The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, September 26, 1934, Image 1

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VOLUME XXXIV
PnMisiicd Weekly By TTie StodenU of Tke A. A M. College of Tetuter >0 ± , K- ^ k ^ *» ^ ^ i ^
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COLLEGE STATION. TEXAS, «KPTFMREn *»« ia*u
IBER 2€i 1934
NUMBER 2
ENROLLMENT IS NEARLY THREE '
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TWO HUNDRED FEDERAL STUDENTS
. ENROLLED FROM TRANSIENT CAMPS
AMONG AGGIE! GRIDSTERS
Many of These Men Possess
Previous College Training
While Others Entered on
Individual Approval.
By L. I. Webb
I’ersoanel Director of Transient
Bureau
Two hundred student* have en
rolled in the ^|Hege under the
aupervition of the Federal govern
ment and are scheduled for full i
time work in their respective
courses. Two-thirds of them have
an educational background while
the remaindOT were admitted on in
dividual apitfoval.
The men ^floated by the govern
ment for this project were drawn
from the eight thonsand transient
men in Texas camps. The group is
cosmopolitan in character and
many of the men possess unusual
educational backgrounds, being
classified as seniors, juniors, and
sophomores at well as freshmen.
These students are carrying
Mess Hall ‘Takes Precedent
Over Other Departments
With One Hundred and Fif
teen Student Waiters.
Out of twelve hundred applica-
lions for work received by the
Student Labor, Committee, six hun
dred and fifty students have been
employed, making it possibe for
them to attend A and M this year, j
according to A G. Bailey, chairman
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STACU
‘TIOAPSON
FORTY PERCENT INCREASE OVER '
LAST TERR, REGISTRAR REPORTS
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in Good Style Throughout
To these stalwart Aggies is partly attributed the easy win which A and M encountered last Satur
of Student Labor Committee. Of * day afternoon when they met the eleven of Sam Houston State Teachers College on Kyle Field.
the six hundred and fifty jobs,
AGGIELAND ELECTS.
NEW PLAYERS FOR;
COLLEGE DANCES
direction of the college. This
program fulfills the government
requirements for the relief granted
which includes their maintenance,
clothes, and incidental supplias.
Since eating arrangements have
been made at the old soldier’s bar
racks; the mess hall has been newly
furnished throughout.
i This transient project, which is,
incidentally, the only one of its
kind in the country, is one of the
educational features sponsored un
der the direction of Marshall B.
Thompson. State Transient Direc
tor. In turn the Texas Transient
Bureau is a relief unit of the Texas
Commission with its plan and or
ganization affiliated with, 'and
similar to, the Federal Transient
Bureaus 'throughout the United
States.
This project consists in organiz
ing the two hundred men from
Transient Camps over Texas into
a division unit here at the College
for the purpose of providing them
with a year’s college trainiqg-
Dr. Ora Minor, Educational Su
pervisor of Transient Projects, is
assisting Mr. Thompson in organ
izing the project and Dr. D. A.
Russell, head of the sociology de
partment, is responsible for its de
velopment. The final arrangements
for the division were made by Dean
Bolton acting under the direction
of the Executive Committee and
W. T. Pratt, field representative,
of the Texas Transient Bureau.
Mr. Pratt has been on the
campus for the past two weeks
assisting the divisional personnel
in completing all necessary ar
rangements. Mr. E. P. Veillette,
State purchasing officer for the
Texas Transient Bureau, has been
acting in the capacity of Division
Director while Mr. L. L Webb, a
former graduate of A and M, has
bean appointed Personnel Direc
tor.
to jgoverrmenl supervision.
The meat hall, with one hundred
and fifteen studknt waiters, takes
precedent ovdr all other depart
ments in the ipuniber of cadets em
ployed. Eighty-six student jani
tors are used in policing the aca
demic building* and dormitories,
while employment is given to fifty
in the department of landscape
art. The remainder are employed
in groups of two and three by the
various departments.
t omsdering the great number
of unofficial jobs about the cam
pus and Brytr\ which will be filled
by students, the total number of
men helping tk, pay their way
through school with work should
exceed a thousand, stated Mr.
Bailey. . I
According vte the ruling of the
committee,! no regular student will
be allowed to earn mare than
twenty five dollars per month
from the collage fund, nor more
than twenty dollars from the gov
ernment fund. The maximum earn
ing power allowed a day student
has been rai-o-d from eight to ten
dollars.
