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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1933)
FRONT BASEMENT | i t 1\ , i VOLUBIE XXXII Published Weekly By The Students oi The A M. J| COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, XABCH 2 — < of Texas r W : A. NUMBER M I!' \ LittleiPossibility of Beer l eing Sold On A & M Campos If Texas Should Repeal Prohibition Students Will Have To Go To Bryan Or Wellborn To Get Beverage T Law With the official'nanetion of the congreM of the United States al ready placed on SJZ r T beer, many of the states in the union are pre paring to welcome back to their cities the old fashioned beer gar den and possibly the saloon. Just how many states will be “wet” is still a matter of conjecture but it is hardly possible that the people of the state of Texas will let down the barriers and permit the open flow of beer. Texas was a “dry' state before the national prohibi lion amendment was added to the constitution and it will probably be a “dry” state when that amend ment is repealed. Much comment has ^een heard — regarding the influence that beer would have upon the student body of A and M if its salt was per mitted on the campus. It is not in the least possible that intoxicants of any kind will ever be placed at a point of access to the students |lf;any state-owned institution re gardless of what action the citisen- ry of the state might take on the matter. If the people of the state should ever vote contrary to their past convictions and legalise beer ^ Texas there would still be a law to fall back on in the segre gation of that beverage and edu- ■ gation. Under this law, it is a criminal offense to sell intoxicating bev erage of any Jund within a‘radius of five miles.of a state owned in stitution. It is hardly possible that Texas wiU ever go so far as to repeal that law and place beer fn the laps of their college men and women. But if they should, the is- future, sue would not be at an end, for the president of the college and the board of directors would have the ■Mgr to enact a regulation that would be a prototype of this law as far as A and M College is con- eeraed. And it is within reason to expect _^af h a regulation to be* forthcoming should circumstances Any angle the situation is view ed from, ipTuve* the same picture of events that the legalising of beer in Texas would paint. Students of A and M will have to journey at least as lar as Bkyan or Well born to secure legal beer and pos sibly that limit wil be extended to out of the state of Texas. IMongaled Center From Bry an la Elected Captain of ; 1914 Basketball Team. Joe Merka. Aggie two-year let ter mah from Bryan, was elected captaifi of the Texas Aggie basket-' ball t*™ for the 1933-34 season at t messing of his fellow-lettermen last Wednesday night. The elec tion w*s followed by an ire cream suppe^ given by the vanity basket- I lOiuon sw runicuo « mm in b.,, c ^ h John g in the Being l sed C idata Af- morjaijGynmmduna. where many of ter Lengthy Delajj. Aghest cage games of the past season were played. Mer|a is the second captain for Addition To Athleti< After many weeks IMant la if waiting and wondering on the | art of the( the n J [t ye . r from Brytllt ChaHU , students, the new swin ming pool I Cummjngh having been elected to that was recently add pd to the Ind the Cadet 1933 football team athletic plant of the c .liege was A * '•***'* ** Bryan High opened Monday* and m my swim- School football team, < ummings mers took advkatag* . it the oc won •£* Ut * hon ® r • ** U<k,e ^ casion to takejtheir fi wt pluage PT ** y<*rs ago of the year, tbie pool has been Tho«<gh imunes. lack of condi completed for some tirap with the abd the “flu" kept him from exception of a few ml(or deUils Ph*>ind his best durinf the past A^ies To Play Two Game Series With Beaumont Farmer Nine Ta Meet 1932 Texas League (ha m pi on > Friday and Saturday. The undefeated Ttttas Aggies, pushing onward at a faster and faster pace as the weather gets warmer. wiH entertain the Beau mont Exporters, 1933* Texas Los gue champions, Friday and Satur day afternoons in a tiro-game se ries on the Kyle Field diam+nd. Friday’s game will start at 4:00 o’clock and Saturday's at 3:00 o’clock. * I The tilts will be in' the nature if a return visit, as the Aggies split a two-game serifs with the Exporters at Beaumoit the past Duce’s Bright Son but these were dorroctoc last week and the student! were ajdmitted to the pool Mondgir. * At the preseit time, only stu dents are being admitted to the new tank as there sti 1 remains many details to be work ed out re garding swimming time. A system of forty-five, migute per ods is be ing used with gne group leaving care for the campus peo| le as well as the students of the tollege. Announcement of the iwtaiming houcs for the residents • the mm- pus will be madf someti me in the season, Merka was rated second best