The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, January 11, 1924 Page: 2 of 4
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Robert Vadan L<wdoa Buainaaa Manager
Edttort*) Staff
Walter Barnaa Aaaaa)ata!Mitor
JaekGtenn Hporta Editor
Ceratdinejenntngt Society Bdftor
HatetCanntn Co-ed Feature Edttor
Sarah Lane Ea-8tudaa Editor
HatHannan Circulation Manager
J. AtiisonDryden Advertising Manager
C. W. Martin Advertiahg
StaH Beportera
Marv l.ouiae Furd. Fanny iiexii Emery, Martha Frances Hiii. K. T. Wiibanke. Katherine
Wuoii. iien Du^tan. ^Gwr)te^Wiiiiams. Sadie McLean, Ray L. Rountree, Lottie Gray. May
E. 0. ARNOLD
Again The Thresher has caused an editor to be placed on pro-
bation. E. Oren Arnold, during his term as editor, made The
Thresher a reai newspaper. He wanted The Thresher to be read,
and by working on it at a)i times, letting his studies be slighted if
there was not time enough for both and by carefully considering
almost every article separately from the reader's point of view,
he made the paper interesting.
A definite stand on an important question was taken for the
first time by The Thresher under E. O. Arnold. The mess-hall
articles which actually brought about a much-needed improve-
ment were favorably commented upon by many editors of college
papers; the Daiiy Texan of Texas U., among others, spoke of The
Thresher's departure from the wishy-washy attitude usual for
student publications, and letters were received from editors of
:;ortherti and eastern college papers commending the vigorous way
it) which attention was called to the unsatisfactory conditions.
This was ai due to Arnold's theory that the paper should be for
the interests of the students, and that the truth regarding student
interests should be told.
It) the last term, we have had a paper that really was run with-
out regard for "pull." The editor did not soft-soap his personal
friends; and neither did he use his position to ridicule his ene-
mies (it he had any). He edited the paper without prejudices
and gave no preferences to the people that tried to get by with
something as a personal friend.
Arnold has worked on the paper so much that his scholastic
standing suffered, and we must regret that he is compelled to re-
sign. for he made The Thresher editorials readable and in the front
page editoriais, "Rice Topics," followed the lead of the most pro-
gressive city papers. In losing him as editor, The Thresher will
lose a talented and industrious worker, but his innovations and
improvements will be retained as far as the rest of the staff can.
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MRS. HERAUD
On Tuesday. January 1st, Mrs. Beraud suddenly died. At
three o'clock iti the afternoon she was well, when a stroke of
apoplexy came from which she did not recover.
Only ten days before, Mr. Beraud's grandson died; and for these
two losses, the students of the Rice Institute join his other friends
itt sorrow. It is because Mr. Beraud gained the respect of the
students when he placed their comfort above his own welfare and
because they admire him as a man, that the students extend their
svmpathv to him.
— <K - —
THE LEAP-YEAR THRESHER.
The girlies are promising to publish a Thresher all by them-
selves some week. They were dared to do it and they swore by
their grandmothers' lip-sticks that they would. Now in a few
weeks Rice will realize that leap-year is really here as the co-eds
seixt- upon this great weekly for a space.
Who will be the first girl to edit a Thresher? No one seems
to know. But anyway, we are assured that the girls are going on
a spree during their period of power and that they will get re-
venge for all the slights that the boys are said to have given them.
But nothing has been done. It must be remembered that The
Thresher, unlike rain, does not appear by the grace of God alone,
but that each issue represents many hours of hard work. Will
the powder-puff number of The Thresher actually appear?
———(B
ARE WE QUITTERS.
t he nathletic year is not finished. Rice's football season is
nothing to boast of but there yet remains three athletic seasons
and t here is a good chance of raising the.Institute's standing in
the conference athletics.
Football always has crowds and the backing of the lungs of all
tin- students. Then if the season is a success, the college takes
the rest of the year in waving football scores and penatits about
the scenery and track and basket ball get but little attentton. If
the football season is a bad one, the loyal rooters crawl into their
holes and sadly await the next year's eleven.
Track and basketball and baseball suffer in either case. The
teams work before only handfulls of rooters and the rooting is
not enthusiastic, which is a very mild term to apply to the
feeble yells.