No openings are now listed with
the labor committee. *
Hillel Ckb Holds Meeting
The Hillel Oob held its first
meeting of this season Sun
day night, in the Asbury room
of the library. The new mem
bers of the club were intro
duced, after vriiieh Dr. Tauben-
haus addressed the old and new
members, and outlined the purpose
of the club and the benefits to
be derived from it The program
for the year was discussed, and
general plans were made. It was
stressed that each member should
attend the meetings with unfailing
regularity.
After a thorough tryout of all
those interested in being with the
Aggieland Orchestra last week,
Pat Bellinger, San Antonio, man
ager of the orchestra, announced
that he had selected eleven to play
in permanent positions, with a pos
sibility ef two more, members. The
Aggieland is trying to obtain a
girl singer, possibly the same
young lady that made such a hit
last year and probably will add
another sax player to the band.
At their first rehearsal, Sunday,
in the mess hall banquet room all
eleven of tbe “boys’* were present
Bellinger said that he had just
received a number of new hits and
that quite m It* more were on the
pay. All of‘the late numbers will
be ready for the fall dances.
The boys representing the Ag-
gieiand Orchestra are Pat Bell-j
inger; H. A. Mueller, Kennedy;
Maurice Cramer, Pharr; all in the
brass section; Russell Hillier, Bry
an; J. D. “Wiggles’* Smith, Hous
ton; and Chet White, College Sta
tion; complete the sax team; Os
car “Stooge" Kuehne, San Antonio,
pianist; Allen Rische, Dallas, gui
tar; George Linakie, Dallas, drums;
Kinney Regier, Bryan, violin; Doc
Zedlits, Ballenger, bass.
Bellinger could ''got announce
definite plans as the band had just
been organised. He said that en
gagements with several clubs had
been made for the Christmas Holi
days and several country club
dances were booked for the near
future.
Not Dead Yet Says
Mighty Breedlove
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Three days ago the mighty
Breedlove, Aggie football star and
self-made man la^Mfihstx to
Breedlove) was dead, and what is
more, was Hkely to ster dead. The
most exact information available
conveyed the idea that he w*a shot
and killed by, some farmer Under
circumstances about which many
speculated. Even in death, how
ever, Breedlove believed that such
a he-man as he had , no business
with a lily on h^s chdst. This tel
egram was received alter the Bat
talion made inquiries concerning
the matter: < BREEDLOVE IS
BEST IN THE PANHANDLE
REPORT ALL WROHG DOING
FINE REGARDS 110 TEC CA
DET CORPS—BREEDLOVE.
Library Institutes;
Longer Hour Policy
The college library will be open
between the hours of p p. m. and
7 p. m. on week days for the first
time in the history of the insti
tution thus maintaining the gen
eral atmosphere of Unusual ad
vancement, according tx> Dr. T. F.
Mayo, librarian. Funds! allotted by
the F E R A made this act pos
sible. m *
Seven students, as a 1 result, will
be given jobs at the library R>
sides arranging books and assist
ing puzzled knowledge-seekers,
these students will devote much
time to book-binding. Mr. Ifayo
SERENADERSSTART
YEARLY ACTIVITY
CAZEL REPORTS
Gube CaseM. San Antonio, this
yearjs director of the Campus Ser-
enadyre announced a complete re
organisation of the campus band
Sunwr. Gus Hersick, La Grange,
is the new business manager for
the hand, ( szell and Hersick have
chosen the best of a number of
prospective players and say that
the Berena<McU promise to make
music as never before. Last year
Casell was pianist for the A. and
M. Glee Club, .taking his new job
as Director for the Serenaders
this pear.
At: the present the Serenaders
have, ten members. Besides Her
sick. and Casell there Is E. M.
