The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, March 26, 1937 Page: 2 of 4
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ESTABLISHED 1916
r, official newspaper of students at the Rice Institute, Hous-
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4 th>- lomnuaiist investigation! < >nl\ those interests of one
anotlin wliirh want writin-; and tHiiJlang; cheeked, or Which
■ ulisi nunrij! kff niilitari.-rn are served by these action- What
.■niuts an tlicy be iii$ii(j to )« i«-\!adc tile -trite legislature to carry
The cream of the Rice crop was
seen whipping it up at Tokio last Sat-
urday night to the tune of Benny Pas-
kowita and his long nosed lads. Those
who succeeded in mounting the long
and perilous stairway had yet another
ordeal to undergo, that being the dis-
tinguishing of the grotesque partici-
pants of the dansunt from the more
ghastly gnomes produced by a shot of
60-40 ratio stuff—60 of embalming fluid
and 40, ice box accumulations . . .
There were tux pants below bared man-
ly chests, studded with benefit of plaster
. . . Then we must mention the walk-
ing shower bath. The curtain proved
convenient in the clinches, as did the
soap for excuses, and it had a wash
rag and a sprinkling can. I'erhaps this
was as much a racket as was CLAUDE
CODY's Scotch laddie costume upon
which he capitalized to the extent of
$1.30 in pennies, which weighed down
the kilt or whatever them doo-dads arc
called . . . PINKY OKR who was in a
stew because Galveston beverages failed
to cause that pleasant buzz in his ears
arid LUTHERAN JKE very worried
over gefting home in, time for papa's
services were both dealing a COPPER
plenty of misery , . . BROOKS and
IKE found out that KLI NDWORTH
wasn't the inaii he thought lie was. So
did the third pocket of the pool table
. , . Oil the sea wall was our own dear
LOTUS stroking a hipp)* and lie was
far from the BRINK . . . JACK LYNN
was playing blotter but not for the
dance. lie was merely training for his
first year at med schoul . . . Among
those who failed to make the dance
this vear were ADDISON BARNES,
E$ FRANCES and "OUti MAN"
.KELLY, table one hash slinger who
went around announcing to all the grub
ItouriclS' that, there would be no break-
fast in the morning, much in the style
of EX-LEWTS ... In the EX list
was If'I^ED MUCH, who was pinching
the lower extremetics of a girl in the
red satin shorts, ROY WATKINS and
BOB VIN EYARD . . . MG M's local
ticket agent, the girl with the dreamy
eyes, was:quite.311 attraction to flYR-ON
.WRIGHT, and.' other Rice punks which
was [irobably- due to the white satin
stretched across her embattlcments . , ,
"TF-.ObY BEAR!' BROOKS was in tow
of "MRS. WIFFYC the photographer's
wife. w|nS really did have a sense• of
.Ijtnrit'Uf ii.f:' all accounts are on the levcI
. , . "OUT" HOl'SK was swinging in
riiid-i'-ait with his Verv special tango
style . . . MAX CAMPBELL giving
the ..Galveston girls the' usual .knockout,
powder smile amid gasps of "I jaw 'im
first" and "finder's keeper's, von ihis-
fltr!" JOHN • MeGIK'NliY who is
au'h: utie.tlly Fred MeMtirr,i.v'« cpttsin
a^td the spin in' imago of him had about
the s^itic 'effect op the Itouston gills
Wlni: nil. svanted to know"if he could play
fhu trumpet n 11 <1 of, course he couldn't
. I .if.; is, like that . . . KING t'Ak
SOX nvho is cattsiiig"Wjkjlffi a furore in
J K a ' SI.Aia ,| fTER's sociology, what
with people wondering if he'll alxlieate
to CARSONOVA CASTLE witnessed
ii.fc at. its :!..wcst ebh' with MARGARET
TURNER, whose eyes were as wide
as the traditional plates what with all
the "goings on" and KING almost
swooned as he gazed into their violet
depths and thought about her leaving
him for EUROPE . . . KEMP LEWIS,
amid flying tackles and trying to live up
to his name as the greatest lover had
the distinction of being the skonkest
man standing. ■ was he who checked
his pants at the check room to get into
the swing of it all . . . DICK MET-
CALF was there with his blushing bride
of nine o'clock that morning, Swell be-
ginning, eh, what! WARD and EEKIE
(or however you spell that sound)
FLOETER were beating it up a bit
while RED "Bless you my child"
DAUGHERTY, another prcacher's son
was spreMing out in his own quiet way.
