THE BATTALION
Published Weekly By The Students Of The A. & M. College Of Texas
VOLUME XXX
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FEBRUARY 10, 1932.
NUMBER 19
A and M Directors Meet Friday
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President of American Institute of Electrical Engineers To Talk
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Dairy Husbandry Session Ends Today
Dairymen End
Short Course
With Banquet
Individual Work Of Members
Attending Will Last Until
Later In Week.
Closing the Sixth Annual Dairy
Husbandry Short Course Wednes
day, Professor C. N. Shepardson,
head of the Department of Dairy
Husbandry, said that although the
course is scheduled to end Friday,
February 2, additional work done
by students would be of individual
nature.
The Short Course this year has
dealt almost exclusively with tech
nical control problems, all work
being done in the Dairy Husbandry
Department laboratories under the
supervision of the Department fac
ulty assisted by Mr. 0. C. Gerhardt,
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Steers And Owls
Next In Line On
Cagers Schedule
Reports on Investigations Will
be Announced When Com
pleted.
Voting unfavorably to the change
themselves, the Student Welfare
Committee decided Thursday night
to continue keeping the blouse as
regular piece of the uniform here.
The question of it being made op
tional or done away with, was
brought up at a previous meeting
and a report from a committee
with Major Wheeler as chairman
was heard.
The Student Welfare Committee,
■'t present acting on different
means of reducing expenses for
alty assisted Dy Mr. u. v uernaru^ . g conducting investi _
laboratory man for the Phemx ,. * ,, „ • c
Outlook Gloomy as Aggies
Meet Longhorns at Home.
Carrying the distinction of be
ing the undisputed holders of the
cellar position, the Aggie maple
wood five will make one last ef
fort to break into the win column,
before they pass the mid point of
the season when they tackle Coach
Ed Olle’s Texas Longhorns in the
Gregory gymnasium at Austin,
Saturday night. Following the
game in Austin the Aggie cagers
will return to their own court for
the remaining six games.
In picking a probable winner in
Saturday night’s tussle the Long
horns are certainly favored to give
Coach Reid’s boys a thorough
trouncing. For although A and M
played T C U to a closer decision
than did the Texas University ag-
UET5 ILL
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Well Known Authority to
Address Corps February 25
A and M College students will
have the opportunity of hearing
one of the best known men in the
electrical industry when Dr. Chas.
Skinner, president of the A I E E
addresses the corps, February 25.
Dr. Skinner is assistant engineer
ing director for the Westinghouse
laboratories and is known interna
tionally for his work at scientific
conventions held abroad.
Dr. Skinner believes that the ma
chine-age is responsible for the
present economic difficulties and
that if a solution is not found the
Dairy Company of Houston.
Tuesday evening students attend
ing the Short Course and members
of the Kream and Kow Klub held
a joint banquet at the Sbisa Hall
annex. No set program was follow
ed but Professor Shepardson called
(See DAIRYMEN on Page 3)
gations in the prices of cleaning
and pressing establishments about
the campus, and in the prices of
the commodities of the Exchange
Store.
The Committee, composed of
Dean F. C. Bolton as chairman,
and some twelve faculty members
and about as many students, will
meet again the third of March.
Bell Will Stay
At Aggieland As
Football Coach
Does Not Expect Offer From
Iowa College—Well Pleased
Here.
Fish Track Team Spring Football
To Fill Vacancies Training Begins
In Varsity Squad Monday Afternoon
This Year’s Varsity TracA [ n tramural Schedules Not to
Team Will Lose Few Men. interrupted by Spring
Practice Sessions.
With probably the strongest
•eshman track and field team in
ie history of the school working
ig out daily under his watchful
?e, Coach Anderson has hopes of
idding a formidable aggregation
lat next year will assist in plac-
tg the Aggies high on the confer-
ice ladder and again on top by
134. Especially strong where the
irsity is weak, and offering a well
ilanced array of former high
:hpol talent, Aggie hopes for more
■ack and field championships in
ie near future are exceedingly
right, especially so in the light of
resent conditions that this years
:am is doped to finish out of the
inning for first place, in the
outhwest Conference.
By strengthening a varsity that
ill lose very few graduates at the
id of the current season, indica-
ons are that next years sopho-
lore thinly-clads will astound the
inference as did those of the
lampion Owls in 1931.
