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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1938)
X i * M. Kl.ROY Six,r-M \Sntrr 4. Sine* I have keen writing sports »t A. A M , I hsve alwmyo found H s good policy, ml leas brain work, to pick one score at the •toft of the season and then be Btk|t with it, 13 to 0, with the Ag- giet on the long end. ERE'S WHAT SOME A. & M. MEN THINK ABOUT THE K h. McQUILLEN Sec Former StedeeU Ase’n. { I think the Aggies will win b* cause they will be primed to wipe out last year's unjust tie. A vic tory over the Owls would brighten the season and I believe the boys will really go to town Satardag. R<X.l they will take the Owls use the squad shows they have in a long also remember last boys are all set for OATES Spert Editor If the Aggies play the football doe Routt would like to sea them play Saturday, they will stomp hatt'out of the Owls with the aid of the student body. lAfl i year’s game in Houston can’t be forgotten. « AN AGGIE SPECTATOR 1 hr Sludrnl- \ I, » pout I. A. A M. will win Saturday. The team is far better than the rw> cords show; it is a collsrlMh' of great football players who will probably be ready to play their tost game of the year against the Rke Owls. The “twelfth man* will to on band far the slaughter. B. J. HOWELL 4t will be a odds are about win it The aeons are playing on membering the tie after we hbd boys will b< with the defciro AGAINST! RICE DRAM T. D. Schooler Artoi We are going to wto that ball game because we have the team and we have the right spirit The team and the “twelfth man” can not |H‘ beaten Saturday. The boys will be in the right frame of mind tomorrow. 5T ■n1r ir . i i STUDENT SEMI-WEEKLY 1 Jin. ; _ r WSPAPER OF TEXAS A. * M. COLLEGE Sen-Out Indicate ZT» rp-t»*the-B)ine|e reports fram the ticket office of the University of Texas indicate Ubt the Turkey Dfcy game there with the Aggies Will to a sell-out. Alr.-od' more than ll.to# tickets kav been sold, regaesta fpr the dtesta pooring la every day, tkkrta probably to sold o«t sererai days before game time*- THE THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR LLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 11, 1931 ,1 TELEPHONE 8 bees U For Invaders Kice. Undefeated i| la Conference, Also Foil Strength 1 TO SPEAK ¥ h-4- fterassa storting at 2:tl the Texas Aggies and the Rice Owh wffi resume the battle that stasted last year when the Owls overcame an Aggie afat point lead in the ciosiag minutes of play to store a mx pointer and tie the game ■p after “Rau” Watson had spent the day prosliring the Aggies The OoAeta are ready as they have never been before. They are still smarting from digs they took lapt year. “BuU" Min nock is itch ing to get kit hands on the big burly Lain who ran over him last. . ytor after Joe Routt had be*n th< ‘ +*** l * eture room taken owl ef the game in the last ^ Hamilton has been with the period dee to an injury. Joe at Experiment Station at A. A M. first refused to come off the field, for several years and it a reeog- bgt to did when the coaches con- nixed authority in the field of farm tinned to insist. Minnock took his tenancy. He has done a great deal pilare, although he was far from of work on problems relatgti to toung in physical shape to pky a farm leasing systems. Part of' Dr. ball game. This year M BiH M is hi Hamilton's talk will be devoted totter shape and has played sonw to the more recent tenure and the DR.C.H. HAMILTON Dr. C. H. Hamilton, of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, will speak on “The Status and Fu ture of Farm Tenancy in the South,” Monday at 7:30 p. m. in Team i sionj Frcto T.C.U. Club Victorious ('ontest Of Debate Season Aggie debaters got off to Start in their season last sight Nhcn they defeated T. C. U.'s squad 31 to IT at Fort Worth. Thompson, D. G. Gabriel, P. J. Edmonds and J. M. Casey trip for A. A M. and are S. M. U. and Trinity ity before their re tarn to ’Station Saturday rtighL The reason for two teams, one to drftfnd the affirmative side of the question and one to defend the negative, is to try to achieve tot ter quality debating by aboiishtafl the abrupt shift from the affirms live to negative side of the same proposition. Also, it will to possi ble to compare the ranking of any team with that of other teams which have defeaded the same side of the question. The members of this year's squad are: Mayo Thompson, D. G. Gab riel, J. M. Casey. B. J. Edmonds, Song Tryout On page four of this issue of The Battalion will to found a story cunceraing a T. 8. N. broadcast from A. A M. to to given Friday night (tonight) from Gaion Hall. At : that time a new school song will to tried out Words to the sang win to found la the article. Senator Clark Will Speak On | Series Program . Missouri Representative With Colorful Career To Speak Tuesday Ni^ht Tl [• l The Entertainment Seriea of A. A M. will present the third in ita gvou^ of events Tuesday night