center in the conference for the second consecutive year. In additiop to winning honors on the basketball court, he also lettered ia track last year. Mertm's fellow-Iettermen for the past season are: Captain Joe Moody, Corpus ChriaM; Clarence (Bull) Marcum, Eatalina; J. E. the pool before the mat enters it. (Jocko) Roberta, TerreU; Earl When it is felt that, cone itions will Horn. Dallas, Griffin ! Breaxeale, permit, a schedule wil w worked Crocked; and Ellia (Frenchy) out by the athletic defx rtment to 1 Stanaei; Guerday, Louisiana. Other Preparations Engineers' Near Coi Program WiU Include! A Nov- elty Floor Show Presented By Vaudrville Tea^is. Double Victory la Also Won From Two Southern Meth odist University Teams. Plans are complete ai d prepa rations for the annual Lngitieer’a Ball to be heldj Friday night. March 31, in the Memoiia! Gym nasium from 0 till 2 Sri i nearing completion, according to < L R. Gill. Paris, chairman of the di nee com mittee. The program fot the even- Upholding the negative aide of ing will include S novel ty floor the curr ^ nt p* Kappa Delta debate show presented by two vaudeville q UW ,tion. Resolved: That the Unit- latter part of this week, according teams from Houston. Th< dance ia state* should agree to the can- to O. H. Smith, San Antogio, chair* to be played by t|e < am >us Sere- r eUation of the Inter-Allied gov- man of the decorations esmmittee. naders and a cetorful dscorating ernmentgl war debts. J. W. Wells, With spring recess only three Track Meet Between Farmers and l^onghorns To Precede Aggie-Beaumoat Ball Game. •; ^ j ;l—T Aggie track and field fans will have their jftrst rval sight of their maroon anil white ieam in action Saturday atftern K>n !down at Kyle Field when Coach Frank Ander son sends H»s pron-avs against the University of Texas Longhorns in the first dgal meet pf the season. The series of sixteen track and fidd event! will get Under way at 1:3# o’clock and wjll end before the Aggie-Beaumont diamond tilt begins. [ i .Although the Aggies' bright ; hopes of a championship track year have been dimmed somewhat theough ineligibility and injuries, the Cadets still are rated as hav- j Ing one of the three beat teams ia the Southwest Conference. The others are the Longhorns and the Rice Owls. Ed Wicker and W. B. Hooaer, star dash men of the freshmen the past year, are the prinripai ineligible and injured men respectively. j ."The Longhorns are “doped” tc scheme is to be earned nit. San Antpnio, and D. L. Tisinger. ^ According to thff pre*< nt plans. Garland, defeated R. P, Bennett, the Gymnasium floor Wi 1 be en- j r , and Dudley Loop, rfpresenta- closed by a large modernistic En- tives of the Forensic Society at gineer Castle situated lx hind the Centenary College, Tuesday even- Olthartra, moss around t ie edges i nf », Marfh 21, in the leclure room of the floor and g ceilinj' of bal- of the Physics Building. Professor loons. Decoration# alto include colored flood lights that will be directed on the dadee fk)o| *. Preceeding the «iance. a banquet will be given for the fingineers with dates at 6:30 in the banquet room of the Mess Hall. Tie Cam pus Serenaders ar« to pun' for the banquet and the program will in- chad*, songs by the torn I singer vaudeville team that is Ip enter tain later at the dance. The largest number of visitors to ever attend one of the El gineer'• Dances is expected, as 110 cou pies are already registered for the banquet. Milner Hgll will be rated from Friday afterna >n until Sunday noon in order to tgke care of the visiting ladles ELECTORAL COLLEGE (Continued on page 3) to abolish the lam#‘duck In Con gross and to have the net r preri dent take office early in anuary after his election. Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska m now renewing his tffqrii to hi ve the electoral college abolished. FRONT BASEME: members of the varsity squad in clude Ray Murray. Mercedes; Earl Sheppard, Port Arthur; Bob Con nelly. Ifa* Worth; Toifmie Hutto, Coahoma; and J. C. (Grandpa) Gregory, Tyler. llurny, Hutto, and Gregory squadmen, will probably be candi dates next year with the three let- termen, Merka, Breasvale, and StanseL Last lesson's third place was the , beat re<ord made by the Aggie ‘ five siiKe 1923. when they last won ‘ the Southwest Conference cham- pionship. The Exporters, according to re ports emanating from it heir train ing camp, have high hopes of go ing places in the coming Texas League race despite the fact that several of their stars if the JW-' season have packed their kit bags and graduated to the Majors. A- niong these were “Hahk” Green berg. lanky first baseman; “School boy" Rowe, one of the. best hurl- Complete Court For Cotton And Pageant Announced f T I I If . • 2nd Annual Cotton Affair To ; w * j l| '. “ t ‘J ; -! Be Held In Mess Hall Annex [ I* ‘ | t ii f On Evening of April 7th Two Games Won By Aggie Nine Last Week-End .fRtorlo, eldest