollars, J. U. Parker, chief yell leader, told the class. A committee was appointed by Luther Bell, president of the class, to investigate the possibility of the class assisting the juniors in bear ing the expense of the junior prom. Suggestion was made at the meet ing that the class share a portion of this expense and that the sen iors be permitted to attend the prom either without cost or at a reduced cost. Consolidated Class Play Will Be Given Next Tuesday Night (See RIFLE TEAM on page 5) “Mail Order Brides,” a rollicking farce in three acts, will be pre sented by the senior class of the A and M Consolidated school at the Assembly Hall Tuesday evening, Mrs. C. H. Spencer, director of the play, has announced. The perform ance will begin at eight o’clock. The setting of the play is laid on the Nevada cattle range. Ruby Heart ranch has plenty of men but only two women, one of whom is an Indian squaw, and two of the cowboys decide to remedy the sit uation by sending to a Chicago mail order house for wives. The or der is tampered with and when the brides arrives there is one too many. And there the fun begins. Swimmers Enter Intramural Meet Saturday, May 21 Intramural interest will center about swimming Saturday, May 21, as the intramural splashmen vie for aquatic honors in the Y M C A pool. There will be six events in this meet which are as follows: 40-yard free style, 40-yard back stroke; 40-yard breast stroke; 100- yard free style; plunge for dis tance; and fancy diving. 'Honk’ Irwin To Enter Shot Put Events In National Intercollegiate Track And Field Meet — May Go To Olympics Has Thrown Shot Further Than Any Collegian This Season. Should the precedent of previous years at Aggieland hold true then “Honk” Irwin, premier weight man on the Aggie track team and in the conference this season, is due for a trip to the National Intercol legiate track and field meet, to be held in Chicago in June. Irwin’s 50 feet 1 inch put last Saturday is the best any person south of the Mason-Dixon line has ever made, as far as can be learn ed by all available records. Not only is it the best mark in history in the south but is also the best distance any collegiate weight man in the nation has obtained to date during the current season. Exceed Other Records Considering the fact that “Honk” has surpassed every shot-put par ticipant’s best put this season, and in all likelihood will elevate the present conference record by more than two feet Saturday, it is only reasonable that he could likewise cop the event in the national meet if entered. A win in the national meet would also win him a tryout for the Olympics and possibly a place on the team. A number of A & M athletes have competed in the national meet in the past, among them Hai’ry Stiteler and Herman Harlan last year. They are the present holders of the pole vault and high hurdle records, respectively, in the con ference.