I Hi f « I U K N
Published Weekly By The Students Of The A. & M. College Of Texas
VOLUME XXX COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, APRIL 27, 1932 NUMBER 30
Dent, Goodrich, Kohler Elected
Aggies Win Track Intramural Track
Meet From Abilene
Christian College
Winning First And Second
Places In Many Events
Determines Victory.
The ability to cop second places
as well as firsts proved a boon to
Coach Anderson’s track and field
proteges Monday afternoon on
Kyle Field when they defeated the
strong Abilene Christian College
Wildcats 71-51, in the most inter
esting dual meet held on the Kyle
Field track this season. The well-
balanced Aggies took only seven
first places, but gathered in twelve
seconds which proved the undoing
of the Wildcats, who took nine
first places and only two seconds.
Weems High Point Man
Ed Weems, captain of the visit
ing westerners, was high point man
with 11% points, taking first place
in the 440 yard run and 220 yard
dash and was a member of the
winning mile relay team. “Honk”
Irwin took second scoring honors
with 10 points by taking first in
the shot-put and discus.
Probably the most interesting
feature of the meet was in the
high jump. Worth Watkins, tall,
loose-jointed westerner, cleared
the bar at-6 feet 6 inches—easily
breaking the conference record by
2 3/8 inches and coming within
2% inches of the world’s record
in that event.
Dawson Goes “Wild”
“Dooley” Dawson, Aggies strong
man, established a new record in
the discus by hurling it three con
secutive times into the improvised
press box, breaking several chairs
and nearly hitting several innocent
contestants.
Fish Relay Team
Another interesting feature of
the feet was the freshman dash
and relay teams. Ed Wicker, Cor
pus Christi, won the freshman 100
yard exhibition race in 10.3 sec
onds, closely followed by W. H.
Randow, Hallettsville, star hurdler;
Jack Stringfellow, Terrell, and W.
Meet Coming This
Sunday Afternoon
Thirteen Field And Track
Events Will Attract Minor
Athletes Of Campus.
Intramural cinder-chasers will
have a chance to show their abil
ities Sunday afternoon, May 1, on
Kyle Field as the annual intra
mural track meet will take place
beginning at 2:30 o’clock. There
will be thirteen events on the pro
gram which will be held as fol
lows: 100 yard dash; 220 yard
dash; 440 yard dash; % mile run;
mile run; 120 yard high hurdles;
220 yard low hurdles; shot put;
discus throw; javelin throw; broad
jump; high jump; and the pole
vault.
The field events will continue
throughout the meet and a man
may take this three trials at any
time during the meet so as to per
mit a contestant to enter both field
and track events. This rule will not
pertain to the pole vault and high
jump since in these two events the
contestants are required to keep
up with the progress of the event.
Intramural track affords an ex
cellent chance for men to get an
invitation to try for the next year’s
varsity track team since each year
the winners of the intramural
events are invited to try for the
varsity.
Sharp Elected
President “Y”
Cabinet Group
Complete List Of Officers For
For Next Year Elected In
Meeting Tuesday Night.
Germs Now Killed
By Sound Latest
Sterilizing Device
Invention of College Professor
Kills Germs With Sound
Wave.
At a meeting of the Y M C A
cabinet Tuesday night, Percy A.
Sharp, junior agricultural adminis
tration student from Mooringsport,
La., was elected president of that
body for the next year.
J. S. Hardin of Terrell was se
lected treasurer and R. E. Porter
of San Antonio was named treas
urer, while the vice-president of the
organization will be named at a
later meeting.
“Y” cabinet officers retiring at
the end of this school year will be
I. C. Corns of Harlingen, president;
F. K. McGinnis of Dallas, vice-
president; E. A. Stobart of Orange,
treasurer; and H. E. Parker of
Orange, secretary.
Intramural Events
Gradually Closing
For Years Program
Unusually Close Competition
In Many Sports Requiring
Final Games To Determine
Winners.
Buie Made Editor
Aggie Countryman
Sharp And Marshall Also
Announxed On Next Years
Staff—Last Issue This
Week.
E. C. Buie, Grandview, A com
pany, infantry, became editor of
the Texas Aggie Countryman for
the year 1932-33 following a meet
ing of the staff last week. Other
new officers include Percy Sharp,
Mooringsport, La., advertising
manager; and R. P. Marshall,
Heindenheimer, circulation man
ager.
The last issue of this publication
during the semester will be out the
latter part of this week, Buie stat
ed. A special edition will be pub
lished during the Farmers Short
Course held here during the last
of August.
A complete staff for next year
has not been announced yet, as
there are several positions open.
The new members make a special
request to all interested students
to confer with them at once re
garding work on the magazine next
year.