ROACH STARK, MARTHA VIN-
SON, ED CLARK and WINFIELD
were adding their bits respectively to
the game of who's behind the shower
curtain ... And NAN NORTON was
there! Boys, she's the gal with all the
sweaters, who causes a RIGHT ABOUT
FACE as she floats through the SAL-
LYPORT and OSTEONS with her
SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION . . .
There were two new Orchestra leaders
developed at this night's revelries, none
othei' than BIG HANKS who appears
to be the last thing everybody remem-
bered seeing, and MAX CAMPBELL-
STEIN . . . To such beauteous croscen-
dos and daze NANCE and NEECE, the
gold dust twins, were trucking . . . Ah,
me, only 360 DAYS till the next OS-
TEON which won't be held again next
year, as usual . . . Put in the shade of
such festivities as of Galveston are those
of the P. E. CONVENTION, which
to everybody's surprise was thoroughly
convenched by those in charge. All the
football, basketball, ping pong, boys were
there. Some even showed up after they
took their dates home from the sedate
exclusive alTayah, m'dear, at the LA-
MAR, such as NEECE and poddy . . .
HERMANTZ, KITTS (who enjoyed
the dancing). DR. SCOTT, genially
bouncing about, and CECIL GRIGG,
with daughter JUNE in tow, held down
faculty row . . Only N/RICE girls
1 he re were SUE and MARY ELLEN
doing their best to keep FORBES and
KLlX DYYORTH from being torn to
shreds by the predatory girl weight
lifters: SMI iK'EY, CHOLLTE MOORE,
i ORiDlLL and 'others who had no such
atnazoni'att protection gave in gladly...
GEITIHART was just another dumb
bell iii the hands of tin muscle womSn
Agin M.VX CAMPBELL with
LICjjjtTNIX' and PERCY were laying
all '■■manner ,of hospitality on thick. At
■'ear OLD 'HEIDELBERG.(who should
be paying advertising rates for all their
advertising in the | ilJST FANNER)
\\eia;A K'K'ERS (and his .beer pot) with
01 !ER WETTER. AND cleanor and
sonny AND king ami val AN D1 fprbes
and 'graham AND steen and byrnes . .,
.BII.I. PIIH.PIPS iii the ancient John
(kid, Jr, .fashion ;put on .a shovv at.
. Wm
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Somebody Likes the Owl
* * * *
A Cat Orchid to You
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Dear Ed:
After once reading your simply scath-
ing editorial 011 the Owl and your feeble
petition, I thought you were full of
bull, but after reading it over I defi-
nitely decided; that you were full of
bull- Not that I want to be boring; I
am just speaking for the two engineers
who read your paper and I am sure
that your other fifteen readers through-
out the school (including the seven li-
brarians) feel the same way.
All of us 197 engineers together with
the 239 who busted out in February
feel that yon are making a grave mis-
take in persecuting the <m}fi The Owl
is the only amusing feature we have
here at the Institute, with the exception
of Dr. Wciser's jokes. The Owl broad-
casts the fame of our dear old alma
mater up and down the nation. All stu-
dents cry for it, while even your seven-
teen readers are reluctant to glance at
the. Thresher.
Another use for the Owl is humor.
Although it is true that the Thresher
is just one big joke, we must admit that
the Owl is funny—to put it mildly, Yet
another reason is the pictures which the
Owl prints. These are both artistic; and
original, but all the Thresher pictures
are reprints from the daily wrafpapers
(special emphasis on the news part).
A third thought which I wish to
mention Is advertising. We all know
that the Owl gets as much advertising
in one issue as the Thresher does in a
week. Tf it weren't for the "A" House
ads in the Thresher every week all the
space would have to be donated by
"friends."
For these reasons, dear Ed, we say
to you, "hands off" the Owl. The Owl
is entertaining, amusing, interesting and
entertaining. The Thresher is lousy,
punk rotten, and we' don't like, it. So,
long live the Owl: Pripey on the
Tiweshtcr ; it smells like a liter of hy-
drogen sulphide in a 5 cc. container.
Yours benevolently.
,' ■ ! ■ Oti'0 NoriETTER.
