VMI Cadet. October 24, 1932

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VOL. XXVI LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA MONDAY, OCT. 24, 1932 NUMBER 6
Flying Keydets Conquer Cavaliers By Score Of 6-4
Homecoming Day) I Full Front View of the Beautiful Carillon
Great All-Round
Success
V.M.I. Plays C o n s p i c u - J ™ • O I D I A Part In Securing ^ S(lU b d r o n Bowls Over
Carillon Wahoos In Thrill-Packed Game
ous
Alumni Contribute Great Deal
To Successful Project.
INFORMAL DANCE WITH
JAN GARBER HOLDS
SOCIAL SPOTLIGHT
First Class Presents Impres-sive
Figure and New
Song.
After a cloudless day and with
a moonlit night the 1932 Home-coming
ended Saturday night in
'94 Hall in a blaze of glory with
Jan Garber and his orchestra fur-nishing
a great part of the fuel.
There have been quite a few
Homecoming Hops in the past,
and there will be many more in
the future, but it certainly is very
doubtful if there ever was or ever
will be one any better or more
thoroughly enjoyed by the large
number who were present. The
depression is supposed to be at its
deepest depth, but our feminine j
friends certainly do not seem to
have heard anything about it. They
came from East and West, North
and South. Jan Garber added not
a little bit to the enjoyment of the
occasion. As a dispenser of
smooth tunes and hot numbers he
certainly is right up among the
best, and Miss Virginia Hamilton,
who sang many of the vocal re-|
frains, would attract favorable no-tice
anywhere.
The alumni who poured into
Lexington Saturday were a jubi-lant
throng. The reputation of
the occasion was lived up to in full
as former brother rats wandered
around arm in arm trying to do
things which had been denied to
them as cadet. It took only two
to.start a "bull session," and the;
stories told were a revelation to;
those cadets who were fortunate A.I.E.E. Officials Address Citadel To Install New
enough to be "sitting- in." The in-1
structors were besieged by former! LoCal B r a n c h H()nOr S y S t f ln
In view of the fact that V. M.
I. recently participated in the ded-ication
of the Virginia War Me-morial
Carillon in Richmnod, it
seems fitting to call attention to
LONG PASS FROM SMITH TO MINOR SCORES ONLY
TOUCHDOWN OF GAME
Before a Homecoming crowd of 4,000 rabid Alumni, Keydets, and
Cavaliers Saturday the Virginia Military Institute Flying Squadron
gave the Cavaliers a return ticket to Charlottesville marked: V. M. I.,
6; Va., 4. It was a game to gladden the hearts of all V. M. I. men,
young and old, in which the V. M. I. Spirit of old, coupled with smart,
the part which sons of the Insti-| bang-up football enabled the Keydets to win their first Homecoming
tute played in making possible g a m e s i n c e 192g,
this great tribute to the Virginians j x h a t Big. R e d X e a m p u t o u t i p i a y e d ) a n d f0UKht to the limit of its
who laid down their lives in the J ability throughout the game. Never for a moment did the red jerseyed
World War. That V. M. I. men I w a r r i 0rs relax their vigilance. The Wahoos advanced the ball on one
should have been among those
who led the way in developing the ]
carillon project and in bringing it ;
to a successful conclusion is nat- \
ural, for V. M. I. furnished over i
two thousand men to the armed
forces alone in 1917-1918, and of
these one hundred and seventy- j
seven fell in France, fifty-six ofj
them never to rise again.
In the Roanoke Times of Oc- j
tober 10, 1932, photographs of
Mr. Thomas B. Scott, Mrs. Ben L.
Purcell, and Mr. Meriwether Jones
appeared under the caption of i
"Leaders in Carillon Success". The
three photographs were supple-mented
by the following acount:
"Work of these three citizens
made possible the Virginia War
Memorial. Meriwether Jones of
Richmond, made possible the suc-
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tA.S'.C.E. Holds Interest-ing
Meeting
Body Addressed By Student
Members.
Fighting Keydet Captain
Ed. Kostainsek, Fullback.
occasion to the Tricolor's 18 yard
line, but there the Keydet forward
wall charged like madmen to crush
the Wahoo attack and take the ball
on downs.
The victory, with its unusual
score, marked the third win in four
years over the Cavaliers. It was
the fourth time since 1922 that the
Keydets have called on that justly
famed V. M. I. Spirit to upset the
dope bucket and the Wahoos.
Squadron Regains Stride.
Determined to make up for two
severe blows dealt by powerful
Kentucky and Duke elevens and
two heart breaking losses as the
result of bad breaks in the Citadel
and Davidson games, the team
clicked smoothly and powerfully.
The Squadron's passing offense
and defense, and the truly great
defensive work of the line were
. the reasons for the Institute vic-i
tory.
