THE CADET PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE CORPS OF CADETS VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE

Vol. XXV LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1932 No. 24 "TAKEN AT NEW"MARkEt IN 1924 Second Class Show THE V. M. I. CLUB OF NEW Corps Plans Busy YORK LUNCHEON Machinery Club, 50 Church Street Survives Censor's Wednesday, April 6, 1932, Week End For 12:30 P. M. Scissors The Clinedinst Study Portrait of the Post War Faculty and Board Guests LAST TOUCHESBEING ADD- of the V. M. I. will be on exhibi- SECOND CL AS S SHOW, ED BEFORE PRESEN- tion at the Newcombe-Macklin GAME, TO BE FEATURED TATION Co., 45 West 27th Street, New York City, on April 7 and 8, be- Hop Committee Makes Final Hinkey and Tommy Are Fea- tween 9 and 5 o'clock. Touches On Decorations and tured. The above pictures were taken at New Market in 1924 when the Corps The Annual New Market Dinner Smoking Room. took part in the reenactment of the Battle of New Market. Pictured from will be held at Hotel Brevoort, Saturday night all eleven units of left to right are Gen. Nichols, Supt. of V. M. I., Gen Lejeune, Commandant This week end will truly be a red the second class show, "Pass in Re- Marine Corps, Col. Snyder, Commander 5th Marines, Gov. Trinkle, Secre- Monday, May 16th. Be sure to re- letter event for V. M. I. Included in vue," successfully underwent the tary of Navy Denby, Capt. Ellis, U. S. N., aide to Secretary Denby, Colonel serve that date. the list of activities are the two censor's scissors as administered by Shumaker, Union Cavalry Commander who visited Institute of 1864 prior CHARLES W. LEWIS, Secretary dances, the dansant, the second class to Hunter's raid, Brig. Gen. Butler who commanded the marines taking part Colonel Moseley, and everything is 165 Broadway show, a baseball game, a track meet in the action. The picture at the right shows one of the Cadet companies Telephone: Cortland 7-8200 now in readiness for its presentation just before going into battle. at Virginia, and very probably a gar- Friday night at eight o'clock to the rison review. Fortunately all of the Corps, the alumni back for Easters, events are so arranged in such a man- and the Lexington public. Late Renaissance Types A.S.C.E. Holds Important ner that the visiting "calics" will have Both parts of the production are Monthly Honor Roll the opportunity to attend all of them in smooth working order. In the Described By Col. Meeting and will get a widely diversified in- sight on cadet life. first part are the opening chorus of Is Published For Prof. Gregory, Johns Hopkins, sixteen; "After the Ball," as inter- Moseley Addresses Local Chapter. At eight o'clock Friday night the preted by "Shadow" Leach; "The second class show "Pass In Revue" Showers Singers"; a dialog act by Work of Jones and Wren Dis- First Time cussed In Detail. Last Friday, Professor Gregory, will start the week-end. An exper- Finklehoffe; Will and Noble's Apache head of the Department of Hydrau- ienced east comprised of more than dance; and Greiner's Minstrels, with In the course of his talk last Tues- Resolution Adopted By Academ- lics at Johns Hopkins University, forty cadets will give a fast moving a company of eight nigger boys. In day night Col. Moseley discussed the ic Board At Last Meeting. chairman of the Committe on Mili- musical revue in two parts. The Ram- part two are "The Still Alarm," as architectural features of the Late HEADQUARTERS tary Organization, Director of the A. blin' Keydets will furnish the music pulled by Epps, Hightower, McCoy, Renaissance in France, Spain, Ger- VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE S. C. E., and head of this district of if the evening. Tinsley, and Wheeler; Hinkey and many, and England. Col. Moseley Lexington, Virginia. the student A. S. C. E., addressed the Following the show, Red Nichols' Tommy; "For Dear Old V. M. I.," commenced his lecture by concluding April 2, 1932. V. M. I. and W. & L. student chap- orchestra will send the strains of pop- featuring the entire chorus; the sur- his discussion begun in his preced- Memorandum ters of the A. S. C. E. in Nichols Me- ular and novelty music on the Lex- prise act of Monks and Finklehoffe; ing lecture on Bourbon architecture No. 62. morial Hall. Professor Gregory dis- ington air. Red Nichols is a well and the closing chorus of the entire as exemplified by the Palace of Ver- I. In accordance with a resolution cussed the things that are most im- known Broadway figure. Not only company. sailles. He then touched briefly on passed by the Academic Board at its portant for the student engineer to 's he a leading Brunswick recording In addition to several unusually the developments of the Late Renais- meeting held on April 1, 1932, those observe while studying his technical artist, but he is also a popular radio unique sets of drops and scenery, the sance in Spain and Germany. The cadets whose grades for the preced- course. He said that he was frequent- 'tar, broadcasting from WEAF and show this year contains a number of main portion of Col. Moseley's talk ing month average 9:00 or more, and 'y asked, "Should the young civil en- WJZ as well as over the Columbia surprise acts. "Shadow" Leach's act, was devoted to the contributions of who have no grade below 8:50 will gineer start out in the office or in broadcasting System. the English during this period. the field?" Professor Gregory said Monks and Finklehoffe, and "For constitute in each class what will be A great many of the Keydets have Dear Old V. M. I.," all remain to- At Versailles, Col. Moseley stated, known as the HONOR LIST, which that he thought it best for the young technical man to start in the office probably heard him in John Murray day as much of a mystery as they is the greatest piece of French ar- •vill be published each month. Anderson's "Almanac", George Gers- were when rehearsals first began. chitecture of the eighteenth century. II. The following cadets comprise because such experience was invalu- able when he got out in the field. hwins's production "Strike Up The Although the second class show was This is the Pantheon of Soufflot, a he HONOR LIST for the Month of Band" or the new Broadway musical originated to take the place of the building which may be caled the last March: Professor Gregory brought out an success "Girl Crazy." traditional V. M. I. minstrel, it will building of the Renaissance and the FIRST CLASS interesting point when he said that Saturday's events come in quick Dcpai Intent of Chemistry. be noticed that in "Pass in Revue" first of modern architecture. Its de- wit student engineer should not be succession. The garrison review comes sign, based on the Roman Pantheon, Heald, J. M. D., Virginia. too accurate. He based his statement Greiner and his cohorts have reviv- Manning, R. J., New Mexico. at one thirty. This will be quickly fol- ed the old time minstrel spirit to a is a combination of the pure Roman McNeal, W. H., Georgia. upon the fact that a great'part of lowed by a baseball game with great extent in their feature act. Mr. and Brammantesque Renaissance Miller, L. N., Virginia. ^he engineer's data is assumed and Bridgewater Colege on the lower Patterson, D. G., West Virginia. since this is true he could not see the (Continued on Page Eight.) style. field. The game will be called at two Department ot Civil Engineering. practicability of carrying computa- There are two outstanding build- (Continued on Page Eight.) Long, D. T., Ketnucky. tions out to seven or eight significant W. & LStudentsTo Hold ings of the Late Renaissance in Ger- Moyka, C., New York. many, the Zeughaus, a drill hall, at Thomson, J. C., South Carolina. tigures. The speaker stressed the im- Artillery Competitions Are Augsburg, and the Zwinger Palace Department of Electrical portance of the slide rule to the en- Mock Convention Engineering. at Dresden. The latter building is a gineer. He advised that each man who Sledge, R. P., Virginia. was studying engineering should be Planned For Finals large, flat-roofed structure, built for Tyler, F. E., Virginia. Reproduction of Democratic proficient enough with the slide rule open air festivals. Department of Liberal Arts. Convention To Be In Doremus to read it with an accuracy of at least Artillery Men To Take Part In The greatest Spanish Renaissance iContinued on Page Eight.) Gym. me in five hundred. Novel Contests. architecture came late in the Renais- April 26 and 27 will find the Wash- sance. Herrera, the best Spanish ar- Philanthropists of Future Professor Gregory said that he A very interesting and entertain- ington and Lee University staging its chitect of this period, built the Es- thought that all student engineers ing competition has been proposed mock Democratic Convention, an in- corial Palace and Monastery. This To Come From '32 should learn to use the typewriter for the Field Artillery to be held at stitution which has had phenomenal group of buildings is of ample de- with facility and, if possible, they Finals. Below is the memorandum should learn shorthand. He said that sent out the other day. success in the past few presidential sign; the buildings are constructed of "Shadow" Leach does not seem par- ill students should work methodically campaigns in selecting the Demo- native granite. Under the dome is the ticularly worried over his means of F. A. UNIT R. O. T. C., V. M. I. ind should arrange their work neatly cratic candidates. burial place for Spanish kings and earning his daily bread after grad- April 1, 1932. ind keep it in a file marked acord- Memorandum: The Doremus Gymnasium will be the mothers of Spanish kings for the uation. "Shadow" is expecting to work ing to some system. He discussed the 1. It is proposed to hold a gym- converted into a convention hall, and last several centuries. Herrera also for his dad on construction work. In Dewey system of filing of one's data kana for the F. A. Unit during Fi- will be made to resemble the one built the Cathedral at Valladolid, a case work is slack after June the six- md said that he preferred this sys- nals. The events to have an equal used in Chicago as nearly as pos- church with a decorative Jesuit fa- teenth, he feels that a vacation would tem. number of entrants from each of the sible. The Washington and Lee stu- cade. go powerfully well. F. A. cos. Points to be given for dent body will comprise the delegates Passing over to a survey of the late Finklehoffe has a life of ease com- ENGINEERS SEE SHOWS 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places so as to make of the various states. A total num- English Renaissance, Col. Moseley ing to him after he receives his "dip." the whole gymkana a company con- ber of eight hundred men will be ar- paid particular attention to the work "Fink" is going into the Eli ranks Last Friday the members of the test. Each man to be limited to two ranged proportionally in accordance of Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren. and plans to get the inside dope on Electrical Department enjoyed a pre- t or three events so as to make more with the number of delegates sen to The work of these two men fills about the law game. Look out for your lau- sentation of an instructive picture in men compete. The distances the the real convention by each state. t century, one of the glorious per- rels, W. Winchell, here comes F. Fin- the assembly room of the Engineer- horse travels will be so short that The chairmen of the various com- iods of English architecture. klehoffe. 