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THE BATTALION
EX SENDS LETTER , ELECTRIC RAZORS
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KICKING HIM OUT!
Kditor BatUlion
Texas A. A M. ColUc«
CoOege Statften, Texas
Dear Sir
Dallas, Texas
December 5, 193811
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I wish to submit the follow mg for your con*id- elecfric circuit. This interf.
programs to which poor'
certainly most annoying
err nee
•ration of publication in aa issue of the lattalkm programs to which people **• Its-
In a way, electric rasors efe like the weather.
Everybody talks about them - about the way they
interfere .with radio reception in the halls—yet no
body ever does anything about-it
Most rasors create havoc—fe) the form of loud
buzzing and terrific static—on. all radios on that
with the radio
trying to listen is
traveling the aggie way
Every one knows college students are not rich
HpiS flTiiafci * 11 ji
“kids* and hie snxiooa to hsfe them when they can. j n Battalion. We ask the' ■
to be aired
_ ^ . . however: Did
At A. A H ibis chance for the public lo h« lp the eT#r try to hear a good rsaiio program at the
Aggies is Wtry noticeable in hitchhiking. Aa Aggie Mine time an electric shaver, or for that matter,
puts on a uaiform and sooa be is on a corner ami s , irw ot her electrical appliance,' was creating inter-
some one Inlps them out by giving them a ride, f ertnce f How did you foel sbmA H?
thus saving them money and taking them where ^r* not trying to di^ourage the use of
they please i such conveniences, which are fehUy quite convenient
I am en ex Aggie and travel weekly between ^ coming into widespread! use; we are simply
Dallas-Houptoa, and Waco to Houston, often times tgyfog to combat the thoughtless, inconsiderate use
the trip fafts on a week end and I always carry two of them which p |sys such misc^iiif with the hundreds
Aggies with me in my coupe. I’ve been doing this of A t college. So if! you would do your
since 18M and always the Aggies were gentlemen fri( l ndl , wbo owtl radios a big favor, why don’t you
when 1 picked them up. They were always on one mdopt one or more 0 f the following suggestionsT
ootrier in ^elMa, W^to, Br^n «d Houston and 1 ftn ^ t you ^ an electric .hsv.r some time
looked to meeting some Aggie, on them corn** purchu , e one of ^ Ut e.t model.
Since I83( upstreaming sterud. When I was inj ^ , f , l ( .Miy constructed yoias not to interfere
school any Aggie who would stoop to this was kept whh d - reception,
in the Bull Rkig a semester. The school was small \
nnd we could tell who was do.ng the so called up-! , S*™**-^ of th * cbe *P; *“* !1
streaming 'Ever, year this U getting worm. Thb» ?"**}' co ' Mkfn “™ that eliminate most or all of th«
year it is a disgrace. Lw-Mfyen it looks lika hell. ,nte ”e r ® Bee -
equipment, when
most radio listen
DEATH IN THE JUNGLE
and their
ireb huntqd in
the has dome
Us lurking 4c
vegetation,
aaimilS)' its
r FKHN XMlil
the Venice of
canals. The
In South
»•«“>«» ni. ":3'; Tr"-" r~ ~—*
lirErysn it looks like boll. , I » »
On every corner there are Aggies, Just one or two, Third—Use your
but they are Aggies. This bums me up and I won’t rver possible, at a time such
pick up an Aggie in Bryan except on the comer * n would not be disturbed—for instance, late at
north of the courthouse and going South I always "‘kbt or early in the morning, •< I j - : -■ ,
pick rime one up at the “Y* where the new lights H who have these appliances would just try y A HPI?