OLD HEIDELBERG (they ought to
be paying for this) when he made a
speech from the piano without any
shoos 'Of Shirt. Can't you just see him?
. Again WEISER comes though
vvheti asked if she bad her make up (in
Eng .120) yet, pulled out her mirror and
looked at her face.
Dear Otto:
As I progressed through your reams
of vituperation, I thought that again it
would be some Antl-Na*i or some other
antlrntuff accompanied with sardines
blamed on Othello, a fish. But 1 see
that it is only an Owl.
You state that the Owl is the only
amusing feature on the campus, dis-
regarding the known facts of Dr.
Weiser's jokes, then add that the
Thresher is one big joke. Now, Otto,
this is inconsistent. Please, make up
your mind.
As for the editorial, I admit it was
pretty mean, and I'm sorry that I wrote
it as it has kept me awake niglus no
end. ; ' !":j j.'.! .-'/A
Y$ijli Jay, the cry is "the Owl is dead,
like Othello, long live the Owl."
Otto, if you're going to be catty, I'll
give yau the can of sardines.
Hurt, no end,
The Ewtor.
Dear Ed:
The other day in a Baylor annual
about 35 years old 1 found this little
piece of ratiocination quoted from the
doings of the logic class:
"No cat has nine tails. (Major pre-
mise.)
"One cat has one tail Acre than no
cat. (Another premise.)
"Therefore one cat has ten tails.
(Conclusion)"
I think this thing has possibilities.
Why did the unambitious tail manufac-
turers stop with a mere ten tails? Why
not go out after big things?
Now we know already that one cat
has ten tails, We know also, therefore,
that tfih cat has ten more tails than 110
eat. But no cat has nine tails. Therefore
one cat has ten plus nine equals 19 tails.
And of course, if one cat has nineteen
FMIWY, MARCH 36, 1M7
tails, it has nineteen tails more than no
cat. But no cat yet has nine tails, so
one cat has uine plus 19 equals 28 tails.
Thus it can easily he seen that one
cat has 9n plus 1 tails, where n is the
number of logical steps taken. Conse-
quently the number of tails u cat Itas
is proportional to the number of tails
you can think of for it to have. And
since you can keep on thinking of num-
bers indefinitely, any cat has a lot of
tails, if not more. if '
If this doesn't seem to be borne out
by the facts, remember that physical
measurements always have a relative
error, and you can't count the cat's tails
exactly, while the theoretical method
gives the correct result.
Sincerely yours,
Per Meauu.
■ V;:: - ,r
Dear Meaou:
On second thought, I think I'll give
you the can of sardines.
The Editor.
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In saying "ugh" 97,000 times during
the past three weeks, a bronze-
skinncd freshman at the University
of Minnesota has not been trying to
prove that he really is an Indian,
"Ugh" is his entire speaking part in
a play.
The
Chicken Shack
6515 SOUTH MAIN
Specializing in Leslie's Fried Chicken.
Fried Chicken you can uppreciute!
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111 Hie I wc-ntioth Century War will In- dc.vl, the scaffold will be
>!■<.'iliSj 1 li.itrcd will 1|; (leitd, frontier, bmimi;cries will be dead, dogmas
he ;,dend;: man will live. K Will,;poS<iess something higher than
!..tihese j a .ureal fitintry, the pHpi earth, and a great hope, the whole
l.e 1 ven - Victor Hugo. ;■■.,.■'■
Every niajr wi]) ,have his invn eriteiio.lv ;i;rt: forming hjy judgment of
other*. I depend very ttuirh on the effect of afflirtion, I consider how a
man1 . onie* out of the ftirnaee; goldvvvili lie for a month in a furnace
v.hhi.ut losint,' a K'ain.— Richard Cecil.
If we are tempteil to make war on another nation, we >hall re-
member that we a,re'. seeking 1:r) .destroy an element of our own
I'lilluie, and possibly its most important element. As long as war is
regarded; as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is
liioked upon as vulgar it will cease t<i be popular.—t)scar Wilde.
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is
difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes
the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime
again.-Thomas Paine. "
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I. March winds and
April showers.
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Evening Gypsies
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When Washington University stu-
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one thousand full whiskey eases into
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wondered who was going to drink it
till. Upon investigating they found
that the boxes contained 80,000 books
belonging to the Academy of Science
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