at eight o’clock when Senator Ben nett Champ Clark will deliver an address in Guhra Hall New Plan Will Begin Its V ■d Andy Rollins Only Aggie To Apply A Roo _ t For Rhodes Award — rough tough football. (Continued on page 6) WITH THE Mil Bf E. E. McQLTLLEN Sfc'y. Former Students Association Ex-Students fr#m Texas A. A M. and Texas University will hold annual joint meeting in San »nio day before the Turkey-Dgy -with no winner yet decided 1 ample room for raising both sides. . . . Last year’s Al- Aynericas Joe Routt is starting at the bottom in the oil business with Glean McCarthy, Houston, one of Smith Texas' best known inde nt operators.,.. Jim Shockey, ex-footballer of 1937 is mt County Agent at Mineral w«n*. . . . r *. Brovkschmidt, is wKh the I-one Star Gas C«„ ^acoi . . . C. C. Chapman, ’37, is the Phillips Petroleum Co., arger. . . . Tyree L. Bell, ’IS, DaL Contractor, still a great foot- fan, captahmd tin A. A M. team both his junior and senior Engineer Senior WUI Go Through For Oxford Berth Andy P. Rollins. Engineer senior, has sent in his application to the Rhodes Scholarship committee for the approval of the committee at the meeting which will to held in Houston early in December, ac cording to Dr. T. F. Mayo. Rollins has been the only apphrant to apply this pear. The condition! of eligibility for the scholarship are to be a male citisen of the United States, with at least five years domicile, and unmarried. By Oct. of the year for which he is elected have passed his nineteenth and not have passed his twenty-fifth birthday, and by the time of application have at least junior standing at some rec oil. Men picked from this squad ognised degree-granting university will represent A. A M. »n the fol- or college of the United Statea|. lowing schedule. Dec. 2, Junior Col- quality of distiLti lege Tournament nt Snn Msreos; ^ wkrther „ mto lWct. ijmnftr yearh. . r . Monte Kaplan, ’38, is Houston Teachers’ or per*ouality, or in any onmbina- with the Texas Co., Galena Park. of HuntaviRe at college; j t j <rn ^ these, is the most important requirement for a Rhodes Scholar ship, and it is upon this that Com mittees witVinsist,' Thirty-two scholarships are as- sogned annually to the United nament, the first of its kind ever, states of America. The states of to be told. Mar. t. Centenary at tto union are grouped into eight college; Mar. 20-30, a trip which types of contracts needed for lease R. V. Yarber, A. G. Warren, J. H. agreements today. Craig, W. C. Carter, W. S Hig gins, T. N. Studer, and J. L Nick- ersl important measures during the last few years. Among these were the AAA, the NBA. the uadtvided profits tax and the court roorgan ixation bills. He was recently re elected over an opponent who label ed him as a traitor to the party by one of the most overwhelming ma Jonties ever given anyone in the State of Missouri. Senator Clark ia a proponent of “liberal democracy”, and hatei Communism and Fascism with equ al fervor. He has propoumu rl a bill designed to take the profits out of war, and b a leader in the ef fort to keep America neutral He once wrote a* biography of John Quincey Adams, but since the beginning of his political ca reer he has had little time for writing. He learned politics on his father’s knee and inherited A great deal of the old Champ’s forreful- ness in speaking. on Clothes Cut for Students ro Committees; Prices For Faculty Members Remain Unchanged ' iiii i Mr* j ^ ■ ? BY “CURBALL") DORR . Battalten id.ter-to (W What w ll i r bably be the most welcome annoancinwt ef the year was made today by Dean Bolton when he said that tailor will to reduced t^ 30 cento, delivered and credited if the students credit, beginning Monday morning. Thurfday night ait a senior meeting Senior President Bob Adams announced the plans completion; Dean Bolton’s announcement made the plan official.; A.rording u* the agreement reached by the tailors, the pr** ea blouses and slarto will be 30 cents br'«*che« 'w Keith Maxwell, ’39, Prexy 0 fj J » n * 13 - 14 - B «y ,or Tournament at the Dallas Student’s Club, seemed F * b - Botofcwwtara Tournament at Austin; Feb. 24-25 A- A M. will be host to ten junior Louis Leax, ’07, Lake [•" Junior College Toer , Lo., has set missed U-t( to like the ‘‘Blind’’ date he took to the big banquet preceding the game Charles, ia>., has Mt missed a Texas U-Texas Aggie football game since he entered A. A M in 1904, and will be at Austin this includ « the University of Okla., LIVESTOCK MEN; GO TO CHICAGO TO ENTER CONTEST each. Civilian breeches will be cleaned «t the same rate for stu dents. No change in the price of faculty cleaning And pressing was made. Each organisation will ehodse by Friday night (tonight) the two tailor shops which will be allowed to solicit business in thq unit, for under the new plan, soliciting other than by the two tailors the stu dents choose will be barred. Cash and carry prices reduced early in this term through the