'ng building. Although the presenta- the ability of the rider will be the mittees have corresponded with dele- The Whitehall Palace at London, "Primo" Mergenhagen is another tion of the picture had been announc- major factor. gates of their own states so as to as- designed by Jones, is a banqueting >ne of the boys whose future is as- ed earlier and did not come as a sur- certain the correct policies to be hall and is a mere fragment of the sured. He is going back to his old prise, a condition under which shows Proposed Events. maintained in their own convention. whole according to the original plans. alma mater, The De Veaux School, are most enjoyed, it proved interest- Musical Chairs: Chairs placed in ing and instructive. The sections of center of a circle and contestants ride Claude Bowers, historian of the Had these plans been carried out, the and plans to teach there. He will also result would have been an enormous fill the athletic director's job, coach- the Third Class electricity were al- around while music playing. Dis- Democratic Party, who made the key- lowed to attend the show. mount and sit down when music note address of the convention in group of buildings. The Whitehall ing their teams in the major sports. The picture, entitled "The History stops. One chair removed each time. Houston, Texas, in 1928, has been Palace, the only part constructed, is "Bo" Seay is headed for Pittsburgh Of Steam," was presented through The man who does not get a seat is sent to Lexington by Jewett Shouse, considered by some to be one of the and structural engineering with the the courtesy of Babcock and Wilcox. eliminated. Continue until only one Chairman, Democratic National Com- best pieces of English architecture I Continued on Page 8) It showed the interesting construc- man left. mittee, to act as official observer. in existence. Tommy & Hinkey tion features of the modern steam Equipment race: Horses equipped Ross Malone, Vice-President of the Christopher Wren's fame rests on producing boilers and tubes. Of spe- with bridle only. Contestant mount Washington and Lee Student Body, his reconstruction of Saint Paul's in cial note was the machine of huge at signal ride to place where blanket will act as temporary chairman and London after the great London fire. tubes as much as five inches in and saddle are. Put on this equip- deliver the key-note address for the Wren was first directed to improve thickness. The complete process of ment and return to starting line. convention. and add to the earlier work of Jones, but the building soon collapsed and manufacture, operation and assembly Pajama race: Contestants mount In all probability Gov. Murray of Wren was given a free hand in build- were included in the film. it signal and hide to place where Oklahoma will be nominated as can- ing the cathedral as he saw fit. The The Second Class Civil sections their pajamas are. Put on their pa- didate for the presidential office, result was the renowned edifice, much viewed films which covered different jamas over their clothes and return while gome favorite son will un- as it stands today. aspects in the development of struc- "o starting line. doubtedly be named to run as vice- Among the many other buildings tural timber and its uses. It was Potato race: Contestants have a president. erected by Wren mention should be brought out that wood is as much row of potatoes spaced about ten The mock Democratic Convention made of his additions to Hampton used in construction work today as it yards apart. Mount at signal, ride to is an accurate facsimile of the actual Court. Wren added a wing to this ever has been. The damage done to first potato, pick it up and ride back convention. The students have made building, retaining the use of red wood by different types of insect life and drop it in his bucket. Continue every effort to preserve the similar- brick and white porcelain stone. which amounts to millions of dollars until all potatoes are in bucket. ity to the smallest detail, and the re- Wren was noted for his construc- each year was the principal subjects Rescue race: Contestant to mount sult is well worth observing. (Continued on page 8) iContinued on Pag* Eight.) (Continued on Page Eight.) Birmingham took a fling at fencing in a number of Broadway productions, which proved that prohibition has "Did Santa Claus fill your stock- for pastime. While at V. M. I. he did bur which opened recently at the Bilt- not been successful. The members ing, little girl?" quite a bit of informal boxing. All more Theatre. Campbell has appeared present acted as the affirmative as "No, sirl Cod liver oil filled it." of which seems to indicate that as an each one in turn substituted his idea athletic participant P >rt,er made up Joe Lacy, '24 lives in New Orleans of why prohibition had been success- I in enthusiasm what he lacked in sta- and works for the Ingersoll-Rand Co., ful. Rivalry in discussion did not ACME PRINT SHOP HENRY J. PORTER, '09, i ture. reach an extremity; however, the selling pneumatic machinery. Printers & Engravers AWARDER OF PORTER After leaving college Porter drop- meeting appeared to be quite inter- CUP. IS BIRMINGHAM ped athletics entirely except riding. Bill Booth, first captain in '22, is esting. Lastly, a prayer by Mr. For Quick Service As Well As Good Printing. SPORT PERSONALITY. Like all his other athletic endeavors president of the Booth Furniture Co., Grey adjourned the meeting and as In a recent edition of the Birming- he has excelled in this sport having n Shreveport, La. the members came back to barracks FIRST NATL BANK BLDG. ham News there was run, as one of won the trophy for the best five-gait- j the plans for the hay ride were made. a series of feature stories about Ala- td horse in each of the three horse "Shorty" Moon '23 is with the Bank bama sports personalities, a sketch shows held here and in two of them if Commerce in Mansfield, La. of Henry J. Porter, a V. M. I. Alum- having won the cup as best gentle- nus. Graduating in 1909, he won the man rider. Jack Spratt '22 works for the U. Williamson Graham cup, awarded to The New Corner Store, Inc. Porter's conviction that clean ath- S. Government with offices in Little the best all-around athlete in school. letics is the finest element of youth- Rock, Ark. Extends a Cordial Invitation To Since graduation he has established ful activities is strong. He holds that ALL V. M. I. KEYDETS the Porter Cup, an annual award to character building can be produced "Soupy" Jones '23 is still practis- We Are Always Glad To See You. the best all-around athlete. no more wholesome manner. That is ing law in Marshall, Texas. During his athletic career at V. M. one of the reasons for the Porter ath- It's Here You Get I. he weighed but 145 pounds and SPORTING GOODS letic cups given to the best all-around C. S. "Monk" Carstens X-'23-'24 is was small in proportion. This would athlete annually at Birmingham- working for a jewelry firm in Alex- Soda, Candy, Lunch, Tobacco, Cigars. be remarkable even today, but it was Southern, Howard, Alabama, Sewa- andria, La. POOL ROOM doubly so in those days when brawn nee and V. M. I. counted for so much in football. For Keydets' Recreation. Porter has a youngster coming up Marion S. More, '25 is now with Determination Counts now whom he watches with jealous the Maryland Casualty Company, De- "Don't get the erroneous impres- eye as he steps a little more firmly troit Office. sion that I was a star football play- into athletic participation. But one er," Porter requests, "I managed to thing seems assured and that if giv- HOFFMAN PRESBYTERIAN make the team in my junior and sen- en his father's enthusiasm this young CLUB MEETING ior years. But I did learn one lesson athlete should go far in any game. Geo. D. Witt Shoe Co. and it was that determination will If you think that prohibition has make up for a lot of deficiency in oth- HARDY. '20, HIGH MAN IN been successful, you would have prob- Lynchburg, Va. er qualities." MAYORALITY RACE ably changed your mind had you One quality seems apparent in the George W. Hardy, '20 was high been at the meeting of the Hoffman Porter case, and might well serve as man in the Shreveport, La., mayor- Presbyterian Club last Wednesday SOUTHERN SHOES FOR SOUTHERN PEOPLE a moral lesson to youngsters, that of alty race Tuesday, March 29. He did night. The planned program had persistence. For two years Porter not obtain a majority, however, so a been to have the discussion in the MAKERS OF KEYDET SHOES took the battering of the husky foot- second primary will have to be held form of a debate; however, by some ball men. He had never seen a game in April between the two leading can- mishap the affirmative side did not before entering V. M. I., and had no didates. Hardy led his nearest com- show up. The negative side of the comprehension of what sort of a sport petitor by 496 votes but complete re- question was upheld by Crusty Oliver it was. He found the ball hard to turns showed that the two high men who summarized briefly but very catch and he was not naturally en- eliminated the remaining five con- clearly and convincingly evidences dowed with great speed or had no par- testants by a wide margin. Stetson "D" Leads Again ticular knack for the game. He just George Hardy entered the Institu- R_A—D—I—O—S wanted to play and did so as a regu- te as a third class rat and graduated With Lower Prices!! lar halfback after two years of hard twelfth in the class of 1920. During R-C-A — Victor — Bosch NONE LOWER NONE HIGHER fighting on the scrub team. his First Class year he wore stars Brunswick Porter likes to talk more on the and was editor-in-chief of THE CA- Majestic $32.50 spirit of those old teams, of their DET. After graduating with an A. B. $23.50 battles for victory, rather than of degree, he went to L. S. U. and stud- WEINBERGS MADE TO YOUR MEASURE their glowing feats on the chalk- ied law, and afterwards took up the marked quadrangle. But one game practice of his profession in Shreve- above all he remembers, the Virginia port, where he has made a real suc- Stetson "D" Shop game of 1907. The Cadets lost that cess. The opinion of Hardy held by ROBERT E. LEE HOTEL BUILDING one 17 to 18 after the Cavaliers had his fellow townsmen is amply de- No been doped to trounce the soldier monstrated by the large vote he gar- boys severely. That was a battle! The nered and by the hundreds of con- V.M.I, eleven failed to tie or. a miss gratulatory calls received at his head- men ed kick after the last touchdown of quarters after the results of the elec- R. L. HESS & BROS. the game. tion were known. Jewelers Tough Battle The Hardy headquarters are confi- 221 S. MAIN STREET PHONE 208 Accounts of that game carry such dent that the April primary will bring Gifts That Last passages as: "The splendid defense victory to them. Judging from the pic- put up by the Cadets made life rath- tures of the two candidates, it is a Repair Work Our Specialty er too strenuous for a number of the contest between age and youth, with VERY PIPE SMOKER has the sat- varsity men yesterday and as a re- the latter favored. The fact that an isfaction of knowing he has one sult more than one was sent to the unusually heavy vote was polled is E side lines early in the second half. indicative of the interest in the race masculine right Among the first to go was Yancey, and especially in the young candidate. that the women THE "BAR-B-Q" PIG dashing fullback, and then followed Hardy certainly has the wishes of won't take away SEE FOODS and BARBECUED MEATS A SPECIALTY Wellford, Grier, Dooman, Honaker he Corps behind him in his fight even from him. They and Gloth in the order named .... :f we can give him no concrete assis- do leave our Free Delivery At Any Hour Head Coach Johnson had anticipated tance. pipes alone. 113 W. Washington Street Phone 628 a hard game with the V. M. I. lads, And though but little did he think that his wards Alan K. Campbell, '25, a New York the girls may not would have to engage in such a gruel- actor, is a member of the cast of know it, they're ling contest." "Border Land," a play by Crane Wil- leaving us one of CADETS PATRONIZE Porter's first athletic marks were The favorite smoke of gained at old Birmingham Classical the finest smokes college men School on Southside back in 1904. He a man can have. played basket ball with his school VAUGHAN'S There's something calm and soothing The Rockbridge County News team, captained the championship about a pipe and good tobacco. It —For— five in the Y. M. C. A. junior league STUDIO leads to clear-headed thinking. Per- and even played with the varsity "Y" haps that's why the leaders —the real Stationery, Circulars and Cards squad until the campaign proved so Five Doors from Rice's tnen of the world—are pipe smokers. strenuous that he was forced to omit Nice Printing and No Other College men like the senior "Y" play. a pipe — packed Opposite Presbyterian Sunday School Room When he went to V. M. I. there Now is the time to with cool, slow- was no basket ball but in his senior MAIN STREET LEXINGTON, VA. year he organized the first team and have that Christmas burning Edge- started the cage game there. He was Photo made! worth, the favor- on the track and gym team also. ite pipe tobacco Played Tenis in 42 out of 54 At Augusta, Ga., before he came colleges. It's cut to Birmingham, Porter was one of Rockbridge Steam especially for CALL the best boy tennis players and in pipes, to give a

