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ACCOUNTAKTSTO
MAKE INSPECTION
TRIP TO HOUSTON
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Arrangements Have
Made For The Gi
Visit and Inspect
Different Basin
cents.
A and M Artillery Is
Not To Be Motorized
Sixteen senior and two graduate
students specialising in account
ing and statistics will visit a num
ber of Houston business establish
ments on their annual inspection
trip which lasts from Monday.
April 16, to Wednesday, the 18th; | placed, - the
The recent plans for motorisa-
tlon of the Field Artillery, which
provides trucks and tractors for
the moving of light artillery, will
To not effect the Field Artillery of
t A and M for some time to come.
('(HV However, the course in Military
Science will have in its curriculum
a few points of the motorised bat
tery. »
Pert Sam Houston is undergoing
the change from horses to trucks,
and a gradual replacement in the
whole standing army will follow.
After The regulars have been re-
National Guard and
T. W. Leland. head of the depart.-
ment, has made reservations for
the group at the Rice Hotel at a
complimentary rate.
The itinerary while in the city
includes the following places:
Hughes Tool Co.; Foley Bros., de
partment store; National Bank of
Commerce; Humble Oil and Refin
ing Co.; Federal Land - Bank;
County Auditor’s office; Anderson-
Clayton; and Lykes Bros, and Rip
ley, shippers. X
- The group will be shown through
the plants and offices of the var
ious concerns and have been in
vited to inspect the accounting
systems and records' employed at
each place.
The Hughes Toqf Co., the largest
manufacturing plant in Houston,
manufactures valves, bits, drills,
and other oil ^rell supplies and
asachinery. The company employs
more than two thousand men at
this time and is operating on a
twenty-four hour basis in order to
fill orders. Howard Hughes, well
known as the producer of several
R O T. C will be motorised. The
“horse countries”, such aa Texas
and Oklahoma, will doubtlessly be
the last to be motorised, so A and
M jfaed not fear the loss of its
horseflesh for some time to come.
ROTC INSPECTION—
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when the system of rating was
change^ the school was rated ex
cellent. ‘The corps is prepared for
the inspection this year, for it is
in I much better condition than it
w^s this time last year, according
toit olonel Emery.
DODD SPEAKS ON
STATISTICS AT 1
SEMINAR MEETING
Averages or Means As Con*
hI roc ted For Specific Pur
poses Discussed by Univer
sity of Texa
Dr. E. L. Dodd, professor of
mathematics at the University of
Texas, was the guest speaker for
a meeting of the Texas A and M
Science Seminar last Monday night.
His subject was; “Average* or
Means a* Constructed for Specific
Purposes.”
Dr. Dodd discussed common use*
for averages or means, such as
their uar to engineers in solving
problems and alas their uses as ap
plied to financial problems and
other matters of general use.
This lecture was in the nature of
an "exchange lecture,” as Dr. C, C*
Doak of the A and M staff, talked
before a meeting of the university
seminar recently.
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Ott, and J- B. Heinen, also of Dal
las.
Ov^r 65 per cent of the intercol
legiate matches were won by the
Aggies, (his year, the matches be
ing held: with about 66 teams in
in the -United States# The av
erage tot the year alho places
Hildebrand, star Cleveland pit
cher, was an All-American basket
ball player at Butler University in
Indianapolis during the session of
1929.
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At Banquet Sund
The annual Houston Club B
quet, given bf the Houston M<
er’s Club, took place Sunday
noon in the banquet room of
Mess Hall with Dr. T. O. W
president of the college as
speaker.
Urging a continuance of the
tom. Dr. WsltSn stressed the
of parent-tedcher re la
Understanding between these
groups of people is a valuable As
set to harmontr in student life, .lie
said.
Music for the occasion was fet-
nished by the Serenaders.