ore. If these Aggies must upstream, teU them to take out these simple remedies, radio reception would A 1 Hi tvEiVlHiVV
off their uniforms. That uniform represents Aggies improve, and all who listen to radios—and they
true and they are not true Aggies when thef are number many—would be much | obliged. f • ‘ L I I "■?"** * (
taking advantage of other students. 1 ■»■ ■■ ■■ -■ , | Paul A. Misch, Ohio State Uni- by a single vote margin- '
Seems to me the captain of a company . ,, | versity, baa volunteered to paint South Dakota State College sto-
keep bis bhys from upstreaming. In our company TRADITION ! the campus tower clock free of dents eat on an average of 100 tee Biology Club, Was fortunate in hav-
moetiags from 1028 to 19S2 our captains always ’ I ' j! charge, sol hell be able to read cream coaea daily- M« * BM^JtectarrhM
warned us of this and thers was no upHtreamlnf! Tb ‘* 7®* r ^ ‘Yiah" of a miriiU-r of the military the face from his room. The Syracuse University infirm- day who has seen
Why can’t this be done now? Surely a captain stfli organization* are faUing down tedly in the way they students of Texas State College ary is asking .student* to give Jungles in all their pi
can keep hi* company on the line. So, why not have gr*** Die Christmas season, fiv past years it has p or Women are playing Santa crutches for use of crippled or ih- beautiful and horrible Hk is Dr.
a senior meeting or discuss it at the next senior h**" * ^ne custom that the “flAP'of each outfit ( i au8 this year to the children in jured students. Asa Chandler of Rice Institute, aa
meeting and *Uq> the upstreaming. It’s giving A. g*Dier outside their dormitories each night at ^veral orphan homes around Den- x|, e University of California’s outetendinr pathologist, bacter-
A M. a terrible black eye to every one who frivas d «ri n K the two week* preceding Chriatiaas ton. atora-smashiiw cyclotron weighs lol<> K‘ 8 t, and parasitologist, who is
BY BILL MURRAY
Saudi boys dream
adventure m the
grown men explore them in
of riches. Like poisoned
Jungle lures men to
beauty—its luxuriant
its colorful birds and anim+ls, Mi ACCORDING
exotic atmosphere but Iitlia.do di-titian,
men know of the dreadful hidden R(X >d
death that lies within. la the.ktiWlv become
climate the vegetation is
1Ai birds am more briffhtl;
ed and the deaths am
Pftii
The tropics abound with
on* snakea, with swarms of
insects, and with dreaded
about which are know
thing. One of the most
oleiAantissis, a disease
a lanb or some other
body swells to an
making a hideous
what was once s normal
ing. There is another
•ease in which the
infee ted with worms
feet long that
body and finally
wrist, where the head of
may be slowly pulled out
ped around a stick, by
which the still ugly
with luck, be pulled out
body without breaking
ing sickness, ben-beri,
mrupoaeiof the other horrors the
tit»pic s hold.
j A; A M. College, throiigh the
fores; and
with Mm
IS rdi.i.wn
becausd of its
Thuru-
tropie
both
through Bryan. Not only it is bad in Bryan bu
in Waco, Houston, Madisonville, Hearne, and Aus
tin, as well as my heme town, Dallas. I
The word Agyies has always meant a body nf
students who stuck together. Let’s beep it that way.
HAROLD R. KINNANT
? Class of 19S2.
CHRISTMAS LEAVE
The population of the newly incorporated city
of College Station will decrease around 5,600 Satur
day as students “take off* for the holidays. What
formerly looked like n hustling metropolis Saturday
morning will be a desolute and quiet little village
Saturday afternoon ns only occasionally n passerby
blots the scene.
iu ijrecedi
holidays, and sing, solemnly as befitted the occasion
and as harmoniously ns possible, some of the most
Twelve (nodical men are held 85 tons. ' \
in readiness at all Hanrard home The Catawba College yearbook
particularly interested
diseases and has spent
beautiful and familiar Christmas'carols—particularly ... n , . , j T yearo- years in India and o
football games to aid injured play- u called, “The Swastika." but has 7. . . . .
