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HOUSTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1937
NO. 5
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Creamer Ready To Go
Bible-ized Longhorns To Try To Break Jinx Rice Owls Have
Held Over Them for Three Years; Owls To Try
To Shake New Scoreless Jinx.
Can the Owls make it four years in a row? Do the Owls have a
scoring punch? Those are some of the questions that Rice sup-
porters would like to know and intend to find out tomorrow in
Austin, starting at 2:30 when Coach Jimmy Kitts' Rice Owls tangle
with Dana X. Bible's Texas Longhorns.
The game marks the first start of the Owls against a conference
opponent. The Steers have played one conference game—with Ar-
kansas, dropping a 21-10 decision.
The injury jinx appeared to be out of the Owl's backyard for
the first time since the season began, and the Owls may be in better
shape physically than at any time
since the start of the season. Jake
Schuehle, starting fullback of the
Owls who was out of the Tulsa game,
will be back in harness. Cleo Cream-
er, sophomore blocking back who has
been out for two weeks with a bad
haas injured
News was received in Houston
Thursday that Charlie Haas, bril-
liant sophomore backfield star o f
the Texas Longhorns, fractured his
shoulder in practice session Wed-
nesday and would be lost to the
Longhorns for an indefinite period
of time. Haas, a former all-state
high school man, and a trafck star
as well, was the best puntei on the
Texas team.
leg, will also be back. Creamer ap-
peared ready for lots of service in his
first game against Oklahoma.
The other chief casualty of the Owls,
Ernie Lain, big sophomore back who
is a hard driving back in addition to
being probably the best passer on the
team, will be ready for some service
this week after having received a cut
in the back of his leg in practice at
• the first of the season which has kept
him out of play since then. Lain, ac-
cording to some reports, may well be
the spark that the Owls need for a
scoring punch.
Meanwhile reports from the Texas
campus indicate that the Steers will
be primed and cocked for the Owls.
fl¥he prevailing spirit in Austin is that
the Longhorns would rather whip the
Owls than even their perennial rivals,
the Texas Aggies.
Bible, irt his first year back in the
Southwest Conference, has not had
much success so far this year. Texas
whipped Texas Tech, lost 9-0 to the
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0. WIS. SELL 300
DIRECTORIES; ON
SALE THIS WEEK
In accordance with its annual custom
the Owen Wister Literary Society has
compiled and published The Rice In-
stitute Directory for 1938. The directory
is a compilation of the tinmes, ad-
dresses and telephone numbers of the
students and faculty members of the
Institute. In add'lion, the leading or-
ganizations and publications and their
respective officers appears in this
year's edition.
Seven hundred copies of the pamph-
lets have been prin'ed and somj three
hundred have been sold to date, ac-
cording to Marie Resch, chairman for
the directory. Lucile Brewer is the
sales chairman, but the pamphlet can
be purchased from any member of
the society at twent.y-fivo cents per
copy.
Proceeds from the snle of the direc-
tories will be used towards the ex-
pense of the annual club dance. Lucille
Townley, club president, said. In turn,
proceeds from the dancn will be given
to the Rice Library, in accordance
with the annual custom of the society
to contribute to the library fund.
RULES FOR VIOLATORS
Cruse Starts
Work On 1938
Annual Plans
Work on the Campanile was launch-
fid this week when Canipn'nile editor
Sam Cruse met with his stoif of as-
sistants Monday, Oct. 18. Cruse would
net disclose the 'exact nature of the
raeeitng, and stressed the fact that
pictures to appear in the yearbook
should be taken as soon as possible.
The official photographer for this
year's yearbook is the Henry Stern
Studio, 229 West Building. The rates are
$1.75 for four poses.
Bill Ballew and Katharine Gay, or-
ganization editors, were instructed to
contact all school organizations and
publications to Inform them of the rates
that will be charged for tho purchases
of entire pages of (he yearbook. The
tentative amount is similar to the charge
last year, and is twenty-five dollars for
one page and forty dollars for § double
amount. All clubs and associations of
the campus which are interested in pur-
chasing pages should get in touch with
the editor or unionization editors.
FEDERAL THEATRE
PROJECT TO OFFER
RINEHART COMEDY
The Radio Division of the WPA
Federal Theatre Project, will present
Mary Roberts Rinehart's "Tish" in a
series of thirteen weekly broadcasts
over the full network of the Columbia
Broadcasting system every Thursday
from 10:00 to 10:30 P.M. beginning on
October 14.
