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HOUSTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1937
NO. 8
O.W.L.S.-Band Dance Wednesday Night
Owls Ready To Break Jinx Of
Horned Frogs; Many Rooters
Follow Team To Fort Worth
NANCE, WILLIAMS,
PRICE READY TO
GO AGAINST T.C.U.
With a game and a half lead on
everybody in the conference and fac-
ing the fact that victories in two of
their last three games will cinch their'
second Southwest Conference crown,
the Rice Owls tomorrow meet the T.
C. U. Horned Frogs in Fort Worth.
A special train carrying a large
group of students and other local sup-
porters will leave Saturday morning
at 6:00 a.m. for Forth Worth.
The Rice team left this morning at
8:15 and will work out this afternoon
in Fort Worth.
With the return of Jim Nance, big
senior end of the Owls who has been
out for the past two weeks, Kitts' flock
is in better shape than for either the
Arkansas or A. and M. contest. Ollie
Cordill, who hurt his arm last Sat-
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WEIDLEIN GIVES
AT RICE
Speaker Asks Cooperation 01
Science, Industry
Agriculture.
"The industrialist, the agriculturist,
and the scientist must cooperate for
mutual benefit," Dr. Edward Ray
Weidlein, director of Mellon Institute
of Industrial Research and president
of the American Chemical Society,
stated Monday night. Dr. Weidlein's
topic W£s "Whither Industrial Re-
search" in his speech before a meet-
ing of the Southeast Texas Section of
the Americap Chemical Society in the
Chemistry Lecture Hall.
* The scientist, Doctor Weidlein said,
can fipd new ways to employ agricul-
tural products in industrial Manufac-
turer, The recent uses discovered for
soy beans was cited as an outstanding
example of this mutual assistance.
The keynote of Doctor Weidlein's
address is found in the remark,
"Chemistry has done more than any
other branch of science to make busi-
nessmen realize the importance of ap-
plying science to industry."
Speaking of what he termed the "ro-
mance of chemistry," Doctor Weidlein
gave one case in which a common
compouhd, described in school text-
books for over 100 years but never
used for anything, was finallly found
to have the .property of keeping soap,
in' solution. There is now a tremen-
dous demand for the product for use
£ ' . :in 'businesses from laundries to hair-
drssging shops,
Pointing out" that research once
started spreads and multiplies, he told
how the study of the question of can-
cer caused by aluminum cooking uten-
sils led directly to the study of the
importance of aluminum and phos-
phorus in the diet, Aluminum, he
said, has absolutely nothing to do with
cancer.
Doctor Weidlein also discussed
foods, and amused the audience with
the story of the discovery that spin-
ach, highly recommended as a health-
ful food, contains carbolic acid.
A Fellow of the American Institute
of Chemists and of the Royal Society
of Arts of London, and a member of
. Phi Lambda Upsilon, national honor-
* ary chemical society, and other fra-
ternities, Doctor Weidlein is affiliated
with chemical organizations through-
out the United States,
He is author of a large number of
scientific papers an<| co-author and
• author of two ({popular treatises,
"Science In Action" and "Glances' at
Industrial Research." During his four
years at the Mellon experimental plant
In Nevada, he developed an economi-
cally important process for the use
V of sulphur dioxide in hydrometallurgy,
Tags For Baylor Game
Blanket tax tags for the Rice-
Baylor game can be obtained in the
Sallyport Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday,* according to Harold
Rack, treasurer of the Student As-
sociation. School will be dismissed
Thursday for the Thanksgiving
holidays. Blanket taxes must be
presented by the individual own-
ers. It was re-emphasized that
blanket taxes presented by others
than the owners at the game will
be confiscated.
BAND EXPECTING
LARGE CROWD FOR
FINAL BROADCAST
Both Rice and T. C. U. Will
Play in Ft. Worth
Program.
Anticipating a packed house after
the crowds drawn to previous per-
formances . this year, the Rice . Band
will collaborate with the Texas Chris-
tian University Band in the Owls's
final radio broadcast of the year Sat-
urday night in Fort Worth.
The program will go over the Tex-
as Quality Network from the gymnas-
ium on the T. C. U. campus from 6:30
to 7:00 p.m. The broadcast is open
for public attendance.
The Horned Frog Band, which spe-
cializes exclusively in swing music,
will alternate through the program
with the Rice Band, which will fea-
ture marches during this performance.
Rice and T. C. U. bands are the fore-
most exponents of swing among col-
lege bands in this part of the country.
