i nr BATTALION
VOL. XXIX
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FEBRUARY 4, 1931
NUMBER 19
Press Club Presents
Incorporation
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To Send Delegate To
National ASME Meet
A member of the local student
branch of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, is to represent
A & M College at the national meeting
of the society to be held in Birming
ham, Alabama, in the latter part of
April, according to information from
the local chapter.
Heretofore it has been impossible to
send a representative from A & M
to the meeting, but recently a benefit
picture show was granted to the local
branch and the opportunity to obtain
the information given at the conven
tion has been accepted.
Selection of the delegate from A
& M will be made from competitive
papers on any engineering subject
which, the competitors choose to write
on, the winning paper to be read at
the Birmingham convention by its
writer.
Full round trip train fare including
pullman will be furnished by the local
student branch to the member select
ed for the trip.
Economics Dept.
Names Lecturers
For Second Term
S. H. HENDERSON TO SPEAK
ON INVESTMENTS
TUESDAY
S. H. Henderson of Halsey, Stuart
and Company, nation-wide investment
bankers, will deliver the first of a
series of five lectures sponsored by
the department of economics, Tues
day, February 10, according to word
received from J. W. Barger, professor
of economics. His subject will be
“Personal Investments”.
The talk is being given following
the policy established last term of
bringing practical business speakers
to supplement class room work, Prof.
Barger stated.
The following is a list of future
lecturers and their subjects: Lester
H. Means, industrial service depart
ment of The General Electric Com
pany, “The Young Man in Industry.”
T. W. Gregory, of the National City
Company, Houston: “High Grade Se
curities”. J. P. Adous, trust attorney
of the City Bank Farmers Trust Co.,
Houston; “High Grade Securities” (in
conjunction with Mr. Gregory). Char
les E. Shaw, industrial relations de
partment, Humble Oil Company: “Per
sonnel Work in Industry”. George
H. Slater, executive secretary, Texas
State Federation of Labor: “Present
Objectives of Organized Labor”.
“It is to be understood,” said Prof.
Barger, “that these lectures are being
held for the purpose of allowing the
students to acquaint themselves with
the organization and policies of gen
eral business, and not as advertising
for the company being represented.
Many contacts may be made which
might prove invaluable in future
years. Therefore, we believe that it
would be to the interest of every
student to attend.”
Publications
Plan to President
TENTATIVE PLAN WOULD
PUT BUSINESS CONTROL
UNDER FULL TIME
MANAGER
A tentative plan for the incorpora
tion of the four student publications
has been presented to Dr. T. O. Wal
ton by the A & M Press club.
The plan, which was drawn up by
Curtis Vinson, publicity director at A
& M, calls for incorporation with no
capital stock. Power of direction of the
corporation will be vested in a board
of directors of nine, six students and
three faculty members. One salaried
business manager, responsible to the
board of directors, will be maintained
to contract for engraving and adver
tising, enlarge circulations, and bud
get the several publications. Editorial
control will remain in the hands of
elected student editors.
It is hoped by members of the Press
club that the plan will be approved and
set in operation soon enough to take
over the business control of the four
A & M publications of next year.
Coming from the Press club, the plan
has the endorsement of virtually all
members of the publication staffs on
the campus this year.
Complete details of the plan are ex
pected to be published within the com
ing week.
Junior Class To Adopt
Ring At Meet Sunday
A junior class meeting for the adop
tion of a uniform ring will be held.
Sunday, February 8, immediately af
ter dinner, George Fix, Dallas, class
president, reports.
A sample of the proposed ring was
received early this week, and is now
being inspected individually by juniors
of various organizations, Fix said. It
was taken through the Engineer and
Signal Corps Monday, the Cavalry and
Infantry Tuesday, and the Artillery
Wednesday. According to the ring
committee, every effort will be made
toward the adoption of one ring.
Economics And Trade
Geography Important
Courses that would most efficiently
equip a young man for a position in
the department of commerce as trade
commissioner were outlined in a re
cent letter to Dr. F. B. Clark, head
of the department of economics, from
F. Messenger, class of ’26, now Trade
Commissioner in London. Mr. Mes
senger stated that economics and com
mercial geography are of the greatest
importance as all examinations for
the bureau are based on those two
subjects.