Dillo*, Dallas, saxaphone; Wayne
Durham, Bryan, saxaphone; How
ard Wilson, Houston, saxaphone;
Pet* Dixon, Wichita Falls, trum
pet; Hubert Dickey, Fort Worth,
trumpet; Louis Nedbalek, Bryan,
trombone; Fish Strong,* Bryan,
base; Ed Teel,* Dallas, drums. Ca
sell tackles the ivories and Her
sick taxes the sax lead with the
‘music, makers, j
No definite engagements are
ready >for publication at the pres
ent tipw; however Casell let it be
knowti that the bays have some en
gagement* on [the line and will
announce them within the next
few weeks, * t \
One i TlKNtsaiid Three Hun
dred and Nin#ty-Four Are
New Students, j
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I Two thousand nine hundred and
thirty-one students,! an increase of
forty percent over the enrollment
of last year, are now registered
j foK the regular 1984 fall session
t f the A and M College, announc
ed E. J. Howell, registrar of the
school. On* thousand three-hand-
j red Snd ninety-four of thi* mim-
New Kitchen Equipment |„- b " * re •twtw.t- ." Incr^w
sure* Fried 1‘otatoen Dime 11 e-wet orer thet m*.
i**ration of last ydar.
This enrollment of almost three
thousand students is the largest
ever known in the history of the
college. The registration for the
1928-29 session, which over the
period of both )semester*, reached
two thousand eight-hundred and
seventy students, rivals more
closely than any other year the
number in attendance this year.
With the number expected to en
ter at mid-term, the registration
for the year should exceed three
thousand students. | ,
Credit fer this great increase
in enrollment is attributed to the
student body of last year, who
gave time and effort unsparingly
in contacting* prospective students
for tfMB ymr, Mr. Howell stated..
The movement which was first
inaugurated two years ago pro
vided appointments with senior
classes of various high school over
the state for A and M cadets who
had been graduated from those
schools only a few years previous
ly. A description of A and M and
its educational facilities as well as
financial information about the
school was presented by these
spokesmen of the college. l
This increase in ennollment dem
onstrates clearly that the prestige
of this college has risen consider
ably in the estimatiot of the peo
ple of the state. This fact alone
will cause future prospective A and
M students to consider entering
this dollege more seriously than
the mass of high school graduates
have In the past. Such a phenome
nal increase in enrollment is bound
to hate its beneficial effects, the
college authorities agrht.
Part of this iacrease is due to
the fact that the Federal govern
ment !r maintaining two hundred
transient, students here as a part
of the relief program. Although
this project is fundamentally ex
perimental, the government is
closely watching the progress
made by these students, and if the
plan is successful, this college will
receive wide-spread applause sine* r
the eyts of the ebuntty are con-
Gafloline and Kducatkal
The#e are approximately 1»000,-
000 school teachers in the United
States and an equal number of per
sons employed in the making and
distributing of ' automobiles. Bui
predicts that all book* will soon the grpat American public spends
be In excellent condition and that substantially more annually on
the library force will be more gasoline than (he entire edoca-
capable of giving better service, tional bill amounts to!"
Frencl) fried potatoes, the favor
ite dish of the cadet corps, will
be served many times more this
year thah in the past, according to
Mess Hall authorities. This new ar
rangement waif made possible by
the innUllatiot^thi* past summer,
of automatic temperature-eontrol
fryers, ihiih provide • fifty per
cent saiing in shortening and a
considerable saving also in fuel.
Most important, however, is the
greater "degree of sanitation pro
vided by the modern design and
manufacture of the fryers.
Improvement in the mess hall
plant is by fhr not limited to the
above installation. A battery of in
sulated and temperature-controlled
ovens have been placed in service,
and arejexpected to reduce shrink
age of roasts and other baked
foods by fourteen to nineteen per
cent. Baking at the even tempera
ture will also produce a more pala
table dish, by preventing drying
out.
Every’, effort has been made to
bring the butcher shop up to the
standard which the plant authori
ties advocate. Tiled walls and floor,
new acr*ea wiring, and new meat
blocks are just a few of the many
improvements in that department.
Metallic paint has been sprayed on
the wallk of the huge meat stor
age room for the prevention of
moisture absorption, which causes
a rapid deterioration of the plaster
and paiiit.
Individual bottles of milk, which
were premised to the corps last
year, will be forthcoming just as
quickly as the dairy is able to com
plete installation of the equipment
necessary to provide this accom
modation The •access of the ser
vice and the length of time that it
will be offered depends entirely up
on the amount of cooperation the
cadet corps offers. If the bottles
are removed from the mess hall
or promiscuously broken, the milk
will agaki be served
without cream.
That some ide*' of the great
amount of food handled in the mess
hall may be obtained: in one week,
ten thousand pounds of meat, fif
teen hundred pounds of chicken,
two drums of salad toil, ten barrels
of shortening, aad seventy cases
of eggs are used.
pitchers centrated on this project.