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Satisfy Those
Desires
For
Good Food
Parkhill’s Cafe
An investigation at tb Univer
sity of Iowa shows tha; one of
eleven campus engagements result
in murriAga,
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spectacular motion pictures, has them within the high rifle
succeeded his father in the busi- teams m the country, wfiich com
pletea an unusually successful
erson-Clayton, the world’s year. Results of the Hearst laptch
largsst cotton merchants, has will be Announced the latter -part
modern warehouses in Houston of next Week,
that extend ntare than a mile and
a half in lengt i. They are floored
with concrete and are so thorough
ly fireproof that the company has
received a double “A” rating on
all; insurance covering the build-
ings. It ia interesting to note
that last year Anderson-Clayton
bought a little more than one-third
of the entire cotton crop produced
in this country, this included the
total production of Texas. Okla
homa. and Louisiana. An inter
esting problem that confronts the
accounting offices of this firm is.
that the company itself is divided
lata- two distinct parts. One part
of the company buys and holds the
ootton while the other part sells
the product to the world. Because
of this arrangement it is necei
to draw up separate profit and
•tatoments for each division.
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WEAR
Michigan State College is con- .
sidering s football course for men
and women.
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An anCi-pun society has been
organised by students at the Ste
vens Institute of Technology to
deal with advocates of “ths lowest
‘ o'
form of h»Yi»or.”
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You tan be assured
of that well dreas-
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RESILIENCY! j
COME-BACK!
RECOVE RYI
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Hang it up over-night, sad the wrin
kles bounce out. The suit comes back
to its normal beauty and shape, al
most as well as if pressed with a iron.
This is due not to any added finish
which might vanish in the laundry...
but to new developments in the actual
conttruction of tbt fabric
The wrinkle-hating, crease-holding 7
quality of the new 1934 Palm Beach
and in smooth, unfurry yarns which
repel dirt and dust, combine to keep
down upkeep. Now you can stay cool
and smart all summer at low cost. In
white and many colors. StylisUy tai
lored by GOODALL. Fully pre-uinmk.
*18.50
At Your Clothier's
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GOODALL COMPANY* CINCINNATI
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• Showing how Palm Beach Suits rotain thair smooth linos. Each of these summer suits,
made of four totally different summer fabrics, was subjected to precisely the same mussing treatment,
t Two sets of photographs were takm: (1) immediately after mussing; (2) after hanging the suits up
over-night. The Palm Beach Suit not only wrinkled or mussed less than the others... but also showed
truly amazing facility in the matter of “automatic ret overy.” (Sm actuallu tack can phot tu Uft
ibou, mult, after boapug,) ^
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PALM BBACH SUMMBB SUIT NO. a SUMMIK SUIT NOi 9 SUMMIB SUIT NpL 4
RESULTS OF WRINKLING TESTS ON PALM BEACH AND OTHER SUMMER SUITS
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Rewrite men on newspapers may
lose their jobs when the teletype
writer system is perfected, pre
dicted W. C. Roberts, former
tor 4|r thf Minneapolis Star.
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5PRING IS
UERE...1 SAW
THE. NEW
Va rsitytowns
to store
Mr. Robin has long been a
harbinger of. spring. What
baa puzzled us tho' is - - -
who tells the robin ? And now
we know that he takes his
cue from
Varsity-tew a Clothes
We’re saying “Spring is
here” with a swell lot of Var-
siyt-towns . . . and they’re
“birds’’!
$25.00
Taloa-Ta
tra Trout
$4.50
With Talon-Tailored
Extra Trousers
Bryan and Collage
’houses
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Everything that Science knows
•bout is used in making Chesterfields.
, One thing we do is to buy mild,
ripe tobaccos and then lock up these to
baccos in modern storage warehouses
to age and mellow like rare wines.
It takes about 3 years to age the
tobaccos for your Chesterfield, for
Time does something to tobacco that
neither man nor machine can do.
ware,
It means something to keep 70
million dollars worth of tobacco in
storage. It means just this:
We do everything possible
to make Chesterfield the
cigarette that*s milder, the
cigarette that tastes better.
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