The able, shrewd, generalship of
Billy Smith, which would have re-flected
credit upon any quarter-
V, . • f . 11 »• j back 'n a " y game, was a very im-lrginia
Intercollegiate poru»t factor in the victory, it
Press Association Con-venes
at Farmville Calyx and Flat Hat Cop
Firsts; Bomb and Sniper
students anxious to make contacts Receive Certificates.
which would bring back fond mem- ^ F r e e m a n o f u o f K e n . M a y R e Modeled After That of taxes which should go for road
tucky Speaks On Increas- of V. M. I. improvement.
ing Prestige of Engi- Next J. A. Goshorn traced the
neering. Colonel Magruder recently re-; history of the development of
— — ceived a letter from Lt.-Col. John Han>s p r o c e s s 0f manufacturing
The local Branch of the A. I. w Lanff| COmmandant of the Cita- aiuminum. He also described some
j E. E. held its third regular meet- de]> jnquiring as to the details of of t h e u s e s of t h i s unusual metal,
ing on Thursday, October 20th. t h e f a m o u s honor system carried The construction of the Empire
The Branch was privileged at this o n a t t h e institute. The command- state Building was outlined by S. (m v
Hoover Shows Strength In meeting to have several men well a n t of t h e S o u t h Carolina school j E. Collins. One of the most inter- the* State
Barracks; Non-Military known inengineeringch^es as its expressed his desire to enact a; e s t i n g features of this talk was ; H a m p d e n . S y d n e y as its hosts.; recovered the ball, but luckily for
Party Revived. guests. They w s t n c t l y - f o l l o w e d honor system t h e description of the wind brae- T h J w e r e n e a r l y two hundred Virginia the man was downed be-
In the recent~presidential poll l™m&n>. P r o " " " I iv^ v
Sm ' t 0 " "" °f delegates, representing every col- fore he fumbled. The remainder
j L t e d bv^L CADET Roose Engineering at theUnveis.ty of A get q{ t h e I n s t i t u t e honor The p r 0 R r a m w a s closed by R. , the S t a t e ; the l a r g e s t of t h e q u a r t e r w a s n i a i n l y a n €X.
vveelltt kledd tthhee ttiicckkeett bDyy aa llalriggec murna- ^distfrictl A. tI. lE . hK. ; ZMiT. CcelciTl uLiaIy , was sent to Colonel Lang, W. Fink, who explained the main \ ^ o f d e l e g a t e s e v e r t o a t t e n d c h a n g e o f p u n t S ) w i t h n e i f h t , s i d e a n d th(j p r o c e d u r € of the Honor principles of the science of choos-1
(Continued on page four)
Roosevelt Triumphs In
Cadet Presidential
Poll
The regular meeting of the A.
S. C. E. was held last Monday in
the auditorium of the Engineering
Building. C. R. Dorrier, who open-ed
the program, spoke on "Road
Taxes." He showed that the poor
condition of the roads which to-day
exists in some localities is
largely due the misappropriation
Discussion sessions on Saturday
which ended in time for each to
attend his favorite football game
in Virginia brought to a close one j 0f the game and on the last,
of the most successful conventions Fred Urick kicked off to Bur-yet
held by the Virginia Intercol- ger on the Virginia 32 and then
legiate Press Association. The con- rushed down the field to make the
vention, which was held in Farm- tackle himself. Burger advanced
ville on Friday and Saturday, had | the ball three yards, only to fum-
Teachers' College and ble when Urick hit him. V. M. I.
is really unnecessary to say of
this man that he played splendid
football. It took an inspired
team, playing heads-up football,
to beat a team that most dopsters
picked to topple the Squadron by
two or three touchdowns.
Virginia showed to better ad-vantage
at the kicking end of the
game, but this advantage was off-set
by fourteen Cavalier fumbles.
Virginia fumbled on the first play
jority. This was_not , C h a i r m a n o f t h e ^ h ^ n Virginia ^ u r t w a s ' e x ^ d T n ^UilVcoT- Tng ""the" pr^r" width'Tot-" aTew a ^ convenUon of^ the ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
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Association, getting a decided advantage. Ed-contributor
gar, fleet Cavalier quarter, made
view of the present trend toward• S e c t i o n o f t h e A. I. E. E„ and now o n e , M u d e r t o l d o f the great in numbers, its delegation number- one beautiful runback of a punt
the Democratic party. Hoover re- c o n n e cted with the Richmond a d v a n t a derived f r o m a s y s t em
ceived a larger number of votes B r a n c h of t h e Westinghouse Elec- s o ^ M y M j w h e n a
than was expected, while the vote t r i c Manufacturing Company; and s t a t e m e n t is m a d e it is a s s u n i ed
cast for Thomas was much smat- M r Malone, '24, now connected
ler than that which his ardent sup- wit'h Westinghouse.
porters had predicted. Gmnert! Preceding a talk by Mr. Free- ^ i h a t ^ V ^ a " question Paintings of Virginia Moun- S ^ M S TkoU^h Canl I e t c h er
name was added to one ballot; ap- m a n t h e reirula,. Dl. o t t i am planned tU_ tV.„ wriih Annrnv.l "a n®1 1" ^ T loimeci ilHUUgll lidpi. LClLIlCr
the V. M. I. contingent.
