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k! i. i >' I iC J >f' ii . m 'i : iMiuiawli iim\ |[liMM^Ka Tr m v- Corps Wi — 1 W ! V Pv ^ V'S ] V ■ ) s-vK; J , At , ! *ii ^ ,i 1 •' f 1 *' t : ■ If fl M riL • m if ATION, TEXAS. FRIDAY A. AM.COLLEGE ! >N, NOVEMBER It, 1938 k If 'lx p TELEPHONE 8 *es • lol.S tied for Increase ederal Expenses BY H1I.L MUMtAl; “Hie Mxpcnsc for all the branches of our fiKleral fovomment totaled f4,0(K),(NK) for the fir*t year after it wa» established; as an example of the enormous increase in federal since that time, we a bill for $6,500,000 for yavalinf expenses during the last year for officials of the Resettle ment Administration alone -which U list one of the thousands o( ' branches of oar government exist ing today," declared United. States Senator Bennett Champ Clark of I Missouri ia a speech on current political affairs and problems de- )' Ihretwd Tuesday night at' Guion Halt course/’ continued Senator “an(y such comparison be- flpderal expenditures jof ear lier and later years of our history must take into account the great increase in the area, population, and rea>urres of the United States and We correspondingly greater demand for services made upon the government. Still, hundreds of big OCoatinued on page 4) i , ) ■Ti.j.;. -H OFFICIALS MAKE TRIP TO CHICAGO iR COHVERTIOR President T. O. Walton; Dean Gibb Gilchnst, Haad of the School of Engtanertng; A. & Conner, Di rector of the Agricultm|ri ment (Station; H. H. Williamson, Director of the Agricultural Ex tension Service; and Jack Shelton and Miss Mildred Horton, Vica- Rirectors of the Extension Service, comprise the six representatives of A. & fc. who are now attending the annual convention of the A*- M>ciation of land-Great Colleges and Universities of the United States, meeting «t the La Salle Hold m Chioago. Monday through Wednesday of this Pitsident Walton is Giiairraan ef the Executive Committee of the Association, and will preside iOV$r all the executive meetings?^ Gilchrist is attending as the fe- presentatiwe of the school of eV "Heavenly” Gates Welco rr DR. , SM MAKE TALE gineeriag. Every state of the Union is re presented at the Chicago conven tion by some five or six delegates. A number of prominent men of the nation are attending the meeting. One of the main problems being taken up before the convention is the accrediting of land-grant col leges anti universities. The Asto elation 1*1* ' hopes to set its own »tan- r or all the institutions of this hind in Ihe country. i By E. MkQUILLEN (but gets his mad at Stephenvilif r former Students' Aasa. j. . 1 Gone P. Blake,' recent- Itaynumd A. Higginbotham, ly attended the American Bottkrs’ ’38, is, teaching school at Slidell, Convention in New York City. He the Craters pf the rrington Kenneth “Heavenly" Gstea (right), $4-year the seclusion of the "Holy Ghost and Us" cult 1 on his return to Dartmouth College at Hanover, N \ also declared he was through M WHEN THE SENIORS WERE FISH With grid star, who quit the football team and at Amhurst, N. H., is welcomed by school- Gates, admitting “maybe I made a mistake,’’ football forevgr. RESIT EHGUSH TESTS GIVER BY SUMMEV Dr. George Summey, Jr.\head of the English Department announced that the grading English >fdview test recently taken N by 1083 sophomores has been com pleted. The (test, an objective one, covered thoroughly matters of Us v cal (<l. end last heard from at is advertising manager for the I spellmg.punctuation, the pUc Qu mah Winf. 'mdW. Carter,. Coca-Cola Bottling 8Ca„ vool sr JQidden, .r t . R. L Powell, James W. Bennett 1 associated with the ’38 is‘teaching school at* Sliddell, . R. L. Powell TeXs ’38j is| with the Goodyear! Tire & Rubber Go., at Houston and lives at ITOf Shearn St., that qity . . . Mil AJ Moeesman, ’$6, is taking wo^k Heading to the Ph D. in Chem istry at Ijhe University of Cali fornia Berkley . . . William K. »n, ’37, is trouble shooting I aqttiag up new marhipery for Oil Wall Supply Co. at Kil gore in the heart of the' East TWcas oi field, and invites his old friends to pay him a visit when in those parts . . . (Paul M. Wiley, ’38/ is engineering for The irgxts Co., 433 River St, Seguin 1. L . Barton Adams, '38, is with the Texas Highway Dept., Seguin . , . J. 6. McMahan, ’37, lives at 50$ Kings Court, San Antonio . . . W, Strat Connelly, '38, lives at Whitney . . Tom B. Strother, Cameron has become engineering firm ef Powell and Powell, Repub lic Bank B$dg., Dallas ... If present enrollment at A. A M. con- tmues