(See AGGIES on page 4)
Fish Playing Two
Games With Blinn
College This Week
Chances to revenge their only
defeat of the season will be offer
ed Coach E. L. Lyons’ freshman
baseball team when they meet the
Blinn Memorial College nine of
Brenham in a two game return en
gagement in Brenham Friday and
Saturday afternoons.
Two weeks ago the Buccaneers
were able to win one game 10-5,
and tie the second at 6-6, in an
eleven inning affair after the fresh
men made a ninth inning rally that
accounted for three runs.
Much interest will be centered
on the activities of William Sodd,
Fort Worth, lanky center fielder,
and Bob Connelly, Fort Worth,
third baseman, at the bat. In the
first two games against Blinn, Sodd
twice lifted the ball over the left
center field fence, while Connelly,
in the game with Allen Academy,
followed the same procedure with
one homer. Past games have also
featured the hard hitting and ver
satile playing of Jake Mooty, star
pitcher.
Mooty will probably draw the
assignment to pitch the first game,
while C. A. Hill, Seagraves, and
M. J. Schriever, Lockhart, will be
available for the second game.
Other positions for the two
games will probably be filled as
follows: C. Steve, San Antonio,
catcher; Tommie Hutto, Coahoma,
first baseman; Travis Voehlkel,
Fayetteville, second base; Bob Con-
nally, Fort Worth, third base; and
E. H. Bobbitt, Hillsboro, shortstop.
Outfielders are J. T. Jones, Bel
ton; William Sod, Fort Worth; and
C. M. Reynolds, Bastrop.
(Intercollegiate Press)
FORT WORTH, April 27.—Kill
ing germs literally by yelling at
them has been found possible by
Drs. Leslie A. Chambers and New
ton Gaines of Texas Christian Uni
versity.
The two have developed a device
which sterilizes milk and other li
quid foods by means of sound
waves.
A high-pitched sound, produced
by a vibrating metal tube, does the
slaying. It kills germs because
sound waves are a form of energy,
although just what the waves do to
bacteria is not definitely known.
Milk treated with the apparatus
showed an average reduction of
80 per cent in bacteria.
(See GERMS on page 4)
Intramural sports are going at
top speed with baseball, golf, and
individual handball contests being
staged daily, and with the track
meet and wrestling finals to be
held during the latter part of the
week.
In nearly every league of both
classes of baseball there are from
two to three teams that are so
close in the standings that the
winners of the respective leagues
will not be definitely determined
until the last games are played.
Teams in golf have reached the
quarter finals and, according to
E. Levy who has charge of this
sport, competition is getting ex
ceptionally keen for the intramural
golf title.
In handball individual contests,
the doubles tournaments are just
beginning with the singles to be
played after the championship has
been determined for the doubles.
The A and M intramural pro
gram will be concluded this year
with the swimming meet to be
held in the Y M C A pool Saturday,
May 14.
Preliminaries will be held before
Two Texas Men Win
Battle Of Flowers
Speaking Contest
Jesse Villarreal and Frank
Knapp, both of Texas University,
were the two winners in the ora
torical contest sponsored by the
Daughters of the Texas Revolution
as part of their program in the
Battle of Flowers festivities in
San Antonio on San Jacitno Day.
Villarreal, winner of the first
prize of one hundred dollars, and
his co-representative, Knapp, win
ner of the second award of seven-
|ty-five dollars, gave their speeches
at the Battle of Flowers luncheon
given in the Menger Hotel April
21.
The two defeated contestants
from A and M were W. O. Alex
ander, Bryan, and D. L. Tisinger,
Garland.
(See INTRAMURAL on page 4)
Trackman Showing Unusual
Ability In Bettering His
Records Almost Regularly
Special Benefit Show Next
Wednesday to Help Pur
chase Refrigerating’ Foun
tain.
By W. J. FAULK
Battalion Sports Editor
Rather interesting is the case of
B. M. “Honk” Irwin, over-sized
weight man on the Aggie track
team, from Kosse, who four times
this year has bettered the confer
ence record in putting the shot and
is a constant winner in the discus.
His best put is 48 feet 3% inches
which bests the conference record
by 3 5/8 inches.
Irwin’s athletic success nearly
resembles that of a story book.
Records of meets in which he has
competed in during the past six
years show that twice only, once
in high school and again Monday,
has he failed to show improvement
over the preceding meet. In the
meet Monday he was not forced to
extend himself at all to win the
meet and hence did not beat his
put of two weeks back.
A similar tale ’S told of his dis
cus throwing, although he has not
succeeded in breaking the confer
ence record.
“Honk” began the season putting
the shot around 45 feet and thi’OW-
ing the discus in the neighborhood
of 135 feet. In a dual meet with
Texas University ,the first of the
season, he put the shot slightly
over 46 feet, and threw the discus
near 140.