Brown's Bakery will deliver at any hour cooler, drier PIES. CAKES, PASTRIES. SANDWICHES Laundry of all kinds, ICE CREAM. SOFT DRINKS. smoke. You can Prices reasonable. We cater tu Cadets. Phone buy Edgeworth wherever good tobacco 43 and our truck will deliver your order promptly.—Advertisement. is sold. Or for a special sample packet, write to Larus &C Bio. Co., 105 S. 161 22d St., Richmond, Va. The 1932 Tuxedo Shirts EDGEWORTH Shaner's Taxi BOMB Paletots and Mess Jackets SMOKING TOBACCO Edgeworth is a blend of fine old burleys, Co-operate with the bus- with its natural savor enhanced by Edge- iness staff by paying your worth's distinctive subscription fee. and exclusive elev- HAMRIC & SMITH A. A. HARRIS enth p.ocess. Buy Jewelers J. D. Neikirk L. J. Hansbrough Edgeworth any- Editor Bus. Mgr. PHONE 2005 where in two forms —Edgeworth Ready- EXPERT ENGRAVERS and WATCHMAKERS Printed by Rubbed and Edge- worth Plug Slice. All See the New V. M. I. Belts and Everything in College Free Delivery of sizes, 15(4 pocket Brown-Morrison package to #1.50 Jewelry. Full Line Hamilton, Gruen, Elgin, and Company SANDWICHES pound humidor tin. Bulova Watches. Main Street CAKES and PHONE 288 OPPOSITE NEW THEATRE Lynchburg, Virginia. PIES ing "Marta" these days and how MEXICO CITY? thing to do is to see it yourself and many women are singing "All of (Special to The Cadet from Senor take a look at those pretty senoritas, When in Lynchburg Make Me". We sincerely believa—and hope A. H. Ponzanelli, the Mexican car- who are famous the world over for —that neither will ever reach the respondent of The Cadet.) their incomparable eyes. Your Headquarters "Blue Heaven" stage. Mexico City is not a bad place. Ask American tourists have no trouble at the anyone who has visited it. Lindbergh, About the moat tantalizing ordeal in getting there, but they surely Will Rogers, and many others will we ever went through was the other Two of the best bands on the air hate to leave, especially those who WHITE HOUSE CAFE tell you what a wonderful climate it night when we tried to decipher a at present are George Olsen c, play- like to moisten their throats with has. It is 7,500 feet above sea level. French prize fight which was com- ing in New York and broadcasting something else besides H-2-O. One feels very close to the sky. Some ing in from some Canadian station. iver the Columbia chain after laps, (Editor's Note—After graduation, nights are marvellous, especially Though our knowledge of French is xnd Jack Pettis', playing from the Senor Ponzanelli plans to run for when the moon is out. One would not rather limited—since we spend most DeWitt Clinton Hotjl in Albany and President of his native country. We have any trouble in reaching up and of our period watching Edmunds and broadcasting over WGY in Schenec- wonder if he should be defeated HARLOW'S touching it, so near does it seem. Greiner go into their Ding-Dong- tady. whether he will start a new revolu- In the summer time it rains every Daddy-from Dumas act—we managed tion or not.) day in the afternoon for a couple of Print Shop to catch every now and then a We recommend: "sockez sur la pointe" or a brave, hours. This helps to keep the temper- 17 S. Jefferson St. Monday ature at 65 degrees, at which figure forte, bien." With the announcer Guy Lombardo at 8:15 and again Compliments of rattling off French like Floyd Gib- the temperature stays for most of BEST PRINTING at 10:00 over Columbia. Colonel the year. bons or Graham McNamee can Eng- AUGUSTA FRUIT AND PRO- Publisher of Stoopnagle at 8:45 and the Boswells In Mexico people take life easy; lish, the rest of it was just so much at 10:30 over Columbia. Lawrence DUCE CO. The Greek to us. The audience must have there is no rushing around and try- Tribbett at 8:30 and Jack Denny from ing to get some place. Life goes by LEXINGTON GAZETTE been enjoying the fight a lot, how- Staunton, Va. the Waldorf at 11:00 over the N. B. very smoothly. 128 Years Experience ever, for the yelling was so strong C., -WEAF hook-up. Peace has prevailed for quite a it reminded us of the time the big Tuesday while, and if conditions continue as red team went south over in the Scott Jimmy Green—who played here at stadium. they are at present, there should be Midwinters in '31—playing from Mil- no more trouble. waukee at 8:15 over about ten Col- Mexico City has beautiful places. One night last week from WLW we umbia stations. Ben Bernie at 9:00 Things down there are different from heard some bloke named Wun Way via Columbia. Lucky Strike at 10:00 up here—very much so. With a popu- sing the vocal to "China Boy" in from WEAF. lation close to it stands ROCKBRIDGE Chinese. We wondered if the sur- Wednesday either second or third on the Ameri- prise act in the second class show ' Ruth Etting at 10:00 via Columbia, can continent, not counting of course is going to be Wu giving us "China [Revelers at 9:00, WEAF. the U. S. A. Boy." Or maybe he's going to team Thursday NAT'L BANK I could keep on telling you lots of up with one of our better known Lucky Strike at 10:00 from WEAF. things about that little piece of hea- friends from the northwest corner Boswells at 10.30 over Columbia. For ven on earth, but I think that the best of barracks and give us "The Wood- night-hawks, George Olsen at 11:30 en Soldier and the China Doll." and the Lombardos at 12:00 from IWABC. Then there's the politician's theme Friday For Delicious Resources song: "Somewhere a Vice Is Calling." Paul Whiteman at 10:00 over the N.B.C.-WJZ hook-up. Also for night- $2,000,000 The Bohemian ^pun glass ramrod hawks, George Olsen at 11:30 and PASTRIES and CAKES goes this week tCf the announcer who Ben Bernie at 12:00 via Columbia. left the N. B. C. for the Columbia Saturday System and through force of habit The Revelers at 9:00 from WEAF. Patronize the said: "This is the National Broad- Guy Lombardo at 7:30 and Ruth Et- casting Company presenting. . .." ting at 10.00 via Columbia. PAUL M. PENICK A. P. WADE Reminds us of the time last Sept., LEXINGTON STEAM a rat slid into the repair shop and "Where were you born?" President Cashier nearly knocked us down. "Ireland." BAKERY, Inc. "Why?" 'S funny how many men ara sing- "I wanted to be near my mother."

Chesterfield Radio Program MON.&THU*. TUES.&FRI. WED. & SAT BOSWEU AIEX RUTH SISTERS GRAY ETTING 10:30 p.m. EST 10i30p.m.E.S.T. 10 pm. EST. SHIIKRET'S ORCHESTRA every night but Sunday NO'MAN BROKENSHIRE. Announcer COIUMBIA NETWORK

© 1932. LIGGETT & MYERS TOBACCO CO. RUSSIAN MARRIAGE AND large purchases of American goods. | BREWINGS DIVORCE LAWS PRESENT THE CADET Between these debtors and the credi- By Hops and Malt INTERESTING SUBJECT tor nations there is always a gap j The Tailor Shop made that huge Publication of the TO AMERICA which experience has found no way, new cadet uniform all for Betty Day. VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE to bridge except through foreign | It will ruin those new trousers to get Only civil marriage is recognized LEXINGTON VIRGINIA loans. them all stuck up on a molasses B. ag legftl under goviet ]aw> A mar. Official Organ of the V. M. I. Athletic Association. It was estimated last June by the 0 riage is legalized by registration at $2.50 Per Year Published Every Monday British Committee on Finance and Is it a sponge for the H. C. to pull R registry office, and while church Entered as second-class matter at Lexington, Virginia, under Act of Congress, October 8, 1917. Industry, presided over by Lord Mac- off Easter Hops at the climax of Bet- mftrrjages are not prohibited, they do E. R. TRAPNELL .... Editor-in-Chief millian, that the creditor nations ad- ty Week? not have any legal significance. Com- 0 L. F. CARY Business Manager vanced about two billion dollars an- mon-law marriages may be formal- nually to the debtors in the prosper- Last week's best silent snicker was(ized at any time by regi9tration, Editorial Board ous years before the depression. A Her Majesty's parade of the new Eas- stating how long the common-law J. E. PROTHRO Managing Editor large part of this capital came from ter riding habit out front. We were marriageg may be formalized at any H. n. MASSEY Assistant Editor just able to pipe the connection be- stating how J. 0. MARTIN Assistant Editor ^he United States. This was inevita- tjme by registration( P. F. FINKLEHOFFE Sports Editor ble, since the war had transformed tween the brown coat and the fami- long the common-law marriage has R. BUMGARDNER . ... Alumni Editor M. D. HOPKINS Literary Editor 's from a debtor nation into the! Har officesher pants, but why? existed. J. A. PHILLIPS Engineering Editor world's greatest creditor. The loans The marriage age for both men JACK JONES Exchange Editor The boys in 0. P. Q.-2 saw a Ripley ^ J. S. METCALFE Feature Editor which we made may have been moti- and women is 18 years. Those reg- Histriographer pulled a few days back when O-Boy ^e i' ' " marriage"" must "present O. D. SMITH vated in certain instances wholly by r ng a used soap on two successive days. speculative purposes. Some of them evidence of their identity, their fam- Associate Editors 0 L. N. Miller, J. C. Shell, J. C. Monks, J. P. Castleman, J. N. Lyle. R. C. Saunders. S. L. may have been carelessly considered, ily status and age, and must sign a After these years we weren't sur- Weinerth, J. Keith, W H. McNeal, H. D. Wanger, J. G. Todd, J. I). Neikirk. and others squandered rather than statement that the marriage is being prised when they put stripes on a invested in productive enterprises. entered jnto voluntarily that there are Reporters painted firecracker target. But, we ^ But this was the fault of individuals barg the marriage ag set forth W. P. Jones. T. H. Harrel, R. S. Singleton, R. M. Clewis, C. E. Greiner, G. R. Tyler, H. N. rather than of the method. World were put in a swell ferment to see jn the and that they are mufcual_ Dillard. J. A. B. Baker, S. E. Whitemore, C. Moorehead, A. E. Van Petten, them strapping cheek stripes on the J. W. Wheeler, I. R. Littrell, W. P. Keithley. H. S. Edmunds. W. R. Landrum, A. M. trade has always needed foreign informed as to the state of each rear of the art directors vest as he other,s hea]th pergong gu_ of Lipscomb. — credits, and it was solely by means Business Staff of funds advanced by the United leaned on that cannon. Now where m fa]ge statements are liable to „..„ Vinorllinoa • "HANDBALL . - .... W L FOLTZ Advertising Manager States and other creditors that the are those headlines: prosecution under criminal law. J.'D. Fosque, T. G. Slater, A. W Bryant. J. E. Powell Advertising Assistants CHAMP DEFENDS INTRAMURAL debtor nations were enabled to make PHFVRONS'" A marriage cannot be concluded: W. B. EAGLES Subscription Manager large purchases abroad and simul- TITLE IN CHEVRONb. (a) between persons one of whom i3 J L O'BRIEN Circulation Manager s! V. TALLMAN, C. F. HORST ZZZZZ Circulation Assistants taneously to adjust their balances of . „ t^tt. already married, regardless of international payments. ZmL i whether the marriages is registered Assistants to the Business Staff CUBE is ambidextrous since he talks The almost complete cessation of or not; (b) between persons one of W F Tinsloy E. M. Young, G. R. Gilliam, J. P. Lea, J. E. Crockcr, B. P. Harrison, C. S. as well with his left hand as with his Roller. J. W. James, C. A. Payne, E. C. Hudgins, J. F. Allen, R. P. Kelly. foreign loans since 1929 is one ex- right. whom has been declared, in a man- planation of the present paralysis of ner provided by the law, weak-mind- Editors This Issue: trade. Thrown back upon their own ,, " , , ., ed or mentally defective; (c) be- We couldn't name that beautiful: ^ .n r ^ ^ q{ T. H. HARREL R. M. CLEWIS S. E. WHITEMORE J. A. H. BAKER devices, the debtor nations have had d e cent r betWee br therS and "A man can surely do what he wills to do, but he cannot only one available means of balanc-1 ^kTwho filleHJt^er^m^b-j . " ' ° " ° ing their international payments. . i»»ter«. determine what he wills."