The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, February 19, 1932 Page: 2 of 4
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'AGE TWO
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THE RICE THRESHER
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Entered a* second clan matter, October
17. 1916. at the portoffice in Houiton, Texas,
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Business Manager
Managing Editor
Aast Bus Mgr.
GARDNER SOULE
WALTER STEWART
THOMAS GREADY
. .. ALV1N MOODY
Associate Editor*
J Lawrence Courtney Jo Betli UrWin
Department Heads
8porta Joe Arthur Kocurek
■ngineeiiiiK Richard Noaici
News Mildred O'Leary
Nt'ws Hallie Beth Talley
Postures Katherine Humor
features Kenneth Phillips
City Editor Alberta Rlesen
Colamnl"! Helen Butte
Hook Reviews Margaret Wright
lieportorlal $t;ift
Sports Joe Aleo, Glenn Allen. Peter
Muniscalco. News: Helen Hell, Mary Hlokey,
Uolxrt E. tiles. Miriam Knodei. Andrew W.
Ladncr, Ha/.el Pace, l.ois Patrick, Ruth
Shirley, Melba Sllmpln. Blanche Taylor
Features: Katy Uresky. Ernestine Cantrell.
R.iynioMti I,«e, Lois Peters. Louise Ragan.
Cltt.ibelh Bailey,
Business
Circulation Ed McClMiahun.
DR. T. B. BLINK US TO PICK BODYGUARD
Triumphs in Ferocious Gasoline Motto Contest
OF FA CUL TYMEMBERSFORHANS NA GEL
IMPAT, ilOW H, MM
""(RlITOR'S NOTE: Dr. BUnkua wu
not able to appear in our last Issue
due to the effect* of a hangover. When
last we left him, he was sailing the
Sargasso sea in a soup bowl, eating
seaweed for sauerkraut, along with
Gilbert Hermance. Now go on with
the story).
BY DR. TOEO BALD BLINKUS
J SHALL notify Tony that he can
on in search of a motto for a
brand of gag. Hie winning motto, it
Menu, would win a car for its
thinker-up.
I sent in ten mottoes as follows:
Ruler of the road. King of the road.
Queen of the road. Prince of the road.
Princess of the road. Duke of the
1 * cut down all" the hedges on the jroad' Duchess of the road. Earl of the
campus. road. Earless of the road. Marquis of
The hedges, you know, are to the road. Marchioness of the road,
hide students from Hans Nagel. Hans chief o( the road. chiefes8 of the
is going away on a trip to Africa. !
I shall advise roaC
Tony to leave a few Then a magnificent idea transfixed
trees on the cam- my ever-fertile brain. Of every motto
pus. T hese will I sent in I would make five copies, and
suffice to provide send them in under different names.
or an accident. Only a port or a iraah-
man could hay thought of that!
Soon at Autry houao: Pony Cagtlo
talking about engagements and hrokon
hoartg; Jim Beoley and Gladys Schill
in oarooat conversation; Melba
Slimpin rolling thooe dangerous eyes
in a new direction; Mary Heinie,
freshman, with red hair and a green
jacket, laughing with "Bull" Magneas,
football star; "Red" Banner, drown-
ing his apprehenaions in a coke and,
as he said, "Simply worried sick about
grades". Which all goes to show that
even Rhodes scholar candidates and
Phi Beta Kappas worry like anybody
else.
Worthy of recognition and congrat-
ulation are Rhodes Dunlap, Rice grad-
uate and now post-graduate student,
who won praise as an accomplished
pianist when he was featured ai solo-
ist with the Houston Symphony or-
chestra at the City auditorium last
night; Blanche Delambre, Julia Rob-
inson, and Lois Wright who have
SOPHOMOBE CO-ED A FAVORITE RADIO BROADCASTER
shelter from rep- Then, if I tied with someone else
resentatives of cer- (Heaven forbid), the prize would have i wr"ten P'®ys which they will them-
tain eleemosynary I to be divided six ways and I would selves direct in the Dramatic club
institutions for fac- ! acquire five-sixths of it. ! one-act play tournament.
ulty members. I received the reply Friday morning ; Heard in Dr." Lynch1* class: "If
I am getting up and rushed down to .mpart the news , Russia ^ u |ish something
a petition to send a to Thresher reporters^ wlth ,he five-year plan, it may shake
hand-picked body- Knowing I would have won, I did us as Americans out of our comp|a.
cency. We are inclined to think that
guard along with not bother to open the envelope bear
Hans, the body- ing the stamp "Amalgamated Petro-
of certain faculty leum Products of Petroleum, Inc.", un-
•-otne to stage a very M*«jOe.ssful dance.
Tl>>?y ill wanted to (inner. And they
jil! were diiiippoiiited.
iJ.t, -remi;. almost uiibeliuvubk', and yet
TUESDAY DANCES
AS TOE ORCHESTRA played
"Good Night, Sweetheart," the
last of a band of disappointed straff- j
Biers wandered wearily out of Autry , .
hous" Tuesday guard: to consist
members. In order to suggest a faculty 1 til I reached The Thresher office.