Rice will play only one swing tune
during the half-hour, the popular ar-
rangement of "Marie," which seems
better liked at every rendering.
One other special number by the
Rice Band will be "Sweet and Lovely,"
a tune which held its place as the
most popular song about four years
ago. Drummer Billy Smith will sing
the selection.
Rice will open the program with
the Owl fight song, "Old Gray Bon-
net," and will close the program with
a march. The three marches which
the Owl Band will play are "Colossus
of Columbia," the King Cotton march,
and the Thunderer march.
SEVERAL HUNDRED
STUDENTS LEAVE
ON FROG SPECIAL
This morning at 6:00 a. m. several
hundred students and other supporters
left aboard the Missouri Pacific lines
for Fort Worth where today the Rice
Owls, fighting to protect their con-
ference lead, will tangle with the Tex-
as Christian Horned Frogs in their
fourth Southwest Conference game.
The Rice band, with seventy mem-
bers, and the cheer leaders were
among those on the train. On arrival
in Fort Worth, scheduled for 12:30, the
band and the students will parade
through downtown Fort Worth and
hold a brief rally.
The returning special will leave at
about 8:00 p. m. and arrive in Hous-
ton at 2:30. The special in ordinary
cases returns shortly after game time,
but the broadcast of the Rice band
caused the deaprture to be set back.
The band will be heard over the Coca-
Cola College Night program from 6:30
to 7:00 p. m.
Beside the special train, students
may return on the regular train of the
Missouri Pacific at "11:30 or may re-
turn Sunday. The tickets are good for
transportation until midnight Sunday.
The Rice varsity football team ar-
rived in Dallas Friday afternoon but
will return aboard the student special.
Students Get One Day
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Recuperate Next Week
R1CE0NIANS TO MEET
AFTER THANKSGIVING
At a meeting of the Riceonians Tues-
day afternoon at Autry House, Hazel
Mclntyre and Joan Brooks, members
of the Steering Committee, were ap-
pointed to choose a speaker for the
next meeting, to be held the Tuesday
after Thanksgiving.
Plans to send Margaret Schiller and
Ruth Wisenberg to San Marcos for a
debate tournament there November 19
and 20 were changed, due to the de-
cision of the Boys' Debate Club not to
send a debate 'team. The two teams
were invited jointly to participate in
the round robin at which representa-
tive teams from nearby Texas colleges
were to take part.
The next meeting will be held at
1:30 at Autry House on Tuesday after-
noon, November 30.
Dramatic Club Runs
Amuck Authentically
In directing the Dramatic Club's
next play, "Blood on the Moon," genial
Jimmy Terflinger, the new director,
has had to overcome difficulties
enough to make him tear his hair,
which he doesn't have much of. Re-
hearsals are unrecognizable as suclT,
with each member of the tempera-
mental cast swarming over the stage
getting into character. They all insist
upon being authentic in even the
smallest detail, which becomes slight-
ly embarrassing when Louise Roser
and Alfred (&'ove'r-Boy) Campbell get
down'to the boudoir scene in the sec-
ond act.
At a typical rehearsal the other
night, all these things were happening
at once. Edward Groff decided to
practice the wrestling scene with his
sister, Louise Roser, at the same time
Alfred Campbell decided they should
rehearse one of the love scenes. The
resulting entanglement of "the three
resembled Greta Garbo and the Siam-
ese twins doing a tango.
All this time Betsy Brown, smoking
a cigar as she knitted and looking
very matronly, lounged on top of the
piano while Irl Mowery, with hair
bushing and side - burns burning,
thumped out "The Bltf Apple" in typi-
cal concert pianist style. Evelyn Wil-
liams, the grandmother, got tired of
sitting in her corner and decided to
put -rhythm in the case of palsy
which she has worked up* for the play.
Arthur Piatt, father of practically the
entire cast (in the play, that is), and
Bill Talley, who is growing a beard
for his role, dashed across the stage
in a quiet little game of badminton
between rehearsals of their drinking
scene, in which they insist upon using
real stuff.
To add to the commotion, Flossie
Albrecht, script girl, kept gently
screaming suggestions to< b^Jh> the di-
rector and the actors on flno points.
Billy Goyen, who was worrying about
how to change from a drawing room
set to a hotel room in four minutes
was advised by Flossie to hang a
"Please do not disturb" sign on the
door and set a pitcher and bowl on
the piano and put a blanket and pil-
low on the couch.