co- operatioryof a committee from the senior class aqd one from the tailors will remain as they now stand—25 eeate per garment Agents will not be m mimerous under the new system as wader the one which cesses operation at midnight Sunda*. Each agoat will represent one firm and will worR. for a 20 per cent commission with out being allowed free tailor work by the firm he represents A point widely diicasaed brfore the plan was adopted was whether or not credit was to to insured for the tailors. Under the plan, it will not be insured, although an organi sation may not change the firms R selects to patronise until aB H* (Continued on page 5) New Unit of Service Provides Coordination of Command Components year. ... Jack McCanne, ’38, is with the Humbfe Co., New Gulf. . ... N. F. Chamberlain, ’38, is with the same company at Bay- town. . . . Fitthk J. AHkk. ’38. is studying medicine at the State Medical Collwge and lives at the Thet|L Kappa P*l House, 918 Ave. G, Galvefton... . Jack V. Williams, ’37, ig ranch manager for John R. Black, Oranbury, and reports he has jukt completed vaccinating 140 (Continued on page 6) Okla. A. A M., University-of Kar., Kan. A. A M., and others to be decided upon later. Anyone who wishes to try out for the squad is invited to see Mr. C. 0. Spriggs or Mr. R. M. Weaver. No definite date has been sat to end the try out period. Students are urged to attend the practice d- bates which are held twice weekly in room 320 Academic building. Days on which there wB be de bates will be announced later. The Senior Livestock Judging Team of A. A M. will leave college Tuesday morning for Chicago, where it will represent A. A M. districts of six states each for the ‘at the Annual International Live- purpose of making these thirty- stock Judging Contest to bv held two appointments. There Is a com petition every year in every state. In each state there ia a committee of selection which may nominate two candidates to appear before the district committee. Each district then selects from twelve candidates so nominated not more than four men who will represent their its tee ns Rhodes Scholars at Oxford, sub ject to their acceptance by medical examiners sppointed by the Rhodes trustees. on Saturday. Nov. 28. The team ^will be oa the trip for fifteen days and, according to members of the Animal Husbandry Dept, R will be the most extensive trip ever made by the team. Members of the team malting the trip as Doss Buntin of Plulnview, high-pomt man ia the Junior Live stock Judging Contest at Ft. Worth last spring^ Emil Pnigd of Menard, a member of last year's junior (Ceatiaued on page 6!) By L. B. THOMPSON j . The Signal dorps is one of the smallest units in the Army but second to none in importance. The Signal Corpn ia- charged with pro viding communication so necessary in order ; to coordinate the neveral component* of a command and per mit effective liadermhip. Prior to the World War very little attegtioa had beeh ghrsR .to ftictlitiesj for communication With the exception of the ipeaaenger either mounted or on foht, sad in the early stages •f .this wsf pinny command, n* found themnelVr* completely iso lated; dug; to. the lack of effective m.an- M r.-mmumcate their wishes to Utolr subordinate*. This unfor tunate situation was successfully overcome by the immediate expan sion of the Signal Corps, and their ttaslewl. performance ia a matter UNION MAN- . . SECRET BRIDE- FORMER PREMIER ARRIVES- MYSTERY of historical record. The activities of the Corps are as follows: The development, storage, sad issue of signal and meterclogica. equipment; apparatus connected with finding for determining the tion of enemy radio stations, air craft, and marine craft; and elec trical apparatus associated with range fladtog. Research labora tories are maintained at Fort Non ■KMith, N. J., and at Wright Field, Ohio Here a piece of equipment is developed aid carefully and is then sept to a field tion for a service test, after * it is ready to to purchased ia < tity and issued to the army, plus equipment for use ia geney is stosaf in several .(Continued An page 8) l — ^ I . ■ FASHIONS 'r> : • , 1 . Ill +* X *? m The first “break" in New York’s truck strike comes as Arthur Kenr io sigm contract* .. . Henry Huddleston Rcym, Jr., son of the late oil i signs a union contract. Mayor LaGuardia (left ionaire, is pictured with his secret bride of ) acted as go between, lent alt the cit ■■ , . , k _ B _ Ji more than a year, the former Diana I heir pet dog, at their farm home It Bedford Hills, New York ... Paul C. Van Zeeland, former premier of Belgium, is pictured arriving at New York to start a Dorman i left), 22 whose body was 1 series of tiny bulbs, connected to a battery, can be switched on and off i arrested by Guy Ind. police in sn endeavor to penetrate the mystery of his fiancee, necklace Ma| from Paris, designed by Schiaparelli. The ? ii-M KM j ' VL to 1 wi hst check the l’ lane in desires. the 4 fl Ml-