AJU:r unsuccessful efforts to gel a molrl|j( r to accompany Hans, fill out "Stop the presses," 1 shouted, handing
dance? started, the orchestra and door- ,[lf! „„ page fjve (g> (lf this is- i a reporter the letter,
rru-n broke camp and left. . sue, placing your middle name first, He tore it open.
A I the amiuing pari about it was and writing the name of the uridesira- It read: "Dr. Theo Bald Blinkuts, p]aCe
that between 4:30 and 5:15 p.m. Tues- . bit- instructor backwards. Forward Department of Astronomy, The Rice
Jay enough boys and enough furls had coupons to me, in the faculty base- Institute, Houston. Tex. Dear Dr.
merit, Blinkus: Your motto won first place,
* * • but tied with four others. Due to the
F WALKED out into the sallyport the
" other day. I spoke to everybody
• : true Tht; boys and girls came in except that unspeakable William Jes-
smsill '/roups, took a look around, and
left i:r.mediai("'ly One group came at.
a time, and left po quickly that even
tl "Uj/h as mar,y as 40 came within a
lew rmouSiW (>f eitcli other tfiere never
iyerej' than 15 or J in 'sight at
An I finie students .have a strange P th of Heeling success
titeinJ of being seen dancing with only
J 5 i r so present Why? Nobody
ictfiii; ■ know. The music is good and
tht "flooi; j:- unctowded It, would seem
that t.it'iy in the dajiicc is the best
'.line for real enjoyment. It looks fool-
ish indeed to cotink look around. and
passing, up what otherwise and lens compensation than any other
wt ulfl Ijf! a gieat lime life we rmwht imagine. On other days
The '[\ic wjay dance?;, [jlessincly and we looked upon our job through rose-
r. ft■( shitigly diff'-irs'iir fi "m any of any 1 colored glnsse).. with only happy
t'vi innjvt r-jit.v we've ever heard of. thought?
.-■up person. He spoke to nto. He would
speak to anytsidy.
Bill told me of a contest a certain
well known oil company was putting
discouragement, and walked lightly
U'e have been, plifi^cd i'rnm heights
of happiness into overwhelming de-
spair within a few minutes.
There have been day* when we felt
that the life of a college editor held
more drudgery, more disappointment,
if certain institutions of ours fail we
would have chaos. We may be wrong."
And on another day: "There is no
such thing as justice in the world. I
have long since abandoned any belief
that there is such a thing. It has no
among the realities of life."
Long and—I
five-way tie for first place, we are (Continued from Puge 11
finding it necessary not to award the because the waiters pour long coffee,
automobile originally intended, but and it splatters all over us. Further-
each winner will receive a bicycle.''
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Thresher To Hold
Engineering Show
Jingle' Contest
In conjunction with tha aevonth bl«
onnial engineering show, Tha Thresher
Friday morning announced a "jingle"
contest open to all Rice studentg. En-
gineers especially are urged to enter.
Each week from now until the data
of the show The Thresher will pub-
liah one two-line rhyme at the top of
page one bearing on the show or
some phase of it. Full credit will be
given to the composer of each verse
accepted. No rhymes may be over
50 letters to each of the two lines.
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HOUSTON
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BOTTLING CO.
HOUSTON, TEXAS
rvj, -.rie of the must striking and orig-
ei.i! Hice traditions They" are ir.tended
)ii Rice sludefits. I,« tin exclusion of
:, :h ;,<::hc:io!|, collegiate*. Adinlssiiin Is
' , .v i.lia1 even In these tinies,of de-
prr: in y student , cfin ;;tfford to
>;t'leni:i„' ['jjil'liMp :'.p./':;. 1 ■ t'; f} I llji '■
rf';i,. w on!y . e:nc answer. Every
•shtd'fni should lie "ut at 4 o'clock
<:•.'i u(-sda,y, and ihoM> i arlior, just
few minutes.
ONE TI-KM <iONK
\\ • I ri'I THIS issue of The Thresher.
' ' we look back on la«t term, real-
uif i.v .iritH a sigh, that it's mostly over.
?<ir r!i,e(ecii issues, we have experi-
< . ,/d tin. trials and tribulations, joys
.iii. l i trews, ups and downs that comt
We entered into the work with. ; •
i 11 i,i; if 11 will l".-mr it in ,i lew short
weeks with ur illusions shattered
We have tried to strike a happy psy-
ehological medium consoling oursi'lves
that the vo.-rs far ,^,|,it,n.ui4,ber the
thorn,si.
To The Thresher we owe a debt of
gratitude. Jn three years of , associa-
tion with it we have gained an inesti-
mable amount of knowledge and ex-
perience that has been a valuable sup-
plement to work of the classroom
For the splendid co-operation given
us by 'he faculty, student council, and
student body, and for the support of a
capable staff we indeed are grateful
We only ask that the student body
continue to share that confidence with
Our
RICE
INSTITUTE
k
Here s Louise Ragan, sophomore radio column. She served on the fresh-
from Houston, who often is heard over man boat ride committee last year.