—Schopenhauer. Qur okmul man This has been to reduce their pur-; Q Both parties to a marriage have hases of goods from the creditor na-j !ful1 freedom as to the choice of oc- THE HONOR LIST self to the decision as to which gift I Jn(JudgeW , ftHrour leadin£leadin?g watfiwater r Dolopolo... . tions. How successfully they have ^^ cupation or professi Change of The establishment of an Honor ie should develop. his last mistake was like employed this method may be judged, residence by one of tl^ parties does List, published for the first time as Germany has every reason to honor becauge ghe wag gQ hard tQ g€t Sy the feet that our ownforiegn trade j Qff h-g handg after he wag througnot h impose the obligation upon the an order on Saturday night and re- Goethe, and the world joins in with has been reduced to its lowest level other party to follow. Property ac- printed on the first page of this pa- the best of cause. He was one of with her. n more than twenty years quired prior to the marriage shall per, is to our minds the most for- the greatest poets, but he was an remain their separate property to be It wasn't the depression that made ward step which has been taken by even greater influence as a prophet EDITOR'S NOSEBAG disposed of as they please. Proper- Abe the stop nigger stop smoking. the Academic Board for some time of a new point of view and a new era. ty acquired during marriage is con- The best signs of Spring we have It's because he's had a stiff back and and fills a long felt need within the Tf one is more concerned with cor- sidered their common property. A seen are the beginnings of the Insti- can't bend over. Corps. rect impressions than with dry facts party to a marriage in a state of The practice of making known a and erudite literary criticisms, he tute's yearly dress-up program. About need is entitled to receive support Our parting shot is that the uff- list of the men who are outstanding -»nnot do better than to remember this time each year the rails and from the "other party provided the stay they put in our messhall food in the line of academic duty has been hat Goethe in the very hour of his fences get a new coat of paint, Jack- latter is in a position to render such customary in colleges throughout the death ^ cried out, "More light. More is absolutely no Aphrodisiac. son gives "clean material" to the bat- support. country and has been described as light, Parents and society have the same highly desirable by instructors and tery flanking his statue, and the par-; SWORDS AND RIFLES duties and obligations to children officials. And we'll wager that when ade ground takes on that peculiar 1> STRAIGHT DOPE x The remarkable succeses with born either in or out of wedlock. the list is published for next month barnyard appearance. And each time ¥ From j? which the V. M. I. Fencers and Rifle- A divorce may be secured either by there will be more names on it than men crowned their respective seasons after the Spring cleaning is over we j? YESTERYEAR $ mutual consent or at the desire of there were for the month just pass- worthy of the highest expression find a few permanent improvements i either party, no grounds for separa- ed and more than were entitled to be ,,,... , .. , . , ,, J Nine Months Ago tion being required. At the time of on it for several months back. Cer-' °f T° C*pt;T Carte.r .f that will eventually bring us to that (The MoQg€ Gazett6( June.July >31) the Rifle team The Cadet extends its recording the dissolution of a mar- tainly that should be the main pur- desired point. , Keydet Bo With The Colors heai-tiest congratulations both for his riage, arrangements for the support pose of publishing such a list. captaining of the winning team of the 0 I After almost a week at camp, and if the children, or for a party to the In the life of every Second Class- j ing just what the army is, Little The Cadet takes this poportunity Third Corps Area rifle matches and see marriage who may be physically in- man there have come to be two week-, says his idea of the worst job in to congratulate the men who made For making the highest individual Bo capacitated, must be made. In case ends which stand out above all the id is to be a swabber-of-decks the roll for the first time and hopes score in those matches. To Captain the wor of disagreement on these points the rest. The first is that glorious! Chinese Army. for a larger list next time. It is in- Manning of the Fencing Team The in the matter is referred to a court of law. Thanksgiving when he dons his ring! ver the week-end First Class Pvt. deed an honor list, as seen from the Cadet extends its congratulations up- 0 and the second is the Class show at | whited F. A.-R.O.T.C. Chinese requirements for making it. on his team's winning the Southern B NERVE CENTERS OF the time of Easter Hops. And because Army (D0L) was honored by a visit NATION-WIDE SERVICE Conference Tournament. And we pay of the quality of the entertainment General Woosie, one of his na- GOETHE'S CENTENARY our editorial respects to Foilman from The first telephones were for use provided on both occasions for the tive countrymen. on short, private lines. No means Distinguished honors on world- Moody as individual champion with past four years all the Keydets look j Wun Long Hoot( thwere ema providen frod to inter-connecm t with wide scale have recently been paid the his chosen weapon, upon these two as the gala week-ends Shreveport, says he never thought other similar lines—the functions memory of Johann Wolfgang von There are two men behind the of the year. This week brings the the time wouid come when he would which transforms the telephone busi- Goethe, that great German who died nes to whom most of the credit is sce show, "Pass In Revue," presented by pray to clean out the sinks in order ness into a "service." on March 22, 1832. The international ,i . In three years Captain Nels ue the Second Class, and the reports pre- Telephone users first became sub- celebration of Goethe's magnificant Granfelt has put V. M. I. on top of to get out of drill. dict a brilliant performance under scribers to an interconnecting service achievements came to a climax with he heap in the ever growing field of The truth of the Bibical phrase, Frank McCarthy's direction. on a commercial basis when the an observance at which seventy-four Swordsmen in the South and judg- "And a little child shall lead them," was proved beyond a doubt Wednes- switchboard at New Haven, Cann., nations of the world were represent- f the quality of the material ng rom The British income tax has brought day morning when Chinese "Bo", the was put into operation on January ed at Weimar, the little capital of it hand, bids fair to keep it there, in $25,000,000 more for the year than little Wo Pee visitor from forget 28, 1878. It connected eight lines and Thuringia, with which the name of Under the able tutelage of Lieutenant the original estimate. We read of the which, led the battery into forma- served twenty-one subscribers. Com- Goethe is ineradicably associated be- Howard the Rifle Team won the many problems facing the English tions never before conceived by even munication between lines was estab- cause he made his home there for so Hearst Trophy last year and are well government now, in Ireland, in In- the greatest of our generals. lished by means of two movable arms many years. From Haiti to China ,n the way toward winning it again 1 dia, in New Zealand, and of the hard- which could be swung around a circle and from Indian to Venezuela people ,th the Corps Area championship Flit-Gun Whited, the Vermin ex- v ship which the tax burden has caus- of eight contact points at each of gathered to express their reverence already in the bag. The Cadet takes terminator, says of all the things he which a line terminated. Three days for a man who so powerfully influenc- this opportunity to express the appre- ed the country. When the pinch came ' uld like to d0f he can think of later a similar board was installed at ed world thought. ciation of the Corps for the work the Britisher forgot his personal in- nothing t^te,. than to tie the Yesman terests and aversions and put his • Meriden, Conn. Before the end of the Although it was perhaps as a Captain Granfelt and Lieutenant of the cmap to a gtake in the middle hat whole heart into putting the nation year exchanges had been opened in master of the lyric poem that Goethe Howard have done. o£ the battery street one night with back on its feet. As a result Great no clothes on> to focus a light Qn h, eight states. During the following excelled all others of his land and Britain, with Germany, is the first and then leave him to the mercy of year some form of service was provid- his time, he is known best for "Faust" LANGUISHING FOREIGN nation to balance its budget. •d in all but four states and terri- that monumental work to which he TRADE the mosquitoes (Watch this Column! ! ! Straight tories, and exchanges were opened in devoted himself from time to time From N. Y. Times, l "Before we were married, Henry," Dope on GILL and FOSQUE next hese in 1880. The first switchboard, during a span of fifty years. His Figures reported by the Depart- said the young wife reproachfully, week 1 ! ! ) used experimentally, connected four psychological masterpieces like ment of Commerce show that dur- "you always gave me the most beau- banks and a manufacturing concern "Tasso" and "Iphigenis" have never ing January and February American tiful gifts. Do you remember?" 'n Boston. It was installed in May had the great popular appeal of foreign trade reached the lowest level SPRING FOOTBALL TOUR- "Sure," replied Henry cheerfully, NAMENT 1877. "Faust" for the simple reason that recorded for the first two months of "but my dear, did you ever hear of Ed Hess' new spring football tour- As demands for telephone service they have not been compltely under- any year since 1910. This was in a fisherman feeding bait to a fish af- nament attracted much attention increased throughout the country stood by the people. This lack of part the consequence of reduced pur- ter he had caught it?" appeal for Goethe, in the people to-1 chasing power abroad. It was also from the members of the squad and many types of switchboard were put day is perhaps characteristic of our the result of the tariff war in which the Corps. The whole spring squad into use, only to be displaced when Bruce Barton is responsible for the entered but the number in the com- others of greater capacity or effi- modern life, but it is to be deplored the chief trading nations have recent- following. if for no other reason than that ly engaged and of the break-down of petition was cut because many are ciency were perfected. Interesting ex- "Faust" itself, in many details is the machinery of international credit, My father used to tell about a vis- out for various spring sports. The amples of these are the Law Board, the prophecy and prediction of the The mischief done to world corn- itor to an English art gallery who competition between the contestants 'irst used in 1880, and the Pyramid modern era, the one in which we live merce by punitive and retaliatory was thrilled by seeing Tennyson en- was keen. "We" Smith, last season's Board, which appeared in 1882. Both and which Goethe foresaw with a tariffs is rapidly becoming clear, ter the door accompanied by his wife regular quarterback took first place, of these employed the cord and plug surprising clarity. j though little is being done to correct and children. In hushed and expectant getting a total of 287 points. Minor principle folowed in all manually op- awe the stranger tiptoed around be- and Nimmo tied for second place with erated switchboards in use today. Goethe was a profound philosopher the conditions at fault. But the close hind the poet, waiting to hear some a total of 262 points, apiece. Fred A switchboard that more closely in many respects. On more than one connection between international line of immortal beauty. A half hour Urick won third place with 258 points. occasion he proved himself conclus- credit and foreign trade is less wide- suggested the modern manual board passed. From picture to picture Ten- Holmes and Hilliard took fourth and was the Universal Board, first install- ively an able administrator and a ly recognized. Senator Johnson of nyson moved in gloomy silence. At fifth places respectively. Holmes' to- capable statesman, and he was an Carolifornia knows, of course, that ed in 1879. The multiple principle, by length he turned to address a remark tal was 254 and Hilliards was 248. vhich every line terminating at the exceptionally gifted amateur in half all foreign loans are bad and that the to his wife. The visitor crept a little Ryland was going strong but had to a dozen or so sciences. In truth, the right place to keep a dollar is at board is duplicated or "multiplied" closer. go to Guard Mount and so he did not at every section, was adopted in 1880. versatility of Goethe came near be-; home. But not even his talent is get to finish all the events. ing his downfall, for he was able to great enough to explain how, without "You stay here with the children," "3y means of this arrangement, every Points were given in eleven events, do so many things well that he had ample credit, the debtor nations of said the bard. "I am going to get a operator can connect any subscriber's ( i for attendance, and for competitive great difficulty in composing him- the world can be expected to make glass of beer." 'me with any other line terminating (Continual On Png« Flv«) (Continued on Pag* Eight.) BASEBALLERS TRACKSTERS MEET

PLAY ELON RICHMOND - U. VA.