The courses that should be includ
ed in preparation for the service are
as follows: an introduction to econom
ics giving a general foundation in that
subject, a more advanced economics
on the style of Ely or Tausig, money
and banking, foreign exchange, for
eign trade, commercial geography, na
tural, industrial and commercial re
sources of the world, report writings
giving the student a thorough knowl
edge in the making of reports, statis
tics, and also a course that would teach
the student where and how to obtain
information. In explanation of this
last course of study, Mr. Messenger
suggests the following: commerce and
navigation, Bureau of Census returns
(Continued on page 4)
Sugareff To Speak On
Macedonian Question
The International Significance of
the Macedonian Question—A study
of the realities of history will be the
subject on which professor V. K.
Sugareff, of the department of his
tory, will speak Tuesday, February
10 at the Social Science Seminar.
Professor Sugareff spent several
months in the Balkans during 1929,
and summer of 1930 doing research
work on Balkan nationalism. While
there he came in contact with lead
ers of the IMRO (Internal Macedon
ian Revolutionary Organization), and
purchased the memoirs of the origi
nal organizers of the movement.
The significance of the Macedon
ian question is attested by the fact
that since the World War the Europ
ean Powers have time and again pro
tested against the activities of the
Macedonian revolutionists in Greek
and Yugoslav Macedonia. It is often
stated that the Macedonian question
contains all the elements of the Ser-
bian-Narodna-Otbrana secrets organ
ization the works of which led to the
assassination of the Austrian Arch
Duke, and the World War.
Professor Sugareff will discuss the
various phases of the Macedonian
question and point out its interna
tional significance.
$85,000 Borrowed
? From Ex-Students
Assn. And College
Student loans totaling $85,000 were
made during the recent registration,
reports from S. G. Bailey, executive
secretary to the president, and E. F.
McQuillan, secretary of the Associa
tion of Former Students, disclosed.
The figures are not yet complete
on the college notes but Tuesday
$65,000. had been loaned. One hund
red, twenty notes totaling $20,000.
were made with the ex-students.
Feature Edition Of
The Battalion Will
Appear February 18
To correct the impression that the
monthly feature edition of The Bat
talion was scheduled for publication
this week, it is announced that the
next of these magazine editions, The
Exchange Number, will be ready for
distribution Wednesday, February 18.
When it was announced last fall
that one magazine edition would be
published each month, the date of its
publication was set as the Wednesday
nearest the fifteenth of the month,
and this schedule will remain unchang
ed throughout the second term.
The Exchange Number will bring
its readers the cream of the humor
of over one hundred of our contempor
ary college comics, all of whom are on
the exchange list of The Battalion.
Illustrations have been selected from
these other publications and all of the
jokes, wise-cracks and similar features
have come as a result of the sharp
shears of the exchange editor.
Joel Hunt Assigned Regular Place
On Texas Aggi
Larg-e Number College
Comics Available In
The Battalion Office
During the first term a large num
ber of college comic magazines, rep
resenting more than one hundred col
leges and universities from all over the
state, have been gathered as a re
sult of exchanges by The Battalion,
and in order that students may read
these publications and compare them
with their own, it has been decided
to let them out in much the same way
that books are loaned in the library.
First of the magazines will be issued
following the appearance of The Ex
change Number of The Battalion Feb
ruary 18, and all students who wish
to read them are requested to come to
The Battalion office at that time.
Only one magazine will be issued at
a time to the same student and stu
dents will be held responsible for their
return in good condition to The Bat
talion.
Early Reports Show
Enrollment Of 2192
A total of 2192 students registered
for the second semester, early reports
from the registrar and Commandant
indicate. This figure is about 150
less than that of the first half of the
term, but includes over 100 new en
rollments.
An unusually large number of
day students was reported from the
Commandant’s office. However, the
data is incomplete as yet.
Aggie Students
Organize Future
Farmers Chapter
The first collegiate chapter of the
Future Farmers of America in Texas
was organized recently at A & M with
a charter membership of twenty-eight
seniors in agricultural education. The
chapter was named after Dean C. H.