One week after the opening
meet, after an attack of the “flu,”
he sent the shot a distance of 47
feet 2 inches. Percy Burke of Rice,
now holder of the conference rec
ord in that event, nosed Irwin out
by nine inches in what was prob
ably his best throw of the year
and very close to the best of his
career.
In conversation following the
A & M-Rice dual meet “Honk” re-
First step toward the installa
tion of a refrigerating water foun
tain at the Y M C A will be taken
Wednesday, May 4, with the pre
sentation at the Assembly Hall of
j Douglas Fairbanks in “Around the
World in Eighty Minutes,” a bene-
: fit show, the precedes of which
| will go into the fund for erecting
the fountain.
Large Attendance Wanted
According to M. L. Cushion, lo
cal “Y” secretary the Y M C A is
to make up the difference between
the proceeds of the show and the
actual cost of the fountain, which
is to be about $500. It is hoped that
at least seventy-five per cent of
the members of the student body
will attend the show, Mr. Cushion
! said.
Two shows will be presented
Wednesday evening, the first
starting at 6:45 and the second
immediately following. It is sug
gested by Mr. Cashion that under
classmen attend the opening pre-
Saddle-Sirloin “Unaffiliated Ticket” Gets
Club Announces
Plan For Dance
Annual Cattlemen,’s Ball Dat
ed For Friday Before Moth
ers’ Day.
Following a meeting of the Sad
dle and Sirloin Club Tuesday night,
complete plans were announced for
the annual Cattlemen’s Ball for
Friday night, May 6. Members of
the club expressed themselves as
optimistic of the approaching oc
casion.
Special decorations will be put
in the Mess Hall annex, fitting with
the costumes of the members of
the club and their guests for the
night. Club members will wear col
ored shirts, white pants, and a
sash of a harmonizing hue. Non
members attending are expected
to wear white pants and white
shirts, with black ties.
Bids are being so proportioned
as to have approximately two date
bids for each stag ticket, thus
tending to eliminate a large
number of stag dancers. The Ag-
gieland Orchestra will play for the
occasion.
The Cattlemen’s Ball is open to
all members of the Saddle and
Sirloin Club and to such Juniors
and Senior non-members as desire
to attend. They may secure bids
from members of the club.
This dance will be followed with
a corps dance on Saturday night.
Museum Purchases
Valuable Letters
Discovered Lately
Letters And Diaries Give In-
II lily
Tommie Goodrich
Marlin, Texas
Religious Educator
Will Hold Meetings
During Next Week
Allyn K. Foster To Be Convo
cation Speaker In Guion
Hall Sunday.
Revolutionary War.
T Announces Plans
For Installation Of
Drinking Fountains
(Intercollegiate Press)
ANN ARBOR, Mich, April 26.—
What are believed to be some of
the most valuable documents of the
Revolutionary War ever uncover
ed have been acquired by the Li
brary of American History at the
University of Michigan. They are
diaries, letters and other writings
of Hessian officers who fought
against the Americans for British
pay.
Found In Westphalia
The documents were found in a
trunk in a castle in German West
phalia, where they had lain for a
century and a half, by a Munich
dealer who was asked to search
for the documents by Dr. Randolph
(See MUSEUM on page 4)
Majority Vote Of Election
New Yell Leader « Dark H orse” Candidates Get
Light Vote.
Casting probably the largest pro
portional vote in recent years,
members of the A and M student
body Tuesday cast their approval
overwhelmingly on the so-called
“Unaffiliated Ticket” in the annual
general student election, choosing
members of that ticket to fill each
of the major student offices dur
ing the college year 1932-33.
Tommie Goodrich, Marlin, was
elected chief yell leader; G. Mar
shall Dent, Texas City, editor-in-
chief of The Battalion; and G. J.
Kohler, Palestine, junior represen
tative on the Publications Board,
completing the ticket.
Although the total ballot cast
totalled only slightly over 950 bal
lots, it was in reality one of the
most representative in a number
of years since it represents appro
ximately half of the voting
strength of the student body.
Goodrich Victor Over Three
Tommie Goodrich, junior mem
ber of the staff this year, was chos
en over a field of three opponents
to head the yell leading crew dur
ing the coming scholastic year in
was was probably the most inter
esting of the races.
Goodrich took the lead early
Tuesday morning but it was first
thought that a run-off election
would be necessarfy to decide be
tween him and H. (Preacher)
Durst, strongest of the opposition
candidates. As the voting became
heavier, however, it was evident
that the little candidate from the.
band would have a distinct major
ity. Goodrich succeeds J. U. Parker,
Sherman, as chief yell leader of
the corps.
