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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1932)
RONT BASEMENT n »*[ A; Published Weekly By The Students ef The A. A of Texas V01 XXXII COLLEGE STATION, 7, 1932. NUMBER 12 Annual CIA Hockey Game Fails To Foretell Outcome Of Aggie- Longhom Thanksgiving Classic In the annual hockey fame play •d on the CIA campua the A and M team defeated the Taxaa U team by S aeore of two to one but the encounter failed in its intended purpose of predicting the winner of the Turkey Day football classic Each year the students at C I A organize two hockey teams just before the Thanksgiving holidays, one of them to represent the Long horns and the other the Aggies, and the outcome of the game be tween the two la supposed to be indicative of the result of the foot ball game on Thanksgiving Day. The Battalion docs not have the. ; records of past CIA hockey games end cannot state the prophetic val- ife of the contests but this ^ident- ly is not a hockey year as far as the Aggies are concerned. A and M was represented is the dash by It J. Miller, Captain, Dorothy Anderson. Charlotte Lane, Charline Lane, Geraldine Forrest, Aliens Goode. Grace McMillan. El- eanor McKee, and Melba Davis. The Texas U team was composed of Kitty Winters, Captain, Helen Andersouv Lucille Lang, Jaunita Weber, ‘ Maurine Bagwell, Alice Moberly. Dorothy Davis, Margaret Manor, Margaret Sergeant, Mildred Aiken, Virginia Sergeant, and Alice Groves. Bonnie CotteraJ was sponsor and Aliens Goode business manager of the game. Debaters Chosen for Contest With Utah Team Next January In the first debate try-out of the season last Friday evening, Charles L. Coleman, Alpine, and CUMMINGS TO CAPTAIN 1933 FOOTBALL TEAM R. B. Jenkins, De Leon, were sel ected to represent A and M in • debate with Ow University ef Utah to be held here in January. fTfee debate « to be on the qm-ntion “Resolved, that the United States should agree to the cancellation of Inter-Allied war debts.” Judges who selected the debaters were: J D. P. Fuller. J. Q. Hays an^ t 0. Spriggs, farulty sponsor. Several other contestants who tried out for the team were so well prepared that the judges found it extre*.^y difficult to make a de cision a« to who would represent A and M. Mr Spriggs said, fcich contestant gave a six minute dis cussion of the war debt question, and then answered various ques tions on the subject put to him by the judges. Head of Next Year's Gridsters Is Selected At Annual Foot* ball Banquet Monday. Texaco Quintet f Wins 46-45 Tilt With Ag (lagers Houston Maple Floor Tei Takes Hard Fought Game Saturday Night. C ivil Engineers See Picture Pertaining To Testing Machines Enrollment I n , J} *« Cotton Courses Shows Increase —f— Cotton Contest Is Given As Cause For Growth la Ag ronomy Enrollment. Professors in various cotton cour ses estimate that enrollment in their courses this year is nearly one hundred per cent greater than The A and M Chapter of the American Society of Civil Eagi- neers met in the lecture room of the Civil Engineering Building las*. Thursday night for the presenta tion of a film on tasting machine#. The film showed the construction, erection, and tasting of the Uni versity of California's •UMXMXMi lb. universal tasting machine in the shops of Baidwm-Soothwark Cor poration at Eddstone, Pennsylva nia. •Following the presentation of the film, plans for the Christmas banquet were made; the date for the banquet being set for the night Of December fifteenth. CAVALRY SENIORS HONORED The Seniors of the Cavalry Squadron were honored with a in previous years. The increase is rgast duclf supper by E. H. Hudg attributed to renewed interest sti- ms of Hungerford, Major of the mu la ted by the cotton contest held last spring. W’inners of last year's Following the annual football banquet which was held in the ban quet room of the mess hall Mon day night Charlie Cummings, Bry an, was electad captain of the 193?) Texas Aggie football team. Cum mings was also chosen to receive the Aggieland Pharmacy award for the most valuable player on the Aggie squad during the season just closed This year the banquet took tha form of a venison dinner, the steak being donated for the occasion by Coaches Roswell Higginbotham and Frank G. Anderson, Trainer Carl T. (Doc) Sprague, and W. L. Pen berthy. director n.