ATTENTION
Tuny IU M< nfels, editor of the
A and M yearbook, the Longhorn, i.
announced today that all pam who
took pictures at the summer train
ing camps would be required to
have their work in this week.
CHICAGO
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WASHINGTON
“Only a Week to Get Ready”
CN TEW
By TOM BBCWN j L ,
Those cadets bitten with the
wanderlust and susceptible to the
open road fever will get out the
blits and shoe-polish, pack their
grips, and be on their merry way
for the Temple University game in
Philadelphia this October 2. Whin
tbe Maroon and White team trots
out on that football field, they will
have the corps right in back of
them shouting their insides out, as
usual It might b# limited to a
handful of lucky ones, but they will
make enough noias to represent
the Aggies, with the aid of hun
dreds of other Texans, and ex-Ag-
gics who are turning out for
the bif game which taarks the
opening of relations with the big'
time Eastern colleges. October 5th
will see at Temple a loyal and
sizable group shouting for the Tax-
as Aggies.
The former Stqdents Association
Is sponsoring the TEXAS AGGIE
SPECIAL, a train with private
car, for the tr*nsj>ort*tion of
cadets and backers northward to
aa initial game yith the big con
ferences, and possible victory—
even if the Dean of roaches, "Pop"
Warner, is coach of tha* Temple
team.
Those boys are'paying leap than
9100- for the entire trip, expenses
paid. The will invade (tie East
under the leadership of Tom Dooley
and “PeeWee" Burks, aad have one
hilahoos week detag it. They will
eat their meals on the train, sleep
in the private pollman, mix with
the Ex-Students on their way up,
and meet many other Ex's who live
up East and are coming out for
the game. They will pull out Tnea-
day, October 2, on the Sunbeam,
travel the beat roads to Washing
ton where they will lay over until
4 P. M. of the 4th and am that
sights the Capital has to offer an
u
White test its skill with the pig
skin against that of one of the
moot promising teams of the East.
Coach Norton, we understand, does
not put out any weak baciit
teams, so why should we be
ed if we beat the sox off that so-
callsd crack team of Temple’s? A
whole section of the Stadium is
being set aside for the Texas dele
gates and backurs. It win bo one
big combined reunion, cheering sec
tion, get together, and party for
caduts now enjoying A and M, Ex’s
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BURLESQUE!
inquisitive Aggie. Meanwhile the who silently blink the ey* for Aald
pollman will be open for occupancy. Lang Syne, aad Texans who will
Then ho for the game! Where be aching far the found of that
they wiB see the old Maroon and broad accent At 7 p. m. the train
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will get m, poor its contents upon
the staAium, and be ready to carry
a (poseibly) victorious crowd of
hoarse Cadets orv their way to New
York and another big time.
At 7 A. M. eu the 6th they will
rub sorde of the sleep from their
eyes and let as much of New York
la as they can. Arrangements will
be made with the Hotel New York-
, one Of the biggest aad swank
iest thejbig city has to offer. There
they will see sights, throw parties,
meet people, and let Broadway
know that Texas has a word.
Well bet a hgt that Billy Min-
ske’s Bitrlesque on 42nd Street does
its qfota of business
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time. Of course one is not inter
ested in t^e low class entertain
ment; one groea for the experience
—oh yes. Possibly s few bridges
and gold bricks may be bought at
reasonable prices, but that’s all }n
the game. Those who want to take
in one snazzy musical had. better
wire ahead for tickets. Some of
them might pause a moment to
listen to the Communists raws on
Columbus Circle, others might
mount s double-decker and ogle at
the much-reputed Riverside Drive,
take a trip to the jnorbidly over
crowded Coney Island, run up the
Hudson for a look at the Palisades
during that j (geologists* here’s your chance!),
just stand on Broadway and watch
New York assorted milliions am
ble past, eat at a Coffee Pot (a
sensation ia itself), stroll through
Central Park, get lost-in tenement
labrynths of paftt Side, ride the
subs twenty miles for a nickle,
feel tbe rumble of elevateds, teste
tbe awful indifference of that gild
ed metropolis, and get New York's
number.
Then the baseball fans will prob
ably see the World’s Series of Ma
jor League baseball, whkjh will be
held in New York, according to the
way things are going now.
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