son of Premier Mussolini af-llaly. who at fourteen, la the editor of tbs paper at the school be attends. He la also said ta have wrlttaa the script for a mo lion picture soon to be produced. (Continued on Page 4) Vk(cries Over Navasota and Houaton Teams Are Added To Farmer*’ Win Column. Duchesses Have Been Chosen To Represeat A Number of Texas’ Cities. FOR R. V. Tosch Is Chosen To Edit 1933-34 Aggie Countryman * j j V. G. Young to Succeed Percy Sharp j‘Aa Business Man ager. AGGIE DEBATERS ffll IN CONTEST WITH CENTENARY C. A. Tfjsch, Mesquite, of Com- 1 pa"y HhlMMtnr* was elected edi- Music Committee la Segotiat* tor of th 4 ,t| B- 34 Tex «* ***** ing With Ligon Smith To Countrymajh, quarterly publication Play for Annual Dances. ot the Schdol of Agriculture. Tosch ! will 8uccse| E. C, Buie, Grandview. Final arrangetnents tor an or- ** editor. ?V. G. Young, Refu- chestra to play for the R. V. dan- g»o. w#!« elacted business nuan ces, April 20-22, are nearing com- »g*r of tlje publication, assumes pletion, according to W. p. Mach#- the j>ositioti held this year by P. mehl, Bellville, ( hairman; of the *■ Sharp, | Morningsport. Louisi- music committee. A contract to * na play for the festivities has been agnckltural student inter- sent to Ligon Sm|th, now playing **ted in rkpreasnting his depart- at the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth. ment "bould sen Tosch immedia- and it is expected that the final tely. negotiations will have beOn reached Yhe newjstaff will edit the next by the end of this week. issue of t!|e magaxinc which wfli Court preparations arq well urv distribu^d on April 15. der way, according to L. wj 1 Storms, king of this yestr's court. Mrs. Hooker of Waco ife design ing and making the costumes to be worn by the queen and duch esses of the court, and it is ex pected that the girls will’collect in Waco soon for a fitting. The work on the decorations will begin tli# weeks off extensive drillibg is b#-j ing carried on. J. G. Adams presided k* chair man. Debaliig the same question. Wells and Tisinger also defeated two members of the Southern Me thodist University Debgte Club last Thursday evening »t Dallas, while I. A Handler, Galvyston, and R. B. Jenkins. De Leon, ‘were giv en a 2 t# 1 decision over another team frofn S. M. U. here last Thursday evening. . i JI Work Proceeding On Invitations Says O’Connell All Copy Beady Except Com mencement Day Program. Committee Head States. R. E. O’Coanetl of Waco, chair* man of the senior invitation com mittee composed ed L. W.< Storms, San Antonio, H. Durst Ht Crock ett, and R. H. MeLemoreJ Dallas, announced today that extept for Civil Engineers Will Go On Inspection Trip To Dallas April 17-18 the commencement day program, .1 . • all copy has been gathered for the At a recent meeting of the sen- senior invitationa. tor members of the A and M Chap- Any senior who trill graduate in ter of t#e American Society of June but who has not applied fot* , Civil Enginers, the aifeual in- a degree ia requested to see O’- , spection trip was scheduled for the Connell before Saturday if he wish- AGGIELAND AND SERENADERSTO PLAY WAR DANCE Winner df War Dance Wit' Play for Laat C'orps Dance of Yeai* On May 6th. Arrangement* have been made to have th# Aggieland Orchestra and the Ctonpus Serenaders, both local orgarpzations. play for the corps danc«f to be held in the Mess Hall Anne*:' on Saturday, April 8, according to Don Elliott, social secretary of the Senior Claas. The dance will lh> in the form of a war- dance and (jhe hours will be from 9 until 12. j Much discussion Has been heard 1 regarding t^ie merits of the two orchestra, #nd an opportunity is to. be a fforged them to prove or disprove th# opinions of the stu dents. Printed ballots will be dis tributed among the dancers, who will vote, fir the orchestra they prefer an# turn in the ballots on their way tot qt the close of the dance. The brganixation receiving the largest {number of votes will be declared the most popular with the students inf the college and will be engagad ! to play for the last Corps dance bf the year on May C, Elliot Mid }, . I. |ii i I tail ■ Coach Roswell Higginbotham’s Aggie nine continued to add to its #nd win column by taking pre-season games from the Navasota All- Stars and the Philco team of Hous ton last week. The Aggies jour neyed to Navasota on Thursday, March 23, and defeated the home town boys by a score of 5-1. Moon and Shear divided the pitching du es in this game with Captain larvey handling the catching as signment On Saturday, March 25, the Philco team was defeated by a score of 3-0 on Kyle Field. Shaw started on the mound for the Ag gies and allowed the visitors one bit in the four and one-half innings he worked. Mooty relieved Shaw and gave up two hits and struck out seven in the last four and one- half inpings of the game. Garvey and Steves saw service behind the plate. The