* in- ramural ath letics, all of whom went deer hunt ing during the Thanksgiving hoii days. Guests at the banquet 'included the Varmity footfall and Cros- country teams the Fresh mad A football squad, members of the Ath\ letic Council and coaching staff Wd a few persons who are not con nected ia an athletic way with the college. Highlights of Zit program in cluded, besides the election of Cum mings to the football captaincy, the election of Hector Fuentes captain of the 1933 Aggie Croes- eountry team, the awarding of thc Aggieland Pharmacy Captain tro phy to Jimmie Aslan, announce ment ef the Varsity lettermen in football and Ooss-country and the Freshawn football numeral men, and talks by the senior members of the football team. Captain-alert Jumminga, and Coach Matty Bell. Varsity players whose letters were officially granted are: Cap tain Jimmie Aston, Farmersville; Rue Barfield. Port Arthur; Morri son Breedlove, Smithvillc; R. E. Connelley. Fort Worth; J. W. Crow, Milford; Charlie Cummings, Bryan; Clifford Doraiague, Port Arthur; E. 0 Fowler, Fort Worth; J. A. Golasinski. Houston; Henry Grav es, Corskana; W. W. Hewitt. Groesbeck; W. T Jordan, Fort Coach John Reid’* Texas Aggie basketball team opeted its 1032-31 campaign by dropping a close game to the Texaco five of Houston da Memorial Gymnasium last Satur day night The score was 44-46. ’ The Cadets had a 10-1 la^d in the early stages of the game but the Oilers came to life andi held their hustling opponents to a 26-21 advantage at the half. With the beginning of the' sec ond half the visitors hit their stride while the Aggies seemed to weaken. Throughout the < o- ^ minute# of the game the irore favored first one ’<-an a H th. r the other and was tied at 10-39 stout three minutes before thg fin al gun sounded. With play and the score board sho s 44-44 tie “Shiro” Hoke mi rrip shot but the ball fou he back-board into the ha Lodge who sank it for two points. Joe Merka recovered one of tpose points by making good a free throw but the Texacos still had a (one point lead and the g*me endetj too soon for the Aggies tn do any )Tur- ther scoring. Showing remarkable team hlay for a group of all-stars, the Texaco matched the Aggies speed | for speed and hustle for hustle and should go far in the state A. Al-U. competition. Aside from Captain Moody f ho is easily the individual star* of the game, and the vctera«is v Mar cum and Merka, shou..: promising performers and flMa ranks of the sophomore candidates. Hutto at forward a <1 Dalton £nd Terrill at guards gave .indication —» - (Continued on Page 4)T THIS. MR. RIPLEY d^Vom the sports page of (fea Washington State Ever- grqen coipes the believe it or story of the Washington $0te vs.-'U C L. A. football gjthoe of this past season. In tj}e last half-second of his collegiate game. Johnny ik of Washington State 47-yard place kick ;h gave his team a throe Mthing victory. The ball in the air when the final MHKflre4 Influenza Epi< Hospital To lie Fills College icity; No Cause For Alarm Says Hospital Officials CAPTAIN H irie View Ties Texas College On kyle Field Friday r Colorful Game End* In 6-6 Tie As Negro Elevens Clash Hbra. In>their annual game on Kyle Fieldj the Prairie View College foot&UI team played a 4-6 tie with the Texas College of Tyler last -=Cummings Charlie Cummings, Bryan. Frid^t afternoon. The game contmet to Prairie View’s over- whelming defeat of the Arksnsas Statg cham pions last year, was a hard-fought tussle between two team|.-thet were evenly matched 13 as th^t score indicates. Each team mana^pd to score one touchdown in that first half but both failed to c« been the 1933 team. named A and captain of M football in Mechanical Engineers See Picture Shows At Meeting Thursday Senior Committee Awards Contract For Invitations contest weip: J. O. Beasley, who is now connected with the Experi ment Station, T. M. Drew, now managing a farm at Lufkin, and H. B. Horn, who js at^resent work ing on his master's degree and i> also assisting in the textile engi neering department. American junior and senior stu dents who have had one term of any cotton course are eligible for the cotton -contest which is td be held in