Riflemen Defeat VPI Varsity Nine Engages Elon-Rat Baseballers Beat Cen- Varsity • Rat Tracksters1 VMI Bows To Duke By Wide Margin Bridgewater j tral High 11-3 ! Prepare For Richmond Veteran Nucleus Boosts Hope BOW TO FISHBURNE 14-4 In Track Meet For Good Team. And Virginia At Blacksburg Friday afternoon the Rats started Engage In Two Meets In Four At Durham Bill Raftery's varsity baseball team WIN BY 35 POINT MARGIN their 1932 baseball campaign with a Davs opens the lid on the 1932 season Wed- decisive win over Central High School ^ BUMGARDNER VICTOR IN Bravshaw Is High Score In nesday when Elon College invades of Washington, D. C. The Little Key- W et them MILE RACE Lexington. The boys have been prac-! teto ri^en Mtalo^n L "V"l ™ ^ ^ Meet. Read 3 tracksters are beln ,ven ht ticing hard for the past month and by a 11-4 score £ S " Wanger Pushes Brownlee For Two Second Places. The V. M. I. rifle team journeyed are rapidly rounding into good form.! T. wQcV,i„ * k t, a , , tie rest in preparation for their meet to Blacksburg last Saturday where The Hurdlers ranging in size from Squat! , Washington boys held thpuse leaedd ; with Richmond on Wednesday and Lt. Howard's men were victorious in Davis to Biff Jones have been wing- f°r & bnef T"16"4 they * i Virginia on the following Saturday, Opening the season against a a shoulder to shoulder match with V. ing the ball across the plate in an ef °Ve1' °nC rUn m 6 FSt mning when Three meets in the period of six days strong Duke University Track contin- gent at Durham Saturday, V. M. I.'s P. I.'s rifle team. Ten men fired for fort to unkink their arms. It is upon fe™ Rat hurier, walked a man is quite a stiff schedule) but Captain each team, the five high scores of these reserve hurlers that the hopes! ™ ™ 1™e /"T* 1 • mS" Wanger's men may be expected to '32 edition of harriers and hoisters, fl make a bowed to the Blue Devils to the tune each team counting. The positionpositionss a- successful season will largely.! fv'e Q d ou,, t tno Pen" n in righ? t .fiel "d to end jmake a •goo d showing against any op- fired were prone i j * *«• -xl , I t«e rally. Dave Miller's cohorts came „„„-„», of 82 1-2 to 43 1-2. The field events kneeling, and depend, for Mason is the only mono-1. a . . * , .. . ,, . ponents. standing, The final score was 1370 gram pitcher on the club. In addition ?„ //!fy. , f°re ™ , Duke took the Cadets into camp lastI especially gave Duke the lead, while the points for V. M. I. out of a possible 1 * the rpitchers mentioned above some i , . , ; Saturday but the meet was not with- 1i Keydets exhibited Ttheii r best form 1| runs in thTC,iUe second to give the Rats a -•-i-n "the 1500 as against V. P. I.'s 1335. Thisjffood pitching should come from the ;""; T "" TZ^v !! I out its brilliant performances on the! running events. It was the com- i!„„ lead they never ost The Litt e Red; f h y M j men B rd_ bination of Brownlee-Brewer-Fulmer score is an excellent one for a shoul soup bones of Mergenhagen, Rea, r Team continueiniloHd tfrot adarirtd tfrto theitVi-oi,.r lea]anr\d —1-whic> h1_ ruinei d thJ-1-e _ J! -.. . der to shoulder match and is 64 Moore, and Carney. Raftery has . . . . t t . ner, veteran cross country and dis- j day for the Cadets, points higher than the team fired at trio of good receivers in Turner, Tay-1 SwTnd* fifth™7 ' Stance runner, came through to win despite close and hard pushing com- West Point. lor and Tyree. ' first place in the two-mile event and petition. Moore Penn and The The team was royally entertained The competition has been keen for' ' ' Ferrara shone at e may be expected to duplicate his meet was not without its spec- by the V. P. I. boys and all who made all positions and no one really has the bat for V' M' L> while Moran was performance in both of the meets tihs tacular side. Rudy Bumgardner step- the the trip declared that they enjoyed his position sewed up. At present the ! outstanding batsman for Central week. ! Ped out to win the two miles from High. Moore rapped out two doubles. , , . — - Bray of Duke, coming within 33 se- themselves thoroughly. infield combination of Scott on first, Captain Wanger had unusual com- * ... T ... , , , .. Penn garnered a double and two sin- j.-..- ,, , ... ~ , , . conds of the Institute record by fm- Below are the scores of the first Edmunds on second, Cutchin at short, petition in the meet with Duke, but i. , . . „_ „ . ... es and F rara crack€d out a sin , , • , ishing in 10:25:9. THT e received a big five men of each team: andLeSeur at third seems to be about ^ ' f " managed to add two second places in ,.. ,, . , .. the smoothest clicking infield. *le' a two-bagger, and a triple. , v , • . ovation from the spectators. The fin- Five high scores V. P. I.: the low hurdles and hundred yard . , „ ...... , Tb , , , , ...... ish of the mile run also received a Whitehead, P. C.—Prone 99, kneel- In the outfield there are several e Washington boys' biggest ral- dash . XNTo doubt with more training . . , , . . _ , . _ ,..,,.. ... ,, . ..f big hand, TLewis of Duke passing Tur- ing 92, standing 82, total 273. likely candidates. Waite, Outten, j ly came in the eighth when, after behind him he will come through with . ' .„. . , " , ...... T. lier in a killing sprint on the final Cunningham—Prone 98, kneeling Pitkethley, and Bozel seem to have . scoring two runs, their spurt was more points in future meets. Raw- . . , . r ,, . , . . , , , .. , „ . . straightaway after th e TKeydet had 97, standing 83, total 272. the edge on the others in holding! snapped off by the only double play >n showed exceptional form in win- ° , , , , , . • .. , . of the • . ... wrested the lead from him in the last Clark—Prone 97, kneeling 90, down the outfield. j game, Moore to Downey. ling the high hurdles, and he with ...... , , , , . . half of the final lap. standing 81, total 268. Waite, Cutchin and Edmunds are Reynolds allowed eight hits, walk- JohnnT y THealT d present a strong array Captain Tony Wanger found him- Heretick—Prone 99, kneeling 86, looked for to lead the hitters and be-jed four men, and whiffed a like num- j n that event. Heald, due to injuries, self up against very tough meat in standing 80, total 265. hind this trio the hitting end should ber, while his team mates garnered las been unable to get into very good .... i . ». . . , .f t , !both of his events in the person of Grayson—Prone 95, kneeling 93, be well taken care of. ! sixteen hits and took advantage of condition, but it is expected that he „ , ^ , , brownlee, Conferenc' 'nntpvenpoe loInw hnvHlhurdloe standing 69, total 257. Several practice games have shown four errors to win handily. Consider- vill rapidly assume his form of last champion, but in both the hundred Total V. P. I. score: 1335. that the boys are getting their eye ing that the day was a cold one and year. and low hurdles the Cadet chief push- on the ball. All the Rafteryites will that it was the first game of the sea- Five high scores V. M. I.: Wellford in the half and Turner in il boy closely, finishing 1-5 Brayshaw—Prone 100, kneeling 95, have to do is to duplicate the feat son, hte Rats made an auspicious be- ed th€ Dev he mile, although lacking in exper- 3econd behind him in each instance, (Continued on page 8) (Continued on page 8) ginning of the baseball season. ience, gives promises of developing 3nowball Rawson took the high hurd- Box score: into consistent runners. Wellford gar- les> followed closely by Heald, failing Central High. jnered a second place at Duke when „ match the Institute rec0rd by AB. R. H. PO. A.E Nau, ss 5 0 11 0 |he ran the half in 2:01' which is Pret" eight-tenths of a second. Moran, p, rf 5 2 3 0 y fast time for a first varsity race. I-n the high jump Joe Phillips tied Raub, 3b 3 0 0 2 Turner turned in a second in the al- r first place with Smith of Duke, Thompson, cf 3 10 1 1 most record mile run. Finlayson and clearing the bar at 5:9 and barely Cooke, c 3 0 0 5 1 Rtuschow are two more new varsity Bryant, If 3 12 1 nissing the Institute record height : Keyser, lb 4 0 1 11 men whose ability has not yet been 0f Wellford, in the half, took RANDOM SHOTS of the Wisconsin Badgers for a while Multiz, 2b 4 0 0 2 tried. second place in a hard race with ,, , , , „ , , De Bettencort, p 3 0 1 0 The field events seem to be giving Bradsher of Duke. Old Uncle Samuel has decided to at the yearly buck-roll of ten big pj tolas, rf 1 0 0 1 s Son Read the most trouble. Buck Taking everything into considera- get a healthy cut on these milion dol- grands per anno Last week, af- lar football seasons that the Ameri- Totals 34 4 8 24 7 4 Wright and Brugh seem to be doing ion, the team displayed fine early ter the Pittsburgh Pirates dropped can colleges have been enjoying. He V. M. I. Rats. very well in the Javelin and Joe Phil- reason form which should show to ad- the third consecutive exhibition me- probably figured that being as it was- AB. R. H. PO. A.E. j lips, who tied for first place at Duke, vantage in the forthcoming meets lee in a row to Los Angeles of the Moore, 2b 4 0 n't such a sporting proposition any is a reliable veteran. The shot is very vith Richmond and Virginia this Pacific Coast circuit, they were moos- Penn, rf, cf 4 0 more there wasn't anything wrong weak as is evidenced by the clean veek. in' around the town trying to find q^^.™' ss g 1 in getting a little tax in himself. The c 0 sweep Duke made in that event Sat- The summary: out who dubbed those birds the "An-! ReynoidS) p 5 urday. The pole vault is little better, 100 yard dash—1st, Brownlee, time is drawing nearer and nearer. 0 gels" .... Leo Durocher, a young boy Downey, lb 4 0 although Kerr and Vance are show- Duke; 2nd, Wanger, V. M. I.; 3rd, It won't be so very long now before from the Bay State, who for two sea- Millar, If 4 1 ing better form and getting more Fulmer, Duke. Time: 10 seconds. the Big League Boys will be ready to 0 Mile Run—1st, Lewis, Duke; 2nd, 1 sons was the protege of Miller Hug-: Urick, cf 4 height than they have before. take up where Pepper Martin left pff rRiley, 3b 2 0 Turner, V. M. I.; 3rd, Miles, Duke. , ~ , , a,, li. • u 1 • g ns, erstwhile mite manager of the p . ' ou 1 0 The meet with Richmond will start Time: 4:32.7. last October. Old Al Orth is back in ! % .,' j„J_j,_j ...j.! Pattersonn) t nn , ZD i Gotham Yankees, has dwindled out I Steinneman, If 1 0 Alumni Field at 3:00 p.mp.m . while „ 2,20 Yard Dash—1st, Brownlee, town. It won't be but so long now be- of the picture of big league baseball., Jones, rf 1 0 I the scanty-clads travel to Charlot- Duke; 2nd, E. L. Phillips, V. M. I.; lorfore thvne willowmow wilw„l. be whack-th!e ap- was highly touted as the finest | Bosch, 3b 1 uc He I tesville to engage Virginia Saturday. 