VMI Cadet. March 28, 1932

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XXV LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1932 No. 23
Cadet Gets Picture of
Corps at New Mar-ket
Jn'24 *
Richmond Reporter Furnishes
Photographs of General Le-jeune
and Cadets at
Mimic Battle.
Mr. Earle Lutz, a member of the
reportorial staff of The Richmond
News Leader, has presented THE
CADET with four valuable negatives
of pictures which he took at New Mar-ket
in 1924 when the corps of cadets
of the V. M. I. and the United States
marines re-enacted the Battle of New
Market before a crowd estimated at
100,000 people.
Perhaps the best picture in the lot
shows Major-General John A. Lejeune,
now superintendent of the V. M. I.,
who was then a high officer in the
Marine Corps, standing by the late
General Edward West Nichols, then
superintendent of the Institute. In-cluded
also in the picture is Major-
General Smedley Butler, then com-manding
officer of Quantico.
Another picture shows the V. M. I.
cadets in field dike and lined up in
company formation ready to take the
field and reproduce their part in the
famous battle. A third picture shows
a group of cadets who had special
parts, coming off the field. The
fourth picture shows a battle scene.
Mr. Lutz, a graduate of the Uni-versity
of Richmond, is a first lieu-tenant
on the staff of the 111th field
artillery, Virginia National Guard.
He was a member of the staff of The
Richmond Times Dispatch at that
time and was "covering" the cere-monies
for this newspaper, The pic-tures
were taken with a personal
camera.
The Cadet takes this opportunity
to thank Mr. Lutz for these pictures
and adds that it will reproduce sev-eral
of them in an early issue.
WILL and NOBLE
Complete Company of "Pass
In Revue" Announced
New Spring Movie Book-ings
Announced
Second Class To Present the
Best Features.
The formidable list of coming at-tractions
which the Second Class Fi-nance
Committee is presenting to the
Corps in Jackson Memorial Hall this
spring resembles more closely the
Roxy preview sheet than it does an
Institute booking list. It boasts the
best pictures of all types and particu-larly
those types which have receiv-ed
much favorable comment—tales of
horror, love stories, and comedies.
First on the list appears "Franken-stein,"
which the Corps did not have
an opportunity to see and for which
there has been such a clamor. Then
there appear "Lovers Courageous,"
with Robert Montgomery and Madge
Evans, and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde," which the first classmen re-port
were both excellent.
An opportunity is being afforded
the Corps to see "Murders in the Rue
Morgue," as interpreted by Sidney
Fox and Bela Lugosi, old Dracula
himself. It will be remembered that
this was the picture the permit to see
which was revoked on account of the
flu.
One of the Saturday night fea-tures
is "Ladies of the Big House,"
with Sylvia Sidney, the girl who
turned down the bid to Easters. Fol-lowing
this come "Business and
Pleasure," with Will Rogers, and
"Are You Listening," with William
Haines, two pictures which should
prove most entertaining.
"Strangers in Love," with Kay
Francis and Fredric March. "For-bidden,"
with Barbara Stanwyck and
Adolphe Menjou, "Law and Order,"
with Walter Huston, and "Impatient
Maiden," with Lew Ayres compose
the remainder of the array.
The great improvement over the
old silent Saturday night picture in
J. M. Hall which has been made in
the past two years reflects a good
deal of credit to these indispensible
second class organizations.
"Shadow" Leach In Second
Class Show Feature Act.
Production of the second class
show, "Pass in Revue," which is to
be presented in Jackson Memorial
the Friday night of Easters, has
reached the point where it is no long-r
necessary to have individual prac-tices,
instead of which practices are
I being held rehearsals of several
groups of acts at a time. These con-nected
rehearsals are ironing out any
hitches there might have been and
-re rounding the acts into shape for
a smooth presentation to the Corps,
he faculty, and the numerous out-siders
who will be present at the In-
•.titute Friday of next week.
In addition to Heine Woodson's V.
M. I. Commanders, the organization
if the company includes forty-five
men, many of whom are second
:lassmen.
In the group of sixteen which sings
in the opening and closing choruses
and takes part in the "For Dear Old
V. M. I." act are Jimmy Lay, Bill
Jones, C. N. Smith, Jack Taylor, C.
F. Schupp, Wythe Holt, Cliff Hud-gins,
Red Berkeley, Ed Crocker,
Frank Hodges, Buzzy Face, R. S. Ed-monds,
Bill Tompkins, Jimmy Schaaf
Johnny Kirk, and Hill Wellford.
"Shadow" Leach, who will be re-member
for his accurate portrayal of
me of the well known officers of the
Institute in "Fifty Million Keydets"
'ast year, has an act all by himself
this year.
The Showers Singers, that well
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'32 Bomb to Burst About
Fifth of June
Annual To Be Larger Than Last
Year's.
Bomb in the courtyard! ! ! The
1932 Bomb is scheduled to burst in
barracks about the fifth of June.
Editor-in-chief Neikirk says that the
work is rapidly going forward and
the first 265 pages are already com-plete.