Mrs. Rinehart has donated the use
of her book for this broadcast.
Dr. James Truslow Adams has do-
nated the radio rights to his best
seller, "Epic of America,'' to the WPA
Federal Theatre's Radio Division.
"Epic of America" will be broad-
cast from 8:00 to 8:30 P.M. Sunday
evenings over the full network of the
Mutual Broadcasting System. The first
program of the thirteen week series
is tentatively set for November 7.
FIVE NE\TMEMBERS ~
ADMITTED TO RICE
PRE-LAW SOCIETY
Five new members were taken into
the Pre-Law Society at its last meet-
ing Tuesday night at Autry House.
Butler Porryman, Jack Hanks,
Claude Maer, Dan Moody and Scott
Field Bailey were the students elected
to the club. Charles, Moser, John Bar-
ker and A1 Parish were made mem-
bers of the club at the meeting last
week at Autry House,
The club has not yet made a decis-
ion on the contract for ushering at
the meetings of the Houston Open
Forum. Other methods of raising
money were discussed at the meeting.
Common law, statuatory decisions,
Roman canons and constitutional prin-
ciples may have their spheres of in-
fluence, but Rice traffic dictates and
regulations for parking automobiles up-
on the campus are a law by and unto
themselves, i Although written rules for
parking vehicles upon the campus are
few and far between, stringency and
justice in the application of these un-
written regulations prevail.
Parking lanes at the Institute are set
out in the space surrounding the dorms
and to the front and side of the Ad-
ministration and Chemistry buildings
and Cohen House. Parking out of the
confines of these spaces at any time
constitutes a violation of the Institute's
code of traffic behavior.
According to the supervisor of po k-
ing on the campus, co-eds, though
greatly outnumbered by the boys, are.
the- most persistent violators of traffic
rules of the Institute. The Chemistry
.building lot1 is the site where the great-
est number of violations occur.
The first disregard of traffic stand-
ards is reported to the driver of the
vehicle by means of the familiar white
card whose well-known contents state
that the driver of the car has .commit-
ted a violation of the traffic regulations
ai.d must cease to do so.
A note of warning is given to-,the
violator on his second offense, with a
red card which inkjiv? that if the driver
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O.W.L.S. Dance
Tuesday, 4 To 6
Tuesday afternon at the Autry House
the Owen Wister Literary Society will
hold another series of dances. As visual
the time "of the dance will be from }
to 6.
Attendance at the dances so lar this
year have been above any in the past
few seasons. Records oh the nieklodkm
will be changed this week before the
dance, according to Martha Farmer. The
"Big Apple" has been a popular feature
of these afternoon dances and will con-
tinue in force for any new aspirants.
Trucking lessons will also be given to
all those who wish to learn.
The last dance turned into a "Scraps"
affair With either the boys or the girls
having the right to tag in. If desired, this
feature may be continued.
Tomorrow morning, seventy mem-
bers of the Rice band will leave for
Austin to play for the Texas game.
Judging from all reports they will
play for half the Rice student body
as well as for the team. On their ar-
rival in Austin, the band will parade
from the station to the hotel in which
the football team is staying and put
on n short program there.
During the half at the game, there
will be a special show put on by the
band. Right at present it is a deep,
dark secret, but those of you who go
to Austin will know Saturday, and hi
case you aren't able to make the game,
the truth will out in the next issue
of Ye Thresher.
All freshmen members ol the Band
are instructed to wear red underwvij|||
and also to be prepared with the
necessary equipment for a long siege
or horn-polishing. (It is rumored that
I ho band's instruments fan: Cleaned
regularly—ohce. a year by (he fresh-
men). 1 !1 ■ ■ •'
A little aside, from; the point but
still of interest to pott is the fact that
the Rice band' Is .!'' 'he
Southwest uConfereiietj for ihc size of
the student body and there is no
school of music al !' re.
Next Thursday'; Ci-.tpbor.28, the band
v.ill ,play for the Coca Cola Broadcast.
Practise for this program has been
under way now for several days If
there is no vain, the broadcast will be
made from the Rice Field but in even',
of the a1.eye-mentioned tragedy, the
broadcast will be made from the La-
mar Ballroom. All the student body
is requested to be present in order to
make this as successful as possible.
ONE OF FEW COACHES
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IN BUSINESS 25 YEARS
Waco, Texas, Oct. 21/- Ben Person,
publicity director at the University of
California at Los Angeles, has coin-
piled a list iof football coaches , in the
nation who, have been in the business
of football for a quarter of a century
or longer, and Coach Morley Jennings
of Baylor's Golden Bears is one of the
seven mentors or, the list.
