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VOLUME XXXIV
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, NOVEMBER 21, 1M4
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NUMBER 10
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Hedgerow Players Received Here
Favorably lo Comedy Presentation
Milne’s “The Romantic Age**
interpreted well
last night
Performing; with amooth finesse.
Jasper Deeter’s Hedgerow company
interpreted the delightful comedy,
"The Romantic Age", with an ex
cellence that can oly be regarded
aa exceptional, and throughout the
entire performance, given in the
Assembly Hall last night, com
manded excited murmuring* of ap
proval from an audience of ap
proximately 1500. Applause at the
end of the last act was little short
of ovation. J,
Played in their Rose Valley thea
tre, outside Philadelphia, since
1925, this comedy has been offer
ed by Deeter’s group well ovjE
ninety times.
Telling of the search for and
discovery of romance in the 20th
century, “The Romantic* Age" was
a great stage hit in London where
Leslie' Howard played the leading
role. Its production by this com
pany has set a record for long
runs of British plays in America,
i The delicate whimsey and ro
mantic reveries of Metisande were
more than played by Prances Tor-
chiana, while Ford 'Nofer, as Ger-
vase Mallory—the practical man
with imagination enough to vis
ualise the beauty and romance of
the world about him—gave an ef
fortlett performance.
Gentleman Susan, the travelling
peddler ef infinite wisdom, played
mor than acceptably well by Deeter
himself, was of no small interest
Mo the audience, t*.
A whole galaxy of comic scenes
presented themselves through the
characters of Harry Sheppard and
Catherine Ricser (the humorous
husband and his semi-hypocon-
' driac wife), while unbound ad
miration attended the accomplish
ed Adrien* Bancker. Walter Wil
liams, David Metcalf, and Mi ram
, Philips, aa they marched’ with
j serene confidence through their
parts.
APPRECIATION
To the Senior Class:
I wish to express the ap
preciation of every member
of the Band fbr the aid given
by the Senior Class in send
ing them to Dallas for the
S M U game. Without this
assistance it would have been
impossible for many to have
gene—so many that leading
the parade or playing at the
game cbuld have been done
only under a big handicap.
We are grateful for this sup
port and offer our sincere
thanks,
FRITZ WEHNER, JR.
; Captain of Band. >
K-DET KAPERS
By
BILL BRADFORD
(
We are wondering why MR.
MATT MARTIN MOSELEY, bet
ter known as “FIRE-CRACKER”
and DEMOLITION EXPERT of
the FLAG WAVERS, didn’t take
the GIRL FREN home from the
CORPS TRIP DANCE in DALLAS
- - - looks like he is letting a
FISH beat his time and is slipping
in his OLD AGE • • • We under
stand that ‘COWBOY" ROBERTS
broke all track records for the
MILE the other nite when some of
his pals, true to an OLD AGGIE
CUSTOM, took him to see MABLE
and complications arose
COACH “ANDY” should look into
the matter • • • MESSRS JACK
WHITEHEAD and BOB BLAIR
were refused admittance to the
FOLLIES in HOUSTON the other
nite 'because they were TOO
YOUNG - - - don’t be discourag
ed boys, you still have a long time
to live • • • MESSRS “CODGER”
BIGGS, “AL” DAVIES. AND
“GOBLER" HERRING were seen
taking in the CARNIVAL BUR
LE8QUE SHOW the other nite in
BRYAN, and from all appearanc
es it seemed that a good time was
being had by all • • • MR. “LAW"
BARTON was being “LEFT OUT
IN THE COLD AGAIN” last
MONDAY nite, when both his early
and late dates “FLEW DE COOP"
with some .other fellows - - - well,
it could have been worse, ho hum,
SO WHAT? • • • MR. “GEORG-
IE” NAGAI, PLAY BOY of “B”
CASTLE BUILDERS, while at
camp this last summer, went to
the matinee shows Which were in
SPANISH dialect although he
could have seen the same show in
ENGLISH at nite for a dime more
anyway, he saved a dime.
