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\\t followed the paving notes this far, may
* surmised, th^ campus streets
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have
were named after
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sirriNe peerry
Other phases ot improvement in the campus
scene besides, the paving activities are in evi
dence also. There is ( to be explicit, a program of
ndscaping intprogress that has already softened
derably the harsher aspects of certain spots
the panorama here, there, and yon. Evergreens
rish where oncq they were not, breaking the
onotony of liin giving grace and symmetry and
a.iiio.i !,.auty lo the view. New trees have been
planted, some pf them seedlings, some of them
mature, year-hung
growths of the for-
e s t, transplanted
with great earth-
balls clinging about
their wounded hut
carefully t e n dp d
roots. And there are
the new campus
seats, of concrete in-
■ i i I laid with colored tile
Six in all so far. Two are at Walton Hall,
there is one at each of Law and Puryear Halls,
one rests on the knoll that looks from the exten-
s on of Houston Street toward the college and one
is in a bower, of foliage at a comer of the rectan
gle w here in the* days of the past the band was
wont to play at fdtreat. There is about them an
ornamental touch that brightens the view. Ahd
they flash a gaiety of color to please the eye and
match the mood of'loitering moments, a harmony
of hues that shotold; by reason of material used
and type of construction employed, endure un
dimmed the sun gnd rain and wind of many years.
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In the days before coined money, commerce
between individuals, tribes and even nations was
on by barter in commodities. Even after
advent of money jus such, trading in merchan-
led. It will does. There is more than
ordinary encouragement for barter in these days
money' being the item it has become
of the well known depression. The press
recently carried a story of a farmer who had some
honey he didn’t nfefi as much as he needed other
things. He found p'merchant who was willing to
trade cotton seed n|eal for the honey at current
market prices, so t}ie exchange was made with
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profit to both. A more recent story notes the
auguratipn of a farmer’s “swap day" in an E*at
Texas town. On that day farmers are to bring* to
town sucli items and commodities as they care t©
exchange for commodities their neighbors may
have. Every man has an inborn love of trading. A
Harlow knife, a top, a piece of colored glass—all
represent potential trading values to a boy. Tom
Sawyer attained greartness in the realm of ti
and bartep. He made the task of whitewash!]
a board ffnee desirable and sold the privilege
his unsuspecting 1 companions. The desire to
sess, he realized at an early age, measures val
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I-/ SUNS
The u timate in military tributes, 103 guns
in all, roarled out across the campus here Satur
day, January 7 in honor to the memory of for
mer President Calvin Coolidge who died at North
ampton, Mass., January 5. The regular salute on
such occasions, which army regulations specify
shall be fired on the day following receipt of offi
cial notification by all military posts, camps and
stations whierever facilities permit, includes thii*-
f teen guns at reveille, single guns every half houir
until retreat a
forty-eight guns a
retreat. In additi
presidential salu
of twenty-one gun
is fired orr the daji
of the funeral. Ordi*
narily the body lies
in state several days
which separates the
of
lutes,
ing receipt
funeral. A<
reveille, hall
firing of the sa-
particular instance the day follow
notification was also the day of the
there were thirteen guns at
sdna until the funeral hour,
twenty-one s^uns then, half hour guns until re
treat and tbeb forty-eight gtuia. Such salutes are
accorded only on the death of a President or for
mer Presidenjt. By reason of the sixteen officers
and thirty-eight enlisted men of the army sta
tioned here fer instruction of the R. O. T^ C. unit,
Texas A and M College is a military station^ and
with all other United States army posts, camps,
and stations, with facilities to do so, fired the
salute. In additioi the American flag was low
ered to half riast and all army officers will wear
official mourning for a month. The final forty-
eight guns represent the salute to the Union.
Thus it is, in
says: ‘The
Union!"
the roar of artillery, that America
’resident is dead. Long live the
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