KTRH in programs of semi-classical
and popular piano music. Miss Ragan
soon will again be featured regularly
more, we must consider the beauty
of the thing. There are numerous
hygienic reasons favoring short coffee,
as well as moral, patriotic, and health
factors.
"I shall climax my arguments with Sunday nights. Between broadcasts
a tragic illustration. The wife of one she finds time to write features for
man was accustomed to pouring long The Thresher, and once conducted a
coffee, which foamed voluptuously. |,—-i i—„ |
Once some friends offered him a mug Washjn&ton.s Birthday Is
of beer. Seeing the foam, arid recall- • « r -f. - .
ing that his coffee foamed, and was H°Hda> For RlCe Students
virtually harmless, the man decided to According to information received f
drink the proffered beer. One drink from ,the °mce; Monday, February 22,
led to another, and now his wife takes Washington s birthday, will be a holi
in washing, while he stands at the bar "ay ^or ^'ce students.
^■DrinkH
GSStoda
HOTEL
NQBMANDIE
to a cijU?gc' editor
13Y HELEN BATTE
In Spile of perennial spring fever,
and ennui which is the aftermath of
those veritable orgies known1 as Feb-
ruary examinations, evidences of vio-
lent activity are apparent oh the
campus. People dash up and down
stairs to class, or rush to and from
Autry house There is talk of re-
hearsals for plays, plans for the engi-
neering show, excited conversations
about costumes for the Archi-Arts
ball, to say nothing of awed whispers
or shouts of delight over grade cards.
"What is everybody hurrying
about?" asked a co-ed as she leaned
out of a window from the third floor
of the Administration building.
"There is either a fire, or an acci-
We have listened us it has in the past, and that it con-
to ennstr'ucnve and destructive critl- tinue to extend towards The Thresher dent over by the Chetn building, or
ciHtins taken Itibdffs, hoard bur work that • pint of loyalty so notably char- maybe it's spring", said an athlete
praised, suffered pfirigs of momentary aeteristic of all Rice student bodie
ihoughtfully Well, there wasn't a lire
all day, wtih his little daughter Ins-
side him crying. 'Father, dear father,
come home with me now'." (Mr.
Hahn forgot that the prohibition taw
is in effect.)
Mr. Darnette rose to the defense of
long coffee. 'First, I wish to correct?
a misunderstanding about short cof-
fee. Short coffee, being merely
dumped into the cup, is a radical so-
cial error This will refute an argu-
ment of my opponent: raincoats are
no longer necessary at the commons
for breakfast. The waiters are stead-
ily developing poise by pouring long
; coffee. The Rice Institute now has
the most graceful waiters in the
Southwest.
"Double beauty,"' he continued, "is
coupled with long coffee. First, there
is the beauty of pouring it, then the
beauty while it is in the cup. Long (
coffee has a better taste. Short cof-
fee was delivered once in the com-
mons. and it contained vile foreign
particles. With long coffee, we can
watch the waiters pour, and get full
benefit of its delicious (?) aroma.
"I have never met a person with
an asbestos throat," he declared.
"Long coffee is cooled exactly the
right amount in pouring It is coming
into universal commercial use. This
is my parting advice to oncoming
housewives: Don't take any wooden
nickels, and don't drink any short
coffee. Let's make this our slogan:
'Long live the good old long coffee'."
As a special demonstration of the
beauty of long coffee, Mr. Barnette
asked Miss Rust to make use of a
pitcher of water and a glass. Mary
passed the buck, or rather, the water,
to Slime J. C. Petty Jr, Petty grace-
fully (as an ox) tilted the pitcher and
flooded the glass, the surrounding
floor, and three of the spectators.
Watch repairing. It will B. O. K. if
from B. O. Kreiter—Kress Bldg.
March 2 will be the next holiday
for Rice students, celebrating Texas
Independence day.
DEPTH SOUNDERS
FOR AIRCRAFT
\ A#IIH the applies!ion of .electricity to aircraft
YY instruments, ar,other chapter w.ii written in the
annals of oir tMnifiorlstiofi. loaj.iy's <,hip i', not only
swifter but itiet find more dcpend'-ibfe. Modern
di'pth souridm-j devices ifidic-jte m ^ intly the height of
the ship rtbovir the ,round '.urf<ic.c A unique feature
af (leneral I'lecfe 'r, recently purchased monoplane
r, the almost complete!/ electrified instrument panel.
I he most recently drvelooed instrument il the sonic
altimeter, which provides a quick meant of indicating
changes in height above ground. Sound from an
intermittently operated air whntle ij directed down-
ward. Ihe echo is picked up in a receiving megaphone,
and the sound is heard through a stethoscope. The
elapsed time between the sound and the echo
determines the height. Tests show that watgr, build
ings, woods, etc., produce echoes that are different
and characteristic.
Besides developing a complete system of aircraft in-
struments, college-trained General Electric engineers
have pioneered in every electrical field - -on land, on
sea, and in the air.
OS.' 21
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of hams, chicken, and beef
cooking on our specially-built ro-
tlsserie, where you can watch
every piece of meat cook before
your very eyes.
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