This includes the class sec-tion
with the exception of the rat of-ficers
who have not as yet been elect-ed.
These pictures will be in about
the middle of April, thus making the
section complete.
The dedication and appreciation sec-tions
are all finished. The pictures of
the many views of the Institute are
all in and are already in form. This,
with the pictures of the faculty of-ficers
and the department write-ups
and personnel, will complete the
first forty pages.
I After the class section comes the
military. This is only about one half
drawn up. The gloss prints of about
fifteen cadet officers have not as yet
been returned from the photograph-ers.
The designs for the company
pages are now being drawn up. This
section will be closed when the pic-tures
have been received.
The athletic section under the di-rection
of Ned Trapnell is coming
along nicely and will be in fine shape
when the other teams are ready. The
pictures of Rat track and baseball are
the only team pictures which are not
n, but there are a few of the winter
sports write-ups which haven't been
turned in so far. There are also one
or two coaches who haven't been
photographed, but that will be done in
the very near future.
The activities are just about com-plete,
although there has been delay
| in the pictures getting back from the
photographers. The fact that there
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French Architecture Under
Bourbons Discussed
Last Week
Keydet Fencers Win Conference Title;
Riflemen Are Third Corps Area Champs
Institute Shows Military Prowess Among Collegiates.
Captain Carter Scores Highest
Total In Area.
A.S.C.E Holds Bi-Monthly
Meeting Saturday
Leach, Gill, Doyle Relate Ex-periences.
The regular bi-monthly meeting of
the local chapter of the A. S. C. E.
was held in the Nichols Engineering
Building last Saturday morning. The
opening speaker on the program was
Mr. R. E. Leach of the First Class,
who chose for his topic "Life in a
Railroad Camp." Mr. Leach told of
his experiences while working in one
if these camps in Harlen County,
Kentucky, which proved to be most
interesting to his audience. He then
explained the advantages and disad-vantages
of living in a railroad camp.
The next speaker was Mr. John K.
Gill of the First Class. He describ-
'd to the members of the chapter the
drilling of an oil well. Since Mr.
Till is from a little oil town located
n the wilds of Oklahoma, he was
very well informed on this subject.
Mr. C. W. Bailey of the First Class
text told how white lead is manufac-tured.
After giving his talk, Mr.
Bailey presented a series of slides
showing all of the different pro-cessses
in the manufacture of white
lead.
Mr. J. P. Lea of the Second Class
next told of the development of the
•entral cement mixing plants. These
plants are situated near railroads so
that the raw materials can be trans-ferred
directly from the cars to the
mixing bins. The mixing plants is
largely structural framework built of
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Work of Lemercier, Mansart,
Perrault Described By Col.
Moseley.
Last Tuesday night. Col. Moseley
ontinued his series of lectures with
a discussion of the development of
French architecture under Louis,
n the first part of his talk Col.
Moseley discussed the work of the
French architects, Lemercier, Man-sart,
and Perrault. Col. Moseley
closed his lecture with a description
•f the sumptuous Palace of Versail-les.
The Bourbons ruled for two hun-
'red years, from 1589 till the time
of the French Revolution. During
his time many magnificent "build-ngs
were erected and alterations
vvere made in many of the earlier
buildings.
The Place des Vosges in Paris is
an interesting row of houses, flush
with one another. They are con-structed
largely of red brick and
.vhite stone for the purpose of econ-omy.
The Sorbonne also in Paris is a
church with a Jesuit facade. It is
he greatest piece of work of the
architect, Lemercier. The church is
i compromise in design between the
French school and the Italian school.
The dome has an inner shell of
>rick and stone and an outer shell
>f timber.
The outstanding architect of the
seventeenth century in France is
Francisco Mansart. It is from his
iesigns that we get our two-sloped
Mansard roofs. His Chateau of
Blois, built with unfinished rough
stone work in many places, has the
main emphasis on the central bay.
The houses of the nobles of this
period have the high-pitched roofs
which the French have always liked.
Long, rectangular, projecting wings
take the place of the old Medieval
towers. The houses of this time are
much more habitable than the earlier
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After a season filled with success,
the sharpshooters of the Red, White,
and Yellow reached the heights in
capturing the championship of the
3rd Corps Area, Intercollegiate divi-sion.
The results of the annual match
announced recently by Lieutenant-
Colonel Ralph H. Leavitt, corps area
R. O. T. C. officer, shows V. M. I.
xs the winner of the senior division
vith a total score of 3705. Eighteen
colleges or universities were repre-sented
in the championship which
covers the territory of Virginia, Penn-sylvania,
Maryland, and the District
of Columbia.
Ten men fired and counted in the
respective totals of each team. As
has been pointed out in The Cadet
all season, Lieutenant Howard
coaches a team this year which is
without a doubt the most consistent
in the history of this sport at the In-stitute.
Perhaps the old team does
io boast of any national individual
champions, but the corps should be
and most assuredly is proud of the
string of victories it has recorded.