His total votes for the day were
585. Those of Durst totalled 237,
while T. D. Owens drew 100 and G.
C. Brundrett 29.
Dent Scores Easy Victory
Marshall Dent, news reporter on
the present staff of The Battalion,
was chosen by a margin even larg
er than that which Goodrich drew,
winning the editorship of the col
lege weekly newspaper and month
ly magazine over Lewis Gross, ano
ther staff member, and John Bat-
jer, “dark-horse” of the race.
Dent, who is a junior student of
, ,. . , , , architecture and a member of Corn-
approach to religious problems pany Cj InfantrVj piled up 605 vot _
which is considered an outstand- ! . . , , ,
, . | es in the election to overwhelm
ing ., P i 0n T 0n . , G : J , eCt ’, aC ; Gross and Batjer with 217 and 125
respectively. Dent will succeed
Claude M. Evans as editor at the
close of this term.
The election this year saw more
than one candidate in the race for
editor of The Battalion for the first
time since the editor for 1929-30
Dr. Allyn K. Foster, educational
secretary of the board of the
Northern Baptist Church and not
ed speaker who is scheduled to
be on the campus five days be
ginning Sunday, May 1, will speak
at the convocation service at Guion
Hall Sunday morning.
He will also hold services Sun
day evening in the Y M C A
Sight Of Events During I Chapel, address the Freshman
Class banquet Monday night, and
will speak Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Thursday nights in the Y M
C A. The next week will be spent
meeting groups in the class rooms
and other time will be utilized with
personal and group interviews on
social problems.
Dr. Foster has recently publish
ed a book entitled “The New Di
mensions of Religion,” a scientific
cording to M. L. Cashion, head of
the Y M C A here.
Fire Alarm
An alarm was turned in last
night about 1:30, when a Ford car
in the army barracks caught fire.
The car was destroyed, but no dam
age was done in the area.
(See ELECTION on page 2)
Improvement In American Colleges
Working To Make Life Pleasanter
With Changes From Old School
Sophomore Speech
Contest Entrants
Picked For Finals
(Editor’s note: This is the first of a
series of four articles on oustanding cur
rent developments in the field of higher
education, written especially for The Bat
talion by the editor of College News Ser
vice.)
By JAMES CRENSHAW
Editor, College News Service
Anyone who says that Ameri-
combine its five instittuions of
higher learning under one admin
istration; of Washington, which
may take similar steps, and Cali
fornia, where a Carnegie survey
now in progress promises a closer
cooperation between numerous pub
licity endowed regional colleges
can higher education is becoming .^ the state university .
standardized had better take a post -it
, . , , These, however, are evidence or
graduate course in observational A , , ,.
. mutation, rather than standardiza-
perspicacity. oiw the
(See TRACKMAN on page 2)
ition—a groping after the right
For, though there obviously are ; ec j uca tional pattern which will best
: certain significant coordinative ^ sa ^j s fy the needs of a younger gen-
| movements part of a great cur- era ti on n0 w in the throes of a
rent of development, moving gen- | v j^ a i economic readjustment.
Classmen an,c.m tnc U pe,.n. & yi.c- ® ra [ ly in on ® dn ectl °n— styles In This mu tation is not sectional,
sentation and seniors and campus hl £ her e “ c f, lon are econ11 ^ s ° j t j s t he keynote of progress in
people the second. Admission will
be twenty-five cents.
Cooling Capacity
The fountain which is expected
to be purchased will have the re
variegated that one can almost x . „ • ,
orde/an education, U k .
clothes, to fit one s personality. America A]1 are experiment .
It is not to be denied, of course, ^ a g rea t er 0 r lesser degree
that important coordinative trends ; w j^ k new types of curricula, new
are apparent, as in the case of |
(See FOUNTAIN on page 4) ; Oregon, which has just decided to ; (See COLLEGES on page 2)
Final hearing of the participants
in the annual sophomore speech
contest will be held here Thurs
day, May 12, Dr. George Summey
of the English department an
nounced this morning. The winner
will receive a twenty-five dollar
cash prize offered by Owen W.
Sherrill of Georgetown.
Among those entering the con
test are G. K. Ashby, Evansville,
Ind., who won second prize in the
freshman contest last year giv
ing a talk entitled “Lysozyme”;
and H. N. Irvine, Fort Worth,
speaking on “Truth and Progress.”
V. A. McCollough, Houston, will
speak on the subject “Cancer, a
Social Menace,” and H. G. Seelig-
son, Dallas, will talk on “The In
come Tax as a Source of State
Revenue.”
Should any of these be unable
to speak, O. R. Cary, Snyder, as
alternate, will speak on “Today
Through Wordsworth’s Eyes.”