the spring term. Those stu dents who plan to enter the contest may obtain » revised set of ques tions at the beginning of the sec ond term from J. S. Mogford, as sociate professor of agronomy. In anticipation of the coming contest at least one speaker at each meet ing of the Agronomy Society is in vited to choose same subject bear ing on the contest. “Dad” Short, who is well known in agricultural circles and is connected with the Federal Land Bank in Houston, and W. T. Killough, Cotton Breed er of the Experiment Station, have both talked to the group at recent meetings The society reports that cotton firms ofver the state are well pleased with the results of last year's contest and have pro mised their assistance in assuring the success of the coming Contests Cavalry Squadron in the annex of Worthr B. M. Irwin, Kosse; Joe the mess hall Tuesday night The Love, Shermanj Stapp Maxwell, supper was attended by approxi- Leonard; Ray Murray, Mercedes; mately 40 seniors. Hudgins, wigi I Willis Nolan, Santa Rosa; Ted for the extra point. View scored first on an by one of her elusive t the lead was short liv- xas Colled tied a few later by means of a cotv- 'orward pass plus s run of aboutpfirenty yards by tho receiv er. TM second half of the game was ffton K ss hut it wa* not de void bf thrills and awkward sit- fdMa^B ' * >4 Tn^’to exportations, the Prairie Viewjcp-eds were out in full to chaer their team to vic- aithough their support did nplish its intended pur- ir presence added much the occasiop. ‘in Denies imor That He With the epidemic of influenxe that teems to be prevalent over thia section of the state making it self felt on the A and M campus, the college hospital was nearly filled to capacity Tuesday. Today approximately 130 students were confined to hospital cots and reports indicate that that-number is decreasing daily. According to the hospital officials, no serioua caaes have been handled, nor has the situation reached an alarming state, but as a precautionary meas ure the college authorities have dis continued all student assemblies with the exception of classroom ac tivities for the. remainder of this week. It is anticipated that the advent of clear, warm weather will bring about a noticeable change for the better as the present conditions are attributed to the damp weather that has prevailed for the past two or three weeks. In the fall of 1928 an epidemic of much larger proportions swept A and M. and at one time there were approximately two hundred students ia the hospital, however, the college enrollment at that time was coaeiderably larger than at present. , i The rumor that there is a state law stating that any educational institutioa having ten per cent of its student* sick must be turned out is completely unfounded Col onel Mitchell, Commandant of A and M College, stated today. The A and M Chapter of the American Society of Junior He- chanical Engineers met last Tn#-i«- day. night in the lecture room! of the' Mechanical Engineering Bold ing Building with fifty-three nupn- bert present. Moving picture* w*r<* shown the club entitled “The Me chanism of Lubrication” by Ihe I I Standard Oil Company, and “Motel Casts of Augustus Caesar, Bee- Metal'’ by the Monel Manufarttr- rhover, a manikin by Michelangelo, ing Company. | (land a number of moldings to be . The subject of whether or dot | UMH j jn the study of architectural Architects Add New Casts To Collection ornament were added to the col lection of casts owned by the archi tectural department last week. Thia shipment was received from Ca- proni Brothers, Boston, and is now on exhibition on the fourth floor a M^y of hunters killed the limit while at home last week-end and brought some fifty of them back for the supper Bryn Mawr Students Criticised By College Papers for Mussiness Spencer, Gilmcf; W. B. Williams. Greenville; Sully Woodland. Edna; and R. H. Wright, Alice. Cross-county letters were award ed to Roy Cook, Lampasas; Foy Cook, Lampasa*; Hector Fuentes. Saltillo. Mexicc; and Harry Smith. Fort Worth. Freshmaa football players to re ceive numeral awards are: F. B Rayless. Houstob; A. P. Callahan, Dallas; G. J. Clark. Breckenridge; Philadelphia. Pa. — ( I P ) -f If some of tha girls at Bryn Mawr College were late to classes