Track Men Good
Outstanding of the new fresh-
lan material are the sprinters and
urdlers. To replace Rufus Em-
10ns, captain of the 1931 team and
ited as one of the best of the con-
jrence sprinters, who graduated
ist year, and which is now indae-
uately filled, Coach Anderson will
ave at least five “ten-second”
len, each capable of defeating the
est that the varsity can offer
t present.
The most promising of the cen-
iry and furlong men is E. H.
dicker, Corpus Christi, 100 and 220
ard dash champion at the state
met in Austin last spring. Wick-
r, who entered school at mid-term
s a “frog,” is also a valuable 440
See FISH on Page 3).
the season progressed and the
game is to be played in the Long
horn “corral.”
Owl Team Good
The Owls from Rice Institute
will be guests of the Aggies in the
j Memorial gymnasium Monday
i night week; when the Maroon and! T " Z Z , ~ ~ ~~ ” ~
I , . , branches of electrical engineering
White opens the final home standi ,, * ^ ^
„ , , I which will show the greatest ad-
! of the season. The Ricemen, with
... „ o ™ tt j vances m coming years,
victories over Texas, S M U, and j
A and M, already in the present His ?ddress Wl11 deal with the
| race will bring to Aggieland a pair as P ects of the depression in its
of the conference’s outstanding for- ^nection ™tn the engineering
wards this year. They are Virgil , field ’ the P 0SSlblU ties of engmeer-
Dixon and Jake Hess and happen after the correction of economic j
to be the reason for the first de- difficulties, and the part electrical
feat of the Aggies in the title engineering will play in the founda-
j chase. Past games point to an easy tion of a world wide civilization .
Rice victory with playing condi-1 , . „ , ,, .
tions only in favor of A and M’s The subject of the address 18 The
chances. I Electrical Industry Today.”
Madison Bell, grid mentor of
Aggieland and head of the Depart
ment of Physical Education, return
ed Sunday afternoon from Iowa
City, Iowa; where he visited the
Iowa University campus and con
ferred with Iowa athletic officials
regarding the possibility of him
coaching there. Bell stated on re
turn that he did not intend to leave
A and M and did not expect an
offer from the Iowa University.
Selection of the Hawkeye coach
will be made at a meeting of the
Iowa Athletic Committee in a few
day. Previous to this, six coaches
were asked to come to the Uni
versity and consider the terms un
der which they would coach there.
No offer to coach has been made
to any of the coaches called while
they were at the University, nor
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Aggies Defeat Kemper
Special Match.
I fate of future generations hangs
gregation, the Steers have twice; b a i ance . Although machines
turned back Southern Methodist, j j iaV e increased efficiency, produc-
they have shown improvement as : ti orl) an( j consumption, the present
mode of life is not fully adapted to | will any information be known re
meet the modern conditions. It is
Dr. Skinner’s belief that the prob
lems of today will be solved by the
engineers.
In his speech, Dr. Skinner will
outline the various fields and
luilders’ Pleas
For Contracts
To Be Heard
Final Decision to be Made ont
Building Contracts.
garding who is to be asked until
the comlnittee meets.
Coach Bell reports a very inter
esting and enjoyable trip but does
not intend to go to Iowa. He ex
pressed himself as very well pleas
ed with his location here.
Thirty-five candidates will begin
training under Head Coach Matty
Bell and line coach “Bones” Irwin
when spring football practice gets
under way at Aggieland Monday
afternoon.
Intramural football games and
practice will proceed as usual and
will not be hampered by the var
sity practice. At the end of the
season the outstanding intramural
grid players will be invited to try
out for the varsity.
The work for the spring grid-
sters will consist principally of new j
plays for next fall. This work will !
also tend to acquaint the fresh
men with the men with whom they
will play with next year, and to
acquaint them with the style of
play used by the varsity.
Equipment will be issued to those
coming out late from intramural
football and from other varsity
sports as they report to the coach.
Uniforms will be issued to the fol
lowing in time for practice Mon
day afternoon:
Captain-elect J. W. Aston, Far-
mersville; R. E. Barfield, Port Ar-;
thur; C. M. Cummings, Bryan; H.
L. Graves, Corsicana; Willis Nolan,
Santa Rosa; W. B. Williams, Green
ville; all lettermen. Squadmen are:
H. M. Breedlove, Smithville; J. M.
Kenderdine, Fort Worth; R. E.