Philco team is made up of former southwest conference players and promises to develop into a strong amateur club. In contrast to the game of the previous week, in which the Cadets hit hard and regularly, the Aggie batters were not so mighty in these games but a sufficient dum ber of hits was garnered by the Cadet* to win behind the excellent early season pitching of the mound corps. Beautiful young women clad in gowns depicting the various appli cations of their native state’s major crop will be presented at the court of the second annual Cotton Ball and Pageant which will be reigned over by Mias Phyllis Matlock, Frost, Presides# of the Students' Association ot the Texas College For Women (CIA), as Queen Cot ton. and Allen FI Bryant, Corsi cana, President of the Agronomy Society, a« King Cotton. The Ball will be held in the mesa hall annex the evening of April 7, Under the direction of Mrs. John P. Wheeler, social chairman tor the event. Misses Lille Mae Wdlton and Caroline Carpenter have been selected as Maids of Honpr to the Queen and will be esrertud by Edwin Bartel, Comfort, sad Henry Graves, Cor sicana. The Duebesde* and the cy Nell pie”, and R. heimer; Miss “Miss Bryan’ Texas cities which they have been chos en to repre escorts as Cox as **! Brendle, Mary are Hated with their : Miss Anita ton’’, and F. W. Colorado; Mias ta Brosseau as i tc.irte*'. and E. W. Colglazier, df that city; Miss Nan- Dikentan as “Miss Tern- Marshall, Heiden- 3 atience Chance as and E. O. Wore- Marksmen For Hears! Trophy Match Selected Aggies Have Good Chance of Placing In Contest Accord ing To Rifle Coach. bach, San AnUmio; Miss Susanna Moehr as “Miss Austin”; and E. J. Willson, Sherman; Miss Dorothy Hedges as “Miss College Station”, and R. J. Gwir* Oenaville. Duchesses from Dallas, Fprt Worth, and Waco have not yet been announce#. The completct list of the Ladies of the Court and their escorts ia as follows: Mi!* Mary McClellan, (Continued on page 4) Y.M.C.A. Offers Passes To See “Mr. Robinson Crusoe” winning CORRECTION * Having won his ten-yet r fight week of the Spring Holidays, April es to have his name on the invita- Last w , 17 to 19, 4>>d will be held in Dallas and Fort Worth. j v According to E. J. “Pop” Will- son. Sherman, president of the A and M Chapter, one day will be spent in pallas and two days in Fort W< lions. As orders are to be taken ion quoted within the next few wetoa. O’-! as participai Connell advises that senior* be con- ing'at the F sidering the number of inflations position he they will want The date which or- Holmes, due ders may be gives will be annoum ily, was unable ta compete in the ed in the Daily Balletin. f * fttohr jodgfato. ’■ issue of the Battal- V. Holmes, Gonsalee, ia the dairy judg- 5lock Show and Ex- in Fort Worth, a death in hi# fam- With expectations of one of the three places in Hearst Trophy Competition, Texas A and M Rifle Team began firing last week for the Hearst Trophy Match and will continue until Tuesday, April 4, at which time they will have completed the firing for this match. According to First Lieutenant J. E. Reiersop. Coach of the A and M Rifle Team, the members of the first team include Roy Huffaker, T. J. Guerdrum, G. H. Samuels, G. R. Rhine, all of San Antonio; and W. 8. Sinclair, Galveston. With two positions on the second team still left td be filled by the re sults of today* firing between Jack Harding. Dallas, and C. J. An derson, Lawn, for first place on the second team, the teams will be complete for all positions in the Hearst Match. O. A. Seward, Gal veston; C. A. Tosch. Mesquite; and Kenneth Tucker ot Burkbumott, will fill the second, third, and fourth posi’io:*. respectively on the second teha. * Following the Hearst Trophy For the ten best lists ef tools or mechanical devices that one would want if mafooitrd on an uninhab ited island, theJY.M.C.A. will give passes to the show, Douglas Fair banks in “Mr. Robinson Crusoe,” Saturday night i at the Assembly Hall. These lists must be left at the Battalion office not later than Fri- th * day noon. The Battalion staff will the set ss judge* of the contest. A Entries Win Many Prizes At Stock Show Livestock Wins More Than One Thousand In Chah and Large Number of Trophies. , / : I . t -* Placing in ev#ry division of the contest in which they were shown, * the A and M livestock entries won t more than a thousand dollars in cash in additloa l<> a large number of trophies at the Southwestern Exposition sad Fat Stock Show in Houstoa recently, and placed in twenty-aix off ' •Pf’ 4 ! twenty-eight classes in which ithey were shown in the Fort Worth contest. Included in the winnings nt the A .nd U Rifk fort WorUl >ho< ^ f|m pUc . Team will begin firing for the Na tional Intercollegiate Champion ship. The team entered in this meet will consist of fifteen men. in both car-lot dtthdoh.and the grand champion carload of hogs. (Continaed on Page 2)