the total number of, grad uates of the institution will double in the coming 10 years, making the ijumni group a real bunch of youngsters ... Dr. Asa L Walk er, '38. is with the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry, and seeing the world. Recent letters . amne from Athens, Ga., and Chatta- ing of modifying expressions, sen tence stnutjare and grouping. The highest score made on this test, out of a total possible aoore of 200, war* 183, made by J. R. Innes. Dr. Summey declared, “In the two highest .deciles or tenths of tKe class in thoir scores, more than (Continued on page 2) < 11 --t BY RAY TREADWELL Aggieland prepared for an in vasion of the Texas Longhorns as “Jocko" Roberts, chief yell leader, worked to put the carps m top v shapa for ihc game. Coach Sikea pared his fish team, with a backfu-ld of Todd, Audish, Rogers ney, for what looked to bo their fibst real opposition of the year and \chance to show the ex- TURKEY DAY ■ GAME SELL-OUT DUE AT AUSTIN Through an, Yellow and Black the topic dkugsed Baci i at the first ■»eeting ef the year or the icionce seminar. The lectori will be given Monday niglt at 7: 0 in the Phy cs Lecture Room. According] to jDrf Bacon, “the craters of the Moon National Monument contains one of the world's finest exam|le8 of spatter cone chains aioag i large earth rift. Yellowstone Pagk is renowned for its geysers and its scenic eanyoh of the YtHowstone River. The geysers are a late phase of a formerly active volcanic period, the ■ y bf buried magma still being (It to produce this unusual hnal phenomenon The Black 1$ are an example of a huge up- arching of . surface rocks by up ward movement of once molten rocks^which however, did not break through to the wrfafe. In this robk the Rushnjore Memorial is now being sculptured, Washington, Jef ferson and Lincoln already clearly defined. The Hotnestake Gold Mine, one of the largest In the world is located there. The Badlands are soft sandstones and clays which break down rapidly when wet and assume various grotesque and cas tle-like shape* are a result of dif ferential erosidn.” ! Added Boost Studen May imberOf at ’ ( fact Despite I trip to Ausw u the University of T^aa-A. A M. football game is unofficial, a pa- , rade of the entire cadet corpa Will be held preceding the Turkey-day tilt Because of the extra holiday on Monday, Nor, 28, it is hoped that a large percent of the student body will see fit to make the trip. A special train will carry the eorps to Austin Thursday morning, ar riving there in time for the stu dent! to fall in for the parade down Congress Avenue. ] 1 ' 4 Reports from Texas show that attendance at the game will be a capacity cMwd of about 40,000 people. Since ttudent tickets went on sale at Austin Monday -pver half the Texas allotment has been sold. Only 8J)40 seats in the end- sone remain to be sold. Details of the parade and . trip will be aonudneed to the corps the latter part! of the week, Colonel George F. Mop re, the professor of military science and tactiea and commandant, announced today. students the material that would be available foXpext year's varsity. THE TUESDAY NIGHT “Y” Freshman Cabinet held it’s regular meeting in the “Y” parlor at t:15 p. m. P i (M. Bolton acted as chair- Dorm Jobs Available After Thanksgiving I Vi V ** ! L \ 1 Student labor on the rle* dor mitories will be given imroe^stely after Thanksgiving, throug^tho student labor office, according O. R. Simpson, chairman. Students desiring to work on the project during .the summer but not during the regular term should not make application for the jobs before the last of school. The prior ity of application will not effect The Texa* Longhorns haven't won a football game this year and the Texas Aggies have lost a couple tnxitje the Southwest conference. Offhand, a game between these teams would seem of such tre mendous unimportance that the customers would fairly trample one another trying to stay away. Not so with the Aggie-Longhern clash that is coming up Huinkx- giving day at Texas Memorial sta dium. In fact, if any of the big horseshoes' 40,000 seats are uitbe- rupied next Thursday afterftobn. Business Manager Ed Oil will be mildly surprised. ^’About 8,000 tickets, all calling for seats in the north end, are left," Olle said today. “Granting normal sales between now and next Thurs. and at the gate on game day, should come out about even.’’ In other words, a full stadium is in pxpspect for the first time since 42.000' saw the ’28 Texas-A. A M. game titye. mm f m * f I 1 i , \ '4 1 I if • J Militarists Mechanize Calvery For Strategy in Nodern Warfare If sales are brisker than expect- nooga, Tenn. . . . Jack “Oscar” man fer the election of 'offMara. Singleton, ’18, waa on the campus The election was held in the “typi- for the Riee game. He ia aaso cal” freshman manner, fitted prfch Wycliffe Hill, Bureau Officers elected were: President, of Adv^rtirfnf, Suite 409 Repub Fred Smitham, Dallas; Vice-Pres- lic plldg, Houston, and very much ident, W. A. Franks; Sec.-Treas- pleased wi* both his work and urer, Paul Engner, Houston; Pro- ^**7^ ^ be «* u »« of L " aid ' tem P^™ r y b, ®^ he ” its futare , . . J. E. Hendricks, gram Chairman, Warren Ambrose, ^ L ~ J ’ ' “ ” L ‘ L ‘ L ’37, ia with the Phillips Petroleum Ft. Worth. Others nominated were: , , r . Uo., Borgerf. . . Johaie O. Johan- Don Erley and Eral Loreno; vice ’3|, ia on active duty and ia Lieu- son, *37, is with the Boss Nursery, presidents. Don Erley, William tenant Strother now, Ft Crock-' Big Spring, recently moving there BanniatMr,: Bill Fitch; secretary •4 . 11 J Dennis Y. Jarratt, -’38, from Shreveport, La. . . . The last treasurer, Bradford Hardie and itsigned from teaching Voc. Ag time the Aggies beat Texas at Paul Knapp; program chairman, rirulture to go with the Soil Con- Austin was in 1922 when they Sara Brown, Robert Cockrell and j action will be taken oa these cases nervation Service. He’s on the move won 14-7. i W. L. Bannletit.' j (until the end of the semoftef. jmethod to be used in selection -of applicants Contrary to a statement made last week, students not passing more than 10 hours at the Decem ber 1 report will not be dropped from the student labor rolls. N6 ' > JUDGE ARTHUR H. JAMES- PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT VOTES- tpill be throwmup at the south end of the field to accommodate the overflow. * \ Nearly 6,000 seaU ha ve been set aside f*H the “Knothole Gang”— school children from aH over the state who secure Knothole card* through their superintendent and see Texas home games for 25 tynt*. BY L. E. THOMPSON r I For several years all writers, militory and otherwise, have paint ed horrible pictures of the war of the future as a war of machines. But military operations aince the World W^r should, by now, have convinced even the laymen that the war <jf tomorrow will be, as was the war of yegterday, a war of infant!*, artillery and cavalry, supported of course By all the mqd em inventions at t$e command of the warring nation*. One of Germany # ablest military writers haa said th#t there has been no European com minder since Na poleon aqd Frederick the Great who knew h v. „ properly use cavalry. Xnaehcani cavalry, how ever, ia based on fetter principles of trainirty, equipifent, and tacti cal employment than that of any European nation The missiems of cavalry are too many to be enumerated in such a abort spate. Among the moat im portant, however, i are reconnais- ance, pursuit and typloitatioa of a break, delaying ajrtion, raida, a mobile reserve, and offensive and defensive combat, j ■ • Next to the air f$rce, the cavalry Whether raecll airy, the f1ex( ability of til use to strike it or horse tav- dlity and cavalry enable* its luickly and with tre mendous shock, which depends pri marily on the elements of maaa, speed, and. lurprise. The ability of cavalry to withdraw from position* of little need and arrive quickly at a distant point of great naed-ia one of th«* riistmguiahfalr.qharafctsr- istics of Cavalry- Although European cavalry >a now largely mechanbed R would be foolish acoprdhig to American Mil itary experts, to completely rtech- ■mse American -win-, tuk, country an cannot matt aero types of ttyrain wijh the ease *4 rapidity of horsemounted cavalry. American territory, especially ia ? r Southwest, would be ideal for » operations, of cavalry in ae* cordance with American principles In every militory operation of the A mm iran forces, and especially in the plains country against the In diana. the cavalry has been aA.fcn* portant factor in the success of operations. J* • / I , -•m ±- >' 1 I •4 #h ; is pictured at saw the Keystone State swing away from the New arrived to exercise his privilege aa an American citizen, ■korkers gave him a rousing celebration on his reflection itrV* ; h Pa., with one of his staunch Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, 87, his ou tside the has good Hi Alvin i at Hyde Park, for the broad smile Uu i ■ : ; - •’I • ■ i • ( ( - 1 „, j j ,f i { h 1 |