3rd, Hicks, Duke. Time: 22.1. pie down on Alumni field again. Alj.^.^ .n either leagu€ many of. 120 Yard High Hurdles—1st, Raw- Totals 40 11 16 27 13 2 son, V. M. I.; 2nd, Heald, V. M. I.; is just as sure a sign of spring as the,^ country,s leading sports writers Pete Hesmer sent his rat track 3l'd, Lybrook Duke. Time: 16.4 proverbial robin. about f(mr yeftrs agQ when „Hug„ Two Mile Run—1st, Bumgardner, On Saturday the Rat baseball team. prospects through trials last Satur- y jj j •2nd Bray Duke* 3rd Horst HOWBOUT DAT? (died the youngster slipped down the traveled to Fishburne, where the prep iday in order to make his choices for y! M. I.' Time: 10:25.9. ' ' ' Bill Raftery was a star athlete at 11>iver to the Cincy Reds and for a school boys defeated the Rats by a the starters in their meet with Rich-! 440 ' Yard ' Dash—1st, Fulmer, W. & L., and played pro ball in a year ambied in fine fashion. Then a 14.4 score. The score does not indi- mond Wednesday. Although his mat- Duke; 2nd, Hicks, Duke; 3rd, Finlay- couple of fast leagues for a good lad named Cucinelli eased him out of cate what a hard fought struggle the erial is as yet untried, several men V- M. I. Time: 51.5. while. Blandy Clarkson won twelve . the picture) and now he isn't "among game was. With the exception of one turned in performances which boost Brownnlee* DukT^nd.winger,'V. monograms at A. M. A. foi- four those present." It seems as if Leo ,ad inning when the Fishburne boys pete's hopes for a successful season. M. I.; 3rd', Shackford,'Duke. Time: years, and then came to V. M. I. and lived not wiS€iyi but too well. chalked up six runs, the game could The rats engage Richmond and Vir- -4.8. 880 Yard Dash—1st, Bradsher, and repeated the process, Gabby Street, hard boiled, grizzled easily have been V. M. I.'s. The fact gjnia in dual meets this week. Ed Hess was the only boy on the veteran manager of the World Cham- that Gilbert, Rat hurier, struck out Walker, Dunn, and Urick stpeped a Nicholsf"duk^!^'Tinie: 1:02? * ' 3ld' famed Ohio State team that succeed- pion Cardinals, was the only catcher fifteen men is indicative of the fine fairly fast 220 to lead the contestants Broad Jump—1st, Fulmer, Duke; ed in stopping the sensational Red that could hold the great Walter brand of pitching he displayed. Hook- n that event. These men all looked 2nd, Brown, V. M. I.; 3rd, Brewer, Johnson when the latter was in his r, the regular catcher was ill, and U in the first trials of the year. Duke- Distance: 22 ft^, 5.75 in. Grange. e ve Discus throw—1st, rsrewei1, Duke; Dave Miller coached a ball club at prime Jim Thorpe, perhaps Ferrara caught for the first time in The hundred was not run and the abi- 2nd Crawford, Duke; 3rd, Heald, V. John Marshall that never dropped a 0n the the world's best all-around ,ia life. He deserves a great deal of ;ty 0f the century men remains un- M. I. Distance: 12l' ft., 10.5 in.' game in twenty six starts. athletes took a crack at Big Time -redit for the manner in which he re- known. High Jump—Tie for 1st and 2nd SWISH SWISH ball> and for a Part of a s€as0n burn" ceived Gilbert's deliveries. This game Wilson won both hurdle races and between J. Phillips, V. M. I., and F CUBE is bettin' all the sawbucks i ed up the National League with waa only a temporary setback and was followed by Watson in the highs. plaie ' between Wiles, Duke", and for the Cards to cop in the National Mugsy McGraw's Giants, but he was with the return of Hocker to the line- Bailey, although he was prevented Brewer, Duke. Height: 5 ft., 9 in. league, and the Yanks to win in the obliged to depart when the pitchers Up and a little better fielding the Rat 'rom running Saturday, is consider- Pole Vault—Tie for 1st and 2nd be- junior circuit. Jackie Coombs, the boy up there found that he couldn't hit a team should develop into a winning d the most likely representative in tween Sharp and Ripley (both of H. ™„1H m„r,W anvthino- else. ,.i„h u„ fv,» Duke); 3rd, Kerr, V. M. I. Height, that hurls for Duke and who has for hook. He could murder anything else, dub. the lows. He was the winner of the 11 feet a daddy the wonder pitcher of a cou- but the zippy ones flored him. The 'ow hurdles in the intra-murals sev- Shot Put—1st, Stevens, Duke; 2nd, ple of decades ago, the other day Injun sliped down to the Eastern SPRING FOOTBALL •ral weeks ago. Means, Duke; 3rd, Brewer, Duke; found they threw | (Continued from Page 4.) Wilson and Rader seem the likely Distance: 39 ft., 7.75 in. showed why he was put on College! League, but he Javelin Throw — 1st, Crawford, Little Albie ability. The points for competitive tarters in the high jump. Both these Humor's All-American aggregate last (hooks there too Duke; 2nd, Brugh, V. M. I.; 3rd, year, when he laid the Maryland I Booth, phantom halfback of the Yale ability were given for the way the j m~n" though no"t reaching any out Wright, V. M. I. Distance: 172 ft., Terp's low and merely whiffed six- bulldogs, and the lad that dumped contestants entered into the spirit of standing heights in the trials, show 4.5 in. teen sticksters while chalking up the old John Harvard on his ear in the the competition. The various events that they might be able to garner Scoring: Running events: V. M. I. M. I. win We'll say he's the original chip annual struggle by sailing a sharp were: 100 yd. dash, punt for distance, points in that event. 30, Duke 42; Field events: V. punt for accuracy, pass for distance, 13 1-2, Duke 40 1-2; Final: V M. I. off the old blocko. His old man fierc-! field goal over the bar, recently got The field events presented a lively 43 1-2, Duke 72 1-2. ed 'em up in the circles for over ten | out of a Wallingford Sanitorium and, pass for accuracy, place kick, drop field of contestants, but none appear- Officials—Referee, Gerard (Illi- years and will go down in the annals j unheralded and unsung, slipped un- kick, shoulder tackle, cross body tack- ad to exceptional ability. Rader looms noic); Starter, Erwin; Clerk of of time as one of the greatest of all- obtrusively back to the walls of Old le, cross body block and shoulder as the outsaonding man in the discus CaTd- block, 50 yd. obstacle dash and runn- time big league twirlers . . . "Doc" Eli where he will try to catch him- . vhile Ryland is outstanding in the wpn R„,.Uh Carol- Field Judges Sneara famous grid coach, just sign- self a sheepskin, before the summery ing body block events were planned shot and javf the tube with varying intensity. cond and will only have two weeks termine whether or not a more ele- "In transmitting, this same swing- before dismissal for the summer fur- Toasted Sandwiches and gant installation is to be carried out. ng beam can be aplied to a tube, lough. Oh! Yeah? YEAH! Soft Drinks The receivers are to be operated vhich in place of hte light-producing from a master antenna, picking up -oat is coatad with a light sensitive "That dog's been raised up on axle signals from the three downtown substance. The end of the tube may • grease." areas. As only direct current is avail- compared to the photographer's "How can you tell?" McCRUM'S able in the hotel, the problem of syn-; -ilate. A lens is used to focus the de- "Listen to his waggin." chronization must be overcome. ; ^ired scene on the end of the tube. Because serious fading with accom- Then the beam is started swinging panying ghost images is encountered | ack and forth. The beam now acts Caldwel-SitesCo in the local areas of television sta- i a carrier of impressions, and as Tolley's Toggery tions operating on 105 and 150 me- ?aeh point on the tube is touched the —For— ters, the need for automatic volume amount of light focused there regu- control in the receiver to overcome at 'ates the beam.' ' SMART GRIFFON CLOTHES WALK-OVER SHOES least some of the difficulty has long Brown's Bakery will deliver at any hour Arrow Shirts and Collars Wovenright Hosiery been felt by engineers. I PIES, CAKES, PASTRRIES, SANDWICHES Research workers of the Freed lab-' °f.»" kinds- 'CE CREAM. SOFT DRINKS Berg Hats and Merton Caps Belber Luggage 1 Prices reasonable. We cater to Cadets. Phone oratories have attacked the problem 43 and our truck will deliver your order SPORTING GOODS V. M. I. Pennants and Banners VISIT OUR GIFT SHOP by designing a 10 tube superhetero- Promptly—Adverti^ment. Rugby Sweaters and Golf Hose To Match dyne for television which incorporates | RADIOS AND RECORDS automatic volume control. The con- Come To See Us 111 West Nelson St. M. S. McCOY 105 S. Jefferson St. Roanoke, Va. trol, obtained through an extra tube1 GROCERY and MEAT MARKET in the detector circuit, tends to hold! Fruits & Vegetables the signal level constant during fad- j Quality Fresh Meats ing swings if they are not too great. Old Va. Cured Hams Our Specialty It was necessary to use an interme- LEXINGTON, VA. diary amplifier which would not eli- minate any of the picture and produce; bad effects on the screen. Quite the oposite to radio reception, ACCOMMODATIONS it has been found in television experi- j for ments that the reception is always FRIENDS OF CADETS better in the daytime, while radio re- at ceptions are stronger at night. The day periods seem to produce a stead- EASTER DANCES Pay Up On ier signal with only slight fading, hardly serious enough to give ghost images. However, about sunset the Mrs. S. B. Walker, Jr. picture begins to break up and often reception remains poor throughout I Phone 152 the evening. A new invention in the television! 120 West Nelson line, and one which is thought will Your solve many problems in the new science is the cathode ray tube. This tube does electrically just what the eye does in reading a page of type. For instance, the eye goes from left to right, line by line down the page. So does the cathode ray tube in scan- ning an image sent by radio, but it CADET and BOMB Subscriptions

and be rid of one more Finals Worry

