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VOLUME XXXIV
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS. December s. itt4
NUMBER 11
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Steers Defeat Agies Thursday T
13 To 0 At Memorial Stadium;
25,000 Fans See Muddy Contest
Game Is Played in Cold Northerly Wind
With Soaked B*U; Short Wobbly
Punts and Many Fumbles Made 1
THIRD QUARTER FAVORS FARMERS
Fowler Leads Crushing Drive; Threatens To
Score, But Onslaught Is Finally
Halted on Seven-Yard Mark
Playing on a rain-soaked field and in a chilling north
wind the Texas Aggies went down before a powerful Univer
sity of Texas eleven, 18 to 0, at Memorial Stadium in Austin
Thanksgiving Day. A crowd 5f about 26,000 spirited football
fans, about 16,000 short of fair weather expectations, shiv
ered their way through more than two hours of a delayed
contest to witness two mud-covered teams put up one of the
toughest battles of the season. ,
The Steers were not able to crash the Aggie defense
until the second quarter when Hugh Wolfe crashed over the
line for the initial marker.}
The drive started at the begin-
OF TED
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ning of the second period \66\t oPCHKCrS
when Couser's punt was par-1 r
Win Debate From
Rice Institute
punt was par
/tially blocked, and Texas took
the ball on the Aggie 45 yard
stripe. Hilliard dropped back
and heaved a pass to Pi tier
which placed the oval on the Aggie
14 'yard line. Wolfe picked up four
yards at guard. The mighty Hil
liard was held for no gain as he
was stopped at the line of scrim
mage by WUUs. Hilliard then made
five at tackle. Wolfe made it a first
down on the Aggie two yard line.
Hilliard got a yard at the Aggie
line. He then carried the ball to
the one foot line. On the next play
Kimbrough threw Wolfe for a two
yard loss. Then Wolfe hit the line
for the remaining two yards and a
touchdown. Hilliard's kick for extrs
point was wide.
Afgies Threaten ia Third Period
It looked as though the Aggie*
were going to score in the third
quarter as “Muggins" Fowler led
the Cadets to their nearest counter
of the contest. With the ball on
the Aggie 38 yard line, Fowler
faked a kick, and then galloped 18
yards to the Texas 42 yard line.
Kimbrough fumble^, recovered, and
loet five yards. Pitner’s long pass
was incomplete, and Fowler punt
ed out of bounds on the Texas 18
yard line. On the first play, Pitser
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K-OET KAPERS
BILL BRADFORD
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NOTICE SINNERS
OF THE CAMPUS
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WHO LAST WEEK
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CAN BOAST
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CONTENT, FOR
THEY WERE TOO
BAD FOR US TO
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PRINT, BUT ’LESS
YOU FORGET AND
HAVE YOUR RE-
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FOR THE WICKED.
Wyse, Butler, Nelson Defeat
Rice First Time ia
Three Years
Upholding the affirmative side
of the question “Resolved that the
United States should adept a sys
tem of socialised medicine," the de
bate team representing A and M
won from the Rice Institute team
in their first intercollegiate meet
in Houston Nov. 28.
The team, coniponed of G. E.
Wyse, Palestine, J. H. Butler, Luf
kin, and E. C. Neieoe, Beaumont,
did what no other A and M debate
team has been able to do in the last
three years when they defeated
RjFe Institute by a judges decision
of 2 to 1. The Rice team, debating
the same side of the question, had
defeated a team from Louisans
.state University by a 8 to 0 de
cision and confidently expected to
win from the Aggies, bui luceresi
Habits of Chaparral
Cock Theme of Talk
BN Claimed To Be Snake
Kiler; Useful As In
sect Destroyer
Texas folk lore was the subject
-jpon which Gates Thomas of San
Karros Teachers College address
ed the Scholarship! Honor Society
st a meeting held Monday night
in the Asbury room of the library.
Mr. Thomas, who is,-n .cknow-
ledged authority on the subject of
Texas folk lore, chose as his cen
tal subject the stories about the
road-vfcsasfc-the bird common to
many parts of Texas, and recently"
chosen to be the bird of the Texas
£olk Lore Society. The scientific
side of the bird’s.life and habits
and his fabled powers and feats
were discussed.
The story of the method a road-,
runner uses in killing a rattle
snake and the truthfulness of this
tale is often doubted^ but Mr. Tho
mas told of an incident related by
an Arizona rancher which illus
trated the segacity of the bird.