By'this time Louise Roser was prac-
tising her archery, and poor Jimmy
Terflinger (minus a few more precious
hairs) dismissed rehearsal from the
chandelier, where he' had perched for
safety from Roser's stray shots. When
asked for a statement, President Piatt
simply said, "Hie play has more plot
than 'Anthony Adverse' and better
lines than 'Tobacco Road.' It must be
good."
Next week there won't be any Sat-
urday night dance, any Thresher, any
classes, any labs, any school—in fact,
beginning Thursday there won't be
anything but a lot of stuff, and most
of that will be in turkeys.
It's Thanksgiving.
And Rico students get four long
holidays—Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday — one, two, three, four,
and please correct us if we miscounted,
because it would be n very serious
mistake.
The extra Friday and Saturday are
not thrown in by grace of official leth-
argic courtesy, meaning the adminis-
tration didn't lot them slip by in a
moment of sentimentality and warm-
heartedness, but were voted in by the
students body in place of two other
holidays, the students preferring to
have several days grouped together
rather than one at a time at wide in-
tervals.
One of the holidays lost by the vote
was Armistice Day. We don't remem-
ber the other one, but it was prob-
ably April Fool or the Fourth of
July.
No Saturday
Night Dance
Until Nov. 27
Because of the absence of a large
number of students who are traveling
to Fort Worth for the Rice-T. C. U.
game and also the fact that the O.
W. L. S.-band dance will be held
next Wednesday, there will be no Sat-
urday night dance this week, accord-
ing to Charlie Fennelle, president of
the Rice Student Association.
Next Saturday after the Baylor
game, however, a special Thanksgiving
dance will be held. The dance com-
mittee has not yet definitely decided
what kind of an affair this will be
It may be a barn dance, snid Fen-
nelle.
Fahy Godfrey and his orchestra,
after a one-week vacation, will return
to play for this dance. Godfrey has
consistently played the best music fur-
nished for the regular Rice dance in
some years, according to the older
students at the institute.
DE MOLAYS PLAN
DANCE AND SHOW
ON NOVEMBER 27
In order to raise money to contrib-
ute to a fund to donate an iron lung
to Hermann Hospital, Houston Do Mo-
lays will sponsor a dance and show
at the City Auditorium Saturday night,
November 27.
The floor show will be presented on
the staae from 8 till 9 p. m„ and danc-
ing will follow from 9 till 12. Bert
Sloan, director of the KPRC sudio or-
chestra, will lead his musicians in pro-
ducing rhythm for the dancing.
L. A. Brandt is acting as treasurer
of the benefit. Tickets at $1 each may
be purchased from Rice students
Howard Williams, Albert Sterling. El-
more Johnson, Ray Fitzgerald, Oran
Wylie, Bobby Feser, or any member
of the De Molay.
LES HIBOUX WILL
. PRESENT RECITAL
OF FRENCH SONGS
At the regular meeting of Les Hi-
boux, student French club on Tues-
day, November 9, the club made plans
to present recital of French songs
about December 15.
According to Mr. W. P. Miksch, the
club will probably present also some
one-act plays with the tableaux of
songs.
All meetings are open to students of
the Institute, who are cordially invited
to attend the next meeting to be held
next Tuesday at 4:80 p.m. at Autry
House.
FINAL WEEK FOR
ANNUAL PICTURES
HERE SAYS CRUSE
Today and tomorrow at the studio
of Henry Stern, Rice students will
have their last chance to have iheir
Campanile pictures taken. After that
time, said Sam Cruse, editor of the
year book, absolutely no more pktures
can be made.
Cruse wished to emphasize the fact
that no refunds will be lvade to those
persons who ha e already paid for
their picture.! if they do n it have them
taken.
A deposit on the engraving has al-
ready been made from this money and
no refunds can Bt> made. "If you do
not have your picture taken, you will
lose the $1.75 and you will not have
your picture in the t-ook either." re-
stated A. R. Mace, business manager
of the book.
The Henry Stern Studios are in the
West Building and pictures '.an be
made anytime today or tomorrow by
showing your receipt or paying the
amount due to the photographer.
Cruse reported that the book was
beginning to take shape. A bigger,, and
better sports section and many other
improvements will be made in the 1903
Campanile.
A. AND M. STOPS
OWL CONFERENCE
WINNING STREAK
Dick Todd Leads Aggies To
6 to 6 Tie at Rice
Field.
Before a capacity homecoming crowd
of 18,000, the Texas Aggies played Rice
Institute to a 6 to (5 standstill last
Saturday and proved once more for
the benefit of any who haven't learned
it yet that, passers or no passers, you
can't beat 'em without a line.
