The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, December 16, 1938, Image 2

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THE BATTALION
LET’S PROGRESS
A REAL NEED
■DOWN" PAYMINTI
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TO RAt
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m, Bo term
would b« m
th« wed
located, it
wind* on the
At the
wholesale
wight become
they can
of the terw.
Thel
it to p sent the many fine new educational pic
tures available. Mnnk ■fancies ere now distribut
ing these films, which corer every field of human
interest and endeavor—athletics, biology, music,
travel, and nearly everything else one can think of.
It would be a fine thing indeed if all the clubs
. , j ,. , . . bad sotnething like this to u.se. Only two or three of
r* ^ »t dub. no. h... irojMM. f«ml.
ly small and not readily available for use by the
other organisations. At the University of Texas
irts
Todaf The I Battalion wakes Ha Ml app4a\
for Dead Week before the Christmas holiday b.- l ( ! A fseiiity grsatly aeedsd by Wany organisations
fin. * I ' || [ on tbs A. A M. campus is e trt>od 16-miliaster
' VM-Preskient Bolton has baid that the que* !M)Und rnovln g pMirs pmjeet*, of the latest wake
tkw of Dead Wfeek wiU in all probabiiity be settled “4 of^high qusUty, with all the accessory appara-
«t a ■faculty wasting to be held Mm-liately after ndeeeary. so that the various elube may use
the holidays srp over.
In making the faculty to consider re-instituting
Daad Week, we have asked for no more than a
period during which efforts to get a dearer grasp
of courses of study can be wade. j. ] i
Dead Week! as we believe it should be tastitrited
here would be
and no other similar institution*
by the instructors. It would bo
HmI wd Wn, , aimbtr , i|M .r,
•toto'X* «• ,,, ^ t|m , <or the ^
ICS as wholes. Uinment purposes of nil groups. This is one thing
time, we are not promoting a w# ^ ^ lacking in. I Z
jx'nod. Reviews, of course, ~ if ^ ^ on the campus would only lend
but of instructors wri o so, ^ BUfipoP t to the move the
the week the most importer one Qab jg now fostering, 1 to secure a food
machine for all dube, we certainly should be able
purpose of Dead Week, as we see ^ g e t this rouet. needed facility very soon,
it. Is to place the proper perstpective on couWe*. i T j _g k
lM the students see the course as a whole and let , , . . .
hlw aee it in eannoction with other similar courses. XT A* 1 A •
Thia purpose w undoubtedly of groat importance. {JH IN £11101131 AllcUrS
. Whether or not students will take advantage
of the period hj the major stumbling block. But may
we point out Uwt more than 1,000 students said they
weuld take advantage of the period ia a survey
conducted recently by The Battalion. This point ^ _ . I
Should not ho overlooked. T 1»8 wiU mm Utd. pwjce and
._I«. addiUon to this, there ia no reason why com ^ gjng forfr^a'Ted a ML
ffttn f!!a ld a n0t teiir*will d ms U k r s amd Japan ha5 lH ' t ' n nfhti#f • Woodlr war <or to* BY BILL MURRAY
"• conquest of China for a year. No end of either was Some day in your
COLLEGIATE REVIEW
Throughout the
PEACE AND GOOD WILL
Merry Christmas! “On earth peace, good will
world,®.
te%r v f*i
S. col- the
future -she
should know how
if she’s
without
KNOW YOUR COLLEGE
Deed Week nn. r.te a,_i Z* tv. con( l xm * ot Lhm * Ior • 3 rwr No end of tithsr was Some day in your leisuM ?
drnt Imdv ernTth^f^ISr* 11 h *• ta ,ifht * Aia>n|r th * • eT,,n ***** P®**” ° f th « wh 7 don’t you go through
world, three are ruled by some form of Fascism, year-old College Msseum?
Again wi urge the faculty to pass regulations * D d e fourth is in th* grip of a dictatorship devoted, chick-full of interest*!* «xl
to the ones we to
dsy-
brtaging about conditions similar to the ones wt to he sure, to different ends ♦h-r the Fascist ones,
have advocated during its meeting after the hell- hot a dictatorship, nevertheless; fully as oppressive
and as brutal as theirs, A fifth among the seven
great powers, France, (if she still can he counted
among the great powers) is split by serious In tar
sal disputes, and may well add herself to the list
of Fascist powers before long.