last W,II “ m foU * #r * Breckenridge; N ! C. Cowsert, Rock Springs; Marion Invitation* To Hate Raised Maroon Leather, (over. Contract for Senior, tlass invh tions to the graduation ceremo es was awarded to William Ligl representative of the Charles Elliott Company, last week. Fi^e quark’^'tfieoriee designs were presented by the rep- LasPwyek Prof. Albert Einstein resentative but went rejected aiiri found ^ fjecesspry to deny that he the student* of Mechanical Engi neering at A and M would t nM* a series of debates with Mechanical Engineering students of neighbCr- ing schools was discussed and rat ed upon. The vote indicated the disapproval of the majority of tj^e ■ 0 f the Academic Building members present regarding the en trance into such a series of debat es; however, the question is 4k* pected to arise again at the next meeting, which will probably be after the Christmas Holidays lieves In Spirits Coleman Named Head of Freshman Speech Vien(||i-(IP) -Great men aro kept biiiy aA a rule denying beliefs v lub for v OlTling I eHI' attribU rd to tjiem by quarks who ' misquote/them; in support pf the Campus Theatre Club To Present , Play Next Week Elene Wilbur’* Christmas At a meeting of the Frewhmaii! Play To Be Given By Local Forensic Club recently the follow- Talent. ing oflirer* were elected for the K *■ coming year: C. L. Coleman. Al- “The Table Set foir Himself,” a design drawn up by the commi(- believe! Ri spirits or spiritualism, pine. President; Alfred R.j Bml [ will be presented by the Campus tee was finaBy spproved Tlie He that he would be very Terre!!, Vice-President; and H. JV, Theatre Club in the Assembly leather invitationa will contai^i j hajipyj ff ode else did. Cartwright, Galveston. Secretary Hall Tuesday. December 13i at from four to six cut* and will hav* Tho[|Mial was made in a letter A discussion was held at tjid 7:30 p. m.. according to an an- a cover of railed maroon leather sddreMkl to g Viennese woman meeting on the current Pi Kapj>a nouncement today -by J. Q. Hays, with a silver background. ] who hq^ Vritten him asking his Delta question: “Resolved that the farulty sponsor. Crow, Milford; W. R. Phythian. Taylor; P. R Raid, Corpus Christi; F. J. Richter, Laredo; P. D. Rob- Co-ed Is Slapped By Lover Because She Admired Movie Star Cleveland. , O,—(IP)—Her boy friead is so jealous he doesn’t like her to look at a movie showing Maurice Chevalier. Miss Florence Glowsckie. a co-ed, told the pro secutor’s office here last week. This led to a dispute which caused the bey friend to slap her face in the midst of a crowd, caus ing her no end of embarassment. The prosecutor issued a summons for the boy friend to find out why he is so jealous. week there was probably a very good reason. And the reason was that more time was spent ssurgKi—if ® _ _ . ... combing hair, poibkmg /iwr mm.n Au.t,n; 0«.r Sm»rd III. imik. eradicating tpota (ram net- Am * rlllo; H **- ly itraMci dreamt, nc tbe like. The ^ , Bryn MaVr OtOaga Wtt na tha " W u° m Worth; J. L. White XcKtnn.,; E. » boUhorad ita ramUra for .bet, H Wlck „ ( ^ u , Christ; W. T. sss/s? “ d a *"”“ few blots oa an otherwise beauti ful landscape has from time im memorial been the student body.’* Auction Sale At the jewelry sale now in prog ress at Sankey Park’s in Bryan * purchasers may procure any ar- Rcvision Says Butler tide in the stone at their own — j, 1 prices by merely selecting the sr- New York. — (IP) — Complete tide from the stock and bidding on G. 0. P. Needs Radical R. E. O’Connell, chairman, L. W. Storms, R. H. McLemore, and It Durst III are members of the conii mittee and were appointed by T C. Morris, president of (he Senioi class. The committee is now work ing on the materiafYor the Invita tions. Christmas Season these subjects. The wo- 1 United State* should agree to t)i« This pla^. which is under the s London spiritualist 1 cancellation of Inter-Allied war direction of Mrs. F.'L Thomas, was written hy Elene'Wilbur and beliefg man . who Mid that the famous scientist debts. [believer ia spiritualism liuiqs. andpn statement.” said ir, *tis utterly without Offei r Long [Mr Two ’ Student Musical'j Organizations Series of Engagfemen reorganisation of tbe Republican party is needed to save it from the fate of the old Whig