The humor with which various
writers have treated the stories
of the chaparral and their aid in
giving them impetus were discuss
ed by Mr. Thomas, who has made
a study of these writers.
A. H. DEPARTMENT
RILLS CATTLE IN
RELIEF WORK HERE
A and M’s snimal husbandry de
partment has been cooperating in
the emergency program of killing
~attl« as a drouth relief measure
*or the past five month, 10,500
......v.i having been killed.
began'to* swing to*tike ‘afflnaative^ Yhe P ro * r * m originated here on
as soon as Butler, the first speak
er, began his address.
Rice students pot themselves out
to show the cadets over the campus
and entertained them during their
stay at the school and the debaters
expressed their appreciation for
these favors. A large crowd at
tended the mfeV and it was re
marked that the girls at Rice seem-
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Scientist Declines
Restoration Offer
B^keley, Calif.— Dr. Robert F.
Cornish, famous for his experi
ments in which he revived a dead
dog, was forced to refuse the of
fer of a high school boy who volun
teered to be put to deatjf and then
be revived.
The would-be experimenter wrote
Dr. Cornish that he thought that
the experiment would help him in
his scientific studies.
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the campus through the efforts of
members of the extension service
department, and soon after the plan
was accepted many canneries had
jobs waiting for people on relief
rolls. The killing started at the
Collegd in the slaughtering quar
ters. of the Animal Industries
Building on June 80, and since that
time the canning plant in Bryan
has helped over 300 families who
were previously on relief rolls. The
meat is refrigerated and then boned
out. the boned meat being sent to
Bryan, where it is handled by the
relief commission.
About 100 head a day have been
killed, said D. W. Williams, head
of the animal husbandry depart
ment. He also stated that the de
partment’s payroll had in ex
cess of flOO a day in payment of
the salaries of tboas who have
been hired to do this killing. The
College is slaughtering under con
tract Kith the government, an In
spector having been placed hers.
MCS
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Hie orchestra leader who
will bring his bend here Fri
day night for a concert and
dance.
The concert is to be at eight
o’clock in Goion Hall, while
the dance will begin at ten in
the mess hall.
JUDGES PDCE
TUI IT
MEET :
Livestock Men Rank
High in All Classes
Chicago Contest No Scare
To Winners Entered
Front A and It'
Mogford States Jap
Mills Are Efficient
Favorable Position of U. 8.
In Relation to Foreign
Markets Cited
J. S. Mogford, head of the agro
nomy department, addressed a
meeting of the Social Science Sem
inar Monday night in the lecture
room of the physics building upon
“Tht Japanese Cotton Industry",
bringing out many points on the
relations of the United States and
Japan in this field.
The favorable position of the U.
S. in relation to foreign markets
and especially that of Japen mak
es the purchase of American cot
ton more profitable and expedient,
thus boosting the consumption of
our product. Mr. Mogford stated
that the percentage of the total
amount of cotton used by Japan
that is American has risen in thirty
years from seventeen per cent to
sixty-six per cent.
In the newly acquired lands of
the Japanese there is being put
into effect a growing program to
increase the production of native
cotton which will be used in the
excellent mills of the island nation.
These mills, and in fact the en
tire industry, according to Mr.
Mogford, are controlled by a small
number of influential families. The
importing companies are charac->
ten zed by the same perfection as
the milb.
FROSH AND SOPH CLASSES ARE GIVEN
THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE PICTURES
INCLUDED IN THE SCHOOL YEARBOOK
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Freshmen! Sophomore ’
Don
those number ones and get those
faces “reg," for Dame Opportu
nity b once again easting her fav
oring eye in your direction.
For the first time in many years,
the noble experiment—that of in
cluding individual pictures of the
entire freshman and sophomore
classes in the Longhorn—is again
proposed, and its success or failure
rests with you.
In the dim and distant past was
the same experiment
the subsequent failure has been
evident From year to year a la
mentable precedent has gained
considerable force, as only the jun
ior .and senior classes have been
represented in the school annual.
That this has been wrong b ad
mitted by all, and loudly proebim-
ed by the underebssea, and the
cause of this injustice has been
due, not to opposition of the upper
classmen, but to tile indifference
of the two undHtfMMk
Tony Heldenfeb, Longhorn edi
tor, b anxious to edit an annual
this year that is representative of
the entire student body, and co
operation in this plan would dem
onstrate student approval.