EDUCATION
For many years th* political plan in th* United
State* has Ix-ea for the voters to elect the man whe
gave the heat show;'Modern education is bringing
words on the mummy’s coffin—in-
your leisure time, eluding the sacred Ankh Cross of
our the Egyptians—are also interest-
It’s to see.
interesting exhibits. As you look about now you see
But for the present, let’s Just take the immense skull of mastodons
a mental tour of It ud mammoths (ancestors of the
As you enter the museum, you modern elephant that make him trpearan( . fl one 0 f
see first of all a profit* of “Pro- seem puny by comparison); hug* i eader , reCe j v <»d this
synthetoenra* Frnndsi Frick” ten-foot-long tusks of these ani- ^ undersigned being
. B _ ■!„ of
queer creatures
legtans are famed for ^ fun and took If
football. Even though w* refuse to ,ma ^ #0 ® a ^ Ul **
Join the rnakb of those wfco believe if ^1._
colbfee a*M the talk^s pktme ^ ^**1*
them, we Jest can’t re*ut pass- rafred a gift] if MO
ing on to you some of |he good- hooka from the Prs
timing stories we've Ward during e»«nt
the past wsdk: .1 | !
Up in the hill and am* country k «
.f N„ SCsk 4. Dwt.
mouth College rule* the.roost, 1,- eaublish.-d at
200-odd students drew $31,000 from Southern College,
savings arcounts in one bank so ,1
they could truck on down to the n. „ ^
^ t r* ^. d., 4«.
of all football w.vkends, but the .
I' 1 * to^cr^J
ala of thirty-thousand. | 4 M book, durin his
Tied up With all of t$is spend- yeart 0 f atQ d y
and-dance program is tlw problem , ..
thing from the Earlhafc College
campus. The student Newspaper
there recently asked the stuoenu
for their opinions on a dew share-
the-bills program whiclk- pi
that on the third Friday ia each
month the women make and stake
the dates and that everykhird date
with the flam* man $hould’< be
. “Dutch t ’■eat.” Bounds more like
California than Indian*, doesn’t
T<;||
But the payoff in dale-making
Many of the Queues a nd streets
of tbs New Yerk W
1989 have beat nuned.it |s
. eed by Grover A
d<nt o( ^ '
runs between
and the one
apparel,
long the
Home
Streets of
Aviation Build.*, and “ Che Street
of Wheels” to the rmfroad and
comet from MicUfttl ,8tete Col* motor section#
Whalhn, PreaL
Petikpat Lang”
Textili 1 Building
of the
Buildings. The
to the
r/
lege. Some time ago th* Collegiate
Digest featured
group of State’s
days after th* section
appearance
a pietpr* of a
beauties Some
lection made its n
skull, the only on* of its kind ever reals; and thousands of bones of KTtduttei
found anywhere, of a peculiar Ice- all kins of queer creatures that d bJtsn. as all males do
lived thousands or million, of year. j^Jc ability^-—’
At home, peace and good will are not the most age antelope with four horns.
prominent characteristics «( society. We an In Next as you look about yon see •g»-d!noeaurs the site of a house; p^chritude,
Steve Brodis" is to*Jump not
once but six times everjl day from
ropresenUtiofl of the Brooklyn
Bridge—from which the reel
C.BPU. .g^. ^ ^ ^
_ J ._ endea ago—in Oeorge Jsasel’s “(Hd
New York” <M the Amaaemeat
Area of the New Yot^ World's
Fair 1999; [ ‘
had our
the face
So, Just
th* girl
«bo.t « *mt. tor toe Utter m toi. .„tem. to. “J leokto, dew. « Jou to. .dn.r. ”»",tor. of to, mulen. ho™. to.« f .„ fy ^
•tood o( people rwtainc tor effiee with peraonalitiee h “ " ‘ li ' cl '" m * *"' 1 ebly-Kulpturetl butt of * tmm- — *1" *0^ SfoU * y UM