His total expenses for the six
week’s camp, not including the
show, was twenty cents boy,
we call that CONSERVATION OF
SOMETHING OR OTHER • • •
“CHARLIE” BELOTE tried to
CHEM SOCIETY
HEARS THREE
TIMELY TALKS
Dr. Jensen Expounds Cosmic
Ray Theories; Porter
talks of Poisons.
We 71 Print It
Write your own editorials!
Though we have already intimated our readiness
to print opinionative articles, written by students, we
make further appeal for student expression.
THE BATTALION will take its own stand on all
popular subjects, but it desires at the same time to.
as nearly as possible, mirror the opinion of the Corps.
As long as the submitted article is written in an
intelligent, respectful manner, concerning any worthy
subject, it will be given space in this newspaper. How
ever, though we will be willing to discuss the matter
privately with the author, we will not publish editor
ials that are written thoughtlessly and caustically.
That A and M students feel deeply is recognised
by everyone, but whether they think with the sapne
industry is a matter for conjecture—although we are
of the honest opinion that there are many students, on
this campus who are quite profound—in ‘'bull-pens.”
But the “bull-pen” is a poor medium for the ex
pression of any worthy opinion, and so we my: "Come
out in the light!” “Bull-pens” are profitable to thc*s<
concerned, but the rest of the student body suffers
In ignorance—and. if criticism is the liquid that
saturates the bread of reason, then it should be eaten
in public, and not in private.
Of all things we wish to avoid is a misfortune
that can easily—too easily—become ours. That is
that the student body might look upon this newspaper
as alien—foreign to cadet opinion.
In order to circumvent any such disaster, ise
make this appeal for your aid.
Write your own editorials! j
Five-Cent Fare On Bus Line
Between Bryan And College “
May Be Offered To Students
Reduction First Suggested by Student Welfare Committee
National Officers
Advocates Active
Student Members
Executive of Society Cites
Advantages of Student
Membership.
The A and M Society of Chem
ical Engineer* met Monday night.
Nov. 5, ia the Chemistry Lecture
Room, where after the reading and
approval of the minutes, three in
teresting talks were delivered. C.
M. Dempwotf, Cleburne, president
of the Society introducing the
speaker*. # |
Dr. F. W. Jensen, sponsor of the
society, spoke to the group about
ths different theories relevant to
cosmic rays. In his discussion he
showed that a desire to know more
about the cosmic ray had instigat
ed the majority of the stratosphere
flights. Dr. Jensen told the group
that the wave length of the cosmic
ray was so short that 12 to 20 of
the rays went 1 through the human
body every second. Hr further
pointed out that if they were
plentiful as light rays they would
heat the earth to a temperature
ten times that of the sup. Dr. Jew
sen concluded his talk by saying
that he expected stratosphere
flights to continued until a more
definite knowledge of the cosmic
ray is obtained.
J. A. Johnston, Trinidad, one
of the students attending the
Chemical 'Warfare Camp, near Bal
timore, Maryland, gave an account
of the trip and the camp. He stat-
(Continued on page 4)
Kream and Kow Klub
Maps Season Program
Offering “new low prices of five
and fifteen cents”, |hP ' Dixie
Theatre will open in Bryan, next
door to the DeLuxe Cafe, Satur-
PASS THE BUCK to “COWBOY” Liay night at eight o’clock with the
ROBERTS the other nite but found picture “Gift of Gab ” \
that it was rubber when it bounc
ed right beck at him - — ask them
(Continued on page 4)
The Kream and Kow Klub plan
ned its program for the year ia a
meeting held in the agriculture
building Tuesday night, November
13. .
The schedule was drawn up un
der the directien of a program
committee consisting of M. B. Hill,
Bryan; L. D. Smith. Caldwell; and
Car) Giceen, Ne# Braunfels, ahd
includes plans for three banquets,
one picnic, tiro dances, five stu
dent programs, and two outside
speakers. Following the arraif|ring
of the program for the year the
club heard reports from C. D. Mc-
Ever, Hillsboro; E. M. Neal. Yoa
kum; L. D. Smith, Cal well; and J.