Nolan, Santa Rosa; and R. H.
Wright, Alice; while freshman let
termen are: R. E. Connelly, Fort
Worth; O. M. Connelly, Amarillo;
J. G. Cooper, Schulenberg; J. W.
Crow, Milford; H. W. Davidson;
J. C. Gregory, Tyler; W. Griggs,
Decatur; W. T. Jordan, Ft. Worth;
W. R. Kimbrough, Haskell; S. N.
See FOOTBALL on Page 3).
Aggies Lose Preparation For
To Pony-Frog Architects’ Ball
Basket Teams Being Completed
Livestock Team
Practicing For
Ft. Worth Show
Team Will Spend Week on
Inspection Tour Before En
tering Contest.
Falling a little short of the rec
ord expected from a team which
boasts thirteen lettermen from the
national championship' aggregation
of the preceding season, the Aggie
rifle team placed second in the first
week’s firing of intercollegiate
matches, according to information
released by Lieutenant L. R. Nach
man, coach of the A and M marks
men.
The University of Kentucky
team, with a score of 3687, led
while Ohio State placed third with
3594. The score of the Aggie rifle
men was 3626.
In a special match, the Aggie
team defeated the Kemper Military
Academy riflemen 1854 to 1805 to
even up its record for the week’s
firing.
C. W. Crass, Palestine, won in
dividual high score honors in both
matches with 383 out of a possible
400 in the intercollegiate firing and
193 out of 200 in the match with
Kemper.
Lieutenant Nachman attributed
the failure of his team to uphold
their record of the preceding year
to probable nervousness in begin
ning the new season, and believes
that if the team will fire to its
fullest ability, it will lose no fur
ther matches this year.
Basketeers Reteive Short End
of Score in Two Road Games
Beaumont Orchestra Billed to
Furnish Harmony for Year
ly Occasion.
A rough and tumble affair in Preparations for the annual
which five men made their exit Architectural Club ball to be held
from the game by way of the per- February 19, began Monday when
sonal foul route terminated in a framework for the decorations was
38 to 28 triumph for Coach Francis greeted in the Mess Hall Annex.
Schmidt s champion Horned Toads decorations, which feature in-
over the Aggie cage five in the T direct lighting, fantastic modern
C L gymnasium Monday night, •vvgjj an d orchestra stage decora-
The defeat of the Aggies was the fi 0 ns, and an elaborate false ceil-
fourth straight win for the Frogs j n g 0 f crepe paper, were designed
and the fifth setback in as many j Keithr, chairman of the
conference starts for the A and M decoration committee, and are a
quintet, Southern Methodist having complete adaptation of modern dec-
taken the latter in camp to the oration
tune of 23 to 20 Saturday night. Robert E. Lee’s Confederates,
Free I osses Cost Beaumont orchestra, have been
The ability of the Schmidtmen to chosen to play for the ball, and
convert free tosses into counters several novelty acts will be featur-
accounted for the difference in a e d t 0 complete the program of the
probable tie and a victory, as it evening. The dance will be for
happened that the two teams were architectural students exclusively.
even on the number of field goals
for the evening with eleven each.
Of nineteen free throws granted Depression hits a new low at A
them the Frogs turned sixteen into and ^ Burns ’ Tr0 °P C
scores, while only six out of twelve Cavalr y> for a consideration of fifty
donations were looped by the Ma- cen ^ s from E. H. Hudgins, first
roon and White five. ‘ ! sergeant of C Troop, jumped fully
Merka Guards Dietzel clothed into the ic y ' vaters of Co1 -
Joe Merka, until he was ejected lege Lake ' Upon interview, Burns
from the game early in the second s t a t ec * tba t be was °P en to °f'
half, guarded “Too Tall” Dietzel fers in the future - Limber in now
being hauled for a gi-andstand to
(See AGGIES on Page 3) be built at the Lake.
With routine practice each day,
junior animal husbandry students
are preparing for the Southwest
Exposition and Fat Stock Contest
to be held in Fort Worth March
5th to 12th. Selection of the team
of six men to represent A and M
I at the contest will be made Satur-
; day from thirteen eligible students
in a qualifying contest.