This may be the case at Rice, but we hope not for the good of
the school. Those cheerful persons who can tell exactly why we
lost some "cinched" games and who was too blame for these
losses are cordially invited to see the remaining performances of
the year and let the post-mortem of the football season go. Foot-
ball is gone; other seasons will soon.be here. Will the students
support their teams ?
it is up to the students to show that they are not quitters.
How many will be in the rooting section all the year?
THE THR ESHEB :: HOUSTON, TEXAS
mums
Sevan Rica students have just re-
turned from the International Student
Volunteer Conference held in Indtan-
apolie. After rounds of lectures, con-
ferences, and meetings of various
kinds, these people have received the
stirring spirit of the conference and
are anxious to echo some of the things
they heard to the Rice people who
were unable to attend.
All of the Rice Sunday School
classes in town have agreed to meet
Sunday morning, January 13th, in the
auditorium of the Christ Episcopal
Church on the comer of Texas and
Fannin, and to sit in a body to hear
these reports. Miss Jesse B. Hutts
has been selected by the group to pre-
side, and the program will be furnish-
ed by the Rice delegation which was
composed of Misses Lottie Gray, Ruth
Bobb, Jesse B. Hutts, Margaret Stop-
ford, Helen McCullough and Rev. Har-
ris Masterson, Jr., Hugh Murray and
Bert Hitson. A musica! program is
also being arranged.
The Internationai Student Volun-
teer Conference is unique in the fact
that it is held oniy once every four
years, and students from ail over the
world seek the inspiration to be found
in its meetings. There were 6,500
students at the conference this year,
all of whom were coltege students,
and a great many of them were for-
eigners.
Social, racial, industrial, and war
problems were discussed, and each of
these phases wiii be discussed in the
echo conference Sunday. Kennedy
Studdert, chaplain of British army,
John R. Mott of the Y. M. C. A., Sher-
wood Eddy, Cannon Wood of Cam-
bridge, England, and Professor Ag-
grey of Africa, were some of the
speakers heard during the five days
of the conference. This last named
professor, altho an African of the
darkest hue, proved to be the best
speaker of the conference, and the
most entertaining.
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THE OWL CATECHISM
Osbie Sanders
WiH Speak at
St. Pau! Church
Miss Oscie Sanders, Student Secre-
tary of the Methodist Church, will
speak to Rice students Sunday after-
noon at 3 o'clock at the St. Paul's
Methodist Church.
Miss Sanders is a Rice graduate of
'20; attended the Scarritt College of
Missions in Kansas City in '21, and
took a Master's Degree at the Uni-
versity of Chicago in '22.
Since that time she has been en-
gaged in student work under the di-
rection of the Methodist church. She
visits the state and private colleges
and universities of the entire south.
She--! saw you driving yesterday
with a gentleman. He appeared to
have only one arm.
Her—Oh no, the other arm was
around somewhere.
Prof.: "This is the third time you
have looked on Johnson's paper."
Frosh: "Yes, sir; He doesn't write
very well."
She drove him out into the country
four or five miles and then stopped
the car.
"Shan't we go a little further?" he
asked.
"No, she responded, "I've gone far
enough—now it is up to you."
(A department conducted by The
Thresher for the information, recrea-
tion, and mental and spiritual better-
ment of its readers.)
A Lesson in Physiology.
Q. What is physiology?
A. According to Dr. Altenburg, it
is a study of the functions of organs.
Q. What is the function of the
brain?
A. With some, it is the seat of
learning; with us, it is the seat of
earning.
Q. What is the function of the ear?
A. It makes us aware of the exist-
ence of profs and co-eds.
Q What is the function of the
nose?
A. It is the chief ingredient of 2t
per cent of the prohibition jokes.
Q. What is the function of the
tongue ?
A. In women it is an instrument of
torture; men use it for swallowing
food.
Q. What is the function of the lips?
A. Their function is chiefly oscula-
tory and pictorial.
Q. What is the function of the
arms ?
A. Men use them for holding, wom-
en for display.
Q. What is the function of the
hands ?
A. They fill pockets as nothing else
can.
Q. What is the function of the
feet ?
A. They are often used in driving
automobiles.