•• toe Min iMuee. .uthorlUe. to e.nou. ftel.l. .re “1*. ^ of to. .orlA'#LMt jhtok- «'*• “I*" f.r the bock of it. .ho'
—rto, politioe. Htto to . good sign tor toe totont «• ‘° d ™“* 1 ">«•• But to »*« >«" <-t. *«1 -W other j™- tlreUd to
of to. American HUM UStatKto. Coe,,,,,,.,., j "h. i.« to n °T5f ? IT" ■Wktof contr..t with toM to to, Imumc Croat.™. Serm* to. M m ^ ^ M
will profit m a result. ; ' , . JT) *^ ^','1 tlStfSZS r ™“ rk * bl ' di *P 1 *P »»“ - U,m ** , ”* k '^ r™ to. Uo- „ ^ Mmberf ^ ^ A Uh
1 Men who bare had lone re.™ # oubl c «rvie. " “ ““ " UW,i > B*™*- next room yott tottto-a cnylete lot now nutead of to . day whoa ^
and understand people wh? elected them can ITJISLTT con * ctlon V lif * lik# cMta of >ou mi * h ‘ into • d'nosaur or ^ y g . - Atoerican stW | enU M
serve bmt an^a^ m^whTTnTr ^ ^ * 2% °I ^ *"4 «Wdnab in onc for tribe, of all the prim- a cave Imw or a ^re-toothed Inuch ^ me{aaM
M the ST^bllc^S 8 .?^‘“ T# / nnUal ,nC ° m " ttnd * r |76 °’ itive. ignorant, savage tribe, of tigvr Jaat ^ywlmre you
can solve those problems mure uickly and wMmen- * Ta * i UlHI ' and 65,94 under U.500. This is Xustralasla. Hers you see staring And lastly there are fine dls-
eflA^tho^probU^ ^uickly^teith^re world, wlmre comps- at you, as if m reJ life, the^ pby. ef the mounted bodte. of
understands economics history and neonle them- <nt * i nts 1 ink e * ch coul<1 have ^ tooom * tenances of Malayan men that present-day birds and animals of
Mltoo would utokt . touch bettor officThtoder to., r« t'e’* i ^ ‘1 ^ of ,M * rcid WD "* n ^ mo ” to »* u * 1 lurtatieo. Mid . tout eeeryone who cut *ftord .
. pecn who hto .tudied pol,t„w Prodecde. toMtoM m™ ^w^toly ntfltotol. Ftot, ^ look n<) „ Ilk. men. to*! of pr.ct,™lly complete collection of colic wtuctolon ,h.p d yet oue.
TbXoun,. to li JT £ Tt ?”“i Jl! ^ «» *~> New to. pm-nM., pitot Me of Texto „d to . cult hto 'totered' IU
. T. 1 ". * y ere man, the heir of mature, is Guinea that don't look much like as well as plant collections from scholarship to enter col-
mere like gorillas elsewhere. lege." So states Dr. Spaulding of
ineidsntally, were — Harvard University bvliwing we
made from real life, and show Science has coma to the aid of should ‘’Ppieli the dignity of lab-
vividly the personalities and ex- fashion-conscious Students and or* to thoae* unfitted for college.
those who art not flo clothes-mmd- f
•d, too. '-J ! Miami University medical an-
At least H has at Skidmore Col- theritke report a decrease of more
lege slier* home economics stu- than GO par cent in the dumber,
y
USKp CAM
HEADCRJARTI
■i
Sen The
BRYAN MOTOti
CO. 1
getting votes. The former
ttu«r to offtod. to. Utter ouly hi. embltlon. fee pop”,'.- A btoie, not to to, eitoj, problem to oem; . iUl „ bllt
hitltor tod more itoporttot P>«crnm.,,t po.ilion. „ .fc.,, h,,, to knp th ,, , *«*"• bu
There are many requiramentfl for a person to good deal ef good will to solve jt.
b..etodld,U for to offlto. totototomt. b.™ • The™ ere wm. topp, , m . to Amerle.. A, ^ pec.,,^ ,
1 h ^ IpMlgjjaufjiraMy •* opposition party exists, and even shows prospects pressions of their owners
ea# M them. The merit system would fit in perfectly of flourishing. The President ten appoint his de- « vou , find . .
eaucaaos com* improve poiitica. Hr 1 Th * ureyor of the largest city on the country can waapoiUi an< j ^ on
much more serious than his Eng
lish stadsata.’'