Several factors deprived the Owls
of victory and one of them was the
slight slippage of the Rice line in the
second quarter, allowing the Aggie
forwards to get in quick enough to
halt the clicking aerial attack.
But outside of that one moment,
which might have given the Owls an-
other score, the Rice line displayed
an airtight defense and thoroughly re-
deemed itself in the final minutes of
play by opening holes in the Aggie
wall that enabled Sullivan, Hancock,
Codec, and Lain to push across a score
by main power.
Most important reason why A. and
M. was able to stop the string of Rice
conference victories was the superb
head and foot work of Dick Todd,
speedy Aggie back.
(Continued on Poge 2)
Super Analytic Science
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Studies Can't Solve Very
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(Very) 2 Simple Question
Members of Walter Tandy Scott's
310 class in Mathematics, the Un-
known, held an informal gathering at
1 p.m. yesterday in P. L. 210 to dis-
cuss the question of whether tliey
should have an exam or not. No de-
cision was reached.
Although this does seem a fairly
simple matter for one to make up one's
mind on, these super analytic culcul-
istic computators of xyz couldn't seem
to figure it out.
The situation arose when Mr. Scott
announced to the class Friday that
since they had all been turning in
their home work "fairly" regularly, he
would let them decide whether to have
exam after Thanksgiving or wait until
February.
Slightly dramatic irony of the affair
was that as he made the announce-
ment there was a bare space on the
desk in front of him where the home-
work papers for that day should have
been laid—nobody in the class, nobody,
had been able to solve the problem
assigned,
After class the nine students present
counted up the absentees and found
they had enough for a quorum, so
they had a lukewarm debate on the
question, ending in a scoreless dead-
lock in which nobody got anywhere.
Some of the boys thought Thanks-
giving woidd be a good time to study,
and some thought it wouldn't. (Ed.
Note: What do you think?). Byron
E. Miller, E. E. E. (electric engineer
extraordinary), wanted,to go« ahead
and find out what kind of exams Scott
before he handed them something
tough and unexpected-like in Febru-
ary.
Others, however, while seriously ad-
mitting the advantages of an exam,
thought it a little unnecessarily un-
called for, especially since they had
C. E. and M. E. exams coming up after
Thanksgiving anyway.
Miller, E3. kept insisting however,
and is presumably still insisting. Any
of the class interested are invited to
write a letter to any of Miller, The j
Thresher, Scott, the bughouse, the 1
Campanile.
Popular Texas
Orchestra To
Play At Dance
Introduction of Pledges To
Be Feature; Dinner To
Precede Dance.
Carnes Weaver and tie orchestra,
will swin;' out next Wednesday night
;.t the Houston Club from 10 p. m,
until 2 a. in. at the O. W. L S. Band
dance
This dance, one of the annual fa!!
social affairs of Rice, is the second
aIIair of the year of importance. The
dance will be semi-formal which, ac-
cording to Lucile Townley, president
of the O. W. L. S,, means tuxedos, eve-
ning dresses, and all the trimmings,
One ol (he features of the dance
will be the introduction ,>! the pledges
of the literary society. Misses Louise
C< okenboo, Betty Gartner, Flora Jack-
son, Marjorie Rogar, Mildred flar--
grove. Varina Stone, Laura Stone, Pat
John. Josephine Perkins. Dorothy
Burnham, and Grace Ellen Mclnt«\
are the pledf.es of the society
The pledges will be h.innrud by a
dinner at the Houston Club preced-
ing the dance. This dinner will start,
at 8 p. m. for members, pledges, and
their, dates Immecliately after the
dinner the picture,-; of the pledges wi'l
be taken for local papers.
Carnes Weaver is a University of
Texas graduate who has gained much
popularity in Austin. He has organ-
ized one of the best? swing bunds in
this section of the country, accord-
ing'" to reports of those who have
danced to his music at some of the
largest Texas dances. His orchestra
was thwuglrt to be the best that could
be obtained without bringing in a real
big name orchestra.
The largest part of the proceeds of
the dance are used to support the
-cholarship of the Owen Wister Liter
aiy Society which is awarded an-
nually to some deserving student. The.
band share of the dance is. used to
purchase instruments and uniforms
,.nd to pay current proceeds
Decora!ions for the dance are
kept, seei ei, according to Floy
who ) with E-ileronee ITevne
the
P.A.L.S. PLEDGES TO
HOLD PAJAMA PARTY
THANKSGIVING NIGHT
At the regular meeting of the Pal- I
I as Athene Literary Society Tuesday '
at Autry House, the pledges invited .
members of the society to a Pa.iama j
Party to be held at the home of Har-
riet Cue nod on Thanksgiving night.