C. Frobsse, Quero; concerning their
recent trip to Waterloo.
The new members of the club
were honored by a picnic held in
the “Y" cabin Tuesday, November
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DIXIE THEATRE OPENS
The new theatre will operate
under independent management,
and will present first-class pic
tures, it was learned.
Seniors In Farm
Buildings Visits
Fedrai Project
Group Sees Homes Built With
Federal Aid; House*
Found Attractive.
Seniors in the farm buildings
class of D. Senates, head of the
agricultural engineering depart
ment. visited the Wood lake Rural
Community last Friday.
This Wood lake protect, under
the supervision of Mrs. H. K.
Thompson, administrator, ia one of
the Texas Rural Commanities,
which is sponsored by the govern
ment. T. 0. Walton, president of
the college, is on the beard of di
rectors of the Texas Rural Com
munities.
Mrs. Thompson and some of her
staff showed the students the farm
cottages which have been built by
federal aid and which will be sold
to a chosen group of applicants.
The people who buy these homes
will live on a small farm and have
one larg farm to work together.
They will have on this laige farm
a dairy, a chicken ranch, a trading
center, and a school.
Professor Scoates said that “it
was most interesting to see the
work that was being done in order
to c<*nplete this project.” He also
stated that the homes were unus
ually attractive. *
D.C. Li. EXPELS
FIVE STUDENTS IN
RADICAL ACTIVITY
Los Angeles —Earnest C. Moore,
provost and vice president at the
University of California at Los An
geles, recently expelled five stu
dents he charged with promoting
radical activities.
This action onr the part of Dr.
Moore seems to be a continuation
of another radical-conservative
free-for-all which was started
when the University of Santa Clara
expelled Edward Horton, editor of
the Santa Clara Weekly, for pub-
< Continued on page 4).
MGHANEY WINS
TRIP TO
: D.G. j
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Judged Outstanding
Summer Ca mp Cadet
Cadet IA. Colonel Kerr and
Cadet Major Neal
Get Rt ffnMWn
Joe McHaney, cadet colonel. San
Antonio, has been named winner
of the R 0 T C studeat gukst trip
for 1984, an honor which entitles
him to a trip to Washington', D. C.,
as the outstanding cadet in the
eighth corps area R Q/T^C camps
the past summer. McHaney will
leave the latter part of the iqonth
for the trip, which is sponsored by
the Civilian Military Education
.KBRi, . /
McHaney, who attended the field
artillery camp at Camp Bullis, was
named as the outstanding R 0 T C
•rammer camp cadet from among
students from eleven R O T C
schools of the eighth corps area
who attended seven different camps
during the summer, according to
word received from General Ha-
good, commander of the area. An
outstanding cadet was named for
each of the camps and the most
outstanding cadet from these sev
en was then selected for the trip.
School military and academic rec
ords as wall as camp performance
figured in the final decision.
Other Texas A and M cadets
named as outsUnding students at
the camps included the lieutenant-
colonel executive on the corps staff,
R. L. Kerr, of Amarillo, for the
enigneer camp at Fort McIntosh,
and the major of the cavalry squad
ron, £- M. Neal, of Yoakum, for
the cavalry camp at Fort Clark.
G. P. Odom, of Oklahoma A and
M College, was nsmed as alter
nate for the trip, a position W. W.
Holmes, of Shamrock, cadet colo
nel last year, won in the 1933 con
test' * ; *
Ernest Hartford, assistant sec
retary of the A S M E, spoke at a
meeting of the mechanical engi
neering students Monday night,
Nov. 5, on the “Future of the En
gineer.'” His purpose was to pre
sent a plan by which students can
become members of the A S M E
instead of being merely in an af
filiated branch as they have in
the past.
Mr. Hartford described the ad
vantages of a membership in the
society especially for seniors who
need such contacts and experience
when they enter the bustnees world.
In addition he stated what the fu
ture engineer would be examined
apon, by presenting a queetionaire
made out by employers. The sub
jects thereon were economics, lit
erature, history, and cultural sub
jects together with the techincal
questions.