Alonzo Amos Stagg, former Univer-
sity of Chicago pilot, how, coaching the
college of the Pacific, heads the list
with 47 years'of service to his credit;
Glenn (Pop) Warner, present Teniple
university coach and former director
of Lei and Stanford elevens, has'cqaeh-
eil 42, years. Gil Dobie; of Boston Col-
lege, has, been in the biisiness .'II vearti..
Bill Spatilding of U. C. I. A . is' a 2(5
year man, and Howard Jones ; of
Southern California and Vforiev Jen-
nings of Baylor have ,«u'hi intoned 25
> ears.
Coach Jennings Hup his colioitV'
coaching career in 1912. following his
graduation at Mississippi A. & M col-
lege. He tutored the boys at Ouachita
college at Arkadelphia, Ark., for over
n decade belOrr comine to B.nlm jn
1926.
All Students Urged
To Attend Rally To
Learn Austin Plans
Band To Leave Early Saturday on Special Train; Butler
Perryman, Acrobatic Cheer Leader, Ready
To Entertain Spectators.
Today at 1:15 in the Physics Amphitheatre tho student body df
the Rice Institute will hold a giant pep rally to cheer on tin' Rice
: Owls in their first conference game ol the .season against thf Texas
University Longhorns tomorrow at Austin.
Gene Sisk, head yell leader, announced that everyone should at-
| tend the rally. Only a small group of students turned out las! Fri-
S day at the first of these afternotm . rallies. ; Several anuoutK.vmeiit.s
;'of importance to all those attending the garde at Austin are tu.be.,
j made and short. pep; speeches will be heard !/\ several students, .
!v"] '[g'';I:, The special V fi'a.in ! can-ymg , Jiicip''
'■.students aricf h*md will Uvivc from:
.
gue to
Third Prix de
Paris Contest
| the 'Sou(;i?*?ipn'■ turn1 at-
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RICE CHORAL CLUB
AND BAND TO MARE
JOINT BROADCAST
Its coming program with the Rice
band in mind, the Choral Club met
last Monday night to rehearse and
time its musical numbers.
jRollo Rilling and Kit. Reid, director
of the bahd, were very pleased at the
quality and presentation of tho songs
and both felt that the broadcast on
November twenty-eighth sponsored by
Coca-Cola Boiling ,'Works would be
representative of Rice's talent.
The program will be broadcast from
Rice field from 6 30 and 7:00 p. m
over KTRH.
CONFERENCE FOES
IN SPOTLIGHT FOR
GAMES TOMORROW
fort Worth. Texas. Oil. 22;—Threje
conference game;- at'id a :Strong,; in-
terseetional clash. TliatV next Satur-
day's Southwest Conference football
program, and it prOM.ni just about
the maximum that.; the schedule-,
makers could cook up.
The Horned 'Frogs .make their
"Broadway" dehuj||fflfflijt i.iig t he |,IpS!-
ham Kams in (he Polo Grounds SbJorti
a predicted 75,000 crowd. A ipecial
train will leave .Fort Worth Wednes-
day evening, carrying thf: football
squad, the T C. I'. Band and iffo <>i
more ardent fans,
The other three c■'titests of ffii d.ij
are all : coiiferenee affairs. When "you
consider that Only four vooferente
games have been placed ^ > far thi
season, you can readily sec why next
Saturday, with thru jiatiios, "for
keeps," is a "Big Day."'
For Rice and S. M. l! it will be the
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-Saturday. imurning and will arrive in
Austin at 11.15 From tll^e train a pat-
ade will be held down Congress Ave-
nue to the Stephen F. Austin Hotel,
where the Iiiee tenia will bo quar-
tered.
Sisk stated, "The cheerma at. Texas
wilt really have to lx' organized and
'■H'lymio will hav fo yell their Inurfi
i.n'eer competition open to me,nibei> est to coihnete with the Texa.- stand.-,
i'1 the '.senior .'classes of accredited Turn oul today and learn ul a i- ex-
Foi the third successive year, th<
editnrs of Vo-!"ue art announcing a.
univeraities through'ml
pi etcd tomorrow of you."'
Holler Perry maw. .tei'ofcatSi iiiembri
o! the yell leader... will lie >rendj •
li.p al! ,jvei the 'I ;r >i to-
nierrow. Perryinan . misred -)ie lirsl
m uaioes 1 ec.nils* of a; bad'v : mfectetl
Ihroal
eojlews and
the country.