parig, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University asserted last week. Said he: 'Tf the younger members of the party o il! exert themselves to seek and to produce constructive, for ward-feeing end liberal leadership, the party, despite its overwhelm ing defeat, may be quickly reor ganised and given new strength and spirit for another generation of public service. ’If something of this sort can not be done, then the party will have gone the way of the Whig party* it at aurtioa. As an added incen tive to A and M students to at tend. valuable priaes are given away free at each sale. Tbe sales are held each afternoon at 2:30 and each night at 7:90. Famous Athlete Dies While Umpiring Game Philadelphia—(IP)—While um piring a game betkseaii Upper Dar by and Haverford High Schools last week, John J. Greer, former prominent athlete at Georgetown aad Catholic Universities, fell dead Physicians said death waa caus ed by a heart attack. Evidently ihe home town clubs are not feeling the depre**ion a* much as the pessimists would have ius believe, since the ('hri»tma» dance problem has reached a solu tion Judging from the demand re ceived for the services of the two local orchestras ta play for the cadet affairs, the followers of the drum and baton sho«Ad experience no trouble in forgetting the pur- suit of knowledge while enjoying the holidays. 7116 Campus SecMBdlM, under the direction aad management of Joe Dillon and employing only stu dents as members, arc booked for a series of dancee t ptatigally in East and Northeast Texas. Their first engagement carries them to Houston, from where they go to Sherman to play • dance for the >' k Grayso|j CpontyiA and M Gub on December | 3rd. On the morning of the 26th, -t|>ey are to play in Hen derson als Cooper Club on the largest .<9|iire floor in Texas. They then go McKinney to play on the nigjiyy the 26th, followed by a trip Wftt. Pleasant to play the East Te*0k Club dance on Derem are scheduled to, *n December 29th, The* Be led i» iBereaaders are ached- play a dance this eemii* Fridsy sight ia Cal vert aVIlM City Hall ia boa- or af ft* r-xM corps jand then f trip to Kaufman on Dec- I where they will play oa Page 4) <*> Architectural Club Addressed By Norton P. G Norton of the College Ar chitect’s office spoke to tbe Archi tectural Club last Thursday night at their regular meeting held in the Asbury room of the library. His subject was “Architectural Specifications” ahd in delivering the lecture he told of the essential requirements of a set of specifica tions and the legal procedure that' follows directly thefofrom. Plan* were made at the meeting for the annual club Christmas par ty which is to be held on the nigh* of Thursday, December 16. is in keeping with the yuletide spirit, pertaining to the Irish cus toms at Christmas time. Boatswain Who Waited 58 Years for V arsity Letter, Dies Washington—(IP)—Henry Bei Simpson, 80-year-old boat** sin, who waited 68 years to receive varsity letter, died here lent w SimpHoa was a member of crew ef the Massachusetts A cultural College which defea Brown in a sensational finish oa the Connecticut River in 1ITL j It was not until 1929 that athle tic authorities voted a varsity letter to each member of the *71 craw/ j present equipment iff I t Latest Developments In Electrical Field Viewed By Students The newest wrinkles in the elec tric industry that have originated with the Geaeral Electric Company were exhibited to electrical engi neering seniors in the Petroleum' Engineering Building Monday. The display consisted of a truck fitta<L with the individual items and was I in direct charge of B. F. McKenzie of the New York office of the Gen eral Electric Company, assisted by A. R. Mattes, ’21, of Beaumont, ' district manager for the company New types of totalising dratt- huur meters, fused circuit break ers, underground cable construc tion, new type* of small capacity MpMlMaaNn-with mountings, and the newer types of lightning ar resters were on display. AU tha; E rovement* of the equipment ov- the previous design were ex ited by Mr. McKenxie in his lecture. The purpose of the dis play was to show the student «n- gineer* bow the General Electric Company has kept abreast of the by constantly improving front basement