Q. What is the function of the
alnt heart
the gen
WO SABE.
He: "Would you be interested in
learning something about the girl
scout movement?"
She (idly): "No, I don't dance."
"Won't you come into my parlor,"
said the spider to the fly.
"Parlor nothing — getta flivver,"
was our modern fly's reply.—Siren.
Pitter: "I like Polly. She's the sort
of girl that stands out in a crowd."
Pat: "Personally, I'm all for Betty.
She sits out."—Columbia Jester
A. Without them, the Owl Maga-
zine could not do business.
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Mrs. Patrick Greenberg (reading
morning paper)—" 'His wife saw him
fall into the river and immediately
rushed to the bank.'"
Mr. Pat Greenberg—"Mighty poor
taste his wife showed, being in such
a hurry to collect his insurance
money."
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Miss Oldrich—"I was introduced to
a wonderful conductor at the musi-
cale."
Miss Nurich—"How nice! What line
does he work one?"
Texas Blue Print and Supply Co,
Phone Preston 4907
! 314 Fannin Street
Houston, Texas
Mid: "If I had known that tunnel
was so iong I would have kissed you."
She: "Good heavens, wasn't that
you?"
Poiiy: "How many sisters have
you?"
Voo: "One by birth and three by
promise."
At sixteen: "How dare you, sir!"
At eighteen: "I'm sure I don't know
you."
At twenty: "I don't think we have
been introduced, but—"
At Twenty-five: "I'm sure we have
some friends in common so it really
doesn't matter."
At thirty: "Conventions are so
foolish anyway."
At forty ^ "My dear man, can you
lend me a match?"
—Davenport Weekly.
e'er won Mr l*d)r,"
with MM almost
straight flash, as he drew for a queen
and got it- —American Legion.
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TIRAS
Mode! Barber Shop
912 Texas Avenue
A Classy College Hair-Cut
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Co//eg^ inn
FAMOUS FOOD
Chicken Dinner . $ ^ OO
Steak Dinner . .
Buy a Meal Ticket—Save
20%
Prices are Reduced
Way Down in
Clearance of
Suits and O'coats
This event is remarkable from the part of saving
on dependable clothes of national reputation. You
get Hart Schaffner & Marx, Stein Bloch, Society
Brand and other maKes.—All reduced in Five Big
Groups.
*28 *32 *36
*39 *44
Sakowitz Bros. Annual
SHOE SALE
An Event including our entire stock of High Top
Shoes at Substanial Saving.
Black and Brown Calf
Shoes. $10, $11 and $12
Values—On Sale at
Brown and Black Kid
Shoes. $11 and $12 val-
ues—On Sale at
$g75
$075
French Shriner & Urner Black Kangaroo, Black
and Brown Cajf Shoes. Formerly Sold at
$13.00, $13.50 and $14.50
1 75
JL JL
Manhattan Shirt and Pajamas
Sale Now in Progress.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
:706-t790
Printer, journalist, diploma^
inventor, statesman, philoso-
pher, wit. One of the authors of
the Declaration of Independ-
ence and the Constitution,
author of Poor Richard's Al-
manack; and one of the most
eminent natural philosophers
of his time.
Bleettlcal machines
bearing the mark of the
General Electric Com-
pany, in use throughout
the world, ate raising
standards of living by
doing the yorlt of mil-
lion! of men.
But nobody had
thought to do it
By bringing electricity down from the clouds
over a kite string, it ws& a simple thing
to prove that lightning was nothing more
than a tremendous electrical Rash.
For centuries before Franklin flew his kite
in 1751 philosophers had been speculating,
about the nature of lightning. With elec-
trified globes and charged bottles, others had
evolved the theory that the puny sparks of
the laboratory and the stupendous phenom-
enon of the heavens were related; but
Franklin substituted fact ibr theory — by
scientific experiment
Roaring electrical discharges, man-made
lightning as deadly as that &om the clouds,
are now produced by scientists in the Re-
search Laboratories of the General Electric
Company. They are part of experiments
which are making it possible to use the
power of mountain torrents farther and far-
ther from the great industrial centers.
GENERAL ELECTRIC
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The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, January 11, 1924, newspaper, January 11, 1924; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth229971/m1/2/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.