In winning the 1932 championship,
V. M. I. takes possession of a beauti-ful
silver cup as token of victory. The
requirement for permanent posses-sion
is that the championship be won
by the same team for three consecu-tive
years. Besides taking the team
^rown, the Institute again came into
the spotlight through the superior
firing of Captain Carter, who scored
the highest total in the area. In the
four positions the leader placed a
score of 378 out of a possible 400. As
victor, Carter will reccive a silver
medal. Other members of the squad
will be given bronze medals. Follow-ing
are the teams competing and the
scores by stages:
Virginia Military Institute—Prone
989, sitting 972, kneeling 911, stand-ing
833. Total 3705.
Western Maryland College—Prone
971, sitting 947, kneeling 925, stand-ing
856. Total 3,699.
Carnegie Institute of Technology-
Prone 985, sitting 971, kneeling 913,
standing 813. Total 3682.
University of Maryland — Prone
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Moody Beats Out Allen In Fi-nals
At Chapel Hill.
The V. M. I. Fencing Team came
through in great style last week-end
to win the Southern Conference
Fencing Championship at Chapel
Hill, North Carolina. With Moody
winning the foil championship of the
South, and each member of the team
helping to amass points, the cadet
swordsmen accumulated a large
snough total in the three weapons
combined to triumph over six other
college teams and rule as undisputed
champions. Throughout the compe-tition
the superior coaching of Cap-tain
Granfelt and the long period of
raining were the two most apparent
factors in the yictory of the keydet
"encers.
The tournament commenced with
freshman foil matches. V. M. I. had
'o entrants in this class, and North
Carolina won the title by a large
margin.
The varsity fencing meet included
ill three weapons, but the cadets
| showed more ability in the use of
the foil and epee than they did in the
I ^aber. Against a strong list of op-
I ponents which included The Univer-
I sity of Virginia, North Carolina,
south Carolina, Georgia Tech, Wil-
'iam and Mary, and Rollins, the V.
; M. I. fencers placed five out of six
entrants in the semi-finals in foils.
Three of the five men were later
eliminated in the semi-finals by their
iwn teammates for the scoring sys-tem
employed included the perform-
; ance of individual representation.
Fowler of William and Mary won
he individual championship in the
3pee, but V. M. I. amassed mote
points in the use of that weapon than
any other college in the tournament,
vhich gave them the title of epee
hampions.
The classic of the series was in the
'oils. It was in the play of this wea-
•on that the cadet fencers came into
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Plans For~V.~M T. Pistol
Team Announced
Light, '23 Writes For Law
Review
Comments On Judge Cardozo
In Minneapolis Publication.
Charles P. Light, Jr., '23, now as-sociate
professor of law at Washing-ton
and Lee, has completed for pub-lication
in the Minneapolis Law Re-view
a most interesting article on
Judge Cardozo, recently appointed
member of the United States Supreme
Court. Taking the form of a prop-hecy
of Judge Cardozo's decisions as
based on his splendid record and de-cisions
while he was on the Supreme
Court of New York, the article quotes
frequently from the long line of pre-cedents
he established while sitting
\s a member of that body. It deals
i particular with his work with
his work with problems of constitu-tionality
and his views on search and
-seizure with regard to the prohibi-tion
law.
Mr. Light was editor-in-chief of
he '23 Bomb and president of the
Washington Club. He graduated with
distinction in the Department of Lib-al
Arts, and in addition to his A.
he has received his A. M. and his
-L. B.
Rudy Vallee reports that during
his recent interview with President
Hoover the chief executive offered
him a Congressional Medal if the
crooner would write a song to pull
the country out of the depression.
Rudy didn't say anything about what
he was offered to quit writing songs
altogether.
To Be Coached By Lt. Hurt.
Word has been received in the R.
O. T. C. Office that the War Depart-ment
has appropriated to the Insti-tute
$150 to cover the expenses of a
V. M. I. pistol team. The team is to
be sponsored by the field artillery,
tnd only men enrolled in that unit
i nay contest for a berth on the team.
There will really be two teams, one
shooting the regular service 45 cali-j
ber automatic and the other, the 22
caliber automatic. Although the type
>r make of the last gun are not pre-scribed,
there is a requirement that
the length of the barrel must not ex-ceed
ten inches and that the sights
must be metallic. Any suitable am-munition
may be used.
The teams will consist of five men
j and one substitute each, and men who
; shoot in one class will not be eligible
o shoot in the other. The only re-quirement
here is that the members
if both teams must have attended
regularly the R. O. T. C. classes at
he Institute or at camp.
The matches will be fired in nation-wide
competition, the winning teamt
to be awarded trophies to be kept for
ine year. Individua} winners will
ilso be awarded trophies for victory
n matches. Each member of a win-
'ing team will be awarded a silver
nedal, and members of teams which,
ilace second and third will be given
bronze medals.
Lt. Hurt, who is coaching this new
rroup, reports that there are a num-ber
of sharpshooters in the present
artillery unit and that he has great
expectations for the success of hia
earns. Entries must be in by April
5, allowing ample time for the mat-hes
to be fired between May 1 and
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