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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1933)
EDITOR! (Governor or Dictal 1 H E BATTALION ipU8 Personalities . f .{ * 'there wei e two coa.lktinf sebooU of exi tiqg when the present consti ution of the United States wne adopted. One extreme, represented hr Alexander Hamilton, proposed a strongly rentralixed form of geverrment in which the public would hdve little power. The other school, founded by Thomas Jefferson and represented today by the Democrat e Party, favored a government “for the people, of the people, and b] the people" and to whom the source of governmental power constar tly reverted. Reviving this old argument. Griffenhagen and A^onat'! >, “experts” employed by the Joint Committee of the Texas State legislature to conduct an investigation of Texas educa tional instituti >ns. realizing the growing tendency'for strongly central ised govemmeit, recommended the organisation of a state government along the line i of the one planned by Alexander [Hamilton. The pro posed plan is hat the people of the state shall dlect a governor who ahall have th«j sole power of appointing two-thirds of the public of ficials of the ^tate. By this proposed plan, the governor would have t cabinet patterned after the cabinet of the President of the United State*. No matter how honest the governor under diis regime, the ten- d»*ncy for him to abuse this power would be too great. It would place In his hands a means for perpetuating himself in office. Unrestricted b. a similar plan to the federal civil service, the governor would have more power within the state than the president exercises throughout the land. Wit i no proposal or mention of a civil; service there would be no safeguard against open use of the “spoilg* system. Such an autocracy within a democracy cannot stated, ^ith a civil service within the stale this plan would have its evils, bti^ without civil ser vice the plan 11 impossible. With the centrslixatidn of so much power ih the hands qf one individual It is a certainty that ultimately the power would be abused. | |~ - I* Coeducational article written by W. A. issue of the Texas Aggie. Ml The Battajion noted with interest an Ortolani, ’24 which was carried in the last eK-student publication and mouthpiece of that organization, writing Mr. Ontolani set forth his idea* pertaining to the that A and M College could benefit from by nuMcing the school co educational. Since this subject is one of intimdt* debate with the students of thf college, members of the ex-Aggie organisation, and the people of T ixas, we are passing it pn to our renders Plans Under for Sixth Annual Engineer’s Dance th; annual Engi- is -to be held arrange- complete ERNEST LANGFORD Erpest Langford, head of the de partment of architecture, was born May 30. 1891 at Btillinger. Texas. When he was three years of age his family moved to B met County and eettled in the little community of B$gga where his youthful days were spent >n sixteen yean of ago. Mr. I^kngford with his family, moved to Bertram, also in Burnet County, and there completed his high school education in the Spring of 1909. The following Fall found him reg istered as a freshman in A and M College. Before registern* he was infoi n ed that his high school eras not an affiliated one and that he would have to take entrance exam inations. The exams were soon passed however, and he was re- ocived into the fellowship of the Plans for the sixth neers’ Ball, which the Memorial Gymnasium here Friday night, April 7, nine until two, are well under way, and the committee in charge of menu has prepared a program of entertainments. Music for the occasion will'be furnished by the Campus Serenaders and ac cording to ktest plane of the com mittee, the dance will be pme.i ed by a banquet la tkn Mens Hall for the Engineers and their ladies. The Gym will be decorated with Engineer insignia and will be light ed by a battery of colored spot lights. Special features of jthe evening’s program include a f)oor show of three novelty acts and dam.