A new plan for conducting meet-
tfcfs of student branches was pre
sented and it included provisions
for (he development of the stu
dent’s personality, speaking ability,
and presentation of-an interesting
subject.
The speaker of the evening was
accompanied from Austin by Pro
fessor Degler of the University of
Texas who made a short talk to the
group.
Commissioned a month siro to investigate the possibility
of a reduction of the bus fare, between Bryan and College
Station, from eight to five cents, a sub-committee reported to
the Student Welfare Committee, at its,meeting last Thurs
day night in the mess hall parlor, that conditions were favor
able to support such a move, and that, pending action by the
board of directors of the Bryan-College Traction Company,
the new fare would probably be offered in the near future.
The sub-committee, composed of J. C. McHaney, chair
man, Fritr Wehener, and Joe Edelman, appeared before the
Bryan Chamber of Commerce last
Tuesday morning, and advocated
the reduction. ; According to the
mrsday night/the
was tho-
thy with the pro
to make such
the traction
UNIVERSITY BOARD
PUTS A AND M ON
LISTOF APPROVED
Tcxaa A and M College has re
cently been placed on the approved
list of the Association of American
Universities, according to word re
ceived by E. J. Howell, registrar,
this week. This action was taken
at a meeting of the association in
Chicago during the latter part of
October. Dean Stouffer of the Uni
versity of Kansas inspected the
college for the Association and rec
ommended that A and M be placed
on the accredited list * ' p _ ^
A and M sought this recognition
during the 1932-33 academic year,
but action was delayed because of
the death of the man scheduled to
make the inspection. The primary
purpose of the association is grad
uate and' professional work, and
the placing of A and M on the ac
credited list means that its grad
uates are eligible for admittance
to tjie leading professional grad
uate schools.
AGGIE JUDGES
TO LEAVE FOR
CHICAGO MEET
Will Detrain for Practice
• Judging Enroutc; Seven
To Make Trip
Members of the A and M Live
stock Judging Team and their
coach will depart Friday morning
for the International Livestock
Judging Contest at Chicago.
On the way to Chicago the mem
bers of the squad will stop at Ma
son City and Manchester, Illinois,
where they will do their fiaal prac
tice judging before entering the
contest in Chicago. They also p|an
to stop at the U/iversity of Illi
nois. . /
Those niakmg the trip are W. L.
Boothe, Sweqjfwater; R. E. Evers,
0. Skiilinburir, Dublin; M. B. Tem
pleton, Dublin; H. W. Turney, gob
lin; and their coach, J. H. Knox.
The team has made-an exceptional
record this year as the large tro
phy which they won in Kansas
City and which is now being ex
hibited in Animal Industries
Building shows.
Student Grades Two Percent Under Last Year’s Average
November grades—those first
“■warning" reports submitted to
let you, you, and you know just
how high (or how low) your schol
astic standing is soaring (or fall
ing)—have been compiled by the
Registrar, and the results of the
tabulations offer many interesting
sidelights.
situation from the mors discourag
ing side, data was arrmn|red ac
cording to the “Number of Stu
dents Doing Unsatisfactory Work”
or those who have made an E or
F for their first six week’s effort,
and gjven in comparison to similar
results in prreceding years. ^
The most, striking reveiatirtn
mad* by the report ia that,the
first time v since 1928, tberd has
been a percentage increase of th/
number of students failing one or
more subjects over proceeding
years. This peer 47.5 per cept of
the student body was failing one
Showing preference to view the -or more subjects November first.
whereas in 1933 at the same time
45.6 per cent showed the same de
ficiency. This is an increase ef 1.9
per cent for thq present enrollment
of 2956 against the 2183 last grear.*
There is also #n increase hi the
percentage failures in the inejirid-
ual course enrollment which totals
18,685 comparing with the 13,-
563 of last yepr. This percentage
Has jumped from 12.6 to 18 for an
increase of dl per cent j
Viewing the- composite report
for the 8 year record, it is. of inter
est to note that the highest per
centage of failures, both in indi
vidual courses and students, oc
curred In 1927-28-28 those years
in which the depression was still
unheard of. However, immediately
after 1929, the perceatagp began
tq dqprease and ran ,kucc<> «i \ < !y
from 1929 aa 58.5, 52.< HJ, 46.6.
and 45.6. ? . .