As in lh< jiasi two years. ;here will
I>t■ twci major Hiizesl each utterini; a
prisilion. with salary, on .the stall of j
Vogue magazine Tlie winn<.r oi flu 1
tirst I'irjie will he awarded one till!
year's employment with Vug no. sis ' All the mc< student., tid hcifS
n:oiilhs oji which will tie spent in the | 1 uppetteir are re<na •ed • : the
New York otliei'. the . remalnim; riii i'P'-cial train al 11 !a ,,nd i. i:- r sic
months in Vogue's l'aii. office A i.aiade and !he dcrnoustiatie:, which
-i-cond pi'ize ot six nmnlbs <>!)•.Vogue's • v-j!t follow iie.irom ot the Step!. f> 1
N'ew York edilonai *alf will iyg Ao-tio lh O'i
i.vyardeil tl-.e rtinner-Tip "B>-th; the
first prize* winner and. runr.er'-itp wi:'
l:e elif.'il.i!e for .pernfefflep] pi-^iiio:.'- Oii.
Vogue's stall aftc. coinpi, t, ji, iheii:
trial periods.
Execilti\cs o! deadiiiL sloies.
RICE DRAMA CLUB
PLAY CONTEST TO
BE HELD THURSDAY
11 I
IIIJ
Rice Physicists Building 2,500,000
Volt Atom Bombardment Machine
lacturing firms, advertisiii.' .igenci':.
i.l.id Iiews|japers ei-minne ffi shoe.
ereat interest m this contest At least
ten of the rankine parlicinan's in last
.yejif's,.I||i'de 'f'aris fput.idji
yyitll thc^c; :
■ Here" jlJD the. cdptest rules
1. Eiich entrant must be a niembe
bi IllCr irraduatin^ eiiiss of lit® in a
United States college or nnivcrsitv
which izrants a reeo[;nixeri A R til
0 S. de'tree,
2. Each enlrant, nin.st fill out an
1 11 trance blank. These blanks may he jene-act '^..v .'oiitcst is t(
Il'd immediately, or with the ;>n|| ;in.cin ditj and ind;vid;;.:d
v.ers to the first qui/ not iliter
N'ovemlx-i 20th.
Thursday ,, Oct, 'JJii,'' at, ",V11" ,\;jt.Vy
j House;", vj.iil l'i', tlie [,)f tor ;.!f.K'e ..
j firniri ilk; Club's annaa,': ..ne'-iol phitj'
• contest The; play.- ate staged entirely
• !\v the students without inal
(aid The program i-.-nsUfs nf foa: one-:'
act plays. !w,> ol w'Slch are .jcinaf
Pirector ,.t tin- cl'ti'h, Fredrick f.eon
Webster, said. '"Die purpose ■! thi
• ncourasjfi
'n1crpti.se.
than ; Aaionj. tlie tvisti
■ 1 hof),. t<^ ol'sct •>
3. The contest will Consist ot two .r;ilerii«i | ,r mil
parts: first, a series of six '(ur.'/.es t«.> j tjol)s •'
IWHorfftliitti riiSllidem't'll
nl the \ at loos plays
UftW afld 'Ii-. tnisini;
fonhcomiiig prodiic-
By Francis Collins
Two and one-half million volts will
be the force which will drive electri-
cally charged particles from the pro-
jectile tube of an atom bombardment
machine now being built on the Rice
campus under the direction of Dr. H.
A. Wilson, professor of physics, and
other members of the department.
By making it possible for Institute
researchers to study the nucleus of the
atom, the device may lead to more
exact knowledge of the structure of
matter, a problem which is today en-
gaging the attention of more physicists
than any other branch of the science.
Scientists over the country are fol-
lowing this line of investigation with
similar machines, and frequent fire-
dictions hold that further discoveries
Will lead to a method for actually
cracking the atom and obtaining for
use as power the enormous energy
which it contains, according to an
equation written years ago by Einstein.
The Rice machine will be housed
in the new £reen frame building be-
side the biology department's animal
house. The structure has a heavy con-
crete floor, and is divided Into two
rooms, one for the machine and one
for the operators, by a concrete Wall
one foot thick, The wall will shut out
the x-rays generated In the Inner
chamber, protecting the operators and
preventing the rays from interfering
with the experiment.
The outer jacket of the machine, a
huge four-ton tank 27 feet long and
six and one-half feet in diameter, has
already been installed on its concrete
biise in Ihe building. Air inside the
tank will be maintained at a pressure
of over seven times the ordinary pres-
sure of air.