;* ' |1 ^totoi^to | I
“Our educational syftem baa
been functioning on the
THE BATTALION
would benefit from the efficiency of n government obey, humanitarian impulses toward the oppressed *1 pottonr varies . n n s-...u u „« yj.-a w ,...
byppllticton, who btow toeto b-to-.^ WtoU todto, eto^toy tod toe b,™^, to oto^T eee- bto'tilS^p^
° f _ D4IDI _ ^ ° { con,e ‘ <nce endu 7 8 * »nd m does free- Colombia even before the time of vie* trill advise its elieste on tex- of the ideal co-ed. Their r^l.c-
E PRAIRIE ® ex P r *“‘ on Lconomy d, ‘ mix ' r ‘“'y has not been ^ Idcm • tiles, styles and the proper accee- tioa says she should poss£ good
crsqZ’ ^ ^ ^ 1 * d m ° NeXt r ° U #nt * r ‘ ‘“B* h<Ll1 m ' 10 mak * * COmpl,t * «*“““• eenvwaational \ ability,
' lltrry Christmas!
rtL:. ■ " , M of the most
. , , . . th# South
Entered as sscoad class matter at the post office , Ut * i ‘ r * t “ rn * ,n . d j? t t 89 , Crei * hUm lions of years old found in Texas Aargsd for alterations and repair*, prevseatioii." She drinks mdderato-
sfl OsUags Stadon, Texas, sndsr ths Act ef ( ongroe* h . aV * •°4»™P h « 1 ^ «>n Tom ^ olher This la the w*Q- 'J. ltk “ “4 •*>«*’ “4
sa March t, 1879 H ( phy * i ^ ,umJ . le * • ‘; l ^ ri,j J ora * w ® ^, out known collection of Dr. 0. M. Ball, Smart though todays wise-crack- knows effectively the “art ef rank-
Subscription rates, $LM pet yssr ! obsensuon* that he s pretty well plat- wkM) tJMKj i,, h* tha hand of the M collegian may be, he’s not as inf-tip" Bhe should noter h* flip-
ss cases displaying onc which will express th* personality and tactfulness Shrng is Jrat on#
1 complete collections In of the weaiar. Style advice Is given of her common h.iUt^ .y she
of foseil plants mil- f^*#» but standardised rates are nmy resect to it ca "Sufficient
Advertising rates epos request
Office in Room 122, Administration Building
Office open from 11 aj at
tered”
Disregarding a survey report at Harvard that
Nepfce* Coleg* t. Office epea frees 11 ai at rev , e * 1 * thr ** memb « r » of ^ frwhisan class are
s^fl 4 p at daily. Dud ‘* u “‘4 ‘hat on* professes “anachronism" as his man itt dmi.
Mptototod tor totitotol Urnmt, by Mw- ! Ut, | " *'** P *> , 1 ' h, ! 0 «“ l -»* «>• who hto been mainly InUrtoUd hi
Biology Department and is now inventive as he thinks be is if you
curator of th* Museum. The Mu- believe th* researches of Univer-
seum is largely the result of 30 ^7 of Buffalo librarians,
years’ work by two msn,—Dr. Ball, Among the modem wise cracks
that are Mt SO modern, according
a “Tins riingsr ” As for
imi.ivb
aVSSRaVVKLY
I jR u
Dedil6th
T-Curds Goed
4;.. i r: nr u..i
Advertising
Turk CHy.
R. L. DOBB j
W. Ml
Bsrviss, Inc, 420 Madison Avs^ An J #r,r * n hom, ” ^ ust B llttle democracy . . , Yaa, ^ fi ^ w ^ botany, and th# late *> their diacoveries, are the foflow-
and lA'Kwn tobnlKcr wlwwb. V— tV. wi 1W ‘ UWV ~W» .
ADVKRTI81NG MANA(,KR p.m.
Faya*, lamee Grits
Minaging Editors
Fallen, R. C Knetaar
Advertiaiag Maaagars
OUver, Ways* Htarfc | .
Aaaedate Bdltera
R C (Ja*p> Qatsa
and when mother starts for the medicine cabinet,
^ Wil lte knows Just what’s coming another purge.
KDfTOR-tN <HIRF When the house mother irstely asked at 11:18
Do you think you can spind the night here?"
the collitch boy doubtfully replied, “I dunno now.
Guess I’d better call my room aiate first, huh?”
The referee called a penalty on Furman U.’l
gridders and started pacing it off. “What’s he do
ing now," growled a Furman rooter, “penalising
as fdr telling a dirty joke m the huddle?"
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Den
cr. d#7
Tam ©arrow.
BU Marrayto.
A. G. Warroi
R F. Reg
Seatt, Lewie
aaeer, R. A.
R. R. lagUfirid. C A.
Wise, BIB '
" • B. F. Da
HUff
J. C DieU
Orsalatiea Ms as.