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Aggie Debate Team
\Will Engage Rice
G. E. Wyse, Palestine; E. C.
Nelson* Heaemont; and J. H. But
ler, Lufkin, will represent the A
and M debate club at Houston Nov
ember 23 where they will debate
the Rice Institute team on the
question of the adoption of social
ised medicine in the United Stal
es.
The debate with Rice is one in
a series with schools of the South
west Conference. It was decided
in a meeting of the club held last
Thursday night in the main build-
ing that the five outstanding mem
bers of the club, who are to be
selected aocording to their ability
as shown by this and coming de
bates, are to be given medal# this
year.
report made
Chamber of
roughly in sym^
posal, and a«
reconi mends tior
company.
This recommendation was re- ^
reived in a favorable manner by ,
the officials of the traction com
pany, as far as the desire to aid
students was concerned, however
it was emphasized that evidence
of a sufficient J increase in the
number of passengers to warrant
a three-cent lorn on each individual
would have to he furnished before
formal approval could be register
ed
, McHaney, Wehner, and Edelman
will present thernselvee to the di- (
rectors ./ the bus company at their
next meeting, to be held the latter
part of this week, and will discuss s
the matter farther.
Fear of refusal eras expressed in
some circles, when R was learned
that the traction people have never
been able to declare dividends at.
any time since the beginning of
their operations.
NATIONAL CHIT-CHAT
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George Wonnacott .
Huey Long has endeared him
self to the hearts of the student
body in Ixmisiana, if not to all
football enthusiasts,, by his lavish
interest so dramatically displayed
hi the game.
Perhaps a football game, with
its losses and gains so sturdily
contested, reminds the “Kingfish”
of some of bis jeusta ia Washing
ton
No doubt is politician, at the
present stage of our country’s eb-
broilment, is quite in his element
while watching the wild scramble
on the field.
Maybe the pandemonium pro
duced by th4 spectators would be
comparable to the watching citi
zens as they view the organisation,
r •■-organization, distribution, and
rationalization of the many poli
tical iaaues which are constantly
arisdng in the White House these
i ;!•
T)w ‘ Kingfish” surely ia gain
ing notoriety. NknWgli this medium,
the like of whieh would cause rnanf I
of our foremost screen stars to
turn green with envy.
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Houston Club Formulates I
Plans for Holiday Duncef ,, . . ,, ,i.. ^ .
If he should decide to cast pol-
Plan. for a Christmas i ^ **^ ^e portal, of pres, ag-
wert made at a meeting of the " houW be AuW wide to ad-
Houston 4,7ub called last Tuesday ^l “ , hl,n ' * 4
night, November 18, in the “Y” | t - —
f Tiapel by W. B. Cochran, Houston, Do you know why "Abe" Mikal,
the clab president. > the L. S. U. All-American candi-
The question of an orchestra will data, refused the seat in the state 1
be settled at ‘a meeting to be held senate of Loolsidaa,- even though
in the near future. According to the seat provides a daily salary of
(Jbchran, Jimmy Scott’s Orchestra 910.00? “Biff’ Jones reveals the
will probably he engaged for the fact to those not well versed in the
dance, whtfh is to be held at the rules and regulations of college
University Club in jSbstoton Jon- football. Had Mik*! taken the horv-
uary 4. 4 * . or^y seat and the salary that' goea^
• I. . . v.i 1 ] wifi It, he would be accepting pay
A study of weather conditions for his athletic ability and there*
•;}y
as high as fifteen miles above the
earth is to be made by the Mass-
schuadtts Institute of Technology.
Thirty-five sounding balloons
quipped with sensitive recording
instruments will he used in the «x-
narfMalfc. •
fore would be classed as S profes
sional, which would make him in
eligible to play college football.
Had it not been for coach Jones'
presence of mind, Huey’s genero
sity would have cost the Tigers
their star football plhycr,
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