The actual projectile tube itself will
be mounted inside the tank, arid will
project through the end of the tank
mid through the wall into the operat-
ing room. Around the tube will be a
series of 60 electrodes, the first char-
ged to a potential of 2,500,000 to 3,-
000,000 volts, the second to 50,000 volts
less than the first, and so on in down-
ward steps of 50,000 volts.
High pressure is needed inside the
tank around the electrodes to raise the
sparking potential and keep the volt-
age from dicharging across tho elec-
trodes. The tremendous voltage will be
supplied to the electrodes from the
belt of an electrostatic generator.
Inside the tank, which will be evac-
uated, positively charged ions will be
produced In the electric field of the
first electrode. The ions will be re-
pelled from the Strang field of the
first electrode into the weaker field of
i the, second, frojpi there to the still
weaker field of the third, and on.
gathering speed as they go. to the end
ol the tube.
When the particles reach the end
of the tube they will be traveling with
a speed of 10s centimeters per second
v. liieh is 9000 miles per second, or 82,-
400,000 miles per hour. Here the func-
tion of the machine, which was to ac-
celerate the ions to this high velocity,
cuds.
In the operating room, in front of the
projectile tube, will be placed the
"target," the substance whose atoms
are to be bombarded. The high-speed
particles will shoot into the nucleuses
of the atoms Of the various materials
used in experiments, enabling Rice
physicists to produce neutrons for
various studies and to measure the
tnergy of disintegration of atoms made
nrtifically radioactive.
Scientists are already familiar with
the movements of the outer electrons
of the atom, which according to one
theory revolve around the nucleus
somewhat as the planets revolve a-
round the sun; but knowledge of the
nucleus, the inner structure, is still
limited. Rice physicists hope to learn
more about this nucleus with the new
machine, which will be completed in
about a year.
bo answered by the entrants; second, a j
tl esis not to exceed 1500 words.) on a ..njHiunced that the director "i the
ircneral fashion subject n, |«. selected ,,V.,v will receive a loviri- clip and
by Vogue.
il The, first qui,/ ill' the series, bas-
ed tin the October Tst ar.d I.V,h issues
will be published in the November 1
issue and the succeeding ones will ap-
pear in the issues of December 1. Jan- j John Barker, and W. C M.,lonc
<rn« i Angela Powers, assisted by Miss
! lb,
best
the U-st actor and actress would each
receive a book of plays
William Goyen will produce 'The
.Antiquary," his own cqtiiposition. a
fabtasy. The cast is made up of Ciosen.
March 1
Uivry 1, February 1,
Aprlj 1. j Pat John, will direct "So Soon After
5. Each qui* will be made up frota | Breakfast." a Comedy The cast in-
5 to 10 questions which will range! eludes Miss Powers. Jane Cox, and
in subject matter from definite fashion ! Hill Wood.
,'Continued on Pare | Irl Mower.v is giving "Tin- Mayor
- - - land the Manicure." a eomedv by
ANNE MOORE CHOSEN
... . ^Wanda Hoencko. Addis Miller, ntir)
HEAD OF LES HIBOUX w^if Muecke.
Wesley Muecke will direct 'Life by
Heartburn," a farce by George Cough
and Mose Heart. The cast is made up
of Floy King. Evelyn Williams, Mu-
ecke. and Mowery.
Mowerv, Who is conducting the eofv- '
test, announced that the plays would
he judged by Hubert Roussel. Holts-
ion Press critic, Margo Jones, director
of the Community Players, and Geo-
tge Williams, instructor of English at
the Rice Institute. Mrs A': E, Tor-
flinger will do the make-up, Ruth
Pilkenton will handle the properties.
Jack Wilson will control the lighting
effects, and Gllson Smith will be stage
manager. Stage furnishings will I* by
courtesy ot Stowers Bros.
AT TUESDAY MEETING
Election of the officers of Les Hi-
boux, student French club, took place
last Tuesday afternoon at. the Autry
House. Those elected were Ahne
Moore, president; Earl Wallace, vice-
president; Dorothy Morgan, secretary;
and Mathalyn Elliot, treasurer. Regu-
lar meeting date was set on Tuesdays
at 4:30 p. in., at Autry House.
After the business part of the meet-
ing the group of 40 persons sang
French songs. Mr. Bourgeois announ-
ced that plans for putting on a ploy
in the near future would bo discussed
at the next meeting.
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