It’s up to you, freshmen and
sophomores, do yau want those
pic tares?
Texas A and M placed third in
all ebsses of the collegiate live
stock judging contests held in Chi
cago Saturday, first in the sheep
judging. Third place individual
honors were carried off by R. E.
Evers from Itasca.
Leaving on Friday, November
22, the judging team boarded the.
train for Chicago, and the fanners’
world fair called the International
Livestock Exposition. Toms from
colleges all over the United Stqtes
participated in the contest.
The team was given a rousing
send-off on the preceding Thurs
day by the Saddle and Sirloin Club
at a banquet held in the animal i.
husbandry pavilion. During GW ,
course of the banquet speeches
re made by honored, members
present. / $ . ..
Members of the team who woa
honors at Chicago are as follows:
R. E. Evers, Itasca; F. C. Shillin-
burg, Dublin; M. E. Templeton,
Dublin; W. L. Boothe, Sweetwater;
J. L Richmond, Kyle. The team b
coached by J. H. Knox, professor
in the animal husbandry depart
ment. .
COLLEGE IS NOT
FOR ALL, AYERS
0. C. PRESIDENT
Modification of -
Nazi University
Regulations Seen
Barrackg, Dress Mandates
May Be Suspended ; Curri
ed him To Stay Unaltered
Berlin.— Academic freedom in
German universities, suspended al
most entirely- by the Nasi regime,
saw a ray of hope in the admis
sion on the part of the Nasi gov
ernment that it cannot force all
university students to live in mili
tary barracks and wear the Nazi
uniform.
The admission came in the form'
of an order easing up on a form
er regulation that such require-
mta were neeesaary. Many stu
dent fraternal organization!
throughout Germany had objected
strenuously, and in many cases
strikes wei
Schenectady, N. Y.—The new
era into which the United States
b entering involves, among o^jer
things, elimination of the idea of
higher education for everyone, in
the opinion of Dr. Dizon Ryan
Fox, new president of Union Col-
leire.
The nation, once obsessed by
the idea that everybody was fR
for college, b awaking to the
'act, he said, that it cannot af
ford that luxury for alL
• “With this idea that everybody
wsz.fit for college," he averred,
“we have tend**/ to make the col
lege fit for everybody. On the
whole, the results have been hap
py for the mass, but it has con
fused standards. We should not
pay heavily out of taxes or en-
Jowmants to educate second and
third rate minds for leadership
that they cannot assume, but pay
as heavily as possible to educate
first-class minds."
Dr. Fox also urged hb faculty
and students to Striks a happy
medium between respect for tra
dition and respect for mental
pioneering.
Parade of Corps In Austin Is
Praised As Finest In History
Of A And M; Staged By 1,500
Column of Platoons Is Greater in Depth Than
Business Section; Reaches From CapitoL
Building to First Street
GOV. ferguson witnesses review
Band Plays Opposite Reviewing Stand, Placed
On West Balcony of the Stephen
F. Austin Hotel
A virtual shower of congratulations has been handed to
the cadet corps over the past week-«nd, praising in no small
terms the parade staged in Austin Thursday, previous to the
A and M-Texaa football game at Memorial Stadium.
Extending down Congress Avenue from the Capitol to
First Street, the parade was of such length that many per
sons in authority reported it the4fcurgest in the history of A
and M.
Governor Miriam A. Ferguson was among those who
witnessed the spectacle from the reviewing stand, placed on
the west balcony of the Steph-
TwoComediesAre
Staged By Group
of Local Players
Suramey Gives Address to
Club on Early English
Drama as Preface
Two onc-act plays, “Fora," a
comedy about golf, and a medieval
miracle pby, “Noah’s Ark," were
presented at the meeting of the A
end M Little Theatre Club in the
Aebury room of the Library on
New. 3fl.
“Fore," an amusing modern com
edy by Clifford Grey, was ably
given by a east which included Sam
Crenshaw az Henry Haynes, Mrs.
Kate Parker az Myra, and Maurice
Young as Harold S. Jones. The pby
was directed by Mrs. Maurice
Young.
