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FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1939
THE BATTALION
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Contemporary National Personalities and News of the Day as Seen by the Camera
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A QUEEN
HONORED \A FRIEND IN NEED-
A 1939 <M>uUnt«, Mia® CharlotU
task, handl'd down
QUIZZED
f Afd and bruised, but unfaltenn* in hit devotion, Frits stands over Beafetaff. I(aac« Jan rsdwsxskl. Beryl Scott, Saa Frannv-n dcbu- Fof “ er V' ^ Martia Maa-
Hard.e was queen of this year’s ^ his faaiOy for ■saorstisaa. falls his maimed master, Chester Brooks, near their wrecked car at Old f»*®«* pianist and first premier taste, will become the asst “Mrs. Fedaral^rTnd^Jnry hTlIew
tlamoT !w ** Pri * < * Alhaai, who pre- Westbury, L. I. It was nseessary to blindfold the do( to keep him r>0, * nd ’ arri ' ,? ' lt Now ^ or * tmr Tama." She aad Johany Weiss- Yerk where he was qaestisaedL He
dasfhter of Mrs. Ebea Bardie ef »* ^ ***"• * Cardtaals from following the ambulance in which Brooks was removed to pi ^ *" V? * *** *“ ^ T' ’ b
New Orieaas. f In Vatican City te elect a new I’ope. a hospital.
b six years. He is ia self-imposed veree from Pape Veles heceame said te haws answered nil
exile from Poland. Huai, Weissmnller has snn..unc«i nadili
ACTRESS AND BRITISH MATE BENEDICTION AS 4TH SON JOINS MINISTRY ; HIGH ON COURT UST
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Frances Drake, screen actress, is shown with her ha»band, Cedi I'* B- Kretsmasn ibaik to camera), now a miasienary to Africa, receives blciHiags ef Commission, and Deaa Wiley B. Rutledre of the leiveraity of lews
John Arthnr Hewnrd. brother ef the < mint ef Siffelk, returned to kia family as the fearth tea ef the Kc% Karl Kretxmann ef Orange, N. wa« ordamul to the Latheraa law scheel are being mentioned to replace reditn.-d Aseorinte Justice
Hollywood after a sarpriae wedding ia Taeaea, Arisoaa. sdaktry la CMcngo. Left te right, other Reverend Kretzmanaa are Adalbert, the ‘
father, Otto aad Martin. Loeia Braadeia an the U. B Supreme Court.
WHO
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Collegians Favor Economies
. All Merchants.
WHAT
Dr. George Truett
To Give This Year’s
Baccalaureate Sermon
Can Reach the A. & M. Market Through This News
paper. I
WHERE
Dr. George W. Truett, pastor at
the First Baptist Church ia Fort
Worth, and President of the Bap
tist World Alliance, has been se
lected to preach the Baccalaureate
sermon for this year's graduating
class. The service will be held June
2, at 10:30 a. m. in Guion Hall.
The graduation exercises will be
held durhtg the evening of the same
| dite in the college a tedium.
There will be approximately MO
candidates for graduation.
‘63 Per Cent Say
They A^ree With
Economy Measure
Published on the Campus, The Battalion Is the Only
Newspaper With Complete Faculty and Student Cir
culation. 1
WHEN
Twice a Week, Tuesday and Friday,Through the Ad
vertising Columns of The Battalion the Million Dol
lar Aggie Market Can Be
WHY
The Battalion’s Recent Advertising Survey Brought
Out That Aggies Alone Spend Around One Million
Dollars a Year Besides What They Pay in Fees.
Your Results Will Be Better if You Advertise in
This Newspaper.
THE BATTALION
The Ne wspaper for r),900 Students and Their Profs
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BY. WALDO NIEBUHR
Student Opinion Surveys of
Amerfai I
AUSTIN, March 4r—Ptrhaps
pointing to future trends in the
important American problem of
work-relief, college student* of to
day who may be the nation’s lead
ers If tomorrow have declared
them4elre* in accord with Coa-
greasi slash in WPA appropna
lions,; a nation-wide surrey show*.
~ ‘ the closing days at
Congress rebelled at
it Rooseveltb spending
and ordered a $150,000,000
relief appropriation*. That
,000 to finance the
from February 7 to June
of 4h« $8784)00,000 pro-
administration.
of college youth taken
for The Battalion and eighty-two
other college newspapers, the Stu
dent Opinion Surveys of America
asked students, “Do you agree
jwttk (Congress in reducing relief
appropriations?"
answered 83.3%
answered M.7%
In keeping with this tendency
1 the President's pplkks,
s percentages showing
approval of Franklin D.
as chief executive drop-
than two points from the
during January. College
of the President
varied during the last three month*
a* follows:
, The A. 4k. M- fire department has
been commended on the effective
work it te doing in protecting Col
lege Station property, thereby low-
ering fire insurance costs, in a
letter received by B. D. Marburger,
Superintendent of the Department
AGGIE
CLEANERS
R. a RAPP, Prop.
North GlU
Marvin Hall, State Fire Insurance
Commissioned. .
ERECTION OF 1
NEW OORNS IS 1
WELL UNDER .WAY
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The, new dormitories are coming
along on time. They are “hi the
ground," except for the Mess Hall,
and concrete work on six will be
complete in a week. The brick work
The College Station fire record on one, and the roofs on three, will
shows a rise from a fifteen per
ceat charge to a ten percent credit,
effective March first Mr. Hail
has offered his department’s as
sistance with any fire-fighting and
fire protection problems which may
arise in College Station.
Harvard University student* are
approximately two’ inches taller
than U* average undergraduate at
mid-western universities.
be finished in two or three weeks.
Plumbing and heating roughing-
in te well under way on the first
three. Lath and plaster work will
be suited next week. There are
r about 500 men on the job.
Forty percent of these are skilled
labor. Most of the unskilled work
te being done by colored laboeen.
Some ef the men, mostly brttk
masons, have been brought from
as far away' as Colorado and Illi
nois.
agreeing with Congrats:
Far Western SUtaa
Southern SUtes
East Central SUtes
West Central SUtes
New England SUtaa «2.3',
Middle Atlantic States . 63.7%
Typical of the commenU on the
question was the one given by
University of Kentucky arts and
sciences student She said, “Con
ns has already given out so
mod) money that H has made
people lasy, and they don't want
to work." Taking another view
were many who, like a University
of Nebraska student point out that
although they believe relief to be
undesirable, they “favor its c
tinuation as long as file n
Fifty-four per Cent' of | DilAM-
University’s stodenU enrolled be-
More than if-m) of New Yerit
University’s 300,000 alumni Uve in
New York City.
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STUDENT CO-OP
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APPROVE OF F.D.K. |
Dee. $Lf%; Jan. 66.6%; Feb. 631%
However, despite the drop in Ms
during the month, which
due to admimstra-
:erings with Congress,
still paradoxically has al
most exactly as many who approve
of hna personally as he has op
ponents to his relief demands.
down tba results of
the Mtaf-cut question by sections
of t|e country the Surveys found
majorities in such sec
! TKA8
A. & M. GRILL
j for
Better Fed*
Open Afttr the Dance
Comm In For A ^
MIDNIGHT SNACK
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