The convention offered
!to be correct in every sense of the
word. The Commandant pointed
Hit iUlfUlpld^adrl HULo lHldalmlllliUltFonll FL<YA. f o r ty- t w o - V- M" L s e n t f i v e ' f o r 3 2 ya r d s - Unfortunately, Ed- a n d Washington and Lee four. (Continued on page five)
hibits In Washington Frank McCarthy and Bob Kim- ... „ .
brough from THE BOMB, and Ed MUSeUlll KeCeiVCS lllltS
Crocker, Jimmy Lay, and Tommy
discus- The V. M. I. Museum has recent-wife
of sion groups which proved of value , ly received several interesting old
predicted
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d*d t0
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parently the Non-M.l.tary party fol. t h e meeting was presented. I n a t r u c t 0 1 , r e c e i v € certified work In Nation's Capital.
JISIh t ^ ^ h 11 hM been ^^ morn' n g w a s ^ automatically. Colonel Magruder; H 1 1 > ( • H a m i U o n
inUevidenceeSinmbarracks, resulting JfaT ClL^ He'cho^'uThis0 sub^ ^ J11^,!!!6 ^ T tl^T/enemL Major T ' H Ryland of'the Insti- in solving the many problems en-) relics through the courtesy of Cap
in a number of heated political j e c t „T h e u 5 k i l o . v o l t Submarine c^Zh,! ^ inhevenTcharacter t u t e faL'ulty- c l o s e d o n F r i d a y l a s t c o u n t € r e d by Editors and Business tain Greenlee D. Letcher, of Lex-discussions.
Cable across the Columbia River." a^e inherent cha.attei- ^ ^ high, y s u c c e 8 s f u l exhibi-1 Managers of the college newspa-1 ington, and Mr. Ernest L. Rhodes,
Out of a total of 581 votes cast Mr_ Horseman's talk proved very
Roosevelt came through with 436, interesting. He described in detail
Hoover received 115, Thomas
Upshaw 2, and Greiner 1.
The results of the nation-wide t h e v a r i o u s engineering problem
poll which is being conducted by, w h i c h a p p e a r e d jn the project.
tion of her oil paintings at the pers this year. Addresses made of Atlanta.
The corps through the columns A r t s Cjub in Washington, D. C. by prominent journalists of the One is a solid cannon ball fired
27' ^hr^onTtruction and 'laying o7 the of T H E C A D E T w i s h e s fo1" t h e In collaboration with Hugo Inden, State proved of interest to many, into Lexington when the town was
cable outlining the overcoming of C i t a ( l e l t h e £,,tiatt>st success in its w o r k e r i n painted screens and pan- but the real value of the convention shelled by General Hunter during
i d e the various engineering problems n e w sys t e m - With s u c h a system els> M,.s Ryi a nd opened the exhi-: was that it afforded an opportun- the War between the States. It
r „ by'which appeared in adopted there could be great bene- b i t i o n w i t h a tea to one hundred ity for the college journalists of the was picked up by Mrs. Frank P.
the PRINCETON I AN will be pub- Ml. R g Edmonds delivered the f i t s derived-. V- M- L s t a n d s be" and fifty persons, whose enthus-1 State to meet and discuss problems Rhodes on Main Street near the
lished at an early date. This poll p r e l i m i n a r y of two talks on Ama-' h i n d yoU' C i t a d el
constitutes a large number of stu- t e u r R a d i o transmission of today.
dent votes through the cooperation M(. .Edmonds confined his talk t o i L *
of undergraduate newspapers from t h e e a r l history and development deat^ ea,rly
f Zl^r
every state in the Union. It is a of t h e A m a t e u r R a d i o Tl. a n s m i 8 . Colonel Mayo s father Ihe^^ Corps
true expression of undet^raduate si while Mr. Baldwin, who f o l . of Cadets extends to Colonel Mayo
opinion and the national political'low<id him, described the modern , t s d e e p e s t sVmPathy ln h l s «re.t
trend in undergraduate circles. j (Continued on page four)
As we go to press we learn of
: loss.
iastic praise attested her success, and solutions to those problems. ! place where the Baptist church
Mrs. Ryland has travelled ex- A banquet in the S. T. C. dining now stands. The other is a loaded
tensively with her husband in; hall and a dance, which looked walking stick used by Mr. Frank
France, Belgium, Spain, Corsica, more like a military ball, on ac- P. Rhodes and carried by him di-
Italy, as well as in this country, count of the many and varied uni- rectly after the War between the
where her enthusiasm for her work forms furnished by V. P. I., prov- States as a member of the local
has led her. In addition to the ed the social high lights of the i Vigilantes, when weapons were
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