Silent Night
But this year the fish of .many outfits have
been mocking and desecrating this solemn, almost
religious occasion by singing i^ Die most careless,
frivolous, inharmonious manner conceivable. Some
have 'even gone so far as to qtng the entirely in
appropriate “swing” tunes
“Atisket Atesket*, which
\ no connection with n well-known
One-third of the University of totalitarian goverament. .
Chicago student* prefer symphonic The Williams College news !*-
musk to swing. reau, in one football weekend, dis-
Of the 13,225 young people who patched stories totaling more than
,t Foot Flogie" and rt k iBt « r ^ ♦iDi the NYA employ- 21,000 words,
popular as swing ment •® rr ^ c ® l* 1 October, only one A majority
occasion. The en- P« r c * nt +* n < * >lk ‘* e K™***t*».
A recent survey revealed 37
tries, where
DOWN
G
PRICES
Slacks
or
15c
LAurran
of St. triSMMMlI
are all too out-of-place for this occasion. The en- ™ '*'"*** gr.c»».ze». University student, favor mbsidi-
tire spirit of Christmas gladneS* nnd chser, fellow- A r * c ^ ,t •”**** r^ealod 87 nation of athletes,
ship and Joy and at the same |i«e . certain dignity. P er , C * nt ^ NorthWtistem Univer- Sixty-fmir year, ago Roanoke
is lost through such . mockery r of the old traditior.. ^7 • go barelegged to College ] Students were offered
But at this time we wisji to congratulate the
classes.
The Colgate
were
board fqr $6.50.
The book value of Harvard Uni-
Christmas spirit has been in the sir for many, in the manner of their singing, land still try to sing
days. The strains of “Jingle Bells" and “Silent with the best harmony that cgn be obtained, with
Night" hare been sailing back and forth over the practice. It gives anyone who H is any appreciation
cm an pus M rieven o’clock ever night since the of musk a thrill to hear the beautiful ringing of
Thanksgiving "holidays were over. The kchool sing D»e»e fish. We compliment theri on the fine o beer-
held in Ghion Hall Sunday afternoon boosted the vance of a good tradition and express the wish that
^tiday spirit up still higher. j others do as well.
Particularly glad to get off for a couple of i
weeks will be the 2,000 Fish who have had
spend three montly away from home, something
which they haven’t aa yet gotten used to. To
majority ojf the older students it will moan getting , , „ i . . .
back to the old cronies and “gals" and away from After a long diouth, relieYe* >> an Occasional
studies a while. Emerson said “travel" was tbo novel, American fiction apems to hi freshen -
“land *0 dreams” and may each student upon ending i** > ** min ' Among the Library s new l>ooks,
fish of a few organizations Who still preserve the 1 ^ '""T"”** Valvueriqy
true Chriatma* JJrit of rever^t joy and fellowahip class presidential Section whs wdh versity this year U >187,157335.44.
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ng Dr. T. F. Mayo’0 Column
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ECHO TEAROOM
Highway 6 tit ( olleye rtrinia Dihrel
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hi* travels back home, be it
find thosei dreams.
to Bryan or Padncah,
tlHE BATTALION
three volumes of short stories ought to appeal to
the Aggie in search of elegant‘entertainment. They
are “Southways" by Erskine Caldwell, “The Long
Valley” by John Steinbeck, and “The Fifth Column"
by Ernest Hemingway. *
As a matter of fact the phrase “elegant enter
tainment" would, I am sure, be justly resented by
all three of these authors. The gentlemen are in
nearly all of their storios thoroughly—sometimes
ten :b!y—in erneat. Caldwell’s little tales of South
ern poor whites and negroes make you see red. If
you are a Southerner you are olsb likely to get red
‘Altered as second class matter at the poet office
at College Station, Texas, under the Act ef Congress
sa March $. IKTy .T
Aibsoription rates, ft.00 per yuar
Advertising rate* upon request.