Winkler of the school of vocational
teaching and its particular purpose
is to acquaint seniors in agricultural
education with ways and means of or
ganizing and conducting Future Far
mer chapters for high school students
in vocational agriculture following
graduation from A & M.
Officers elected are: D. H. Tay
lor, Victoria, president; W. H. Jones,
Granbury, vice president; H. M. Car
ter, Shephenville, secretary; J. H. Tay
lor, Dublin, treasurer; O. J. Orton,
Bellevue, parlimentarian; H. G. Rylan-
der, Buda, sergeant-at-arms; J. M.
Cooper, Center, reporter.
J. C. Dykes and W. R. Sherrill,
of the department of agricultural ed
ucation of the college, together with
E. R. Alexander, also of the depart
ment and state adviser of the Texas
Association of Future Farmers of
America, were named advisers of the
chapter.
The Future Farmers movement in
Texas was started in July, 1928, at
the state conference of teachers of vo
cational agriculture held at College
Station. During the first year of or
ganization 112 local chapters were
Grid Coaching Staff
Will Continue Professional Base
ball Playing 1
Joel Hunt, erstwhile triple-threat
gridiron star at Aggieland who closed
his playing career here as captain of
the 1927 championship Texas Aggie
eleven, has been added to the A & M
coaching staff as assistant football
coach for special -work with backfield
players. Coach Matty Bell, following
approval by the athletic council at re
cent meeting of his recommendation
regarding the addition of Hunt to the
staff, has announced that the former
Aggie star will report for duty at the
college about the middle of September
so as to be on hand for the opening
of fall training. Following the var
sity football season, Hunt, during De
cember and January, will have airect
supervision of the intramural football
teams coached by various varsity let-
termen. This will be in keeping with
plans of Coach Bell to enlarge the
intramural gridiron program.
Hunt’s employment at A & M will,
in a way, be seasonal since, as a mem
ber of the St. Lous Cardinals, hi.;
services are claimed on the diamond
in the Spring and Summer. He has
been ordered to report March 5 at
Bradenton, Fla., as one of the squad
of twenty-eight who will train at the
Cardinal camp there. Hunt played for
two seasons with the Houston Buffa
loes of the Texas League.
Hunt joined the Aggie coaching staff
last Fall following the start of the
season to assist in developing back-
field football men. With a meteoric ca
reer as a ball-toter to his credit while
wearing the Maroon and White of the
Aggies, lus services on the coaching
staff are expected to prove highly val
uable in offensive tactics, Coach Bell
said.
Farmers Short Course
Set For July 27—Aug. 1
Dates of the 1931 Farmers Short
Course at A & M have been announced
as July 27—Aug. 1, inclusive, by H. H.
Williamson, vice-director and state
agent of the Extension Service. Cut-
ing the cost of production to meet the
low farm price levels prevailing and
short cuts to living at home will be
featured on the programs of this twen
ty-second annual event which will fol
low as a guide the Texas Farm Policy
of Texas A & M College as re-stated
last fall by President T. O. Walton.
It is expected that the railroads will
again co-operate by offering very low
rail rates to College Station for this
event, and the college authorities are
planning to furnish meals and rooms
at the customary low rates.
In addition to inspirational and cul
tural lectures and community plays
and games, farm folks may look for
ward to valuable work in practically
every phase of farm and home life.
Women and girls will be offered pi*o-
grams designed to help in living at
home and in improving rural standards
of living, according to plans of Miss
Mildred Horton, state home demon
stration agent. The subjects covered
will include meal planning, canning-
budgets, oi’ganization of pantries to
save food, health steps, principles of
clothing design and material selec
In addition to the exchange mater
formed throughout the state. There
tion, living room, kitchen and bed
ial, however, the number will contain
another clever story by George M.
Wrenn. The cover will be the work of
J. L. Keith.
are now 182 local chapters with total
membership of 3,500. A monthly mag
azine, The Future Farmer News, is
published by the state adviser.
room improvement, farm landscaping,
and increasing the family income by
the preparation and sale of home prod
ucts.