** hon oring seniors and their dates. Committee for the dance consist* of J. R. Gill, Paris, business man- agari J. W. Wilson, Dallas, secre tary; H. K. Smith. San B. > . and T. J. Palm, Waco, decoration* I j Is I Intramural Handball Championship Won By “B” Artillery By defeating Battery “F” Field Artillery in a recent mateW Bat tery “B" Field Artillery won the intramural handball ehampienship for the second consecutive yMr. UMORS 5! ; - a! Was C/ A Dickey, cadet major of the CeeAt Artillery, mortified when he iwt^rned from Bryan Sat urday rig^t^ without what he went there forf jVery. Old Mese Hall snooper Dickey was acting Field Officer of^ the Day, Saturday, and had the brilliant idea tf going to Bryan in ^rch of non-regulation and unauihiti zed visitors to the fair city, ju&e that night he was returning yith quite a long list of victims, but the trip proved s fiasco is Rte end as he loct the list. Witness say thpt his face was as lohg;as the li# turned in for demerits’ by that ambitious Charley R. lighten. It was a morti-fine. ♦ y for tie military prominent, . i \ • This wesk> presentution of the leather mOctal goes to John J. Gat- , , > .4 Plans ijor Annual Cotton Contest . I (]{ Near Completion Examinatton* During Two in* Apfrtl 15. To Be Given o Weeks Follow- know* iU traditional “toara” .nd'* 11 ’ of th * “bulUpens". He rac«ved hi. d«- h * v * Won n architecture with the class doubi «*" champ.on.hip for the past m two years snd were slbo Southwest Texas Junior Champions while tending Ball High veeton. piqns while at- j ,n * over School in Gal Members of the uhaAipionship ^ t, w V ^ # LL 7,kTri . w r n I college. Mr. Langford roomed in „‘7 r," w T ^ The write! began, “One of my ideas is that A and M College ‘ H. ( . Stefam snd Johnnie |Utch- rtould b. mad, ro-Mlucationa). Almo.t invaribly th, fir,t ar, U m.nt ' >ld Ro “ H *" ,or fMlr *" d ' advanced is th# one that the social problem which would be created by such a change would be a disgrace to the schpol It ia with this argument that I have the least patience. Now I twill leave it to you to say' whether jor not the boys who are now ajt A ahd M or who will be there in years! to come are from homes where Che moral standards are lower than the homes of all the other boys ii^the educational in stitutions of th# state. I do not think that A and M has ever been a dumping gro-’nds for the ‘unwanted.’ I. . I “Practically all of these boys are gentlemen when they come to college, but if A and M were co-ed they would Hot go through four years of forgetting their table manners and the Conduct of a gentle man in the presence of ladies or even of other gentlemen. It is a brave soul who will take a girl to a meal in the mefes hall or to a show at the Assembly Hall If a co-educstional system would not parti^ent along with this work. In affect some changes for the better in the above Instances mentioned f a ii 0 f 1919, he went to the then I do not know a thing about the influence thgt women will exert University of Illinoie as an in- on men. i|^^“Anothrr argument presented by ex-student s >of the past is that wart to keep A and M like it was in the gpod old day# and along vTih s-ch an argument there is usually a dream of a son or sons to one day follow in the footsteps of their father a**! ‘raise hell’ in the eame dormitory. I don’t know why the same iiex-studeats haven’t raised the roof because there is going to be a Rood state highway right by the srliool, or because the authorities ijave been trying to get th ; college streets out of the mud, put steafh heat and running water in the d+rmitories and to make a long story short, keep the college a modocn institution in every respect. These same men are apostlus of progress in every line of human endeavor but their Alma | he| wds made head of that depart- Mater. They whrt to keep A and M like the “goo^j old days” and have m#nt. bee sa . ^ifish ip their sentimentality that they hate in many instance* ' A Itory of Mr. Langford's life Uttho^glitCitt}’ retarded the progrtss of the school tfiey love too well. is s sfory of architectural achieve- - “I do not advocate that the curricula be enlarged to make a uni-1 mert*. His prizes have been many versity pf A and U to attract the feminine studelit ;. I believe ! snd Ips