McCheaaey. H. G.
QhnglMln
record correspondcnw enrollment of 676 is
Texai
Dr. Mark Francis, (until his death •
a few years ago head of the
School of Veterinary Medicine),
who was mainly interested in ani
mal life.
And now you enter th* big halls
devoted to animal life of the past
and present, where you see Dr.
Francis’ remarkable collection.
Ftrtt of all, of course, yoo will
want to teko a fow minutes to in
spect the Egyptian mummy in its
opened coffin inside a glass cast.
TUESDAY STAFF
H
; A. I. Carroll, N. A.
0. Talbot, W. J.
W. T. Guy, Georg*
Gorier Beam. J.
. Khode, A. 1. A
all M. H. RoWa
i port, I. W. Jenkins. L
Advertising Aaateteat
FRIDAY STAFF
reported by the University of
Dodge Frank Harris Hiscock of Syracuse, N. Y
ha# resigned as chairman of Cornell University’s »ummy, comparatively w*U-
boanl of trustees after 22 yearl - preserved, eras found in 1891 in
Tomptete consolidation under one roof of all ^ tomb of tho ancient
plant and animal xriencoalkxcept dairy husbandry Egyptian king of Karnak. Dr.
at the University of New Hampshire will ha possible
in’.lhne with completion of tio
Nosmith hail.
A volume of rural Michigan songs and ballads
ing
: TU tell the werid” was first
used by Shakespeare $18 years ago.
"Not so hot” is from the same
author’s Winter’! Tale."
\ "Beauty but skin deep” was PM-
lip James Bailey* description of
a woman ia 1861.
“I'm no anger was coined by
Thackeray about 1848.
So, before you cliche inventors
lay claim to a new word combina
tion, you’d better check th* class ice
first
i LUNCH0ON AND
■ 4 COFFEE CLUBS 9 Ai l
4-
TEAROOM
Highway I «t
WjM »Or«»
SIND mu VACATION lAOCAOt
HOMO* '
RAHWAY
EXPRESS
**' baa been completed by Waynfl's Prof. Eraelyn E.
•• Gardner and Alumna Geraldmd J. Chkkering.
Grinnoll College has opened g dating bureau.
Francis and Dr. Ball acquired it,
90-foot wings to •moat oth ' r things, from a “Cha-
Uukua” traveling show that “want
broke”, >I>out UHX). The picture—
J. F.
A. Schell Mason Joaaa, G. W. DeArmepd Jr,
A. Newamp. R. W. Barchfield. J.rk to.u
R. W. GarHch. W. C. Regan. R. L. yUMte
Caaa School of Applied Science has a new
160 000-volt radiographic machine for the detection
of flaws in metals.
More than 60,000 students in 88 U. S. colleges ""
universities r~ ^— 1 * ** * * - - •
Men's association.
More than 1,700 trees on tfie Connecticut State
College campus were dcstroyedl in the recent east
coast hurricane.
For the first six months at 1988, gifts to edu-
ostioi.al institutions dwlinod $58,568,188 from the
total of a similar period of last year.
DUKE UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF HKDH INK
! Durham, N. C.
Fear terma ef stores weeks are
givaa each year. Theiw may tw tek-
lively (graduation In
a bowl’s
a meal
Advecttoiag
tod uniTwiittos „ »™to OT |M to. IrKtoptodto, ^
thru# terma may be taken each
year (graduation ia fear yean).
Th* entrance requirements are te-
tr Hi fence, character and three
years sf college werk, indudinu
the aahjecte specified far Ckas A
la. Catatogaea sad ap-
The Student Workers Federation has been re-
Chili co! Carnc
tridi the^ikt Mexieaa flavor I
ft «
"Senedtl ABTh***"
LIPSCOMB
PHARMACY
Nortli Gate
That ! th* way to vacation
—with nothing to do but
lock up your trunk sad
phone Railway Express. Nc
charge —no dickering ot dpubts
Oa* easy move You see yopr baggage go. and can take yoaq train with
a sigh of relief. • Convenient? lOOU-and economical, tool Oar rwas
are low, sad you can scad “ioHect,” if you wish, same as wkh our "tnran
aad-bnek laundry servica." tk baa yon phone, sell as the tmse to coma
- SOI THKRN PACIHC DEPOT
j ’Phone 9
j College Station, Text* JJ
RailhaAexpress
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