“Noah's Ark" was a broad farce,
one of the miracle pbys that was
popular in the Middle Agee. These
pbys, which were presented on
wagons that traveled around the
country, were based on incidents
in the Bible, but they contained a
great deal ef low comedy. Since
there were no actresses in me
dieval times, the parts of both
sexes were taken by men. This
feature was retained in the little
theatre presentation.
Lavaca County Club
Will Present Dance
The Lavaca County Club will
have its Christmas dance in the
American Legion Hall the night
after Christinas in Halletsville.
The club has arranged for the
services of Lee Prmose and hb or
chestra from Schulenburg to pby
for the dance, which will begin at
nine end last until one.
Each man will be in regubtion
uniform for the Grand March to
be held at midnight.
en F. Austin Hotel
The Corps formed in 4 line
of battalions on First Street,
with infantry regiment in ad
vance, and moved out on Con-
greaa Avenue, in platoon for
mation, toward the Capitol
situated on the north' end of Con
gress, past the Austin business sec
tion. Pulling out from Seventh
Street, the band marched at tha
head of the column to the review
ing stand, opposite which It play
ed as the remainder of the Corps
marched by.
Approximately 1500 cadets made ,
up the parade, composed of 69 pla
toons. According to Cadet Colonel
J. C. McHaney, the bat battalion
of artillery pulled out from First
Street just as his staff reached the
front of the Capitol grounds, mean
ing that the parade extended over
the entire length of Congress Ave-
nua—Jhe length of the Austin
downtown section.
Commenting on this erhditabb .
showing, Dr, T. O. Walton, Presi
dent of the College, said: “I feel
that the student body b to be com
mended for the success of a mag
nificent effort.”
“Credit should also be extended",
Dr. Walton pointed out, "to the
people and city officials of Austin,
for their very generous coopera
tion.";.
NATIONAL CHIT-CHAT
by
George Wonnacott
MASTER OF INCOMPARABLE MUSIC
BRINGS ORCHESTRA HERE FRIDAY
TO PRESENT CONCERT AND DANCE
That familbr radio greeting
“Hello everybody—Lopes speak
ing" will be heard in the original
when Vincent Lopes, nationally
popular pianist and conductor,
wrings hb Hotol St Regis Orches
tra to entertain at the scheduled
concert end dance Friday evening
December 7. The concert will be
at eight o’clock in Colon Hall,
whib the dance, to be held in the
meee hall, will begin at tan o’clock.
Credited with much renown both
as a p>ano virtuoso and a compet
ent orchestra leader, Lopes b con-
. by many to have the ten
fastest fingers on radio, and b
widely acebimed for his concert
renditions of such old favoritos as
"Nob." “Kitten on the Keys." and
“Canadian Capers." Hb piano solos
are the highlights of any of his
regubr NBC broadcasts, and will
feature the concert here. The eon-
cert will not be limited, however,
to Lopes selections, as tha trick
drummer, who appeared in “The
Big Broadcast" will again bast and
snare himself into a frenzy, and
Frances Hunt, blues singer; Fred
Lowery, the whistler; Stanley
Worth and Leil Briggs will all as
sist in presenting a well-bafenced
program.
James A Smith, President of
Louisiana State University expell
ed two students for daring to cri
ticize Huey P. Long's action in
appointing Abe Michel to the State
Senate. The “Kingfbh” surely selb
himself quite completely when the
president of a university wig take
such action, so as not to incur the
displeasure of that great individ-
eal. However what does the career
•f two students mean whon one
considers that nothing should stand
in the way of the state idol and
potential' MndMate for the pres
idency T
Hear Lopez and His Orchestra Friday Night!
The National Interfraterafty
Conference, at a meeting held jin
New York was confronted with the
question whether or not fraterni
ties tended to further the scholas
tic endeavor of those who were
members.
It was shown by reports that
nineteen fir*teraities did assist in
the promotion of studies, whib
forty-seven were shown to have
been a hindrance. The reason giv
en for the failure of these frater
nities to induce greater effort on
the pert of the participants was
that the trend was toward the
lighter things ia life rather than
the more serious. In other words
“lets join a fraternity and have a
good time".
•i Like all great dramatic figures,
Mickey Moose k considering of
fers from foreign countries pre
paratory to a barnstorming tour.
Mickey has had offers from Eng
land, Australia, and Canada, since
hb Thanksgiving day parade which
was viewed by thousands. He ap
peared as a rubber inflated figuru,
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