—aMmiiE imM^iiiiiiiiiir sag— 1M2SNj!;nimmiii i AMLGAMATED HATCHERY S. S. Teacher: "Dear children, tell Shadows on the Rock COMPANY ORGANIZED me what is the last thing you must ROCKBRIDGE MYERS HARDWARE CO., do before going to bed." Incorporated "By Willa Cather HARDWARE CO., Inc. Have you been interviewed about Wise Child: "Put the doorkey in Reviewed by C. 0. Harris The Yellow Front Hardware buying stock in the Great Amalga- the mail box for grandmother." There is meaning in Miss Cather's mated Poultry Raising Corporation Gun Oil, Gnn Grease, Gnn Brushes, title, for it reveals the mood of the Rust Remover, Lock Boxes, Pocket of Rockbridge County? Then, be- He: -"I can read you like a book." Knives, Razor*, Razor Blade*. G-E Radios R. C. A. Tubes narrative, which is tender and ware, far solicitors eager for busi- She: ""Wouldn't you like to curl up thoughtful. The real importance of ness are swarming araund barrax. with a book?" this drama is in its implied symbol- No less an eminent personage than ism. The rock is old Quebec; the the Honorable "Bay Rum" G. is pres- shadows are past and present reflec- ident of the organization. The capi- COMPLIMENTS tions of men's lives. These shadows tal stock has increased by 250 per KEYDETS, ATTENTION! are not sharply blocked patterns of cent since the firm was organized, OF A early morning or late afternoon. for only a few short days ago the FRIEND Finals will soon be here. Come in and select your Suit and Tuxedo. "They fall in the hour between sun- well known tap dancer extraordinary Lowest prices. Second Classmen, let's get together on your Cape J I down and moon rise." They are deli- of Ronsayvertay had an outlay of cate, apprehended, wavering images only two chix. Now his stock in for next year. of life on nature's background. trade has swelled to the gTand total As the story begins,.Quebec is not of five henlets (two of them borrow- much more than a village of two ed from kind neighbors in order to Cadets FRANK MORSE thousand inhabitants living on the take care of the heavy Easter trade). PHONE 572 slope of the fortress and down by The barnyard fowls, unlike their Patronize the river. For its existence the town owner, can certify that they are not Peter Wray's Brother relies on trade With the Indians. Miss simple. In fact, with very little Cather's purpose is to tell the life of training it is claimed that the crea- and the people on the rock, far from tures can be developed into adept EAT AT home—a people who brought knowl- and skilled tap dancers (if first edge from France into a wilderness. placed on a hot plate). Further- The Subway Kitchen I believe the following letter to be an more, all of Crazy Jawge's room admirable description of the quality mates are willing to testify to the Free Delivery of the book. It is a description which fact that the varmints are accom- gains authority from its own author. plished vocalists. The darned things PHONE 280 "Dear Governor Cross: make so much racket no one in the I want to thank you most heartily room can sleep, study, or even think. for the most understanding review I Even though one of the President's have seen of my book. You seem to room mates swears volubly that the have seen what a different kind of chix are "ruining his health," don't Stonewall Jackson method I tried to use from that which believe him. He is jealous because I used in the "Archbishop." I tried, he wasn't elected president of the Cafe as you say, to state the mood and the firm. viewpoint in the title. To me the Prospective customers are cordial- REGULAR DINNERS rock of Quebec is not only a strong- ly invited to visit the firm's show 50c hold on which many strange figures rooms and see the stock in trade be- have for a little time cast a shadow ing fed, exercised, played with, urged 11 A. M. 9 P. M. SERVICE in the sun; it is the curious endur- to settle down, and finally cussed at. Good Steaks Nice Waffles ance of a kind of culture, narrow but Visitors are warned that they ob- Orders Delivered definite. There another age persists. serve and handle the stock at their There, among the country people and own risk. Positively no cleaning bills PHONE 475 the nuns, I caught something new to will be paid by the corporation. me; a kind of feeling about life and If the company secures any custo- human fate that I could not accept, mers, it is the present intention of wholly, but which I could not but ad- the President to put in a supply of J. W. ZIMMERMAN mire. It is hard to state that feel- guinea pigs with the hope that the ing in language; it was more like an Jeweler & Optician Graduate Optician stock will be increased in large num- Registered Optometrist old song, incomplete but uncorrupt- bers. 10 MAIN ST ed, than like a legend. The text was mainly anacolouthon, so to speak, but "Why haven't you any hair on your LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA the meaning was clear. I took the head?" complete air and tried to give it "Grass doesn't grow on a busy what would correspond to a symathe- street." tic musical setting; tried to develop "No, it can't get up through the THE it into a prose composition not too concrete." conclusive not too definite; a series CHAS. H. ELLIOT of pictures remembered rather than experienced; a kind of thinking, a GIFT AND ART SHOP Company mental complexion inherited, left Seventeenth St. and Lehigh Are. from the past, lacking in robustness MEZZANINE FLOOR PHILADELPHIA. PENN. and full of pious resignation.

Now it seemed to me that the mood Robert E. Lee Hotel of the misfits among the early set- STATIONERS and JEWELERS tlers (and there were a good many) OFFICIAL JEWELERS TO must have been just that. An orderly little French household that went on VIRGINIA MILITARY trying to live decently, just as ants INSTITUTE begin to rebuild when you kick their Gift Consultants house down, interests me more than Indian raids of the wild life in the F. H. CLOTHIER CLASSES OF 1931-32-33 forests. And, as you seem to recogn- Interior Decorator ize, once having adopted a tone so The Largest College Engraving House FRANCES HAMILTON seat in the close air by the apothe- cary's fire, you can't explore into and military glory, any more than you MILDRED N. MILLER can pour chhmpagne into a salad dressing. (I don't believe much in rules, but Stevenson laid down a good one when he said: "You can't mix kinds.") And really, a new FRANK THOMAS CO., society begins with the salad dress- V. M. I. PRESSING SHOP ing more than with the distruction INC. of Indian villages. Those people brought a kind of French culture there and somehow kept it alive on Norfolk, Va. that rock, sheltered it and tended it OPERATED THROUGH THE and on occasion did for it, as if it really were a sacred fire—with emo- Makers of the Polytex tion always tempered by good sense. POST EXCHANGE V. M. I. It is very hard for an American to catch that rhythm—it's so unlike us. But I made an honest try, and I got a great deal of pleasure out of it, if For the Benefit of Cadets nobody else does! And surely you'll Miss Elizabeth L. Graham agree with me that our writers ex- Nice Accommodations for periment too little, produce their own special brand too readily. With deep Parents and Girls in Limits. appreciation of the compliment you pay me in taking the time to review PHONE 55 Leave Your DRY CLEANING at the V. M. I. the book and my friendliest regards always, Willa Cather." Get Our Prices Party Favors BUCKINGHAM & FLIPPIN Pressing Shop LYNCHBURG, VA. IF YOU WANT 919 Main St. College Ring* Class pin» GOOD THINGS TO EAT Fraternity Jewelry WE KLEAN KLOTHES KLEAN THE BEST TO BE HAD Try Our

DUTCH INN LYNCHBURG ENGRAVING CO. Open From Smith's Dry Cleaning Works Engravers 1932 7 A. M. to 8 P. M. V. M. I. Bomb

MRS. R. L. OWEN 5 th Street Lynchburg, Va. PHILANTHROPISTS OF FU- ARTILLERY COMPETITIONS 'PASS IN REVUE" QUARTETTE wArvNsn. ono*. TURE TO COME FROM '22 PLANNED FOR FINALS (Continued from page 1) (Continued from Page One.) American Bridge Corporation, so he I it signal ride to a line where he will TUES.-WED., APRIL 5-6 =ays. When better bridges are built have another man mount behind him HAILED! "Bo" intends to build them, that is, and both ride back to the starting BY CRITICS EVERYWHERE f he doesn't get lost in the smoke line. up there. Tug of war: Six men mounted LUBjTSCH Wfc|J W7 Billy McNeal is going to take a horseback on horses to pull on rope summer of rest before more years of against another team facing in the ISROKEWC J| study. He is going to be a member of other direction. • IUUABVWFJ that reprobate crew led by Castle- Polo stick and ball race: Contest- <7 Qaramnunl 'flclurt — J0M § man through the temptations of Eu- ants to start behind line and with a rope. Then in September he goes to pole stick carry a ball down the field Lionel Barrymore Columbia or Virginia to study medi- and through the goal posts. Inter- Nancy Carroll cine. ference with another man's stick per- Phillips Holmes Baya is going back to Florida mitted. Added: where, it is warm and work. Where Apple and cigarette race: Contest- "BATTLING BOSCO" what, or who he is going to work is its mount and ride to a place where still to be decided. Anyway, he is go- hey will bob for an apple, light a 1 THURSDAY, APRIL 7 ing back to Florida which seems to :igarette and return to starting point William Haines be the big point. It must be that Vir- vith apple and cigarette lighted. Madge Evans ginia is too cold. Egg and spoon race: Contestants "Are You Listening" Thompson is going to help manu- itart from a line mounted with an M. G. M. PICTURE facture handkerchiefs after June. See- •gg balanced in a spoon and race to FRIDAY, APRIL 8 ing that there is no room for j finish line. Dropping the egg elim- JACK HOLT advancement at the top, he is start- I inates. Constance Cummings nig at the bottom of the ladder by be- Slow horse race: Each company "BEHIND THE MASK" ing a handkerchief tester. It wil be picks slowest horses it can. Con- A COLUMUIA PICTURE iust a question of time according to testants from other companies ride SATURDAY, APRIL 9 Thompson before the country is made these horses from starting line to nose conscious. Seriously speaking, finish line. Slowest horse wins for MONTHLY HONOR ROLL VARSITY-RAT TRACKSTERS however, when you get your Thomp- :ompany selecting it. PUBLISHED FOR FIRST PREPARE FOR RICHMOND son snoot rag at the Q. M. D. next Needle and thread race: Contest- TIME AND VIRGINIA year, you may blow with an easy mind ants are in pairs. One rides and ind no fear of breaks, because it leads the other man's horse. All (Continued from page 1) Continued From Page Five) will have real workmanship behind nount and ride to line where one dis- Hopkins, M. D., Georgia. cock, Zimmerman and Oatley in those 't. SECOND CLASS •vents. Parks and Sherman