efforts have been worthy gree |r of 1911 After graduation ha was employ ed fop two year* as an architec tural draftsman in Austin. During this time he married Miss Lela Ve'ma Da-tidson. hit sweetheart since college days. I|r. Langford returfied to A and M College in the Fall of 1915 as an instructor in the drawing department, teaching subjects in the architectural de tractor in the department of ar chitecture of that school and at the tame time began work on his master’s degree. He received this legroe in June, 1924, and remain- d or^y ore year longer as a mem ber of the staff, returning to this school in the Fall of 1925 with the a: k jof professor in the depart ment i or architecture. Four yean from (that date, in the Fall of 1929 Plans fo{*1pe annual-cotton con test, winners <of which Pill be sent on an inspagtion tour of the prin cipal cottof-{enters in the eastern part of thy nited Stapes, and in Europe, aft. nearing completion, according tkf kn announcement last week by E Bryant, Corsi cana, prasptat of the; Agronomy Society. Beginning April 15. gnd extend- s period of two weeks, a series of tdf jexaminatitma trill be given entente in the contest. These examinations will be given team include Herbert CartwrighT, 1 by differ ** t |Professor#, and will Galveston; 0. S. York. Galveston; cov * , * th * ^ ^ to P*‘ n « of P. E. Morris. San Adtonio; B. F. cotton ’ ^ n «^rtion of cotton fab- Tansil, Dallas; C. EJ Reickardt. ric *» cottonjmarketing, diseases of San Antonio; Johnnie Mitchell. CottoB - cot p n Production, cotton Galveston; and H. C. Stefani. Gal- boi * n *' cotlon "n.chineflr, the ge- vegton netics of ccfton. cotton jnsects, and j textiles of Litton from the point df view. es, one buttoneer in “B” Company Infantry. Last week while Johnny was home in Houston, he followed the urge inaugurated by old fath er Nosh and over imbibed of pot ent vintages. While touring the town under the influence of this inspiring liquid, J. J. got out, lock ed his oar, and started a tour of some start. Returning to the car, still more strongly affected, John ny tried to get in the car but was unable to insert the key in the lock. The ever resourceful Gates boy was* not stumped, however, and picked up a monkey wrench, smashed the window, snd unlock ed it from the inside. Yes, ht Gat es the leather medal. Casual observers have noted that for the past week or so. Doc Hinton Bandleg, Jr., has been pay ing arduous courtship to a campus lass nigltljr. Monday night he was still pursuing this same young damsel and Tuesday morning Doc was sporting a bandaged eye a- round the campus. He claims this eras the result of concrete splash ing in his eye. Maybe he was try ing keyhole tactics—if so he should see use for the proper form. Maybe we’re Hinton too broadly, though. While riding on the Bryan-Col- lege bus last week, there came to our attention the advertisement of our attention the advertisement of one cafe in Bryan. The name had one cadet inserted in its place; The finished product was ‘ Eat At the T. D. Owens Cafe.” Here now, “Scrapiran”, what will Jimmy Flynn ated Gipe Sebastian sayf We’re oWen them more recogni^ tion than they're getting out of this. A. A. Mackenzie ex parr watchmj Bryar,. Agent, 69 T*1 HaVLL The Purchase Price with i ■ y RE5ARA STANWYCK Luidayi 12:30 p. m. Child of Manhattan . j with JOHN BOLES. NANCY CARI Saturday, 6::i() aK3 8:30 -1— Man Called Back I * * 4 rr • l ■ J with £PNK \D NAGLE Wednesday* March 1 DESK RADI® 5-Tube Screen Grid — Automatic Yolume Control Super-Heterod> ne — Dynamic Speaker N'CULLOUGH ■ DANSBY COMPANY member of the American Institute To date, fourteen men have an- of Architects sqd is Interested in nounced their intention of entering the promotion of architecture both the contest^ three of which will be in local and foreign fields. He is selected a*'winner*. intensely interested ih the social and physical sciences and carrie- out his interests in campus activi ties. being a member, of the $Vj- dent Welfare f'ommittfce and of the Student Activities Committed. Mr. Langfood is an asset tot this college as a member of the faculty but more than that can be said of him. As a student be has been where we are now and is one df us at heart. His quiet,, unassuming manner coupled with a positive. versny pi A «n« id 10 HU ran me lenmunr • vpwvwimna iw» '=**''• , ,,,-A nntUwilr tha A and M can atay in the realms of the agricultural and mechanic In a national competition held in ’ . T? arts ar.d return to the State of Texas 100more pn its investment by the Spmmer of 1923 by the Chics- ° 1 ^ e - making ifs eo-.rbes snd la:ilities available to niea:snd women alike.’ Saturday Nights bndercur- head the go Tfibune he won a mention and his dbsign was presented in that papen In the Fall of 1925 he won a $4<K> cash priza for his entry in the tl'hite Pine Competition. In collaboration with H. N. June, a college architoct, Mr. Lang- igned and had full charge conatraction of the Kyle Field | stadium. He has been con st. 1 either directly or indirectly with 0* r y other existing structur es on' the campua In 1931 he de sign^ the Key Demonstration we sre glad to call our friend M * STOP J(T— BlfsL & GUS Coijjfectionery SANDWICHES COLD DRIN1 CANJ At 4 sonic Temple NavaaoBL Texan A transitional sge ia in evidence at this schopl. Recent rents and m; rmlirings of revolutionar)- ideas cam# to a|( Moa lay night when the Senior Class voted to subtut a pet authorilies allowing all underclassmen to go to {Bryan oa lettaiings. This same peti;ion embodies s majority .ruling underclassmen will le ailowet^ to remain, at the^ crops d#nfes UMnlgta. j i Jj .J-tflF Such a proposal probably is beneficial to uadrre lass man joi it is %rue that ao far their ao ial life has been neglected. The lemor class I Home! which is located on tha cam- «xpecta the full cooperation of every underclassman in pretenting the pus just east of Guion Hall abifse of these privileges. Every student needs sociaj relaxation of some I on Throckmorton Street. This home form and this Salurday night freedom has been designed to possibly was designed as a model farm home ser\e as X safety valve for pent-up emotions. and iqas sponsored by the Exten- |t is assumed that the Bryan Traction Cqmtany will cooperate sion Service of A a»d M Collage. Iiasfar as it ia possible to provide sufficient t rib sport* tion for all It wmi l*t^r presented in the Udies Vtedets desiring to visit Bryan on Saturday .eveifhg*. As yet this pro- Home Journal as one of their 1932 poaa) has not berome a college regulation but a petition upheld by the home patterns and was selected as Stenior class has been submitted to the college authorities f#r ratifies- on * rif • group of typical houses UNIFORM TAILORS Military uniforms ility and style that mafk8 the well dressed man—at I y^ur prides. * ! Mrndle anil Hornat, l'"ipf. J 1 tion. LUCCHESE BOOT CO. Ft r Mad*, to order Boots, Belts A Shoes. Write in for order blanks. 215 Broadway, San Antonio, Texas. e farm and village by the ttee on Farm and Village of the “Conference on Building and Home Owner- A New Shipment of We live for ethers' sake and are Hous in a healthy tftate of mind when Ho we suffer divitie discontent.—Rev. ship” j called by President Hoover. Raymond Foiffcan. At present Mr. Langford ia a SLACKS Imported British BREECHES i | h. Ha-r. ! FISHiSERGE Twin In*>ortr<l British Twill ii ALTERATIONS REDUCED 50% . CHAS HITCH Merchant , Look ’Em Over Cigarettes ! IS® :| i V 4 j J j |j * }^j|* Casey’s Confectionery «Y” Wooden soldiers i,. i in the war against decay 111 j,. To conquer the forces of decay which attack telephone poles, arientists of Bell Telephone Lab oratories cany on a relentless campsRgn. r They study many kinds of wooq, test many preservatives. They isolate wood destroying fungi and insects—study them in the laboratory—search for a practical means of combating their attack. They have set out armies of stub polos in Mis- sissippi, Colorado and New Jersey where altitude, climate and soil vary widely.' At regular intervUk/ they inspect these poles to learn which woods and preservatives are best. :• Such scientific thoroughness is onfe reason why. Bell System plant becomes more effici sat each yeju’. And why telephone service is so dependable. I BELL SYSTEM ® TAKE A TRIP HOME BY TBLBPHONB .TONIGHT AT HALF-PASt BIGHT I