Office in Reom lit, Adminietrarioti Bulldiag.' i n the face—that is, if you cWre enough about the
Telepboiw < oll*‘ge 8,^ Office open from 11 ti. bl South to want it to be a pl4ce where everybody
.til 4 p. m. dafly., ge U
a square deal. We wer^ all brought up on-
Maprrmnnheil for national advsrtlriag by Ma- moonlight-and-roses-on-the-pillzred-portioo stories a-
Oona. Advertising Service, Inc, 4S0 Madison Ava, bout the “Southland”. Realism, however, is said to
New York (Sty. have crossed the Potomac, headed soSth , in Ellen
R. L. DOSS FDIT0R.LN « HIKE Glasgow’s novels about fifterii years ago. Today,
W. H. HMIlH a i\KKT IHINg MANaGRR apparently, realism is very much at home in thq.
Bin Payna. James Crite
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TUESDAY STAFF
Tam Darrow
B1U Marray
A. G. Warrea
B. F. Roge
Aarisuat
A. J. Carroll N. A. Moore,
Land of Cotton. Personally, I n glad of it. William
Faulkner’s terrific novels, notably “Sanctuary" and
"Light in August”, first ripped the lid off the Deep
South Out came what usually accumulates under
tightly closed lids—an extremely bad smell. Caldwell
is somewhat different. He carps more deeply about
the suffering and injustice Which he depkts than
does the aristocratically sardonic Faulkner. Cald
well’s reader gets the feeling,, somehow, that some
thing can and perhaps will ibe done about these
awful things. And if the reader is much of a guy
he feels, I thing, that he would like to help do it.
John Steinbeck, of “Of'Mice and Men" fame,
is a smoother ^writer than Caldwell. His stories don’t
take quite so much complacent skin off. “The Long
Valley” is in much greater darfcer than “Southways”
of being described by lady hook reviewers (male
and female) as a “beautiful" book. The group of' 1
FOR YOU AND YOURS
One of the real jova of the holiday
portunity U gives us of doing somethi
people and making them happy. ]
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Christmas comeh year after year, and It
to come. You are going to do e\er\thing
LONG AS YOU! LIVE to have a good
your home.
How wonderful It would be t* provide
is the pp-
for other
continue
AS
as m
this good
gpne
by
time for Mary ;|nd Jack, even though you have g
on to your rew ard. You can guarantee thin simply
the savings of a| few cents a day.
As the shadows;of the old year lengthens
IBM, ^4jr you |ave a Very Merry Christ
Prosperous New Year.
IIS® INSURANCE COMPANY
HOUSTON. TEXAS
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H. F- Burgees, *29
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Sidnev L. Leveies *88 —
> M. G. stories celled “The Red. Ponyf, told from the point
H G. Tolbot, W. J. SendMgs. J. R. D f view of a small boy on a| California ranch, are
Serit, Lewis ChevallUer, W. T. Gey, Geerge Naw* mellow and fragrant and strong with the smell of
slsea
Shields. Carter Baa as. J. A. HUnarll
C A. Rhode. A. K. Adams. FeeUr
Whall. M. H. RiMbssb. R. & Specks.
J. W. Jeekiee, L. J. Wehrie
FRIDAY STAFF
A F. H
Fraak
k A. 8
Is A. N
R. W. GerUck. W. C. Regaa. R. L.
the Western earth and the befits thereof. But Stein
beck shows what he can do Tn a harder mood in
“The Vigilante", which ought to make the dumbest
of us understand once for all why people go in for
tyrnhHrii^ ] | jQ* •]
Ernest Hemingway, as pll Aggie introducers
invariably zay, “needs no introduction”. (You know,
he’s the fellow that wrote that piece in Esquire).
“The Fifth Column" gives the title to a group of
stories wrjtten just the other; day about and in the
midst of the Spanish Civil Wak. In fact Mr. Heming-
eaaa, G. W. DeArmew* Jr, way wrote them so deeply ir the thick of events
Burchfield, Jtoft 'RhMli ; as to admit that he himseM is not sure of their
quality. Mr. Hemingway, sir, you needn’t have
betherod.
-Jaaia
-Janie
Billy
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