will more mounts, threads a needle, mounts and Department of Chemistry. Rawson will attend 0. R. C. camp, returns to finish line. Archer, H. L., Virginia. han likely wear the rat uniform in and when that is over he will go to Novelty jumping: To be arranged. Burke, J. O., Virginia. he half mile, while Parks and Fos- Seattle where he plans to attend the Section competition: Similar to last Kimbrough, R. C., Tennessee. )• appear best in the 440. Meriwether, W. J.. Jr., Alabama. University of Washington. Later he year's. Middleton, J. W., Texas. ENGINEERS SEE SHOWS may teach or become a bank presi- Bending race: Contestants start Department of Civil Engineering. RIFLEMEN DEFEAT V. P. I. dent. it line, weave in and out of a straight NONE Wanger, the pride of "D" Co., is Department of Electrical (Continued from Page One.) line of stakes and return straight to >f the films. The precautions which IN SHOULDER TO SHOUL- uncertain as to the future, beyond Engineering. starting line. Betts, C. S., Virginia. might be taken in the storing and use DER MATCH AT BLACKS- going out to California this summer It is not absolutely decided that all Lay, J. S., District of Columbia. if timber to prevent this destriction BURG for the Olympics. Possibly he and if these events will be held. Some of Department of Liberal Arts. vere pointed out. Rawson will get married, who knows ? them may be eliminated. Some of Harkrader, C. J., Virginia. (Continued from race 5.) Above all, Wanger, don't let those ihese events require a great deal of Kurtz, J. N., Pennsylvania. Lansdale, J., Texas. standing 84, total 279. West Coast movie girls get you. ->kill and are not near as simple as Patterson—Prone 99, kneeling 95, Smith, O. D., Virginia. Tallman says, "I don't know. All hey might appear to be. The sec- THIRD CLASS Oak Hill Dairy standing 83, total 277. I'm certain of is regular attendance tion competition has been held for Baldwin, J. D. C., Virginia. Moody—Prone 100, kneeling 97, in the bread line. If I have any spare several years past. Just what the Gilliam, R. S., Jr., Virginia. Heerdt, E. J., Jr., Connecticut. standing 79, total 276. time I may join the universal broth- novelty jumping competition will be Pure Raw Milk and Chocolate McGee—Prone 98, kneeling 90, Jones, R. H., Jr., Virginia. erhood of those seeking the prover- s not known but it will probably be Swindell, G. S., Maryland. standing 81, total 269. bial corner around which some say uch things as jumping over chairs, White, W. R., Virginia. Archer—Prone 99, kneeling 85, prosperity is lying in wait." So says G. I. cans and various objects. The FOURTH CLASS Milk at the P. E. Daily standing 85, total 269. Tallman. main part of the competition being Bagwell, W. P., Jr., Virginia. Total V. M. I. score: 1370. Burgess, J. J., Texas. "Buck" Wright after going to O. he question of whether the contest- DeMeo, L. J., New York. JOHENNING — SIMPSON With the end of the 1932 season in R. C. camp will become a "boiler- nt can get his horse over or near Gill, D. C., Oklahoma. sight the varsity riflemen are engag- maker." In other words he is going ie object. Middleton, W. P., Texas. ELECTRIC SHOP ed in two of the most important Peters, H. W., Virginia. to Purdue where he will spend a year The tug of war contest should pro- matches of the year. These are name- Schupp, C. F., II, New York. Complete Electric Service polishing up his chemistry. After- /ide plenty of fun and a few tum- ly the National Inter-collegiate and Snapp, H. J., Virginia. ward if everything goes well he will bles. The polo ball and stick race By Command of Major General Le- Phone 452 the Hearst Trophy matches. The for- handle the test tubes for some big vvill provide plenty of thrills and will jeune. mer is a test to find the best team in company. probably last longer than most peo- G. A. DERBYSHIRE, the collegiate world of this country. Executive Officer. le anticipate. Thus is can be readily seen that the NERVE CENTERS OF Whether the Gymkana is a success "PASS IN REVUE" SUCCESS- scope is great. The United States is NATION-WIDE SERVICE VARNER & POLE >r not depends entirely on the inter- divided into ten districts, in each of FULLY UNDERGOES CEN- THE MAIN STREET (Continued from Page 4.) st shown by the men in the com- SOR'S SCISSORS which five teams compete. These are FURNITURE PEOPLE it the switchboard. Many of the ] panies. If the event turns out to be selected as representing the best in (Continued from Page One.) early switchboards, like the New t success it will probably become an PHONE 183 each respective district. Last year V. Greiner has even gone so far as to j York board of 1879, had boy opera- innual affair. In addition to pro- When in need of anything in our line M. I. stood very high in the national organize and train an eight piece come to see us. tors. j viding a lot of fun for the contest- ranking. Carter and his followers band especially for the occasion. Up to 1897, electrical energy for j xnts this will also give the outsiders should carry the colors high this year The review will be presented in talking purposes was supplied by x great deal of entertainment. It is because of the well-balanced team of Jackson Memorial Hall, as has been small batteries located at the sub- | '.oped that as many men as possible which the Institute boasts. customary, and it will begin prompt- Public Stenographer scriber's house. The subscriber called vill enter these events and that the ly at eight. It is to be a bit short- The Hearst Trophy match is of spe- central by operating a magneto gen- Gymkana will become an annual af- cial interest to us this year as the old er than last year's "Fifty Million Mezzanine Floor erator. On switchboards used with fair. Keydets," thus giving the Corps team took second place in that con- ; this system, called magneto boards, Robert E. Lee Hotel test in 1931. Lieutenant Howard is ample time to dike and get dates for signals to the operators are given by CORPS PLANS BUSY WEEK- j the hop. entering several teams and prospects he falling of a small hinge-like shut- END FOR GUESTS for victory are most bright. Each Ler. Except in small communities, the scoring team consists of five men. boards now in use are of the common (Continued from page 1) The first and second teams are so thirty. "Mornin battery type in which current for all •Q. „ evenly matched that a victory for one purposes is supplied from the central There will be the usual dansant would most probably mean a double office and signals are flashed by from four to six. Red Nichols will be "News?" one. small electric lamps. Switchboards on hand to keep the dancers moving. And then in the evening the week- "I'll say!" We are looking for great things very in size from a one-position board "Yeah?" when the results of these two matches end will be brought to a close with with one operator, to large boards "Talked home!" are announced. The season has been with multiple positions serving 10,000 the Saturday night hop. a great success, team, we continue to lines and requiring the attendance of The hop committee has been work- "When?" be proud of you! ! is many as 120 operators. These large ing for the last month getting the "Last night." boards have 2,000,000 soldered con- details arranged and preparing for "No!" LATE RENAISSANCE TYPES nections, 4,000 miles of wire and 15,- the decoratoins. The new cloak room "Yeah - telephoned!" arrangement that was inaugurated DESCRIBED BY COL. 000 small electric signal lamps. "Long Distance?" MOSELEY at the Mid-Winter hops will be car- In many localities, where conditions ried out again. "Every timel" (Continued from page 1) have warranted the step, a system has In the past the Easter Hops have tion of towers. A good example of '>een adopted by means of which tele- been the most popular of all the this type of work is found in the tow- lhone connections are made by mach- (lances held during the school year ers of Christ Church College at Ox- inery. A subscriber removes the re- with the possible exception of the ford. •eiver and simply dials the desired Final Ball. This year will evidently Vanbrugh, architect of the Blen- office and number, and intricate ap- be no exception because from all cor- heim Palace, followed in his eminent paratus at the central office selects ners of barracks come the reports ( predecessor's footsteps by building he proper channel and rings the sta- from the Keydets that there will be on a large scale. This building how- tion called. no lack of dancing partners. It seems ever, is not a very livable mansion. The dial telephone can never re- as if everyone is having at least one Col. Moseley closed his talk with place entirely the telephone operator. girl down and many of the "big dogs" a brief mention of the work of the Whatever may be the extent of its are planning to entertain several. followers of Jones and Wren. development, there will always be With such a diversified list of hap- In tomorrow night's lecture Col. need for those loyal and efficient wo- penings, with Red Nichols' orchestra, Moseley will begin his discussions on men who help to make telephone ser- and with a large number of feminine sculpture. Col. Moseley will start with vice one of the most human of public guests the corps should experience Italian sculpture. unilities. one of the most successful social The social worker went into a ne- "It doesn't matter whether I wear functions of the current season. gro tenement. The housewife on the velvet or chiffon. You'll love me EVENING MFD N1°HT RATES ON STATION-TO-STATION CALLS VARSITY NINE ENGAGES ee n P nd 8i3 p m ) 13% to 20 third floor front had a child who just the same, won't you?" ELON-BRIDGEWATER NTGHT ^B n ™ - * ° - % '<>»« than d.y »».. was crying lustil, interrupting the "I'll love you through thick or NIGHT: Between 8:30 p. m. and 4:30 a. m.) 40% «o 50% low., than d.v ta conversation continually. Said the thin, darling." (Continued from Page 6.) The.e reduction, apply on all rate, above 33o social worker haughtily: "My dear against opposing moundsmen. Mason t ^U-J?^ 3 The Chesapeake and Potomac He: "A man's no good unless he's woman, that child is spoiled." and Rea have shown up well in the tUorHWe GIVES SO MUO£7 Telephone Company got something tender about him." box, and Edmonds and Waite have TZ, w* so umipr "No, indeedy," said the house wife. of Virginia Blonde: "Yeh, legal tender." done their share at the bat. (Bell Sy.tem) All my chilluns smell that way." |