Mary Jane Weyrich, president, gave
a short talk to the members about the
original purpose and function of the
P. A. L. S.. and the place it has filled
on tlyj Rice campus.
Charlie Mostr is preo.-.'riiv'
j '.ions
i Harriet Netherv ,-nd Ci
j representirig the O. W L
! band are general chain',
dance. Jeaiietto Siopheiisi
Taylor, are in pharge .>1 the 'jit,
fere the dance.
Bids for the dm Co w.'.i bo $
dates and SI Ta for stair iad.s
should be purcfaei ,1 Moe ,av
da\. 01 Wednesday in. the Sal!
etng
K11 lg.
and
decors-
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Texas Band follows
Swing Toward Swing
The November 9 issue of "The Daily
Texan," Texas State University pub-
lication, contained as its main story
an article stating that their I^onghorn
band has "gone swing." Colonel
George E. Hurt, director of the band
said, "Tins is the only band in the
conference that READS swing. All
the others don't read music—they just
play it." So mu'ch more to their credit
if they can get away with it.
Now let's reminisence a bit. At t';.e
Rice-Texas game, approximately
eighty per cent of the crowd was
watching the Rice Owl band "do their
stuff." The remaining twenty per cent
were presumably loyal to the out-
dated Longhorn band but I'm willing
to wager a bottle of Rice Spirit to a
plugged nickel that they stole an
occasional glance at the Owl band and
had one ear turned that way. As a
consequence, a number of Texas
alumni wrote letters to the Longhorn
band suggesting that they take a look
around and see if they couldn't do
something to eliminate a repetition of
such a situation.
Sixteen days after the Owl-Long-
horn battle, the Daily Texan carried
a story to the effect that their band
had gone swing. I ain't sayin' nothin'
but all I know is that two and two
ought to add up to four. Agreed?
At. the top of this article were pen-
ned (or rather penciled) the follow-
ing words: "Ho, ho, hum. Learn to
read music and you, too, might be
good." This document was deliverer1,
to one of the officers of the Rice band
a couple of days later. Personally. 1
suspect that there is at least one per-
son at "State" who has a sense of
humor (or was that note intended to
be taken literally?)
Since Col. Hurt's comments
COULDN'T have been directed at the
mighty Owl band, we feel it our duty
to come to the defense of the other
bands. The question is, "Why don't
they read music?" and the answer
"They do." But if they didn't, we
could still pardon them and here's
why—Most arrangements of swing
music are so simple that anyone could
conunit them to memory in two re-
hearsals at the most. Those musicians
who know their parts perfectly glance
at them occasionaly, even if they don't
read them note for note as they play.
However, if they didn't, it would make
no great difference due to the fact
that in order to play swing well, one
must bo able to "Jam" when the
occasion presents itself.
CANCER-CAUSING
HYDROCARBONS IS
TOPIC OF SPEECH
"Carcinogenic (Cancer - producing)
Hydrocarbons" was the; topic of the
second lecture given this year in a
series of weekly student lectures spon-
sored by the' Phi Lambda Upsilon. The
1< cture was given by Marshall Gates,
fellow in chemistry, Tuesday after-
noon at five o'clock in Ch. L. 314.
In his lecture, Mr. Gates pointed out
that during the early twentieth cen-
tury a susceptibility to skin cancer was
noticed among workers in coal-tar
industries, and that later it. was shown
that cancers could be produced in rats
by consistent application of certain
nitrogen-free fractions of coal-tar. In
the search for constituents in the tar
which might be responsible for this
action, several new and very complex
hydrocarbons were discovered and
tested on rats. Thus, a substance
named 1, 2 benzpyrene was found to
be present to the extent of 0.003% in
ceal tar, and when isolated from two
tons of tar it proved to be highly car-
cionogenic to rats.
Among the most potent cancer-
producing chemicals yet discovered,
according to Mr. Gates, is methyl
cholanthrene, which may be produced
in the laboratory from human acids.
The third lecture of the series^ will
be given next Tuesday afternon at
five o'clock in Ch. L. 314. Joseph Fin-
ger, student of chemistry, will speak
on "Chemistry of Paints and Var-
nishes."
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