The team will leave College a
1 week before the Contest on an in
spection trip which will take them
’to various places in Texas includ
ing the Singleton Farms, Midlo
thian; Lillard Stock Farm, Arling
ton; Harrisdale Farms, Ft. Worth;
San Angelo Fair, San Angelo; and
to the Brady Livestock Show at
Brady where Mr. R. M. Millhollin
of the Animal Husbandry Depart
ment will judge the livestock.
Possibility of a winning team
at the Contest was considered as
favorable by Mr. D. W. Williams,
Head of the Animal Husbandry De
partment.
Houston Oil Team
Defeated By Fort
Worth Walk-Overs
Petitions of the architectural and
contracting organizations of the
state, for open bidding on college
construction here, will be consider
ed by the board of directors at a
meeting here Friday, according to
?Jr. Bailey, secretary to the Pres
ident.
Representatives of the building
associations met with the College
Board of Directors in Houston, Jan
uary 24th, in an effort to have the
college discontinue the practice of
having its buildings constructed by
the Building Department of the
college, without the consideration
of outside bids.
Work on many of the buildings
planned has been held up, pending
the decision of the board on the
matter of contracts. Plans and spe
cifications have been about com
pleted for the construction of an
Agricultural Engineering Building,
an Animal Industry Building, a
Veterinary Hospital group, a swim
ming pool, a building to house the
Geology, Petroleum Engineering,
and Engineering Experiment Sta
tion depai'tments, and a new Ad
ministration Building. Since these
plans have already been drawn up,
it is probable that if the board de
cides to open the constructions to
bids, they will follow the original
plans.
If the board decides to grant the
requests of the building and archi
tectural associations, work on the
buildings mentioned and on others
planned will be held up a few
months for the consideration of
bids to be drawn up.
An effort has been made by the
building trade to have legislation
passed to resti’ict A and M from
constructing its own building with
out competitive bidding.
Fort Worth Girl Team Wins
by Margin of 18-12.
Many Notes Made
With College For
Second Session
Notes made by the college to
students for the second term reach
ed 600 in number and totaled $68,-
000, making a total number of not
es for this session about 1200,
which amounts to $133,200.
Until the last two years, collec
tion on the notes has been excel
lent, the unpaid amounts being but
about one-tenth of one per cent,
but in the last two sessions, the
collection has dropped greatly.
There are 54 unpaid notes from
the first session totalling $4,004.
Combining speed, skill and neau-
ty into a smooth performing cage
sextet, the Walk-Over Ladies of
Fort Worth gave the Humble Oil
Company girls an 18 to 12 reverse,
after the latter had taken and held
an early lead in the first half of
a speedy battle in the A and M
Memorial gymnasium Monday
night.
The Oil Company crew assumed
command of the situation in the
opening minutes of play but the
Shoe Company sextet soon retaliat
ed and tied the score with a pair
of free throws.
From that point the teams fought
on fairly even terms, with Humble
| Company showing a slight advan
tage, for the remainder of the pe-
| riod. During the half the score
was deadlocked three times but the
Humble six nosed out the Walk-
Overs by a single point as the
half ended in their favor ten to
nine.
A dazzling offensive coupled
with an airtight defense by the
Walk-Overs in the second half en
abled them to amass a total of
nine points to exactly two for their
opponents in the final frame. The
offensive attack was headed by the
agile Palmer whose ability to hit
the basket gave her five field goals
and one free toss for the evenings
work, to lead the scorers.
Jackie Smith, standing guard of
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Representatives
Will Attend CIA
Speech Conference
Two to be Chosen February 17
to Attend Meet at Denton.
The Department of English
has received an invitation to
send representatives to the first
annual Speech Conference at C I A
on March 4 and 5, 1932. It is the
purpose of the promoters that the
idea of a conference be fully car
ried out, so for that reason there
will be no judges or decisions for
any of the events. It is also their
aim to devote part of the time to
discussion of speech teaching prob
lems by faculty members in atten
dance.
Events planned for the confer
ence are: poetry reading, George
Washington speeches, extempor
aneous speeches, and debate-discus
sion. C. O. Spriggs, professor of
public speaking and debate team
coach, has announced his intention
of sending two representatives to
the conference and to enter all
events except that of poetry read
ing. Tryouts for places will be held
on the evening of February 17 at
seven o’clock in room 316 Main
Building. From this contest twx>
men will be chosen to represent A
and M in the speech conference.